September 24, 2008

• Sarah Palin

  September 9, 2008

  (((  BEGIN PHONE TRANSCRIPT WITH RUSH LIMBAUGH )))

  RUSH:  Kurt in Pittsburgh,  hello, sir.  Nice to have you on the EIB Network, and how about the  Steelers defense?
   
   CALLER:  How about those Steelers, huh?
   
   RUSH:  How about that?
   
   CALLER:  Hey, listen, Rush, longtime listener, first-time  caller, one of those Bible, family, gun clingers from western Pennsylvania.
   
   RUSH:  Thank you.
   
   CALLER:  And I wanted to share a story with you.  A  week ago last Saturday we went to the Palin-McCain rally in Washington, Pennsylvania,  was the day after he announced her, and we have a five-year-old daughter with  Down syndrome, and we made a sign that said: "We Love Kids with Down  Syndrome."  So when they pulled in their bus, the sign did  catch their eye (McCain and Palin and the rest of their family) it caught  their eye, we could tell, they gave us a thumbs-up from the bus, so we were  all excited just by that --
   
   RUSH:  Wait, wait, wait.  Who gave you the thumbs  up, McCain and Palin?
   
   CALLER:  McCain, Palin, Cindy McCain, we could see them from  the bus. We were in a position where we had eye contact with them --
   
   RUSH:  Oh, cool!
   
   CALLER:  My wife was holding our daughter.
   
   RUSH:  Very, very, very cool.
   
   CALLER:  It was really cool, Rush. I was like, "Wow, that's  awesome," because I love Governor Palin and so I thought that's really  neat.  So then we moved around as the bus was getting ready to pull  out, we kind of positioned ourselves so we could just wave them on and a  Secret Service agent came up to us and said, "Hey, can you come with  us?"  I was like, "Do we have a choice?"
   
   RUSH: (laughing) You shouldn't have worried.  It's not the Clinton administration.
   
   CALLER: Right. So we accompanied them up the hill, we went right to the  bus, where it was, and Governor Palin, Senator McCain, Cindy, Todd Palin,  they're all standing there. We're in this inner circle with just us and them,  and the Secret Service agent, and they came right up to us and thanked us for  coming out, said they loved our sign, and Governor Palin immediately said,  "May I hold your daughter?" and our daughter Chloe, who's five,  went right to her, and I have some pictures I'd love to send you maybe when  I'm done here, but Governor Palin was hugging Chloe, and then her little  daughter brought their baby Trig who has Down syndrome from the bus, he was  napping, and Chloe went right over and kissed him on the cheek, and my son  Nolan who's nine, he thanked her.
   
   RUSH: This is amazing.
   
   CALLER: I will send you all the stuff, Senator McCain was talking to my  son, and we thanked him for his service, and he asked my son if he wanted to  see the bus, and we were hanging out and it was very surreal. I felt like we  could have had a pizza and a beer with them, they were so warm.
   
   RUSH: You know what? I want to put you on hold. I want Snerdley to  give you our super-secret, known-only-to-three-people here, e-mail address.
   
   CALLER: I will send you everything, Rush.
   
   RUSH: And then could you send us these pictures? Would you mind if we  put them on the website?
   
   CALLER: I would be honored, and my main thing is they are warm, kind,  genuine people, and they represent the best of this country.
   
   RUSH:  That's right.  And when you send these  pictures, make sure you identify them.  I mean, we'll know Palin  and McCain, of course.  Identify yourselves.
   
   CALLER:  I will, I will identify everybody in the picture,  Rush, and God bless you for being a beacon of hope and truth in this country.
   
   RUSH:  Oh, no, no.  It's nothing, it's  nothing.  You're doing the Lord's work.
   
   CALLER:  Well, we're very blessed and I want people to know  what a blessing it is to have a child with Down syndrome. These kids, they're  angels.
   
   RUSH:  That's the thing.  There's always good to  be found in everything that happens.  It may be a while before it  reveals itself.
   
   CALLER:  Absolutely.
   
   RUSH:  Right, and when she hugged my daughter I said,  here's the difference, this candidate embraces life and all its limitless  possibilities.
   
   RUSH:  All right.
   
   CALLER:  That's what she is.
   
   RUSH:  Terrific, okay, I gotta run here, but I'm going to  put you on hold.
   
   CALLER:  Thank you, Rush.
   
   RUSH:  Thank you, Kurt.  I really appreciate it.
   
   ((( END TRANSCRIPT )))
   

  

  Kurt, his 5-yr old daughter, Chloe and Gov. Sarah Palin

  

  Kurt's son, Nolan, Senator John McCain and Mrs. Cindy McCain.

   

  From left to right - Kurt's wife, Margie, their son, Nolan, Senator John McCain, Mrs. Cindy McCain, Kurt, holding Chloe, Gov. Sarah Palin, husband Todd and daughter, Piper

  

  Left to right - Kurt's son, Nolan, Senator John McCain, Mrs. Cindy McCain, Kurt, Kurt's 5-yr old daughter in Gov. Sarah Palin's arms.

   

  
   
   
   
   
   
   

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