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Jan. 12, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 12, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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And here we are.
We find ourselves in the midst of the fastest three hours in media.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, yet another excursion into broadcast excellence.
Also occupying the prestigious at Till of the Hun Chair here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
By the way, I don't think a lot of people understand uh when I say Attila the Hunch, I don't mean it's a big chair, but you know think tanks, that's what this is.
Uh great institutions of learning uh have chairs where their scholars and thinkers sit.
Uh and they are endowed by donors, uh contributing money to believe in the ideas of the uh of the think tank, the institute.
And those chairs are really it's just a it's it's a job.
That's uh it's a location.
There's no there's no real Attila the Hun chair.
I just Attila the Hun, I just say this to irritate the left since they associate conservatives with people like Attila the Hun.
Uh now we don't have any donors here, we don't have any benefactors because we're not that kind of think tank.
Uh but I did endow myself with a chair.
And all of you are resident scholars, and you have chairs out there, but we just never named them.
Now uh oh, phone number is 800-282-2882.
Um let me let me go to Ginger here in Seattle.
Gender, welcome to the program.
It's a pleasure to have you with us.
Oh, thanks for get letting me get through.
My goodness, I was so shocked.
Um I am calling because uh you've been rubbing it in that you've been watching season five of twenty-four.
That's right.
Yes, and I want to know if I can be your best friend.
Can you tell me anything?
Well, I've got a bunch of people have been emailing me.
Where can I get these uh DVDs?
DVDs of season five.
I explained this yesterday.
Uh uh I am a member of the media, uh powerful influential member of the media, and these shows always send out um like the Sopranos, everybody does.
That l'end TV critics across the country, a couple or three DVDs of the first two or three episodes, so they can review them and then write glowing reviews or whatever, hopefully glowing reviews in newspapers to try to hype viewership for the the inaugural show of a new season.
And uh I'm on the I'm on the list.
Now there's some I mean, so they may be written, but there's some unwritten rules, and that is you can review it, but you're not supposed to give up everything or even much of the the plot line or detail of what happens.
You can say who the new stars are, you can the new cast members are, uh, and you can you can describe various aspects of the show, but uh there are two reasons why I'm not gonna tell you what I've watched.
One, I don't want to ruin it for you, and and two, I I yeah, I'm I'm I'm not gonna blow the the surprise for uh people the people work hard producing the show.
The thing that I sent Joel Cerno, who's the uh the creator and producer of the show, I sent him an email that when I finished watching season five, episode one.
I sent him a note and I said, you know, I uh I'm sitting here and I'm in total amazement.
I have and I've been out there, I spent I spent ten hours on their set one day back in uh in April.
I got to know all these people.
They're and they're they're they're they're great conservative people.
They're just tremendous people.
They're they're big warehouse where they do all the shootings in Chatsworth.
And and I wrote him, I said, you know, I don't I still can't figure out how you do this, even though I've seen it done.
There is more in one episode of a t of of twenty-four than in a movie.
And these people do it every week.
I had I had uh dinner with uh Joel and his wife and some other people on the Saturday after Thanksgiving out in LA, and I said, How far they started shooting this season in July.
The end of July, I said, How far along are you?
And they said, We got six episodes in the can.
And that was the end of November.
Had six episodes in the can.
They they're gonna burn four of them Sunday and Monday night.
First two uh nights will be two episodes each.
And what I will tell you is that I th the way this has started and and it may it it may be the best season I've watched, and I've been hooked on all of them.
Once I start watching one of these uh one of these uh episodes, these seasons, I can't I can't just watch one or two and then quit.
I've got to watch till I get fatigued.
And I just I wanna I want to I'll I'll tell you what I read a critic wrote.
Because this is not blowing any cover.
Uh Critic would not tell anybody who, but there are two characters that get killed off in the first ten minutes of episode one.
Does that help you?
No, that's sad.
I don't know.
Are they not going to be able to do that?
You don't know who the characters are, though you may hate the characters.
You don't know who they are.
Oh, okay.
They're not maybe long-running characters or I don't I don't know.
I'm not going to tell you anymore.
I'm not.
I was just going to tell you that the pace and and the the differences in the plot lines and you know how they'll interject five or six plots per episode, and every one of them's a surprise.
And there's no difference in this one.
I was uh I I'll tell you, I was up till uh well I I went to bed at three o'clock this morning.
I was up because I was up watching them.
Uh because when I got back home from dinner, and then I uh I I transferred them to my iPod uh just to do it.
I think it's cool to be able to do that.
Yeah.
And so that took me a little while to do.
Um, and I uh and by the way, these these these preview episodes are not close captioned.
And I have to watch 24 clothes captioned.
Oh.
Because you know the the the spoken words oftentimes are just whispers and very quiet.
And uh I need good acoustics to hear that.
And I was watching in my office where the acoustics are not the best.
Uh so I hooked up a little speaker.
Uh I'm not gonna go into the detail, but I watched four hours of these things holding a speaker up to my left ear where my implant microphone is to be able to hear because I normally, you know, you'd close captioning.
Uh and I did this for well, each episode's forty-four minutes, between 42 and 44 minutes, and did this for, you know, four um well, three in a row.
I got one watched before I left for dinner.
But I'm just telling you you will not be if you're like me, I I'm they're addictive.
Yeah, you will not be they're they're excellent.
Yes.
I know we when we rented uh we had missed the first couple of years.
We came in late and we rented them, and it's just like you have to watch all of them at once.
You can't just go one and then think, oh, tomorrow night I'll watch the next.
Well I only started watching this thing, the show last February.
I that's when I first started watching.
I got to watch went uh got bought the first three seasons and and watched them on the trip to Afghanistan and back and uh the rest of them when I got home, and and I agree with you.
It's it's uh it's an addictive it's an addictive episode uh series, but just trust me, you will um you'll you'll be riveted, you will not be able to leave.
You will not be able to um uh do anything, which you probably can't during any episode anyway.
But I'm just telling the the creativity.
You know, I've I've been in the writers' meetings.
I've been in there where they've had their storyboards.
I'll tell you, even when I went out there last April, they were shooting the last two weeks, the last two episodes, and they would only show me uh only allow me to watch random scenes that were being shot that would not tell me what was going to happen, where how it was gonna end up.
I mean, they really closely guard this.
Now I'll tell you something else, Ginger, and the rest of you.
They do not plot the whole season with every cast member and so forth before they start shooting the season.
They may they may work one or two episodes ahead.
These guys are constantly writing and adapting it as they go.
And that's what amazes me about if you've watched some of the special effects features on some of the DVDs, like in last season, season four, the opening sequence is a train track.
This the the the the episode the the scene takes maybe 35 or 40 seconds.
It took them two days to shoot shoot it.
Uh and they do this every week.
It's just it's uh mind-boggling what they're able to accomplish.
I don't want to go overboard here because I don't want to create expectations the show can't reach uh or or match, so I'll stop here.
But I'm I'm I'll just stand by what I said.
It is riveting, it is surprising, it's unpredictable, and you will not be disappointed.
Quick timeout, we'll be back and continue here right after these wonderful and highly paid for messages from our sponsors.
Okay, let's update some other news out there, folks.
We had a call about this yesterday from um Walker Shaw, Wisconsin.
It's about the the trial of the carry five of these uh these ruffians up there that slash the tires on election day 2004 of the Republican get out the vote fleet.
Five Democratic activists accused of slashing the tires of vans rented by the Republicans are now alleging the Democratic Party set them up to take the fall.
Defense lawyers told jurors on Tuesday that the five campaign workers were innocent, and that their party's professional political operatives actually damaged the tires and then pointed police in the direction of the defendants.
Like troop movements in a war, these people came to Wisconsin as it became apparent that Wisconsin was in place, said attorney Robin Shello.
These are people who stepped over the line, and now because of what they do for a living, they blame our clients.
Haven't seen anything of this on television, though, even though they trial these five Democrat activists.
One of these um what one of these is a is a son of a former um Milwaukee mayor, the other is a son of a current Congressperson from Milwaukee.
What's your name?
Gwen what?
What's her last name?
Who?
Gwyn Moore, Gwen Moore.
Her son's got two names.
I can't re uh Solar Ala Skyhookers.
I can't remember the names, but uh these guys now say, hey, we didn't do it.
These Democrat activists.
Blame it on Carville and Bagala.
That's what I like.
You know, this is kind of like do you hear about poor old Marion Barry?
He got what he got pulled over something.
He was uh something totally unrelated.
They found that he was on cocaine.
Uh but it reminded me, a former mayor of uh of Washington.
But this defense uh no, no, no.
Democratic party set my clients up to do this.
The the slashers here, this is sort of the echo of of Marion Barry.
You know, when when he's in the hotel room and they're running a sting operation, and uh when the cops come in, he's in there with some woman who's not his wife, and they're I think are they doing lines of cocaine?
Is that what they were doing?
Or they had something was going.
He he had the coke, and she was she was uh Mary and Barry said the bitch set me up.
Uh framed by a national operative here, as the story from the from the slasher five in Milwaukee.
Uh thin is still in, folks.
Don't fear, but apparently fat is nowhere near as out as it used to be.
A survey finds where would we be in this country without surveys?
A survey finds that America's attitudes toward overweight people are shifting from rejected uh rejection toward acceptance.
Why do you think this might be?
Well, I mean, this has never been the case.
This has never been the case.
You you know as well as I do.
You wait, well, be honest, folks.
If you're in the mall and and you see some fat, and generally they're fat couples, you know, get married or get fat together.
You see them trundling down the mallway there.
I mean, uh Wow, man, I wish I was them.
It just doesn't happen.
Does it?
It's always been that way.
Uh.
So what's causing this change?
Why are attitudes toward overweight people shifting?
Over a 20-year period, the percentage of Americans who said they find overweight people less attractive steadily drop from 55% to 24% over 20 years.
With about two-thirds of U.S. adults overweight, Americans seem more accept.
Well, that's the answer.
How can you how can you find being overweight be unacceptable when you are?
I knew that was the answer.
I just didn't know that this stupid story would announce it.
With about two-thirds of U.S. adults overweight, Americans see more accepting of heavier body types, researchers say.
The um NPD group, as the outfit did the survey.
1900 people, representative of the U.S. population also found other more relaxed attitudes about weight and diet.
While body image remains a constant obsession with people, the national preoccupation with being thin has waned since the late 80s and the early 90s.
Uh those were the days when fast food chains rushed to install salad bars.
In 1989, salads as a main course peaked at 10% of all restaurant meals.
Today those salad bars have all but vanished and salads account for just five and a half percent of main dishes.
It turns out health is a wonderful topic to talk about, but to live that way is a real effort.
I don't think we're going back to worshiping obese women, but it's interesting to see how attitudes change as more people become overweight, said uh John Cawley, associate professor at Cornell University's College of Human Ecology.
Excuse me.
What where was I when we worshipped obese women?
W I I I'm obviously must not have been born.
When Romans?
Roman, Roman times?
Oh, they they worshipped obese women.
I never knew that.
And I watched Rome on HBO, and there weren't any obese women in it.
And it was supposedly historically accurate, Mr. Snurdle.
Everything on HBO is Sopranos, we know.
Undertakers, that was that show about undertakers and um six feet under and uh it's dead now, but I know the critics miss it.
Critics are liberals and they love death.
They're obsessed with it.
Well, I never knew this, that we worshipped overweight women.
Now you mean actual overweight women or like statues of gods, female gods.
Do you mean actual human?
The last see the only time that I knew that obese women were were were worshipped, and I don't even know if worshiped is the right word.
Remember Sir Mixalot, the uh rapper?
I like big butt.
But I mean that that that's that's my last uh uh association with that I know I know big butt is not overweight women.
That's I says I'm not even sure they're worshiping.
Uh uh ravishing, maybe.
But uh nevertheless.
Nancy Pelosi, what did I do with this?
But I just had it right here.
Nancy Pelosi wants to investigate Congress on the culture Ah, here we go.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi today.
Interesting that this happens today when the Alito hearings bomb out for the Democrats.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said Republicans have created one of the most closed corrupt Congresses in history and urged the House Ethics Committee to investigate GOP lawmakers linked to lobbyist Jack Abramov.
It's hard for the American people to understand how corrupt it is here.
I know what this because the American people are not yet worked up about this.
The polling data is they don't care, they don't care about the NSA spying scandal.
For whatever reasons, we can talk about that later, but they are not big into this.
And so they're trying to make a controversy here.
We had the story yesterday, the just Justice Department has has leaked or announced, they haven't announced it, but their first tier of suspects that they're looking at in the Abramov scandal.
There are two Democrats and they're three Republicans, and not one of them is delay.
They are Byron Dorgan of uh North Dakota, uh Dinji Harry from Nevada, J.D. Hayworth from Arizona, who I I like and admire J.D., I hope there's nothing to this.
And uh uh Bob Nay of Ohio, and I can't remember who the other one was.
But Delay's not there, and for for her to come out and say this is a total Republican scandal for Dean out there saying no Democrat ever took money from from Abramov.
Sometimes folks is just it's like dealing with pathological liars.
At some point it's just worthless to try to even correct the record.
Ron in Bend, Oregon.
I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Yeah, Rush.
Uh, you know, I love 24.
I'm a retired cop and soldier, and that is wish fulfillment for me.
But my point here is when you stop and you think about what's happened to Jack Bauer, and you look back at how the first mission he went on started this whole series of five seasons.
Well, it got started because he and President Palmer decided to send him on a mission to kill some people in a foreign country.
Some Serbs in Kosovo, I think it was, or somewhere.
Yeah.
And of course, they went later on in the setup, these people are so evil.
But President Palmer wasn't president then.
He was just in the Senate.
Correct.
He was on, he was the head of the Senate committee that decided to do this.
And what are you saying?
That twenty four pushes a pro-war agenda?
It pushes an agenda where we send our soldiers to war and to special ops and to creating this new American empire that something this country wasn't intended to be, and it gets us in a hell of a mess.
Re you think that's what this show does?
You really think that it's pushing a great American?
I uh I think what the w in in 24, every ep every every new year there's a different terrorist group trying to destroy us.
Well, hey, don't get me wrong.
Like I said, I love Jack Bauer.
When Jack Bauer blows the knee off a terrorist in the first episode of season four, I'm sitting there thinking, yeah.
I'll tell you what I love.
I'll tell you what I love.
I love it.
I just love it when Jack Bauer tortures these people.
That gets my blood flowing.
Yeah, one of my uh one of my favorite moments uh from twenty-four goes back, I think first or second episode, uh first or second season.
Jack Bauer's trying to infiltrate uh uh little subgroup of terrorists, the the the the people hired to do you know, in this show terrorists always end up hiring idiots, uh just like every group of bad guys and every TV show hires idiots.
Uh just like Count Dracula had that fool Igor uh run over there.
They all all all the all these people Frankenstein had an idiot.
Uh Democrats have Howard Dean, uh and and Bauer is infiltrating one of these little subgroups, the bunch of auto mechanics that are supposed to modify a vehicle to hold a nuclear bomb.
And they know who he is.
Uh they don't know his government work, but they know who he is.
Uh they in fact they may have known his government work, but they the the government put out the story that he had been humiliated because of what he'd done in this war in Bosnia or in Serbia, and uh he was disgraced and his picture is all over the post offices.
This man's terrible if you see him run the other way.
This is to convince the terrorists he was one of them.
Uh but he still had to he had to prove to the terrorists that he was still capable of working with them and and that he had turned on the government.
So to prove it, what Bauer did was go exhume the body of a recently deceased, I think this is a recently deceased terrorist and sought his head off and took the head to the terrorist group, say, see, I'm still got your ma'am, your man, I'm what it takes.
And he caught some flack for this, but he didn't do this as an agent.
He didn't do the he's done other torturous things as an agent.
But he did that to show the bad guys uh that he could be uh he could be one of them.
Here's uh here's Drew in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Drew, welcome to the program.
It's a pleasure to have you with us.
Well, it's a pleasure to talk to you, sir.
Uh my mother's been exposing me to you since I was a teenager, and uh I'm I have to thank her for it now that I look back.
Um I have a contrasting opinion on 24.
I think that uh David Palmer, President Palmer, is what we Americans want all politicians to be, and he never makes the wrong decision.
He does what is right every time.
And well, that can happen in a television show.
Yeah, I know.
I know it's it's wishful thinking, but uh I just I just have a I just I couldn't believe that previous caller thinking that it had an agenda trying to convince, you know, push in war when the entire show is trying to.
Let me tell you something.
Liberals will not like this show.
Uh now now Ron was in Bend, Oregon and he was a liberal, but but he's former military and and so he likes he likes some of the things Bauer does, but uh on balance, liberals aren't gonna like this because this show contains everything they're trying to stop at Abu Grab the show, can uh the the American uh uh uh anti-terrorist unit will do anything to deal with a terrorist.
It will not grant them lawyers.
Oh, they even had an episode where a terrorist had a lawyer and Bauer screwed the lawyer, had to do it undercover, had to do it off book, uh, but did it.
And and uh, you know, i th I just tell the writing on this program is just incredible, but I can understand liberals.
Do you know when I was talking to Joel Cerno, just to give you a different perspective on this?
You know, one of the ways TV shows make their money is syndication.
This program they have a tough time syndicating because it's sequential.
It's not like the Mary Tyler Moore show where you can pick one episode from one year and run it the next Night pick another year's episode because they don't they're not linked.
This show is so a syndicator, syndicated buyer have to run it back to back in order, uh, and so it makes it tougher.
But he said, you know who some of the biggest purchasers in syndication and DVDs are people who live in Europe who hate America because they love watching terrorists blow up American buildings and kill Americans, and that happens on this show.
He said they've got a huge audience over there.
He said it's tough for them when uh bad guys always end up getting it, but they know that next season is gonna be a new terrorist group wreaking havoc on America, and Americans are gonna get blown up and killed.
These guys I'm telling you, they are um they're they're brilliant marketers.
Speaking of that, they're innovators.
And I and here here's the story.
Teenagers.
Teenagers have some seemingly high expectations about what technology might bring over the next decade, according to a new MIT study.
Thirty-three percent of teenagers predicted that gasoline-powered cars will go the way of the horse and buggy by 2015.
Just 16% of adults agree with that.
Twenty-two percent of teenagers predicted desktop computers will become obsolete a decade from now.
Uh only 10% of adults agreed with that.
Adults, on the other hand, were far more certain about the demise of the landline telephone by 2015 than teenagers.
Uh 45% of adults think the landline phones gone by 2015, only 17% of teenagers do.
The teenagers uh queried uh also said that new inventions over any time frame, not necessarily by 2015, can solve such global problems as unclean water, hunger, disease, and pollution.
Adults were less optimistic about hunger, seventy-seven percent saying technology will play an important role in the uh the kids said 89%.
Merton Flemings, uh, who heads the MIT program that conducted the survey said he was encouraged that teenagers believe science and technology may hold answers to our biggest issues.
It's the young people.
Young people are gonna have to do it.
Interesting.
Um always I love finding out what teenagers think.
You know, teenagers do not have enough years.
I mean, not as the older you get, the more cynical you get, the more skeptical, the easier it is to be negative about things, primarily because you see a bunch of kids running around, you think, my God, what's happening to the country.
But it's fascinating to me.
These people are the most kids are untamed.
They're still in the dream stage of life.
One of the things I hate about liberals is they do everything they can to destroy dreams in young people.
Oh, you can't do you can't succeed in this country.
What do you mean you want to be a doctor?
You don't want to be a doctor, nothing is looking at they do everything, want to make kids grow up by age five.
They want little twelve-year-old girls to have abortions.
Go into planned parenthood.
They want parents not to know about it.
They just bugs me, they've always tried to destroy dreams of people.
I don't know, not just kids, but uh uh man, dreams are fuel.
Dreams are inspiration.
Like Brian, he never dreamed his life would include working with me.
And and well, he probably did dream that it was something like that would happen, and it did, but it never knew it was gonna be me specifically.
No, I'm serious.
I think dreams they don't some people say you're living in a fantasy world.
We and they try to suppress No, no, no, no, no, no.
If these kids think that this kind of thing is possible, one of them may come up with a solution to one of these problems this way.
Those are the way these things happen.
And it's uh, you know, dreams can be inspiring and motivational.
I'm fascinated to find out what they think, uh, especially about high tech.
Uh here who's next on the program, Sue in Boone, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the program.
Hey, Rush.
I just wanted to tell you, I am getting the biggest kick out of you describing these Alito confirmations.
Your descriptions, like of Ted Kennedy and all, I'm just sitting here laughing to myself.
Well, thank you.
Thank you.
That's one of the things we I'm sorry.
Well, you do, and I think it makes such a difference because I sit up and I see Biden and Kennedy and Leahy taking themselves so seriously, and they're ludicrous.
And when you're sitting there poking fun at them and just showing, well, you know, make it it's true what you're saying.
It's just absolutely true.
I mean, Kennedy is uh uh, you know, speaking for the ethics of the Democratic Party?
My God.
You know, I mean, some of that stuff's not funny.
So I mean that when you get to Kennedy, I mean you can look at a lot of things Ted Kennedy says and does are funny, but this this stuff they did to Alito, a lot of it was just pure uh mean spirited extremism and hateful.
And and but you can still find them funny, because these people are buffoons.
Well, I think when you talked about the fact um I'm a big watcher of the panel on Fox, and uh I I didn't realize it at the time, but when you talked about how they were so distanced from what they did to this lady.
I mean, how could you sit there and listen to your your husband paraded like that, you know, when he's a good man?
It but I think it's in a way I think it's good for the American people, because I think most people are aware of it and they sit there and all the Democrats are destroying themselves.
Because decent people don't act like this.
Exactly right.
But one thing now there are a lot, it's not a majority, but there are a lot of hateful Democrats that think Ted Kennedy is God's gift to this country, Joe Biden ditto, Chuck Schumer, and they are angry that all the Democrats weren't as mean as Kennedy.
And there are a lot of them out there.
And that's one of the reasons these guys behave this way, because they got to mollify that pack of wolves out there that make up the Democrat base.
President Bush and Louisville.
Thanks, thanks, uh Sue very much for the call.
Um Louisville, Kentucky, yesterday.
President Bush said that he's doing everything within the Constitution to protect the American people from another terrorist attack.
But he added congressional hearings into a top secret spy program will be good for democracy.
Seventy-five-minute campaign-style town hall meeting.
Bush said he firmly believes he has authority to order why warrantless wiretaps or phone calls by people thought to be linked to Al-Qaeda or affiliates.
He reasserted his right to do it.
The Liberals want him to cower.
They want him to get frightened because they're coming after him with all of these accusations, and he's just thumbing his nose and say, Oh, you think I'm doing this?
Well, yes, I'm gonna keep doing it.
Who's next?
Charlie and Howard Beach in New York.
Hi, Charlie, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome.
Yes.
Happy birthday, sir.
Thank thank you, sir.
Same age as Phil Collins.
You're the man.
I love your show, man.
Phil Collins.
That's a good question.
I was wondering, do you think these uh these Supreme Justices should be uh signed up for life?
Because I think they should only get like, you know, Bush gets ideas.
How come they don't only get ideas?
Uh well, the reason I we've we we're starting to debate this uh amongst ourselves at the top here of the conservative movement.
Uh those of us are shaping who are participating in the shaping of the judiciary and trying to straighten it out are having these debates uh during our meetings.
And the original purpose of of a lifetime appointment was insulation.
Uh to insulate these people from any political pressure whatsoever.
Uh the threat of removal by some outside force uh would not influence uh their their decision making uh as judges and so forth.
But uh there are now some people, and I'm not yet ready to count myself among them, but I'm gonna I'm close.
Some people are beginning to think, wait, wait, there needs to be an age limit.
There needs to be an age limit.
Not not not a uh not something based on performance, but uh I mean, what do you do when a guy gets Alzheimer's?
There there if if it happens, there needs to some people start to say there needs to be an age limit.
Uh and I think most of these arguments begin when one side or the other feels like they're at a permanent disadvantage.
And and some of like in in the in our case, got some of these wacko leftist judges that won't leave uh because they're staying on there for political reasons, need an age limit because keep them informed, keep them up to speed with the late I mean latest cases that will come before them.
I'm I'm undecided up, but I I don't I don't think that that you need eight-year terms or and I don't think that you should have like you have in some states, uh confirmation votes with the people they originally are appointed, and six years later the people vote on whether they should still sit on the bench.
Although I think that is how Rose Byrd was dispatched as the Chief Justice in California.
But uh it's an ongoing debate, and it shifts uh according to the times.
I'm undecided on it.
Be back here in just a second.
Stay with us.
Does uh does the name William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, ring any bells?
We have news about uh Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, Louisiana Congressman, that would be William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, demanded bribes in exchange for this is now the the corrupt Republican Congress that Ms. Pelosi wants investigated.
Uh Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, demanded bribes in exchange for his help in promoting a pair of business deals in Africa, according to court documents filed Wednesday with a guilty plea by one of Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana's former staffers.
Brett Pfeffer, uh 37, the former legislative director to Representative William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting bribery of a public official and conspiracy.
He could get 20 years in prison when sentenced on March 31st.
A spokesman, uh spokeswoman for Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, uh declined to comment.
Now you might remember that the FBI raided the home in New Orleans of Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, according to published reports, they carted off cash from a freezer.
Now we knew about this.
We told you about it.
Freezer's a perfect place.
Keep cash.
Coal cash, freezer, it all makes sense.
The FBA also rated the Maryland home of Nigerian vice president Atiku Abu Bakr.
Seeking documents connecting him and his wife to Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, and the telecommunications deal.
That's one of the two deals that Congressman Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana was doing.
Now, you remember the name if you if you don't remember the name, you remember the story.
Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, was criticized after Hurricane Katrina for receiving a National Guard escort to check out his flooded home at a time when federal resources were sorely strained.
This is when Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, removed something uh similar to the size of a small refrigerator stove or a microwave or something.
Uh, and it took two National Guard units to get him out because the first one got stuck in there.
Um what is it?
One of his aides has spled guilty.
It's uh sweat now, it's uh heat.
Uh picking up here for Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, in the most corrupt Republican Congress ever.
Uh Dave and McLean, Virginia.
Welcome to the program.
First time caller Rush, uh Navy uh retired airline pilot now.
Um, I look at the this movie.
I haven't seen this movie uh Munich, but it seems that the liberal media is going, how wonderful this thing is touting the the efforts of the Israelis to basically, you know, assassinate these terrorists, yet a movie like a show like 24, which what happens behind the scenes is so violent by the liberals.
Well, I must be honest.
Now, I I uh maybe I'm missing something.
I haven't heard a whole lot of criticism of 24, but maybe there is.
I just haven't seen it.
The show is profoundly popular, so I don't care.
The second thing, I'm not sure I've heard the Israelis being praised by the media for what they did as portrayed in this movie.
The the thing I've gotten from the movie is that Spielberg is trying to use the movie to solve these kind of conflicts, and his point he tries to make is Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Palestinians wiped out the Israeli Olympic team, but then the Israelis went back in there and uh killed all those guys, and that's not gonna solve anything, because then the Palestinians is gonna fight back, and the Israelis are gonna kill, and you can't solve the problem this way.
And and so he wants to uh what I understand of people saying the movie doesn't take a hard enough position one way or the other.
Um I haven't seen it, so it's it's really difficult for me to um to comment on it, but frankly, I'm not hearing a whole lot of buzz about Munich at all, folks.
Uh, this is an well, all the pre-pubs, it's supposed to be the movie of the century.
It's gonna solve all foreign policy questions.
Uh, don't think so.
Thank you for all the kind wishes today on uh on my 55th birthday.
It's always a thrill and delight, and I know that all these people that have sent me notes saying happy birthday will begin to ignore me again tomorrow, but that's that's just the way it is.
We'll see you tomorrow, folks.
Look for already open line Friday tomorrow.
Can you believe that?
And we are ready.
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