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Jan. 27, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 27, 2006, Friday, Hour #3
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Eldis Morgas board just keeps expanding.
The buffet gets even bigger.
John filibuster Carey flew back from Davos, Switzerland, and has been blathering on on the Senate floor about Alito and this filibuster that isn't going to happen.
We got three soundbites.
We'll let you hear them.
But first, my friends, it is Friday.
Let's go.
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All right.
I want to go back to Kelly in Moline, Illinois, who has patiently held on.
He wanted to make a comment here about James Fry, the author of this book.
What is the name of this book?
A Million Little Pieces.
Still selling like hotcakes.
Hell, people don't care.
Good story is a good story.
True or not.
Ask Jason Blair.
So it's still selling well out there.
And Oprah finally turned on the guy after trying to save her reputation by defending the premise on Larry King Alive.
She flip-flopped has thrown the guy under the bus yesterday.
And Kelly here wants to comment on it.
What is your comment about all this, Kelly?
Well, I'm watching the show yesterday, and it just burned me to see these journalists who acted all holier than thou and just rained judgment all over James Fry.
And I just kept waiting for Oprah to ask these so-called journalists, who I believe write in New York papers, if they had ever embellished a story or misled readers to sell more papers or to further their careers.
And I think that what Fry did was drug, but he did not deserve to be crucified, especially by these hypocrites.
Well, you know why they were crucifying Fry, don't you?
Well, I know they don't like to see anybody succeed.
No, they have to protect the Oprah.
Well, right.
Low cheese.
They must protect the Oprah.
They can't allow anybody to do damage to the Oprah.
And this Fry guy nearly did.
This Fry guy faked her out.
This Fry guy duped her.
Got his book mentioned on her book club out there selling lots of copies.
Turns out the whole thing is, well, the vast majority of it is fiction.
As I say, it still is selling well.
And Oprah had to go on Larry King Alive when this Fry guy, Fry went on with his mother on that show, I think.
And Oprah called in and said, despite what people are saying, it's still a great story.
And the elements of truth here that matter to people about overcoming drug and alcohol addiction, that's relevant.
And then the pressure didn't let up, and the pressure on the Oprah was getting a little hot and heavy.
And so the Oprah had to go out and do a flip-flop job yesterday and did and brought this fry guy on and they fried fry.
And then Oprah, you know, salvaging her reputation.
And she had Frank Rich on yesterday.
And Frank Rich compared the lying of James Fry to the lying of George Bush.
Oh, yeah.
And then Maureen Dodd was on MSNBC last night talking about Oprah's credibility.
Let's go to the audio on all this.
And I've got a little companion story here that I want to throw in the mix.
But first, Oprah, this is from her show yesterday.
Confronted author James Fry, accusing him on live TV of lying in his book, A Million Little Pieces.
This is how she opened.
I made a mistake, and I left the impression that the truth does not matter.
And I am deeply sorry about that.
All right, fine, Andy.
Yeah, we all feel sorry for you.
You got duped by this guy, Oprah.
But you know something, folks?
It seems like every other show that Oprah does is about Hurricane Katrina.
She seems obsessed with it.
Have you seen the stories, by the way, that New Orleans may become a vanilla city?
Have you seen it?
Well, 80% of the blacks that have been displaced are not going back.
I know I predicted this.
I predicted this.
And some brilliant wise acre in New Orleans said, well, you know, we just figured out if they didn't have the means to get out on their own, how do they have the means to come back on their own?
Add to that, most of them don't want to come back.
I mean, this was a liberal panacea, this place, right?
That should have been.
There should have been no discrimination.
There should have been no unemployment.
There should have been no poverty.
There should have been no unhappiness.
There should have been no misery.
This was utopia.
This is a place run by liberals and Democrats for who knows how long.
And yet, what do we hear?
There was racism.
There was poverty.
There was unemployment.
I mean, it was a living, breathing example of liberal failure amongst a nation of tremendous and great prosperity.
Then you had School Bus Nagan, the mayor, saying, it's going to be a chocolate city.
They're going to be a chocolate city.
And go, oh, I'm, he said, God wants it to be a chocolate city.
By the way, you know who did the study on finding out that 80% aren't of the black population aren't coming back?
Brown University.
That's right.
Tootsie Roll University does a survey showing that New Orleans is going to end up becoming a vanilla city because 80% of the black population is not going to come back.
It seems like every other day, Oprah still does a show about Hurricane Katrina.
She's obsessed with it.
And she has broadcast a lot of stuff that's not true, and she knows it isn't true.
And everybody knows she's still stuck on all that phony, fallacious reporting that the media was engaging in in the two weeks after the hurricane hit.
And this is not just some meaningless book and author.
This is the Oprah trying to gin up all this angst and anger and keep it roiling.
Here, let me give you an example.
Let's go back to a week, the week after Katrina, Oprah and Ray Nagan cried at the superdome over supposed rapes and murder of children, all lies that we now know did not happen.
School Bus Nagan said, you're getting ready to see something and I'm not sure you're ready to see.
They have people standing out there.
They've been in that freaking superdome for five days watching dead bodies, watching hooligans killing people and raping people.
That's the tragedy.
People are trying to give us babies that were dying.
What happened and didn't have to happen to the children?
It's pretty overwhelming.
This makes me so bad.
This makes me mad.
This should not have happened.
And it didn't.
And yet she has yet to do a program saying it didn't happen.
Oprah Fry and her ongoing television show on Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
Let's go on now to another guest that she had yesterday.
This is Frank Rich of the New York Times.
And he says this about today's world.
She brings this guy.
He brings Rich out to somehow connect the lies of James Fry in his book to George W. Bush.
Live in this world now, which this is just sort of the tip of the iceberg, this memoir, where anyone can sort of put out something that sort of looks true, smells a little bit like truth, but in fact is in some way fictionalized.
And you look at anything from Enron fooling people and creating this aura of a great business making huge profits, but it was an empty shell, or people in the government telling us that mushroom clouds are going to come our way if we don't evade Iraq for months when it was on faulty and possibly suspect intelligence.
I mean, there's so much I could say here, I don't have time left in the show.
Oh, say, so Bush's lying has created people like James Fry.
We don't hear a word about what's his face, Jason Blair from Mr. Rich.
We don't hear a word about all of these plagiarists in mainstream journalism.
We don't hear about Isakoff, who just lied through his teeth about Koran's being flushed down a toilet at Club Guitemo.
They were not allowed any of that kind of introspection.
We don't hear about the lies of Bill Clinton.
And in fact, when we talk about the lies of Bill Clinton, let's go to cut 10.
Maureen Dowd on MSNBC last night had this to say about Clinton's lying.
When Bill Clinton would deceive, he would throw in a semantic clue that let you know he was deceiving.
I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
We knew what he meant by that.
You know, I did not about dope.
I didn't break the laws of this country.
So it was sort of poignant and endearing.
He would let you know he was lying, and then the right wing would come down so hard on him and over-punish him.
And in the case of Bush, he's just in a completely different reality.
You know, they call us the reality-based community, and they create their own reality.
And so Bush is just in a bubble.
And when you're in the bubble, you don't know you're in the bubble.
And they think he's in a bubble because he doesn't hang around with them.
They're the ones that have created the alternative reality.
But Clinton, Clinton's lying was poignant and endearing.
And that voice was so irritating to me.
I thought I was going to hear it more than Hillary screaming about protection for civil liberties.
That's the lovely and gracious Maureen Dowd commenting on the poignant and endearing lying of Bill Clinton.
In other words, what she's saying is his lying was so cute that we loved it.
We appreciated how good he was at it.
I got to take quick time out.
One more thing on this because I've uncovered another, well, I haven't.
Raleigh News Observer did, another journalist, another longtime author, been writing pure fiction, passing himself off as something that he's not.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us.
I got one more.
I want you to hear it.
One more Maureen Dowd soundbite, just for the irritation factor.
Question that she got.
What happens now to Oprah Winfrey's credibility?
Well, Oprah Winfrey, who I think probably already had more credibility than the president, her credibility goes up because unlike the president, she's willing to admit that she made a mistake and face up to it, and she's the man.
Okay, so there you have it.
Oprah, I hope you're thankful for your friends.
So Oprah's got more credibility because she had the courage to be a man to admit that she made a mistake.
This is from a woman who's writing about feminism and all that.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, one more example here.
There's a guy named Timothy Burris.
And Timothy Burris is basically what you would get by cloning Ward Churchill with some James Fry DNA spliced in.
That's what you'd get.
Former Chapel Hill author Nasdij.
Have you anybody heard this N-A-S-D-I-J-J?
Nasdij?
I hadn't either, but apparently he was big in certain circles.
He won national acclaim writing memoirs about his brutal childhood as a Navajo Indian in the southwest and as a father to two adopted sons who died of AIDS and fetal alcohol syndrome.
In truth, he was Timothy Barris, a man of Scandinavian descent, grew up in a solidly middle-class neighborhood of Lansing, Michigan, had a career writing gay pornography, according to public records and several people who know Barris.
The likelihood that Barris had fabricated his past and parlayed the fiction into three successful nonfiction books was first raised Wednesday in a lengthy article in a Los Angeles newspaper that outlines similarities between Timothy Barris and Nasdij.
On Thursday, the Raleigh News and Observer was able to confirm that they are the same person.
The paper had a social security number for Nasdij because it had paid him for freelance work.
A check of the database of public records collected by Accurint, a private company, matched Barris to the Social Security number.
And an Esquire editor said the magazine had made out a check to Tim Nasdij Barris for the 1999 article that was the author's breakthrough piece.
He couldn't be located and didn't respond to an email request for an interview, nor did his wife and adult daughter.
The revelation came at a time, or comes at a time when the publishing world is grappling with the disclosure that memoirist James Fry took liberties with his best-selling book, A Million Little Pieces.
But while Fry embellished parts of his book in his life, Barris appears to have made up an entirely new one.
And look at the life he made up.
He was a victim, brutal childhood as a Navajo Indian in the Southwest, the father of two adopted sons who died of AIDS and fetal alcohol syndrome.
In truth, he's out there writing gay porn.
It's different from Fry, said Esquire Magazine editor-in-chief David Granger.
Fry exaggerated.
If true, this is made up from Hole Cloth.
The publisher, spokeswoman for Ballantyne, which published two of Nasdij's books, is disturbed.
We are disturbed.
We would be very unhappy to be part of this if, in fact, that's all true.
After the Esquire piece, Nasdish published The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams in 2000, followed by The Boy and His Dog Are Sleeping, which won a Penn Award.
And Geronimo's Bones, he wrote that he was the son of an alcoholic Navajo mother and a white cowboy father who raped and beat him.
Said he grew up in migrant labor camps, made it all up.
You know, and all these guys, these liberals, it's just more evidence, folks.
Liberals have to lie to make life in America look more discouraging than it is.
It's not just the mainstream media.
It's not just Hollywood.
You know, the publishing business is infected with this too.
There's some people in this country that are obsessed with trying to portray the mainstream of America as this guy's life.
Downtrodden Navajo beat up and raped by a predator alcoholic father.
He grew up to be a man of compassion and sensitivity and went on and adopted children, one with fetal alcohol syndrome, the other one with AIDS.
Oh, aren't we wonderful people?
They're just beautiful people.
We're more sensitive than you are, blah, blah, blah.
They're liars.
They're obsessed with death.
I told you this the other day, last two weeks ago.
They survive around a culture of death.
Their number one death issue is abortion.
Number two is euthanasia.
And then whatever they can manage in between, they throw in there.
It's just, And it's all oriented toward doom and gloom and negativism and misery and unhappiness and all of this.
When in fact, this guy, there's a picture of him in this story.
He just looked like your average liberal college professor carrying his little dog around.
I mean, there it is.
We'll link this the Raleigh News and Observer, and I published the story today.
So it's not just James Fry, and it's not just the publishing world.
Let's not leave out all these brilliant urinalists out there who have made it up, who have had Pulitzer Prizes taken away from them for their made-up stories.
Well, I don't think we need hearings on this.
I'm not big on here.
Who's going to conduct the hearings?
Congress?
No.
Yeah, a bunch of other liars up there, and they can trade war stories as they conduct the hearings.
Have you people heard about this Cindy Sheehan trip down to Venezuela to suck up to the liberals' favorite communist now, Hugo Chavez?
This guy, if ever, if ever there was a betrayal, it is the betrayal of Hugo Chavez against his liberal cohorts and buddies and supporters in this country.
They haven't been enamored of a communist like this since Gorbachev came along.
I mean, remember the gorbasms?
He's getting off the plane at Andrews Air Force Base for the first summit with Reagan.
They can't contain themselves.
He's here.
He's come to save us from Reagan.
And they went nuts, and they kept having gorbasms.
And now, you know, they tried it with Castro, but he's just a communist fossil.
But this Hugo Chavez, young guy, they can invest a lot of hope in him.
They hold him in the same esteem as they held Gorbachev, Cheguevara, Mao Tze Tung, Daniel Ortega.
Jesse Jackson's been down there to kiss his hand and his feet.
Bill Delahunt, congressman from Massachusetts, went down there to arrange for a cheap oil buy-off deal to help his constituents.
Then Cindy Sheehan goes down there.
She's bashing Bush.
But Chavez has betrayed them.
Get this, HR.
He has announced plans to build a massive natural gas pipeline from Venezuela to Argentina.
Now, to do that, you have to go right through the heart of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.
This precious, precious, and sacred, holy, one-of-a-kind rainforest, which according to the wacko left sustains all life on earth and probably holds a cure for AIDS, is going to be ripped to shreds by their latest favorite communist, all for the purposes of a natural gas pipeline, which is a product of oil exploration.
I think this is so funny.
I love it.
Back in just a second.
Hey, we're back.
Great to have you here.
Cutting edge, societal evolution and all that.
El Rushball on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Here is Kenny in Lake City, Florida.
Hi, Kenny.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hey, Rush, how you doing?
You're just fine, sir.
Boy, you real funny, Russ.
Sometimes I just listen to you going.
I just don't.
I don't understand.
Why you attack Oprah like that, man?
I mean, she's one person that done deal a lot for those people down there and stuff like that.
I don't understand.
You attack people that really help people.
But then you'll turn around, Rush, and you'll turn around and you'll say that you're a godly person and stuff like that.
And I just don't understand it, Rush.
I don't understand it.
Well, what's hard to understand it?
I think Oprah has broadcast some things about the aftermath of New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina.
It weren't true.
And still hasn't corrected it.
Look at it, as long as the Oprah is going to go out there and start ripping people who make it up.
You know, I think what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Or for the gander, good for the goose in this case.
Whatever.
But, Rush, how long did our president go before he realized that he wasn't telling the truth?
Oh, geez.
Here we're going.
Clinton knew immediately.
I mean, that's the, but nobody cared when Clinton lied because, of course, you know, it was so funny.
It was so endearing.
I'm going to ask you a question, Rush.
I've answered the question.
I answered the question.
Yeah, you answered.
That's very good.
But have you ever had anyone in the presentation?
Thank you.
Have you ever had anyone in the military?
Have you ever had anyone in the military that's a little bit of a little bit of a bad person?
Have you ever had anybody?
Yeah.
Well, I'm 55 years old.
What kind of question?
Have I ever had anybody in the military or anybody in the hospital?
I'm talking about messed up.
I'm telling I got messed up in a war.
Have you ever had anybody get messed up in a war?
Yeah, my father was in World War II.
But I'm talking about was he in a situation where he couldn't help himself and stuff like that.
Well, you know, it's strange, but most of the World War II veterans will not talk about their service.
They don't brag or complain about it.
I really, I don't know, but I don't think that he was injured and hospitalized.
See, a lot of people.
But what does that have to do with anything?
Well, what I'm saying is I'm just trying to get a few points across.
We're meandering over this show like it's a hopscotch board today.
I'm not.
I can't keep up with you people hopping all over the place.
I'm not hopping all over the place.
What did you call about?
I've forgotten.
Oh, you called about Oprah.
Now you're talking about.
I'm really tired of how you attack black people.
You attack our leaders and stuff.
You attack Jeffrey.
You know something?
I don't attack people.
You don't attack Gunnar McNeil before.
How long has it been since I mentioned Oprah on this program?
This is the first time in months, if not multiple months.
Kenny, I don't attack people.
I want you to listen very carefully to this.
I don't attack people.
I get up every day and I take a look at what's happening in the world.
And if I see traditions and institutions that I think are people that I love or appreciate or made the country great under attack, I will defend them.
And I had to put up today with listening to Oprah trash this guy.
I had to listen to Frank Rich put up with trying to link this author to George Bush and then Maureen Dowd trying to say Clinton is a poignant, endearing liar.
To respond to this is not an attack.
And it's not an attack.
And as long as the Oprah is going to run out there and after she tried to buck this guy up and maintain his credibility because it was linked to her own, you know, she's not clean and pure as the wind-driven snow out there.
Well, I'm looking at it like this here, Rush.
If somebody says something about the president, you'll call him unpatriotic.
If somebody says something about the president, you will call him.
No, don't do that.
Who you're confusing me with, Kenny?
Oh, you know, y'all talk about it all the time.
Y'all know me.
Y'all just confused me.
Kenny, you're living in the world of stereotypes out there.
You've got this image of me based more on what you think I am than what I am.
Well, you know, that's why you're confused.
The reason you're confused is because I'm not who you think I am, and then you're still operating on that false premise.
Well, Russ, I look at it like this here, Russ.
Well, a person can go out there and listen to a person like y'all make your own opinions and stuff like that, but they're not making $30,000 an hour.
I'll get up there probably and a lot of other people get up there and tell some of the lies you tell, making $38,000 an hour.
Well, I'll defend the president, too.
Wait a minute.
I'm having trouble keeping up with this now.
Do I make $38,000 an hour?
Yeah, $38,000 or something.
$30,000, $38,000 an hour?
I don't know.
I must have gotten a pay cut somewhere.
Well, Kenny, whatever I'm making, Oprah is dwarfing that.
That's true.
That's true.
Of course, there's nothing wrong with that either, is there?
And as far as I know, Oprah works one hour a day.
Yeah, but she goes out there and do a whole lot with people.
Have you ever gave $10 million to those people in New Orleans?
Well, see, that's another thing.
Kenny, I don't broadcast the money I give to charity because I'm not out there trying to bamboozle people that way.
I try to keep aspects of that part of my life private.
I don't give money to charity so people will like me.
I give money to causes I believe in, but I'm not out there broadcasting it.
I don't issue press releases.
I don't do shows on what a great person I am and what I've done for people.
It's up to those people if they want to talk about it, but I don't do it.
I have a different philosophy about that.
It's called humility.
It's called humility and not using my career to promote myself as an image so that people will fall in love with my image rather than who I really am.
I am not a phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock and roller using the privilege of these three hours, which are a business, to self-aggrandize.
I just hate the way y'all guys take advantage of people and people too stupid to see through it.
People just too stupid.
It's too stupid to see through it.
Talking to a brick wall.
Kenny, is it?
Kenny, is your name Kenny or Kanye?
My name is Kenny.
Kenny.
But Kanye, your brother.
I just shared a little bit of myself with you, which is crucial.
You talked about all the great things Oprah does, and the only reason you know it's because Oprah tells you.
And then you said, I don't hear you doing any of these great things.
That's because I'm not a braggadocious braggart living on spin.
I don't run around telling the whole world about it.
I'm not doing this show to create an image of myself that people will like.
I'm trying to create a program people want to listen to because it's quality content.
And then you come back and say that people like me take advantage of people and people are too stupid to see through it.
Everybody got to make a living.
I'm going to give you one more example, Russia.
Okay, who am I taking advantage of, Kenny?
The stupid people out there.
Stupid people out there.
There's a lot of stupid people out there following you, and they're slipping day by day, and don't even see it.
Don't even see it.
Don't even see it.
I'm going to give you an example of some Russia, what's going on in this country right now, and I'm going to hang up the phone, okay?
Go for it, Kenny.
We're on a roll here.
A lot of people, man, out there right now, they're following, and I love God.
I love the Lord.
But a lot of people go out there and they'll be following some of these pastors out there and stuff now, and they're telling people to go out there and bite Bush and all this stuff like him.
But the problem is, they don't got away from saving souls.
Only thing they worry about now is politics.
And I don't care if it's a Democrat or a Republican.
And that's what's wrong with our country.
The only thing they care about is politics.
I really think you have hit on something now.
Now, this is why I stick with these calls because my instincts and empty, you stick with something long enough and you will find gold.
And Kenny, you just struck gold.
I couldn't agree with you more about Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton.
I'll tell you what, I knew you and I would find common ground if I just hung in.
Kenny, who do you think's going to win the Super Bowl?
Oh, Pittsburgh is going to win it.
Pittsburgh will win common ground again.
Kenny, I love you, man.
Yeah, but it's not only Jesse Johnson.
You can put the names in you want to.
What say we meet in the Oprah audience one day in Chicago and go out and have a beer after the program and maybe chase women if Oprah will let us.
I ain't going to touch the stuff, and I ain't teaching no women.
I'm just telling, you know, what the Lord is really sad is the thing that's going on nowadays because our pastors nowadays got people following them and they're leading blind sheep straight into hell in our country.
Kenny, I got the point the first time.
You've nailed it, my friend.
You've absolutely nailed it.
There's so many phony baloney plastic banana good time rock and roller preachers out there that aren't preaching.
They're just using it to self-aggrandize and make themselves bigger than life leaders, but they're not saving souls and they're not preaching the gospel or doing any of that sort of thing.
They're just stirring the pot and making people not like each other.
Don't nobody pray for peace no more.
They pray for war and how to win a war, but war sometimes can be fought through prayer.
I'm telling you something.
Now he's on a roll because now when Jesse Jackson goes down and breaks bread with one of our enemies like Hugo Chavez, that's Kenny.
Lake City, Florida.
I may have to take a trip there.
I got a woman you need to meet, Jill in Ithaca, New York.
If I could pull that off, that would close the loop on this show like nothing else.
Okay, we got a place.
I promise that we'd play you to lurch soundbites.
Lurch on the floor of the Senate today trying to gin up this filibuster.
Here are the first of three of the soundbites that we have.
The critical question here is, why are we so compelled to accept in such a rush a nominee who has so clearly been chosen for political and ideological reasons?
That's the real question.
Our job is to advise and consent.
Nobody understands better than I do the consequences of an election or what happens when a president wins.
Unbelievable.
He can't go three sentences without making it about him.
And as to the critical question, why are we so compelled to accept in such a rush because you don't have the power to stop it because you did lose the election and you lost the election because you are you.
Here's the second soundbite.
Judge Alito wrote a Justice Department memorandum concluding, concluding that the use of deadly force against a fleeing unarmed suspect did not violate the Fourth Amendment.
The victim was a 15-year-old African American.
He was 5'4 ⁇ , or tall.
He weighed 100 to 110 pounds.
And this unarmed eighth grader was attempting to jump a fence with a stolen purse containing $10 when he was shot in the back of the head in order to prevent escape.
That's the standard that's going to go to the Supreme Court, if ratified here, that it's okay to shoot a 15-year-old, 110-pound, 5-foot-poor kid who's trying to get over a fence with a purse in the back of the head.
Does anybody find this odd?
Didn't Senator Kerry get a medal for doing this in Vietnam?
Or wasn't he accorded hero status?
Am I forgetting something?
I know he served in Vietnam, but didn't he shoot an unarmed young Vietnamese man in the back?
And whatever happened to the strip searching of 10-year-old girls?
Where did this one come from?
Did this come up in the hearings, Mr. Snurdle?
I don't remember this having come up in the hearings.
Lurch is bringing all this stuff out of the woodwork.
We've got one more bite here from John Filibuster Kerry.
There are consequences to this nomination that I don't believe all the American people got out of the hearings because the hearings didn't answer questions.
And when you really pose some of these choices to Americans, they come down on the side that I've described.
What's up?
Protected, not making those kinds of choices about a young kid, making sure that our privacy is protected.
So I believe that for those reasons and others that I will discuss starting on Monday, I oppose Judge Alito's nomination, and I hope that colleagues, others will join in that effort in the end.
It's really interesting timing.
I told you this was going to happen.
We have that Harris poll or whatever poll outs that, yo, USA Today's CNN Gallup polls.
51% of people would not vote for Hillary.
Only 16% would.
Bam.
This guy comes out and demands a filibuster two days later.
Hillary, after the poll goes on TV, starts screeching about Bush and spying or whatever it is she was complaining about.
Kerry thinks this is going to put him back in a game with these crackpots on the left, the Jill from Ithaca types.
That's who he's playing to here.
It's comical to watch.
Here's Bobby in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Hi, Bobby.
Welcome to the program.
How are you?
Just fine, sir.
Thanks.
Good.
Happy Friday to you.
Same to you.
Thank you.
Hey, I just want to see, given your huge passion for the game of football, do you think it would hold up if you were on the other side, like as an owner, given the new business aspect of it?
Hell yes, because it's impossible to lose money in the NFL, so that wouldn't be a concern.
Very true.
It is a big marketing, lots of money made in the NFL, huh?
Well, it's television money.
It's simply not possible to lose money in the NFL.
You can't do it.
I've had numerous owners tell me this.
Definitely.
Of course they have.
Well, for crying out loud, each team gets how many billion before they start the season?
Oh, I know.
The revenue sharing is incredible with TV rights and everything.
Exactly.
And now they get to keep all the sweet money in the stadium because that's not shared.
The new deal coming up with the players, they got to negotiate a new agreement with the NFL PA, and they're having trouble doing that.
No, I don't think my passion would compromise my ownership whatsoever.
I've thought about this on numerous occasions.
I don't think it would go down or do you think it would increase or decrease at all?
That depends.
There's some teams I wouldn't want to own.
I mean, I could see myself owning a team and having another favorite team.
Sure.
And then hoping my team lost to that team.
No, the biggest, I think the biggest challenge for a fan owner is to go ahead and be passionate, but get some real football people who understand it to build the team and let them run it.
And that's, but you can go to all the meetings and you can go to pregame meal and you can go down, kneel down for the post-game prayer after victory and all that.
You can hoist the Super Bowl trophy when you win it.
No, I think it'd be a hoot.
I absolutely think it'd be a hoot.
The first quarterback I would try to get is McNabb.
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I don't know if you people know this or not, but Al Gore has been out at the Sundance Film Festival out there in Park City, Utah.
This is one of Robert Redford's big do's.
And apparently, Al Gore is working on the movie that, what is the name of this movie?
Oh, that's right.
An inconvenient truth.
And the movie will document his efforts to raise alarm on the effects of global warming.
And so he brought Tipper and the kids out there.
He's attending parties and posing for pictures with his fans.
He's enjoying macaroni and cheese at the Discovery Channel Soiree.
He's palling around with Larry David of Curb Your Enthusiasm, who's the husband of Laurie David, who drives the Prius and then flies the G5.
Larry David says, you know, Al's a funny guy, but he's also a very serious guy who believes humans may have only 10 years left to save the planet from cookery with the sea.
Now, the last time I heard some liberal talk about 10 years, it was 1988.
Ted Danson.
We had 10 years to save the oceans.
We were all going to pay the consequences, which would result in our death.
Now, Al Gore says we've got 10 years.
10 years left to save the planet from a scorching.
Okay, we're going to start counting.
This is January 27th, 2006.
We will begin the count.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is just, you have to love these people.
You just have to, from afar and from a purely observational point of view.
Have a great weekend, folks.
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