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Sept. 14, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 14, 2009, Monday, Hour #3
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Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rush Limbaugh serving humanity, executing his signed host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes so far.
And there won't be any because the show is me, and whatever I do is always right.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address, Lrushbow at EIB net.com.
No, no, no.
What I mean by that is nobody tells me, okay, Rush, time to do this now and do that now, and then might do it right, might do it wrong.
Nobody tells me what to do.
I do what I do when I want to do, however, I'm feeling about it.
And so when I do what I do, it's right.
No mistakes.
Zero.
I um well, we'll get to the NFL in just a second.
Snerdily said they have a grant congratulated to Cowboys.
I did congratulate the Cowboys to you.
You know, and I said it's it's you know, now that now that Romo doesn't have to worry about catering somebody's ego 10 to 15 passes a game.
Well, you spread it around yesterday and look at the result.
And I know they're playing an ex, you know, the rebuilding team and so forth and the uh the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but I mean you can't take it away from it.
They played well.
Cowboy and Romo had a career day passing yardage yesterday.
I think not TDs, but passing yardage.
Gotta keep a sharp eye on a quarterback position, Rothlisberger and Drew Brees.
Six touchdowns yesterday.
Now, again, they're playing the rebuilding Detroit Lions, but all of all, it was a great day yesterday in the NFL.
I mean, some that game last night between the Bears and the Packers.
Uh wow.
I mean, a lot of people, oh Rush, that game was boring.
Defensive That was football last night.
That was hard hit.
But Cuddler couldn't do anything.
Don't you realize half of Denver was happy about that?
Maybe all of Denver was happy about that.
No, this is all.
It was all uh it was just it was uh fantastic opening day tonight.
Now the games tonight.
Uh the Boston Patriots, you know, the the this is this is the what year is it?
50th?
40th?
Whatever.
It's a big anniversary year for the American Football League, which became the American Football Conference, and the original AFL teams, like the Steelers, for example, uh, are in the AFC, but they were an NFL team.
They moved over when the mergers so but the original AFL teams, like the Tennessee Titans, they were the Houston Oilers.
Whenever they play each other, they're gonna play throwback uniforms to the AFL, and they're gonna call themselves what their names were.
So tonight it's the Boston Patriots are gonna be wearing red, white, and blue, not blue and silver, against the Buffalo Bills.
This is Tom Brady's return to action, chomping at the bit.
He's gonna do his Drew Brees interp imp impersonation tonight.
Uh the San Diego Chargers, part of the AFL.
They'll be I bet you they're wearing their powder blues tonight against the Oakland Raiders, whose uniforms have not changed, essentially.
That ought to be, that game might be over after the first two minutes.
Uh Raiders just have no defense.
And those are the two Monday nighters tonight, but still it's football.
Still it's it's it's uh it's gonna be football.
Folks, Snerdley asked me a question during the top of the hour break.
Maybe some of you are asking the same question.
If you are, I am stunned.
Snerdley said he was quite passionate about this.
I want to know something.
I want to know something.
What is it?
Why?
If one year ago the financial collapse was going to lead us to the collapse of the world economy, the end of the United States as we've known it.
Why, why, why do all this in a why why are we even doing healthcare nice?
You don't you understand?
The purpose of Obama's speech today was to say he fixed it.
It was to clear the way for adding another trillion dollars to the deficit via health care.
It was to go up there.
You know, Obama traveled to New York today to commemorate the crash of Lehman Brothers.
But he did not go to New York to commemorate the Twin Towers attack.
So he's up there taking all this credit for saving the world economy and saving the United States.
That's what he was doing up there.
I've got the sound bites.
I just don't want to play them.
Sixty minutes has become sixty minutes with Barack Obama.
Third appearance this year.
The guy's on television every day, and every day it seems he starts whatever remarks he's gonna make at the same time.
I start this program.
This guy's trying to ace me out, then I'm gonna I'm you know, hit back twice as hard.
I'll just stop playing Obama sound bites.
People are fed up hearing them anyway.
There's nothing new in them.
And you know, hearing somebody lie to you repeatedly is uh is a grating thing.
Uh you know, Colleen from uh uh uh Virginia Beach was our last caller, and she said she was at the rally on Saturday, she ran into a liberal young 25-year-old guy arguing with her about the health care bill, and he was insistent because he'd worked for Ted Kennedy and because he'd heard Obama say so that abortions were not covered with taxpayer dollars in the current health care bill.
And she's oh, it's there, it's sure as it isn't and supposedly went online on this blackberry and found out, yo, it is covered, they are covered.
I'm sorry and apologize, which I've never heard of that happening before.
But here's the here's the all you need to know proof wise.
Anytime you hear a claim from the Obamacare crowd, such as abortions are not covered.
If that is so, why wasn't the pro-choice crowd storming the gates of the White House?
Federally funded funds, federally funded abortions are not part of my health care bill, and never will be, and they haven't been.
Then why aren't the Feminazis showing up with tanks and bulldozers at the White House?
By the same token.
My health care bill.
Joe Wilson said I lied, he lied.
My health care bill does not cover illegal.
If that's so, how come La Raza was not storming the gates of the White House?
How come the pro-amnesty crowd was not up in arms?
They all know the truth.
They all know that abortions are covered and will be covered in any Obama health care plan, and the same thing with uh medical coverage for illegals.
Now, uh, ladies and gentlemen, we've gone through the sound bites today here on the EIB network, and the leftist state-run media is talking about the dark mood, a conspiracy theory, the dark undercurrent.
Uh death camps, uh, people comparing Obama to Hitler.
Of course, that was the LaRouche Democrats doing that.
The point is they're always out there talking about the nutball fringe of the right.
I think the whacked out berthers or the, you know, the the wing nuts.
And you know, we you know, we got some people on the edge on our side.
Might be a fool to deny that.
We got some wackos on our side.
But here's the difference.
The left's wackos now hold office.
The left's wackos are making the nation's laws.
The left's wackos populate the White House.
You want to talk about fringes.
You have to mention the left's.
The leftists, they've got their truthers, their 9-11 nutcases, but they've got Pelosi.
They've got Harry Reid.
They have got, they've got Maxine Waters.
They've got what's that woman that replaced Mickey Leland?
I'm having a mental bar um, well, Barbara Lee's in California, she's a nutcase, but uh.
Uh yeah, and they hired Van Jones.
Uh so, you know, we we have we have our wackos, and they're safely out on the fringe.
The left's wackos are in Congress and in the White House, and they are writing the nation's laws.
That is the big difference.
You want to hear from one of these leftist wackos.
Face the nation yesterday morning, Bob Schaefer talking to White House advisor David Axelrod.
What do you make of the big protest out there on Saturday?
What's the message?
Number 10.
I don't think it's indicative of the nation's mood.
In fact, I don't believe that some of the angriest, most strident voices we saw during the summer uh were representative of the thousands of town hall meetings that went on around the country that came off peacefully that were constructive, people uh voicing their uh points of view.
One of the great things about our country is people can express themselves, even if they're not representative of the majority.
Your own poll, which was taken after the president's speech suggests that they don't represent uh a mainstream view uh of this health care plan.
And so uh, you know, uh I I don't think we ought to be uh distracted uh by that.
What poll?
The only polls plural I've seen show a majority disapproval with the Obama health care plan.
Now he did get a bump after the speech in Erasmus, and he did get a bump, but he got the bump personally, not health care-wise.
But he but but what what poll is he talking about here?
The opposition to Obama health care is in fact mainstream.
Then Bob Schaeffer said, Well, why doesn't the president just say we don't have the votes to pass this?
We have the votes perhaps to pass a lot of other things, just put that aside and say, these guys are just so they're obsessed with the process.
You know, that's Bob Schiefer and all these beltweight types, they're just obsessed with the process.
They think the greatest thing in the world when somebody proposes a bill.
Then there's a bill out there to talk about, a piece of legislation.
And what's the process?
Is the president gonna win?
Are we gonna get the bill?
We don't need the friggin' bill.
We don't need this friggin' bill.
We don't need the cap and trade bill.
We do not need half the bills or any of the bills Obama's proposed.
Screw the bills.
This is the bottom line.
These guys all get caught up in the process.
Obama gotta get the bill passed.
Well, it's a rotten bill.
It stinks.
Mr. Schaefer, it's stupid.
This is not a game.
It's not a horse race.
We're talking about the future of the country.
That's why people are out there in droves.
So, anyway, he asks Axelrod, you know, uh he said the public option wasn't wasn't crucial to plan.
He said he still liked it.
Why didn't he go for something that'll pass?
He continues to believe it's a good idea, he continues to advocate it, and I'm not willing to accept that it's not going to be in the final package.
Bottom line is screw all of you who don't want the government running health care.
Doesn't matter what you want.
You're not representative of a majority of America.
Anyway.
But here's Olympius Snow on CBS Face the Nation yesterday morning.
Bob Schaefer, did the president take the public option off the table the other night, or should he be more specific about it?
He should be more specific.
In fact, uh, you know, I urge the president to take the public option off the table because it's universally opposed by our Republicans uh in the Senate, and therefore uh there's no way to pass a plan uh uh that includes a public option.
Uh, remember they were reporting Olympia Snow was all for the public option uh up until last week when she came out and said, Wait a minute, I'm not for the public options.
She says universally opposed by the Republicans in the Senate.
Well, that's a problem.
But no, it's not.
No, it's not.
They'll replace Ted Kennedy soon enough.
They get back to 60 votes, but they're not gonna go the 60 votes route.
They're gonna go 51 votes.
They're gonna go reconciliation.
Screw you is their motto.
Yeah, as usual, doing fifteen things at one time during the commercial break.
You people get to take time off.
I work harder.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 from real clear policy.
Actually, this is um I think this is the Associated Press.
No, I don't know.
Real clear policy I think it's the AP.
Let me see.
Anyway, here's the story.
The nation's top Democrat strategists are anxious.
By Gallup's measure, Democrats' advantage in party identity has narrowed from 17 points in January to five points in August.
I it's I think it's even worse than that.
The generic ballot is total Republican majority now.
President Obama's approval rating, now Bob's in the low fifties.
He's lost America's favor at a larger and faster rate than most presidents since World War II.
It's not Republicans who concern Democrats.
it's the return of old questions surrounding Democrat competence.
Democrat political veterans believe Obama must in a matter of months begin to show the big reform to match his campaign's big promise.
It explains why Democrat strategists almost uniformly subscribe to the prevailing view across Washington that some form of legislation is better than a martyr's conclusion.
Several strategists believe Obama's administration has already squandered a good portion of the historic possibility that greeted his presidency.
They're super touchy right now, and they should be.
They screwed up, said one top strategist in the White House, who asked that his name not be used so that he could speak candidly.
Super touchy.
They screwed up top Democrats troubled by Obama's standing.
I love this headline.
Forget the story.
I just love the headline.
Barney Frank considers crammedown law.
Representative Barney Frank, Democrat Massachusetts says slow progress in assisting troubled homeowners could lead to a new push to change bankruptcy laws, and he wants to consider a cram down law.
Barney Frank.
So the phones, Dana in Ottawa, Illinois.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I'm thrilled to speak with you today.
Thank you very much.
I admire you a lot.
To get right to it, uh I did call to disagree with you uh in some respect about this not being uh a GOP versus Democrat movement.
Um and to illustrate that, I'd like to go back to your point about there is no leader of this movement.
And um many of the speakers the other day at the rally spoke to that point, and a lot of the people I spoke with were Democrats that are disgusted with Obama, and to a person, the Republicans that I spoke with are were just fed up with government in general.
Uh there was a lot of anger at the Bush administration.
They had all the levers of power at their disposal and they did nothing.
They did not represent us.
Um there's just real anger out there.
And so I I I really believe that this movement is is bigger than the the political parties.
I I really think there's gonna be a movement soon to maybe form another party.
I've I've been a Republican my whole life, but those people no longer represent me.
And if I could, I'd like to talk to you about um an eighty-one-year-old man that was on the bus that I was on.
There were twenty-eight ragtag people on that bus from all walks of life.
He took four shots of insulin a day, and he made it on that bus.
He did not have a leader.
There was nobody telling him to get on a bus and go there.
And and Herb, if you're out there, I hope you're doing fine.
And he went through that uh sixteen-hour bus ride, stood all day, and then the major media is not even reporting that tens of thousands of people were there.
I think people like her deserve better from our media.
And and I'm just outraged, Rush, and uh and I'm so I'm thrilled that I was there.
Uh my niece and my sister and my husband went with me, and we didn't have anybody tell us to go there.
We did not have a leader.
We realize that we have to do it ourselves.
Uh nobody in the Republican Party, God knows not on the other side, are gonna help us, and we have to do this ourselves.
Now, let me address second thing you mentioned first, and that is all these people that showed up deserve better from the media.
Yes, they do.
I I have yeah, they do.
You're absolutely right.
It ain't gonna happen.
I have long cautioned everybody if you seek validation for your actions, th uh, based on the media being accurate in their reporting of your actions, you're going to be forever disappointed.
The media is as much the enemy as is the Obama administration.
Well, trust me when I tell you that I know that.
I'm not surprised by it, but I am outraged by it because I mean, uh this is this is verging on on pravda.
I mean, you look at those pictures on the television.
Uh, you know, even MSNBC had a a wide shot, an aerial view of this of this uh group of protesters, and they're trying to tell people they were tens of thousands of people there.
I I'm not surprised.
The people at the rally were not surprised, but But it's just it's so disappointing.
And I I'm gonna tell you, Rush, I spoke to a lot of people there, and we will come out in bigger numbers the next time and I will do whatever I can I worked on Friday.
I got on a bus for sixteen hours.
I knew it wasn't going to be fun.
I'm back to work today.
But it was Illinois.
No way, but it was fun.
You did enjoy it.
And you enjoyed it for all the reasons that you've mentioned but this this we've got to be really really careful here, Dana, about this left versus right government thing.
You mentioned third party and I'm just we've been through this with Perot.
We I know that.
I know that and I think Perot helped Clinton get in.
I don't doubt that.
I do believe there has to be a huge movement before people can vote that way.
But you're i i a third party is not gonna do anything other but ensure the reelection of Obama and every other Democrat running for office because even if you come up with a charismatic third party presidential candidate still isn't gonna have anybody of any significance running on that party for members of for for seats in Congress or the U.S. Senate unless this movement happened to become the majority movement in the country and
that's not what's happening.
I I I I respectfully uh disagree with you here.
I understand the anger of the Republican Party hell I've got it too I I've had it for a long long time but don't make the mistake of thinking this is not a re left versus right thing.
This is a conservative ascendancy that's going on out there.
You didn't show up in protests like this when the Republicans were in power.
All right, let me try to tackle this again.
I said I was going to repeat what I said in the first hour because I don't know how many of our stations preempted us for Obama's claiming credit for taking care of Lehman Brothers.
But this left versus right thing as it relates to the rally on Saturday.
Here's what we face.
We have a two-pronged objective.
two pronged fight we have to of course defeat the Democrat Party but we've also got to reassert ourselves as the leaders of the Republican Party.
So we got two things we have to do third party folks is gonna bomb we've been through this I'm 21 years now.
We've been to this twice.
Each time each time uh I have said what I've had to say about it and eventually many of you who are angry at me at the time came back and begrudgingly admitted that I was right about this.
The third party is not a vehicle for anything other than expressing your frustration don't confuse me you know I'm I'm in fact I'm not the titular head of the Republican Party and don't think so.
Colin Powell is the drive by's took that away from me I I don't the Republican Party to me is not anything in its present form worth uh promoting saving advancing and so forth.
Don't don't misunderstand here.
What I'm what I'm what I see in all these protest rallies is people fed up not with Republicans right now but with Democrats.
What the Republicans did during Bush did not get you out of your houses and into Washington in the numbers that you were there Saturday did not get you to tea parties.
It made you mad.
It made you frustrated we were all together on that it has taken leftist radicals this is most definitely a left versus right thing you all know in the bottom of your heart there's not a Republican alive that would propose a health care plan like Obama has even as much messed up as a Republican party is today there's not a Republican alive that would that would propose a cap and trade bill.
Now some of these duofuses may end up supporting it for some stupid nefarious reason but this is not who they are and it's certainly not what the Republican Party ought to be.
It's gonna be a permanent loser if it tries to be McCain Powell Democrat Party light but don't mistake what's happening out there.
This is not just an anti Washington movement and antiwa this is this has substantive detailed opposition to the Obama agenda.
There is no Republican agenda right now.
They don't have any power whatsoever anywhere they are and they're they're not even standing up much in opposition.
Why do you think Joe Wilson is a cause celeb?
He's a Republican that stood up.
He voiced what everybody you was saying when you were watching the same speech he attended.
Seems like every sentence contained a lie from Obama.
He couldn't take it anymore.
You lie.
It was a genuine heartfelt moment of passion that we were all experiencing when we were watching here.
We've got a lot of look, the conservative movement has a lot of phonies in it right now, particularly in the in the DC inside the beltway media that are that are trying to, for whatever reason, water down conservatism and say the era of Reagan is over and all of that.
We've been talking about this for a year and a half.
And there are people out there who are who are uh counting conservatives out, uh have insisted that conservatives change their message or their principles, and these people are going to be proven wrong, and so they're out there spinning right now.
Please don't fall for this notion that there's no difference between the Republicans and Democrats right now.
There is a huge difference.
This is not to say that that there is illegitimate anger at the Republican Party, but there's a huge difference.
I I think probably the more accurate thing to say is that this is an anti-Washington protest.
It's the Washington political culture, which is run by the left.
The Washington political culture and the social culture, the in the media culture, it's all run by the left.
And the left is unobstructed, and so they are arrogantly proceeding with their agenda wide open.
Everybody can see it, and that's what everybody is up and outrageous.
These Tea Parties are about health care.
The Tea Parties were not about Republican spending.
To a certain extent, cap and trade only, but it's all coming together because of Obama.
These protests are as much anti-Obama as they are anything else.
The thing that worries me is, you know, I've I've been a conservative all my life, and going this third party route is just, it's it's not going to do anything but satisfy your rage and anger.
It isn't going to accomplish anything.
It never has.
All the way back in 1980, John Anderson tried it.
Perra tried it in the early 90s, the charismatic uh leader, and Perot never intended to get as far with it as he got.
That's why he eventually quit.
He didn't want to be president.
He was just, he was like you and everybody else, angry at the spending, out of control and so forth, and he blamed both parties.
There's always a sentiment for this.
There is always a group of people, yeah, politics and general, we hate politics.
Anybody that's in politics, we hate.
And that's not healthy because there have been great people in politics.
Reagan was a great person, and Reagan got things done against a majority Democrat Congress.
And he did it with conservative principles, not anti-Washington alone principle.
Everybody can be anti-Washington.
Anybody can say Washington sucks.
Anybody can point all that out.
Anybody can talk about a special interest all day long, the lobbyists and this sort of thing.
But there's a there's still a clear difference here between the liberal culture and a conservative culture or the liberal culture and a republican culture.
So, you know, I I know a lot of you believe that this has nothing to do with ideology.
Left versus right, but it most certainly does.
This is fascism, liberalism, social, whatever you have, whatever you want to call Obama.
Obama and his plans are what finally were the tipping point here.
And there aren't any Republicans standing up with Obama saying, yeah, we want to do this.
There aren't any Republicans standing up with Pelosi or Harry Reed saying, yeah, join us as we work together.
The last guy that tried that got dispatched in a hurry.
His name was John McCain.
He was dispatched in a hurry.
So everybody knows that that's not the way to go.
But let me tell you something.
What we face right now, the future of our country does not depend on getting rid of Washington.
The future of the country depends on stopping Obama and stopping the Democrats and stopping this radical left agenda.
And you stop a radical left agenda not by opposing Washington, but by opposing a radical left agenda.
It is what it is.
Now, if you want to throw the Republicans in there as people you're all so mad at in general principle, fine, I'm right there with you.
But we're never going to throw Washington away.
We're never going to clear out Washington.
We have to end up figuring out a way of running it.
For the good, we have to end up being the culture that defines Washington.
Conservatism.
There's no reason to be defensive about it.
There's no reason to run from it.
Conservatism is not out of style.
And the reason is that freedom will never go out of style, not in the United States of America.
And conservatism has its roots to the founding of this country.
Conservatism has its roots to everything you're upset about concerning the future and stopping it.
Conservatism has its roots in liberty and freedom and free market capitalism.
And there's no reason to reform it, there's no reason to redo it, there's no reason to redesign it.
There's no reason to compromise our principles or message.
There's no reason to suggest, well, the American people have now agreed that they want a large active government.
We just have to figure out a way to get ourselves in charge of it and make sure we give the middle class what it wants.
That's the latest rallying cry from the conservative intelligence, and they're dead wrong about it because they're trying to curry favor with the people who do run Washington, the left, by agreeing with them.
I also agreeing that there's something wrong with conservatism.
It would really be a shame if all of this leads to a decline in conservatism because I tell you, conservatism is the only antidote for what is happening here.
That it is the fear of the dark undercurrent of Obama and whatever you want to call his policies.
You want to call them fascism, you're right.
If you want to call them socialism, you're partially right.
You want to call them liberal, you're dead on accurate.
You want to call them progressive, whatever you want to call them.
They are left-wing radicals.
It's a bunch of people that do not like this country as it's currently constituted.
They are trying to reconstitute it.
They don't like the fact that the Constitution is an object in their way, is an obstacle.
So it's a serious thing, and here we are in the middle of what is a conservative ascendancy.
And there's every reason to be proud of it.
Rather than to discard it or try to redefine it.
Now I I I want to again read what Clarice Feldman wrote at the American thinker, along with uh Roslyn Smith, we're witnessing a very rare phenomenon, the genuine broad-based spontaneous political movement with no visible charismatic leaders.
That is so important.
It is seminal.
It is a crucial factor in this because it is the antithesis to Obama whose existence is owing exclusively to charismatic leadership alone, or charismatic personality, not even leadership.
Got to take a brief time out.
We'll be back.
We will continue after this.
Okay, we are back.
Rush Limbaugh serving humanity here on the EIB network.
Folks, we need to take the Republican Party back.
The Democrat Party was co-opted, has been co-opted by a bunch of communist socialists, fascists, what have you, from the 60s and the 70s.
And that's what we're up against now.
We have allowed our party to be co-opted by a slate of Ivy League elitists.
And and and country club blue blood Republicans who want to be thought of as enlightened and compassionate and so forth, they want to be thought of as liberal light, Democrat light.
And they've, you know, we've talked about what the divisions in the Republican Party are all about.
It's about the social issues, the Republicans don't like the pro-lifers being in the party, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Now, if if if we just leave the Republican Party to where it is, go through third party, it it's we're ceding defeat.
The electoral college alone.
The electoral college discriminates against third party, like you can't believe it's not the way to go.
I realize a lot of you are going to be mad at me.
But the one thing that you who have been with me for 21 years know is that I have never been anything other but a mainstream down the line rock solid bulwark conservative because that's who I am.
And I know that the Republican Party has won big time when it has been as well.
I know that a third party isn't gonna win diddly squat.
But I am prepared for the next two to four years for some of you out there to hate me and despise me because of this.
Because I'm well aware of the anti-washing sediment that exists and the desire to just throw the whole thing into the Potomac River and rebuild it.
And it does have to be rebuilt, but you're never gonna throw it all on the Potomac River.
And if you discount the role of Barack Obama in gemming up all this passion that's leading to the protest.
And if you want to try to equate the Republican Party to what this radical bunch of leftists is doing, you're gonna have a tough time convincing me that there is any similarity.
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He was in possession of employment eligibility documents for dozens of people when he was arrested.
The uh chairman of Federal Reserve.
He got swindled.
Identity theft.
The chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Now, this guy that the OC Orange County Register reported on, according to a search warrant, received stolen property, which included 70 original federal employment eligibility verification forms, also known as I-9s.
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Snerdly, these people are so agitated at me today, they're even saying that my powder blue shirt looks ugly and makes me look old.
Uh Christine in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey Rush, how are you?
Just fine, thank you.
Great.
Um, I have just a point to make on Joe Wilson.
One, I think we need more Joe Wilson up in Washington.
And two, I think that it was the time and the place for him to say what he said.
I am all for civility and decorum.
But you know what?
Had somebody sat down and interviewed him afterward and he said, Barack Obama is lying about these things.
You never never would have seen it in print.
You never would have seen it covered on television.
He made the network media's head spin because they had to cover it.
He forced them to cover issues that are important and to look deeper into it.
And now some more information's coming out.
And I think they have to continue to do this when they have everybody tuned in.
Otherwise, they tune us out.
Uh yes, I I agree with uh with all of Wilson did a good thing.
The only the only thing that he did that was wrong was, but the Republican leadership made him.
They made him call the White House and uh and apologize.
But Obama still hadn't apologized to the cop in Cambridge.
They still had a and he hadn't offered Joe Wilson a beer.
No at the uh at the White House.
Now, I don't think Joe Wilson should have apologized, really, and I still don't think he should.
I think that he needs to come out and say when you start covering all of the issues, all of the other media out there, then yes.
No, here's what he needs to say.
Here's what he needs to say.
I'll apologize again if you want, but only if Nancy Pelosi apologizes to the CIA first.
And only if Harry Reid apologizes for calling Bush a liar.
If if most guys apologize, then I'll I'll uh I'll make mitz meat out of it.
Until then, nothing else.
Folks, you gotta understand.
Let me put it to you this way: we are in triage stage right now.
We are at the triage stage.
We've got to address the biggest emergency first, and that is stopping Obama.
That has to happen.
If that doesn't happen, all the rest of this is academic.
The second thing is, Ross Perot gave the White House to the Democrats in two successive elections, and I can show it to you in polling data.
Which I think I'm gonna do tomorrow.
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