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Feb. 28, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 28, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
All right.
Well, I don't know what I'm going to do first.
Keep one and eight standing by.
I'll make up my mind on the fly the way we do everything on this show.
Just have them both.
Have them both standing by.
Greetings, greetings here, folks.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program.
And we are avoiding a meltdown here right before the program.
It was a nice relaxing morning of show prep.
And the last ten minutes got to have this, gotta have this, gotta have this, gotta have this, gotta have this in the next five minutes.
And so we did it.
We did it, but um normally the relaxed pace leading up to show time somewhat uh enhanced a little bit more pressure packed, so that's why I'm having to take care of some broadcast business in front of you.
I'm sorry for bringing what happens behind the scenes up front on the other side of the curtain, so to speak.
Here's the phone number if you want to be on the program today.
It's 800-282-2882 at the email address rush at EIBNet.com to prove, ladies and gentlemen, I am man of compassion.
I have a story here that is out of Chicago.
Optimism is good for the heart.
A new study says today.
Actually came out yesterday.
The uh the most optimistic uh among a group of five hundred and forty-five Dutch men age sixty-four to eighty-four, had a roughly fifty percent lower risk of cardiovascular death over 15 years of follow-up, according to the study published in the archives of internal medicine.
Previous research has suggested being optimistic boosts overall physical health and lowers the risk of uh risk of death from all causes.
A positive attitude also has been shown to help patients who suffer from heart disease caused by narrowed arteries.
Optimism can be estimated easily and is stable over long periods.
I have always known this.
As you people know, I am a reservoir of optimism.
I am a man of incredibly good cheer uh and noted optimism, and I refuse to let people like you around me get down and in the dumps and so forth.
But as I always mention, there's a group of people out there that are not optimistic.
They are the supreme pessimists, they are down in the dumps, they're doom and gloomers.
Their whole day is spent angry and angrier.
And I I think, you know, I uh the insurance companies are are under siege, they're constantly under siege.
I don't care what insurance company and what what business is being insured or what what area of life are being insured, but I'll tell you what, I think the insurance companies could take this uh data and either lower uh life insurance premiums or people like me, of course I don't buy life insurance because I don't need it, but for those of you who have it and need it, if you're an optimist, and if this can be proven, lower your your lower your premium.
You're less likely to get sick.
On the other hand, if you are a liberal, raise your insurance premium because you're gonna die sooner, because you're gonna have a heart attack sooner because you're a pessimist.
And that, my friends, is just a little little giveaway there to the insurance company.
What I would do if I ran an insurance company after seeing that story.
Okay.
There are two things today that uh uh have me agitated to about the same level.
One is the CBS poll, and the other is Susan Collins.
Our our uh erstwhile uh Republican senator from the state of Maine, one of our two estimable Republican senators from the state of Maine.
Yesterday she put up a big chart and took out of context this Coast Guard report.
If you people ever doubted me on this, if you ever like Mr. Snerdley came crawling into the office today, crawling in, begging forgiveness for ever doubting me on this ports issue.
It is exactly what I have told you it is.
It is a political issue.
It is being demagogued by the left big time, and Susan Collins jumping right in and helping out.
And I'm folks, this this there is so much ignorance all across the board on this on the on the economic substance of this deal.
There is there are lies being told to you about and have been from the beginning, and they are still being told.
Members of Met of the Media, certain of them, and and a lot of Democrats are still out there saying that the um United Arab Emirates is gonna be in charge of security at the ports.
Susan Collins knows full I hope she knows if she does I I it's it's it's inconceivable she doesn't know this.
Anybody can find out.
All you have to do is read.
The Coast Guard announces that after its first inspection of deal, we got some problems.
That was in December.
The problems were addressed.
They no longer exist.
The Coast Guard has signed off on this.
The Coast Guard's been all over television today saying we've been taken out of context here.
This is demagoguery.
This Susan Collins has to know that what she did yesterday from her committee chairmanship seat was just abhor it was absurd, and it's irresponsible.
And it's it's it's but it's events like this that should help you to understand what's going on.
There is pandering going on from elected officials, but there's ignorance everywhere.
There's ignorance in the media, there's ignorance among politicians.
It's gotten so bad that their positions can be upset with the application of a simple bit of knowledge.
And that has caused uh Congressman Peter King of Long Island to criticize me, to attack me for being responsible for softening some of the opposition to the port deal.
We have a little audio soundbite of Ms. Collins here in just a second.
The CBS poll.
There is something about this company, uh, this news division and and George W. Bush that I mean it goes back away, but something is festering in this place.
This poll is as irresponsible as any poll that they have ever done.
This poll that shows Bush with a 34% approval rating.
By now, some of you have gotten this the details that let me give them to you if you do not know.
This is a survey, first of all, of just adults, Americans.
This is not a survey of voters, it is not a survey of likely voters, it is not a survey of registered voters, it's just a random sample of will you answer the phone today?
And I got some questions for you, and the questions are absurd and the questions are misleading and the questions lie.
And this poll was produced to make news, just as they all are these days.
This whole this poll was nothing more than a way for CBS to get its editorial position out there as a so-called news story.
That's all this poll was.
The sample that they used in this poll, 28% Republican, 37% Democrat after they weighted the Republicans up.
In other words, the sample was even more Democrat when it came back.
Democrats were 40% of the sample.
Republicans were only 27%, and the independents were given a huge waiting.
Well, and not even a waiting, they were just given a huge percentage of the uh respondent uh uh poll uh or pool.
Some someone, someone, I mean, you've got a sample of 40 to 27 Democrat over Republicans.
I mean, that's that's a dead giveaway what the intent here is.
And they haven't even the people at CBS didn't even bother changing this to put both uh uh the numbers in the 30s to have a relatively equal.
This is not representative of the of the population of the country in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Nor is the fact that Bush has 34%, nor is the fact that Cheney has 18.
You just know that's not possible.
It simply isn't possible.
Yet here comes another phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock and roller poll that is nothing more than a newsmaker and a newsmaker with a specific editorial point that is desirable.
Rich uh, I'm sorry, Bob Moran, who's uh who works at uh Fabrizio McLaughlin Associates, which is a polling outfit, um, did a little analysis of the poll at National Review Online.
He said, you know, the the we we 90% of the polls we do are never for publication, and most polsters polls are never for publication.
They're for internal use, they are for clients' use, uh politicians' use, candidates use, and they're inside, and we don't we don't do these for to make headlines.
This poll was done specifically to make headlines.
It was weighted the way it was to get the headline they wanted, and the questions were phrased in a way to get the answers they wanted.
For example, here is question 54 in the CBS poll.
After 9-11, President Bush authorized government wiretaps on some phone calls in the U.S. without getting court warrants saying this was necessary in order to reduce the threat of terrorism.
Do you approve or disapprove of the president doing this?
Now, does that accurately portray what the NSA surveillance program was about?
It does not.
What was left out of this question?
What was left out of this question is it's not some phone calls in the U.S., it is phone calls that either originate or end in a foreign country and come through the United States.
If you are talking to a suspected or known member of a terrorist group, this program found you.
Now, if the question had been accurately posed and raised, do you think the answer would have been a little different than what CBS obviously got on this?
Yes, and they know it.
Or do they?
This is an I'm gonna tell you something, folks.
Mainstream media, you know how to view them from now on.
Listen to this, Mr. Snurdley.
Stop what you're writing in there, and I want you to listen because here is what the mainstream media are.
They are drive-by shooters.
This is exactly what they are.
They pull up to a congested area, they spray a hail of bullets into the crowd, causes mass hysteria, mass confusion, mistakes, and misinterpretation.
Sometimes people or their careers actually die.
The mainstream media then smirks and pats itself on the back and says, look what we can do, and they ride away, unnoticed in the excitement.
They are never blamed, they are never held accountable.
In fact, they're lauded, they're held up as heroes mostly by themselves.
But they are, they just troll around looking for any issue they can to get everybody all worked up, create a hysteria.
It is like a drive-by shooter.
It's like road rage every day.
That's what the mainstream press has become.
Every time they do this, every time they uh pull up into one of his congested areas, spray a hail of bullets into the crowd, somebody's got to mop up the mess that they caused.
And at the same time, the mess is being cleaned up, the mainstream media is back flying down the highway with the top down, laughing and looking for the next bunch of victims to spray their bullets into.
And this is repeated over and over and over.
There seems to be no stopping.
Stopping them.
I mean, we got the port issue.
We had Cheney last week.
We have all the deaths in Iraq, we have civil war in Iraq.
It used to be the SUVs, it was the profit photos and so forth or cartoons.
It seems like everything ends up just being a drive-by shooting.
It's that's the best analogy I've heard to describe the mainstream media's act today.
And it's exactly what it is.
It's an act and this poll is simply outrageous.
It is beneath the dignity dignity of a serious news organization and profession.
But CBS long ago gave up any interest in that.
Take a big break and be back after this.
Stay with us.
One of my all-time favorite bumps in the rotation here, the Isley Brothers, Fight the Power.
My favorite Isley Brothers, Rudolph, on the tambourines.
800-282-2882- If you would like to be on the program, I simply sit here in stunned amazement that these people in the antique media, the modern day equivalents of drive-by shooters now, still haven't figured out they can't get away with this anymore.
This is not 18 or 20 or 30 or 40 years ago when they come out with a poll and nobody but them had access to the data.
Well, when you can see what they've done and you can see how they've done it, you can read their questions, you can quickly assign motive and desired outcome to the result.
So they have Bush at 34%.
Uh the Cook report has Bush at 40.
Rasmussen has him at 43.
No other poll is going to come out with Bush at 34% or Cheney at 18.
But even if they did, let's just hypothetically, let's just say these numbers are right on the button.
Bush at 34 still has a higher rating than CBS has ever had for the CBS evening news since Cronkite left, or any of their primetime shows other than CSI Miami than any.
I think Bush even beats that.
So if we want to talk about popularity and ratings, we can document CBS's fall and their decline.
And about the only thing CBS has got going for it that's worth thing is CBS sports these days.
You find Real people over there.
But this news division is is just it's absurd.
And then, of course, the unthinking, the uncurious, the simple reactionary media, who joined CBS in the drive-by shooting of this poll, all had to get in on it.
So what we have here is a montage of this rigged poll oversampled with Democrats to create a news story.
The montage is Bob Schiefer of CBS, Jessica Yellen of ABC, Ann Curry of uh where is she anyway?
She is NBC or ABS, I don't care.
Ann Curry, Larry King, Harry Smith of CBS, Eleanor Clift of Newsweek, Bill Plant at CBS, Julie Chen at CBS, Diane Sawyer.
That's who's in this montage.
The President's job approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34%.
A new poll shows that Mr. Bush's approval rating is once again at rock bottom.
A new poll finds the president's job approval rating at a new low.
Bush, 34% lowest rating he's ever had.
A new CBS poll finds it's now the lowest it's ever been.
The president's rating to a new low.
And an all-time low in our poll.
President Bush's approval rating at an all-time low.
The president whose approval ratings have plummeted again.
Um, you would think, no, you wouldn't.
You'd think that one of these organizations would want to stand out and look at the uh uh the details and the internals of this poll to examine it.
But no, just report that number.
Uh they're a monolith.
And they think they're still a monopoly.
It just is amazing here to see this, my friends.
It really, it really is.
I at some point I have I I do expect these people to wise up.
Democrats, too.
I expect them to wise up on the butt that they act like they can they can get away with all this as though nobody's gonna be out there telling the truth about what they do.
And they have yet to come to grips with the fact that um well, so much of what's going wrong in their business are losing readers, they're losing subscribers, they're losing viewers, they're losing money, they're losing jobs.
And meanwhile, a run around trying to destroy other industries.
Walmart, big oil, big pharmaceutical, you name it, any successful enterprise in this count uh country is an enemy of the left.
More on that uh in just a moment.
Here is Susan Collins yesterday coming out after a closed session, and she's not pleased with what she heard, and she wants more investigation.
This is on the port deal.
At the end of this afternoon of briefings, I am more convinced than ever that the process was truly flawed, that the national security and homeland security.
And if she doesn't know that, she has no business being in the United States Senate.
The process worked.
She has to take something three months old out of context in order to make this point.
And I ask myself why.
What what's what why do something this is as bad as the CBS poll?
Here's the rest of her bite.
The implications of this proposed transaction were such that a 45-day formal investigation, as called for under the law, should have been undertaken.
Okay.
All right.
Here's here's what this is about.
Republican congressional leaders had hoped to curtail bipartisan outcries over a UAE-based company's pending takeover of some U.S. port operations by brokering an agreement for a new investigation of the deal's potential security risk.
Then came to disclosure that the U.S. Coast Guard had raised concerns weeks ago that because of U.S. intelligence gaps, it could not determine whether the UAE company might support terrorist operations.
Bush administration officials say those concerns were addressed and they resolved.
Nevertheless, both Republican and Democrats seized on the Coast Guard assessment, which was released by Senator Susan Collins, Republican Maine at a Senate Homeland Security Committee, uh committee hearing on Monday to launch a fresh round of criticism, just as the furor over the ports deal appeared on the brink of subsiding.
And then she said what We just played for you.
She took an excerpt of a larger report out of context, tried to make it sound like this was done recently, said recently, occurred recently.
Let me read to you.
This is a Reuters story, and I'm sorry, it's AP.
Let me read to you the last paragraph in a statement.
The Coast Guard said the assessment was part of a broader classified Coast Guard analysis that concluded that the DP World's pending takeover in and of itself does not pose a significant threat to U.S. assets in Continental United States ports.
No story.
It's the very last thing that most readers are not going to spend their time getting to.
Susan Collins know this, has to have known that.
If she doesn't know this, she doesn't win.
However, this one sliced, folks.
She either looks ignorant or she looks like a demagogue.
And I either one is not good for her.
Back after this, stay with us.
This is this to me is just outrageous.
This is what Susan Collins did yesterday, jumping over the fence with the Democrats on this.
If she can't see how the Democrats are using it, folks, if I were opposed to the deal, I would be as outraged over what Susan Collins did as uh as I am today, being not afraid of the deal.
I I just this this is simply irresponsible.
And it's either if it's political naivety or ignorance or a combination of things.
But to take one statement, uh one one one excerpt of a larger report that is outdated now anyway, because the Coast Guard itself says we we had our concerns addressed.
There's no story here.
There's not even a story.
She's either been played like Stradivarius by somebody, or she's engineering this on her own.
I I don't pretend to know which, and it actually doesn't matter to me.
Now, in February, there's some other elements to this story.
In February, the Commerce Committee vetted the appointment of David Sanborn of Virginia, who is a senior executive at this UAE company, to be the new administrator of the maritime administration of the Transportation Department.
He's an American.
David Sanborn's unless unless his name was Abdullah Abdul, and he's changed his name.
The White House appointed Sanborn, who worked as DP World's Director of Operations for Europe and Latin America to the Post in January, the same month the Treasury Department's Committee on Foreign Investment of the U.S. approved the deal.
Two Democrats, John Kerry of Massachusetts, who also served in Vietnam, and Bill Nelson of Florida, have vowed to block Sanboard's nomination unless he testifies again before the Commerce Committee.
He worked for Dubai Ports World when this deal was rushed through under cover of darkness without sufficient security review, Kerry said on a story.
Remember, folks, this deal was first rumored last October 30th.
This there was nothing secret about this.
The review process that took place was quite natural, quite normal.
The Coast Guard, it has been learned, had a concern in the process during the time frame of the review.
The concern was addressed.
Susan Collins comes out of a closed meeting yesterday.
This excerpt from the Coast Guard, you know, we have a problem.
I don't think this deal goes flies here with terrorism here.
As though it's not been dealt with, as though it was overlooked, as though it was ignored, and somebody signed off on the deal, even though our risk for terrorism had increased.
And that's what she did.
That's the impression she left yesterday, and in the mainstream media, uh the modern equivalent of drive-by shooters pulled up to the congested area, took what she did, bam-oh, fired the bullets into big crowd, this being the population of the country, and got this thing all flared up again as it was beginning to subside.
And again, here's the last paragraph of the AP story in a statement.
The Coast Guard said the assessment was part of a broader, classified Coast Guard analysis that concluded that DP World's pending takeover in and of itself does not pose a significant threat to U.S. assets in American ports.
Continental U.S. American ports.
So uh now Chuck Schumer's out there, oh, we got a smoking gun, we got a smoking gun.
This this is being so misreported, it's being so misportrayed and misrepresented.
And now the Democrats are able to take this out there.
smoking gun Bush hid from us that it does worsen our security.
It makes terrorism more likely.
And they're out running with it today.
They're out running with it, they're out running with it with his asinine CBS poll about Bush being down to 34%, which is as flawed as the story coming out of the Senate yesterday with Susan Collins.
All right, Dominic in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Rosh, Diddles from Sheboygan.
Thank you, sir.
Well, I agree with you.
I don't think after learning all about it, I don't think it's going to pose a big risk.
But the problem is the majority of the public doesn't know that the Coast Guard and local port authorities still handle the inspection.
So I think Bush is just going to have such a hard time convincing people it's okay, and I'm wondering, is it worth going to the mat over this?
Uh that's for Bush to decide.
Uh I mean many ways to um answer that.
Uh in his mind, it's the right thing to do.
In his mind, it fits naturally with American foreign policy.
It fits with the idea that we can't beat all these terrorists in that region militarily.
We've got to have some allies there.
Here's some people that want to be like us.
I've been I've been I've been through all this.
But I I think I think one of the greatest illustrations of who George Bush is exactly what you say.
Public opposed to hell with it.
He's going ahead with it.
Now here's a guy who's not paying attention to polls.
Here's a guy's not, he's gone out and he's fought for what he's wanted, and he's fought for what he thinks is right, and he's gotten a lot of us alternately mad or happy at times.
Uh people call this stubborn.
Um I often wonder just what do some people want in a leader.
Do you actually want a president that is going to judge his reaction and his decisions on things to the reaction of polls, such as the CBS poll we got today?
At some point, you know, leaders really that that's that's a it's a characteristic, the empathy that leaders must have for the people they're leading is required.
But you're not leading if you're turning everything over to a referendum.
We do not have pure democracy here.
We have representative democracy.
Pure democracy would mean every issue we'd all take a vote as a nation decide what we're gonna do.
That's not what we do, but that's what some people apparently want the president to do.
He's not listening to us.
Well, fine, his risk is that he's voted out of office.
Of course, that can't happen to him because he's not running again.
But if he makes people mad enough, they can impeach him.
Or they can take it out on his party.
Who does have a lot of uh which does have a lot of people up for re-election this year and in 2008 as well.
And that's how it works.
So you can think back if you like the Clinton uh administration better, and some of you might have, or we're taking polls on where to go on vacation, what to wear on vacation, I kid you not.
Al Gore let Naomi Wolf come up with his wardrobe for the 2000 presidential campaign.
Now, if you want phoniness like that, and if you want insincerity like that, then you know, go ahead and support it.
But I think uh, you know, the the the effort here that there's a there's a separation of powers argument going over and going on, and I think as long as people in the country want to play a role in this, they got to understand the politics of this too, as well as whatever they think about the deal.
And this has set the Democrats up.
Let me tell you what the Democrat theory is.
I'll tell you what the Democratic Party theory is.
Here's their strategy and here's their hope.
This 45-day delay, they don't care about this for the added time it gives to examine the deal.
They couldn't care less.
They don't want this deal.
They're gonna stand in the way of this deal at all costs because this is the only thing since 9-11 that they think has put them on the right side of the national security issue.
So they asked for this 45-day delay, and the main reason they want this delay is to delay it so it's closer to the election, where it will have some memory as voters go to the polls in November.
So this 45-day delay may be extended.
Well, it's too too soon, Rush.
Uh, we're we're we're we're hurrying through this.
It's they're terribly complicated thing.
I mean, we're having this uh Arab company, a United Arab Emirates, and they're gonna be running the ports and uh they're gonna be doing security, and you know the Coast Guard didn't want this to happen.
We need to really look at we need to put this off maybe three months.
And uh then at the end of the three months, there won't have been any serious effort by the Democrats to get to the bottom of this, because they already know it's okay.
They just can't afford to be on the side of this because they just they just so desirous at Creman Bush and being on the right side of national security.
So what's going to happen in 45 days or three months, however long this so-called cooling off period is and this uh uh additional time for review of the deal, they're gonna gin it all back up.
Whenever that period ends, we're gonna be right back to where we are today.
The same arguments are gonna be made, the same attempts to demagogue and frighten as many people in this country as possible, that terrorists are buying the ports and are going to be running security.
I don't care what the review shows, the Democrats are never going to come off that mantra.
That's fine, that's who they are, we know it.
We don't need a bunch of ignorant, lame-brained Republicans jumping on the other side of the fence to join them.
And it's all happening on the basis of ignorance.
There was, I can't describe it any better than I did.
There was a conventional wisdom tsunami last week.
It swept everybody but me away.
And everybody was going off with so many wrong impressions, so much incorrect data, some with no data, some with no information, just reacting on a gut emotional level to whatever fears they had.
And most of the people doing that were elected officials.
They were politicians.
They were joining.
It was an embarrassing sight to see.
These are supposed to be people with access to information we don't have.
We had more than they did.
We knew more than they did.
We were reading things they could have read, but didn't.
They're the later rivals here to the facts of the deal.
They're the ones, along with the mainstream media, who got this tsunami going, or this drive-by shooting of last week.
But I can't say this Susan Collins thing, unless I'm missing something.
Unless there's some element of this story that I don't know, this is just unbelievable to me.
It is just sheer ignorance, demagoguery, or what have you.
And as I say, even if I even if I oppose the deal, it would still bother me what's going on here with with her and what the re what some of these Republicans are doing, because there's no reason.
There's no reason to give the Democrats a big boost here on the political side of this thing.
All right, uh quick timeout here.
We'll have some more phone calls and other excitement, lots of other stuff in the stack.
The left is still mounting its assault on Walmart.
A lot of states are trying to pick up where Maryland left off, and this is nothing but socialism on the march.
We'll be back and continue here.
Oh, and the media down there, this is Fat Tuesday.
Fat Tuesday is always a Tuesday before Lent.
Fat Tuesday, Big Mardi Gras.
I just saw one of the networks forget which.
They're showing live coverage of the Mardi Gras, the Fat Tuesday celebration, which is fine.
I got no problem with it.
But the graphic said New Orleans celebrates first Fat Tuesdays since Katrina.
Well, hell's bells.
That's because it is the first Fat Tuesday since Katrina.
It's not as though there have been 14 or 15 Fat Tuesdays that have been missed.
They're celebrating Fat Tuesday after Katrina.
Not the first.
And now they're down there and then school bus Nagan was dressed as a as a general today in today's show.
You see that he's honoring George Honore, but he showed up in fatigues, combat fatigues and everything.
Democrats are doing anything to make themselves look tough.
And six months, this is this is this is another drive-by shooting today.
When's the media ever gone down and covered Fat Tuesday?
When have we had wall to wall 24-7 coverage of Mardi Gras?
We've had it four or five days in a row here.
You know why?
Bush's fault.
So it's another drive-by shooting here.
Media trying to gin up this whole Katrina thing again today.
Back with more in just a second.
Ha and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh and talent.
So much talent.
On loan from God.
You know, before Susan Collins opened her mouth yesterday, you know where you know what the Democrats were reduced to, really, on this one?
They were still out there trying to make a big deal about it's uh the Arabs gonna be running our security and terrorists are gonna be uh infiltrating through the ports.
But it the tide had been turned.
And so they were reduced to the same thing.
Let's go back to the Cheney week.
And that drive-by shooting of the mainstream media.
What did they say?
When Harry Whittington lived, when he didn't die, when it was clear that uh Cheney wasn't drunk, he wasn't having an affair out there while pulling the trigger, shooting quail.
Uh when Whittington refused to die, the media had to give it up, and they tried to sustain the story for another week by saying what?
They said, Well, you know, this is a symptom of a much larger problem out there, and that's secrecy in the Bush administration.
Failing to level with the American people, not trusting us in the media.
Well, until Susan Collins opened her mouth yesterday, that's what was being prepped for the way to sustain the port deal story.
You know, this is just a symptom of a bigger problem in the Bush administration.
Secrecy, not letting people know what's going on in there.
So they don't have they don't have any substance on this.
All they've got is all they've got on every issue, lies and demagoguery.
The thing that sets this apart is that a bunch of Republicans have joined them from the outset.
Here's uh here's Kevin in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Hello, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
Yeah.
Rush, you know, you guys do a great job, as always, and I agree with you, you know, that you're refuting the information about the polls and whatnot.
But but Rush, I I have this gut fear, you know, that I mean, the mainstream media being mainstream, Mr. and Mrs. Jones aren't going to sit and and investigate and look underneath all the information.
And I just fear that, you know, that the damage that they're trying to do might in fact have been done.
But they're gonna make no no no, they're they're gonna do some damage, otherwise they wouldn't be talking about that.
They still have their audience.
They use hemorrhoids and hearing aids, and the average age of the evening news is about sixty four.
I kid you not.
Uh you may be in that age group and still watch it, and if so, you're going to be impacted or affected by it.
Yeah, they still have their audience.
They still reach 20, 30 million people a night combined, the three networks do.
Uh, but it's like I always tell you, there is an alternative out there now, and they don't have a monopoly.
They cannot move and shape public opinion as this poll would tend to indicate that they can.
This poll is a fraud.
CBS News is engaged in another example of fraud.
Now, I just have to tell you, that is not a foundation for growth.
It is not a foundation for leadership, influencing people or anything else.
Sit out there and be worried about it all you want, but until these people start dealing with the American people honestly, they're not going to be as worrisome to me.
You can always deal with people who are uh building their existence on a foundation of falsehoods, which is what is happening here.
So I I don't know I'm not trying to say it's irrelevant, uh, but with the same token, it is just more of what we've had.
It's CBS.
You think they still have any what kind of credibility do they have anyway after the after the uh forged documents business?
I'll bet you the facts are that in most homes in this country, CBS News is a laughing stock.
And the fact that you can't tell them apart from CBS or NBC most of the time means that they've lost tons of respect out there.
Doesn't mean we're going to ignore them, because the reason that they're in the sit situation that they're in uh is frankly because of me and the alternative media out there, which shining the light of attention on the way they do their work.
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How about this poll, folks?
I'm sorry, headline.
It's the New York Times.
Americans are cautiously open to gas tax increase.
Poll shows.
It's a CBS poll.
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