Rush Limbaugh: "If Bush is Alfred E. Newman, Your Husband Was Larry Flynt"

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Rush Limbaugh: "If Bush is Alfred E. Newman, Your Husband Was Larry Flynt"

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If Bush is Alfred E. Newman, Your Husband Was Larry Flynt

July 11, 2005

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.

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.