A transcript from a recent Rush Limbaugh show:
RUSH: An amazing story today in the San Francisco Chronicle by these two
guys, Matier
and Ross. It's all about political jockeying that heated up as the
wildfires raged.
Here's the thing that's fascinating about this. I'm just going to read to
you from
the column. Bush flew out to California, flew out there to look around,
walk around
with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
"Bush invited Sen. Dianne Feinstein to join him on Air Force One during
his trip. It
may not have been coincidence that less than 24 hours earlier, Feinstein
played a
pivotal role in allowing Judge Leslie Southwick, a target of liberal
groups, to be
confirmed to an appeals court when she voted to block a filibuster and
sup****t the
president's nomination. With a 7:40 a.m. Thursday departure from Andrews
Air Force
Base, Feinstein found herself seated in the rear of the plane with a
handful of
Southern California congressional representatives. After a breakfast of
scrambled
eggs, sausage and French toast, Bush popped back for what the senator
described as a
frank two-hour conversation, mostly about foreign policy. 'I found the
discussion
extraordinarily positive,' Feinstein said. 'I came away with a very
different view
about him.' As for the president's performance on the ground? 'It was a
wonderful
thing to see, to be candid,' Feinstein said. 'I saw a warm, caring human
being.'"
RUSH: How long has Bush been around as the president? Six years, almost
seven now.
Dianne Feinstein is just figuring out that Bush is a nice guy. After six
years, she
has a totally different view of him. I'll tell you why this interests me.
It
interests me because the same thing happens to me. I spend some time with
these libs
and just shoot the bull about things and generally screw up their world by
giving
them a worldview that they've never considered before, and they're all
amazed,
"You're such a nice guy. I mean, you're really funny, too." It is their
preconceptions. It's the clichéd stereotype that they have of
conservatives --
racist, ***ist, bigot -- in Bush's case, stupid, cowboy. So after seven
years,
Dianne Feinstein's figured out that Bush is on the ball on foreign policy,
extraordinarily positive discussion about foreign policy, very different
view about
him. "It was a wonderful thing to see the president on the ground in
California. I
saw a warm, caring human being." We like hearing it, of course, but it's
almost
insulting that the assumption would be the exact opposite.
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