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Feb. 27, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 27, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 Podcast.
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It's a very sad day here for a lot of people, ladies and gentlemen, including me.
William F. Buckley passed away either late last night or this morning at his home in his study in Stanford, Connecticut, a place that I have been privileged to visit countless times.
And I have uh I've been reading some of the um the quickly produced uh obits and bios on Buckley on the wire services, and I've had a chance to listen to some people uh on television who uh worked for him or knew him intimately talking about him.
And I uh I want to leave it to others to um describe his history and his um uh role in conservatism.
I think uh a lot of people are not aware of it.
I'll take my spin at that at uh at some point.
But in talking about Bill Buckley, I I'd rather focus on the uh instances that I spent time with him, that I got to discuss things with him and uh the things that we discussed uh and what a thrill it was to be able to finally meet him under the circumstances that happened.
And for me uh to trace my uh my knowledge of William Buckley, I have to go back to when I was thirteen, fourteen years old and hated school.
Uh I felt like school was prison, felt like I was being controlled and dominated, and when I feel like I'm being controlled, I'm out of there.
I just revolt, I leave, don't want any part of it from anybody anyhow.
And so school was um, you know, not a particularly productive place for me.
I did absorb a lot there, but only because I had to be there.
But my my desire to learn uh actually came from outside the classroom.
It came from my father, uh perhaps the uh the most brilliant man I ever knew uh intimately, and uh my grandfather, of course, and and many members of my family, and tossed into the mix was uh Mr. Buckley,
who had a newspaper column, and I remember at age twelve or thirteen it was published in the St. Louis Globe Democrat, which was uh the morning paper in St. Louis at the time that was conservative for the most part, no longer publishes, of course, but uh I remember at age 13, 14, all the way up through high school just being mesmerized.
Uh it was the things that that Buckley wrote uh in those columns that literally created my desire to learn.
Uh and of course, listening to my father just rant on about a number of things constantly uh regarding politics, cultural things.
We were a very uh active family in that in that regard, and you know, the old image of uh family sitting around the dinner table and talking about stuff was true uh at our house.
And for me, it was a listening experience, and of course, peppered with questions and so forth.
I would I mean, this the single greatest motivation I had to uh learn to read, write, speak, the English language the best I could to expand my vocabulary came from Bill Buckley.
Uh I Bill Buckley was there is is indescribable.
Uh he's irreplaceable.
There will not be another one like him.
Uh and although that's true of all of us.
Once you take the time to learn about Buckley and his life and look at what all he did with it, he did not waste a moment.
Did not waste a moment.
He was able to pursue, as he called it, his sibaritic delights.
His uh pleasurable delights, such as sailing around the world numerous times, uh traveling the world with his work.
He was Prolific in output.
But it was his intellect and it was his uh it was his good humor uh and and all that it was literally inspiring to me.
Even after I, you know, I went through one year of college and I uh was having trouble, flunk speech, should have called the course outline 101, flunk speed, did every speech, showed up in every class, still flunked it.
I said, this is this is not for me.
And one morning I was sitting in the house uh twenty years old, and and uh I said, I'm quitting, told my dad I'm I'm quitting.
I can't handle this.
I'm leaving, I've got a job offer in Pittsburgh, and I'm gonna go there.
And of course, he came from the Great Depression, and that was the worst news he could hear.
The formative years of his life for the Great Depression or World War II, you go through the Great Depression, and if you don't have a college degree, if you didn't have one, you had no chance of getting a job.
He had great fears.
I mean, I'm the only member of my family, I think that doesn't have a college degree, and he was very concerned he was a failure as a as a father, and I remember telling him, Well, I want to be like Bill Buckley.
He said, What do you mean?
Well, I want to be able to sit around and write and think and speak and so forth.
And he, my dad blew up at me.
What what what are you talking about?
He gave me a two-hour lecture.
Uh, where do you think Bill Buckley went to become what he is?
You think Bill Buckley just sits around and writes and thinks and speaks, and people like you have this reaction to him.
I got a serious lecture on how hard and time-consuming achievement is.
And up until that time, you know, when you when you see the output of someone's work, but you don't see what goes into it, you can make the mistake of assuming it comes easy to them.
Especially those who are great at what they do.
You make it they they make it look so easy that you think you could do it too.
Uh and you form impressions of how they do it, and you see these people on television and so forth.
You really don't see any of the prep or any of the hard work that goes into the final product, and my dad was uh was right about that.
So it wasn't until I left the formal academic setting that I, at age twenty, that I got serious about education above and beyond what I'd learned at home, and I'm not just talking about politics and political things that absorbed a lot of that.
Um but I d I just uh that started working on my uh vocabulary, all of these things, trying to acquire just as much knowledge as I could.
I described it uh in trying to imitate Mr. Buckley, thinking uh he would say something like this.
I was reading omnivorously and voluminously, meaning anything I get my hands on, uh that was of interest to me.
So one thing leads to another, my career you know, spawns and it it uh it's you know it starts and stops, but eventually got my break in in Sacramento in 1988, which led to moving to New York in um or Sacramento, 1984, which which led to moving to New York in 1988.
And I had over the years developed uh, you know, halfway decent with two or three words at a time, impersonation of Bill Buckley.
Uh Bill Buckley, his books, his magazine National Review.
I thought Buckley was so unique and special that when I found out about National Review, I thought you had to be invited to read it.
I didn't think anybody could I didn't know he was writing a magazine and publishing one just for profit.
I I thought it was there was a select group of people that were entitled to be part of that.
So I never and I'd never seen it on a newsstand.
I had never seen it anywhere in anybody's house.
But I heard about it and I read about it and and uh so forth.
So one day I called National Review in New York when I was in Sacramento.
Very sheepish woman answered the phone, and I I felt like I was calling God.
I didn't ask to speak to Buckley, I said, Look, I uh can I uh stammering a uh can I uh subscribe to your magazine.
Of course!
Of course, where can we send you the I I was I was taken aback.
I mean, I was in that much awe, is what I'm trying to say.
Uh I was I was as nervous making that phone call as any phone call I could remember making.
Uh so I began to subscribe to it, got a hold of more and more his book, continued to read uh his column, and of course he was uh one of the formative uh forces in my worldview, political, conservative view of of all things, domestic, cultural, political.
Uh my first real understanding of the concept of lowering tax rates to generate revenue came from Bill Buckley.
Uh and I could cite countless other things of of conservative orthodoxy.
And it, you know, it's it's a shame to even attach the term conservatism to this because it it's too narrow.
It's just right.
I mean, these are principles, these are principles by which people live and order their lives.
And they have been shown over the course of human history to work and to be infallible.
Uh uh in in in governing people, in uh governing one's own affairs, uh leading one's own life, uh establishing uh uh mechanisms by which uh people, nations can manage their affairs to the best of society's purposes and intents.
All of this, all of this body of thought, all of the inspiration, all of the the bright lights going off in moments of just ecstatic understanding, finally it all due to Bill Buckley, uh, after I had left home.
Well, when I start my radio show in New York in um 1988, of course, uh I profusely comment on Buckley and National Review and quote him.
Uh I was invited uh uh one, I guess within the first three weeks I got to New York, I was invited to a reception that was at the townhouse of Lewis Larman, and there were a number of people who worked at National Review there uh that afternoon, Richard Bruchheiser was there, uh one of the editors, uh a number of other people, and I I just I was I can't describe I'm kid in a candy store.
Uh even though I'm what 30s uh near forty years old.
Uh I feel like I'm mingling with giants, intellectual giants, people I wish I could be, people that may not be able to be, but if I hang around them, I'll absorb a lot from them and I'll be better than I am.
Uh to shorten the story, because I'm a little long here and I've got to go to a commercial break pretty soon, but I forget the year, because all these years run together.
But it wasn't long after I got to New York in 1988.
It might have been by 1990.
I received a phone call from Francis Bronson, who was Mr. Buckley's personal assistant.
And if every executive could have a Francis Bronson, there would be nothing that didn't get done.
She was just thorough, competent.
She was she was Bill Buckley.
She's half of his brain.
She was she was just as comp I mean I I begged her, find me one of you.
And she would uh just laugh.
But I got a phone call from her, very formal, inviting me to an editor's meeting, a National Review Editor's meeting at Mr. Buckley's uh house, his apartment on Park Avenue in Manhattan, which I came to eventually call a Masonette, because I read once that first floor apartments in big buildings and parking are called Masonettes.
And uh so I I'm shaking uh on the phone at this invitation.
I mean, I don't know if I belong there.
You know, this is this is a cut above.
I'm not I'm not sure that but I accepted.
But after I hung up the phone, you know, I I called my brother, I called my mom, I said, you won't believe what just happened.
I mean, this this was like being summoned in my mind.
It was it was it was like being summoned to as close to God on earth as you can get.
And I fretted about this.
I don't want to go in there and and blow it.
I did not want to go in there and make a fool of myself.
Uh the time arrived, the day arrived, and I uh I had my uh my driver drive around a block four times on mustering the courage to get out of the car and go in.
Mr. Buckley's driver was waiting outside on 73rd Park to um greet the arriving guests, all of the editors and maybe some other guests too.
So the car finally we f I finally stop.
I got out, and and I didn't know it was Mr. Buckley's driver at the time, but it was somebody who worked for him, and he told me when I got out of the car.
He could not have been nicer.
Everybody's been looking so forward to meeting you, Mr. Limbaugh.
We're so glad that you came.
Um let me let me take commercial break here, and I'll I'll continue this.
And I could I could speak about Mr. Buckley today for three hours.
I don't intend to do that.
Uh, But I do want to finish this um this particular story because it has relevance to what's happening with our quote unquote conservative movement today.
Brief timeout.
Be right back.
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So when we were last discussing this, I was just about to enter the door of Mr. Buckley's Masonette at 73rd and Park.
I entered what I thought was a shrine.
To my left was a harpsichord.
He played the harp.
He wasn't playing it at the point at this time, but he played it.
He was playing it when I walked in some time later to appear as his guest on firing line taped in his living room, which is where I was escorted when we when I arrived.
I can't folks can't describe how nervous I was while at the same time uh trying not to be and and and just relax and and be myself.
Um I was escorted in first pre the room was full.
I was one of the last to arrive because I'd driven around the block four times trying to get the courage up to go in.
He was the first to stand up and greet me that that that charismatic love of life smile, welcomed me into that room as though I belonged there as much as any other guest did, asked me what I wanted to drink.
Uh I said I'd like a Diet Coke.
Sat down, I remember Lydim Linda Bridges, uh, who announced his death today, uh, was seated to my left.
And I look at fuck I I mean, these people are all they're the smartest people in the world to me.
These are the people that put out National Review.
These are the people that that helped Bill Buckley in his quest uh, which was memorable.
I mean, we owe Bill Buckley every bit the debt.
We conservatives owe Bill Buckley every bit the debt that we owe Ronald Reagan.
The two occurred simultaneously.
Uh and Reagan was also inspired and educated uh quite a bit by Buckley.
We're very, very close friends.
We owe we owe Buckley the same kind of gratitude.
I must, I was a little mad when I looked at the wire stories today describing Bill Buckley, and when I saw some of the people at AP had gone to talk to.
We're dealing here with the death of one of the greatest Americans in our lifetimes in three or four generations.
In my mind, I rank Bill Buckley as a founding father.
Uh his his uh passing, I hope, in the coming days will uh will uh be given the attention and respect uh that it is due.
It's much more than a conservative author and TV host, as has been uh reported early today.
Anyway, uh Mr. Buckley prepared my diet coke and I I sat down and uh uh he the conversation uh was about at the time I entered, they were talking about whether or not James Joyce could publish Ulysses if he tried to at that point today, meaning it was so risque could anybody publish it.
And they were having a discussion about that in literature in general.
You know, I'm sitting here swimming, and his diet coke doesn't taste like Diet Coke.
What is this?
It tasted like it look it tasted like mineral oil that had cola coloring in it.
Wasn't long before Mrs. Buckley Pat made her grand entrance into the room after everybody else had arrived, coming down this sweeping staircase into that room.
Everybody in that room shot up like Jackson the box.
She came over to me, first off, welcomed me to their home, thanked me so much for what I had been saying about her husband and her son and the magazine and so forth.
My diet coke was about half empty.
She said, Would you like a refill?
What's that?
I said, It's Diet Coke.
So she took it, took it over to Bill, fixed Mr. Limbaugh another one.
She watched him fix it, I guess, because I'm in the middle of talking to somebody, and I hear her shout, Bill, what are you doing?
I said Diet Coke.
So I was right.
It wasn't I don't know what it was that he served me.
Uh but don't read anything into this.
It's just one of these things that I I remember.
But Then we went into dinner, uh big circular table in the dining room, and the and and the and the conversation could and they all wanted to know what I thought about things.
They all want to know how I go about doing my radio show.
What's my point?
What what are the things I'm trying to accomplish?
They were fans.
It was one of the most memorable nights of my life, and I'll tell you why.
Because at the time there was a definable respected by all conservative leader, and he was it.
He had no ego.
He didn't feel threatened by the arrival of other conservatives.
He welcomed them.
Bring them all in.
Find out if they're legit.
Find out if they're worth the impramater, but bring them in.
And that night I was made to feel welcome in the quote unquote conservative movement as started by its leader.
I can't describe how he made me feel that night.
That's right, ladies and gentlemen.
Here we are on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Just a couple more remembrances here of uh of Mr. Buckley who passed away either late last night or early this morning.
He was in his study uh working.
He was he was working on a book.
I I last was uh last saw him late last year at lunch up at uh of at his house in Stamford, Connecticut.
Uh it was Norman uh Pedoritz and his wife Midge Dector uh were there and Bill's young assistant who was helping him work on this uh on his new book.
Uh and I had expected and I've been warned by people he had been in the hospital prior to that with emphysema and uh other maladies, and I'd have been warned he's not he's not gonna look like you remember him.
He's weak and so forth, and I was stunned when I got up there.
He looked great.
He was uh uh energetic, uh feisty.
Uh Norman Pedoris was talking about his uh most recent book and how he'd gone to Barnes and Noble and the protesters had been violent or threatened violence, had to have cops.
Uh help him get out of the Barnes and Noble on the upper west side.
Well, that started an avalanche of stories from from Buckley's past over similar things that had happened.
It was just I mean, it was like it was like having an encyclopedia that spoke to you.
Uh and but he would never fail to chide me.
I mean, he listened to this program, and if he heard me uh say things that he thought were incorrect or what I'd get a little chiding little note, but I spent a lot of time with him.
I um at his house, I remember he had a uh a luncheon to introduce Ward Connorly uh to much of the New York drive-by media.
And Dan Rather uh was there.
Dan Radder, well, you know what is it Buckley had friends across the aisle.
Buckley, a lot of his friends were uh were were huge big time liberals.
Uh he and I I'll I'll remember uh rather and I were one of the first to I took the day off.
This is a luncheon.
I took the day off to attend this thing.
I told you people about it when I did it.
I didn't sneak out on you.
And it was it was uh it was you know it was it was just fascinating to watch Ward Connolly speak brilliance to a bunch of people with their mouths wide open, uh trying to figure out what the hell this guy was talking about, talking about New York liberal drive-by media types.
Uh Dan rather, just a little aside, started talking to Buckley about a brand new shotgun he had gotten during the cocktail hour here.
And I'm kind of looking at the here, Dan Rather talking about shotguns uh Buckley.
Buckley didn't seem that interested, but he engaged rather in conversation.
There were other times at Buckley's house up in Connecticut with uh with Henry Kissinger.
I ended up being over there quite a lot.
Uh ended up talking to him a number of times, went on anniversary uh magazine anniversary cruises and their 50th anniversary up in Washington at uh at a museum.
He became a confidant and uh a friend and an advisor, and he became somebody that I could uh you know, ask what do you what do you think would be the right way to handle a situation like this?
And uh and he would he'd tell me.
It was just it was like having another father.
In fact, I remembered the first time just remembered this, the first time that I had him and uh some other people over to my apartment in New York for dinner.
I really I really embarrassed him after we'd eaten dinner and we're in the uh the uh the port.
No, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no.
My current place of the my fashionable Upper East Side uh penthouse.
No, I wouldn't have anybody over to that place on the West Side, Mr. Snurgley.
I barely went there.
That was that was just a place to sleep.
The best place about that place on the West side was Otis, the doorman, and then he's still there.
At any rate, um.
We're having some brandy and cigars after dinner at my little circular dining room table.
I forget how many of them might have been dining room table could see twelve people.
Uh and I I guess I'd had one too many brandies, so I was a little less inhibited.
And I stood up and I gave Bill a toast.
This is this has to be 1996 or 97.
So I mean, this is this is after I'd I'd met him and known him for a long time and gotten to know him.
Um and I told him, I said, uh, you know, my my father passed away in 1990, but you make me think my dad's still alive here with me.
And he started crying.
Acted a little embarrassed.
Uh I said, Well, I I I see you tearing up, but it's it's it's true.
I think for all of the talk about how intelligent and and I mean I uh uh that's not even the word to describe your genius.
The amount of knowledge he acquired and was able to spit back on virtually anything.
I mean, it was it incomprehensible to me.
His brain, his intellect, uh his use of it uh was was indescribable.
But I don't and he had an ego.
I mean, he he he knew who he was and he knew what he bestowed on people, he knew what his impact was, but he was still very humble.
Uh and and uh he was he was not accustomed to hearing a compliment like that when I told him, you know, my my father's still alive, Bill, you're here.
And uh it kind of got choky, looked around, he looked looked at Pat and so forth, and and uh uh I re I remember too, Gay and Stanley Gaines, some dear friends of mine from here were there that maybe New Gingrich, too.
We'd had a route, we had what that's right, when Newt was there, we had a uh Newt had invited a bunch of us when he was speaker to have dinner on the uh terrace outside his office.
Uh and then we decided to do it again at a different place, and we did it at Buckley's place next time, and then and then uh we did it at my place.
And everybody came to my place to finish the uh the troika of uh of this.
And I remember, you know.
I mean, it was it was funny.
Newt and Buckley would have a little arguments and Buckley would Buckley would tell Newt what he thought and vice versa.
I mean, it was it f I can't describe to you the thrill all of this uh was for me to to be among such a giant and and and such an intellect and somebody who really we I mean we throw this this term around conservative movement uh and I I do think that that that that label, that term narrows what we all are, you and I, what we believe.
But at the time, you know, the the conservatism was in the process of growing and expanding and in the and destroying the monopoly of the drive-by media.
And we've gotten so big now that we've splintered.
And everybody's trying to be the next Buckley, not in terms of who he was as a man, but in terms of being thought of as the intellectual leader, the intellectual uh inspiration for the movement, and as such, there's now competition.
There was no competition.
It was, you know, Buckley just made it okay for people to come out of the closet and everybody revered him.
Uh but now it's it's a little different.
I kind of this happens as as uh organizations and life evolves and changes, and you can't go back to what it was, but I've said oftentimes on this program, be it in elected officials or what have you, what what what were missing uh outside of the media is conservative leadership.
Uh and so you know, we have a number of people who are trying to redefine what conservative is conservatism is with themselves as the leader.
Fine and dandy.
Everybody's free to do what they want, but it's it's uh causing riffs, causing some splinters to take place, uh, Which is natural as uh as well.
This makes me miss Mr. Buckley all the more.
Uh and uh his he was he was a leader with the power of his intellect and his presence and not physical presence, just the fact that he was there doing what he was doing was leadership.
Uh I don't know how many others felt about him the way I did.
I he had universal respect uh among people, and uh I'm sure there were people knew him that uh had things about him they didn't like, which is true of everyone, but I never found any of those.
I was too enamored and uh and too much in awe.
Of course, the the all gave way after you know after time, and and it was it was easy to be myself around him, and that's that's of course when things really got uh fun.
Because he was so uh welcoming and understanding, and he knew his brain was fifteen thousand times smarter than anybody else's.
He was patient.
He was really patient.
Uh he was never insulting, and he was never dismissive.
It was always uh inclusive.
And that was born of his confidence of knowing who he was and what he had done, and being very proud of it.
Uh the the there's there's nobody.
I uh to this day, I don't know how he lived the life he did, to be as productive as he was and to engage in what he called, as I said earlier, his siberitic pursuits with as much energy and with as much time.
I don't know how he did it.
I still marvel.
Uh whenever I read anything he's written, I always will.
And I'll always continue to learn something from him, no matter the fact that he's gone.
You can reread books that he's written, books that he's edited, columns, go back and read some of the early national reviews.
Uh is just as inspirational today as uh to me anyway, and I think to a lot of people as they were when they were first published.
All right, brief time out.
We'll move on to other things, uh such as the Democrat debate last night, and uh there are a lot of other things on the uh agenda today, too.
So we'll get to those right after this.
Thanks for indulging me in all this, folks.
I we have some, by the way, we have uh he was last on this program in 2004 for an hour, uh talking about a number of things.
Cookie is uh gonna go through that hour and pick uh a couple things.
Uh we're probably gonna do that on Friday, maybe tomorrow, but we're working on putting it together for Friday.
Uh this has hit everybody.
Um we all knew he was sick, but there were no warnings last night, last week.
Uh just he was working on his new book.
And it all you know came as a shock.
I found out 10 o'clock this morning is when I found out about this.
Quick time out.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Well, I know we were all hoping that uh Mrs. Clinton would win one for the Lipper last night, but it just didn't happen.
Well, Bill Clinton, the Lipper, the uh the biting the lower lip.
Uh it was it was bad.
It was it was just bad.
The only hope.
The only hope, ladies and gentlemen, is if the audience sees this as three guys ganging up on the girl.
Russert bullied Mrs. Clinton last night, Obama sort of ganged up on her, and Brian, we had three guys ganging up on Mrs. Clinton last night.
I know she's running for president, but we've had some stories, comments from angry women this week who think it's really unfair what's happening to Mrs. Clinton.
But the whining about always being the one to get the first question.
I'll glad to answer it, but why do I always get the first question?
This was not the Hillary we know.
She tried to be a little bit more feisty last night, but she just she doesn't she just she just wasn't able to pull this off.
Now I did, I took a I was uh I was chatting back and forth with a bunch of people last night uh watching this, and Andy McCarthy sends me this funny note.
He's at National Review Online.
He said, My God, this is absolutely fabulous.
Why Russert obviously has written Hillary off because he's treating her like she's a Republican.
I looked at that.
I said, that is exactly the way he's treating her, like she's a Republican.
And then um some women of the North Carolina mistress.
Boy, Hillary looks good tonight.
I was stunned.
This is about a half hour in a debate.
Boy, she looks good tonight.
She looks good.
She's a very m I wrote I was I wrote back to the North Carolina mistress.
I said, what?
She's getting her clock cleaned.
That was not the perspective of the North Carolina mistress.
But it was of all the guys that I was chatting with that were uh that were what what?
You don't think she got her?
You well, well, uh she it got better.
It got better as it went on.
It the the first the first 30 minutes were were pretty bad, and she did get a little little feisty, but she didn't slap him around.
He was unflappable.
He was Mr. Cool.
Snurdly, he didn't get slapped around.
He didn't get slapped around at all.
Let me tell you, there is a rumor circular.
I hate to talk about rumors like this.
I've heard it from two different people.
Uh well, it I don't know who the source of the rumor is, but the people that it's coming from are not crackpots.
And the rumor is that uh Mrs. Clinton's internal numbers are so bad in Ohio in taxes, that she is considering withdrawing from the race Friday to avoid the humiliation of massive, massive defeats next Tuesday.
Now, I kind of doubt this, because if you're gonna get humiliated, why not wait all after?
You know, instead of instead of instead of quitting.
But but this stuff, it's it's starting to circulate.
It probably it might be originating from the Obama camp.
Uh could the Brett girl could be.
I I'm just I'm just guessing.
I'm just telling you that I've had two different people run this by me today.
I'm not predicting it.
All I know is that the people who have told me do not know crackpots or kooks.
Let's go to the audio soundbites very quickly.
Mr. Snurdley, you were roundly criticized on MSNBC's Hardball last night.
Richard Wolfe of Newsweek magazine was on with Chris Matthews.
And they were talking about you, our official Obama criticizer.
Now, for those who didn't hear this yesterday, uh Mr. Snurdley was very critical of Obama's whining and moaning reaction to the picture that the Clinton camp put out there with him dressed up like Eamon Al-Zawahiri.
So Mr. Snurdley did his standard criticism, and then as Mr. Snerdley's penchant is, he did a translation for our EIB brothers and sisters in the hood.
Now, apparently that's all that uh Mr. Wolf at Newsweek heard.
I actually suspect he heard the whole thing, but he wants to focus only on your translation for our EIB brothers and sisters in the hood.
So Matthews says to Richard Wolf, look, it's a silly season uh with that guy, Bill Cunningham, and since they were talking about Cunningham and his uh his uh warm-up act for McCain.
I was listening to Rush Limbaugh this afternoon, and he had his Barack Obama critic, an African American guy who spoke, quote, ghetto about Barack Obama.
This is gonna be an incredible election, and a lot of it's gonna be pretty distasteful, just like Cunningham was earlier.
All right, so Mr. Snurdley, you and I have now just been proclaimed.
Well, you, you wasn't me, it was you.
You have just been proclaimed distasteful.
The official Obama criticizer of the EIB network, Bo Sturdly, has uh now been called distasteful.
Also, not enough time to get this next bite in.
Angry White Woman tour continues.
There are a couple of women, one of them is uh Kata Pollett.
Hope I'm pronouncing her as K-A-T-H-A.
And I I think I've heard her name.
It's Katha or Kata.
I not sure which.
But anyway, she blaming me uh for what has happened to Hillary.
Blaming she blaming me because for not just for what's happened to Hillary, but for the overall decline in esteem in which political women are held.
She's uh blaming me, crazy word feminazi and uh some of these uh yes, it's a proud day for us uh here.
Snurdly ripped on uh on hardball and me continually ripped here by the feminazis out there on the left.
Yeah, you um Snurdley did you really think that Hillary slapped Obama around last night or you just you just nah you can't be serious.
Of course he listened of course he looked weak.
This is why he didn't say anything, but he said it well.
You better don't Forget what I told you.
This country is starving for a leader who can speak.
Makes them feel the leader is competent.
People have better understand something about Obama real quick.
He's not running a campaign.
His people are with him.
They don't give a rat's rear end about the issues.
It does not does not matter.
He's leading a movement.
You call him a cult or whatever, but he's leading a movement that has nothing to do with traditional liberal conservative issues.
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