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June 28, 2005, Tuesday, Hour #1

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	You know, it's fun to see the media just so excited.
	They think Bush is going to finally go out and do a Maya 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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	Podcasting goes on.
	The Ditto Cam is up and running now for uh the whole whole program, unless something unexpected happens.
	It never has, but I always throw out the possibility.
	You might want to visit our website, www.rushlimbaugh.com because you know, yesterday I said we get so many of these club gitmo t-shirts from our club gitmo gift shop at rushlimbaugh.com that are out there.
	I said, I can't wait till I see these things show up in public, because you know it's going to happen.
	It's it there's folks, I'm I'm telling you, so many have been purchased that uh it isn't gonna be long before the media is gonna show up someplace uh and just somebody who happens to randomly be where a story's taking place will uh 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 uh 41 Speedboat up there in uh Kennebunkport.
	It's it's the lead picture at the DrudgeReport.com.
	And I folks, I know it it just it's it makes you sick.
	There's nothing else you can say about it.
	It just it just does.
	But anyway, uh once we got past the sickness, uh 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 we've uh the color looks identical to our jumpsuit prison orange uh that are the colors of the Club Gitmo shirts.
	Now, the present speech is tonight, 7 o'clock.
	I'll be in Fort Bragg, and I have a wealth of data here leading up to the speech.
	We got Halliburton stories.
	I mean, you can make book of what they're gonna 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 we've got CNN USA Today Gallop 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 poll out trying to make their poll look bad for the president, but it actually doesn't.
	Uh when it comes to Iraq.
	We'll go through uh all of this.
	We've got funny stories uh about uh the this uh polling interpretation from the San Francisco Chronicle, and Ellen Tosher from Walnut Creek, California, Congress babe, just got back from Gidmo.
	She says, I didn't see any abuse, but then she also said she said, a lot of prisoners have been have been moved, and so uh uh there probably is abuse going on, just not here.
	Uh that's the that's the implication.
	She doesn't actually say it.
	Uh, but she does say that they've been moved, and she didn't see any 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, uh, 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-bed uh by John Kerry, who uh by the way served in Vietnam.
	Uh, ladies 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 a rock, 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 uh email that we got at Rush247.
	That's One of our 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 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'll allow me to play your MP3 files off of the show, which I and my fellow soldiers greatly miss on a daily basis.
	I'm 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 missed 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 uh 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.
	Uh, and this is from First Sergeant Paul.
	I'm not going to mention his last name.
	I don't I don't want to get uh Sergeant his Paul A is a first name and initial.
	And uh he's serving with the second Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Ramadi in Iraq.
	And so he's able now to get the podcasts of the program.
	Um, I I maybe maybe what we ought to do.
	Uh I don't have his address, but we can certainly find it some of his wife's.
	Send him a you know some some jihad Java mugs.
	Who, you know, send him a couple jihad Java mugs and send him some club gitmo t-shirts.
	Can you imagine?
	Ooh, ooh, members of the second marine expeditionary force wearing some club gitmo t-shirts during their downtime.
	So uh Coco, go to work on this so we can come up with uh and we'll send, you know, send a couple mugs and ten shirts, different sizes and so forth over there is show uh uh little bit of gratitude.
	It's a little bit is uh is all it is.
	Uh but I wanted to share this with you because uh we we get these from time to time from soldiers who are uh in the um in the theater of battle, and they are the ones that I hear from constantly reference how irritating it is to uh to read American media about how they're they're they're they're not accomplishing anything over there when they of course clearly think and know that they are.
	Uh and I I have to also tell you it's it's sort of uh uh what it just it's it's I don't know, humbling to me to think that here these guys are in the in the line of fire, and they're all excited about being able to get these MP3 files to uh listen to the program.
	I'm I'm just gratified that we're able here in one small way to um 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 uh it's uh it's a win-win all the way around.
	I have uh I was circle sur surfing around yesterday my RSS feeds, and I have some some Yahoo news feeds, uh my RSS.
	And I got one from Reuters, and one of the things that one of the things that uh occasionally you will find on an RSS feed is an is a wire story rewrite.
	You will see the original with uh 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 uh dated yesterday.
	Hardline president-elect Mahmood.
	Uh hardline president elect Mahmood uh Trouble reading the lines here yesterday.
	Sparked Western fears about Iran's uh nuclear um program and helped push oil prices over $60 on Monday, but the EU and analysts warned against any hasty judgments.
	Uh here is what they replaced hardline president-elect Mahmud with ultra-conservative president-elect Mahmood.
	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.
	Uh 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 Mahmood, 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 screenshot of it.
	That's uh 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 timeout.
	We'll be back and continue resume with all the rest of the program right after this.
	On the cutting edge of societal evolution, L. Rushbow, America's anchorman, and America's truth detect.
	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-framed 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 um 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, by the way, from the Houston Chronicle, Freeport officials began efforts to seize waterfront property from two seafood companies as part of an eight.
	You might have seen this on the news last night.
	This this is this is uh uh a lot of people are on this.
	Uh I 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, but uh nevertheless, uh Freeport officials began efforts to seize waterfront property from two seafood companies as part of an $8 million marina development, according to report by uh 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 a marina, no one stays at a hotels?
	How long will the hotels stay in business if occupancy rates uh trail their forecasts?
	So uh what whatever, ladies and gentlemen, as uh the the this the piece I'm reading from is written by uh Lauren Steffi, uh business columnist for the Houston Chronicle.
	Uh 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 uh parking lot.
	Uh this decision last Thursday has people up in arms, and uh I might add that the residents of Kentucky are fed up.
	They are burning.
	And they def they they say, okay, fine.
	Well, we'll we'll build some monuments the way the court says.
	This, you know, if you 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 uh 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 any time you want.
	And then and and David Souter, uh who wrote one of the uh majority opinions in the Kentucky case, has some of the most tortured logic I I've ever seen from from anybody, much less one of the highest ranking jurists in the country.
	He basically says we well, you know, we just we can't afford you we we can't afford to offend people who are not religious.
	We just we just can't afford to do this.
	Ignoring years of American history.
	Uh and that's why the original intent of the founders uh is always sought by people who seek to use the con the Constitution as a means of preserving the Union.
	It's the Constitution that's held us together, but the Constitution is being rendered uh meaningless.
	All right, CNN's poll on the president's speech tonight.
	And by the way, I just want to reiterate something here.
	Uh I have no idea what the president's gonna say.
	I have I 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 I'll bet you that it's he's just gonna rehash what he said before.
	I'll bet you that if you watch the speech, some of you are gonna say, Well, I've heard that, I've heard that.
	And the reason you've heard it is because you're you've heard it.
	He's consistent.
	He's gonna say what he's always said.
	That it's hard work over there, that it's dangerous.
	But he's not gonna wring his hands, he's not going to express doubts, he's not gonna 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 gonna win.
	Which, and I just want to hear the press is not gonna like hearing this at all.
	As I said earlier, the press wants a Maya culpa.
	The press wants to hear the president admit mistakes.
	The president wants the press wants the the uh wants to hear the president talk about how we mismanage the peace, we mismanage the aftermath.
	We didn't anticipate that it would be this hard, but now that he's not gonna say any of that because he doesn't have to say it.
	He said from the get-go that this is gonna outlast his administration.
	He said it's gonna take time, and he's always said it's gonna be hard.
	And he's gonna keep plugging away at that.
	Uh and I I frankly, you know, the 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 uh some 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 uh is not to change policy.
	It's just to get the war back on the front page and back into the uh uh 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, uh 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 he's not gonna have much different to say.
	And I I I hope a lot of you who watch this are not uh tomorrow disappointed.
	Well, I mean, I I was expecting some, you know, barn burner speech last night, rally the people.
	I uh I thought I just want to warn you.
	It may be that, but I my guess is it's he's just gonna be consistent and say what he's always said.
	It 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 is those that cover it.
	ABC is the only national network so far that said they're gonna cover it.
	Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have its L. Rushball, the all-knowing, all caring, all sensing, all feeling, all concerned, and all important Maharashi, firmly ensconced behind this, the golden EIB microphone serving humanity.
	Uh this this is hilarious.
	Freestar Media LLC.
	Uh it's uh it's a website and the great website, the greatest story is the battle between freedom and force.
	It'll press release here.
	Um they released it on June 27th to the New Hampshire Media today to all other media.
	And it's uh they say below is our letter to begin the development process.
	Read our letter starting the project here.
	We are 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.
	The 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 27, Logan Darrell Clements faxed a request to Chip Meany, 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.
	Clemens, 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 Deserts 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 Clemens.
	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.
	Clemens' 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 Suter's home, the bill of hotel to create greater tax revenue for the uh for the city of Weir, New Hampshire.
	Um 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, and I mean they'll they'll do almost anything they can, including a rain dance to get it.
	Uh 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 um realize these tax gains.
	We can only cross our fingers in 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 Ten 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 in the Supreme Court building of the United States, along with other historical displays as well.
	They would still have to um you know to tear their own down if they made Texas tear theirs down.
	So, you know, it's it's just get 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 this um uh this uh this man Clemens, he had Logan Darrow Clement.
	I love the fact his middle name is uh also the last name of a famous lawyer, Clarence Darrow.
	Um Logan Darrow Clemens, I'm sure uh he's serious about this.
	He'll do everything he can to uh get that property and build a big hotel, the Lost Liberty Hotel.
	You just you have you have to love this.
	I'll get to Bush.
	Uh and the polling down at his Iraq War speech tonight, but first, Bill in Cleveland, I'm glad you called, and welcome to the program, sir.
	Yes, help sir.
	Hello, welcome to the program.
	Hello?
	Yes, sir, hello.
	Hi, Rush.
	Thank you, sir.
	Uh yeah, I got two of your club get my t-shirts yesterday.
	And promptly rolling out of the house, and about four hours later, I was coming out of a Starbucks when I was assailed by a enraged liberal.
	What happened?
	Uh, 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 uh Guantanamo Bay is a concentration camp.
	And I mean he he was wearing a yamaka, so he was obviously Jewish, and my mother's Jewish too.
	I looked at him and said, I can't under 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 in the concentration camps.
	What did he say to that?
	He had nothing to say to that.
	And I even I looked at him, I said, you know what I can't understand is the the three icons of the Liberal Party are are FDR, JFK, and Clinton.
	And FDR put tens of thousands of American citizens in internment camps, and nobody says anything about that.
	Well, he still couldn't say anything.
	It was it was hilarious.
	Well, let me these things are definitely gonna stir up some irony.
	Well, I'm glad that you had the courage to face this guy.
	But see, you've yeah, a Starbucks, but you've got the courage to face the guy with facts.
	Um I've never been to Starbucks.
	Liberals go to Starbucks, everybody go to Starbucks.
	Everybody goes, okay, so you can find liberals at Starbucks.
	Everybody goes there.
	Okay, so so um uh maybe this is a good place to go once you get your club Gitmo t-shirts.
	Uh go to a Starbucks.
	Uh what what is your club Gitmo T-shirt say, Bill?
	Uh, the one I was wearing yesterday was your tropical retreat from the stress of jihad.
	Could that deal with it?
	And then I I you know I listen to Rush Limbaugh.
	I have the facts at my fingertips.
	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 uh did this uh informed and uh Aerudite Liberal have any idea where the club Gitmo t-shirt came from?
	Of course it says www.rush limbaugh.com on the back.
	Well, I know, but did he see that?
	I mean it would come as he did.
	He saw that before uh before he reacted.
	So right before he before he confronted me.
	Uh Bill, I prese these are gonna be fun.
	I I have already ordered a third shirt and a hat and the coffee mug.
	In fact, I'll be drinking my Starbucks out of the coffee mug as soon as it arrives.
	Yes, I was gonna suggest take the Jihad Java coffee mug into Starbucks with your club get motivated.
	All right, Bill, thanks much.
	Bill, I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
	I want you to hang on.
	I'm gonna I'm gonna what whatever I'm gonna send you the fourth or whatever the shirt you don't you wanted.
	Uh If you you say you just ordered your third one, did you say?
	I'm I'm going to.
	Okay, well, hang on, don't do it, and we'll send you one.
	I'm gonna I'm gonna send you one as a gift.
	Uh do you have a coffee mug yet or not?
	I heard that, yeah.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Well, I'll send you another one of those in case some liberal breaks it uh in in Starbucks so you can have a 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 and the size, and the Jihad Java mug uh will also be on its way to you.
	That's that's Bill in Cleveland with our first reported encounter of the 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 uh 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 uh political views.
	Yes.
	Well, I uh attended the University of Missouri uh in the journalism program and wrote for the student newspaper and and took photos for it.
	And it's good 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 uh 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 this stuff is a badge of honor to me.
	I mean, uh you know, the the you're known by your enemies in a politics, and my enemies, I'm l I love the ones I've got.
	Well couldn't I couldn't now and the university, you know, I grew up in Missouri, and uh, you know, I I I didn't go to the University of Missouri, but but uh some my family did.
	None of them went to the J School, but the the University of Missouri J 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 and if it still is, I'm not surpr by reputation anyway, and I'm not surprised that it would be as ultra-liberal as you say.
	Well, it was ranked uh third when I attended, but uh the When was that?
	When when were you there?
	I was in there I was there in two thousand and two and two thousand three.
	Well, did you uh you didn't graduate, huh?
	You left because the humorous part of the story, or I guess humorous, depending on how you look at it.
	The the situation there was so hostile towards conservatives that that was actually the the main factor in why I decided to transfer to University of South Carolina.
	It was so horrible.
	You couldn't go uh is a it has a very large campus, uh, and uh you couldn't go two blocks without seeing a uh Bush's Hitler sign on the corner uh complete with Bush mannequins.
	Uh they one of the professors even invited a radical Muslim to uh to speak in the middle of the walkways, and so as you're trying to get to class, the the the guy would come and and block you off and and and uh rant at you.
	It was uh it was it was like nothing I expected, that's for sure.
	Well, I uh I don't blame you for for decamping.
	I really don't.
	That's just but it's not it's not surprising.
	That's academia for you today.
	Let me give you a little bit more on the uh survey here.
	Um recent studies indicate that Americans are becoming increasingly extreme in their political, ideological and cultural views.
	Uh of course, given what we just heard from uh 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 uh stop traffic in the middle of one of the quadrangles there, start lecturing the students.
	From issues uh 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 president.
	I know why this is.
	And you know, there's there's a story uh I have from yesterday's stack, Michael Barone writing about this uh in U.S. News.
	Uh why this is, why all this partisan.
	I'll tell you about it here in just I 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.
	Uh and it's it's right in front of our faces.
	And it's it's it's really you can uh 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, does know how to deal with it.
	And as such, they are retrenching and retreating, not into intellectual positions, but emotional positions that are ex 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 I have passionately held views and beliefs.
	They're in my core.
	But I'm 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, on a little long here.
	Let me take a break.
	I'll give you a couple more details in 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 we're back to see 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 in to 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 uh flaws in this whole thing, and the flaw is the premise.
	The flaw is the premise that these people started to try 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 to recent converts uh have to excuse you from this explanation, but we've not changed.
	You know, what what uh we simply react to some of the outrageousness that we see uh on the left.
	The left is who's changing.
	Carl Rov 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.
	I 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'd 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 they're 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, uh 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.

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