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 RUSH: This is Maureen in Fresno. Thanks for calling, Maureen, you're great to wait. Nice to have you here.
CALLER: Quantum dittos.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: I am calling about -- well, I so missed yesterday. I looked forward the whole weekend to hearing you yesterday because I wanted to get your take on the ABC Friday Nightline interview with John Edwards. I am an attorney, and when I listen to him, he just sounded like he was the quintessential trial lawyer--
RUSH: Giving a closing argument, right.
CALLER: He was parsing things, he was saying things like, "Well, actually when I had the affair, Elizabeth was in remission, not that that counts, and I was a poor boy, and I got carried away being --" but he kept very calm and very, you know, like I said, parsing everything that he said, until the end, and the end of the question, which I thought was a very good question by the interviewer, and he said, "Well now, so I guess this is the end of your career," because I mean here the guy has not only cheated on his wife with cancer, but he lied about it, he tried to stand under the radar.
RUSH: You don't think she knew?
CALLER: Well, he claimed she knew back in '06.
RUSH: Yeah, look --
CALLER: So I hold her a little bit responsible.
RUSH: The line that he uttered, I agree with you about his career, I know where you're going to go with that because his arrogance thinks he can survive this and still marry this woman when his wife dies. But I'll tell you, when he said 99% of the truth won't survive anymore, that told me everything I have always suspected about this guy. There's nothing genuine about John Edwards, he is a walking, talking political calculation.
CALLER: And his anger came out, he didn't even say, "Well, hopefully I can concentrate on my family now and try to rehabilitate myself," he didn't say any of that. He just said "It's not the end," and he was really angry. Can I say one other thing?
RUSH: Yes, ma'am.
CALLER: And that is I wish McCain would get up off his duff and select a conservative running mate, whoever he wants, as long as they're good conservatives so that we could start getting excited.
RUSH: Well, you know, the names that we're hearing at the top of the list are Joe Lieberman and Tim Pawlenty from Minnesota, who is not really a conservative.
CALLER: No.
RUSH: Anyway, I've got a theory about Edwards.
CALLER: What's that?
RUSH: And, by the way, we've got some audio coming up, I want to go back and revisit this press conference of his with his wife, where they announced that she had cancer and everything. The Drive-Bys said he was going to pull out, remember, they got a bad leak on that. Human nature, I'm sorry to have to bring this up, but people are stunned that, of all the women he could have had an affair with, he chose this one, right? Now, I've got a theory to explain it. Edwards loves the camera. He preens for the camera with his hair and so forth, and he's the Breck Girl, and he hired this gal to run the camera that was taking videographies of his campaign, and I think he probably said they met in the bar and that's where it all happened but I think it got intense because he's constantly looking at the camera so damn much, and who was on the other side of the camera but this babe?
CALLER: And then making jokes about he was giving a speech on morality, he said, ah ha-ha-ha-ha.
RUSH: But see, if he would have just stuck with the camera.
CALLER: Yeah.
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RUSH: We're going to go back here to March 22nd, 2007. This was MSNBC after the announcement by John and Elizabeth Edwards that her cancer had returned and that it was incurable. Senator Edwards said in that press conference he was going to continue his presidential campaign and that his wife and the children would join him as often as possible. Now, there had been a leak an hour before the press conference, The Politico got some bad news saying that Edwards camp is going to fold up because of his wife's cancer. It turned out to be just the opposite, and Howard Fineman was among those analyzing the Edwards press conference on DNCTV.
 FINEMAN: [L]ooked at politically -- diagnosed, if you will, politically -- that was a ten strike of a press conference. They showed guts, it was nothing short of remarkable and somewhat unexpected, and it's always great when something unexpected happens around here.
RUSH: So the leak was wrong, and everybody was praising Edwards. "What great politics this was! What a great show this was! What a great press conference this was! This is going to launch new fundraising; this is going to launch his presidency." We've just been told his wife's got incurable cancer and they're analyzing this. These are the people of compassion and tolerance, understanding, and love, and they're telling us that this is so great from the prism of politics. Now, March 23rd, next day, 2007, on on my show. After the announcement about Elizabeth Edwards' cancer, this is what I said.
RUSH ARCHIVE: Now, let me say something that might be accused of cynicism. What is their religion? I don't doubt they're religious people, but we talked about this yesterday. Political people are different than you and I, and, you know, most people when told a family member's been diagnosed with the kind of cancer Elizabeth Edwards has, they turn to God. The Edwards turned to the campaign. Their religion is politics and the quest for the White House, and it's not just with them. I mean that's part and parcel of political people.
RUSH: Well, same day, the Drive-By Media gave me legions of heat for this, and we have a montage here. We've have DNCTV. We've got Larry King Live. April Woodard, on Norah O'Donnell, all kinds of people talking about what you just heard me say.
INSIDE EDITION ANNOUNCER (music): Controversy over what Rush Limbaugh said about Brave Elizabeth.
RUSH ARCHIVE: [M]ost people, when told a family member's been diagnosed with the kind of cancer Elizabeth Edwards has, they turn to God. The Edwardses turned to the campaign.
WOODARD: That's radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh criticizing the decision.
O'DONNELL: Rush Limbaugh has been saying on his radio program that this is an effort by the Edwards campaign to re-launch his campaign.
MILLER: To me, Larry, this is beyond the pale. When Rush Limbaugh says he's doing this as a political stunt.
KING: Did Rush say that?
MILLER: (long pause) Yes, Rush did say that.
RUSH: (laughing) Well, who was right? Who turns out to be right? As is always the case, who turned out to be right? The whole thing was a stunt because he was having an affair, and his wife probably knew about it. "And, you know, by the way, my -- my -- my wife's cancer was in remission when I cheated on her." Oh, really? That makes it okay or better somehow? I remember I told people around here when this Enquirer story hit -- I don't think I mentioned this on the air, and I'm going to go ahead and mention it now. I wish I had mentioned it on the air. When the Enquirer story on the Breck Girl's philandering came out, I said, "You know what the explanation is going to be? He's going to say, 'He was out doing research to find out just how and how you can't have sex with a wife who's got cancer and so forth. He was doing it for her, doing it for Elizabeth,'" and damned if I didn't get pretty close to saying it! These people, what is it about these libs? Everything is looked at through a political prism. They are calculating, and of course the Drive-Bys trying to hide this, which was perhaps an even bigger story than the Breck Girl himself getting involved. |
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 RUSH: I don't know that I can put this one on the air. (Snerdley yelling, "Why not?") Well, I mean, at some point you gotta exhibit maturity and restraint, and I do that constantly. But look, let me run you through this and get you to think what I'm thinking without my actually saying it. That might be a pretty big talent if I could do that, make you think what I'm going to say without my having to say it, therefore if anybody gets in trouble for saying it, you say it. We've been told that Elizabeth Edwards is smarter than John Edwards. That's part of the puff pieces on them that we've seen. Ergo, if Elizabeth Edwards is smarter than John Edwards, is it likely that she thinks she knows better than he does what his speeches ought to contain and what kind of things he ought to be doing strategy-wise in the campaign? If she is smarter than he is, could it have been her decision to keep going with the campaign? In other words, could it be that she doesn't shut up? Now, that's as far as I'm going to go. (interruption) Snerdley says he's missing something. If you're missing it, you're going to have to provide it. What are you missing? Hm-hm. Hm-hm. I can't close the loop on it. I'm in a little quicksand already today talking about how the chicks are giving us boring pictures of the female athletes from the Olympics, because I know the diversity crowd is going to be upset, "Do you think the Olympics are just so you guys can ogle?" Yes, because we do not care to watch 'em compete. But, back to Elizabeth and the Breck Girl. I'm sorry, my friends. It just seems to me that Edwards might be attracted to a woman whose mouth did something other than talk.
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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, my theory that I just explained to you about what could John Edwards' motivations have been to have the affair with Reille Hunter -- given his wife is smarter than he is and probably nagging him a lot of about doing this, and he found somebody that (ahem) did something with her mouth other than talk -- I think I can back this up from her. We have a sound bite, this is February 2007. She was on the tabloid show Extra, and this is what she said. Listen very carefully.
HUNTER: Our whole experience was life altering for me. One of the great things about John Edwards is that he's so open and willing to try new things and do things in new ways.
RUSH: "Open...to...new things." Folks, it is what it is. You get mad at me for bringing the truth to you, but it is what it is. |
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