You know, it's fun to see the media just so excited.
They think Bush is going to finally go out and do a mea culpa tonight.
Think Bush is finally going to respond to their criticisms tonight.
I think Bush is finally going to admit mistakes tonight.
They think Bush may even resign tonight, folks.
That's why they've been trying to pull off.
And are they going to be disappointed?
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You might want to visit our website, www.rushlimbaugh.com, because, you know, yesterday I said we got so many of these Club Gitmo t-shirts from our Club Gitmo gift shop at rushlimbaugh.com.
It are out there.
I said, I can't wait till I see these things show up in public because you know what's going to happen.
Folks, I'm telling you, so many have been purchased that it isn't going to be long before the media is going to show up someplace.
And just somebody who happens to randomly be where a story is taking place will be wearing one of these t-shirts.
And lo and behold, Coco, the webmaster, thinks he may have spotted the first publicly worn, we're not sure, the first publicly worn Club Gitmo shirt.
And that is, I don't know if you've seen this picture of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton on 41 Speedboat up there in Kinney Bunkport.
It's the lead picture at thedrudgreport.com.
And folks, I know it makes you sick.
There's nothing else you can say about it.
It just does.
But anyway, once we got past the sickness, Coco happened to notice that Clinton may in fact be wearing a Club Gitmo shirt.
We don't know because Clinton is wearing a sweatshirt over the shirt.
All we can see is the collar.
But the color looks identical to our jumpsuit prison orange that are the colors of the Club Gitmo shirts.
Now, the president's speech is tonight, 7 o'clock.
I'll be in Fort Bragg.
And I have a wealth of data here leading up to this speech.
We got Halliburton stories.
I mean, you can make book of what they're going to do.
We've got Halliburton overcharging the Pentagon a billion dollars that says never anything like this is seen before.
Nobody's ever seen this kind of abuse before.
We've got CNN USA Today Gallup with a poll out at the president's approval numbers are the lowest they've ever been.
We've got the ABC News Washington Post pollout trying to make their poll look bad for the president, but it actually doesn't when it comes to Iraq.
We'll go through all of this.
We've got funny stories about this polling interpretation from the San Francisco Chronicle.
And Ellen Tosher from Walnut Creek, California, Congress Babe, just got back from Gitmo.
She says, I didn't see any abuse.
But then she also said, she said, a lot of prisoners have been moved.
And so there probably is abuse going on, just not here.
That's the implication.
She doesn't actually say it, but she does say that they've been moved, and she didn't see any abuse or any signs of it.
So it has to have been swept under the rug in some other prison.
Meanwhile, a bunch of Russian prisoners and Pakistan prisoners, graduates of Club Gitmo, are all out there talking about the number of Korans that were flushed down the toilet, thrown in urinals, stomped on by the guards.
I mean, here the president's going before the American public, and they're throwing everything at him today, news-wise.
And he is, I'll guarantee you, he's unfazed by it.
He doesn't care.
And that's what agitates him even more.
New York Times is just destroyed by the fact that Bush doesn't respond to him, doesn't even read them, because they're out there giving him advice on what to do.
They've gone so far today as to publish an op-ed by John Kerry, who, by the way, served in Vietnam.
And Kerry is advising Bush on what to say tonight.
And he's saying, tell the truth.
And if there's one thing Bush has done about Iraq, it's tell the truth.
We'll go through that as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears.
But before we start with any of that, I have to read you the most touching email that we got at Rush 24-7.
One of our members, one of our subscribers, sent an email to the Rush comments line.
And the subject line is, take Rush to war with you.
It's about our podcasts, but that's not the main point here.
Dear Rush, as a charter member of 24-7, I thought I'd be missing out on all the great benefits when I left for Iraq last December.
I finally got into a satellite system over here that will allow me to play your MP3 files of the show, which I and my fellow soldiers greatly miss on a daily basis.
I mean, sure, we get interrupted with an occasional helicopter flying overhead or incoming rockets we receive here at Camp Ramadi, but it's all worth it.
I won't kid you, Rush.
Things are not all peachy over here right now, but do not let the liberal biased pansies tell you otherwise.
We are winning.
We are killing terrorists who deserve to die, and we are making a difference over here.
My wife knows how much I miss the show from back home, and she wanted to send me a coffee mug to help ease the toils of war.
I told her to wait till I get home as I didn't want it getting messed up with the dirt and sand we live in or some mortar blowing it to pieces.
That would greatly upset me for sure.
He's worried about his coffee mug being blown up by a mortar.
Rush, you are an American hero and an icon in your own right.
Never stop fighting the good fight as we sure aren't doing that over here.
We're not going to stop fighting the good fight here.
Surrender's not in our creed.
Keep up the good work, sir.
And this is from First Sergeant Paul.
I'm not going to mention his last name.
I don't want to get Sergeant Paul A is his first name and initial.
And he's serving with the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Ramadi in Iraq.
And so he's able now to get the podcasts of the program.
You know, maybe what we ought to do, I don't have his address, but we can certainly find it somewhere.
His wife's.
Send him some jihad Java mugs.
Send him a couple Jihad Java mugs and send him some Club Gitmo t-shirts.
Can you imagine, ooh, ooh, members of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force wearing some Club Gitmo t-shirts during their downtime?
So Coco, go to work on this so we can come up with, and we'll send, you know, send a couple mugs and 10 shirts, different sizes and so forth over there as show a little bit of gratitude.
A little bit is all it is.
But I wanted to share this with you because we get these from time to time, soldiers who are in the theater of battle.
And they are the ones that I hear from constantly reference how irritating it is to read American media about how they're not accomplishing anything over there when they, of course, clearly think and know that they are.
And I have to also tell you, it's sort of It's, I don't know, humbling to me to think that here these guys are in the line of fire, and they're all excited about being able to get these MP3 files to listen to the program.
I'm just gratified that we're able here in one small way to help improve the circumstances over there and give them a taste of what the country's actually thinking at the same time.
So it's a win-win all the way around.
I have, I was surfing around yesterday my RSS feeds, and I have some Yahoo news feeds, my RSS, and I got one from Reuters.
And one of the things that, one of the things that occasionally you will find on an RSS feed is a wire story rewrite.
You will see the original with red lines through what has been revised, red lines through what was eliminated.
Let me read to you the first version of this story about the Iran presidential election from Reuters dated yesterday.
Hardline president-elect Mahmoud Hardline president-elect Mahmoud trouble reading the lines here yesterday, sparked Western fears about Iran's nuclear program and helped push oil prices over $60 on Monday.
But the EU and analysts warned against any hasty judgments.
Here is what they replaced hardline president-elect Mahmoud with ultra-conservative president-elect Mahmoud.
And we've encountered this countless times before, folks, where the mainstream press takes the tyrants, the dictators, the thugs of the world and calls them conservatives and ultra-conservatives.
And that's what Reuters did.
They started a hardline president-elect and changed it to ultra-conservative president-elect.
Faced an uphill task on Monday to assuage concerns.
That was replaced with sparked Western fears about Iran's nuclear program.
And there are other things in the West that he will adopt a tougher policy on Iran's nuclear program and roll back freedoms at home.
All that was stricken.
All that was stricken out, replaced with ultra-conservative president-elect Mahmoud sparked Western fears about Iran's nuclear program and helped push oil prices over $60 on Monday.
That's the final version.
The original is, and I couldn't print it from my RSS feeder, though.
I had to take a clean screenshot of it.
That's what it is.
Oh, and what is this?
Some outfit, some group at the University of Missouri Columbia J School surveyed over 2,500 Americans and they found out radio listeners have the most extreme political views, newspaper readers the least extreme political views.
And I am cited as the reason why.
A red letter day, folks.
The left in full attack mode.
Quick time out.
We'll be back and continue.
Resume with all the rest of the program right after this.
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We've already got some fallout from a Supreme Court decision last week.
This is the one on eminent domain.
This is out of Houston.
In the late 1980s, an elderly blind widow in Arlington, Texas frustrated the city's plans for a big shopping mall.
She refused to surrender the small little plot of land where she had lived for decades, choosing instead to live out her days in the familiar surroundings of her wood-frame little house.
The mall was built around her property, her faded white home jutting into its parking lot.
She held out for years, but after she died, developers bought the property, paved it over, melding it into the glaring sameness of suburban retail like the last reluctant piece of a jigsaw puzzle.
In light of last week's Supreme Court decision, a similar battle today would end differently.
Developers, with the city's help, could simply put the old widow in the street and level her home in the name of better shopping.
I mean, some cities have, of course, used the municipal powers to seize land known as eminent domain to combat urban blight by replacing rundown or abandoned buildings in crime-ridden areas with new development such as ballparks and condos.
We need look no further than Freeport to see how the process goes awry.
And this is the fallout.
Just hours after the Supreme Court's decision last Thursday, Freeport officials began efforts.
This is, by the way, from the Houston Chronicle, Freeport officials began efforts to seize waterfront property from two seafood companies as part of an 8.
You might have seen this on the news last night.
This is a lot of people are on this.
I saw a brief, I forget, I think it was just a crawl.
It was just a crawl on one of the networks last night.
They might have done some reporting on it.
I didn't see a lot of news last night.
Nevertheless, Freeport officials began efforts to seize waterfront property from two seafood companies as part of an $8 million marina development, according to a report by Thayer Evans, a correspondent for the Houston Chronicle.
The action was accompanied by the usual economic development blather.
The marina will lure $60 million worth of hotels, restaurants, and shops, create hundreds of jobs, and revitalize downtown.
It's all dependent on the marina.
Lee Cameron, the city's economic development director, told the newspaper, when out the marina, the hotels aren't interested.
With the marina, the hotels think it's a home run.
And therein lies the flawed logic that too often creeps into economic development programs.
Success is assumed.
Build the marina, the hotels will be a home run.
It ignores questions developers don't ask, but cities should.
What if they strike out?
What if even with the marina, no one stays at hotels?
How long will the hotel stay in business if occupancy rates trail their forecasts?
So whatever, ladies and gentlemen, as this, the piece I'm reading from is written by Lauren Steffi, a business columnist for the Houston Chronicle.
It's a strange day in America when we rely on state laws to clarify the U.S. Constitution, yet that's all that stands between our little white houses and the parking lot.
This decision last Thursday has people up in arms.
And I might add, the residents of Kentucky are fed up.
They are burning.
And they say, well, okay, fine.
Well, we'll build some monuments the way the court says.
You know, if you read, if you read the decisions on these Ten Commandment cases, Stephen Breyer ended up being in the majority on both of them.
One said you can't post them.
The other said you can.
And he's in the majority on both of them.
Stephen Breyer, this is the guy who debated Scalia, thinks it's okay to consult international law anytime you want.
And David Souter, who wrote one of the majority opinions in the Kentucky case, has some of the most tortured logic I've ever seen from anybody, much less one of the highest-ranking jurists in the country.
He basically says, well, you know, we just, we can't afford to offend people who are not religious.
We just can't afford to do this.
ignoring years of American history.
And that's why the original intent of the founders is always sought by people who seek to use the Constitution as a means of preserving the Union.
It's the Constitution that's held us together, but the Constitution is being rendered meaningless.
All right.
CNN's poll on the president's speech tonight.
And by the way, I just want to reiterate something here.
I have no idea what the president's going to say.
I don't get advanced copies of these things, but I have a pretty good feel for it.
Haven't been wrong about this yet.
And I'll bet you that he's just going to rehash what he said before.
I'll bet you that if you watch the speech, some of you are going to say, I've heard that.
I've heard that.
And the reason you've heard it is because you've heard it.
He's consistent.
He's going to say what he's always said, that it's hard work over there, that it's dangerous.
But he's not going to wring his hands.
He's not going to express doubts.
He's not going to apologize.
He knows that we're in this to win it, and that's all we can do.
He knows that we are winning it, and he knows that we are going to win.
And I just want to guarantee the press is not going to like hearing this at all.
As I said earlier, the press wants a mea culpa.
The press wants to hear the president admit mistakes.
The president wants the press wants to hear the president talk about how we mismanaged the peace.
We mismanaged the aftermath.
We didn't anticipate that it would be this hard, but now he's not going to say any of that because he doesn't have to say it.
He said from the get-go that this is going to outlast his administration.
He said it's going to take time, and he's always said it's going to be hard.
And he's going to keep plugging away at that.
And I frankly, you know, I don't think he's that concerned about polling data in terms of the policy he has on the war.
I think he's doing the speech, obviously, tonight, because there is some declining support that they sense for the overall effort.
I think it's important.
He understands it's important that as many people support the troops as possible.
So the purpose of the speech here is not change policy.
It's just to get the war back on the front page and back into the frontal lobes, if you will, of everybody's thought process.
Because he's had a lot of things on the agenda, Social Security, the energy bill, a whole bunch of other things.
And the Iraq war and the war on terror have not gotten as much attention from the White House in a PR sense.
I think that's really what this is, but he's not going to have much different to say.
And I hope a lot of you who watch this are not tomorrow disappointed.
Well, Russia, I mean, I was expecting some, you know, barn burner speech last night, rallying the people.
I just want to warn you.
It may be that, but my guess is he's just going to be consistent and say what he's always said.
Remind people that this is what he's always said about it.
And keep in mind, the press is not going to be happy after this speech.
Those that cover it, ABC is the only national network so far that said they're going to cover it.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have its El Rushball, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned, and all-important Maharashtri firmly ensconced behind this, the golden EIB microphone serving humanity.
This is hilarious.
Freestar Media, LLC.
It's a website, and the website, the greatest story is the battle between freedom and force.
A little press release here.
They released it on June 27th to the New Hampshire media today to all other media.
And they say below is our letter to begin the development process.
Read our letters starting the project here.
Weir, New Hampshire.
Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David Souter?
A new ruling by the Supreme Court, which was supported by Justice Souter himself, might allow it.
A private developer is seeking to use this very law to build a hotel on Souter's land.
Justice Souter's vote in the Kilo versus City of New London decision allows city governments to take land from one private owner and give it to another private owner if the government will generate greater tax revenue or some other economic benefit when the land is developed by the new owner.
So on Monday, June 27th, Logan Darrow Clements faxed a request to Chip Meaney, the code enforcement officer of the town of Weir, New Hampshire, seeking to start the application process to build a hotel on 34 Silly Hill Road.
That's C-I-L-L-E-Y.
This is the present location of Mr. Souter's home.
Clements, the CEO of Freestar Media LLC, points out that the city of Weir will certainly gain greater tax revenue and economic benefits with a hotel on 34 Silly Hill Road than allowing Mr. Souter to own the land and live there.
The proposed development will be called the Lost Liberty Hotel.
It'll feature the Just Desserts Cafe and include a museum open to the public featuring a permanent exhibit on the loss of freedom in America.
Instead of a Gideon's Bible, each guest will receive a free copy of Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged.
Clemens indicated that the hotel must be built on this particular piece of land because it is a unique site, being the home of someone largely responsible for destroying property rights for all Americans.
This is not a prank, said Clements.
The town of Weir has five people on the board of selectmen.
If three of them vote to use the power of eminent domain to take this land from Mr. Souter, we can begin our hotel development.
Clements' plan is to raise investment capital from wealthy pro-liberty investors and draw up architectural plans.
These plans would then be used to raise investment capital for the project.
Clemens hopes that regular customers of the hotel might include supporters of the Institute for Justice and participants in the Free State project, among others.
So that's their press release.
An outfit wants to buy the land on which sits David Souter's home to build a hotel to create greater tax revenue for the city of Weir, New Hampshire.
And of course, all he needs is three out of five votes, folks.
And you know how these city governments are.
You throw wads of money at them.
I mean, they'll do almost anything they can, including a rain dance to get it.
Will they go along now that it's totally legal?
Will they go along with taking the property and home of Supreme Court Justice David Souter in order to realize these tax gains?
We can only cross our fingers and hope.
This, I love this.
This is how you fight this stuff, folks.
This is how you do it.
You turn it right around on him.
In fact, I was happy to see today that some other people pointed out that the only reason the Texas Supreme Court or the Texas 10 Commandment display survives is because the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court would have had to bring in a stonemason and practically tear down their building.
They got Moses all over the place.
They got the Ten Commandments all over the place of the Supreme Court building of the United States.
Along with other historical displays and artifacts as well, they would still have to tear their own down if they made Texas tear theirs down.
So, you know, it's getting out of hand, but this is the way to do it.
And now it sounds like a parody, but I know that this man, Clemens, Logan Darrow Clement.
I love the fact his middle name is also the last name of a famous lawyer, Clarence Darrow.
Logan Darrow Clements, I'm sure he's serious about this.
He'll do everything he can to get that property to build a big hotel, the Lost Liberty Hotel.
You have to love this.
I'll get to Bush and the polling denied his Iraq War speech tonight.
But first, Bill in Cleveland, I'm glad you called, and welcome to the program, sir.
Yes, sir.
Hello.
Welcome to the program.
Hello?
Yes, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Honest to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah, I got two of your club Getmo t-shirts yesterday and promptly well went out of the house.
And about four hours later, I was coming out of a Starbucks when I was assailed by an enraged liberal.
What happened?
He kind of lingered around after he got his beverage outside the store.
And when I came out, he came up to me and was glaring and said that Guantanamo Bay is a concentration camp.
And, I mean, he was wearing a yarmulke, so he was obviously Jewish, and my mother's Jewish, too.
I looked down and said, I can't believe you would even say that comparing air conditioning, special diet, prayer materials, and five times a day to pray to what happened in the concentration camps.
What did he say to that?
He had nothing to say to that.
And then I looked at him.
I said, you know what? I can't understand is the three icons of the Liberal Party are FDR, JFK, and Clinton.
And FDR put tens of thousands of American citizens in internment camps, and nobody says anything about that.
And he still couldn't say anything.
It was hilarious.
Well, these things are definitely going to stir up some irony.
Well, I'm glad that you had the courage to face this guy.
But see, you've had a Starbucks, but you've got the courage to face the guy with facts.
I've never been to Starbucks.
Liberals go to Starbucks as everybody go to Starbucks.
Everybody goes.
Okay, so you can find liberals at Starbucks.
Everybody goes there.
Okay, so maybe this is a good place to go once you get your club get more t-shirts.
Go to a Starbucks.
What does your Club Get Mo T-shirt say, Bill?
The one I was wearing yesterday was your tropical retreat from the stress of jihad.
Could not deal with it.
And then, you know, I listened to Rush Limbaugh.
I have the facts at my fingertips.
And when I hit him up with that, he was just stunned.
He couldn't say anything.
He just shook his head and walked away.
Oh, oh, oh, that must have done when you told him you listened to me.
Did this informed and erudite liberal have any idea where the club getmot t-shirt came from?
Of course, it says www.rushlimbaugh.com on the back.
Well, I know, but did he see that?
I mean, he saw that before he reacted.
He saw it right before he confronted me.
Bill, these are going to be fun.
I have already ordered a third shirt and a hat and a coffee mug.
In fact, I'll be drinking my Starbucks out of the coffee mug as soon as it arrives.
Yes, I was going to suggest.
Take the Jihad Java coffee mug into Starbucks with your club get more t-shirts.
All right.
Bill, thanks much.
Bill, I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
I want you to hang on.
I'm going to send you the fourth, whatever the shirt you wanted.
You say you just ordered your third one, did you say?
I'm going to.
Okay, well, hang on.
Don't do it, and we'll send you one.
I'm going to send you one as a gift.
Do you have a coffee mug yet or not?
I ordered that, yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Well, I'll send you another one of those in case some liberal breaks it in Starbucks so you can have a backup.
And I'll say, so hang on here.
We'll get all your information necessary to get the t-shirt.
You pick the one you want, the size, and the Jihad Java mug will also be on its way to you.
That's Bill in Cleveland with our first reported encounter of a Club Get Mo T-shirt in Cleveland at Starbucks with a liberal, Scott in Columbia, South Carolina.
Hello, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Good afternoon, sir.
Yes, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
I am calling about this survey that was taking place in the University of Missouri Journalism School, where you were cited as the reason why radio listeners have the most extreme political views.
Yes.
Well, I attended the University of Missouri in the journalism program and wrote for the student newspaper and took photos for it.
And I was going to tell you that I certainly hope you don't feel bad by this because there was the most liberally biased campus I've ever seen or heard of, even though it's nestled right there in the middle of the Midwest.
It was terrible.
I don't feel bad about it.
This stuff is a badge of honor to me.
I mean, you're known by your enemies into politics, and my enemies, I love the ones I've got.
Well, I couldn't.
Now, and the university, you know, I grew up in Missouri, and, you know, I didn't go to the University of Missouri, but my family did.
None of them went to the J school, but the University of Missouri Jay School is probably, at one time it was, I don't know if it still is, one of the top five journalism schools in the country.
And if it still is, by reputation anyway, and I'm not surprised that it would be as ultra-liberal as you say.
Well, it was ranked third when I attended.
When was that?
When were you there?
I was there in 2002 and 2003.
Well, did you graduate, huh?
You left Columbia.
Well, that's the humorous part of the story, or I guess humorous, depending on how you look at it.
The situation there was so hostile towards conservatives that that was actually the main factor in why I decided to transfer to University of South Carolina.
It was so horrible.
You couldn't go.
It has a very large campus, and you couldn't go two blocks without seeing a Bush's Hitler sign on the corner complete with Bush mannequins.
One of the professors even invited a radical Muslim to speak in the middle of the walkways.
And so as you're trying to get to class, the guy would come and block you off and rant at you.
It was like nothing I expected, that's for sure.
Well, I don't blame you for decamping.
I really don't.
But it's not surprising.
That's academia for you today.
Let me give you a little bit more on the survey here.
Recent studies indicate that Americans are becoming increasingly extreme in their political, ideological, and cultural views.
Of course, given what we just heard from somebody on campus at the University of Missouri J School, I don't think you can get more extreme than hanging effigies of Bush, saying Bush equals Hitler, and having a radical Muslim stop traffic in the middle of one of the quadrangles there, start lecturing the students.
From issues such as stem cell research to the environment, Americans are clinging to viewpoints that are increasingly opposed to one another, a phenomenon that some researchers attribute to the highly contested 2000 presidential.
I know why this is.
And you know, there's a story I have from yesterday, Stack, Michael Barone writing about this in U.S. News.
Why this is, why all this partisan.
I'll tell you about it here.
I've got my own theory.
I know why this is.
The 2000 election is just but one small adjunct to it, one small part of it.
It's a much bigger story.
And it's right in front of our faces.
And it's really, I guess like the simplest way I could say it before I give it to you in detail, for the first time in their living memory, the left has serious intellectual opposition, doesn't know how to deal with it.
And as such, they are retrenching and retreating, not into intellectual positions, but emotional positions that really express their anger at not being a monopoly anymore.
They are just livid that they don't run the show.
They're just livid that they're not the mainstream anymore.
And conservatives are no more partisan today.
I'm no more partisan than I've ever been.
I've been a partisan all my life because I have passionately held views and beliefs.
They're in my core.
But they're no different today than they were 15 or 20 years ago.
In fact, I get an email, you're moderating too much, Rush.
You need to hit back a little harder like you used to.
But I think this new partisanship is strictly all behavior modification on the part of the left.
Anyway, I'm a little long here.
Let me take a break.
I'll give you a couple more details from this silly survey and get to other things here in the stack stuff right after this.
Be patient.
We'll be right back.
Okay, back to this University of Missouri Journalism School survey indicating that Americans are becoming increasingly extreme in their political, ideological, and cultural views.
Issues such as stem cell research, the environment, Americans are clinging to viewpoints that are increasingly opposed to one another, a phenomenon that some researchers attribute to the highly contested 2000 presidential race.
Now, researchers at the University of Missouri Columbia School of Journalism have completed a study suggesting that it is the type of media a person consumes, not necessarily the message that determines how polarized people are on a certain issue.
Telephone survey, 2,528 adults in the U.S.
A survey respondents answered a series of questions on the government, religion, and a combination of those areas, and then their polarization scores were calculated.
Study found that radio listeners were the most polarized news consumers, due in part to shows hosted by conservative political commentators such as El Rushbo.
Conservative listeners have their ideals reinforced by the shows, which ultimately lead to even more extreme views.
So we're back.
You see, nothing has changed when it comes to the elites.
The rap against this program has always been that you people are idiots.
You are mind-numbed robots.
You don't know anything until you tune into me every day to A, find out what to think, B, find out what to do, and C, get your marching orders.
And this survey tends to confirm what the elites think, that you are only passionate about your beliefs because you're sponges.
And you soak up my passion, and I stoke your fire, and I send you out there all enraged.
Now, obviously, there are flaws in this whole thing, and the flaw is the premise.
The flaw is the premise that these people started trying to find out why.
It really isn't a mystery.
Those of you who are conservative, as am I, know that you've been conservative for a long time, most of your lives.
Those of you that are recent converts have to excuse you from this explanation.
But we've not changed.
You know, we simply react to some of the outrageousness that we see on the left.
The left is who's changing.
Karl Rove is exactly right.
The liberals, actually, I don't know if they are changing.
I think this is maybe always who they've been.
They just are challenged for the first time in their memory, and they don't know how to deal with it.
They literally have no idea how to deal with it.
think the partisanship in this country comes from the paranoid left, which believes in all kinds of conspiracy theories.
The election was stolen.
The war is about oil.
It's all for Halliburton.
Cheney's running the show.
You name it.
They've got a conspiracy theory to explain everything because they can't accept one reality, and that is that they're losing and that they have been losing now consistently for 15 to 20 years.
And they just can't deal with that, folks.
And so they are, they're getting rid of this mask, this disguise that they've always had.
We're finding out who they really, really are, who they've always been.
Not a pretty sight.
Back after this, stay with us.
One other little item from this Mizzou J School survey.
Internet news consumers were some of the least polarized citizens they found.
But if they keep on, internet users could experience the same reinforcing process that could be taking place with conservative radio listeners.
And you internet users could also become extremists too.