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Aug. 30, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 30, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, no wonder.
Here's the problem we're having.
It's right here, holding in my formerly nicotine-stained finger.
Florida State University's got a survey out that says that teenagers are under too much pressure to set high expectations.
That's a problem.
Teenagers expect too much of themselves.
Like the 30% that can't graduate, reading their diplomas.
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I hope you're ready.
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Have you have you heard about this gasoline prices maybe headed back down to two bucks by Thanksgiving?
Yeah, have you heard about this?
Have you heard about the falling crude oil price?
And have you heard about the ongoing uh reduction in gasoline prices up?
It has been happening.
We had a call yesterday from a guy, uh a ditto head, who was uh mentioning this.
And of course, there hasn't been much mention of this.
Uh this little story that I found is on the CNN money website.
I don't know if they've broadcast this.
A recent drop in prices at the pump could pick up steam, driving gasoline sharply lower in coming months.
Now, wait a sec.
I'm awfully confused.
I thought the pipeline rupture up there up in Alaska was supposed to supposed to cause all kinds of havoc.
And I suppose the uh the Hezbos and the Israelis' war in the Middle East, I thought that was gonna cause some interruptions, and I thought, well, I thought all that Bush was all wait.
I'm a little slow today.
This is Rove.
It's election time.
This is Thanksgiving is November, right?
That's the month of the election.
Rove and Cheney got together with big oil, and that's why these prices are falling.
Tom Close, a chief oil analyst at the oil price information service, said uh I'd say two bucks to two fifty by Thanksgiving.
Once you get past September 15th, it's really a downhill game.
Oh, that's even better.
September 15th, that's much closer to the election.
That's right when the campaigns are heating up out there.
Close has said so far the average cost of a gallon of gas uh peaked this year at $3.3, almost $3.04 on August 10th, has come down largely due to diminishing hurricane fears.
Diminishing hurricane fears, where?
Where the hell are the diminishing?
You know, we've got a new syndrome in this country, and it's called PKS, post-Catrina syndrome.
This hurricane, this never became a hurricane.
You know, I love the guys at the uh at the National Hurricane Center.
I think they just do an incredible job.
But I'll tell you what, this storm named Ernesto, it did nothing they thought it was gonna do.
It was gonna be a category three.
It was first gonna hit New Orleans dead on.
School bus Nagan even scheduled a press conference to talk about it five days out.
It didn't go anywhere they thought it was gonna go until the last 2436 hours.
Maybe yeah, 2436 hours.
It never reached the strength that they thought it was gonna reach.
Gas lines, uh shortages of bread and water in uh supermarkets in South Florida, schools closed two days in advance, and you know what it ended up being?
A rainstorm.
We panicked over a rainstorm, ladies and gentlemen.
I understand.
Some people are saying, hey, this is good.
It's good to get people tuned in, revved up, thinking it's gonna be pretty bad because then they'll take adequate steps and adequate preparation and so forth.
And in a general sense, I can go along with that.
But you know me.
I despise this crisis culture that we have created for ourselves, or that the drive-by media has created for ourselves.
It's gone to the point now where winds of 30 miles an hour will get us non-stop 24-7 drive-by media coverage of the potential destruction.
30 mile an hour winds.
Do you know I have been in New York all Week.
And I was I was also out in the Hamptons on Friday, played golf in a monsoon.
I have been there.
I I've I've I've had more rain.
We've had more rain here in New York than where I live at the EIB Southern Command got from this silly storm.
I flew up here to get away from that.
I've paid I can't tell you how much taxes, city and state tax every day to get away from a rainstorm.
A thunderstorm.
In fact, where I live, the measurable precipitation is not measurable.
They haven't had much.
I've been studying it on the radar.
It's just mind boggling.
Well, the hurricane fears.
Okay, so we have a Katrina, and everything, I mean, it doesn't matter where you look.
Television, weather, forecasters doesn't matter.
Everything is in that uh paradigm or as a reflection of how bad that was.
And of course, it comes on the heels of the so-called one-year anniversary of Katrina, uh, in which we are just having an orgasm over what that was last year.
The record is not being set straight.
The whole purpose, and I told you about this.
I warned you people ten days ago this is gonna happen.
And even those of you who heard the warning and heeded it, I'm sure still find yourselves frustrated, watching this never-ending saga, this orgasm of two weeks of Bush hatred, as though he created the hurricane, ordered the hurricane, did the damage himself personally, and now doesn't care about the aftermath.
Some of the questions that Brian Williams, you know, we we like Brian Williams here.
But I mean, some of these questions that he asked President Bush interview last night, downright insolent, disrespectful and rude.
Quoting some wacko professor from Princeton.
Some guy, what's his name?
Dyson?
As though he's a f of a foremost authority on this guy Dyson was out there saying, Well, aftermath, you know, Bush, he didn't care what happened down there, didn't care people lost their homes, didn't care people lost their lives.
That's just typical of Bush and his family being a bunch of East Coast patricians.
East Coast patricians.
And so that's the template now.
And all the drive-bys are running around talking about how Bush is an East Coast patrician.
He's in Texas.
Where's cowboy boots?
I thought he was a cowboy.
Now he's a patrician.
Thought he was a hay seed, I thought he was a Frat Boyd, now he's a patrician, just because one wacko professor at a so-called institution of higher learning labels him that way.
You know who the patricians are.
I mean, there are plenty of them in the Republican Party, don't misunderstand.
But if you want the definition of an East Coast patrician, I will give it to you in two words.
John F and Carey.
Well, it was three words.
John Kerry is the classic illustration of an East Richard Holbrook, East Coast patrician.
Uh but anyway, so this is it's it's just uh and we got great economic news, New York Times can't stand it.
Editorial today, if you think the economy's going good, latest statistics ought to tell you otherwise.
They hate the country.
I mean, you I can point out to you any amount of good news.
In fact, I'm thinking of this as an angle for tomorrow, H.R. I could point out any angle of good news, and there's plenty out there, and I could predict to you that it would result in outrage from people on the left who might hear me say it.
They just don't want to hear any good news.
It's not possible.
And when it stares them in the face, they will ignore it and spin it and turn it into something dire and drastic.
Uh and uh almost uh to the point of uh emergency.
Uh it's uh strange, strange times.
Gasoline prices go back to two bucks by thanks.
You you would think they'd be celebrating it.
Nope.
Nope, can't have that.
Why that might benefit Bush because every bit of news is looked at through the political prism of how it helps or hurts Bush and or slash the uh the uh Republicans.
Uh we had another terrorist incident out in San Francisco yesterday.
They're not calling it that, but check the name of the guy who mowed down to 14 people, killing one.
Uh we'll have details on this, not an isolated incident.
This happened uh well in in North Carolina.
Uh it has happened in a number of places.
New poll out.
Majority of Americans favor profiling.
I don't know how new that really is.
I think a majority of Americans actually have preferred profiling for uh for quite a while.
I also noticed in the New York Post today there was uh there's a column, I forget I didn't print it out, but I enjoyed seeing it because it was uh it's uh it's a limball echo syndrome.
Remember yesterday, quite a detailed monologue here on who our enemies really are when it comes to the uh domestic war on terror and trying to protect ourselves on airplanes, and our enemy is not baby milk formula.
The enemy is not shaving gel or any of that.
The enemy is a people who use this stuff, but we're profiling and trying to, you know, uh uh uh target all these things that are just the tools while ignoring what's staring us right in the face as to who is uh as is using them.
Also, uh, as I as I mentioned, I'm not kidding.
Florida State University says the problem with American teenagers today is that they have too high expectations, or their expectations being placed on them are too high.
Uh that's absurd.
Low expectations got everybody exactly what low expectations get you, low results.
So these uh high school kids being told shoot low.
Set your sights much, much lower.
Typical of liberals have no faith in people, no faith in the ability of people triumph over the obstacles of life.
And this is great, too.
This going on down in Mexico, you know, this guy that lost the election on there?
Uh uh uh Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, love saying that name.
Uh is planning to proclaim himself president anyway, and establish a parallel people's government.
Sort of like Colin Powell and Richard Armitage have done at the uh State Department.
Uh proclaim himself president and establish a parallel people's government on the National Day of Independence, September 16th.
Not gonna, you know, they're not gonna they're not gonna be happy living in a parallel universe.
Actually set up a parallel government.
Yeah, they'll I'm just should have do everything.
They'll pick a cabinet, they'll probably build themselves a Capitol building.
Who knows what they do?
But uh that's liberals for it.
They just, folks, uh I I warn you if the Liberals lose big here in November, if they don't win the White House, uh liberals are liberals, I don't care where you go, and they are liberals first before they are anything else.
A quick timeout.
We'll come back and get started with all the rest of the exciting program right after this.
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You know, in addition to this uh shadow government that uh is going to be established here by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Uh I am reminded that the Mexicans already have a shadow government, uh, ladies and gentlemen, here in the U.S. uh it's it's called California.
So this will be the second shadow government established by uh a renegade uh Mexican group uh political party that left uh essentially a coup d'etat.
I also checked email a couple people say, what's a patrician?
Um uh meaning the the description that this uh this Dyson character from I think he's from Princeton described Bush as being uh dictionary definition of pr uh patrician is uh is an aristocrat.
Uh somebody from a uh uh a long established wealthy family.
Uh the dictionary definition here uh is uh sort of a misnomer because this is not what I don't think is what Dyson actually means.
I think he's describing attitudes.
And in this case, uh holier than now, superiorist, uh better than everybody else, doesn't care about people who he considers lesser uh than him.
That's the uh Patrician attitude.
Snob, just think of snob when you think of patrician.
Uh think of elderly metrosexual uh gets manicures, perfectly impeccably dressed, wears ascots, uh, drinks gin starting at three o'clock in the afternoon, uh, goes to horse races, you know, there's no connection with real life.
That that's what this clown meant.
Uh and and that's why it is uh it is it is so insulting.
And then for this for this uh meeting, just pick up this one statement from this one guy and then use it as the template.
That's what's happened.
We have a montage of questions from Brian Williams to President Bush while walking around New Orleans.
You have apologized for the damage, but what about the damage to your presidency?
If you ask nine out of ten presidential historians, high point, bullhorn, low point, we're standing on it.
Is there a palpable tension when you get together with the former president who happens to be your father?
Do you have any moments of doubt that we fought the wrong war?
There was a report that you have just read the works of a French philosopher.
This is a change.
You two years ago were reading the life story of Joe DiMaggio.
How have you been read wrong?
Still not watching television, huh?
A lot of Americans email me with their fears that some days they wake up and it just feels to them like the end of the world is near.
Really?
People are sending Brian Williams those emails.
Is that was that Brian Williams saying that?
Well, I'm telling me, I'm not sure.
What is it?
I'm not hearing you either.
Um Yeah, but is that's Brian Williams, not Bush saying that.
I'm just okay.
A lot of Americans email me with their fears that some days they wake up and it just seems to them, feels to them like the end of the world.
Brian, I wonder why.
Have you taken a look at an average newscast these days?
Can you find anything upbeat, optimistic, anywhere in drive-by media news coverage?
Even good news like the gas price is portrayed as eh, no big deal.
After making hay over rising gas prices, blaming Bush for a lack of concern, his association with big oil.
Here come the gas prices down according to the markets.
Markets are dictating this as they always do.
Um of course there's no cause for great celebration.
Well, you don't get any stories of heroism from our military anywhere.
Afghanistan, Iraq, all we get is stories of how they murder, they rape, they pillage, they mistreat, they violate the Geneva Convention.
Why do you think you'll be getting emails from people who think the end of the world is near?
You're portraying every day just that way.
I don't care what it is.
A hurricane.
Just yesterday, for example, you people might have thought I was joking.
This story about a black hole gobbling us up.
Now, in normal circumstances, we'd all laugh about this, but you put it in the uh in in the context of the current frame of mind and reference that news is reported, and it's just another potential disaster out there that could happen, and there's nothing we can do about it.
The only thing that was missing from that story was that uh global warming is not a factor.
But give them time.
Global warming may be such that it is attracting a black hole to come swallow us up.
Listen to this.
Drive by media settled on this new Katrina Mantra, Bill Schneider, Michael Eric Dyson, uh, the left-wing professor that got it all started, Jack Cafferty, Eugene Robinson.
The public saw a remote, even clueless president after Katrina struck.
It reinforced the reputation of the Bushes as clueless patricians.
Political cronies in charge of the relief agencies were clueless as to what to do.
It's an image kind of of impotence and frankly, in the image terms of cluelessness.
Right.
Uh, like just this is see how this stuff spreads, it's no different than the whole gravitas angle and uh and all that.
Contrast this, if you will, with the uh coverage that the uh Hezbollah people got with their fast action in putting back together Southern Lebanon after it had been torn asunder by those evil Israelis who targeted nothing but innocent civilians.
The Hesbos are so great at it, they're passing out money the next day.
Never mind that it was counterfeit.
Um and they're rebuilding the roads, where the roads got rebuilt in two days, the bridges got rebuilt in three, and the air conditioning was turned back on in four hours.
We Americans, of course, particularly in the Bush administration, we're just the dregs.
We're just human debris, ladies and gentlemen.
These people hate their country.
I mean, there can be no other conclusion.
Here, um, here's Williams again, Brian Williams, and he uh he asks President Bush, most of the analysts call it your low point.
A lot of Americans always gonna believe that the weekend that week, you're watching something on television other than what they were seeing.
Professor Dyson from Pennsylvania, not not Princess, sorry, Pennsylvania, said on our broadcast last night's because of your patrician upbringing.
Uh that's a classic.
I don't know Dyson, and Dyson doesn't know me, but I will tell you this when it's all said and done, the people down here know that I stood in Jackson Square, and I said we're gonna help you, and we delivered.
What matters, Brian, is that we helped the good people here rebuild New Orleans.
And the and the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, and we're gonna do that.
You know, commitments and politics sometimes mean nothing.
I made a commitment that means something.
And that's what's gonna happen.
And uh look, I understand people are second-guessing decisions and Professor Dysons of the World say things.
My heart and my soul is to help these people, and they know it.
What's amazing about this is that uh there are more patricians in the media, at least people who view themselves that way.
Uh conceited, arrogant, better than everybody else, members of an aristocracy, a unique little club.
Uh what do they do to help anybody?
Especially the way they're running their business now.
Just what do they do to help anybody?
They are discouraging and depressing and harming more people than anything George W. Bush could do.
It's just the opposite of what Bush has been trying to do for people in this country.
Hey, I got a little question for here, folks.
Since Bush getting blame for Hurricane Katrina, how long do you think it'll be before the drive-by media starts crediting Bush for stopping uh Tropical Storm Ernesto and keeping it basically a minor event?
Welcome back.
Great to have you.
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Here's this story from Florida State University.
American teenagers are under pressure to set themselves higher goals.
But often these are unrealistic and out of their reach, according to a study at Florida State University.
The release of the survey yesterday coincided with figures showing that students who graduated from Has Scruel in 2006 recorded the sharpest drop in 31 years in the SAT test, which is used as a standardized guide for college entrance.
Unfortunately, the goals of too many teens now outpace what they are likely to achieve, a problem that can lead to wasted time and resources, not to mention anxiety and distress, the uh university researchers said in a statement.
The uh Florida State University study to be published in the journal Social Problems.
That's one of my all-time favorite magazines, folks, by the way, social journals of uh social problems.
I've had a had a subscription of this.
I've never heard of this.
Social problems.
We are immersed in pessimism.
We're literally immersed in it.
It is the focal, it's what drives the information society in this country today.
Anyway, this this uh study found the gap between school leavers' career plans and their actual achievements is uh is growing.
They use data from several national surveys, found that 50% of school leavers no, they don't they don't say graduates.
The dropout rate's pretty high out there.
Uh 50% of people who leave school in 2000 plan to continue their education after college to get an advanced degree compared to 26% in uh 1976.
Uh sixty-three percent plan to work in professions like the law, medicine, or engineering by age 30, up from 41 percent four years earlier.
But the percentage of Haskrule graduates between 25 and 30 who actually earned advanced degrees remained roughly steady, meaning only the expectations have changed.
All right, let's examine this for a moment.
I mean, it's easy to hear this, digest it, throw it in and and uh and regurgitate back out.
But let's go to the uh opening paragraph here.
American teenagers under pressure to set themselves higher goals, but often these are unrealistic and out of their reach, according to a Florida State University study.
Now, who might be pressuring them?
What might it what might be the source of the pressure for American teenagers to set themselves higher goals?
Could it be their teachers?
It'd be their parents, maybe a combination of the two.
Uh could it be our celebrity pop culture?
Could it be, ladies and gentlemen, this is what I think it is.
Could it be the overwhelming abundance in this country?
Do you realize that never In the course of human history has a nation of people had so much than we have today.
Never in the course of human history has a nation had a population with such opportunity as we have today.
It is mind boggling.
My father would not be able to believe my life.
He would not understand it.
And I'm sure that many of you are in the same circumstance.
Now I know, because I've heard from you.
There are a lot of you people out there think I have lost touch, and that I don't know what I'm talking about, because I don't know what it's like to not have to worry about health care and all these other things.
And this is what that distresses me too when I when I hear things like that, because I hear people are giving up.
I hear people that are not willing to access the opportunities that exist in the country.
I hear people who fall prey to this daily barrage, and they know it's hard not to, to this daily barrage of pessimism, apocalyptic news reporting.
The end of the world is near.
Brian Williams just said he's getting email from people like that.
I'm sure it made his day, too.
Means he's doing his job.
Never before have we had the prosperity that we enjoy in this country today.
And I'm telling you, folks, despite what you think, you have teenagers, has cruel students.
They see evidence of it all over the place when they look out at America.
I don't care if they see it in movies, I don't care if they see it in television shows, I don't care if they see it in their towns and cities where they live, they know it's out there.
But this really isn't anything uncommon.
This has been the story of America since our inception.
Every day in America has been better than the previous day.
You might find some exceptions during wartime, the Great Depression, and so forth, but even those are examples of the greatness of the country and the spirit of the American people.
Uh it's a can-do country.
Uh but one of the great one of the great fears that I have is that this never-ending barrage of pessimism and apocalyptic reporting is in fact going to affect more and more people and believe they don't have the chance.
I'm actually happy to hear that a bunch of high schoolers have high expectations.
My gosh, if you don't have high expectations, you're never going to reach them.
One of the best ways to motivate anybody, somebody works for you, a family members down in their luck.
Expect a lot of them and tell them you do.
If you tell them you don't expect much of them, that's exactly what they're going to give you.
Think back to the best teacher you had in school, probably the one you hated the most.
But that best teacher or the best boss you've ever had, or the best friend would have.
It's probably somebody that taught you that you have more in you than you know you have or knew you have.
Many people are not self-starters.
Somebody was able to ignite a fire and get you to go do something you didn't think you could do, gave you the courage and the guts to try it.
When you achieved it, boy, what do you think about yourself?
How did you feel about it?
Felt really great.
Didn't understand all this negativism and doom and gloom and apocalyptic apocalyptic reporting that's going on out there.
So you have a bunch of high school students who have high expectations.
That's damn good.
Now we've got a bunch of pointy-headed academics coming along and saying, no, it's not.
His expectations are out of reach.
Well, yep, shouldn't shouldn't dream anymore.
Shouldn't dream of reaching the pinnacle of whatever it is you want to do.
Shouldn't dream of being the best you can be, shouldn't dream.
Everybody should know how limited they are.
Instead of getting in touch with the highest possibility of human life, these tids are not, kids are going to be told now, don't expect much, folks.
Especially of yourselves.
You're really not capable of it.
A bunch of liberals, obviously, behind this.
Don't expect much.
Besides, country sucks.
What chance for you is out there?
We're going to be blown up in a terrorist attack.
We're at war.
Uh we're not at war.
Bush is rotten.
Uh the economy is going crazy.
Uh, the gasoline prices are being priced out of your existence to even own a car.
The things that they're bombarded with every day, and yet they still have these high expectations.
It's not just high school people either.
Go to your average college kid expects to graduate living in a $300,000 house on a $500,000 a year salary.
They expect it.
Now, why is this?
Is it because their parents have it?
Some cases, yeah.
Most cases, no.
They expect it because they're Americans.
They expect it because they see other people achieving it.
Now, those expectations may be a little unrealistic in terms of how much money you're going to earn in your life how soon.
I think there's still exceptions to this, but there are there's still a general rule that they aren't going to let you earn big money till you turn 40.
The they is our culture.
And the 40 has to do with with uh with history.
That's when culture and our society generally deems somebody has lived long enough, had enough life experiences, um, has made decisions in life that can be judged to be dependable, uh trustworthy or not.
There are exceptions to everything.
The 40 may be 35, and I don't know what it is, but it's uh it still exists.
So, but but even at that, there are people who have beaten it, and they strive to beat it, and when they're told you're not gonna be allowed to make anything really to turn 40, they say, Oh, yeah, watch me.
But now we got people, no, no, you don't, don't do that.
Dial it back.
Dial back your expectations.
After all, you live in America.
What do you think this is, Southern Lebanon?
I mean, don't confuse your opportunities here, folks, these people are trying to tell uh these kids.
Now here's the next one.
Unfortunately, the goals of too many teens now outpace what they are likely to achieve.
A problem that can lead to wasted time and resources, not to mention anxiety and distress.
And we can't have any anxiety in life.
And we certainly can't have any distress in life, and you know what?
We aren't even allowed to have any disappointments.
So make sure, say these academics, set your sights low.
Set your sights really low.
Make sure those goals are realistic.
Tell yourself you stink.
Tell yourself you are incompetent.
Tell yourself you don't have what it takes, and then you won't be anxious.
And then you won't be disappointed, and then you won't have any stress.
You won't amount to anything either.
Uh and it's just of to me, it is it is extraordinarily sad.
Um people have unrealistic goals.
Um it's life.
You deal with it.
Some people have a different formula for goals, some people get very specific.
Two years I want to be here, three years want to be there, four years I want to be there.
Other people, like me, had generalized goals.
My generalized, you know what my generalized goal was?
In radio, I want to be the best there's ever been.
I didn't know how it was going to manifest itself, I didn't know where, didn't know when.
I just knew, and I told myself as far back as 16 when I started, that I was going to be among the best that ever did this.
But I didn't say when.
And so when I got fired seven times, I didn't get, oh no, I can't do it.
Or anxious, a little anxious, of course, to the next job.
Uh there's all kinds of ways of setting goals that that um, you know, d uh f further the uh uh the opportunity to reach them.
But this whole notion that this is something that shouldn't be done, that too many people are simply setting their sights too high, just offends me.
This is the United States of America.
This is the one place on earth where you can set high standards for yourself, you can establish great goals, you can dream to your heart's content, and you actually have the opportunity to make it come true.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution, ladies and gentlemen, I want to take a stab at explaining all the apocalyptic news and entertainment that you are being exposed to, we are all being exposed to.
Um it's I I I give you an illustration.
If you go back to uh the inaugural week for Bill Clinton in uh 1993, the week prior to his inauguration.
I've mentioned this a number of times.
A week-long series of events on the mall in Washington.
They had a bunch of singers in there.
They had brought in uh Aretha Franklin and others.
And I swear, virtually every singer had a theme to the songs they were singing that week.
And the theme was we are out of jail.
The shackles are gone.
We are free again.
We shall overcome.
As though they had been in jail, as though they'd been in some kind of prison during the previous twelve years of Reagan and Bush.
They find themselves in the same circumstances now.
They are miserable.
They are unhappy.
They are forlorn.
They have descended in the early stages of madness.
They are trying to make it look like the whole country agrees with them, feels as they do because they are arrogant and condescending and superiorists, and still think they represent the majority of thinking in the country.
So while they broadcast the news, write the news, do their movies, so forth and so on, you are subject to their misery.
And they are trying to rope you in.
They are trying to have you embrace this misery.
Because they want your misery and your doom and gloom and your pessimism to translate into votes for Democrats in November.
And I will guarantee you, remember when David Dinkins, the general, General Dinkins, won what was it, a primary, or he actually won the mayor's election here?
Was it a primary?
The day he won election as mayor.
The newspapers, the tabloids the next day after the election.
Why the air is cleaner today.
The sun is shining brighter today.
Why, even the bag ladies are not hitting us so hard with their bags.
The homeless are even saying thank you.
The bus drivers, the cab drivers, and the subway operators.
Why everybody's smiling today?
I guarantee you, if the Democrats take back the House of Representatives, you are going to see one of the most 180 degree turnarounds in attitudes you have witnessed in a long time.
Gone will be the apocalypse.
Gone will be the pessimism, the doom and gloom, and they will be the ones talking in in terms of hope and opportunity for the country because they are back in charge.
This whole thing is a game.
This whole thing is rigged.
It is phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock and rollerism.
It is outright abject lies.
It is an attempt to poison your mind, to ruin your life, to destroy your attitude, and to rob you of the very essence of being an American and believing in American exceptionalism.
Point simple.
It is no more complicated than that.
Now there's still going to be the left-wing cook fringe base, and they'll still be mad and enraged and so forth, but even they will spark.
Even they will have a bit of a lift.
But it will be the presidential race in November of 08.
That will actually be the turning point.
You'll be amazed how why gas prices aren't a problem anymore.
War is not a problem.
The war on terrorism won't be a problem.
This is all a charade, folks.
A pure 100% charade.
Kimberly in Sarasota, Florida.
I'm glad you called you up first.
Welcome to the show.
But unfortunately, it's about to change.
Tonight on ABC, they are going to show us how in Yellowstone National Park, a geyser will finally explode after 630,000 years of being dormant.
This geyser has exploded every 600,000 years forever.
And now we're 30,000 years past that point.
So we are about to end.
Doom and gloom again.
Why?
What's going to happen when the geyser explodes?
It is going to put foot eight feet deep around the nation.
South Dakota will be covered within 30 minutes.
We will have no warning.
Really?
It will all be Bush and Taney's fault.
I'm sure.
By the way, Cameron is this, is this portrays a documentary or is this one is TV made for TV movies?
It's a made-for-tv movie, Russ.
It's on tonight, and they they highlighted it on 2020 last night.
And absolutely just ridiculous once again.
Well, join the club.
I mean, there have been countless numbers of these Algors of inconvenient truth.
I mean, that's just pathetic.
That movie is just absolutely pathetic, and it's all oriented toward the apocalypse.
Not just pessimism and doom and gloom.
It is apocalyptic, pure and simple.
And this is just the latest latest entry into it.
And it's, you know, they'll say, well, it's entertainment and so forth, but this is the mindset, the mindset that exists to uh produce these things.
I tell you a short story.
Well, I don't have time to do it now.
A friend of mine has produced a documentary.
Uh, two-part series going to run uh on 9-11 for ABC.
Screened it in Washington last week.
The documentary blames Clinton, Sandy Berger, Madeline Albright.
The reaction my friend got was predictable, but very upsetting to him.
Back in just a second.
Where did it go?
First hour's gone, and we can't get it back, folks.
I guess we'll just have to do another.
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