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Feb. 8, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 8, 2008, Friday, Hour #2
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It's Friday live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
And you know the drill.
Monday through Thursday, I totally control what is discussed on this program.
I don't talk about it unless I'm interested in it.
I'm not going to waste my time on things I don't care about.
But on Friday, I cast that to the wind.
Some say I'm going to be casting my fate to the wind.
Sounds orchestral, 1965.
What a great song that was.
But I, ladies and gentlemen, am a benevolent dictator.
Nobody has the right to be heard on this program except me.
Nobody has the right to speak unless I grant it.
And that's what I do on Friday.
When we go to the phones, whatever you want to talk about on Friday, we welcome it.
And it's a huge career risk that I take.
One of the largest career risks taken by major media figure.
Turning over the content portion of the program to veritable rank amateurs.
You.
I love you.
You're adorable, but I am the highly trained broadcast specialist.
And I'm now boss tweet at kingfish.
Another racist term uttered by a liberal Democrat.
That would be Chris Matthews.
Everything else, tribal leader, king caucus, potentate, yes, all of these things.
But when he go to the phones anyway, what I was saying is we go to the phones, speak with you about whatever you wish to talk.
So line up.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
And the email address is lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
I'm going to, folks, I'm exhausted.
I'm worn out.
This has been a just a thoroughly exhausting week.
Not helped by going to Washington for dinner on Wednesday night, getting back about 2.30 in the morning.
Of course, I'm not complaining about that.
That was a personal choice.
You guys still don't believe it.
I went up there and didn't meet.
It was a purely social.
I went up to have dinner.
It was purely social.
I flew right back.
Not even the stamp believes that.
They think I went somewhere and somebody wanted to try to get my mind right.
But I am looking forward to the weekend.
You know, I had to cancel my appearance at the AT ⁇ T Pebble Beach National Program because it's this week.
It starts on, well, it started yesterday.
Practice rounds, you know, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
It's a big party on Wednesday.
I had to miss that.
Cancel it out of duty, a sense of duty to the nation.
And to you, my trusted, loyal, devoted, and in some cases, angry audience.
But I am flying out there tomorrow because of a huge dinner on Saturday night I always attend.
And I am flying out there for that coming back on Sunday.
But that'll be some good RR.
You people can have your way with me today because I am exhausted.
I want to go back to the archives of this program.
I want to illustrate for you my prescience.
When I tell you that you are on the cutting edge of the societal evolution, if you are a regular listener here, this will establish it.
October 18th, 2006.
This is prior to the November elections, the midterms.
And I was getting phone call after phone call from conservatives saying they were not going to vote.
They were mad as hell.
They were sick and tired of the Foley thing in Macaca.
They were sick and tired of Republicans not governing as Republicans and to hell with it.
And this is what I said to them.
This notion that it doesn't matter who wins because the Democrats aren't going to have a big enough majority, that's going to lead to another thing that I will share with you.
It's going to lead to the nomination of John McCain for the Republican presidential candidacy.
In two years, you same people who will have helped and bring about an ascension to power by the Democrats are going to be so angry.
You're going to be so fed up over what they have tried to do, over the things they have will maybe have accomplished, that you are going to demand power back and you will accept anybody that you think has a chance of winning it.
And right now, that looks like McCain above anybody else, who, I must tell you, is not a conservative.
And so what are you probably going to end up doing?
You're going to be so frustrated by 2008 and the thought of Hillary Clinton becoming president so obnoxious, so abhorrent, that in 2008, you will flush your precious principles down the drain and elect a Republican, precisely the kind of Republican you think you're running against now.
Or you will at least nominate one.
Who knows how that election will go?
So the very principle that you are fighting here, if you succeed, you will be given a candidate who fits the very thing you're angry about.
Somebody who's not conservative enough, but probably has the best chance of winning.
That was me, October 18th, 2006, from this very studio, from behind this very microphone, telling you what was going to happen if you sat out the 06 November midterms to show those Republicans a lesson, that you are going to empower Democrats and they're going to make you so mad over the things they try to do.
And you're going to be so upset and so frightened of Hillary coming along.
You will nominate anybody you think can win.
And I've specifically predicted October 18th, 2006, that not voting in 2006 and not holding the House and not holding the Senate would lead to the nomination of John McCain.
It has happened.
Don't doubt me.
Now, I want to take this a step further.
Now that I have your attention, I want to take this a step further because McCain is the Republican nominee.
It is over.
Huckabee is just, Huckabee is going to stay in.
There's five caucuses and primaries this weekend, and Tuesday is a biggie.
And he'll stay in to see how he does there.
But he's going to have to get out too.
But he's going to do what he can to keep angling for the VEEP slot.
He has no chance of getting the VEEP slot.
He will soon be thrown under the Straight Talk Express like everyone else that Senator McCain vanquishes.
But I want to share with you a story from Congressional Quarterly.
This is from yesterday by John Bicknell.
He's a Congressional Quarterly columnist.
Picture a president, John McCain, next January making his first appeal to Congress.
What might that message entail?
Well, certainly it'll include something about Iraq and the war on terror, other elements of national security and defense.
It'll put him at odds with the majority Democrats.
Then the new president will turn his attention to his domestic agenda, and he likely will be facing a Congress with larger majorities of Democrats than even it now has.
The electoral math all but guarantees Democrat gains in the Senate.
The House looks pretty good for them, too.
If President McCain wants legislative victories, he will have to turn to those majorities to get them enacted, and he will be happy to do so.
That's how McCain has always operated.
There is no reason to believe that if he becomes president, he'll operate in any other manner.
Conservatives who have opposed McCain during the campaign have cited his positions on a range of issues, immigration, campaign finance, climate change, tax cuts, legal rights for detainees, where he has sided with Democrats.
But the positions McCain has taken are only part of the problem for conservatives.
As president with a Democrat Congress, it's the other part, the stylistic part, that'll prove to be a much greater problem for conservatives.
When McCain has been on the conservative side, and he has, he has been on the vast majority of issues, he gives it full-throated support.
He's not afraid of giving offense to appropriators when he sticks up for cutting spending, except signing the spend voting for the spending of the stimulus package.
And he has not been shy about deriding Democrats who oppose the war in Iraq, to cite two potent examples.
But when he is with the Democrats, he is really with them.
McCain is not somebody who simply reaches across the aisle to form coalitions with the other side.
He walks across the aisle, he puts on the other team's uniform, and he sings the other team's fight song.
If he wants to accomplish things, and every president wants to accomplish things, he's going to have to do so on the Democrats' terms.
That means his agenda will include those things on which he agrees with Democrat majorities in the House and the Senate.
They are a cap-and-trade regime for climate change, which is going to be a huge energy cost increase.
Expansion.
The Democrats, did you know, the Democrats want to expand McCain fine gold regulations for campaign finance?
McCain will go along.
He will not go against his signature issue.
Expanded legal rights for enemy combatants and probably the closing of Guantanamo.
The Democrats want that.
McCain agrees with them.
That will happen.
Comprehensive immigration overhaul with a guest worker program and a path to citizenship for the millions of illegal immigrants already in the country.
The Democrats want that.
So does McCain.
With the Democrat Congress, he's going to get it.
This will not be reaching across the aisle.
This will be a full partnership of the president and the Congress who just happen to be of different parties.
The shrunken GOP minority in the Senate might serve as a break, especially on immigration, but it'll only be a break, not a standing astride history yelling stop.
Certainly on other issues, McCain will fight with Democrats on the Iraq war on taxes, spending.
Relationship will be more typical of that between a Republican and Democrat.
In his victory speech on Super Tuesday, McCain laid out his GOP credentials, and quote him here.
But the thing goes on to say that between now and November, John McCain can make all the speeches and do all the reaching out he deems necessary to assuage the concerns of his conservative base.
He can even turn his considerable skills at political combat against the Democrats.
It might help get him elected or it might not.
If it does, come next January, he still will have to begin governing in the face of wider Democrat majorities in Congress, and he still will have to choose between success and failure.
In that instance, he will choose success.
Success for presidents is designed or defined, at least in the case of modern presidents, by passing legislation.
This bill passed, get that bill passed, show that you can work with Congress, show you that it can get things done, show that you can reach across the aisle.
That's the definition of success, not standing for principles, not moving the other side to your side, but going along with the other side so you can advance their agenda in order to say you got things done.
When that happens, writes John Bicknell at the Congressional Quarterly, the conservatives and the Republican Party will really have something to be mad about.
And as I said in my little soundbite here from October 18th of 2006, sitting out those elections and letting the Democrats have the majority in the House and Senate is exactly, well, it's one of the many things that has led us to exactly where we are.
And if you have been upset over the last two years of the Democrats in Congress, House and Senate, even though they haven't gotten much done, you've been upset what they want to try, what they want to accomplish, the rhetoric they've been using.
Imagine 10 months from now, somebody in the White House who's going to agree with them on a lot of those things.
No, The point of the story, the point of all of that in the last segment, I'm sorry I didn't make this clear, is you cannot sit out the House and Senate elections.
You cannot, we cannot simply sit here and let whatever disappointment we have over the presidential primary result take us out of the House and Senate races.
You know, this is a time, folks, for you to start paying attention who in your state legislatures are tax cutters, culturally correct the things that you think define conservatism, because these are the people who are going to be running for the House someday.
These are the people who are going to need support.
This is going to be rebuilding something bottom-up.
I'm just, the point of this, going back to my soundbite with the prediction, eerily, eerily, eerily prescient, saying sitting out the 06 elections is going to give us McCain.
And it has.
If you sit out this election on the House and Senate side, you're just going to get a bigger Democrat majority than otherwise is scheduled to happen.
And you're going to be frustrated all over again because while you think you've beaten Hillary and you have with McCain, if that happens, you're going to get a president that sees his success as not only getting along with Democrats, walking across the aisle and enacting their bills.
Because that's how presidents these days define getting things done.
That's how they define success.
So that was the point of telling you the previous story and sharing with you the Congressional Quarterly column.
Now, let's go back once again to me.
This is just yesterday on this program.
But this is what I said to you about the way McCain intends to expand the party.
This confusion, this mess, contrary to the take of the drive-by media, this mess that conservatism/slash Republican partyism finds itself in today is a reaction to the establishment Republicans who have ignored conservative principles and watered down their party for the last decade or And their failures.
This mess has resulted from them, their failures, and their false promises.
And these very same people now who were the big tent guys, which resulted in, and by the way, I'm all for big tent, but you bring people in as us, not as them.
Don't misunderstand.
Nothing exclusionary about me.
You want to expand the party?
I'm all for it.
It's what we've been trying to do here, in fact, with conservatism.
These very same people now who sought to expand the party by essentially marginalizing conservatives and bringing in their buddies, the moderates, the independents, even some liberals, are now demanding that the people they took for granted, us and the evangelicals and so forth, continue to follow them, continue to be swayed by their demeaning and condescending lectures.
All right.
So this is a lament.
You've heard it all week.
This is how we're growing the Republican Party.
We're growing it.
We're putting it in a big tent.
We're bringing all these independents, liberals, moderates as liberals, independents, and moderates.
Last night, CNN, Anderson Cooper 360, fill-in host John King speaking with his fiancé, the reporter at Dana Bash, about Senator McCain's problems with conservatives.
John King says to his fiancé, if some conservatives stay home and are still mad, where we've seen the Democrat turn out significantly higher, don't they have a problem?
I was on his bus and he was talking about this.
What he says is, we're not going to run George Bush's campaign in that what he tried to do, remember, John, in 2000, 2004 was really try to galvanize the base in some of these swing states.
He says, I'm going to bank on the fact that I have proven that I can win with independent voters and bring more people into the party.
It's going to defy recent history, but that is more and more what we're going to see and hear from John McCain in the days ahead.
You didn't need to hear it from Dana Bash, fiancé of John King at CNN.
I've been blaring this from the EIB mountaintop for weeks.
What I have been trying to do with all of this, and I don't, don't misinterpret this.
I don't know either way to say it right now because I want to get to the phone calls here.
I have been trying to protect and save the way this party isn't defined.
And when I say this party is not going to look like it does, and either the election or nomination of Huckabee or McCain would change the structure of the party for this is the exact kind of thing I'm talking about.
And here's Dana Bash on McCain straight talking screws.
Yeah, I'm not going to go the bush route.
I'm not going to try to galvanize the base.
I'm going to bring in independents and moderates.
That's my strength.
So just get ready, folks.
You're looking at it to the tunnel vision of defeating Hillary.
And if that happens, I'm just warning you, just warning you, you're going to call here and get mad at me starting next February.
Might not take the call.
What, Snerdly?
What?
What are you.
Snerdley said, it just gets worse and worse.
It is what it is, and this is exactly what I've been trying to say it is.
And I'm just giving you a heads up.
If it's Hillary and McCain beats her, Cookie, I want you to flag this entire segment.
What is this?
February 8th, 2008.
Save it for one year from now.
Flag it.
Save it.
Send me an extra dupe copy so I can have it here on my studio computer.
Steve in Fresno, California.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Greetings, Rush.
Depressed, stimulated conservative dittos from the Golden State.
Thank you, sir.
I totally agree with you of letting the Democrats take the fall over the next four years.
I want to thank the 50 members of Congress that voted against the stimulus package.
As a matter of fact, I called my congressman who recently had a baby girl, and I wanted to thank his grandchildren for the stimulus package because his grandchildren will basically be paying for it.
We borrowed $6 billion, or excuse me, England borrowed $6 billion from the United States post-World War II, and it was just recently paid off about two years ago.
This $167 billion stimulus package is a joke.
I'm going to get $2,100.
I appreciate it, but I would rather have kept it in the Treasury, and we've got to cut spending.
It is getting ridiculous.
The amount of spending this Congress is willing to pass out is welfare.
This country is basically going to print it.
We're going to borrow it.
And just the interest alone on the stimulus package is going to add another $5 billion a year to our future budgets.
And I just wanted to get your take on that.
Plus, it isn't going to work.
I mean, that's, that's, that's, but look, it's an election year.
I don't mean to sound cynical, but politicians give money away in election year.
A lot of people don't think this is a big, exciting thing.
It's going to work, though.
Now, that's exactly what I meant.
When I said to Howard Kurtz for publication last Tuesday, if I think there's going to be very little difference between a McCain, Obama, or Hillary presidency, and it's going to give us a bunch of stuff, it's going to take the country down the tubes.
I'd just assume the Democrats take the hit.
And this congressional quarterly piece, which spells out exactly what it's going to be like if there's a majority in the House and Senate of Democrats, and it's even larger than it is now, with a President McCain who's very comfortable walking across the aisle and dealing with him, I'm just warning you, get ready.
You're going to watch all this Democrat stuff get enacted like an expansion of McCain fine gold.
The amnesty bill will come back.
It will get done somehow because the Democrats are going to want it.
You're going to have the global warming fiasco of McCain Lieberman.
The Democrats are going to want that.
And you're not going to be able to do anything about it because you're going to have a Republican president there that you're not going to be able to really roundly criticize.
And nor will the Republicans in the House or Senate be able to do much about it because you can't criticize the head of your own party when he's the president.
So I'm just well, Russia's too late.
It is what it is.
I'm just telling you, I'm warning you to get ready attitudinally, emotionally, when all this stuff starts coming down the pike.
If Senator McCain wins.
What is it, Mr. Sleeve, program observer with, by the way, you know, we had a little audio technical malfunction in here the last couple of days.
The speakers here in the studio did not mute when the mic went on, and so you're yelling and screaming at me was heard by the audience, a little off-mic, but they still heard it.
And I, you know, thankfully it was G-rated, but I got a number of emails.
Why somebody is actually talking to you?
I thought you were just doing that for artistic creative reasons.
No, what do you want now?
What's the question?
You mean the Republicans in the House and the Senate?
Can they?
Can they be the question Mr. Sterling is asking, cannot Republicans in the House and Senate during a McCain presidency, can't they go be mavericks and disagree with the president and oppose what he wants to do?
How many have done it via President Bush?
McCain's been the only Maverick.
Because those guys in the House, they got to run every two years.
And if you start criticizing and attacking your president, then the RNC is going to call you up and they're going to say, do you want some help with your reelection campaign?
Do you want some campaign contributions from outside your district?
You know, the party loyalty thing is very, very difficult.
This is why I contend to you.
This is why the Republicans in the House took the heat for not being conservative enough.
It was McCain who was the one that was not conservative.
He got away with it.
He didn't pay a price for his maverickism.
The Republicans in the House who had to go along with the White House, I mean, this is the way things are, they take the heat for not being conservative enough.
They didn't do what they said they were going to do when we elected it.
They didn't govern his conservative.
Well, you know, they had a Republican president not as conservative as they were, and they had to fall in line with party loyalty.
Besides, what do you think President McCain would do with a series or a number of maverick Republicans in the Congress?
He'd try to crush them like bugs.
I mean, he would make even more deals with the Democrats just to embarrass them and make them look like even more marginalized losers and so forth.
I'm just this is not, folks, it's done.
I'm not saying vote against McCain.
None of that.
I'm not saying vote Hillary.
Don't misconstrue what I'm saying.
I'm just telling you, if, if, if McCain happens to beat Hillary, becomes president, I just want you to know what I said today because it's you have to keep it in mind.
You're going to feel frosted, livid, and mad about a year from now, maybe 14 months from now.
Here's Matt in South Haven, Mississippi.
I'm glad you waited.
You're next at Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Yes, my question is based on this apparent campaign strategy that the fear and loathing of Hillary will be enough to win.
And the whole concept of opposition politics in 2004, John Kerry's entire campaign relied on people simply disliking Bush, and look where it got him.
So my question is, is wanting someone else to lose ever enough to actually win?
In Hillary's case, it might be because she's got more, she got a higher disapproval rating than anybody who's ever been elected president.
Her polarizing numbers are such that her negatives are up to 49%.
So it's already there.
There is already fear, anger, loathing of Mrs. Clinton, and it's only going to intensify if she gets the nomination and we get down to the down the election.
I know John Kerry, the haughty John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, tried to run a hate campaign against Bush.
The problem there, Bush is not unlikable.
Bush is not, Hillary is.
Hillary is at first glance unlikable.
She is at first glance dislikable.
Look at, you may disagree.
The Republican strategy is no doubt to unite the party on the basis of fear and loathing of Hillary.
Don't doubt me on this.
I guess I just don't like the idea of turning over our party and turning it into something that is just against something else.
I mean, aren't Republicans supposed to be for things?
Aren't too late?
Too late now.
We're going to work on putting the party back together later.
The point now, the real focus now is House and Senate races.
The conventional wisdom is the Democrats are going to clean our clocks, and they're going to expand their majorities now.
They may, but the House and Senate are going to be crucial to thwarting the liberal agenda that's going to come from the Democrat majorities in both those places.
Look at the Democrats only have a one- or two, one-seat majority in the Senate right now.
They're going to have a much greater majority than that.
Right now, Harry Reid needs nine votes to get anything done.
Mitch McConnell can afford to lose something like, what, 14 of his Republicans?
What are the odds?
That's why Dingy Harry hasn't gotten anything done.
In the House, it's much the same way.
The House hasn't even tried to pass serious legislation.
They've just made their political statements here for their kook fringe base.
But the margins in both houses are very close right now.
And if you could keep it this close in the Senate, you could stop the liberals from getting things done in the Senate, regardless who the president is.
And that's got to be a focus.
Some of these Senate seats that everybody's sacrificing, oh, the Republicans are going to lose them.
Who says?
It's only February.
The presidential race is going to be McCain against somebody.
There's nothing to be done about that.
There's nothing that can be done about the RNC strategy here about getting McCain elected, and that is this.
Unify the party on the basis of fear and loathing of Hillary and reach out and try to bring in liberals and independents to the party.
We can't stop that.
That happened when Romney pulled out of the race and Huckabee was never a nominating factor, but that's done.
For the next four years, the Republican Party is going to grow by attracting people you'd never vote for, by people you'd never see in a Republican polling place under normal circumstances, but that's going to be their outreach.
Yes, who's running the party now, gang?
The Washington Establishment Country Club Blue Blood Republicans are running the party.
And they don't like conservatives being the dominant force in the party.
They want our votes on election day, but beyond that, we should shut up and go away and certainly don't protest any abortion clinics.
Then they're going to go out and start protesting, attracting all these liberals and independents because they think that's how you win elections.
It isn't, but they think that's how you do it, coupled with the fear and loathing of Hillary.
So the objective has to be: how do we limit the damage in the next four years, regardless who the president is?
And limiting damage, the greatest chance we have is not on talk radio.
It's not getting phone calls to Washington because you can only do it so many times before those guys will start ignoring it.
The way to do it is to get enough of our people in the House and Senate to be a bulwark and to slow down Democrat majorities there.
And that's why don't sit the election out.
Don't sit there and say, harumph, harumph.
McCain's a nominee.
The party is defined now for what it's going to be for the next four years.
But that doesn't mean it's the end of the world or the end of the day or even the end of the year.
You know, who McCain picks as his VEP is going to be pretty important here, too, for a bunch of reasons I'm not going to mention, but it is.
More important than perhaps it's been in many, many moons, folks, for reasons I'm not going to mention.
But don't sit this out and don't think that it's all is lost because I don't care if it's Obama, Hillary, or McCain.
With a Democrat majority in the Congress, we're going to get Democrat things done.
But Rush, but Rush, what if we had a real conservative republic?
Well, hard to say.
There hasn't been one that fits them all like Reagan.
But Reagan, I'll show you what can be done.
Reagan, massive tax cuts with the Democrats holding up, what, a 200-seat majority in the House or 150-seat majority in the House?
And for many of Reagan's years, a Democrat majority in the Senate.
And look what he got done.
And how did he do it?
The power of ideas and principles and the ability to communicate with the American people over the heads of the drive-by media.
Reagan went out.
Yeah, he wanted to expand the party too, but he wanted to bring converted liberals in it, converted independents.
And he did.
They've now gone.
They're back to their own party.
The country club blue bloods didn't like them in the party as conservatives.
Because they were from the South.
They were pro-lifers.
Had pickup trucks.
Gun racks.
Went to NASCAR.
Not cool for the blueblood country clubbers to associate with at fundraising parties.
So you've got to start all over.
Now, if we have, let's say there was a candidate out there that was close as you can get.
By the way, we're not whistling Dixie here.
This is not pining away for his personality.
We're talking about ideas, principles, and so forth to stick into him.
If there was somebody out there that could have been, and there wasn't, there was not.
But if there had been somebody in this race in our primaries who was Rock Rib Conservative and got the nomination and then got elected and beat Hillary, that person would have a far greater chance for the power of ideas, personality, intellect, ability to communicate with the American people to forestall a Democrat majority.
It has been shown that conservatism, properly articulated with good cheer and optimism, can forestall a huge Democrat majority, led by professionals like Tip O'Neill, not rank amateurs like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
I mean, we were dealing, Reagan was dealing with the primo of the primo of the Democrat leadership.
Tip O'Neill and people like that, those guys were no slouches.
And the majority leaders in the Senate that were Democrats back in Reagan's day, Dingy Harry is a water boy compared to those people.
And Reagan beat them back and beat them back and beat them back and fought them.
Iran Contry, you might not like it, but he fought them.
That's not going to be happening, folks.
I'm just telling you, with our nominee, the Democrats are not going to be fought on very much because you won't get anything done.
And presidents like to say they got things done.
The end of the day, it doesn't matter how it happened or what it was.
They can just say they got things done.
So to stop the wrong things from getting done, the focus now has to be House and Senate.
And not just this election, but down the road.
I urge you, I implore all of you that pay attention to this stuff, start paying attention.
Your state senators and legislators.
They may escape you now.
Their work may escape you.
But guess what?
That's where the next members of the House and Senate are going to come from.
So if you've got people in your state legislature that are good tax cutters, they're good on the culture, they're good on immigration, you support them.
You vote for them because that's the farm team for the future House of Representatives.
And that's where this stuff, normally what you'd like to do is have a very good, articulate leader of a movement president to stop the renegades in Congress.
The way this is shaped up, what's going to have to happen is that the true conservatives and leaders and the people with guts and gumption to stop the movement of this country left are going to have to happen in the Congress.
And you elect them.
So don't sit it out.
Well, hubba, hubba, get this.
Bill Clinton says that he's learned a valuable lesson from the dust up over his remarks in a campaign trail.
He can promote his wife's presidential candidacy, but he's not free to defend her.
Clinton said that everything he said in South Carolina about Obama was factually accurate, but a lot that's been said about what he said is factually inaccurate.
Limbaugh, you understand this because you've been in my shoes, but I think the mistake.
No, sir, I haven't.
I haven't been in your shoes or anywhere else.
Well, but that doesn't matter.
Look at, you know, I think the mistake that I made is to think that I was a spouse, like any other spouse who could defend a candidate.
I think I go after I could promote Hillary, but not defend her.
Because I was president, that's because I was president.
And Limbaugh, the fact of the matter is I'm so liberated.
I got so tired of having to defend her.
And now I'm off the hook.
But I'm going to make it look like I have learned a lesson.
It's impossible for me to learn a lesson, Limbaugh.
I know everything about politics.
She's doofus.
She can see it.
I can see it.
But I don't have to defend her anymore.
It's all up to her.
He then said, I have to let her defend herself or have somebody else defend her.
Wonder why he's been so silent lately.
Really?
I mean, I've been doing Google searches on Bill Clinton.
Haven't been any news the past three or four days.
Well, I mean, some, but I mean, not like it was.
Neil Young, well-known rock and roll super crooner, Crosby Stills Nash and Young and so forth.
He said that he has lost all hope that music can change the world.
Yes, folks, it's true.
No hope.
No hope whatsoever.
He's lost all hope.
And see, he was sitting around hoping and hoping, never got anything done.
He was hoping music would change the world.
He's sitting around hoping and the hope is gone.
He's lost it.
He presented a documentary about his 2006 anti-war concert tour at the Berlin Film Festival today.
He said, I know the time when music could change the world has passed.
I really doubt that a single song can make a difference.
It's a reality.
I don't think the tour had any impact on voters.
Who saw it?
He's really upset that his...
Neil, that's not why you do music.
Do music to sell CDs.
You know, write some music people want to hear.
So they'll buy and pass on.
Maybe even try to steal it so good.
Download for free.
What can save the world, ladies and gentlemen?
If music can't save the world, what could save the world?
Well, perhaps a Renaissance tankless water heater would be a good start in saving the world because it would save so much money.
Everybody's so obsessed with saving energy.
You realize how much energy you're wasting by using your hot water tank, heating up water you're never going to use, by the way.
It just sits there, gets warmed, and gets hot.
With a Renaille tankless water heater, hot water is there only when you need it, and it's there when you need it.
And it saves you big money.
And you can find out how much money the tankless Renai water heater will save you by going to their website, foreverhotwater.com.
They have a little calculator in the website.
Your specific home can save.
Calculate it for yourself.
Not lying about this.
These things are cool.
Renai Tankless Water Heaters is the hot way to heat water.
Foreverhotwater.com is the website.
You will not have to hope for hot water with a Renaille Tankless Water Heater.
It's always there.
I kid you not.
This is the headline.
Democrat National Committee sponsors event honoring Sato Masochism.
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