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March 24, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 24, 2006, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
All right, Mike, standby on audio soundbite number one up there.
Greetings, folks.
It's a red letter day.
It's the award-winning Thrill Pact, ever-exciting, increasingly popular, growing by leaps and bounds, Rush Limbaugh program.
And folks, there's ports news all over the place.
It's getting senseless.
What all is happening here.
It's Friday, so let's get started.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
Goody, goody gumdrops.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the golden opportunity for those of you who would have no chance, no prayer of being on this program Monday through Thursday, because on Friday, we frankly don't care.
Whatever you want to talk about, feel free.
Fine.
It doesn't have to interest me.
In fact, it doesn't have to interest anybody.
That is the career risk that I take.
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You remember Cut the Music.
Thank you.
You remember earlier this week, Erica Jong rhymes with, was on the Today Show with the, who was it?
It was David Gregory was interviewing, and she shared with everyone the fantasies that she's had.
She's got a new book out.
What's the name of the book?
It's right in front of me, and I can't.
Erica, Fear of Flying and Seducing the Demon, Writing for My Life, Erica Jong.
And she admitted talking to Gregory that she had this dream, fantasy about Bill Clinton.
And we mentioned it on the program.
Well, she's doing a book tour, I suppose.
She was on NPR yesterday.
And the guy asked her the following question.
He says, you do talk about your fantasies about Bill Clinton, your night in jail, why Martha Stewart's mad at you.
Was that a discreet way of saying all those things?
Yes, it was great.
Actually, it was great.
You know, I really made it this week because Rush Linbaugh denounced me on his radio show.
So I'm really proud.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
He said, this is what the left wing does.
They have fantasies about Bubba.
Which is true throughout the left, throughout the Democratic Region that continually fantasizes about Bubba.
But you know what?
I think, did you hear the giggle at her?
Play this again.
Play this again.
Just her answer.
Listen very carefully again.
Yes, it was great.
Actually, it was great.
You know, I really made it this week because Rush Linbaugh denounced me on his radio show.
So I'm really proud.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
He said, this is what the left wing does.
They have fantasies about Bubba.
You hear that giggle?
You hear that giggle?
I'll tell you, I think she wants me.
I think she's fantasizing about me.
I think the whole left fantasizes about me anyway.
Not the way she's fantasizing about Clinton.
Don't misunderstand me.
I think I'm more of a nightmare to him.
But I know a giggle when I hear a giggle.
And I heard a giggle there.
And Snerdley agrees.
He thinks that she wants me.
So I just had to share that with you folks.
It made her day to be mentioned on this program and to be what?
Denounced.
All right, on to the onto the ports news.
This is just, wait till you hear all of this.
The U.S., this, first off, this is Chertoff.
I'm just, I get giddy with this topic.
I just get giddy with the port deal.
I can't explain it.
I sent my buddy F. Lee Levin a note today.
I said, I don't know why, but I just love this.
I get so amused by all this.
It's deadly serious stuff, too.
That's the point.
Something about it amuses me.
All right, the U.S. missed an opportunity to make its shores safer when it drove away a Dubai-based company poised to operate cargo terminals at several American seaports.
You know who said that?
Michael Cherdoff, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary, said it yesterday in a speech.
He was up there at the CFR, the Council on Foreign Relations.
And Chertoff said that the international shipping firm DP World could have helped implement stronger security at many ports where the U.S. now has limited influence.
We could have actually built in some additional assurances, which would have given us more security in the wake of the deal than we had before the deal.
The oddity of this, the irony of this, he said, is that had the deal gone forward, we would have had greater ability to impose a security regime worldwide on the company than we have now.
He probably has a point about that.
But nevertheless, here's story number two.
In the aftermath of the Dubai ports dispute, the Bush administration is hiring a Hong Kong, and you've got to understand now Hong Kong is run by the SHICOMs.
So in the aftermath of the Dubai ports dispute, the Bush administration hiring a SHICOM conglomerate to help detect nuclear materials inside cargo passing through the Bahamas to the United States and elsewhere.
The administration acknowledges the no-bid contract with Hutchinson Wampoa Limited.
Represents the first time a foreign company will be involved in running a sophisticated U.S. radiation detector at an overseas port without American customs agent present.
Freeport in the Bahamas, 65 miles from the United States East Coast, where cargo would likely to be inspected again, the contract currently being finalized.
Now, Hutchinson or Hutchison Wampoa is the world's largest ports operator, among the industry's most respected companies.
They're run by the Chikoms.
Well, it's Hong Kong, which is now under the control of the ShiComs.
It was an early adopter of U.S. anti-terror measures, but its billionaire chairman, Lee Kaxing, and so that's what his name is, Li Kaxing, also has substantial business ties to the Chikom government that have raised U.S. concerns over the years.
Lee Kaxing is pretty close to a lot of senior leaders of the Shikom government and the Shikom Party, said Larry Wurzel, head of a U.S. government commission that studies China security and economic issues.
But Wurzel said that Hutchison operates independently from Beijing, and he described Li as a very legitimate international businessman.
One can conceive legitimate security concerns and would hope either the Homeland Security Department or the intelligence services of the U.S. would work very hard to satisfy those concerns.
Charles Schumer had to weigh in on this and typically did so in his own idiotic way.
He said giving a no-bid contract to a foreign company to carry out the most sensitive security screening for radioactive materials at ports abroad raises many questions.
See, if Schumer is going to be consistent, his argument makes no sense.
He should oppose this sale and anything else because he opposes all foreign investment or ownership in anything that might involve security of any kind.
Now, before we go on, there are other details of the story of the SHICOMs now running the nuke detectors over to Bahamas.
But wait till you hear the third element of this story today, a State Department, U.S. State Department purchase.
Well, two more stories.
I'm sorry.
A U.S. State Department purchase of more than 15,000 computers produced by the Lenovo Group, a company controlled by the SHICOMs, is starting to draw criticism in the latest sign of American unease about the role of foreign companies in the American economy.
Okay, so let's add this up.
Sherdoff goes out there and says, we should have done the DP World deal.
We'd have much more security here and around the world.
Now we've lost out on the chance because we've made them mad.
We can't implement security.
We can do the new security, whatever we want with whoever runs the deal here, but we can't now go tell DP World to upgrade their security everywhere else in the world.
They have a port.
So he says that.
Then we learn that the SHICOMs essentially are in charge now, are going to be in charge of nuclear inspection in the Bahamas over at Freeport for cargo going in and out of there to and from the United States.
Now we learn the State Department wants to buy computers from the SHICOMs, not an American company.
The computers are worth more than $13 million.
They are coming from factories in Raleigh, North Carolina and Monterey, Mexico that were part of the personal computer division that Lenovo purchased from IBM last May.
So the SHICOMs own IBM.
We're going to buy the SHICOMs don't I.
They own a former division of IBM.
So we're going to buy the State Department's going to buy these.
Yeah, they're made in America and in Mexico, which is also going to become a superport someplace down the road in the Baja Peninsula.
I want to see him pull that off, by the way.
Then, now, after all of this, here is the PA stand resistance.
A leading Israeli software company abandoned its plans Thursday to buy a smaller U.S. rival in a $225 million deal because of national security objections by the Bush administration.
So we have an ally in the Middle East.
It's Israel.
We've told them we can't trust them.
We're not going to let them buy a software firm here.
We're not going to let them merge and buy it.
We've said the ChiComs, you want to inspect the nukes coming in and out of here?
Fine.
We are telling DP World, sorry, we wish we could have kept you, but we couldn't.
We're worse off without you.
And now the State Department is buying computers from the ChiComs.
SHICOMs are making all kinds of inroads here.
DP World got shaft and Israel just got the shaft.
And of all of these countries, you would have to say that the one that comes closest to being an ally is the one we've just stuck it to.
The one we said, no, you're too great a security risk.
Do you see why this, I mean, I find this hilarious.
See, here's the real world, though.
We do make distinctions between countries and companies in deciding what technologies can be exported and what U.S. assets can or can't be sold to foreign countries or foreign companies, either way.
There has to be a threat of consistency in the argument here.
This has gone on.
We've told you about how LaRal Space was able to take over a job that the State Department once handled out, and the Commerce Department got it when Clinton was there.
And they ended up helping the ChiComs figure out how to orbit satellites or rockets to get them into a better offensive position with their missile arsenal.
So this is nothing new.
We've got these kind of inspections and analyses that go on all the time.
But now with all the attention focused on it, people probably thinking that, why, when did we start selling the country like this?
It's taken decades and years.
It's part of global free trade, but there's no such thing as total, pure free trade, because if you had global free trade that was totally pure, you would have no security concerns.
And we do.
I know some of you people are just tired of Ports deal, but I told you it was only going to get bigger because I told you and I knew that that DP world story was going to open up all kinds of doors and shine all kinds of lights on what actually goes on in the buying and selling of American companies and assets and so forth that a lot of people were not aware of.
And that's, in fact, as usually am being proven right yet again.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
We'll continue here in mere moments.
All right.
Now, one thing on these computer sales.
The State Department purchased more than 15,000 computers produced by Lenovo Group, a company controlled by the ChiCom government, starting to draw criticism.
These computers are made in Raleigh, North Carolina, in Monterey, Mexico.
And Lenovo is actually the outfit that purchased the computer division of IBM.
And some people are going to say, well, there's no big deal.
The computers are made here.
But it's just an illustration.
But this is something now to be concerned about.
I had this story in the stack yesterday, and I didn't get to it.
A Chinese journalist has uncovered a secret detention center in northern China that's being used by a hospital to harvest human organs for sale to domestic and international buyers.
Jin Zong, a pseudonym for the journalist who fled China recently, also said in an interview that a failed Chinese intelligence operation led to the 2004 death of a Japanese diplomat who committed suicide rather than give up secrets.
So the ChiComs are harvesting the organs of prison inmates, according to a journalist.
And of course, journalists always get it right and never lie, never have an agenda.
Let's just hope that the ChiComs don't start buying American hospitals.
If the ChiComs start buying American hospitals, if we start outsourcing health care to the ChiComs, now that's something that will definitely trouble me here since they're harvesting the organs of inmates.
It's Openline Friday, Ocala, Florida.
Kevin, you're first.
Great to have you with us.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Mega self-employed Dittos from Florida.
Thank you, sir.
I run a studio up here in Ocala, and I've always been fascinated.
I'm quite a microphone connoisseur.
And I was curious if there was like a story behind the infamous golden EIB microphone.
Actually, there is.
The way the microphone turned golden, aside from its exclusive use in this studio, was that the official production director of the EIB network, Johnny Donovan, one day was way back.
I mean, this goes back to the late 80s, perhaps, in the dawn of this age, of this radio program.
And he was putting together a bunch of promos, and they just happened to come up with the line up behind the golden EIB microphone.
And we ran it and we used it.
And the people at Electro Voice who manufacture this microphone actually sent us one.
And we have two because sometimes they have to be rotated out for maintenance and cleaning.
It's an our what?
It's an RA-20 since you're a microphone friend.
R-E.
Why you got to turn your IFB volume way up and it can barely hit RE20.
Right, exactly.
Right.
I got that from the video off of the internet feed that I watch you on.
And I must say that that is the quintessential broadcast, Mike.
And usually most afternoons, I'm sitting here in my control room with your program blasting through my system.
And I must say your voice explodes through the monitors quite well.
Well, that's because I'm a highly trained specialist.
Yes, sir, you are.
One has to know how to use one's voice.
You know, a lot of people don't know how to.
They've never been trained in it.
I, of course, have.
Well, I appreciate that.
That's very nice of you.
Very nice comments.
And I'm always amazed at the things that people are curious about.
But that's the history of the golden EIB microphone.
Many people think that, or just would assume, that my ego is so out of control.
I had somebody tell me last night, in fact, driving back from dinner, and I was in a jocular mood and I was making some jokes.
And a person with me said, I'm to roll down the windows here to let your ego out of the car.
A lot of people think that I would demand something golden as a microphone because of my standing and ego, prominence, and stature.
But it just happened, folks.
It's like most everything else, you set the table, establish the circumstances, and let things fall out as they may, and they will.
Susie in Los Angeles, I'm glad you called on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Mega, mega, mega, mega, Rush Baby Dittos.
Well, thank you so much.
You are very welcome.
Hey, I'm calling to talk about manliness or specifically a lot of things.
Susie, I love talking about manliness with women.
Well, this, I thought, was a spectacle of a lack of manliness that I witnessed last night watching the NCAA tournament, specifically the UCLA game against Draga.
I don't know if you saw it, but maybe you heard about it.
UCLA came back and beat Gonzaga at the very last two seconds of the game.
Adam Morrison, the star from Gonzaga, at the end of the game after they had lost, was literally Rush laying in the middle of the court crying.
I know four-year-olds who would not be caught dead in that position.
And I was just floored.
My jaw dropped.
And all I could think of was this tremendous lack of manliness that we have in our society.
And I was wondering what your thoughts were on it, whether you think this is just an isolated incident or if you think this is something that's far-reaching as far as our college guys who are coming out of school and getting ready to become men in the world.
Let me, before I answer, I did not see the incident.
This is the first that I have heard of it.
That a star player for Gonzaga accidentally, was he laying on his stomach and pounding his fists or laying on his back crying?
He was laying on his stomach, but he wasn't pounding his fists.
He actually, you can see him crying.
His face just fell and his eyes were tears.
Okay, okay.
I just noticed the clock.
We've got a commercial break.
Can you hang on here, Susie?
Certainly.
Because I do want to discuss this is a pressing societal issue, manliness, men crying, athletes.
We'll talk about it and more when we come back.
A man, a legend, a way of life.
America's anchor man having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
We rejoin Susie in Los Angeles.
Susie, as I told you, I didn't see this shocking episode last night.
I was out having dinner and doing some other things.
So, nevertheless, life is show prep, and I have spent the last three minutes of the commercial break informing myself about this incident, and I feel almost as equipped to comment upon it as if I had seen it.
Okay.
Here's what I have learned.
I have learned that Gonzaga was up by 17.
UCLA literally came back, stole a game even before the game was over.
This player, who has a diabetic, he gets insulin shots even during the game to stabilize his blood sugar, started to cry.
Exactly.
Well, okay, I'm just setting the stage here.
I didn't see it, but I've done research.
I've talked to eyewitnesses who did see this, and I think I'm up to speed on this now.
And then when the game was over, and they were up by 17 at one point, and they ended up losing, and they just lost it and started crying.
And you have asked if this is a symptom, if you thought it was very shocking, unbelievable, and very unmanly.
Do I have that about right?
Absolutely 100% correct.
Okay, here's my take on this.
We live in a confused time, men and women in our culture today.
We're talking college students here.
The attempted feminization of American society has been going on for years.
It's been going since the modern era of it started.
I can trace it back to 1969, maybe 1970, just to round it off.
And it has given us such things as men must get in touch with their feminine side.
Men must learn to cry.
It is manly, they were told.
I was told over it's manly to cry.
It's manly to express and share your feelings, particularly your feelings of pain.
Because when you express your feelings of pain, you are showing your vulnerable self to the world.
And that's how people will truly get to know you.
However, I can understand that if you're in relationships and you're trying to promote intimacy, that makes total sense.
And I'm not talking sex.
If you want intimacy and you really want somebody to know who you are, then you have to open up.
But it's basketball and in baseball and in football, there's no crying.
You lose too much.
You got to learn to accept it.
There's no crying in basketball.
The people that I spoke to about this who saw it, even though they have great admiration for this young man and all the profiles they've been doing on him all week because of his insulin problem, to a person, express shock and disbelief that it happened.
Right.
And I just, it's whether it's a reflection on man, I don't know what his socialization has been.
I don't know anything about the young guy and his life.
I don't know how much influence he's had exerted on him by modern day feminists and gender specialists who try to tell him maybe that there's no difference between boys and girls, men and women.
I don't know.
But I think what obviously happened, he just had an emotional breakdown, was unable to control the emotions and started bawling right there in the middle of court after a loss.
You don't see it very much, and that's why it's so shocking.
Great.
Well, I can understand.
The more intriguing take for me, how old are you?
I'm 26.
26?
Okay, so you're not much older than this guy.
Right, exactly.
And that's what's so frightening is that, I mean, I can understand the heartbreak of losing a game, especially when you had it within your grasp.
But to lay in the middle of the court at the end of the game and cry, I can understand walking off the court, crying, upset, visibly upset, but not laying on the court, Rush.
I just believe it.
See, this is what's fascinating.
I am more interested in the female take on that.
You're the one, you know, manliness, I know what it is as it applies to me.
But what's more interesting, what you think manliness is, you've just told us that you think this was very unbecoming.
It was not attractive.
It shocked you.
And you're right.
Take the tears to the locker room.
Take the tears to the bed.
But don't go to the middle of the.
Don't go to the middle of court where you know the cameras are going to follow you.
Exactly.
All I could think was is take it like a man.
Walk off the court, he lost, he has to do this.
I'm going to take it like a man, and that's what you think of the manliness that you've been talking about all week.
Well, I just want to assure you that I would never do anything like that.
So, you know, I believe you absolutely, Rush.
I've been a listener long enough to know I would never, ever, ever expect anything like that from you.
Thank you, because you'll be dead on accurate, assuming that'll never happen with me.
And when I cry, I fake it.
Oh, I love it.
I love it.
All right.
Susie, I got to go, but I'm glad you called about this.
I appreciate it.
Thank you.
See?
No, I didn't say crying in relation.
You weren't listening, Snerdley.
Snerdley, the original male chauvinist piglet, is now disturbed over my comments here about the appropriate place to be open and show your feelings.
And if you're trying to establish intimacy with someone, and I don't mean sex, if you're one, you know, that's all fine.
Be who you are.
Some people cry.
Some people don't like people that cry, Lauren.
But you've got to be who you are.
That's all I'm saying.
And if you, if you're talking about one-on-one situations, I'm not talking about PDAs, public displays, or any of this sort of thing.
Snerdley, you cry in there when I say something that touches your heart when I'm not even talking about you start crying.
What is it?
Yep.
No, I'm not talking about trying to be sensitive to a woman.
I'm trying to be honest.
I'm not talking about making it up or trying to do.
I think tears right now would melt her heart.
Come on, man.
No, I'm not talking about that.
You think everything's a game.
I'm not talking about playing a game.
I'm talking about being genuine.
But, you know, laying down in the middle of a basketball court after you lose a basketball game and bawling your eyes out and make sure the camera notices me when I'm crying.
That's, you know, that's a little bit beyond the pale.
Robert in Atlanta, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
You know, normally, you know, you're very familiar with how the news agencies report less than half a story, especially now that I've glanced at the New York Times article on this Lenovo stuff.
They're missing out on a couple of things because I know you've got a very wide listenership of which I'm a part.
First, the corporation's headquartered in Raleigh.
The chairman's moving to the United States.
Wait, I said all this.
Yeah, and the Chinese don't have a controlling interest.
You did say that, but they don't have a controlling interest.
They are an investor, but so are some guys from Texas, so is IBM, and so is the public.
And finally, you know, I really look at the State Department deal, and I always read those stories in the past of the State Department losing a couple of computers and everybody freaking out.
And I said way back when, if they had been using the IBM/slash Lenovo systems at that point, which you can lock tighter than a drum, it wouldn't have been a big deal because only bad guys would get pieces of little glass and plastic at that point.
It kind of annoys me when I see this.
Someone, again, the New York Times article saying this is a big security warning thing when the darn machines from most major manufacturers of all computers have been built in China for the past four years.
That's, look, you must not have listened to me go back to this story and cover it a second time because I made the point that the computer sale that you're talking about here is not that big a deal.
It doesn't warrant the kind of red flags the New York Times is getting it, giving it, because they are made in Raleigh and Monterey, Mexico.
But just to read this to you, and this is if you missed the opening of the program, a State Department purchase of more than 15,000 computers produced by Lenovo Group, a company controlled by the Chikom government, is starting to draw criticism and the latest sign of American unease about the role of foreign companies in the American economy.
Computers worth more than $13 million are coming from factories in Raleigh, which I said, and Monterey, Mexico, which I said they were part of the personal computer division that Lenovo purchased from IBM last May.
And this is a third of four stories this morning, this afternoon I let off with.
It has to do with all of these kinds of activities that go on and have been going on for long periods of time.
And I knew the port deal, DP World story, would focus attention on this.
People think this is something happening relatively recently rather than something that's been quite normal for a long period of time.
But I did not.
You must not have heard me come back and recast this story as not that big a deal.
The computers are made here.
It is essentially an American company.
Just one thing: tell me if this story is accurate or not when it says that the Lenovo group is controlled by the Chikom government.
Controlled means over 50% interest.
And the initial interest of that company was from the $50,000 in seed money that the government, the Academy of Sciences, gave out to start the company, I think in the late 80s.
I could be wrong about that date.
And that was the interest.
Now, since then, the company grew, so that initial investment, that's all there's been, grew too.
But that's it.
And it's not a controlling interest.
The group of owners include the public and cruise guys, an investment firm, and several firms actually in Texas.
Yes, in the United States.
Exactly.
The point here is that it is a New York Times story.
Most people are going to read the word controlled and think managed as in dictated to the Chikom.
Controlled here is meant as a financial term.
Anyway, this is established my point.
Thanks, Robert, for the phone call.
He works at the Lenovo worker, and he doesn't like the fact that his company is being trashed in the New York Times today as a bunch of Chikom infiltrators bent on destroying the United States.
And that's the tenor of the story in the New York Times about it.
And I tell you, folks, this is exactly what I predicted was going to happen when the DP World story blew up.
And I, once again, have been proven right and accurate.
I got to go.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
Open Line Friday rolls on.
This is going to be a good show today.
We've gone places I had no idea that we would be going.
And that means that we're going to keep doing that.
Try this headline, folks.
Harley-Davidson to open China dealership.
Harley-Davidson will open its first dealership in China next month, marking its entry into the burgeoning economy there.
Beijing Harley-Davidson, partnered with dealer Beijing Feng Huo Loon, will open in early April.
The announcement from Harley-Davidson yesterday.
And there's this news, ladies and gentlemen: Lucent Technologies, the phone equipment maker that became a symbol of last decade's boom and bust cycle in telecommunications, is in negotiations to be acquired by Alcatel of France for about $12.6 billion.
People close to discussion said last night.
So the frogs are going to end up here owning an American phone company.
The prospect of a big transatlantic deal comes at a time when foreign takeovers.
This is also in the New York Times.
The New York Times is just full of this stuff today.
The prospect of a big transatlantic deal comes at a time when foreign takeovers have been political flashpoints in both Washington and Paris.
A Dubai company's acquisition of some port.
While the French government has sought to thwart cross-border takeovers in energy and pharmaceuticals.
So I don't know if some foreign country company try to buy General Motors.
I don't know.
Anything's possible here.
Look, some of these trade issues.
I'm sitting here laughing about this.
Some of these trade issues are serious.
I mean, it's a serious thing when you're going to have the ChiComs over in the Bahamas checking you.
That's got to be vetted.
That's got to be vetted.
When you're going to have you freeport, you can see it on a, well, you can't see it, but you know, it's over 65 miles away.
It's just close.
It says, yeah, I know the alarms are going to ring, but what if they dummy up the machines?
The whole point is, if the ChiComs, the Chikom is already a nuclear nation.
The ChiComs already have it.
And they have their saber-rattling against the Taiwanese.
Don't downplay the ChiComs.
You start talking about nuclear when you're going to put the machines that scan for radioactivity over the Bahamas run by the ChiComs.
I mean, that's a serious concern.
This computer deal with the State Department buying these 15,000 computers, that shouldn't get lumped in this kind of thing.
Every one of these deals is different.
And this is, I'm waiting for people to start, well, where are the Bush administration so damn tone deaf?
Don't they remember what happened on the port deal?
But don't forget in all of this, we've said yes to the ChiComs with their radioactivity detectors.
We've said yes to the ChiComs buying computers.
We have said no to Israel because there is security risk when they want to buy a tiny little software firm in this country.
Tiny.
Sean in Atlanta, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to Open Line Friday.
Hey there, Rush.
It's a real honor to speak to you.
Mega Dittos from Atlanta.
Thanks, sir, very much.
I was just calling to comment on the Adam Morrison story you were talking about earlier, and I'm actually calling to stick up for him.
I think there's a lot more to it than just losing a game there.
I mean, that was the end of his college career, and there's a lot more emotion that comes to it with, you know, when you're finishing your career.
I'm a former college athlete, and that emotion you feel when you know it's over is pretty hard to hold in.
From what I understand, the thing that shocked people was that it was a public display in the middle of court that was almost like glue for the TV cameras.
Well, and I agree.
I was shocked that he started crying.
I thought that was bad.
But, I mean, he basically stopped where, you know, when the buzzer went off, he stopped where he was and sat down to start crying.
So it wasn't like he ran to the middle of the court to try to make sure the cameras could see him.
He just stopped where he was.
But at this time of year, during March Madness, you see this happen all the time.
I mean, there are many days at their career's end.
It embarrasses me.
I have to be honest with you.
Well, I mean, I can understand the manliness issue, but, you know, again, I sobbed when my college basketball career ended.
And it's just an emotional thing when you're done.
I consider myself a pretty manly man.
Yeah, you sound like one, too.
I want you to know.
Oh, well, I appreciate that.
Thanks.
No, I just think that there's a lot more to it than just losing a game.
And that's the only point I was going to make is just that sports at all levels.
Does this kid have prospects?
Yes, he does.
He's a good person.
Well, then, come on.
It's not the end of anything.
Well, that's true.
I mean, again, I played in high school and in college.
And when my high school career ended, I cried too.
It was just an emotional, it's the end of one phase of your life.
And maybe I'm more emotional than a lot of other people, but you see this all the time with professionals who retire with anything.
People when their careers end.
You don't see them.
The last time I saw this, I'm not saying it was the last time, the last time I saw this was two football seasons ago when the Steelers lost the AFC Championship game to New England Patriots.
And Heinz Ward, after the game in the locker room, was crying because he didn't think Jerome Bettis would be coming back.
And he was so sad that the Steelers had not had a chance to take Jerome Bettis Super Bowl.
But he didn't go to the middle of the field and cry.
Their cameras were on, but it was in an interview period.
And I think it might have even been the next day, but it was certainly after the game in the locker room.
That's, to me, I understand the emotion here.
But I'm out of time, unfortunately.
We must move on.
We'll continue in a second.
Just remember this, folks.
Lou Gehrig didn't cry.
T.O. Terrell Owens didn't cry.
And Mike Tyson didn't cry.
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