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July 23, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 23, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Ha!
How are you?
Great to be with you, ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you so much for joining us today.
It is a thrill and an honor to be with you here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network each and every day.
Hey, Brian, would you fight, would you screw up?
You got to turn the blue screen off.
Otherwise, I'm going to get blamed from the email for the ditto cam not working.
Screwed up in the first hour.
Screwed up just now.
Jeez.
Anyway, as I was saying, we're having more fun than human beings.
Should be allowed to have a telephone number if you want to be on the program today.
It's 800-282-2882.
The email address, lrushbo at EIBnet.com.
We had a call yesterday from a disgruntled American who wants, would you take the sign down?
You just screwed up and you're putting a sign up to remind me to do something?
Insolence.
Flummery.
Take the sign down, Brian.
What are we in?
Kindergarten here?
I feel like I'm Obama.
Yesterday, we had a caller on this program who was all upset that Nouri al-Maliki, the Prime Minister of Iraq, had thrown George W. Bush under the bus by seemingly endorsing Obama's idiotic plan of troop withdrawal in 16 months.
This, as the Washington Post points out today, is not what happened.
Well, al-Maliki did, but the point is that al-Maliki has been all over the board on this.
Max Boot of the Council on Foreign Relations has a piece in the Washington Post today.
In fact, the Washington Post twice today from their lead editorial in the Max Boot piece, Max used to be the Wall Street Journal, by the way, savage a bunch of premises that prop up Obama.
Now, before I share with you some of the detail from Max Boot's piece, I want to take you back in time a year ago, two years ago, three years ago.
Remember, nobody disrespected Nouri al-Maliki more than our left wing and the drive-by media.
They hated al-Maliki.
They thought he was a puppet of Bush.
Remember this?
They thought he was just a tool.
In fact, they thought a lot of things.
Some people thought he was a stealth Iranian agent.
Some people thought he was out to sabotage us.
Some people thought he was incompetent.
I mean, al-Maliki was not respected by anybody on the left, including the drive-by media.
Now, all of a sudden, they adore him.
Come on, al-Maliki is running for re-election in Iraq.
He's betting on foreign aid in the Middle East.
He's watching the Obama craze in the United States.
He's trying to get some help here.
Now, there is a general, there's an Iraqi equivalent of General Shinseki.
His name is Brigadier General Bilal Al-Deni, commander of Iraqi troops in Basra.
He is saying, we hope the Americans will stay until 2020.
He's the commander on the ground.
And by the way, as Max Boot points out today, Nouri al-Maliki lives in a green zone with Americans.
He doesn't travel around the country.
He didn't get his car and drive home in Baghdad at night.
He lives in the green zone.
He works in a green zone.
The commanders on the ground, the Iraqi commanders on the ground, again, Brigadier General Bilal al-Dani, commander of troops in Basra, saying we hope the Americans will stay until 2020.
The Iraq Defense Minister Abdul Qadir says his forces cannot assume full responsibility for internal security until 2012 and external security, meaning an invasion from Iran or somebody, until 2018.
And yet the drive-by media is sitting there and they're all excited about this 2010 business because al-Maliki tended to agree with Obama.
Let's consult Max Boot.
He says this is part of a pattern for Maliki, who, though he won office and has stayed alive literally and politically with American support, has hardly been an unwavering friend of the U.S., at least in public.
Although he was an opponent of the Hussein regime, he was not a proponent of the U.S.-led invasion.
Having spent long years of exile in Syria and Iran, he's had to overcome deeply ingrained suspicions of the United States.
And then Max Boot makes the point that he lives in the green zone.
He doesn't get out of there.
In May of 2006, shortly after becoming prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki said our forces are capable of taking over the security in all Iraqi provinces within a year and a half.
In October 2006, when violence was spinning out of control, al-Maliki declared that it would be only a matter of months before his security forces could take over the security portfolio entirely and keep some multinational forces only in a supporting role.
President Bush ignored Maliki.
Instead of withdrawing U.S. troops, he sent in more.
The prime minister wasn't happy.
On December 15, 2006, Wall Street Journal reported that Nouri al-Maliki has flatly told General George Casey, top commander in Iraq, that he doesn't want more U.S. personnel deployed to the country.
When the surge went ahead anyway, al-Maliki gave it an endorsement described in news accounts as lukewarm in January 2007.
With the surge just starting, al-Maliki predicted that within three to six months, our need for the American troops will dramatically go down.
In April of 2007, when most of Baghdad was still out of control, al-Maliki said that Iraqi forces would assume control of security in every province by the end of the year.
Even now, when the success of the surge is undeniable, al-Maliki, as is the case with Obama, will not give U.S. troops their due.
And he cites the Der Spiegel interview in which he mentioned his own political achievement.
The point of all this, ladies and gentlemen, is that al-Maliki has been saying since 2006, yeah, we're going to be able to take over here in months.
We get the Americans out of here.
We're going to handle our own security.
So it was nothing out of the ordinary for al-Maliki to say, yeah, 2010, I like what Obama's saying.
Because he's been saying it over and over again, and he has been just as wrong as Obama is wrong.
And then the story does mention the news from Brigadier General Al-Deni, who says he wants the Americans to stay until 2020.
The defense minister Abdul Qadir says we need him here until 2012 and maybe 2018.
So this is what the Washington Post editorial was writing about today.
There is no agreement.
There is no universal agreement on the Obama strategy of getting us out by 2010 or in 16 months.
So it's a fascinating series of events.
Now, folks, one of the things that you may be asking about here, Rush, you, even you have said the American people don't care about Iraq.
They care about gasoline prices, gasoline prices, energy, and so forth, the local economy, the national economy.
And I still stand by that.
No, that's true.
The reason we're talking about this is because the drive-by media in pure slavish sycophantic mode, more interested in helping make history than report it, is ignoring totally the substance of what Barack Obama is saying.
They are in these countries where this news is being made, and they are not reporting it.
They think they're doing a bang-up job reporting what's going on over there, but they're not.
It takes a column by Max Boot to give us the perspective of Newark Al-Maliki.
They're not reporting it.
Somebody has to.
The presidential elections matter.
What presidents say and what they do and what they're going to say and do is important.
And this is important.
This is national security.
And Barack Obama is demonstrating a total lack of qualification, a total lack of understanding.
He is demonstrating he is not who he is.
He is demonstrating he is not who they tell us he is.
They have done a great job of papering over who he really is.
20 years a member of Jeremiah Wright's church, running around with pals like Bill Ayers, who tried to blow up the Pentagon.
He's working as a community organizer for this Acorn Group, which is the most fraudulent voter registration group in the country.
That's who he was working for and with as a community organizer.
This is important stuff.
And we're being conned by a con man.
And his supporting cast is this fawning bunch of disciples known as the drive-by media.
So it's important.
We have, by the way, I mentioned that I was watching Fox Write, but grab soundbites 29A and 30, if you would, Mike.
This morning, right before 11 o'clock, Fox News had a guest to try to explain why the media is doing what they're doing.
And he really made some great points.
His name is Eric Denzenhall, and he is CEO of Denzenhole Resources in Washington, D.C.
We have two soundbites.
The hostette and the infobabe, Megan Kelly, said, according to the numbers, 49% of the American people believe the press is trying to help Obama win this election.
14% think that they're trying to help McCain.
Is that true?
Oh, I've never seen anything like it.
I've been doing this for 25 years, and I think what's really happening here is the media are motivated more than anything else right now by this sense that they are making history.
It's more about them than it even is Obama.
And everything that Obama does is framed in the context of being visionary.
And I think that the desire to personally help make history, to say you were there when it happened, probably is even more of a motivator than political bias, which I do think is part of it.
That's an important point.
He didn't throw the political bias, the ideological simpatico out the window.
But it's an excellent point about because these people, you know, they do want that.
It almost is more about them than Obama.
He's the vehicle for them to be able to say they made history.
Not he made history.
They did, because they got him elected.
He continued then with this.
It's about narratives.
I mean, in a Disney movie, the little blonde girl is not going to be the villain.
She's going to save the day.
And Obama really owns the Hollywood narrative right now.
He is the one who has the more exciting story.
It genuinely is a history-making event, regardless of what your political bias is.
And that really is what I mean by the media's devotion to what the narrative is, what the exciting story is.
Well, I don't, see, this is, I think, I think we've been sold a bill of goods on how exciting this is.
I'm not arguing with the racial aspect of this being historic.
Nobody can.
But there's nothing new about this guy.
Nothing special about this guy other than that.
This is a pure racial campaign.
I'm trying to make it anything but that.
But there's nothing unique about what he's a leftist.
He's an avowed leftist.
He runs around with leftists and Marxists.
That's not new.
There's nothing unique.
There's nothing exciting about who Obama is.
That's all been manufactured.
Anyway, I must take a brief time out.
We'll get your phone calls and other things coming up right after this.
So sit tight.
And we go back to the phones.
Nice to have you here, ladies and gentlemen.
This is Jill in Philadelphia.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh program, Jill.
Thank you for waiting.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Fine.
Thanks so much.
You know, it's nice to talk to you.
I'm a Democrat, but I enjoy listening to you.
Thank you so much.
What I am concerned about is your constant mocking of Obama as being the Messiah.
I'm a Christian.
I kind of find that offensive.
There's only one Messiah.
And I kind of feel like you're mocking God.
You're not mocking Obama.
Oh, no, ma'am.
I'm sorry you feel that way.
This is not just mocking Obama.
I am mocking the people who are insulting the Messiah by having the audacity to compare this guy to a Messiah.
This guy would be an anti-Messiah, if anything.
But I am not mocking you or anyone else.
Well, you had just mentioned before the break, the reporters were his disciples.
And I'm just concerned about your eternal soul.
I just think you're mocking God.
God knows that I am on his side.
I speak with God countless times a day.
I knew you set your talent on loan from God.
My talent is on loan from God.
I thank God each day for how he made me.
Well, just be careful, Rush.
I mean, you can mock Jesse.
You can mock Farrakhan.
You can mock Reverend Wright.
But you can't mock God.
Be not deceived.
God is not mocked.
I am not mocking God.
I'm mocking the absurdity of what we are being told about a mere mortal human being who is no different than any of the rest of us.
That's true.
He is a mortal man.
But I mean, they're expecting this guy walk into Israel via the Mount of Olives on some water.
See, walk.
Have you heard his speech in Minneapolis after he secured the nomination where he's up there saying that when he gets in the Oval Office, he's going to lower the sea level?
This guy's got the complex.
You ought to be calling him and saying he's mocking God by trying to act like one.
But, Rush, when you compare him to the Messiah, that casts you as Pontius Pilate.
No, You're putting yourself in a bad light.
I'm not comparing him to the Messiah.
I am pointing out that he is not.
This is satire.
Okay, Rush.
Well, I enjoy listening to you.
You're not as mean-spirited as some of the Republican talk shows.
I was just a little concerned because, you know, as a Christian, I kept hearing Messiah, Messiah, Messiah.
And it was really annoying and kind of scary.
Can I ask you a question, Jill, before you go?
Yeah.
You really fooled me when you said that I'm not as mean-spirited as some of I thought you were going to say some of my fellow Democrats think.
No, no.
But you said you're not nearly as mean-spirited as some other conservative talk show hosts.
Absolutely.
Who are you talking about?
I can name your names.
Sean Hannity.
Sean Hannity's not mean.
Oh, he's.
Well, what are you talking about?
Now, see, I could have pulled a Jack Kemp, Jill.
I could have pulled a Jack Kemp and thanked you for distinguishing me as a nice guy, but then I would have been selling out my brethren here.
Well, Sean Hannity is, I mean, he's the essence of innocence.
Well, okay.
Mark Levin.
You know, I listen.
I like to get different points of view.
Well, I see that.
Mark, Mark Levin, also known as the Great One, is not mean-spirited.
He's passionate, and he fears for the future of the country if liberals get unchecked power over it.
And he is, I mean, this guy, he was Ed Meese's chief of staff when Meese was attorney general.
He is a confrontational guy.
We are in a war.
Levin is in a constant war, and we cannot take a rest for a moment.
Excuse me, Rush.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean Mark Levin.
He's actually kind of funny.
He's like you.
Yeah, right.
The guy I was thinking about was Gallagher, Mike Gallagher.
He's terrible.
Again, I'm terrible.
He's like a puppet.
He has no original thought.
Well, look, again, Mike Gallagher is one of the nicest guys that you would run into.
I don't think there may be some people on our side out there that are reprobates, but there are not many of them, if there are.
But I'll tell you, the hatred and the anger and the rage that comes from the American left today, you know, one of the reasons, Jill, in all candor, one of the reasons why conservative talk radio is so dominant is because we are human beings and we are compassionate.
We are nice.
We treat people politely.
And we're not constantly mad at everybody all day long.
You know, we're optimistic.
We have fun.
People laugh.
We have a good time, even in the midst of periods of time where everybody else is trying to make everybody feel miserable.
I mean, you mentioned some names.
Levin, Mike Gallagher, and Hannity, are they as angry and filled with sheer hatred as Jeremiah Wright?
Have either of them ever attempted to blow up the Pentagon as did Bill Ayers?
Have you ever heard a conservative radio talk show host say he would like to castrate a Democrat presidential candidate as the Reverend Jackson did?
I'm serious, Jill.
You are a sweet woman, and I love you, and I'm glad you called and gave me a chance to explain this to you.
But the real hatred and the real out-of-control rage, the real lack of compassion, the dehumanizing, the demonizing exists on the left today.
And they're as angry as a bunch of spoiled, rotten little kids.
So it is what it is.
But you're very kind to me, very flattering, but I couldn't sit here and do a Jack Kemp.
But what I mean by that is when Kemp was Bob Dole's veep in 1996, in a debate with Al Gore, who was Clinton's Veep, Al Gore praised Kemp as not being a typical Republican racist.
And Kemp said, thank you, sir.
And a lot of us are got thrown under the bus here.
I will not have my conservative brethren thrown under the bus, nor will I do it.
We'll be back.
We'll continue to stay with us, my good friends.
Your guiding light.
Rush Limbaugh, do not doubt me.
Old buddies from ZZ Top.
This is Rick in Hannibal, Missouri.
Rick, I'm glad you waited, sir.
You are on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush, Mega Steeler fan dittos out here in Showme State.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Yesterday, you were talking about Obama and his response to the surge on how I think he said we don't know how that would have happened because we didn't use his plan or something.
That just when you pointed him out to be a jerk, I was like pumping my fist and saying right on because I can't believe he's getting away with not as much scrutiny as he should be.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
He is getting scrutiny, and I want to show you.
It's happening in small doses.
Mike, run to soundbites 9, 10, and 11 here, maybe even 12.
Yeah, 9, 10, 11.
He is getting some scrutiny on this.
There are people talking about it, but most in the media are trying to undercut it and throw him under the bus or ignore it and throw everybody else's criticizing him under the bus because it's not about what Obama says.
He's tripping up all over the place.
He is rambling and incoherent in these answers.
And yet they just stand there and fawn.
But Katie Couric, of all people, really bore in on this surge business.
So I want you to listen to this, Rick.
This is last night.
Now, not all of this aired on the CBS Evening News.
We were very resourceful.
We found where CBS hid this.
CBS hid this on their news site, their website, CBSnews.com.
Now, some of this aired on the evening news with Katie Couric, whatever called, but not all of it.
Here's the first portion of her interview.
You raised a lot of eyebrows on this trip saying even knowing what you know now, you still would not have supported the surge.
People may be scratching their heads and saying, why?
Well, because what I was referring to, and I've consistently referred to, is the need for a strategy that actually concludes our involvement in Iraq and moves Iraqis to take responsibility for the country.
Does the surge help do that?
Let me finish, Katie.
What happens is that if we continue to put $10 to $12 billion a month into Iraq, if we are willing to send as many troops as we can muster continually into Iraq, there's no doubt that that's going to have an impact.
But it doesn't meet our long-term strategic goal, which is to make the American people safer over the long term.
Once again, I mean, we're rambling incoherence here.
Putting down the surge, it worked.
She wasn't satisfied.
She continued on this same theme.
Do you not give the surge any credit for reducing violence?
No, no, of course I have.
There is no doubt that the extraordinary work of our U.S. forces has contributed to a lessening of the violence, just as making sure that the Sadr militia stood down or the fact that the Sunni tribes decided to flip and work with us instead of with al-Qaeda, something that we hadn't anticipated happening.
All those things have contributed to a reduction in violence.
All those things that we didn't expect to happen, we didn't anticipate this happening.
All those things have contributed to a reduction in violence.
You take the surge out of that and none of this would have happened.
And once again, here's a Democrat admitting that Al-Qaeda was in Iraq.
He's been saying Al-Qaeda's been in Afghanistan.
Al-Qaeda's not in Afghanistan.
Taliban's in Afghanistan.
Rambling incoherence.
Katie Couric still not satisfied.
But talking microcosmically, did the surge, the addition of 30,000 additional troops, help the situation in Iraq.
Katie, you've asked me three different times, and I have said repeatedly that there is no doubt that our troops helped to reduce violence.
But yet you're saying if you knew, given what you know now, you still wouldn't support it.
So I'm just trying to understand this.
It's pretty straightforward.
By us putting $10 to $12 billion a month, $200 billion, that's money that could have gone into Afghanistan.
Those additional troops could have gone into Afghanistan.
That money also could have been used to shore up a declining economic situation in the United States.
Pure pep.
This is pure.
Take the money put in Afghanistan.
The war was in Iraq.
Who cares why?
This guy, he was honest yesterday.
He said, I needed something to disagree with Bush on.
I needed something to get nominated to my party's presidential ticket.
I needed to disagree with Bush.
I needed, if I had to, like McCain said, I needed to lose the war if I had to in order to get the nomination.
That's what he's saying.
He's getting really testy.
A messiah getting very, very upset at Katie Couric, and yet she tried one more time.
I really don't mean to belabor this, Senator, because I'm really, I'm trying to figure out your position.
Do you think the level of security in Iraq would exist today without the surge?
Katie, I have no idea what would have happened had we applied my approach, which was to put more pressure on the Iraqis to arrive at a political reconciliation.
So this is all hypothetical.
Yet none of it is hypothetical.
You blooming, you are a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance, Obama.
You wanted us to try surrender.
Dunce.
You wanted us to try to surrender.
That's what he was after.
It's what his party was after.
They met the political benchmarks.
The surge worked every which way it was designed to work.
And he's lamenting we never got a chance to try his plan.
His plan was surrender.
Beef up the political circumstances?
We did that.
In fact, I would suggest that the Iranian Congress or parliament probably meeting more benchmarks for performance than the U.S. Congress is.
Back to the phones.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Let me go to the next page.
Now, we'll get Katie interviewed McCain, too.
But we'll get, well, let's go ahead and do those now.
Since we're on a, why wait?
I've got time before the commercial break.
Let's go to Audio Soundbite 13.
Here is, again, for the website, CBSNews.com.
Katie Couric talking to McCain said, Prime Minister Maliki, Senator Obama seem to be on the same page when it comes to a timetable to get out of Iraq, 2010.
Are you feeling like the odd man out here?
Senator Obama said the surge would fail, said that it couldn't succeed.
He was wrong.
He said he still doesn't agree that the surge has succeeded when everybody knows that it has succeeded.
I said at the time that I supported the surge that I would much rather lose a campaign than lose a war.
Senator Obama has indicated by his failure to acknowledge the success of the surge that he would rather lose a war than lose a campaign.
All right, it's about time for now.
Of course, the left is all over this.
That's what happens.
When you say the truth about these people, they accuse you of engaging in a personal attack.
Katie's next question, Senator Obama says, while the increased number of U.S. troops contributed to increased security, he also credits the Sunni awakening.
By the way, this Sunni awakening, again, what we can find is in the Washington Post today.
I have it right here.
Formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
In the meetings in Ramadi, Obama saw firsthand Iraq's bitter political rivalries.
Ali Hatim al-Suleiman, a top awakening tribal leader who was at the meeting, said his group asked Obama to support the tribes and not the Sunni Islamic parties that rejoined Iraq's government over the weekend.
He said, you can pull out, you can withdraw all the forces in Iraq, but you have to keep the Marines in our province because we still have problems with the Islamic parties and we can face a bad situation any moment.
So the Sunni Awakening said, keep the Marines here.
This is the guys that Obama fell in love with, the Sunni Awakening.
Asked if they could go it alone.
They said, nope, you take all your other forces out there, but you keep the Marines here.
So everybody involved in Iraq security on the ground as a commander wants the American troops there for some of them up to 2018, up to 2020, some up to 2012.
And even Obama's most favored nation status here to the Sunni Awakening doesn't want the Marines out of there.
So back to the question to McCain, which was, he credits the Sunni awakening and the Shiite government going after militias and says that there might have been improved security even without the serve.
What's your response to that?
I don't know how you respond to something that is such a false depiction of what actually happened.
Colonel McFarland was contacted by one of the major Sunni sheikhs.
Because of the surge, we were able to go out and protect that sheik and others, and it began the Anbar Awakening.
I mean, that's just a matter of history, thanks to General Petraeus, our leadership, and the sacrifice of brave young Americans.
I mean, to deny that their sacrifice didn't make possible the success of the surge in Iraq, I think, does a great disservice to young men and women who are serving and have sacrificed.
Now, they're out there saying McCain's getting all frustrated, and people saying he shouldn't react to this.
He shouldn't get frustrated.
I can understand him being frustrated, but I don't think he's frustrated so much at Obama.
Because, you know, anybody can run around and say what they want.
It's the fact that aside from, of all people, Katie Couric and the Washington Post, nobody is, they don't care what Obama's saying.
They're passing it off as somehow enlightened, even anointed, because he is the Messiah.
When he's making juvenile statements, he's simply answering questions with the recitation of history that everybody knows.
He's just trying to tell how difficult all the problems are and how specially attention is going to have to be paid and blah, blah, blah.
Here's the last bit with McCain.
Katie says, you sound very frustrated with Obama's perspective.
No, I'm not at all.
I respect Senator Obama.
I admire his success.
He won a very tough primary campaign.
I respect him.
I look forward to debating these issues.
He just has been wrong and is wrong.
And therefore, I strongly disagree.
And I think the American people will make a judgment about who was right.
Look, I understand that no presidential candidate is ever going to admit being frustrated.
That's not the thing to do.
Understand that.
But you don't have to sit there and talk about how much you respect Obama when you just got through saying he's lying.
When you just got through saying he's wrong, you sit there, respect what he's done, do this or that.
You don't have to say that.
But that's, no, that's the defensiveness.
That's the racial aspect of this.
He's frustrated that McCain, McCain's frustrated that Obama's getting away with this.
This is sort of like how we were all frustrated back in the 90s when Clinton got away with it.
In that sense, nothing's changed.
And so calling Obama a liar, we found out that that doesn't affect how Democrats vote for their candidates.
You can sit there calling a liar all day long.
I'm not even going there.
He's incompetent as far as I'm concerned.
He is inexperienced, incompetent.
He's dangerous.
And he's a con man.
Whether he's lying or not, who knows?
All I know is that the kind of thing he doesn't have, he doesn't have supporters.
The people that support him don't think.
He doesn't think.
You know, they're all a bunch of reactors.
You know, he's sitting around thinking that some guy's going to snap his fingers and fix all the problems that they have in their lives.
They're not interested in specifics.
They're interested in how he makes them feel.
If he lies, big deal.
They don't take it personally because they don't think he's lying to them personally.
So that's the wrong way to go with this.
But at the same time, you don't have to sit there and I admire his success.
Very tough primary campaign.
I just carry forth a theme.
I think, Katie, what this, I'm not frustrated.
What this proves is that he is just not qualified for this job.
He's just not qualified for it, Katie.
Well, what do you mean by that?
Well, look, Katie, the facts on the ground are what they are, and he doesn't seem to be able to comprehend it.
Something like that.
But who am I?
A mere mortal talk show guy on the radio.
I may not know what I'm talking about.
Surely, Mr. Snurdley, you jest when you ask me why the mainstream media is not covering this.
I think you're just trying to provoke me into mentioning it myself.
The National Inquirer is running an exclusive, and they say they got pictures of it.
The Brett girl, John Edwards, having an affair, caught red-handed with the babe and his love child at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
It was Sunday night or Monday night, I forget the days.
And they were watching him, and they've been following the story for six months.
And they saw him go in, they saw him come out.
He tried to get out of the hotel at 2:40 a.m.
I'm really shortening this up.
But he saw them, they saw him, and he ducked into a bathroom in the basement.
He'd gone in a side entrance to avoid the lobby, going in the hotel and coming out.
They know the room numbers.
There was a woman from Santa Barbara who was the babe.
And a guy from Santa Barbara, a friend, drove her down to LA for the meeting with the Brett girl, and a love child was with them.
So they had two rooms at the hotel, according to the Inquirer.
The guy and a baby in one room, and the Brett girl and the babe in another room, right down the hall from each other in the same floor.
And the baby was not part of the meeting for a while.
The Brett girl said hello to the baby, and then the Brett girl and the babe were in the room by themselves.
No cameras in there.
Nobody knows what went on.
The Brett girl didn't try to leave.
The National Inquirer reporters and photographers snapped it.
And the funniest part of this to me was a Brett girl ran into a bathroom and feverishly got on a cell phone calling hotel security to come rescue him.
And I'm just watching this.
I'm just, I'm picturing this in my head as a Brett girl's combing his hair in there, getting ready for his big exit, knowing that there are photographers out there.
And it hasn't been reported anywhere.
This story's been contained in a blogosphere.
And the Inquirer says they first hinted at this six months or so ago.
And of course, the Inquirer has been taken as gospel in stories involving me, with virtually every news organization in the world quoting them.
The inquirer was taking his gospel during the O.J. Simpson trial and even given credit for breaking several news stories.
And Byron York ran a piece last night, a little post at National Review Online in their corner blog, and he wondered if this is going to break out into the drive-by media.
Would it break out in the mainstream media?
And the reason that you would ask this is, hey, he's on the list of potential vice presidential picks for Obama.
You know what?
I'm thinking Obama probably called him up when he heard about this, said, Senator Edwards, you're not the Senator Edwards that I knew, but I need to get you together with my preacher for some counseling.
And then, of course, everybody, the blogs are all alive with this stuff.
How could he do this with his wife having cancer and so forth?
You know, that angle of this.
But nobody, see, nobody has any evidence that what was going on in the hotel room was anything other than two people sitting there watching Larry King live repeats, even though it was at like 2.40 in the morning when the Brett girl tried to escape out of there.
And when he was spotted by the media, he acted like they'd caught him at something.
But he haven't seen it.
Have you seen a word about this anywhere today?
You haven't.
You literally have not.
So, anyway, I'm just picturing the Brett girl in that bathroom combing his hair on the phone to hotel security, begging for a way out of there.
You know, when his Brett girl story first hit, a friend of his said, no, no, no, no, I'm the one having an affair.
That's my love child.
And the inquirer says, we know that that's not true.
We know that's not true.
So they've been following him around for six months trying to prove it, and they think they proved it earlier this week.
The Brett girl did what every reprobate guy does.
Love him and leave him.
Check in the hotel, Brett girl.
Don't just go in there for a couple hours of quickies and then leave at 2.40 in the morning.
Check in, pal.
Leave at a normal time.
Not that I'm an expert.
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