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Aug. 13, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 13, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #2
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And greetings to you once again, music lovers, thrill seekers, and conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
This is the award-winning Thrill Pact, ever-exciting, increasingly popular, and dominating Rush Limbaugh program here on the EIB network.
Coming to you from the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to have you with us.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
Barack Obama, just in, ladies and gentlemen, Barack Obama has announced a plan that will end the Russian aggression in Georgia this time for certain.
Obama has announced from Hawaii that he is directing today that the American media will immediately begin publishing the death counts of Russian soldiers so as to poison the world's attitude toward war in general.
Just as the drive-by media in this country ran a daily body count of American deaths in Iraq, Obama has now instructed his allies in the drive-by media to immediately start a body count of dead Russian soldiers.
His thinking is that this pressure will bring a quick end to the fighting if it hasn't already ceased, as he directed it to be ceased yesterday.
So Obama has weighed in.
And again, in case you're just joining us, ladies and gentlemen, we have discovered not only that the Russians are lying, so are the CHICOMs.
The CHICOMs, this is news to a lot of people, that great motherland nations like Russia and Communist China are telling lies.
The Chikoms are lying about their gymnasts and their ages.
And they're lying about who sings the anthem at the opening ceremony, the hymn of the motherland.
And the Russians are lying about who started this whole mess in Georgia and South Ossetia.
And of course, the question that we all have to ask ourselves is, as instructed by the acting president Barack Obama, the Lord Messiah, is what did we do to cause this?
How is the United States to blame?
You know, the United States is less than perfect.
This country is not what it once was, as Obama is telling his seven-year-old audiences in town hall meetings.
This country has made a lot of mistakes.
We have to make up for.
What are we doing?
We are destabilizing the world.
We are not the solution in the world.
We're the world's problem.
We have not lived up to our ideals.
And as such, the Chikoms and the Russians are lying.
So we must begin a deep introspection, ladies, all of us, ladies and gentlemen, to determine exactly what we have done here to bring about this never-before-heard of phenomenon, communist nations lying.
It's another sign that the world's going to hell in a handbasket because of us.
Now, according to Obama, additionally, as he said recently, last week, maybe the week before, and certainly in weeks prior, he said something in addition to what I'm going to mention here.
He said, ladies and gentlemen, that we are 3% of the world's population, but that we use 25% of the world's resources.
Now, I first heard this articulated by the certifiably nut case, Paul Ehrlich, in his book, The Population Bomb, back in the 70s, I think it was, became a left-wing environmentalist wanko Bible.
Nothing in it was ever proved correct, but they still stand by it.
3% of the world's population, 25% of the world's resources, period.
And never talk about what we do.
And I don't accept the numbers, by the way, but for the sake of the discussion, we'll accept the numbers.
I think it's all BS, like the numbers of homeless were supposedly 3 million when it never was that high.
So let's just accept it for the sake of this discussion.
What do we do with the 25% of the world's resources?
Are we not the most successful, the most giving, the most productive nation in the history of humanity?
What do we do?
We feed the world, we clothe the world, we rescue the world.
What do we do with it all?
The impression is that we're stealing it.
And Obama also, some weeks ago, said that because people around the world know this about us, that the day is going to come, we're not going to be able to eat what we want.
Remember when he said that?
We're not going to be able to eat what we want, and we're not going to be able to drive what we want, and we're not going to be able to keep our thermostats where we want because that's not right.
The rest of the world isn't going to put up with it.
That's not how you get change and future and hope and respect and all that.
Well, in that regard, ladies and gentlemen, I must call to your attention the dark side of Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps.
To you, Michael Phelps, while looking like an alien, nevertheless has set the record for the most gold medals in the Olympics.
And he is looked upon here as a great inspiration, a source of great American pride.
The world is dazzled by this man.
But that's not the Michael Phelps that truly exists.
Michael Phelps is the epitome, ladies and gentlemen, of the ugly American.
I found out today what he eats on a daily basis.
Now, I know he swims five hours a day, needs a lot of energy.
Big producers, and he's produced a lot of medals, a lot of records, big producers do need a lot of energy.
But according to Obama and many on the left, Michael Phelps is just a glutton who cares not for the rest of the world.
12,000 calories a day, Michael Phelps eats.
Can I describe a typical day's diet for Michael Phelps?
His breakfast starts with three fried egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions, and mayonnaise.
He follows that up still at breakfast with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar, and three chocolate chip pancakes.
At lunch, this glutton who cares not for how much of the world's resources he is using as a single American.
Look at, folks, you've seen the little Chikom gymnasts.
What do they weigh?
38 pounds, a couple of rice cakes, and they're winning medals too, and they're not destroying the environment.
They're not making a big carbon footprint with their rice cakes.
They are behaving responsibly according to Obama, the Lord Messiah.
And they're still winning.
They're not have these big people out there.
You know, Chikoms are in terms of stature, they're small.
You don't require much little rice and rice cakes, and that's it.
Look at what our guys are doing.
No wonder we're hated.
And I've just described breakfast.
Let's go to lunch.
At lunch, Michael Phelps gobbles up a pound of enriched pie, a pound of pasta, two large ham and cheese sandwiches slattered with mayonnaise on white bread.
I mean, not only is this, not only is this stealing from the rest of the world, it's not even healthily correct.
He should be eating whole wheat bread and low-fat mayonnaise.
But no, He's going hog wild.
White bread, typical American mayonnaise.
You know how many eggs it takes to make mayonnaise.
This guy's not only eating eggs and omelets.
Do you know how many eggs it takes to make a jar of mayonnaise?
You got to break a lot of eggs to make a lot of mayonnaise.
This guy is an egg thief.
I'm surprised that ChiComs have this kind of food to supply this guy.
Well, let's stick with lunch.
Pound of enriched pasta, two large ham cheese sandwiches slattered with mayo on white bread, capping off the meal by chugging a thousand calories worth of energy drinks.
Then, at dinner, Michael Phelps really loads up on the carbs.
That's what he needs to give him plenty of energy for his five hours a day, six days a week regimen.
A pound of pasta with Bolognese sauce and an entire pizza.
He washes all that down with another 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.
This will not sit well with the Lord Messiah, Barack Obama.
I know, ladies and gentlemen, achievers use more energy.
High achievers, high producers use a lot of energy.
And I have said so with pride.
But now we read that Michael Phelps burning using 12,000 calories a day while the Democrats are trying to alert everybody to the dangers posed by energy.
The Democrats and left are now demonizing oil.
They're demonizing our own ability to be energy independent.
They don't want us to be able to get our own independent sources of oil or natural gas.
And yet, look at Michael Phelps.
No citizen of the world, he.
He couldn't care less that those little Chinese gymnasts are eating rice cakes.
He's out there staking up more than his fair share, more than he needs.
This is pure gluttony.
This is typical in the world of Obama of what the United States has become.
He is the all-time leader in Olympic medals, but that's what's on the surface.
That's what I said at the beginning.
That's the America, that's the Michael Phelps of the world knows.
But the real Michael Phelps, people like Obama knows, and the American left knows.
Doesn't matter.
See, you're missing the point, Snirdly.
You're missing the point.
A lot of you people say, Rush, what are you talking about?
He's winning all these medals.
He's out-producing everybody, just like America does.
Right.
But America's wrong, don't you understand, for doing this?
America's wrong for producing so much.
America's wrong for using so much energy.
America's wrong for being the best.
America is wrong for being the strongest.
Don't you understand it?
Have you not gotten it through your heads yet where Obama and the left are coming from?
And I am using an example here of Michael Phelps as an illustration.
One man representing a nation.
And if Obama and the Democrats are consistent, they would apologize to the world for all these medals.
They would apologize because he's cheating, because he's using more than his fair share, more than he needs.
And I don't see him helping the Chinese win any more medals.
I don't see him concerned about the future of anybody except himself.
I don't see, I mean, Michael Phelps, I mean, he's, as far as the American left is concerned and the Democrat Party led by Barack Obama, Michael Phelps is the epitome of what is wrong with the United States of America today.
Back in just a sec.
Hello, this is Barack Obama.
I am on vacation, but I wanted to come out and say that we need to apologize.
We need to apologize, and I, as president, will apologize for America.
The problems are going on in the world this week.
At the Olympics, you got the Chinese lying about the little girl and whether she sang the national anthem.
And the Russians are lying about, well, maybe they're not lying, but they could be lying about leaving Georgia and participating in the ceasefire.
And then the guy toran been lying all along about a nuclear program.
Everybody's lying.
Why is that?
Could it just be that America has forced them to lie by asking them what the truth is?
I don't know.
Before we ask other nations to tell the truth, We need to ask questions about ourselves first.
That's how I'm going to behave as president, because I believe that this administration has asked for the truth from too many people.
We shouldn't be putting our neighbors in a position of having to tell a lie instead of the truth by asking them questions.
I mean, who do we think we are?
You know, let's all get together and...
Well, I've got a tea time.
Yeah, I'll be there in a minute.
I got a tea time, so I'll see you later.
Acting President Barack Obama with an exclusive message, the audience here at the EIB Network.
Now, I'm serious.
Do not tell me that Michael Phelps is the greatest Olympian of all time.
Don't go there with me.
We shouldn't be draping gold medals around his neck and glorifying an American embarrassment.
We should all be embarrassed by that.
We should all be angry about this.
Snerdly, listen to me.
Look at me on this.
Energy is to be conserved.
It is not to be burned.
Can't we agree on that?
What do you suppose it's going to be?
We have to seek, we have to seek a small energy footprint if we are to make life fair and to protect this planet.
If we can't win gold medals without burning thousands of excess calories, then so be it.
But if we have to go out and burn all these excess calories, create the carbon footprint to produce those calories, and burn them in wanton disregard.
Do you realize what he eats for breakfast is more than the whole nation of Korea has in a week?
And what about the starving in Africa?
Ladies and gentlemen, this is individual greed.
As I am learning it, as it's being taught me by the American left and Barack Obama, the most merciful Lord Matthiah, the Olympic ideal is not using more than your fair share.
The Olympic ideal is sameness.
That is why there ought to be no winners.
The opening ceremony taught us this.
Nothing but regimented sameness, nothing individual is to be celebrated.
And yet look at what's happening.
The home of rugged individualism once again running away with all the medals in his swimming pools because of greed, sloth, and selfish consumption of energy that is not renewable, by the way.
Anyway, it's terribly upsetting.
And I wanted to, by the way, by request, grab the John Edwards tune from yesterday, Ed.
We have got to mention this earlier because it wasn't quite a priority.
But yesterday we introduced this tune, John Edwards singing about his plight.
Basic, and by the way, the drive-bys, don't you love this, how the drive-bys are now digging deep into this?
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, has dug deep and found out that Edwards has been lying about when he told his wife he was having the affair and when he was having the affair and not having the affair and what his wife knew about it and so forth.
And you know that the inquirer is just gloating, but what remains outstanding.
And still, I have this question.
How in the world do you see how the Democrats are preparing to celebrate the Clintons?
The Clintons have scored two nights of this convention away from the Messiah.
By the way, Maureen Dowd today in the New York Times just destroys Hillary.
Just, yes, I will share highlights in mere moments.
But here's Bill Clinton, who is going to be celebrated with an entire night practically in his honor at the Democrat convention.
And what did he do?
Well, he had numerous sexual encounters with a woman barely half his age, an intern, in fact, lied about it to his staff, lied about the American people only when the stained blue breast popped up, dress, sorry, popped up.
Was the truth known?
We've had allegations of numerous affairs.
Jennifer Flowers and a parade of women have made allegations, including one, Juani DeBroderick, who alleged rape.
Now here we come the Brett girl who had one little affair, might have sired a child, and they won't want him anywhere near the Democrat Convention.
I don't understand these Democrats.
In normal times, what Edwards has done, as the case with Clinton, would be a resume enhancement.
But they don't want him anywhere near this convention while they're going to welcome Bill Clinton, give him a whole night than Hillary has the night before that.
The big question remains, as far as the Brett girl is concerned, whose baby is this?
By the way, folks, it gets even worse.
I just found out from a good source that Michael Phelps also drives an SUV, a hog SUV.
Not surprised.
So you see, ladies and gentlemen, American consumption, when it results in exceptionalism in athletics, why that's perfectly fine.
Why, that's where we celebrate that kind of consumption.
American consumption for the greatest production and the greatest rewards, that is fine if we do this in sports.
However, if we consume and produce exceptionalism in goods and services for others, including ourselves, then somehow we are committing a sin.
I just told Snerdley, I don't want to prepare you people for this, it won't be long before the Media Matters website headline says, Rush Colin, Michael Phelps is ugly American.
They're the left.
We can predict what they're going to do before they do it.
By the way, Tom Skilling, a weatherman in Chicago, has said that this decade has had the fewest 90-degree days in Chicago since 1930.
The fewest in the midst of global warming.
The fewest 90-degree days since 1930.
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, the Rush Lynn Boy, your guiding light.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Back to the phones, people have been patiently waiting.
We're going to Baltimore.
This is Marsha.
Marsha is one of my all-time favorite top 10 female names.
Nice to have you with us.
Oh, nice to talk to you, Rush.
Nice to talk to you.
Thank you.
Rush, I wanted to tell you that I think it's disgraceful that President Bush went to communist China.
And why couldn't he have a line in the sand and say no?
You know, that's an awfully repressive.
Now, wait a second.
Wait a second.
I kind of disagree with this.
Why should we send our athletes then?
If the president isn't going to go, if we're going to say it's inappropriate for the president to go, and by the way, he did, he did, Trip is deductible.
He had some meetings with Hu Zhintao.
And you never know what was discussed there.
But I mean, if we're going to send the president, we're not going to send the president.
We've got to not send the team, right?
Well, if you want to look at it that way.
However, the Germans sent the team and the Chancellor didn't go.
She didn't go.
Oh, that's right.
I forgot.
I forgot.
We're supposed to be imitating the Europeans.
You have a good point.
That's right.
And Sarkozy didn't go.
And Sarkozy's world savior number two behind Obama because he's over there solving the crisis after Obama told him to solve it in Georgia.
Well, it's just that, you know, they suffer so much there.
It's such a repressive, their faces are like stone.
I know, look, I know exactly what you're saying.
And let me get serious.
I'm kind of a jocular mood.
It's the second night in a row.
I've had no more than three hours' sleep.
And, you know, when that happened.
No, don't apologize.
I'm thinking of making it a routine.
Mine seems to work faster, and I'm always in a funny little giddy mood.
But this is really serious.
We have the dressing up here.
I know what you're getting at.
And you're worried the president is in our presence is sanctioning this.
We have the dressing up of an oppressive regime to make it look like something it's not.
That opening ceremony and all the happy, go-lucky, funny, and happy little Chinese children running around.
They don't show you what's going on in Tibet.
They don't show you the political prisoners.
They don't tell you what they're doing to the Faluong Gong.
And we have to sit there and listen to the syrupy soap opera lingo from the NBC commentators telling us what a wonderful place it is.
So the CHICOMs are pulling off something here to people that don't know history.
Just like they're doing exactly what Hitler wanted to do with the Olympics he had in 1936, and that's put a face on his regime that is 180 degrees out of phase with reality.
And that's what the CHICOMs are doing as well.
And I, by the way, I was very gratified.
I read George Wildey.
He saw that opening ceremony the exact same way I did.
Totalitarian sameness.
Yes.
The elimination of the individual, the elimination of even individual identities.
Nothing but 15,000 identically dressed, identically performing, synchronized performances, identically looking people.
It's unbelievable.
And, well, no, it's totally believed.
They've tagged.
They've learned how to use our media.
But Mr. Snerdley, the program observer, has a question.
You mind if I ask him that question, Marcia?
No.
What's the question, Snirdley?
See, Marcia Snerdley is very, very upset with you.
And he wanted me to pass it on to you.
What?
We're supposed to pull out like Carter didn't go to the Moscow Olympics.
Well, this is my opinion.
I don't know.
You've kind of changed.
I don't know.
You've kind of jumbled my thoughts a little bit, but I felt that we shouldn't have sank.
I just felt that President Bush shouldn't have gone.
Well, it's too late now.
Of course.
He did go, and you can't throw him out of office because that's going to happen constitutionally.
Right, well.
So there's really nothing you can do but feel bad about it, and that's not productive.
No, no, but what can we do about communist China?
Just pretend it doesn't exist or what?
No, we've got, no, no, no.
They own most of our debt.
We are engaging them in a lot of economic activity.
In fact, you know, China is an interesting case study because the Chinese are doing their best to maintain their oppressive regime while at the same time importing as much capitalism as they can.
And they have no choice but then to do that.
Communism cannot keep those leaders in power.
And that population of a billion people fed, it just can't do it unless they start building walls around the country and start killing people that try to get out of there, which they do, by the way.
If it's they oppress religions that they disagree with, they don't like any religion as communists.
The state is the religion.
But Hu Xintao, the premier and the leading Chikom, has a daunting challenge.
I mean, like every leader, he wants to stay in office.
He wants to stay in power.
And he cannot have a citizenry that revolts.
Now, they take care of a lot of this in the school system where they like the national anthem, what was it, the hymn to the motherland that was.
I mean, those people are raised.
This is what big problem that some Americans have with our public school system here, although on a smaller scale, every Chinese child is raised to believe that their God is the state and that their provider and guarantor is the state.
They worship the state.
And when people don't worship the state and are renegades, that's when the tanks run them down in Tiananmen Square and this sort of thing.
And that hasn't changed.
You just don't see it as much.
And American liberalism is much the same outlook in terms of where all benefits, wants, and needs should come from.
They should not come from individual labor.
They should come from the government mandating that everybody get an equal share of all these things.
And only then will we be a perfect nation.
But Hu Jintao cannot run his entire country that way.
There's a billion people.
That requires a lot of commerce, a lot of jobs.
He's got to have people working.
His biggest challenge is finding and creating 25 million new jobs a year and keeping them out of the cities.
He's got to find jobs out in the countryside, in the hitterlands, and keeping them out of the cities.
The cities are packed and overcrowded, polluted.
And if those people come to the cities for work, then there's even more strain on the energy policies and the production.
And it wouldn't be able to keep up with it.
So he's got a huge problem.
So he's mixing capitalism in with the oppressive regime.
The Russians failed at this with Glasnost and Perestroika.
But the Chikoms have done it a little bit wiser.
They have invested in the United States.
They have bought a lot of our Treasury Bill debt.
And they have a whole little power over us in that way.
And they're at the same time ginning up their military.
And they're forming alliances with people that are our sworn enemies, primarily Iran and Middle Eastern countries.
And they have sort of a buffer between us and North Korea as well.
But if it came down to it, they would side with the North Koreans over us.
And if it comes down to Taiwan, you know, I think partly, I'll give you something, an example here to think of, the Chikoms are certainly watching what's happening with the Russian and Georgian situation.
They have a similar situation with Taiwan.
They've wanted Taiwan back ever since the 40s.
It's nothing.
It's a tiny little island compared to the mainland of China, but it represents renegades.
It represents people who fled the mainland with Shang Kai-shek and want no part of communism.
We have a treaty with Formosa, Taiwan, to defend them if the Chikoms attack.
Now, you better understand the Chikoms are no doubt watching how the rest of the world reacts to the Russian aggression in Georgia.
And if they see that the United States nor anybody else is going to do anything about that other than shout a bunch of words and send in a bunch of food and medicine, then they're going to make the calculation at some point they're going to be able to get away with taking Taiwan back.
They'll do it.
If they do it, it'll not be because they need it for anything strategically.
They're going to take it because they don't want people who are Chinese, who are not communist, who are living in freedom so far or so near rather to the coastline of China.
It's a bugaboo with them, and it's going to always be.
And at some point in the future, they are going to try to take it back just on principle.
So we can't disengage from China.
We can't get ourselves out of the world.
I remember the 1984 presidential campaign with Gary Hartpence and Walter Mondoll.
I was watching a debate with these guys one night and they kept arguing who would get us out of the world first.
You know, Mondo said, I'll get us out of South Africa.
Carter would or Hartpence would up try to upstage with getting out of some country.
We cannot disengage from the world.
Just can't do it.
So situation is what it is.
So we have to make the best of the fact that capitalism is finding its way into China and hope that that has some undermining effect of the repressive regime down the road.
But that's something that intelligence, human intelligence and other operations can foment and help is what we're actually trying to do with Iran.
That's a very friendly population toward the United States.
And it's why we're not committing to military action there because we don't want to anger the population there that holding out hope that somebody will come to their rescue and take them away from the footprints of the mullahs.
Marsha, thanks for the call.
One quick way before we go to the break, it's Katie in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
Megan Didos from the Motor City.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
I'm calling.
Hey, Katie, Katie, is your mayor still in jail?
No, he's not.
They hauled him back in the court yesterday because they thought he had violated his bond from another case.
So the mayor of Detroit is now out and is able to participate in the Obama campaign.
Yes, yes.
He hasn't been saying much.
He's just been making a lot of sad faces and looking skywards.
Looking for some divine intervention.
Very embarrassing, very embarrassing for all of us here, especially all of us conservative Republicans.
Very, very embarrassing.
My question to you is: well, actually, I was calling to tell you you were 100% correct.
A couple weeks ago, you had talked about you were discussing the sex in the city voter demographic, and you had said, made a comment about how it seems like women need to be married before they get smart about politics.
I'm 26 years old.
I'm single.
And I'm 100% with you on that because most of my single friends are liberal.
And all of my conservative friends are married.
And it's quite frustrating to be someone in that demographic.
And I cannot stand Obama and to have the media tell you, because you're a single white female, in your 20s, you should be supporting Obama 100%.
Let me retrace our steps on this so that people understand what this actually was.
It was actually a political poll, and I forget who did it, but they did find out that women who were married were generally more informed and more educated, more aware of what was going on.
Single women were more Oprahized whether they were divorced or what have you.
And so the question that had to be asked was: what happens here?
Do you, as a woman, get married and a man makes you smarter is the way I phrase the question.
I'm happy to hear that you are agreeing with that premise.
Now, the fact that you are single and you are still a conservative, is this, are you thinking about getting married so that you don't lose this position that you have?
I don't think so.
I got to be, my father was always, I have two sisters.
We didn't have any boys in the house.
My father always was talking politics.
He was very involved.
He's on a lifelong conservation.
I was going to say, you sound well adjusted.
You sound like you've got everything nailed down and you have confidence and no doubts about it.
And it's because of a man.
It's because of my father, which taught us to think of ourselves.
Okay, so it was a man.
So you don't have to get married.
That's cool.
No, no, no.
Nothing against marriage, but if you want, if the right guy comes along, snap it up.
Yeah, it's hard in Michigan.
There's a lot of liberal men.
It's a liberal, very liberal.
Yeah, most of the liberal men are out of work in addition to that, so there's nothing that they can provide for you.
Yeah, no, no, no.
So don't, no, no, no.
Hold out, Katie.
Yes.
Hold out.
High standards.
Don't compromise.
I absolutely will not.
And there are other states.
Oh, yes.
Yes.
I've been looking into actually Texas.
Texas looks very appealing to me.
Now, you'll run into a little more competition down there, but the fruits of your labors will produce a much greater score.
I have to run here because I'm not mean that in a figurative sense, okay.
I'm way long on this break.
I got to go, but it's great to hear from you.
Thanks for calling.
Thank you very much.
All right, we'll take a quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue serving humanity right after this.
By the way, I am told that French President Sarkozy was at the Olympics.
At least he was seen at the opening ceremonies.
I don't know how long he hung around, but he was there.
So I need to make that correction.
Bill in Glenview, Illinois, you're next on the Russian Limbaugh program.
Nice to have you here, sir.
Yes, sir.
Very nice to talk to you.
I was born in one of the former Russian satellites.
It was freed by Gorbachev during Glasnost Burstroika.
And Russia usually has three patented reasons for going into country.
A is to liberate, of course.
Two is to put down unrest, like in Hungary.
And of course, the third one is because somewhere, somehow, some Russian citizens in the field were killed, so they had to go out and straighten things out.
Wait a second now.
Wait, wait, wait, just a minute.
I want to make sure I heard you right.
The Russians generally go into countries for three reasons.
Well, that's what they usually talk about.
Two of them are liberators, or they put down unrest.
Wait.
Let me ask a question.
Is this what you say the Russians are doing, or what they say the reasons are that they go in these countries?
That's most of the reasons they say that Tells me.
Okay, so they're going in to liberate people.
Like in this case, they're liberating the people of South Ossetia.
Well, I'm not sure if that is in this case.
They have probably other reasons like oil, but they could say that they're liberating these people, and that's one of their patented reasons that they'll always use to go into countries.
Right.
Well, they have passed out a bunch of phony passports, Russian passports to people living there.
They can say they're now oppressed with the people of Georgia.
Well, you know, if they say that certain Russian citizens there are oppressed or were killed and so on, they don't have to prove it.
They just say that's what it is and they go in.
Right.
Well, because the drive-by media will accept what the Russians say about this.
Well, of course, I hope Obama is listening because a guy like Putin would probably eat him for breakfast and spit him out without even him knowing what transported.
Oh, here, Putin.
Putin has already grab the special exclusive address, Ed, that we have from Vladimir Putin that we played in the first.
I want you to listen to this.
You have it ready, Ed?
Okay, you do.
Okay, here it is.
Now from Putin News Services, Moscow.
A statement from His Excellency Vladimir Putin.
Today, we have agreed to the ceasefire after running out of things to shoot at in the renegade outlaw state of Georgia.
Georgia has continually threatened our motherland, forcing us to take steps to stop their aggression.
Sure, on the map, they look pretty small compared to Russia, but we can't take any chances.
And I haven't had this much fun since I sent that soup to the president of Ukraine.
I want to thank Barack Obama for suggesting the ceasefire.
What a great idea.
I look forward to us working closely together after the election.
Yours truly, Vladimir.
There you have it.
So, Vladimir, you can't wait to work with Obama.
By the way, whatever Russia says is believed, here's a montage of Bill Schneider assigning blame.
It could be just what John McCain needs to highlight his strengths.
McCain has talked tough from the outset of the crisis.
His statement on the radio was ominous.
Some voters may worry: does he want to start a new Cold War?
The risk for McCain is that he could overplay the issue and frighten war-weary voters whose priorities are at home right now.
The Russians are doing a pretty good job of frightening people already.
So, here's McCain lumped in by CNN's Bill Schneider with the Russians in frightening people.
Bill, let me tell you what really frightens people, and that's Obama is what really frightens Americans.
Back after this, don't go away.
Nancy Pelosi's book's been out two weeks.
She sold a total of 5,333 copies.
You couldn't even start a decent fire with that few mini-books.
That's all.
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