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All right, let's move on.
Let's move back to the Republican campaign, which means me.
The drive-by media, last night and all afternoon yesterday, were playing clips of me from this program yesterday, DittoCam clips.
Two of the three nightly newscasts last night did.
This program discussed all over the place, and they were wrong.
They were totally wrong.
And all of them admit to listening to what I said yesterday, but they got it wrong.
Limbaugh's on board now.
That's what it took.
New York Times comes out and Savages McCain, Limbaugh finally on board.
Now, those of you who listened to this program yesterday, I think would agree with me when I tell you that my reaction to the New York Times story was not to say, all right, this is it.
Now they've thrown the gauntlet down.
I'm a McCain guy now.
That's not what yesterday's program was about.
Yesterday's program was, if anything, a see, I told you so.
See, this is who the left is.
You can't befriend them.
They're going to come out.
And at some point, if you are a Republican, conservative, or otherwise, they're going to throw you under the bus, even your own, after you've given them rides on it.
And I ask Senator McCain to learn a vital lesson from this and find out who his real friends are.
However, ladies and gentlemen, I don't believe that the drive-by media getting what I said yesterday wrong is actually the story.
In fact, they know that they got it wrong.
They know full well they got it wrong.
They are trying to frame it in their own way as the drive-bys do.
They're trying to take little snippets of what I said, forget other things I said, and say, hey, Limbaugh's on board.
All right, McCain.
Now let's get him.
Now that everybody's on board in their mind now, okay, both barrels can be fired at Senator McCain.
They're in essence saying, and I know these people, you got to trust me on this.
They're essentially saying, if anybody's going to take McCain out, it's going to be us, not Limbaugh.
And lo and behold, we have, and this is actually the first example of this, which is important.
It's a third or fourth version.
At 71.
This is Reuters, by the way, Thomas Ferraro.
At 71, leading Republican presidential contender John McCain must convince voters that despite his age, he is up to the rigors of what is often called the world's toughest job.
I'm not the youngest candidate, but I am.
And the most experienced, says the white-haired senator from Arizona, first elected to Congress in 1982.
This story, here, McCain's age is one reason his selection of a vice presidential running mate will be scrutinized.
If McCain were to die in office, if McCain were to die in office.
But Rush, but Rush, why are you so upset?
A lot of people, yes, now, yes, now a lot of people are bringing this up.
Now, of course they are.
This has been my point all along, ladies and gentlemen.
So the bottom line here is they know full well what I said yesterday and what the import of it was.
They're getting it wrong on purpose.
They just want to be able to frame this in their own way because if they can frame the Republican Party unified and get, then they can, let's get him.
All right.
Now it's open season.
As long as there were rifts that they had to report, you know, they have to sit by the side of the road and let the Republican Party, you know, perhaps off itself.
At any rate, let's go to the audio soundbites.
I'll show you what I'm talking about.
Last night, CBS Evening News, the anchorette Katie Couric spoke with the commentator and analyst Bob Schieffer, who I think also is 71.
He might die on the air.
And Katie said, do you think this McCain story in the Times has legs?
You think it'll trip him up?
Katie, there were some people in the McCain campaign who actually winced when he was endorsed for the Republican nomination by the New York Times.
They thought that would set off the Republican right.
And boy, did it ever.
It looked like he would never find a way to get those people to warm to him.
But look what happened today.
Here's Rush Limbaugh coming to his defense.
So maybe we're going to see some changes there.
So now they'll bond over a common enemy.
You know, you just, doesn't Katie's intellect dazzle?
I mean, it stops you dead in your tracks.
The power of her intellect.
The CBS Evening News.
Schieffer made it through the soundbite alive.
So now we move on to PMSNBC.
This is last.
Actually, I'm sorry, it's a nightly news.
Correspondent Kelly O'Donnell said this about me.
The Times found itself the target of criticism today.
Rush Limbaugh, usually harsh on McCain, was now on his side.
The story is that this paper endorsed McCain, sat on this story, and now puts it out just prior to McCain wrapping up the nomination.
So they know.
They have they had, of course they did.
They had to listen to what came before.
They had to listen to what came after.
Well, PMSNBC ran it all.
They ran it all as did o-cam video.
As I said yesterday, they better be careful because this is going to outrate their own anchors.
It's a risky thing to play so much did-cam footage of me.
Now we move on to MSNBC last night live with Dan Abrams.
Had this exchange with the Democrat strategerist Lawrence O'Donnell.
Rush Limbaugh today sure sounded like he was ready to shift gears.
Let's listen.
Most people's prediction last night was that this was going to finally rally conservatives to McCain.
McCain couldn't do it himself, but that the New York Times could and the drive-by media.
And I got some emails.
That's it, Rush.
I hadn't planned on voting for McCain, but I'm going to send him some money now.
I'm not going to sit here and let the New York Times destroy my candidate.
Well, I mean, Lawrence, what do you make of it, real quick?
I listened to the first hour of Rush today, and it was a pretty warm hour for McCain.
Jeez.
You know, I was also getting, I didn't say this yesterday, I was getting emails yesterday.
Can't you ever lighten up on McCain?
Can't you, does it, I was getting lots of emails of that nature.
Oh, go, yeah, that woman that wrote me, oh, the F-bomb.
Yeah, I got read that email yesterday.
She's just mad as hell at me because she thought I was continuing to pile on McCain.
Now, Lawrence O'Donnell, he was one of the, I don't know, creative advisors to the show, The West Wing, you know, which liberals actually thought was the administration.
Martin Sheen was president.
So it's no question that O'Donnell could listen to this show yesterday and think that it was a pretty warm hour for Senator McCain.
Stephanopoulos, good morning, America, today.
Robin Roberts, talk to him.
The Republican story, of course, yesterday, John McCain with his wife Cindy by his side, strongly denying the New York Times story.
And it seems like conservative Republicans are now rallying around him like talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
Any day, any day that Rush Limbaugh is attacking the New York Times instead of John McCain after what he's been doing for the last three months is a good day for John McCain.
They had to have heard this.
They just had to have heard what I said.
Senator McCain, you need to learn a lesson from this.
The McCain parody?
Yeah, grab the old, you know, McCain and breaking up with the old gray lady.
Here, I mean, we played all this throughout the program yesterday.
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Back to the phones to Fort Madison, Iowa.
This is Robert.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
I've listened to you for a long time, and I'd just like to say I'm influenced, but I'm not a robot.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, that's most of the audience, by the way.
I hope so.
Anyway, had you heard that the New York Times had lost 5% of its worth today?
Oh, you mean on their stock price?
Yes.
Yeah, I heard that.
And they were also reconsidering who was going to run the show over there?
Reconsidering who is going to run.
Oh, well, there's a look at this.
It has been going on for a long, long time.
Oh, there have been.
Thomas Lifson at the American Thinker has been chronicling the boardroom travails of the New York Times for many, many months.
There have been many stockholders who have wanted to get rid of Pinch Schulzberger.
Well, his dad was Punch.
Yeah.
And they call this one a little pinch.
And because they think he's incompetent.
And because the stock price, advertising revenue, everything's falling over the New York Times.
It has been for many months prior to this McCain thing.
There are two classes of shares at the New York Times that basically ensure that the Schulzberger family will never, ever lose control here.
But there is a battle to change that and to force, if they're not going to change that, to get somebody in there to run the paper that knows what they're doing as a business, not just as a little journalism publication.
I don't know that the McCain thing has anything to do.
It'd be tough to peg that the McCain story has anything to do with the decline yesterday because the market's been very volatile lately.
But if you want to think that, I mean, you're free to.
Well, you know, my wife and I were Mitt Romney supporters.
And, well, we still do in a way.
Wow.
We listened to his speech when he was at CPAC.
Yeah.
And I realized, and, you know, we were going to make a choice.
And we feel that you can't unvote a nuke, a nuclear attack on the United States.
And I still, we think that it'd be probably best, even though with all his shortcomings at McCain, we're going to vote for him.
Okay.
You know, it's a hard decision, but when it comes down to the national security, I mean, that's what the government's supposed to do, right?
Protect us.
Well, yeah, of course, that's part of the oath of office that every president.
Right, exactly.
Well, I don't think Hillary or especially Obama would even come close to that.
And I love both Snerdley, by the way, and what he's saying there.
Oh, yeah, you're our official Obama criticizer?
Oh, he's great.
Give him 10 minutes of his own.
Yeah.
No, I'm running a ritual.
You know, every guest host I've ever had here has gone on to bigger and better things.
And I realize by giving Snerdley the post as official criticizer that he might want an even bigger chunk of broadcast.
Now, he's shaking his head in there.
No, no, no, no, it never happened.
But I know human nature.
Robert, I appreciate the phone call.
Thanks.
El Mucho, Lincoln, California, next.
And Eddie.
Hello, Eddie.
Yes, Russ.
Hey.
How are you doing, Russ?
Never better, sir.
Good.
We talked before quite a while ago.
What I wanted to kind of talk about is Hillary.
I had a unique position.
I was the fire marshal at UC Berkeley.
And the first time the Secret Service called me, it was for the wooden Idney and Gore.
And I went there for him.
And then about a year and a half later, they called me, and Hillary was going to be there.
So they wanted to make sure that everything, all the fire regulations were being met, and they wanted me to be there.
So I went there.
And I'm telling you, beware of Hillary.
Her, I mean, what are they, the saying goes, stripes on a zebra doesn't change.
Well, anyway, whatever it's saying is she was the meanest person I've ever seen.
The Secret Service was the most professional people I've ever met.
And I worked with the FBI and ATF and all these other people, which were fine.
Well, you're not saying there's anything wrong with the FBI or ATF.
Oh, no, Yeah, I just looking out for you here.
They were fine.
It was just that the Secret Service is very, very well trained and very professional.
And anyway, I got to see an insight of Hillary that most people don't see.
Yeah, but we've heard about it.
You know, we have heard about this.
I mean, we've heard about it for the days in the White House.
We've heard about the tantrums that she's been throwing with her campaign staff.
You've actually seen it.
We've just heard about it.
Right.
No, I've seen it, and it was ugly.
And nothing against drunken sailors, but she had a mouse like a drunken sailor.
You know what?
I'll tell you what surprises me about this.
I mean, I've heard this about her, but when the stories I've heard all have her saying these kinds of things around people that she would trust not to repeat it or that she knows.
Here, I mean, she didn't know you from Robin India.
She probably thought I was a Secret Service guy.
Why, were you dressed like that?
Well, I was dressed in a suit and a tie, and I had my Secret Service badge on that they gave me.
Oh, okay, okay.
So she probably thought you were sworn to secrecy and privacy.
Right, exactly.
And like I said, Secret Service guys would never talk to you like that.
Any Ashtrazer, is she throwing anything or was it just verbal?
It was verbal, but it was very verbal.
Well, who was it directed to and why?
What could possibly have happened to someone?
Well, what was going on at the time, Amy was at Stanford, and there was a stalker stalking Amy.
And she was.
You mean Chelsea?
Chelsea, I'm sorry.
Amy is Amy Carter.
I'm sorry, I got the two confused there.
Anyway.
That's not hard to do.
Anyway, yeah, she was at Stanford at the time, and she was being stalked.
But that was a different group of Secret Service guys that was guarding her, and she was under very good protection.
But she was just blowing her butt at these Secret Service guys saying, is she protected?
Are they watching over her?
And all this kind of stuff.
But, I mean, there were other things, too, that entered into this that she was just, yeah, she was awful.
This was the old town hall meeting.
As you know, Berkeley, I was probably one of a dozen conservative Republicans.
Okay.
UC Berkeley is completely liberal.
And they were.
Well, of course, you know, right now, I've got to tell you something, though.
There are more Republican students registered at Berkeley than there are communists and liberals and Democrats.
When I was there, I want to tell you the truth.
The kids that went there were more conservative than liberals, but they handpicked the liberals, of course, to be at the town hall meeting.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Look, I appreciate this.
I've got to run because we have a heartbreak broadcast lingo, which means we can't miss it.
Back right after this.
As long as I'm here, ladies and gentlemen, it doesn't matter where here is Rush Limbaugh for the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies back in St. Louis.
And Martha, Martha, nice to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
I hope you don't wish you had gotten the flu instead of having to talk to me today.
Whoa.
You know where we're going, don't you?
Well, I think I remember because Mr. Snirdley has put a little note there that tells me, I remember talking to you, Martha.
But why don't you refresh the memory of the audience?
Okay.
You had been complaining about women for a period of time, not being able to figure them out, not meeting their needs, not knowing what they want.
And I called in and said, wait a minute.
Wait, wait, wait.
Is that how you remember the conversation?
Is that what you're saying?
No, no, no.
That's my reason for calling you that time.
I listened to you for a long period of time.
I know you love women, but it was sounding over the radio as if you didn't.
And I knew you did.
Oh, yeah, okay.
So I wanted to.
It's not that I had to do it.
But it's not that I hadn't figured him out.
It's that I have.
And I question that you have not.
That was my point.
And I said, Rush, you need to turn it around and ask yourself, what do you need in a woman?
How can she meet your needs?
And what are your wants?
And it piqued your interest because I said you've been settling for women.
That's right.
I admitted that, too.
And you did.
And I know failure is not a part of who you are.
And I so want this for you, probably more than you do.
Obviously, a year later, I'm still thinking about this because I listened to you one time, and you said, if I had a wife and I had to go home to her today after what I've said about women on the air, she would lock the door and never let me in again.
Now, people laugh at you.
I might prefer, Evan, you never know.
I know.
See, now you think that's funny, and I don't hear the humor because I know better.
I do know better.
I just love stereotypical humor, Martha.
Now, wait a minute.
I'm on point here, and I'm going to get one shot at this, and that's probably all I'm ever going to get.
Take your time.
Don't feel rushed.
Well, I'd rather have lunch with you and do it off the air.
Honest to God, that's what I'd rather do.
It's slick.
It is slick.
That's very slick.
But I need to know your marital status.
I'm married very happily, so.
And he can come.
Oh, well, wonderful.
Well, anyway, I think that now I hear you laughing.
Now, quit that.
I'm sorry.
I slapped myself.
Okay, have you advanced that cause of yours to figure out what it is you need and what you want instead of settling?
Yes, I have.
And what?
I have isolated and identified the reasons why I was settling.
I think if you recall when we spoke, I think you suggested to make a list.
Yes, I did.
Right?
Of yeses and no's.
And don't compromise on it.
And don't compromise this right.
You said one thing on the air, you know, all that I had just said, that I couldn't go home if I had said this about women.
Now you need to find a woman who's secure enough in who she is that she can hear this on the air and just laugh and laugh and then embrace you when you come home and say, good job, Rush, knowing you didn't mean that about all women.
You meant it to whom they apply to.
It isn't.
Well, my experience is that that is going to be the absolute toughest of these things to achieve.
Maybe it is, but Rush, you can do it.
It's not to me to do it.
Yes, it is.
It's to pick the right one.
Yes, it is.
Well, that's what I'm talking about.
Oh, well, is this North Carolina, babe, an email mistress, or is she really a mistress?
Now you're asking for secrets.
No, I just meant I can't distinguish over the air.
I'm hoping that if it is, you practice on her.
Stop it.
I know where you're going.
No, you don't.
You really don't.
Where do you think I'm going?
To a dirty place in your mind?
No, I'm sitting here.
I am hamstrung.
These are real people that you're asking me about.
Yes, they are.
If I were to sit here and discuss the relationship and the quirks of the North Carolina mistress, then I guarantee you what you just said wouldn't happen would happen.
But some of these things, and of course, Martha, are private now.
And they should stay that way.
Right.
Well, that's why you're asking about them.
I know from last time talking with you, something connected with you with what we were talking about.
It did.
There's no question it did.
And you took grief over this phone call.
I heard it the rest of the day.
What the next day?
What was it for getting off the issues or something?
Well, people were calling and saying, what was that?
It's like having a doctor on the phone.
Why would you do this over the air?
You took some heat.
It was Open Line Friday, I think.
I know it was.
Well, you know, Martha, really, I take a lot of hits, but it's nothing compared to the hits the American people are taking every day.
Right.
I understand that.
But now, can I rest easy?
Do I have to call again in a year?
You can call any time.
I thoroughly enjoy talking to you.
But let me just, without, without, you know, I'm in a very good mood today and lighthearted and, you know, some sarcastic cynicism here for the sake of humor.
But let me give you the straight skinny on this.
After we spoke, I prepared the list.
I have worked on it.
I have been discriminating.
And I have tried to.
You know, the big problem is something like this, not the big problem, but in making a list, being honest, you know, with yourself.
And then when the list is made, there are things that can tempt you to ignore certain things on it.
Yeah.
And then so discipline.
And all that means is, nope, standing up for yourself and being firm and being, if you've been honest with what's on the list, which I have.
But there is, I think that you should take comfort in the fact that the conversation that we had was very helpful and productive.
You know, I sensed it was, and that meant more to me than you'll ever know.
I love your show, but I love you more than your show.
And I want you to be as happy as I think I am.
Well, you know, I appreciate that.
I really do.
You know, one of the things that I'll put, I'll share you a couple things I put on a list.
And just so you'll know and give you an idea of some of the problem.
At the top of the list, woman has to know the history of my career here, why I am successful, what it has taken, what it will continue to take to stay here, and what, and, you know, when is the show and when is it not the show?
Second thing, she has to understand that that has always been number one in my life.
Has to understand it.
Will have to understand that I mean to sequester myself for hours working or because I just want to be alone.
It's a tough list, Martha.
Again, it goes back to her security.
That is the main ingredient for that woman.
She has to be secure.
Period.
And that's hard to find in a woman.
We call them here in Palm Beach self-feeders.
Okay, whatever.
Whatever works.
It's on the list, too.
Okay.
All right.
Martha, it's great to hear you.
You call back any.
And by the way, you don't have to always call about my relationship with women.
So lunch is out?
No, I'm not saying that.
Okay.
Well, the next year when I call, I'm just going to come to lunch and we're going to check signals on how you're doing.
Hey, I'm not coming on to you.
I love my husband.
Why?
Why would you even say that?
You're denying something that nobody even accused you of.
Well, I thought maybe you were thinking this woman is fairly pushy.
And I am fairly pushy, but not in that regard.
Okay.
I'm just not.
I just want, as my friend said, if you get to go to lunch with him, then I get to go lunch with him.
It's one of those things.
Okay.
Well, why don't we just make it a little bit different?
Yeah.
I'll tell you what, you sound like, you know, Jim Wright, you remember him, the former Speaker of the House in Texas after Reagan's Daily Union speech.
I'd send Wright out there to do the Democrat response.
The theme of every one of his speech was, we just want to help the president.
We just want to help you, which you sound like you just want to help me.
It's all in my head.
That's it.
I'm flattered that you care.
But why does this now?
Seriously, do you think if this aspect of my life doesn't get not fixed, but if it does become a whole, that it somehow will affect?
Absolutely not.
Absolutely not.
But failure is not in your vocabulary.
That's where I'm coming from.
And so far, that's not a great area for you.
I don't want you to fail at this before you die.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's all I'm saying.
I don't want that to happen to you again.
I appreciate that.
I really do.
Okay.
I don't want to fail at anything.
I know you don't.
No, that's not true.
There are a lot of things I want to fail at.
Okay.
Crop failure the next morning, for example.
I would love to fail at that.
Anyway, Martha, well, that's the old sold your wild oats thing.
Thanks.
Thanks for the call.
I guess I don't get a private number, right?
See ya.
If I acquiesced to this private number business, I'm going to have it's like I'd make you happy and I would make others miserable.
I know you would.
So Snerdley could give it to me if he wanted to.
You know, I had to just do a big dance to get through Snerdley.
Really?
Well, he kept saying, tell me, tell me, tell me more, tell me more.
You know, I don't think he heard the passion in my voice that you're hearing.
That's all.
Maybe not.
I'll ask him about it.
Okay.
But anyway, Martha, thanks for the call.
Thank you.
I appreciate you.
Have a wonderful weekend, okay?
All right.
Quick timeout here, folks.
We'll be back with much more right after this.
Do not go away.
You know, Martha St. Louis, I know you're still out there.
I asked Snerdley if by chance he got your number, because I forgot to do it.
I meant to do something in the call, and I got flustered because we're getting close to the commercial timeout, but I wanted to give you a present.
I wanted to give you a gift, Martha.
So whenever you have a chance, try to get back through.
Snerdley knows how to recognize your voice and so forth.
The lines are all jam-packed at all times, as you know, so you'll have to keep plugging away to Memphis.
This is Harry, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Harry, nice to have you here.
Look at Rush.
I would just like to have a brief debate with you in the area of ideas.
I am a moderate.
I know what you think about moderates.
You think we're all liberals.
But before I talk about issues, I'd like to say one thing about being a moderate.
I think the word is unhelpful, Rush, because it means different things to different people.
You think it's another way of people who are liberal denying it, and that's not the case at all.
I think liberal and conservative, too, are at least as unhelpful as the word moderate, because if you think whatever the National Party thinks this year, it's not going to be the same thing they think next year, Rush.
And I just want to make that brief point to you before I would like to debate you in the area of ideas on just a few issues, Rush, as a moderate, who leans right.
Well, the one thing you said here about the parties will be different from year to year.
Nothing new about that.
But in the case of the Republican Party, there has been a battle for control of the Republican Party for as long as I have been an adult.
And it's been between the country club blue bloods, the moderate Republicans who are embarrassed of the Christians in the party, and, of course, the conservatives who finally wrested control of the party from the blue bloods in the 1980s.
And that irritated the hell out of the blue bloods in our party, and they've now gotten it back.
Well, you raise an interesting point, Rush, because even conservatism, conservatism today is not conservatism 20 years ago.
And the same thing goes with liberalism.
This is evolving.
Wait a minute.
Well, I don't agree with that at all.
How's conservatism different today?
I mean, you cannot have principles that never evolve.
That's my point.
I mean, you can be grounded, but the grounding changes change.
It's part of life.
No, of course the principles don't evolve, but the issues to which they're applied do.
But the principles, this is the point, remain the same.
Conservatism hasn't changed.
What's happened is that there are people.
That's why it won't be true, right?
Well, I'm not talking.
That's right.
We're not talking about Washington.
Washington is where the competition for the definition of conservatives is taking place because most people think conservatives are the Republican Party.
Well, in theory, you're absolutely right, but in practice, it doesn't play out that way.
In practice, when certain involved in a public policy, it's true with me.
Well, can we just talk about a few issues then?
Yeah, I'm having trouble understanding what you're saying.
That's why I'm going to catch up with you on my transcriber here.
Could you back off the phone?
Are you on a cell phone?
I am, Rush.
I'm on an iPhone.
Oh, okay.
Well, I love the iPhone, so go ahead and use it.
Okay.
Rush, it was about three months ago you said the dirty little secret is that you can single-handedly pick the Republican nominee for president.
When Mitt Rodney's campaign was tanking, you virtually endorsed him by encouraging people to vote.
And it was last week or the week before that you said the dirty little secret is that you could single-handedly seek McCain's campaign by endorsing him.
You said two different things in the time span of three months.
Yes.
And you're agreeing with that?
Do I agree that I said those things?
Yes.
I do agree with I said those things.
Of course I did.
But in that contradictory, isn't that contradictory?
No, well, see, you're getting back now to context, and you don't know why I said those things.
Do you actually think I need to ask your you?
I want you to honestly answer that.
Do you actually think that I believe that I could single-handedly pick the Republican nominee?
Do you think I actually?
Absolutely, I believe you did that.
Yes.
You think I believe that?
Yes, and I think you probably could too.
And I think a lot of your listeners would agree so too.
You just can't do it at the very end of a primary.
You'd have to do it as a get-go.
Perhaps.
But the reason for saying it, I love tweaking media people.
That is their image of me.
And it's like the other day when I said, hasn't it been brilliant how I strategically inserted myself into the campaign to get all of this media coverage, as though I orchestrated this?
I love tweaking these people.
So, yeah, I say a lot of things here, but you have to have a regular contextual listening understanding of the program to understand.
I've listened to you for years.
I'm a subscriber of your newsletter and regularly go to your website, so I understand the context.
Well, good.
I think you're one of the best speakers in America today, but I also think sometimes that you get a little carried away behind the microphone and don't realize the influence you have behind your microphone.
It could be, because I think of myself, you know, harmless little fuzzball, actually.
Well, that's not the case.
You're not just a harmless little fuzzball because you can impact, you can impact public policy.
You singularly stopped the immigration reform bill in Washington not too long ago.
You, singularly, and your listeners.
Yes.
If it wasn't for you, that bill would have soared through and been law, and we would have Mexicans running everywhere.
You are absolutely right.
This is totally true.
It's just that I don't want anybody else to know it.