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May 16, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 16, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Hey, greetings, my friends, and welcome, broadcast excellence, all yours, three hours straight ahead, Rush Schlimboy here behind this the Golden EIB microphone.
It is Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
One of our most favorite days of the busy broadcast week, ladies and gentlemen, because when we go to the phones on Open Line Friday, the program is all yours, content-wise.
You realize what a tremendous career risk that this is turning over the content of the program to veritable rank amateurs.
I mean, we're all professionals here, but we turn it over to the amateurs, loving, lovable rank amateurs, don't misunderstand.
So whatever you want to talk about, feel free.
Your telephone number is 800-282-2882.
And the email address is lrushbow at eibnet.com.
In one hour, we're going to be talking for a few minutes with Jim Nance of CBS Sports.
He's got a great new book out called Always By My Side.
It's about his dad, his early life, and going through his entire career here at CBS Sports, which contains several milestones.
Back in February, I went out to Pebble Beach.
Jim has a dinner during the ATT program every Saturday night at the Sardine Factory down in a wine cellar.
And he's trying to recapture the spirit of the old clam bake days of Bing Crosby.
Uh, and he and he telling me he's had his book coming out uh this spring.
And I said, You have to come on my I don't do guests, but you got to come on my program.
Let me ask you and talk to you about this.
And he said, Okay, so we're gonna do it today at the uh top of the second hour.
Title of the book is Always by My Side, and it is excellent.
It's super it's an opportunity.
I told Jim, it's an opportunity for people to get to know him personally.
You know, he's a professional sports announcer, and his job is to keep himself out of what he's covering, and he does that better than anybody else.
So this is a golden opportunity.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has told us screw you.
Politically speaking.
Screw you, the president of the United States, with a one-day trip to King Abdullah's horse form, our farm outside Riyadh, went over there and asked him to increase their oil production to help lower oil prices and gasoline prices here.
And the king said, Well, I'm looking at the market, Mr. President.
I don't see any reason to uh to lower our oil price or to raise our production.
So this is twice in six months now.
The last or five months, the last time the president did that, well, he didn't do it.
Cheney and some others went over there in January and they were uh said politely rebuffed.
I don't know.
How does this make you feel?
Here we are, the United States of America, and we have to go over there and ask those guys to increase production.
So he says no.
So what are we gonna do?
Are we going to increase our own production?
Or are we going to allow these wacko environmentalist leftists, these anti-capitalists to continue to allow us, and the Democrats, by the way, in Congress, who are their willing accomplices, to remain prisoners to uh people around the world who will produce oil, but not sufficiently enough to uh lower the price.
And the question is ours.
It would seem that it's obvious what needs to be done here, and it seems if you we were talking about the Republican Party yesterday in the uh state that it finds itself in, which is not good and appears to be worsening by the day.
I mean, here's a clear agenda item to take to the American people.
Educate them, inform them, rally them, uh, get them all fired up.
By the way, let me read something to you as a as a as a uh uh as an adjunct to our important, perhaps the most important radio program of the past couple months that took place yesterday.
Everybody says the Republican Party needs to rebrand itself, you know, in a marketing sense.
Now, my question is let's take the people in the Republican Party right now from the leadership on down.
Who in there do we think has the ability to do this?
If they had the ability to rebrand themselves, do you think they would be doing it?
Or are they not?
They're gonna give up rebranding and instead hitch themselves to the wagon of John McCain, who doesn't want them to hitch his wagon to his, or their wagon to his.
But let me read something to you and see if see if this strikes you as workable.
See if you find this intelligent.
We, the members of the new Republican Party, believe that preservation and enhancement of the values that strengthen and protect individual freedom, family life, communities and neighborhoods, and the liberty of our beloved nation should be at the heart of any legislative or political program presented to the American people.
We good so far?
Our task now is not to sell a philosophy, but to make the majority of Americans who already share that philosophy See that modern conservatism offers them a political home.
The job is ours.
The job must be done.
If not by us, who?
If not now, when?
Our party must be the party of the individual.
It must not sell out the individual to cater to the group.
No greater challenge faces our society today than ensuring that each one of us can maintain his dignity and his identity in an increasingly complex centralized society.
Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities, forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise.
They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy of government by a self-anointed elite.
Our party must be based on the kind of leadership that grows and takes its strength from the people.
An organization is in actuality only the lengthened shadow of its members.
A political party is a mechanical structure created to further a cause.
The cause, not the mechanism, brings and holds the members together.
And our cause must be to rediscover, reassert, and reapply America's spiritual heritage to our national affairs.
Then, with God's help, we shall indeed be as a city upon a hill with the eyes of all people upon us.
Ronald Ronald Reagan, ladies and gentlemen, this is from uh Ronald Reagan's new Republican Party.
You see, ladies and gentlemen, the Republican Party has the answers.
The rebranding, the whatever they want to call it, the way to revitalize itself is sitting right behind us.
If you want to look back, but of course, no, no, the new conservative intelligence says we can't look back.
No, no, those are the old days.
That doesn't matter.
Those are those are irrelevant times, those irrelevant theories.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
We we must look forward now.
And in the process of looking forward, we are abandoning the foundation that made us at one time a majority party.
I know when you heard that, you'd think, God, that sounds new.
Wow, that's really that's really great.
That's Ronald Reagan.
And the new Republican Party.
Have you heard about this mess down in Houston, all these ants?
These ants came apparent apparently no way to get rid of these things.
They're millions of them.
They don't, they don't really bite tiny little things.
Uh, but it's like it's like a little low budget horror film.
These ants, they arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship.
That means they came through a port.
Do you think if the Dubai ports deal had gone through, these ants would have been everybody said, what do we do about this?
They're talking to the Orkin people, the exterminator experts, and nothing seems to work.
I have a great idea.
Somebody told me that the way you get rid of fire ants, the easiest way to do it is to go out and get some dry grits.
And spread dry grits all over the place, outside, where the ants are.
And the ants, of course, will take the dry grits into wherever the queen is and just do whatever they do, they'll eat it.
And then when it rains, the grits expand and the ants explode.
Wouldn't you love to be outside and see that happen?
Ants that have ingested dry grits exploding in front of your very eyes.
I know they come back.
They're like roaches.
They're like liberals.
The I know they I know they eat fire ants.
They they eat, but that's okay.
Let them eat fire ants and they'll really explode.
You know, put just put the grits out there, and it'll everything ever be fine.
Senator McCain.
I wonder how he feels today.
Senator McCain went out there yesterday, made this made this speech in which he pretended it's 2013, the end of his first term, looking back at all the things that have been accomplished.
And you just know that the attitude he has when he makes this speech is that I'm a good person.
I am honorable person, and I have integrity.
We're all fringe.
We're all Americans.
We're not from different countries.
And we all should just put aside this partisanship and get along.
Gives this great flowering in his mind rolling speech.
And one of the elements of the speech is in 2013.
We've won the war in Iraq, and we're out of there.
What are the Democrats saying today?
They are saying McCain is for timetables.
McCain is changing his position on Iraq.
He's now for timetables to I'm sure he's looking at this.
How dare they misrepresent what I said in honor?
In integrity.
And now they mock me.
Get used to it, Senator.
This is nothing.
McCain Vision has most GIs out of Iraq by 2013.
The drive-by's are parroting a Democrat press release that McCain is calling for a timetable.
Senator, what's it like to get smeared like this?
You might want to go ask Mitt Romney, who was also smeared on a timetable for Iraq, I think by somebody, a couple days before the Florida primary.
It's open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh at 800-282-2882.
Everybody, the the Democrats are still beside themselves over President Bush yesterday in Israel at the Knesset, saying that Barack Obama, well, the Democrats are saying he was talking about Obama.
The uh White House has denied that.
Let's go back.
Audio sumbite number four, Mike.
This is the president yesterday in Jerusalem at the Knesset.
Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals.
As if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.
We've heard this foolish delusion before.
As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939.
An American senator declared, Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.
We have an obligation to call this what it is.
The false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.
Well, the Democrats are still, they are still going bonkers over this.
And you know, uh, ladies and gentlemen, one of the interesting things about this is that uh, in a, in a personal sense, Obama was not even charged as he's out there defending himself with something he hasn't even been accused of.
Furthermore, all these people that are rising up in righteous anger over what the president said ostensibly about Obama are not denying that Obama said this because he did say it.
And we have it.
They're not denying he said it.
They're simply saying it's untenable.
It is un it did it's horrible.
It's un-American.
It is outrageous to attack from foreign soil.
Politics ends at the water's edge.
I listen to these people, and I want to pull my hair out.
For the past five years, they've been going all over the world from Al Gore to Bill Clinton and denouncing our Iraq strategy and trying to secure defeat.
The Democrats in Washington, both House and the Senate, Harry Leed Reed and Nancy Pelosi have been proclaiming defeat.
Uh, and and uh all of this, and and they act like this is some huge effrontery.
We have a montage here.
Uh Chris Dodd, Jamie Rubin, Pelosi, Bill Richardson, Harold Ford, a bunch of these people.
These are the people who lawed Jimmy Carter.
These are the people who lawed Al Gore and Bill Clinton when they go abroad, when they are on foreign soil, they attack their own country.
All of a sudden now they're back to politics stops at the water's edge in uh anticipation of what they think will be a coming Obama administration who they want to shield from uh uh any sort of criticism at all.
Here's the montage.
Presidents are out of the country, people avoid attacking the president.
The most ugly form of American politics brought to another shore.
Now we have a protocol that we don't criticize the president when he is on foreign soil.
Bad form in criticizing a presidential candidate on foreign soil.
You don't attack presidential candidates or presidents on foreign soil.
A deliberate attack by the president on foreign soil an unprecedented political attack on foreign soil.
President of the United States should not engage in this kind of politics outside the shores of the United States.
It's just not right.
I look, folks, I know, I know, I know what you're all thinking.
How could how in the world can the media report this without ripping into these people?
These are the people that have been doing this very thing ever since George Bush assumed office in 2001, and here they're acting like they are as innocent and clean and pure as the wind driven snow.
This is some great offense that's taken place, and you're watching all this and you're listening to all these Democrats, you're going, you're screaming, like a Howard Dean scream, because you can't.
The media is as facilitating all this as a great lesson for you.
Which I think most of you probably learned by now already.
The drive-by media, the Democrats are accomplices, they are in league together, and they have no doubt what their agenda is, and they have no compunction whatsoever about advancing it.
And they don't care what we think of them.
They couldn't care less.
All the things tying our hands in knots, they don't spend time on.
They don't care what we think of them.
They couldn't care less.
They're not trying to be our friends.
They're not trying to show us that they're reasonable.
They are advancing an agenda.
And we're not from our pseudo-conservative media to elevated levels of our Republican Party, we look at these people and say, for some reason, we must show them that we're good people too.
We must make sure they like us.
So we abandon our agenda and become childlike in the effort to make all these people like us.
And they sit there and they laugh at us.
Well, they're not laughing at you and me, but they're laughing at other Republicans and these pseudo-conservative media types, and you know who you are, and you know who I'm talking about.
They sit there and they laugh at us, and they say we got these people wrapped around a little finger, a bunch of weak knee sissies.
So they just spout their party line pap, the drive-by media simply amplifies it and passes it along, and we sit here and say, where the hell is somebody standing up and pointing fingers at these people and calling them phony baloney plastic banana good time rock and roller liars.
Let me ask you a question very simply, ladies and gentlemen.
Imagine.
Why do we allow that to happen?
And who are the neocons?
Well, the neocons are ex-democrats, by the way, who moved into the Republican Party along with Ronaldus Magnus.
They are big hawks, but they also believe in a big activist, compassionate executive in government.
And so we have conservatism and neoconservatism.
Imagine if there were a neo-Marxism or a neoliberalism.
They wouldn't permit it.
Marx wouldn't permit a neo-Marxism, nor would liberalism permit a neoliberalism.
But let's pretend, let's pretend that there was a neoliberalism in which a bunch of egghead liberals got together and said, you know what?
We're still going to care about the kids, and we're still going to care about the poor and injustice and diversity and all that saving the planet, and all the pieties that we good Marxists care about, where we're going to introduce a touch of the free market, too, to produce school choice, economic opportunity, increased income tax revenues, et cetera, in order to solve these problems.
So we're, yeah, we're still good liberals, but we're gonna have some neoliberals here who are actually conservatives.
No self-respecting liberal would let them get away with it.
Because it wouldn't be Marxism anymore, it wouldn't be liberalism anymore.
But that's exactly what we are allowing and have allowed to happen to conservatism.
Ten years ago, 1998, would any of these pseudo conservative media types, the so called conservative elite, the intellectuals, would they have dared to say out loud that Ronald Reagan's way was obsolete back in nineteen ninety eight?
They may have thought it back then, but they'd never have said it, certainly not as a regular shtick as they are doing today.
Nope.
They had to call it American Greatness Conservatism or Neoconservatism or Compassionate Conservatism or whatever Brooks, Crystal and Barnes and Michael Gerson, the rest of it, are calling this week.
Whatever their brand of conservatism is, they had to call it some neoconservative.
We're not we're not Reagan conservative, we're neo.
We're smarter than Reagan.
Now they've made enough progress in having the media brand them as the face of serious conservatism.
And they're out there feeling their notes, and they're...
I'm out of time.
It's Open Line Friday.
Rush Limbaugh on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Reminder, Jim Nance, a good friend of mine coming up with uh his book at the top of the hour, always by my side.
Uh it's just it's you know, especially in these times where it's you look at this ruling out in San Francisco yesterday with the California Supreme Court.
Sixty-one percent of the people of California vote against.
Well, they vote they vote to define marriage as traditionally uh understood as between a man and a woman, sixty one percent.
You think all sixty one percent of Republicans, by the way.
And four judges.
Four Republican judges.
Overturn the will of the people.
So we get cultural rut ever all around us.
There are reasons for this, you and I know what it all is.
When you read Nance's book, the point I'm making is uh Jim's book with the the recounting of his family life and uh the lessons his father gave him, all these things that people consider quaint and old fashioned these days as we try to revive the family.
It's just it's it's a it's an excellent validation for all these great values and traditions that we've all thought define the greatness of the country and our culture.
So you're gonna you're gonna love hearing from Jim.
Open line Friday, let's go he's coming up top of the next hour.
Here is Jacob in Austin, Texas.
Great to have you with us, Jacob.
Happy Friday, Megadidas Rush from the University of Texas.
Great Austin.
Great to have you here, sir.
This weekend here is graduation weekend at the university, and thousands of us are graduating.
And this morning I went to the uh the graduation for Department of Government, and you got a round of applause.
I got a round of applause at the Department of Government at the University of Texas Austin.
That's right.
The commencement speaker uh mentioned you said he was honored to be the commencement speaker because he is a Rush Limbaugh Dittohead, and he was proud to be selected to speak.
Wait a second.
This is the student commencement speaker?
This is the uh you know the uh official one for the department, the actual uh he has a PhD, and uh he was, I think eight years as the chair of the uh Republican National uh the Republican Party here in Travis County.
Well, now wait a minute.
Uh this is great news, don't misunderstand, but you you you this is not the big graduation commencement that takes place somewhere on the football field with the gazillions of people.
This is just your department commencement?
Right, these are the department ones we're so big we have to have little ones where people walk across the stage and get their name announced.
Really?
And so I was mentioned favorably from the stage of your commencement by a professor at UT.
And the people gave you a big round of applause.
Well, see, this is disconfirms everything that I've understood and believed out there.
We're loved out there.
Uh and and that there's this this uh this country is made up of far more people like us than those of us right now, probably currently constituted would believe.
That's right, Rush.
But I want to ask you a question here.
You know, it's every rush baby's dream out there that we'd have you, L. Rushbow as our big commencement speaker at the big one, the big one at the football field at the tower of the University of Texas.
When is that, by the way?
That's tomorrow night.
Tomorrow night, okay.
Tomorrow night, and we'll have fireworks and the big big show.
But it w my question is what would you say?
What would be your 10, 15 minutes speech to all the thousands of graduates graduating from college campuses across the nation if they go for it to be the future leaders?
Excellent, excellent question.
Before I answer that, I was I was looking at a list, I saw somewhere on the internet a list of the remaining major well, not even major, but uh I guess division one, division one A, uh, to put it in sports context, uh, graduation ceremonies and the commencement speakers.
And they're not a damn conservative anywhere.
I mean, it's all, all liberals.
Some from media, some from the State Department.
Not and this is nothing new, by the way.
I think PJ O. Rourke did speak at Stanford.
No, he didn't speak.
He wrote what he would say at Stanford.
He didn't speak at Stanford.
Uh well, you know, I I uh Jacob once long ago prepared a commencement address, way back when I was still in Kansas City.
What I would what I would say to students if they were graduating high school.
I've thought about it enough updated it since.
And uh ten to fifteen minutes is is tough, but the first thing I would say is the world does not revolve around you yet.
And you are not the future leaders of this country yet, just because you've graduated.
Now it's up to you to decide what to do with the education that you have.
And I would launch into a spirited celebration of the American capitalist system.
I would tell them how much of a head start they have over quite a few other people because of their education.
Their education was for a purpose.
And it was to get them into the free market and engage in capitalism and secure the growth of this country because like their parents, they someday are going to be worried about the future for their kids, and they're not going to improve the future of their kids by joining protest marches or wearing ribbons or putting bumper stickers on the backs of their cars.
They're going to have to go out, roll up the sleeves, and start working and become productive and further the capitalistic engine of the United States of America.
That's how growth is created.
And I I'd probably just continue with uh with that theme.
I would uh I I'd spend some time uh inspiring them and teaching them a little bit about America to counteract what I thought they had been taught in their classrooms over the course of these past four years or five, depending on how long they've been there.
Uh but it would be optimistic, it would be upbeat, it would be positive.
You live in the greatest country in the world, and you're gonna hear every day how we're the worst.
You're gonna hear how we're responsible for global warming and we're destroying the world.
We are not anything but the world's solutions.
We are not the problem in the United States of America.
And I would try to instill in them a pride uh for being Americans, something that would swell their chests, and I would take them through this country in various things that they should be proud of and can be proud of, because it's necessary because they're going to be bombarded daily in news co-workers and so forth, with people whining and moaning and complaining it can't get done.
America's evil.
Uh and basically it would just my my objective would be optimistic inspiration.
I would hope.
This is a little bit of a stretch, but I would hope that immediately after the graduation they would eschew the party and head right to a job interview.
That's how inspired they wouldn't do it, of course.
I want them to go to the party.
But uh the it love for the country, appreciation for it, understanding their role in it, and someday they are going to be responsible for its greatness.
But that has to be earned.
It doesn't just come to you because you're an American.
Well, that's awesome, Russia.
That's the best commencement speech I think I'll hear all weekend long.
Well, that's just that lived off the top.
I would I'd I'd have to uh put a little more thought into it, Jacob.
I do I remember you, Jake.
You you you've called here before, right?
I have.
About two years ago, uh John Kerry came uh to campus after uh he uh was uh done with his campaign, and I called you up to see if it was worthwhile to go hear him speak.
Oh, that's right.
You were gonna go to a rally, and because I said you're gonna go to a liberal presidential rally, it's a great place to pick up checks.
That's right.
That's the time I came back the next week and uh reported in that uh I did.
I did pick up a few phone numbers.
You did.
But uh like I expected, uh, they were they were very enjoyable people to meet, but uh nothing that uh came to fruition.
Um well, you were at a Democrat rally, be thankful.
And if it didn't come to fruition with a liberal babe, count yourself fortunate.
I agree.
And you expose you.
I'll tell you something else I would talk to these uh graduates about.
And that's failure.
Now everybody does it.
There's not a book in the library on how to fail, because we all know how.
Well, Russia, before we go, I just want to take a moment and thank you because during the time of celebration, I also want to give thanks to uh all the people that supported me, and you've been with us here.
Uh Rush 247, even if I don't uh get to hear the term live been with you three hours a day every day.
And in the best three hour course I've taken every semester here at the University of Texas.
Well, you made my day.
That's just that's just uh that that's you know what I'm gonna do.
You get you deserve a graduation present.
Oh Rush.
You d you do.
You deserve a graduation present.
What do you want?
I appreciate that.
I wish I could I send him right back to you, Rush.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
That does not.
You've got to learn to receive.
I had to learn to do that too.
It's sort of like learning to deal with failure.
Everybody does it.
Everybody knows how it comes naturally.
Success.
That's not, I mean, look at the people that write books on how to succeed make millions of dollars telling other people how to do it, right?
Same thing with thinking positive.
You won't go to a book uh library and find how to feel depressed.
We all know how.
But thinking positively, people make millions of dollars writing those books.
By the same token, somebody wants to give you something.
You've got to let them experience the joy of that.
If you send it back to them, it's it's just I know you think you're being chivalrous and uh and uh and humble and so forth.
But you gotta learn to receive.
Well, I appreciate it very much.
So what do you want?
Um hard to say, Russ.
It's hard hard to know exactly.
No, no, no.
That's another thing.
Somebody asks you what you want, you tell them.
So wanting something is there's no sin in it.
There's no crime in wanting something.
It doesn't mean you're going to get it.
Well, I've been really in I've just received a uh Apple iPhone, and uh, I know you heard it.
The Apple products are great, and I think my first purchase when I start my new job coming up next month is to get a Apple uh power book.
An Apple power book.
MacBook Pro, excuse me.
You want a MacBook Pro.
All right.
Well, how about this?
Because that's something I think that you should buy on your own.
That's something you should earn.
You go out there, you'll get it in no time at all.
But it's graduation for you and so forth.
It's barbecue season.
So I'm gonna send you a bunch of goodies from Allen Brothers.
Oh, that's wonderful, Russia.
Hear you advertise them all the time, and I can't wait to try it.
Well, I know you get a lot of great beef in Texas, and a lot of it may actually be supplied by Allen Brothers at some of the restaurants you go there because that's what they do.
They primarily provide steakhouses, not grocery stores.
So you hang on here, Jacob, and we'll uh we'll get you um information to send all this stuff, okay?
I appreciate it very much.
Thank you.
I uh you're you're um you're great to call.
It's very nice of the things that you said, and I appreciate it.
I want you to know that.
Brief time out here, folks.
We'll take a break and be back and continue after this.
Ha, how are you?
Rush Limboy.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have this is open line Friday.
Barack Obama conducting a um town meeting in Watertown, South Dakota.
He's up there with Tom Puff Dashel.
And he is criticizing John McCain and President Bush for quote dishonest and divisive, unquote attacks in a hinting that the Democrat presidential candidate would appease terrorists.
Uh Obama strongly responded to the comments that Bush made in Israel yesterday and McCain's subsequent words.
Obama told a town hall meeting that's the kind of hypocrisy that we've been seeing in our foreign policy, the kind of fear pedaling, fear-mongering that has prevented us from actually making us safer.
Obama said McCain had a naive and irresponsible belief that tough talk from Washington will somehow cause Iran to give up its nuclear program and support for terrorism.
Could have predicted this, did predict this.
This is exactly what's this is only gonna get worse.
Do you know what we cannot say about Barack Obama, by the way?
Can I give you a little list of things we can't say?
It used to be, when we all started here, when Barack finally hit the scene last summer, the only thing we couldn't mention were his ears.
He went out there actually charging the audience, told Maureen Downey, very sensitive about his ears.
And she said we're trying to toughen You up.
Hasn't worked.
Since then, when we could only not mention his ears.
Now we cannot talk about his mother.
Now we can't talk about his father.
I mean, he can.
Now we can't talk about his wife.
Now we can't talk about his preacher.
Now we can't talk about his voting record.
Now we dare not talk about his religion.
And we don't use the appeasement word.
Can't say appeasement now.
We can't talk about color.
We can't talk about race.
We can't talk about lack of color.
We can't talk about his friends, mobsters and bombers, terrorists.
We can't talk about schooling.
Can't talk about his name.
Can't talk about his experience.
Can't talk about his income.
Can't talk about his flag pin.
In the end, in the beginning, rather, it was just his ears.
Now he's a Messiah.
We can't say anything about the guy without it being a mean-spirited personal attack.
In the meantime, Bush utters a universal truth.
These people have a conniption fit, because they know that the truth was told about liberalism worldwide and what Bush said.
They have not denied, by the way, what Bush said.
Nobody has denied from the Obama camp that he said what he said about meeting without preconditions with Mahmoud Ahmadinizad.
So here on the one hand, we have this honorable campaign.
Field with integrity.
And now at a town meeting in South Dakota.
The Democrat presidential nominee has just said that Bush and McCain are engaged in hypocrisy, fear mongering, fear peddling, being dishonest and divisive.
See, this is the arrogance, the hubris of liberalism.
Criticize them, and you are divisive.
Tell the truth about them, you're divisive.
Here's Nancy Pelosi.
This is yesterday Washington.
She held a little presser.
Unidentified reporter said, You mentioned your trip to Israel.
I'm wondering if you had any reaction today to the president's speech in the Knesset.
Uh, what he said there about appeasement and so forth.
Now we have a protocol, sort of a custom informally around here that we don't criticize the president when he is on foreign soil.
Uh one would think that that would apply to the president that he would not criticize Americans when he is on foreign soil.
I think what the president did in that regard is beneath the dignity of the office of president and unworthy of our representation at that uh observance in Israel.
Of course, no mention of her trip to Syria.
No mention of her effort to undermine U.S. foreign policy while on foreign sold soil, and no reference to the fact that Bush is in Israel, 60th anniversary of the Jewish state.
He could have been talking about Neville Chamberlain.
He was talking about appeasing Hitler.
And yet these people are so defensive, and they know he's right.
They had to announce this.
They had to have their little fit to try to distract the criticism, because anything, a divisive attack on liberals equals the truth.
Here's Obama, February 21st of this year.
In Austin, Texas, at a presidential debate.
I would meet without preconditions, although Senator Clinton is right that there has to be preparation.
It is very important for us to make sure that there was an agenda, and on that agenda was human rights.
Releasing of political prisoners, opening up the press.
And that preparation might take some time.
But I do think that it's important for the United States, not just to talk to its friends, but also to talk to its enemies.
This is why they're having this fit.
This is why they're going nuts.
Because he said it.
What Bush said reminds everybody what Obama's foreign policy is going to be.
You know, some days, folks, I don't think it matters.
There's so many damn morons in this country willing to vote Democrat.
I'm watching some of this town meeting Obama's got.
Now, granted it's South Dakota, but that's state the true Tom Dashell out.
State that George Bush won.
Now you can stack the deck with the members of your town meeting, but he's got a couple farmers up there.
When you know the subsidies we're giving farmers in the farm bill, he got a couple farmers.
What are you going to do for me if I lose everything?
It's just like the ponytail guy all over again.
These people ask Obama what's he gonna do for them?
Looking forward to the next segment or two of the program, Jim Nance of CBS Sports and his new book, Always by My Side.
We'll start talking to him as soon as the next busy broadcast hour begins.
Won't be gone long, folks.
Sit tight.
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