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Aug. 28, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 28, 2009, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I tell you, folks, this is just, it's unbelievable.
There's actually a piece at the Huffing and Puffington Post on what would Mary Joe Copeckney have thought of Ted's career.
It's written by a woman.
And the last line, who knows, maybe Mary Joe Kopeckney would feel it was worth it.
Are we to believe now that liberal young women like to die for the cause of advancing Kennedy's career?
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday.
I kid you not, folks.
I kid you not.
And now we've got this Ed Klein guy on TV saying Ted Kennedy loved Chappaquiddick jokes.
He would ask people if they'd heard any.
Well, now, my gosh, if Ted Kennedy liked Chappaquiddick jokes, I guess we can tell some.
Whoa, what a day this is going to be.
It's Open Line Friday, and I'm Rush Limbaugh, and I'm here for three hours.
And Open Line Friday, we go to the phones.
The content of the program is all yours.
Pretty much fair game, whatever you want to talk about.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882, the email address, lrushbaugh at EIBNet.com.
Melissa Lafsky, ex-lawyer, blogger, and writer writing at the Huffington Puffington Post, or Huffington Puffington, but yeah, I said it right.
What would Mary Joe Kopeckney have thought of Ted's career?
And here the last couple of graphs.
Still, ignorance doesn't preclude a right to wonder, so it doesn't automatically make someone, aka me, a limbaugh-loving, aerial wolf-hunting NRA troll for asking what Mary Joe Kopeckney would have had to say about Ted's death and what she'd have thought of the life and career that are being rightfully heralded.
Now, the premise of this is that Mary Joe Kopeckney's death actually is what launched Ted's Senate career.
That's where he had to go to rehabilitate and so forth.
And so she asks, who knows, maybe Mary Joe Kopeckney would feel it was worth it?
That drowning or whatever, dying in Ted Kennedy's car was worth it?
What liberal women like to die for the cause of advancing the careers of Kennedys?
That is unbelievable.
Anyway, folks, great to have you here.
Big news today.
Internet companies and civil liberties groups are alarmed, and so should you be.
Started this spring, a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private sector computers from the internet, meaning your computer.
They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Senator Jay Rockefeller have spent months drafting behind closed doors.
CNAT News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft, which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.
The new version would allow the president to declare cybersecurity emergency relating to non-governmental computer networks and to do what is necessary to respond to the threat.
Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for cybersecurity professionals and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license.
I tell you what, I hope they keep doing that.
The American people are not going to put up with this.
First it's healthcare, then it's cap and trade, and who knows what the hell else.
No jobs, a stimulus that's not working, and now the Obama administration, the president himself, is going to end up having authority to seize your computer.
They already are going to have the right to get into your bank account with a health care bill and make transfers without you knowing it.
Representatives of other large internet and telecommunications companies expressed concerns about the bill in a teleconference with the Rockefeller's aides this week, but they were not immediately available for interviews.
Yesterday, a spokesman for Rockefeller also declined to comment on the record Thursday, saying that many people were unavailable because of the summer recess.
Now, Rockefeller is chairman of Senate Commerce Committee, and when he and Olympia Snow introduced the original bill in April, they claimed it was vital to protect national cybersecurity.
We must protect our critical infrastructure at all costs, from our water to our electricity to banking, traffic lights, and electronic health records, Rockefeller said.
The Rockefeller proposal, this gets better, folks, to stick with me on this.
The Rockefeller proposal plays out against a broader concern in Washington about the government's role in cybersecurity.
In May, Obama acknowledged that the government is not as prepared as it should be to respond to disruptions and announced that a new cybersecurity coordinator position, i.e. czar, would be created inside the White House staff.
Three months later, the post remains empty.
One top cybersecurity aide has quit.
Some wags have begun to wonder why a government that receives failing marks on cybersecurity should be trusted to instruct the private security, private sector what to do.
Well, amen.
Declan McCullough, by the way, is the author of this story.
This relates to everything.
You can't, hell, they couldn't even run.
They could even run a caravan.
They couldn't even get the caravan.
And by the way, do you know that they lined the caravan route with union thugs?
They did.
They had to go out and stack people standing on the streets with union thugs.
And I played a game yesterday afternoon.
I watched a replay of this whole thing.
And I said, you know what I'm going to do?
I'm going to take a drink in honor of Ted Kennedy of the caravan going to the library there to lie in repose.
I'm going to take a drink for every black person I see on the parade route.
And I was sober at the end of the parade.
They forgot to stack the deck with any black people, but there were a lot of union thugs out there.
I mean, what a, well, I mean, no better way to honor Ted Kennedy, take a drink for every black person to see on the caravan route.
Anyway, anyway, let me get to the end of this story because this is just unbelievable.
The privacy implications of sweeping changes implemented before the legal review is finished worry Lee Teen, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco.
As soon as you're saying that the federal government is going to be exercising this kind of power over private computer networks, it's going to be a really big issue.
Man, they're going to work up even San Francisco liberals over this.
This is just incredible what they're proposing here.
Probably the most controversial language begins in Section 201 of the Rockefeller Bill, which permits the president to, quote, direct the national response to the cyber threat, unquote, if necessary, for the national defense and security.
The language has changed, but it doesn't contain any real additional limits.
Simply switches the more direct and obvious language they had originally had to the more ambiguous version that exists now.
The designation of what is a critical infrastructure system or network, as far as anybody can tell, has no specific process.
So they can just randomly declare one of these cybersecurity alerts.
There's no real format for it.
There's no provision for any administrative process or review once it's declared.
And that's where the problems seem to start.
And then you have the amorphous powers that go along with it.
Here's the translation of what I just told you.
If your company is deemed critical, a new set of regulations kick in involving who you can hire, what information you must disclose, and when the government would exercise control over your computers or network.
I'm not making any of this up.
This is from CNETNews, CNET.com.
The bill would give the president emergency control over the internet to control personal computers and networks, private sector computers and networks, without explaining what the national cybersecurity alert is or danger is.
What even the constitutional right to privacy?
What about the Constitution, period, with this administration?
What about, I mean, it's just, and California, this is just amazing.
Governor Schwarzenegger is going to have a statewide garage sale in order to try to close the budget.
I kid you not.
This is from state-controlled Associated Press.
Governor Schwarzenegger is hoping that the great California garage sale will turn government clutter like surplus prison uniforms and office furniture into cash to bulk up the state's depleted finances.
I mean, how much more embarrassing can you get?
The Terminator has a garage sale to pay the state's bills.
An offer on offer as the state clears out clutter are nearly 600 state-owned vehicles, thousands of pieces of office furniture, computers, electronics, jewelry, pianos, even a surfboard, a food saver, and an Xbox 360 gaming system.
State officials estimate the giant two-day yard sale being held at a state warehouse will bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In addition to clearing out office products, the state's also selling unclaimed property from state parks and items confiscated by law enforcement.
The prison department contributed dental chairs and surplus prison shirts and jeans to the garage sale.
I mean, that's what I've always wanted.
A dental chair.
I'd love to have a dental chair in my house.
Surplus prison shirts.
They could always come in handy.
This is a win-win for the state and for shoppers, Schwarzenegger said in a statement, announcing that a selection of items also be sold on eBay and Craigslist.
Well, you know the kind of reprobates that hang around Craigslist.
Together, we are eliminating waste and providing great details in this tough economy.
This has got to be more embarrassing than being married to a Kennedy.
A statewide garage sale in California.
Yeah, get your cheap.
I mean, this is incredible.
Schwarzenegger has been going online to promote this.
Folks, we have just scratched the surface.
Sit tight.
We're coming right back with much more.
Do not go away.
Always exceeding expectations.
Rush Limbaugh, Open Line Friday, EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
By the way, folks, I will be out next week.
It's time for the annual guy golf trip to one of the 57 states in this nation.
I'm not going to identify which of the 57 states, but I decided, folks, since Obama's on vacation this week, in the interest of fairness and balance, I'm going to be off next week.
So as to balance things out.
And by the way, if you're worried about something major happening when I'm gone, you're very right to be worried.
It always happens.
But next week, Obama has announced that he needs a break.
His spokesman, Bill Burton, actually needs a break from the vacation.
So he's going to take another vacation next week.
Starting next Wednesday, Obama's going to go to Camp David because this vacation has been so stressful that he's going to take another one.
So Obama and I will be on vacation at the same time next week.
This will limit the damage that can be done.
But it's something you're right to be concerned that something major happens when I'm gone because it always does.
It always does.
It's a very wise concern that you have, and I wouldn't give it up.
If you really want to honor Ted Kennedy, if you really want to honor Ted Kennedy and at the same time capture his contribution to society, here's an idea.
Create a new $100,000 bill and put his picture on it.
With hyper-liberal policies, we're going to end up with hyper-inflation and a lot more zeros in our currency.
So on the $100,000 bill, you could put Ted Kennedy.
On the $500,000 bill, you could put Nancy Pelosi.
And on the $1 million bill, which we're going to need at some point, you could put Obama.
Also, sad news today, according to the latest Gallup poll, ladies and gentlemen, 19% more Americans are racists.
In only seven months, we went from 31% racists to 50% racists in this country.
Here's the cold reality of the numbers.
Obama approval numbers were 69% shortly after the emaculation, and that's in February.
And his approval numbers have dropped 50%, 250%, 19%, 69 to 50%.
There could only be one reason for his approval to tank.
And I hear it everywhere in the state-run media, and that's racism.
There's this blatant racism in this.
We hear it everywhere, don't you?
His health care plan is near perfect, but nobody wants it.
It has to be racism.
His savaging of the CIA is more than perfect, but people don't agree with that.
It must be racism.
His cap and trade is at least as good as his stimulus bill, but nobody wants that either.
It must be racism.
But what if it's the color of his ideas, red ink, not the color of his, right?
I can't say that rush.
It's not politically correct.
Radio czar won't tolerate it.
But I mean, what are we to conclude?
The approval number has gone from 69 to 50.
That's 19%.
So we got 19% more racists in this country since, well, according to state-controlled media, since February.
Here's some good news for Obama.
There's a new group of Americans to blame for his failing economy, and that's women.
From ad age, for a majority of women, the glass is still half empty, and for marketers, that could be tough to swallow.
Even though they have arguably fared better in the recession, women are more pessimistic about the economy than men, according to a survey by Performix, which is part of publicist group Vivaki Nerve Center.
What the hell that is, I have no clue.
While men appear to have improved their outlook on the economy, women have not.
The unit's 2009 online buyer economic trends study reported that 53% of women said their situation is worse than a year ago.
Oh, and a companion story, the pig flu.
Honest to God, I kid you not, there's a story the pig flu will hit racists, blacks, and women harder.
The pig flu is going to hurt blacks and the poor and women harder than anybody else.
I don't know.
I don't have a story in front of me.
I'll get the details, but it doesn't matter.
It's a template.
Whatever there's a damaging economic story, women and minorities hardest hit, and they're doing it now with the pig flu.
But what's Obama's favorite game?
Obama's favorite game is the blame game.
Obama blamed Wall Street for destroying the economy.
Then it was the evil bankers.
And now he's blaming these butchered doctors.
They make a few extra bucks.
They take out tonsils and cut off feet.
He blamed El Rushbo.
Said there's one loud voice out there that you shouldn't listen to.
It was me.
He's blaming private health insurers, angry mobs at town hall meetings.
He's got his associates calling the people showing up there Nazis, unruly mobs, an endless stream of strawmen.
Well, good news now is another group that Obama can bash, women.
Ad Age has published this survey that shows that America's primary spenders, women, are more pessimistic than men on the economy.
And as a result, they're spending less.
Apparently, unlike President Obama, women do not trust the stimulus bill will work.
So look for Obama to try this attack at his next town hall meeting.
Not only do we have doctors butchering children to lie in their pockets, we have a country full of selfish, unpatriotic women who should turn off their soap operas and get to the mall where they belong.
That's just amazing.
I got charts and graphs to go along.
Let's try this headline.
This is from the UK Times.
Democrats accused of using Edward Kennedy's death to promote reforms.
Democrats accused?
Let's go to the audio soundbites last night on MSNBC.
This is great.
Listen.
We have seen something like this before in liberal politics.
The right one on the attack for the funeral of the great Senator Paul Wellstone.
They attacked that as being a celebration and a rededication to his political goals and to his political mores.
Is there residual resentment for having been attacked for the way that they mourned Senator Wellstone?
Could this end up being a really big fight?
There's some residual resentment.
It was distasteful when that happened.
In terms of Senator Kennedy, I think it's going to be a very respectful affair, but I have no doubt that they're going to, inappropriately so, talk about his incredible accomplishments.
They defined him as a public servant, a man who spent nearly five decades fighting for the issues that I and so many Americans care about.
The notion that you shouldn't talk about that, the notion that you shouldn't talk about healthcare and these other issues, I actually think would be inappropriate.
I think they're going to do a great service to a great public servant.
So the liberals apparently are harboring all kinds of resentment out there for being criticized for the way they mourned Wellstone.
I guarantee you, they're not going to be able to help themselves.
This is going to be the Wellstone Memorial on steroids.
They can't help themselves because this is their religion.
This liberalism is their religion.
And for them, they're burying their pope.
And more bad news for Obama.
Consumer confidence has ebbed to its lowest in four months.
And of course, the state-controlled media story says this was unexpected.
Analysts were surprised that consumer confidence ebbs to the lowest point in form.
What in the world is surprising about this?
Would somebody tell me what's going on out there that's inspiring?
Would somebody tell me what's going on that would make consumer confidence go up?
Other than me being on the radio every day, what would inspire consumer confidence?
Oh, don't give me that.
The garage sale in California, cars for clunkers.
People find out they got to pay income tax on the $4,500 rebate they got to buy the get-rid their clunker, which is a perfectly fine card that's been destroyed.
The used car market's been destroyed.
The dealers are, you know, getting a trumped-up sale now, but the doors are going to go quiet.
Consumer confidence, it makes total sense.
What in the world is unexpected?
By the way, a lot of people sent me emails last night begging me to play some of our Kennedy parodies on the program today as a tribute.
Since the state-controlled media is over the, by the way, did you see the TV ratings for the cable networks that have gone wall-to-wall, Kennedy?
They're in the tank.
They're in the tank.
The only people that really care about this, to the extent they do, are the media.
It's a closed little circle.
It's a closed little clique.
The rest of the country is not interested in it.
And I tell you, I watched some of this, and I don't remember this lovey-dovey devotion to Ronald Reagan when he died.
I remember the media being stunned and shocked that so many people showed up at the parades in California.
Well, the people lining the route as the Hearst was going to his library, the stuff in Washington, the official state funeral in Washington.
The media was stunned, but nobody's watching it.
I mean, these people are dying doing well.
They're just talking to themselves.
That's really what they're doing.
They're talking to themselves, and nobody is watching them.
The numbers just tanked.
So since they're doing that, people say, you ought to play some of your Kennedy parodies as our own tribute.
And I don't know, folks.
I don't know.
You can go to rushlimbaugh.com if you're a member, and you can hear them all there.
I mean, all of the parodies.
Well, we haven't uploaded some of the most recent ones.
But I'm going to have some great ones.
The Philanderer, Let's Bork Again.
Yeah, they're talking and he couldn't understand him.
Oh, that was great during the Clinton re-election of 1996.
It was.
Oh, I know there's a bunch of good ones.
I'm on this.
I just did something.
I can't believe it.
I can't believe you three in there who are constantly warning me not to do stuff.
Oh, no, don't say that.
Oh, gosh, no.
Rush.
These three are egging me on to go do some of these Kennedy parodies.
What do you think?
Ah, the voice of reason, the broadcast engineer, steps in without my even asking him and says no.
You guys, you know, I tell you why you're doing this because I'm going on vacation if I'm going to escape any heat.
And you just want to have some laughs here.
This is a very solemn day.
Very, very solemn day.
I can tell by watching the state-controlled media.
Well, I know he asked for Chappaquitic jokes.
Ted Kennedy laughed.
He asked if anybody had any new Chappaquitic jokes.
Here, let me grab that soundbite.
Hang on here.
It's Ed Klein.
Number nine.
This was on the radio in Washington, D.C. Ed Klein, editor-in-chief of the New York Times magazine.
I don't know if he's former editor or the current editor, but he's being interviewed here by Katy K of the BBC.
And Katie Kay, Senator Kennedy, would often make jokes at his own expense, right, Ed?
I don't know if you know this or not, but one of his favorite topics of humor was, indeed, Chappaquitic itself.
And he would ask people, have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquitic?
That is just the most amazing thing.
Not that he didn't feel remorse about the death of Mary Joe Copechni, but that he still always saw the other side of everything and the ridiculous side of things, too.
That is unbelievable.
That is sick.
Folks, that's just not normal.
I'm sorry you are in a car, goes off the bridge, a woman dies, and you don't report it, and you try to get out of it, and you do get out of it, and you want to hear jokes about it for the rest of your life, and this becomes something that you're known for in your inner circle, and it's explained away by saying, ah, Ted still liked to see the other side of everything.
And the ridiculous, what was ridiculous about that was his behavior.
For crying out loud, a woman dies in his car and he wants to hear jokes about it.
I can't relate.
I can't relate.
Yeah, of course we hear about the good sense of humor.
Yip, yip, yip, yip, yahoo.
I'll tell you what, I remember the story.
This is a true story.
Of the New York Daily News had the pictures.
Senator Kennedy was vacationing off the coast of the south of France.
And he was in a boat, speedboat, with a quite attractive young woman.
And they were both decked out in their swimsuits.
And we know this because there were helicopters, paparazzi taking pictures.
And one of the pictures in the New York Daily News shows the woman diving off the side of the boat for a swim.
The next picture shows Senator Kennedy doing the cannonball going in after her, which is probably the first time he went in the water after a woman.
The next couple pictures show him back in the boat, engaged in hanky-panky.
And the pictures got shown around before they were published in the New York Daily News, and they showed them to Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama.
And Heflin looked at us, well, I do declare, ha, it sure enough looked to me like Senator Kennedy done changed his position on offshore drilling.
Oh, there's all kinds of these stories going around, but I don't know that this, ladies and gentlemen, is the day for that kind of thing.
You got to hear play number 10, Mike, Judy Woodruff.
This is on the news hour with Jim Lara last night, special senior correspondent, Judy Woodruff.
I had an exchange with the presidential historian Michael Beschloss about the passing of Senator Kennedy.
It's funny because she's all enraptured here in Kennedy nostalgia.
But then listen to what she wonders about.
If the Kennedys were so influential, how do you explain the many years of Ronald Reagan, of the two Bush presidencies, the fact the country is so divided?
Does that mean the Kennedys weren't so influential after all?
Not a bit, because the country always goes through conservative and liberal periods.
In the 1960s, that was a time that was ripe for Kennedy liberalism.
But this is still great because Judy Wooders said, what are we doing here?
All this influence of the Kennedy family, and look what we've had to put up with.
Eight years of Reagan.
We've had to put up with 12 years of a bush.
These people are just wringing their hands.
They're so filled with angst.
Let's grab a phone call.
It's open line Friday.
We'll start in Philadelphia.
Richard, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, good afternoon.
I'm a physician in Philadelphia.
And when I read that story by in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, actually, and I'm so glad that you brought it up, it actually made me physically ill.
As a physician reading that, to say that I think of the Hippocratic oath.
I mean, how can you look a patient and a family in the eye and say you're out of luck because some mad scientist, Ezekiel Emmanuel, is telling me that you're not worth it.
Let me explain to the audience that may not have heard this yesterday what it was that made you physically ill.
Ezekiel Emmanuel, a story written by Betsy McCoy in the Wall Street Journal of Columbics, and then Ezekiel Emmanuel, who is the number one healthcare advisor to President Obama, is the brother of Ram Emmanuel of Ballerina, who is the chief of staff.
Ezekiel Emmanuel says the big problem with medicine is the Hippocratic oath, that doctors are too focused on doing everything for the patient.
Doctors have to be more focused on the good of society and make decisions as to, hey, it's not worth treating this patient.
We got three 70-year-olds, and the resources might be better spent on a 16-year-old who's sick, who's got a longer life.
And so the whole notion here that there aren't any death panels, I mean, the lead advocate for Obamacare is thinking things like this and has written about them.
And that's what Richard in Philadelphia hear, a doctor is upset about.
I mean, I am putting this in my office.
I'm distributing this article to every nursing station in the three hospitals at which I work.
I mean, people have to be aware of this death wish.
And your part said it perfectly.
These people are just budgetary numbers to the end.
And the end justifies the meeting.
I mean, this is worse than anything I imagined.
And today, it's actually true fascism.
There's nothing else to say.
I told my wife this yesterday, that if this goes through and I have to put up with this and I have to look a family in the face and tell them sorry, then I'm done.
I'm quit.
I will not go along with this.
And you know what?
A lot of doctors will not.
You know what?
You will be the one telling them.
You'll have some Obama medical board telling you, but they will not be the ones dealing with the patient.
You will.
You'll have to be the bearer of the bad news.
All the anger focused on you.
That would certainly be part of the plan.
Now, we were talking to a bunch of us this morning about what if this passes?
Some version is going to pass.
We have to understand this, folks.
They're going to get something.
And whatever they get, whatever it is, and Charles Krauthammer has a piece today I actually wish he hadn't written because it's advice on how to scrap what they're doing now, come up with version 2.0 of Obamacare.
And wait, if the Democrats listen to him and take his advice, they might get it.
And I think it's just, it's disingenuous to think that there can be a version 2.0 because whatever they get is going to be government health care.
There's no reason for them to do it if not that.
So they can say, okay, people don't like the death panels.
We'll stop talking about that.
We'll stop talking about end of life.
And we'll stop talking about public options.
We'll just get all that stuff, all the negatives, just scrap them and start all over.
And I guarantee you, if they do that, it's going to be a big lie.
They're going to put everything in it that's in it now in a different way with different language.
They'll use the Alinsky trick of talking our language, just like Obama is talking about competition and lowering prices as part of his health care plan when everybody knows it's going to bust the bank even further.
There isn't going to be any competition.
But the Alinsky trick is to use words and language that fit within the experience of your audience, the people that you're trying to screw.
And we're being screwed.
No, we have been screwed.
We're just trying to prevent the pregnancy.
That's exactly where we are here.
We have been screwed.
We're only seven months in it.
We've been screwed.
And we're trying to stop the pregnancy here.
Some say we are for abortion in this case.
But right now we don't have a fetus.
But we're going to get one if we're not careful.
And the fetus is going to be this health care bill.
And that thing is going to be born in four years after it's passed.
And if that happens, and they're going to get something, folks, trust me, they're going to get something.
It's too important to Obama's monument building.
When they get it, you think that there is anger now over what people already understand this to be.
And they can come back with version 2.0, and nobody's going to trust what they say because everybody now knows what their real intentions are with health care.
So they come back with a new plan that's watered down, has all the offensive and worrisome stuff taken out of it, but it'll still be there.
Because the bottom line is, at the end of the day, whether it's Obamacare version 1.0 or 2.0 or 3.0, it is going to be government healthcare.
Pure and simple.
And if it passes, you think there's outrage now, you wait.
You wait until this thing passes and people have to live and deal with this.
And the doctors, the whole community has to deal with this.
There's going to be more outrage than you can possibly understand.
I've got to go.
I'm a little long here.
We'll be back in just a second.
All right, now, what are these two up to?
I have the most sickening story in front of me.
I'm holding it right here.
My formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
And I'm not buying this.
I don't believe this.
Has the Obamas caught most of the media's attention with their vineyard vacation?
That's where they were at Marxists' Vineyard.
A former first couple managed a more low-profile beach getaway.
Bill and Hillary Clinton traveled to Bermuda last week, where the Bermuda Sun reports they spent time at the beach and ate buffet breakfast.
They celebrated Bill's 63rd birthday, which was on Wednesday, a candle-lit dinner on a private beach.
They watched the sunset with waves lapping at their feet.
The paper reports the Clintons were pretty lovey-dovey and camera-friendly, holding hands, posing for photos, and talking to locals.
Can't you just picture this?
The last time we saw this was when they fake danced on a Virgin Island beach two weeks before the Lewinsky story broke.
You remember this, folks?
There was a picture.
LA Times ran the picture, front page, of Hillary in a one-piece swimsuit.
It was not pretty.
And Bill, also not pretty, in his swim trunks, and they're dancing.
And Mike McCurry at the press briefing that day denounced the Times for running the picture.
And nobody knew what the picture was except people who'd read the Times.
They wanted that picture out there, and that's how they did it.
We later learned that there was no music, that they were fake dancing, and that there was no hidden camera.
The whole thing was staged.
And this was two weeks before they knew the Lewinsky story was going to break.
And so now what's this up?
What's up now?
What does this mean?
Lovey-dovey holding hands on the beaches at Bermuda.
It says here they were.
Oh, oh, oh, yes.
The last time the Clintons were in Bermuda was 30 years ago at Horizons, where their daughter Chelsea was reportedly conceived.
Most people remember when the kid's born.
The Clintons have it in the LexisNexis database when and where she was conceived.
According to the Bermuda Sun, the Clintons were given a quick tour of the property, and Mrs. Clinton commented to her husband, look, darling, it's so romantic.
They were very keen to see the room they had stayed in 30 years ago where Chelsea was conceived, but unfortunately, they didn't have the time.
They were there for three or four days, but they didn't have time to go to the room where Chelsea was conceived.
They were scheduled to stay until Saturday, but they flew back to Washington on Thursday due to Hurricane Bill.
Speaking of which, Tropical Storm Danny, I looked at the 11 o'clock update from National Hurricane Center.
move the track a little west.
Now, this is, this is, you know, if political correctness had not taken over the National Hurricane Center, this wouldn't even be categorized as anything.
It's a thunderstorm cluster.
And if you read their documents and their discussion, I can't find the center.
The winds are mostly north.
They're very poorly organized.
Well, then why is it a tropical storm?
They've got a track for it, and apparently they've moved the track west.
Boston is going to get soaked.
The New York media is acting like the Miami and South Florida media when a hurricane's coming, trying to get ratings.
Oh, my God, tropical storm's coming.
Oh, you're going to bet in there.
Sending reporters out with advice on how to survive a thunderstorm or two.
It's just hilarious.
And of course, you got the Kennedy funeral tomorrow morning, which might be impacted by Tropical Storm, Danny.
I wonder who's paying for the Kennedy funeral.
I know it's not the Kennedy Trust.
Is it Cuddy Sark?
One other thing about this business of Ted Kennedy liking to hear Chappaquiddick jokes.
Now, really, something I can't relate to, but you have to understand, to clarify a point here, with Ted Kennedy joking about Chappaquittic with his buddies, remember that those jokes have to be at Mary Joe Copechny's expense.
I mean, you're going to start telling jokes about a woman dying in your car.
Jokes have to be at her expense, not his.
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