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Feb. 29, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 29, 2008, Friday, Hour #3
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I'll tell you, I am worn out, shuffling papers, clicking my mouse four times to print a document.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's stupid Microsoft Word.
It's a worst damn president.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Well, normally this stuff doesn't bother.
But you know, I'm getting in and there.
Rush, you gotta say this.
You gotta say this.
Use this.
This is to really work here with me.
So get these word documents.
Okay, so if I want to print it out of print out the word document.
One click print.
Fine.
That's one click prints it.
Then I want to close the document.
Do you want to save it?
No, I don't want to save it.
Screw it.
Close it.
Then the printer.
The HP printer gives you.
It's printing right now.
And it's right in front of what I want to hear.
Click to get that off.
Uh well.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Uh I know these these complaints are nothing compared to those of you affected the subprime crisis, but still trying to stay focused here on doing the award-winning program.
We're here, and we got another hour left.
Open line Friday.
We go to the phones.
The program is all yours.
You can uh speak about what you wish, ask, whine.
Moan, complain, ask for inspiration and motivation.
We'll do that for you.
I want to talk about Iraq here for just a second.
There's a Pew poll out.
The latest Pew research poll taken February 20th through 24th shows rapidly decreasing.
Oh, by the way, this is February 29th, anyway, leap day here.
And uh, you know what?
February 29th, among many other things, is known for.
I mean, it's not so applicable now because it's sort of going by the wayside, but in the old days, February 29th, that's when women could ask men to get married.
Yeah, the old Sadie Day, Sadie Hawkins, this is the day that women uh could ask men to get, which is why the email is particularly precarious today.
Uh, nevertheless.
I'd say.
Yeah.
At any rate, uh, February uh 20th or 24th, the latest uh Pew poll shows rapidly decreasing support for a quick withdrawal from Iraq.
The uh the poll also showed an even split among those who uh believe the military effort is going well and those who don't.
It's 48 to 48.
Now in November of last year, there was a uh 13-point gap among those who wanted to bring the troops home and those who preferred to keep them there.
Uh it was 5441 back then.
Uh now it's uh the the numbers of people who want to pull out of there instantly or decreasing rapidly.
Uh there's an even split now, 4947.
Only 14%, though, the real number here, want an immediate withdrawal from uh from Iraq, and a majority now, 53 to 39 percent believe that the U.S. effort in Iraq will succeed.
Just last month, respondents were evenly split on the question.
48 to 46.
So what do we have here?
That we have the efforts of our troops, the efforts of the Iraqis have broken through the drive-by media, and five years of Democrat Party assault on this.
This is why, look at me, this is why you can't give up.
Everybody today is raving about a piece in the Washington Post by Angelina Jolie, in which she's got back from Iraq.
She says, we've reached finally reached a point where humanitarian assistance from us and others can have an impact.
Her point is to stay, help the Iraqis, especially those who are out of the country, want to come back home.
The time is right now, and that the surge is working.
Now, uh, if you read the piece by Angelina Jolita Day in the Washington Post, you will conclude that she is deeper and in uh ways more specific than Obama about this if you read the whole article.
She makes more sense than Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or anybody on the Democrat side about this.
It's stunning.
I've had some people well, Rush, you realize she didn't write.
I don't know that she didn't write it.
I'm not gonna assume she didn't write it.
I know that's another that's a good point, too.
It's pretty brave of her to do this given Hollywood and so but she's big enough to uh to withstand it.
And it sort of makes me appreciate this Brad Pitt guy a little more.
Um he's gone after substance here.
As all I'm saying, this is it really, really is a good piece.
Uh my visit left me even more deeply convinced that we are uh we we not only have a moral obligation, we discussed this yesterday, moral obligations versus rights in health care.
We have not only a moral obligation to help displaced Iraqi families, but also a serious long-term national security interest in ending this crisis.
We cannot afford, in my view, to squander the progress that has been made.
She makes more sense than any Democrat that's out there running for office.
She makes more sense than any Democrat anywhere in this country talking about Iraq other than Lieberman.
He's the only one I can think of off the top of my head.
In fact, Iraq is going too well.
It just going too well.
So the Democrats in Washington, led by the Pelosi's and the Reeds and the Chuck Schumers, have had to change their thinking, their strategery, and their talking points from crossfire to cost fire, let me explain.
Down through the years, our politicians go through swings from respect to disrepute.
And here at this moment in time, they have hit a new low.
They've gone beyond dislike and disgust.
It's loathing time now.
First, the Democrats on the left, they came at us with this.
Our brave troops are caught in the crossfire of a civil war in Iraq.
Even the word bloodbath was used to make sure that you got it.
And civil war kept creeping in.
Our brave troops are caught in a bloodbath, the crossfire of a civil war in Iraq.
News cycle after news cycle, week after week, leaders of the left like Durbin and Schumer and Mertha, crossfire, bloodbath, crossfire, bloodbath, death counts.
Our troops can't win.
The surge won't work.
Wave the white flag of surrender.
We don't deserve to win.
All of these things.
Well, guess what we didn't see?
We didn't see a civil war.
We didn't see the crossfire.
We didn't see the bloodbath.
And sadly, we also did not see these political hacks drummed out of the Senate or at least drummed off television.
As they continued to berate our troops, our military, their families, as they impugned their honor, their abilities, their commitment, their valor, they continue to be given TV time to continue this assault.
And now they're back.
Now that Iraq is undeniably and unquestionably on a success track.
Now they're back with their new act.
And forget the crossfire, the bloodbath, the civil war, forget all that.
Now it's the cost fire, meaning the cost of the war.
The Civil War, crossfire didn't work.
That war's going too well.
Now they have to talk about the cost.
Obama talks about it repeatedly in these debates.
All the money that we could have spent on needed social programs for the children and all of these typically rot gut left wing liberal things, even though 65% of our budget is spent on entitlements for social programs, it's still not enough for these people.
Because until everybody is dependent on them, they will not consider themselves to have been victorious.
So now they're talking about the cost of the war, and for that reason we've got to get out.
The verge of meaningful victory, Al-Qaeda in Iraq scattered, leading Al-Qaeda in Iraq leaders killed and captured.
Oh no, we can't have a victory, not in an election year.
No, no, no, no, we can't permit that.
Even if we have a victory, we've got to talk about, say, the Democrats, how costly it was, how expensive it was, how much it denied health care to children, how much it denied breakfast to children, how much it denied nurses to pregnant women, how much it denied this and that and the other thing.
The cost, the cost of victory, it wasn't worth it.
I know why the left does this.
They do this for power.
What I don't know.
Well, I do too.
I was going to say what I don't know is why the media still treats them as if they are anything but a national disgrace.
But that is what Obama would call being too hopeful.
Because you see, they are a national disgrace.
And the drive-by media will do anything in an election year to promote those who seek to convince as many Americans as possible that a Iraq, even after victory isn't worth it, wasn't worth it, cost too much.
And they're not going to give up.
Nancy Pelosi refusing a vote on the new security bill.
The new FISA bill.
They still, the Democrats, when it comes to national security, the defense, the protection of this country.
I don't care who our candidate is, they cannot be trusted with it.
The Democrats cannot, back in a second.
Thomas Lifson at the American Thinker has a great uh great post.
And we talked about this earlier today in the program.
Uh Obama and Hillary both having this knockdown drag out in their debate last Tuesday night about NAFTA and uh opening it up for renegotiation.
Hillary's saying, I'm gonna fix it, I'm gonna do it, and Obama's saying he's gonna do the same thing.
NAFTA's rotten, we've got to do the same thing.
All of this just a pander to a bunch of people in uh in Ohio, manufacturing jobs have gone, is just shameless and it's irresponsible.
And as Lifson points out, Barack Obama is not even in office and is screwing up international affairs.
And this this NAFTA thing is not the first thing.
After suggesting he would invade Pakistan and then talk to Iran and Castro and Chavez in the Oval Office.
He has moved on to potentially damage relations with Canada, a friendly neighbor and a number one oil supplier.
We get more oil from Canada than anywhere else.
Now get this.
Under the terms of NAFTA, Canada is prohibited from cutting off oil exports to us if there is a worldwide shortage or supply disruption, unless supplies are also rationed to Canada Canadian consumers by the same amount.
It's a protective clause we have in that Canadians can't screw us unless they themselves are getting wantonly screwed.
After the Hillary Obama debate, Canada's trade minister pointed out, well, okay, uh, you guys want to open up NAFTA.
You want to reopen it.
We want to get rid of this clause.
That would leave Canada free to sell its oil to any other country for whatever price it can get.
Clinton and Obama have made a big issue out of President Bush being insensitive to other countries, just walking all over them and stomping them and making them hate us.
And as Lifson writes, now these two geniuses, Obama and Hillary, are blithely talking about canceling a trade deal with our two neighbors, on which both their economies now depend oil, Mexico and Canada.
The Financial Times.
Beijing has signaled its interest in Canada's growing oil sector.
Two of China's biggest energy groups, the China National Offshore Oil Company and Sinopec have invested in small Calgary-based companies with ambitions to extract heavy crude oil from oil sands in Canada.
So the Chiccoms are in Canada trying to get more oil.
In the meantime, we're shutting ourselves out of any such exploration anywhere.
So the Obama campaign's been caught in a lie as potentially opening a door for China, among others, to become involved in our most secure source of foreign oil, where the oil sands contained deposits equal to those of Saudi Arabia, and while at the same time alienating our best friends in foreign countries.
It should be noted, too, that uh uh Canadian TV network uh suggests as reporting that Obama called some officials in Canada after the debate and said, Look, it was just politics.
Understand that we're not gonna reopen this.
Just uh just just politics.
Uh and of course, this cannot be confirmed.
Uh Obama's denying it, and so are these high officials in Canada are denying, but the C T V network is standing by its uh it's its story on this.
I don't I don't know what to believe.
I uh and I wouldn't be surprised if Obama called up knowing full well what he'd done, the damage he had done, said, Oh, we're not gonna cut you out, we're not gonna reopen it.
I just have to say this, you know, it's a presidential campaign, just to have to say this stuff.
And I can understand a bunch of Canadian liberals wanting to protect Obama from this kind of um from this kind of embarrassment.
But he's an embarrassment on his own without without you know having anybody confirm it, uh, as this whole episode.
These people are just not serious.
They're just they they just do not they're inexperienced, they're naive.
Uh but more than that, they they have this maddening.
Uh we don't understand the distaste and the dislike and the anger they have for their own country.
The desire they have to make this country uh take it in the shorts that somehow we've got to be gotten even with for whatever reason.
It's just frustrating as hell.
And I know it's only it's almost March, it's just the last day of February, but you know, a long campaign here, and I don't want to you don't want to run people's emotional reservoir dry of hearing about Obama.
There's gonna be plenty of time to uh bring all this stuff up.
In the meantime, we need to keep Hillary viable in this, because the obvious reasons that we pointed out earlier today.
Here's uh Brad in Columbia, South Carolina, as we go back to the phones and open line Friday.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Russ.
It's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
Your show's been a part of my week since 1988, and uh I don't really think you realize the impact that you've had on people, not people who are just down and out, but but everybody.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I appreciate that.
Um I have a question about media and patriotism.
You know, my dad was a newspaper man and uh retired as a university journalism dean, and he used to have a sign in his office that said, you know, no one should print as a journalist that which he cannot say as a gentleman.
And I really think you don't see that philosophy or ethical approach today.
And you mentioned Nancy Pelosi in your last segment.
Uh she, I believe, is third in line of succession to the presidency.
This is true.
Um there's a young man named Prince Harry, he was third in line of succession to the monarchy of Great Britain, uh, who has been serving apparently now that we understand in Afghanistan on the front lines for about the past three months.
And you've got a country with probably the most aggressive uh media in printing scandalous material, et cetera, that's managed to put their own financial interest, their own personal interest in breaking a story, uh, subordinate that to their natural national interest uh for their country.
And I know you recall back in the Gulf War when uh CNN had a team in the hotel downtown Baghdad.
That would be the Al Rashid Hotel, and that would be Bernard Shaw.
Yes, sir, and I believe there are a couple other folks, obviously his his team with him, but they were in a unique position to get some actionable military intelligence that could have helped their country and could have saved some lives, potentially could have saved some lives, and they wouldn't even talk to their own government about you know things uh and under some misguided belief that a journalist.
That's right.
That's right, because they couldn't take sides that would be compromising their objective principles.
And I just wondered um if you kind of saw the same thing that I did.
I was just really struck by the the unanimity and discipline with which the British press was able to control itself.
Well, there's more involved there than you know.
I mean, uh it it looks admirable, but I think there are criminal penalties uh for for violating this there's a not sure I haven't read uh as much.
I think I saw that when I was skimming the story.
Uh there's something other than honor that keeps the British press silent on something like this.
I mean, the Queen and everybody, you know, issues the edict.
It's not to be reported that Prince Harry's there.
By the way, he served ten weeks, been there ten weeks.
I think he participated in battles where 30 Taliban were killed.
Now they've pulled him out of there for obvious uh obvious reasons.
But he got he got most of his three months in.
I I'm gonna have to double check.
I can't assert with ontological certitude uh that there are criminal penalties for the press violating that uh promise of that trust not to report that Prince Harry was there.
But if not, uh you your point's still valid.
I mean there's no question of good one.
Back here in a second.
How are you Rush Limbaugh talent on loan from God?
It's open line Friday, Beaumont, Texas.
David, were you uh David, you happen to be at the Obama rally where he was teaching people how to raise their kids.
I did not actually see uh him when he was here.
Now Monday, uh Michelle Lavon Obama was here, and Wednesday of last week, William Jefferson Clinton was here.
William Jefferson Blythe.
Yes, and he is uh returning here this Sunday, uh, March the second.
Now, when he was here last time, I only went to see him because he was on a low boy trailer about two hundred yards from my office, and I wanted to see the only living impeached president.
Now while he was here, he told a minute, wait a minute.
Was that low boy that I saw a picture?
Was it red?
It looked like a pickup truck.
Uh similar to it, yes.
Like an El Camino with astroturf in the back.
That's kind of lucky.
Yeah, okay.
With the tailgate band.
He uh told us while he was here that because of how our primary elections work here in Texas, that this is the only state where you can vote twice and not go to jail.
Because we've got, I believe, a hundred and ninety-three delegates, which um I forget how many hundred twenty-six of them come from the primary, and sixty-seven come from caucuses, which happened immediately after the polls closed.
Right, right, right, right, right, right.
Now I read a wire report today that uh Hillary Diane Clinton's uh campaign is threatening to sue uh the state of Texas.
Yeah, I got that story right here.
It's in the Fort Worth Star Telegram.
Well, I got it off one of the wire services.
The Texas Democrat Party warned Thursday that election night cauc eye, scheduled for Tuesday could be delayed or disrupted after Hillary Rotten Clinton, uh Rodham Clint, sorry, it was a faux Hillary Rodham Clinton threatened to sue over the party's complicated delegate selection process.
That is after her impeached husband told us that we need to vote and vote twice.
As he said vote early and vote often.
Well, I'm in this case I'm all for him.
Um, like they said like that report you're reading states, you know.
Uh she has only one, I believe, two caucuses, and uh Barack Hussein Obama has run has won thirteen or something like that, caucuses.
Did you say Hillary Diane Clinton?
Is that what you say?
Hillary Diane, yes, Diane's her middle name.
And uh William Jefferson Blythe Clinton Blythe Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama.
And Michelle Lavon Robinson Obama.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So let's see him.
Yeah, after he told us to vote early, vote off, and now they're uh Hillary Diane Rodney.
From the back of the El Camino with the Astrid.
And the tailgate down.
And the tailgate down, yeah.
Key.
A key point visually.
That's for access to the little people.
Access to the little ones.
All right.
Well, look, David, I appreciate the call.
Thanks.
That's he's exactly right.
Uh in a letter sent out late yesterday to both the Clinton and Obama campaigns.
Texas Democrat Party lawyer Chad Dunn warned that a lawsuit could ruin the Democrats' effort to re-energize voters just as they are turning out into record numbers.
Spokesman for both campaigns said there were no plans to sue ahead of the uh the March 4th election.
Is it playing out?
Is it playing out exactly as I hoped it would, exactly no, hoped wanted it to, and have perhaps had a roll-in.
Uh she's she's holding tight in both these states, Ohio and Texas.
She's like only four points behind in one of them, two points behind in another.
She's hanging in there.
Let's go to the audio tapes.
Uh audio sound bites.
Mrs. Clinton making one final play for sympathy based on her gender.
Last night on Nightline, Cynthia McFadden interviewed Hillary Clinton.
The question, I've talked to women across the country.
Every single one of them has said the same thing to me.
I feel sorry for Hillary Clinton right now.
What do you think that means?
A lot of women project their own feelings and their lives onto me, and they see how hard this is.
It's hard.
It's hard being a woman out there.
It is obviously Challenging with some of the things that are said that are not even personal to me so much as they are about women.
And I think women just sort of shake their heads.
My friends do.
They say, oh my gosh, this is so hard.
Well, it's supposed to be hard.
I'm running for the hardest job in the world.
No one has ever done this.
No woman has ever won a presidential primary before I won New Hampshire.
This is hard.
Now every so often I just wish that it were a little more of an even playing field, but you know, I play on whatever field is out there.
It is hard, folks.
I feel for her.
It is it is you know how hard it is for a woman to be doing this in this sexist culture that we live in.
This is really, I'm telling you, it's hard.
It's it's hard, it's well, it's not a level playing field, Mr. You know, Mrs. It's time for honesty to be throwing.
We're no it's not a level playing field.
Press is aligned against her.
Conservative talk radio is aligned against her.
Uh her husband's not helping her.
She's not helping herself, she's not a good candidate.
Of course it's very hard when you're not qualified.
But it doesn't mean it isn't hard.
The less qualified you are, the harder it is.
She's encountering this.
And she's letting a lot of women down.
She knows this.
And and there uh we we need help her out here.
Uh, next question from McFadden.
Well, what do you think voters don't know about Obama?
Are they ill-informed?
Are they deluded?
What is it that they are not seeing?
I think the best description, actually, is in Barack's own book, the last book he wrote, Audacity of Hope, where he said that he's a blank screen.
And people of widely differing views project what they want to believe onto him.
And then he went on to say I am bound to disappoint some if not all of that.
He just hasn't been around long enough.
I'm a full-fledged canvas.
How's this going to play?
Uh she's obviously making a play for women here.
This is there's no question that this whole tone, how hard it is, that takes us back to where, New Hampshire.
When she got the question, how do you do it?
It's very hard.
It's unfair.
This is something she thinks women will relate to.
The decks stacked against them.
Uh they can't get anywhere, can't bust the glass ceiling, all the life's just unfair.
Uh and well, with certain kind of Democrat women, it may it may appeal.
Look, she's she's not through with that.
Um she's introduced this comprehensive early education initiative.
We did our morning update on this today.
And this, I mean, you talk about if you think that was a desperate attempt for women.
This program that she has announced is a desperate effort to uh shore up her her female base.
And what she's basically wants to do is expand the nanny government entitlement package.
This one promises more nutrition for children, nurses' visits for pregnant women, a universal nursery school program, because Head Start doesn't work.
Uh and but all of this depends on on babies making it out of the womb.
Uh which certain women and certain mothers, that's a challenge.
It's a challenge to be born.
But in the event that these kids make it, Hillary says this will only cost five or six billion dollars.
She's going to give children greater access to healthy, fresh food.
They're going to serve breakfast.
While Obama wants the parents to serve breakfast at home, Hillary is urging the kids to leave home after they leave the womb because the food will be healthier and fresher at the Hillary Run nourishment centers.
Uh universal school breakfast program, universal, targeted to low-income neighborhoods.
Don't we already have this?
Aren't they even open in the summertime when there are no schools in session?
Yes, they are.
Junk food will be banned from schools.
Pregnant women for the first time.
For the first time, folks, this is how brilliant and innovative and creative.
This woman is for the first time in American history.
Pregnant women will see a nurse.
I realize that many of you mothers out there are going to be bitter that this wasn't available to you.
Thank you.
But progress is progress.
We accept these major, major moves forward when they happen.
Teen pregnancies will be abolished.
Mrs. Clinton's gonna wipe them out.
Wipe out teen pregnancy.
And as an added bonus to wiping out teen pregnancy, irresponsible men, those predator brutes who father children are going to get nailed to with tougher child support enforcement.
This is what a lot of liberal Democrats have been waiting for, folks, real solutions.
Not these Obama things based in hope and change.
We're talking real change here.
American children will finally have access to healthy food.
Poor fat slob kids no longer suffer the stigma of being fat slobs.
There'll be chicken in every pot.
A private nurse for every pregger's babe.
Except, for course, a teenage girls who will be mandated not to get pregnant.
Brutish ex-husbands and boyfriends will finally pay their fair share for children that they sire and then abandon.
And we all know that they all abandon them.
Mrs. Clinton says so.
So what's going to happen?
The skies will open.
The light will shine down.
Celestial choirs will be singing the praises of Hillary Clinton, mother compassionate, the patron saint of presidential experience.
And America will again be screwed.
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El Rushball at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies to Wheeling, West Virginia.
Robin, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Did it rush?
I love everything about your show.
Thank you.
I have a question for Friday.
Have you talked to Sir Charles since his really nasty comments?
I have not talked to Charles Barkley in years, actually.
Is this the comment where he said he gets scared when he listens to Christians talk or something?
Yes.
Yes.
Conservatives, equal um fake people, I do believe.
I can't remember.
Oh, yeah, yeah, I remember it.
I uh Charles is uh setting up a uh run for governor in Alabama uh ostensibly.
He's been threatening to do this for years now.
Uh I you know, Charles is an enigma.
Uh I remember I got I got to know Charles when he was with the Phoenix Sons, and Snardley will remember this.
Charles had at the time a fundraising golf tournament every year in Orlando at Disney World.
And uh he invited me to attend it, I thought.
And he put out the word that I was going to be there.
Not to play golf.
I wasn't, I hadn't started playing golf at the time.
This has to be before 97.
Uh and Charles even called a program one day from his car, talking about how excited everybody was gonna be that I was gonna be there.
And I was kind of stunned, because I wasn't gonna play golf or do anything.
He had a big dinner uh on the last night of it, or the second to last night of it.
And when I got down there, uh I I show up uh in my room and uh Coach Westfall of the Phoenix Suns comes in and he says, You got your speech ready.
What speech?
You're the featured speaker, he said.
I am I'm the featured speaker at this thing.
He said, Yeah.
So Cotton Fitzsimmons and and uh who was uh with the Sons organization at the time and West Falls into Barclay, you can't do that.
You can't tell somebody you want them to show up and not tell them why.
So I I hastily put something together, I had no clue.
I really wasn't even sure what the charity was.
Uh he had all of these basketball guys there.
All these friends of Barclays that were players, Don Nelson was there, one of the coaches, uh uh the great coach Chuck Nels Chuck um Mendelblock, the Detroit Pistons.
Daily.
Yeah, yeah, Chuck, they were they were they were all there.
And this was at a time when when Barclay was saying, we athletes are not role models.
He didn't want the response.
Remember, we we athletes are not robust.
So I I did a speech suggesting to Charles That not only are you wrong that you shouldn't be, you have to accept the fact that you are, and that you specifically, Sir Charles, have a great opportunity to be a great one here.
And now he's gone off the reservation.
Now he's gone on TNT under basketball coverage, and his is he's uh it's sad what happens to a lot of people go into media.
They say something outrageous a couple times, but people glom on to it.
So, aha, I found a shtick here.
And so you end up saying something more on more outrageous, and it becomes your trademark and and your stick.
And I'm not sure that that's not part of what he was saying.
But I I don't know that Charles has ever been uh conservative.
He was Republican at one point.
Uh I remember also I was supposed to go to a charity golf tournament in Philadelphia, and I couldn't get away from this broadcast to go there, and Charles was going to be there.
What was the name of this?
Some financial house doing the leg uh L E G G. Leg Mason, yeah.
And uh Charles sent a message to uh Fuzzy Zeller who was there to me.
Fuzzy said, Charles said, hang on, you're not gonna have to deal with Clinton much longer.
Uh it's it says it's gonna be okay.
But I haven't I haven't I haven't talked to him about this, and I you know, your your call, I haven't really I haven't really talked about this.
I just I I wouldn't put a whole lot of stock in it.
Uh I uh Charles is uh in business to get attention and and to be noticed, and he's always succeeded doing that.
He's a great basketball player, and then he's he's uh he's making a living here uh with his mouth and drawing attention to himself.
Well, he lost a fan here.
Because he insulted me in what I believe, so um I don't think he realizes when he opens his mouth how much.
Oh, he does.
No, no, he does.
He's making a calculation.
He's uh he's making a calculation with this based on whatever his uh uh future desires or plans are and who his current friends are, too.
Uh so I'm not one of them, so I guess I'm okay.
Well, but you don't live in Alabama, so you your your defection is a fan isn't gonna matter to him if he does run for governor down there.
That's true.
That's true.
But that's gonna be a that's gonna be a tough state to uh start running around attacking Christians.
Exactly.
To win the governorship.
So he may be like Bill Buckley, if he wins, demand a recount.
Anyway, when he ran for mayor of New York.
Uh Robin, thank thanks for call.
Appreciate it.
Bud, Austin Texas, one minute.
Can you do it in one minute?
Yeah, Rush.
Uh I'm on a real quandary.
I'm a big fan of Rush Limbaugh and John McCain and the Swiftboaters.
Now I find the last few weeks we end up with all my friends bashing each other.
But I did want to say one thing.
I want to tell John McCain's supporters to lay off for McCain to lay off the swift boaters.
Boy, they can do him more damage if he if he's not careful because we know what they did to Kerry.
I I saw this last week.
It was it was on Little Green Footballs.
Then they they they got a they they had a couple other blogs that were that were uh posted there as well, and apparently McCain had gone after the Swift boat vets for truth, suggesting that they had been uh unfair or unkind or what have you to carry uh and so forth, and it was continuing his theme that that kind of thing is not necessary in politics.
I don't think anybody has refuted one claim the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth made that I'm aware of.
Has anybody said that what they said about Kerry was not true?
I don't think so.
Uh besides, aren't the aren't the Swift boat vets for truth heroes as well as John Kerry was?
I understand totally, Bud, what you're saying out there.
A jam-packed program today.
Wouldn't you agree, Brian?
Yes.
Well, that's it, folks.
Hope you have a wonderful weekend.
Uh, we'll be uh doing the same here right back Monday to clean up whatever messes have been made over the weekend.
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