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March 13, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 13, 2006, Monday, Hour #3
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Hey, cookie.
Roll the tape in there.
Dingy Harry's now going to respond to Bush's speech on a rock.
This ought to be good.
What's Lieberman doing standing next to him?
Do you see that?
That's kind of a surprise.
Maybe Dingy Harry's going to announce America's surrender.
Greetings, folks.
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I want to go back to this Charlie Cook soundbite that we played right before the uh end of the previous hour.
Uh he's a political consultant.
He has a he has a newsletter, a political newsletter called a Cook Report.
And he was on uh a special edition of Hardball on uh MSNBC Saturday night live from Memphis, the Republican straw poll.
These guys, this is what they live for, the horse race aspect of all this.
And they talk about it in the context of it being a horse race.
Uh and as such, I don't think they really ever get down to deep understanding of the issues that lead people to vote for or against people.
They come up with all kinds of ancillary things, but anyway.
Uh the host, uh, the estimable Chris Matthews says, why don't they like McCain?
Why don't these Republican Rubes like me?
Why don't these why don't these one that Republican base?
Why don't they like McCain, huh?
Why do they like McCain?
I think that party regulars in general and Republican Party regulars in particular don't like mavericks, they don't like independents, they like team players, but I also think that reform does itself with party regulars.
And I don't care if you're a Republican or Democrat.
Why not, Charlie?
They're ideologues.
They don't want reform.
They're popular.
They love politics.
Okay, you don't have to get so mad about this.
It's very simple.
I uh you know he's exactly right.
This reform business is nothing more than the code word.
Reform is nothing more than a word used by the libs to advance big government anti-liberty agenda.
Like we need lobbying reform.
Like we're not we need a campaign finance reform.
We know all this reform business.
All it does is screw things up.
It just makes the government bigger.
It just gives more power to the government.
Have you ever seen any reform in Washington that involves expanding liberty and shrinking government?
That's reform, and that's what we think reform is, and that's what we want conservatives elected to do.
That's we want conservatives, ideologues, call them what you want, Charlie.
We want conservatives, and we know that they win when they run as such.
I mean, it it isn't complicated, but these guys this this I there's so many words in the in the in the Washington Beltway lexicon that just grate on me like fingernails on a chalkboard.
And one of them is reform, because all it is is a trick, and the next version of it, as I say, is going to be lobbying reform.
We have a lobby reform, and we're gonna get Abramov by the time lobby reform gets done is gonna look like an angel.
All right.
Have you um oh, I'm sure they'd love reform and talk radio, and I grade on them, too.
They'd love talk radio reform, which would mean me out.
Uh have you?
Did you hear the news?
This is so predictable.
It just so frustrating.
It happened uh about 10.30 this morning.
Judge considers dismissing Massawi case.
The U.S. judge hearing the death penalty trial of confessed Al-Qaeda conspirators a carrier Smissawi called a recess to consider dismissing the case over alleged government misconduct.
U.S. uh district court judge Leone Brinkama said, in all the years I've been on the bench, I have never seen such an egregious violation of the court's rules on coaching witnesses.
Brinkham has said that she had been advised by the prosecution that an attorney working with the FAA, the Federal Aviation Administration, uh working with FAA employees due to testify in the case had infringed rules on witnesses.
The defense immediately filed a motion for the dismissal of the death penalty case against Massawi.
The proceedings should uh really be dismissed.
Mr. Massawi's sentence to life in prison, said defense attorney Edward McMahon.
We're not we're not gonna get a fair trial here.
The judge said that the attorney who was not identified had been discussing the case in detail with witnesses who are to be called later in the case.
You can't do that.
The witnesses uh uh get called with a case.
They don't know what's been said.
Unless somebody's out there coaching them, and you can't do that.
She said the uh incident was the second significant error by the government.
On Friday, Brinkham had dismissed the notion, a motion for a mistrial over a question the defense said was a violation of Masaui's constitutional rights.
This is what you get when you try to prosecute the war on terror as a law and order issue.
Now I know we're just talking about the death penalty sentencing phase here.
We're not talking about the conviction and life imprisonment.
But I mean, this is this is all the money and all the time we're wasting here.
This is it is just absurd.
You do not conduct wars in courtrooms.
You deal with the aftermath uh of of uh of war in a courtroom.
Say if you need to try uh war crimes violators, such as Slobo Milosevic.
How about this guy?
Keeling over dead in his cell.
Bye-bye Slowbo over the week, and he was at the Hague, and a lot of controversy about this now.
See, Slobo had some medical conditions.
He wanted to go to Russia for treatment, and his family is there.
And the tribunal at The Hague, the uh the court, no, we're not gonna let you out of there, you'll never come back.
No, I promise to come back.
Family, oh, we promise, we'll bring him back.
And uh he was doing his own defense, he's writing his own papers, and uh apparently he was taking some drugs, and they found a drug in him that uh uh uh was counter it counteracted the medicine he was taking for either high blood pressure,
cardiac disease, or something it caused his liver to start working feverishly, and that and that when that happens, uh you know, medicines I look at, I'm not a scientist, but when the when the liver is not acting normally, when it's when it's sped up, uh the effectiveness of medicines taken is diminished.
And apparently that's what's happened.
So now speculation is he might have been poisoned by somebody.
He even wrote that he thought he was gonna be poisoned.
Now, how can this possibly be?
Who would want to poison such a guy like Slobodom Milosevich?
Did you hear what the Hague said?
Hey, the the people at the Hague were mad.
Because they wanted to get to the bottom of what happened there.
And he's the only guy who knows, and now he's uh he's he's stwa.
He assumed room temperature, and they'll never know.
So not going to be able to document the case of uh ethnic cleansing and and all this.
This trial's gone on for four years or some such thing.
What is interesting about this, and I am not drawing any conclusions, and I'm not even making any connections.
I'm not dot connecting or anything else.
But it has it has been reported that Slowball was considering calling Bill Clinton as a witness.
He hadn't made the formal request but was considering it, and now Slobo is no more.
Wesley Clark was called as a witness.
He went and testified uh a bunch of bunch of high profile big names uh wouldn't try I can't remember any of the other ones.
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Okay.
I have uh observed over the course of many years that the route to the highest stature one can achieve in a Democratic Party in liberalism is to become a loser.
They seem to reward their losers with the highest honors they can bestow.
Jimmy Carter, for example, was the king of the Democrat National Convention up there in Boston, honored as such by being allowed to sit next to Michael Moore for much of the uh convention, and there are countless other examples of this.
Failure seems to be a springboard to instance instant icon status in the Democratic Party.
I've got another example of it today.
It's an AP story.
Former Senate Democrat leader Tom Daschle, accusing the Republicans of spreading a message of fear, says he is considering a 2008 presidential bid.
I, uh...
I haven't I haven't ruled anything out or uh anything in at this point.
Dashell said in an interview Saturday night after a hometown dinner in his honor.
They're honoring a loser.
The guy lost his Senate seat in South Dakota.
I'm really encouraged, Tim, by the uh strong support.
Many people have voiced for for my uh candidacy uh round the country and and in in South Dakota.
I I'll make a decision at at some point uh later this year.
Dashell said that President Bush and Republicans have overemphasized the importance of the war on terror.
Created great racists out of all of us, don't you know?
We're all we're all anti-Arabs, we're all a bunch of xenophobes and races.
Bush Bush caused that.
And he said the United States National said the U.S. is no safer now than it was before the Iraq uh invasion.
All right, so here we have another Democrat, I mean a glaring failure, who's not in a launching launch to the heights of possibility presidential nomination in his uh in his own party.
And as you people know, the Republicans appear to be in disarray, the president's approval numbers appear to be down and so forth, but you can always count on the Democrats to come to the rescue.
It w be it Feingold's idiotic censure move, John Conyers' impeachment move, now Dashell saying that Bush overemphasized the importance of the war on terror.
He exaggerated it, and on that basis, he wants to run for president.
He's overwhelmed by all of the support that he's getting around the country and in South Dakota.
Delusional.
This simply delusional.
And it's to our benefit.
We're gonna use this stuff.
Back to the phone says San Francisco.
This I always love getting calls from San Francisco.
Mark, welcome, sir.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hi, Rush, this is Mark Wayman.
Great uh honor to talk to you.
Um question going back to Slovenan Milosevic.
Um mentioned earlier that he might have been poisoned.
I think this is equivalent to torture or human rights of violations, much like we're being accused of supposedly down in Getmouth.
Well, that's you know, uh a doctor, a Dutch doctor has done some toxicology tests.
They they found a drug that he wasn't prescribed.
And when you're in a jail cell uh in The Hague, uh you gotta get it somewhere.
Exactly.
So it may have been uh who knows.
We never saw any pictures of Slowbo since he's been incarcerated.
He could very well have been tortured, because torture, as you know, can kill if done properly.
That's absolutely correct, sir.
Excellent point.
I like as I say, I love getting calls from San Francisco.
You never you never know what you're gonna get out there.
Steve in Sacramento, my adopted hometown.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hi.
Megadiddo's rush from the proud birthplace of E.I.B. Yeah, that's exactly right.
On the left coast, no less.
Thank you, sir.
Anyway, getting back to the straw poll.
I'm looking at the numbers on Reuters here.
And even though Senator McCain may have requested the delegates to vote for Bush, uh, you know, in even in the manner of maybe saving face, in reality, if you add up the numbers, President Bush got 10.3%, McCain four point six, that adds up to fourteen point nine.
If McCain looks at those delegates as his since he requested it, that's actually above Romney.
Romney is fourteen point four.
Okay.
So McCain actually.
So your conclusion may be looking at those delegates as his.
Okay, so your conclusion, I'm sure he looks at all delegates as his.
Your conclusion thus is?
My conclusion is that here we have the main press actually saying that McCain came in first, which he did not, even though McCain may be looking at it as a fact he came in second.
And that may be more of a threat than me.
I think, no, I mean, the truth is McCain thinks he won.
There's no question.
I'm not saying that McCain is, I don't, when I say that McCain is not the front runner right now, I'm simply saying, I'm not, I'm talking about this very moment at this instant based on whatever data we have.
He may be the hoped for front runner in the press.
I'm not saying he's not going to be a factor.
Don't confuse the two.
That's true.
Except I'm just saying, even though it's very early, the fact that we're calling him fourth, fourth, or fifth, really is probably not that accurate because of the fact that he did request those delegates, those 10.3% to vote for Bush.
All right, I got to get my hair, I got the trash box, I got to get the numbers here out of the trash box.
Let me look at this.
McCain, 4.6, President Bush, 10.3, so that's 13.9.
No, 14.9.
10.3 and 4.6 is 14.9.
Oh, yeah, that's a 14 point nine, 14.9.
Yeah, I went to public schools.
And Romney was 14.4.
Uh Romney is uh 14.4.
Okay, we're splitting hairs here.
But Romney Romney didn't s ask his vote to be split.
I know what you're saying.
McCain wanted to split these up and so forth and so on.
But uh even though it's probably not really 14.9, the point is it's closer to second or third than it is fourth or fifth.
That's for sure.
You know, the the uh I tell you who's gonna be shocked at this, Chuck Hagel.
He got that much.
Chuck Chuck Hagel point two.
Rudy wasn't there, got one point one.
Condi got two point two, Pataki 2.7.
Uh the other right ends, there were many that totaled 3.0.
Uh, Mike Huckabee of Arkansas 3.7, uh George Allen 10.3.
Now, did you mention the response by Karen Finney from the Democratic National Committee spokeswoman, Karen Finney?
Uh I read it.
I read it.
What did she say?
I forgot.
She said uh quote, shocking that Republicans backed Frist in the poll and called him the poster child for the Republican culture of corruption and competition and c incompetence.
She called him that.
Well, that's that well uh that doesn't bother me.
That's what I would expect them to say.
That that's that's that's very typical.
Everybody knew Frist was gonna win this.
It's his state.
You know, we didn't have delegates flying in from all Over the country.
This was the Southern Republican leadership conference.
This was not some national straw poll that was uh taken some.
Okay, but your point is well taken here.
If you add up uh Bush's 10.3 right in, McCain's 4.6 right in, you're right.
14.9.
Romney got 14.4.
One more question.
Quickly, got a half minute.
On the set of the 20, on twelve twenty-four.
Who was the mystery woman?
I don't know.
That's why I put mystery woman.
Thanks, Rev. I never I don't think I got her name, but if I got her name, it was late in the night, and I I don't uh I don't recall.
But I mean, she knows who I am, and that is what counts.
We have a brief timeout to take here, ladies and gentlemen.
Other exciting stories in the stack of stuff coming up.
Brilliant story in the Washington Post post explaining why the Bush White House is imploding.
It's sleep cycles.
We'll be back.
It is.
That's what it says.
All right, I've been running some more numbers here after the call we got from Steve in Sacramento, and there's there's a there's a point that I need to make here.
Yes, Steve added the number of write-in votes that George Bush got, which is 10.3% of the straw vote.
John McCain got 4.6%.
So if you add those up, you get 14.9%.
And that is uh larger than uh Mitt Romney's 14.4%.
But Steve, this assumes, and it's apparently it's what McCain is doing.
It's a pretty neat trick on uh on McCain's part.
He's assuming that every vote for Bush is for him.
Because he's the one that asked people to do this.
So he's assuming, so we're just gonna automatically conclude that every one of those 10.3 percent, there's 147 votes that that uh that President Bush got right-in votes.
Yeah, if we're just gonna assume that McCain, then all those were going to go to McCain, then you can draw the conclusion that you do that McCain actually comes in higher than Mitt Romney.
So let's dig deeper.
Because the straw poll also calculated the second choice of Bill Frist's voters.
Now, Bill Frist was the winner, and he got 526 votes, or 36.9%.
And here are the second choices in order of Frist voters.
George Allen, 18.4%.
Mitt Romney, 12 percent, Giuliani, 12 percent, uh no Bush, no McCain, uh.
And I don't know what what the the overall second place tally was.
But you don't find McCain on the second choice of the winner, which is Frist.
And that that to me is uh is an interesting little number in in and of itself.
Nah, I don't think H.R. just asked me if he thought there was media voter fraud that might have stuffed the ballots.
Nah.
I I I haven't heard any allegations of this.
Uh I suppose it's uh possible, but I would highly doubt it in uh in this instance.
A couple sound bites here from Dingy Harry.
Uh President Bush made a speech in Iraq today, progress uh report.
Dingy Harry went out there to respond to it along with Senator Lieberman, and they they held their press conference in front of the slogan, investing in American security.
Don't you just love these pathetic idiots?
They're just pathetic.
Anyway, we have two bites from Dingy Harry responding to President Bush, and here is the first.
We'll soon be beginning the fourth year of the war in Iraq.
Put me to sleep.
President wake me up.
Today started his public relations campaign again about how well the war is going in Iraq.
Isn't this dynamic?
I would rather that he spent his time focusing on how to form a government in Iraq.
That is what is badly needed.
We need a political solution to the problems in Iraq.
We don't need people to tell us how well the war is going.
Okay, I don't even want to bother.
Here's the second.
This week's budget debate is really a test for the majority party.
We'll find out in this debate if they're committed to improving America's security.
The presence incompetence.
We live in a dangerous world.
Really?
We face many, many threats.
Name fight for a budget that reflects this reality.
What the president sent us in the form of a budget is a pre-9-11 budget.
It would take cops off the street in Las Vegas and Reno and the rest of the country.
It would leave our seaports without proper controls.
You've taken care of that.
It would not give additional protection to our trains and our cargo holes.
In fact, we'll make our country less safe.
America could do better than that.
Yeah, there we go.
America can do better.
It's not lighting them up out there on the Democrats side.
They hate they hate the slogan.
So I the guys can't get us.
I thought they fixed port security.
They stopped the United Arab Emirates from taking over the ports.
They stopped it.
I don't have any time for these guys.
I really not not today anyway.
They just wear me out.
Sally in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Welcome to the program.
It's your turn.
Hey, Rush, good to talk with you.
And I'm a huge fan out here.
And I just wanted to make the point that to me, McCain is nothing other than a Republican version of Wesley Clark or any of those other softheaded, mushy Democrats that you were just describing.
The guy, he has no guts, and I just think he tries to be all things to all people.
And it's a big turnoff for those of us who are conservative Republicans who really love someone like President Bush who's got conviction and he goes out there and if he's not pleasing the crowd all the time, that might be a good thing to tell you the truth.
Is there anything McCain could do to change your mind?
You know, uh it might just be his personality as part of it, but uh I I don't think so.
He's he's not convincing, he hasn't shown to be it to be convincing in the past, whether it's taxes or you know, this whole thing with Iraq, whatever.
So the bottom line is he's not fooling you.
No, he's not.
So he's not getting my vote.
Assuming he even gets there to begin with, you know.
Well, I know this is a popular sentiment out there.
This is uh there's the and the media will discount people like you, Sally, the people that have trumpeted and championed McCain.
Uh whether you're in Michigan or whether you're in South Carolina, if you're in the Republican base, they're gonna discount you because you're just they don't relate, they can't understand you're just an idiot.
Like Evan Thomas said about people who listen to talk radio.
You're just you're just an idiot.
And so they'll just throw they'll throw you out um uh of the of the equation because you know y you just don't count.
Well, I know that that's that's the point.
They they'll they they if they properly analyze where the base stands in McCain, it's in in direct conflict with their own impression of him.
And they, of course, can't be wrong.
Of course, they of course can't be, and you of course can't be right because you're a Rube uh you know, and a blockhead, and so the that they'll not take you seriously, and I think that's good.
Yeah let them c let them let them continue to underestimate you and and everybody out there in the base.
McCain is not.
McCain's not an McCain knows what his challenge is.
He knows what his problem is, and he's gonna be that's why I asked you if there's anything that he could do.
Because I I tell you, Sally, he's in the process of trying to woo you.
Yep.
Well, you know, listen, I'm open-minded and I listen, but I just you also have to look at people's track records and what they've produced.
And you know, the pudding you look at what he's done and measure it against his words, and uh what are you gonna give more weight to?
Yeah, exactly.
So thanks I'm sorry, go ahead.
No, I just was gonna say thanks.
This is such a thrill to speak with you and just keep up the good work and keep up the humor and the optimism.
They're really terrific.
I appreciate that.
Thank it's the only way I know how to be.
I'm naturally funny, I'm a natural optimist.
Thank thank thanks again, Sally, for the uh Snerdly is are you gonna tell people why McCain actually has a chance to win?
Uh you'll have to tell me what he why I don't I don't know why he has a chance to win.
You t tell me during the break when we get we got a break cover.
You tell me why you think he has a chance to win.
Um I'll get your version of it.
I mean, I think he has a chance to win just because anybody does right now.
I mean, any anybody can win.
It's it there's there's no Nobody gets anointed here, and it's way, way out from the uh from the primaries.
I mean, so he's he's he's got a as good a chance to win as anybody else does.
Um and and some people might say better.
Here's Matt in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Matt, welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Hey, Rush, thanks a lot.
Um hey, just real quick.
Uh, you know, Chuck Hagel, just for your information, is not running for president.
He knows that there's no way on God's green earth he's gonna make it on a run for president unless he becomes vice president first.
And he's he's been back here doing interviews on local radio stations saying how he's voted with Bush more than anyone else, but then he goes on these talk shows and just creates enemies back here in Nebraska, and a lot of his earlier supporters dislike him with just uh an extreme passion.
Yeah, that you you say that, but he keeps getting elected.
I hear I hear all these interesting.
He never said up for re-election.
This is his first time up for re-election, Rush.
He's only won the original election.
We all thought he was a conservative.
He beat out Ben Nelson.
Well, all right, we'll see.
We'll see.
I hear all this.
I I I d I know that he probably thinks his presidential chances are pretty slim and he might want to be VEEP, but uh he was in a battle there for a while with McCain to see who could out maverick uh the other, but it it's clear that that that McCain has chosen Lindsey Graham as his uh as his protege and uh and not Chuck Hagel.
And that's that's gonna have some effect impact on uh on Hegel too.
He's uh missed his broke back moment.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us.
Hey, I better address this.
I'm getting I'm getting tons of emails from people asking me if I watched the uh premier episode of this season's series The Sopranos last night, and if so, what did I think about it?
I'm s I'm sort of caught between things here, because if I if I describe what I thought of the episode last night, the people who are still waiting for this season to come out on DVDs about a year from now will be disappointed.
Uh and well, you know, there's some people who haven't watched it.
I T voed it last night and uh recorded it and uh uh didn't have a chance and I uh so I don't want to give away it you know the couple shockers last night, but I don't know, there's something about it.
Uh I keep it's like Dallas.
Every season after the first four or five, I kept waiting for it to recapture the magic of the early years, and it just didn't.
And I'm not sure this I I must confess, ladies and gentlemen, is a powerful, influential member of the media.
I have seen more than just the opening episode.
And if you think that last night's episode, if you think that last night's episode signals the end of the feminization of this show, you are wrong.
That's about I thought the episode last night was uh good.
I liked it.
I was I was I watched the whole thing and I was I was riveted to the seat.
Uh and I I didn't do anything else while I was watching it.
And I was taken aback.
But I can't, I can't I just know there are people haven't seen it.
I'm not I'm not gonna blow you did you watch it last night?
Oh, you haven't seen your T vote.
All right, well, see, I'm not gonna tell you anything that happens then because it's just gonna you you uh it would destroy I I'll tell you what, I'll talk about it on Wednesday.
Remind me on Wednesday, okay?
Because I just don't want to destroy it for people, and I and I don't want to even set up positive or negative expectations.
You gotta watch this in your own aura.
All right, the Washington Post today, uh, ladies and gentlemen, senior staff, senior White House staff may be wearing down.
See, the mainstream press, the the the uh drive-by media concerned for the staff members of the Bush administration, and the drive by media is obsessed right now with what's gone wrong inside the White House.
Why can't they do anything right?
Why did they mismanage the port deal?
Why why are they tone deaf?
Why do they not understand how things they're gonna do are uh reacted to by people in the country?
So an in-depth investigation was begun by Peter Baker of the Washington Post, and uh basically it's this.
Of all the reasons that President Bush is in trouble these days, not to be overlooked are inadequate REM cycle, sleep cycles.
Like Chief of Staff Andy Card, many of the president's Top aides have been by his side nonstop for more than five years, not including the first campaign, the recount, and transition.
This is a White House, according to insiders, that is physically and emotionally exhausted, battered by scandal, and drained by political setbacks.
And these scandals and political setbacks are largely the creation of the drive by media.
From Hurricane Katrina.
I still am asking, where is where's the response to the tornadoes?
I guess nobody cares because it's just white people that got killed and wiped out.
I guess that nobody cares.
President obviously doesn't care about white people.
Where's FEMA?
We haven't heard a word about FEMA.
Where's the rescue effort?
I know that people knew these were tornadoes were coming.
Drudge has been reporting last night.
We had the area of watches and warnings and this wide weather system with his unusually warm, moist air, ripe for tornadoes this time of year in the Midwest.
Everybody knew this was possible.
Everybody knew this is coming, and not nobody's talking about it.
Nobody.
Speaking of the media, the drive by media, David Border, AP television writer, consumers can find news in many more places these days, but paradoxically are seeing fewer stories covered with less depth.
Study uh issued on Sunday has concluded.
Found that the trend on television in newspapers and online is the same.
Cable news outlets, for example, repeatedly tell a limited number of stories over and over and over.
On one day, Google News offered computer users a menu of 14,000 stories, covering only 24 separate subjects.
Well, there you go.
Perfect definition of the drive by media.
They just keep lobbing bullets and mortar fire until they just disrupt everything.
They never leave a story until they get out of it what they want.
Now, the Project for Excellence in Journalism, in addition to being an oxymoron, is a think tank in Washington.
And uh in its annual state of the industry yesterday, uh study rather released yesterday, they said many news outlets are reacting to declining circulation or viewership by cutting back on journalists.
Yet on a national level, they find it necessary to cover many of the same stories.
It's the illusion of more information, said the project's director, but actually it's a lot of repetition with not a whole lot of information.
The danger of news operations stretch too thin is that it's that's not the problem.
The problem is that you, everybody in this business thinks the same way.
Do you how how in the world do you think it happens?
You have a story.
I don't care what it is.
Take any story, and then you go read about it in the New York Times, the Washington Post, watch it on CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, read about it in the LA Times.
It's gonna be covered identically.
These people, you want to talk about robots.
These people say the same things.
We produce these montages over and over again.
It wouldn't matter how many more journalists they had.
They would all say the same thing because they are all of the same mindset.
That they're never gonna, they're never gonna solve their problems.
They're never going to admit what their problems really are.
Gotta take a quick time out.
We'll be back.
Continue.
El Quickle.
Okay, so the media has fewer journalists, and they can't do as much reporting.
The stories just keep being recycled and so forth.
Well, investors business daily today on an editorial says with rising income, soaring wealth, bigger and better homes, plenty of jobs and low inflation, we may be living in the most prosperous times ever, yet chances are you don't believe it one bit.
The economy isn't perfect, of course, but it's a long way from bad, long, long way from bad.
We ponder this as a new employment report comes out showing 243,000 new payroll jobs in February, even as the number of people re entering the labor market swelled by nearly 350,000.
So they did a survey.
Media Research Center did a survey.
In 2005, in all of 2005, there were just one hundred and fifty-one stories of on every doesn't it?
CB, the networks, the cables, the newspapers.
One hundred and fifty one stories covering the creation of two million new jobs.
We get 151 stories a day on George Bush and the port snort or George Bush and the National Guard or George Bush and some other scandal or kind of create, Katrina or what have you.
151 stories in one year on the economy.
And the job creation.
All right, folks, we got a scram.
Program's over.
See you tomorrow, and we'll look forward to it.
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