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Jan. 31, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 31, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #3
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All right, I have to address this.
I've I I asked earlier in the program, did you people see 24 last night?
And I've gotten I'll bet seven emails now from people who said they're fed up and are never watching it again.
And I have got to slap you people back to reality.
Well, the the I don't look, I don't know.
I I'm I'm uh I don't want to give some people may not have watched last night's episode yet.
Uh have it recorded and so forth, but I since it's in the past and most people have seen it, I feel confident discussing it.
One of the moles in this season is this goofy Richard Nixon look-alike president's chief of staff, guy named Walt Cummings.
Well, some canisters of nerve gas were stolen from the Ontario airport in a previous uh previous episode.
It turns out that these canist canisters of nerve gas were engineered to be stolen by Walt Cummings, the presidential chief of staff, and then given to terrorists.
Or terrorists were alerted where the nerve gas was, they stole it.
These are terrorists of a breakaway separatists from a breakaway republic somewhere in Asia.
We all know it's Russia, Chechens and so forth.
And the plan, according to Walt Cummins in the story last night Cummings, is to um get the terrorists to take these canisters of nerve gas back to their home country so that then the administration can prove that there were weapons of mass destruction there.
Now, people who watched the episode last night think that this is the writers of 24 insulting the Bush administration.
And and and chiding the Bush administration for the fact that there aren't any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and so this is I what am I gonna do with you people?
Number one, it's a television show.
Number two, the the Bush administration, if it were gonna plant weapons of mass destruction, would have already done it.
There's no there's no correlation here.
But more than that, that episode of 24 last night, and I've been wa I've watched every one of these episodes from season one, episode one, that episode last night had more plot turns and twists than any single episode I remember.
The outing of a mole has occurred sooner this season than at any time I remember in any of the previous seasons.
And with the mole getting caught.
But I would caution all of you.
This storyline, uh, this weapons of mass destruction is nerve gas and the supposedly having a mole as the chief of staff to the president.
Who knows if this is the ultimate truth of this program?
There are still eighteen episodes left between now and the end of May.
And if if if the rest of them are like last night, we don't know 10% of where this is going or heading.
And I just I would I would rein it in, folks.
I this is maybe some of you people are watching 24 because you uh you think that its purpose is to establish the uh political objectives and foreign policy objectives of the administration, and it's not.
The purpose of the program is the same as I have on this program, to attract the largest audience possible and hold it, so you can charge confiscatory advertising rates to advertise.
That's the purpose of the program.
And the writers are trying to you know break new ground and they're trying to um uh make sure the program doesn't get stale.
I think they've set a new standard.
They're nowhere near getting stale.
It's just the exact opposite.
But I've I've seen a lot of people on blog sites today saying, hell we're 24 weapons of mass destruction.
Well, Now they're getting mad at Bush.
Well, hell with that.
I'm not watching that anymore.
Here's here's a sample email.
A friend stated he didn't want to watch 24 anymore because he felt last night's episode was a message about the current Bush White House.
He feels the show was delivering a message about there being no weapons of mass destruction, and there was a plot within the White House to convince the public that the problem actually does exist when it doesn't.
I disagree.
What's your take on it?
Well, I'm giving you my take on it.
You can't compare this current president 24 to George W. Bush anyway.
This guy's the biggest looney tune wimp that we've ever had as a president if he were in there for real.
You know, I and here's another thing.
I I've had I've had a couple people also say to me, what is it with these love scenes?
I can't believe it.
Jack Bauer's in the midst of saving the country from nerve gas, and all of a sudden he has to have negotiations with two women about whether or not he still loves them.
Now I will admit I watched that.
I said, come on, get this over with.
I understand why it's there, but let's move on.
Jack Bauer's not going to sit around and do this, the real Jack.
But that's another part of the brilliance of the people that do this show.
Folks, they have to attract an audience.
It's the Fox Network.
18 to 34 is a demo that they prized 2554.
The way you I hate, I don't want to sound sexist, but the way you keep women watching a program.
You think women care about bombs and blood and guts all over.
No, you gotta put a love story in there, and then a competing love interest, and you got to put that tension and drama.
They don't overdo it.
They get in, get it, and get out.
But it's it's something for everybody who watches the show to glom on to.
I have some female friends that watch the show, and they and I got emails from them last night, and they say, you know, my favorite part of the show was taking Walt Cummings down, and when Jack told her he never stopped loving her.
Well, it proves my point.
Proof proof proof proves pro yeah, yeah.
And of course, the idea that a woman would not interrupt you while you're trying to save the country.
Uh Jack, before you go disarm the nerve gas, do you still love me?
Perfectly realistic.
Of course it would.
It would have we have to talk.
I only want five minutes.
Can you help me?
Whatever.
I mean, this would happen.
This would have if it's if it's not about that, it's about some other aspect of the relationship.
These guys are brilliant that are doing this show.
They know what everybody watching it wants out of it.
They have to put that in.
You you people need to back off on this.
You are if you stop watching this, you're you're gonna miss some of the finest writing and production.
This is amazing what these people do in a one-hour episode in 42 minutes.
It is amazing what they do.
And keep this move.
I mean, you you can watch you could watch the whole Dirty Harry series, all those five or six movies, and everything that happens in five or six dirty hairy movies happens in one episode of this program.
Now, chill out, folks.
No, what what?
Mm-hmm.
Well, I know.
Oh, I Snerdley says that what makes these plot turns believable is that the State Department guys are running around the American people here state uh presidents hijacked national security, the president's hijacked foreign policy, the president's hijacked all this from us.
Well, yeah, the elected officials.
It's a television show.
The idea that there's any association to reality here, I mean, we would love it in certain cases if it were a reflection of reality.
Unfortunately, we'll never know.
We don't know if there's a Jack Bauer in the CIA.
We hope there's a thousand of them.
And we hope there's a thousand Jack Bowers telling bad guys, you're gonna tell me what I want to know, or I'm gonna carve your left eye out first.
And if you don't tell me what I want to know, I'm gonna carve your right eye out.
Then you put the you put the blade of the knife.
Now, uh with Ted Kennedy, and so, well, I can't do that.
Well, that's a threat of torture, that's uh inhumane or what have you.
Well, we hope those things are going on out there.
But the idea that the administration, this administration is going to plant weapons of mass destruction somewhere to prove that they existed.
Uh no, no.
I just I I just marvel at it, folks.
I'm sorry, but I do.
I got a quick time out.
I want to speak of national security.
There was a news story last week.
Uh we mentioned it here, but I didn't spend a lot of time on it myself, and nobody else has either.
Uh outside of New York.
And in the whole context of this national security debate we're having, we need to spend some time on it, just a little bit just to inform you about it.
Also, Iran has done it now.
Iran is really stepped in it now, folks.
They have made the UN mad.
Iran is going to be reported to the UN Security Council.
Huh.
Here we are.
So Iran is going to be reported to the Security Council.
Somebody's going to tell the Security Council.
There's a tattletale out there.
They're going to tell Dominique de Philippin about Iran.
And I'll bet Iran's quaking in her boots right now because we all know this is how you bring rogue regimes in line.
Back after this.
Stay with us.
Hi, welcome back.
Nice to have you, my friends are Rush Limbaugh with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
All right.
Liberal media out there trying to create hysteria about Bush spying on us.
Domestic spying, violating our civil rights.
Intruding on our deepest privacy.
He needs to be impeached.
Last week, all of the New York papers had a little story about a trial that's going on in Brooklyn right now.
Shahawar Matin Siraj, a 23-year-old Pakistani is on trial for plotting to bomb a 34th Street subway station beneath Madison Square Garden during the Republican convention last August.
Now the story, of course, was about this guy Siraj asserting his constitutional rights.
Here's here's what happened.
Siraj had an accomplice, a guy named James L. Shaffee.
They were arrested three days before the convention began.
They were carrying maps of the subway system and the Verizon and Narrows Bridge.
After waving their Miranda rights, they were questioned by a pair of prosecutors, an FBI agent and two cops.
And Siraj gave an oral confession and signed a three-page statement.
They waived their Miranda rights.
Now Siraj has a lawyer.
And lawyers arguing that when he when he was told he would be interviewed by a prosecutor, he thought that meant he was talking to his own attorney.
I never heard the word prosecutor before, Siraj told the court.
His current attorney, Martin Stoller, is trying to have the confession suppressed on the grounds that Siraj's failure to understand constituted a violation of his rights.
Now the ruling on the confession isn't going to be made until sometime this week, but what is interesting to note, William Tucker here in the American Spectator writing about this.
What's interesting to note is how the case has largely escaped the attention of the press.
Siraj and Shafe met Osama Duawdi, an Islamic bookstore in an Islamic bookstore in Brooklyn.
They hooked up, they spent several months planning attacks on various New York landmarks and public places.
But DuAudi was also a federal informer.
He carried a video camera.
He was actually able to make several tapes of the group scouting locations under the pretense that they were conducting surveillance operations.
They were going to carry their bombs onto the subway and backpacks.
All this happened before the London attacks.
The remarkable question is why hasn't this case received more publicity?
There were a few first day stories, but they were more or less buried by the convention.
Not a single newspaper in the country has bothered to do a background story on this case.
Particularly in the context now that we're having this debate about the NSA and trying to find out who might be in this country talking to Al-Qaeda overseas.
Here you have the exact case this program's designed to identify.
This already is case for some reason they had identified these guys and then they had an informer set up to meet them, and that's how this thing got stung.
Liberals are operating under the assumption that we are good people and therefore immune from attack.
Something good will happen to prevent it.
Eavesdropping, dogged police work, paid informers, those are all just underhanded techniques that threaten our civil liberties.
It's a bunch of liberals, it's it's like Secretary of State Henry Stimson closing down the State Department's crypto analytic uh crypto analytic office in 1929 saying gentlemen don't read each other's mail.
Remember what the name Harry Stimson is famous.
Oh, we're not gonna do it a cryptonology.
We're not gonna do any of that.
We don't read other people's mail.
We are good people.
Good things will happen to us.
The fact is that uh only good intelligence work and extraordinary luck have helped us to avoid another London or Madrid, but you don't read anything about that in the papers.
It's amazing.
How in such perilous times the liberal press can find so many inconsequential things to worry about while overlooking so many obvious dangers.
And the focus of the story now is not even on the fact that these guys almost got away with blowing up the 34th Street subway station station under uh Madison Square Garden.
No, it's whether or not the co the confession was coerced.
It's whether or not this terrorist had his constitutional rights violated.
Because he didn't understand the word prosecutor.
Can't even get background details on what happened, why this is even a story in the first place.
And I'll tell you why.
I'll tell you they ignore it on purpose because it would not fit the template.
It doesn't fit the action line.
The action line, anything that moves the story forward is Bush is spying illegally on Americans because he's a mean guy, and he wants to invade everybody's privacy.
Well, in the midst of trying to make that case for the Democratic Party, you can't then run a story about how domestic spying or intelligence uh foreign surveillance actually stopped an attempted blow up of the 34th Street subway station under Madison Square Garden.
Well, that would that would throw your whole template out the window.
So and and uh it's it's another reason why the mainstream antique media is losing credibility.
Look, uh w uh you know the Time magazine, I mentioned this yesterday, but it's even worse than I thought.
Sixty-six people, or I thought it was just forty.
Sixty-six people will be let go at Time Inc., twenty-six of them in editorial.
The liberal media is suffering the death of a thousand cutbacks.
Time Inc.
roiling with another round of cutbacks.
Time magazine and sports illustrated hit hard.
Some sixty-six Time Inc.
staffers have been handed pink slips at the nation's largest magazine publisher.
You know, folks, it's just a good thing our oil companies aren't run this way.
I don't care if the media wants to run themselves this way fine and dandy, but I'm glad our oil companies don't.
Here's Patrick in Omaha.
Welcome to the program.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Rush, Megadiddles from the big red red state.
Thank you, sir.
Great to talk to you.
Hey, I was calling about 24.
I have I've been keeping track.
We've got a Jack Power body count.
I've been keeping track of the number that he's killed, knocked out, the numbers that he he is supposedly killed.
They were confirmed.
But at this point, I've confirmed dead six terrorists.
We got two knockouts and two unconfirmed deaths.
The man's lethal.
Yeah, I uh you you told me just in this season.
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
Just what would he four or six hours into it?
Something like that?
Six hours into it.
Yeah.
The man, the man is that is a deadly, deadly weapon.
Yeah.
And he's my hero outside of you.
Uh is my hero outside.
Well, I appreciate it.
That's I am I I am I am uh uh I'm I'm honored to be lumped in with a a superhero action figure uh as a hero.
Thanks for the uh thanks for the call, uh Patrick.
This is George in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Hi.
Hey Rush, I think that President Bush should get major kudos for his war and terror, which I think is the number one priority right now because Osama bin Land flinched with his compromise verbiage and his last tape.
Iran is considering uh the Russian option of getting enriched uranium, and Hamas is on their knees begging uh to not uh reduce the hate, so if we stay the course, we can break the back of terrorism, and it's all because of George Bush.
Well, uh yeah, that's the objective, admitted to to break the back, but I like your analysis of these things.
I in fact, there's a there's a there's a story, I I guess an LA Times editorial.
In the LA Times editorial says Bush needs to reach out to Hamas.
We shouldn't be saying we shouldn't be saying that we're gonna cut off their aid.
We shouldn't be doing that.
That's unnecessarily provocative, especially since Bush got what he wanted.
Bush wanted democracy in the Middle East, and so Hamas won.
And we can't say, well, we don't like the results, and we're going to withhold any aid.
I'm not joking.
It's an LA Times editorial.
Bush needs to reach out to Hamas.
Now there's a reason why they are laying off hundreds of people, not just the 66 that we reported moments ago at Time and Sports Illustrated.
No, it's it's it's I'm telling you folks, I'm partially depressed today.
I must be because we used to do parodies on these newspapers and these liberals and come up with things I don't know how to parody this.
Bush needs to reach out to Hamas.
Bush needs to reach out to Bin Laden.
I I I am not Bush needs to reach out to the terrorists because they won a democratic election.
They're happy that Bush got what he asked for, and now it's up to Bush to reach out to them and bring them into the family of nations.
Yes, that's exactly what they're saying there at the Tori.
Well gotta go.
Back in just a second.
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I've got a couple of emails about the uh what name Angelica in Texas City, who uh was all upset that we haven't captured bin Laden.
And that the sophisticated country and government like ours, uh, we're not all that great on national security.
We haven't captured bin Laden, so I asked her, I asked her, uh, well, when do we capture Hitler in World War II?
She said, uh, what was that?
Uh 1943 or 40.
I said, no, we never did.
Uh committed suicide.
Oh.
I wish.
I wish I would have said, hell, Angelica, we still haven't captured Ted Kennedy for Chappaquiticet.
And we're doing a pretty good job of defeating him.
And these 60s rejects, banging their pots and pans outside the U.S. Capitol tonight, hoping to drown out President Bush's State of the Union speech.
Why don't you guys go for the whole nine yards?
Why don't you also throw John Carey's medals over the fence again?
If you're gonna act out, act out all the way.
Call Senator Kerry, get his medals, and throw them back over some fence.
You want to put on a show, put on a show.
Now, a lot of people, you know, getting interested in 24, and uh some of you only recently started watching the program, and some of you I'm sure haven't started yet, and you keep hearing about this guy, Jack Bauer, Keith Kiefer Sutherland.
Let me give you a few little hints as to the kind of guy Jack Bauer is.
If you wake up in the morning, it's only because Jack Bauer spared your life.
Jack Bauer's favorite color is severe terror alert red.
His second favorite color is violet, but only because it sounds like the word violent.
Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his car keys.
He then spent the next half hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys to himself.
Jack Bauer got Helen Keller to talk.
Jack Bauer was never addicted to heroin.
Heroin was addicted to Jack Bauer.
Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas.
Jack Bauer doesn't miss.
If he didn't hit you, it's because he was shooting at another terrorist twelve miles away.
And understand this.
The only reason you are conscious right now is because Jack Bauer doesn't feel like carrying you.
Killing Jack Bauer doesn't make him dead.
It just makes him mad.
When life gave Jack Bauer lemons, he used them to kill terrorists because he hates lemonade.
In grade school, a little boy punched Kimberly Bauer, his daughter.
Kimberly ran home to tell her dead.
That little boy's name, Stephen Hawking.
Jack Bauer doesn't sleep.
The only rest he needs is what he gets when he's knocked out or temporarily killed.
In kindergarten, Jack Bauer killed a terrorist for show and tell.
Jack Bauer has literally died for his country and lived to tell about it.
As a child, Jack Bauer's first words were there's no time.
Jack Bauer's family threw him a surprise birthday party when he was a child.
Once guns don't kill people, Jack Bauer does.
Every time Jack Bauer yells now at the end of a sentence, a terrorist dies.
Jesus died and rose from the dead in three days.
It took Jack Bauer less than an hour, and he's done it twice.
Jack Bauer could get off the Lost Island in two hours.
The inhabitants on that island have been there for two years.
Here is Matt in Redlands, California.
Hi, Matt.
Welcome to the program.
Great to have you with us.
Uh hello, Rush.
It's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you.
Uh Hillary Clinton's hopes for winning the Democratic nomination in 2008 are fading fast.
Besides all the bad polling data, besides her recent racist statements.
Yesterday, Hillary actually voted in support of the filibuster of Alito.
This totally undermines Hillary's phony attempt to portray herself as a moderate.
And her vote to filibuster Alito proves once and for all that Hillary is really a hardcore leftist kook liberal who's out of touch with mainstream values.
And I think Democrats are beginning to realize this.
I think a lot of them have realized it for a long time, but they should have been listening to me for even longer, because she's She's always been a hardcore leftist kook.
And she hasn't gotten away with this attempt to moderate to the center.
And she's not going to get away with it.
These people have not modernized.
I'm getting I'm getting uh tired of being redundant.
These people still they're stuck in the 70s, 30 years ago.
They do not realize what has happened to them media-wise.
They don't realize the scrutiny that their statements and acts get these days.
Uh and the discredit that is uh brought to bear on them.
Uh I just things are things are not lining up well for Hillary.
But you know, the th one of the one of the problems for Hillary is we still don't know why she wants to be president.
We only are told why we should elect her.
And that's because she's entitled, because she's owed this, because of everything she's endured, she was a leader of the feminist movement.
She went to college and she risked it all.
She risked happiness, she risked everything to lead the cause of feminism and women in the workplace and so forth, marries this hayseed hick, he takes her back to Arkansas.
That's reason enough to elect her president because she actually agreed to go to Arkansas.
What sophisticated woman wants to go to a state with more trailer parks than any other, and yet she did it.
And she had to be the brains behind that doofus president of hers.
She had to stand by while his doofus president's having affair after affair after affair after affair, phony land deal scams all over the place, which she helped set up.
Then she had to go to the White House and endure all of that, the abuse from people who said she was co-president, afraid of a powerful woman.
She got to set up health care, made a total mess of it, made a total mess of the Paula Jones lawsuit, demanding Clinton behave in certain ways that guaranteed it would go on and on and on and on and on and eventually have to settle it out of court.
Then came Monica Lewinsky in the stained purple dress, then came impeachment.
She's owed it.
But other than that, Hillary Clinton can't tell us why she wants to be president.
Well, she hadn't even announced that she wants to be, but but at the by some at this point in somebody's career, we generally have an idea why they want to be.
We generally get some statement of core principles and beliefs.
We don't get that.
She believes that she's entitled.
Her supporters believe that she's entitled, and that's not enough.
I mean, it doesn't even get close.
Here's Paul in Cleveland, your next sir on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Raj, I love the show.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, uh it's it's so hypocritical of the liberals to talk about George Bush compelling behavior from Palestine or attempting to by uh withholding uh funds.
The liberals love to withhold money to compel behavior.
They withhold money from if they don't like the way you run your schools, they withhold education money.
If they don't like your speed limits, they withhold uh highway funds.
The liberals use they overtax you and then they with a compel behavior, as you said before, by giving back a little bit of it at a time, or uh or not giving it back if they don't get the behavior they want.
So they've uh exposed their hypocritical nature once again.
Well, of course they do, but their their hypocrisy is driven.
You have to understand they're they're they're they're these editorials, uh both in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, wherever, they're driven by hate.
They're driven by hate and frustration.
Uh and as I've said over and over again, we're finding out Who they really are.
And I say more of it.
I I uh the more the better.
I I think it's uh I've been demanding that the Democrats be honest and step up and step forward and be the honest on who they are so the American people can have an informed opinion of them and vote accordingly, and they are acceding to my wishes, whether they're doing it for that reason or not, it still uh is happening.
New York City Bragg.
Hello, sir, welcome to the program.
Hey.
Uh, have you heard about these comments, Christian I'm on poor made uh land?
Oh, yes, I'm live.
Yeah, it's one media, yes, I heard about it.
You want to hear them?
Well, I tell you what, what I want to ask you first, and I'd love for you to play them so everybody can hear him is if she makes these comments where she's making her lack of objectivity so very apparent, how can she still be the reporter on the Iraq war for CNN?
I mean, she has obviously abandoned any semblance of objectivity.
That's precisely how she can remain a reporter for CNN.
It would be if she were objective, uh, she'd have a problem.
Airplane.
I'm not I uh here's what she said, folks, for those of you that have grab cut sixteen there, uh Altamont.
She was on uh Larry King Alive last night with Bob Schiefer and uh Lara Logan from CBS, and this uh oh and Pia Annette, uh former uh CNN, veteran war correspondent, uh, was also on the show.
And I think they're talking about Bob Woodruff and his cameraman uh and the the uh uh injuries they suffered in that bomb explosion over there in Iraq.
And this is among other things that Christiana Amanpoor said.
Most of the Iraqi people are now losing hope that the promised reconstruction is going to happen and that the quality of their lives is going to increase.
This is a big drama because hope is the only thing they have in the middle of this spiraling security disaster.
And by any indication, whether you take the number of journalists killed or wounded, whether you take the number of American soldiers killed or wounded, whether you take the number of Iraqi soldiers killed and wounded, uh contractors, people working there, it just gets worse and worse.
And let's listen to the one before this as well.
This is Audio Soundbite 15, Aldermont.
Christiana Monpoor, same show.
If we don't do it, who does it?
We have to have an independent eye uh on these conflicts.
The war in Iraq has basically turned out to be a disaster, and journalists have paid for it.
The kind of awful thing that's going on there now on a daily basis has almost become humdrum.
So when something happens to people that we identify, like Bob and like Doug, we wake up again and realize that no, this is not acceptable what's going on there, and it's a terrible situation.
Well, so thanks, Lair, uh well said.
Dits.
This was idiotic.
But it's useful idiocy.
Because once again, it serves to enlighten and inform us.
Let's take it.
If we don't do it, who does it?
We have to be an independent eye on these conflicts.
Meaning the journalists.
The war to Iraq has basically turned out to be a disaster.
And journalists have paid for it.
The kind of awful thing going on there now on a daily basis, almost become humdrum.
Journalists have paid for it.
It's all about them.
And because journalists are getting hurt and getting killed, it's worthless and it's not useful.
And we've got to stop it.
It's a disaster.
When something happens to people that we identify, like Bob and Doug, we wake up again and realize that no, this is not acceptable.
What's going on there?
It's a terrible situation.
They don't real they don't care a whit when this happens to U.S. troops.
They use those troop body counts to heighten their own viewpoint.
This is nothing new for Christiana Manpour.
She has always thought the Iraq war is a disaster because Bush is the one who is the architect.
She has always thought it was.
This is she's just now getting free to say so or because feeling free to say it because of the accident or the uh event that happened uh with with these two journalists.
But once again, just like David Weston said, and we played it for you yesterday, this is a wake-up call uh for Christian Aminpoor.
When something happens to people that we identify, like Bob and Doug, we wake up again, realize that no, this is not acceptable what's going on.
Wake up again.
Meaning you have thought it's unacceptable beforehand, but you got lulled in because Bush is so good.
He's so incompetent, so inept, but he's good enough to rope you in and make you lose your sensitivity to it.
But when people you know, who, by the way, are getting paid like a million dollars or more a year to go there and do this.
Uh I'm sorry.
I I think so much attention's been paid to this that it helps us to understand just how almost like the baby boom generation, the whole media is.
The world revolves around it.
They are the stories.
But there are more people killed.
Let me just give you this fact, Christian.
If you want, if you want a disaster, there are more people killed in American blue cities every year than in Iraq.
Are those disasters?
More people killed in New York on 9 11 and in the Pentagon on 9 11 than in Iraq.
That a disaster.
It's it's just I wasn't going to play this and we got the call about it.
I'm I'm glad you call Bragg, but I just I just I think this is it's unsurprising to me.
This this again is who these people are.
And to ask, well, she's just abandoned all her objectivity.
How can she still be at CNN?
Uh as long as I've been watching, I haven't seen any objectivity.
I have seen a point of view.
She's she's free to have it.
I don't care what it is.
But to pretend that there's objectivity going on, that's where they're losing credibility because people now understand that they aren't objective and that they aren't neutral observers.
They have chosen a side, and it ain't ours.
Back in a moment.
Well, liberals got something to cheer.
Humpback Mountain got eight Oscar nominations out there today.
Uh including for best score.
Um broke back mountain, broke back back.
What did I say?
Hump back again.
Broke back mountain.
Uh eight Oscar nominees.
Uh uh.
Why don't you hear one more sound bite?
Uh audio song by number 14, Pizza Annette on CNN last night.
Uh Larry King says, Peter Arnett, journalism died, been killed in a rock.
What do you make of that?
Highest figure ever for journalists who have been killed in a war.
What are you?
What do you make of Woodruff?
The cameraman, Mr. Bo.
Hmm.
Hmm.
You cover wars, you die.
But really, uh, in a democracy such as ours, the mainstream media has a major job to get out and see what's going on.
Otherwise, what will we have to choose from?
What our government tells us and today what Al Jazeera tells us.
We have to be there with an independent voice to do it as well as we can.
It just makes me want to puke and laugh at the same time.
Independent voice.
I don't ever hear any criticism of Al Jazeera.
And I don't ever hear any criticism of uh insurgents.
I hear them being played up as the modern equivalent of our founding fathers.
Can't trust Ag government.
I would even suggest that you guys don't even cover wars, Peter.
You make up news stories about U.S. troops using sarin gas.
That's what Peter Arnett did.
He's still on TV as an expert in all this.
He participated in a phony baloney plastic banana made up totally story.
Christianaman poor is no better.
The polling data out of a rock shows that there's not there's more optimism about the future than pessimism there.
Let's grab uh uh Scott, I guess it uh yeah, Scott in uh Morrestown, Tennessee.
Welcome to the program.
I got about 45 seconds, I think.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you.
I'm a longtime listener.
Uh had a break because of the war and I was deployed.
But the cre the comments that the media is making about the soldiers or about the reporters being the only one that really mattered right now, now it's more real.
Yeah, yeah.
Uh it's it's disgusting.
And to hear basically everything they're saying is all it is is is demoralizing the troops that are there.
Because uh in the real world over there, you have uh you have kids that come up to us every day.
I know that.
Uh you know, I know that's that's the thing.
I I have to stop you because of the constraints of time.
I've I'm short on it, but I know exactly the kids come up, there's optimism over there.
What these comments from Arnett and Christiana Munpoor serve to indicate, serve to illustrate, is that all of this is more about them than anything else.
I guess the best thing could happen to most journalists, so they can just get it through their heads.
You're not that important.
Have a great day, folks.
We'll be back here.
State of the Union speech tonight.
And we'll uh well, we'll have reaction or whatever tomorrow, whatever else happens.
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