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RUSH: I\u2019m looking at something I haven\u2019t seen in I don\u2019t know how long. Bill and Hillary are at the pulpit side by side<\/emphasize>, and she is looking so lovingly and respectfully at him that I don\u2019t believe it. The last time I saw them side by side was in that picture when they were on the beach dancing to no music two weeks before the Monica Lewinsky story broke. She is going to speak so I wonder if they\u2019re going to do this together. We\u2019re not going to JIP it. I\u2019m not going to go there. I\u2019m not going to JIP it. I understand. I have empathy, and I know the last thing you want from this program. You don\u2019t (interruption). All right, let\u2019s JIP it! All right, we\u2019ll JIP. I don\u2019t want to JIP — this guy is not going to stop — but I do want to JIP it to find out if I was right, if he talks about himself and if he says that he marched with Dr. King from afar in Hope, Arkansas. Let\u2019s bring up the president — I\u2019m going to regret this; I know I\u2019m going to regret this — the first black president at the Coretta Scott King funeral.<\/line>BILL CLINTON: (Cheering of audience) President Bush 41 complained that he was at a disadvantage because he was an Episcopalian. (Laughing.) Then he came up here and zings old Laura like he did. I thought, “That ain\u2019t bad for one of the frozen chosen.” (Laughter.)<\/line>RUSH: Frozen chosen?<\/line><\/line> BILL CLINTON: We —<\/line>RUSH: Maybe it\u2019s a sperm bank. That\u2019s a sperm bank term!<\/line>BILL CLINTON: — doing good together, and —<\/line>RUSH: Frozen chosen?<\/line>BILL CLINTON: Let me say —<\/line>RUSH: Clinton used to be a greeter in a sperm bank, I know that.<\/line>BILL CLINTON: — just briefly and then ask Hillary to join in these remarks. I don\u2019t want us [to] forget that there\u2019s a woman in there (pointing at casket) not a symbol! N-n–not a symbol, a real woman who lived and breathed and got angry and got hurt, and had dreams and disappointments —<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: I hate to say this, folks, but that\u2019s what he said about the mummy.<\/line>BILL CLINTON: — and I don\u2019t want us to forget that. You know what?<\/line>RUSH: He said that about the mummy! (Video<\/strong>: Bubba Goes Nutty Over Mummy<\/a>)<\/line>BILL CLINTON: You know what I was here thinking? “I wish I knew what her kids were thinking about now. I wonder if they were thinking about what I was thinking about my mother\u2019s funeral.”<\/line>RUSH: It\u2019s about him.<\/line>BILL CLINTON: All this grand stuff. I wonder if they\u2019re thinking about when she used to read books to them, or when she told them Bible stories, or what she said to them when their daddy got killed. We\u2019re here to honor a person. <\/emphasize>Fifty-four years ago her about-to-be husband said that he was looking for a woman with character, intelligence, personality and beauty, and she sure fit the bill, and I (cheers) I have to say, when she was over 75, I thought she still fit the bill pretty good, in all those categories.<\/line>RUSH: He said that about the mummy, the 500-year-old mummy — <\/line>BILL CLINTON: I think that\u2019s important.<\/line>RUSH: — as visions of AstroTurf danced through his head.<\/line> BILL CLINTON: As well as a symbol, as well as the embodiment of her husband\u2019s legacy and the developer of her own. Second point I want to make is the most important day in her life for every one of us here at this moment and this church — except when she embraced her faith — the next most important day was April the 5th, 1968, the day after her husband was killed she had to decide, “What am I going to do with the rest of my life?” We would have all forgiven her, even honored her, if she said, “I have stumbled on enough stony roads. I have been beaten by enough bitter rods. I have endured enough dangers, toils and snares. I\u2019m going home and raise my kids. I wish you all well.” (applause) None of us,<\/emphasize> nobody could have condemned that decision, but instead, she went to Memphis, the scene of the worst nightmare of her life and led that march for those poor, hard-working garbage workers that her husband did. (Cheers and applause.) <\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re called “sanitation workers” now.<\/line>BILL CLINTON: Now for us, because what really matters, if you believe all this stuff we\u2019ve been saying, is what are we going to do with the rest of our lives?<\/line>RUSH: Well! We know what you\u2019re doing with yours, and what Jimmy Carter is doing with his, what Al Gore is doing with his.<\/line>BILL CLINTON: His children. They know they got to carry the legacy of their father and their mother now. (silence) We all clap for that. (applause) They got to go home and live with it. That\u2019s a terrible burden. That is a terrible burden. You should pray for them and support them and help them. That is a burden to bear. It\u2019s a lot harder to be them than it was for us to be us growing up. Don\u2019t you think it wasn\u2019t. It may have been a glory; it may have been wonderful, but it\u2019s not easy. So what will happen to the legacy of Martin Luther King and Coretta King? Will it continue to stand for peace and nonviolence and anti-poverty and civil rights and human rights? What will be the meaning of the King holiday every year — and even more important, Atlanta, what\u2019s your responsibility for the future of the King Center? What are you going to do to make sure that this thing goes on?<\/line>RUSH: All right, that\u2019s it. That\u2019s it. We got to go to commercial break. I think the period of the speech where it can be said that he\u2019s wandering in vain search for a coherent thought has been reached.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line> RUSH: All right, this is sort of funny. I had a whole observation. Bill and Hillary — you\u2019ll see this on TV tonight if you watch the news — are standing at a pulpit together, and Bill and going on and on and on and on and on, and Hillary starts out smiling, nodding approval, admiration, whatever, and as Clinton went on and on and on and eventually started talking about himself, the look on her face changed. The smile vanished and the nodding stopped, and was just sort of a “Are you through?” kind of look, and at that point said, “Who advised her to go and stand up there like a sock puppet all of that time while he\u2019s making a speech?” and I know why it is. It\u2019s because they\u2019re presenting the idea, the notion, the picture that we have here of a loving couple, happily living ever after, so forth and so on. When Clinton finished — this is funny, too. When Clinton finished I started to vacate the pulpit area, and Hillary was having none of that. “If I had to stand here like a sock puppet when you <\/emphasize>were speaking, you\u2019re going to act like a sock puppet when I\u2019m speaking. Besides, I am not letting you out of my sight. I\u2019ve seen all the women in this place tonight. There are 10,000 of them in here, and you\u2019ve probably got a phone number written down on the palm of your hand and I\u2019m not letting you give it to anybody.” That\u2019s how I interpret these things. Richland, Washington<\/a>, here\u2019s Mike. Welcome to the program.<\/line>CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush.<\/line>RUSH: Thank you.<\/line>CALLER: Long-time listener all the way back from your days in Sacramento, first-time caller, a little bit nervous. But a courageous soul myself, I\u2019m wondering why would Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy and Jesse Jackson — even I listen to Carter make a racial dig of New Orleans against Bush, okay? I\u2019m sitting here asking myself, “Why in God\u2019s name did President Bush even show up there knowing that they\u2019re going to rip on him, make him look bad,” and, by the way, Bush 41\u2019s speech was short, eloquent, humorous and really nice, okay? Unlike Carter\u2019s, digs with the New Orleans people. Of course he forgot about the Mississippi, the white people in Mississippi and Alabama coast.<\/line>RUSH: Well, actually, you know, something? I don\u2019t think it makes Bush look bad.<\/line>CALLER: You don\u2019t?<\/line>RUSH: No.<\/line>CALLER: Well, thank you. You\u2019re bringing comfort to my soul.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: No, it makes those <\/emphasize>people look bad. That\u2019s what you really mean. They\u2019re the ones that look petty; they\u2019re the one that look like they are absent any class. The reason Bush went is because he\u2019s president of the United States. He\u2019s got no brief from this woman, against Coretta Scott King. He\u2019s probably invited to go. He\u2019s the president. He\u2019s a classy gentleman. He\u2019s a classy man. That\u2019s why he\u2019s there. He doesn\u2019t care what these people say about him because he knows that they\u2019re the ones that look like they\u2019re just being very small and petty. It\u2019s not affecting people\u2019s perception of him.<\/line>CALLER: Maybe I\u2019m too conservative and want to go on the offense and want to say things. Like when Bush 41 was up there why didn\u2019t he just say, “Hey, yeah, wiretapping? Like too bad…” Like you had said, you know, with the Kennedys.<\/line>RUSH: Not the place. It\u2019s not the place to do it. See, I understand your frustration. It\u2019s not the place to do it. That would be descending to their level. That would be to become them. He\u2019s going to be above it. By the way, we have a sound bite here of Joseph Lowery — actually of Bush 41 zinging Joe Lowery back. Now, I\u2019ve got the transcript of this, and I\u2019m not sure I get the zing but I\u2019m going to play it for you. Have that standing by, Mike? Yeah. All right. You know, Lowery had gone up there and had ripped Bush 43 on weapons of mass destruction and (bell ringing) all these lies — thank you — that he\u2019d been telling, and Bush 41, the father, decided to take a swipe at Joe Lowery, and here\u2019s what he said.<\/line> BUSH 41: I would like to say something to my friend Joe Lowery. (Laughter.) Hey, look they used to send this guy to Washington. I kept score in the Oval Office desk: Lowery 21, Bush 3. It wasn\u2019t a fair fight. (Laughter.) But the advice I\u2019d give this guy is, “Maya has nothing to worry about. Don\u2019t give up your day job. Keep preaching.”<\/line>RUSH: All right, so I guess that\u2019s the zing. The zing is Maya\u2019s got nothing to worry about, don\u2019t give up your day job; I guess because Clinton referred to the zinger that Bush threw at Joseph Lowery. So (interruption). Oh, because Lowery was mostly poetry? Oh, that\u2019s what it was. I see. Oh, oh, and Maya Angelou is the poet. Okay, so Bush 41 was saying: You\u2019re no poet, stick to preaching, Maya\u2019s got it all over you.<\/emphasize> All right, all right, I understand it. That\u2019s good. Tim in Greensboro, North Carolina<\/a>, welcome, sir, nice to have you with us.<\/line>CALLER: Thank you very much. African-American dittos from Greensboro. I just wanted to say that I caught Bush\u2019s speech and it seemed like he had a very classy, very dignified. Him and his father had very good words to say, and it brought class to the situation about Coretta Scott King and some of these other folks are using the podium to grandstand as a political platform.<\/line>RUSH: Exactly right. They\u2019re making themselves look tiny and small in the process. I\u2019m glad that you have that outlook on it, Tim. I appreciate your call. Thank you very much. <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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