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Oct. 16, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 16, 2008, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Hey, folks, nice to have you with us.
It's Rush Limboa and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network already Thursday, the fastest week in media is just rolling right on by.
Great to have you with us.
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I watched the debate last night.
As everybody did.
And I'm thinking this is cool.
McCain finally on message.
McCain finally on offense.
I thought Obama looked like he was stumbling around.
I thought Obama looked off his game.
I thought Obama was totally on defense.
I did not see somebody cool.
I did not see a mountain.
I did not see somebody elegant.
I didn't see any of that.
I saw somebody who was lying through his teeth time after time after time.
I saw somebody who seemed irritated when McCain was speaking.
I saw somebody who almost was close to blowing his cool in terms of facial expressions.
And I saw the director cut away from Obama at those times so as to assist Obama in in having his facial expressions not broadcast as much as as much as possible.
I'm getting email all night long from people.
I mean, in the thousands who are jazzed.
Finally, somebody is taking it to Obama, somebody standing up for the middle class, somebody standing up for the right economics, somebody trying to do the right things for the first time in a long time.
And then after the debate, people that are emailing me, a lot of them turned on the Fox News channel.
And they were dispirited and depressed.
They felt that Obama had found a new ally in some of the commentators on the Fox All-Star panel.
Now they they view the Fox News channel as their network.
They tuned in for post-debate analysis, expecting the Fox All-Stars to have seen what they saw.
And they listened to the Fox All-Stars talking about a debate they didn't see.
The Fox All-Stars were talking about how rotten McCain was, how horrible he had done.
What a rock Obama was, how cool Obama was, how elegant Obama was.
I got a note from a friend who watched this in a bar with 200 people last night, and they were cheering themselves crazy during the debate last night.
And one of these guys happened to email a friend to say, what's the reaction on Fox?
He said the Fox guys say Obama skunked McCain.
That McCain was just horrible.
And the guys at the bar saw, what how how in the world could what in the world did they watch?
And I'm thinking, and well, Fred Barnes, Bill Crystal, these guys, I mean these are the people.
Folks who told us that McCain was the best chance Republicans had way back when, I mean, as far as Crystal is concerned, going back to the year 2000 in the primaries versus George W. Bush.
So after telling us for months that McCain was the most electable Republican, because of his ability to reach out to moderates, the Fox News panel all said he blew the opportunity to really take it to Obama on taxes and education and abortion, heirs, acorn, all that sort of stuff.
Well, isn't isn't this what you guys were suggesting that would be the Republicans' bad.
You've got exactly what you wanted throughout the whole campaign.
McCain was trailing, he wasn't making any ground up.
And then last night McCain finally switched gears, went on the attack, went on offense, didn't tell one lie about Obama, and all of a sudden the biggest McCain sponsors for the past eight years for the past year, all of a sudden are dumping on John McCain.
And it's a it's it's just it's unfortunate because you know these people that watch this that thought it was all fabulous.
You know, they want validation from what they consider to be their favorite television network, and they got the exact opposite.
There is so much to overcome in this election.
We have people angry.
The economy's not doing well.
Uh the candidate mans up last night.
He finally manned up, he went after Obama as best he could.
And then our own conservative geniuses try to undermine the whole thing after the debate.
I agree with a friend of mine who sent me a note today.
If I hear one more word about how cool Obama is, and how calm and collected Obama is, I am gonna scream.
Because when I hear him say that, I keep thinking about his answers on infanticide, his answers on taxes, his answers on health care.
I guess it's very easy to be cool if you just look in the camera and lie.
Did it not matter to the Fox All-Stars or somebody?
In fact, most of the other media thought McCain did great.
A lot of the other drive-by media thought McCain did super.
But does it not matter that Obama's lying through his teeth?
It may not.
I have a couple little ditties to share with you as the program unfolds today that are that's it's just that it is stunning.
A Republican expert assembled a focus group, played a couple of ads for independent, moderate, Reagan type Democrats, spelled out everything about Obama from Jeremiah Wright to Acorn to Bill Ayers, and all these people who say, Yeah, yeah, he's got it.
I know all that.
I hate him, I don't like him, I'm gonna hate it when I vote for him, but I'm still voting for him, meaning Obama.
Because I hate the Republicans, the Republicans have destroyed the country.
We need Wall Street to not run the country anymore.
We need Walmart to run the country like it did during the Reagan years, was one of the comments.
And that was from a NASCAR person.
Fifty-four years old.
So here we've got Barack Obama last night announcing a prescription for a depression, raising taxes, spreading the wealth around.
What wealth?
Would you tell me what wealth he's gonna spread around?
We're losing trillions in wealth in the stock market.
Obama wants to tax it and spread it around.
Well, he can spread around manure because that's what he's spewing.
Wealth is disappearing.
And the Lord Barack Obama, the most merciful, still wants to spread it around.
There's nothing to spread around right now.
We're in the business of trying to create new wealth, gang.
Joe the plumber, Joe the Plumber has become the star of this election right now.
Joe the Plumber was on Katie Currick, he was on Good Morning America today.
He had a press conference outside his home in Ohio today.
And the drive-bys are dumping all over Joe the plumber.
They're calling him a racist.
You know why they're calling him a racist?
Because he said something he says, Obama's as smooth as uh talk as smoothly as Sammy Davis Jr. can tap dance or something like that.
And oh, racist comment from Joe the Plumber.
Biden is out there saying, I don't know any plumbers that earned $250,000 in my neighborhood.
Well, that's because Biden lives in a neighborhood where no plumbers live.
Details on that coming up in just a second.
But they're out there distorting the old by the way, Joe the Plumber, you better get ready because the Obama thugs are coming after you, pal, and they're gonna try to destroy you.
They're out there saying, well, he did Joe the Plumber don't even make $250,000 a year.
There's that magic number again, by the way.
Joe the plumber doesn't even make $250,000 a year.
He's not gonna get a tax.
It's not what Joe the Plumber said.
Joe the plumber said he wants to buy a plumbing business that will put him in that tax bracket.
But I mean, he launched, we've got all kinds of Joe the Plumber sound bites to uh to share with you.
But there's nothing to spread around here.
Obama wants to spread the wealth, there's nothing to spread, and if he starts taxing wealth, what's left of wealth right now, as he's promising to do, there will be literally nothing to spread around.
The Democrats have destroyed the markets.
The economy needs to be rebuilt, not reorganized for socialism.
The economy quite simply needs to be rebuilt.
McCain has one challenge.
From now until the election, because folks, this is about the economy.
And I've got a piece here.
I've just very scholarly piece.
It's one of these pieces filled with gobbledygook.
But I, L. Rushball, am able to make the complex understandable.
And I'm gonna be able to synthesize six pages here into three sentences.
And I'm not gonna bother reading you the three.
I went nuts reading it.
I went nuts reading these pages, but I stuck to it because I figured the last three sentences will tell me what I need to know this whole thing anyway, it's usually the case.
And basically, it was a study of electorates in this country and other democracies.
Going back to the Great Depression, studying voting habits by the entire electorate and the economy.
And whenever the economy was heading down, either into recession or when it was in depression at one time, uh, and anywhere around the world, when the economy was heading down, it didn't matter.
Nothing else mattered.
Whoever was in power got blamed for it and tossed out.
Pure and simple.
And as long as the economy stayed good under the new group, the new group was voted in over and over again.
When the economy goes south, bam, people get rich.
That's it.
Especially when it happens prior to an election, as this one mysteriously has.
As this one just so coincidentally has.
So McCain has one challenge.
And that challenge is to tie this economy to the Democrat Party in Barack Obama because you can do it.
It can be done because that's the truth.
This economy is faltering right now because of the subprime mortgage mess.
It is faltering because of all of the fallout that hap happened after giving people mortgages that had no business being given mortgages.
Never were able to pay them back.
Uh, and the pressure brought to bear by the Democrats on making those loans, forcing banks to make them, uh, and then when the banks had worthless paper, they forced the banks, and the banks that had to package these and sell them and do, you know, as derivatives, securities, and this kind of thing.
The debt that kept mounting up on no value, kept mounting up and mounting up.
Finally, it just imploded.
And you can tag names that you can hang Pelosi to this.
You can tag Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Jamie Gorellick, Franklin Reigns, Barack Obama, Acorn, Jeremiah Wright, Bill, all of this.
All of this that has happened in the housing market is is exactly the result of plans put into place by liberal Democrats starting back in Jimmy Carter, but really intensified in the in the Clinton years.
This is a Democrat economic failure.
And I keep saying this, but the evidence is clear in one way, if not many.
If there were a Republican to blame this on, he would be sitting before congressional committees six weeks ago.
But the way it's working out, the Republicans are deemed to be responsible because the Republicans have the White House, George W. Bush.
The task is going to be to convince the American people that their economy has gone south because the Democrat Party was able to run things unchecked, and they were able to stonewall reform efforts.
And the very people that brought us the disaster have designed the fix, which is going to make it even worse, and they are still in power with the ability to do even more.
And now they have nominated somebody who is of their way of thinking, who's going to get into the White House if he's elected.
He's already planning his big election night party in some big, big park in Chicago.
In Ireland, you know these online uh betting sites where you can wager who's going to win sort of an online stock market for presidential candidates in Ireland, so one of these websites has already started paying off on Obama's victory with uh with twenty days to go.
Now, Joe the Plumber's out there, and it's it's fascinating because Joe Joe the Plumber hasn't said he was going to vote for, but it seems pretty obvious to me.
But the Democrat Party and the Obama thugs are setting out to destroy a middle American Ohio resident who simply wants to keep what he earns.
And he wants to grow his business and he wants to hire more people.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Joe Biden yesterday in Athens, Ohio, at a rally.
John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number one job facing the middle class.
And it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word.
Jobs.
J-O-B-S.
Jobs.
Jobs is a four-letter word.
Senator Biden.
This little bite reminds me they've been keeping Biden away from me.
They have been hiding Biden because of this.
Chuck Graham, State Senator's here.
Stand up, Chuck.
Let him see you.
Oh, God love you.
What am I talking about?
I tell you what, you're making everybody else stand up, though, pal.
I tell you what, stand up for Chuck.
Stand up for Chuck O. God love him.
Well it was it.
Stand up for Chuck.
John's last-minute economic plan.
Three-letter word jobs, J-O-B-S.
It's four letters.
Here's Biden on the Today Show today, discussing Joe the Plumber, Gregory, David Gregory.
We've moved through the debates.
We're moving into the final stretch.
What happened on this debate that'll be the basis of a final pitch from Obama Biden to undecided voters?
You notice John continues to cling to the notion.
evidence the fact this guy joe the plumber i don't have any joe the plumbers in my neighborhood that make two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year and are worried the joe the plumbers in my neighborhood the joe the cops in my neighborhood the joe the grocery store owners in my neighborhood they make like ninety eight percent of the small businesses less than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year and they're going to do very well under us and they're going to be in real tough shape under john mccain
Then the first place, 98% of small businesses do not earn less than $250,000 a year, but more than that.
Um Joe the Plumber doesn't either.
Joe the plumber doesn't earn $250,000.
He wants to.
He wants to buy a plumbing company.
They're perfectly distorting it.
But I don't think any plumbers live in Biden's neighborhood.
I don't think any cops live in his neighborhood, and I don't think any grocery store owners live in his neighborhood.
Because Mr. Biden's neighborhood is very ritzy.
From the October 1st, 2000 edition of the New York Times.
Mr. Biden's 6,800 square foot colonial style house sits on four lakefront acres that he bought in March 96 for $350,000.
These days his kitchen table can be found in this house.
It's a custom-built colonial, four Lakefront Acres.
It's now worth close to three million dollars.
There is no way any plumber lives in Biden's neighborhood.
There is nowhere any cop lives there or any grocery store owner.
And by the way, I doubt that Biden has ever even seen Joe the Plumber in a Home Depot because Biden's never been seen in a Home Depot.
It's Grant Park in Chicago where the Messiah's gonna have his big election night party.
Grant Park, the site of the 1968 Democrat Convention Chicago riots.
More examples of Democrat Party and media cheating and lying.
Yesterday, David Singleton of the Scranton Times-Tribune reported that somebody shouted, kill him, actually it was a couple days ago, about Barack Obama at a McCain-Palin rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
While Republican congressional candidate Chris Hackett spoke.
But today, Andrew Cedar of the Wilkesbury Times leader reports that not a single person interviewed with the Secret Service heard this outburst.
We have a drive-by gotcha.
We have gotten somebody in the drive-by's here.
Secret Service agent Bill Stavoski said he was in the audience along with an undisclosed number of additional Secret Service agents and other law enforcement officers, and not one of them heard the comment.
I was baffled.
He said after reading the report in Wednesday's Times Tribune of Scranton.
He said the agency conducted an investigation Wednesday after seeing the story.
They could not find one person to corroborate the allegation other than the reporter, David Singleton of the Scranton Times Tribune.
Slavoski said that more than twenty non-security agents were interviewed Wednesday from news media to ordinary citizens in attendance at the rally.
He said Singleton was the only one to say he heard somebody yell, kill him.
We've yet to find anybody to back up the story, Slavoski said.
We had people all over.
We have yet to find anyone who said they heard it.
So now the drive-by is this is not news.
The drive by's lying, making it up in order to um push their agenda.
So, you know, this is a McCain's supporters yelling, kill him was a lie, but Obama calmly saying kill the babies the truth.
Obama is for infanticide.
Obama is for killing babies who survive abortions.
Lied about it through his teeth in the debate last night.
McCain supporters yelling, kill him is a lie.
Obama calmly saying kill the baby is the truth, and the drive-by's ignore it and cover it up.
Get this.
The Ohio Secretary of State has been forced to reveal that she has been hiding 200,000 questionable registrations.
This is serious.
The controversial partisan Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Bruner admitted that she is holding 200,000 potentially fraudulent registrations.
She has been concealing these registrations from local election boards.
Do you know what Bush's margin of victory in Ohio was in 2004?
It was 118,457.
200,000 hidden registrations.
Hello, Acorn.
Hello, Barack Obama.
Hello, fraud and cheat.
There are no coincidence.
By the way, now Ms. Bruner has filed an appeal with the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal, actually all the way up to the Supreme Court, asking them to intervene in this dispute over whether the state is required to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility.
More details in a second.
Again, now the Democrat Secretary of State in Ohio, Jennifer Bruner, admitted that she is holding 200,000 potentially fraudulent voter registrations.
And that she has been concealing these registrations from local election boards.
The margin of Bush's victory in Ohio in 2004 was 114,457.
Yesterday, Jennifer Bruner asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in this dispute over whether she is required to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility.
According to a spokesman from her office, the Sixth Circuit said, you've got till Friday to verify all these.
She now is asking the Supreme Court, too hard.
Let us cheat here.
Let us cheat in Ohio.
It's only fair that we get well, she didn't say this.
Who was it that said some drive-by reporter from yesterday's soundbite roster didn't get to?
I forget who it whoa, it was Ann Cornblut, Washington Post.
Hey, if Democrats are cheating, it's only tit for tat.
This was this is only going to square the dead the table and uh and level the playing field what Republicans did in 2000.
So she's asking the U.S. Supreme Court to let her cheat.
Let's go to the audio soundbites with Joe the Plumber.
On Good Morning America today, the plumber Joe Wurzelbacher, Diane Sawyer says if people making $250,000 should not be taxed additionally, and it's by the way 3%, just 36 to 39% under Obama's plan, if those people should not be taxed additionally, even though they're in the top 5%, what about people who make a million dollars or five million dollars?
Well I should they be penalized for being successful.
I mean, that's what you're telling me.
Uh or that's what it sounds like you're saying.
Uh that's wrong.
I mean, because you're successful, you have to pay more than everybody else.
I mean, we all live in this country.
I mean, that was, you know, it's a basic rights.
And Obama wants to take that basic right and uh penalize me for it, is what it comes down to.
I mean, that's a very socialist uh view, and that's just uh that's incredibly wrong.
I mean, if it if it you know, 250,000 dollars now, what if he decides, well, you know, 150,000, you're pretty rich too.
Let's go ahead and lower it again.
You know, it's a slippery slope.
Um, when's it gonna stop?
This morning on Joe Scarborough on MSNBC, he and Buchanan were talking to Robert Gibbs.
Obama Obama campaign aide.
Scarborough says, why do you want to take uh and tax Joe the Plumber?
Why do you want to destroy his dreams of starting his own business and hiring four or five people?
If you see the interviews with Joe the Plumber, Joe the Plumber makes uh from the best we can tell an income level where he'd probably receive a tax cut from Barack Obama.
And Joe the Plumber's not what Joe the Plum is that happening with Joe Biden afterwards said, hey, we're gonna tax Joe the plumber because he makes 250,000 dollars.
But Joe Joe the Plumber doesn't make 250,000 dollars.
He thinks he does.
No, it's not that he makes 250, it's that he wants to.
He has a dream.
He wants to buy the plumbing business.
He wants to hire four or five more people.
That will move him into Obama's tax break.
By the way, Obama lied through his teeth twice last night when McCain nailed him on twice voting for a budget authorization bill that would increase taxes on anybody earning 42,000 or more.
Obama shook his head.
No, nope, that's not true.
And even Fox News backed me up on it.
Even Fox, I don't know what he's talking about.
It might have been one of these stupid commentators, thinks Obama's a rock or thinks Obama's a mountain or this cool calm collected or what have you.
But he voted for it twice.
But anyway, this guy Gibbs, they're now attacking, folks, they're attacking you.
The Obama campaign in attacking Joe the Plumber is attacking every one of you.
They're calling this guy a liar.
They are suggesting that he is selfish.
They are suggesting he earns more than he's than he at present does.
Last night on Nightline, the co-host Terry Moran talked to Joe the plumber.
And Moran said, What do you make of what you heard about your exchange with Senator Obama?
Senator McCain said it essentially demonstrated Senator Obama wants to tax you and people like you too heavily and redistribute the wealth.
What do you make of that?
Well, I'll be honest with you.
I mean, that infuriates me.
I don't like it, you know, me or you know, uh Bill Gates, I I don't care who you are.
If you worked for it, if it was your idea and you implemented it, it's not right for someone to decide you've made too much, you've done too good.
Um and now we're gonna take some of it back.
That's just completely wrong.
The thing that everybody has to realize here is that there is very little wealth that wealth's in the process of being destroyed right now in the stock market.
People's 401ks.
You've seen them.
I know you've been scared to open the envelopes, but you've seen what's happened to your 401ks, your retirement accounts.
Where we we got unemployment rising.
There is no wealth to speak of here.
We need to start creating wealth.
We need Reaganomics.
We need tax cuts.
We need more disposable income.
Look at Pelosi talking now about a 300 billion dollar stimulus package.
What is that?
300 billion sti a stimulus package is to put more money in your pocket.
By doing what?
By spending more, by borrowing more.
Where are they gonna get it?
Where's the government getting all its money?
Have you seen the national debt?
Have you seen the annual deficit?
Where are they getting this?
They're printing it.
Can you say inflation?
And they're gonna give you a little bit of it.
They're gonna say go spend.
And that's gonna revive the economy.
The simple way is to cut taxes.
But you see, government cannot do with less.
Dirty little secret, it's not even about that because tax cuts create more revenue to the treasury.
If the Democrats want more power and control over you, and this is what Joe the Plumber instinctively understands, but the Democrats have destroyed the economy.
The Democrats is have have taken a big chunk out of people's wealth here.
There's no wealth to redistribute right now.
Yet it will not stop Obama.
Obama was cut off by Katie Couric last night, right after he says he likes McCain's answer on something.
This is last night post-debate analysis.
Katie Couricks, Joe the Plumber.
The infamous Joe the Plumber, actually not infamous.
What do you think about the debate?
Were you swayed either way?
I have an idea of who I'm gonna vote for, but that's you know, that's my uh you know, the nice thing about going into the booth, you know, the only mean the lover knows, so.
Um I think McCain did a fine job this evening.
I think he brought up uh some good points.
I do like his health care, and I do like his where he stands out on taxes.
Obama.
Yes, we're gonna we're gonna talk to you more on our webcast because unfortunately we're out of time, but thanks.
Well, I thought it'd be good to be supposed like his health care.
I like where he stands on taxes.
Obama as usual.
Sorry, Joe, we're out of time.
We'll put you on the internet where nobody else can see you because nobody goes to our internet website, and so that's where we'll park you, Joe.
You big buffoon.
You didn't play it right, Katie's thinking of it.
You're supposed to come here and attack McCain.
You're supposed to come here and build up Obama.
We're not gonna let you get away with this, Joe.
Joe says in a press conference, he had a press conference outside his house today.
Joe the plumber, outside his uh home in Holland, Ohio.
Unidentified reporter.
What is it about you?
Do you think that's so attractive to the two presidential candidates that they would mention your name four times more than they would even mention Iraq?
Now, that question is as incompetent and absurd as any you would want.
McCain brought up Joe the Plumber.
Obama had to bring up Joe the Plumber in defense.
Looked in the camera, Joe, you're gonna be fine with me.
He had just told Obama or O Joe the Plumber he's gonna take some of his money.
Last night he lied to Joe the Plumber.
So the reporter says, how come this gets mentioned more than a rock?
Yeah, no, that bothered me.
Be honest with you, I'm sure Obama didn't want my name mentioned, so it wasn't so much as that.
Uh, but I'm sure he expected it.
Um, like I said, it was just a focal point.
Um, and if it was helps the debate, then I'm I'm happy for that.
But I wish they would have, you know, no, no, probably talked about more important issues.
I mean, you know, November force coming here.
We're gonna be voting shortly, and there's a lot of real issues affecting us.
Reporters say, well, what's the biggest issue for you?
What are you what do you hope for your son's future?
I want him to live in America that he's proud of.
I'm tired of people downing America, uh, saying that we're this bad country.
I mean, that upsets me and my friends greatly.
You know, we are the greatest country in the world.
Stop apologizing for it.
I mean, really, they just I get real mad about that.
I'm not sorry for being American.
I'm not sorry for you know having the things I have.
And I'm not sorry for any of those things.
I'm not sorry that we're in Iraq.
Has it kept us safe?
Absolutely.
I believe in that 100%.
Uh WMDs or not, I don't care.
You know, we we took the fight to him.
We've done a pretty good job there.
Uh could have done better?
Yeah, sure.
But you know, it's easy to be an armchair quarterback.
You know, in hindsight they say is 2020.
I call it X-ray vision.
The question is just how representative of Middle America is Joe the Plumber.
How many other Joe the Plumbers are there out there?
You know, the the uh silent majority is the term that Nixon coined to describe them.
How many others are out there that are just fed up with the idea that Obama's gonna raise their taxes?
Fed up with hearing their country maligned by the likes of Obama and Biden and Clinton and John Edwards and the entire Democrat presidential roster.
How many Americans are fed up with the Obama campaign apologizing for America while in Berlin?
How many Americans are fed up with being called bitter clingers when Obama's hanging around his elite rich Democrats in San Francisco?
We don't know.
The polls are not telling us this.
The polls I Carl Rove has a piece today in the Wall Street Journal says, you know, look at he's outspending McCain three to one.
He he ought to have sewn this up by now.
He ought to have this deal closed.
This election ought to be over, and it isn't.
Rove's point is that McCain is still in striking distance.
Now I ask this question who are, or how many?
Joe the plumbers are out there.
Ben Smith at the Politico yesterday got a note, an email from a Republican consultant who conducted a focus group.
The Republican consultant emailed Ben Smith about the group he had just finished conducting.
What he did was show them a hard-hitting ad on airs.
William Ayers.
And this was the email he sent to Ben Smith.
Was Reagan Democrats and independents call him blue collar plus, slightly more target than Walmart?
And yeah, the spot worked.
Yeah, they believe the charges against Obama.
This focus group actually think Obama's too liberal.
He can sort with bad people, and that he will not be a good president.
But they don't still don't give a damn.
They said right out, he won't do anything better than McCain, but they're still voting for Obama.
The two must own two most unreal moments of my professional life of watching focus groups, he said, are these two.
Fifty-four-year-old white male voted Carrie 04, Bush in 2000, Dole 96, he's a hunter.
He's a NASCAR fan.
He is hard for Obama.
He said, I'm gonna hate him the minute I vote for him.
He's gonna be a bad president, but I won't ever vote for another G damn Republican.
I want the government to take over all of Wall Street and the bankers and the car companies, and Walmart run this country like we used to when Reagan was president.
The next was a woman, late 50s, Democrat, strongly pro-life, loved Bill and Hillary Clinton, loved Bush in 2000.
Quote, I don't know how much about this terrorist group Barack used to be in with that weather guy, but I'm sick of paying for health insurance at work, and that's why I'm supporting Barack.
The consultant said I felt like I was taking crazy pills.
I sat on the other side of the glass and I realized this really is the apocalypse.
The seventh seal is broken.
It's time for eight years of pure delicious crazy.
Now, this is ostensibly from a Republican consultant who had gone out and done a focus group and sends the results to Ben Smith at the politico.
Now, granted, if you read it and you have no questions about it, you might agree with the Republican consultant.
I don't mean to insult Ben Smith of the politico, but Republican consultant would do this.
What Republican consultant would send this kind of information to the I'm not saying it didn't happen, and if it did happen, it is indicative of something that we all know and we're hoping can be overcome.
And that is it's the economy, it's the economy, it's the economy.
And we also know that the drive-by media has for six years been trying to convince people they live in a rotten one and they'll live in a recession.
Joe the plumber, we don't apparently have this bite.
Joe the plumber this morning in his press conference said, what is it about poverty?
Everybody in poverty.
This country's got a cell phone.
They've got a car.
They got a TV.
What is it about poverty?
I mean, this guy, Joe the Plumber, is on the road.
He's articulating McCain policies better than McCain does.
So the Obama campaign and the Democrats now start attacking Joe the Plumber.
It's amazing how Joe the Plumber has them flummox.
They treat him, they're treating, they're treating Joe the Plumber almost like they treated Sarah Palin when she first came out.
As a curiosity, do you realize this is this is important, uh, ladies and gentlemen?
They looked at Palin and said, Who is this woman?
She shoots, she hunts, she takes care of her own kids.
And they're and they're looking at Joe the Plumber.
Who is this guy?
Well, who is this Joe the Plumber guy?
I mean, I visited some guy who is a blue-collar guy's a plumber, and he's not going to vote for Obama.
Who is this guy?
Who are these people who live out here in Ohio?
You know, he wants to start a business.
Now what does he want to do?
What do you mean he wants to start a business now?
Who is this guy?
He wants to buy a bit.
Who is this guy?
We don't, we can't understand this guy.
He was Joe the Plumber.
And what the press can't get through their heads is that America is Joe the Plumber.
Sarah Palin is America.
And Corn Blue It, Katie Korick, sadly, Fred Barnes and Bill Crystal, the Fox All Stars, they're not America.
They have become elites.
You don't know how hard this is for me to say, folks.
Roger Ailes is one of my closest friends, and he has been since 1990.
And he is the chairman, chief executive officer of the Fox News Channel.
I saw him this weekend to spend a lot of social time with him.
It is it is really hard for me to um tell you what I really think about what the Fox All-Stars reactions debate was last night.
Now I know they're not under any obligation to carry an agenda.
They're not under any obligation.
It just they didn't see it.
They didn't see what everybody else who watched this debate saw.
Even other people in the media, they didn't see it.
And these are the people that asked us.
These are the people that put us down.
These are the people making fun of us for not wanting McCain.
These are the people told McCain's the only guy that can win.
McCain can reach across the aisle.
Independence, Democrats, McCain's the guy who can do an honor, great story.
And now they're saying fire the campaign.
McCain's horrible, can't do well on a debate.
My gosh.
Your head swins trying to keep up with them.
And they try to make it out like, you know, the cornblutes and the Katie Curix, they try to make it out like Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber are interlopers.
It's the press, it's the drive-by media.
The elites that are the interlopers.
They are the minority.
They are the freak show class.
There's nothing freak show about Sarah Palin.
There's nothing freak show about Joe the Plumber.
The freak show is the elites in Washington and New York that are in the media and out of the media.
The Fox All-Stars are become elites too.
And he got Jack Mertha.
How in the world do the Democrats come and come close to women this winning this?
Jack Mertha says that his part of Pennsylvania is definitely racist.
The Democrat who impugned and maligned all of our great brave Marines in Haditha and others of the U.S. fighting force in Iraq.
Oh, yeah, where I live, Western Pennsylvania, yeah, very race, it's going to cost Obama four points at least, but he's still going to win.
His own state, he's calling racist, Western Pennsylvania.
And he's going to get reelected, probably.
Who knows?
Hope not.
It's just um.
Just amazing.
I'm I'm I'm telling you, folks, there have to be a lot more Joe the Plumbers and Josephine the Plumbers, and Sarah Palin types all over this country.
Then you know, or that the drive by media knows, or that Washington, New York elites know.
If they weren't out there doing what they're doing and being who they are, our economy would have tanked years ago.
We'll take a brief time out.
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