{"id":21780,"date":"2004-01-21T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:15:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T07:15:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:15:12","slug":"the_breck_girl_stump_speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/01\/21\/the_breck_girl_stump_speech\/","title":{"rendered":"The Breck Girl Stump Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/speech.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"179\" height=\"271\" class=\"alignleft\"\/> A reporter asked Johnny, &#8220;Do you know how much a gallon of unleaded costs?&#8221; The multi-millionaire trial lawyer dodged, &#8220;I don\u2019t know what it costs here in New Hampshire. I haven\u2019t seen the prices since I got up here.&#8221; When the reporter followed up with, &#8220;Well, how much is it back where you\u2019re from?&#8221; the Breck Girl replied, &#8220;We\u2019re not taking tests.&#8221; Yes, you most certainly are taking a test &#8211; a test to see if you\u2019re qualified to be president! If Edwards was the political wunderkind the talking points say, he\u2019d have answered this question easy. In fact, he\u2019s among the Senates richest, most-pampered men.<\/line><BR\/>The Edwards Eloquence Myth comes from his days as a trial lawyer, as evidenced by a Cybercast News Service report on his performance in a 1985 medical malpractice trial. CNS: &#8220;Edwards had alleged that a doctor and a hospital had been responsible for the cerebral palsy afflicting then-five-year-old Jennifer Campbell. &#8216;I have to tell you right now &#8211; I didn\u2019t plan to talk about this &#8211; right now I feel her (Jennifer), I feel her presence,\u2019 Edwards told the jury according to court records. &#8216;[Jennifer\u2019s] inside me and she\u2019s talking to you &#8230; And this is what she says to you. She says, &#8216;I don\u2019t ask for your pity. What I ask for is your strength. And I don\u2019t ask for your sympathy, but I do ask for your courage.'&#8221;<\/line><BR\/>Apparently Jennifer was also asking for a record jury verdict of $6.5 million against the hospital where she was born along with a $1.5 million settlement Edwards brokered with her obstetrician. Note, by the way, that doctors disagree strongly on the cause of this disease. It\u2019s clear how Edwards accumulated a net worth of between $12.8 and $60 million off the misfortune of others. As the Boston Globe reported last year, Edwards &#8220;routinely went beyond a recitation of his case to a heart-wrenching plea to jurors to listen to the unspoken voices of injured children&#8221; in his closing statements. <\/line><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/windowsmedia\/en\/download\/default.asp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/speech.Par.0005.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"18\" class=\"alignleft\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reporter asked Johnny, &#8220;Do you know how much a gallon of unleaded costs?&#8221; The multi-millionaire trial lawyer dodged, &#8220;I don\u2019t know what it costs here in New Hampshire. I haven\u2019t seen the prices since I got up here.&#8221; When the reporter followed up with, &#8220;Well, how much is it back where you\u2019re from?&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Breck Girl Stump Speech - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/01\/21\/the_breck_girl_stump_speech\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Breck Girl Stump Speech - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A reporter asked Johnny, &#8220;Do you know how much a gallon of unleaded costs?&#8221; The multi-millionaire trial lawyer dodged, &#8220;I don\u2019t know what it costs here in New Hampshire. 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