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July 31, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 31, 2006, Monday, Hour #2
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Well, that tears it, folks.
I don't know.
It was bad enough.
It was bad enough seeing these pictures of the dead women and children in Khanna, but now CNN's out there showing pictures of wounded cats.
Barely alive, struggling to get to the food dish.
Now the Israelis are killing cats.
And that tears it for me.
It may be time to endorse the Hezbows in this.
I kid you not.
I kid you not.
The pictures were.
If you're watching on the Ditto Cam and you saw me go nuts here about two minutes ago, that's what I was going nuts over.
Uh well, looking at this.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back, folks.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
Brand new week of broadcast excellence from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I, of course, America's real anchor man.
We don't seem to be able to get off this story.
It just keeps offering um actually a lot of life lessons in this story.
A lot of life lessons in a lot of things, uh, but but this is maybe a real, real life lesson in terms of uh survivability in life as we know it.
No time soon, but it's gonna have to be dealt with at some point, and it's tough.
You gotta think of it this way.
I want you people to think of it in these terms.
It is tough to wage war against an enemy who considers the death of their own children a victory.
Uh that's if if that's maybe we need to keep letting them win.
If that's how they define victory, because they're the ones killing them.
They're the ones putting them in harm's way.
On purpose, the express purpose of generating the photos that uh uh well I've asked you to go look at it, the link I've posted on my website, www.rushlimbaugh.com.
By the way, the Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. Olmert, said that there will be no ceasefire, adding that Israel is continuing to fight.
Well, that's good as far as it goes, but there are some people worried that Israel isn't fighting as Israel can as Israel used to.
Mr. Olmert, no doubt a fine man, but he's a lawyer.
Uh is a liberal, and he doesn't have any military experience, and he's overruling a lot of the IDF generals who want to do far more than is being done.
Yes, he is.
He's overruling them.
Uh they they want to go in a much more concerted force on the uh with concerted force, concentrated force on the ground, and that is being overruled in the office of the uh prime minister.
I just got a um a little note here from Michael Adine, who writes at National Review Online.
He's also a scholar at that uh well, he is a think tank himself.
Well, whether he works at some think tank, I he does, I just can't remember which one.
I wanna I wanted to read you a couple excerpts of this.
Uh starts out by talking about, you know, this all seems like the 1930s, and much of this resonates with me because we have discussed it on this program how history is uh repeating itself.
Then he says, Scary thing about our current jam is that 9-11 was supposed to have been the wake-up call, but we're again asleep.
And for this I blame our leaders, both the administration and the Democrats.
The administration's constitutionally unable to explain itself.
The Democrats have no qualms about losing all present battles, so long as they can elect their candidates and bring down this president.
So far so good, that dovetails with what's happened on this uh what's been said here on this program.
The greatest failure of our leaders, with rare exceptions, is their refusal to see the war plane, which means that Iran and Syria, we may as well call them Saran, uh, since they operate in tandem with Tehran pushing most of the buttons.
It was never possible to win in Iraq so long as we insisted on fighting in Iraq alone.
It can't win a regional war by playing defense in one country.
It was and remains a suckers game.
Siran pays no price at all for killing our soldiers and our allies in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now in Gaza and Lebanon, Israel.
And they're not.
They're getting away with it, they're suffering not at all.
There's no human suffering going on in Iran, and no human suffering going on in Syria.
Everybody else is dying for them or because of them.
Now, Siran reasonably concluded that there was no price to pay for killing us, so they predictably expanded the scope of the wall.
Our leaders don't see this whole.
They see each component as a separate issue.
We gotta deal with Basher Assad here in Syria, and we gotta deal with the Iranians on their nukes, and we gotta deal with the Israelis and Hesb.
They don't see the whole picture.
Or if they do, they don't admit that they see it to us.
And they don't share with us any kind of a strategery to deal with the whole picture if they see it.
They see Iranian revolutionary guards officers at work in Lebanon and Iraq.
They know the best weapons of the war come through Saran, and in many cases are manufactured by Saran.
Any logical person has to conclude that you can't win this war without defeating Saran.
But not a single voice comes from the White House to explain this, let alone to craft a strategy to accomplish it.
The best foreign policy speech in a long time was made two weeks ago by Senator Santorum, and yet his relatively modest bill to support freedom for the Iranian people has been vigorously contested and systematically blocked by Secretary of State Rice and Senator Richard Luger.
Meanwhile, a collection of frauds, writing in places like Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, and Mother Jones continuously recycles a story saying that a neocon conspiracy, uh again, code word for Jewish there, a neocon conspiracy duped Bush into going to war in Iraq and is now arranging the invasion of Iran.
Documented lies like those peddled by Joe Wilson to New York Times columnist Nicholas Christoph are treated as reliable.
Fantasies about American armed forces operating covertly in Iran, like those written by Seymour Hirsch, get taken seriously.
And people like me are accused of masterminding the whole thing, Michael Adine writing here, even though I oppose a military campaign against Iran.
No one can doubt that this is a willful disinformation campaign aimed at paralyzing and then destroying the president.
That's what this is all about.
That is what this is all about.
Been telling you this for I don't know how long.
They will wreck this country in order to get rid and and destroy George W. Bush.
And then they'll fix whatever mess that they create afterwards.
Problem is the mess that they are making in the process of this is not one they are capable of fixing, my friends.
Because they especially don't see the enemy as the enemy.
And they see themselves as able to reach out in negotiations and dialogue and actually talk to them.
Alternately a cowboy, then a frat boy, then a then a Machiavellian figure.
Why he can't do it.
He's too stupid or too blockheaded, or what have you.
Only they can do it.
So the Democratic Party and the drive-by media and the world media's desire to destroy George W. Bush is catching every American ally in that net.
Now, Ladine continues, I don't think the people in the White House have ever fully appreciated their peril.
I think that lack of understanding goes hand in hand with the failure in strategic vision that underlies our unwillingness to fight the regional war that's being waged against us.
It is the 30s again.
Many of the statements above apply to Franklin Roosevelt's first two administrations and to the political atmosphere of those dreadful years.
Then, too, the mounting power of what became the Axis was ignored.
As my father often reminded me a few months before Pearl Harbor, at a time when Nazi armies were long since on the march.
The draft passed by a single vote.
Apologist for Hitler and Mussolini were legion.
Some of our leading intellectuals were saying that American democratic capitalism was a failure, and we would do well to emulate the European totalitarians.
So I don't see this moment as something unique.
The result of some inner rot or a moment on a greased skid leading to the abyss.
It's one of the many things we are, but we are many things, and we are not like the Europeans, many of whom are reviving their anti-Semitic fantasies in order to cope with their weakness and irrelevance.
So perhaps he says we won't wake up until we have another Pearl Harbor.
Looks to me like the American people would support it.
I don't yet see the necessary vision and will from our leaders.
It does raise an interesting question.
You and I sit here, those of us in this audience, you and I, I love what Ronald Reagan used to always used to include the audience in the American.
You and I have a rendezvous with Destiny.
Well, we do.
You and I have a rendezvous rendezvous with Destiny.
We know full well who sponsors this current bunch of Hezbows in Southern Lebanon.
We we know that Iran and Syria are the uh the the originators and the and they they pose the big threat here.
Iraq doesn't anymore.
Iraq did, but Iraq's been sidelined.
And I want to draw you another comparison here.
And I made this comparison before, but this would be timely time to remind it.
I remind you of it.
Put Iraq and Iran side by side.
Of the two, which one still poses a threat to the region and to the United States?
Iran.
How have we been dealing with Iran over the last well, since 1979, so 27 years.
Negotiation.
United Nations, dialogue, resolutions from the IAEA and the UN.
European Union, they say we'll handle the Iranian nuclear situation.
Don't worry about it, we'll deal with it.
Bombed out.
On the other side, we have removed Iraq as a threat to ourselves and to the region.
Iraq cannot support the Hezbos if they want to, which Saddam was doing.
Saddam was supporting families who blew up their own kids in these uh homicide bomb attacks.
It's not happening anymore.
So and we didn't, you know, after a while we gave up on the negotiation route, the diplomatic route in Iraq say, okay, we're going to deal with this ourselves.
Aftermath of 9-11, still clear and fresh on everybody's mind.
So you gotta run side by side with Iraq.
What looks to you to be the best way to have dealt with those two countries?
Which one still remains the threat?
And yet, as Ladine points out, we really don't hear anybody in this country voice this, either at the United Nations or to the American people.
We only hear about Iran in the context of nukes.
We hear commentators and occasionally somebody uh some level in the administration talking about, yeah, we know that the Iranians are funding the uh Hezbows and so forth.
But in terms of official proclamations within the whole construct of the war on terror, we never hear from our leaders exactly what this is about.
Which is why I said earlier, maybe I was a fool to take them seriously when they declared a war on terror.
Maybe I was an idiot.
I don't know, but I believed them.
And because I believed them, it's why I look at what's going on now with question marks all over the place.
I must take a brief time out, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh Michael Adine with the American Enterprise Institute, uh, by the way, for clarification's sake.
Thank you, Mr. Snurdley.
Great research there.
Would that take you?
Five seconds, back in just a second.
Don't go away.
Just got this, and I'm not able to study it, and really made a whole lot of sense out of it, because it's about it's a Pew survey on who watches television and uh what the partisan political split of various TV show audiences is and all that.
You get down to what's a pew P U, PEW, uh uh survey of of this stuff.
You get down to one section, who's got smartest, who has the most knowledgeable audience.
And on television, and just listen to what this says.
On television, it's the O'Reilly factor, has the most knowledgeable audience, twenty-seven percent of the audience are college grads, which match matches the national average.
But but only three audiences in the Pew survey scored higher on high knowledge than O'Reilly and his factor TV show, regular readers of the New Yorker and the Atlantic, regular Rush limbaugh listeners, and regular weekly standard New Republic readers.
I don't know if there's anybody above that.
I I don't have that because radio and this stuff is not part of the survey, uh, at least in the website that I'm reading this from.
But I have always known it.
I have always known that you people are among the most knowledgeable, engaged, informed, and and educated people uh listening to any media in in the country today.
And uh I think I can't I I think I've found documented evidence of it here from from Pew, but it's just a little aside in a story about television audiences, so I'm not really aware of all the full details, and at some point when I have time to go look it up, I'll do so.
Here is Donna, Southampton in New York on the um on a long island.
Welcome.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Rush, it is an honor to speak with you.
I've started listening in two thousand and three.
I was a convert from NPR, and I've never looked back.
I and I totally agree with Pugh.
Well, yeah, because you I agree with them too.
My uh my actually not my question, but my comment is that I have a deep concern that I see Israel um in in recent days operating uh unlike the Israel of old.
Uh typically they're willing always to spend their treasure, but not willing now to s uh to spend the blood of their soldiers, and I think this lack of resolve when they come up against a the enemies that uh that are always there in front of them are are going to undermine any success that they can have in any uh and any real opportunity to live in peace going forward, any any kind of peace.
Uh I just think that they made a very poor tactical error.
Well, there c a lot of people are thinking as you were thinking.
Uh a lot of people are wondering where is the Israel of old.
A couple of factors here, though, that you have to you have to remember.
In the first place, everybody was stunned at the level of armaments and sophistication of armaments that the Hezbows have.
Uh and so the Israelis are really questioning their intelligence right.
I I I will bet you behind the scenes, whoever runs the Israeli intelligence agencies are being grilled by whoever they report to.
Uh the Israelis look at intelligence far differently than we do.
We've got half the country here who wants to suspend all intelligence operations because it's been characterized as Bush spying on the American people.
We've got the Democratic Party literally trying to shut down various uh uh avenues that we have to try to find out when the next attack on this country is going to be or on any of our allies.
Second thing is um the Israeli Prime Minister is he's a lawyer and he's he's liberal and he's not he's not got a military background.
And he he he is not he's not uh uh associated with a with a with an Israeli military victory.
And there's some there are some different things.
I uh I must tell you the Isra Well, I don't I guess you can't blame them in this modern era, but they're apologizing every day it seems, for every rocket launch that hits something, they're apologizing for it.
It's the wrong time for them to have a Clinton moment.
That's my feeling on this.
Well there are many types of Clinton moments.
Well one that we can speak about in mixed conversation.
Yeah, okay, yes.
Well, uh I guess that may be what they're doing.
Yeah, Clinton didn't run around the world apologize to everybody for things he had nothing to do with uh blaming his own country.
I'm sorry we did that.
I'm sorry we did that.
I'm sorry.
You know, you you look at the outrages around the world.
It's worth pointing out.
I mean, it's it's it's stating the obvious.
How many were killed in the in the Rwanda civil war?
What what was that genocide?
Was that like five or eight hundred thousand?
At least half a million.
Darfer.
Uh pick your African country for crying out.
Some sort of uh ethnic cleansing genocide, mass murder going on.
And nobody says, in fact, Clinton gets away with apologizing for it after the I should have done more.
I should have oh, what a great man.
He recognizes his mistakes and is willing to admit them.
Uh while all this is going on, not one beef.
We don't we don't hear any concern for whatever casualty count there is among Israeli civilians.
A hundred and thirty rockets launched by the Hezbows yesterday.
A hundred and thirty, and we spend a whole day and a half talking about one bomb dropped by the Israelis.
It's an inverted world out there.
Uh and it's it's all so many factors here, anti-Semitism, genuine hate for Israel anyway, uh hate for George W. Bush, hate for America, and this sort of thing.
The distressing thing is so much of that comes from people within our own borders.
For example, put it to you this way, folks.
If you if you believe that Israel is the bad guy, if you believe that George W. Bush is the force of evil, if you believe that Hezbollah is just an innocent bunch of victims, that they are not evil.
If you believe that communism just didn't get a fair shake and needed more time, if you believe that America is the evil force in the world, that America never ever does anything to help anybody.
All we do is subjugate.
All we do is bully people around the world, steal the resources of the world, create all the environmental chaos.
If you believe that putting underwear on Islamic terrorists' heads in Abu Ghrab prison are national tragedies and true torture, then you are one sick puppy.
You are simply and literally living in another world with very little grasp of reality.
You are delusional.
And yet what I just described happens to characterize much of the drive-by, quote unquote, mainstream media and Democratic Party in this country.
We'll be back in just a second.
Boy, is that ever true.
Is that ever true?
Real life, babe.
That is exactly what happens on this program.
And no PR, no fakery here, nothing.
Folks, there are a couple couple of the things in the news out there today that I just I have to squeeze in there.
We're still waiting for Prime Minister Netanyahu.
He is uh scheduled.
Now we had him scheduled for t for uh uh an hour ago, and he's unable to make it because he was called into a meeting.
We have rescheduled him for the top of the next hour, a little over half hour from now.
Uh and as we all know the sitch over there situation is very fluid and that could change.
But nevertheless, um that's scheduled.
If you want to keep talking about uh the Israeli Hezboy situation in a wall on terror, feel free.
I had some time to dig deep into this pew survey uh for a people in the press.
And it uh starts out here by saying news audiences vary widely in age, education, and how much they know about what's going on in the nation and the world.
And then there's a a lanking uh ranking here of uh various television programs.
Uh at any rate, uh, judged by their answers to three knowledge questions, the most informed audiences belong to the political magazines, Rush Limbaugh's radio show, the O'Reilly Factor, news magazines, and online news sources.
Close behind are the regular audiences for NPR and the Daily Show.
Uh it doesn't look good for the uh major broadcast networks.
At any rate, education age and knowledge.
College grads, this program number two at 37%.
The uh average age of the audience of this program 51, and the high knowledge score is 48, and it's number two.
This program number two in all of American media in education and knowledge.
It is uh uh uh preceded only by the weekly standard New Republic readers.
Thirty-eight percent uh college grads, thirty-eight's the average age.
Uh now the libs are dragging us down a little bit.
Uh yeah, the lib well now the libs may be dragging down the weekly standard a bit.
Um so anyway, well, we're I just sent this up to Coco.
Coco's gonna post this at uh at Rushlimbaugh.com.
Other items in the news.
You know, we talk about chick news on this program all the time about how more and more women are entering uh the news business as producers and editors behind the scenes, and how it's affecting coverage.
It's one of the things leading to crisis news.
Uh everything's gonna kill us.
Uh we do everything to do for the children and so forth.
There's a story, a bunch of stories, but I don't know if you've seen them or not.
But people are upset that we haven't had any hurricanes yet.
Well, we've had two tropical storms named.
This time last year we'd had seven.
The media, Mr. Sterling, drive by media is upset.
They want disaster and they crave it.
And there hasn't been any.
And they're all worried about it.
So there's a story, I think, in the Palm Beach Post today.
Don't sweat it, folks.
We're just now getting to the peak of the season.
It's gonna be bad out there.
Talk to me.
Some weather guy in Miami at the Hurricane Center says, talk to me at the end of August, and then we'll know more.
Wait a minute.
I thought you guys have been making predictions about all this.
It's shaping up to be a pretty normal year.
Last year was uh was an aberration.
But you doubt me when I say people are here is a story from CBS.
CBS News on their website.
Northeastern hurricane could cripple economy.
Really?
What is your first clue?
Just listen to a couple interesting factors here.
This month, the nation's best hurricane experts met for the first time ever with nervous insurance industry representatives about a storm lurking beyond the horizon.
The risk is increasing, and it's increasing every year.
Catastrophe rick Catastrophe risk analyst Karen Clark told CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller.
So we got two babes here, two chicks.
A hurricane in the Northeast, why, huh?
It could cause horrible, horrible.
And you know it's overdue.
It's overdue.
We haven't had a big hurricane in the Northeast.
It's overdue.
So here we get a story about something that hasn't happened.
We have a story about something that nobody can tell can tell you or even possibly know will happen.
And yet, you are supposed to be scared to death.
And I think I only point this out for the obvious reasons the hurricane disaster crowds upset that there hadn't been any action yet.
And uh chick news.
Chick news, couple chicks making news here with the women or women, I'm not obviously criticizing that.
I'm just saying that it it lends a certain culture to the news business.
I know you're gonna be surprised when I bring up this next subject.
I'm surprised I'm bringing it up.
I saw this story last night and I I looked at it, and my first reaction is I'm sick and tired of seeing this young woman's name in the news.
I don't even really know who she is on the basis of her accomplishments.
I don't.
It is, it's Lindsay Lohan.
I am so sick and tired of seeing her name in the news.
I don't what was her claim to fame, or what is her claim to all I know is that she's an incessant party babe.
That's what I get from her.
Has she started a movie or something?
Well, whatever.
Whatever.
Her be the love bug remain.
She Disney's parent trap.
She's in a parent trap.
I haven't seen that.
Uh my brother wanted me to get that movie to watch with my nieces.
I haven't, I haven't, they haven't been, I haven't watched it yet.
Well, okay, so I'll find out who she is.
I do know this.
Last week she failed to show up for work, and a studio exec at uh uh what's the Morgan Creek Productions, a guy named James Robinson, wrote her a letter saying, You're gonna have to stop this partying and show up.
You're missing too much work, and we got lots of work to do here.
You and your representatives have told us that your various late arrivals and absences from the set have been the result of illness.
Today we were told it was heat exhaustion.
We are well aware that your ongoing all-night heavy partying is the real reason for your so-called exhaustion.
All right, fine.
This is the people, this is the guy who's paying her.
She's showing up late, not showing up at all, and delaying work, delaying production.
So what do her parents do?
This is what caught me.
Her mom, what's her mom's name?
Dina.
Dina Lohan said that this studio exec is way out of line for scolding Lindsay Lohan for her absences from the set of her new movie.
Dina Lohan said the wording of the letter was ridiculous.
I feel when you are 19 years old, it is way out of line.
Maybe he has personal issues with whomever, and it came out with my child.
I don't know him.
I can't judge him.
I don't think it was a smart thing to do to a young girl.
Anyway, Robinson said if Lohan does not honor her commitments, the studio will pursue full monetary damages.
Now, I don't know the details here either.
Uh but the the reason this caught me is she's 19, she's starring in movies, they're investing a Lot of money in her.
She apparently isn't showing up.
And so the boss decides to reprimand her, and the parent gets mad at the boss.
This is something my parents would never ever.
If I fail to go to work for whatever reason, if I was and especially if it was it was my own doing that made me unable to go to work.
Uh boss was always right.
Now, granted, as I told you last week, this is also a function of having grown up in the Great Depression where you kissed your boss's foot every day to hold your job.
This is but but there's still some uh well uh no at 19 they did because I started working when I was sixteen.
I started working when I was apparently she did too.
You know, what is it night?
I showed up, yeah.
I mean, I showed up so much they kicked me out on a vacation, so I wouldn't burn out.
I showed up too much.
But the the I mean, I it just it's odd.
Nineteen year old coddled, we can't have a boss speaking that way.
I understand the protective aspects of uh mothers and parents and so forth, but I don't know.
It just it just struck me as an example of how we're culturally askew in uh in many places.
And I don't know if this mom is getting off on being the mother of a celebrity, and uh, you know, that's a problem too.
That you you you have no clue how that can drag down a family.
Uh everybody wants to get in the act and that kind of thing.
So there's much more than I know going on here, and I will readily admit this.
And I understand parental protection and so forth, but uh there is a responsibility you take a job, there's a responsibility, show up be on top.
What do you mean it's a little politically correct?
What I just said political I I do I in this era, I my gosh, you can read a story one day, snurkly, where we're not having our kids grow up too fast, another day read a story, we're making them grow up too fast.
They're not grown up fast enough.
Now they're growing up too fast.
Uh it's never too early to to learn uh things like responsibility and commitment and this sort of thing, particularly a job where you're being paid, and where your absence holds everything up, and if your absence is is uh brought about by your own actions, uh that a serious problem.
And you know, I'm just what I'm acknowledging here, what you think is PC, what I'm acknowledging here is I don't have all the details of this.
So that's I'm not giving myself an out.
I'm just explaining my comments are related only to what is known, and it's uh let me check the source.
It's um AP.
Rest my case.
Also, over the weekend, uh ladies and gentlemen, Saturday story, our old buddy Will Lester and the Associated Press, Carl Rove blasts journalist role in politics.
Presidential advisor Carl Rove, the mad scientist, said Saturday that journalists often criticize political professionals because they want to draw attention away from the corrosive role their own coverage plays in politics and government.
Some decry the professional role of politics.
Um they would like to see it disappear.
Rove told graduating students at the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management.
Some argue political professionals are ruining American politics, trapping candidates in daily competition for the news cycle instead of long-term strategic thinking in the best interest of the country.
But Rove turned that criticism on the journalists.
It's odd to me, he said, that most of these critics are journalists and columnists.
Perhaps they don't like sharing the field of play.
Perhaps they want to draw attention away from the corrosive role their coverage has played, focusing attention on process and not substance.
Rove told about a hundred graduates trained to be political operatives that they should respect the instincts of the American voter.
American people are not policy wonks, but they have great instincts and they try to do the right thing.
Process versus substance.
Spin, PR versus reality.
All right, where did this run?
What newspaper did this run in?
Uh looking the Raleigh News and Observer.
What?
No, no, no.
The one I just read was uh the P. A.P. No, this next one coming up, Snow.
I'm moving ahead.
You want me to do the robe story again?
All right.
So here is this is a second time I've seen this in about six months.
National pastimes changing landscape.
African American participation in baseball continues to decline.
As Major League Baseball prepares to enshrine 17 former Negro League players and executives into the Hall of Fame.
This story came out on uh I guess yesterday in the induction.
Hall of Fame induction was yesterday.
The ceremony can be seen as both a celebration and a wake.
Today's event uh calls attention to the great athletes who played in the Negro leagues while denied access to the majors, but it also calls attention to the slow death of baseball in black America.
Baseball doesn't have very much value in the African American community, said Assistant Professor David Ogden of the University of Nebraska, Omaha, who has done extensive studies on the decline in the number of African Americans in baseball.
African American kids see it as a slow Caucasian sport.
It's a slow game for white kids.
This year's St. Louis Cardinals do not have an African American player on the active roster, according to team spokesman Jim Anderson.
And African Americans aren't going to games in great numbers as spectators either.
Ogden studied television crowd shots from twenty-five major league games in 2002, and determined that only about 5% of the fans in the crowd shots were black.
The study also cited a Kansas City Royals report that said even on African American Heritage Night.
We didn't have that when I was putting together those things at the Royals.
I must have added that.
Kansas City Royals reports that even on African American Heritage Night, only 3% of the fans were African Americans.
questions.
The Durham Bulls, a minor league team down there in Durham, attract relatively few black spectators despite playing in a stadium surrounded by black neighborhoods.
Well, uh, there's obviously a problem.
I don't know what it is, but somebody's up.
Somebody's up.
No, there is a problem, Mr. Snerdling, and they wouldn't be writing about it.
It's terrible.
It's it's horrible.
It's horrible.
I've I've uh I've had, you know, uh I was watching one ESPN show, and they were bringing all these uh experts in to talk about the problem and what's causing it.
It's racism in baseball.
It's all no, it's all about no the I'm telling you what people believe.
In the black community, it's not that it's a slow game for white kids.
I'm sorry, Caucasian kids.
It's that team owners and general managers don't want black heroes.
They want white center fielders, they want white shortstops, they want white power hitters.
But you also don't count Alex Rodriguez or Derek Jeter as African American in this scenario.
Uh you don't count Latin players or Dominican players as black.
African American is its separate niche here.
And you have to you have to go a long way.
If you if you I mean if you um if you hear, you heard me say that the St. Louis Cardinals do not have one African American player.
Next time the Cardinals are on watch television, tell me how many white players you see.
It really, you know, it's it's interesting what's going on.
It's just it's the latest way to charge racism.
I didn't read this whole story, so I don't know if this guy writing in the Raleigh paper does that, but uh they did it.
Who is that?
Stephen A. Smith guy that the ESPN2 gave a show to.
He's a columnist in uh in in Philadelphia.
And let's see, what else?
George Allen's pulled way ahead of uh Jim Webb in uh Virginia.
In their first debate, Webb had no clue uh about the what or where Craney Island is in Virginia.
And that Craney Island is huge in terms of Virginian history, and it illustrated he's a carpetbagger coming in, doesn't know.
Well, uh you want to hear about crannies?
I'll do it the next hour when I got more time.
We got Netanyahu coming up, top of the next hour.
Uh Donald Landro in the Washington Times yesterday.
Democrats fail to win big Hispanic support.
A great piece here by um Carrie Roberts, a Washington area writer about a forum he went to, women good, women bad.
Or not a forum he went to.
I'll explain this when we come back because I got a hard break.
I gotta go.
Okay, we're still waiting for Benjamin Netanyahu.
We have uh not heard any change in the 206 uh time frame, so we'll assume he'll be with us when the uh top of the next hour commences.
Look forward to it.
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