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April 3, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 3, 2006, Monday, Hour #2
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You know, folks, our broadcast engineer here, Brian, is getting married this weekend.
And he went out and he bought his bride to be a new car.
And he's got it out here.
I'm looking at it on our security camera complex and complimenting it.
It was a very nice looking car.
He said, I'll even let you drive it if you want to.
I said, no, it's, I can tell by looking at it, it's not expensive enough for me.
But I appreciate the offer.
Greetings, folks.
Welcome back.
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All right, from St. Louis, a circuit judge in St. Louis has sentenced a woman who turned in voter registration cards in the name of dead local politicians to probation, community service, and relaxation training using transcendental meditation.
Michelle Robinson, 36, pleaded guilty on Friday to charges of 13 violations of election law and of possession of crack cocaine and a crack pipe.
Robinson worked for a campaign called Operation Big Vote that aimed to boost the participation of black voters in the 2001 St. Louis mayoral election.
Some of the cards she turned in on February 7, 2001 were made out in the names of several dead former city aldermen triggering state and federal criminal investigations.
So last Friday, Robinson admitted in court that she had filled out 13 fraudulent voter cards, including ones for now-deceased aldermen Albert Red Villa and Nalene Joyce, whose daughter is the St. Louis Circuit Attorney.
Judge David Mason of the 22nd Judicial Circuit Court of Missouri sentenced her to four years of probation on both the drug and election charges, but she could face three years in jail if she violates her probation.
She must also get training in transcendental meditation and perform 180 hours of community service.
That's right.
The judge is an advocate of transcendental meditation.
It is a, you know, Maharishi, Mahesh Yoga, my namesake.
I am the Maharashi, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, which the judge believes in is an effective relaxation and stress management program.
The objective, by the way, excuse me for the sniffles out there, the objective of transcendental meditation, they give you a mantra.
Go to this big initiation ceremony and they give you this mantra and you're supposed to, you know, they tell you how to do it and all that, but the objective is cosmic consciousness.
And it's a 20-minute, twice-daily routine in which the meditator silently focuses on a mantra to induce relaxation and dive into a state of pure consciousness.
Now, six other big vote workers who pleaded guilty in December 2004 to related violations did not receive the same spiritual sentence.
Five were sentenced to probation and 100 hours of community service.
You know, I don't know if it's still there, but the Maharishi had a university, I think it was in Iowa, Maharishi U.
And we were speculating one day.
We don't know if they have any sports teams there, but we figured if they, oh, they do.
They did have a basketball team.
And we were speculating on what's the cheer when the other teams at the free throw line or whatever block that vibe.
Block that vibe.
Anyway, that's a strange sentence, but I mean, things coming out of the court system today sometimes defy understanding.
I have some audio soundbites on the immigration story.
And we have, first off, a montage here with Bob Schieffer, who was on Face the Nation yesterday hosting the show.
Looks like he's going to lose his gig on the CBS Evening News to Katie Couric.
Big news that the announcement's going to come this week.
There's a lot of buzz about this.
Schieffer apparently has brought the numbers up a little bit on the CBS Evening News, but they're so far down that he hasn't gotten close to anybody else at ABC or NBC.
But we've put together a montage here.
Schieffer spent all of yesterday's Face the Nation totally obsessed about the idea that we need a border fence.
And here's the montage of various questions and comments he had with Senator Durbin on the show and James Sensenbrenner, Republican congressman from Wisconsin.
I've done a little calculating, and 700 miles is from just down the street where we are, the Washington Monument.
If you go from there to the Sears Tower in Chicago, that comes out to 700 miles.
That's a pretty good sized fence.
What kind of a fence would it be?
I mean, this has got to be more than a couple of cowboys with some post holders and a pickup loaded with cedar posts.
Would the fence be brick?
Would it be a cyclone fence?
What kind of a fence would it be?
Do you think a fence like that would work?
And how would you envision such a fence?
Let me go back to this fence.
The whole show was devoted, well, practically the whole show, was devoted to the fence.
Now, there were other items discussed, such as this with Senator Durbin.
Durbin was talking about his constituents and immigration.
Yesterday, I went to Christo Ray High School here in Chicago, and there were 25 kids up on stage.
They're high school students, many of them the best in their class who want to go to college.
Some of them are already in college.
One is pursuing a master's in neurobiology.
And our immigration law says to these young people who came here at an early age through no choice of their own, we don't want you in this country.
You're a criminal.
Under the House bill, we're going to call you not our future, but we're going to call you a felon.
You should leave immediately.
And a young man studying for a master's in neurobiology, I think, is an asset to the future of the United States.
There's a classic pandering.
I thought they were here doing the jobs Americans wouldn't do.
Now all of a sudden they're neurobiologists.
And a Republican bill in the House bill is going to call you a felon and they're here illegally rather than our future?
Our future?
Senator Turbin, you're going to have to organize this argument.
They're either going to come here and be the best and brightest we've got or they're going to do jobs that Americans won't do.
But you're confusing everybody.
Maybe, well, I don't know.
Are they doing the jobs that the neurobiology before or after the lawns?
You know, after they have to work the construction projects, I've got the breakdown here of the jobs that they're in, and I don't see any of them in neurobiology.
I know it's BS.
It's absolute, it's total BS.
Now, here's a question here.
This is Schieffer shoots back.
Well, that's not the person who's coming across the Mexican border who's coming across the Mexican border.
These are people who have no education that are working at the lowest level.
Paul Krugman, liberal writer pro-immigration, says that even with all of that, he favors immigration.
What bothers him is that you're bringing a large non-voting workforce, which he says is sort of the way it is in places like Dubai.
So now we are going to have a permanent underclass like they have in Dubai.
Can you believe how these people are hitting poor old Dubai?
Dubai may as well be hell on earth.
It may be the absolute worst place on the planet.
Everybody can dump on Dubai.
We can't dump on Mexico.
We can dump on Dubai.
So Krugman does have a piece.
He's all concerned about building a permanent underclass that doesn't vote, just like Dubai.
That's what Durbin says.
If you're asking me, I can tell you that I'm concerned about Krugman's article, and I've read it closely.
But the guest worker program that we're promoting is one that puts a cap on the number who can come in under this legal program.
Secondly, the people who hire them have to establish that there are no Americans who would fill this job.
And finally, they have to be paid a prevailing wage.
So it isn't as if we're creating a working underclass.
What we're trying to do is to meet some real employment needs in this country.
Oh, that is just offensive as hell.
We are at full employment.
Employment's at four points, unemployment's at 4.7%.
The Democrats can't get off this silly notion that we've got a soup line economy out there.
Now, what is it?
We got a soup line economy and nobody can get jobs?
Or do we have an economy that's growing so fast we need people to fill them, Senator?
Which these people are so all over the board, but it's pure pandering.
Let's go on now to Vice President Lindsey Graham on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.
He said, Senator Friss says that even if all 45 Democrats vote for your bill, that you're not going to be able to get the 15 Republicans to break a filibuster of the comprehensive package.
Do you think the Senate will pass an immigration bill?
And if so, what kind?
I think it would be political suicide for our party to filibuster a comprehensive solution to a real problem facing America.
It would be political suicide to ignore there's 11 million people here illegally undocumented who are trying to work and add value to our country.
If we adopt the approach of going to a Hispanic soldier in Iraq and a Hispanic Marine in Iraq and telling them the Republican Party's position is that we're going to make your grandparents felons and deport them, we will lose power as a party.
If we're going to charitable organizations, religious institutions who are providing assistance to abuse women and children and say if you help somebody who's undocumented, we're going to make you a felon, we will lose our majority.
So, I mean, think what you want, but I want to thank Senator Graham for being honest.
Because there it is.
It's all about voters.
It's all about the party.
It's all about getting votes.
It's all about getting these future swing votes from the illegals that are here.
That's what's driving this.
One thing, though, nobody is going to go to a Hispanic soldier, Hispanic Marine, and tell them the Republican Party's position is we're going to make your grandparents felons and deport them.
Nobody is talking about deporting anybody.
Not seriously.
What we're talking about, what's being discussed, is providing some disincentives in the legislation.
And there are no disincentives in the legislation whatsoever.
So, you know, you've heard me say it.
You've heard me say this is all about pandering so we don't upset our majority so the Republicans can get these votes.
But in the process, what's going to happen to conservative principles when you have to go out and appeal to people who have been brought up to have an entitlement mentality?
You have a Democratic Party out there promoting the same thing they always do, vote for us, we'll take care of you.
We'll protect you against the evil Republicans.
We'll protect you against these people.
They're already calling it a new civil rights movement.
So what are we going to do?
Get into a battle here over who can provide the best welfare state for these immigrants?
I mean, what does that do to conservative values once that debate starts?
I got to run.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back in just a second.
Stay with us.
All right, it's back to the phones, and I want to welcome Deborah Burlingame to the program.
Her brother Chuck Burlingame was the pilot of Flight 77.
She has some comments on the Flight 93 movie.
Deborah, thanks for calling.
It's nice to have you on a program.
Thanks for having me, Rush.
And my brother's name is Chick.
He was the pilot on Flight 77.
And I wanted to say about this movie, United Flight 93.
I won't be able to see this.
It's going to be too brutal for me because it's going to be graphic depiction of the cockpit crews being butchered.
I just can't go there.
However, I hope that people will go to this film.
I think it's going to be very important because I think the country has become complacent.
I just heard a kid on the internet saying, you know, big deal, 3,000 people.
We lose more than that on the highways every year, and we don't have a war on highways.
The enemy is ruthless, brutal, determined, and motivated.
And I think the American people need to be reminded of that.
You know, that argument that you heard on the ⁇ by the way, I totally agree, and I'm glad you ⁇ I hope you keep saying this.
I understand the difficulty you would have watching, but that argument that that you said kid on the internet, hey, we have more than this on the highway.
Why don't we have a war on the wheel or something?
The real problem with that is I doubt that kid came up with that on his own.
There's a political movement in the country to try to sabotage every effort that we're making to defeat this particular enemy.
And it's that, I think what you heard on the internet is symptomatic of it.
Complacency has settled in.
Rush, and I'd also like to tell your listeners this.
I wish that the public, I'm against cameras in the courtroom, but I sure wish they were there when Misawi testified last week, and also when Khalid Sheikh Mohamed, the mastermind of 9-11, when his testimony was read into the record, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said that they had no idea that the damage of that attack would be as catastrophic as it was, but that they did not plan on the U.S. responding to the attacks as fiercely as they did.
And that caused the second wave to be postponed.
I suspect that, you know, the reporting of IEDs in Iraq notwithstanding, the military's response has left al-Qaeda reeling.
And he even said that the prospects for a second attack were dismal, dismal.
And I think that that's another reason why this movie is so important, because here are Americans in the blink of an eye, banding together.
They didn't know each other.
They took a vote and they brought the fight to the enemy.
And they stopped that plane from killing hundreds, if not thousands, of people in Washington.
And that is the model for us, aggressive.
Yeah, it's heroic and inspirational, and it ought to be seen for those reasons alone.
Yes.
These people should be remembered for generations.
For generations.
Their story, I have to say, because my brother's plane was the third one that went down, they didn't have enough information, obviously, to stop it.
But the story of 93, I think, kept me from losing my mind, frankly, because it was so inspirational.
It really was.
And that's why, as hard as this film is, I hope a lot of people see it.
Personally, I just can't go back into, I can't see the graphic depiction of the murder of the crews.
But I hope people go.
And I hope it is, I understand that it's been shot very high production values, documentary style, and it should be, I hope it shakes people up.
I do too, because they need to be.
Let me ask you a question, Deborah.
Aside from the movie, there's still, when you just get up every day and inform yourself about what daily events in the country are politically and culturally as they relate to either Iraq or the war on terror and knowing full well what spawned all this.
Does the debate the country is having and the seemingly large number of people who don't think it's worth doing what we're doing?
Does that disturb you at all?
How do you deal with that on a daily basis?
It's frustrating, but, you know, I think it's sort of typical.
Americans, with the exception of Pearl Harbor and then 60 years later, 9-11, we're used to being, we're spoiled.
We live in a world which is the rest of the world doesn't get, which is affluence and prosperity, comfort, and we'd rather be there.
So we don't want to do the heavy lifting that I think this war is.
I shouldn't say we.
Some do not want to do the heavy lifting that this war requires.
But make no mistake, this is a war.
And so I feel very determined.
I mean, we already lost my brother.
So I feel like I'm doing whatever it takes in the effort to bring awareness.
But it's very frustrating, Rush.
We are in a war.
We're absolutely in a war.
You know, it's frustrating to me, too, that we're talking with Deborah Burlingame, by the way, if you just joined us, whose brother Chick was piloting Flight 77 and died in the 9-11 attacks.
You know, you look at what you described as a country of imminent prosperity and imminent opportunity and so forth, and yet you're absolutely right.
We have people in this country who, if they want to put their head in the sand, they can do it.
If they want to go on and do anything and ignore the reality of where we are, we still have, despite the prosperity and affluence in this country, we still have a significant number of people who will take the responsibility of defending the country at the time.
Pearl Harbor, you mentioned that.
That country was unified back then.
That was a seminal moment in American history.
And we were, I mean, there were pockets of opposition to response.
But I mean, we were pretty much unified in everything.
Women going into the factories to work.
We were rationing gasoline.
Everybody was oriented towards victory.
It's not the case today, but still we have enough people.
And I take this as inspiration.
And they're young, young people who are willing to step up and do what it takes.
They're volunteering to do it in case, in terms of the armed forces.
So there's a good side to this, too, even though it does appear that some of us in the country are not interested and would rather keep our heads in the sand over it.
Well, let me tell you, I raised my daughter, who's 23 now, in New York City.
She lived her whole life in New York City.
Deborah, we've got a break coming up in 15 seconds, and I know you can't finish in 15 seconds.
I want to hear the story.
Can you hang on for just a couple minutes after the break?
Okay, good.
Do that.
We'll come back and get more of this.
I'm glad she called.
I'm glad you called, Deborah, because this is something I think people need to hear.
And the controversy over the trailers of this movie, Flight 93, I think will pretty much ensure a lot of people go see the movie.
It works almost every time it's tried.
We'll be back.
And we are back, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
And we welcome back Deborah Burlingame, again, whose brother Chick was the pilot of Flight 77 on 9-11.
You were going to tell us a story about your daughter.
Yeah, my daughter, she's 23 now, but when it came when she was in high school and growing up in New York City, it came time for her to consider school.
All of her friends were going to stick to the Ivy League's East Coast, and she decided to get out of New York, and she ended up going to Indiana University.
I was really happy that she looked at the Midwest and also schools in the South.
She thought that she was going to be surrounded by a bunch of hicks, but she thought that that would be, I suppose, local color or something.
But you know what?
She had an education that she wasn't anticipating.
She was exposed to these Midwest kids with a Midwest work ethic.
She was away from the big city smart set and their definition of cool.
And it's changed her view of the world.
And I think that's one of the problems that the media culture is centered in New York City.
They think they're the smartest, most sophisticated people in the world.
And they speak for the entire country.
And they don't.
They absolutely don't.
The editorial page of the New York Times is clueless.
Absolutely clueless.
Totally clueless.
The editorial page of the front page is one and the same.
They would need a visa for their reporter to send them into Indiana to find out what may as well be a foreign country to them.
Right.
And these kids that you're talking about that are showing up for us in Iraq, Afghanistan, and all over the world, that's where they come from.
Or they come from Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx.
And they're being impugned, Deborah.
They're being impugned by the likes of the left.
Richard Belzer was on that waste of time Bill Maher show and basically said, look, they're hicks and they're idiots and they're dumb.
They don't even know why they're there.
The only reason they're there is because they've got no hope for a future in this country because there's no jobs.
And so they've been hoodwinked into thinking they have to join the Army to have a future with education and a job.
Even that's obviously not a correct description, but it's interesting that that's the elitist attitude the left has toward the military.
Belzer, I think, was just publicizing it for all of those of the left to believe it.
But even let's for the state, just hypothetically, let's stipulate that that were true.
So why impugn them?
They're still volunteering to defend the country.
They're still volunteering to risk their lives to defend the country.
Why impugn these people?
And that's something that I think I'm glad your daughter saw this.
I'm glad she got to experience it.
They impugn it, by the way, I'm convinced, because they don't understand military culture.
They're very hostile towards the military in general.
And so they have to put it down.
And by the way, who, you know, this isn't like the Hollywood of the 40s, as you know.
None of them would think of serving.
Richard Belzer, by the way, picked up and moved his family to France.
I don't know if you're aware of that.
When he had that show that was filmed in Baltimore, he would have to fly in from France for filming.
I don't know if he still lives there, but he lived there for some time, raised his daughters there.
Did not know that.
Yeah, that's a fact.
You can check it, but that's a fact.
So I just think that, again, it's the military culture that the media is completely hostile to.
And they learn that hostility in college, with the hostility towards ROTC on campuses and so on and so forth.
I wish that Mr. Belzer and others like him could get a field trip to any one of the military installations that are training our troops because they would make mincemeat of him there.
I think he wouldn't believe what he saw.
Well, he'd be incredibly impressed.
I got a VIP tour at CENCOM down in Tampa and a tutorial from some of the officers there, intelligence officers.
These cars are PhDs.
He'd think it's propaganda, Deborah.
He'd think it was set up for his visit.
Actually, I think that he would be not only impressed, but incredibly reassured at how forward-thinking our military is.
I mean, they're thinking ahead 20 years.
They're worried about what the population of Yemen is going to look like 20 years down the line.
I mean, these people are very, very smart.
And we're very lucky to have them, Rush.
Tell me.
I mean, I'm in your camp on this.
I think the anti-military culture goes beyond a lack of understanding.
I think they're fully informed incorrectly of what they think the military does.
They're upset that the United States is the largest country, the superpower in the world.
They blame the U.S. military as the focus of evil in the modern world.
We cause these problems.
You listen to Belzer and members of that gang, and you will eventually hear them say, well, you hear them say it now.
Bush is creating terrorists.
We're making terrorists.
We are making these people mad by just being Americans, by just being who we are.
Then we send these military personnel all over the world to colonize and nation-build.
They have a self-loathing, guilt-laden view of their own country.
And the military is an easy target for them to focus on because they think it does all the things that they would never do.
Kill people, break things.
And when you couple that with their elitism and they have all the answers and so forth, you get an arrogant condescension that is what makes them see people from various parts of the country or military people the way they do.
Well, and in the end, I think that with some exceptions, Rush, I don't think that they really care because they, you know, when you really care about something, you follow through.
And you don't really see that on them doing that.
You don't see them making any personal sacrifices whatsoever for the betterment of the country.
No, that's for everybody else to do.
Pardon?
That's for everybody else to do.
No, they're supposed to define who the sacrifice and then tell people what sacrifice to make.
Their big sacrifice is tax increases.
How can we run a war without raising taxes?
That's their idea of sacrifice, but not on them, of course, on everybody else.
Yeah, well, that's true.
Well, look, do you happen to know when Flight 93 opens?
Oh, I just said April 28th, it comes, so it's this month.
That's correct.
Okay.
That's correct.
And by the way, I anticipate, because listen, I've been sitting there, I've been exposed to a lot of 9-11 family groups for audio tapes and so on and so forth.
Also at the Missaui trial closed circuit, they're going to have a screening for families at their premiere.
They're going to have families there.
And I anticipate, I'm not kidding you, Rush, I think people will be, I don't want to say hysterical, but I think they're going to have people noisily weeping and ordinary audience members.
I think this is going to be an emotional film.
And I don't think that means that's necessarily a negative thing, but I think people need to be prepared to see something very shocking.
Well, once again, let me ask you a question, because as a member of the 9-11 families, you know that there is not unison of opinion there on what we're doing right now.
There are in any group of people, you're going to have political and cultural disagreements.
What do you expect those who are, let's say, think differently from you on the ⁇?
What do you expect them to do when the movie comes out?
Do you think they'll try to convince people not to see it?
Will they suggest that this is not factually accurate?
What will they do to try to suppress this movie or to keep as many people from seeing it as possible?
You know, I don't know.
I wouldn't presume that they would want to suppress it.
You're talking about the peace at any cost, people?
Yeah, the people that showed up to 9-11 hearings and generally tried to just turn this into a political charade, to blame Bush for everything.
Well, I would anticipate that their position would be that Look at what happened on 9-11, and now, because of Iraq, we have increased the terrorist a thousand-fold. In other words,
Iraq was a recruiting poster for al-Qaeda, and that will be their position. But you know what? People react on a gut level to 9-11 Rush. They do a gut check on this stuff. And I do not believe that people will come out of that film thinking we have to lay down for the terrorists. I just don't believe that. No,
of course, that's expiring. That's exactly right. That's why it needs to be seen. That's precisely why it needs to be seen. Instead of things like Fahrenheit 911, the same bunch of people that are telling movie theaters on the upper west side of Manhattan, don't show me that. It's too soon. It's too soon. I can't wait. They probably the same bunch that could not wait to go see 9-11 two and three times. And they don't like things that inspire feelings of patriotism. That makes them very nervous. Amen. That makes them very,
very nervous because people who feel patriotic do crazy things in the name of country. You're rational. But people are, they react to this on a gut level, and I don't think they'll buy any of that. I think they will see these heroes. And there's no, I mean, that word gets bandied around a lot, Rush. But these people are the very definition of heroic. And when they see this, pure,
unadulterated heroism, they're going to be inspired. They're going to be inspired. And at the very least, the people who are glib on the subject of terrorism, maybe will get the smiles wiped off their faces for a little while. And those, there's another group they will be reminded, the people with their heads in their sand who want to pretend that it didn't happen so they don't have to deal with the possibility of it happening again. This will be a reminder. I think it's well-timed,
and I'm glad you called to recommend it because you carry a lot of weight on this given your personal involvement. And I'm happy you called. All right, thanks, Rush. Deborah Burlingame, again, her brother Chick piloted Flight 77 on 9-11. A quick timeout. We'll be back and continue after this. Thanks again to Deborah Burlingame listening to the discussion of the movie United 93. And she just called in. I went to the website here during the break,
the website for the movie. And for some reason, when I read a couple with the pictures, a picture of an airplane flying toward the Statue of Liberty with both Twin Towers still standing and smoking. It's an artist rendering. But it's just five lines. September 11th,
2001. Four planes were hijacked. Three of them reached their target. This is the story of the fourth, United 93. I got tingles now when you look at that,
when you read it. So talking about movies, let me do this and get it out of the way. Paul Verhoven, who directed the first Basic Instinct movie, is on the warpath since Sharon Stone's sequel, Basic Instinct 2, has tanked at the box office. The weekend take was $3.2 million with $750,000 on Sunday,
which meant it started slow and then tapered off. It's totally in the tank. It is totally embarrassing. So Hollywood has to come out and, of course, blame the country for the failure of this great work of art. Now, I haven't seen the movie, so I can't comment. I can only tell you what I've read that has been written about it by critics and so forth. And it hasn't any of it been good. But a lot of times critics,
you know, hate a movie and it skyrockets. This one apparently didn't. Anyway, Verhoeven, he not only did Basic Instinct, but he did Showgirls. Now, just to give you some comparison, the first Basic Instinct movie did $353 million, worldwide DVD, all that sort of stuff. This one is going to be, if they're going to have any chance, they're going to have to sell it on DVD. And I don't know what its international take is going to be, but it's embarrassment here in this country. He also did Showgirls,
which is now regarded as something of a camp classic. But he attributes the demise of the genre of erotic movies to the current American political climate. He said,
anything that's erotic has been banned in the United States. Look at the people at the top of the government. We're living under a government that's constantly hammering out Christian values, and Christianity and sex have never been good friends. This guy does not know the Christians I know. Scribe,
well, he doesn't. Man, oh man, that's so much ignorance. But anyway, that's not surprising. Nicholas Meyer, a writer who was an uncredited writer on Fatal Attraction, agrees, noting that the genre's downfall coincides with the ascent of the conservative political movement. We're in a big puritanical mode, he says, now it's like the McCarthy era, except it's not, are you a communist,
but instead it's have you ever put sex in a movie? For writers like Meyer, whose credits include the Human Stain, Summersby, and the three Star Trek films, the erotic genre has become a tough sell for studios,
increasingly gleary of adult-themed material. Despite receiving glowing coverage, he and co-writer Ron Roos have found no takers for their sexy screenplay spoils. Because every studio that read it said this is going to get made. They just don't want to be the ones to make it. As writers find studios less receptive to the genre,
fewer are attempting to craft the next body heat or sea of love. All right, now, correct me if I'm wrong. Showgirls was a big bomb. I know that was, But didn't Showgirls come out when Bill Clinton was president?
Didn't Showgirls come out in the check the year?
But I know Showgirls didn't come out when Bush was president.
Showgirls came out when Bill Clinton was having fun with blue dresses and cigars in the study in the White House.
And you can hardly say that we lived in a puritanical period then.
It was quite the opposite.
But maybe could it just be?
Could it just be?
I knew I was Right.
I knew it was Mr. Snerdley confirming that Showgirls came out.
Or was it Brian that said I'm right?
1995, hubba-hubba.
Knew it exactly 11 years ago.
Showgirls right in the middle of the era of free love and do whatever you want whenever.
And then when you get caught, blame the people for being Puritans. But nevertheless, could it be? I mean, Sharon Stone's a little older now than she was when the first one came. Can we also not remind you, Sharon Stone's been running around the world saying some of the stupidest things? She went to the Middle East. She went to Jerusalem. She said, I can feel it. I can feel it. We're just a breath away from peace. You know,
and people say, why is this news? Why is my news consumption forced to deal with this? Sharon Stone says that she also said the other day, last week or something, on the verge of the premiere, the week before the movie,
that she doesn't think Hillary Clinton's time is right because she's too sexually powerful. that Hillary needs to wait for her sexual period, whatever, however she put it, her sexuality to have played out. Too sexy. She got too much sexual power to be president. A country's offended by this,
afraid of powerful women. I don't know who turned her loose, but that's not a way to go out and promote some sort of erotic genre of a movie when you are well-known sex siren,
Sharon Stones. You can't divorce her from that. Sometimes I can't help it, but I read what these people say, and I want to call them. I said, you want to make this movie a success? Do you want to make movies? You want this genre to be. I can tell you how to do it. But you have to stop having this disdain and this arrogant condescension for the vast majority of people that buy movie tickets here. I mean,
there's a way to do this without running around offending the box office. You people have been offending the box office, the average box office attendee, for I don't know how many years, and you didn't help yourselves in the way you'd all jumped on Passion of the Christ and acting afraid of that. I mean, these people, they think they live in a vacuum that their words that they say are not going to offend people. If they do, it's like, what's his face cluny? He said, we're happy to be. Outcast, he doesn't say outcasts. We're happy to be out of touch. Yeah, you are out of touch,
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