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September 12, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
The community agitator wants to make government cool again.
He said that yesterday.
He said, he wants to make government cool again.
It's going to start a coolness project.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's Rush Limbaugh, this, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
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So it happened again last night.
I'm sitting around.
I'm minding my own business.
I'm watching the Charlie Gibson excerpts there with Governor Palin.
Here comes the fatalistic email start rolling in from some friends.
I said, just calm down here.
She's doing great.
She's doing fine.
There's nothing to worry about.
One thing that people have to understand about all this, and it was, I'll tell you who said this, Roger Simon said this on some cable network this morning.
He was asked to review this and he said, you know, people look at these the wrong way.
We in the media look at these interviews the wrong way.
This is not some quiz show where you get one chance and you blow it and you're gone.
People do not look at a presidential campaign that way.
Sometimes, he said, I found this funny, sometimes this country does not elect the smartest people.
He was referring to Al Gore and, of course, the haughty John Kerry who served in Vietnam.
He says, people are going to elect who they think is the most authentic.
They're going to elect who they like the most.
They're going to elect who is, to them, just a normal person.
And he's exactly right about that.
Besides all that, she did fine last night.
Everybody knew what this was about.
And some of the media reviews for her really good.
But I thought there was this one moment where the libs think they've got her, this so-called cringe-inducing moment where she seemed not to know what the Bush doctrine was.
But as soon as she understood the nature of the question, she articulated it just fine.
You cringing in there when I say that?
She just, she had to have it explained to her what the concept was.
Once she got that, she articulated it perfectly.
She just wasn't familiar with the term.
There may not be eight people in the Bush administration who know what the Bush doctrine is.
What is the Bush doctrine, Dawn?
Tell me.
You don't know either.
See, you can't explain it either.
Cheney probably knows.
Bush probably knows.
Rumsfeld probably knows.
The State Department probably has forgotten about it.
CIA has tried to kill it.
So it's no big deal.
Very simply, the Bush doctrine is preemptive strike.
If we think you're coming after us after 9-11 and we got evidence that you're coming after us again, we're going to hit you before you hit us.
That's common sense.
I mean, to say that that's Bush doctrine something new, the reason we had to articulate that's because the modern-day Democrat Party does not believe in that.
They believe in us getting hit, then reading the people who hit us their rights and then giving them access to the U.S. Constitution.
And well, I know we did have to establish it after Clinton didn't do deadly squat.
So we did have to establish the Bush doctrine.
But I love, they try to twist her answers on the religious questions that she got, and they're distorting that.
And Charlie Gibson was not prepared.
I don't care what anybody's, he's working real hard to prepare this.
But Charlie, you fell for a phony AP story that misquotes Sarah Palin on why we went to Iraq, that we're doing God's will.
She prays that we are doing God's will when you go to Iraq.
Well, I just don't worry about all this, folks.
She did nothing last night to make people less enthralled.
I'll tell you who's got to worry.
Who has to worry here is Obama.
This guy, he is running a pure, he always has run a purely personality-oriented campaign.
And there's a story here in the New York Times.
Obama plans sharper tone as party frets.
Jake Tappert, ABC says, you know, this is the fourth time I've heard now that Obama's going to take off the gloves.
I asked quite profoundly and brilliantly earlier this week, how in the world does Obama get tough about the issues he's for?
How do you get tough about raising taxes?
How do you get tough about some of the things he can't be honest about some of the things he wants to do?
So it says here in this story that Obama's message was disrupted last week.
They're trying to figure out a way to make Obama's arguments newsworthy again.
His arguments never did make him newsworthy.
His has been a campaign of personality and aura and image from the get-go.
He's never been newsworthy from the standpoint of his issues.
He and Hillary Clinton, for example, didn't disagree about anything issue-wise.
The only way Obama could separate himself was to do this Messiah business.
But that's over and done with.
That's long gone.
If they're going to try to recapture that, they can't.
They're in huge trouble, folks.
They're the ones that are in big trouble out there.
And by the way, do you remember, I think it was in July, ladies and gentlemen, when I lectured on this very program, Republicans, that nothing was lost, that opportunities are being handed to them on a silver platter, not just for the presidential campaign, but for congressional elections, the gas price, the energy issue.
There was all kinds of things that if the Republicans would grab the reins and run right through the woods with them, that we could own this election.
You know, and there were Republican elected officials saying, well, it's inevitable that we're going to lose seats in the House.
It's inevitable we're going to lose seats in the Senate.
It was accepted as certain as man-made global warming that Democrats would add to their numbers and the Republicans were doomed.
Well, have you seen the latest Gallup poll?
Battle for Congress suddenly looks competitive.
Democrats' double-digit lead on the generic ballot slips to three points, the margin of error.
It's not a slam dunk that the Democrats are going to just roll the sweeping victory.
And it never has been a slam dunk that that was going to happen.
That's more media myth-making that everybody believed because we seem to be pessimistic and fatalistic about certain things.
Of course, I guess we have reason to feel that way at some point in our campaign.
But anyway, all that's gone.
We've gone through a bit of a revival here.
You know, the real change that's happening in American politics is on our side of the aisle.
The real change is for the first time since the contract for America.
The Republican Party finally has somebody who can effectively convey a conservative message, do it with authority and confidence and happiness.
It comes at a time when the moderate Republicans have screwed things up as much as the Democrats have.
So the moderate Republicans here have, it's right in front of their eyes how to win.
They eschewed all of this, trying to go after independents and Democrats and make that the future of the Republican Party.
Many of our conservative intelligentsia tried to do the same thing in the media by suggesting that we had to go out and attract these other people because our side's just too small.
It's a bunch of kooks and hicks and so forth.
One selection, Sarah Palin, has turned this around.
Now, there's a New York Wall Street Journal piece today.
You know, the big McCain's picked up 15 points in independence among independents.
And the Wall Street Journal says it has nothing to do with McCain's campaign tacking to the right.
It is totally due to his picking Sarah Palin.
Well, who is Sarah Palin?
Is it just that is it gendered these independents are simply joining because she's a woman, or is it because of who she is?
Of course, it's because it's who she is and that she espouses conservatism with confidence, with flair, with authority, and with happiness.
So, you know, the Obama team, I guarantee you, that lunch that Clinton and Obama had, it was a two-hour lunch.
And don't think for one minute that they did not discuss the possibility of Hillary Clinton ending up on this ticket as the vice presidential candidate.
Do not think they didn't discuss that.
There is huge trouble on the Democrat side.
They're trying to cover it up in the media with all these attacks on Sarah Palin and so forth.
But that's why they're doing the attacks because they know they got nothing to talk about with their guy.
How is he going to get tough?
How is he going to become newsworthy?
How is he going to make news with his issues when he doesn't have any?
We got audio soundbites from when he and McCain appeared at a Columbia Forum last night.
We'll get to those in a moment.
But first, ladies and gentlemen, the Obama campaign has announced a new movie soon to be released before the election.
This fall, DNC Pictures presents a Bible story you won't believe.
The biggest story ever told.
With Barack Obama as the community organizing Messiah who leads his media disciples through the wilderness.
Let's go over here.
Wait, no.
Oh, let's go over there.
Joe Biden as John the Baptist preparing the way of the Lord.
Come on, Lazarus.
Stand up and walk.
Oh, yeah, he's dead.
What am I thinking?
Let's all stand up for Lazarus.
Things begin to go south when the Messiah is betrayed by Judas Joe Lieberman.
He's just not ready to be president.
Next, he's brought before Governor Pontius Palin.
I just love my country.
Oh, why dost thou persecute me?
The biggest story ever told.
This isn't fair.
That the Republican Party as the Romans.
And John McCain as Methuselah.
My friends, we need Hillary Clinton as the demon-possessed woman.
Change, Obama, change.
I have experience.
The biggest story ever told.
A DNC production written by Donna Brazil and Steve Cohen.
Playing everywhere Barack Obama goes.
Messiah birth scenes deleted due to lack of three wise men and a virgin.
Okay, folks, remember it's Open Line Friday.
We'll get to your phone calls hopefully sooner today than we do usually.
Take a brief time out here.
Come back with all the rest of the program right after this.
One of my favorite moments last night in the Charlie Gibson interview with Sarah Palin was her reply to her lack of experience.
I love this because this is essentially a point that I have been making.
She said there are lots of people in Washington with big fat old resumes who have plenty of experience in doing the wrong things.
And what kind of experience, what kind of qualification is being wrong all the time?
Now, she didn't say that.
I added that, but that's what she means.
Now, look what we got here, folks.
We have three members of the most despised political institution in our country, the United States Congress.
We have John McCain, we have Barack Obama, we have Joe Biden.
Congress is in single-digit approval numbers.
And against these three members of the most despised political institution in our country, we have a fresh face who seems to share the values that most Americans share.
She can convey them in a pleasant, effective, confident, authoritative, humorous manner.
And, by the way, she happens to be a woman.
And I think, you know, as much as her gender and her appearance, I think these are the reasons that she's the center of the political debate right now, whether these old guys and this man-child like it or not, whether the gals like it or not.
That's why she's real.
She's authentic.
She's an American.
And she's likable.
She's likable.
And it's not complicated.
So you stack her up against the, if there's, you look at it that way.
Three members are the most despised political institution going right now, the U.S. Senate, versus Sarah Palin.
You want to tell me what's change?
She's change.
Let's go to the audio soundbites, ladies and gentlemen.
Here's our Obama bumper sticker.
He is going to make government cool again.
This was Columbia University, the Service Nation's presidential candidates forum.
Judy Woodruff is the moderator.
She said to Obama, so much is said that's critical about people who are in Washington, the way Washington works.
Bureaucrats in Washington, how much responsibility do you think you and other presidential candidates this year have to change the rhetoric so that people who work in government, work in public service, are respected?
If it weren't for government, then we wouldn't have a Civil Rights Act.
If it weren't for government, we would not have the interstate highway system.
If it weren't for government, we would not have some of our parks and natural wilderness areas that are so precious to America.
And so part of my job, I think, as president, is to make government cool again.
Make government cool again.
All these great things, the parks and so forth.
You know, the nature of the question is pretty interesting to me.
But here's a guy.
He's running for change.
His change now is to make government cool again.
I was cool before.
This is why, when they want to try to make Obama newsworthy, he's not newsworthy.
His statements are not newsworthy.
Do you know how they cringe when we make government cool again, our great parks?
Here's how McCain answered it.
Judy Woodruff said, Senator McCain, Senator Obama's put forward a national service plan to do some of the things you've talked about.
The two of you agree, but his has a price tag around $3.5 billion.
Is that an amount of money you'd be willing to spend more or less?
I mean, is that in a ballpark?
I think there are very good proposals there.
Some of them are new.
Some of them are obviously not.
But I also want to emphasize there, it doesn't always have to be run by the government.
That's why we also ought to understand that faith-based organizations, other volunteer organizations that are completely separate from the government, that have nothing to do with the government, are amongst the most successful.
So let's not get entrapped by the idea that the government has to run these voluntary organizations and volunteer kinds of programs, because a lot of times the job can be done better with our encouragement.
Yeah, without it not being there.
So it's a good answer.
Like that.
But Obama, we need to make bumper stickers out of this.
Gonna make government cool again.
Who knew that Obama had such a high regard for small-town mayors?
It seems to me that I recall him making fun of Sarah Palin for being a mayor of such a small town.
Richard Stengel was the co-moderator, said to Obama, we asked McCain the same question about Governor Palin's belittling being a community organizer.
Did the Democrats in return belittle being a small town mayor?
Was she being unfair?
Or was it hypocritical because Republicans actually say, hey, what the hell kind of question is this?
Here's what he said about mayors.
Well, listen, we've had an awful lot of small town mayors at the Democratic Convention, I assure you.
I meet them all the time.
And the mayors have some of the toughest jobs in the country because that's where the rubber hits the road.
You know, we yak in the Senate.
They actually have to fill potholes and trim trees and make sure the garbage is taken away.
Wow, am I overwhelmed?
I am dazzled.
This guy's grasp of the job that mayors have is just, is this stun you too?
It leaves me speechless.
This guy, folks, is he knows far more than I ever thought he knew.
Why, he knows that mayors fill the potholes and trim the trees and make sure the garbage is taken away.
Wow.
So, you know, he likes small-town mayors.
Now he explains why he was so noble to become a street agitator instead of making evil money.
I was surprised by the several remarks around community organizing and belittling it.
You know, when I think about the choice I made as a 23, 24-year-old to spend three years working with churches to help people help themselves, no insult to the president of this fine institution, but it was the best education I ever had because it taught me that ordinary people can do extraordinary things when they're given a chance and when they're brought together.
Well, now he's stealing my lines.
That's my line.
Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.
That's not what liberals believe.
Liberals don't believe that's possible.
I want to see the ordinary people that became extraordinary as a result of his tutelage as the community organizer.
You know, we don't hear about any of the people that have worked with Obama.
We don't hear about his classmates in college, either at Harvard or at law school, anywhere he's, but we don't hear about these wonderful stories with his mentorship, how these ordinary people in the streets of Chicago became extraordinary people, did extraordinary things.
We don't hear any kind of testimony.
We don't hear anybody attesting to the greatness of Barack Obama.
Liberals don't even believe this anyway.
Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.
If they wanted to promote that kind of thing, there'd be no need for liberalism.
Liberalism keeps people down.
Liberalism keeps a foot on their back so they can't get up.
But that's, he wasn't doing this.
Community organizing in Chicago is simply getting out to vote, working with ACORN, one of the most corrupt voter registration agitation organizations in the country.
This is all smoke and mirrors about what he did as a community organizer to just prep work for becoming a Chicago thug politician.
We'll be back.
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Grab audio sound by 34 very quickly, and we just got this in.
McCain appeared on the view today, and he was swarmed.
He was ambushed, even by Baba Wawa.
But of course, Whoopee Goldberg was there and Joy Behart.
And I have often articulated a philosophy, and I employ it often on this program.
Never get into an argument with a fool, because when you do that, the audience won't be able to tell the difference between you and the fool.
The fool will drag you down if you don't know how to deal with him.
So McCain goes in there, he answered all the questions.
He hung in there.
But this television show appeals to the same fringe kook base that's out there doing all this blogging and coming up with these weird statements like Jesus Christ was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor.
By the way, the latest Hollywood celebrity to add to that is Susan Sarandon.
She said it last night on a red carpet, some premiere of some movie.
Listen to this.
This is on the view today.
Joy Behar says there are ads running from your campaign.
One of them saying that Obama, when he said you couldn't put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig, was talking about Sarah.
There's another ad that says Obama was interested in teaching sex education to kindergartners.
Now, we know that those two ads are untrue.
They're lies.
No, Joy, both of them are true.
We've got the bill.
We have seen the actual bill that was put up for a vote in the Illinois Senate that Obama supported.
And it wiped out the sixth to 12 grades and added kindergarten in it.
Sex education comprehensive for kindergarten.
He voted for it.
These people are so uninformed, it's laughable.
So you go in there and you start messing around with these people.
It's a tough chore.
So she said, you, at the end of it, you say, Mr. McCain, that you approve these messages.
Did you really approve them?
And you'll hear Barbara Walters in here, too.
Actually, they are not lies.
And have you seen some of the ads that are running against you?
You yourself said the same thing about putting lipstick on a pig.
You yourself used the same words.
When I was talking about a health care plan.
Yeah, but he talked about change.
He's talking about self-haying.
Senator McDonald chooses his words very carefully, okay?
He shouldn't have said it.
He shouldn't have said it.
He chooses his words very carefully.
And this is a tough campaign.
But I would be glad to come on this show with Senator Obama.
I have asked Senator Obama to join me in town hall meetings all across America.
I've been in a lot of other campaigns where I have appeared with the opposition in front of the people and listened to their hopes and dreams and aspirations.
I don't think you'd see the tenor of this campaign.
He won't do it.
He hasn't the talent to do it.
He can't pull it off.
Scared to do it.
That's why he's turned down the 10 invitations for town hall meetings.
But, you know, this little bite we have was just a snippet.
Whoopi Goldberg was just over the top.
I was just talking about Wiccans and witches and all sorts of stuff.
Peppering McCain went in.
He hung in there.
He didn't back down, but it's just the audience applauded at all of the genuine ignorance and stupidity.
And I tell you, ignorance, most expensive commodity we have in this country.
Ignorance costs us more than any government program does.
It's just incredible when you see it.
All right, let me grab a couple of phone calls here.
Let's go to Faith in Luskin, Texas.
Faith, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello, great to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
Never better.
Great.
I've just got to, now that I heard that McCain was on The View, I never watched The View, but it's like throwing your pearls before swine.
He should never have gone on there.
Well, no, it's true because those women are just insane.
But the point I wanted to make with Palin, last night, what I noticed, she challenged Charles Gibson twice with asking questions back to him about Bush's policies.
She said, well, what are you referring to?
Well, he got flustered.
And then about the global warming thing, she challenged him again because he was making a big deal about global warming.
Then she said, well, you know, Charlie, all through history, man has made some kind of effect on the earth.
And he went, let's go to NR.
He just completely changed the subject.
He was really flustered.
And just one more real quick comment.
All these liberals.
I'm sorry.
All these liberals who keep calling in about.
Oh, I'm sorry.
My phone's acting up.
Yeah, I thought it was my speaker here.
Okay.
All these liberals who keep calling in, attacking Bristol, her daughter of 17 years old, is pregnant.
But she's going to keep the baby because she loves it.
She's going to get married.
Thank you.
I have to let you go.
That sound is driving me nuts on your phone, and I'm unable to hear what you're saying.
I heard we're not getting too many calls here ripping Bristol.
That must be happening somewhere else.
But it's fascinating.
Okay, here's a woman who watched the interview last night, and this is her perception.
You know, so a lot of people on our side, just watching this last night, hoping she didn't blow it.
Oh, because our side is just so convinced that our stars are going to blow it, that they're not genuine and so forth.
And in the one or two little mistakes, and oh, no, no, they start writing what she should have said and so forth.
It's interesting to get the perception of people who just see this, you know, ordinary people out there across the fruited plane and get their reactions to it.
I have not heard this reaction in any from anybody that I have seen, anybody I have read, anybody I have heard.
I have not heard anybody reference the fact that she fought back at Charlie Gibson a bunch of times and flustered him.
And I've read a lot.
I've read a lot.
These perceptions, to me, are always fascinating.
Evelyn in Overland Park, Kansas.
Hi, you're on Open Line Friday.
Yes.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
I think maybe the person I talked to before I talked to you, my take is that people like Michael Moore and you and Hannity and Combs, and I have a list.
I don't have it in front of me.
But I think you send your messages.
You inflame people.
And then we don't make up our own minds.
And we take all of these tidbits that you put out and you think things are funny.
Not just you.
Like I say, the Michael Moore's.
Wait a minute now.
Evelyn, do you actually intend?
Did you mean this?
This is a nervous slip because you know you're speaking with millions of people listening.
Yes, I know.
You actually mean to compare me to the bloated bigot propagandist.
Oh, yes, I do, Rush.
Oh, Evelyn, now be serious.
You're embarrassing me.
I can't believe that I have somebody in my audience that is that blind.
I think your audience, I think all of us that listen to this type of things, we ought to be ashamed of ourselves.
Well, then if you were my child, I would be ashamed of you for putting forth what you put forth.
My mother was proud of me.
Oh, well.
My mother was proud as she could be.
Evelyn, I can't believe you're saying this.
Why can't you believe I'm saying it?
Because you're totally wrong.
This audience is not a bunch of mind-numb robots taking tidbits.
I'm not saying just your audience.
I'm saying the audience that listens to both sides of this type of stuff that is put out to us.
Wrong.
Both sides.
You are, once again.
I think we are.
Nope, you are insulting the basic intelligence of people.
No, I'm not.
Yes, you are because you're saying they can't make up their own minds, that they are influenced by little tidbits.
Rush, just because you say I'm insulting them does not mean that I am insulting them.
See what I say when I say you get into an argument with a fool.
You oftentimes can't tell the judges.
I am not a risky thing to do.
So you're going to treat me just like the rest you treat.
You're not going to listen to me.
I am listening to you.
Look at why should Evelyn, you're wrong.
You really don't know what you're talking about here.
So, why should I listen to that?
Why should they listen to you?
Why should they listen to Michael Moore?
Why should they listen to Sannetti and Combs?
Why should they listen to that?
What are we supposed to do?
Watch Mr. Rogers reruns all day?
You know, that would be an improvement.
I thought so.
All right, thanks, Evelyn.
You know, I got up today thinking this is going to be a great day.
I'm going to Cleveland tomorrow for the Steelers on Sunday night.
I got a lot of things looking forward to here.
And it's bad karma day here on the phones.
Let's try again.
Jesus, the community organizer in West Palm Beach.
Great to have you on the phone, sir.
Hello.
Megados, Rush.
It's been years I've been trying to get on your show.
Welcome aboard, sir.
Yes, I was been in the Marines for 27 years, and I retired, and I've been a community organizer here in Palm Beach.
My concern is why I'm going to, you know, I'm a conservative like you, and I was leery about McCain, but being now that the Russians have landed TU-160 in Venezuela in our own hemisphere just recently to do exercise, we're going to need a man in office who's going to tell them, you're not going to do this in my yard, instead of somebody who's just going to say, I'll talk to these people and ask them, can you please not bring these bombers or put bases in Cuba?
That's my main concern.
No, I don't think that's the reaction Obama would.
Obama would, can I come down and see those bombers?
I've never seen a Russian bomber.
I'm glad they're here.
You know, did Putin fly in on one?
You know, they did not bring any nuclear missiles.
They were not nuclear armed, but they went down there for some sort of military show.
But make no mistake, there's a lot of symbolism here with the Russians sending in those two big bombers down to Venezuela for Hugo Chavez.
We are a great country at risk in a dangerous world.
By the way, last night, Palin gave a terrific answer on NATO that the drive-bys are trying to distort.
They're trying to say, she'd take us to war with Russia.
Well, she wants to start a war.
No, it was Obama who said he would go to Pakistan regardless.
For every instance that Palin talked about military engagement last night, you can find four corresponding Obama statements that he's made previously that are far just reckless.
They are reckless and uninformed.
Hers were reasoned.
Hers were thought out.
The question about Russia and NATO is when, say, Russia invades Georgia again, do we have to perhaps defend Georgia?
She said, perhaps so.
I mean, that's what the NATO agreement is.
When a member state is attacked, the other members of the organization rally to its defense.
And that was turned into she wants to go to war with Russia.
It was a great answer.
Anyway, I appreciate the call out there, Jesus.
We have a brief timeout.
We'll be back right after this and continue.
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Let's go to Chico, California.
This is Aaron.
Thank you for calling, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Rush Meg here, 82nd Airborne Dittos.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, look, I needed to call and respond to that lady who called on before the one you just had.
That'd be Evelyn from Overland Park, Kansas.
Yeah.
Wow.
I cannot believe she actually compared you to Michael Moore.
And I live out here in Northern California in the sea of blue liberals, and it's hard to take every day.
But the one thing I hear from liberals is how they say people like you and Hannity are so divisive.
What they don't understand is that it's divisive to us when we hear our own beliefs and our own values just utterly disgrace the way they treat Sarah Palin with sexism and just utter disgrace and nothing that gives her respect when they're the ones who tout all this, and you're the one who points these things out to us and make us learn and want to learn more and get on the issues rather than just accepting what people have been accepting for almost 30 years with mainstream media.
Exactly right.
Well, you know, the way to understand liberals, when they talk about divisiveness, that's just a device.
They use all kinds of devices to discredit and to destroy political opponents because they don't dare come to the middle of the arena of political ideas and debate because they lose.
So their modus operandi is to destroy the opposition.
So when they say that people like me are divisive, that's simply their way of saying, I don't like hearing this guy.
He doesn't say what I want to hear.
We got to shut him up.
I understand these people.
I understand these people like every square inch of my glorious naked body.
That woman from Overland Park, there are a lot of people like that too.
She just doesn't like any stress.
She doesn't like anything that makes her feel like she's in the middle of confrontation, but she can't stop listening to it.
She's got a simple ouch, call the on-off button on the radio.
Yeah, it's weird with liberals, too, because when you start showing them actual fact, like either global warming or the war or whatever have you, when they bring up the subject and then you start showing it to them, they're like, oh, I don't want to talk about it anymore because it totally challenges their worldview.
And it's just ridiculous.
They really listen.
You know, they're funny and they clearly are laughable.
But if these people ever become a majority and gain power, they're Stalinists.
They will act on this stuff that they believe.
I don't think that there are that many of them.
I think that their numbers are amplified by the drive-by media.
And we are told, now they are the base of the Democrat Party, but I don't think that they're that big a number.
And I'm talking about the genuine kooks, the genuine lunatics.
There are quite a few of them.
I'm not trying to disparage this, but this, I still have faith in the people of this country.
This is one of the reasons I'm so grateful for the Sarah Palin nomination, her pick, and her campaign, because it's just exposing more and more every day who these people are.
And believe me, there are plenty of rational, ordinary, decent Americans who are repulsed by this.
They're repulsed by what they see and hear said about her.
This line about Jesus was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor.
That is not being covered by the drive-bys.
The effect of that line, you know, who it's offending and who it's outraging.
But don't doubt me.
There are gazillions of Americans who hear that line used by these leftists.
We're going to keep it going.
They hear Jeremiah right, and believe me, they want no part of it.
They don't consider it to be legitimate.
They consider it to be dead wrong, and they want to do what they have to do to defeat it.
We have not lost our exceptionalism.
As a country, we have not lost our decency.
And these people are cruising for an implosion, and it's been going on ever since.
Well, it's been going on a long time, but it's really intensified since 2000, since Al Gore lost, 2004, John Kerry.
We make the mistake, ladies and gentlemen, of comparing ourselves to them in the sense we think that we're rational.
And we consider ourselves normal.
So when things go wrong, when we screw up and we don't win, we feel, okay, maybe we're wrong about something.
Or maybe we did something wrong.
So we start examining ourselves.
They don't.
When they lose elections, when they lose issues, it's always because of fraud or somebody cheated.
It's never them.
Well, maybe they used the wrong words, but it's never what they believe.
They always get cheated.
So they never, ever seriously examine what's wrong with it.
Look at they lost in 2002.
They lost in 2004.
They lost in 2000.
And what did they do?
They intensified their radicalism.
When they lose, it's like members of the drive-by media.
The only business in the world where the customer is always wrong.
And if you complain about bias, they get more biased.
And they say, here, take this, you dunce.
You're not sophisticated enough to understand our jobs.
Screw you.
You think we're biased?
Now try this.
And then they start licking Obama and they start saying we when reporting Democrat Party news like John Roberts did on CNN We're looking better today, he said.
So they don't learn their lessons.
They're not introspective at all.
These people just want to wipe out the opposition, but they're more and more radical and they're being more public about it.
And believe me, it is not helpful to them, folks.
Trust me on this.
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