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I turn your radio show up, and I turn on that drill, and I know both those things are going to overpower the Novocaine that I've given.
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Just one more little segment here on this barrage at Rumsfeld from the Drive-By Media and the ex-generals.
There's something like 9,000 ex-generals out there, according to the Pentagon, and now six of them, apparently, coincidentally.
My foot.
As I told you last hour, here's how this works.
You got one of these generals, I don't know who, be talking to somebody in Drive-By Media and say, you know what?
I'm coming out.
I want to go out.
Rumsfeld needs to resign.
It's horrible of her.
Rumsfeld's incompetent.
It's a totally horrible battle plan, peace plan.
Rumsfeld has to go.
Drive-by media guy.
Can I have the scoop?
And general says, this is not just me.
I got three or four other guys think this.
Drive-by media panting like a rabid dog.
Who?
Who?
General says, well, you didn't hear it from me, but that's General X and General X and Lieutenant General.
Bam, that's how it happens.
And some of them have books that they're selling and this sort of thing.
Of the smattering of retired generals who've called on Rumsfeld to resign, none has surprised the Pentagon's inner circle more than retired Army Major General John Batiste.
General Batiste commanded the 1st ID, the 1st Infantry Division responsible in Iraq for the hotspots of Tikrit and Samarra north of Baghdad.
On a chilly December night in 2004, I mean, not even a year and a half ago, he introduced Mr. Rumsfeld to his soldiers and said of him, this is a man with the courage and the conviction to win the war on terrorism.
Batiste, one of the most recent guys calling for his resignation, said that in December 2004 to his troops.
This a man with the courage and the conviction to win the war on terrorism.
A Rumsfeld aide said that when the two talked privately, the general voiced no complaints on how Washington or Rumsfeld was waging war.
But General Batiste has now called on Mr. Rumsfeld to quit, one of five retired generals who have done so in recent weeks.
On CNN Wednesday, General Batiste said, I believe we need a fresh start in the Pentagon.
We need a leader who understands teamwork, a leader who knows how to build teams, a leader that does it without intimidation.
You know, if there is substance to this, what it is, Rumsfeld's trying to modernize the place and do it with smaller, more efficient groups and units, and not just combat units, but all of them.
And these are the old school guys.
And a lot of them are ex-Clinton, led by Admiral General whatever he is, Zinni, John Kerry's favorite general to quote, by the way, in the 2004 presidential campaign.
Of the Iraqi people, on Wednesday on CNN, General Batiste said this, talking about the Iraqi people.
Iraqis, frankly, in my experience, do not understand democracy, nor do they understand their responsibility for a free society.
But in Iraq last year, General Batiste said this, the Iraqi 4th Division represents what is and what is meant to be in Iraq.
The soldiers of the division not only reflect the rich ethnic religious diversity of Iraq, but they also imbue with the energy, courage, and determination which the vast majority of the Iraqi people have for freedom and representative government.
So what are we to make of this?
This week on CNN, he says the Iraqis are incompetent.
They don't understand democracy and there's no hope, basically.
They don't even understand their responsibility to a free society.
Last year, the Iraqi 4th Division represents what is and what's meant to be in Iraq.
The soldiers of the division not only reflect the rich ethnic religious diversity of Iraq, but they also imbue with the energy, courage, determination, which the vast majority of the Iraqi people have for freedom and representative government.
Yesterday, retired Army Major General John Riggs also made the resignation plea, this time on national public radio.
The acting Army Secretary at the time demoted General Riggs and forced him to retire in 2004 because he led a civilian contractor do congressional liaison work that rules said should have been done by a government employee.
The forced retirement infuriated some retired officers who saw the infraction as minor.
So we may have some people here with axes to grind.
But there are some clearly confusing statements by General Batiste to Rumsfeld personally and privately and General Riggs and also what Batiste said to the Iraqis or about the Iraqis a year ago versus this week.
Larry Dorita, who is one of the press people there in the Pentagon, says, of all the people, the one of these that we just can't figure out is Batiste.
It just makes no sense.
Now, the American Thinker posted a piece today on their website, AmericanThinker.com, The Hidden History of the Iraq War Critics.
Here is a quote from Rumsfeld, March 30th, 2003, on the news hour with Jim Malawa.
The plan has been through the combatant commanders.
It's been through the National Security Council process.
General Myers and General Pace, chairman and vice chairman joint chiefs at the time, and others, including this individual, have seen it in a variety of iterations.
When asked by the president or by me, the military officers who've reviewed the plan have all said they thought it was an excellent plan.
I stand by it.
I think it's a brilliant plan.
That's Operation Iraqi Freedom, as Rumsfeld spoke about it March 30th, 2003.
Well, now we're in the midst of a spring offensive by Iraq war plan critics, such as authors Michael Gordon and retired Lieutenant General Bernard Traynor, retired General Anthony Zinni, and now retired Lieutenant General Greg Newbold.
As calls for Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation echo through the drive-by media, it says here.
We have a little pop quiz for you.
Who said this?
What if Saddam fails to comply with U.N. sanctions?
Or we take some ambiguous third route, which gives him yet more time to develop his WMD program.
He will conclude that the international community has lost its will, that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction.
Someday, I guarantee you, Saddam will use it.
Bill Clinton said that February 1998.
Yes, we're going to go back.
Everybody knows this, but I just want to remind you.
Who said this?
The United Nations believes Saddam Hussein may have produced as much as 200 tons of VX nerve gas.
We face a clear and present danger.
Terrorists who bombed the World Trade Centers in New York City had in mind the destruction and deaths of 250,000 people.
Who said that?
That would be Clinton Defense Secretary William Cohen, November 15th, 1997.
And who said this?
The world hasn't seen, except maybe since Hitler, somebody quite as evil as Saddam Hussein.
If you don't stop a horrific dictator before he gets started too far, he can do untold damage.
That was Madeline Albright, February 20th, 1998.
And just one more.
Who expressed the view that the containment of Saddam could not succeed over the long run?
That even a contained Saddam was harmful to civility and positive change in the region.
And here's the hint.
It's the same person who said this.
For the last eight years, the American policy towards Iraq has been based on the tangible threat that Saddam poses to our security.
The threat is clear.
That was stated by National Security Advisor for Bill Clinton, Sandy Bergler, December 1998 speech at Stanford.
Now, war critics either downplay or they skim over or they completely ignore this historical context.
The prior administration's beliefs and policies towards Iraq were consistent with the threat assessment motivating our war with Saddam.
They'd have you think, though, that it all began with Bush, who was driven to war by neoconzealots who hijacked U.S. foreign policy.
They don't tell you for obvious reasons that the Clinton administration in November of 97 launched a public campaign to build support for a possible war against Iraq.
They don't mention, and this is when Zinni was serving, they do not mention that on October 31st, 1998, President Clinton signed the Iraq Liberation Act, which stated that, quote, it should be the policy of the U.S. to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power.
And in 1998, Congress authorized President Clinton to, quote, use armed forces pursuant to U.N. Security Council Resolution 678 to achieve implementation of Resolutions 660 and 667.
All these retired generals were, at the time, of the same mindset that the Clinton administration was.
The idea that this is an incompetent plan that sprung up out of the blue in the imagination of the Bush administration following 9-11 is just absurd.
And we've got a lot of these quotes.
We've put them in my newsletter in a chronological order.
We have played audio soundbites that we have of some of these things for the last year.
And yet, another illustration, none of that matters to the drive-by meeting.
We've even illustrated the drive-by media and how they were amplifying all these things that Clinton and Clinton administration officials were saying.
And it's like they can't even go back to their own archives or they have forgotten or they don't care to.
Victor Davis Hansen, National Review Online today, a brilliant piece about this.
It would take me too long to read it, but I want you to see it.
It's at National Review Online, or we'll link to it at rushlimbaugh.com.
I'll give you some excerpts, but I got to get to your phone calls when we come back, and I promise I'll do that.
Stay with us.
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Talent, so much talent on loan from God, the management trainee nodding in agreement.
It's good for his future.
Eric in Houston, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Good afternoon, Rush.
It's a pleasure.
Thank you.
In regards to learning a lesson from Flight 93 for the left, I advise to go to Google or Yahoo or any search engine and search 9-11.
And I can guarantee that 90% out of your first 100 will not be 9-11 tributes or memorials, but instead conspiracies on how Bush, our government, Juliana, et cetera, were all in on having 9-11 actually happen.
Oh, I know.
I've been out there.
I've seen it.
You're exactly right.
That's why I said when I was reviewing this movie that the first question I got from somebody after it was, do you think we've learned our lesson?
I said, half the country obviously hasn't.
They can't.
You've got wackos out there who actually are writing conspiracy theories that no airplane hit the World Trade Center.
That they fell because somebody wanted them.
They demolished them.
There was looked like a demolition, an internal multiple explosions.
Yes, multiple explosions.
And where's the airplane that hit the Pentagon?
Nobody's even produced that.
And this plane that went down in Pennsylvania, yeah, they're saying that a couple of F-16s shot it down.
That's right.
So they can't learn from Flight 93 because they've blocked 9-11 as a terrorist attack out of their mind.
No, no, it's a terrorist attack.
It's just Bush did it.
That's right.
Internal.
Yep.
No, it all revolves around their inability to accept the fact that there are terrorists and that Bush is a decisive man that wants to go out and take care of the terrorists.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, in addition to that, I think that they have this such burning rage and hatred for Bush.
And it goes back to Florida 2000 and the fact that they can't believe he beat their two guys.
They think he's a stupid idiot one day.
The next day, he's so brilliant he could concoct a 9-11 scheme and blame it on Arabs and get away with it.
I mean, these people are just irrational.
But the last thing they want to have to admit is that there is an enemy out there that would do this to us.
And if there is, it has to be because Bush created them, that Bush made them.
These are gutless wonder losers of life.
And there's just, there's no explaining them.
And you can't even really try because there's no way to explain insanity or irrationality other than clinical ways.
New ones do that.
Thanks, Eric, for the phone call.
This is Gideon in Greenwich, Connecticut.
You're next.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, does the movie United 93 make any reference to the first al-Qaeda attack on the World Trade Center in 93?
What was that?
The first few months of the Clinton administration?
No, it did not.
That I heard.
Now, obviously, the movie's not subtitled of theater.
And I think, because of all the music and the general noise, I probably got 60% of the dialogue.
But I don't, no, I don't think there was any reference to the first World Trade Center bombing or the Clinton administration at all.
So you say there's a scene in the movie where the air traffic controller expresses frustration that they can't reach the president or the vice president.
They're unreachable, and they're trying to get an order to shoot the planes down.
Well, the way that happens is, and it's not, it's a flight command center.
And I don't want the, I don't recall the exact title.
It might have been the FAA director, the guy that is in charge of all of the centers and the air traffic control locations.
And by the way, the gentleman who plays this role actually is that guy.
They actually brought that guy from his real job and recreated it.
And it's one of his aides that he is sending out of the room: get me the president, get me somebody.
And the aide comes, I can't find him, sir.
We don't know where they are.
Which is Rush.
That's where the left-wing kooks and Michael Moore and Osama bin Laden actually also will say, Waha, that's when Bush was busy for eight minutes reading the children's book, My Pet Goat.
Oh, I know.
That's why.
So I would ask this question, though.
I would ask this question: if Bush wasted eight minutes, okay, Bill Clinton from 1993's first warning wasted eight years.
Eight minutes versus eight years of sitting on his hands.
No dispute.
No dispute whatsoever.
At the end of the movie, there are also against a black screen, there are four or five frames of text, each going up individually.
One of the frames says, I'll have to paraphrase it.
One of the frames says that President Bush ordered anti-military or anti-aircraft military jets into the sky after the last plane crashed or it hit its target, conveying that by the time we got around to getting in gear, everything was over.
Yeah.
But we didn't know it was over because they were still tracking a bunch of planes that they thought could have been hijacked.
Right.
That day, everybody thought this was just the beginning.
We could have been attacked for the next week in this method.
Nobody knew.
Hey, Rush, I think the media will handle this movie in two ways.
Either they will ignore it or they will give it the Passion of Christ treatment, which is, oh my gosh, it's so gory, it's so violent, you don't want to see this.
This is not a movie to bring anybody to.
It's just too violent.
Well, clearly, there's going to be some of the latter because what's going to happen is that, and by the way, you should know every family member of a passenger on United 93 gave the approval.
And some of them have seen the movie and they like it.
It's very tough for them to watch.
But every family member who had somebody on Flight 93 has encouraged the making of the movie.
But what's going to happen is, you know, they're out there.
The drive-by media will find some people, the upper west side of Manhattan or somewhere, who think it's too soon.
It's too soon.
And the debate will be all over again.
Is it too soon for America to be confronted with this?
Rather than a substantive debate or analysis or critique of the movie.
That's why I say that you cannot watch this without having a political reaction to it based on the political context that we're in today, or whatever your particular views are.
That's why I say that the way Bush is portrayed is not being reachable and Cheney either.
It'll confirm the kooks in their Michael Moore movie and so forth.
But believe me, those who go see this are going to have no sympathy for the terrorists.
They're going to know they're the ones that did it and they're not going to like them.
Yes, I've been ready since you started singing.
One of the longest bumps known to exist on this program.
One thing about where I should tell you that we're trying to arrange an interview with the writer and director of United 93, Paul Greengrass, for the next issue of the Limbaugh Letter.
But about the business that the military couldn't find Bush, it's actually the air traffic guys are asking, but the military is who the air traffic guys are told that can't find Bush.
Now, stop and think of this for a second.
Can't find the president.
That's not possible.
Now stick with me on this.
We know Bush was in the classroom in Tampa, somewhere here in Florida, because there was a camera in there.
And we've seen the pictures of when Bush was told while he was reading from a book to these school kids about one of the first two attacks, the World Trade Center.
Now, remember, the first tower that was hit, everybody thought it was a small plane.
And it was just an accident.
First plane.
And it was the air traffic control guys watching CNN and said, wait a minute, look at the size of that hole.
That can't be a small plane.
They'd already lost a couple planes from their radar because the hijackers had turned off the transponders.
They're desperately trying to find them.
And they'd had the indication that one of them had been hijacked.
And they had a little smidgen of tape from a cockpit voice recorder of one of the first two planes hijacked.
One of the hijackers saying, we have more planes.
And that perked them up.
Then you cut to the Eastern Northeast Air Defense Command up in Rome, New York, and they're going through training exercise.
Somebody comes in and says, hey, we might have a hijacking.
So they go into real world mode.
And they appear to be fumbling around a bit trying to catch up with what happened.
But this notion that the president can't be found is just not believable to me.
Not saying that they couldn't find him, but the notion that he can't be found is just you have to think, and we do know that Bush, they kept him out of Washington because they didn't know what the rest of the day was.
They finally got every airplane in U.S. airspace down on the ground at noon, which is no mean feat, by the way.
And they diverted every international flight coming in.
And that's a bunch of those from every border, north, south, east, west, diverted them, did not let anything in, starting at about, I think it's 10.30.
Well, no, I was in the, I got ordered down about 9.30 and was given an hour to get down.
And they got everybody down at like 12.06 or noon, something like that.
Now, at some point, Bush leaves the school.
And we know now that Bush went to Air Force One and went airborne and was managing things from there.
So he's a moving target.
Didn't take him back to Washington until the end of the day.
We had newscasters that day casting aspersions on Bush as a coward.
Remember this for not going back?
And we had certain newscasters saying some people are just better in crises like this than others.
Some presidents are better than others.
And that was a swipe at Bush and an attempt to praise Bill Clinton and all that.
We knew what it was at the time.
But the notion the president couldn't be found, they may not have been able to find him, but I'm thinking it's more like they didn't want him to be found.
That he was in touch with somebody.
It has to be.
The president, Air Force One is every bit the communication center that anything in the White House is.
He's got people with him.
So somebody was in touch with him.
It just may be that these people couldn't find it.
But the military, supposedly, couldn't reach him.
I mention this and harp on it only because that will be a small portion of this movie.
And it has been confirmed.
Oh, okay.
Good.
Greengrass has confirmed that he'll make himself available for the interview.
That's cool.
That's cool.
But the left is going to take from this what they want, and so will you.
I mean, but the idea it's too soon to see this is ridiculous.
Everybody ought to see this as soon as they can, just to remind them the reality of the world we live in and face and why we're doing what we're doing now.
And these people on this airplane, these heroes that prevented that fourth plane, United 93, from hitting its target, they died fighting for the same thing.
And 10% of the movie's take will be donated to a memorial in that field in Pennsylvania, Swanksville, to honor them.
But it also will illustrate that just as uniformed military personnel, these passengers on United 93 gave their lives for the cause.
It's interesting.
They hoped they were asking anybody on the passenger list do you know how to fly this thing?
And there was one guy who thought he might be able to, according to the movie.
That's one of the things I want to ask Mr. Greengrass.
There's some things they had to put in here because you can't possibly know everything that went on up there.
But quite a bit is known, that 30-minute cockpit recorder that they played at the Masawi trial, which, by the way, I asked if Mr. Greengrass had seen or heard that cockpit voice recording they played this week, and he had not.
The families had, but they were not allowed to discuss it with anybody.
So he did not have the benefit, the writer and director of the movie, of having heard the actual cockpit voice recording.
It was only released in the Masawi trial this week.
Here's Patrick in Topeka, Kansas.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, thanks a lot for taking my call.
And Ditto's from the heartland of America.
I'm going to try to control my voice because I am extremely upset at what general officers are doing to the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld.
They are so wrong, and they are so mistaken in their ideas of what their mission and what their job is.
And Jim Lair last night was interviewing one of these generals.
I can't even remember the stupid guy's name.
But they are, and your call screener told me not to use the word Rush or I won't, but they're quitters.
That's what I'll call them, is they're quitters.
They should have.
Patrick, let me ask you a question, though.
Okay.
Because we've had the quotes here from General Batiste while in Iraq, what he said about the Iraqi 4th Division, very complimentary, praiseworthy, that they understood their role, setting up a free democracy and so forth.
Then he comes on CNN this week and says they don't have the slightest clue about it.
We know that he in private in 2004 told the troops under his command that the man standing next to him, Rumsfeld, was the guy to win the war on terror.
Now, my question to you is this.
He comes now and says, eh, says opposite things.
Some people are going to say, well, yeah, now they're retired and now they're not in the chain of command, they can be honest.
They don't have to tow the company line.
They don't have to go out and say that Rumsfeld's great when they don't think it.
They don't have to go out there and praise the plan when they don't really believe it.
But when they're just, when they're out there in the Pentagon, when they're on the battlefield, when they're in the chain of command, they can't say these kinds of things.
But now that they can't, so some people are going to say for the first time they're being honest.
Well, I can bring a unique perspective to this because I was an Army officer.
And that's wrong when people take that opinion because as an Army officer, it's your responsibility.
It's your duty to let your superiors know where they've made a mistake.
And for those generals now to get out and say, and the general last night, he said, well, I had a choice to make.
Either I get out or I keep fighting.
And you know what his duty was?
His duty to his soldiers was to keep on fighting and not getting out.
And I call that, because the call screener won't let me say what I want to say.
He's a quitter.
And that's all I had to say about those generals, Rush, is they're quitters and they dishonor what those men did on United 93.
They dishonor them by quitting and not finishing this war on terror.
And I'm upset about it.
I thank you so much for taking my call.
And I bet there's a lot of other callers that have been trying to get in today to let you know how they feel.
And I love your show, Rush.
Thank you, Patrick.
Thanks so much.
I appreciate those nice words.
Love you too, man.
Say this truthfully.
Well, by the way, the president just came out, as I knew would happen.
Rumsfeld has my full support.
The president has just endorsed Rumsfeld.
You have to ask yourself again, these leftists and these generals, and the drive-by media, Rumsfeld has to go is the drive-by hit of yesterday and today.
Now, they have to.
Are they this short-sighted that they understand it by coming out and getting the drive-by media so involved that they are guaranteeing Rumsfeld can't go anywhere?
If Bush was thinking of firing, he doesn't dare do it now.
If Rumsfeld wanted to retire and resign and quit, he can't do it now because doing so makes it look like these people, retired generals that drive by media, have the power to make these things happen.
So the net result is that if we're getting the truth from the drive-by media and the ex-generals, they're getting exactly what they do not want.
Rumsfeld entrenched.
Now, a lot of people make the mistake of assuming that, hey, these are crafty libs, folks.
These are crafty libs rush.
They must want Rumsfeld there for a reason.
I don't think so.
I think they're so arrogant and they are so short-sighted that they end up opening the door right into their face again.
I think it's entirely possible that that's what's happening here.
Here's Than in Somerville, South Carolina.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello, Test 1-2.
Anybody there from Somerville?
I'm sorry.
Hi, Mr. Limbaugh.
Yes, sir.
I'm 13, and I've been listening to your program over spring break.
Yes.
And I've been wondering what inspired you to use My City Was Gone as your theme song.
Oh, that's a fabulous question.
That is a great Open Line Friday question.
Did you say you're 13 or 15?
13.
13.
You just discovered the program this spring break?
Oh, no.
I've been listening to it for a while.
Oh, right.
Shaping the future of America here.
Well, this all started back in 1984 when I was offered my first chance to do a real radio talk show like this.
And when I got out there, the programming format of the radio station, KFBK, a station I still practically own and dominate, said, you got to have a theme song.
I said, theme song, that's 50s.
That's 40s and 50s stuff.
Theme song.
Why do you have to have a theme song?
Well, you just do.
We just want our host to have a theme song.
So I started out with, I didn't know what to pick.
And I thought, well, you know, I'm going to do a conservative show.
And I tried some classical stuff to rip off Bill Buckley, who used Bach on Firing Line.
I tried some Men at Work, and none of it worked.
And finally, when I started playing the rock and roll theme music, some of the little old lady conservatives in Sacramento would call and say, You can't, this is a quality show you're doing, and you can't play this idiot rock and roll.
It's so beneath you and undignified.
So I thought, I got to get even more rock and roll.
So I happened to be going through some music in the radio station's production room, and Don Wright, who was the production director, said, Let me play this thing.
This has got potential.
He's playing a pretender song, not My City Was Gone.
I forget what it was, but I didn't particularly like it.
But he accidentally played My City Was Gone, and it's from the Learning to Crawl album.
I'll never forget that.
I said, Whoa, this is it.
That driving baseline, and then the lyrics, the lyrics, she's liberal, and she's talking about, it's an anti-development song.
It's about how Ohio had its beautiful natural tundra overturned into parking lots and shopping malls and so forth.
And I said, Mark, this is perfect.
Take a liberal song, pulsating rock and roll beat, and really drive it home because it was the antithesis of what conservatives expected.
Conservatives been rock and roll?
Conservative.
Why?
They're too staid, buttoned down, dry balls, boring, stiff.
And of course, that isn't me.
So That's basically how it happened, and it is just stuck.
I think the song's more identified with me now than it is with Chrissy Hine.
Thank you.
You bet you like the song?
It's a good song.
I just, it's too liberal.
I don't know.
It's too liberal.
Well, you got to learn to laugh at it.
Anyway, well, Then, it's great to hear from you, sir.
Thanks for calling.
All the best to you.
Thank you.
You bet.
We'll be right back after this, folks.
And we are back, El Rushball, America's anchorman serving humanity while executing assigned host duties flawlessly, zero mistakes, and all that with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
This is Ed in Columbus, Nebraska.
Hello, sir.
Brush, it's nice to pick up the phone once in a while and talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
I want to say that I see you in the ring fighting for us.
I see you in the big, the big fight, and you've been up against the mainstream media.
And at first, they ignored you, but I'm telling you what, with this drive-by media, you keep saying, you landed one right on their chin.
I saw the Schieffer thing, and they were just blinking and staggering.
I'm telling you what, buddy, you landed one.
That's why I've been using it so frequently all the time.
I know it.
Your montage and some of the other things you do, a lot of body blows, and they punch back.
What round do you think you're in?
How do you feel?
What round do you think you're in?
Well, I don't know.
15-round bout.
And I don't know if we're ever going to defeat them.
No, it's a 15-round bout.
Where are you, buddy?
I think out of a 15-rounder, I can't say I'm too far along because people think I'm getting ready to resign.
We're probably at round six here.
There you go.
Round six.
Who are, buddy, Rusty?
I'm proud of you.
Way to go, champion, my Cinderella man.
Thank you.
Thanks very much, Ed.
Yeah, what he was talking about, there was a big, big drive-by media seminar Wednesday night at the Bob Schieffer School of Journalism at Texas Christian University.
And after the panels of distinguished and respected journalists, and they were all there, had made their comments and discussion.
They went to questions in the audience.
Some guy stood up and said, The one thing that hasn't been raised, and one subject that hasn't been raised tonight, Rush Limbaugh, he's calling us drive-by media.
It's a new McCarthyism.
And why doesn't anybody fight back?
Why aren't we just going to take this?
So here came Judy Woodruff of Schieffer, and here came Al Hunt.
They were all there.
And Len Downey of the Washington Post actually answered that question and insisted, well, you know, they're just entertainers.
Just entertainers.
Limbaugh and his crowd.
They're just entertainers.
In fact, you know what?
I would say that we've actually done a 180 on that, Ed.
I think they are the entertainers.
You turned into the CBS Evening News and the NBC Nightly News, whatever.
How can you on Friday promote what's coming up on the Monday CBS or NBC nightly news?
How in the world can you do that?
Unless you have pieces, is your butt too big?
Perhaps it's your genes.
A special report Monday on the CBS evening or whatever.
Who's doing entertainment and who's doing serious news here?
No, the butt people may be, but the butt stuff is not serious news.
It's not.
If you've got 22 minutes to do news every night and you, on a Friday, you're going to promote the fact that you're going to do a story on genetics and the size of people's butts, it's Oprah.
It's the stuff they do in the morning shows.
These people think that they are performing a constitutional responsibility to keep the nation free and open for the brave and the mountains of Purple Majesty and all that.
And I could come up with better examples than the genetic size of your butt.
I mean, they do, you know, does Prep H not work for you?
Are you having constipation?
I don't know what it is, but they promote, how in the world can they do that?
Now, we are entertaining in our presentation, but we don't do these silly little sideshow topics that are designed to portray you as a victim, and we're going to blame the government bureaucracy or the corporation responsible for your misery.
Join us Monday night.
We don't do that.
So I think if anybody's in the entertainment business, those guys more than we are.
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