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Sept. 3, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 3, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Ha, welcome back, Rush Limboy here on the cutting edge.
Serving humanity simply by showing up behind a golden EIB microphone telephone number is 800-282-2882.
Email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
If you're just joining us, too bad for you.
You missed a barn stormer of a first hour.
Audio sound bites from Mark Maxie Shields and Sally Quinn.
All complaining, both complaining that Sarah Palin has no business accepting the job of vice president.
No way, because she got too many kids.
She needs to stay home.
And besides, if she's elected vice president, she's got a 17-year-old daughter that's uh that's pregnant.
She's got a down syndrome baby of her own.
It's just too distracting.
It just she can't possibly work.
She can't, and besides, religious women are subservient to their husbands, and she's violating one of the central tenets of evangelicals, Sally Quinn said.
So I said, okay, let's take a look at some drive-by info, babes and check out their families.
And we have the first one in, Soledad O'Brien, who was the one interviewing uh Sally Quinn of Georgetown, I believe.
Yes.
Since 1995, 13 years ago, Solidette O'Brien has been married to Bradley Raymond, who is the co-head of an investment banking of investment banking at Thomas Weissel Partners.
Together, together, I guess it's important to say that.
Together, Soledad O'Brien and her husband have two daughters and twin sons.
Sophia Elizabeth, born October 23rd, 2000, Cecilia, born March 20th, 2002, and Charlie and Jackson on August 30, 2004.
She has four kids under nine years old.
She has no business working at CNN.
She has no business being in the drive-by media.
I don't care.
Sally Quinn said it was okay to have two or three kids, but not as many as Sarah Palin has, and Solidette O'Brien has four, and they're under ten.
Now I haven't been a parent, but I would I would venture to say that kids under ten years old, nine and younger do present some problems.
They are not exactly self-sufficient.
You might not want to say that they're special needs kids, but they certainly uh they certainly need uh guidance, and it doesn't sound like old Bradley here's taking much time off from the investment banking firm, does it?
So who is it that's raising Solidette O'Brien's kids so that she can go on a drive-by media and pollute the country with her arch ultra-leftism.
You know, some commentators, ladies and gentlemen, are bemoaning the fact that the McCain campaign made a mistake and cancel the first night of the convention in order to uh show solidarity with the suffering of those hit by Hurricane Gustav.
And these commentators are saying the meet the Republicans made a typical mistake.
They tried to please the media by showing the media that they too care about people who are harmed in natural disasters that of course Republicans cause.
That is another narrative in template.
Republicans cause natural disasters because they don't care about poor people and don't care about suffering, as evidenced by Hurricane Katrina.
So the Republicans in typical defensive mode say some commentators decided to cancel the first night of a four-night extravaganza to showcase who they are, and that it was a mistake.
And I could I could see that at the outset.
However, I am rethinking this.
The media vacuum created by the Republicans canceling their convention on the first night has given the media a chance to fill that vacuum and look how they're doing it.
It is it is it there may be an upside, is what I mean by always trying to find the good that happens in everything.
The media is showing one and all, just fight.
I mean, it's better than they ever have who they are, how mean-spirited they are, how anti-traditional American values they are, and they're doing it 24-7.
In the case of Sarah Palin, this is even more perverse.
They're attacking the mother for behavior of one of her children.
They want you to believe that both the child and her mother Are unworthy.
Yet they forgive Bill Clinton.
They forgive John Edwards.
They forgive John Kennedy.
They forgive any liberal because they have an agenda, and nothing is to get in the way of their agenda.
That agenda is without a moral order.
There is no moral structure to liberalism that has to be followed.
It is why they are able to tell themselves that the biggest enemy they face is not Al Qaeda.
It's not the new Russia.
It's not Iran, it's not the North Koreans, it's not China.
The biggest enemy the American left faces is conservatism and the Republican Party.
To them, that represents true evil.
Russia's not evil.
Iran is not evil.
Israel's close to being evil.
North Korea is not evil.
The new Russia is not evil, because they have a messiah who can deal with all those people.
But the evil that they have to fight is us.
And when you have no moral structure, which they don't, and then you engage in fighting what you consider to be evil, why evil must be vanquished, must it not, at whatever cost.
And if you have no moral structure, then how can you even say there is a cost to what you're doing?
So to be human, to have standards is to be demeaned and disparaged.
To believe in something greater than government, to believe in something greater than global warming, to believe in something greater than health care for all, to believe in something greater than pure unadulterated socialism is to be demeaned and disparaged.
Like God is to be condemned.
People who believe in God are to be condemned.
The American left, which now embodies the working class government, the Washington government, the American mainstream media, and the Democrat Party.
That's the American left.
They are truly frightened of God.
That's who they're trying to beat.
They are trying to wipe God out of every heart and soul in this country that believes in God.
God is their competitor.
Those of you who believe in God are God's soldiers.
You become the enemy on the battlefield.
The only way to beat God is to beat you, to beat God out of you.
And this is what they are doing, and make no mistake about it.
To believe in human life, whether it be a Down syndrome child or an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, is to be condemned.
It's to be condemned.
Stop and think about that.
To believe in human life is to be condemned.
So according to Mark Max, it's Sarah Palin's fault that the liberal media is investigating.
Sarah Palin's fault.
That the liberal media is trying to destroy her 17-year-old daughter.
Mark Shield said it.
We had the soundbite in the previous hour.
The Libs have been all excited about change.
Obama represents change.
He represents somebody new, not from Washington.
He speaks well, he's handsome.
His experience or lack thereof is dismissed.
Nobody even thinks to ask how he is being a father to his two young daughters given his campaign schedule.
And then along comes Sarah Palin.
She represents more chains than Obama.
She is infinitely more qualified than Obama.
If you heard Obama's response to that, by the way, is, well, what do you mean I have no executive experience?
Well, I've been running my campaign for a year and a half.
Who running our campaign?
I've heard all manager of my campaign.
We all know he's not managing the campaign.
A guy named David Axrod is, David Axelrod, but Obama actually said he's got more executive experience running a presidential campaign than Sarah Palin has as two years of governor of Arkansas.
Uh Alaska, correct.
Then along comes Sarah Palin, who represents more change than Obama.
She comes from a place further from Washington than Obama.
She is an accomplished politician and governor of a state.
She's got five kids.
She is treated as the devil.
She is being treated as the devil incarnate.
The attacks on Sarah Palin are attacks on most American families in this country.
I'm not saying every American family is the same beliefs or practices.
But this is an attack on the family on working women on marriage.
They rip her for her experience, and they gleefully are cited by the haters.
I've also had a lot of email from people about Lieberman in his speech last night.
And people say, what a great brave guy, and it was a great speech.
Crowd loved it more than uh I thought it would, Mr. Limble.
I really read the speech in advance, wasn't that crazy about it when he gave it to the audience seemed to really like it in uh in spots.
And now Harry Reid, everybody's come out that did Bill Richardson.
Well, they've just thrown him overboard, but they actually did that back in 2004, so he sought his life draft, life raft with a Republican Party.
Here's my problem with Lieberman.
I love Lieberman as I've told you.
I'm a human being as an individual.
But would you ever believe that you would at a at a Democrat convention say, see Dick Cheney show up and make a speech to Democrats saying, you guys gotta work together with a Republican.
The American people want us to work together and get rid of all this partisanship.
I don't think you would ever see it.
The way I feel today, and I've this is not new.
With all due respect to Joe Lieberman, I don't want to compromise with these people that are trying to destroy people who believe in God.
They're trying to destroy every stellar individual of our movement has been targeted for character destruction, for professional destruction.
What what in the world is there to compromise with these people?
It is a silly notion to believe.
That the number one thing on American people's minds these days is why can't Democrats and Republicans get along?
That is a what's one of these mantra myths that I do not believe because I know that the Democrats couldn't care less about getting along unless we change our minds and unless we become subservient wives to them.
That's the only time they would care to get along.
I don't see Mavericks in their party.
I see people like Joe Lieberman and Zell Miller.
I see carcasses.
I see dead bodies.
And I see even after Zell Miller and Lieberman are gone from that party, I see all out efforts to destroy them.
Lieberman's going to have to have somebody start his car from now on the rest of his life and taste his food.
He's going to need security details.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
All right, one more.
Ladies and gentlemen, Katie Couric talking to the governor of Minnesota Tim Puletti last night on CBS special Democrat National Convention coverage.
She said, okay, so this babe Sarah Palin, she's against abortion, even in the case of rape or incest.
She wants creationism taught in a schools, and then she said this.
Do you worry that her selection might be a turnoff to some wavering Democrats and independents who might consider supporting Tom McCain.
Women in terms who are worried about breaking through that glass scene are going to look at her life story and relate to her life story in ways that go beyond just the abortion.
Do you think her story will trump experience?
I think the story is in part experience.
She's got more experience, as you know, than Barack Obama, so I don't think that's going to be a strong argument.
Well, that's according to Republican talking points.
I think the Democrats would disagree with that.
I think those are also facts.
Way to go, Katie, way to stick up for the Democrats talking points.
Way to fulfill everybody's expectations of your incompetent partisanship disguised as journalism.
Let's talk about experience on the part of Sarah Palin, shall we?
I have a piece here today from the American Spectator.org website.
It is written by James P. Lucier, L U C I E R. Just uh former staff director of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee is Mr. Lucer.
Former staff director of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is where Joe Biden comes from.
Let me just give you the highlights and excerpt form of Mr. Lucere's piece.
Palin came into the governor's office and found a mess on her desk.
The oil deals struck by defeated Republican Governor Frank Murkowski was not working.
Through creative accounting by big oil and ambiguous reporting standards, a Murkowski plan just wasn't giving the state of Alaska the payoff that was expected.
So the former mayor of Wasilla, population 9,000, as the mainstream media always points out, demanded that the agreement be renegotiated and the terms be nailed down.
Big oil and other interests on the other side of the table laughed when she sat down to negotiate.
But in the end, Sarah Palin, as governor, had a new deal that delivered 50% of the oil revenues to the Alaska Permanent Fund and enabled Palin to send a check for 1,200 to every qualified Alaska citizen.
And then to follow up that act, she got the Alaskan legislature to approve development of the Trans Canada gas pipeline, a 40 billion dollar deal that will go 1,715 miles from the treatment plant at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to the Alberta hub in Canada, from which it'll be transferred to the United States.
This project has been sitting around for 30 years on hold because big energy companies didn't think it would be profitable, and their corrupt cronies in the legislature obediently kept it on the shelf.
Crusading against corruption, negotiating across the aisle, Palin not only got it passed in record time, but opened up the bidding when U.S. companies were reluctant to jump in.
So she went ahead and awarded the contract to the low bidder, Trans Canada Alaska, a firm that had already built 36,000 miles of pipeline in North America.
As a final flip, the governor signed the bill at the Alaska AFL CIO biennial convention.
While Barack Obama's solution to the energy problem is to urge us to check the air in our tires, Palin's solution is to start building a 40 billion dollar gas pipeline without federal assistance.
So just how does the experience of Sarah Palin stack up against the experience of Joe Biden?
There are some people who confuse seniority in the Senate with experience.
James Lucier, former staff director, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where Biden works on Sarah Palin.
Here's Bob in Willowbrook, Illinois.
Bob, glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
How do you do, Rush?
And thank you for talking about this.
I've been waiting twelve hours to vent.
I'm not an evangelical.
I'm not even a parent, but the treatment of Sarah Palin is absolutely outrageous.
I'd like to start with a fact.
And anyone who knows anything about Down syndrome kids knows that the situation is far more common among older mothers.
So the idea of demanding of a paternity test is ridiculous.
And apparently reporters don't need to concern themselves with with the boning up on the facts.
No, no, no.
You're right.
You're missing the point.
This is this just create havoc.
This is just to promote crisis, they're trying to create and have it stick that Sarah Palin is a liar.
That's the purpose that's the purpose of the request.
They don't care whether it's true or not.
Couldn't care less.
They don't care whether it's really her.
They'd be thrilled if she was lying about it.
But the point is to establish in the minds of the uh the news consuming public that she can't be trusted.
Rush, how is it that the liberals are exempted from the charge of dealing in stereotypes?
If a conservative, or well, there are no conservative reporters, but but if a con any conservative uh were to uh talk about a minority in stereotypical ways, uh he'd be out of a job by the end of the day.
Well, it's a good question.
There's a there's an answer to it, and that is that the liberals are sophisticated, uh, and they care more for these minorities than a Republican conservatives do, and uh plus there's nobody gonna hold them to account.
They're not accountable for what they say or do if they were.
You know, Joe Biden was here in Palm Beach yesterday, so over in West Palm Beach, 1200 people or 1700 people went over there to the to the convention center right across from City Place to hear Joe Biden speak.
During his speech, and he was he was he's by the way, he said that he thinks Sarah Palin's qualified.
He was he was uh he was okay with that.
He didn't want to cause any controversy, but he said that what Democrats are gonna do, we're gonna protect social security, we're gonna keep the word social in it and security in it, and we're gonna keep the word private out of it.
And then the mayor of West Palm Beach, Lois Frankl.
She showed up and said, and that and and you know, electing Sarah Palin, that'd be like bringing back the butterfly ballot.
Well, now, who was it that created Social Security?
Who designed it?
And it broke.
Who designed the butterfly ballot?
Democrats.
If they were held accountable for their mistakes, our country would be smooth sailing about now.
Don't worry, folks, I like this tune, I'm just listening to a little bit of it here.
A Holly's long cool woman in a black dress is 1972, I believe.
Elizabeth, New Jersey is our next stop on the phones.
This is Lisa.
Great to have you here, Lisa.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Okay, I have a few questions.
First, I am a Hillary supporter, and I do not like Sarah Palin.
She's trying to get rid of our pro-choice life and turn it back to the 1930s.
Number one.
Number two, she's trying to steal um um Hillary's supporters, so when she goes for the presidency, and John McCain ruins the economy just as much as George Bush ruined the economy, then she could take the responsibility and say it's not me wasn't gonna was in power.
It was McCain.
Lisa, do you I just have to know this.
Do you really believe what you just said?
Yes, I do.
Because Republicans never take responsibility.
Social Security was doing fine before Republicans came in power.
It was strong and the dollar was strong.
Eight years of George Bush.
The golden goose was going to be killed by the program.
It has happened, it is massively in debt.
Bush tried to fix it.
No, Bush and the elected Republicans ruined the economy.
And you, Republicans, use the same talking points.
You cannot talk to a walking cliche who doesn't...
You don't think on your own.
You're just repeating all this garbage that you hear on whatever you listen to, read and so forth.
It's a shame.
You know, it really's a shame because you otherwise sound like a pretty perceptive woman, but you're just so poisoned by what sounds to me like a bunch of anger.
Um not none of what you believe is.
I'm just hoping that we don't need another four years in George Bush and then nothing that you believe in is threatened.
George Bush did not destroy the country's reputation.
America is in fabulous shape.
It's got more people working than at any time in the Bill Clinton administration.
Can I ask a question?
When McCain wins the economy and then Sarah Palin goes for the presidency against Hillary Clinton...
Is he gonna use her experience over Hillary's?
Wait a second.
I want to ask you that uh probably waste my time and I'm frustrating my audience doing this, but would you explain all of us why and how John McCain's gonna destroy the economy?
Because George Bush destroyed the economy.
And he's gonna do it and Sarah Palin's.
No, the economy has not been destroyed.
The economy is in better shape today than it was under Bill Clinton.
There are more people working.
Average income is higher.
Productivity productivity is you're believing a bunch of lies from a bunch of people who are trying and succeeding to poison your mind.
You are less than you should be as an American citizen.
You are you are just a sponge accepting a bunch of literal garbage.
George Bush has not destroyed anything.
George Bush has saved and protected this country and kept it safe since 9-11.
George Bush was an adult who took seriously the the number one responsibility of the president of the United States, which was not taken seriously by Bill Clinton.
Nothing has been destroyed in this country in terms of the economy.
Um beating my head against the wall.
Katie, Seattle, Washington, you're next.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Ditto's rush.
Hi.
Hi.
Oh gosh, I am so angry today.
Listen, I am a mother of three, and I am disgusted on what I am seeing on the media.
I this question out there that Sarah Palin, she's abstinence only.
How do we know that 17-year-old daughter of hers was not practicing safe sex?
I mean, the media has just tried and convicted her.
Um last time I checked, I'm I'm a mother of three.
Birth control can fail.
Yeah, a lot of a lot of men can attest to that too.
Yeah, and I'm just I'm so frustrated by it because just because she has values and she's a lot of people.
See, that's that's you've got to understand that's another point because Sarah Sarah Palin apparently believes in abstinence.
Although one thing, Katie Kirk's question uh to uh to whoever she was talking to, I forget doesn't matter, uh uh Tim Polini about uh about teaching creationism.
She's not me, she's not she doesn't want to make teaching creationism mandatory.
Uh she just wants something to counter evolution.
Intelligent design.
I mean common sense.
At any rate, uh what they're trying to go after on is that she believes in abstinence and whether or not she was taking birth control or not, uh, she wasn't abstaining.
And so they're trying to say that Sarah Palin's a hypocrite and doesn't raise her family right, and her daughter's a renegade, and a woman can't control her family.
There's there this it's just it is just there's no love whatsoever.
I don't think these people have any love in their own lives.
Well, I don't think they do sit around and strategize about how to destroy their enemies.
I think that is their life.
I think that's why they never go to they they dream about it.
They never turn off their brains in terms of how to destroy their enemies.
Enjoying life to them is finding ways to regain their power, exercise it, and never lose it.
I know, and I think I see what the press is doing in the sense they're just making her out to be a total hillbelly.
She's just a hillbilly, teaching our kids, you know, about dogs.
Exactly right.
You are give me a break.
I mean, maybe the gal wanted to start a family.
How do we know that?
It's just ridiculous.
It's just so condescending, and I'm I am just I'm livid, and I can't tell you everyone of the gals I'm talking to, and my girlfriend and my mom and her friends, they are so jazzed about her.
Uh I mean, she's she's gonna win this thing, and she's gonna win it big, and I can't wait to watch all those women.
They better have those rafters secured on the roof tonight in Minnesota because she's gonna blow the roof off the joint.
But you are more right than you may even know.
That us weekly magazine cover, Letterman told a joke last night.
I think you're gonna see a shift.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, from the perception of Sarah Palin as inexperienced, because you know, really, they fell into a trap on that.
I knew that was a rope-a dope.
I think, in fact, uh, ladies and gentlemen, I think one of the reasons for picking Sarah Palin was to emphasize Obama's lack of experience.
And here came Obama and the Democrats running right into the door, nose first on that.
They're gonna have to get off that because they can't win.
He he he can't.
She's got a rich American life that hundreds of people can attest to with no holes in it as she tells the story.
Obama's life has all kinds of holes, and the only people can vouch for him are people he doesn't want speaking about him.
They've got to get off this experience.
You know it's lame when Obama says that he's more qualified, has more experience than she does because he's run his campaign for 18 months.
So they've got to get off of that.
What they're gonna steer this towards is uh she's trailer trash.
Mark my words.
It's already started.
And you, uh, Katie are very wise to see that.
Now we were we were just talking here about uh energy and Sarah Palin and uh building the gas pipeline, getting it finally done after it languished on Murkowski's desk, and how Obama is out there, his energy policy is to tell you to go get a tire gauge and make sure your tires are inflated.
Her policy on energy is to build a pipeline to get all kinds of cubic feet of natural gas from Alaska to the lower 48.
Everybody, even though guess what the gas price is down 108 bucks, and now there's it might go down to 100.
And you know what I heard, folks?
Do you know what I heard?
Tom Friedman, Mr. Wizard of Smarts, the lead foreign policy uh uh op-ed columnist at the New York Times actually said that the big oil shakes are panicking over the plummeting price of oil.
They want it high.
They want actually they're happy that the price is going.
I'm gonna get this right.
They're happy the price is going down because they want the higher the oil price, then the uh the the lower let's put that the lower the oil price, the less energy will be expended on finding alternatives.
And of course the oil sheiks don't want anybody finding alternatives.
So Friedman says that these oil chicks, they're very concerned about these prices going down.
And and and so would should we be.
Freedman says we need to be concerned.
We need a ceiling, I'm sorry, a floor, a low price of $120 a barrel because we need to get going on alternatives.
And if the price keeps getting lower, that's bad news.
Totally out of touch with the American people.
The American people want gasoline to come down to a market-related price.
They want the market to rule on this.
The lower the price of gasoline gets, the higher the quality of life, the American citizen.
All of that doesn't factor into the consideration for Thomas Friedman or anybody like him because the American citizen is a doofus and unsophisticated Rube does not possibly understand that if we continue to buy gas and it gets cheaper, well, we're never going to develop fart power.
And we're never going to deliver gas power from cows.
We're never going to deliver power from windmills to run our little cars.
We are such rubes.
Meanwhile, American business is taking seriously your concern about the cost of gasoline.
General Motors, one of our sponsors, we are proud and honored that they are a sponsor of this program.
Everybody's out there flapping their gums, Thomas Friedman, all these other people.
Don't know what they're talking about.
General Motors is doing things, designing terrific cars, crossovers, trucks, SUVs that use alternative fuels, different ways to power their vehicles.
Even got the Escalade Hybrid out there now to go along with the Tahoe hybrid.
And they're working on all kinds of new technologies that'll help use less gasoline.
One of the alternatives they're using is uh flex fuel cars that use biofuels like ethanol if you want them.
And they're making them if you want them.
They have four million of those flex fuel vehicles on the road across the globe, and they're committed to building even more.
They have, I think GM has more models that are capable of running on E 85 ethanol than any other manufacturer.
The uh Buick Lucerne, that's the one we're getting next to Tool Around here, uh, is one of the cars running on E 85.
General Motors, they respond to your concerns.
They don't tell you you're stupid.
You can see all their cars at Rushlimbly.com.
Quick timeout will be back after this.
Oil prices right now hovering around 109 a barrel.
It's coming down.
And you know who's getting rich?
You know who's getting rich on the oil price coming down?
Speculators.
Speculators are making down like bandits, but nobody cares when the price comes down, only when the price goes up.
Yeah, the speculators are out there, those are those who are smart enough to sell short.
And what's happening is a result of these speculations, these evil, mean Republican speculators getting rich here with the oil price coming down.
At the same time, these speculators are the ones who are destroying people's retirement funds.
Because those retirement funds invested in oil, well, the price of oil's coming down.
The retirement funds are losing value, all because of the speculators.
The price coming down.
Okay, let's see.
Who's next?
Uh, this is uh the oh, speaking of social security.
Did you hear about this?
The Democrats got her social security number, Sarah Palin's not and released it, all but the last four digits.
This is the same thing that Chuck Schumer's people did to Michael Steele.
They wanted his credit report, they wanted to get a number of things to release this data on it or trying to do that with her.
All the while blaming Sarah Palin for making the life of her 17-year-old daughter public.
Don't worry, folks, I'm gonna call her up.
I'm gonna tell her to use life lock.
She won't have anything to worry about.
Here's uh Monica in uh in Iron Mountain, Michigan.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks.
Um, I'm calling, I want to speak on the issue brought up yesterday, the comment made by Andrea Mitchell that only uneducated women are supporting Sarah Pallin.
Yeah, that's right.
Um, okay.
well, as a graduate of the University of Michigan, which I think counts in their book because it is a pretty liberal bastion, uh, as a mother of six, including a five-year-old daughter with autism.
It's nice to have somebody else knowing about special needs.
Uh actually, technically, Rush is a mother of seven.
Uh, my oldest daughter died at birth because she had Down syndrome.
I am beyond thrilled to support this ticket of Sarah Palin and John McCain.
From what I've learned about her over the last, well, really only the last week, but from what I've learned, she's a great role model.
And as far as her experience goes, I think what really attracted John McCain was not necessarily the breadth of her experience, but the kind of experience she had, which was rooting out that corruption and going against her own party.
I just think it is a great ticket, and I can't wait to vote in November.
Good.
One of the things that they're gonna promote in her speech tonight is her being a reformer.
Right.
Uh, as McCain considers himself to be a reformer, and this to attack the so-called change in a hope campaign from Barry Obama and uh and Joe Kiapet Biden.
Now, let me ask you, you you went you you gave your family history.
You've had a child, uh uh seven kids, one with down syndrome, one one died.
Uh well, my I had seven children.
My my oldest died at birth.
She had down syndrome.
I've gone on to have six more, and my five-year-old has autism, yes.
All right, now.
Uh have you put yourself in Sarah Palin's place and and uh and wondered what it'll be like if if uh if the entire drive-by media was uh going after you and your children this way.
How does it make you feel having uh similar family circumstances to watch this happen to her?
You know, it it's just crazy.
I I I feel for her, and the thing that bothers me about this teenage uh daughter, um you know, the reason that the McCain camp, as far as I can understand, came out to say that um she was expecting a baby was because the other side were making these allegations that she was really the mother of this Down syndrome baby, and they're blaming Sarah uh for not protecting her children.
And it was their side that came out with this ruin.
Do you do you know where that charge came from?
Uh I think I'm not sure.
It came from an obviously developmentally uh troubled liberal kid at a blog website on the fringe left, and the drive-by media simply accepted it as fact and ran with it.
Yep.
Well, you know, you you you you don't I mean, and you sound irritated, but you don't sound mad.
There are a lot of people mad about what's happening to her.
Not that I want you to be mad, don't misunderstand.
I'm just trying to get a gauge here uh of how people like you out in the heartland reacting to this.
Well, um I think uh she can stand up for herself, and I'm I'm sure she knew some of this was gonna be coming, uh, being in politics already, but um it it's just really too bad.
It's really too bad.
I I just hope she makes I'm sure she'll make a great speech tonight, and let's get back to the issues.
You know, it's just crazy.
Well, that's exactly what the the drive-by media does not want this about.
They lose on the issues.
They lose big time on the issues.
They want this about caricatures, lying, stinking, false caricatures of people.
That's the only way they can win is to destroy the character and lives of their opponents.
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Stay with us.
Very simple.
If Sarah Palin nails her speech tonight, the Democrats are in trouble.
It's just that's her speech is as highly anticipated as Obama's.
This is becoming uh almost Obama versus Palin.
Thank you, ladies.
Take note, please.
You're being sexualized, ridiculed, minimized.
It's an attack on your gender.
It's an attack on your cultural and moral views and beliefs.
I actually think not trying to be funny here, not even trying to be offensive.
I don't think Obama is half the man Sarah Palin is.
In terms of achievement, toughness, grit, bend down in the trenches.
and She can give a speech that'll demonstrate that without ever mentioning his name.
I hope the roof is firmly attached at the convention hole.
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