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June 12, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 12, 2008, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hiya, folks.
How are you in the last remaining days of the United States of America as we've known it?
Gee, I hope you're doing well today.
Hope you have some fond memories out there.
Stupid Supreme Court has just granted United States constitutional rights to prisoners of war at Club Gitmo.
The driver for Osama bin Laden and his lawyer have uh have already asked for his case to be dismissed.
After the Supreme Court ruling today, greetings and welcome, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
If you go to the Barnes and Noble website, go to the book section at Barnes and Noble and enter the search term God.
You want books that have been written about God.
The first book that you will show up on that will show up on the search is God a biography by Jack Miles.
The next two books about God are Barack Obama books.
The Audacity of Hope and the Audacity of Hope.
They list it twice.
You go search for a book on God at Barnes and Noble.
They show you Barack Obama books.
That is not an accident.
I know these people at Barnes and Noble.
I've had many run-ins with them on the golf course.
Bunch of huge left-wing leftists.
Absolutely right.
At any rate, folks, here's the phone number if you want to be on the program.
That's well, that's there's no way they can be in it.
Obama is not God, and God's not in the title of his book.
Now I'm sure he talks about God somewhere in the book, but uh let's see what else is on the list.
After Obama's book comes a book with the word God in the title by Immaculate Iblagazangaga.
It's called Left to Tell, Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust.
And next is Brian Head Welch, Saved Me from Myself, How I Found God, kicked drugs, quit corn, and live to tell my story.
Nothing about God in the titles of Obama's book.
And in fact, they list the same book twice.
The Audacity of Hope, I guess once yeah, once paperback, one's hardcover.
The Supreme Court ruled this morning that foreign terrorism suspects held at Club Gitmo have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.
Five to four ruling, Anthony Kennedy, the fifth vote wrote the opinion, handed the Bush administration its third setback at the Supreme Court since 2004 over its treatment of prisoners who are being held indefinitely and without charges at Club Gitmo.
It wasn't immediately clear whether this ruling would lead to a prompt hearings for the detainees, some of whom have been held more than six years, roughly 270 men remain at the island prison classified as enemy combatants and held on suspicion of terrorism or links to Al-Qaeda.
And the Taliban, as I said, a military lawyer for Bin Laden's ex-driver has sought dismissal of his case after the Supreme Court ruling this morning.
Now, this is an abomination.
This this is just it is outrageous.
Never before in the history of U.S. warfare have we had to go out and mirandize prisoners of war.
That's what we're gonna effectively have to do.
We're gonna have to read prisoners of war their rights just as we would a thief at the local convenience store.
I'll tell you what this means.
This means don't capture them.
There is a there's a reaction for every action, and what this means is don't capture them.
And if you're gonna rendition them, and by the way, that's something started by Bill Clinton in the mid-90s.
Rendition is where you send these people to unknown locations where they are held captive by the leaders of those nations who are your allies.
Of course, an eager beaver press will be eager to find out where these prisoners have been taken as long as there's a Republican president.
Uh what what's going to happen now, if if these guys, these two hundred and seventy guys, now have access to the U.S. Constitution as though they are citizens, these cl these these clowns at Club Gitmo.
Are now the uh American servicemen and women who captured them gonna have to be brought home for trial to explain their actions.
I mean, there are a lot of unanswered questions here, uh, but it is Ed Morrissey writes at the Hot Air blog, he says, in our two hundred and thirty-two year history, when have we ever allowed this kind of access to enemy combatants not captured inside the United States itself?
These people have been captured in the battlefield.
These people have been captured in Afghanistan and in Iraq, certain parts of Pakistan, they're brought to Club Gitmo, and now they are having conferred upon them U.S. constitutional rights.
So there is absolutely no limit now, no respect for the law anymore.
The moral of this story is is gonna shake out this way.
Take no captives.
This is a victory for the enemy, it is a disgrace, it is inexplicable, but the drive-by is a happy.
Actually, we'll start with uh Jeffrey Tubin at uh CNN celebrating this loss.
And here's another thing.
One of the things that really frustrates me about this, if you read the coverage, it was a loss for the Bush administration.
It was another defeat for the Bush administration.
Wrong oh drive-bys, it's a defeat for the United States of America.
This is bad for the country.
This is bad for U.S. national security.
Not just bad for Bush.
And of course, that's the context, and that's the action line, the the narrative here.
This is Bush's war.
It's the United States of America's war, and it's bad news.
Here's Jeffrey Tubin on CNN this morning.
This is really an extraordinary situation.
This is the third time in four years that the Supreme Court has told the Bush administration, you're wrong.
The system you set up this time with the consent of Congress is unconstitutional.
Does not give the detainees adequate rights to go to court and challenge their incarceration.
What this decision sets the stage for is the detainees having the opportunity to go to federal court and say, Look, I don't belong here, federal judge, let me out.
Yeah.
Where are they going to find these courts?
They're going to be bringing these people right here on the United States of America's home soil.
This that's what I'm saying.
No limits, no respect for law anymore, because this time the President had the consent of Congress, which establishes a law.
The Supreme Court said this is unconstitutional.
This is about military tribunals.
You know what else?
We've got Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his other five cohorts and these guys who have admitted doing what they've done, they might have to be released.
Or they may be allowed to be, um, they may be allowed to petition for their release.
Even after having admitted it and seeking uh martyrdom by asking to be executed.
This time with the Senate consent of Congress, the Supreme Court nevertheless says it's unconstitutional.
It doesn't give the detainees rights to go to court and challenge uh their incarceration.
What it gives them the right to do is to go to judge, say, Judge, I don't believe here.
I don't belong here, let me out.
Here's Pete Hookstrah this morning on Fox News channel, Bill Hemmer talked to him and asked for his reaction.
My initial reaction is a great deal of concern.
Remember that some of these folks that were going to be tried in these tribunals are picked up on the battlefield.
If these folks now have access to our federal courts and have the same protections as American citizens under the Constitution, what does this say to an American soldier who captures one of these terrorists on the battlefield and may still be being fired at in terms of collecting evidence and rights of the person that he's captured and all of these types of things?
Well, I'll tell you, I'm very concerned about what it means to our troops who are in harm's way on the battlefield as a result of this court.
So Hemmer then says, well, in a physical sense, does uh does Club Gitmo close now?
Does it close down soon?
And what happens to uh Rush Limbaugh's thriving uh licensed merchandise business there?
One of the reasons that Gitma was in existence was that we believe that that was the appropriate place to hold them if they if it doesn't matter where you hold them, and the court has ruled that regardless of where uh these individuals are detained or held, they are extended the rights of the U.S. Constitution, even though they are foreigners.
You know, it may be immaterial as to whether Gitmo exists or not.
So you better you better jump on board, get your club Gitmo gear fast while there still is a club gitmo.
You know, we knew this was coming.
And that's what makes it all the more frustrating.
Uh Levin, in his book Men in Black, had a the chapter 2005 book called Al Qaeda Gets a Lawyer.
This has been a disaster in the making.
It all started with the Rasul and Hamdi decisions in uh in in 2004.
So this is what happens when you get leftists on the bench.
Uh it just it's it's plain as day for anybody to see what's happening.
Uh the key is finding ways to start.
You can't know what you do about a Supreme Court decision at this point in time with an administration uh entering its last months in uh in office uh with the Democrat Party, no doubt's gonna be celebrating this left and right.
And of course, need I remind you where Senator McCain comes down on this.
Would you would you like to know where Senator McCain comes down?
At least I haven't heard him react today, but I I know that uh he wants to close Club Gitmo, does he not?
And why why does he want to close Club Gitmo?
He wants to close Club Gitmo because he thinks it's it's unconstitutional.
I mean, he could have been on the Supreme Court, and yet McCain promises us that he will nominate the right kind of judges for the Supreme Court, yet he's agreeing with the Libs and Kennedy today on the court.
So I feel like I'm going crazy.
Shitting here.
Now, one other thing here about about the Supreme Court decision, there is precedent here that has just been thrown out the window.
Now remember how liberal Democrats love the concept of precedent and holding to precedent and not throwing it out.
But there is a decision in Supreme Court Histoire called the Eisentrager decision.
And in the Eisentrager decision, the Supreme Court ruled that it has no authority over detainees held overseas.
It just disregarded its own precedent.
Now you might say, but rush, but rush.
Club Gitmo is U.S. territory in Cuba.
It's not overseas.
Yes, it is.
Club Gitmo is considered overseas, which is precisely why they put them there.
The U.S. military and the administration put them there because they knew of the uh Supreme Court president precedent called the Eisentrager decision.
And of course, that doofus tubin doesn't even know about it, didn't even bring it up, doesn't even cite it.
He's supposed to be a legal commentator.
Now, don't don't don't go get an all bit out of shape here at this next story.
U.S. Open starts today or started.
Tiger Woods double bogeyed the first hole, Phil Mickelson playing with him.
Uh uh part of the first hole.
There's still plus two after three for Tiger, even after three for Mickelson.
But that's not what I'm telling you about.
A lot of you people don't say it, don't say it.
I'm T-Voing.
I'm not gonna tell you any more than that.
There's a there's a precedent at this U.S. Open at Torre Pines.
Just north of La Jolla for the first time.
Smoking not permitted outside the ropes at the U.S. Open.
It's over, folks.
The players can still smoke.
The players can smoke inside the ropes if they smoke cigars or cigarettes.
And there are a lot of smokers on the PGA tour.
I think what is it?
Unhill Cabrera is a chain smoker, Miguel Unhil Jimenez smokes cigars all over the place.
Uh they're allowed to smoke, the players can, but the the gallery cannot.
Now we don't have to move away from a good spot when somebody starts smoking a stogie.
Now, golf and cigars go together like cake and ice cream, but spectators caught smoking.
Cigars or cigarettes face a $100 fine.
Miguel Angel Jimenez from Spain, one of the European players playing says I sympathize with them.
I don't think it's fair.
I don't see what's the problem.
Why not make everybody ride a bike here instead of driving their cars?
We're in open space.
I thought we were supposed to have freedom to do what we want.
Yep.
So did I, Miguel Angel Jimenez.
I thought we had freedom to do what we want.
Smoking outside.
Look, if the thing that bothers me about this, I understand a lot of you don't like cigarette smoke or cigar smoker, whatever.
Why is it incumbent on the smoker in a this place?
This golf course is played at 7600 yards.
The acreage of this golf, there's plenty of room for you to go if you don't like it.
Instead of having it banned outdoors for crying out.
City of San Diego said the parks department got tired of picking up cigarette butts from all over the uh the golf course, too.
USGA President Jim Vernon said, our concern was for the players.
Now get this.
Why do they let the players smoke?
But not the spectators.
You want to take a guess, Don?
Brian.
You want to take a guess, Brian?
Why do they let the players smoke, but not the spectators?
Oh, come on, it's very simple.
The reason that the players smoke is because nicotine calms them down.
They're not going to demand that players who are who are smokers stop using nicotine for four days in the U.S. Open.
They don't want nerves and uh panic attacks or whatever is associated with going coal turkey off nicotine to affect their play.
Putting game would go sell.
You get the yips holding the putter if you're a smoker and you got to give up the game or the uh the cigarettes for four or cigars, whatever it is for four days.
So, in order to make them more competitive, what about the players that don't smoke?
You know, they're going around here in threesons and Tucsons.
What about you got a cigar smoker in one threesome, two players that don't smoke?
What about what about what about their rights?
The utter hypocrisy.
And try this as long as we're on the subject.
This is from Worcester, Massachusetts.
An ambulance was pulling out.
This is by Clive McFarland, who wrote the piece here at Telegram.com.
An ambulance is pulling out as I pulled into the parking lot of the Seabury Heights apartments yesterday.
It isn't an infrequent sight at a housing complex for the elderly.
But on a day like this, when the temperature reached 94 degrees, it tends to put a little edge on things.
The faint breeze that idled by as I exited the car was as soothing as a blast from an exhaust pipe.
Still, it was welcome relief from the half-dozen or so tenants sitting outside on benches or in their wheelchairs.
Inside one apartment building, I ran into John Ford, fire department captain, director of the city's emergency management team.
Other city officials were touring the building.
They were there because the residents had called a complain that management was refusing to turn on the air conditioning despite it being 94 degrees.
You want to know why they didn't turn on the air conditioning?
Very simple.
And this is classic.
Unintended consequences of government gone mad and overreaching because they think it knows better than people.
The people that own and run the apartment building banned turning off the heat until June 15th.
They did this years ago.
Now in a heat wave, they cannot by law turn on the air conditioning.
So old people are keeling over.
Old people have to leave the building and go out and cook in their wheelchairs because of a government law that says You can't turn off the heat until June 15th in Worcester, Massachusetts.
So no possibility of compensating for existing circumstances.
We complained about it, said the 83-year-old tenant.
We complained about it.
They taped the law to the wall.
They say that according to the Board of Health, the heat must stay on until June 15th.
So the heat is on in this building when it's 94 degrees outside.
The Board of Health in Worcester, Massachusetts.
The law doesn't stop them from putting on the air, she said, meaning the air conditioning, noting she has a heart and lung condition and is handicapped.
This is a major heat wave, a lot of elderly and handicapped people live here.
So they maybe can turn on the air conditioner.
They can't turn off the heat.
So they cancel each other out.
All right.
Remember that supposed rumor of tape of Michelle My Bell Obama and the Whitey comment.
I'm being blamed for this now.
As long as I spread it myself and started it.
Wait till you hear this.
You know, you have to feel for Senator McCain a little bit.
He goes on the Today Show yesterday, and Matt O'Lauer asks him when the troops are going to come out of there in Iraq, and McCain says when they come out is not important.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
He said we still have troops in Germany, still have troops in Japan, we got troops in place.
Getting them out of there is not the important thing, winning the war and anything.
He's exactly right, folks.
By the way, I must say he's exactly right.
But he's finding out today.
Well, he started finding out yesterday, just how his buddies in the drive-bys, and they're just getting warmed up, are gonna carry the water for the extreme leftists in the Democrat Party.
You had John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, the haughty one, uh out there saying McCain's old, he's confused, this is crazy.
McCain can't believe it.
He thought he was best buds with Carrie.
He got all he's got he's got dingy Harry out there now saying, hey, we can't trust McCain.
He's got a bad temper, he can fly off the handle at any time.
McCain was doing a little press conference somewhere this morning, and he had the usual coterie of supporters standing behind him, and a reporter gets up and asks again about this comment.
Well, Senator McCain, why why why is it unimportant when the troops come back and you can just see?
You could just see.
He took a couple pauses, he was he was ready to dive into that crowd and strangle that stupid reporter, something I would have applauded.
But he said he calmly and said, I said, this is why we need town debates.
This is a sound by problem, that's why we need town hall meetings.
The American people asking the questions can hear the whole answer in context and so forth.
He repeated his Iraq position.
I support this, I support that.
He didn't directly answer the guy's question.
LA Times today.
McCain's remarks sparks an uproar.
Uh they're just they're trying to say that McCain doesn't care about the troops by clipping his quote where he says getting them out of there when they come out of there is not important.
Lieberman is now mad.
He's responding, he says, I'm disappointed by these reflexive attacks.
The part that I find really most outrageous is the suggestion that Senator McCain is out of touch with the needs of our troops and insensitive to their families, which is what the drive-bys are saying.
And these were his base.
The drive-by's were his base.
He's got to be sitting there wondering what the hell happened.
These people used to love me.
Well, they don't they never did love you, Senator McCain.
They used you.
You were willing to go on their stupid little shows and rip your own party and rip your own president.
Of course they're gonna have you on doing it.
They called you the maverick.
But guess what?
Now you're not a maverick.
Why you're Bush three.
That's the worst thing a maverick could be called is Bush three.
Get ready, Senator.
This is only the tip of the iceberg of all the ammo they have aimed and trained on you.
I'm hoping.
Here's what I'm hoping, ladies and I'm hoping at some point, relatively soon, McCain gets ticked off enough about this that he comes to his senses on the issue of energy independence in this country.
Do you realize?
You look at any poll out there, taken of the American people.
They want energy independence.
They want drilling for our own energy supplies.
They want nuclear.
They don't want all of this Kyoto stuff.
They don't want taxes to go up.
Even they don't want the price of gas to go up even a penny by sixty some odd percent.
If the purpose of the increase is to fight global warming, they want cheaper gasoline, and they know how to get it.
This is an issue.
It is an issue made to order.
Now, McCain has changed his mind on a couple things.
This would be a goodie.
This would be a huge one.
Somebody could get to Senator McCain and say, Senator, do you want to win this election going away?
You want to contrast who you are with Senator Obama and the leftists in the Democrat Party.
Here's your issue.
Drill here.
Drill now.
Energy independence.
Start now and and get on this.
And I'm telling you, uh he would see a miraculous thing happen in his campaign.
But I don't know, I don't know who can tell him these things.
I I just I but it's just it's just it's a sitting duck.
It's a sitting duck.
Victor Davis Hansen today has a piece.
I think I read it in the New York Post.
Victor Davis Hanson, as you know, is a classicist, a historian, and he's a he's a he's a brilliant writer.
He's occasionally been upset with me over my positions on Senator McCain, but nevertheless, we're still on the same team out there.
Now, the Hoover institution where he works is at Palo Alto at Stanford.
And that's the San Francisco Peninsula.
He lives there.
He also happens to be a farmer in the Central Valley of California.
And he happened to be driving down three hours south of where he lives.
He ran into some rural Californians at a gas station.
And he describes in this piece their cars, basically Jalopes.
And he talks about how the need to get around has not lessened, even though the price of gasoline has increased.
But he notes that they're driving these secondhand cars, these old Jalopes, but it's taking two days of work for these people to fill up their tanks.
A major, major alteration in their lifestyle.
And then he recalls the way things are where he lives up in the San Francisco Peninsula, where we have all the liberal elites and it's a home to many of the environmentalist wackos.
He says they don't seem to care about rising gas prices at all.
They're very happy about it.
They've got the money to deal with it where it doesn't really count, and uh really phase them.
And he said what's fascinating about this to me is that liberals who have all this care and concern for the little guy, all this care and concern for the nation's downtrodden, are oblivious to the impact on the lives of most Americans of the rising gasoline price.
Well, good.
If liberals are unaware and cavalier and don't care about the impact of rising gasoline prices on the people who make this country work, then it is even more of a great issue for McCain and the Republican Party to latch on to and claim as their own.
Now I know he probably thinks he'd take a hit if he did a flip-flop on this.
But he and he's he's gone pretty much, you know, over the cliff here on carbon emissions and all this global warming stuff, but it's not too late here.
He will have the he needs his party on his side.
Obama is already in trouble.
This is a golden opportunity.
We cannot let this guy Obama get anywhere near the Oval Office.
Because Obama's not the guy running his show.
Obama's a puppet, folks.
Now we got rid of this.
What's this Johnson guy's name?
What was it?
James Johnson, all the fallout here with uh countrywide was him, James Johnson was what is his name?
I Jim Johnson.
All right, fine.
Now now Eric Holder is the loan remain.
Well, there's somebody else on that committee.
Oh, yeah, Caroline Kennedy is also on the vice presidential vetting committee.
Got Eric Holder on there.
Eric Holder's just as up to scandal involved in it as Jim Johnson was.
He's the guy that arranged the pardon for Mark Rich.
And by the way, by the way, there's all kinds of Oppo research that's been released on Eric Holder last night and today, coming from the Clintons.
Because he's on the enemies list.
You know, Holder was one of their AGs or something.
Sison AGs or something, he went over to Obama.
Clintons are not through here, folks.
They are not through to some APA research coming or RNC's putting out, but some of the stuff that uh there's being put out stuff that you would have to figure intimates of Holder would know.
Now listen to how the AP uh writes this story.
Charles Babbington, or Babington.
I don't know how he pronounces it.
One was gone within hours.
Another lasted a few days.
The most famous hung on for weeks.
In dealing with associates who have dragged him into controversies, Barack Obama has shown great patience with a longtime friend, but much less forbearance with those whose ties are weaker.
Oh, grab the violins, grab the tissues.
I think I'm gonna start crying.
What a great God Messiah.
It's not his fault that he surrounds himself with low rent human debris.
It's not his fault he surrounds himself with Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dorn, and all these.
No, it's it's they've dragged him into these controversies.
They've dragged Obama.
According to these pukes at the drive-by media, they dragged him.
He says poor innocent Messiah, and only wants to this guy can't keep his own staff on track.
This guy cannot unify the Democrat Party.
He can't unify Hispanics, he cannot unify women.
He's going to unify the world, though, Mr. Limbaugh.
Fine, if he's going to unify the world, I want to see him unify his family.
I want to see him unify his church.
I want to see him unify his campaign staff.
I want to find out who's really making these decisions.
This is this is he hadn't been around long enough to pick a Jim Johnson or Eric Holder.
He says they don't work for me.
He has to take it back.
Well, I guess they do work for me.
But I wasn't paying them.
They're doing it for it's just then you go to Barnes and Noble, you look for books on God.
You put God in the search field, you get two Obama books that show up in the top three selections.
God.
In dealing with associates who have dragged Obama into controversies, he has shown great patience with a longtime friend.
That'd be Jerry Wright.
Much less forbearance with those whose ties are weaker.
Jim Johnson and whoever else.
He's patient.
Patience.
Patience.
Here's Obama.
He's a Messiah.
He's God.
So he chooses these flawed hacks.
The news comes out that they are indeed flawed hacks.
Poor Obama.
Poor Obama.
These guys' controversies, they're really hard on Obama.
But he's dealing with it in a great way.
Yeah, what's that?
He's throwing them under the bus.
Threw his grandmother under the bus.
Ran over her a couple times.
Then had the courage to get out of the bus and pick her up, put her back in the bus.
Tire tracks are still on her, but she's back in the bus.
Be back in a minute.
All right, SmartyPants people.
I know you're out there.
I'm getting email.
Rush, you're lying.
I put God in a Barnes and Noble book search field, and I didn't come up with anything with Obama.
Try this.
Try this search.
God colon a biography.
God a biography.
With a colon in there, and then see what you get.
Don't doubt me.
I have the screenshot right here.
All right, I want to go back.
This was, and we're going to get to your phone calls quick, folks.
If you're if you're on hold, I know you want to talk about Supreme Court decision and wish Al.
Be patient.
This Michelle My Bell Obama Whitey rumor, the tape and so forth, the DVD that was out there.
I heard about this.
I don't know, for two weeks before I ever commented on this.
I heard about it for two weeks.
I didn't talk about it.
I didn't repeat it.
I didn't, I didn't I didn't reference it.
And then all of a sudden, I I see that some in the drive-by media think that Hannity has the tape and then he's holding the tape.
Then some other people said the RNC had a tape, and they're going to hold the tape till October.
They were not going to release it prior to the Democrat nomination fight finishing because they didn't want to get rid of Obama because I think he's the weakest candidate of the two.
They wanted since Hillary was on the way out, let's leave her out.
And then after two or three weeks of this, I I did mention it as a rumor going, because it had reached critical mass.
And there were people saying that they had seen it, but they wouldn't produce it.
So it had finally risen to a uh a heat level, if you were, that it warranted mentioning on this, the most listened to radio talk show in America.
Now the AP, starting last night has put out a story that that I essentially am behind all this.
Here, let me say to the rumor that Michelle railed against blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, uh, was circulated on conservative Republican blogs for weeks and was repeated by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
Well, once they put my name in the story, nobody else in the story matters.
Listen to this.
This morning on Channel 11, KTLA, the WB Network in Los Angeles, the anchor Frank Buckley reading his teleprompter.
The Obama campaign is fighting back against rumors and smears with a website, fight the smears.com.
It's using the site to debunk a rumor that the candidate's wife, Michelle, used the word Whitey in a speech from the church pulpit.
The rumor that Michelle Obama used the word in a diatribe at Trinity United Church of Christ is circulated on Republican blogs for weeks.
It was repeated by talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
The rumor included claims that there was a video tape of the speech.
The campaign says no such tape exists.
How old is this story?
Obama denied this ten days ago or sometime last week.
Obama denied this last week.
All of a sudden, this I started noticing this last night on my RSS feeder.
All of it I m must have been 35 newspapers last night had the same AP story in it.
So I got all 35 newspaper versions and some TV stations like this.
I was like, my gosh, I was last.
I was last in line on this one.
I was a non-factor on this.
I was though, but I see what happens is this as far as the drive-by's are concerned, folks, and this is an example of the power of this program.
Something as when the drive-by is a looking at Republicans or conservatives to really nail us to the wall.
Until I mention it, it doesn't matter.
Till I bring it up, it doesn't exist.
Well, I mean, what the hell?
I was last in line.
Hannity was denying on the radio for days that he had the tape.
He was denying that he had for weeks, days, whatever it was.
In fact, let's go back.
This is me on uh on May 30th, and this is what I said about this.
There are these rumors circulating.
And I don't know if this is true, but there are a number of people suggest, and I first heard this, by the way, when I was gone Monday and Tuesday of last week.
Okay, stop the tape.
Stop the tape.
That would have been May 14th and 15th or whatever when I was out there playing Tory Pines.
So the middle of May.
That's when I first heard this.
What is it now?
June the 12th.
And this May 30th is what so this is 14 days ago that I said all of a sudden now this becomes front page news thanks to the AP and the drive-by media.
And the Republican Party supposedly has it now of Michelle Obama speaking from the pulpit in this church talking about Whitey.
I don't care if it's unacceptable, snurkly.
I mean, I'm just reporting what's out there.
I'm reporting on a rumor that is out there.
Yeah.
According to the drive-by, as I started the rumor.
I gave the rumor credibility by mentioning it myself.
Last night on MSNBC, DNC TV, here is uh Dan Abrams talking about it uh also with uh the the social commentator Nancy Giles.
We are learning more uh but tonight about the GOP strategy to hit Senator Obama close to home.
The Los Angeles Times reports today, conservative voices are energetically taking on Michelle Obama.
Let me read you this.
Rush Limbaugh, she's a lovely and angry wife.
Oh, Michelle Malkin, Obama's bitter half, National Review, America's unhappiest millionaire.
And then and then, of course, Dick Durbin.
Yeah, play Durbin, number four.
Listen to what Durbin said.
The hottest ring in hell is reserved for those in politics who attack their opponents' families.
And if there are some Republican strategists who think that's the way to win the election, I think they're wrong.
The hottest ring in hell is reserved for people like you who attempt to criminalize members of the United States military trying to save your butt from foreign attack.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
Okay, the first hour is over.
We have lots still ahead, ladies and gentlemen, as we try to clean up the mess here every day.
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