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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 play.
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I need to know that.
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Oh, we see this Russian submarines in trouble.
They're down there 630 feet.
They've got 24 hours of oxygen left.
You know, we I saw a story the other day that the uh the uh Chinese and the Russians were engaging in uh in war games.
Right?
Now don't you find this interesting?
What about uh it's an interesting division of labor?
They go to China for war games, they come to us for rescue games.
And and by the way, um what time is it?
Uh eight minutes after 12 Eastern time, and the United Nations is still not destroyed.
John Bolton's been there since when, Mr. Sturdley uh went up there on Tuesday or already too okay.
So it's been four days.
The UN's still there, uh folks.
UN has not been destroyed, uh despite Yeah, and he's already voted.
Yeah, and he he made a speech uh as well, made his first opening remarks.
And the UN is still there.
I just wanted to uh mention this to you.
I don't know how many people he's fired yet, um, and I don't know what what he's done to the morale place, but uh UN is uh is is still there.
All right, let's let's do this and and get it out of the way.
I I 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's 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 for uttering uh you know the 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?
Get a 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?
But yet I'm watching the coverage of this and everybody's worried about what happened to Novak.
Why he cracked?
Why he snapped?
Why Novak's lost his mind?
Why what's no, he's not.
He gained some sense yesterday.
Uh now he's apologized for uttering the profanity.
Here's here's the way it sounded yesterday.
And there's a there's a there's a disconnect too.
Apparently, the one story going around the mainstream press is is that Novak was uh what was was uh unhappy that the anchor of this particular segment, guy named Ed Henry, uh was was gonna ask him about the Valerie Plame story.
Uh and that uh he walked off because of that.
Well, that doesn't make any sense because that had not even come up when 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 you've got uh according to a couple 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 plane fiasco started, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Uh I it's just, it's just, it's a huge, huge disconnect.
Anybody know, was Dan rather suspended Or are said that 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 I don't know.
I don't recall.
Was Dan rather suspended when he uh engaged wasn't suspended.
I didn't think he was.
Was Dan rather suspended when he engaged in forged documents.
No, no, no, no, no.
Fact.
If you listen to Dan Rather today, the story's still true.
So here's here's how it happened.
They're talking about Catherine Harris and her makeup.
And uh uh and and Harris uh Ed Harris says uh uh who is the uh uh not Ed, it's not Ed Harry uh Ed Henry.
Ed Henry says Catherine Harris made a name for herself during the Florida recount in 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 uh have you been investigating this makeup story?
A couple of points here.
First place, uh don't be too sure she's gonna lose.
All the establishments against her, and I've seen these Republican anti-establishment candidates who do pretty well.
Ronald Reagan, I guarantee you the establishment wasn't for him, she might get elected in the second.
Just let me finish what I'm gonna say, James, please.
I know you you hate to hear me, but uh but you have to see.
He's got to show his right wing and he's got back.
Well, I think that's bull.
I hate I hate that.
Just let it go.
Yeah.
I I wonder what took him so long.
My 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.
Uh, but uh uh after I don't know how long he's been on this show, 15, 20 years, however long it is.
Um all I know is there's nothing in there about about about Valerie Plame, and there's nothing and Ed Henry hasn't said anything about Valerie Plame at this point to um to cause uh Novak to uh to split the scene.
Now he's apologized for it, but um, and said he's he was hoping that Carville was just uh was just trying to be funny.
I remember I interviewed Novak uh some years ago for an issue of the Limbaugh Letter, and I said I said to him point blank.
I said, Bob, you know, there are a lot a lot of people who um who watch the program who are conservative talk about Capital Gang in this case, because it was Novak against Mark Shields, Mark Maxie Shields, uh uh what uh what's this guy?
Al Hunt, and they usually had some liberal babe, be it Margaret Carlson or somebody else, and it was always three against one, and uh they were insulting Novak and making fun of his Prince of Darkness stuff and so forth.
He just sit there and laugh at it.
And I said, uh, you know, a lot of conservatives wish you'd fight back at some of that stuff because it's uh you know, you sit there and take it.
Now I know you're friends with these people, and they're probably just razzing you, but uh you never dish it back and so forth.
And I forget what his answer was, but uh I I I just I I think he's he's uh uh got a right here to be, you know, a little sensitive about this.
Whether walking off the sets the right thing to do, I don't know, but I this whole notion that he's cracked up and needs to go to the you know, little men in the white coats need to show up and drag him off uh little yellow bus somewhere, I think is um is also way over the top.
All right, a quick a quick timeout here, folks, so come back, we'll talk about Judge Roberts.
LA Times out with a news story today that goes a hundred and eighty degrees the other way from yesterday's story.
And I have uh I'm convinced of something today, folks, that I uh uh was on the verge of saying yesterday.
I'm convinced that this LA Times story yesterday, which we now know was sourced by a big uh a former partner in well, I don't know if former I guess he's a former partner in uh in uh Roberts Law firm.
Uh uh this guy now works at some you know hot super big lib interest group, And it turns out he was the source uh for the role Roberts played in his uh pro bono work involving the uh the uh California, the Colorado ballot initiative.
Uh and it 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 we can't stop this guy.
So we're gonna have to try to drive a wedge between him and the right wing.
Because we can't stop him.
So we're gonna put out this little notion here that he's uh closet gay rights supporter, uh uh, which is what the focal point of that story was.
And I think it's ultimately a positive.
I think that this LA 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 it is their typical prejudicial bigotry, thinking that there is nothing but pure hatred for gays uh 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, uh, and it isn't gonna work, but I think it's another sign of desperation on the left about this nomination.
Quick time out, we will be right back.
Stay with us.
Okay, so we have economic news out there, uh, folks.
U.S. employers added 27,000 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 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 uh Bloomberg News Service here writes that uh these uh 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 uh 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 uh jobs in June, more than previously reported, the labor department said uh in uh in Washington today.
So it's it's it's the same old story, and uh 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 that 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 Summe 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.
Griffe went and got him when the game ended, went and got him out in a 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.
This is this always 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 uh autograph that Lopez wore in this year's All-Star game.
They kept the boy distracted until his parents arrived.
Uh 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, the I this is uh this is it's it's great because uh in in many circumstances the players wouldn't even know what had gone on in the stands.
Uh this one, though, obviously paramedics showed up immediately when the when the grandfather had the heart attack.
But I just it just made me just made me feel good to uh read that story.
Now get this.
The NCAA, that's uh for those of you in Rio Linda, that's the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and and uh it's an association of colleges, universities, uh institutions of higher learning.
Um 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 uh NCAA's executive committee decided this week that the organization didn't have the authority to bar Indian mascots by individual scrubles.
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 uh 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 they...
The basketball team does.
Uh and the logo was uh well, I was there anyway, it was an Indian, and it says Indians on the United States.
What are they gonna 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 um what are they gonna call themselves?
The uh Southeast Missouri State squaws?
No, you can't do that.
Uh what what what what are the what do they call themselves?
It's this it's lunacy.
You can't well, we're all we can only control that over which we have uh control, uh Mr. Limbaugh.
We don't control them in the regular season, but it's our tournament, these tournaments of the fourth season.
Yet 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 Tariq 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 in his monthly news conference.
If they don't, they're gonna have to go.
Now, they don't have a constitution in England.
You you must uh uh 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 it's uh I imagine this news is gonna be greeted positively by a whole lot of use 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 this this is music to my ears in a way.
Um uh because uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh-oh.
Wait, just a second.
Just a second.
This uh uh.
Well, I was just informed the Southeast Missouri State uh uh University Indians have already changed their logo.
They're no longer the Indians, it's the wolf.
They are the wolves.
So obviously they're anticipating making the tournament.
Uh and they knew the ruling was coming uh down the well, I was last there in 1969, folks, and that's the last time I paid any attention to it.
But uh I was just off by one year.
Anyway, as I was saying, uh this this is gonna be greeted with 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 that uh 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 excabate list and you're out.
You know, why why put up with this?
And and uh, you know, the Brits, the fifty-one people have uh fifty-two people have died, and they're fed up.
Uh, they're not they're not gonna put up with this uh this this effervescent hatred that uh is is starting to bubble over there now.
And uh I don't I know I can imagine there's all gonna be civil liberties lawsuits and claims, and you can't you can't do it.
I think Blair has had it, he's gonna do it.
Uh interesting to watch.
Quick time out.
We will be back.
We will uh do you hear about the turtleneck destroyed down at Aruba looking for the girl?
Yeah, some groups upset about that.
It's just it's gonna 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 Red Hawks.
So what do I know?
It's only I mean, you 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 gonna say in postseason tournaments, you can't have Indian mascots or uh logos on the uniform, you can't name your team anything that's offensive.
Uh what are we gonna do about these guys, these people that procure tickets to events illegally and then sell them outside the arena?
What do they call?
They're called scalpers.
Now we're gonna have to change their names too.
The NCAA gonna say, you can't call them that.
You you can't call yourselves that.
It's offensive.
And maybe the uh professional sports leagues will get involved in all of this.
Uh who knows?
To the phones began.
Oh, folks, by the way, uh, you may be wondering, well, how come you're talking more about John Roberts?
There's an answer to that.
Fred Thompson uh 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 uh 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, uh, and he will be here a little after uh one o'clock.
And at that point we will uh we will discuss it.
I don't want to get into too many redundancies, talk about it now and then start repeating myself uh short time later.
Here's Zach in uh in Glen Allen, Illinois.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you on the program.
Thank you.
Uh, because of you and your staff posting my daughter on your website in Club Gitmo side, yeah.
You've gained a new listener today.
And hopefully forever.
Meaning we you 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 pit her daughter's picture on the website.
She ran right up to me, said I am a rush listener now.
Well, what uh which picture is your daughter?
Describe the picture.
It's uh Olivia in Glen Owen.
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 uh she's preparing to uh apprehend a terrorist, let's say hat on.
Beautiful, beautiful child.
That's 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 her.
What's her name?
Her name is Tabitha.
Tabitha.
Tabitha, the the the I knew a witch named Tabitha once.
There you go.
Tabitha, welcome to the program.
It's uh it's a thrill and delight, and we're gonna work very hard to keep you here with us, Tabitha.
What what what has been her primary opposition, uh, Zach to uh it's mainly just the style because pretty much everything you say she can she can agree with.
Um and there's a couple of liberals, might I say that work with us that you know try their best, but they can't get around the facts, Rush.
Yeah.
Yeah, and uh so but it's it's the style.
So she she probably doesn't like the braggado, the the self-confidence, the self-assuredness, the I'm never wrong stuff, right?
Exactly.
But just know there's millions out there that we love it.
You have a good day, Russia.
Typical wife in there.
I will Zach, thanks for the uh for the call.
I appreciate it.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, if you have been a regular listener to this program, you know something.
And 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 uh it used to be, and this beach, by the way, ancient sea turtles migrate every year to uh to uh dig a nest in the beach in the sand and they lay their eggs.
And then the a the uh the eggs hatch and the little uh the little turtles, the new sea turtles uh by natural design are supposed to proceed to the ocean, where about 95% of them don't survive.
I mean, they they become food, but five percent do, and and they go on to become these mammoth giant sea turtles.
And apparently the lore is that uh the sea turtle, the sea the female sea turtle returns to the same beach every year to lay her eggs.
Well, it has been discovered over the course of um of some years that lights, bright lights, if the turtles hatch at night, will attract them away from the uh ocean, which is not good.
You don't want them going toward shore.
So um uh 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 or you get some lights out there.
Well, the environmentalist wackos have gone nuts uh here in Florida, where I live and all over the place, and now the lights have to go out March 1st.
When 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 on until November, when the turtles are long gone.
Whatever has happened to the baby turtles, long gone.
And I have been I have been expressing shock and outrage over this at the uh the stupidity of this uh 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, uh, Tabitha, when my home was being built, uh there were no lights on at night ever because it was a construction project.
And one morning we showed up and uh there's some dead sea turtles uh 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 uh uh early rising moon, and it was 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 uh had to be what attracted the turtles, but 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.
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 Arubo?
Natalie Holloway, well, now don't just say Natalie and sturdily saying, Natalie Holloway, you're just reacting to media coverage.
But what 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 uh 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 problem just to see if they can find her.
Families going nuts down there.
You can and and the 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 families going nuts.
So I get this story.
And a Reuben 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, the 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 Equisearch, 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?
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 forth.
This is this is the kind of insanity, uh, folks, and the loss of proportion and the lack of perspective here that has come to typify and identify the um the environmentalist wacko movement.
Quick call before we go to the break.
Steve and Augusta Main.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Yes, uh, Megadetto's Rush.
First time caller.
Thank you, sir.
Um, I uh noticed on Tuesday at the video store, one of the big box office stores, that Hearts of Fire season one 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.
Uh Hearts of Fire.
I was on season two or season three.
I was not on season one.
Um does the box say I'm on season one?
Uh no, it doesn't.
Yeah.
Yeah, because I wasn't on season one.
All right, I can answer this.
Uh Hearts of Fire was a CBS sitcom, and it was produced by Harry Bloodworth Thomas or Linda Bloodworth Thomason and her husband Harry.
It starred John Ritter and Marky Post.
And the uh the link to me is Linda Bloodworth Thomas and she is from Poplar Bluff.
Her father was an attorney, as was mine, and uh my father and her father knew each other.
But the closer link is that Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth Thomason are real tight with uh Bill and Hillary Clinton.
And the uh they've written, you know, they produced all the films that you saw at the Clinton uh uh convention, uh, and uh they've written uh just a whole bunch of uh of the of the public media material for the Clintons to use.
Uh 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.
Uh and the subject of this particular episode was that I was myself rolling through town on a promo tour, and uh Ritter's wife Marky Post gets a crush on me, and we get close to having uh, you know, a little uh uh uh fair uh out there, and uh uh 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 uh being made to soften me up on the Clintons.
Uh and and it didn't work, and I've not spoken to the Thomas since.
Um But they were I have to tell you, and I told you at the time it was fun week.
I had a great time, and they were fun people to hang around, and um uh yeah, I but I uh I'm sure that it was uh it was an attempt here to uh to soften me up on some of the image that the Clintons had out there.
And it I mean I wasn't gonna be altered or changed by that.
The one thing I remember that was funny, and the episode rated number two the night it ran, it ran on a Monday night.
It was the second most watch program that night, and uh CBS wanted me to, you know, 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 uh 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's on all over that stage.
I was okay with it, but uh but she went along with it too.
It was all it was a fun week and it was a fun time, but that's I'm sure uh how how it uh how it happened.
And I just want to tell you on record, I had a great time with both of them.
Uh in fact, during one of the uh tapings, 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 audiences, 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 uh ever since.
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You know the name of this song, Mr. Snerdley.
Everyone's a winner.
Hot chocolate.
Everyone's a winner.
Rush Limball, the EIB Network.
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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 showed that a 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's one of the few major nations seeking to attract immigrants, but immigration minister Joe Volpe was philosophical.
Who would want to go there without healthcare system?
Who would want to go to Canada?
Who would 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 Streisand, uh what's his name?
Uh Alley Baldwin.
They don't do it.
You know, they just it just it just more empty promises.
Uh it's something that um you just can't take them seriously on any claim that they make, whatever it may be.
Gene Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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Hi.
Thank you, Mr. Rush.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
There's my question.
Too much time is being spent on Natalie.
I can't turn the TV on without seeing her or listen to her.
She's not a good thing.
That's an interesting question.
It's an interesting question.
Uh, 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 that's one of these crazy things.
Everybody watching this is somebody I don't know and and have not met.
But the uh the cable networks swear by it.
I mean, Greta Van Susterin has become the most watched show on the Fox News channel in several instances uh since this whole story started.
But you know, there's there's more important news like the new uh Supreme Justice.
I can't find any information on the news except through it through your TV and radio.
But that 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.
Uh the the they'd have a round table of lawyers discussing their next case that they're gonna televise Robert uh Phil Spector.
Uh whatever.
I uh that that that that would be the case.
They've got 24 hours to fill seven days a week.
And uh this is just a natural.
Uh like the runaway bride.
Everybody got fed up with uh hearing about the runaway.
Did you hear the runaway bride is is gone ahead and is going to get married again to the same guy?
I I saw this, I just skimmed it.
Uh but I it's one of the gossip columns in the New York papers.
And that uh 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 Born 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 uh read gossip columns if you can believe any of it.
Uh they mean it is a joke or what have you.
But um all I all I can tell you is Gene that uh the cable nets will swear by their ratings when they do uh stories on the latest about Natalie Holloway.
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Spanish set to become the official language of seven Denver Public Library branches.
This is a uh PR release from the uh use English.org.
Use English.org.
Spanish set to become the official language of seven Denver Public Library.
It'd be library 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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