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Aug. 29, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 29, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Hey, and welcome back.
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Happy to have all of you along today.
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Yeah, here's the headline.
Uh woman crashes when teaching dog to drive.
By the way, get ready on uh audio soundbite uh number one and uh number number two.
Uh woman in uh oh, what one sec.
I got it correct.
I have been uh inundated with emails, such as this.
Dear Rush, I know it may seem confusing, but this polygamist who was arrested is not a Mormon.
The Latter-day Saint Church does not condone polygamy, certainly not child abuse.
The media always quick to call him a member of the Church of Jesus Christ, Latter-day Saints, but he isn't.
He may belong to a church that has a similar name, but uh no one seems interested in making the distinction between the worldwide church and the small wack-offshoot churches that give the real LDS church a bad name.
Be really great if you could make the distinction.
Lots of emails on this, so happy, believe me, happy to set the record straight.
Not surprised the record would need to be set straight after relying strictly on a drive-by media report.
Right, a woman in uh in Hohat, that's HOH H O T. That's the capital of China's inner Mongolia region, crashed her car while giving her dog a driving lesson, according to the official Xinhua news agency yesterday.
No injuries were reported, although both vehicles were slightly damaged.
The woman identified only by her surname Lee said that her dog was fond of crouching on the steering wheel and often watched her drive.
She thought she'd let the dog have a try while she operated the accelerator in the brake.
They didn't make it far before crashing into an oncoming car.
The news agency didn't say what kind of dog or vehicles were involved, but uh but uh Lee, a woman in Hohot, uh, paid for repairs.
Well, we may have to change our handicapping of survivor uh here, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh you know I I said the Asian Americans in this show with the brainiacs, but this, you know, issues a bit of a challenge, which takes me the audio sound bites.
We want to go back.
CNN changed a very very little bit of their report on me.
But uh the changes last night on headline news after I had done the riff yesterday on these people in the meeting in the left, they just have no sense of humor.
They don't understand I was throwing their cliches right back at them.
Here is the original report from last Thursday on CNN, the anchorette Carol Costello reporting on the new Survivor.
Talk radio's Rush Limbaugh got the buzz going early with his nationally syndicated show, commenting on survivors' competitive swimming events.
I know what you're saying.
You're saying I'm being racist.
You're saying I'm being racist because I'm saying blacks can't swim.
Discussions like that have anti-racism organizations concerned.
I'm sure there are other people who think just like Rush, you know, and who are looking for those things.
Yeah, I want to see that Asians out with everybody, and I want to see, you know, the blacks who can't swim.
All right.
After the show yesterday, CNN revoiced and re-aired their survivor package to label my comments tongue-in-cheek.
Talk radio's Rush Limbaugh got Buzz going with his nationally syndicated show with what appeared to be a tongue-in-cheek take on survivors' competitive swimming events.
I know what you're saying.
All right, that's it.
That's it.
So apparently somebody there heard the rant yesterday and decided that it was uh appropriate to uh set the record straight.
Also, you are familiar with the controversy that has arisen over Bryant Gumble.
Uh and his comments on his HBO show about the players union chief Gene Upshaw, who's black, being on a leash controlled by the white owners of the National Football League.
Many of the people who demanded my scalp, a little Indian lingo there, for my comments on ESPN.
Yep.
Pilot on day here at the EIB network.
Um a lot of people demanding my scalp or saying like Michael Wilbon of the Washington Post.
Hey, you can't get rid of Bryant Gumble.
Why?
Bryant Gumble has every right to say what he thinks.
League would be silly to fire him.
They hired him knowing what they're going to get.
Everybody in the woodwork is coming out defending Bryant Gumble.
Hey, he's articulate.
He's well researched.
He's outspoken.
This is what we need.
Subject came up today on ESPN's radio network in the morning.
Mike and Mike is the name of the show, Mike Golek.
And the sports anchor Mike Greenberg, Greenberg, first here as they discuss this.
The reality is the league looks bad if they fire Brian Gumbel now.
I absolutely agree.
The reality is you go out and you hire a guy who is known for being outspoken and opinionated, then he voices an outspoken opinion you don't happen to like, and you decide, okay, now he's not doing the games anymore.
You you will, among other things, put anyone else who does the games in an impossible situation.
Didn't we kind of do it here with Rush Limbaugh?
I mean, we hired a guy we knew he was uh he was a bit of uh, you know, a gas on a fire at times, and and he certainly proved to be, and we ended it.
Just someone, you know, where you knew what you were getting when you hired him.
And you got it.
They got mild is what they got from me.
Um at any rate, uh, ladies and gentlemen, the uh uh I just play this for the irony of it all.
It's just it's just uh it matters who you are uh when you say what you say when being judged by people in the drive-by media.
Las Cruces, New Mexico.
You know, Las Cruces, New Mexico is one of the first markets that we were in back in 1988.
Raised hell when they take the show out there.
Well, raised hell everywhere.
Uh nobody had ever heard anything like it.
Story is out of Las Cruces, a Muslim athletes accused New Mexico State football coach of religious discrimination.
Three former New Mexico State University football players, all Muslims on Monday, sued the university, and the coach Hal Moom, or mummy, I don't know how he pronounces his name, M U M M E, alleging they were dismissed from the team because of their religious belief.
The federal lawsuit was filed of the ACLU on behalf of Muammar Ali and brothers Anthony and Vincent Thompson.
The lawsuit alleges religious discrimination and violations of the athletes' right to freely exercise their religion.
The uh suit claims that uh coach hired by New Mexico State in January of 2005 instituted a religious brotherhood within the team and singled out Muslim athletes on the team.
University is supposed to be places of evolved thinking and re No, they're not.
Universities are places of liberal indoctrination.
Uh uh and and nothing else.
That's that's what they've become.
Um at at any rate, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh we're we're we're we are in a in a society culture now, which is trying to remove anything related to Christianity from our country, from our culture, uh, while the same people who doing that are now defending people in the lawsuits to make sure their religion and their culture can be predominant anywhere and everywhere they wanted it to be.
Uh this is um this is gonna get ugly.
Mark my words.
It is uh going to be ugly.
Donald Rumsfeld at the uh Fallon Naval Air Station in Nevada said yesterday that he's deeply troubled by the success of terrorist groups in manipulating the media to influence Westerners.
He said that's the thing that keeps me up at night during a question and answer session with about 200 naval aviators.
He said, What bothers me the most is how clever the enemy is, launching an extensive broadside at Islamic extremist groups, which he said are trying to undermine Western support for the war on terror.
They are actively manipulating the media in this country by, for example, falsely blaming U.S. troops for civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Perhaps greatest example of this, and it'd be hard to categorize it, is the literal fraud that came out of uh Southern Lebanon during the Israeli Hezbollah.
You know, we played a commentary, uh an excerpt of a commentary from Bob Schiefer on Slay the Nation last Sunday, and he was just ringing his hands, he's so upset over the fact that uh the Hezbollahs were rebuilding so fast, and they're passing out money, passing out crisp new hundred dollar bills, hundred dollar American hundred dollar bills, uh to uh uh displaced uh Lebanese.
And he said, look at how, I mean, how can this happen?
They're giving out hundreds and hundreds of American dollars, fresh, crisp hundred dollar bills, American currency, and yet the government can't get any assistance and aid into New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
It has been confirmed that the money that the Hesbows are giving out is counterfeit.
Uh the money is missing the wire strip, that very thin wire strip that's in new hundred dollar bills, new bills, uh, so plainly that pictures illustrate this alone.
The Hesbows have long been known as counterfeiters.
So they're just they're passing out counterfeit bills.
Well, my gosh, these guys are better than I thought.
They can get away with counterfeiting, and then they give the money away, and apparently the counterfeit money's good in Hesboland.
So uh it's uh apparently CBS bought it.
Money's good at CBS too.
At any rate, John Kerry is reviving his 2004 election allegations.
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I love these kinds of stories because they're just getting them all over the place.
Wastelines continue to grow in the United States.
Another crisis story here, ladies and gentlemen, from our old buddies at the Associated Press, the gravy train, make that the sausage biscuits and gravy train, just keep on rolling in most of America last year, 31 states showing an increase in obesity.
Mississippi continued to lead the way, an estimated 30% of adults there considered obese, an increase of 1.1 percentage points when compared with last year's report.
Indeed, the five states with the highest obesity rates are Mississippi, Alabama, West Virginia, Louisiana, and Kentucky exhibit much higher rates of poverty than the national norm.
Meanwhile, the five states with the lowest obesity have less poverty.
They are Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
The index is calculated, whether you're obese or not, calculated by dividing a person's weight in pounds by his height in inches squared, and multiplying that total by 703.
That is the formula.
For some people, particularly athletes who exercise a great deal, this index could uh show them as being obese when in fact they're in excellent physical condition.
Well, I don't think this survey goes far enough.
You can't just you can't just break this down by states.
Although it is interesting, is it not, that um more people in poverty are obese than people who are not in poverty are obese.
I think you might then say that the obesity crisis could be the fault of government, liberal government.
Food stamps, uh, all those.
You know, I can I'm gonna tell you people a story.
I just, well, the government, you could say is killing these people because we know obesity kills.
And the government's killing the poor.
The Bush administration is killing the poor with too much food.
I remember when I was not even 10, maybe 10 or 11 years old, living in our humble little abode on sunset in Cape Girarde, Missouri.
And my father, a powerful man in a small town, a lawyer.
He had contacts one day, and I thought I've forgotten how he got it.
He got some welfare butter.
He brought it home.
He had a lot of friends who were farmers, and I think they were somehow in on the deal.
Maybe they were producing it for the government.
But he brought home this big jar, silver tin of butter.
Butter that the government was using for uh back then it was called relief, uh welfare or what have you.
And we used it.
It was the best butter.
Well, I, ten years old, I couldn't uh know the difference, but my mom and dad were raving and raving and raving.
This was just the best butter they'd ever had.
And they looked in it, asked farmer buddies and found out that the creme la creme of the butter made by farmers was going to welfare recipients first.
And what you bought in the stores was not the creme de la grippers, okay stuff, don't misunderstand, but it was sort of like Allen Brothers.
Allen Brothers has the best prime steaks in the country.
Only two and a half percent of it of beef is actually prime, despite what all these advertisements that you see in stores say.
There's just not that much of it, and that's why it's but it there's no question when you taste it, uh it is it's incomparable to anything else that you buy at a grocery store.
Apparently, this butter was the same way.
Uh and so now we find out that there's obesity and and uh all this amongst the poor more than amongst those who are not poor.
Uh it's sort of a textbook case of what happens when we let liberals have their wave.
I mean, for decades.
All over the world, we've been beat about the head that there are hungry people out there, that they are starving.
UNICEF?
How many of you trick-or-treated for UNICEF?
Did you trick or treat for UNICEF, Brian?
We all did you?
We all trick-or-treat.
One of the biggest scams on the face of the earth.
It was the the scam was to get everybody loving the United Nations.
The scam was to get everybody thinking the United Nations is feeding poor people.
You remember all these stories?
Uh uh a dime a day will feed 20 kids in some outward place around the world, or 25.
Uh, Audrey Hepburn, Sally Struthers, all these people.
I love San Kinison's bit on all this.
Sam Kinnison did a riff on Sally Struthers, and she's over there standing next to these poor kids in Africa with flies buzzing all around them, and they're starving.
You can see it by their appearance.
And Sally Struthers is looking in the can.
Won't you help?
Don't you care?
Can't you just make one phone call?
A dollar a day will feed X numbers of hundreds of thousands of these people.
And Kinnison says, You're not sitting there hungry.
I can see it looking at you.
I know you're not starving over there.
You probably got a picnic basket.
Give that kid your sandwich.
Feed that kid.
That kid is starving.
Laugh myself silly, because it was classic.
Here are these liberals right next to all these starving people doing television shows, telling people thousands of miles away they don't care.
Can't you help?
Won't you help?
You know, the the underlying thought was, you slothful, lazy, cold-hearted bum.
Won't you get off the couch and at least make a phone call?
Well, is what happens when you let the the left run things.
We've been beat about the head, there are hungry people everywhere.
UNICEF got it all started.
We've seen the babies with the extended tummies, the walking skeletons, told that kids can't learn unless they're fed.
We've been guilted into pouring resources on the problem, and now the latest crisis is that there's obesity among those who are impoverished.
Because we are sympathetic, we are compassionate people.
We responded by letting our government literally feed these people to the point of obesity, at least here in America.
Didn't teach them how to fish.
We gave them the fish.
Didn't teach them how to butcher a uh slaughter a cow to get the butter?
We gave them the butter.
The real bloat here, as we know, is in uh is in government.
Uh now, what with his new survivor showing him?
Do you think it might be fair?
Uh we really want to solve the problem.
We got an obesity crisis out there.
We got an obesity crisis among poor people.
We know there are more white poor people than black because there are simply more, you know, uh white population is larger than the black population.
So don't misunderstand this.
But I think just dividing people by state will not give us a great enough uh read, an accurate enough depiction of the problem.
Should we Not break down uh poverty, not just by state, but by race.
Would that not help us, uh, ladies and gentlemen, to further analyze problem and further thus be able to solve it?
And if the results turn out the way the left likes, they could then blame somebody for whatever uh results.
I mean, if we're gonna do TV shows and have competitions to find out who can survive in the Cook Islands better than anybody else based on race, why not finally get to the bottom of the poverty leading to obesity crisis by breaking this down according to race.
I'm just trying to help.
Uh taking recent news items and uh extrapolating them, expanding upon them, because I care about people.
As usual.
Half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
Well, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Bob and Make in Georgia.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Megadinos Rush, how are you doing?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
I I just wanted to comment um about the the latest tough subject.
Um in that uh not that I'm pushing for government regulation, but I guess in this respect, you know, people are really uneducated about nutrition, generally speaking.
And a lot of the you know the manufacturers are able to have so much leeway, they put things in the food that have been shown to cause some degenerate diseases, and you've got the United States is the highest rates of cancer and diabetes and heart disease of any industrialized nation.
Um much like if you build a house, there are certain statutes in place and and parameters so that someone comes and double checks to save to not save people from themselves.
That's a big liberal mentality, I know, but at least to to guide people so that if they make choose to make these mistakes, and then they deal with the consequences without having any earthly idea about you know this kind of thing.
And last time I spoke with you, we we kind of got on this discussion.
You said, Well, you know, that the people are living this at age 72 in this country, and you know, don't tell me that we're in such terrible shape, but a lot of that has to do with innovations in the pharmaceutical industry and medical technology, you know, ha people you know, have make basically making people live longer than they would otherwise do.
Um there's a lot of data and research out there, and I'm I'm guess I'm surprised that the research arm of the AIB institute hasn't, you know, kind of uncovered some of this, because I really think there's there's some validity to it.
Not that we need to come in like uh Gestapo and and and communist Russia and have hardcore regulations, but at least more information so people know what choices they're making.
You know, I I there is there is so much nutrition information out there, and I will admit when you get old and need reading classes, it's sometimes hard to read in there in the grocery store for those of you that go there.
Um there's I think there's more information on nutrition.
I I I uh Bob, I'm I'm really kind of at a loss here.
The life expectancy is climbing in this country.
Uh you can chalk it up uh if you want.
You can say, well, it really wouldn't be happening if it weren't for the pharmaceutical industry coming up with drugs to deal with these problems that we're creating because we're eating a bunch of poison.
And if we didn't have the drugs, and we'd all be dying, and then we'd really know why.
But since we're eating poison and we've got the drugs to fix the poison, then we're living longer.
We still have a problem.
My my whole problem with this is that I think this is um uh much ado about nothing.
I think it is no more, it's no different than the attack on McDonald's, the attack on high fat foods, the uh it's it's all this is being spawned by the trial lawyer industry, uh, the tort lawyers, this is all being set up here to go after big food and big insurance and big everybody else on the basis they went after big tobacco.
Your argument is the same thing about tobacco.
They lied to us.
They were killing us, and they wanted us all to die, but they didn't tell us that, and so forth and so on.
But look at what happened.
The education finally did get out.
Nutrition information is all over this country.
I you can't turn on television.
My what do you think the today show is?
What do you think the CBS early morning show is?
Is all these shifts and only people coming in how to eat healthy for your heart?
You can't go to the grocery store without walking through the section of giant red hearts on food.
I I I I really me too.
H.R. just said he knows more about the food he's eating today than he's ever known.
I do too.
What you know what problem that that your your desire has, you can have all the regulation you want, but the problem with food is it's not something we can do without.
People have to eat.
And they are going to.
We have an affluent society.
And when you start regulating this sort of stuff, you start telling people you can't have that, don't do that.
And look at how much phony reporting there's been.
Back 15 years ago, oat brand.
Boy, that's what you want to keep your colon cleaned out, eat that stuff.
If you want to make sure you're healthy, don't drink coffee.
And some years later, uh new research indicates not true.
Then we got these wackos from Center for the Science of the Public Interest, who are just a bunch of liberals wearing white lab coats with a fax machine, putting out all this stuff like MSG will kill you, Chinese food will kill you, coconut oil and popcorn in a movie theater will kill you.
We've now learned that coconut oil is a pretty clean oil, pretty good oil, as is olive oil.
Now we've learned it's the uh what is it, the trans fats.
The trans fat.
Now you can't go to the store without seeing the thing plugged all over potato chips, no trans fats, zero gram.
There's more information out there than the average American can digest.
As we established earlier, the American population was too busy focusing on Carl Rove and George Bush leaking Valerie Plame's name.
Because the drive-by media was focusing on it.
This is a nation of freedom.
We have free will.
If people want to engage in activity that is detrimental to them and kills themselves, be my guest.
Now you might say, but that puts a health care strain on all the rest of us.
Well, uh I think we're all responsible for that, because our health care is so plentiful and good, we go to the doctor for a little paper cut.
Some people live in the doctor's office, got nothing else to do.
Go there, get a checkup every day because the later days of life, you want to know you're okay, not gonna die that day.
Go in, make sure you're not gonna die that day.
But they're not sure because they're being told on television everything they do is gonna kill them.
Virtually everything that happened to this country is going to kill us, from Bush to the war in Iraq to terrorism, nativity scenes, buses, automobiles, plane crash.
We're dying.
We're all dying.
For the moment we're born out there, Bob, it's just a matter of time before we're all dead anyway.
We're all dying, Bob.
Some people are dead now, walking around don't know it, but I'm not gonna this this little nanny state that you want presumes and assumes that people are doomkoffs and idiots and don't have the uh the the uh ability to make proper judgments.
You realize some people are depressed out there?
You realize some people simply eat food to feel good, you want to deprive them of feeling good?
Food's not something gonna kill you tomorrow, Bob.
Food takes a long time to kill you.
So does tobacco.
Start smoking at 16, you're guaranteed to live to 45 or 50.
Pretty good odds.
Yet we're gonna ban it.
If you don't smoke, the odds are you're gonna live a little bit longer.
It doesn't kill you instantly.
Now, if you really cared about people, Bob, you'd suggest we ban the automobile.
Forty-eight thousand deaths a year.
And yet people have driver's head, they're told how to drive defensively, told how to drive safely, but you still run the risk of stronning into somebody's teaching a dog to drive the car when you're minding your own business and not harming anybody.
You can't stop these things, Bob.
This is just it's life.
These things happen.
And we have a society here where it's based on freedom for who knows how much longer we hope it lasts.
But uh incumbent there is uh is free will.
Uh and and when you start nanny stating people, you're just assuming that they dumkoffs and idiots, and that's liberalism, and I reject it.
Tim in San Diego, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
You make a good point.
Thank you.
Uh in fact, uh, one of the things that uh you reminded me of was Dinesh D'Souza in his book, What's So Great About America?
Yes.
He quotes his uncle in India as saying, I want to live in a country where the poor people are fat.
I remember that.
Well, that's what this survey indicates.
Just for people just tuning in, folks, this is not me in a post-survivor rant talking about poor people being fat.
I'm reporting a study.
Just have to put that in context out there, Tim, because they take me out of contact for so long.
But it's true.
Now, why is it?
Why do you think that the uh the majority of obese people are well not the majority, there are far more people in poverty who are obese than people who aren't in poverty who are obese.
What would you say is there just I know it's anecdotal, you'll stop your head.
What would you say the reason is?
Well, first of all, I don't know that that's true.
Uh do you think that that is true?
Well, good point.
Good point.
It's the drive-by media.
Let's assume it is, just for the sake of the fun of the discussion.
Were it true, what would be the answer?
You're asking somebody who's a non-nutritionist, so I'm not even going to venture on that one.
Okay.
But may I ask you a quick question?
No, by all means.
And this is this is just a little bit far afield, but uh I want to ask you, you know, when you have guest hosts on the show and you set them in front of the golden EIB microphone.
Yes.
The one guest host that you have not had that I'm surprised is James Golden.
If it's the golden EIB microphone, why is he not sitting down there sometimes?
Well, you know, it's uh uh there there is a there's a provision in place.
If we can't find anybody else and have to scrape the bottom of the barrel.
Say if I get sick or something, uh uh Snerdley could uh could could sneak in there and uh and do it.
We've thought about it.
It's an ongoing process.
Um, ongoing.
Uh give me a break.
But it's been years.
He's never been on.
Tim.
All right, sir.
You brought this up.
I'm trying to be nice.
Trying to re you're talking about the official program observer.
You don't know the guy.
You you can't get much closer to observing than being behind the microphone.
Yes, but what you don't hear is what Snerdley is observing that I hear.
To turn him loose on this program.
Uh, we would be activating the delay.
Oh, I I I just shuddered think about it.
Well, he can't do much worse than the day when you said ASS wipe on the air, and everybody started laughing at you behind the glass.
Uh that's mild.
That's I'm not talking about Snerdley's profanity.
He he doesn't he doesn't use profanity.
Well, he does, but I mean the of the kind of stuff that what the I'm referring to here is um call it Neanderthal.
You know what I would like to see you do?
You know how sometimes you'll refer to people having their big show biz break.
Yes.
I would like to see you have some Joe Blow out in the audience actually guest host for you one day.
Put them in training, just like in the Olympics.
Teach him the difference between super heterodine and Air America's super gay dyne.
You know, whatever it takes so that he can get up to speed and one day be a guest host for you.
Randomly chosen.
So what you're basically asking me to do is become a star maker.
Uh take an average ordinary listener and turn him into uh a host.
Uh you know, it's a good thing that I have a strong uh constitution and I'm very well adjusted and very confident, because that's one of the most ridiculous and one of the most insulting things.
Would you take some Joe Blow off the street and try to teach him to do an appendectomy?
Would you try to take some Joe Blow off the street, have him fly your next airline trip?
Would you take your next Joe Blow off the street and have him be your next Tiger Woods or run Microsoft?
You uh you have to you have to get it into your head out there, Tim, is to what league I am playing in here.
And it isn't triple C in Pawtucket.
Living legend and an American way of life, Rush Limbaugh behind a golden EIB microphone high atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
All right, uh been finding out here what uh Richard Armitage is up to.
And I must say, ladies and gentlemen, I'm not surprised.
Richard Armitage, currently one of John McCain's foreign policy advisors, gearing up for the 2008 elections.
This is a story by John Broder, August 21st, the Associated Press.
Uh yeah.
Here's a quote from the story.
His still informal network includes Richard Armitage, the former deputy secretary of state, John Thane, chief executive, New York Stock Exchange, Sig Rogic, who directed the advertising for the 88 and 92 presidential campaigns for Mr. Bush's father.
And there's this.
Some figures listed as advisors by McCain aides, like Colin Powell, a former Secretary of State, have been silent in public about their preference, and it's not clear how involved they may become.
So Armitage and Colin Powell are working uh for John McCain.
Uh this is a you've seen these stories.
McCain mines elite of GOP for 2008, uh, 2008 team.
He's gotten uh Mark McKinnon, who was Bush's big media guru, Sig Rogic, who um who ran the uh media for George H.W. Bush.
So that's where Armitage and Colin Powell are.
Steve in Sacramento, my adopted hometown, you're up next, sir.
Hello.
Yeah, terra Ditto's from the birthplace of EIB.
Thank you.
That's absolutely right.
I assert I assume that EIB's into upgrading its equipment, everything.
That's why it's teradiddos.
Yeah, absolutely.
We can handle a load.
Regarding uh how news is being reported, Rush.
Uh, in my daily commitment to place into practice the principles of the Limbaugh Institute of Compassionate Conservative Studies.
I'm always looking for ways daily and to use the emanation that you give us, you know, to prove the left is wrong.
Yes.
Well, this passion is a good thing.
Except one thing is a job description.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
One thing this is not the Institute for Compassionate.
Uh this is the Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Oh, I added the compassionate in there if we could compassionate.
Conservatism is compassionate, goes without saying.
Well, maybe we should I don't know.
Yeah.
This last week I've been writing uh job descriptions.
And uh during that time, I heard uh a quote from Katie Kirk several times that uh that reveals clearly uh that the liberal drive-by media is operating way outside its job description.
Uh Katie Crook tips her hand in uh in one of her current national TV ads, yeah, promoting her upcoming CBS evening news program.
Yeah.
She says, quote, we are not here to simply report the news, but to provide you perspectives you may not have considered before.
Yeah, I think I've heard those.
Uh, we're gonna attach meaning to the news.
The thing is this one is perspectives.
What are perspectives?
Those are ideologies, those are worldviews.
Now, we need to remind them, the news reporters and organizations of their job description, not to create news, not to distort the news, not to sway public opinion, but to report the news.
All right.
Look, you know, I've seen these things too.
And I have to tell you something.
I I I'm uh I'm gonna go a little bit in a different direction here first before addressing directly what you say.
I'm in New York.
I am here in the Big Apple.
You cannot miss Katie Curick's face on a bus.
I think they bought I think they bought every bus in Manhattan.
It would be a shame if Katie got hit by one of these buses when she's walking around town.
They're really publicizing this.
They are creating all kinds of expectations.
They are I I've never seen anything like this.
If I I don't if I were Katie, I would have said to him, could we just get started like three weeks ago?
This build-up, this build-up, this build-up, we're creating expectations here that are going to be pretty difficult.
Now, uh as to as to what your point is that uh different showing perspective, different perspectives on the news.
I do know they're gonna have a commentary in every newscast.
They're calling it free speech.
I get people from all over the country giving their opinions about things.
She could be talking about that.
Uh from what I've read, they're gonna have, you know, scholars, comedians, uh just average people that they pluck from Main Street USA to do these.
But it's tough.
News is news, and then they're in there they're trying to promote it, and they're and they're obviously trying to put a new um a new face on it.
Uh, but it is what it is, and it's uh you know it's a 22-minute program and 22 minute newscast.
Uh and I I I think in the in the image creation here of what CBS is trying to do with his newscast, they're simply trying to establish that they're gonna go about this differently than the other two.
And you know what?
I don't I don't care how really from a standpoint of being a broadcaster, if they succeed in doing it differently than the other two networks do it, then it may work, at least in terms of differentiating CBS from the other people.
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