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Aug. 1, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 1, 2005, Monday, Hour #2
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I also saw last week, ladies and gentlemen, Helen Thomas threatened to commit suicide if Dick Cheney runs for president.
And the funny thing about this, she mentioned this what she thought was just in casual conversation to a reporter.
And a reporter, oh, no, we're on the record.
And she said she's never talking to another reporter again.
She can't believe that what she said was actually used.
Well, I say we draft Cheney.
I mean, this is worth it.
I'm thinking of running for president.
Maybe she would move.
Doubt she would kill herself over me running, but if she would move, Helen Thomas, then it'd be well worth my even suggesting that I might.
Greetings, welcome back.
Great to be with you.
Back from a little over a week's vacation.
Went to the south of France.
I'd never been there before.
And I just, I'd been to Paris.
I've been up to the beaches where the Normandy invasion took place, been up there.
But I'd never been to the south.
France just wanted to see it and did.
Went over to Rome again.
I was there in 85, and I was fascinated by it and wanted to go back.
Ancient Rome just fascinates me.
Going to the Colosseum.
Well, because, Mr. Snurdy, why?
Because it's 3,000 years old and it's still there.
The building where Julius Caesar was stabbed, the Curia, the Senate, still there.
You can go inside it.
You can see it.
To me, it's just amazing.
The Vatican, you cannot possibly appreciate the Vatican on television until you actually go see it.
And I went up to Venice.
So many people have said, well, if you're in Italy, you've got to go to Venice.
And I'd never really had any compunction to go there, but spent a couple, two and a half days in it.
It's a fascinating place, too.
Yeah, I did a gondola thing.
Did the gondola.
Absolutely.
Of course I did the gondola thing.
I had a fabulous time.
I haven't enjoyed a week's vacation as much in I don't know how long.
But I'm glad to be back here, folks, here at the EIB Network on this day where we start our 18th year.
This is our 17th anniversary.
We started August 1st of 1988.
And it's great to be with you.
It'll be here.
As you know, I'm your host for life, folks, and I'm not going to retire until every American agrees with me.
So we're in this for the long haul.
Telephone number, if you want to be on the program today, is 800-282-2882.
The email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
Do you think it is coincidental that today is also the, or what will be, an anniversary for yet another media venture?
Al Gore's TV network starts today, folks.
Al Gore is debuting his television network today.
Much of the talk around Al Gore's new current TV network, that's what's called current TV, has been broadly philosophical, like the former vice president's statement that we want to be the television homepage for the internet generation.
It's an interesting thing to say.
He wants to be the television homepage for the internet.
I don't know what are you going, Senator, Vice President, Al Gore, the Internet's going to be the homepage for the Internet generation.
It just is.
Until you can give them a mouse and click off your network and go somewhere else when they get tired of watching it, you're not going to get them.
Debuting today, current TV.
This is David Border, the AP TV writer, writing this.
With its debut today, current TV, Al Gore's TV network, will be judged by the same mundane standards as other networks, and that is on whether its programming can hold a viewer's interest.
Now, get that.
Mundane.
That's the nature of the business, Mr. Border.
You're writing about it.
The nature of the business is, can you hold a viewer's interest?
Can you attract an audience and hold it?
If you can't do that, you're a failure in the business.
And yet that's what he considers to be mundane, which is why the critics always end up choosing programs that nobody watches.
You've probably noticed that all these documentaries that win all the awards air on PBS and nobody ever sees them.
These things that win all these awards have this very select niche audience of the elites and the precious intellectual few capable of understanding the rot gut that they are putting out and calling it programming.
And there's disdain among media critics for large audience programs because it is felt that a large audience program can only be large if it's attracting idiots and mind-numbed robots, which is, of course, one of the reasons this program is always ripped.
And even though it's recognized as the, this program recognizes the Goliath or the big one, whatever, it's still constantly impugned because of the type of people who listen.
Well, now we understand why.
The AP television writer considers the number one objective of anybody in the media to be mundane.
Go talk to Dan Rather about mundane.
Dan Rather was mundane, and that's why he had the smallest audience for the nightly newscast, and that's why he's not there anymore.
It's that every bit as much the fact that the Bill Burkett forged document story.
At any rate, let's continue with this.
I'm excited about Gore's TV.
Can we get it?
Have we, wait a minute, I know where this network that it's replacing used to be.
Let's see, ladies and gentlemen, if DirecTV has held on to that channel.
Keep going, keep going.
Come on, remote.
Ah, it's there.
It's there.
Direct TV has current TV.
It's on channel 366.
I don't know if it's actually started yet because it says upcoming.
There's some kind of programming on it.
A bunch of long-haired maggot-infested dope-smoking types right now in a recording studio.
But this is incredible.
I don't know how to describe this.
It's a bunch of people in a recording studio going over scripts, playing guitars, putting masks on their faces, as Al Gore seeks to get the 18 to 34 audience.
Gore and his fellow investors envision current TV as a sounding board for young people, a step beyond traditional notions of interactivity.
They want viewers to contribute much of the network's content now that quality video equipment is widely available.
Oh, well, that's going to work.
A TV network where the inmates run the asylum.
Based on material previewed on the website, current, at first glance, seems like a hipper, more irreverent version of traditional TV magazines.
Most of its programming will be in pods, roughly two to seven minutes long, covering topics like jobs, technology, spirituality, and current events.
An internet-like on-screen progress bar will show the pod's length.
Its short films include a profile of a hang glider and a piece on working in a fish market.
One contributor talked about what it was like to have his phone number on a hacked internet list of Paris Hilton cell phone contexts, saying that dealing with curiosity seekers are like hosting your own radio call-in show.
So even on Al Gore's TV network, the people who contribute to it talk about the excitement of being on radio as opposed to being on his television network.
And of course, David Newman, who is Current's program director, said, we have no illusions about the fact our product has to be compelling, but we also believe it has to be unique.
Who wants to watch the seventh clone of a different network?
And they insist that this is not going to be ideological.
It's not going to have a political bias to it, which of course means it's going to be flat-out, full-fledged, leftist, because they don't think they're political, and they don't think they're ideological.
So that's pretty much it.
We'll just have to wait and see.
I'm surprised.
You know, the network it replaced was some news organization, NWI or something, that was on out of Minneapolis.
And I remember I'd see that periodically scanning around.
It just looked like an international newscast.
And that's the channel or that's the network that Al Gore bought.
And DirecTV, apparently going to hold on to it.
So current TV, I'd just assume they dump current TV, put some more HD on DirecTV.
Frankly, that's if I had anything to do with DirecTV, it would have more HD on it.
But I don't have anything to do with DirecTV other than being a customer and paying bills.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
You know, I know it's not fair and it often is premature to judge any new media program on its first day.
So I'm not going to engage in any predictions on Al Gore's TV network here other than to say it's going to be a matter of how much money are his investors willing to lose before they pull the plug.
But I don't want to make any predictions about it, but I'm sitting here watching it.
And they're running one of those pods right now.
A pod is a segment.
They're calling a segment a pod on this network.
And it's some bald guy, a young bald guy who was wearing a Washington Redskins jersey shopping for sneakers.
Now the bald guy is in a basketball jersey in his car.
Now he just got out of the car.
Now he's walking.
It's a Michael Jordan jersey and he's walking down the street of some town.
Now he's walking up the steps into some house.
Is this exciting, folks?
Because this is what it is.
He's at, oh, the athletic house.
Oh, he's looking back at another rack of sneakers.
It's a feature on sneakers on Al Gore's new television network with this bald guy looking at various forms and models of Nikes and other things.
And they do have the progress bar in the lower left-hand corner, as though you're downloading something on your computer.
It tells you how much longer you have to wait.
Most people hate that progress bar because it makes things seem slower.
They put the progress bar.
So what the progress bar is telling the Al Gore audience is, don't worry, this doesn't last much longer, and then we're going to throw something else at you, hoping you'll like that.
Why put a progress bar on that?
Just telling people when it's going to end.
And I guess the only advantage to that is, don't worry, don't worry.
We know this isn't very good, but it doesn't have that much longer to go.
And then we'll go on to something else.
And whatever the something else is, is being promoed in a window in the upper right-hand corner of the screen, which actually is distracting from this bald guy with his various jerseys trying on sneakers.
Now he's buying some.
He's actually paying cash to an Oriental gentleman happily walking out of the store in his Jordan jersey, which with his sack of sneakers.
Now, I don't know what the audio is.
It's not closed captioned, so because everybody knows that 18 to 34-year-olds do not experience deafness.
So it's not close.
I can't tell you what the guy's saying.
But since TV is a visual medium, you tell me.
Is my description of this snerdly yawning?
I guess I got my answer.
Speaking of sports, this is not good.
Rafael Palmaro of the Baltimore Orioles, their first baseman, testified before Congress on March 17th that he'd never used steroids, was suspended by the Baseball Commiss, Bud Sealing, today for 10 games for violating baseball steroids policy.
He's only one of four players to amass 3,000 career hits and 500 career home runs.
The Orioles made the announcement prior to their game with the Chicago White Sox at 1235, a little less than an hour ago.
And he was under oath when he took that statement.
His statement was, good morning, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee.
My name is Rafael Palmero.
I'm a professional baseball player.
I'll be brief.
Let me start by telling you this.
I have never used steroids, period.
I don't know how to say it any more clearly than that.
Never.
The reference to me in Mr. Canseco's book is absolutely false.
I'm against the use of steroids.
I don't think athletes should use steroids.
I don't think our kids should use them.
That point of view is one unfortunately not shared by our former colleague, Jose Canseco.
Mr. Canseco is an unashamed advocate for increased steroid use by all athletes.
That was his statement.
Now, in all fairness, there are apparently a bunch of things that test for steroids that aren't certain things you can sell over the counter.
But nevertheless, he's tested positive and has a 10-day suspension.
Well, it could be after the hearings he got curious.
I don't know.
And it could well be that what Clinton defense could he use here?
Everybody does it.
Well, no, because they're not.
They can't use the everybody who does it.
And he can't say that it's not affecting, well, he's got, he's got, no, he can't say that either.
Because it doesn't affect his performance, but it may have.
I don't know.
We'll have to wait and see when he has a we'll just have to wait for his statement.
If he has one, I don't even, I don't want to speculate.
Here's Greg in Huntsville, Alabama.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hey, Rush, big time dittos, man.
How you doing?
Couldn't be better, dude.
Great, great.
Hey, I wanted to weigh in on this the current TV.
You know, I really enjoyed it.
I saw it this morning.
I used to watch the national news.
It was the Canadian news program.
They took it off, and now they got the current, which I enjoyed it quite a bit.
It was interesting.
It was a lot different than all the other news stations.
It wasn't really news so much as just kind of just interesting stories, short segments.
Like what?
I mean, what was it that interested you?
Well, they had one story on the suicide problem in Japan and how these people are making these suicide packs.
And, you know, it was interesting.
And then they had another story of a guy who was a surfer.
Have you been contemplating suicide or something?
Why would that?
No, it was just interesting.
The way they've been doing it, the way they did these little segments, it was kind of like a magazine, you know, where you just have all these different short little stories of stuff that's going on around the world.
And it was interesting.
I liked it.
Well, okay.
I mean, preference is preference.
If you told me you like country music, I would kind of frown, but I wouldn't make a judgment on you because it's just a matter of taste.
You know, I think it's more.
I'm watching this.
Obviously, I'm outside the demographic range for this, and I can't hear it, but it definitely doesn't strike me as anything but a bunch of kids that need to have jobs running around playing.
Yeah, it was kind of MTV-ish in a way.
That part I didn't like.
But a lot of the stories are really thought-provoking.
They're interesting, and they just kind of made you kind of pay attention and just think about it.
Like there was a story where there's a guy who was a surfer and he became paraplegic and how he continued surfing even though he couldn't, you know, he couldn't walk.
And it was interesting.
I liked it.
It's a little bit better than the news in the morning after a while.
I just get tired of it.
And it's just, I thought it would have some good stories in it.
Well, all right.
Well, look, if you like it, that's great.
I hope you keep watching it.
You're not going to know anything after you watch it, but you're going to have enjoyed the time you spent.
And if that's to each his own, I mean, no, I'm not being critical.
I wouldn't even compare this to news.
If you say you're going to watch this instead of news, let me ask you this.
Are you still out there, Greg?
Yes, I am.
Yeah.
Do you vote?
Yes, sir.
How old are you?
33.
Okay, so you got one more year to watch the Gore network, and then you'll be too old for it.
Yeah, yeah, I noticed that.
But, you know, like I said, it is kind of MTV-ish, and, you know, it kind of had a weird little, you know, kind of a younger spin to it, which, you know, don't really care about that.
But, you know, I can pick up the news in 15 minutes and basically get everything that has gone on in the last 24 hours.
And I don't want to hear it over and over again all day long.
I can agree with you on that 100%.
The 24-7 news cycle is nothing but repetition.
Totally agree with you on that.
But, well, look, are you going to use this as a substitute for news?
Because that's what it sounds like.
No, no, no.
It's just something I like to, you know, when I get up in the morning, I just want to relax, have some coffee, and, you know, I can pick up the news in 15 minutes.
And then I just.
Wait a minute.
No, wait, wait, hold on a minute.
Who gets up in the morning and relaxes?
Oh, I got to wake up, Rush.
Well, yeah, but you don't really.
Do you have a job?
Do you go to work?
Yes, sir.
I go to work every morning.
Well, what are you doing relaxing then?
You got to get up, get ready for go to work and go to work.
What are you doing watching this?
Well, I just get up and have my coffee, have a little breakfast, and turn on the tube and see what's going on.
How much time do you have between the time you wake up and when you leave for work?
About an hour.
Really?
Yes, sir.
You spend that much time before you go to work?
Well, I mean, this is what I do before I, you know, I already have my shower done and I have my coffee.
And then while I'm out of my coffee, I'll watch a little bit of TV and I just catch up with what's going on in the news.
But, you know, usually.
I'm glad I'm.
This has been a good exercise for me.
I guess most people do that.
You know, by the time I get up and I'm out of the house, it's 20 minutes.
And I don't relax.
I get here to the studio.
That's when I have my coffee, when I'm in the midst of working.
But to each his own, to each his own.
I've been doing this now for 17 years.
It's helpful to understand how many other Americans live.
I'm often accused of being out of touch with many Americans.
I think now that's probably true.
I probably work harder than most.
I'm sorry, Greg.
I'm just, I was, I don't mean to be insulting.
I just, it's an interesting, and I wasn't meaning to be.
So please don't take it that way.
And if you like, if you like Gore's network, current please, I'm not trying to talk you out of it.
I'm just information gathering here.
This is, you know, in much of life, I participate by observing others live it.
You know, when I've through lived myself for the day, I spend the rest of my life observing how others live theirs.
And so you've helped me tremendously here in understanding just who it is that is going to enjoy and revel in Al Gore's new network.
Got to go, folks.
A quick timeout.
We will be back and continue in a brief matter of moments.
A man, a legend, a way of life.
What was that last caller's name, Greg from Huntsville, Alabama?
Is that what he's calling him?
Greg, I know you're still out there.
I hate to tell you, but they're recycling the news here on the Gore channel.
I'm watching the surfer piece that you talked about this morning.
So I hate to break it to you, but they're recycling things too, repeating things.
So just to keep you apprised.
Ladies and gentlemen, of course, this is our anniversary day.
This is the first day of our 18th year.
This is our 17th anniversary.
And on our anniversary days, I always ask people to remember, think back where you were when you first heard this program.
Everybody remembers that moment.
Nobody ever forgets where they were and what they were doing when they first heard this program.
It was that impressionable and it was that historical.
To this day, even I'm getting emails from people who are telling me what they were doing, where they were when they first heard this program.
And I'm sure you are all now reflecting on that too.
I just got an email, though.
Not all of it is of that tone.
Dear Rush, 10 years ago, I loved your program, and I listened to it during lunch and breaks at work.
But you have changed.
You used to be a conservative populist and libertarian, and therefore used to place American interests first.
Now you're a dutiful shill for neocons.
Read Jewish interests.
I used to love your show, but you have betrayed us by subordinating American interests to those of Israel.
Shame on you.
I can no longer stomach your show.
Sincerely, James Rogers Morency, Michigan.
James, the perfume on your email reeks.
And this is what I think of your bigoted, hate-filled, ignoramous thought.
But I'm glad you're still out there listening enough to write me.
Well, he obviously can't be listening because it isn't what he's talking about.
Here is Motion in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you, Rush.
I just have a question.
I hope to sum up real quick.
I read recently, and just following, of course, what's going on in the Middle East, specifically with Israel and the Palestinians, it seems like the Bush administration, quite frankly, every administration prior to that sentence mixed messages when it comes to terrorism by in speeches publicly declaring terrorism is wrong and going after terrorism.
But when it comes to Israel, it's always Israel having to sacrifice.
And the example I'll just give you real quick, the most recent one, is when Condelezer Rice was in Israel in a meeting with Sharon asking him that the Israeli government would fund financially the Palestinian Authority, which I consider a terrorist regime, both finances and weapons, and also with Bush's roadmap in speeches that he's given that Israel should go back to 1949 boundaries.
I just want to see what you think about that.
All right.
I guess I got to put on my shill for Israel hat here.
Two things about this.
Because I think you have two points that need to be commented on.
The first point is, historically, you are correct, and I've always been surprised by it.
We go out and fight our own terrorists according to our own rules, except when the Democrats get in the way.
And yet, during the same time, we pretty much tie Israel's hands and say, you can't behave this way.
You've got to make peace with these people.
You've got to talk to them.
You've got to have negotiations.
Things that we would never do with terrorists, we demand and have demanded that Israel do with the Palestinians.
And about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, just so you know, Moshan, I've always said, in fact, I coined a name for this, the Limbaugh Doctrine.
The Limbaugh Doctrine is very simple.
Peace is achieved only after victory.
Peace is not achieved with negotiations, treaties, doctors, nurses, clean water, and all of that.
It's not achieved with the UN being involved.
Having said that, I think that the administration here is sending Dr. Rice on this mission with the specifics that you mentioned because there's a new day on the Palestinian side of things, and that new day is there is no more Yasser Arafat.
I think Arafat was the, well, he wasn't the lone stumbling block, but he clearly was the major obstacle to there being any resolution to this argument, which has been raging for thousands of years.
And I'm left to conclude here, and I'm only guessing because I don't know.
I'm just left to conclude that the president has announced a policy during his campaigns and after he was elected both times, continued with what he said during the campaign, and that was there's going to be peace there.
And he has said that he wanted to build up the Palestinian Authority, wanted to make them a viable economic organization and will have the people that live under that authority have a viable economy for the purposes of having a decent life.
And I think that this is probably oriented toward seeing if this can be done with this new leadership of the Palestine, whatever the replacement for the PLO is, if there is a replacement for the Palestinian Authority.
The problem with this is that you still have Islamic Jihad and Hamas and all these people up in Syria who are going to do everything they can to undermine, even if you do have a new guy in there that's light years different from Arafat.
even if you do have a new Palestinian leader that does want quote-unquote peace, this guy is going to be undermined by the Hamas and these other groups until they are taken care of as well.
I've always been sort of curious why we just don't turn Israel loose.
Well, I know why we don't, but it seems to me that you're not going to have peace over there until one of these sides loses.
And if there was a military battle, we know who would lose, and that would be the Palestinians.
They're not equipped to fight a military battle.
Israel could handle them inside of six days.
But it is quite confusing overall when you do look at the requirements we place, the limits that we place on whoever the Israeli leaders are from year to year and the way we conduct our own wars on terrorism.
Who's next?
This is Tim in Colorado Springs.
I'm glad to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
Rush, I cannot believe after 17 years I'm talking to the great Rush Limbaugh.
This is a thrill for me.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I was telling your screener, when I very first listened to you, I was coming home from work and it was on KBOR in Colorado Springs.
And I thought you were a nutty psychiatrist.
I just tuned in.
You were talking, and I thought, oh, here's one of those psychiatrists again.
Because that's all KBOR had at the time.
And then you did safe radio, and I thought, what is he doing?
And you asked one of your people with you for a condom.
It was a girl, I think Kiki or someone like that.
Kiki de la Garza, yes.
He was one of the first broadcast engineers.
And you started kind of teeting her.
What are you doing with a condom in your purse?
And then you put it over the mic, and I thought, this guy's losing it, right?
He's going to be taken off the air.
And then you start talking about how it was a fallacy to use, to assume that a condom would make safe sex.
And I thought, this guy's making sense.
And I started listening to you from then on, 1988 until now.
It's been wonderful.
That's exactly what I mean, folks.
People remember precisely what they were doing and what their thoughts were, where they were, and the station they heard it on when they first heard this program.
I'm happy you called, Tim.
Thanks very much.
I can even understand the radio psychiatrist bit because over the years, if you're just tuning in and you don't have context, there have been people who call here down on their luck, down on their futures, and we've told them what opportunities exist in the country.
It's a very upbeat, optimistic, and positive program, and always has been.
The condom business, that was, oh, that takes me back.
That was way back in 1988.
We were in the throes of the AIDS controversies and abortion controversies and so forth.
And all this talk about safe sex was out there and the condom as the means by which we could have safe sex.
And I thought that was silly and stupid.
There's nothing safe about it.
You may lower the odds of transmitting a sexually sexual disease, but you're not going to prevent it.
There was a much better way.
It was called abstinence.
It works every time it's tried.
So as always, I don't just make my points.
I illustrate them.
So I did.
I asked Kiki de la Garza if she had a condom in her purse and she did.
I knew she would.
And I stretched it.
Do you guys have a condom in there?
I can do it right now.
Anybody have a condom?
I'm not going to mention a name, so I won't embarrass you.
Dawn, you don't even have one?
Well, could you go out and get one, Mr. Snerdley?
Snerdley, go out and get, go, go, go, go get a condom.
Snerdley's going to go out and get a condom.
And I'll just wait till he gets back, and we'll demonstrate safe talk.
Let me take a quick time out here.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Hi, welcome back.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh.
Snerdley just drove off.
We watched it on security cameras.
He drove off to get a condom.
The broadcast engineer, Mike Mamon, said, gee, I hope he knows that they're just on a rack now, that you don't have to go ask anybody for them behind the counter.
And I said, no, no, no, he's going to go to a gas station.
So when he gets back, we will, we will, Brian can't believe this.
You should have been around in 88 when this was, I mean, this was like the caller abortions.
I mean, you just didn't do this.
At any rate, when he gets back, we'll demonstrate safe talk.
By the way, Greg in Huntsville, Alabama, you're still out there.
The Al Gore TV Network now recycling the story on Japanese suicide.
And this does have subtitles, I guess, since they are speaking Japanese.
I'm reading the these people on the internet wouldn't commit suicide on their own is what the thing it just they wouldn't commit suicide.
This is a depressing piece on Japanese suicide.
It's on the Al Gore new TV network debuting today.
Interestingly enough, on the same date as my anniversary start date.
Here's Mark in York, Pennsylvania.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
17th anniversary ditto is there, Rush.
Talking about ads or fads today.
17 years of fad for you and Al Gore's TV starts today.
The Atkins diet you called a couple of years ago and said that this was just a big fad and Big Wonderbread was not what I said about the Atkins diet.
The Atkins diet has not been a fad.
The Atkins diet's been around since at least the mid-early 70s.
The Atkins diet's been around for almost over 30 years now, and it was not a fad.
It was something that had a lot of disciples.
And it's like any other diet.
It works.
There isn't a diet in the world, I mean, a genuine diet that doesn't work in terms of losing weight.
The problem with all of them is you regain it.
What's happened to the Atkins, they've declared bankruptcy.
The Atkins company has declared bankruptcy.
They've been killed.
It's precisely because they weren't a fad that the health Nazis went after these people, been going after them for four or five years here on the fact that it's a high-fat diet and it's going to lead to heart disease and people are going to die and blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's just been, it's been absurd.
It's been patently absurd.
And now apparently they have succeeded in a slow death of this company because they've declared bankruptcy and now they're talking about how they're going to have to get smaller and change their scope of things.
But I don't think they might have said that it was a fad at first, but I never did.
I didn't say it was a fad.
I've done the Atkins diet.
I've done them all and they work.
And you lose weight quickly on this one if you follow it.
Now, the key to it is you lose your appetite when you don't eat carbs.
What are you laughing at in there, Brian?
What is so funny?
Are you watching the Japanese suicides?
Yeah, I'm going to do Safe Talk on the Ditto Cam, of course.
Yeah, the Ditto Cam is going to be on.
I will not turn the Ditto Cam off for that.
Safe Talk will be on the Ditto Cam.
Why would I turn the Ditto Cam off for that?
See, folks, here I am in the middle of a great point about the Atkins diet, and all that's on their minds on the other side of the glass is Safe Talk and the condom and what's going to happen when that condom gets back here.
Doug in Peoria, oh, is it break time?
No, no, no.
Oh, you.
Oh, I missed.
Brian asked, am I going to put the condom over the ditto cam?
Is that what you meant?
That's a good idea.
That would be a good way to update it for 2005.
You can do it when we get it because there's, you know, he'll bring back more than one condom because those things break.
You know, when you put it on something as big as a microphone, that thing might shred.
See, that illustrates another problem.
But nevertheless, you can put the condom on the lens in the camera, and it will do safe ditto cam as well as safe talk.
And then we will be double safe.
So anything people see nor anything they hear will offend them because they'll never hear it or see it because the condom will be protecting them.
Here's Doug and Peoria.
Doug, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
Happy anniversary.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Thank you.
Hey, I talked to you last fall.
I just want to let you know you're still playing in Peoria.
And I have a quick story that I have a question.
I know your time is limited.
I just wanted to thank you for always being optimistic.
That's one tenet of your show that you don't talk about as much as I think you should, that it's easy to be negative.
You've always stayed positive coming out of West Point.
I first turned you on in 94.
And I've been hooked on you ever since, mainly because of your optimism.
So thank you.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you very much.
My question is this.
Do you think Bush can expect some sort of retribution upon Congress for turning from recess in terms of him sliding one by with Bolton?
Nah, no, no, no, no.
They might try it.
It isn't going to work.
All that's going to be on their minds when they come back from recess is going to be is going to be Judge Roberts.
And we'll talk about Judge Roberts in the next hour.
His stack of stuff from last week is coming up.
I think the best way to answer your question, Doug, I have from July 28th, this is last week, ABC's The Note.
This is their website, their political unit on the website, ABC's The Note.
Bunch of libs, big bunch of Democrat sympathizers there led by their leader, Mark Halperin.
I just want to read to you from the note on July 28th.
It's in their news summary section.
It goes like this.
If the Bush White House weren't so completely distracted by the Wilson leak investigation, perhaps the president would be able to actually get something done besides sign CAFTA, the highway bill, the energy bill into law, and read all the improving economic figures, celebrate his still bulletproof Supreme Court nomination, and continue along semi-stealthily on 2006 fundraising and candidate recruitment.
And if the Democrats weren't so sure that a one-sentence party platform, Carl Rove should be in jail, was a sure winner, perhaps they would notice that the Republican majority is likely to get at least some credit with voters for passing these laws, that the Bill Clinton Democratic Party of Free Trade just might have been dead and buried shortly after midnight, and that the AFL-CIO thing, along with the American Coming Together thing, along with the DNC thing, leaves the party with some serious money and organization questions.
And but there's still the Iraq War and Social Security for the White House to deal with.
But does anyone think Democrats are scoring political points galore on those?
And but perhaps Democrats will be able to convince the country by voting time that Washington is a corrupt, Republican-dominated cesspool of special interest greed and that the macroeconomic numbers mean nothing, just like in 2002 and 2004.
Let me translate this for you.
This is ABC's denotes, sympathetic to the left and Democrats, and they've thrown up their hands.
We don't get it.
The Democrats are doing all of this.
They're trying to make Karl Rove in jail.
They keep focusing on Bush is corrupt.
He's got to be thrown out of office.
He's got to be this or that.
And Bush keeps winning and Bush keeps accomplishing things.
Yet the Democrats keep saying that Bush is so completely distracted by the Wilson leak investigation.
If he's so distracted, how's he getting all these things done?
This is a huge slap in the face at the Democratic Party by people who are sympathetic to them.
They can't believe that after all this time, they haven't stopped Bush.
Bush is an idiot.
You know, he's a dunce.
He's just a frat boy, and yet he's running rings around these guys.
And the people at ABC's The Note have about had it, and they're sending out a little red flag warning to Democrats.
Hey, do you think maybe you should try something other than Bush is corrupt?
Bush is stupid.
Rove should be in jail.
This guy stinks.
That girl stinks.
We ought to get rid of all these people.
Maybe stop thinking about Rumsfeld.
Stop thinking about 2002.
Stop thinking about 2000 and 2004 and get with the program here in 2005.
So my point to you, Doug, is if they try to take out retribution for Bolton, it's going to be the same old thing.
Bush will laugh all the way to the bank.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
One thing I know for sure, if I were a lib talk show host, one of my staff would not have to leave to go get a condom.
Every member of the staff would have multiple condoms on their person.
But Snerdley's still not back with the condom.
When he gets back with it, we'll do Safe Talk and Safe did okay.
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