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Aug. 5, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 5, 2005, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings to you, thrill seekers, conversationalists, music lovers all across the fruited place.
Is the phone number working again today?
I need to know that.
Phone number, if you want to call the program, is 800-282-2882.
It's Friday, folks, so let's roll.
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Fastest week in media.
Can't believe it's Friday, but here it is.
And we are rearing and ready to go.
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On Open Line Friday, Monday through Thursday, we talk about the things that interest me.
On Friday, I take a great professional career risk.
And I allow people to determine in some measure the content of this program.
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Oh, we see this Russian submarine's in trouble.
They're down there 630 feet.
They've got 24 hours of oxygen left.
You know, I saw a story the other day that the Chinese and the Russians were engaging in war games.
Now, don't you find this interesting?
What about an interesting division of labor?
They go to China for war games.
They come to us for rescue games.
And by the way, what time is it?
Eight minutes after 12 Eastern Time, and the United Nations is still not destroyed.
John Bolton's been there since when, Mr. Sterdley, went up there on Tuesday or is it already two?
Well, okay, so it's been four days.
The UN is still there, folks.
UN has not been destroyed, despite, and he's already voted.
Yeah, he made a speech as well.
He made his first opening remarks.
And the UN is still there.
I just wanted to mention this to you.
I don't know how many people he's fired yet.
And I don't know what he's done to the Morala place, but the UN is still there.
All right, let's do this and get it out of the way.
I think this story, this Novak story, walking off a crossfire, I think it illustrates the huge disconnect between the mainstream press and the people who watch CNN.
Because most people have been asking for 20 years, what the hell is Bob Novak doing there?
And why didn't he walk off sooner?
He's put up with all kinds of BS from other people on this program.
He's been insulted.
He's been laughed at, not only on this show, but on the Capitol Gang.
I mean, when is CNN going to apologize for the way it covers news these days?
When's CNN going to apologize to its viewers for losing viewers?
Oh, no, they have to go apologize for Novak for uttering the BS term and then walking off.
I don't think most people think Novak cracked.
I don't think most people think Novak snapped.
I think most people think it's about time.
Why put up with this anymore?
Walk out of there.
Who needs this kind of garbage?
Even though it is a show like Crossfire, what do you need to put up with it for?
And yet I'm watching the coverage of this and everybody's worried about what happened to Novak?
Well, he cracked.
Why, he snapped?
Why, Novak's lost his mind.
Why, what's no, he's not.
He gained some sense yesterday.
Now he's apologized for uttering the profanity.
Here's the way it sounded yesterday.
And there's a disconnect, too.
Apparently, one story going around the mainstream press is, is that Novak was unhappy that the anchor of this particular segment, a guy named Ed Henry, was going to ask him about the Valerie Plame story and that he walked off because of that.
Well, that doesn't make any sense because that did not even come up when Novak walked off.
And besides, Ed Henry asked Novak about that a week or two ago.
Yet the mainstream press is all out there.
And now you've got, according to a couple of websites, you've got some staffers at CNN who are sending out emails saying, it's about time he went.
We don't know what he's been doing on this network anyway.
He's been embarrassing us ever since the Plame fiasco started, blah, It's just, it's just, it's a huge, huge disconnect.
Anybody know, was Dan Rather suspended or said, did Dan take a vacation when he walked off the set, when the tennis tournament went too long and the news was shortened and Dan said to hell with it.
And so when the tennis tournament ended, they went to the CBS Evening News and there was an empty chair because Dan Rather had walked off the set in a peak.
P-I-Q-U-E, for those of you in Rio Linda.
Was he suspended?
I don't know.
I don't recall.
Was Dan Rather suspended when he engaged.
Wasn't suspended.
I didn't think he was.
Was Dan rather suspended when he engaged in forged documents?
No, In fact, if you listen to Dan Rather today, the story is still true.
So here's how it happened.
They're talking about Catherine Harris and her makeup.
And Harris, or Ed Harris says, who's the not Ed, it's not Ed Harris.
Ed Henry.
Ed Henry says, Catherine Harris made a name for herself during the Florida recount, the 2000 presidential race.
She was then Florida Secretary of State.
She went on to the House of Representatives.
Now she wants to move to the Senate.
Today she got the news.
The Speaker of the Florida House won't challenge her.
In the meantime, Harris is blaming unnamed newspapers for tarnishing her image by doctoring her makeup with Photoshop, the computer program.
Bob Novak, have you been investigating this makeup story?
A couple of points here.
In the first place, don't be too sure she's going to lose.
All the establishment's against her.
And I've seen these Republican anti-establishment candidates who do pretty well.
Ronald Reagan, I guarantee that if the establishment wasn't for him, she might get elected.
So just let me finish what I'm going to say, James.
Please.
I know you hate to hear me, but you have to see.
He's got to show these right-wingers and he's got to take those folks.
Well, I think that's bullshit.
I hate that.
Just let it go.
Yeah.
I wonder what took him so long.
My question is, and by the way, anybody can wake up and have a bad day.
It even happens to me now and then, folks.
But after, I don't know how long he's been on this show, 15, 20 years, however long it is.
All I know is there's nothing in there about Valerie Plame, and there's nothing, and Ed Henry hasn't said anything about Valerie Plame at this point to cause Novak to split the scene.
Now, he's apologized for it, and said he was hoping that Carville was just trying to be funny.
I remember I interviewed Novak some years ago for an issue of the Limball letter.
And I said to him point blank, I said, Bob, you know, a lot of people who watch the program who are conservative talk about Capital Gang in this case, because it was Novak against Mark Shields, Mark Maxey Shields, Al Hunt, and they usually had some liberal babe, be it Margaret Carlson or somebody else.
And it was always three against one.
And they were insulting Novak and making fun of his Prince of Darkness stuff and so forth.
He'd just sit there and laugh at it.
And I said, you know, a lot of conservatives wish you'd fight back at some of that stuff because you sit there and take it.
Now, I know you're friends with these people and they're probably just razzing you, but you never dish it back and so forth.
And I forget what his answer was, but I just think he's got a right here to be a little sensitive about this.
Whether walking off the set's the right thing to do, I don't know, but this whole notion that he's cracked up and needs to go to the little men in the white coats need to show up and drag him off a little yellow bus somewhere, I think is also way over the top.
All right, a quick timeout here, folks.
We'll come back.
We'll talk about Judge Roberts.
L.A. Times out with a news story today that goes 180 degrees the other way from yesterday's story.
And I'm convinced of something today, folks, that I was on the verge of saying yesterday.
I'm convinced that this L.A. Times story yesterday, which we now know was sourced by a big, former partner in, well, I don't know, former, I guess.
He's a former partner in Roberts' law firm.
This guy now works at some hot, super big lib interest group.
And it turns out he was the source for the role Roberts played in his pro bono work involving the California, the Colorado Ballot Initiative.
And it seems to me that what the LA Times story yesterday was really all about was, you know, we on the left can't defeat this guy.
We on the left, we can't stop this guy.
So we're going to have to try to drive a wedge between him and the right wing because we can't stop him.
So we're going to put out this little notion here that he's a closet gay rights supporter, which is what the focal point of that story was.
And I think it's ultimately a positive.
I think that this L.A. Times story yesterday indicates the left is in trouble and they can't stop the guy on their own.
And so they're trying to rely on what they think.
And it's their typical bigotry, by the way, folks.
It is their typical prejudicial bigotry, thinking that there is nothing but pure hatred for gays in the Republican Party, trying to capitalize on that to drive a wedge between Roberts and his supporters on the right.
It isn't working and it isn't going to work.
But I think it's another sign of desperation on the left about this nomination.
Quick timeout.
We will be right back.
Stay with us.
Okay, so we have economic news out there, folks.
U.S. employers added 207,000 workers in July, more than forecast, more than the experts predicted.
Once again, we ask who are the experts because it seems every month the experts are wrong.
They're either too low or they're too high.
Whether the jobs are less or whether the jobs are more, it's always different from what the experts predicted.
And yet the experts continue to be cited as experts and they continue to be sourced as such.
The Bloomberg News Service here writes that these 207,000 new jobs suggest that companies are gaining confidence as the economy picks up steam in the second half.
The jobless rate held at 5%, matching an almost four-year low.
The increase in payrolls exceeded the median estimate of a 180,000 rise and reflected more jobs at retailers, auto dealers, and financial services firms.
Employment rose by 166,000 jobs in June, more than previously reported, the Labor Department said in Washington today.
So it's that same old story.
And yet there will continue to be people on the left who decry the state of the U.S. economy and the plight of the poor middle class.
Would you like to hear a feel-good story?
I just think this just made me feel good today.
Cincinnati Reds players on Wednesday rallied around a six-year-old boy after his grandfather collapsed in the stands.
Ken Griffey Jr., an outfielder for the Reds, said, yeah, we just tried to make a bad situation a little better.
While paramedics were working on the grandfather, security officer Bill Summy took the boy to the Reds' bullpen.
The Reds didn't release the name of the grandfather, who died Wednesday night after an apparent heart attack.
The boy sat with the players for the last two innings of the game.
Griffey went and got him when the game ended, went and got him out in the bullpen.
The boy participated in the Reds' high fives, celebrating their 8-5 victory over the Atlanta Braves, and he then joined the players in the clubhouse.
All this takes place after the grandfather suffers the heart attack.
It's unknown at that point with the boy or anybody else that he is to die.
They took the kid to the bullpen.
They let him celebrate the high fives.
And then the clubhouse manager, Rick Stowe, said the Reds showered him with bats, wristbands, and autographed baseballs.
The shortstop Felipe Lopez gave him the batting helmet autograph that Lopez wore in this year's All-Star Game.
They kept the boy distracted until his parents arrived.
Ken Griffey said, we play a game.
What he was going through doesn't compare.
It was important that the little guy not be by himself.
You know, it's great because in many circumstances, the players wouldn't even know what had gone on in the stands.
This one, though, obviously paramedics showed up immediately when the grandfather had the heart attack.
But it just made me feel good to read that story.
Now, get this.
The NCAA, for those of you in Rio Linda, that's the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and it's an association of colleges, universities, institutions of higher learning.
The NCAA has banned the use of American Indian mascots by sports teams during its postseason tournaments, but it'll not prohibit the use of these Indian mascots otherwise.
So the Saginaw Indians or whatever, I don't know if there is, the Saginaw Indians can go through the whole season as the Saginaw Indians.
If they make the postseason, they can't call themselves the Saginaw Indians anymore.
The NCAA's executive committee decided this week that the organization didn't have the authority to bar Indian mascots by individual scruels.
Nicknames or mascots deemed hostile or abusive would not be allowed by teams on their uniforms or other clothing beginning with any NCAA tournament after February 1st.
What each institution decides to do is really its own business outside NCAA championship events.
So the Indian mascot ban begins February 1st, but only in the postseason.
Now, I went to college for one year, Southeast Missouri State University.
The mascot there is the Indians.
And they're a Division II or III school.
I mean, but they still go to tournaments if the basketball team does.
And the logo was, well, I was there anyway, was an Indian.
It says Indians on the what are they going to do?
You know how much uniforms cost these days to get redone?
You know how tight athletic budgets are at major universities these days because of Title IX, all the money going to women's sports now?
So what are they going to call themselves?
The Southeast Missouri State Squaws?
No, you can't do that.
What do they call themselves?
It's lunacy.
Well, we can only control that over which we have control, Mr. Limbaugh.
We don't control them in the regular season, but it's our tournament, these tournaments of the fourth season.
Get this.
Foreigners who preach hatred, sponsor violence, or belong to extremist groups could be deported from Britain under strict new measures that Prime Minister Tony Blair announced today.
Nearly a month after suicide, bombers killed 52 people on the London transit system.
Membership in extremist Islamic groups such as Hizbut Tahrir would become a crime under the new measures.
The group, which advocates the creation of an Islamic state in Central Asia, already is outlawed in several countries.
Blair said the government also would compile a list of websites, bookshops, and centers that incite hatred and violence.
British nationals involved with such organizations could face strict penalties.
Foreign nationals could be deported, he said.
They come here, they play by our rules and our way of life, Blair said at his monthly news conference.
If they don't, they're going to have to go.
Now, they don't have a constitution in England.
You must understand this.
So it's a little easier to do this kind of thing there.
But it was only a matter of time.
It was only a matter of time before this started happening.
And I imagine this news is going to be greeted positively by a whole lot of youth.
You come here, you start preaching hatred for us.
You are gone.
You come here, you start trying to hide behind websites preaching hatred.
You are gone.
You come here and even threaten to blow up something up or people up, or you even act like you're sympathetic to it.
You are gone.
Now, this is music to my ears in a way.
Because, ladies and gentlemen, uh-oh.
Wait, just a second.
Just a second.
Well, I was just informed the Southeast Missouri State University Indians have already changed their logo.
They're no longer the Indians.
It's the wolf.
They are the wolf.
So obviously they're anticipating making a tournament.
And they knew the ruling was coming down.
Well, I was last there in 1969, folks, so that's the last time I paid any attention to it.
But I was just off by one year.
Anyway, as I was saying, this is going to be greeted with all kinds of excitement by people, this move by Tony Blair.
And it reminds me of my old foreign policy foreign aid excrement list.
You know, I think it's silly of us to give away foreign aid to all these countries with thug leaders that do nothing but bash us.
And I say, you bash us, you're off the list.
And you stay off the list for five years.
You don't get a dime from us for five years.
And in those five years, you better rave about us.
You better praise us.
You better thank us.
And then that's how you get back on the good list and you get back on our foreign aid list.
But if you don't, then you're on the excrement list and you're out.
You know, why put up with this?
And, you know, the Brits, the 51 people have, 52 people have died, and they're fed up.
They're not going to put up with this effervescent hatred that is starting to bubble over there now.
And I can imagine there's all going to be civil liberties lawsuits and claims.
And you can't do it.
I think Blair has had it.
He's going to do it.
Interesting to watch.
Quick timeout.
We will be back.
Do you hear about the turtleneck destroyed down at Aruba looking for the girl?
Yeah, some group's upset about that.
It's just, it's going to be one of those days here, folks.
All right, I was misinformed.
It's not the Southeast Missouri State University wolves either.
It's the Southeast Missouri State University Redhawks.
So what do I know?
It's only, I mean, he can't even call it an alma mater.
I didn't graduate there, right?
Now, I have another question, though, here, folks.
What?
What?
Who said that?
Who burped at me?
Okay, I have another question.
And it is this.
If the NCAA is going to say in post-season tournaments, you can't have Indian mascots or logos on the uniform.
You can't name your team anything that's offensive.
What are we going to do about these guys, these people that procure tickets to events illegally and then sell them outside the arena?
What are they called?
They're called scalpers.
Now, we're going to have to change their names too.
The NCAA is going to say, you can't call them that.
You can't call yourselves that.
It's offensive.
And maybe the professional sports leagues will get involved in all of this.
Who knows?
To the phones, we get.
Oh, folks, by the way, you may be wondering, well, how come you aren't talking more about John Roberts?
There's an answer to that.
Fred Thompson called and asked to come on the program yesterday.
He'll be on a little bit after one o'clock today.
Well, right at the start of the second hour, Fred Thompson has been asked by the White House to sort of shepherd the nomination of John Roberts through the confirmation process.
Former senator from Tennessee, big-time Hollywood actor.
And he will be here a little after one o'clock.
And at that point, we will discuss it.
I don't want to get into too many redundancies, talk about it now, and then start repeating myself a short time later.
Here's Zach in Glen Ellen, Illinois.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you on the program.
Thank you.
Because of you and your staff posting my daughter on your website and Club Getmo side, you've gained a new listener today.
And hopefully forever.
Meaning, we gained you or your wife?
No, no, I've been a longtime listener, but my wife, for the last three years, I've been trying to get her to listen.
And she saw her daughter's picture on the website.
She ran right up to me.
She said, I am a rush listener now.
Well, which picture is your daughter?
Describe the picture.
It's Olivia in Glen Ellen.
Page seven, scroll down.
She's on the left side.
Okay, but where is she?
What's she doing in the picture?
Oh, she's actually holding some handcuffs.
And she just preparing to apprehend a terrorist, let's say.
She got her Club Getmo hat on.
Beautiful, beautiful child.
Well, Zach, I appreciate it.
Now, is your wife listening even as we speak?
Even as we speak, she's on the other side of the office right now.
Terrific.
Well, welcome.
What's her name?
Her name is Tabitha.
Tabitha.
Tabitha.
I knew a witch named Tabitha once.
There you go.
Tabitha, welcome to the program.
It's a thrill and delight.
And we're going to work very hard to keep you here with us, Tabitha.
What has been her primary opposition, Zach, to mainly just the style, because pretty much everything you say, she can agree with.
And there's a couple of liberals, might I say, that work with us that try their best, but they can't get around the facts, Rush.
Yeah.
Yeah, and so but it's the style.
So she probably doesn't like the braggadocio, the self-confidence, the self-assuredness, the I'm never wrong stuff, right?
Exactly.
But just know there's millions out there who love it.
Typical wife in that regard.
Zach, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, if you have been a regular listener to this program, you know something.
And Tabitha, you haven't been a regular listener, so let me clue you in on something.
Where I live, I live on a beach down here in Florida.
And it used to be, and this beach, by the way, ancient sea turtles migrate every year to dig a nest in the beach in the sand and they lay their eggs.
And then the eggs hatch, and the little turtles, the new sea turtles, by natural design, are supposed to proceed to the ocean, where about 95% of them don't survive.
I mean, they become food, but 5% do, and they go on to become these mammoth giant sea turtles.
And apparently, the lore is that the sea turtle, the female sea turtle, returns to the same beach every year to lay her eggs.
Well, it has been discovered over the course of some years that lights, bright lights, if the turtles hatch at night, will attract them away from the ocean, which is not good.
You don't want them going toward shore.
So it used to be, and everybody agreed with it where I live, that the lights had to go off in June and you could turn them back on in October.
The outdoor lights for security, for landscaping, for a number of other things.
So if you want to go out in the back patio, you got some lights out there.
Well, the environmentalist wackos have gone nuts here in Florida, where I live and all over the place.
And now the lights have to go out March 1st.
And the first turtles don't arrive till May.
The first turtles aren't born until July and August.
But yet the lights have to go out in March.
And they can't come back out until November, when the turtles are long gone.
Whatever has happened to the baby turtles, long gone.
And I have been expressing shock and outrage over this.
at the stupidity of this, private property owners being told what they can and can't do with their outdoor lights, even if they are for security reasons.
And to further illustrate the folly, Tabitha, when my home was being built, there were no lights on at night ever because it was a construction project.
And one morning we showed up and there's some dead sea turtles in the summertime near the construction project.
We're scratching our heads.
Well, how did this happen?
And so we looked at the moon.
So I found it was a full moon the night before and the moon, well, not a full moon, but an early rising moon.
And it was in the western sky.
And then we also, the next night, noticed that the lights of West Palm Beach light up the sky, whether our lights are on or not.
And that had to be what attracted the turtles because we know a shark didn't capture them and bring them up there and eat them.
But we have no lights on.
So we think this light restriction is ridiculous here.
And it's just a bunch of overbearing, power-mad town council people who are trying to tell homeowners what they can and can't do with their property.
And I have long been lobbying to get this ridiculous light regulation made more sensible once.
And why do you have turtle lights off in March when the turtles aren't even going to show up till May?
And the babies aren't going to be born or hatched until the middle of the summer.
So I saw this story from Aruba.
Now, what's the big news out of Aruba?
Natalie Holloway, well, don't just say Natalie and sturdily say Natalie Holloway.
You're just reacting to media coverage.
But Natalie Holloway is a woman who's missing who has likely been murdered.
A human being has been murdered.
The latest is that she might have gotten mixed up with some guy who was trying to get her involved in a porn video ring or what have you.
And they've been searching for her for over two months down there now.
And they've been trying to turn up every rock and overturn every property just to see if they can find her.
Family's going nuts down there.
And they're not getting much satisfaction from the local government.
They're not telling them what they've got.
The suspects are being released and family's going nuts.
So I get this story.
An Aruban park ranger on Thursday accused a Texas volunteer group of destroying a nest of endangered sea turtle eggs while searching for a missing U.S. teen on a beach.
So what?
We're looking for a woman for a family.
And now we've got a group all upset that a single nest of sea turtle eggs has been destroyed.
The group, by the way, has denied the charge.
Rangers at the Aracock National Park on Aruba's northern coast found a nest of hawksbill sea turtle eggs that had been dug up, leaving dozens of the eggs cracked and displaced.
The nest was found on a beach in the park on July 29th, a day after the volunteer group had been searching the area for clues into the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalie Holloway.
Our rangers checked the coast that morning and everything was okay.
The next day, we found everything destroyed.
We didn't do it.
Franken said the rangers didn't witness the eggs being damaged, but he said that they believe EquaSearch, the Texas group, was responsible because nobody else was seen on the rocky and isolated beach that day.
You know who else can go in there and find sea turtle eggs and start sniffing around?
And all kinds of vermin can do this.
They live to do it.
So now we're all concerned in Aruba that some sea turtle eggs have been destroyed.
A nest has been destroyed.
And so this is the kind of insanity, folks, and the loss of proportion and the lack of perspective here that has come to typify and identify the environmentalist wacko movement.
Quick call before we go to the break.
Steve and Augusta, Maine.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Yes, Mega Ditto's rush.
First time caller.
Thank you, sir.
I noticed on Tuesday at the video store, one of the big box office stores, that Hearts of Fire Season 1 came out on DVD.
And I remember that you were on that show on an episode.
And I was wondering how you got on that show and whatnot.
Hearts of Fire.
I was on season two or season three.
I was not on season one.
Does the box say I'm on season one?
No, it doesn't.
Yeah, because I wasn't on season one.
All right, I can answer this.
Hearts of Fire was a CBS sitcom, and it was produced by Harry Bloodworth Tom, or Linda Bloodworth Thomason, and her husband Harry.
It starred John Ritter and Marky Post.
And the link to me is Linda Bloodworth Thomason.
She is from Poplar Bluff.
Her father was an attorney, as was mine.
And my father and her father knew each other.
But the closer link is that Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth Thomason are real tight with Bill and Hillary Clinton.
And they've written, you know, produced all of the films that you saw at the Clinton convention.
And they've written just a whole bunch of the public media material for the Clintons to use.
Now, I was invited to appear on the program after Clinton's election in 1992.
I think it was in the spring of 93 that I went out and shot the episode.
It was out there for a full week.
And the subject of this particular episode was that I was myself rolling through town on a promo tour, and Ritter's wife, Marky Post, gets a crush on me, and we get close to having a little fair out there.
And ended up dancing together, slow dancing in one of the episodes.
Now, how did I get on the program?
There is no question that the attempt here was being made to soften me up on the Clintons.
And it didn't work, and I've not spoken to the Thomason since.
I have to tell you, and I told you at the time, it was a fun week.
I had a great time, and they were fun people to hang around.
But I'm sure that it was an attempt here to soften me up on some of the image that the Clintons had out there.
And I wasn't going to be altered or changed by that.
The one thing I remember that was funny, and the episode rated number two, the night it ran on a Monday night.
It was the second most watched program that night.
And CBS wanted me to go on a couple of shows to promote it.
One of them was the CBS Morning News Show, which at the time was hosted by Paula Zahn.
And the week before I was to go on, Paula Zahn was talking about this episode coming up and was shocked that Marky Post would have danced with me.
So I said, okay, I'm not going on that show unless Paula and I dance.
And so she agreed to it, and we danced.
And as usual, she tried to lead.
You know, I ended up following Paula Zahn all over that stage.
I was okay with it, but she went along with it too.
It was a fun week, and it was a fun time.
But that's, I'm sure, how it happened.
And I just want to tell you on record, I had a great time with both of them.
In fact, during one of the tapings, it taped on Friday night, I thought I had blown my lines and I myself yelled cut.
And I had gotten the line right.
And Harry Thomason looks at the studio audience and says, see, even when he is right, even when he thinks he's wrong, he's right.
And I have stolen that line and used it ever since.
A quick timeout, folks.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
You know the name of this song, Mr. Snerdley?
Everyone's a winner.
Hot chocolate.
Everyone's a winner.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, open line Friday.
The survey is complete.
Ladies and gentlemen, Americans did not flock to Canada after the 2004 presidential race.
Canadians can put away those extra welcome mats.
It seems Americans unhappy about the result of the election last November have decided to stay home after all.
In the days after Bush won his second term, a number of U.S. citizens visiting Canada's main immigration website shot up six-fold, prompting speculation that unhappy Democrats would move north.
But official statistics show that the number of Americans actually applying to live permanently in Canada fell in the six months after the election.
On the face of it, this is not good news.
Canada is one of the few major nations seeking to attract immigrants, but Immigration Minister Joe Volpe was philosophical.
Who would want to go there without health care system?
Who would want to go to Canada?
I mean, most people I know in Canada trying to get out themselves.
But this is just another bit of evidence.
The left is just full of hot air.
They all say they're going to move to Great Britain or France or whatever.
Barbara Sand, what's his name, Alec Baldwin, they don't do it.
It just more empty promises.
It's something that you just can't take them seriously on any claim that they make, whatever it may be.
Gene, Fayetteville, Arkansas, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Thank you, Mr. Rush.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you.
Here's my question.
Too much time is being spent on Natalie.
I can't turn the TV on without seeing her or listening to her.
It's an interesting question because the cable ratings when the subject is Natalie Holloway go through the roof.
They do, but I don't know anybody who wants to watch it.
I mean, that's one of these crazy things.
Everybody watching this is somebody I don't know and have not met.
But the cable networks swear by it.
I mean, Greta Van Susteren has become the most watched show on the Fox News channel in several instances since this whole story started.
But, you know, there's more important news like the new Supreme Justice.
I can't find any information on the news except through your TV.
But that would be the case, whether Natalie Holloway had disappeared or not.
If it weren't Natalie Holloway, they'd be talking about something similar to Natalie Holloway.
They'd have a roundtable of lawyers discussing their next case that they're going to televise, Robert, Phil Spector, whatever.
That would be the case.
They've got 24 hours to fill seven days a week, and this is just a natural, like the runaway bride.
Everybody got fed up with hearing about the runaway.
Did you hear the runaway bride is going ahead and is going to get married again to the same guy?
I saw this.
I just skimmed it.
It's one of the gossip columns in the New York papers.
And that her bridal registry is at the pottery barn or some such thing.
Or one of her registries is there at the pottery barn.
Would you register at the Pottery Barn, Don, if you were going to get married again?
I don't know if it's, you don't know what to believe anymore when you read gossip columns, if you can believe any of it.
They mean it as a joke or what have you.
But all I can tell you is, Gene, that the cable nets will swear by their ratings when they do stories on the latest about Natalie Holloway.
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Spanish set to become the official language of seven Denver Public Library branches.
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Spanish set to become the official language of seven Denver Public Library.
It'd be libary for those of you in Rio Linda branches.
In a sharp break from American tradition, a Denver Public Library, Barry, for those of you in Rio Linda, promoting a plan that would make seven of its branches Spanish-focused, banning English language books to the back room.
This is in Denver.
This is not even a border state.
It's Colorado.
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