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March 7, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 7, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #2
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And we find ourselves here together, as Ronald Reagan used to say, in a rendezvous with destiny.
One of my all-time favorite lines.
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Democrats struggle to seize opportunity.
Look at all this in the Washington Post today.
First, you have this poll that says 80%.
The American people think there's going to be civil war in Iraq.
One of the most meaningless, worthless, childish, and irrelevant polls that's being used as a news story that I have yet seen.
Then there's an E.J. Deion Jr. column, which he says that Democrats are not being angry enough.
They're not being critical enough.
They need to learn the power of negative thinking.
And the Democrats are aiming at the wrong people.
They need to aim at the opinion makers.
Democrats need to talk to the opinion makers, meaning people like E.J. and other columnists and commentators in the drive-by media.
And then there is a third story in the Washington Post.
Democrats struggle to seize opportunity.
This is by Shelleg Murray and Charles Babington.
It is a piece that mocks the Democrats.
It's a piece that's attempting to tell them, get yourselves together.
Get your excrement together.
We're tired of propping you up.
We want to see action.
We want to see something from you.
What are you going to tell people that you stand for?
The upshot of the story is Democrats promised to release their plans for America in November 2005.
So they have a full year before the election to get their message out.
In November 2005, here's what they said.
Then they announced that they would release their plans for America in January 2006.
And this is what they announced.
Now, Nancy Pelosi announced nothing.
No, folks, you didn't miss anything.
They didn't say anything.
There was no plan.
There is no plan.
Now Pelosi announces that they will release their plans in a matter of weeks.
Well, Ms. Pelosi, there are only 32 weeks left until the election, and that means there are 33 weeks until you can cry and moan that you didn't get your message out in time.
Isn't that what they said in 2002?
We didn't get our message out.
Oh, you did.
It's called the Wellstone Memorial.
You've been getting your message out for 50 years, and for the last 20, we've been telling people what your message really is.
This story reads like a parody.
It's what I said the other day.
These people have gone now so absurd that it's impossible to out-absurd them.
These guys, Democrats are portrayed in this story like the keystone cops of politics.
Harry Reid is described as soul-searching here over a slogan.
Together, America can do better or America can do better.
He just can't figure out which one of those slogans is best to use.
And then Chuck Schumer is mentioned in this story as betting on the fact that port deal can do the Republicans in.
Because now the Democrats have the upper hand when it comes to national security.
Party leaders have yet to decide whether Democrats should focus on a sharply negative campaign against the president by jumping on debacles such as the administration's handling of the Dubai port deal or stress their own priorities and values.
You know why they can't stress their own priorities and values?
This is the dirty little secret, folks.
They can't win in the arena of ideas.
That's really why they don't put any ideas forth.
They can't win there.
So they have to go negative.
I don't care if they think they're emulating Newton, the boys in 94, constantly harping on Clinton, but it's plain as the nose on your face.
They can't win in the arena of ideas, and they know it, and they're trying to come up with some way around that.
Representative Jim Cooper, Democrat Tennessee, listen to this quote.
It could be a great year for Democrats, but the party is going to have to present a more moderate face and distinguish itself more clearly from the GOP on issues such as ethics.
The comment I hear, this is this Democrat from Tennessee, Jim Cooper, speaking.
Comment I hear is, I really like to vote for you guys, but I can't stand the folks I see on TV.
Well, who's that?
Who are the people on TV?
Well, first up, you'd have to have Dingy Harry in there.
Then you'd have to have Nancy Pelosi.
And I would throw in Carville and Bagala and anybody else that goes on these cable shows to start singing the Democrats tune.
Name for me, one of them is likable.
Well, maybe Susan Estridge.
I just winked at the people watching on the Ditto Cam today.
Ditto Cam is up and running, by the way.
Welcome all of you who are watching the program at rushlimbaugh.com.
On issues such as explaining that former lobbyist Jack Abramoff's work was a 110% Republican operation, Cooper said, we're not making nearly as much headway as we should.
Well, I'll have more on that coming up in mere moments, ladies and gentlemen.
The Democratic leaders in Congress, Pelosi and Harry Reid, are the party's chief strategerists and architects of the agenda, which they view as a way to market party ideas on energy, health care, education, and other issues.
Really, energy, health care.
How long?
I've been paying attention to politics for I don't know how long, and that's the sum total of what the Democrats think they got to talk about.
Energy, education, healthcare.
Page two.
This is hilarious.
Many in the party have their doubts about the fact that the people are going to know where Democrats stand by the time the election comes around.
They have their doubts about that.
On February 27th, Reid and Pelosi appeared before the Democratic Governors Association.
At one point in the conversation, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, noting that the two leaders had talked about a variety of themes and ideas, asked for help.
Could they reduce the message to just two or three core ideas that governors could echo in their states?
According to multiple accounts from those in the room, Reed said that they had narrowed the list to six and proceeded to talk about them.
Pelosi then offered her six, and they're not all the same as Reed's.
Oregon Governor Ted Kuligsky, sorry, said later, one of the other governors said, what do you think?
And I said, you know what I think?
I don't think we have a message.
So it's looking bad out there for the Democrats.
And I want to mention one other thing to you, and I've been mentioning a talk about this.
For those of you who are, despite my attempts to calm you, despite my attempts to soothe you, despite my attempts to set you straight on this latest abomination of a news story called the ABC News Washington Post poll, you may have sons and daughters in Iraq.
You're worried about them seeing this, being demoralized.
This is the poll out today.
80% of American people think there's going to be a civil war in Iraq.
80% of the people think that there's man-made global warming.
Yippee.
So what?
It is meaningless.
At any rate, if you're worried about the impact of this, there's a new book out.
Bill Salmon at the Washington Times.
I think he's not the Washington Examiner.
Bill Salmon has a book out, interestingly enough, called Strategery.
Bill Salmon is in the White House press corps.
He has probably been given more access to this administration than anybody else in the White House press corps.
And he has revealed questions and answers, statements Karl Rove and George W. Bush have made, and they will comfort you and they will make you chuckle and they will once again let you know that the people running this show, this foreign policy, are right on track.
Strategi, it's by Bill Salmon.
And it's been out a couple weeks now.
I got my advanced copy as a powerful, influential member of the media some three weeks ago before any of you could get yours, but that's just what it's like being me.
Back after this, stay with us.
Another question here for you.
I mentioned this to you last week.
If the Republicans are in so much trouble, how come they have $34 million in the bank for this election cycle already and the Democrats have $5 million?
How can that possibly be?
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
El Rushball serving humanity.
Media can't even get the story straight.
I have two headlines, one's from the AP, one's from Reuters, both today.
Rumsfeld rejects reports of Iraq civil war.
That's the AP.
Reuters story, same date, today.
Rumsfeld says potential exists for Iraq civil war.
They can't, it's that I doubt me that there is an action line on this story.
They can't give up this notion that there's a civil war.
All right, that long-haired maggot-infested FM-type teacher from Aurora, Colorado, trying to get his story out now, went on the Today Show today with the host of the show, Matt Wauer.
And Wauer said, the reaction you got, Jay Benish, is it what you expected?
From the students?
Yes, from the national media and the attention from people all over the country.
Obviously not.
You know, my job as a teacher is to challenge students to think critically about issues that are affecting our world and our society.
Stop the tape.
You're teaching human geography, whatever the hell that is.
What are you supposed to challenge them?
That Mount Everest is not the highest, the tallest mountain in the planet?
What is this?
My job as a teacher is to challenge students to think critically about issues.
It's a geography class for crying out loud.
And, you know, the process of cognitive dissonance is one way to activate their minds and to get them to think about these various things.
Everything that was discussed in the class fits within the curriculum of the class.
My class syllabus clearly outlines all of the material that will be covered.
This is signed by parents.
This is registered with the school.
It's been approved by the school.
So the exchange continued with this.
They basically shopped it around to conservative media outlets.
And when they finally released it to one, it created an uproar.
And on the tape, you can hear Sean Allen asking you questions that seem to be egging you on a little bit.
Do you feel you were set up?
Stop the tape a minute.
You mean like guests on the Today Show?
Get set up.
Questions to egg people on.
60 Minutes Come to Mind.
I mean, how many times have you seen the mainstream Mid-the-Drive-Buy media out there trying to egg people on?
And they got them all upset about things.
And so, Matt Wauer asking this teacher, who is presumably an adult, sounds to me like this little 16-year-old Twerp was getting the best of you.
That's not what Lauer meant to say, but that's how it sounds to me.
Oh, you were set up by this punk.
You're the adult teacher.
You can run rings around these guys, supposedly.
You got set up by a punk.
You were out there being led on by some little student.
What do you do?
Let's resume the rest of this.
Was an introduction to world geography, and we were covering very stereotypical terms like mental mapping and cultural landscapes.
And I was receiving questions from Sean, as well as from other students, trying to get me to respond.
Hold it a second.
I had to look at the transcript to make sure I heard that right.
Mental mapping and cultural landscapes.
This, I guess, is what human geography is.
So I guess they learned what is the highest point on the female body and how do you get there?
What is this?
Mental mapping?
Sounds like a propaganda class.
Mental mapping and cultural landscapes.
To the State of the Union address that was the night before.
And I explained to the students that in the case of the State of the Union, this is applicable to a world geography class because for many people around the world, this speech might impact their lives more so than the speeches that their own leaders give.
I don't remember him saying any of that.
I've listened to this tape.
He's out there saying that the U.S. is guilty.
Other countries have a right to attack us, destroy our crops like we're destroying their crops.
Okay, well, anyway, it's image-making time for Jay Benish.
He's out there now, and he, of course, has every right to do it, but I'm learning more and more about this human geography.
And I'm thinking, why wasn't this taught when I was in school?
I might have liked school if we had something like human geography.
Mental mapping?
Cultural, what was the cultural what?
Cultural landscapes.
What a bunch of absolute hogwash.
Here's Mike in Jacksonville, Florida.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the show.
Thank you, Rush.
Longtime listener, first-time caller.
Yes.
You know, I was going to raise the point that there's a difference between the criticisms that Newton and his crew had in 94 than this crowd is trying to make in 2006.
And what are those differences?
Well, you know, in 94, the Clinton administration was engaged in military emasculation, withdrawal in the arena of foreign policy, retroactive tax breaks, and, you know, those, I don't think, struck a promising corner.
Don't forget universal health care.
Exactly.
And, you know, the problem is that this administration has had to spend a lot of time redressing some of those ill-conceived notions.
This administration has had.
What's the question?
Well, we had, you know, and I forgot to mention the fact that the prior administration decided to give North Korea a nuclear power plant.
You know, throw that in the bargain, too.
I guess it was the flea bargain sale.
But, you know, the tax break, the tax increase that Clinton put in in a retroactive manner, the withdrawal and the engagement of foreign policy, i.e. not at all.
I think what your basic point is that you're saying the Republican criticism was issue-oriented.
It was issue-oriented.
It was substantive, based on ideas, plus the fact that there was some personal stuff.
You couldn't trust Clinton.
He was lying through his teeth.
That sort of thing.
The criticism of Bush today is almost all personal.
Bush lied, Bush equals Hitler, Bush is this.
I think to understand the Democrats, it is.
Let's do a little human geography here, shall we?
You have to understand the mental mapping that has occurred with the Democrats.
They come from a position of entitlement.
That entitlement they believe is to power.
They think it is their birthright.
They have been denied that power.
To them, this is something unfair and unjust about the American system.
They think they've been cheated.
They think they have been robbed.
And they are going to try to make anybody that will believe them believe that it was the Republicans and George Bush who have not beaten them, but have stolen their birthright.
So they will go back and they will look at the Clinton years.
And remember, you've got to keep in mind what they think of Bill Clinton.
He is their messiah.
They think that Bill Clinton is the greatest Democrat since FDR.
He can do no wrong.
He did no wrong.
And Bill Clinton, also, the reason they love him is because they think that Bill Clinton was the absolute best at embarrassing and smoking and defeating Republicans.
And so he is idolized.
He's almost godlike to these people.
So when they go back and look at what happened in 1994, they don't see any real problem with Bill Clinton.
They just see a bunch of Republicans who they consider to be maniacs.
Remember, they think Republicans and conservatives are, you know, aliens anyway.
Ideas are alien.
They're oddball and strange and kooky and weird and so forth.
You have to keep all this in mind as you watch them implement their plan.
They look back at 94 and they see, and the two years leading up to it, and they see no legitimate criticism of Clinton because that's not possible.
It's not possible to legitimately criticize Bill Clinton because he is above that.
So they see a bunch of personal sniping.
They see a bunch of attacks that were not relevant, but yet that they worked.
Couldn't have had anything to do with ideas because, I mean, Clinton's unassailable in that regard.
It's a liberal.
Same thing with Hillary.
Never examine what they think because you never question it if you're a Democrat.
So they think, okay, this is how you have to do it.
They don't look at the contract.
In fact, they're willing to throw the contract with America out as an entity in that whole 94 success story because the ideas in it are silly anyway, and who would ever believe them?
It was just gobbledygook.
Nobody believes what the Republicans really stand for.
So they had to do something else.
They had to cheat, hanging Chad's, had to come up with a way of rigging voting machines, and they were just so mean to Bill Clinton.
So they said long ago they were going to emulate that policy, and they are.
I don't think, and I really, I think they're so personally out of touch.
I think they're such elitists, so ego-oriented.
I don't think they have the slightest idea how they sound to people, how they are perceived by people, how they are seen by people.
I don't think they have the slightest idea of understanding what it was that really delivered the House of Representatives.
They thought the Wellstone Memorial would launch them to victory, as an example.
Had no clue how that was really seen.
Okay, back to the phones.
Oh, well, I got to correct one thing.
Apparently, the long-haired maggot-infested FM teacher has cut his hair.
Joe informs me from up in New York that he looks like a skinhead now.
I'm going to have to tell you something about this guy, folks.
He is full of it.
He is a propagandist.
It's real simple what happened to Jay Benish.
He was caught spewing the hate Bush talking points, and now he's out there trying to pretend that he's challenging the students' thinking.
He got caught red-handed, plain and simple, by a 16-year-old student.
Here's Frank in Chicago.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Good afternoon, sir.
It's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you.
While I disagree with everything this nutcase teacher has to say, I do agree that our children should be studying human mapping.
That's maybe a bad term in cultural landscape.
Ho, ho, ho, ho.
Tell me.
First of all, do you have any experience with it?
And what is human mapping?
I think it might mean.
And by that, I mean you only have to look at the southwest United States and how it's culturally changed in the last few years with the influx of Hispanics, Cubans in California, the problems with the Palestinians in the Middle East and the Albanians and the Muslims in the old Yugoslavia to see that as people move around the world now, you're right, they do have a sense of entitlement.
They move into a country and with their ethnic backgrounds and with their different cultural backgrounds, and they think that the country should adapt to them and not the other way around.
And I think that's very important for our children to learn because I think that as we proceed in our country the way we are, I think we could turn into a Europe with different homelands around the country where people flock to.
Yeah, but other than we cannot divide it.
If that's true, it's going to be because of people like this lame-brained professor who are all for destroying the distinct American culture.
I mean, you can talk about all the demographic and geographic, geographic relocation of people, but it doesn't entitle you to then get up in your classroom and start articulating and spewing the hate Bush talking points.
I mean, I'm sure Bush is responsible for what's happening to the Palestinians.
Bush is responsible for what's happening to illegal immigrants.
Bush is responsible for what's happening to Cubans.
That's the agenda this guy had, and he's been caught.
You know, there is a, well, there is.
There is a distinct American culture, but there is no melting pot anymore.
I know exactly what you're saying.
And we owe this also to the multiculturalists themselves.
I'll tell you who they are.
They're just a bunch of failures, and they're angry that they have failed to make it in this country.
And so it's time to blame the country for it.
And they'll come up with all these reasons why they have been victimized.
Racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia.
And end up teaching this is called a course called multiculturalism.
It's where we must understand the cultures and the ways of other peoples.
And we must also understand how we are destroying these peoples.
Well, that's the theme of all this.
If you want to understand, I'm going to give you ⁇ I'm going to pretend I'm a human geography teacher here, and I'm going to give you a little lesson on all this moving around in this country.
Yeah, the southwest United States below the Sun Belt, people are moving further and further south, and there are reasons for it.
But I'll tell you what the real problem will be in the future is that the Democrats are losing their electoral base as a result of this.
Because these highly populated northeastern states, the upper Midwestern states that have been traditionally staunch Democrat voters, people are leaving.
And they're moving and they're spreading out.
And their power as a member of a Democratic state is being watered down.
And so if trends, for example, 800 people today moving to Florida, despite the hurricanes, despite all they're moving to Florida.
Now, if the trend keeps up in 10 years, Florida's going to have more electoral votes than New York.
But not all the people moving here are Democrats.
I mean, there are Republicans everywhere.
But the Democrats in, say, Long Island, they're not all moving here.
Some are moving to Texas.
Some are moving to Tennessee.
Some are moving to North Carolina.
North Carolina is huge.
I'll tell you, more and more people are going to North Carolina.
Property values are absolutely great.
It's a great state.
A lot of people in Florida go up to North Carolina in the mountains to spend the summer.
Keep an eye on North Carolina.
It's growing left and right, too, so much so that people there wish it would stop, other than those in the real estate business who say, come on down.
But the Democratic base, traditional electoral Democratic base, other than in California, in the Northeast and the Upper Midwest, is being watered down.
Now, I wonder if Mr. Benish would dare tell his students that or if he even knows it.
If he did know it, he'd be alarmed by it.
I have here from the this is the Nationalgeographic.com website, mental mapping.
They actually explain it here.
We all form impressions and images of our physical surroundings, even of places we've never been.
These impressions are what geographers call our mental maps.
Geographers are interested in the concept of mental maps and how they are developed.
Understanding the way people view different regions can help experts understand and predict how the land may be used, and among other uses, what patterns of migration may be expected.
This lesson uses mental maps to explore student perceptions of different regions in the United States.
All right.
Somebody want to translate this?
What do you think that is?
Well, let's read more.
Connection with the curriculum.
United States and world history are filled with examples of regional suspicions, misconceptions, and antagonisms.
World conflict and cooperation, topics commonly studied in world geography, are influenced by the perceptions that people of different nations have of each other.
This geographic and research are the geographic and research tools applied in this lesson are useful in all social studies contexts.
Okay, so as I'm still not sure I get it.
We form impressions and images.
So I guess if I if I imagine, let's say the country of Disgronificatorville, I'll just make up, if I think Disgronificatorville is filled with a bunch of poverty-stricken, mentally deranged people, then this is important.
Whether I'm right or wrong, it's important because this will affect how I need to be taught about things or this will affect how Disgronificatorville will be developed.
What does it matter?
Why not just tell me the truth about the damn place instead of carrying what I think about it?
What if I'm wrong?
Well, that's not the important thing, Mr. Limbaugh.
Remember, outcome-based education, no one is wrong.
We all are entitled to our opinions, and we all are entitled to our views.
Yes, but we're not all entitled to our set of facts.
If I've got a mental picture of Disgronificatorville and it's wrong, don't sit there and what will this mean down the road when Mr. Limbaugh gets out of school with this opinion of Disgronificatorville?
Tell me I'm wrong.
You're a teacher.
No, can't tell me.
It might humiliate me.
It might stunt my growth.
It might give me a self-esteem problem.
Well, Mr. Snurdley has a point.
Because you're assuming here, I guess, if you go by this description of mental mapping, that the teacher's right.
You have to assume the teacher's right, that there is an ultimate truth, and it's the teachers, and it's in the classroom.
So they survey the mental map of these young skulls full of mush and end up producing a class that is steeped in moral relativism.
Well, nobody's wrong.
We all have reasons for thinking what we think.
You, Mr. Limbaugh, you might be biased against poor people because that's what you think of Disgronificatorville.
In which case, Mr. Limbaugh, you are a piece of excrement.
And we want to try to change your mind.
If there is poverty in Disgronificatorville, it's because of George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan.
I can hear this.
I can just imagine how this stuff all happens.
All right, look, I got to run.
A quick time out here, my good buddies.
We'll be back and roll right on.
Did you people ever think there would be a talk show that would teach you so much?
This is the classroom people need.
Back in just a sec.
Right, Brian?
All right, I'm starting to get my arms around this mental mapping business here, this human geography.
And I think, let me give you a good illustration of it.
Let's use pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans as our example.
Prior to the attack on New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina, there was an image of the place.
Unique, quaint, rollicking, good time, smooth operating.
Everybody wanted to go there, have their convention there, go to Bourbon Street, go down to the French Quarter, eat some of the great food, distinct culture.
Democrats ran a town.
It was absolutely just all great place, which would fit the description a lot of people had of the place, including me.
Then, Hurricane Katrina attacked.
And after the attack of Hurricane Katrina, we were told all kinds of things by the media that weren't true.
We were told that there was raping and murdering and pillaging.
We were told that there was going to be a toxic soup.
We were told that there was a toxic soup.
We were told that the vast, vast majority of those who lost everything and suffered the greatest damages were blacks.
After a while, and there were no facts to support this, it had to be the mental mapping of the media that led to this.
It was embarrassing how wrong they all were.
It was embarrassing how bad they were.
We learned that none of this was actually true.
We learned it was not a liberal utopia.
We learned it was not this panacea.
We learned people were miserable there, that there was unemployment, that there was racism, that there was graft, that there was corruption.
But the mental mapping of the media led everybody to believe a bunch of things in the aftermath of the attack by Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans that simply were not true.
Is that sort of what mental mapping is and you've got to, I'm taking a wild stab at this.
Here's Colleen in Virginia Beach, whose son is in a human geography class.
Tell us about it.
Hi, Rush.
Yes, my oldest son takes the advanced placement human geography, and the course is described as the ways people interact with their physical environment, studying cultural patterns, demographics, economics, and applying it to current world issues.
So it's a little more than maps and capitals and that kind of thing.
Well, I would, yeah, but I'm, I'm this, I'm sorry that I'm, I'm.
I'm really trying to restrain and constrain myself here, but this sounds like bad stuff.
This sounds like multicultural propaganda to me.
Well, for my son, he has a retired naval officer teaching his course.
So he hasn't had the experience like the kids in Colorado, and he's actually enjoying the class pretty much.
We have not heard anything from him in this video.
I don't mean that.
I just mean the whole concept here, the way you describe this course.
Do that again.
It's described as a systematic study of the ways people interact with their physical environment.
Oh!
Okay, stop it.
Like what?
The way you touch the lawn?
The way you drive your car?
Their physical environment.
What is the way you wash the window?
What?
Is it about strip mining?
Is it about raping the earth by drilling for oil?
What is it?
It could be those things.
They say they use the methods of geographers and they study those kinds of things, demographics, demographics, economics, and what the people, I guess, do in their environment and how it affects their cultures.
You know what this is.
You know what this is.
This is a trick.
This is political indoctrination described as some newfangled advanced form of geography, taking the concepts of geography, studying the physical aspects of the environment, studying maps, learning where things are.
I'll bet you and what's happening is that all of this political stuff is being translated into so-called geographic terms, and it is a way for parents to miss what's going on and to think it's a good thing for the students not to have any idea what's going on and think that they're in some advanced type of curriculum or course here when in fact it's just political science or indoctrination under a new name.
That's what it sounds like to me.
I'm not trying to upset you.
You realize I couldn't.
Well, I'm actually pretty an involved parent, so I'm asking him, what are you talking about in class?
And we try to balance things that they hear about.
But I would assume a lot of parents don't do that and may just take it at face value.
But I'm a bit more skeptical.
So I look at their papers.
I look at their books and things.
Yeah, it's good.
Well, I just, I know what education is.
Education is a tool used by the left for the purposes of indoctrination.
That's why the public school system is so important, that and a union consideration.
So I will admit, my own human mapping, that is my impression, in my own human map of this course.
Okay, Snerdley has a better course title for human geography.
What is it?
I think you've narrowed it down too much.
Snerdley's suggested title for the course is How Americans Rape Their Own Land and the Planet.
I think it goes, you've left out the peoples of the world.
It's much broader syllabus than just that, Mr. Snerdley.
Anyway, look, I appreciate the call.
Thanks very much.
Let me line one.
Give me line one before we take care of this real quick.
This is in Anacondas, Washington.
David, hi, welcome to the program.
Yeah, Rush.
Last evening's episode of 24 had the series vice president recommending the imposition of martial law without a formal declaration or congressional resolution.
This appears to be a not-so-oblique attack on Dick Cheney, who's certainly the best vice president in my memory, and things like the NSA wiretap issue.
It sounds like subtle support of the Democrats' accusation of secrecy in the administration.
I was wondering how you responded to that.
You know, I'm very sensitive to such attempts in the media, and I, frankly, this is the first time that thought's crossed my mind because I'm totally into the show, and I don't think I know the people that put this show together, and they don't think of Cheney that way.
And they're not trying to bounce off real-world events.
They're self-contained, trying to do an entertaining show that surprises people every week four or five times per episode.
In case of last night, eight or nine times, given it was two hours long.
I really didn't interpret it that way.
I think that they're, I think, I think that the, well, I don't want to give this away.
Why should I?
You've got a president here who's just a bowl of jelly.
Clearly, this vice president's a bad guy, but I think he has connections to Christopher Robinson, a guy played by Peter Weller.
And I think this goes far.
It's going to go in areas that we can't even imagine now that have nothing to do with the NSA wiretaps or this, that, and the other thing.
There is obviously a conspiracy at the highest levels of the U.S. government to take advantage of this weak president.
For what purpose, it hasn't been revealed.
I don't know.
I really don't think this bunch has had Cheney in mind.
If they did, they'd have a lookalike.
They don't have Cheney in mind.
They don't have anybody in mind in this show.
Quick timeout, except Jack Bauer, who, if he inhales enough gas, he might get really mad.
All right, the second hour is in the can on the way via Armored Courier to the secret warehouse housing artifacts.
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