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July 7, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 7, 2006, Friday, Hour #2
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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, which has made me, your host, a huge target everywhere in this country.
And that's just fine.
Keep the salvos coming.
It's Open Line Friday.
Let's roll.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
That's right.
And when we go to the phones, the show is all yours, meaning you can bring up whatever you want to bring up.
Talk about whatever you want to talk about.
It's not the case Monday through Thursday, but it is on Friday.
It's some say a huge career risk that I take, allowing rank amateurs so much control over the program.
I wouldn't say it's a career risk.
It may be a show risk.
But nevertheless, we deal with it because you people are good, even though you might be rank amateurs.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882 and the email address rush at EIBnet.com.
Bob Mulholland, senior advisor to Democratic nominee Phil Angelitis, aims for controversy this morning, saying with North Korea leader Kim Jong-il back in the news, it reminds me that he and Schwarzenegger have something in common.
Both have their shoes specifically made to add a couple inches of lift.
What we don't know is, does Kim Jong-il have his shoes made by Schwarzenegger's shoemaker in Italy?
Hillary is hosting a fundraiser for Angelitis today in San Francisco.
Now, you may have forgotten this, but in 2003, Bob Mulholland warned Arnold Schwarzenegger that, quote, real bullets will be coming his way during his campaign to be governor.
Remember that?
Schwarzenegger's going to find out that unlike a Hollywood movie set, the bullets coming at him in this campaign are going to be real bullets, and he is going to have to respond to them, warned Mulholland.
People are off the cliff now, folks.
They've gone over the edge.
They really have.
They're plummeting into the abyss.
They don't even know it.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned today that continued Israeli strikes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip could lead to an explosion in the Islamic world that would target Israel and its supporters in the West.
Ahmadinezad questioned Israel's right to exist again.
He said, this is a fake regime.
It won't be able to survive.
I think the only way forward is that those who created it, the West, take it away themselves.
The president told a rally in Tehran to support the Palestinians.
Now, what he means by that, I read there was a really long interview of this guy in Der Spiegel back in May, and he just, I mean, he's obviously anti-Semitic, hates Jews, hates Israel, and wants it not to exist.
But his main point is, is that, hey, we didn't do anything to the Jews in the Holocaust.
The Europeans did.
Put Israel in Europe.
Bring the Jews back there.
If you want to make amends, put them up there.
We don't want them here.
That's his theory.
But he keeps talking about blowing up Israel.
What's the oil price up?
It's over $75 now.
This guy is, along with the speculators, is manipulating the oil price quite artfully, I would say.
Another soundbite here from the President Bush press conference today in Chicago, the Museum of Science and Industry.
This is the one that Snerdley has recommended.
So we'll see how good a producer Snerdley is.
This is Suzanne Malvo of CNN talking to the president.
Why shouldn't Americans see the U.S. policy regarding North Korea as a failed one?
Because it's time to get things done.
What objectives has the U.S. government achieved when it comes to North Korea, and why does the administration continue to go back to the same platform process if it's not effective in changing North Korea's behavior?
Suzanne, these problems didn't arise overnight, and they don't get solved overnight.
It takes a while.
Again, I think if you look at the history of the North Korean weapon program, it started probably in the 80s.
We don't know.
Maybe you know more than I do about increasing the number of nuclear weapons.
My view is we ought to treat North Korea as a danger.
Take them seriously.
No question that he has signed agreements and didn't stick by them.
But that was done when we had bilateral negotiations with him.
And it's done during the six-party talks.
You asked what we've done?
We've created a framework that will be successful.
My judgment is you can't be successful if the United States is sitting at the table alone with North Korea.
You run out of options very quickly, if that's the case.
Which leads us, okay, if the president says, well, we can't succeed if we're alone at the table with North Korea, what does that mean?
Interesting call with a theory on that.
Let's go to Cincinnati.
David, thank you for waiting.
I appreciate it.
So welcome to the program.
Muchos titos, El Rushbo.
Thank you, sir.
Muchos Gracias.
Illegal immigration capital of southwestern Ohio.
What's your theory on this North Korea business?
El Rushbo, my theory is just this.
The West, particularly the United States, has been at war with Russia and the Soviet Union since the end of World War II.
This is not about the dog-eating little pot-bellied dictator, yes.
Thank you, of North Korea or Ahmadinejan and the Syrian terror alliance.
This is about the Sino-Ruski conspiracy against the United States that has been going on since, I said, the end of World War II.
We cannot, an economic boycott will not work as some consumerette tried a year ago by boycotting all Chinese-made products.
You found out how impossible it was.
The only thing the United States can do is to exploit the natural antipathy and paranoia between those two communists or former communist regimes, if you will, to our advantage.
Anytime the Chinese want to, as you well know, they can turn off the natural gas and oil and food spigots to North Korea, and they would die on the vine overnight.
They choose not to for their reasons, for the reasons I just articulated.
Well, I think, you know, there's an interesting piece today, Bill Goertz, Inside the Ring column in the Washington Times.
And this guy, Goertz, we've had him on this program before.
Goertz is wired.
He's got sources that the drive-by media are envious to the gills that he has, as jealous as they can be.
And as such, Goertz is not permitted in the club of the drive-by media.
When Goertz leaks something, they get all over him for leaking it.
They leak something, they're heroes, and they want Pulitzer Prizes.
Goertz's piece today says, Pentagon officials tell us that China's government failed utterly to come through on private pledges to the Bush administration to halt North Korea's missile tests.
Worst, some officials say, it's likely that Beijing deceived the U.S. about its efforts to dissuade North Korea from the apparent tests and that China may have tacitly backed the seven missile launches earlier this week.
One official told Goertz this demonstrates how impotent the Chinese are and the incredibly low level of influence they have over their North Korean brethren.
Well, I don't know.
It might mean that.
I happen to think here that David in Cincinnati is right.
I think the unstated secret, the big elephant in the room, anytime we start talking about North Korea and we want to go to the Security Council and we want to get a joint resolution condemning them and dealing with them, guess who it is that always steps up to oppose it?
The Chinese and the Russians.
Now, we are economically interlinked with both of these countries, but primarily China.
We are linked incredibly economically with them.
But there is a large school of thought that says China is preparing for war against us, that they're threatened by us, and that they would assume and hope that we would not be the lone superpower, and not by virtue of them becoming a superpower, but by reducing us as not being one.
In other words, they are our enemy.
And you know something, folks?
I'm just going to make a wild guess here, but remember when President Hu Jinto came here to have his meeting with the president, this was a diplomatic nightmare, in a sense, because the Chinese wanted an official state visit with a big-time state dinner, an official greeting of pomp and circumstance, the whole mess.
The White House didn't want that.
They wanted Hu Jintou to come to Crawford to go out and have talks while chopping logs.
And of course, Chinese didn't want any part of that.
So the compromise was to do this big pomp and circumstance arrival with a luncheon and the press conference.
You remember that the Fulan Gong woman interrupted the press conference, started shouting insults and pleas at President Bush saying, please stop him.
He's a murderer, so forth and so on.
This unprecedented.
These kinds of things with that kind of security, you know, somebody in the media gave her a credential and she got in there.
But you just know that the Chinese were seething over there.
I don't care what they said to Bush privately and how they assured him during the diplomatic channels afterwards.
You just know they were seething.
And they might have even suspected, because they are paranoid.
They might have suspected the whole thing was done on purpose.
Who knows?
It may have been, for all I know.
But the point is, Hu Jinto can go back to China and be all livid about this.
And for that reason alone, who knows, want to undermine any effort that we might make to stabilize North Korea.
But I think it's clear that China does not want to stabilize North Korea.
I think they want us distracted in places like Iran and North Korea.
And I think that's why China and North Korea and the Iranians have deals to exchange nuclear technology and so forth.
And Russia is in bed with the Iranians militarily in a number of ways as well.
It's lonely at the top, folks.
It's lonely at the top.
We're the big guys.
We think we're the good guys.
The other people don't.
We are a huge threat to them by virtue of our existence.
They have an impression of us that many liberals in this country have, and that is we want to wipe everybody out that's not like us.
And that's why we have nukes.
And they firmly believe this.
And that they're always standing in our way at the Security Council.
You can count on Russia and China when this situation, just like you can count on France and Germany when it came to the Iraqi situation.
When you go to that situation, you find that there were multi-level economic ties, even with the oil for food program and even some weapons of mass destruction between France and Germany.
So you can learn a lot, but I always say by following the money.
But in this case, with China and Russia, I think it probably is the elephant in the room.
The dirty little secret is those two countries really represent the huge, I don't know, threat, but that's with whom we are really at quote-unquote war in all of this.
And I think in Iraq, and I have said this, and I said this many years ago, I think Iraq is actually the first stages perhaps of war with Iran.
Not that that's going to happen, but those two are linked.
China, Russia are linked where it comes to North Korea.
We're just fortunate we have somebody that takes all this seriously and is willing to deal with it rather than appease and take steps that would weaken our position with all of these nations by giving in to their demands.
A quick timeout will be back like the Clintons did with North Korea and Kim Jong-il.
This is why they have a nuke in the first place.
Stay with us, folks.
And welcome back, El Rushbo, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have from the EIB Southern Command.
This is Scott in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing today?
Fine, sir.
Thank you very much.
Good.
I've been curious about your operation that you have over there for years.
But one thing in particular, several times throughout the week, you'll always say the first hour or the second hour of the program is on its way to the Museum of Broadcast Excellence by Armored Carrier.
Yes.
Why don't you just wait until the third hour is complete and send it all over at once?
Is it because you can't get enough insurance to carry the whole load or something?
What's up with that?
As soon as the product is completed, it is shipped out of here via Armored Courier to protect it.
We also back it up digitally on several servers.
You never know what's going to happen in this county from hour to hour.
And so we take every step possible to make sure that a completed product is saved for posterity in the archives.
I mean, to sit around here and wait for all three hours every day, you just never know.
It's a standard operating procedure.
All right, I just thought maybe you couldn't find an insurer to carry the whole three hours at once to me.
Oh, the insurance is not a problem.
The armored courier provides the insurance company.
They like the business.
I mean, I'm sure that they would go for just one trip a day, but it's just something I have learned over the course of many years in broadcasting.
There are several broadcasts and tapes that I've lost that don't exist or that weren't taped in the first one.
I'm talking not this show, but earlier on in my career.
And even some of the first couple years of this program are a couple of shows are missing, and it's because we didn't take steps on that day to preserve it.
So it's, and then this is, I'm telling you, this is classical historical stuff being produced on this program each and every day.
Yeah, but with gas prices and all these days, I figure three trips is just unbelievable.
You must be rolling into cash over there.
But thanks for the call anyway.
You know, it's a cost doing business.
Well, you know, it is what it is.
And besides, you know, when you're talking about paying your debt to history and endowing history, as it were, what's gasoline prices?
What are gasoline prices when we're talking about history?
I don't concern.
Yeah, I know what gas prices are.
I did.
I actually, you have to remind me of this.
I'm actually pretty proud of myself, folks.
I actually went to the gas station the other day myself because the staff screwed up and forgot to fill up the car.
And it only had three quarters of a tank, it had a half a tank in there.
And I have strict orders, never anything less than three quarters of a tank.
You never know when you have to make a big getaway and how far you're going to have to go.
And I can't, you know, it's risky for me to get out of a car anywhere, such as a gas station or whatever, to fill up.
And most of them don't have self-service.
Pulled into a gas station the other day, and the one that we always use, there's a self-serve pump there, two self-served pumps.
When I drove up, there was a sign.
This pump is, they're full-serve pump, rather.
There are two full-serve pumps.
And there was a sign that says, this pump is self-served today.
So I gulped.
I said, oh my gosh, what do I do now?
I got out and I looked at the pump and I saw the four different octanes.
I said, okay, I don't want the best and the highest.
And I saw instructions, what do you do?
I looked for the credit card slot.
There was no credit card slot.
Sign said, go inside and pay agent first.
It's okay.
Walked in there and I said, I want to fill it up and I'm going to pump whatever out there.
Is that your car?
Yes, and I want to fill it up.
Well, how much?
I said, I don't know how much it's going to be.
So I gave her $100 because the price at this pump was like $4.40 because it was the full-serve pump.
So after I filled it up and it came to about $64 with just half a tank.
And I said, okay, well, I went in and she counts out the change and I let her keep $30 of the change.
She stared at it.
This is for me.
I said, yeah, yeah.
And when I walked out, this is the real funny thing.
When I walked out, another car had pulled up to the full-serve pumps.
And there's a guy pumping gas in his car and washing the windshield.
And I walked up to him.
I said, I thought this was self-serve today.
He said, no, the sign's backward.
You pulled in in the wrong direction.
So I said, well, I did your job for you.
He said, yes, you did.
And I learned something in the process.
So I gave him the remainder of the change as a tip for having encroached on his job and so making him look useless and irrelevant.
So it all ended well.
It all ended well.
But I mean, the point is, the price of gas is the price of gas.
And when it comes to preserving this program for history and endowing history via the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum, gas prices will be of always secondary importance.
Staten Island, Jerry, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
Good day, sir.
How are you doing?
Just sir, Vincent, very well.
Okay, you had Schumer earlier complaining about how New York is not getting the funding for security.
Yeah.
Yet, because Blair Bloomberg's unrepentant policy of maintaining New York as a sanctuary city, you had him talking yesterday.
Yeah.
He's breaking federal law.
I'm sorry to say it because I'm a New Yorker, but we shouldn't get one penny of support until he does.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, breaking federal law by having New York as a sanctuary city?
Right.
Are we breaking immigration law like Los Angeles and Houston?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know what it is.
I hadn't looked at it that way.
You have a point.
Because Bloomberg did go out and say the city would crumble without the illegals and the slave laborers that we have here.
Right.
So Church should say, well, then fine.
We're not going to give you another penny.
Well, tell me that.
Yeah, we got no money.
I understand.
It's fun to ponder.
I love New Yorkers.
I do.
But the political reality of that, they would never give New York zilch.
Only certain people are ever really held accountable to the law, folks.
Ha!
How are you?
America's real anchor man with talent on loan from God.
Now, look, folks, I know what the House of Representatives is doing.
I know what the guy from Staten Island is talking about.
A House of Representatives working on a new bill or I guess it's a bill resolution that would ban all federal funding to any city that declares itself a sanctuary city.
Most of the sanctuary cities in the country are to be found on the left coast, like San Francisco and Santa Cruz.
And the sanctuary actually goes back to the days of the Nicaragua-Contra battle and the battles in El Salvador and so forth.
But today it would include terrorists and anybody else who wants to come in that's got a grievance against the United States.
They will be given sanctuary.
New York is one of those places because Bloomberg has declared it.
So the Republicans in the House coming up with this legislation to take away all funding.
Now, I don't want to strip you of any joy over the motion here, but it ain't going to happen.
My guess is it's a, and I hate to say this, but it's politics is politics.
I think it's a campaign year issue.
It is a way for members of the House to get footage of themselves proclaiming their support for this, have it in the congressional records on the campaign trail they can go out and say, I made sure that the sanctuary cities were going to be defunded and blah, blah, blah, blah.
But I guarantee you, if this ever gets out of the House and goes to the Senate, John McCain will use it as toilet paper.
George W. Bush would never sign this.
It isn't going to happen.
And as I said, I'm sorry to strip your joy from this, but it's political posturing, and I'm not afraid to admit that our guys do that.
It's sometimes clever politics when it comes time to being re-elected, which is the second most important thing a politician does.
First, is spend money.
And that's oriented toward getting re-elected.
Let's see, John in Bloomfield, New Jersey.
Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Afternoon.
I've been a listener since 1988 or 89.
By the way, congratulations on the budget deficit there, the budget crisis being solved, and the casinos opening up soon.
Congratulations on that.
Congratulations on the new sales tax.
Congratulations on the new property tax.
Great to be a New Jersey, right?
We're just perking right along here.
We're living large and loving life.
I was just wondering how many snerdleys have worked for the EIB network.
I think I can count three.
Three?
Who do you think?
What are the snerdlies that you remember?
Well, it seems to me there was a Bob.
No, there was never a Bob Snerdley.
Okay, there was a Hop Sing.
No, it was Chin Yang.
And, of course, Bo, who is supported.
Here are the Snerdley family's legion here at the EIB network.
The first one was Melva.
Melva Snerdley was the very first call screener of the EIB network 1988, August 1st, when we started the program.
Then there was Marvin Snerdley.
There was Mervyn Snerdley.
There was Melvin Snerdley.
And Chin Yang.
He was adopted.
Chin Yang Snerdley was adopted.
He was just an intern.
And, of course, the most famous of the Snerdleys is Bo, Bo Snerdley.
So there have been, what is that, five?
That's six.
So there have been six Snerdleys over the course of our almost 18 years here at the EIB network.
Well, they've been a great support group, and I hope they have gone on to bigger and better things.
Oh, everybody that leaves this program, and so few, so few people leave this program, John, because there is no bigger and better to go to.
Some have left and have discovered that.
They left trying to, I mean, there wasn't any place left here for them to go.
Most of the Snerdleys have been call screeners.
And after a while, you want to take the experience that you've learned and parlay it.
And some have gone on to, well, I don't even know some of the jobs.
What was it?
I think it was Mervyn who ended up carrying a camera for Inside Edition or some such thing.
In fact, I'll tell you a little story about Mervyn Snerdley was probably the most disrespectful and the most problematic snerdly that I have on the head on the staff.
No, he was not suspended.
Bo was suspended once for yelling at qualers, but no, and I think it was Mervyn.
But, you know, when I hate walking, if I despise it, I hate it, except when playing golf.
I literally hate it.
To walk for the sake of it is the biggest waste of time.
It is boring.
24.
If I go on a treadmill, which I tried this once and I don't do it anymore.
See, people said, well, just watch something you really like on television where the time flies and do that at a treadmill.
So fastest going show in my life is 24.
Zip, zip, zip, zip.
I felt like it took me two hours to watch the thing after being on the treadmill for 40 minutes.
I said, who needs this?
Well, it's been well known that I don't like to walk.
When I first got to New York, I leave the EIB building and head to the nearest corner and hail a cab or what have you.
And Mervyn said, let me give you a ride home.
Let me give you a ride home.
You don't need to mess around with cabs.
He said, where's your car park?
It's real close.
It's just a lot right across the street.
His lot was 12 blocks away.
It was a trick to get me to walk 12 blocks.
And it was not long after Mervyn was also the snerdly that we sent in the McDonald's to buy 200 Big Macs in Manhattan on 8th Avenue once the global warming environmental crap was going nuts over cow flatulence.
Anyway, that's recent history of the Snerdley family.
My Not North Dakota.
This is Brad, your next on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
I've been a huge fan of yours since I was in the sixth grade, like the guy on the report you played in the first hour.
My dad got you turned on to your TV show.
Thank you, sir.
So my question for you is, though, do you think that Al Gore will be championed as the person who educated us all when the global warming cycle, the global heating cycle cools down, everything balances back out and even starts to go through the cooling cycle?
Is he going to be the champion of the Democratic Party for enlightening us all?
I think he already is.
You think so?
I think, if I'm reading you right, I think Gore is already being heralded as the lone voice of reason on global warming.
Never mind the fact that scientists at MIT and British universities are saying, this is nonsense.
What Gore is saying is nonsense.
He's out there saying the guesswork is over.
The controversy is over.
It's time to act.
He's been showing this slideshow that says we got 10 years left for 20 years.
He may have been showing it for even longer.
By his own admission, he said this.
This slideshow that's in his movie, he created a long, long time ago.
You ought to read, you ought to go online and find your favorite local newspaper.
Go to the Florida Sun-Sentinel, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, go to the Palm Beach Post and just go to the letters to the editor and read what these.
I read one the other day.
Some guy wrote in, I forget which newspaper it was, but it was one of those two, and he was saying, we all need to see Al Gore's movie.
Members of Congress ought to be required to watch this and act on it.
Reading letters to the editor in a liberal community newspaper is like reading a liberal blog.
So I'm telling you that people already have anointed Gore as the hero on this and the lone spokesman.
And he will be championed as having educated us all.
And I guarantee you this.
Let's say that your hypothetical happens.
Let's say that in the next 10 years, there's an obvious change in the warming of the planet.
And I'm not even conceding that it's that great right now.
In fact, I read something the other day that says in the last four years, surface temperatures on average have not gone up.
They've gone down one-tenth of a degree Celsius.
If they're trending anywhere, they're trending down the last four years.
Gore talks about what global temperatures were 650,000 years ago.
What measurements did the people, what human, Cro-Magnon, Neanderthal, whatever they were, what measurements were they using to take temperatures?
And then where did they record those temperatures for Al Gore to go find them in the historical record?
To claim you know what the temperatures were 650,000 years ago, even if you do, what in the world was man doing back then to cause any fluctuation in them, as opposed to what man is supposedly doing, not man, Americans, supposedly doing today?
Bottom line is this: if there happens to be a noticeable, measurable reduction in global temperatures, rather than Al Gore being proved wrong, and rather than all of the global warming alarmists being proved wrong, what do you bet that the template for that story becomes, thanks to the consciousness raising of brave Americans like Al Gore and other scientists that want to get named,
the conclusion will be that enough citizens of the planet heard the warning and made adjustments.
We'll credit the 100,000 hybrids on the road.
We'll credit something that these guys supposedly caused to happen as the result or as the reason the temperature fell.
I'm telling you, this is etched in stone now.
So whatever happens, it's like, here, try this story.
Where's this from?
I think this is Reuters, AP, not sure which wildfires may be linked to global warming.
Of course, they are.
Of course they are.
What isn't?
The increase in the number of large Western wildfires in recent years may be a result of global warming, researchers say.
An analysis of data going back to 1970 indicates the fires increased suddenly and dramatically in the 1980s.
Reagan.
And the wildfire season grew longer, according to scientists in Arizona and California.
The increase in large wildfires appears to be another part of a chain of reactions to climate warming, said Dan Kahan, co-author of the paper, director of the climate research division at Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
He said that while part of the increase may be attributed to natural fluctuations, maybe, evidence also links it to the effects of human-induced climate warning.
The scientists have been increasingly concerned in recent years about the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels.
Ladies and gentlemen, yeah, this whole story, there is not one mention, not one of the asinine, stupid environmentalist wacko-inspired laws that prevent us from harvesting forests and getting rid of the underbrush and the dead tender.
It becomes these forests, because you can't go in there, you can't clear them, you can't do anything anymore.
They become natural kindling for lightning strikes.
Are we going to actually say that lightning strikes are a result of global warming since when did we not have lightning?
We wouldn't want to give away the real reason we have more fires, would we?
The real reason we have more fires is environmentalist wackos whining that we're destroying all the trees, and so we can't go in there and get rid of the underbrush that's dead and just serves as kindling.
So now nature does it.
Fire goes in there, takes out the dead forests, and they get to blame it on the new deity of their religion, global warming.
But they're not fooling us.
Back after this, stay with us.
Y'all.
Y'all.
Old buddy Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top, never did send those custom bumps, he promised me.
800 2822882.
We forgot a Snerdley.
We forgot Mario.
Mario Snerdley, there were seven Snerdlies.
It was Mario who tricked me into walking all those blocks to get to his stupid, beat-up jalopy car to take me home.
Mario Snerdly, the biggest provocateur of the Snerdleys.
And in fact, it was Mario Snerdley.
I'm going to unburden myself as something because I have taken the heat for this for I don't know how long, and I've always been at Ethereum.
I'm the guy at the top, and so I will take the heat.
When somebody in my organization makes a mistake, it's mine, and I'll take the heat.
And I, I, you know, I'm really, I'm not being chintzy about this because I actually did it, so it ultimately is my responsibility.
But some of you may remember back, I guess it was 1989 or 90, where we required for a period of time, any woman, any female calling the program had to have a photo on file.
That was Mario Snerdley's idea.
And, well, it was a lot of fun, and there was tremendous response to it.
Dawn's in there shaking her head.
I know how you women in the audience react to this.
Well, it went over with some women, but got me, you know, well, some pictures are quite interesting.
Those on the rocks out in Carmel Bay.
But nevertheless, I remember one night we went into Bimmelman's, which is the bar at the Cafe Carlisle, a Carlisle Hotel in New York.
And they had some singer in there singing with a piano player playing and was in there with my sister-in-law, my brother, before he was homeless.
And that's how CBS still wanders around town in Cape Girard.
At any rate, my sister-in-law, and there was another couple, and so the two women just started berating me over this.
Why would you taking it personally?
I said, Well, I've never asked for your picture.
And they just thought it was cheapening and horrible and terrible.
And finally, we had to suspend it.
The pressure just got pretty, pretty, it was just, you know, fun, young, guy on the prowl kind of thing to do.
Snerdley still wants it done.
But no, we've moved beyond that.
But it was Mario Snerdley's idea.
That's the point.
Kathy and Peoria, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Dude, that was Rush.
I started watching 24 on your recommendation, and I was really delighted when I saw that they got 12 Emmy nominations.
I started looking for all the Emmy news, which I never have looked at ever before.
I started looking online, and online I see, you know, the other winners, or the other nominees, I should say, 24 win.
And they were always listed first, even though they got fewer nominations than 24.
And so I started looking at other websites, and it was across the board.
Everywhere they mentioned the other nominees instead of 24.
And I started watching some of the TV coverage on it.
Same thing.
They blew off 24 like it was nothing and kind of went on to the other ones.
You know, you're the second person that has mentioned that to me.
I myself did what you did when I saw that they got 12 Emmys.
I couldn't have cared less in the past, but Emmy nominations.
I mean, I think that's a business that takes itself way too seriously, but a lot of businesses do.
But there was a Boston Globe review today.
Most of what I'm seeing is that the experts, the television entertainment writers, don't like the new process that was somehow used to help underdogs get nominated.
But I haven't seen any direct hits at 24 for being nominated, nor at any of the actors, Greg Itson and Gene Smart and Kiefer Sutherland.
So I haven't seen it the way you're seeing it.
And I was on the lookout for it, too, by the way.
I don't think where they list the nominees in the stories has anything with personal preference on the part of the journalists in this case.
Got to run here because of time.
Folks, I've been saving this news so as to disappoint you as little as possible.
I will not be here next week.
I am going on vacation.
Sorry.
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