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	And greetings to you, thrill seekers, music lovers, conversationalists.
	All across the fruited play in time for more broadcast excellence.
	On the award-winning thrill-packed Rush Limbaugh program, it is Friday.
	Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
	It's open line Friday.
	All right, folks, the rules on open line Friday.
	When we go to the phones, the program is all yours.
	The show is yours.
	That's not the case Monday through Thursday.
	Got to talk about what I want to talk about, what interests me, but it doesn't have to be the case on Friday.
	So if you have a question or comment, feel free.
	800 282-2882 is the number if you want to be on the program today.
	For those of you watching on the Ditto Cam, you'll note that I just put on my official Club Gitmo cap.
	We have an entire um merchandise line at Rush Limbaugh.com.
	Uh of Club Gitmo gear, t-shirts, soap on a rope.
	It's all from our luxury resort when you need to take a break from the daily rigors of jihad.
	Uh and I've put the cap on.
	In fact, Dawn said that uh took ten years off my is that right?
	Yeah, it just looked different.
	Took ten years off.
	I actually think the cap was a little small for me.
	I mean, I my my head's rather large to accommodate my brain.
	But I have it on, uh, ladies and uh and and and gentlemen, because there is a story here about a couple stories about Club Gitmo.
	The United Nations Committee Against Torture's call for the closure of Club Gitmo shows that this from the BBC shows that international voices are increasingly being raised against the institution set up by the U.S. in its quote unquote war on terror, not just against the treatment of prisoners in them.
	The definitions and legal limits of the structures and the practices the U.S. has followed are all being tested and in many cases found wanting as it tries to conduct what it regards as a war vital to its well-being.
	The latest criticisms come from the UN body charged with overseeing compliance with the UN convention against torture and other humane or inhuman treatment.
	Uh the committee is made up of ten independent international human rights experts, quote unquote.
	One of them an American, Felice Gayer, who has a long record of human rights work.
	The committee periodically summons member states to justify their policies.
	It was blunt about Club Gitmo.
	The state party should cease to detain any person at Club Gitmo and close the facility.
	Prisoners there should be given access to a judicial process, a released and not sent anywhere.
	They could face torture.
	That's what I mean, folks.
	the American left al-Qaeda Bill of Rights.
	The state party should take immediate measure to eradicate all forms of tortures.
	The State Party, meaning the United States, eradicate all forms of torture and ill-treatment of detainees by its military or civilian personnel in any territory under its jurisdiction.
	Allegations about uh U.S. military or intelligence activities have become so hyperbolic as to be absurd, says John Bellinger, the head of the U.S. delegation.
	So what we have here.
	The UN has released a report calling for the shutdown of the uh of Club Gitmo.
	Do they not know?
	Ladies and gentlemen, do they not know that I have a thriving merchandise business going on involving Club Gitmo?
	I suspect that may be as much a reason the UN's acting as this phony baloney asinine reason they're concerned about.
	They're just trying to imprison uh the United States, perhaps.
	Or not, perhaps.
	They're just they're just trying to shackle us so we cannot defend ourselves.
	It's amazing.
	This is called the Treaty Against Torture, or TAT.
	Uh, for short, reminds me of that old saying, tit for tat.
	Anyway, according to the UN, we need to close Club Gitmo, and we should also ensure that we have no one detained in secret prisons anywhere in the world.
	Really?
	Are they gonna tell this to Fidel Castro?
	Are they gonna run around and tell President Who?
	Of the Chicoms.
	They ought to get rid of his political prisoners.
	They're the ones that have these things.
	We don't.
	Russia, North Korea.
	And just what does the United Nations propose that we do with all the Islamic terrorists at Gitmo?
	Send them on a carnival cruise.
	Do you want to know the truth about this folks?
	We need to close UN operations in as much a part of the world as we can.
	Africa, since the blue helmeted peace workers, peacekeepers keep uh raping little girls and women.
	This is an absurd joke.
	But the truth of the matter is that when this complaint was first lodged before this group, the UN Committee Against Torture, they were invited.
	The United States invited them to visit Club Gitmo, and they refused.
	They refused to go visit Club Gitmo.
	So they're making uh recommendations to close it based on what?
	The drive-by media.
	Some might think that, but no.
	The enemy to the United Nations in this asinine group of human rights activists is the United States.
	And that's who they want to hurt.
	That's who they want to harm.
	Of course, the drive-by media's coverage of all this hasn't hasn't uh hurt either in terms of this cause.
	There's another story about Club Gitmo.
	Um resort cabins there to prevent U.S. forces from helping one of four detainees who tried to commit suicide.
	One inmate, and the story has this all wrong.
	One visitor uh tried to hang himself.
	Three others took overdoses on on Thursday.
	You have to understand that some of the people that get sent to Club Gitmo, this uh resort for relieving the stresses of uh of jihad, some people have such a strange reaction to the good life uh that they're overwhelmed with guilt at the notion that others can't get there, can't afford it, can't find a way in, and so they want to kill themselves.
	Or they want to overdose on something.
	And of course, the uh the uh counselors, the attendants, the uh hotel maids, uh the spa directors, when they spot this kind of activity, people trying to kill them, of course they're gonna save their lives.
	It's a resort.
	Uh and and but there other other visitors, uh other guests at Club Gitmo that tried to intercede, because not everybody at Club Gitmo likes everybody else.
	It's like any other group of people.
	You got some people don't like uh others.
	They have the natural uh human interactions uh even at such a wonderful respite from the daily stresses of jihad as at Club Gitmo.
	Now, all four of the guests being treated, their lives were not in danger, said the uh uh uh well the uh CEO of the hotel, Robert Durand, a spokesman for the joint task force of Club Gitmo, which runs uh the resort operations there.
	He said in a statement that uh uh joint task force guards uh had responded to a disturbance uh in uh one of the card rooms, it says here medium security, part of the one of the one of the game rooms, uh, late Thursday, and and one of the uh one of the guests uh in game room four was preparing to hang himself.
	So they charged in there and uh and uh they they stopped it.
	When the guard uh the the security uh force uh entered the compound to intervene, some of the guests at Club Gitmo attempted to prevent them from rescuing the other guest uh by using fans, light fixtures, and other items as uh improvised weapons.
	I mean, you know, you do go to Club Gitmo to relax, but when your life has been spent at war, it's tough to wash that out of your system.
	So you see a fan up there, you say, aha, knife.
	Uh when your life is built around weapons and using them, it's it's tough even in a nice resort location like Club Gitmo uh to just expunge that.
	So what happened is that three guests also ingested prescription medications that apparently had been hoarded for this purpose.
	Now you see, even at Club Gitmo, when you arrive with drugs, you're free to have them.
	Uh there are not body searches and total body cavity searches.
	So guests at Club Gitmo are allowed to arrive with drugs of any kind of prescription drugs and hoard them, save them in their rooms for when the going gets too tough, even at uh Club Gitmo.
	So well, I you know, this is another thing, too.
	We we I wasn't gonna mention this, and Mr. Snerdley has reminded me of this.
	Um you know this this this attempt at hanging may not have been that at all because at Club Gitmo there are s not only are there no restrictions on behavior, there are certain activities promoted uh revitalize the spirit and uh recharge the batteries and so forth, and I'm sure that I don't know how many of you people in this audience you and Rio Linda will know about this.
	Um but there supposedly is a thrill if you can have a uh a sexual orgasm at the point of strangulation, but but you're not supposed to strangle.
	I mean you're supposed to you got a buddy is supposed to save you.
	Uh but apparently from people who've done this, uh did the lead singer of the group NXS uh Michael Hutchins died uh attempting to experience the ultimate in sexual pleasure.
	Uh in hanging himself.
	It's probable uh possible here that uh this guest at that Club Gitmo was not trying to hang himself at all, but just enjoying one of the many uh uh opportunities of freedom that is permitted uh at this seaside resort in uh South Eastern uh Cuba.
	A quick timeout, ladies and gentlemen back at right after this.
	Don't go away.
	It is open line Friday.
	We'll go to the email at Dear Rush help.
	We are being pressured to turn off Fox News.
	We are a family-owned and operated business, the American Grill in Plantation Florida, and we only tune our TV to Fox News.
	We refuse to change the channel for our liberal friends and customers, and many of them leave.
	We don't mind losing liberal customers, but we're losing our business.
	We are located in Southwest Broward County, liberal Mecca at the center of the 2000 Bush Gore controversy.
	How can we reach your listeners as we are drowning in liberal narcissism?
	We have an exceptional restaurant we feed many of our armed forces families for free or at highly discounted prices.
	It feels as though truth and patriotism are costing us our livelihood.
	Can you help a conservative friend?
	I have been a loyal ditto head since the late 80s when you were on television and continue to listen as often as possible to your radio show.
	Your television program responsible for converting my wife to a true conservative after coming from a family of loyal liberal hypocrites.
	Uh Tom O'Connell owner Jensen's grill uh in uh plantation Florida on Sunrise Boulevard.
	What can we do?
	Tom, turn on the radio show.
	Get uh turn.
	That's a conundrum.
	I mean, if if if it's all the liberals that live down there and they don't want to watch Fox News, what would you do as the owner of the restaurant, Mr. Snerdley?
	What would you play Fox News anyway, and just watch the customer base go outside, uh just leave the leave the uh uh Well, you know what?
	That's not a bad get another TV, Tom, get another TV and put on something liberals like to watch.
	Uh put NASCAR on.
	Um go out and get some PBS documentaries.
	Uh Global Warming Diary run Michael Moore's movie 24-7.
	Alongside Fox News.
	Give everybody a little bit of what they want.
	Here's Rex in Lexington, Kentucky.
	Welcome to the program.
	Make it always Rush.
	Thank you, sir.
	You are the man that single-handedly served as Radio Free America during the Clinton years.
	Thank you, sir.
	I appreciate that, and I know.
	Okay.
	Rush, I'm a little concerned about the president's toll numbers.
	Um it seems like he's losing a lot of conservative support and uh I I feel that we're just not keeping his record in in in the proper perspective uh given his accomplishments in the uh in the international arena in the war on terror uh here at home.
	Uh Rex, Rex, let me are you a sub are you a subscriber to my website?
	Uh I was.
	You was.
	I love my subscription laps.
	I'm sorry about that.
	Uh, that's too bad because uh uh I dealt with this very subject yesterday, and if you were a subscriber to the website, you can go back and look at it.
	Uh and I uh because I don't have the time to go through we spent about a half hour on this yesterday.
	Um and it's it really is uh uh uh it's it's just I tell you what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna I'm gonna do Rex.
	I'm gonna resubscribe you on a complimentary basis for a year.
	I'm gonna s I'm gonna assume uh that you had other things that took priority during this harsh economic period in which we all find ourselves and had to make tough choices.
	So I want to help you out here.
	And I'm once once uh a nice man will come on the phone and get all the information to comp you and make you a subscriber and go there, just go to yesterday's, and it's still up.
	We won't update it until five or six this afternoon as soon as we can.
	But it's it's there's a whole segment on it right there.
	It's about the conservative paradigm, it draws uh on a on an analogy in comparison to Harry Truman uh uh in 1946, 47, and 48.
	The basic upshot of it is that there are a whole lot of uh accomplishments, and that uh Bush is holding true to his uh uh intentions.
	He's not he's not buckling uh uh because of the polls or pressure from opponents or any of that.
	Uh and it also makes the point that uh rather than getting all flustered and gee, what are we gonna do and getting uh obsessed with doom and bloom, we've gotta keep rolling up the sleeves, uh realizing there's still a lot more work to do, that this work actually never ends.
	Uh and so in fact it's it's much easier staying in power than it is getting there.
	And I think the conservatives uh and the Republicans in the House and Senator learning that.
	So that that'd be the best thing you could do, because we touched on this in great, great, great detail yesterday.
	Thanks for the call.
	Mike in Erie, Pennsylvania.
	Welcome to the program, sir.
	Nice to have you with us.
	Thanks, Russ.
	How are you doing?
	Good, sir.
	All right, I want to bring to your attention an article on ESPN.com by Jason Whitlock.
	Now he is talking about the Northwestern girls soccer team.
	I'm sure you know about the hazing incidences that they're Oh, yes, I've seen the pictures quite titillating.
	Yes, they are.
	They're very they're very nice.
	But other than that, he is talking about how Title Nine has been affecting these women's teams around the country.
	Now his his contention is that with the equality that was supposed to come with Title IX, that these women's teams are acting more like men's teams.
	Uh 20, 30 years ago, you would never see a women's team hazing each other, binge drinking doing stuff like that.
	That's right.
	But with Title IX, inequality has come the um lessening of the gender gap, and they're behaving more like a men's team.
	But it's not just Title IX, it's all a feminism.
	Women, ever since the modern era of feminism began, and this is one of the big problems.
	Some some women will even admit this.
	Uh the big problem is that women, rather than seeking this emancipation and independence that they knew to be theirs, they've just tried to go out and become like men.
	They entered a career world, they started dressing like men, they wanted to accomplish the same things men accomplished.
	It became a competition rather than a real I mean if if women wanted to do something different than what was required, like go to the corporate ladder and start climbing, then other women put them down.
	If they wanted to stay home and raise a kid, there was no choice in this.
	There was no true independence.
	And so it Title IX is an outgrowth of feminism too, but it's not just Title IX here.
	Well, yeah, I mean it's a whole it's a whole little bit.
	Are you up are you upset with Whitlock's take?
	Because Whitlock's take is why is everybody so surprised is what women wanted.
	I mean, if you get Title IX and you want gender equality, then you better be prepared to accept what you're gonna get.
	He says, Come on, why should women not be allowed to behave poorly just when men do it?
	His point is that if the male uh the soccer team at Northwestern and got engaged in in hazing is it wouldn't have made any news.
	Well, yeah, I mean, I think it's the it's the whole society uh this whole societal morals decaying, and along with that is men and female, and I mean that's a problem in itself right there, not not holding ourselves to a higher standard.
	Um and this whole the whole Title IX, the whole all this has I mean it it's all has to do with the same thing.
	Yeah, well, uh but do you agree with Whitlock's Take or not.
	Well, I agree with it, yeah.
	I don't agree with what's happening.
	I mean, I can see it happening, though.
	Yeah, but I don't think he does either.
	But but his way of making that point is uh simply saying, hey, I mean, we ask for this.
	We want gender equality, we better mean it.
	Gender equality means gender equality, like illegal immigrant means immigrant.
	No, take that back.
	Gender equality equals gender equality.
	Why would you expect inequality when you want gender equality?
	He's in essence saying, okay, babes, okay, ladies, okay, guys.
	Those of you who felt we had to do this for equality, shut up because this is what you get when you ask for it.
	Hi, welcome back.
	Great to have you, the EIB network.
	Look, uh for those of you upset out there that the president's poll numbers are what they are, in one sense, they're not actually somewhat normal for second-term presidencies.
	Uh actually pretty common.
	But beyond that, if you're worried about the president's numbers going down and you're worried about why it's happening, conservatives aren't supporting him.
	Let me tell you, if you want conservative support, you be conservative.
	Well, why why is it up to conservatives to support things that aren't conservative?
	Just in order to prop up an administration.
	What do we have to do then for?
	Well, Russia's gonna beat the Democrats.
	You beat the Democrats by being conservative.
	Not by putting up a bunch of moderate pretenders like McCain and some of these other people in the august United States Senate.
	If you want conservative support, be conservative.
	It's not that complicated.
	You know, like the my friend in Southern California with whom uh I've told the story about the big time TV star on this discussion arguments over immigration, just sent me a joke.
	I don't normally do this, but I'm gonna read the joke because I thought it was funny.
	The Indian in the bull.
	An Indian walks into a cafe with a shotgun in one hand, pulling a male buffalo with the other hand, says to the waiter, I want coffee.
	Waiter says, Sure, chief, coming right up.
	Gets the Indian a tall mug of coffee, Indian drinks the coffee down to one gulp, turns and blasts the buffalo with the shotgun, causing parts of the animal to splatter everywhere, and then he just walks out.
	The next morning the Indian returns.
	He has his shotgun in one hand, pulling another male buffalo with the other hand.
	Walks up to the counter, says to the waiter, want coffee.
	Waiter says, Whoa, Tonto, we're still cleaning up your mess from yesterday.
	What was that all about, anyway?
	Indian smiles and proudly said, training for position in United States Congress.
	Come in, drink coffee, shoot the bull, leave mess for others to clean up, disappear for the rest of the day.
	Especially applicable uh to today.
	Here is uh Margie in Atlanta.
	Hi, Margie.
	Great to have you on the EIB network.
	Hi, Russ.
	It's great to be talking with you.
	I love your show.
	I've been listening for about since the the last of the eighties when you were on TV still.
	And what I wanted to ask you about today is what do you think about Daniel Ortego leading uh as far as the voters are uh uh and and the polls are leading in Nicaragua and also the fact that Chavez is in Venezuela.
	Do you think the left is are the communist and which you think the left is.
	I do.
	What we haven't spoken about this in great detail.
	I I don't know what that election in uh Nicaragua's gonna end up being, but uh uh Danny sunglasses on Manhattan Ortega uh is leading in the polls.
	Uh uh he's been he's been cowering in the jungle out there waiting for his opportune moment to return.
	He probably got support from Hollywood and others uh as he tries to revive his leftist Santa Nista movement.
	Hugo Chavez in Venezuela ponying up to Castro, the Chinese getting in bed with both of them.
	Uh Bolivia just nationalized the uh uh natural gas fields down there, and they also are just starting to seize property.
	The Bolivians have said uh we're gonna seize property, except that property which is productive.
	If you're come if you're if your property is productive, meaning agriculturally and so forth, you can keep it, but they get to they get to design and define what's productive.
	Uh there is a a clear socialist Marxist movement building in Latin and South America.
	There's there's really no question about it, uh, And that is our hemisphere.
	And it could be said that we're in the process of losing the hemisphere.
	You got the Chinese.
	They're going to start drilling for oil 75 miles off of Key West with the Cubans, with Castro.
	And meanwhile, our House of Representatives proudly votes down offshore drilling.
	Again, we haven't been able to drill for 25 years.
	These people complain and whine and moan about high gas prices, blame big oil, blame oil execs, and whine and moan about gouging the windfall profits when these when the gas prices go up, and yet I don't want to hear another word from them about it.
	So all these things combined with, you know, we're paying a lot of attention to the Middle East, but yeah, I think it's it's a dangerous set of events and circumstances that are unfolding down in uh uh Central America, Latin America.
	Castro's never had an election.
	Uh what's his face?
	Hugo Chavez did have one election.
	Now he's trying to anoint himself president for life.
	Um and nationalize the oil business down there as well.
	So I don't know.
	I uh it it's a dangerous world.
	We are a great nation at great risk in a dangerous world.
	And once again, uh Margie, if you look around and and do a little recent history, you'll find that these dictators in Latin America are almost heroic to uh swaths of the American population.
	The American left love these guys.
	Castro is loved and it's told uh we're told that he's got the greatest health care system in the world, but none of these liberals ever send their kids down there when they get sick.
	Um Chavez also lining up with Iran and uh and North Korea, and he's he's just he's he's almost Mahmood Jr.
	This guy's threatening uh to wipe us out if we attack, and he's trying to get his people to believe that we're gonna we're planning an invasion.
	Uh so uh it clearly there's some unstable madmen that are uh running the world.
	But you know something?
	There is a success story too.
	And I haven't talked about this week, but I want I want to try to uh to bring this up here because uh it's not a whole lot is being said about it.
	But Libya.
	One of the things that we're doing with Libya right now, we're we're gonna have normalized relations.
	Qaddafi, shortly after Saddam fell, Qaddafi, if you'll recall, broke off relations with A.Q. Khan.
	They were trying to develop a nuclear strategy for Libya.
	Qaddafi basically uh gave it all up because it was clear he feared U.S. action, similar to what happened in Iraq.
	Uh and now we're we're trying to normalize relations, and I'll tell you what I think this is about.
	It's just uh, I mean, it's a wild guess here, even though I know there are some people who postulate this.
	But I think if we can get together with Libya and work with them to increase their oil output, and they do have oil, uh, then we could come into a uh uh strategic relationship with them over the supply of oil to sort of uh cushion the uh stressful relations we have with other nations that supply our oil, such as Venezuela, uh and even the uh even the Saudis.
	So uh there's a success story that's not being talked about much, and it was it without even, you know, we didn't fire shot in Libya.
	It was just the illustration of our following through on a commitment based on a uh principle that we had.
	Uh there might be some other factors involved in it, but but but Qaddafi clearly said no mask no mas and laid down.
	And I know that there are there are people in our government attempting to foment now a very strong diplomatic relationship, and I wouldn't doubt for a moment that oil is one of the uh primary reasons why.
	I had this story yesterday, this next story, and I didn't get to it.
	But it is just amazing.
	It's from Baltimore.
	Baltimore City Police arrested a Virginia couple over the weekend after they asked a cop for directions.
	Channel 11 in uh in Baltimore, a reporter David Collins said that Joshua Kelly and Lara Brooke of Shantilly, Virginia, got lost leaving a Baltimore Orioles game last Saturday.
	So the reporter, uh Collins reported that a city police officer arrested them for trespassing on a public street while they were asking for directions.
	And they were sent to jail for eight hours.
	Joshua Kelly said that he was sleeping on a concrete floor next to a toilet in jail for eight hours.
	It was a nightmare.
	I was in there thinking I was just dreaming and waiting to wake up.
	Now the reporter reported it was a nightmare ending to a nearly perfect day.
	He said the couple went to a company picnic, watched the Orioles beat the Kansas City Royals.
	It was their first trip to Camden Yards, and they asked two people for directions to I-95 South when they left the ballpark.
	The reporter said that somehow they ended up in the Cherry Hill section of South Baltimore.
	They were hopelessly lost.
	Relief melted away concerns after they spotted a police car.
	I said, Thank goodness, can you please get us to I-95?
	Kelly asked the cop.
	Well, the first thing she said to us was, no, you just ran that stop sign.
	Pull over.
	It wasn't a big deal.
	We'll pay the stop sign violation, but can we have directions to I-95 South?
	What she said was, You found your own way in here.
	You can find your way out.
	That's what the cop told this couple.
	Collins, the reporter, said the couple spotted another cop car and flagged that officer down for directions.
	But officer Natalie Preston, a six-year veteran of the force, intervened.
	That really threw us for a loop when she stepped in between our cars, Kelly said.
	She said, My partner's not going to step in front of me and tell you directions if I'm not going to tell you directions.
	Collins reported the circumstances got worse.
	Kelly pulled 40 feet forward, parking next to a curb, put his flashes on while Brooke was on the phone to her father, hoping he could help her with directions.
	Both her parents are police officers in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
	Brooke's father was in the middle of giving us directions when the officer screeched up behind us, got out of the car, and asked me to step out.
	I obeyed, Kelly said.
	I obeyed everything.
	I stepped out of the car, put my hands behind my back.
	Next thing I know, I'm getting arrested for trespassing.
	Girlfriend said by the time I this time I was completely in tears.
	I said, ma'am, you know, we just need your help.
	We're just we're not trying to cause you any trouble.
	I'm not leaving him here.
	What she did was walk over to my side of the car and said, okay, we're taking you downtown too.
	Collins said the couple was released from jail without being charged with anything.
	Brooke is now concerned the arrest may complicate a criminal background check that she's going through in her job as a child care worker.
	Collins said the police left Kelly's car unlocked and the windows down at the impound lot, reported that a cell phone, a charger, a pair of sunglasses, and 20 CDs were stolen.
	Baltimore cops said they're looking into the incident.
	Have you ever heard anything like this?
	This doesn't tick you off what you couple.
	There's got to be something we don't know here.
	Did this guy?
	What trespassing?
	They all they want is directions.
	Uh it's strange day.
	Quick.
	The female police officer was having a bad day.
	She was having a bad day.
	Is that code?
	When you say she was having a bad day, is that code, Mr. Snerdley for something else?
	Okay, she had a bad day, French.
	Figure it out.
	Back in just a second.
	Winding down precious broadcast moments dwindling away for this exciting week in the EIB network.
	We'll be in New York on Monday.
	Uh, ladies and gentlemen, and off next Tuesday, another charity event that I long ago committed to happily.
	And then back at the EIB Southern Command Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of uh of next week.
	Now look at this.
	An overturned tanker shuts down the Moss Turnpike.
	Uh When are we going to ban these tankers?
	Hell, we can't drill for oil anymore.
	Why can we transport gas on the highways?
	Dumb.
	Bell South.
	Yes.
	Bell South on Thursday demanded that USA Today retract claims in a story that said that the company had a contract with a U.S. spy agency and turned over customers' telephone records.
	By the way, the uh the investigative journalists at the newsbusters.org, a uh website of the Media Research Center's uh uh uh uh investigative arm.
	They found that the re the USA Today InfoBabe, the reporter at uh what's her name, Closse?
	Closy Causey, whatever, Clarissa Laurie, whatever.
	Anyway, she's a she's a donor to the Gephardt for President campaign.
	She gave two grand in 19 uh 2003 to Gephardt's presidential campaign.
	So she's she's you could say that the reporter for USA Today that dug up this bogus story, which is just a rehash of what was in the New York Times four months earlier anyway, has links to a democratic presidential campaign.
	That's the way the left does it.
	She has links to a Democratic presidential campaign.
	It bombed out, it didn't go anywhere.
	She's uh lives in Brooklyn, according to donor records that you can look up on the internet if you know where you're uh looking.
	So anyway, USA Today uh is uh being demanded to retract the claims.
	Of course, you must say, well, you know, they haven't proven our story is not true.
	They're just denying it.
	It's like Dan Rather.
	Nobody's proved that story was not Dan, the documents were for it.
	Oh, it doesn't matter.
	Nobody's proved that our allegations are false.
	It's a sick world out there.
	You know what?
	You know why there are journalism schools?
	Because standard education would correct what's wrong in journalism schools.
	If you get a good history education, good English education, good writing education, if you are diffic overall education, and you can write.
	You don't need a journalism school.
	If it weren't for journalism schools churning out formulaic liberalism as journalism, we wouldn't be having the problems with the drive-by media that we've got.
	Just close journalism schools.
	They're a bunch of arrogant condescending institutions anyway.
	Speaking of that, our affiliate in Raleigh Durham, North Carolina is WPTF.
	And they have a guy named Kevin Miller.
	And he helps the drive-by media, the networks, when they go into Durham to do their expose and stories on the rape case.
	And uh he's got this interesting little quote in the uh Raleigh News and Observer today in the Fox News tent, WPTF's Kevin Miller lending his local insight.
	Yeah, I do a lot of work on background for the networks to help them out.
	Because a lot of them come on and it's like Rush Limbaugh says it's the drive-by media.
	Essentially, they don't know what they're talking about.
	They show up, look for the easiest angle to blow something up, shake it up, and this guy says, No, no, no, no, no.
	You're not you're missing what's really the context is.
	That's what he's doing, and he has seen it in action now, recognizes that it is the drive-by media.
	As I said earlier, uh, ladies and gentlemen, big election tomorrow in New Orleans.
	Um it's a democratic runoff between Ray Nagan and Mitch Landrew.
	We're gonna find out just how smart the people of New Orleans are.
	Uh we'll find out if the voters of New Orleans actually want to give school busnaged another shot at leading New Orleans.
	Because uh it'll it'll it'll be quite telling uh if if they do.
	Uh I mean it's it's I don't want to say too much here because the power of this program, I could impact the election.
	And uh it's none of my business.
	But I just want I'm gonna be watching the results with a keen eye.
	Uh uh what I look at.
	Snerdley says, well, who would I prefer?
	What a choice you get a Landrew or a Nagan.
	Uh it's a Democrat Ryan Ronoff, of course.
	That's a the that's it's but one of them's got a track record for crying out loud.
	Uh one of his supporters actually said uh recently that the reason the buses weren't used to get people out of there after Hurricane Katrina is that the mayor was suffering post-traumatic stress disorder, some such thing.
	Uh I admit it's not it's not the best choice for the people of New Orleans, but we'll just we'll know a lot, folks.
	We'll know a whole lot when this election's over, when the results are Leslie Cauley, the USA Today reporter on the uh NSA story who contributed a couple grand to the Gephardt for President campaign in 03.
	Back in a moment.
	Yeah, it's true.
	Good point.
	Negan versus Landrew is like trying to decide whether you should leave your little girl with Bill Clinton or Ted Kennedy for the weekend.
	Have a good weekend, folks, and we will see you Monday.

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