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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, uh Helen Thomas uh uh 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 uh it'd be well worth my even uh suggesting that I might.
Greetings, welcome back.
Great to be with you back from a little over a week's uh vacation.
Went to the uh south of France, had never been there before.
And I just uh I'd been to Paris, I've been up to um uh the beaches uh where the Normandy invasion took place, but there, but I'd never been to the South France, just wanted to see it uh and did, went over to Rome again.
I was there in 85 and I was fascinated by it and uh wanted to go back.
Ancient Rome just fascinates me.
Going to the Colosseum, well, because Mr. Snurden, why?
Because it's 3,000 years old and it's still there.
Uh the the building where Julius Caesar was stabbed, the curia, the Senate, still there.
You can go inside it, you can see it.
Um it's uh uh to me it's just amazed.
The Vatican, you cannot possibly appreciate the Vatican uh on television until you actually go see it.
And I went up to Venice.
Uh so many people have said, well, if you're in Italy, you gotta go to Venice, and I'd never really had any compunction to go there, but uh spent a couple two and a half days in it.
It's fascinating place too.
Yeah, did the gondola thing, uh, did the gondola.
Absolutely.
Uh uh course I did the gondola thing.
Uh had a had a fabulous time.
I uh I don't I haven't enjoyed a uh 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 uh 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 gonna 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.
Uh Al Gore is debuting uh 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 uh former vice president's statement that we want to be the television homepage for the internet generation.
Uh this interesting thing to say, he wants to be the television home page for the internet.
Uh I don't know what it goes, Senator Vice President Al Gore, uh the internet's gonna be the homepage for the internet generation.
It just it just is until you can give him a mouse and click off your network and go somewhere else when they get tired of watching it.
Uh you're not gonna get them.
Uh debuting today, current TV.
This is David Balter, the AP TV writer writing this, uh, 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 it's 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.
Now 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 uh the rot gut that they are putting out uh 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 uh is always ripped.
Um and and uh even though it's 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 uh 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.
I don't know if it's actually started yet because it says upcoming.
There's some kind of programming on it.
Uh a bunch of long-haired maggot infested dope smoking types uh right now in a recording studio, but uh this is incredible.
I don't know how to describe this.
This is 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.
Uh 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 gonna 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 uh 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 contacts, 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.
Uh and of course, uh, David Newman, who is uh uh current's program director, says 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 uh 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 that's that's pretty much it.
Um we'll just have to wait and see.
I'm I'm surprised you know, they network it replaced with some news organization, NWI or something that was on out of Minneapolis.
Uh and I remember I'd see that periodically scanning around.
It just looked like a uh international newscast.
And that's the channel or that's the network that Al Gore bought.
And DirecTV apparently gonna hold on to it so current TV.
I just assume they dump current TV, puts some more HD on DirecTV.
Frankly, that's if if I had anything to do with H uh with Director TV, it would have more HD on it, but uh 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 I know it's not fair, and it often is uh uh premature to judge any new media program on its first day, so I'm I'm not going to engage in any predictions on uh on Al Gore's TV network here other than to say it's gonna be a matter of how much money are his investors willing to lose uh uh 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 pod is
a segment that 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 ball 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 this is what it is.
Uh he's at the 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 uh 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 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 gonna throw something else at you hoping you'll like that.
Why put a progress bar on it 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 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 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 closed captioning.
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 snurdly yawning?
I guess I...
guess I got my answer.
Speaking of sports this is not good.
Rafael Palmero of the Baltimore Orioles their first baseman testified before Congress on March 17th that he'd never used steroids was suspended by the baseball commission Bud Sealy today for 10 games for violating baseball steroids policy.
He's only one of four players to amass 3,000 career hits and 500 home runs.
The uh Orioles made the announcement prior to their game with the Chicago White Sox at 1235 a little less than an hour ago.
So and he he was under oath when he took that statement uh his his statement was uh good morning mr chairman and members of the committee my name's 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's 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 uh certain things you can sell over the counter but nevertheless he's tested positive and has a 10 day suspension well could be after the hearings he got curious I don't know.
And it could well be that uh uh well what Clinton defense could he use here.
Everybody does it well no they because they're not they're uh they can't use the everybody does it and he can't say that it's not affect well he could he got he's got he's got no he can't say that either because they doesn't affect his performance but it may have um uh I don't know we'll have to wait and see when he has a a uh uh we'll just have to wait for his statement.
I I if he if he has one I I don't even I don't want to uh speculate here's Greg in Huntsville Alabama welcome sir nice to have you on the program.
Hey Rush big time Ditto's man how you doing couldn't couldn't be better dude.
Great great hey I wanted to uh weigh in on this uh the current TV you know I I I really enjoyed it I saw it this morning I used to watch the national uh news uh it was the Canadian Canadian Canadian news uh like program uh they took it off and now they got this Nat the current which I enjoyed it quite a bit.
It was it was interesting.
It's a lot different than the all the other uh news stations.
Uh it wasn't really news so much as just kind of just interesting stories, short segments.
Like what?
I mean, what what was it that interested you?
Um well they had they had uh they had the one story on the uh the suicide problem in Japan and how these people are making these suicide packs.
And uh it you know, it was interesting, and then they had another story of a guy who was a server.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Have you been contemplating suicide or something?
Why would that answer?
No, no, no, no, no.
It was just interesting.
I just it the way the way they've been doing it, the way they did these little segments, it's kind of like like a like a magazine, you know, where you just have all these different, you know, short little stories of you know stuff that's going on around the world.
And uh it was interesting.
I liked it.
Well, okay.
I mean I'm uh preferences preference.
It's uh if you told me you like country music, I would you know kind of frown, but I wouldn't make a judgment on you because it's just a matter of taste.
You know what I think it's more I'm watching this.
Uh obviously I'm outside the demographic range for this because and I can't hear it, but uh it definitely doesn't strike me as anything but a bunch of kids that need to have jobs running around playing.
Yeah, it was it was kind of MTVish in a way.
I I that's that part I didn't like, but a lot of the stories are really thought provoking, you know.
They were just kind they're interesting and they just kind of made you, you know, 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 um paraplegic and how he continued, you know, surfing even though he you know he couldn't, you know, he couldn't walk.
And it was it was interesting.
I liked it.
It it it it's a little bit better than than than yeah, the news in the morning after a while.
I just get tired of it.
And um it's just I thought I would have some good stories in it.
Well, all right.
Well, look, I'm uh if you like it, that's great.
I hope you keep watching it.
You're not gonna know anything after you watch it, but you're gonna have enjoyed the time you spent.
Uh uh and if that's uh the to each his own.
I mean I'm no I'm not being critical.
I'm not being but I I wouldn't even compare this to news.
If you say you're gonna watch this instead of news, uh uh let me ask you this.
You are are you still are you still out there, Greg?
Yes, I am.
Yeah, uh do you vote?
Yes, sir.
How old are you?
Thirty-three.
Thirty-three, thirty three.
Okay, so you got one more year to watch the Gore Network and then you'll be too old for it.
Yeah, yeah.
I I know I noticed that.
Um but you know, like I said, it it is kind of MTV ish, and it you know, it kind of had a weird little, you know, kind of younger spin to it, which you know, eh, don't really care about that.
But you know, I can pick up the news in fifteen minutes and basically get everything that's gone on in the last twenty-four hours.
And I don't want to hear it over and over again all day long.
I I I can agree with you on that.
A hundred percent.
The twenty-four-seven news cycle is nothing but repetition.
Totally agree with you on that.
But uh uh well, look, i are you gonna 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 I could pick up the news in fifteen minutes.
And then I just wait a way, well hold it a minute.
That's who who gets up in the morning and relaxes.
Oh, I gotta wake up, Rush.
Well, yeah, but you don't rela no, you 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 gotta 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 uh turn on the tube and see what's going on.
How earlier how much uh time do you have between uh 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 I mean I uh this is what I do before I, you know, I I already have my shower done and uh I have my coffee, and then uh 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 uh this has been a good exercise to me.
I guess uh most people do that.
You know, but the time I get up and I'm out of the house, it's 20 minutes.
And I I don't relax.
I get here to the studio, that's when I have my coffee when I'm in the midst of uh of working.
Uh but to each his own.
Tweeach is owned it's it's uh it's you know I've been doing this now for 17 years.
It's helpful to understand uh how uh how many other Americans live.
I'm often accused of being out of touch uh with uh many Americans.
I think now that's probably true.
I probably work harder than most.
Uh And I'm sorry, Greg.
I'm just I was I I don't mean to be insulting.
I just uh it's an interesting, and I wasn't meaning to be, so uh please don't don't take it that way.
And if you like if you like Gore's network current, please, I'm not trying to 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 uh I uh I spend the rest of my life observing how others live theirs.
And so you've helped me tremendously here uh in in understanding just who it is that is going to enjoy and revel in Al Gore's uh new network.
Uh gotta 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?
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 uh this morning.
Uh so uh the I I'd hate to break it to you, but but they're recycling things too, repeating things.
So just to uh keep you uh prized.
Ladies and gentlemen, uh of course this is our anniversary day.
This is the first day of our eighteenth year, this is our seventeenth 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.
Uh 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, ten 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 you used to place American interest first.
Now you're a dutiful shill for neocons.
Reed 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 Morensey, 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, you he obviously can't be listening because it isn't what he's talking about.
Here is uh uh motion in bowling green, Kentucky.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you, Russia.
I just have uh uh question on hope sum up real quick.
Is uh 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 uh the Bush administration, quite frankly, every administration pride to that since mixed messages when it comes to terrorism by uh in speeches publicly uh declaring terrorism as 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 Condoleezza Rice was in Israel uh in a meeting with Sharon asking him uh that Israeli government would fund financially the Palestinian Authority, which I consider a terrorist regime, uh both finances and weapons, and also with Bush's roadmap uh and 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.
Uh I guess I get to put on my uh my uh shill for Israel hat here.
Uh two things about this.
Um I think you have two points uh that need to be commented on.
The first point is uh historically you are correct, and I've always been surprised by it.
Uh uh we we uh we go out and fight our own terrorists uh according to our own rules, uh except when the Democrats get in the way.
Uh and yet during the same time we uh pretty much tie Israel's hands and say you can't you can't behave this way.
Uh you gotta make peace with these people, you gotta talk to them, we'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 motion, I have I've Always said, I'm 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 it's not achieved with the UN being involved.
Having said that, I think that the uh administration here is sending Dr. Rice on this mission uh 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 uh well, he wasn't the lone stumbling block, but uh he he clearly was the major obstacle to there being any resolution to this this argument, which has been raging for thousands of years.
And I I'm I'm I'm left to conclude here, and I'm only guessing because I don't know.
I'm just left to conclude that uh uh the president has announced a policy as d during his campaigns and uh and after he was elected both times, continued with what he said during the campaign, and that was there's gonna be peace there.
And he has said that he wanted to build up the Palestinian Authority, wanted to make him a viable economic uh uh organization uh and and uh uh and it will have the people that live under that authority have a viable economy uh for the purposes of having a decent life.
Uh and I think that this is probably oriented toward seeing if this can be done with this new leadership of the Palestine uh uh well, the the whatever the replacement for the PLO is, if if there uh is a replacement for the Palestine Authority.
Problem with this is that you still have Islamic Jihad and Hamas and uh and all these people up in Syria who are gonna do everything they can to undermine, even if you do have a new guy in there that's uh light years different from Arafat, even if you do have a new uh Palestinian leader that does want quote unquote peace, uh this guy's gonna be undermined by the Hamas and these other groups until they are taken care of as well.
I've I've 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 that uh you're not gonna have peace over there until one of these sides loses.
Uh 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.
Uh but it's it is it is uh uh quite confusing uh overall when you do look at the uh requirements we place, the limits that we place on whoever the Israeli leaders are from uh year to year uh and the way we conduct our own wars on terrorism.
Uh who's next?
This is Tim in Colorado Springs.
I'm glad to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
Russ, I cannot believe after 17 years on talking to the great Rush Limbaugh.
This is a thrill for me.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I uh said on 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 your uh 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 teasing her, what are you doing with a condom in your purse?
And then you put it over over the mic, and I thought, this guy's losing it, right?
Uh he's gonna be taken off the air.
And then you start talking about, you know, how it was a fallacy that to use uh to assume that a condom would would make safe sex, and I thought, this guy's making sense.
Uh and I started listening to you from from then on, 1988 until now.
Yeah, it's just 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 uh when they first heard this program.
I'm I'm uh I'm happy you called Tim.
Thanks, uh thanks very much.
I I could 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 that call here down on their luck, uh down on their futures, and we've told them what opportunity this uh opportunities exist in the country.
It's a very upbeat, uh optimistic and positive program, and always has been.
Uh the the condom business, that was oh, that that takes me back.
That was that was way back in 1988.
We were in the throes of the uh 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.
Uh you may you know lower the odds of uh transmitting a sexually a 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, you know, 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 uh I stretched it.
Do you guys have a condom in there?
I could do it right now.
Anybody have a condom?
I'm not gonna mention a name, so I won't embarrass you.
Dawn, you don't even have one?
Um we could could you go out and get one, Mr. Snerdley.
Snurley can go out and get go go go go get a condom.
Sturdley's gonna go and get a condom.
And I'll just wait till he gets back and we'll demonstrate safe talk.
Uh 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 our security cameras.
He drove off to get a condom.
The broadcast engineer Mike Mamone 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, no, he's gonna go to a gas station.
Uh 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 this was this was like the caller abortions.
I mean, you just didn't do this.
Uh at any rate, uh, when he gets back, we'll demonstrate uh safe talk.
By the way, uh, Greg in Hunts of Alabama, you're still out there, uh, the uh 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 I'm reading the uh uh these people on the internet wouldn't commit suicide on their own, is what the thing that just they wouldn't commit suicide.
This is a depressing piece uh 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 uh Mark in York, Pennsylvania.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Uh 17th anniversary dinner there, Rush.
Uh talking about uh ads or fads today.
Uh uh 17 years of fad for you and uh Al Gore's TV starts today.
Uh the uh Atkins diet you called uh a couple of years ago and uh and uh said uh that uh this was just a big fad and uh big wonder bread was uh uh No, that's not what I said about the Atkins diet because I don't I the Atkins diet has not been a fad.
The Atkins diet's been around since uh at least the mid- early 70s.
The Atkins diet's been around for almost th well over 30 years now, and it was not a fad.
It was something that uh had a lot of disciples.
And it's like any other diet, it works.
Uh there isn't a diet in the in the world that I mean a genuine diet that doesn't work in terms of losing weight.
The problem with all of them is you regain it.
Uh what's happened to the Atka, they've declared bankruptcy.
The Atkins company has declared bankrupt.
They've been killed.
Uh it's precisely because they weren't a fad uh that uh the the 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 gonna lead to heart disease and people are gonna die and blah, blah, blah, blah.
But it's just been it's been absurd.
It's been patently absurd, and now apparently they have succeeded in uh in in a uh uh slow death of this company because they've declared bankruptcy, and now they're gonna they're talking about how they're gonna have to get smaller and uh 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 I uh I've done the Atkins diet.
I've done them all and they work.
Uh uh 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 do you what are you laughing at in there, Brian?
What is so funny?
Are you watching the Japanese suicide?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I'm gonna do safe talk of the Ditto Cam, of course.
Yeah, the ditto cam is gonna be on.
I will not turn the ditto cam off for that.
Safe talk will be on the ditto cam.
Why would I why would I turn the ditto cam off for that?
See, here I see folks.
Here I am in the middle of a great point about the Atkins diet, and all that's on their minds and the other side of glass is safe talk and the condom and what's gonna happen when that condom gets back here.
Uh Doug in Peoria.
What oh, is it break time?
What what uh No, no, no.
Oh, you th oh oh I missed Brian asked, am I gonna put the condom over the ditto cam?
Is that what you meant?
That's a good idea.
That's a good way to update it.
For For 2005.
Oh, 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, some when you put it on as 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 uh Doug in Peoria.
Doug, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Uh-huh.
Russ 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 uh I have a quick story, then I have a question.
I I know your time is limited.
Uh, I just wanted to thank you for always being optimistic.
You that's one tenant 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 turn 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 returning from recess in terms of him sliding one by with Bolton?
Nah, then no, no, no, no.
They might try it.
It isn't gonna work.
Uh all that's going to be on their minds when they come back from recess is gonna be is gonna be uh uh Judge Roberts.
And we'll talk about Judge Roberts in the uh in the next hour.
Uh his uh stack of stuff from last week is uh is coming up.
I think the best way to answer your question, Doug, I have from uh July 28th, this is last week, ABC's The Note.
This is their website, their uh political unit on the website, ABC's The Note, bunch of libs.
Big bunch of uh of Democrat sympathizers there, led by uh their leader, Mark Halpron.
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 Leake 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 Carl Rove in jail.
They keep focusing on Bush is corrupt, he's got to be thrown out of office, it'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 Leake 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's corrupt, Bush is stupid, Rove should be in jail, this guy's 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 or 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 gonna 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 ditto camp.
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