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March 12, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 12, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Ha, how are you?
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
When I have more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, it means you are too.
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Everybody who signs, well, I don't I don't hawk this much.
I really don't.
I got I get you know nervous about hawking my own stuff to the chagrin of my partners, by the way.
Um but everybody who signs up got an email, whoa, I had no idea what all was on this website.
You I it's it's it's impossible to explain what all it's an encyclopedia.
It is literally encyclopedic.
Uh you just, I mean, there's a free side.
You can you can see a little bit what it looks like, but if you you become a member and it's you'll you might even make it your home page, uh lady.
Well, now what are you smirking at in there?
What do you shm, mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
No, no, no, no.
I do not get back channel messages from Hillary asking for anything.
You know, the only thing she's doing is threatening me.
Be careful what you wish for, Rush.
You know, she said that on Fox last week in the morning show.
Speaking of the Clintons, um, since they will do anything to win, and we know that they will.
And the mainstream media, the drive-by media has conceded that the Clintons will do anything to win.
You've heard them say that.
That means what?
It means that the Clintons can do anything.
And not raise so much as a liberal eyebrow.
This is key, folks, to understand here as uh as Operation Chaos proceeds down the track.
The Clintons will do anything to win.
The drive-bys have conceded that they will do anything to win, which means the Clintons can do anything and not raise so much as a liberal eyebrow.
What it means is that there are no standards that the Clintons can violate.
There are no rules that they can break.
There are no dirty tricks that they can execute, there are no race cards that they won't play.
Uh certainly that would get any reaction from journalists other than the Clintons will do anything to win.
I mean, they they've now got a clean slate.
Everybody knows they'll do everything to win.
The drive-by media who should just like they looked the other way with Spitzer.
Spitzer was a they enabled Spitzer.
The drive-by's are going to enable the Clinton campaign by wow, look at what Hillary and Bill just did.
Why they will do anything to win.
And they'll eat it up because it'll make for exciting news.
Now, this is not a complaint.
I don't want you to misunderstand here.
A tiger is a tiger, a drive-by journalist is a drive-by journalist, and a Clinton is a Clinton.
But the media table, uh, ladies and gentlemen, is set, and the table is set with this.
The Clintons can do anything.
The only question that you have now is, are there any limits to anything?
It might be fun to think out loud.
What, if anything, could the Clintons do that would force the media to sing.
They can do anything, but they can't do that.
At what point will the media wait a minute?
You said you we know you can do anything, but but you can't do that.
What would it be?
It's gonna be a folks.
They're they're they've got a they've got a free road ahead of them.
Mark my words.
The limbaugh effect, rush the vote, and the chaos that we have created has cleared the highway for the Clintons.
They can do anything they want.
And nobody can say other than the Obama campaigning, is it around a whine and uh and moan.
She would not thank me publicly.
If she were to thank me publicly, um, yeah, it would it that that that wouldn't be we don't want that.
We we we don't we don't we don't want her doing that.
Uh now the Obama camp might think about doing it.
We'd like to thank Rush Limbaugh on behalf of Hillary Clinton for screwing this all up.
But despite it, we're gonna win anyway.
He ought to do it.
But Obama is on my radar in another way.
This is last night on the campaign trail.
And that this is interesting, too.
Uh since the media, the drive buyers are paying more attention to me than they are Senator McCain.
I guess Obama has decided he should shift his campaign and run against me.
When I hear Rush Limbaugh or some of these people talking about how we need to send them all back, we're not going to send them all back.
First of all, there's a country of immigrants.
Second of all, as a practical matter, we would end up having to use all of our law enforcement resources to round people up, detain them, separate families.
It's not a realistic solution.
We're not going to be able to solve the problem if we're just shouting about it.
I don't know what he's talking about immigration here, but I have never said deport these people.
I have said it's not realistic.
And in fact, when the argument has come up, you know, when we had the amnesty program going through the what was that, McCain Kennedy?
Was it McCain Kennedy was the Amnesty Bill or McCain, some other Democrat.
When I was going through when I was going through Congress, or going through Senate, well, what going when it was being, you know, hashed out behind closed doors under the cover of darkness.
They had all these fines.
They had all these things.
All these illegals that were in the country are going to have to show up somewhere, pay a fine, go to the back of the line, maybe go home or what.
And I said, how in the world is this going to happen?
We don't.
Our immigration program now can't track down all these people.
I don't know where Obama's getting this, that I am in favor of deportation.
I have never come out in favor of deportation.
That's not the focus of comprehensive immigration reform.
The focus is stopping the inflow and securing the border.
Now we'll deal with things after that, but there's got to be a stop to this.
Pure and simple.
And every bit of legislation that's come out of Congress on this has done nothing about that.
They want to increase the flow of illegals here.
They want these people, both parties so they can get their voters or try to get these people as voters.
Anyway, find it interesting out there, McCain hitting or uh Obama hitting me.
Uh running against me here, uh rather than Senator McCain, because I'm in the news more than uh Senator McCain is.
I got just a few sound bites here on the Spitzer stuff.
Um by the way, I think I do need to send Obama some talking points on uh on immigration.
McCain can send Obama talking points on his middle name and not using it.
But I've got I've got these are funny, these are these are kind of interesting, and not very many of them.
I want to close out the segment with some of these Spitzer soundbites, not from Spitzer, but like this.
Last night Anderson Cooper 180 on CNN, he had uh Professor Dershowitz from Harvard on.
And uh Anderson Cooper said, Professor Dershowitz, uh, if you were defending uh Elliot Spitzer, what would your defense be?
Let me be very clear that I would not only defend Governor Spitzer, I would defend Larry Craig, I would defend Rush Limbaugh, I would defend that Louisiana Congressman.
This is not for me a Republican Democrat issue.
This is for me a question about the proper role of government in the private lives of public figures.
What I would argue, of course, is selective prosecution.
Defend me.
What have I done that I don't know about?
Oh, the mistresses.
Oh, yeah, I forgot.
The mistresses.
Uh Mark Green uh was uh being interviewed by uh Larry King fill-in host John King uh about the um Spitzer scandal.
Uh John King is the writing on the wall, is there any chance that Spitzer can stay as the governor of his state?
President Clinton, Senator Vitter, Senator Craig all had different scandals, stayed.
The problem, though, is Elliott Spitzer will be savaged by the tabloids and the national media.
Should he even survive in the short term?
I believe it's impossible that he would win re-election in 2010.
And then there's the putting his family through it, which is should be number one, two, and three.
Finally, in New York's uh Democrats and the state Senate have been in minority for 40 years.
Democrats have been within one seat of taking over the state senate.
Yeah.
But you see, You know what his focus was on there.
Oh, the fucking power.
Concern for party power.
Spitzer's worthless now.
Throw him under the bus.
Throw him overboard.
He's toast.
We can't use him anymore.
See you later, Elliot.
Maybe in court.
By the way, client number six has apparently been named.
He is the Duke of Westminster.
The Duke of Westminster is an alleged former client of the escort agency used by Spitzer.
The Duke of Westminster, whose seven billion pound property empire makes him Britain's third richest man was accused of paying thousands of pounds to prostitutes he ordered through the London branch of the Emperor's Club VP.
Now, you know where I saw this story?
Just got it.
Stories at the Telegraph UK.
Now, Professor Dershowitz on Monday said that a story like this would barely make the back page in Europe.
Well, tell that to the Duke of Westminster, who's on the front page of the telegraph and his association with the same bunch of whores that Spitzer was using.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back.
I um I'm in such a good mood today.
I I think I had a uh less than appropriate and uh serious reaction to uh our Obama sound bite.
Would you go back, uh Mike, grab uh Obama soundbite number two.
Uh tell me when it's ready so that we can listen to this again.
So I'm so used to being mischaracterized.
I'm so used to being criticized, and so used to being lied about that it's to me it's just funny anymore.
But I think I think I was a little bit too flippant about this.
When I hear Rush Limbaugh or some of these people talking about how we need to send them all back, we're not gonna send them all back.
First of all, there's a country of immigrants.
Second of all, as a practical matter, we would end up having to use all of our law enforcement resources to round people up, detain them, separate families.
It's not a realistic solution.
We're not going to be able to solve the problem if we're just shouting about it.
I have never called for the deportation of all illegals in this country.
And I say my my my original reaction to this was uh a bit flippant.
I think that this calls for something a little bit more serious.
Because Senator Obama is running for president and is distorting my words, attacking me unfairly.
Saying things about me which aren't true.
I would like to challenge Barack Obama, who is running around demanding corrections from everybody else who misspeak about him or who offend him.
I would like to challenge Obama to prove where I ever said that immigrants ought to be rounded up and deported.
I have talked about creating disincentives in which companies that hire illegals stop hiring them, where uh illegal immigrants are less likely to come here or stay here because of a reduction of opportunities, but I never said we should round up people and deport them.
So I insist that Democrat presidential candidate leader, Barack Obama, apologize for this falsehood.
He needs to get his facts straight, especially since he demands accuracy from others.
He's out there complaining about all the stuff said about him that isn't true.
He even gets mad when you use his real middle name.
He gets upset about that.
I have never once called for the rounding up and deportation on mass basis of every illegal immigrant in this country.
And it's one thing when some stupid little blogger, some irrelevant little drive-by journalist gets something wrong because that's their stock in trade.
This is a presidential candidate, and he happens to be leading the Democrat race for president.
Obviously, he's upset at uh at Operation Chaos and uh the rush the vote and so forth, but that's no excuse.
I am owed an apology by the man leading the Democrat presidential primary races, uh Momo.
Is that how you pronounce it?
Momo in Columbus.
It's great to have you here.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, how are you doing?
Yay, good, cool.
Hey, Matt Check, man.
I listened to your show, and I listen to a lot of your viewers, and they're talking of, you know, they still bringing up uh Obama's first religion, which was the Islamic.
I mean, so what, man?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, Momo, can you because I have a hearing disability from which I received no federal assistance.
Could you slow down a little bit?
I want to be able to hear what you're saying.
Okay, let me back that up.
I said I'm listening to your show, and you get a lot of viewers on here that complain about Obama's birth religion, which was Islamic.
Now, what people need to understand the Islamic religion is the largest religion in the world.
One.
Number two is you can't fought an individual or religion for the actions of a small group.
You have Muslims and you have radical Muslims.
If Obama was a Muslim, he's not a radical Muslim.
Now this conversation came about because I was on the campaign trail in Columbus.
But he's but wait, he's not a Muslim, and I don't know he's a Christian.
I know that his preacher doesn't like America, though.
His preacher's out there supporting Farrakhan and says America horrible things about America, but not a Russian.
He's not a radical.
Momo.
We don't get calls on this program from people about his m being a Muslim.
We don't get them.
We don't take them if we do.
Well, I don't we don't put them on the what you're you're confusing me with somebody else that could we don't do that here.
Okay, well, my point was my point was that I was trying to help you understand that you have radical Muslims and you have Muslims.
There's a lot of Muslims.
I know what we call them Islamo fascists here.
Right.
Now the question the comment came about because the lady was uh a Hillary campaigner with Fasima Obama uh sign a sticker and started giving me grief right.
He's a Muslim.
He's I like and you support terrorism.
Like, no, I'm not a radical individual.
I'm a Christian.
I so I asked her what her religion was.
She said, Christian.
I said, so you support the Klan.
She's like, Oh, how could you say that?
I said, Well, because most diehard clansmen uh tell you that you're a Christian.
What am I talking about?
Oh, you're talking about a Hillary campaign, babe.
No, I'm talking, uh yeah, this is this one of Hillary's campaign bands came up to me with comment about Obama and his uh religion and he uh and how he was born.
I'm like, dude, come on, man.
Momo, you need to call them because we're not doing that here.
I agree with you.
I've listened to this one because people called in and was like, well, I couldn't offer him because he is Islamic.
I don't get calls of we don't get calls, I don't put calls on the air that say Obama's a Muslim.
You have had calls.
That doesn't happen here, but we talking about I listen to you all the time, dude.
I have not.
We don't talk about it on this program.
It's not a good thing.
It's not something I'm not go I don't go there.
That's all right.
I very seldom use his middle name, Hussein.
That doesn't well you know what it means, so that's that's not a problem.
You have a problem, but that's not a problem.
It's confusing me with somebody else out there, which is really offensive.
I have to tell you.
Because there's nobody out there worth being confused with me.
There's nobody worth being up.
Man, I've listened to your show all last week, and you have people call in was like, Oh, I couldn't vote for him because uh he he he's a Muslim and and they're this and this.
I'm like, you gotta do it.
Didn't happen.
It didn't happen.
You should have stepped up and explained that to him.
Momo, you know.
I was off the air for three days last week.
You know we didn't we didn't take calls.
I've just talked to people.
We did not get calls like that.
We don't take calls like that.
I was I was uh I was off the air last week for three days.
Okay, let me ask you this.
If you don't take calls like that, why did the gentleman put me on the air in the comment?
Because he thought that you would be good radio.
Oh, now there's trouble in Momo's house.
Hello.
What's going on there, Momo?
I'll be here.
There's uh somebody yelling at you in the background.
No, no, no, no.
I I I thought I was off, but I was like, man, I listen to you all the time, and if that's if that wasn't true, why did the guy even let me call in the case?
If you don't have that discussion.
Because we're interested in good well, we we take calls if the people if you got passion, man.
You got passion, you believe what you believe, you're wrong about it.
I'll be glad to talk to somebody who's got passionate beliefs.
But if what we we you his this is an opportunity for us to correct something that you think that is incorrect, it's wrong.
So that's why we took it.
You're a good guy.
You're just wrong about that.
You're a good guy.
I'm wrong about it.
Okay.
Okay, right.
Now, what do you think of Hillary?
Well, I think of Hillary.
Well, my thing about Hillary is, man, this is some straight up hundred percent belief.
I have nothing personally against her, but I don't think that she she's not gonna get it, man.
For one, if she can't keep her home happy, Clinton cheated on her with a big fat nasty.
Yeah, and you he's the president of the United States.
If she can't keep her home happy, how's she gonna keep the country happy?
How is she going appease the country?
She can't do it.
And for one, man, if she gets in office, man, these other countries, they don't have respect for women point blank period anyway.
That's why I don't understand why they keep sending uh Condolee to these meetings across the world, and they don't even appreciate women.
They don't have no respect for women, but yet they send her.
If Hillary gets in office, they're not going to have no respect for United States point blank period, because in their country, women are less than me.
I don't agree with that, but that's how it is, man.
You can talk to anybody from these other countries, my dudes from Kenya, from Africa, from all these places.
They'll tell you like, man.
Amen.
Oh, man, you're not going to be able to do it.
I hear you.
I hear you, and I'm down with it.
But I gotta go.
My um I'm sadly out of town.
But that's that's why we put you on the air out there, Momo.
Had an affair.
Cheated on Hillary with a big fat nasty.
That's cool.
A man, a living legend, a way of life, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, a prophet.
And American legend.
Here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Not much time to play this, so one more time here, folks.
One more time.
Let's go.
Not much time to play this, one more time.
Let's go.
Oh.
The Rush Limbaugh program.
Bill Clinton.
As portrayed by Paul Shanklin.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
One more sound bite, and then we're going to move on to the Geraldine Ferraro mess.
Because that's that's got some fascinating implications.
Ken Langone uh was one of those pursued by Iliot Spitzer.
Ken Langone.
I know.
Don't know him well, would not say that he is a close friend, but I know him well.
See him on golf courses.
He was on the board of directors, New York Stock Exchange when uh Spitzer went after Dick Grasso.
And I think Langone was the only member of the board that Spitzer also uh pursued.
Langone is a man's man.
He was on CNBC Monday night.
An unidentified reporterette said to him, tell me why you think Spitzer should resign.
Because he's a hypocrite.
He destroyed reputations of people who had good reputation and deserved reputations.
He talked today about his standards.
But what he didn't talk about was the standards he held everybody else to that he couldn't keep.
So how do I feel?
I certainly feel sorry for his daughters, very much so.
I don't know his wife, but I have to assume she has some idea of this happening.
For him, it couldn't be enough to please me.
No, we all have our own private hells.
I hope his private hell is hotter than anybody else's.
You have no idea how many people around the country, especially the Northeast, have the same dislike, intense dislike for Elliot Spitzer, as uh articulated here by Ken Langone.
All right.
Representative Steve King is a Congressman Steve King, a Republican from Iowa, said that he stands by his remarks to an Iowa radio station last week that Barack Obama's presidency would be seen as a win for Al-Qaeda and other Muslim extremists.
Did you hear about this?
I don't want to disparage anybody because of their race, their ethnicity, their name, whatever their religion, their father might have been, King told uh KICD Radio in Spencer, Iowa, on Friday, March 7th.
I'll just say this.
When you think about the optics of a Barack Obama potentially getting elected president of the United States, I mean, what does this look like to the rest of the world?
What does it look like to the world of Islam?
The fact that he has declared defeat in Iraq and said he would get the troops out immediately, that clearly sends a message.
Who do you think Al Qaeda's for?
Who are our enemies for?
Who are the radical Islamists for?
It's going to be Obama first and Hillary second because they don't want to face a United States that's determined to achieve a victory.
On the radio last week, King also said of Obama, if he's elected president, then the radical Islamists, the Al-Qaidas, the radical Islamists and their supporters will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11th.
And he is being pressured.
And he is being put upon to re to to to Apologize.
And he says, I'm not going to apologize for this.
It's true.
His point is, and if you listen to Mahmoud Ahmadinezad, if you listen to any of the Al-Qaeda figures from overseas, they always, they're using Democrat Party talking points.
They have involved themselves in our.
By the way, speaking of you, you worried about me involving myself with the chaos effect, uh, rush the vote.
What do you think Al-Qaeda's, what do you think?
What do you think these um wacko little dictators in some of these Islamist uh countries have been doing?
They have been openly urging the defeat of the U.S. military, just has been the Democrat Party.
To say that they don't have a vested interest in who wins, the White House, that's all Steve King is pointing out.
So the pressures there is a there's a there's a lot of pressure uh on people these days not to say things, and it's coming from everywhere.
McCain's got his talking points to his supporters and his surrogates and his staff.
You can't say anything but this.
And uh, and now Geraldine Ferraro cannot say what she said.
Stupid, incorrect, correct, who she can't say it.
She gotta go.
Pretty soon we're gonna head, we're gonna get to the point where people are gonna sneak into the bathrooms of their houses to say what they really want to say to each other without fear of somebody hearing it and being offended and trying to punish them for it.
I know they do that now.
It's getting worse.
And this is these are the kinds of losses of freedom that uh and liberty that happen so slowly and uh apparently you know under the auspices of doing good.
Yes, we're going to shut you up and you up and you up because you're offending people, and it'll be a much better world when people aren't offended by the likes of what you say.
Uh and of course, then that that leads to what fear.
Nobody nobody wants to be targeted, nobody wants to be called a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, and so they shut up.
They don't tell people what they really think, other than close family members and friends in private locations where they are assured there are no cameras or microphones around.
Now, Representative King said he's sticking to his refusal to apologize.
I don't feel any need to apologize.
I stand by what I said.
If I'm wrong, I'll apologize.
If I'm not wrong, uh, but I'm not wrong, and critics know it.
I'd like to have him stand up and say if I'm wrong, uh that they'll apologize.
This is the way to fight this stuff.
To not go on defense, but to stay on offense about it.
I mean, the idea that we can only say what certain people agree with, and if we say things they disagree with or defends them, we have to apologize and then shut up, is uh is is just absurd.
Quick time out.
When we come back, we'll start with what's happening here to Geraldine Ferraro right after this.
All right, Geraldine Ferraro also not backing down despite onslaughts from across the political spec.
Well, I think the Republicans are staying quiet on this for the most part, because it's just another example of the chaos that has been created out there, ladies and gentlemen, by us.
You and I are working together to create chaos, Operation Chaos, and it's even been in the Huffington Post today, it's been acknowledged, the limbaugh effect is working and will continue to work throughout the rest of these primaries and the Democrat campaign.
Here's the Ferraro comment last Friday in an interview with uh the Torrance, California Daily Breeze.
Uh this is a comment that got it all started.
If Barack Obama were a white man, would we be talking about this as a potential real problem for for Hillary?
If he were a woman of any color, would he be in this position?
They said, absolutely not.
All right.
So essentially what Geraldine Ferraro is saying is that um if he were white, they wouldn't even be in this race.
If he were white, she said the only thing he does well is give a speech.
So you turn it around, what's he saying?
He's only there because he black.
The Democrats on Civil War.
They're the ones introduced race into this campaign.
They're the ones introduced gender.
It just and this is a Clinton campaign surrogate spokesman is exactly we knew this was gonna happen.
The Clintons aren't gonna say this stuff themselves.
David Axelrod, uh Obama's chief strategist had this reaction.
There's been this insidious pattern on the part of the Clinton campaign to allow negative, really negative and out-of-bounds comments to be made and to simply gloss over them and to kind of give a wink and a nod.
Yeah, David, way to go.
I mean, you the the Clintons, this is your party.
No, back in the 90s, nobody cared when the Clintons were doing stuff like this to us.
No.
Back then it was marveled at.
It was appreciated, salivated over.
But now that the Clintons have turned their tactics and techniques on fellow Democrats, why shock, outrage, can't believe this.
And they're stunned the Clintons get away with it.
You idiots.
If you'd been paying any attention to the 90s, you should have figured this is going to happen in this campaign.
The first time anybody came along and interrupted her coronation, they're going to be swept out of the way.
Now you guys are leading.
Axelrad, listen to me now.
Look at me.
You guys got the lead in a popular vote.
You've got to lead the delegates and the pledge delegates and so forth.
You've got to lead the number of states.
And the Clintons are saying that qualifies you to be vice president.
Good.
And everybody's sitting around just laughing.
Here's Hillary, by the way, Harrisburg, uh, Pennsylvania, weighing in.
Well, I don't agree with that.
And I think it's important that, you know, we try to stay focused on the issues that matter to the American people.
And both of us have had supporters and staff members who've gone over the line, and we have to rein them in and try to keep this, you know, on the issues.
Yeah, well, there's no reigning in of Geraldine Ferraro.
This is the difference.
There hasn't been any reigning in of Geraldine Ferraro.
Is it Hillary gets the distance or you know it's really let me translate that last night for you?
This is no big deal.
Grow up, Obama.
This is the big leagues.
Stop whining.
Who do you think you're in the ring with?
All right.
Now this morning on the Today Show, Matt Wower talked to Senator Obama.
Uh Matt Wower said, uh look, I just got off the phone with Geraldine Ferraro, and she's somewhat shocked by the fact that she's being taken to task for these comments.
She feels sh she's simply stating the obvious.
I guess the question for you, Obama, is do you think this is a racist comment?
Was it a sexist comment?
And has she done damage to the Democrat Party at this stage of the race?
I just think that somebody in my campaign suggested that Senator Clinton was only where she was because she was a woman.
I think people would take great offense, and rightly so, because she's a very accomplished person.
And I just don't think that that kind of approach to evaluating candidates or denigrating candidates is particularly useful to the Democratic Party.
Exactly right, but we are happy to have caused it here, and we are going to keep piling on with this.
But look at Obama, since you won't say it, I will.
I've said it before.
Hillary Clinton's the most cheated on woman in the world.
Do you understand the scope of the folks?
The most cheated on woman in the world.
Until today.
Yes, I forgot Spitzer.
You're right.
Hillary Clinton is the second most cheated on woman in the world.
And the fact that she is a female whose last name is Clinton is the only reason that she is considered presidential material.
Pure and simple.
She's got no record, just like Obama has no record to recommend this kind of promotion.
It's simply her turn.
She's eaten all those excrement sandwiches for the last 20 years, propping bill up.
This is her payback.
Democrat Party, everybody else knows it.
You ought to say that, Obama, for crying out loud.
I mean, McCain will get mad at you, but what the hell?
He's your opponent anyway.
He ought to be m.
Yeah, I know Matthews said it and he had to apologize.
Well, that's because that's because uh PMS NBC is DNC TV.
I mean, the Clintons get people suspended over on that network.
So I mean, yeah, you know, Matthews had to wear the protective cup out there underneath the suit slacks.
Go out there and apologize with the legs crossed.
Here's Ferraro back in action last night, uh, Fox News Channel's election headquarters, Martha McCallum, big McCain babe, by the way, uh, interviewed uh Ferraro and said, You're getting a lot of heat for this comment.
You want to put it in context for us.
I'm sorry, the people thought it was racist.
But part of the problem is, and and I'm a person really who has fought discrimination for 40 years.
So I am absolutely offended by the emails, the phone calls, and all the threats that I've been getting, which is really terrible and has come out of out of the Obama campaign.
David Axelrado knows me better.
In 1984, if my name were Gerard Ferraro instead of Geraldine Ferrero, I would never have been the nominee for vice president.
Which what I find is offensive is that every time somebody says something about the campaign, you're accused of being racist.
Yeah, well, join the club.
Join the club, Gerard.
You are exactly uh Geraldine, sorry.
Join the club.
Uh then McCallum, Martha said, by the way, I like Martha.
Don't misunderstand anything here.
What's the campaign saying?
Because she did distance herself a bit from this comment uh today on the uh on the campaign trail.
She can't reign me in.
I don't run by anybody anything that they want me to say or not say.
I am a supporter.
I will continue ra if it makes David happy, I would get off the finance.
But I'm telling David that I will raise money for Hillary.
And if Barack Obama is the candidate, he shouldn't really antagonize people like me, because he's going to come to me and ask me to raise money for Barack Obama, and I would do it for him too if he stops doing this kind of horrendous attacks.
Don't you love this?
Let me tell you something.
A lot of people, we've got a guy on the phone.
I don't have time to take the call.
We'll do it in the next hour.
A lot of people are saying that Ferraro's having happened to her, what happened to me with ESPN and McNam.
The two are totally different, folks.
What Ferraro said about Obama is not even close to the comments I made on ESPN.
Now I appreciate people wanting to sympathize, but there is a huge, huge difference here.
Sadly, I'm out of time for this segment.
I will have to explain it uh in a few moments.
Yeah, I just love listening to Geraldine Ferraro so outraged, so outraged to be called racist.
Welcome, Geraldine.
It's what we Republicans have been going through, me personally for 20 years.
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