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Feb. 14, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 14, 2008, Thursday, Hour #2
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And once again from high atop the prestigious frequently visited EIB building in Midtown Manhattan, this is broadcast excellence, hosted by me, Rushlin Baugh meeting and surpassing all audience expectations daily.
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All right, here's where this we're going to get to the Democrat stack now.
And everybody's wondering, you know, it goes back and forth.
ABC's The Note Today says, if you run the math, according to the uh polling data for future races, future primaries and caucus, it is conceivable that neither Obama nor Hillary will have enough pledged delegates after the primaries to claim the mantle as nominee, which then turns it over to two things, the superdelegates and whether or not to seat the delegates from Florida and Michigan.
Now, the Democrat fight is gonna come down, folks, to who are the bigger racists.
The pledged delegates or the Democrat superdelegates.
And until we know the answer to that, we will not know who the nominee is going to be.
Right now, is there any way to gauge the level of racism and bigotry among the superdelegates?
Because if there's a lot of it, if there's a lot of racism and bigotry among the superdelegates, uh, such as fast Eddie Randell, the governor of Pennsylvania, who is backtracking, by the way now, uh, that would guarantee a Hillary win if we could gauge the level of racism.
Now, we will not get the answer to this question on the front page of the New York Times or inside the front section of New York Times uh in their analysis or reporting.
It just will not, they will not explore the racism and bigotry in the Democrat Party, but this is what it's going to come down to with Obama uh being on the on the ticket.
Now, I don't get a lot of questions here of from people about what are superdelegates, uh, but I have a lot of friends of mine are saying, you know, you ought to explain this superdelegate stuff, because boy, I'm my friends are all asking me what it means.
Everybody wants to be a program director, HR.
So let's run through this superdelegate business and explain this as simply and succinctly as possible.
There are around 796 superdelegates.
Superdelegates are party officials who who are they are elected officials, they're party hacks, uh, and and they can basically they're not bound to go with the delegations which are pledged from the various states based on the vote.
So they can basically they can pledge themselves early to a candidate, then change their mind, or they can stay open and undecided, in which case the candidates lobby them, uh, which is what we've seen Chelsea Clinton doing.
They are all ages, some of them are in their early 20s, some of them are geriatrics from Jurassic Park.
Uh, but they they basically are party hacks, and the whole system was set up uh in 1980 for the express purpose of giving the people uh or limiting the people's role in selecting the nominee because it was this is typical Democrat.
Uh it was assumed that the party hacks, the superdelegates, the elites, would know better than the average Democrat voter, which ends up assigning delegates.
Now this whole thing is is gonna come back and haunt them.
The Democrat Party has so screwed up uh or nuanced, I should say, that this this primary season, nobody can figure out the score right now.
It depends on where you look, uh you'll get a different tally on who's got how many delegates.
According to AP, Obama has 1,224 delegates.
According to CNN, uh he has 1,253 delegates.
According to RealClear Politics and their rolling average out there, uh 1,276 delegates.
CBS has a different figure.
Some of these figures include superdelegates that have so far identified themselves, some of them do not.
They've got pledged delegates in the Democrat side.
They have allocated delegates.
They have superdelegates.
The pledged delegates that can change their pledges.
So, two things that we can be assured of.
The superdelegates are going to determine the winner here.
Because it looks like if these poll, if the polling date is accurate, it looks like neither one of these two is going to end up with a delegate with a required number of delegates after the primaries are over.
If the superdelegates decide on Obama, the Clintons will demand quite a bit more than a pound of flesh to concede.
You might even feel sorry for these people.
Because for all their power, they don't get the Democrat right to a secret ballot.
These people, we're gonna know.
You know, they they're not gonna get to hide behind it.
We're gonna know how these people voted.
It's gonna be brutal for these people.
And so the question's gonna have to be asked.
Are they voting for a candidate or are they voting for their political future?
This is why I raised the question.
The Democrat fight's gonna come down to who are the biggest races, the bigger racists.
The Democrat delegates or the Democrat superdelegates.
And until we know that, we can't gauge how this is going to go.
If these superdelegates want to decide for a candidate, then they're gonna decide who they think is legitimate winner.
On the basis of merit, say, okay, we gotta go with a guy or the girl that we thought did the best, and it is really closer to winning it, go that way.
Or they can say, you know what?
Do I want to cross the Clintons?
Do I like my future?
Do I want to have a future?
And they're not going to be relying on Obama to give them their future.
Uh the Clintons have their tentacles spread deep, woven intricately throughout the Democrat Party hierarchy.
Uh they are the machine, and she is the machine candidate.
We have seen the Clintons play rough.
They have long memories, they have long, long, long memories.
They have a lot of tentacles.
They, from foundations to billionaires from 527s to union bosses, from the good old jolly folks at Moveon.org and Emily's list to the nags, from names like George Soros, Ron Burkle, wheeler dealers you never heard of until two weeks ago, like Frank Justra, who has ended up sending Clinton 131 million to his library and massage parlor for Clinton helping him get a mining uranium deal over in Kazakhstan.
That's all the least of this.
The Clintons will not concede.
If the superdelegates go Obama, the Clintons will not concede on the cheap.
They have the threat of a lawsuit over Michigan, and then the threat of a lawsuit over Florida.
And as you know, uh lawsuits can go from a court to a court of appeals to the Supreme Court, unless, of course, the party pays tribute to the Clintons and what might that tribute be.
I have no clue, but whatever you might imagine it to be, double it or triple it.
Uh because Mrs. Clinton's testicle lockbox is big enough for the entire Democrat hierarchy, not just some people in the media.
And whether they have been taking steroids and the testicles are smaller than usual, doesn't matter.
Her lockbox, her testicle lockbox, can handle everybody in a Democrat hierarchy.
So I and when you couple this with the mindset, the attitude, the psychology, Mrs. Clinton, she she just suffered all this humiliation for all of these years.
This is the payback.
This is the payoff, and they're not going to go quietly.
And now you've got the interesting specter of Reverend Sharpton promising demonstrations and protests if the Florida and Michigan delegates are seated.
And the Clintons are saying, bring it on, Rev. You think 68 was bad.
Wait till you see what we turn Denver into in 2008, it's a 40-year anniversary, Reverend Al.
The Clintons are happy to tear things down in order to claim them.
And then rebuild them again with themselves as the contractor, the architect, the interior designer, the landscapers, and the pool people.
They'll be happy to do this.
So Obama's sitting out there and he's thinking, yeah, they're not going to attack me, they can't attack me.
I'm a black guy.
Last time they tried that, look what happened to him in South Carolina.
I've got this great campaign, I'm moving on into the future.
I haven't seen anything yet.
Not not, especially if she does pull these things out in Texas and Ohio.
Momentum will be back.
The rejuvenation will be on the Clinton side.
Meanwhile, the Obama campaign goes on.
All right, people have been patiently waiting.
It's time to go to the phones.
We'll start this hour.
Patterson, uh, California.
Hi, Clyde, nice to have you with us on the EIB network.
I rush Megadetto, you narcissistic genius.
Hey.
Hey, I what prompted my call is uh yesterday somebody called in and was given McCain.
He wasn't gonna vote for McCain because of McCain fine gold.
Well, George Bush signed that into law.
And I think he I think even Fred Thompson voted for it.
And it just seems to me like uh I don't know, plenty of Republicans supported that too.
And uh I'm curious as to why you think uh McCain gets golfing, excuse me.
All the grief on that one.
Well, two reasons.
One, let's go to Fred Thompson in any grief because he never he never really rose to a position of prominence enough for anybody to start attacking him on it.
Right.
Uh, but that was his only scourge in people's minds.
Fred Thompson was right.
That that that was the only negative with Fred Thompson in people's minds.
President Bush.
President Bush is a different story.
Uh and I mentioned this quite eloquently yesterday in my uh discussion with Jay Carney at Time Magazine.
President President Bush in fact did sign McCain Feingold, and there were those of us at the time who expressed anger about it.
And we expressed even more anger because everybody was passing a buck up to the Supreme Court, thinking the court would take care of it.
Nobody wanted to do the hot potato of vetoing this or toning it down for who knows what reason.
They thought the Supreme Court would overturn it because everybody thought it was unconstitutional.
Well, lo and behold, the Supreme Court said, hey, this is pretty cool.
We're trying to usurp a bunch of executive power from those people anyway.
We'll go ahead and do it.
We're writing our own laws up here.
This is as good as one we could come up with.
So we're left here with anger at the the the origin.
This is McCain's idea, and that the reason he got most of the blame or most of the criticism for this is because he thought it up.
And he pushed it.
And he was out doing everything he could uh to counter arguments that it was an assault on free speech.
He was making arguments like all of us here in Washington were decent good people, but the money's corrupted us.
We're all corrupt.
And you people giving us the money are corrupt.
And we're gonna get the money out of politics with meaningful campaign finance reform.
They didn't get the money out of politics, just created George Storos type organizations.
Another reason why Bush didn't get a whole lot of criticism, it's very simple.
President Bush was in the middle of prosecuting the wall in Iraq, the war on terror, a post-9-11 era.
The Democrats, the House and the Senate, and the drive-by media were trying to destroy George W. Bush.
A lot of people that love Bush because of the war were willing to overlook things like campaign finance, illegal immigration, because Bush is likable, number one.
Uh number two, the Democrats were trying to destroy him.
And in the process, trying to destroy this nation's ability to defend itself.
The Democrats were trying to secure defeat in Iraq and in the war on terror.
And so people that voted for Bush and the conservatives who cared about some of the other things he was doing, tax cuts were good, rallied around him because we understood what was happening.
And Democrats are making an all-out assault on his presidency.
And so that's that's why he escaped some of the blame.
But McCain gets most of it because of his idea.
And he was out actively selling it.
And he knew that members of his own party were very much bothered by it and opposed to it.
And that just egged him on even more to want to get it passed.
So all of that's totally understandable.
I guess I say had Fred Thompson stayed in the race and had he climbed higher in the polls, there would have been some people that had a problem with that.
But that was the only thing that I could think of off the top of my head that a lot of people would have had problems with.
And they probably would have overlooked it because there wasn't a single candidate in the original roster of Republicans running for the presidency who didn't have something you had to overlook.
Some of them had more than one, like Senator McCain, others had flip-flop issues, and this sort of was there wasn't one candidate that didn't have something questionable uh about them, and Thompson, I think that was his only one.
I appreciate the call, Clyde.
This is Gary in Charleston, South Carolina.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Russ, uh good afternoon.
Second time caller tour, and you are definitely an American genius.
I appreciate that, sir.
Thank you so much.
Uh a narcissist.
Don't forget narcissists.
No, well, we'll hold that in abeyance.
Uh I'm gonna get straight to the point.
Last night I was surfing through the channels and came across C-SPAN and happened to catch the Senate Oversight Committee with a Clemens uh issue.
And I am a conservative Republican in the state of South Carolina.
I am so conservative I'd make Bonnie and Clyde look like Dale Evans and Roy Rogers.
I got so infuriated when I seen and sit and listen to Henry Waxman, who reminded me of a woodchuck smiling through a picket fence, going after Clemens with just a travesty, never giving this man an opportunity to defend himself on the whole Democratic side, reminded me of an 1800s lynch mob.
If this is the best that this government can do from the Democratic Oversight Committee and worry about steroid use based on a report by uh uh ex-Senator Mitchell, then we're in a world of hurt up there in Washington.
Well it just is this was a House uh committee that the Chairman Waxman chairman's uh understanding.
I missed representative.
I I watched I watched a little bit of this yesterday.
You have to understand why this happened.
I mean, I I'm like you to see a congressional committee go after a private citizen like this, it's just infuriating.
I mean these hearings never fed a hungry child.
No, they didn't.
Uh and if anybody ought to be going after this, it should be that if if anybody's gonna go after it, it should be the Justice Department.
However, Roger Clemens asked for this opportunity.
He wanted it, it he's he's looking at the circumstances, and he's trying to preserve his reputation here, and he wanted this opportunity.
So, and he got it.
What I found fascinating about this, I don't know if you noticed this, and I mentioned this yesterday.
One of the things that fascinated that this was partisan.
The Republicans were all on Clemens side.
The Democrats were savaging Clemens.
Isn't that amazing?
I watched that last night.
I watched uh the guy from that the uh representative from Massachusetts uh go after Clemens and then uh the Republicans to go after the trainer, and it I just looked at this and I'm going, is this the best that they can do?
It's just amazing.
No, you your expectations of these people are obviously way too high.
This is uh this probably is the best they can do.
Something like this.
But I've got I've got another theory about this I want to get to in just a second.
But but look, let's talk about the partisanship of this.
How in the world is something like this become partisan?
How in the world do all the Democrats line up savaging Clemens uh and and basically, you know, almost taking the side of the trainer?
What they really said was they believed Andy Pettit, uh not the trainer, the Republicans it was like it's like Clemens was being appointed to the federal judiciary.
You know, Republicans wanted to defend him, and the Democrats wanted to say what in the world's partisan about this.
I couldn't figure this out.
Somebody said to me today, no Russ, you don't understand.
This some kook said to me, Who's in the White House?
This is Bush.
Where is he from?
Texas.
Yeah, so where's Clemens from?
Texas.
Right.
Yeah, so you don't think Bush called a Republicans and said, You make sure you protect my fellow Texan Clemens?
I said, You gotta be You think Bush called a Republican and said Clemens is getting away with this?
There's there are people out there thinking that to explain the partisanship.
It it is hard to explain.
Here, here, Gary, this is this is the thing.
Over the last five decades of my life, the liberals in this country have tried their best to destroy much that is good in this country.
The Boy Scouts, churches, schools, any number of cultural institutions and traditions that are responsible for this nation's uniqueness and greatness, the multicultural curriculum in school, they have done their best to destroy.
They've tried to punish and destroy achievement.
Now what in the world are they doing with the even if Clemens wants these hearings, somebody's got to say this is not for us.
This is for the Justice Department.
What they are trying to do, the Democrats anyway, I it it well I can't prove this, but this is an all out of salt on baseball that they were they were committing yes.
Another American tradition and institution.
That's one of the things I noticed about it.
As usual here behind the golden EIB microphone, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair, this is Patricia Salt, St. Marie, Michigan.
Nice to have you on the program.
I know it's Sous-Marie, I just wanted to pronounce it as it's spelled.
How are you?
Fine, thank you, sir.
And how are you?
Never better.
Don't you hate when people always ask you about the Rush, how are you every call or does that uh you know you know not bother you at all?
Yeah, they say, hey Rush, how are you?
I just wanted to tell you that they never let me answer.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's why I wondered about that.
I thought they were concerned about your highs and your lows sometimes on the phone, which is why they always ask you about that.
But Rush, um you are one of my all-time top favorite ten male names list.
And diddles from a blue state deep in the red.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
I'm glad to be on somebody's top ten name list.
Favorite male names list.
Rush, I have a comment on a caller's remark and an answer to your question as to how Hillary can stop Bill from himself.
On Tuesday you received a call from a really nice woman who seemed to be somewhat surprised that men, but in particular angry white men weren't uh supportive of Hillary.
You know, she in essence uh at least in my opinion uh I she should I guess you were saying she should be more that men should be more sympathetic towards Mrs. Clinton and I just didn't feel that way at all.
I certainly don't believe that Mrs. Clinton should be rewarded with anyone's vote simply because she made a calculating political decision to stand by her guy.
And let's not forget that the so called ardent supporter of women and women's rights chose and I say chose at the expense of users to bury her head in the sand for years as her husband continued it's not just that when you sit there and say to me all the the ardent supporters of women's rights look at all the women she tried to destroy in the bimbo eruptions and threatened it's laughable.
I understand Bill Clinton's a father and uh he's trying to make hay out of this David Schuster comment about the Clinton sending Hillary out or sending uh uh Chelsea out and using the pimp word in describing it and Clinton says I got to stand up for this somebody's got to stand up for young women somebody has to stand up for young girls and the abuse that they're of all people you should know you should and nobody calls him on this uh it's it's like a a hands off kind of thing.
Well but just but just as Bill's lies and sexual abuse towards women should not be tolerated and rewarded so too you know Mrs. Clinton's lies and abuse towards women should not be tolerated and rewarded with votes.
And secondly if you if you take Bill's baggage out of the equation I I think that Hillary is less toxic.
Now now she may be a very nice person you know outside of the political arena but the reality is most people just don't care for Mrs. Clinton because of her political views and her constant angry anti-American ugly speak and anti-bush hate rhetoric and this is what the you know Obama's capitalizing on this is uh what you know is all the you know the Obama drama is all about you started out asking you you you were uh you referenced a call earlier this week from the woman who wanted to know why so many men, white men are angry at Hillary.
And I think um sure there's a policy component to it but it goes way beyond that it it just don't make me extend you have to understand don't make me explain this to you is it a racial No no it's no no no no we're talking about Hillary here.
It's not that she's not black enough you know we're talking About white men and and uh the and and their their fear, loathing, dislike.
There's no denying it exists.
I mean, her disapproval number is at 49%.
Uh and there there's there's a reason for it.
It's a lot of it's attitudinal.
Uh she just she she reminds men of the the the worst characteristics of women they've encountered over their life, totally controlling, not soft and cuddly, not sympathetic, not patient, not understanding, demanding domineering, uh nurse ratchet kind of thing.
Everything you do, you have to do behind her back, that kind of and then and then and then after all of that with Mrs. Clinton with this the characteristics I just described, then with the flick of a light switch, all of a sudden she's a victim of evil men and bad Republicans, and she starts crying and she wants sympathy.
She's a classic manipulator.
And this is the thing that that mo nobody wants to be manipulated, especially in a circumstance where they have no choice, they can't get out of it.
Uh when you when the only way to have peace is to be manipulated.
But nobody wants to walk around looking over their shoulder, walking on eggshells, making sure that there's not an eruption just because you're being who you are.
This is how she's seen.
Well, then how could somebody like Obama handle if it were the uh the if the ticket were uh Clinton Obama, how could he handle being under Hillary under those circumstances?
Uh you mean as vice president or in a sexual sense?
No.
I can't even see that.
No, I hate that picture.
You mean as vice president?
As vice president, yes.
Well, that'll be well, whoever's Hillary's vice president may as well move to an IGLU.
You know, you talk about attending funerals, they're gonna be a whole new role, and it's gonna have nothing to do with anything that could get any credit whatsoever for what Hillary's administration is doing.
And that's why I don't think Obama would take it.
Uh I I just don't.
But that's all premature.
I mean, I it's it's it's really kind of silly to start speculating and guessing on who, you know, real question is would Hillary accept the VEP?
Well, no, you just said earlier that the expectation is that Hillary will probably end up with it no matter what, because of her, well, connections, if you will.
Yeah, the superdelegates and the yes, and the and the uh, you know, the look at the the fear of the Clintons is palpable.
They have that that was no lie that they had people's FBI files.
Um it look at the look at the people they know, the gazillionaires, the billionaires, the um they've they've got a network of people that can bring a world of hurt to people to get out of line.
And we've heard stories in this uh in this campaign uh from members of the Senate during uh Bill Clinton's first term when Hillary was in charge of health care, and she'd go up and she would talk to some of these uh Democrats in the Senate and in the House, and they would tell her you can't get it done this way.
Uh you you you just can't come up here and ram this through.
This is not how it works, even though we're all in the same party, you just can't do this.
And uh forgetting the specifics and the in the quotes, but uh Hillary would say it's very insulting.
You are nothing in this party.
You are going to be n that's how she talks to people.
And there are the Jeff Gerth and Van Netta uh written a book about this.
Carl Bernstein don't think he delves into so much that area, but Van Van Natta and Gerth did.
And some of the stories with the way she has treated, I mean, everybody is the little people to Mrs. Clinton.
They're no more than insects to be swatted out of the way or squashed if they get in the way and don't get out of the way.
That's that's the image people have of her.
Um Russia, aside from the the power trip, then you know that she just wants a second chance to clean up Bill's resume and to rewrite her own legacy.
I mean, what else is there?
That's not no, she doesn't care about Bill's legacy to the except to the extent that it it it it would uh it reflects on her.
Huh?
It reflects on her.
Uh yeah, but but there are two ways to look at this.
One is that this is actually his third term, but he's not constitutionally allowed.
So this is an unelected third term for Bill Clinton, because if they win, he's going to be around.
Mrs. Clinton's promise there won't be any other scandals and so forth, uh involving him.
The other way to look at it is, and I it it's it's it's one of those two.
And I I vacillate.
I go back and forth on uh what it is that's motivating these people, but I keep, for some reason, gut instinct here.
I keep coming back to the fact that this is this whole thing is about her now.
And they don't care, she doesn't care how she gets there.
She doesn't care if she needs Bill and his last name and him out there campaigning, uh just just getting there because she is owed this.
She gave up her life for this guy.
She could have had in her mind now, she could have had her own identity as Hillary Rodham.
She could have had her own this, their own that.
She she wouldn't have had to trek on down to Arkansas, be humiliated with nightclub singers showing up in a governor's mansion and so forth, having to look the other way to make sure this guy's career didn't get destroyed, because that's the only way her career was going to go anywhere is if his remained viable.
This is payback.
And I'll tell you, I I when I look at all of this and I look at Mrs. Clinton and I say, what in the world is it that recommends her for this job in the first place, if not for the fact that a lot of Democrats and a lot of people in the media who are of their generation believe this whole scenario that she's owed this because she paid her dues.
She saved the presidency for the Democrats, she saved the Democrat Party.
She has been in the trenches.
She is owed this.
Hillary Rodham gave it all up to become Hillary Clinton.
And look what it got her, and this is payback.
Plus, you couple it with the fact that she she's almost got an ownership on this.
I don't know how to adequately accurately explain this.
Uh because I don't think most people are capable of of of having uh the the kind of ambition that the Clintons have to run the country, to own it, be in the White House, the Oval Office, and this sort of thing.
So it's it's hard to convey it in a way that people understand.
Uh get lost if you think that the Clintons want this for the betterment of the country.
And that they really care about people.
And Hillary's worked for 35 years uh on all these children's.
This is all just bunk.
None of this matter, that's just the sales technique.
This is strictly about raw power.
It is about liberalism and socialism being marched onward, unabated with nobody to stop them.
And this is their last chance to get it done.
If they don't win it this time, then they're out.
And you couple all of this uh and you've got a sense of entitlement, a sense of desperation, a a sense of desire for this, a thirst.
This is this is it's it's beyond any kind of hunger, desire, passion, or thirst you can imagine in your own life.
I'm trust me on this, don't doubt me.
Uh, and as such, nothing's gonna stand in their way.
And they're gonna figure out how to go after Obama, and they're gonna have to, but they won't it'll do it with the superdelegates and the Florida Michigan delegations as well.
Look, uh, let me take a brief time out here, or the next segment's gonna be really short, and people will be angry at the host.
And I don't like people being angry at the host over format things.
Back after this, stay with us.
And we go back to the phones.
Uh Rick in uh San Bernardino, California.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you here with us.
Hi, Russ.
Hi.
Um my idea on why the Democrats going after Clemens.
Clemens is big money.
He represents big business.
And you know, Democrats are always for the little guy.
Yeah, you know, it's a good point.
Uh baseball players today are the rich.
And the what are the rich?
They cheat, they steal.
They're schemers, and they're not paying their fair share.
So it's time to go after Roger Clemens.
Plus, he is from Bush's state.
Texas.
That's it.
But I have to tell you, Elijah Cummings from Baltimore.
He was uh uh the first, you know, after Nostralitis Waxman finished.
By the way, Henry Waxman's a guy that would make me turn off my high definition TV.
But when it when when uh Waxman finished his opening statement, they turned it over to Elijah Cummings, and I think he's been in Congress since 1980, he was seated in 1997, just from right at the road in Baltimore.
And I have to tell you, he was.
He he we he wasn't attacking Clemens so much like some of these other uh people on the committee did, but he nailed him.
He said, you know, you're one of my heroes.
I just can't believe you.
In the contest between believing you and Brian McNamee and Andy Pettit, I believe Pettit.
And that just nailed it.
It was fascinating too when I when I uh I was eager to see what the drive-by sports media would say about this.
So when I got home yesterday afternoon after an arduous interview with Time Meg or the New York Times, uh I I went to the ESPN website and they had a guy blogging it, and it was just so ti.
It was just, it was a sycophantic.
This I forget his name, doesn't matter.
Clemens stole the show today.
Roger Clemens owned the testimony.
Roger Clemens was this, Roger Clemens was that, Roger Clemens was the nice he sat up straight, he spoke straight into the microphone, and he owned the day.
So this is not what I saw.
I mean, it wasn't that he did bad, and it wasn't that the trainer did awesome, but I didn't I did not see that.
At least the first hour and a half that I had a chance to listen to it.
So then uh the New York drive-by's get in the act today of the tabloids in the post in the Daily News.
And a more uh I hate to say this, but their take was closer to what mine was, and it's all that Clemens was a disaster.
He did not help himself at all yesterday, even though he might have thinks he did.
Uh might have thought he did.
Um everybody has their biases here uh in this.
Sports media want these guys to go down because then these these these purists and steroids in baseball.
I defy any of these people who are demanding moral purity to show us their medical records.
Uh let's see what they've injected.
Uh let's see what they've done as though they've never made one mistake in their lives demanding perfection and purity from all these other people in tech and integrity too.
Let's let's let's do their integrity uh lapses and so forth.
But before I go to break, I got another call.
I have to tell you I gave away a select comfort bed yesterday.
Now that's a nice gesture.
And we got it was a it was a call from a military wife uh who had been in Camp LeJune, but now she she lives she and her husband got back from Iraq, I think, six weeks ago.
Uh and they live in Louisville.
Uh and uh so you know gave her some flowers, some pro flowers, a little uh Valentine's Day bouquet, get her husband off the hook, and uh at a select comfort bed.
It's a nice thing to do, right?
So check the email when I get home.
You're not fooling me.
You would and people not many of them, but a couple people said, I mean, I've called you before, and I've had a nice story.
Why didn't you give me one?
Or could I get one?
I would love to be able to give everybody one, but this program is not socialism.
But see, everybody wants one.
That's the thing.
Once you give one away, everybody wants one.
Select comfort, the sleep number bed.
This is the bed that you can get a king size, queen size, where each side of it you can set your own firmness.
You're gonna lay down on that bed, take the clicker, start flicking it, make it more firm, make it softer.
And wherever you end up liking it, that's your sleep number.
Uh and it's um it's just it's a great bed, it really is.
Uh check it out.
1800 get a bed.
And I who know I'm gonna be giving other beds away.
I mean, this is an ongoing.
Yeah, she was saving up her pennies.
She taught, I just it was I we lucked out.
She was saving up her pennies.
I had no clue.
I just threw it out there.
I wasn't feeling in magnanimous.
But uh check at least check it out.
You can get a free DVD or video to look at what all this thing does.
Um it's uh 460 wives, uh, 65 stores around the country.
Uh just call 1800 get a bed.
Uh, and then we'll talk about giving more away as the program unfolds on future days.
Peter in Jacksonville, Florida.
Thanks for the call, sir.
Great to have you here.
Republican conservative dittoes from the first coast rush.
Thank you.
Grattate.
And I want a sleep number bed, but I want to earn it.
Uh before.
I'll tell you, if you make your point, if you make your point in 25 seconds, the bed's yours.
Oh, geez.
Um I want to vote for I'm not going to vote for John McCain.
Um McCain wants to convince me that uh he's a conservative.
Why does he need convince me?
His record should speak to that fact.
Um and McCain's ego.
This is another reason why I'm not going to vote for McCain.
His ego when he looks up my vote and the vote of my family who are going to vote also, they're going to think that uh we're liberal uh Republicans and we want to move the Republican Party to the left.
I'm not helping McCain or anybody hijack the Republican Party.
You did it.
You got a bed.
Hang on, don't go away.
Romney is going to endorse McCain at four o'clock this afternoon and release his delegates to Senator McCain.
It's totally understandable and predictable.
One hour to go.
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