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Aug. 12, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 12, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #2
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I'm telling you, folks, mark my words on this.
It isn't going to be long before the left.
You know, there's all this Georgia Russia thing pops up.
By the way, the latest on that is that the French and the Russians are working on ceasefire terms right now.
Nicholas Sarkozy actually went over there trying to do something about it while Obama's playing golf in uh in Hawaii.
At any rate, it ain't gonna be long before the left says, because all this talk is going to come.
Well, look at it we got to protect oil pipelines, we gotta protect our ally Georgia, we gotta the left is going to say Georgia has more of a claim, or Russia has more of a claim to Georgia than we do, and besides, how can we accuse any nation of invading another sovereign nation after what we did to Iraq?
That is what they're going to say.
They're gonna say we deserve this.
We showed the world we were willing to invade a sovereign country, so how can we say that the Russians shouldn't do it?
I'm surprised the left hasn't come up with it yet, but in time they will.
Greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, British energy giant BP, British Petroleum, said today it has closed two more oil and gas pipelines in Georgia because of the ongoing conflict with Russia.
We have closed two uh two other pipelines in Georgia, the Baku Supsa and the South Caucasus Pipeline, which is a gas pipeline, said the BP spokesman to the French news agency.
The uh the key BTC pipeline, which uh British petroleum also operates, was shut down last week after a blast occurred in a pump at a section in eastern Turkey.
So what is he let me check the oil price right now?
Crude oil chart.
113.60 cents.
It is not moving.
Uh Dow Jones industrial average down a little bit today, but the uh drive by's had a story.
Speculators and commodity traders are watching the action in Georgia, wondering whether or not they shall.
Well, uh the the if question arises, uh ladies and gentlemen, if the Russians attack somebody else will the prices go down even more.
I I think we need to kind of cool our jets on this.
I mean, once once the news is of shutting down the pipeline, and this is a temporary thing, by the way.
Uh this is this is not about drilling, this is not about more supply.
This is about getting supply to where it needs to be.
The uh which is gonna result in some contrived shortages in places this stuff's supposed to go, which should result in a temporary price increase in these places where the supply is going to be low.
But I'm telling you, the Russians are showing everybody what what cards they have and what damage they can do.
They really are.
And this has been long coming.
This is not something that uh happened on the on the spur of the moment.
Uh, by the way, uh, ladies and gentlemen, now that Obama has told the Russians to stop their advance in Georgia, and that the Governor Tim Kane of Virginia says that the Russians have indeed stopped their advance because Obama asked them to, even though they haven't stopped their advance yet.
The next thing that Obama needs to do is to tell the Russians to get out of the North Pole.
You know, the Russians have claimed a North Pole because there's a bunch of oil and gas up there.
The Russians have just said it's ours.
But those resources don't belong to them.
So it's time for Obama to tell the Russians to get out of the North Pole now.
Since he has all these mystical powers with his uh with his words.
At any rate, the the shutting down of the pipeline, uh, two pipelines in Georgia by British petroleum once again is another glaring indicator of how vulnerable we are if we do not take steps to produce and provide our own energy resources.
And again, there's nothing out there that's going to replace oil.
Now, I mentioned the top of the program, there's a lot of stuff on the table today.
One of the one of the things is the Olympics.
And in my opening monologue, uh I focused primarily on the opening ceremony, which was dazzling.
There's no question about it.
It was amazing.
Quite it was it was visually unparalleled.
Nothing like it.
But I saw, in addition to all that.
I saw sameness.
I saw communism on display.
I saw 15,000 human robots under orders, who had been trained for years to act in synchronicity, and they pulled it off.
But they were interchangeable parts.
We saw their faces, some of them, they all looked the same.
We saw their actions all look the same.
And you know what the message was?
The message was imagine if these 15,000 trained human robots had guns and were following military orders.
I mean, there was a lot hidden there.
I and I mentioned this to some people over the weekend.
Boy, you just so cynical.
You just so joined us.
No, I'm not cynical with jaundists.
I know communists.
I know communists like I know liberals.
And liberals like every glorious square inch of my naked body, my friends.
And I did that's the first thing I saw was sameness.
After the dazzling visuals, I saw faceless, nameless sameness.
And then we learn of all the fakery.
And of course, didn't we learn that the Chicom leaders sent out a lip sinker, the little girl that sang the hymn to the motherland?
I'll bet you when Obama was that they did put his hand over his heart then when the Chicom little girl sang hymn to the motherland.
Anyway, the girl that actually sang the song was not allowed to go out there on camera because Chicom leaders determined her buck teeth made her ugly.
So they found a pigtail little girl who was pretty, and she went out there and a limp synced it.
And they finally admitted this, just like they admitted some of the graphics in a big fireworks display were faked and inserted in the coverage graphically with computers.
Now, which is funny, because have you ever seen a Chicom leader that you think should be on TV?
They all look like the back end of a goat.
And for these people to sit there and start talking about how ugly this little girl was with buck teeth, it just goes to show you who these people really are.
But there are other things that I've noticed about.
Of course, the competition, the American team is fabulous.
Didn't take long for the drive-by to start speculating about doping with our swim team.
How about Jason Lizak overcoming the French guy?
That was amazing.
It's unbelievable.
Jason Lizak overcoming the French guy Bernard, whatever, and the French or French are out there talking smack before this all happened.
Now, now there are doubters questioning whether or not these new swimsuits made by Speedo are actually fair because they might, they're not sewn.
They are welded.
It takes a half hour to put those things on.
Do you know that?
Takes a half hour to squeeze into those swimsuits.
And one of the theories is they add buoyancy.
They help the swimmers float.
Now, swimmers, professional swimmers, uh, amateur swimmers, Olympic swimmers like these have no body fat.
Zilch, zero nada.
And if you have no body fat, you sink.
I mean, that's one of the, you know, fat people happen to be a little bit more buoyant in the water.
Fat floats.
By the way, speaking of that, it's a great story out about how half the people who are obese have really great heart health.
I've told you people, all this conventional wisdom about all this health stuff and exercise, I've told you, don't buy anything.
But here's what I think.
And there's a guy, Big Lib, Andy Borowicz is a humorist.
He used to appear on the CNN's morning show when it had even fewer viewers than the one now has.
But he wrote a piece.
And he said they finally found an Olympic athlete who did not have a compelling heartbreaking personal story of destruction to tell, and they kicked him out of the Olympics because he was unqualified because he did not have one of these heartbreaking tales of survived the chainsaws in his old mother country.
And it got me to think I'm watching all this, and it's actually absolutely right.
Every Olympics, we get it seems like every Olympic athlete just barely, barely made it through some amazing, impossible difficulty.
Every one of them.
They were either laughed at and made fun of by their friends, or else their mother disowned them, or what have you.
And I think what we see in Olympic coverage is the ultimate illustration of the chickification of news.
The Olympics, ladies and gentlemen, I believe, are tailored.
I think the Olympics are tailored for a female audience.
Now, how does how does the female audience for the Olympics differ from female audiences to other sports?
Well, let me ask you just how big is the female audience for football.
I mean, it's there, but it's nothing like the female audience for the Olympics.
Oh, you know something else.
I'm gonna expand on this when we come back.
I'll tell you something else.
The parade of nations.
We had our we had our own little dose of communist style sameness.
Did you see the U.S. team come out there?
Every damn one of them dressed alike in a unisex outfits, designed by Ralph Loren.
The ugliest white hats I have ever seen.
White slacks, blue blazers, and whatever else.
Oh, they might have looked European.
Of course, now they look palm beach.
I mean, that's official Palm Beach yacht uniform, including the stupid hat.
But they could have at least put skirts on the women.
They could have put dresses in the women.
It could have done something to differentiate them.
Could have made them not wear the hats so we could see their hair.
What have I done?
I'm standing up for differences in the in the sexes when it comes to fashion.
What is this unisex business?
But rush, but rush, it's a team.
It's a team.
Yeah, but those were not uniforms.
Anyway, I gotta go.
We'll be back after this with more.
Stay with us.
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This is this is just great.
We already have learned today that George Clooney is an official unofficial advisor to Obama.
Clooney is actually advising Obama on the Middle East, and he's advising him on body language and the way to appear in public.
And now we learn from a blog at the Los Angeles Times that George Clooney is going to make a movie.
He has bought the movie rights to tell the story of Osama bin Laden's driver.
This is the guy convicted by the military court five and a half years, which is by the way, a sleaze sentence.
He's only going to serve six months because he'd been in there five months already, or five years.
These people in Hollywood, they have made all of these anti-Iraq, anti-U.S.
movies, and they bomb.
They bomb big time.
And look at the anti-Obama books, number one New York Times bestseller list, a movie on Obama, or Osama bin Laden's driver.
We're going to make a hero out of Osama bin Laden's driver.
Or rather, Hollywood is.
Now, back to this Olympic business.
The Olympics, unlike any other sport, draws legions of females to watch it.
I'm not this Don stop laughing in there because this is factual.
I'm not, I'm not trying to be funny.
There's no sexual sexist comment here.
It's just it's a fact.
You know, women don't watch baseball as much as they watch the Olympics.
They don't watch football, basketball.
They don't they get out of the house.
I mean, there's exceptions.
There's some women that like football, but I mean it's not like women sitting down watching the Olympics.
Now, why is this?
There's a reason, folks.
And it is left to me to explain it to you.
With traditional sports in this country, you know, you get men who follow teams.
They follow statistics from the time the player was born to 14 minutes ago.
They follow trades, they follow free agency.
All of these things.
They get caught up in all that sort of women couldn't care less about any of that.
Just who won?
And when's it gonna be over?
So we can go to dinner.
Men are invested in these sports because men, most men would really rather love to be able to do that than their daily humdrum jobs.
But women couldn't be bothered with these kind of mundane things.
Free agency trades, fantasy football and baseball leagues and all this.
They couldn't be bothered with it.
But you get the Olympics every two years.
Summer Olympics every four years.
You don't need a scorecard.
You it's just it's real simple.
Who won and who lost.
You don't even really need to keep track of the medal count.
Because it's not about that.
Other than the patriotic aspect of it.
It's very emotional.
It's very patriotic, and it all makes sense.
And while you're watching, and this is the best part, while women are watching the Olympics, you get all these literally heart-wrenching stories about the competitors.
How they almost died, but they're now on the swim team.
How their baby almost died but was saved because the mother could be on the gymnastic team from Germany.
How they were ridiculed in grade school, how they had attention deficit disorder, but found a cure in the swimming pool.
And the stories are legion, and they go on and on and on.
You know, you'll have you'll have uh an Eastern European athlete, you know, whose goat farm was run over by some mad perpetrator, and the family was destitute and poor for years and years and years, and finally, finally, the javelin throw brought this man and his family out of destitution.
And we get long dissertations on how important the javelin is and what all it might mean.
And of course, everybody in these stories is a victim, overcoming some form of oppression, but never communist oppression, and never overcoming a government that has tried to keep them down.
It is so chickafied.
It just made in fact women cry more than they cheer watching the Olympics.
Now there are exceptions.
There's some women who actually you know really get into athletics and sport and they cheer the victory.
But you sit there and you cry.
Women cry more than they cheer over this stuff.
Uh you know, they're really since since the Russians uh we still well, you know, the Russians were there's no Soviet Union, there are really no bad guys anymore, so we men don't care as much.
In fact, one of the things that was so great for all the men about the swim team beating the French was the French were talking smack.
The women loved it because look how muscular those swimmers look when they came out of the pool in those tight-fitting little swimsuits, and the courageous heroism of it all, and they're cheering for the country and patriotism, and the men are saying, Screw you, French, screw you, frogs.
Because they were talking smack.
And it's let's let's face it, you know, it's just it's hard to muster any venom against the Chinese.
I mean, they're just little people running around out there, and the ones that we've seen on TV are all the same, good looking.
There's I mean assembly line human beings.
Mass produced by the Chicoms.
At any rate, I I think I think it's uh it's interesting.
The Olympics is on a very good marketing show.
So the networks here in attracting female what you gotta if they didn't get women watching these games, the audiences wouldn't be half of what they are, obviously.
Let's go to the phones very quickly, because people have been patiently waiting.
We'll go to um Lahabra, California.
Jacob, thanks for waiting.
I'm really glad that you were patient, sir.
Hello.
Uh good morning, Rush.
Hi.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
I just want you to know I found you about uh a week before you went full for full three hours on uh 640 KFI.
In Los Angeles, yes.
Yeah.
Uh Russian uh Rush, uh I am a Russian Jew.
I came to United States almost 30 years ago.
And never in my lifetime I thought that uh from all the people I will call you to defend Russians this time.
Um is a suck of excrement.
Now wait wait, wait, wait, let's identify here.
We're talking about the president of Georgia.
You have just called the President of Georgia a bag of excrement.
Exactly.
And don't forget, he is from the same place that came Yossif Vicerionovich Stalin.
I don't have to tell you who this guy is.
But he's running a democratic country who's elected by citizens.
Uh Rush, just to remind you, and you can check this with Fox News.
What he did to the independent television station in Dbilisi, the capital of uh Georgia.
Okay.
Jacob, can you hang on?
I've got you you have you have proven a point that I brilliantly made in the first hour.
Okay.
Can you hang on to the brakes I can mention?
Yeah.
All right.
You you sound just like the guy from Spectre in the in the James Bond movies.
Back after this.
Stay with us.
Okay, we are back, Rush Limbaugh and the excellence in broadcasting network.
And we rejoin Jacob from Mahabra, California.
He is a uh uh a Russian Jew who has lived in the United States for thirty years, and you, Jacob, are are you almost sound as though you have a little uh uh national pride.
No, sir.
No, sir.
This is gonna be your biggest mistake if you will make this conclusion.
Well, my conclusion is is actually Victor Davis Hansen said this or wrote this before I had a chance to say it, but I was gonna say it anyway.
Uh it it what while the Russians have gone into Georgia and South Osetsia.
You don't have Russian citizens protesting in the streets saying no blood for oil or condemning their government for like you would have here.
You've got Russian citizens who are proud that the Russian bear is reclaiming and is re-establishing itself as a world power.
There's probably a lot of Russian pride.
So I thought that might be No, no, no, no, no.
What what you see right now, it's what's left from Soviet Union.
What I think is the biggest mistake on our part, and I don't hear anybody even mentioning this.
Then say it.
In 1990, Russia was giving out truckloads of Russian passports in South Syria.
They did nobody said even a word about this.
And what they are claiming right now, what they are claiming right now, is that they are defending their citizens there.
That's what's going on.
And as far as I know, he did start it.
Sakashvi did start it.
That's the same thing.
That's just that's a good thing.
That's my opinion.
Jacob, you're sounding like Obama.
You're sounding like every Democrat.
You're sounding like Gorbachev.
You're making it sound like this is the You're making it sound like it's the Georgians' fault that somehow Sashvili was insulting or harming Russian citizens inside Georgia and poor old Putin had no choice guiding me above Obama, you couldn't insult me more.
Well, but that's what they're all gonna say by the by the end of this week.
I know at the end of this rush, we have we have to take in consideration who we are dealing with.
And Rush, as you know, a stupid friend is worse than an enemy.
And this guy's gonna be able to do that.
What are you gonna get us to a lot of trouble?
Jacob.
Aside from Sakashvili.
Yes.
Who is no different than a bag of excrement according to you.
Yes, sir.
What else?
What do you got against the Georgian people?
No, nothing.
Well then so you want Russia to come in and rip Georgia to shreds just to get rid of the excrement.
No.
In a bag.
No, no, but what I want is for us to be careful how we deal with the situation and how we deal with this president.
I mean uh the Georgian president.
That's all.
Well, we're being careful.
Uh, the French are over there taking care of this, if you can believe it.
Yeah, from all the people French.
Yeah.
And uh uh uh and as I said, uh Rush, uh the biggest insult for me is to cite me with Obama.
Well, I'm sorry, Jacob, I didn't I didn't mean to insult you.
But when you're gonna say things that the left is going to say about this, when you're saying things that Putin is saying, Putin is saying, hey, Georgia started it.
That's what you're saying.
You're saying that Shkashvili is oppressing Russian citizens, and Putin had no choice.
Well, uh I tell you, it's Obama's establishing a moral equivalency here by asking both sides to throw down their arms, as well they both started this sort of thing.
So, you know, I don't I don't I don't mean to insult you, but I mean, Gorbachev saying the same thing you said.
Uh this was started by the Georgians.
And you think it was because of this uh president that you don't like.
So I'm but I'm sorry to insult you, but I'm just trying to tell you who your theory sounds like.
I'm I'm glad you called.
I appreciate it.
Here is Paul in uh Rockland County in New York.
Paul, thank you for calling.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, good uh good uh good good afternoon, Rush.
Hi.
Um, you know, there's a highway that goes from the brand spanking new uh airport just out of Tbilisi.
Beautiful four-lane highway that goes into town.
You know what that highway is called?
Tell me.
George Bush Boulevard.
And as you round the corner into Tbilisi, there's a giant poster of our president waving his hand, bucking actually welcoming welcoming people away from the city.
That airport, this brand spanking new airport that the Russians bombed first before they even started attacking any part of a set yet.
You paid for that.
I paid for that.
We paid for the highway.
Okay, so what does that mean?
It deserves to be blown up.
So what I'm saying is this is not a referendum on what Obama could do wrong.
This is uh betrayal of the utter weakness of the policies of the Bush McCain.
Yeah, you can pop your lips.
You've been talking for an hour.
No, no, you've been talking for an hour about Obama.
This has absolutely, you know, Rush, this has absolutely nothing to do with Obama.
And yet, have you mentioned once Bush?
Have you have you mentioned?
Yes, I have.
No, you did.
Okay.
If you did, it was it was a micron of information as compared to going to the body.
Because Bush hasn't on an hour about no but but for an hour, but Bush hasn't said anything stupid about this.
McCain hasn't said anything stupid about it.
Obama did.
It's not about saying anything, Rush.
It's about what mistakes we made in the first place.
Okay to allow the show has all of a sudden folks turned into beat up America Day.
So what mistakes did we make up America?
And by the way, which statue of Bush 41 or 43.
Don't don't pull the Patriot card on me, pal.
I'm not pulling any card on you.
I'm not sure.
I'm just asking you questions.
What telling me I'm beating up on America?
You're the one who's beating up on America.
I am not beating up on America.
I never beat up on America.
I love America.
Well, I love America.
You're gonna say more than you do.
Would you tell me what relevance does the fact that we got a highway named George Bush Highway and a statue of Bush?
Which Bush?
41 or 43, by the way.
The W. W. We got a statue of W at the Tbilisi Airport.
No, no, no, no.
The highway is a very important thing.
The highway leaving.
Oh, yes, yes.
And of course, this justifies the Russians blowing it up?
No, of course not.
You you didn't let me finish.
Well, let me finish.
My point is our weakness allowed the Russians to get in there, okay.
This has nothing to do with uh allowing this or allowing that.
We our current administration did not see this coming.
And we we we are all over that country.
I've been there and I and I'll confess it's anecdotal observation.
But there are more Americans there than you can imagine.
I saw U.S. military guys flying around on commercial flights in Georgia.
Internally, okay, we're all over there.
Again, it's anecdotal.
I don't it's just on my own observation.
So clearly we got stuff going on there.
This, to me, I see this attack from Russia as a slap in the face to you and me.
And the weakness of our current administration and not either not seeing this coming or they did see it coming and they allowed it to happen.
So this has nothing to do with Obama.
What does this have to do with Obama playing golf and five?
What do you mean we allowed it to happen?
Well, I look, Rush, you and I both know.
Don't try that rhetorical device on me.
Do not tell me that I know what you know, because it may not be the case that I even agree with what you think you know.
Okay, fair enough.
But you use rhetoric all morning long, so I'm allowed to make more.
I use now not rhetoric.
We communicate here with language and thoughts.
We make a lot of sense on this program.
If you make you use rhetoric all morning, I'm allowed one rhetorical slip.
I believe, how's that?
That there are some things that we do that sort of go under the radar.
I don't think you would argue with that.
There's that rhetorical device again.
Do not put words in my mouth, please.
Okay.
I'm I sincerely apologize.
That's a trick that you liberals have.
What I'm saying is, clearly, there are there is American activity going on in Georgia.
Right.
That either the Russians knew about or didn't know about.
Doesn't matter.
It's called NATO.
Well, we they're not a member of NATO, pal.
No, but they're think they go back and forth.
They the Russians do not want them to be in NATO is the point.
And we're going back and forth with the possibility of them being in NATO.
Well, I think that's a good thing.
This is this is this is far more.
This is far more than the Russians striking out at us.
This is the Russians showing the world something.
This is the Russians saying we're back.
They have been flying these bear bomber sorties all over the world for a long time.
This is not a this is this shouldn't have been a surprise to anybody.
But this is a weakness on our behalf.
And where did that weakness come from?
It didn't come from Obama.
Wait a minute.
Wait, wait a minute.
How can you talk about in the world?
Can this be a weakness on our part when I didn't think we're supposed to use our military to stop people doing anything in the first place?
So what the hell weakness are you describing?
Um I'm talking about, and there's your rhetoric.
I'm talking about Obama you going on and on about Obama playing golf in a Hawaii and making some sort of claim that this whole world is going to fall apart because of Obama.
This has absolutely nothing to you talk for an hour and a half about Barack Obama.
This has nothing to do with Obama.
I'll tell you what this has to do with.
It has to do with the fact that we have three people speaking for the country right now.
We're in the midst of a presidential race with a lame duck president.
We've got Obama speaking from Hawaii while playing golf.
We've got the governor of Virginia saying Obama's words turned the Russians back when the Russians haven't turned back yet.
That, sir, is just funny.
I'm sorry, rhetoric or otherwise, I am going to talk about it.
I'm going to have a lot of fun with it.
McCain and Bush have been somewhat tough, but I read an AP story earlier today.
The United States can't do anything about.
Why can't we do anything about it?
Well, I thought words were supposed to be enough to stop.
I thought we were supposed to have diplomacy.
Bush has made Putin a blood brother practically.
We've tried all kinds of diplomacy.
I mean it this is but a weakness on the United States' part.
We're not even supposed to be the world policeman.
We're supposed to know when the Russians are going to attack an ally and get an error and stop it.
What do you think our diplomacy has been aimed at?
We've been talking to Bush or Putin trying to make him one of us, feeding him barbecue and so forth.
All these years, Bush looked into his eyes and saw his soul.
We've been practicing everything the left says to do diplomacy and words.
And look what it got us.
I gotta go.
Quick break.
Thanks for the call out there, Paul.
We'll be back after this.
See, the liberals have to blame this Russian attack on Georgia on Bush.
And then by Association McCain.
Otherwise, Obama has no chance.
And I don't think he has much of a chance.
And I think the dirty little secret is that uh McCain could win this in a landslide.
I actually do.
I I I I think I think there's so much huff and puffery here about Obama, and the bloom has long ago gone off that rose.
It happened during the Democrat primaries.
And uh it's like Thomas Sowell has a great column.
He he once attended a c a course taught by John Kenneth Galbraith.
The noted liberal economist.
He came in and did his first lecture to the class, and it was so good, they all stood up and applauded.
But every other lecture was just more and more generalities on the first lecture.
And as the course went on, the class kept dwindling in size, and finally people stopped showing up because there was no substance.
And that's exactly what's happened to Obama.
His first speech, his first series of appearances.
Oh man, new, unique Messiah.
Change hope, future.
But now there's no substance.
You could revive the old Fritz Mondil question of Gary Hartpence.
Where's the beef?
And it's happening, folks.
I'm telling you, it's happening.
Brain is extreme.
140 days in the crying out loud.
He's a neighborhood activist.
The street activist that they have nominated.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, uh the Georgian Security Council today says that it has filed a lawsuit in the International Court of Justice for alleged ethnic cleansing against Russia.
Well, there you go.
Right alongside the the House Democrats suit of OPEC for selling us oil in the first place.
Man, oh man, the live left's getting exactly what they want here.
Take every every one of these things to court.
Anyway, who's next?
This is Maureen and Fresno.
Thanks for calling, Maureen.
You're great to wait.
Nice to have you here.
Quantum Dittoes.
Thank you.
Um I am calling about um well I so missed you yesterday.
I looked forward the whole weekend to hearing you yesterday.
Uh but because I wanted to get your take on the ABC uh Friday night line interview with John Edwards.
Um I am an attorney, and when I listened to him, um he just sounded like he was the quintessential trial lawyer.
Give me a closing argument.
Right, closing argument.
He was he was parsing he was parsing things.
He was saying things like, Well, actually, when I had the affair, Elizabeth was in remission.
Not that that counts, but and I was a poor boy, and I got carried away being but so he kept he kept very calm and very uh, you know, like I said, parsing everything that he said until the end.
And the end of the question, which I thought was a very good and uh very good question by the interviewer, and he said, Well, now, so I guess this is the end of your career.
Because I mean, here the guy has not only cheated on his wife with cancer, but he lied about it, he tried, you know, to stand under the radio.
I don't think she knew.
Well, he he claimed she knew back in 06.
Yeah, there's her a little bit responsible.
The line that he uttered, I agree with you about his career.
I know where you're gonna go with that because his arrogance thinks he can survive this and still marry this woman when his wife dies.
But I'll tell you that what he said 99% of the truth won't survive anymore.
That just that told me everything I've always suspected about this guy.
There is nothing genuine about John Edwards.
He is a walking, talking political calculation.
And his anger came out.
He didn't even say, Well, hopefully I can I can concentrate on my family now and try to rehabilitate myself.
He didn't say any of that.
He just said, It's not the end, and he was really angry.
Can I say one other thing?
Yes, ma'am.
Um, and that is I wish McCain would get up off his stuff and select a conservative um running running mate, um, whoever he wants, as long as they're a good conservative, so that we could start getting excited.
Um, you know, the names that we're hearing at the top of the list are Joe Lieberman and Tim Pollenty from uh Minnesota is not really a conservative.
No.
Anyway, I've got a theory about Edwards.
What's that?
And by the way, I've I've we've got some audio coming up.
I'm gonna go back and revisit this press conference of his with his wife, where they announced that um she had cancer and everybody the drive by said he was gonna pull out, remember they got a they got a bad leak on that.
Uh people are I this is look at this human nature.
I'm sorry to have to bring this up, but people are there, they're stunned that of all the women he could have had an affair with, he chose this one.
Right.
Now I've got a theory to explain it.
Edwards loves the camera.
He preens for the camera with his hair and so forth.
He's the breck girl, and he hired this gal to run the camera that was taking videographies of his campaign.
And I think he probably said they met in the bar, and that's where it all happened, but I think it got intense because he's constantly looking at the camera so damn much.
And who was on the other side of the camera but this babe?
And then making jokes about giving a speech on morality.
And he said, but if he would have just stuck with the camera.
Yeah.
Cameras don't get pregnant.
Hey, look, folks, don't get too precise on me here.
I know the timeline is all off on my joke about Edwards should have stuck with the camera because cameras don't get pregnant, but it was too good a line and too good a story to pass up.
Not then screw the timeline.
Still funny, and that's what counts.
And Edwards is still a doofus and always has been a fraud, and that hasn't changed.
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