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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, Algore and Tipper amidst all of this, separated. Forty years of marriage. The interesting thing about this, you can\u2019t say, ‘You know, they just didn\u2019t really know each other. They got married too soon. Their lives changed just way too much.\u2019 Forty years. Forty years and you split up. That is not comforting. Listen to Sally Quinn. She is the social doyenne of the nation\u2019s capital. Sally Quinn yesterday on the CBS Early Show — oh, by the way, CBS.com, the website, blaming Bush for the split-up. I\u2019m not kidding you. Not some kook fringe blog. CBS is blaming Bush for the Algore-Tipper separation. Why? Florida 2000 because the presidency was denied Al and he\u2019s never, ever gotten over it, he never, ever will get over it, and the marriage just suffered, it was like losing two children to death and so forth, you can\u2019t put a marriage back together after this kind of thing, it was horrible thing. Sally Quinn on the CBS Early Show was asked a question by the fill-in host, ‘What happened here? This caught everybody off guard. I\u2019m sure it caught you off guard as well, Sally.\u2019<\/p>\n

QUINN: Totally. And the interesting thing is that usually when something like this happens you get a sense of glee, people sort of saying, ‘I told you so,\u2019 or, ‘I knew it,\u2019 or whatever. I have only encountered sadness. And as you can imagine, I\u2019ve been on the phone with friends ever since I heard it yesterday, and everyone feels as though somehow their own marriages have split up. It\u2019s — you know, watching the Gores is sort of looking at the possibilities of what a good marriage could be, and when they — when it doesn\u2019t work for them you sort of think, ‘Oh, my God, maybe it\u2019s not possible.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Sally Quinn thinks, ‘If they split up, are Ben and I gonna split up? If Algore and Tipper can\u2019t make it, what about Ben and me?\u2019 Everybody is also saying how the hell does this happen, how do the Clintons outlast the Gores in the marriage sweepstakes? I mean of all the couples you would think that might have some problems there, you would think Bill and Hillary. Washington is so incestuous. I don\u2019t understand thinking like this. ‘The interesting thing is that usually when something like this happens you get a sense of glee, ‘I told you so, I knew it.\u2019 But I\u2019ve only encountered sadness, and as you can imagine, I\u2019ve been on phone with friends ever since I heard it. It\u2019s as though their own marriages have split up.\u2019 How many of you, I must ask, how many of you who have known friends who got divorced felt like your marriage was dissolving at the same time? Any of you? You know what you\u2019re thinking about when a couple you know gets divorced? You\u2019re thinking, ‘Okay, which one of them do we like best? Which one are we going to continue to socialize with and which one are we gonna ostracize.\u2019 That\u2019s what you\u2019re thinking. You\u2019re not thinking, ‘Oh, my God, oh, my God, my marriage is in trouble, too. Why, Biff and Sally here just split up.\u2019 By the way, our microphones were inside the Gore house recently, give you an idea of what might have actually gone down. Here, listen to this. <\/p>\n

(playing of Algore spoof) <\/p>\n

RUSH: Behind the scenes at the Algore palatial mansion. In The Politico: ‘A Model Political Marriage\u2019s End — The public Gores were a model American family: handsome and successful. Their Christmas cards featured four attractive children — three daughters and a son. But they were also easy to identify with, an ordinary American family, accessible because of their occasional problems.\u2019 Do you believe this? ‘They struggled with their weight. Their son, Albert, was busted for possessing marijuana at St. Albans, the Washington school his father had attended. Tipper, toward the end of the Clinton years, opened up about her struggle with depression. Their life together helped make Gore the Paul McCartney of the Clinton administration — the normal, likable one.\u2019 I\u2019m saying, what? (laughing) The Gores get divorced because of a hanging chad, folks, that\u2019s the story. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I really can\u2019t believe that it\u2019s going to be up to me to explain all this. All right, you want me to explain it to you? The Gore divorce. I\u2019m stunned none of my bright, overrated staff understand what really happened here. You separate after a 40-year marriage? I mean, that\u2019s… (sigh) That\u2019s just not done. How often do you hear about that? Now, what it seems to me… This a pure, wild guess speculation, but it\u2019s also intelligence guided by experience. If you are separating after 40 years, it means that there\u2019s been trouble in paradise for many years. However, look at what\u2019s happened now. The kids are all gone; they\u2019re out of the nest. <\/p>\n

She stood out of the way and let Algore make his gazillions. She gets out just before Algore starts the drooling old man part of his life. She\u2019s rich and she\u2019s got her whole life ahead of her. Now… (interruption) It doesn\u2019t matter. Doesn\u2019t matter, Snerdley. Doesn\u2019t matter. It doesn\u2019t matter. What matters here is… (interruption) You think I\u2019m being too cynical about this, Dawn? (interruption) Aw, see? Well… (interruption) Okay. If you don\u2019t want to buy that then you come up with your own theory — and admit that you don\u2019t have one. You are as puzzled as everybody else. That\u2019s my wild guess. (interruption) No, she wasn\u2019t afraid he was going to run for president again. She\u2019d probably be happy about that in one way or another.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Margaret in Indianapolis, I\u2019m glad you called. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. Thank you for having me. I just wanted to make a prediction that I really believe it will come out that Algore cheated on his wife.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s hard to envision.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Not for me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because you need a willing participant there. That\u2019s hard to — I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s hard to envision.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, if Bill Clinton can find someone. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, he\u2019s got power crackling in those jeans. Remember that story in the Washington Post? Catalina Island in California, back in his first term, power crackling in his jeans. You don\u2019t associate anything but geekdom with Algore.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know. I know. And who knows who it was. <\/p>\n

RUSH: But there are people who love Charles Manson. There\u2019s no accounting for who loves who. You might have a point. I mean who would ever think any woman could possibly love a criminal, but they do. They have jailhouse relationships with these clowns. Love is the one thing nobody can explain. They\u2019ve tried for decades, eons, nobody can. You know something else, Margaret? All of this talk, the Gores had a model marriage, Sally Quinn and all these people wondering, ‘Oh, my God, if it happened to them, my God, it could happen to me, oh, no.\u2019 Where was this reaction when John Edwards got divorced? I mean, were they not the model couple as well, add the wife having cancer, I mean the picture they painted of that. Do you realize how close they got to the White House? It\u2019s scary.<\/p>\n

CALLER: See, it\u2019s funny, I don\u2019t have that reaction. If anything it just makes me feel more solid about the man I have and I have no fear of that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I am happy to hear that. Good for you. Good for you. But these women like Sally Quinn, look, I\u2019m sure she sees it my way, I guarantee you she sees what I see, a chance to get out while the getting is good before the guy goes broke. The kids are gone, everybody\u2019s married, all the reasons you hang in when things aren\u2019t going well are fini. Why do we assume it\u2019s the woman who pulled the plug? Because it\u2019s Gore, James, that\u2019s why. It\u2019s Gore. That\u2019s why everybody\u2019s assuming that Tipper pulled the plug. That\u2019s not hard to figure out. (interruption) Look, is it? You know, your natural sexism, you\u2019re saying, ‘Okay, it must be something she did wrong that Gore is getting out.\u2019 Right? Could be. Could be. (laughing) I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s like Margaret here speculating there was an affair. It\u2019s the first I\u2019ve heard of anybody thinking that because there has to be somebody willing to go along here. And I don\u2019t know, folks. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Oak Park, Illinois, this is Louise.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi. How are you? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, it\u2019s so wonderful to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, you are to we, us, the godfather of the Conservative Party and the airwaves, and you are Don Rush. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Don Rush, yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And you know ‘don\u2019 is a term of endearment and respect for a remarkable man. That\u2019s what ‘don\u2019 means. So you\u2019re don. But I called to agree with you, Don, about the Tipper Gore divorce, and I think it\u2019s an agreement between the two of them to protect Gore\u2019s fortune. Somehow… You know, like if Tipper gets a great deal of money on that, who knows what would happen to his fortune if all of this global warming things goes wrong. You know what I mean?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, they wouldn\u2019t have to get divorced for that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, somehow I don\u2019t know if his fortune would be at risk, somehow, in his name and if they put a whole bunch of it in Tipper\u2019s name —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no. No, no, no, no. Tipper, as the spouse, he could give her any amount of the portfolio, put it in her name.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I —<\/p>\n

RUSH: He can put it all in her name, but he could take whatever\u2019s not invested in the hoax.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But I somehow think they didn\u2019t ‘grow apart\u2019 because they ‘loved each other too much.\u2019 You know what I mean? It\u2019s all we\u2019re hearing on the airwaves: How much they loved each other.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Even Diane Sawyer yesterday showed them kissing and hugging at that event.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I remember that, at the Democrat convention out there —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. <\/p>\n

RUSH: — in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But I do think it\u2019s an agreement between the two of them. It\u2019s kind of sad to see that happening. But I agree with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it is. I mean people have been married 40 years, it is kind of sad to see the break-up, \u2019cause, you know, it doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The key word, Rush, is money. Whichever way it goes. I think it\u2019s to protect his fortune somehow.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Or… Well, yeah. That\u2019s not exactly my theory. You said you were calling to agree with my theory.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Well, it\u2019s something to do with money. That\u2019s all I know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, my theory — I don\u2019t need to go through it again but my theory — basically was if you\u2019re going to get divorced after 40 years, it can\u2019t all have been hunky-dory but you hang in there for various reasons. The kids…<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I would hate to think it\u2019s an affair, I really would. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, that\u2019s just… That\u2019s the stuff of nightmares. That wouldn\u2019t compute. I totally agree. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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