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January 30, 2006, Monday, Hour #3

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	All right, we're back.
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	All right, I mentioned earlier in the uh in the in the program today that uh uh Democrats are upset at Dingy Harry, and they're starting to turn on each other.
	And it it was I saw this at redstate.org, which is one of uh one of our blogs here that we regularly check, along with the American thinker and uh little green footballs and some others.
	And uh Ed Lasky posts this on the American thinker, which and he he too saw what was going on at Red State.
	I just wanted to find the documentation for this that I had mentioned earlier.
	Democrats are in such disarray that their constant scandalmongering to no effect is starting to inflict friendly fire on their own ranks.
	Looks like it's every man for himself now.
	Nick Danger at redstate.org noticed that Joe Biden was not exactly out in front defending Harry Reed, who may be implicated in the Abramoff scandal.
	Senator Biden failed to address rumors that Nevada Senator Harry Reed will step down next month.
	The Senate minority leader, Reed, has been stung by revelations that his political action committee accepted more than 60 big ones in contributions from Indian tribes linked to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
	Appearing on CNN's late edition, Biden avoided discussing either the Reed situation or any upcoming changes in Senate Democrat leadership.
	Now Reed is no stranger to scandal.
	Having been the subject of a 1979 Justice Department probe into allegations that Reed, then the Nevada Gaming Commission chairman, had received bribes through mob lawyer Oscar Goodman and Tropicana attorney J. H. Brown.
	The probe officially cleared Reed, but he subsequently received numerous contributions from gambling industry figures, including Brown.
	DNC Chairman Howard Dean, appearing on Fox News Sunday, made no announcements concerning Reed's status, but did comment on the growing controversy.
	Chris Wallace asked the lead DNAc, if we find that there were some Democrats who wrote letters on behalf of some of the Indian tribes that Abramoff represented, then what do you say, sir?
	Without mentioning Dingy Harry by name, Howard Dean said, well, that's a big problem.
	And those Democrats are in trouble, and they should be in trouble.
	Dean has plenty of his own problems to worry about.
	He isn't going to earn any friends among Democrat loyalists with this sort of comment.
	He's already in deep water hot water because he spent all the money that the DNC's raised.
	RNC has 34 million, a DNC has five.
	Dean's already spent it as left them high in drive to have DNC participation funding of the 2006 congressional races, and Rahmanuel, who runs the uh uh the congressional campaign committee for the Democrats is is reportedly livid about this.
	Now this Abramoff scandal, I'll tell you what's what's you know, I've mentioned to you last week the Democrats are throwing all their eggs in this basket.
	And that's why they're getting so paranoid that there might be Democrats.
	That's why they want to split hairs on whether they got direct contributions from Abramov.
	Uh and they they maintain they didn't.
	Only the Republicans got direct contributions from Abramov.
	But you see, if Abramoff's clients, like the Indian tribes or others, sent money to Democrats at Abramoff's request, the problem for Harry Reed is okay, you know, a Republican who took uh a grand or two directly from Abramoff, or Harry Reed who got 60 grand from Abramoff clients.
	How does this really look?
	Especially when Dingy Harry refuses to give the money back.
	Now this attempt to split hairs is so transparent because apparently what the Democrats are saying it's okay to take this money.
	We're not concerned that ethics involves taking this money.
	It's only if it comes from Abramoff, is it bad.
	And that's not going to fly with the American.
	The American people understand this kind of stuff.
	They you you you all have an instinctive ability to weed out these things that are back pocket explainable or pocketbook explainable.
	And this is certainly one of those things.
	Whether Abramoff gave money directly to only Republicans, or Abramov clients gave to both parties, it's going to be real tough for the Democrats to try to make a case that all PAC money is okay unless it comes from Abramoff directly, and then it's a scandal.
	Because there are for every Jack Abramov out there that gets, you know, attention highlighted, caught, what have you, they're just the next bunch of guys waiting to get caught.
	And the Democrats know this.
	This this is another scandal that's going to blow up in their face because they're not it isn't what they're trying to make it out to be.
	Hillary Clinton was uh where was she?
	She was in San Francisco Saturday night.
	And she uh she was being interviewed by Jane Pauly.
	And I don't know what for what, because I don't think Jane Paulie has a show anymore.
	So Jane Paulie was maybe Hillary's on stage doing a little town meeting, Jane Pauly was the moderator, regardless.
	Hillary Clinton are say uh Hillary Clinton is saying that the American people are going impatient as they wait for a woman to be elected president.
	Ah, Mrs. Clinton, the smartest woman in the world, steps in it again.
	People are saying, well, at least we're ready, Clinton told interviewer Jane Pauly, as the two held a public chat for charity in San Francisco.
	There's a feeling that it's time.
	Then in quotes picked up of the New York Sun, the former first later said she detected a certain impatience to see a female president following the election of women to similar roles in other countries.
	Despite Mrs. Clinton's claims, a Gallup poll found last week that 51% of Americans already made up their minds not to vote for her.
	The top Democrat offered the comments after Jane Pauly noted that President Bush had recently said she would make a formidable candidate.
	Mrs. Clinton declined to return the compliment, however, and instead blasted President Bush for mishandling the rebuilding of New Orleans after it was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
	I'm telling you, folks, this woman is a lightweight, and don't get paranoid and think of other things.
	Can I uh share a story?
	We had a caller, and I wish this caller had not hung up.
	Um, because the caller was calling to react to the story that the DNC, Howard Dean, somehow had spent all but five million of what they'd raised.
	I don't think they raised more than eight.
	But they've only got five million left.
	Republicans have got 34 million in the National Committee coffers.
	This guy wanted to call up and say that the problem, the problem for the Democrat National Committee is these 527s.
	They're getting all the money that used to go to the Democrat National Committee.
	But there was a little commented upon story last week, a week ago today.
	The Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion one week ago today that suggests that some political advertisers may eventually be entitled to an exemption from McCain fine gold.
	In an unsigned opinion issued six days after the justices heard oral arguments in the case, the court threw out a 2004 federal court ruling that had barred all challenges to a key provision of McCain-Feingold by corporate or union advertisers.
	The justices said that the decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court in Washington was a misinterpretation of the Supreme Court's 2003 decision upholding the law, also known as McCain-Feingold.
	The court ordered a three-judge panel to redo the case and to say specifically what kinds of corporate paid ads may qualify for an exemption.
	This is the part of the uh the McCain Feingold that says you can't advertise within 30 days of a general or 60 days of a primary, if you're gonna say this or that.
	It's a direct infringement on free speech, and it was long assumed the Supreme Court signed off and upheld that.
	And they got a rechance, another chance to hear the case, they said, Nope, that's not what's at stake.
	Now here's what here's here's here are the numbers, because it looks like McCain Feingold's gonna get another look see over at the full U.S. Supreme Court.
	Scalia, Clarence Thomas, uh Rehnquist, and Anthony Kennedy voted against the McCain Feingold Law.
	In fact, Kennedy wrote an 86 page long dissent.
	Judge Roberts aligns with Rehnquist on this as the new chief.
	He will he will replace Rehnquist's vote.
	Alito's vote will probably be opposite O'Connor.
	So if the whole thing comes back before the Supreme Court again, McCain Feingold could go.
	Everybody here is looking at Roe versus Wade and all that, but I just want to give you the heads up that McCain fine gold could go the way of the dust if this whole thing gets re-heard.
	Now, I I don't know that that'll happen.
	But if it does, the votes are going to line up that McCain Feingold uh is Fini on the OCA.
	And of course, that'll then change this the whole landscape again, the 527s.
	Uh and there are so many of those 520s, George Soros and Moveon.org and Americans coming together.
	That's where the Democrat National Committee money is basically gone.
	Uh and it's in the hands of these wackos who have turned elected Democrats.
	I didn't think it's possible.
	The elected Democrats in Washington have always been just embarrassingly out of it and lost causes.
	They they now have been uh rendered uh impotent and they appear to be insane at the same time.
	Which I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.
	Which and I, you know, I think it's funny.
	I'm not outraged by it.
	I laugh at it as often as I can.
	I gotta take quick time out here.
	Remember last week after Bush's press conference.
	I said I love it when he keeps using the word enemy to the press.
	The enemy.
	Because I said the one thing they don't have the guts to stand up and say to him that they really want to is what enemy?
	We don't have an enemy, we're not at war, you idiot.
	That's what they think.
	I am holding in my formerly nicotine stained fingers a copy of an op-ed today by James Carroll in the Boston Globe.
	Headline is America actually in a state of war.
	I'm telling you, Mr. Snurdley, I know these people.
	I know them.
	I know them better than they know themselves.
	And I think maybe Barack Obama may actually be listening to me, or somebody in his staff is listening to me because he is said something and made a little sense.
	A lot of sense about this this phony little filibuster game.
	But the cloture vote is at uh at uh 4 30 this afternoon.
	And uh uh uh that little dweeb up in the road, what is his name?
	Um Link Chafey, who's gonna vote against Alito, said doesn't matter.
	I'm gonna I'm I'll vote with the Republicans on cloture.
	But I I'm I'm I'm still voting against Alito.
	They don't have the number of votes.
	Uh, Democrats are gonna go through this exercise anyway just to please these.
	I've run out of names for them.
	I just run out of descriptive names for these lunatics on the left that are really in charge of the Democrat or the blogger base, call it whatever you want it.
	Um as Snerdley said, the real fun's gonna be watching their reaction when the when the filibuster doesn't work this afternoon.
	And even if it does folks, if you there's no way we can lose on this if it if if if they actually if they actually prevent the cloture vote.
	In other words, if if they can if they can come up with 41 votes to stop the the attempt to go to cloture and move this on to a full full uh Senate floor vote, point the gut in your temple and pull a trigger is what they um what they will have done.
	So it's it's gonna be fascinating to watch.
	Uh either way it ends up today.
	But where are they right now?
	35, the latest count there, 35 votes to um.
	No, no, thirty well, I'm talking about they need 41.
	The Democrats need 41 votes to block a cloture vote.
	And they've they're right now standing at 35 according to the latest head count.
	So they got to come up with six.
	And the and and and then, of course, here's something else to consider.
	If they do do this, if they pull this off and they get to this 41, what's I gonna say about the power of McCain and the gang of 14?
	I'm telling you, folks, there's no way we could lose no matter what happens here at 430.
	It's just a different set of entertainment values that will follow that we will uh be faced with.
	Quick timeout.
	Stay with us.
	Don't go away.
	Hi, we're back.
	Rush Limbaugh saying more in five seconds than your average host says in a whole career here on the EIB network, 800-282-2882.
	Here is the newsmax story about Senator Barack Obama.
	He predicted he was on what was he on?
	Yeah, Stephanopoulos this week.
	He predicted on Sunday that an effort to try to block a final vote on Alito, i.e., filibuster, would fail today, and that would clear the way for Senate approval Tuesday of the Federal Appeals Court judge, Sam Alito.
	Democrats fear that Alito would shift the court rightward on blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Obama said we need to recognize, because Judge Alito will be confirmed, that if we're going to oppose a nominee, that we got to persuade the American people that in fact their values are at stake.
	There is an over-reliance on the part of Democrats for procedural maneuvers.
	Obama Castellino as a judge who's contrary to core American values, not just liberal values, but he joins some Democrats in expressing his unhappiness with the filibuster bid.
	He said there's one way to guarantee the judges who are appointed to the court are judges that reflect our values, and that's to win elections.
	There's one man, one lone voice in the Democratic Party who gets, but they have a problem, folks, and that's because they don't connect with the American people.
	They haven't the slightest ability.
	How there's this story, Jim Vandedee, I told you about this one earlier in the program, so I was going to get to it.
	The time is now.
	Blogs attack from left as Democrats reach for center.
	The Democrats aren't reaching for the center.
	The Democrats are trying to hang on to the cliff that the bloggers want to take them over.
	But the cliff is as far out there on the left as you can get.
	You see, and let me give you some highlights of this story.
	Uh well, I must have taken the story out of order.
	I don't care.
	I can I can remember what the story said.
	I have told you over the years, and you will remember this because it's it's uh one of my more profound truths, and that is that liberalism is a gutless choice.
	Liberalism is the most gutless choice that you can make.
	And the Democratic Party has been a party without guts for years now.
	They don't have the guts to voice their true philosophy, except that they're incestuous dinner parties for liberal purebreds hosted by Nora Effron and Tina Brown.
	Democrats are made up of angry leftist outcasts who are bound together by a thirst for power and ambition.
	This is not a great platform on which to get elected, and that's why Hillary was thought to be their savior.
	Hillary Clinton is a microcosm of where the Democrats are today.
	Hillary is a power-hungry, ambitious woman who hides her deep belief in a socialist state where a few privileged political tyrants have the opportunity to tell the little people how they should live their lives.
	The anger in Hillary and people like her is poorly disguised, but a wink and a nod used to be enough to keep the secret safe among Democrats and their co-conspirators in the press.
	But this little charade, a charade kept Democrats in the game far longer than their talent and appeal would otherwise allow.
	By the little wink and nod, Hillary used in the old days, she'd go ahead and make a play for abortion anti-abortion people.
	And the left that's okay, we understand what she's doing.
	She's got to be uh-uh.
	Not anymore.
	They're fed up with the gutlessness of their own people.
	They want their own people to come out and say what they're for.
	We're for as many abortions as possible.
	We want to raise taxes.
	We are for big government.
	We want affirmative action.
	We want all of these, and that Democrat leaders will not come out and say it.
	Hardly any Democrats will.
	But this old wink and a nod that they used to be able to get away with.
	I the rest of the new media have changed all that.
	And, you know, let's let's not blame the uh the new residents of Cooksville for the uncivil war that they've unleashed on their antique soulmates.
	I mean, the Kook left-wing fringe activists have declared their desire for their party to articulate their philosophy.
	No more winks, no more nods.
	Howard Dean, this cause guy, Carrie Gore, George Soros, they've been silent long enough.
	They've put their money behind these people are not getting anything back for it.
	They want to come out of the political closet.
	They want to be themselves, and nobody's going to stop them.
	And all the hell that is broken loose.
	Of course, the desire to declare one's liberalism at the top of their collective lungs will sink the Democrats as a national party in this country.
	And yet the writer of this story doesn't seem to get that these bloggers who are steering the demand, they don't connect with the American people either.
	They are unconnected with reality and the American people.
	And that's why this is a train wreck in the process of happening, and we are witnessing it, folks.
	Back in a moment.
	What do you mean, gonna?
	We are, and we do every day here on the EIB network at Super Bowl week coming up Friday.
	I don't know what time yet, probably two o'clock hour.
	We'll be talking to my friend Ken Hutcherson, the Hutch, uh out in uh Seattle about the Seattle Seahawks and the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday night in New Fallujah.
	And uh the Hutch is a big Seahawks fan.
	The Hutch sometimes goes by on the on uh home games and does chapel for the uh the players.
	Uh they get there so early he'll he'll conduct church service for them before the game.
	So he knows his team intimately.
	I know that all I know about Seattle's in the upper left-hand corner of the country, and I I'm I've been educating myself on their players, a damn good team.
	They're powerful offense and uh great offensive line, maybe the best in the league, and a and uh uh defense that can sandbag people as well as it is gonna be a uh a good game.
	But but Hutch, I know you're out there, and if you're not out there, you'll hear about this.
	I haven't seen videotape of the Steelers' arrival.
	Steelers uh got into Detroit a little after 10 o'clock today, but the Seahawks uh or the Seabirds, as Hutch calls his own team.
	Uh the Seabirds arrived yesterday afternoon, late afternoon, evening, five or six o'clock.
	And I've read stories and I saw some videotape, and Hutch, it doesn't look good for your boys because I've seen this too many times.
	They're on the airplane with their camcorders, and they get off the airplane with their camcorders.
	And when I see I mean, you don't see a businessman getting off the airplane at an airport going in for a big business meeting, camcording the terminal or the festivities wherever he is arriving.
	And these guys, if and I I look for this every year.
	This is one of my keys to the game.
	Whichever team arrives has the most players using camcorders, getting off the plane to videotape the experience, is not as serious about this as a team that has fewer guys or no guys getting off the plane wearing camcorders.
	And using camcorders.
	And I just, you know, this is a it's a look at McNabb.
	McNabb got off the Philadelphia Eagles airplane in Jacksonville last year, about this time, and that camcorder was running.
	I knew right then it's Tom Brady's game.
	You didn't see the Patriots getting off the plane with camcorders.
	I don't care they'd been there three or four times before that.
	You didn't see it.
	You know, there's gonna be plenty of people taking video of these festivities.
	Players can get this.
	This is a business trip.
	It's the biggest game of the year.
	It's not a circus.
	Mr. Snerdley, I d I don't know if the team hotels are behind barbed wire in New Fallujah.
	Is that just my that's my first key of the game.
	We'll be talking about Super Bowl later in the week, but that's uh my first key.
	You do uh could be off the board, it could be a neutral key if the Steelers got off with their camcorders rolling too.
	Um I don't I just I can't I can't imagine the Steelers will be doing that.
	And we got, by the way, we got all kinds of stories today about the state of luxury that the seabirds arrived in.
	Paul Allen gave them one of his jets.
	Paul Allen, the owner has like three 757 200s, and they've all got first-class seats in them, and they've got like Matt Hasselback, the uh Hasselbeck, the quarterback said the bathroom in this airplane that he flew in on is nicer than the uh bathroom in the first house he had.
	So uh, you know, I guarantee you the Steelers arrived on a standard dump U.S. Airways jet.
	No frills, no nothing.
	Here these guys come out on his, I'm just telling you, uh Hutch, I know these are keys that you have to you have to pay attention to in the biggest game of the Hutch knows this stuff.
	He'll end up agreeing with me on this.
	Uh people since middle of No, they're videotaped all the media and the people outside.
	These guys get off the airplane on the tarmac, and there's all the buses out there, and it's a festive site, even if it's new Fallujah, and they get but they want to document on their own cameras the experience.
	I mean I have never done this.
	I've never taken my own camcorder.
	A vacation.
	Take a camcorder on vacation.
	You don't take it with you to work.
	Do you have you ever seen me walking in here with a camcorder documenting my arrival at the EIB Southern Command?
	No.
	It just it does these kind of things don't happen.
	You take camcorders and that's kind of stuff on vacation.
	Or you hire some journalist of camcorder you getting off the airplane, but you don't carry the camcorder.
	I mean, look, do I carry a camcorder with me to the Bob Hope?
	Or even do I take my own pictures with a camera?
	Do I take pictures of the fans taking pictures of me?
	No.
	When I go to the ATT, do I walk around playing golf with a camcorder now and then between shots?
	Saying, well, man, look where I am.
	I can't believe this.
	No.
	Act like you've been there.
	Even if you haven't.
	This is a sight game as much as anything else.
	Ever since last week, people, some not everybody, but some people.
	Rush, what do you mean?
	Onions.
	Let me define, let me give you an example of onions.
	Two stories.
	In order.
	First story cleared earlier today.
	Exxon Mobil Corporation posted record profits for any U.S. company today, 10.71 billion dollars for the fourth quarter and 36.13 billion for the whole year, as the world's biggest publicly traded oil company benefited from high oil and gas prices and demand for refined products.
	The results exceeded Wall Street expectations, and Exxon shares rose nearly 3% on pre-market trading.
	So a record profit for a U.S. company from ExxonMobil.
	Here is what I mean by onions.
	Story number two, ExxonMobil Corporation today urged a federal appeals court to erase the $5 billion in damages And Alaska jury ordered the oil giant to pay for the 1989 Valdez oil spill.
	Exxon attorney Walter Dellinger told a three judge panel at the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals that Exxon should be liable for no more than $25 million in punitive damages.
	Exxon, which reported third quarter earnings of $10 billion, said it spent more than three billion on the cleanup work and to settle other federal and state lawsuits.
	So on the day that Exxon records a record U.S. profit, they demand a court reduce the punitive damage award from five billion to twenty-five million.
	That is onions.
	That is onions, and I'm tell I absolutely love it.
	All right, before we go to the break.
	I had about five people.
	Apparently, well, I'm not going to tell you how they found it, because everybody be doing it, but uh but five people sent me a column that ran Sunday, yesterday, in the Huntsville, Alabama Times.
	And it's a column by Huntsville resident Beth Thames, T-H-A-M-E-N.
	Maybe she pronounces it tames, I'm not sure, but she's a freelance writer and an English instructor at Calhoun Community College.
	Beth Thames.
	And the headline of her piece is Hey Rush, how about giving feminists credit too?
	And here's how she opens the piece, quoting me.
	I love the women's movement, especially when I'm walking behind it.
	Rush Limbaugh.
	If Rush Limbaugh had a dinner party, I wouldn't be invited, but that's all right because I wouldn't even attend if I were.
	However, as a southern woman of a certain age, I would have to decline politely through clenched teeth.
	Politely is not the way we do things these days when radio and TV personalities on both sides of the political aisle rage at each other on the air.
	I don't listen to Rush Limbaugh's show because I don't agree with much of what he says.
	And it wears me out to listen to all of his vitriol.
	So much hot air coming from the radio is too much for the small space inside my Volkswagen.
	Why didn't you buy American Rush might sneer?
	No, not at all.
	See, Beth, it would really help if you'd listened to the program before you write these things.
	I I had a killer dinner party.
	I had ten people over, and I had room for easily two more.
	I would have loved for you to have been there, Beth, if I'd have known you were even had the thought in your mind to attend one of my dinner parties, and you would have loved it.
	Beth, you would have had one of the greatest times of your life.
	We never discussed feminism.
	We didn't even discuss politics.
	Well, I got horn swoggled by a couple people in a private moment, but I mean we never discussed it.
	I don't listen to Rush Limbaugh show, but I read, and I read in Newsweek a few months ago that Rush has decided he's an Uber male.
	Rush didn't coin the phrase, but he thinks he is one.
	An uber male is a fellow who'd rather go out to dinner with the guys than the gals.
	Why is that, Rush?
	An uber male is a man who appreciates the finer things in life and a man who has not yet been neutered by feminists, Rush says.
	Make them feminazis.
	Whatever.
	Now, Rush just shush.
	We we all know that women, feminists or otherwise, cannot neuter anybody.
	Not unless they are veterinarians or urologists, and even then it has to be consensual.
	Maybe not for a dog or cat.
	Rush, you make us blush just by bringing this kind of thing up.
	And haven't feminists done some good in the world, Rush?
	Aren't we glad we now have female doctors, female lawyers?
	Aren't we glad our grandmothers got the vote?
	Can't a real Uber male see the fairness in all of this?
	Well, we hope so.
	But one of the downsides of Uber maleness is to be cocky and over sure of oneself.
	Rush was that.
	But he had to admit to his addiction to painkillers and his ability to get off of them without help.
	Even an Uber male needs to reach out in order to get up from the place he has fallen.
	Asking for help doesn't make him a girly man, it makes him human.
	And it descends from there.
	Uh to for a bunch of from a woman who doesn't listen and says she can't listen because she can't stand the vitriol, the victory all picks up and gets uh and gets quite personal about marriage, divorce, and girlfriends and so forth and so on.
	Um it just the main reason that I that I wanted to share this with you, uh ladies and gentlemen, because it's classic.
	A woman who admits to not listening, but reading Newsweek for her information about me and then daring to say that that she wouldn't enjoy one of my dinner parties.
	That offends me more than anything, because these are more fun than people have ever experienced before.
	And uh I'm I know she's in what Huntsville, Alabama, but next time I have a dinner party, I'm I think I might invite her just to see if she'll show up.
	Just for the heck of it.
	And then she can thirdly stop gritting your teeth in there.
	At any rate, folks, I must take a quick time out.
	We'll be back, we'll continue.
	I'll try to get some of your phone calls in, but I'm just loaded with good stuff here today, so I don't I don't don't take it uh don't take it personally.
	Oh, what whoa, whoa, whoa, gotta take this one before the break.
	Just saw it, Robbie and Winacchi, Washington.
	Yes, welcome to the program.
	Hey Rush, I'd be more than happy to come to one of your dinner parties.
	You need to slack up, you know.
	Uh good old Sean, uh he does a lot for the Seattle Seahawks, and when he was awarded that uh, you know, the his big award this year for being El Numeruno, he bought brand new camcorders for all the guys on the team, and I'll tell you what, if I was one of the guys on the team and I knew that bringing his camcorder to this Super Bowl was gonna make him play any better.
	I'll tell you what, I'd put ribbons and balloons on it just so that he would see it.
	So the whole team, he bought camcorders hard teeth.
	All right, I look at I'm not gonna look, I'm not denigrating the Seahawks.
	Well, I know that's I am I'm making a wait a second.
	I am I just got through saying they've I've talked about Alexander, MVP, running back of the year, record touchdowns, uh the great offensive line, they've got a Sterling.
	I'm I'm not gonna get anywhere near putting down a sea horse.
	I don't I that's that's not how do I play this game.
	I'm just telling you.
	I'm just I don't care if he gave them camcorders or not, there's a time to use and oh look it.
	I'm not even gonna comment on the propriety.
	I'm just gonna tell you experience.
	I have studied this.
	The teams I'll never forget this.
	This is where I first noticed it.
	The Broncos playing in San Diego got blown out by the Washington Redskins.
	The Redskins scored 35 points in five minutes in the third quarter, and that was it.
	The Broncos got out to a lead.
	And it was shortly after that that the NFL films did a feature on the Broncos that week.
	And they had uh they had videotape of the team flight from Denver to San Diego.
	And all these players are taking, they got their camcorders out.
	Now, I will guarantee you that during the regular season, no player takes camcorder.
	Well, there may be some rare exceptions, these guys, some of them documenting what they're doing, but it's a general rule you don't see during the regular season.
	A business trip is what a road game is.
	These guys taking their camcorders on team plane and in a locker room and all that for no other reason than privacy concerns and and who knows what else.
	But a Super Bowl where the Broncos ripped out those camcorders, and I've seen it.
	I saw McNabb do it.
	We all saw what happened last year.
	Um more examples of it.
	I'm just telling you.
	If you're looking, if you don't want to hear about stuff like this, go read the newspapers where you can recycle Jerome Bettesk is from Detroit stories and all these, and I'm not against those, but I mean every angle has already been written up.
	I'm giving you a new one here.
	The team with the most camcorders in action getting off the plane is in trouble.
	It's it.
	Make book on it.
	We'll be back in just a second.
	Back to the phones.
	We go to Midland, Michigan.
	Frank, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
	Hi.
	Hi.
	Russia, how are you today?
	Coast.
	Thank you.
	Listen, Rush, I know in the backdrop of all the money issues of the Democrats versus Republicans.
	I have some significant current uh concerns about the midterm elections, and I think the pattern is most uh midterms are based on base outcome, uh support coming out, uh Republican base versus Democratic base.
	And when the president goes around saying things like, you know, Bill Clinton's my brother, um, and you have Mike Pence saying he's a conservative, but not a true conservative, and two other quick points, Rush.
	I think the more important election before the midterms is the majority of um leader election in the House.
	When you if you pull somebody like John Shattick, who is a true and true conservative against the other two gentlemen, Bonner and uh Blunt, that's gonna tell a lot.
	If you have a true conservative like John Shadow, which who I'd hope you get on on your on your show as well.
	Well, let me let me I've got a time constraint problem.
	Let me address the last thing first.
	Um this race is really for who's gonna be the next speaker.
	And and you've got to have the ambition to want the Shadig, I love John Shadig.
	I I know Roy Blunt is from my state, Missouri, and and uh and John Boehner.
	Um they're they're all great guys.
	I've I've got you know, I have I've refrained from endorsing.
	I toyed with it on Friday, but I didn't do it.
	But uh this is really for who's gonna replace Denny Hastert when he retires.
	That's that's uh so there's that to consider in this too.
	As to the as to the business about George Bush, uh he they the alfalfa dinner was at Washington Saturday night, and it's closed to the press, but the transcript of his jokes got out, and there were jokes, and he started talking about his new brother Bill Clinton, and it's just sad that his brother Bill couldn't be with his father this weekend because he was over in Davos.
	That's not gonna Bush isn't on anybody's ballot.
	That it's not it's not gonna be uh I don't think it'd be a big deal.
	The real thing interesting to me about this is uh I know I know Bush 41, and I'm my my it's a pure wild guess.
	But I'm I'm thinking if he's treating Bill Clinton like a son, it's because he's assumed that Bill Clinton needs a father.
	Uh it's about time the boy grew up and is uh trying to facilitate that.
	Letter to the editor, USA Today.
	As a parent of four children, three of whom have already completed high school, I'm comfortable in saying the world does not revolve around high schoolers.
	USA Today's suggestion of altering the timing of the scrubble day in order to accommodate sleep patterns of high school age children would do nothing more than reinforce the notion among fourteen to eighteen year olds that the world does in fact revolve around them.
	A little more proactive approach to parenting on our part would yield a much better result in the long run than changing the timing of the school day.
	For example, we could teach our kids that they are responsible for their actions.
	They can learn the hard way.
	They should know there are consequences, sometimes negative ones for the choices they make.
	Those who are able to stay awake enough in high school to gain admission to college will be treated to four more years of self-indulgence and excess with little or no parental supervision and with occasional classroom learning.
	It's a good thing.
	The stakes are much higher at that point with graduate school andor career.
	I love this guy's letter because he's saying don't let the inmates run the asylum, and all you people who want to reorient the school day because all of a sudden you've heard your kids are genetically predisposed to sleep late, are fools.
	I just want to make one thing clear before we get out of here.
	For the record, I do love the feminist movement, especially when walking behind it.
	See you tomorrow, folks.
	Have a that's never been a dispute.

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