Okay, everybody's telling me they botched the test.
Everybody's telling me you can barely hear the emergency, whatever it is, warning test out there.
They botched it.
It was a minute late or what have you.
Not surprised.
Look who's running.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, Obama has called off the Christmas tree tax.
Just happened.
I speak and he moves.
And it's over with.
The Christmas tree tax is going to actually what it was, the Christmas tree tax, to be specific, it was to hire a PR firm to go out and extol the virtues of a real Christmas tree.
That's what the tax really was.
It was not a tax going to the growers themselves to subsidize them for lack of sales.
It was to hire a PR firm to go out there and try to convince you to hire a real tree.
So look at what we've finally found.
Stop it.
This is a big moment in American history.
I don't know if you people realize this.
This is precedent setting.
We have found a tax that Obama doesn't like because it might help Christmas.
Stop and think of that.
Only I, El Rushball, able to read the stitches on the fastball, would make that.
I mean, you know, you go out, you'd have a Christmas tree tax.
At the same time, your own government's trying to get rid of nativity scenes.
At the same time, your own government's trying to get rid of any religious symbolism regarding Christmas.
And all of a sudden, you have a Christmas tree tax that promotes Christmas trees and so forth.
Sounds too much like a Christian outreach program.
Can't have that.
I mean, Rashid Khalili and Bill Ayers and the others are getting mighty upset about that.
So Obama steps in and makes sure that his regime is not going to be confused with supporting Christmas.
Greetings and welcome back, folks.
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Here is audio soundbite number, what are we up to here?
Number nine.
This is Mr. Newt.
He was with, I guess he was at something called a center seat.
They've added a new feature here to the Fox All-Stars.
They turn the Fox All-Stars from commentators into interrogators.
They ask them questions.
They bring a guest in there and they put him in the center seat and all the commentators stop opinionizing and start asking.
So they brought Newt in there and Stephen Hayes, senior writer from the Weekly Standard, said that ad with Pelosi that you did, a striking ad for a lot of Republicans around the country, is the Earth warming?
If so, why is it warming?
And what is that urgent action we need to take?
And here's what Newt had to say.
Personally, it's probably the dumbest single thing I've done in recent years.
It is inexplicable.
As somebody used to say, you know, there aren't enough hay wagons to stand on to get people to understand that one.
So you just need to kind of relax and go, that was dumb.
Were you being held hostage right now?
No, I just dumb.
I was trying to do something I failed to do.
I do think it's important for conservatives to be in the middle of the debate over the environment.
I actually don't know whether global warming is occurring.
The vast majority of the National Academy of Science says it is.
A minority says it is not.
Science is not actually voted on.
Science is a function of truth.
Newt.
What I do know is that if you look at exactly what was said in that ad, finding innovative new ways of getting cleaner energy ought to be something most Americans feel pretty comfortable with.
This is what happened.
Just went like five sentences too far.
There isn't any global warming.
I mean, even the NASA people, they're now trying to explain why the cooling is taking place.
And they're trying to come up with all kinds of lies and escape hatch reasons why there isn't any warming.
It's some temporary thing.
There is no global warming.
It's getting colder.
The charts, the data, it all proves it.
And so to say that the conservatives need to be in the middle of debate over the environment, we need to be in the middle of killing.
It is nothing more than a left-wing political weapon aimed at growing government, limiting freedom, raising taxes by blaming people for causing climate destruction.
And the way you make them pay for it, save the planet, is to raise their taxes.
I don't know.
This is, you know, Newt is catching fire, by the way.
He is starting to resonate.
The way things are shaping up here in the primary, I don't know where it's going to end up for Newt, but he is being taken a lot more seriously right now than he was a month ago.
Three weeks.
He's in third place.
He's raising money.
He's rising stature.
He's been consistent.
And it's great illustration of what I've been trying to say for the longest time.
It's way too soon to declare anybody the nominee.
This isn't over.
And there's no reason for depression and no reason to go out there and be all defeatist over this.
Way too much can still happen on both sides.
It's sort of what makes it exciting.
I mentioned earlier in the program a story out of Memphis.
This is in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
That's the name of the newspaper there.
Going home full.
Memphis.
City Scruels offer supper to students.
At 2:30 in the afternoon, and by the way, this is written by either Jane or Jana.
Again, I'm dealing here with something I need a telescope to read, but I think it's Jane Roberts.
And it's just this story is written as though, oh, this makes perfect sense.
Schools serving supper.
Oh, wonderful.
That makes perfect sense.
At 2:30 in the afternoon, it's been four hours since lunch.
And Will Adams, 11, needs more than a snack to get through his day, which ends at 6 p.m. when aftercare closes.
He and hundreds of other students got a meal ticket upgrade last week when Memphis City Scruels rolled out after Scruel supper in 70 schools, free to students in its after-hours enrichment programs.
With a snack, I go home hungry, said Will.
With supper, I go home full.
I'm amazed that this kid has a home to go to.
Listen to this.
With a snack, I'd go home hungry.
Said 11-year-old Will Adams.
With supper, I go home full.
You mean there are people in a building that's called home, like a mother and a father, who care for and feed this kid?
Or not?
Why does this kid need supper at Scrule?
You know, I'll tell you what, folks, you know where this is heading?
To hell with home.
The kids live at school.
You and your spouse, the sperm meets the egg, the kid's born, and off to school he goes, and you might see him on weekends.
But you're not going to be expected to feed him.
They'll take care of that at school.
Going home is going to be the exception.
Going home is going to be the odd thing about school.
With supper, I go home full.
Why would you even be thinking of that?
I got enough, I have enough.
Snerdly, I have enough trouble staying focused today without you asking me if the kids have clean underwear.
Are you doing a riff on the diaper thing here?
Because I am stunned here because if we're going to feed kids supper at school, and the little 11-year-old are going to be the people that appear in the commercial for it, in the ad.
I mean, with a snack, I go home hungry, but with supper, I go home full.
Why go home?
Home is nonsense.
Just raise them all 24/7 at the school.
All they do at home is sleep.
As part of healthy, hunger-free kids legislation passed in 2010.
Healthy, hunger-free kids legislation.
The federal government is now in the supper business, budgeting $641 million over 10 years to make sure that children in the nation's ever-growing poor pockets get one more balanced meal a day.
It's wonderful, said Larry Hopson, the site coordinator at Shelby Oaks Elementary, where about 100 children, pre-kindergarten to fifth grade, were at long cafeteria tables for their second government-subsidized meal, if not the third, that day.
Again, the writer, this Jane Jane Roberts, oldness is wonderful.
Writing about this is the whoa, this is the greatest invention ever: supper at school.
Why didn't previous generations think of this?
Larry Hopson, site coordinator, quoted here as saying, These kids are really enjoying carrots and ranch dressing dip.
It's exciting.
Friday, there that is what he said here.
Friday, there were chicken fiesta salads, iceberg dotted with a confetti of black beans, cheese, corn, and diced tomato, plus ham sandwiches on wheat, apples, raw carrots, and cherry tomatoes.
Schools and community groups are reimbursed $2.77 per supper, plus slightly more than 22 cents in federal commodities.
The money has to cover food costs, plus labor to make the meals, ship them to the schools, and cover the cost of serving and cleanup.
Tony Garasi, the new executive director of MCS school nutrition program, said, here's the reality: for a lot of the kids that come to school, the only real meal they can count on comes from the school.
I'm not kidding.
For a lot of the kids that come to school, the only real meal they can count on comes from the school.
There's this enormous gap between lunch and breakfast the next day.
Our goal is to fill the gap.
Yeah, Tony, that's where is this mythical home with mythical parents are supposed to be filling the gaping mouths.
Where are the parents in any of this?
Don't call me an old fogey.
And again, this is just written with full acceptance that this is okay.
The reporter doesn't include any imposing idea.
There's not one person that opposes this that's mentioned in the story.
Wouldn't it have been nice maybe to find somebody who questions whether the federal government has the responsibility or the money to be funding supper?
That's now three meals a day.
Plus, there's a snack thrown in there because the story starts out here at 2:30 in the afternoon.
It's been four hours since lunch, and Will Adams needs more than a snack.
And whatever 11-year-old Will Adams wants, well, damn it, Will Adams is going to get because he's an American kid and he can't be expected to go home hungry.
He can't be expected to go home and eat.
Who does that anymore?
Then the Memphis commercial.
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Got on a roll.
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Back to the audio soundbites we go now here on the EIB network.
By the way, the market, that last chance I had, yep, down 417 points.
They really wanted that Christmas tree tax, and Obama yanked it out of there because, well, he just can't have his base will not tolerate the government being involved promoting anything to do with Christmas.
He had to pull it out of there.
And apparently the markets really wanted that Christmas tree tax, and Obama yanks it down 400 and some odd points.
Here is the Dylan Radigan show.
Once again, PMS NBC.
This is late yesterday afternoon.
And there's a fill-in host on this show, Thomas Roberts is his name.
And he had a guest, Get Money Out Foundation Executive Director Jimmy Williams, about allegations of sexual harassment against Herman Cain.
And the guest host said, Jimmy, if there's no specific charge, these allegations are over a decade ago in reference to Sharon Bialik.
Does he really need to respond to them in kind?
Or can he say that without anything specific, what do you need me to do?
When Bill Clinton shook his hand, his little finger at the nation and said, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, everybody in the country knew he was lying.
You can smell it.
This guy's lying.
There's no difference between Herman Cain being accused of sexually harassing woman after woman after woman.
We're now at five.
By the way, there are five flags behind that podium.
I just want to point that out.
There's no difference between that.
Why should Herman Cain, if he's even accused of one of these and found guilty, that man should have to register as a sexual offender?
So you start out by hoisting Clinton up.
Hey, when he shook that big law, what are you little finger to the nation and said, everybody knew he was lying?
No, I don't think so.
Remember Madeline Albright?
They had a cabinet meeting and Madeline Albright and a couple other cabinet people came out and said that they were all that trusted the president.
He told them it didn't happen.
Everything was going to be fine.
They all gathered out there in the driveway outside their West Wing.
And I don't know.
The whole point of that was to lie and get away with it.
Harry Thomason and Carville, they wrote the script for that.
They planned it.
I mean, who knew Clinton was lying?
Nobody in the media said he was lying.
The media was hoping and praying he wasn't lying.
But here you've got with Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, you know, we got victims.
You got real victims.
In the case of Juanita Broderick, you've got a rape victim.
And her testimony is that Clinton, on the way out the door, said, hey, you might want to put some ice on that lip.
And they want Herman Cain to register as a sex offender?
I think they jumped the shark a long time ago, but they're not going to stop.
They're going to not stop this until they see erosion sufficient in his numbers for them to say they've succeeded.
Just like they didn't stop with Sarah Palin.
They didn't stop.
They didn't stop until she said she's not running.
And now, do you ever hear about her?
You hear about her anymore?
Not at all.
And it'll be the same thing with Kane.
And whoever is, and I'll guarantee it, Newt is going to be the next one targeted.
If he keeps this slow creep back up, he's going to be the next one targeted.
This is how the left works.
And then the same losers on our side will start piling on and say, oh, Newt's got some explaining to do there.
It's the most amazing thing to me.
Political enemies go out and level charges against people on our side, and some people on our side, yeah, yeah, yeah, he may have something there.
Yeah, well, our guy may have to respond to this.
The Clinton allegations, it should be pointed out, are exactly as old as the Kane accusations.
The Clinton acts, I mean, the stuff Clinton did, they're exactly as old as the things Herman Cain's being accused of doing.
And this is the big-time politics of personal destruction.
David Gregory, the host of Meet the Depressed on NBC, where was he?
He was on Today Show today.
And the co-host at Ann Curry said, you know, he's not stepping down.
It's about Herman Kane.
He's not stepping down.
He's continuing to suck the air out of the narrative.
You know, when Ann Curry starts talking about sucking the air, that makes me nervous.
That makes me real uncomfortable.
I don't like that.
I am, I'm sitting here.
I'm just realizing how offended I'm getting.
It didn't, one second I read that.
See, I didn't see this.
I'm just now reading that's what she said.
She's accused Herman Cain of sucking the air out of the narrative.
That makes me nervous.
That makes me very uncomfortable.
I'm almost offended.
Because, you know, I can just visualize it.
I can just, there's, I see Herman Cain sucking the air out of the narrative.
I feel abused by Ann Curry of NBC News.
And I didn't even hear it.
I'm just reading it.
Imagine the shock.
Imagine the pain.
Imagine the suffering of actual viewers of a Today Show had to see her say this.
And then envision either Ann Curry sucking the air or Herman Cain sucking the air or both of them sucking the air out of the Republican narrative.
Now, you people in Rio Linda, wondering what is a narrative, think the dirtiest thought you can and you're close.
And that's what Ann Curry is suggesting that Herman Cain's doing.
And she's asking Gregory about this.
Does the party now wish, because he's sucking the air out of the narrative, David Gregory, does the Republican Party now wish that Herman Cain would just go away?
Well, there is no, you know, Grand Wizard in the party right now who can really force the issue.
I've talked to Kane's advisors in Iowa.
They think their support is still strong there, that it's not falling.
There may be some cracks in the foundation, according to pollsters I'm talking to, that his numbers may be starting to shift.
But right now, core support remains there.
Yeah, yeah.
Grand Wizard.
Grand Wizard, as in the Ku Klux Klan.
What happened is Gregory said, you know what?
I didn't even think of that.
And Kane being an African-American is a poor, poor choice of words.
And so he apologized.
I didn't know what I was thinking.
I wasn't, of course, I'm the Grand Wizard.
You think Grand Poopah, Grand Wizard?
I wasn't.
I didn't mean anything by it.
We'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
I just hope, because I didn't see it.
Did somebody no, did Ann Curry, I just want, did she gesture when she said that Herman Cain was sucking the air out of the Republican narrative?
Because if she gestured, then it could be even worse.
That do you realize how personally people could tell you, you realize how nervous that could make people, how uncomfortable, how offensive that might be.
I mean, did she make a circle with her mouth?
Did she raise her eyebrows like Peter Jennings used to do?
Did she look incredulous?
Did she look excited?
Did she look jazzed when she talked about Herman Cain sucking the air out of the Republican narrative?
I guess nobody on my staff saw it.
You didn't see it?
So I'm just, I'm asking the air.
And nobody knows.
One more here before we go to the break.
This is a flashback.
This is a flashback after client number nine.
Go back and remember how they treat Democrats caught up in these scandals.
Remember, there has been no sex alleged in the Herman Cain case.
Do you realize that no sex has been alleged?
In the original political story, the gestures were not of an overtly sexual nature.
Only words are alleged here.
Very few specifics.
Yet Herman Cain's a monster.
He should register as a sex offender.
So here we go, March 10th, 2008.
We got a montage here of former Senator Al D'Amato, James Carville, Mara Lyonson of NPR, John King at CNN, Hank Scheinkopf, the Democrat strategist, Eric Sean of Fox News, Alan Combs of Fox News, Wayne Barrett, the villages, a bunch of these people, talking about the allegations against then-Governor Elliot Spitzer.
This is a tragedy, an enormous tragedy.
It's a tragedy.
One of those political tragedies.
A personal tragedy.
This is a tragedy.
A personal and political tragedy, a sadness, and a tragedy.
This is a tragedy thing.
It's just an enormous tragedy.
The reason I use the word tragedy is he showed such potential as Attorney General.
God just, it's unbelievable.
It's like the memo went out.
Remember the soundbite we had where Cheney is bringing gravitas to the Republican ticket?
Now Elliot Spitzer.
Oh, it's a tragedy.
He was showing such potential as Attorney General.
Well, that means he was really zeroing in on putting a lot of Republicans in jail.
Then this came up.
Damn it.
Such a tragedy.
Herman Cain's got to register as a sex offender.
And I think, in all candor seriousness, this is one of the reasons why people are sticking by Herman Kane.
They're very much aware of this double standard.
They're ticked off.
But the thing that we know, you don't need sex for there to be a Republican sex scandal.
All you need is words.
All you need is allegations.
You don't have to have sex.
A Democrat, sex, rape, sexual harassment, fooling around with an intern, it's not sex.
It's what everybody does.
As long as it doesn't affect your job, who are you to judge?
Everything's cool.
Well, I don't know if I want to talk about the Larry Craig sex scandal.
But still, still, I mean, that was, that's, well, that's not even the toe-tapping thing.
That was very.
I'm just telling you that there's a clear double standard.
It's one of the reasons why people are sticking by old Herm.
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Now, remember, this is the crowd that wants to run your health care.
These people could not manage a one-car funeral.
Then these are the people who are going to be warning us about a terrorist attack.
Very reassuring out there.
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And we go back to the phones to Shreveport, Louisiana, the home of Hal Sutton and Terry Bradshaw and David Thoms and a bunch of great sports guys.
This is Steve.
Hi.
Thanks for the opportunity.
You're welcome, sir.
A few weeks ago, you made a comment that conservative principles are based on love, and I believe that to be true, except I believe that to be self-love.
And it's about to be demonstrated in the Herman Cain episode as it's taking place as we're watching it.
The comments this morning alluded to the fact that maybe the media, the Democrats are racist in their attack of Herman Cain.
Well, we're about to see racism in its extreme form as the Tea Party and the Conservatives abandon Herman King.
And we're going to watch him leave in droves.
And that's going to be the great sucking sound of 2011.
Wait, the Tea Party and Conservatives are abandoning Herman Cain?
Oh, they will.
They will.
Ray now in denial.
And that's going to be racist?
Oh, yes.
Oh, yes.
You know, a black man rich in America and doing well and spousing about tax reduction.
Yeah, they all can buy that.
Don't you kind of have this backwards, Steve?
No, I think you're wrong on this subject.
On this topic right here, you're wrong.
So they should decrease.
What do you mean I'm wrong?
What am I wrong about?
What did I say that I'm wrong about?
Saying that the media is exhibiting racist.
They're just trying to get to the truth.
They're just trying to get people to watch their shows.
They're just bursilling.
I don't think there's any question that Herman Cain's race is a factor in this.
Just as there was no question that Miguel Estrada's race was a factor in his destruction, or Alberto Gonzalez, or Clarence Thomas, or Janice Rogers Brown.
Any conservative person of color who's nominated or seeks a position of high power is going to be targeted.
That ain't how people of color are supposed to get there.
The only route is through the Democrat Party.
If you don't go to the Democrat Party, they'll take you out.
Let me ask you a question here, folks, before we ace out of here.
How many white Democrat candidates have been asked to take a lie detector test?
Was Clinton?
Was Ted Kennedy?
Was Barney Frank?
Herman Cain was asked yesterday if he would take a lie detector test.
You don't think there's some sort of racism going on here?
You just don't want to admit it.
Okay, we're in LA.
I've decided we're going to stay and try to redeem our, well, I don't have anything to redeem, but a lot of other people do.