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May 10, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 10, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this program make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying is the things I say are right.
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Well, hallelujah.
Republicans uh Capitol Hill finally did something worth talking about yesterday.
A uh agreed to a $69 billion uh bill on tax cut extensions, which could be approved by both chambers by the end of the week, handing President Bush one of his top tax goals.
The House expected to vote late today on the extension package.
The Senate Republican leadership aid said yesterday they hope the Senate will uh follow suit on um tomorrow or Friday.
Uh what basically what this is gonna do is that extend for two years the 15% tax rate on capital gains and dividends income, which was otherwise set to expire in 2008, would also extend a one-year fix to save millions of Americans from having to pay the alternative minimum tax.
Uh that's a start.
I mean, we'd hope for permanent extensions, but at least it takes us beyond the uh uh 2008 uh sunset of this.
And under these rules, by the way, the Republican tax bill is protected from a filibuster because it's uh within a preset $70 billion limit.
They came in at $69 billion on the uh on the tax cut.
And the reason, folks, this is important, especially this capital gains business.
I know 15% sounds low to people, but you want you take a look at what's happening in the stock market today getting ever so close to busting the record.
Uh the the take to the treasury has just outpaced anything anybody expected, and the capital gains rate reduction is one of the primary reasons why.
There was a story I had in a stack yesterday.
We were in Los Angeles and I didn't get to it.
But in the month of April, tax receipts in the state of California went through the roof like double-digit billions more than they were expecting.
Now they chalking it up to the fact that a bunch of Google employees sold something like four billion dollars worth of stock.
But so what?
That let that show you.
Four billion dollars worth of stock at 15% capital gains in the state with that low rate.
Look at the money that uh that came pouring in.
The old capital gains rate was uh what was it, 28, I think, before it went down to uh down to 15%.
So progress there.
This is uh this is I don't know how much it's gonna mean in lighting the fire into the base, but at least it's it's uh continuing uh on a campaign promise that was made.
Uh talked about uh Democrats and their problems unifying and how they're they're not connecting with the middle class by their own admission.
And here's just this giant see I told you so.
The same coalition of, and this is from the Washington Post, the same coalition of labor leaders, Latino activists, and Catholic priests, and radio DJs responsible for massive pro-immigration demonstrations in LA, described a new coordinated campaign yesterday that they hope will register one million new voters before the November elections.
Under the umbrella of the newly formed We are America alliance, organizers will make similar announcements in the Wave Ork, Chicago, and other cities, including a news conference in Washington that's supposed to happen today, might have already happened.
In Los Angeles, they gave details for the first time of a strateger voiced repeatedly during marches.
Today we march, tomorrow we vote for the Democrats.
We need to reach out to our youths, the first, second, and third generation to make sure they vote.
Spanish radio DJ Orin and Almendares Coelho, better known as El whatever, uh said at a news conference.
Many of those who participated in the street protests can't vote.
About 60% of all what that's gonna stop them.
About 60% of all Latinos in the U.S. are ineligible to vote because they are not citizens, or because they are too young.
So the Democrats are gonna make sure we can't ask anybody for an ID anywhere, so what's to stop them?
Told you this was in a game plan, folks.
In fact, this is what it is totally all about.
And how about this?
Yesterday, the United States military, actually on Monday, I guess it was, the U.S. military released documents that it seized during an April 16th raid in an area 12 miles south of Baghdad.
Significant and revealing find.
The Al Qaeda author is unknown, but officials believe him to be of significance within the terrorist organization.
If you read the document, it's helpful to bear in mind the author often refers to the elected government of Iraq as Shiites.
Al Qaeda's own self-assessment finds that A, it is disorganized and lacks a comprehensive strategy.
That B, the Mujahideen are not considered more than a day daily annoyance to the Iraqi government.
The terrorists lack the proper equipment.
They have very small numbers compared to American and Iraqi military personnel.
American and Iraqi troops are strong and resilient.
American outreach to Sunni leaders is harmful to the terrorist cause.
And finally, the policy followed by the brothers in Baghdad is a media-oriented policy.
These are Al Qaeda's is an Al-Qaeda document written by an unknown writer.
But it clearly indicates that these people think they are losing and losing big time.
Here, let me give you some of the following statements from this document.
What is fixed in the minds of the Shiite and Sunni population is that the Shiites are stronger in Baghdad and closer to controlling it, while the Mujahideen, that's the backbone of the Sunnis, are not considered more than a daily annoyance to the Shiite government.
There's a clear absence of organization among the groups of the brothers in Baghdad, the terrorists, insurgents, whether at the leadership level in Baghdad, the brigade leaders, or their groups therein.
The policy followed by the brothers in Baghdad is a media-oriented policy without a clear comprehensive plan to capture an area or an enemy center.
Now that is key.
It is exactly what we've always thought.
Al Qaeda's playing to the U.S. and the worldwide media without really achieving anything.
They want stories in the media in this country and around the world every day that make it look like utter hell is on earth is taking place.
The Americans can't do anything to stop it.
Whoa, is if they're doing a car blew up, an IED blew up, 14 more bodies, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But they're not accomplishing anything by this man's own admission.
They're not achieving anything because they're fighting a war in the media.
They're not taking any territory.
The significance of the strategy of their work is to show in the media that the American and the governments do not control the situation, and there is resistance against the Americans and the government.
This policy dragged us to the type of operations that are attracted to the media, and we go to the streets from time to time for more possible noisy operations which follow the same direction, but don't achieve anything.
Another item most of the Mujahideen groups in Baghdad are generally groups of assassin without any organized military capabilities.
And get this.
The Americans and the Iraqi government were able to absorb our painful blows, sustain them, compensate their losses with new replacements, and follow strategic plans which allowed them in the past few years to take control of Baghdad as well as other areas one after the other.
That is why every year is worse than the previous year as far as the Mujahideen's control and influence over Baghdad.
Now, we've intercepted previous al-Qaeda correspondents that tells the same story, but nobody wants to listen to it.
It doesn't fit the action line and the template that the drive-by media country in this country and the Democratic Party have established.
One of the most unreported stories of the Iraq war is that Al-Qaeda terrorists are failing militarily and in terms of winning public support among the people of Iraq.
Where they're succeeding is in promoting a carefully thought-through Western media strategy.
Their aim is clear.
They want to engage in a type of operations that are attractive to the media in the hopes that coverage of the war will drain American public support for it.
Now, I've heard I've waited for this.
This came out on um Monday, late Monday afternoon.
Here we are at Wednesday.
We're almost 48 hours.
And I I wanted to wait to see if anywhere in the drive-by media the substance of this has been reported, and it hasn't been.
And it won't be.
But the bottom line is Al Qaeda says they are losing.
They're internal documents to each other, their own analysis, they are losing, and we are winning.
Can you imagine that is not news fit to print in the United States of America?
Look at this.
I just found this.
We talked about Martin Frost's bunch of people the third way and how they have discovered that they don't have any connection.
The Democratic Party just does not connect with the American middle class.
And I mentioned, okay, that's that group, they got their thing, and then they got the Kooks have their thing.
And then they and the Democratic Party is not going to unify these groups because they all disagree with each other about this.
Here's another one.
You know, we talked about this yesterday.
These uh Evan Bye and Mark Warner and his 17 uh hacks and polsters.
And they've written this book out there, and and and the headline the Washington Post, centrist Democrats urge party policy with muscle.
Democratic Hawks said yesterday that their party can win a war of ideas with Republicans over national security, but only if Democrats move beyond simply criticizing Bush and convince voters that they support strategies to defeat Islamic jihadists.
Who's gonna believe them?
I hope they try.
But that's gonna that's gonna anger the kook base.
That's gonna anger the move on.org crowd's gonna anger the DICAX.
Let me sum this story up for you.
There are varying themes of strategies of retreat that are mentioned and peppered throughout this story.
They're reluctant to set a timetable or or or have one uh uh outright for getting out of Iraq.
But here the key here is the end of it.
Um we cannot abandon who said this.
I guess this is the group.
The statement from the group.
We can't abandon support for democracy simply because the Bush administration has embraced it.
In other words, we can't we just can't oppose everything because Bush is for it.
Well, that's that's not gonna sit well with the fringe and uh and the kooks.
San Francisco Chronicle anti-gouging laws do not cut gasoline prices.
State of California probed 50 potential cases, no charges.
The gouging law is anti-gouging law is too specific.
Rarely is somebody prosecuted, and only station owners are the targets, not big oil.
Great piece, by the way, uh Wall Street Journal today praising Rex Tillerson, the CEO of ExxonMobil.
As it actually it's a column.
Um here, someone will find it.
But that points out he's the only guy with guts to tell the American people the truth about oil prices and gas prices today.
Uh mealy mouth politicians don't.
Dick Morris has the most incredible piece today.
I don't understand this, especially given the data that I've just shared with you about all these different Democrat groups that all have different strategies about how the Democratic Party needs to unify to win elections.
The headline sums it up.
To win this year, Republicans need to run like Democrats.
Sometimes Dick Morris comes up with some really brainy and insightful stuff, but I don't get this one.
He gets caught up in in in the the so-called swing vote out there, and the moderates, I think this inside the beltway crowd is just obsessed.
They think they have their base.
Both parties think they have the base, they gotta figure out a way to get the swing vote.
I I I guarantee you uh that's not how conservatives win.
It may be cut the way blue blood country club Rockefeller Republicans want to win, but it's not the way the Republican Party is gonna win.
We already have a party that produces people like Rick Santorum and Lincoln Chafey.
We have a party that produces Mike Pence and Susan Collins.
What more do we have to do?
We've got enough Republicans who act like Democrats.
And they confound everything.
The idea we got to go out and act like Democrats.
We need to run Like Democrats.
Why why would why I don't understand this?
Why would he tell a winning and governing majority to go out and run like a minority?
The only thing I can think is to counter the media perceptions out there, but I I it it really, really, really perplexing.
You know, I uh that just boggles the mind.
I think is uh Why and in fact I know they they've all let let's let's um go to audio sound but number 10.
Uh because the uh I the the Democrats, the media, the already snerdleys has already swallowed the Kool-Aid.
They're out there, they're they're just they're doing everything, but already calling the elections in November for the Democrats.
What?
He said ready.
He said he's ready for the bite.
You know, you people I hate to keep interrupting myself here.
I'm on a roll, and the staff here afraid I've blown something.
The engineer just said I'm ready on cut ten.
Everybody on this side of the glass looks panicked, like uh-oh, did Limbaugh do something else wrong now.
You're ready on number 10, right?
Here we go.
This is a montage.
Bob Schiefer talking to Gloria Borger on the CBS evening news.
Are we about to see a dramatic shift in the political landscape?
If the findings of a new CBS News New York Times poll are accurate, the answer may well be yes.
President Bush's ratings have hit another all-time low, and the Republican control Congress gets even lower marks, an approval rating of only 23%.
Our national political correspondent Gloria Borger has the numbers.
Bob, our new poll shows just why Democrats are starting to believe, as opposed to simply hope, that change is in the air.
Democrats are viewed favorably by 55% of Americans.
Just 37% favor Republicans.
That's a complete turnaround from 1994 when Republicans dominated public opinion just before taking control of the Congress.
And it's a crock because that the very day we get this this poll out, we also get Martin Frost's piece at Fox News.com talking about their own survey, a bunch of Democrats survey, and they find out they aren't connecting with the middle class, and it's not just a trend, uh it's not an aberration, it is a trend.
Gore didn't win the middle class, white or otherwise, Carrie didn't, lost even more of them.
Uh if you're gonna choose which of these to believe, believe the Democrat internals.
Yeah.
Right, right.
These are not likely voters in these polls.
Americans say blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So it's it's it's it's using a poll to make news that they hope comes true.
Here's Jim in Orange City, California.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Well, Rush, it's a pleasure to be on your show.
Uh loved it for years.
Uh don't get to listen off enough because I uh you know, I'm in an inside job type thing.
But uh I want to tell you, yes, the government's getting a lot of tax receipts because the capital gains.
But uh in the news out here in California, five billion towards you know, unexpected money, but nowhere in the stories is the fact that they're the unwanted or they're the uh beneficiaries of higher gas prices, man.
Their sales tax out here on fuel is eight percent.
Oh, so the tax in California on gasoline is pegged to the retail price.
It's not just a certain uh number of cents per gallon.
Right.
What they have out here, of course, there's the federal, I believe the excess tax federal is 18, and then there's a state excess tax of 18 cents a gallon also.
But on top of that, there's sales tax and has been for many years, and at over three well, I've got tech 350 a gallon.
I can't even do the math right now, but at three bucks a gallon, eight percent, which a lot of the counties are at eight percent is and I believe LA County is three point two five.
It's four bucks in Malibu.
I know that because I went out there to fill up on purpose, so I can say I spent four bucks a gallon.
Yeah, and the local government gets about the top one percent, but I mean the states getting at least seven percent for every gallon.
No, I know New York does that, but some states just have a flat X number of cents per gallon, regardless of what the retail price is.
New York is a is different.
I guess California's too.
Well, if if that's true, then you would have to factor in the rising gasoline price uh uh i in in these uh reports that states are giving out that they're earning much higher tax revenue than was uh uh ever expected.
Why we're stunned at this.
It's a combination of factors, but uh if you if if that's if that's accurate if you're describing how the the gasoline tax I know the sales tax is.
I'm not I just didn't know that the gasoline tax in the state of California floated uh upward or downward based on the retail price.
Quick timeout will be back.
Stay with us, folks.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Cleveland and Jerry, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Rush, thanks for taking my call.
How are you doing there?
Yeah.
I have a question.
Last hour you had a a story that a woman could tell a future good uh father by his face or something like that.
And that's Yeah, just look at the guy's face and know instantly that he'd be a good father.
Exactly.
And then your comment is what sparked my cause because your comment was, you know, you get it all the time, you'd make a great father and everything like that.
And and and I get that too, and I do take that as a compliment.
I'm thirty-nine years old now.
I've never been married because I don't want kids.
It's literally come down to the ultimatum.
If you want me, you gotta have kids.
And I've said no.
And even to take it farther, to take the issue off the table, I got a vasectomy.
So now when they meet me, they know it's not gonna happen.
My question is to you.
Most women that I say this to, they can't accept this.
They have a lot of trouble accepting that I'm so certain that I don't want kids and everything.
And I know you feel the same way, because I've listened to you for years.
I was wondering, why do you think that women have such a hard time dealing with the fact that a lot of men don't want kids at any cost.
Uh that's not hard at all.
I mean, I think it's nature.
I I'm not I'm not I don't mean I'm not trying to describe this scientifically.
I'm I'm I I just I because when I do that, scientists call and tell me I'm an idiot.
Uh but there's a w wh why is there the phenomenon of the biological time bomb?
Why do you think it is?
Time clock, time bomb to me, time clock, uh whatever.
Why do you think it is let's let's let's take a look this to this and give this thing a little histor.
Get a historical perspective here.
You have the feminist movement starting in the late sixties or seventies, they told women to go out there and be like men, be in a career, rise to the top.
Don't let your sisterhood down by just having a relationship define your happiness in your life.
You don't want a man to be the sole reason for that.
Go out there and full potential and bo and so they a lot of them bought into it.
Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna do that.
And they get out there and they start climbing the corporate ladder and they work hard and they start getting heart disease like men do and all this.
And then the biological time bomb starts ticking, and in the late 30s, I want a baby.
I want a baby.
It's quite natural to me.
It's it's the the women are the only ones that can do it until we get the artificial womb.
Uh th that we're stuck with the way things are.
And then what's happening, and this is to the to the great disgust of feminists.
A lot of these women after the birth of the child and their maternity leaves, you know what?
I kinda like this.
And a lot of them are choosing to just punt the career and stay home and raise the child.
I think nature is a is a big factor in that too.
As long as the economics make it possible, nature's a big factor there.
Now, if I were snurdly answering this question for you, uh, it'd be real simple.
From his perspective, your being hassled to be a father is nothing more than a woman trying to control you.
Well, I I yeah, I was yeah.
I I'm let's put it this way.
Put both of you.
I think you think snurkly's startling together.
I think b I think both of you are right.
Uh the two there.
You've said because you were saying I was when you were talking, I'm thinking, well, maybe I'm looking more deeply or sinister into this.
So I think my my answer what I both Jerry, Jerry, look, you gotta you gotta you gotta allow for this possibility too.
I don't know these women that that have been uh trying to pressure you that forced you to go get your vasectomy.
But it could well also be that they just Love you.
And that they really want to marry and they really want to have a family, and they really think you'd be a great dad.
It could be no more complicated than that.
I'm gonna I'm gonna this is this may be a little personal, nothing but I'll tell you what, I'm actually, you know, I've listened to you a long time and everything, and I look at it this way, and I know nothing's perfect, but I go, damn, if if Rush has trouble making marriages work, I think I would have even more trouble because of your situation and everything.
Well, you shouldn't do that.
Don't make the mistake of and I'm not don't don't just compare to yourself to me.
Don't compare yourself to anybody.
That's you get uh yeah, especially snerdly.
You're if you but don't start comparing yourself to people.
That's that's the recipe for disaster in anything.
I don't care whether it's economics, jobs, and don't start doing that.
In my case, I think I've just concluded that uh uh uh best to say this.
There are some of us, uh, and I even had a caller once, the in fact a woman call me and say, don't ever get married.
Your work is too important to be distracted from.
And uh I think there are some of us uh to whom that applies.
I don't know what you do for the country, Jair.
But I'm out there say I'm out there saving America and and and and so forth, and that's a that's a full-time job.
Understood.
Hey, thank you, sir.
I appreciate it.
All right, Jarr, I appreciate it.
Uh uh.
Well, okay, that that well, that's what I okay, George Gil.
Snerdley's reminding me at George Gilder.
George Gilder got thrown off the Oprah show for saying what I'm about to tell you.
George George Gilder is a genius.
He is brilliant.
And he he also has big mistake was tying this in with the destruction of welfare families.
Uh he says, George George Gilder, in a societal sense, that he's looking not at individuals here, he's looking at at human civilization over time.
And he says that women are the civilizing force in our culture.
A woman by agreeing to marry man X and then give birth to his children, is a powerful statement of trust.
Uh and because it he says that it in the vast majority of people, regardless of their socioeconomic circumstances, uh, the vast majority of people uh having children, raising children, is whether they're aware of it or not, an instinctive most important thing they do in their life.
And woman is the one who says yes.
Uh in normal circumstances, I mean, uh I guess there's some women that propose these days, but if the woman is saying a woman has the power to say no, and when she s when she has that power and exercise it to say yes, it is quite a statement.
And so Gilder said that it is women who says, look at what's happened when families have been busted up by the welfare state.
It is the women, the grandmothers and so forth that keep those kids who are fatherless uh as best they can on the right track.
They don't always succeed, but they're the orienting factor.
Uh uh so he says this on Oprah, and Oprah just got live and literally threw him off the show before it was over.
That's when I knew I had to meet George Gilder.
So there that so when I say nature, that's that's really what I meant was that was the was the Gilders.
I don't think there's anything wrong.
I hope nobody misunderstood this.
I and there's nothing wrong with woman A wanting to get married and have a kid, or three.
Uh just not with me.
But I don't I don't think there's there's anything wrong with it.
I mean now I'm 55.
Let's say that let's say I got seduced into um changing my mind about this.
All right.
And let's say it happened tomorrow.
Well, by the time uh Rush the Fourth is born, uh Rush the third's fifty-six.
So by the time Rush the Third is 70, the 14-year-old kid has a a grandfather for a father.
Not not a father.
And and and I've just I know.
I've talked, you remember the I I know look I talked to uh when when I first moved to New York, not long after starting work at WABC, Robert Vaughn, man from Uncle, big talk radio fan, lived up in he came down to say hello to a bunch of us that were there, and he was fifty-six and just had given his wife just given birth to the greatest thing it ever happened to him.
So the greatest thing it ever happened.
I have another friend who didn't have his first kid when he was sixty.
Please basketball to the kid, the kid's three years old, plays basketball to basketball.
The greatest thing that ever happened to him.
Fine.
That is absolutely wonderful.
I'm not China.
I'm not out there trying to establish a no-child policy for the country.
Or even a one-child per family policy for the uh for the country.
Okay, do we have now let's take a timeout here?
We'll come back.
Get this twelve species of flies.
Flies.
Flies, insects, have now gotten federal protection.
Endangered species.
Back after this.
All right.
Twelve species of rare flies, uh, known for their elaborate courtship displays, and found only in the Hawaiian Islands are now protected under the Endangered Species Act.
The Fish and Wildlife Service announced the protected status for the highly valued picture wing flies on Tuesday.
Now you just you just wait.
Developers and others are not going to be stopped because a fly might be courting on their property.
This is absurd.
Fri freaking flies are being protected now.
Flies.
I don't know what you do.
I damn well if one of these things starts courting on me, slap the thing.
Absolutely swatted away.
I can't believe this.
The next thing you know, they're gonna ban the fly swatter.
Uh Mark in Port St. Lucy, Florida, welcome to the uh program.
Welcome.
Nice to have you.
Thank you, Royce.
As they stay on the golf course long and straight.
Yes, sir, absolutely.
Nothing happened enough.
There is no swing vote.
Uh there is no middle anymore.
Uh you know, everybody's playing to the middle, but there is no middle.
That's been proven by the last three elections.
And conservatives don't respond to polls.
Uh they're too busy raising families, earning a living.
Uh, but what they do do is they vote.
And the grassroot comes out uh about sixty days before an election, and basically the Republican Party only needs to get out the grassroots.
They don't have to convert anybody.
We uh George Bush won in 2000 uh uh four with uh 51, 52 percent of the vote.
So there's no need to swing anybody.
Well, no, there's th it's tricky.
Uh I I think there are some people who vote who actually don't know what to think, even election day.
They they're not everybody's like you and me, Mark, and out there committed to what we believe, but the vast majority of people are on both sides.
Country is more polarized now than it's been a long time, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room in the middle.
Um you're you're pretty much right about that.
But we still have people who call themselves swing voters.
We have people who call themselves moderates because it it makes them think that they're smarter than everybody else.
They don't want to be considered partisans, and I think they identify themselves this way in much greater numbers than they actually exist.
Uh ergo uh polling data tends to uh tends to reflect uh that John and I got a little time here, so I want to get as many on as I can.
Modesto is next, and John, you are up.
Hello.
Uh Ghetto's from Medasto Rush.
Uh I wanted to show you in Stanislaw County, uh, California, there is no problem with uh illegals registering to vote.
Uh I actually asked the registrar of voters here in town uh what he did to make sure that that didn't happen.
He assured me that they had to sign in three separate places on the form they uh applied to registered vote that they were eligible.
They had to sign in three different places.
So we have no problem.
Yeah, I'm uh it doesn't in fact this is not doesn't totally relate to what you're saying.
One of the guys I played golf with on Monday afternoon uh was telling me the stories big it this is uh uh Los Angeles, he came from Minnesota.
So he had to go out there about two or three years ago, he had to go out there and get his driver's license to change us.
He went to the DMV and he got up to the window and he started talking to the person, and let us talk to him for about 45 or 50 seconds, maybe a minute about small talk and I came here from Minnesota.
Yeah, I gotta love it out here.
I gotta re-register and I gotta get my driver's license switched over.
The first question he was asked in what language would you like to take the test?
What do you mean?
What language?
What I like to just been speaking to you in English for a minute at least.
He he couldn't believe it.
And I said to him, it's not the guy's fault.
There's probably some bureaucrat requirement that he has to ask you that.
Uh and so there's n if if if these stories about illegals signing up to vote, that's a surprise me.
Democrats wouldn't be out there recruiting up at these rallies if it weren't the uh weren't the case.
Here is uh David in Kingsport, Tennessee.
Welcome, sir.
They tornadoes uh heading for you.
CNN's been telling us the last three hours tornadoes are gonna cream Memphis.
Uh no, I'm on the other end of the state.
Um I'm up here in the Smoky Mountains, east of Knoxville.
Ah, oh, you're safe then.
Yeah, yeah, we're pretty safe in tornadoes here.
Uh Diddles, I've been listening to you for years, Rush.
It's a pleasure to speak to you.
And uh I'd just like to say, you know, I was listening to the call earlier about uh the purchasing television shows on the internet, and I I just got a degree in communications and I've worked in the field for some time, and I just people are awfully entrenched in the way they watch television.
They love to sit there and flip through the channels, and I I really don't I don't believe that gonna give up their surfing the five just shows.
Uh if I if I may interrupt.
Mm-hmm.
Men are into surfing.
Yeah, well.
If if they can find the remote control.
No, it's true.
Women women do not surf.
They surf a little, not as much as men.
Dawn, do you do you sit there and surf at it?
You do?
Well, I guess she serves she says a little.
Okay, yeah.
But my mom serves a a fair amount.
And usually the girls I'm dating surf a little bit.
But you know, I it's just you know, the the money to come up with new programs, it would be difficult to to produce a brand new show without being able to guarantee the advertisers it was going to be on TV that you're going to have to rely on people to find it on the internet and purchase it.
And I think it would it would really hurt creativity.
You know, every time there's new technology, they they predict the demise of the previous technology.
Radio was gonna kill motion pictures, TV was gonna kill radio, and now internet's gonna kill TV newspapers and magazines, and I I I just don't see it happening.
Well, probably not although uh there is there there are technological changes coming.
One of them is portability that's gonna matter uh in a lot of ways.
But here's the bottom line to all this.
And this is what I I tell people in this business when they start talking about you're gonna go to satellite, you're gonna go, you're gonna say terrestrial, uh, you're gonna do television.
It doesn't matter where I do it.
Content, content, content.
If people have to listen to it on uh two tin cans and a piece of string, if they want to, they'll find it.
The question for is is is gonna be uh programs with great content have to be discovered.
Uh and and you generally do that by surfing, and at word of mouth starts.
Uh and so that the the people that produce these programs know all of that.
Uh, and they're they're gonna find ways to maintain that way of of having uh uh program's popularity grow because that doesn't cost you anything.
Word of mouth, the best advertising there is, doesn't that's what's killing Mission Impossible 3.
Everybody says it's a pretty good action movie, but it's dying.
Um in this case, the content doesn't matter because the star has gotten so loopy.
All right, two things.
I'm gonna not be here tomorrow.
Gotta go to Dallas, uh big rush to excellence appearance there tomorrow night.
Uh be back here on Friday for open line Friday.
We've also put up on the website the stories from the uh New York Times and Life magazine, uh post-war Germany, so you can check the parallels where the media is reporting uh what's happening in Iraq today versus how they reported the aftermath of World War II in Germany.
Dovetails very nicely with the Al Qaeda documents released this week that show that they are losing and that we are winning.
Have a uh a nice middle of the week Wednesday, folks.
See you in Dallas tomorrow night.
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