Posted on 07/11/2005 5:11:20 PM PDT by wagglebee
RUSH: Mrs. Clinton, Hillary Rodham, was in Aspen and she went on the attack against President Bush in a speech yesterday, "accusing him of damaging the economy by overspending while giving tax cuts to the rich," and here we go again. The same old class envy business and from a playbook that is 30 to 40 years old. Mrs. Rodham "accused Bush of depriving US soldiers of equipment needed to fight the war in Iraq and cutting funding for scientific research. 'I sometimes feel that Alfred E. Newman is in charge in Washington,' Ms. Rodham said, referring to the Mad magazine character. She drew a laugh from the crowd when she described Bush's attitude toward tough issues with Newman's catch phrase, 'What, me worry?' She was speaking during the inaugural Aspen Ideas Festival organized by the Aspen Institute nonpartisan think tank. She didn't mention the presidential election in 2008." Now, the Aspen Institute, just so you know what it is, that's where Walter Isaacson went. He was at TIME, then he went to run CNN for a while. He left CNN went to the Aspen Institute. It's nonpartisan. Walter Isaacson, TIME Magazine, lib, CNN, liberal, he is. I know him, he's a liberal, but he's now at the "nonpartisan" Aspen Institute that invited the nonpartisan Hillary Clinton and a bunch of nonpartisan mainstream media people last week to come out and do seminars and roundtables until the London blast and the hurricane when the mainstream media seminar participants had to leave, come off their vacations, and come back to work. Now, as to this business that President Bush is just Alfred E. Newman -- let me take a break here. I'll have some comments on that on the other side.
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RUSH: So Hillary Clinton likens George W. Bush, the president of the United States, to Alfred E. Newman. Madam Senator, do you really, really want to go down that road? I'm wondering if she means this. See, she is said to be the smartest woman in the world, folks, and this does not jibe with her being the smartest woman in the world. This does not distance herself from Howard Dean at all. This does not distance herself from these kooks. Maybe that's who she's playing to now. She keeps going back and forth. One days she's a moderate; the next day she's a conservative. The next day she's getting close to being pro-life, then she comes out and does something like this, and it's not hard to keep track of it all, and it's actually very easy to realize that some game is being played here, but I'm wondering -- this sounds more like something that James Carville or The Forehead would say. So I'm wondering who's writing her stuff. You know, she's in a little battle here with her rivals for the nomination, and I know she's gotta go out and get the Dean power base of the party and she's sort of selling her soul to get it with stuff like this. Maybe she's so filled with herself she thinks that she can say anything and the media will turn the cheek, and they will. I mean, the media is not going to think this is "lack of civility" or the "politics of personal destruction." In fact, they'll just laugh at it. But you never hear Bush talking this way about his political opponents. You never, ever hear him doing it and he stands just that much taller above them all. This is why I've always objected to this notion she's the smartest woman in the world. She just lowered herself to all the rest of these little Chihuahuas nipping at Bush's ankles out there in the Democratic Party. She's no different than any of that. You know, you contrast her saying this with Bush's class act at the G-8 last week and it's amazing.
Here we have a woman -- and I'll say this, you know, she can cover up. She can cover up her rear end with a pant suit but apparently she can't cover her fat mouth. You know, we are at war, for crying out loud. The liberals in the Senate are faking reaching out to people. London has just been bombed. We might have two or three Supreme Court appointments made by Bush, Hillary is out there wanting more federal money for New York state, and the smartest woman in the world, with an asterisk there, by the way, attacks the president with a Roseanne-like stunt. This is something you might hear one of the libs on Crossfire say. I don't know how you change the tone from that. You know, if George W. Bush reminds Mrs. Clinton of Alfred E. Newman then I'll just say it. Her husband reminded me... I thought we had Larry Flynt in the White House for eight years, folks. How's that? We had Larry Flynt in the White House for eight years, while a whole bunch of national security questions were being ignored, while terrorism was basically off the table except we were cutting and running from it in Mogadishu, and while old Larry Flynt, Jr., is in the Oval Office with cigars and who knows whatever else, all these other things are going on around the world and Mrs. Clinton is worried about the fact we've got a president that she says reminds her of Alfred E. Newman? How can she say, "What, me worry?" She misunderstands. I'm sure he does worry but he's confident because he knows himself. He likes himself, Mrs. Clinton. He's very comfortable in telling everybody who he is, very comfortable being who he is, very comfortable telling anybody who wants to know and who is willing to listen to what his ideas are. He doesn't have to have a meeting with himself to figure out what his core values are. He doesn't have to have a meeting with himself to figure out what his strategy is going to be. It is what it is. He said what he was going to do during the campaign and he did it, which led a bunch of Democratic consultants after he was inaugurated to say they've been tricked because nobody does what they say they're going to do in a campaign, but Bush did it. So "What, me, worry?" I don't even think it's an apropos analogy. Larry Flynt is much closer to her own husband in the White House. Kurt in Toledo. Welcome to the EIB Network, sir, nice to have you with us.
CALLER: Hey, why you gotta call Clinton 'Larry Flynt'? That's not even respectful but that's not why I'm calling. I caught you in a flip-flop which you always accuse Clinton of doing.
RUSH: Wait a minute. I've lost you here already. I just explained why I called Clinton Larry Flynt.
CALLER: Well, it ain't right. But anyway -- RUSH: Well, no kidding. It ain't right, no kidding. Welcome to the club.
CALLER: He was elected twice, Rush.
RUSH: Yes, and so has Bush been. Let me ask you: Do you think Hillary is appropriately describing President Bush calling him Alfred E. Newman?
CALLER: Well, by your words it's all good to be braggadocios and taunting people like you said they should be doing in Iraq. That's why I called. I called because I caught you in double-talk.
RUSH: It may not be why you called but it's because it's damn well what you're going to talk about because you led off with it.
CALLER: No, I talked to your call screener --
RUSH: Answer the question: Do you think it's appropriate for Hillary to call Bush Alfred E. Newman?
CALLER: If they wear them shirts in Iraq, I think it's appropriate. It's the same thing. You were saying that Bush has class, but then the troops are wearing them shirts. Now, who's got class here? The troops or Bush? You're flipping-flopping, Rush, I caught you. I caught you.
RUSH: Wait a minute. Are you talking about the Club G'itmo shirts?
CALLER: Yeah, because that caller earlier, you said, well, taunting -- they should stand up and taunt and brag and now Hillary is doing the same thing, and you're mad at her about it.
RUSH: I'm not mad at her about it. I'm trying to point out how--
CALLER: You're ripping on her about it. Why don't you rip on those guys for wearing them shirts and you said that Durbin --
RUSH: I gave them the shirts. They're proud to wear the shirts. (whispering) This is what I get paid for, folks, to irritate these people. Somebody's gotta earn the big bucks, why not me?
CALLER: And you like Hank Shram. He wouldn't have let his players taunt. But you want us to taunt.
RUSH: Gee whiz.
CALLER: Good-bye.
RUSH: Hank Stram wouldn't let his players taunt?
CALLER: (click)
RUSH: He hung up. That's a shame. I wish the guy would have hung on. What else was he saying? "I'm ripping on her about it..." I'm reading the transcript. "Why don't you rip on them guys for wearing them shirts and you said that Durbin--" You know, I'm telling you. There's a shield around these people, and it just does not allow reality to get in. I don't know how else to explain it. Poor guy. He's from Ohio. He must have been one of those guys that didn't get to the polling place on time because they probably kept him tied up at his house.
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RUSH: If you just joining us and you missed parts of this program earlier, let me just give you a little recap of some of the things that have transpired, just two or three things. As you know, we heard from First Sergeant Paul Joseph, the first sergeant of the 983rd Engineer Battalion. We heard from him about three weeks ago. We sent him from Club G'itmo gear. He's at Camp Ramadi, him and his unit. He got the Club G'itmo gear; they all put it on, about 13 of these guys, and they took a picture, and they've renamed their camp "Club G'itmo East." They sent it into the Club G'itmo photo gallery at RushLimbaugh.com and it's up there and it's a great picture and it is in your face. It is to the Dick Durbins and the Ted Kennedys and all the rest of the people that are doing their best to demoralize the troops, whether by design or not, and encourage the enemy, whether by design or not. It just shows, this picture, that they're not demoralizing our guys, and speaking of that, somebody called after we put the picture up. "You can't have them wear those shirts. That's taunting! You can't taunt the enemy!"
I said, "What do you think they'd rather be: taunted or shot?"
Now, this last call we had this Kurt guy from Toledo. He was all over the place, got on me for supporting Hank Stram, liking Hank Stram as a football coach, and he said, "Hank Stram's team never taunted." Kurt, I know you're still out there, still trying to get to the polling place. You probably couldn't find it back in November and you're still trying to get there to cast your vote, but let me just tell you the first team to play in the Super Bowl for the American football league was the Kansas City Chiefs -- coached by Hank Stram. They had a guy on that team named Fred "The Hammer" Williamson and all week leading up to the Super Bowl, the Hammer was threatening to behead a couple of Packers. He was doing more than taunting. He was making claims and putting up what is called "bulletin board material" for the Packers and it ended up that Fred "The Hammer" Williamson was carted off the field on a stretcher. It was the famous Green Bay power sweep and he just got hammered in there, knocked unconscious, and the Packers are all shown on the NFL Films version of the game on the sideline laughing. Hey, is that The Hammer? "That's The Hammer on that stretcher." (Laughing.) Hank Stram didn't have any taunters on his team?
Also, if you missed this, the European Union has reminded member states, member nations, that there is an anti-noise restriction now in all European Union countries and that they're going to enforce it, and I asked the question: "Then, does this include Al-Qaeda bombs? They gonna go after Al-Qaeda bombers for creating all this noise?" Can you just see all these mullahs and the Mohammeds and the Ali Akbars sitting around fretting now that they can't set off their bombs anymore because of the anti-noise pollution that the tough EU is ready to enforce? And then there was this from the Los Angeles Times, a list of missing in London is "as diverse as London itself," a story which I am holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, literally celebrating the diversity of the victims. They may be dead; they may be missing, but, boy, it shows that London is a great city because it's diverse! Those bombs didn't discriminate against anybody. Anybody that was there, sex, color, sexual orientation, religion, doesn't matter, race, those bombs killed. LA Times, finding the good in the bad. So all you leftists out in southern California, go embrace each other. Drive to the friendly commune to pick up your sunflower seeds today, and embrace each other because the missing in London are a diverse group -- and about that, we can be ecstatic.
Rush was incredible today!
Alfred E. Newman bump! :)
Larry Flint bump! :) HA!
No, no, you've got to give Bubba credit. At least as far as I know, he's never messed around with farm animals.
Nice picture. Thanks for posting.
"You heard it here: the empress has no clothes."
Eeewww. Cottage cheese nauseates me.
Whoa! She got told!
hey, Clintoon....take this!!!! BWAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA..
she's gonna make your old lady look like as stupid as " Kurt in Toledo".
Very possibly, but I don't think he did it to comply with the law.
How can anyone with any sanity take the former wicked witch of the white house seriously? She's flat out nuts! Let her keep blowing hot air and eventually she'll implode. I'm just waiting for that day! YEEEEHAH!
I heard the caller in the latter part of the transcript. Calling him stupid would be an insult to stupid people.
I bet Hillary never made porn...
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