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March 11, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 11, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Greetings to you music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
Rush Limbaugh at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the fastest three hours in media.
Great to be with you.
As always, telephone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address, lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
I'm sure you hear, have you heard about Geraldine Ferraro?
Geraldine Ferraro was talking to a newspaper somewhere out in California, and she said, if Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.
If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.
Ladies and gentlemen, I maintain to you that the chaos that we sought to create and continue in a Democrat Party is a strategery that is working out flawlessly, brilliantly conceived, flawlessly executed strategy.
The dirty little secret is here that if Geraldine Ferraro were not a woman, Mondale would have never named her.
And everybody knows it.
So who once again is it raising the race card and so forth?
It's Democrats, and this is the Hillary camp.
And this is exactly what we suspect would happen.
All these surrogates are out there with all these attacks on Obama.
And Obama, by the way, is fighting back in some of these attacks.
He's got a little aggressive now.
We have the soundbites coming up.
But I want to tell a quick little story here, folks, about the Mayflower Hotel.
I've stayed there.
This is where Hillary Clinton Super Delegate No. 9, Elliot Spitzer, had the now famous tryst with Kristen, the really beautiful brunette, 5'5 and 108 pounds.
And you know what?
It's so funny to read people's comments about this.
Some people are offended he made her take the train.
Not the fast train, but the regional train, the Amtrak, from New York down to Washington.
You know, we're talking about the Man Act here, transporting women across state lines for prostitution.
The Man Act, no, that's this is, in fact, if the feds are looking at him, I don't think they're looking at him at a prostitution angle at all.
It has to do with the laws on structuring and money laundering and that kind of thing, which is how they first became aware of this.
But I mean, people are all upset.
Why couldn't he put her on the fast train?
Why couldn't he put her on the, how to pronounce it, the ACETA?
ASETA, Amtrak, Amseta.
Acela.
I'm sorry, Acela.
Fine.
Well, it's a government-subsidized form of transportation.
I understand all that, but he didn't send her on the Acela.
He sent her on a regional thing.
It stops every 15 minutes.
Anyway, it fascinates me.
One thing I've learned here, folks, and please don't take this the wrong way, this whole discussion, I've been so uncomfortable.
There's something I had to talk about, but I don't know anything about any of this.
And I refuse to speculate.
I don't know anything about prostitution.
I don't know anything about any aspect of this.
How the woman reacts.
I mean, we had this woman caller the other day or last hour who said, she was describing her first husband that they were some fundraiser, and he was off talking to someone, ignoring her.
She got a little upset.
So, well, I'm just going in and sitting down.
And he came in later and said, don't you ever do that again.
We go in together.
We go in when I say so, is what she said that he said to her.
And in my case, I'm the one who's usually being talked to that way.
I don't have any experience with these domineering, beat-em-up, go-to-press.
I'm not qualified to discuss this.
I am out of touch.
I'm listening to all these guys like Carville and all these Democrats.
No big deal.
Alan Dershowitz, prostitution.
Hell, what's a big deal about that?
Been happening all over the world.
I know it has, but I don't think it's morally correct, and I don't think it's good for a culture and good for a society.
I just don't.
And Carville could, you know, go out and see a prostitute and go home and tell Mary you did it and see what happens.
If it's so forward-thinking and so advanced and so not a big deal.
At any rate, I once stayed at the Mayflower Hotel.
It's a great, great old hotel.
And it was in 198, I think, six.
I was in Sacramento and the station there, and I never did guests, but they wanted me to do guests my whole career, even though what I was doing was a stunning, smashing success, still had these program directors who thought they knew better and wanted me to go to Washington for a week and have a five-day or maybe it was a four-day series of guests.
So we had California congressmen and senators and so forth, local Washington media types.
And one of the guests that I really wanted to get was Vitaly Churkin, who was in the Soviet embassy.
He was a routine regular visitor on Nightline back in those days.
He spoke perfect English without any trace of a Russian accent.
And the guy just, fascinated, we're being infiltrated right in front of our eyes.
And this guy is a perfect example of it.
He was one of Gorbachev's front guys and so forth.
So he agreed to come on.
He agreed to come on the show.
And the night before, he scheduled to come on.
I went out to dinner, got back to the hotel, and I figured that my room was bugged by the Soviet embassy since Vitaly Churkin was going to be on the next day.
And I was petrified that he would somehow cancel or decide not to show up once he'd done research and found out that I was, you know, full-blooded, patriotic American that wasn't buying any of this Glasnost perestroika garbage.
So I kept talking to the walls as though the Soviets could listen to me.
Mr. Churkin, please show up.
I promise it'll be fine.
I just was convinced they were bugging.
Not really, but I was just having fun with it.
Wouldn't have been surprised.
He showed up.
Absolutely showed up.
And I first questioned, are you KGB?
And he just started laughing and said, you mean a member of the Committee for State Security?
I said, yes, are you KGB?
And he was going to hem hawked around and tried to make me think a question was just idiotic and not even insulting.
It was just so silly and so forth.
And I said, where do you live?
You live in the embassy?
He said, oh, no, I live in Arlington, right out among your natives.
I said, do they know your KGB?
And you know what?
Vitaly Churkin's still around.
He's still, I saw him.
He's not public as much, but I saw him the other day, some months ago, on television.
He's with Putin, who was KGB.
So he's still around.
Anyway, the Clintons and the Obamas and the vice presidential nod.
We have audio sound bites.
Here is Obama.
I told you about this when it happened yesterday.
We finally got the soundbite for you.
He's in Columbus, Mississippi, yesterday at a campaign event, and this is what he said.
They have been spending the last two, three weeks.
You remember with that advertisement with a phone call?
Telling everyone, getting all the generals to say, well, we're not sure he's ready.
I'm ready on day one.
He may not be ready yet.
But I don't understand.
If I'm not ready, how is it that you think I should be such a great vice president?
Do you understand that?
I was trying to explain to somebody a while back the okie-doke.
Y'all know the okie-doke?
It's like when somebody's trying to bamboozle you, when they're trying to hoodwink you, you they are trying to hoodwink you.
And you too, buddy, you better keep a sharp eye out behind yourself.
They're trying to do more than hoodwink you.
I mean, they're running around acting like they've won the nomination.
Like it's a foregone conclusion that she should be the nominee on top and he should be on the bottom.
And you know, Fast Eddie Rindell out there yesterday said, well, of course, of course, she's one state, so we already have 260 electoral votes.
They're throwing every rule.
But see, this is what I said earlier.
There are no rules.
As these redos with the Florida and Michigan primaries are going to illustrate, there are no rules in the Democrat Party.
There are no rules in liberalism.
That's why there are no standards.
So they can't be held accountable to anything.
You can't call them hypocrites.
There aren't any rules.
And if there are no rules, then you can't have rules that are broken, right?
You just have traditions and customs.
And what are some of the traditions and customs in a Democrat Party?
Dead people vote two or three times.
There are many such traditions and customs that are not at all rules violations.
You have to understand this.
And Obama is now just starting to find out about this.
He thinks he has a majority of the delegates and he's going to keep that majority.
He's going to win.
No, there are no such rules in the Democrat Party.
Otherwise, there wouldn't be superdelegates.
What Obama doesn't know is that his delegates don't count a whit if the number of superdelegates Hillary can mass will overnumber his pledge delegates combined with her pledge delegates So the superdelegates, and of course there are no rules for them.
They can do whatever they want.
So we're not talking rules here.
We're talking tradition, customs, and what's one of the traditions of the Democrat Party, modern Democrat Party.
Clintons run it.
And so why should we forsake tradition here?
You got Geraldine Ferraro out there saying, hey, if he were a white guy, he wouldn't even be here.
Turn that around.
He's only here because he's a black guy.
That's what Geraldine Ferraro said.
A nice, upstanding, compassionate, thoughtful liberal.
One more, Obama, before we go to the break.
Another portion.
Actually, two more.
Here's a portion of his continuing remarks.
With all due respect, I've won twice as many states as Senator Clinton.
I've won more of the popular vote than Senator Clinton.
I have more delegates than Senator Clinton.
So I don't know how somebody who's in second place is offering the vice presidency to the person who's in first place.
I want everybody to be absolutely clear.
I'm not running for vice president.
I'm running for president of the United States of America.
He's confused here.
Of course, he's right according to rules, but there are no rules here.
He was right about everything.
He's one more states.
He's one more delegates.
He's one more popular vote.
And he doesn't understand why he's being offered the second spot.
There's another custom or tradition in the modern Democrat Party, and it's this, whatever the Clintons want, they get.
And why should we part with that?
You can't have these other little incidentals stand in the way.
One more Obama.
When in the midst of a campaign, you decide to throw the kitchen sink at your opponent because you're behind.
Your campaign starts leaking photographs of me when I'm traveling overseas to make people afraid.
That's not real change.
That's not real change.
Come on, Barry, you can do better than that.
You know, this is interesting.
Fox News has done a side-by-side pictures of McGreevy and his wife at McGreevy's resignation announcement and Spitzer and his wife yesterday.
Both wives are wearing the same shade of blue jacket.
And McGreevy and Spitzer both in dark suits with identical ties, red with white stripes.
And McGreevy's stripes are from lower left to upper right.
And Spitzer's are the opposite, lower right to upper left.
But other than that, I mean, it's not the same jacket, but it's the same color.
It looks like there's a how to handle a scandal playbook out there in the Democrat Party, including what everybody should wear at the moment of truth.
Laura in Erie, Pennsylvania, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi there, Rush.
I have just called and talked to four married ladies here at work, and we all agree that it's a very big deal for a husband to engage in adultery with a prostitute.
We have seen the devastation of so many people, women particularly, that have, you know, had not only the betrayal emotionally, but the STDs that are being passed and all of the social ills that are related to people thinking they can engage in either premarital or extramarital sex without the consequences.
And, you know, if he had sex with his wife after, he could have brought an STD home to her, like HIV AIDS.
Didn't he think about that?
Didn't he think about, you know, if this girl was to get pregnant, like you said, she may have to think about abortion or he's going to have a baby without a father.
There's so many repercussions.
Apparently, none of that was thought about.
Otherwise, this wouldn't have taken place.
I mean, see, that's the whole point.
None of that was considered.
In fact, one of the stories, and there's so many out there, and again, you have to be real careful because I don't know what you can believe or not.
Sources are anonymous, some of them law enforcement and so forth.
But apparently, one of these escapades with the lovely and gracious Kristen, he refused to wear a condom.
Okay, so obviously he's not thinking about that.
Well, it's such an outrage, not only as an example for his daughters, you know, because we already put up with Mr. Clinton, and we have to see these young teens that are engaging in that behavior because he said it wasn't sex.
And then we have to see all the people coming in with diseases in their mouth from oral sex, and we have to see the devastation of being used by someone.
You know, there's so many social ills that are linked to it.
And it's the liberal mantra that it's private and it's nobody's business, but it's society that's being harmed along with so many individuals.
Well, not only, as I said in the first hour, what about the value of human dignity here?
I mean, I've even heard some liberals say, this is a victimless crime.
How can you say it's a victimless crime?
Most prostitution rings are involved in organized crime.
The prostitute, I mean, look at, she's either being forced to do it or she's choosing to do it for some reason, but there's, you know, to say that this is victim, how about the family?
All these victimless crime arguments here sometimes, I mean, in some cases they're accurate, but this seems to be a little bit of a stretch.
And a lot of people are out there saying, you know, this ought to show our society how antiquated and backward we are.
We need to legalize prostitution.
Well, my question, Laura, for everybody else, how would legalizing something make it moral?
And that's the point, Rush.
Not talking about that moral outrage anymore.
I guess Bill Bennett did the death of shame.
Well, I thought we established that it was a very big moral problem when Mr. Clinton did it because he was an example for the whole country.
But we need to be talking about this as we go into the next election because this very behavior is one of the biggest causes of most social ills, like poverty, like STDs, that society is having to pay for.
And it devastates the person that is the victim, the wife, the kids.
And we never talk about it.
It's liberals just saying it's private, it's private.
It's not.
It devastates human beings.
And it's time we all stood up and said, it's outrageous.
I understand where you're coming from, but here's the point.
Have you noticed?
Nobody's standing up condemning this.
On our side, our side's not willing to engage in this battle.
We want to instead join the chorus of those who say, it's a tragedy.
It's such a shame.
Such a wonderful family.
It's so bad.
Meanwhile, when one of our guys gets involved in all this, get out of town, you reprobate.
What do you mean sending emails to pages, Foley?
What do you mean, Craig tapping your toe at an airport in Fargo or wherever it was?
Get out of town.
You need to.
They drum our guys out of town, and the liberals honor their guys.
Jerry Stubbs, Gary Stubbs, whatever his name was in Massachusetts, who actually had an affair with a page.
They wanted to fly the flag at half-mast when the guy died.
And our side, you know, McCain's not willing, even though McCain's really, really caught up in government corruption and so forth.
And this is government corruption.
This is a governor who was subjecting himself to blackmail, who may have been involved with organized crime indirectly because they're involved in prostitution rings, especially a high-class outfit like this, $5,000 an hour.
No, we're content to sit around.
Peter King, we got one guy on our side who's standing up here and proclaiming his outrage over this and suggesting that normally I'd look the other way.
But this is different.
He is a governor.
He's not just one of 435.
Oh, that's what Barney Frank said.
There's a big difference, big difference between what I did and what Spitzer did.
Because what I, I'm just one of 435, but he's one governor.
Barney Frank, I think, said that.
So I'm just one of 435 guys.
I was not the institution.
Spitzer is.
Happily so, folks, do anything we can here to make the complex understandable.
Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Here is Bud in Burlington, Indiana.
Bud, thanks for waiting and welcome.
In Indiana.
Anyway, Rush.
What did I say?
I couldn't quite understand, but it's actually communist Bloomington, Indiana.
Are you still there?
Yeah, I'm here.
Okay.
Anyway, I'd like to real quickly thank you for two things.
First off, unlike the so-called moderates who called in yesterday complaining about your recommendation for Republicans voting in Democrat primaries.
Yes.
I want to thank you because I don't know if you're aware of it or not, but no one's bringing up this point.
Rush, you are single-handedly probably costing the liberals an extra hundred million by extending the Democrat primaries.
And for that, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
You are more than welcome, sir.
Matter of fact, if you would have your staff do some research when this is all said and done, probably $100 million would be a drop in the bucket.
And, you know, Snerdley was making that point yesterday.
He says, something you're leaving out here about your brilliant strategy is that it's costing them money to throw this mud at each other.
And it's money that they're not going to have for the general election that they were planning on having because they wouldn't have to spend it between now and then.
But the fight goes on.
Absolutely.
Can I make one quick other point?
Sure.
Fire away.
Hey, recently, my 10-year-old daughter, who, by the way, makes you look like a liberal, went out with my wife and searched on the internet for conservative t-shirts.
And out of all the hundreds of shirts she picked, she picked one of your shirts off your website that said, Still voting Democrats and you're stuck on stupid.
But I just want to thank you for that because when I go in public and the liberals read that shirt, the expression on their faces is just absolutely priceless.
And I just wish people could see what I see when I wear that shirt.
Thank you.
Well, I appreciate it.
I'm very flattered and give your daughter our kindest regards.
That's very nice.
Thanks so much.
Speaking, speaking of the battle, the war, the internocene warfare going on in the Democrat Party, it continues today.
This is from Byron York at National Review Online.
Greg Craig, remember him?
Former Clinton White House counsel, a lawyer for Elian Gonzalez, who successfully got him sent back to Cuba.
Greg Craig, now supporting Barack Obama.
And he has just sent out a letter sharply attacking Hillary Clinton's claims to experience in foreign policy.
Greg Craig says Senator Clinton has cited a handful of international incidents where she says she played a central role.
But any fair-minded and objective judge of these claims, that is, by somebody not affiliated with the Clinton campaign, would conclude that Senator Clinton's claims of foreign policy experience are exaggerated.
Craig writes, it is a gross overstatement of the facts for her to claim even partial credit for bringing peace to Northern Ireland.
Her claim to a role in bringing peace to Bosnia is also unfounded, Craig says.
Her claim to have negotiated the flight of refugees from Kosovo is not true.
According to Craig, who quotes Bill Clinton's top envoy to the envoy to the Balkans, is saying, I can't recall any involvement by Senator Clinton in this issue.
And on Rwanda, where Bill and Hillary Clinton have said that she pressed him to intervene with U.S. troops, Greg Craig writes, there's no evidence to suggest this ever happened.
Finally, Greg Craig attacks Hillary Clinton's claim that her 1995 speech about women's rights in China also qualifies as foreign policy experience.
He says it's strange that Senator Clinton would base her own foreign policy experience on a speech she gave over a decade ago since she so frequently belittles Barack Obama's speeches opposing the Iraq War six years ago.
So it just continues now.
Greg Craig, who is as close to the Clintons as anybody could be, has signed up for Barack Obama and has now sent out a letter ripping Hillary Clinton to pieces.
This is exactly what we want.
All of this stuff can become fodder for Senator McCain's campaign or the RNC to run the commercials during the general election.
Also, somebody brought to my attention, what's the date of this?
I printed this out a couple days ago.
And what's the website?
DogonVillage.com is the website.
www.dogonvillage.com dot blogs or slash blogs slash African American.
Rush the vote.
Rush Limbaugh provides viable strategy for black voters.
Listen to this, folks, just to show you how my strategy is bleeding over into other groups.
From an ethical standpoint, the crossover vote inspired by Rush Limbaugh aiding Hillary Clinton and potentially undermining the candidacy of Obama at a minimum is offensive.
Thinking more long-range, though, I would argue that it's time for black America to embrace and adopt this strategy, paying homage to one of the more effective proponents.
It should be known as rushing the vote.
This website has named my strategiery, rushing the vote.
Republicans will no longer be able to ignore the black vote if even 10 to 20 percent of us cross over, rush the vote, to decide the Republican nominee or wreaking havoc in their primaries.
It'll also break the stronghold that the Democrat Party has had for far too long, proving that our vote should not be taken for granted.
If for any reason Barack Obama is not the Democrat nominee, black voters will have a perfect opportunity to rush the vote in November and will be credited with the McCain victory.
It should be noted that black Republicans, such as this radio guy here mentioned, have advocated this sort of swing strategy for years, but now that the effectiveness was proven in Texas and Ohio, let's plan to rush the vote whenever it's in our best interest.
This is a black website, and says the author here is suggesting, as name my Texas and Ohio strategy is rush the vote, and it succeeded, and blacks can use this too, cross over and elect a Republican president and show the Republicans how effective and important a black vote could be if they'd court it, and also show the Democrats we are not going to be taken for granted anymore.
So, folks, this is having benefits beyond even my wildest dreams, beyond even my wildest imaginations.
Black Americans have seen the effectiveness of the Limbaugh strategy, of the Limbaugh effect, and are now thinking of incorporating it as their own and have even given it a name, Rush the Vote.
I love this too.
The name of the website, once again, doggonvillage.com.
Back to the phones, Kurt in the Bay Area out, California.
Hi, nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Well, thank you so much, Rush.
I am outraged at the double standard that Spitzer and other men in positions of power seem to think they have.
If their wife was paying for sex from a male prostitute, they would be outraged and embarrassed.
And this guy is a scumbag, and so are others like him, and he needs to get out of office right now.
Well, I think he's trying to hang on.
I think he's trying to finagle away not to resign.
And I think he's looking at Bill Clinton, for one, as an example of how he can hold on.
I don't, see, this, I don't think, despite the attention people pay to this, Kurt, I don't think that a number of guys, there are people on our side, just understand.
I don't think they have a grasp of what power is to these people on the left, how badly they want it, how badly they thirst for it, how badly they covet it, and the fact that they're just going to give it up, Spitzer's going to go down in flames trying to hold on to this.
Yeah, you're right, Rush.
And listen, I really appreciate you taking my call.
All right, thanks so much, Kurt.
I appreciate it.
Here is Ward in Oklahoma City.
Nice to have you, Ward.
Great to hear from you.
Hello.
Well, it's great to be on, Rush.
I just wanted to reinforce the point that you made earlier that if it's a Republican that gets into trouble, that's probably Republican is the first word out of their mouth when they make the announcement.
That's right.
But then I think one of the worst examples was when Gary Condit got in trouble.
I had no idea what party he belonged to.
And even on the news on CNN, it said Gary Condit REP, California.
Right, I know.
He was the House of Representatives.
Same thing with Spitzer.
I mean, the broadcast networks did their best to hide it last night in their reports.
The New York Times, their first report and the post on the website, had his identity as a Democrat.
In the third paragraph, later they revised the story.
You had to read the 15th paragraph to find the mention of his political party affiliation.
It's just what it is.
Democrats, they circle the wagons as best they can and protect their own.
And they're doing that to a certain extent here with Governor Spitzer Folsom, North Carolina.
Jim, thank you for calling.
You're next.
Hey, Mega Moonshine Creek dittos, right?
Thank you, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hey, not only are they protecting the Democrats, but I read the USA Today article today, and nowhere in the article does it mention Spitzer Democrat.
And in fact, they even mention about McGreevy.
They don't say he's a Democrat.
But way down on paragraph 30, the first mention of a party is when they start a paragraph with, of course, Senator Craig, Republican from Idaho, and then they go through all his problems.
And I just think that you may not know, or you say you don't know the ins and outs of this of the women part, but you know those liberals like the back of your, like the back of your hand, because, once again, they crucify Republicans and hide their own from public view.
Yeah, but the difference is we don't crucify theirs.
We join the chorus.
It is a tragedy.
We feel so bad for the family.
And look, I know the theory behind this.
The theory is that we want to differentiate ourselves to Democrats.
We don't want to be like Democrats.
That's fine, but we're going to continue to lose if that is the attitude that we have.
I mean, folks, it's got some.
We will actually have our guys resign to please Democrats.
To show that we're big people, show that we understand morality and ethics and integrity, and we will resign.
When something like this happens, why resign?
Private matters.
None of your business.
Didn't hurt anybody.
Why?
Where it's antiquated culture.
Why it wouldn't even make the back page in the European newspapers.
So two different playing fields that we're not on the one they're playing on right now.
Back in the sec.
I'm told we have some incredible audio from the Queen Bee of Washington, D.C., Nancy Pelosi coming in.
Apparently, Pelosi saying an Obama-Hillary ticket won't work.
This dream ticket either way will not work.
Nancy Pelosi weighing in.
And we all know why.
Because the bottom line is this.
As long as Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of the House, she doesn't want Hillary Clinton anywhere near the White House in any way, shape, matter, form, top or bottom.
She doesn't want her there.
Queen Bee Syndrome, folks.
Trust me on this.
So yet more chaos erupts in the Democrat presidential primary thanks to me.
Yes.
Bob in Lakeland, Florida.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hello.
Dittos, Rush.
Thank you.
Hey, I've always wondered why the conservative part of my beloved Republican Party has always felt a need to enforce their values and mores.
Why do you have to put your morality on top of us?
Are you asking me that personally?
Why do I have to put my morality on top of you?
The conservatives.
Are you a conservative?
I am not.
I'm a Republican.
Okay, so you want to know why conservatives insist on a morality in a political party and political candidates who are Republicans.
Not just for the party, but as a whole.
Well, I mean, do you really mean that?
You're confused about this?
I guess I'm one of those jellow-minded moderates that you call, yeah.
I despise the Democratic Party.
I am a hawk.
I also want you to stay out of my pocket, but also I want you to stay out of my bedroom.
Wait a second.
You're making this personal.
You're saying you think I, as a conservative, want in your bedroom.
Not just you, Rush.
I'm talking about the entire conservative care what goes on in your bedroom.
But the question about morality, morality is, I don't know, it's rooted in decency.
It's rooted in human dignity.
I have a very good sense of self-worth, and I also know what is wrong and what is right.
But, I mean, a public official is one thing.
They're a higher standard.
So this entire Spitzer thing is wrong.
But if I'm single and it's Friday night, and there's nothing wrong with a prostitute.
Well, that'd be a libertarian view.
And, yeah, but...
Wait a minute!
Wait a second.
What about if you're married?
Now, if morality is not that big a deal, why do you have to be single in order to feel guiltless in paying a price?
Because when I said my vows to my wife.
Well, without morality, the vow doesn't mean anything.
That's your own.
I should not be, I should not be.
This is not my construction.
Morality is not defined by individual choice.
This is the problem.
Morality is what it is, and people have a problem with that.
We all sin.
There is not one of us that doesn't.
We are all immoral at times.
Some of us all the time, some of us very rarely, but some of us are immoral.
But the desire, the political answer to your question is that there is a huge voting block of Republicans to whom it matters in their leaders because they believe that leaders set the example.
And these people are sick and tired of seeing what's happened when no morality exists in the production of television shows or movies or music or what have you.
And they see literal filth that their kids are subjected to that is being put out there for profit because there's no morality.
The same gunk that these executives are putting out in the marketplace, they wouldn't dare let their own kids watch or listen to.
Yes, sir, but why sh where does it say in my Constitution that it should be legislated?
That's not the point.
I thought.
That is not the point.
In a political sense, these people are a large voting block, and the reason why the Republican Party pays attention to them is because they vote.
And elections are about being won.
Look, I'm going to continue this after the break here because I've got a heartbreak and I can't miss here.
Thanks, Bob, for the phone call.
I mean that.
Back after this.
An exciting, unpredictable, jam-packed three hours is two-thirds done, ladies and gentlemen.
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