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September 4, 2006, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I told you, I told you it was going to happen.
We cannot get away from Katrina news.
But the White House is countering, and they countered brilliantly.
And we have the audio tape to illustrate.
You also will not believe what the next season starting soon of Survivor is going to do.
You will not believe the format of Survivor.
And the New York Times says that Iran will not give a promise to end its uranium effort.
The question is, what's a promise from these people worth anyway?
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, three hours of broadcast excellence, hosted by me, living legend El Rushball, America's anchorman, real anchorman, as well as a doctor of democracy and your truth detector, all combined as one harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
Now, as I announced yesterday, I'm following the advice of Pope Benedict, and I'm not going to work too hard so that I don't become cold-hearted or hard-hearted.
He says, if you work too much, you become too hard-hearted.
And I can understand this, especially when your work consists of immersing yourself daily in the drive-by media bubble.
You have to wear a virtual armor, set of armor here to provide boundaries to keep myself from becoming affected by it.
And so I'll be out tomorrow and Friday.
As such, we're going to do Open Line Friday on Wednesday today.
And that means when we go to the phones, the program's all yours.
Whatever you want to talk about, feel free.
There's no such thing as being off-topic on an open line phone day.
And so feel free if there's something you want to talk about that hasn't been discussed.
Snerdley's worried that doing this on any other day, but Friday increases the risk of amateur callers taking control of the program because you think they're conditioned to only being ready to do so on Friday.
Yeah.
Well, I don't care.
I mean, that's fine and dandy.
It'll be fun.
800-282-2882 if you'd like to be on the program.
And a hearty welcome to those of you watching on the Dittocam at rushlimbaugh.com.
Well, Senator McCain, who some are calling Senator McCrazy, Senator McCain is back.
He's sucking up to the drive-by media and taking cheap shots at President Bush.
He was in Ohio yesterday campaigning for and with Senator Mike DeWine, said this at a news conference.
I think one of the biggest mistakes we made was underestimating the size of the task and the sacrifice it would be required.
Stuff happens.
Mission accomplished, last throws, few dead enders.
I'm more familiar with those statements than anyone else because it grieves me so much that we have not told the American people how tough and difficult this task would be.
I'm going to go back.
I have a quote here from President Bush on April 28th of 2003.
May I read that quote to you?
Iraq can be an example of peace and prosperity and freedom to the entire Middle East.
It will be a hard journey, but at every step of the way, Iraq will have a steady friend and the American people.
I am not aware of the president.
Well, I'm not aware of myself ever thinking this was going to be a cakewalk.
And I'm not aware of the administration making the case.
I think that mission accomplished banner on board the aircraft carrier, Some could say that was misleading, but the mission at that time was accomplished.
That was getting rid of Saddam.
The war in Iraq actually was quite successful and didn't take very long.
It is the aftermath, the quest for peace, so to speak, that is taking a long time.
I don't think the president misled anybody about it.
Anyway, here is what McCain wanted.
He wanted coverage on all the evening news, the cable channels, drive-by media adulation, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, and he got it.
Here's a montage.
Senator McCain says that the administration misled the public about the war, led the public to think it would be a day at the beach.
War of words.
Senator John McCain comes out swinging, accusing the president of misleading the American people, making them think it would be some kind of day at the beach.
Tough talk.
McCain ripped into the administration for painting too rosy a picture and trying to lead the American people into believing the war was some kind of day at the beach.
President Bush faces tough criticism, and this comes from a key supporter, Republican Senator John McCain.
McCain blamed the Bush administration for leading the American people to believe the war in Iraq would be a day at the beach.
Senator John McCain is turning up the volume on his criticism of the war in Iraq.
McCain blasted top Bush officials for painting too rosy a picture in the war.
Tough talk.
One very prominent member of the GOP.
Strong words from John McCain.
John McCain has not simply been a cheerleader.
He has told people a lot more of the truth.
Senator John McCain hit the administration hard.
Could it be a revival of the Straight Talk Express?
Oh, that was our old friend Claire Shipman at ABC panting away.
Are we going to get this Tray Talk Express back?
This is why Senator McCain is going to have trouble in the Republican primaries.
He is appealing to the base instincts of the drive-by media.
The Republican primary voters have no love for the drive-by media.
Anybody pandering to the drive-by media is not somebody the Republican base is going to be excited about.
Then you add to that the fact that McCain, in pandering to the drive-by media, had to go out and attack the administration on an area in which the administration shows its strongest suit.
The American people are behind.
Well, the Republican base, let's just stick with them, very much behind the president in this whole effort.
In fact, USA Today had this poll out yesterday that confirms something that I've been thinking about for the longest time.
Poll has his approval rating back up to 42%.
And according to the poll, the reason that the approval number was up is that the American people loved the response to recent acts or intempted acts of terrorism.
Illustrating one of my theories that over the course of these recent months where his approval numbers have been in the mid to high 30s, it's not because people disapprove per se of the way Bush is doing this or doing that.
It's because they wish people would, Republicans anyway in the poll, wish he would do more.
Project U.S. power, go in and kick butt and show the world what we're capable of and end this thing with a stunning victory.
And with the poll shooting up to over 40%, 42% in USA Today, I think that view tends to be validated.
Now, in all fairness, and I want to mention this to you in conjunction with Senator McCain's pandering to the drive-by media and criticizing this administration for its words about the war in Iraq, ABC last night had a very rare positive report on ABC's World News Tonight.
Charles Gibson reported encouraging news from Baghdad.
The decision was made to redeploy thousands of U.S. troops from the Baghdad area, from other areas of Iraq, to secure the city and reduce the number of daily attacks.
Well, the numbers are preliminary, but it seems to be working.
After two weeks, Iraqi authorities say that the number of violent attacks has gone down by 30%.
ABC reporters said by saturating some of the most dangerous neighborhoods, they have reduced violence across Baghdad by almost a third.
U.S. figures calculated differently show a 22% drop.
Either way, the Americans are fired up.
And I quote Lieutenant Patrick Patterson of the 114th Cavalry, who says, yeah, it's been great.
We got a lot of smiles.
We got a lot of waves.
Still, despite the positive tone, ABC's McCarthy concluded, hope has often gone sour in Iraq.
If they can't make their own peace, America's success in Baghdad could quickly be reversed.
Well, that's the new, not new, that's the formulaic balance that the media has to put in.
That all kinds of great news, but, but just so we're fair, it could all go to hell in a handbasket in the next five minutes.
So on the day Senator McCain goes out and is critical in order to get this loving, slavish attention from the drive-by media, the news out of Iraq, pretty good.
That's almost the same kind of thing that happens to Democrats, opening a door right into their noses and so forth.
And this, as I say, was reported on ABC's World News Tonight last night.
Now, speaking of Iraq, I ask you a question.
Do you think you've been manipulated, ladies and gentlemen?
Because you should.
You've been conned, you have been diddled, you've been twisted, you've been stroked.
Any other word that says you've been had, you and all of us have been assaulted by the drive-by media, by the action line, by the images of deaths in combat day after day, week after week, since 2003.
Now, why do I bring this up?
Well, because today's Washington Post has an interesting story.
Highway deaths in 2005 hit 43,344, and that's close to a high.
Now, the number of highway deaths in this country, 43,344 in 2005, is 40 to 50 times our troop losses in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
Well, 10 or 20 times at least.
And a whole lot more deaths per month than any civil war in Iraq, if there was or is a civil war in Iraq.
I don't know whatever happened to if it bleeds, it leads, but there's a whole lot more bleeding on our highways than in the war zone of Iraq out there, and a whole lot more dying going on on the American highway system than there is in the so-called civil war in Iraq.
And I don't hear a word from John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, or John Murtha, or Joe Biden or Howard Dean.
For every Cindy Sheehan, there are 40 to 50 mothers who have suffered far worse heartbreak.
Cindy's son gave his life for his country, not for going to the drugstore.
I think it's time for your hosts to read the Riot Act here, ladies and gentlemen.
I expect the following will offend almost everyone, but somebody has to say it.
When our nation is at war, your duty is to support it, not offer your precious little opinion.
But Russian democracy, it's our right to defend and so forth.
Well, you know, instead of thinking about your rights, leftists, you might be thinking about your responsibilities.
And among those responsibilities is not to signal the enemy that we are divided in one election away from quitting or that you are sabotaging our effort to achieve victory over this enemy, in effect, trying to secure our defeat.
And it's not wise to signal the people of Iraq that we're ready to cut them off at the knees.
The president says it isn't going to happen anyway, but nevertheless, there are agitators in this country who are actively promoting combat losses for political gain.
You know, the count?
1,000 and then 1,500 and then 2,000 and 2,500.
Well, let's do a count of highway deaths on a daily basis.
See how long it would take us to get to 1,000 if we're having nearly 44,000 a year.
It is an illustration of a lack of proportion.
In fact, the roadway deaths is a highest level in 15 years, 43,443 Americans every year, ladies and gentlemen.
And we're here turning ourselves into rags, pretzeling ourselves into contortions over the combat deaths in Iraq, regardless and mindless of the heroic mission that is taking place.
And of course, the stories have been out there that battlefield combat deaths are at an all-time low, and this upsets the left.
It upsets them, and they run stories in Reuters.
Well, that's a problem.
Too many people coming home without arms and legs.
They'd be better off dead.
Too many surgeons out there on the front lines saving lives that ought not to be saved.
They ought to be in the rear saving lives that have more useful.
This is what they have said this, folks.
They're upset.
We couldn't figure it out when it first happened.
But now we know why.
They want combat deaths.
They want to be able to gin up anti-war support.
Where is the ginning up of the anti-automobile support, anti-SUV support with the highway death toll at nearly 44,000 in 2005?
Back after this.
Stay with us.
Yeah, see, I told you so, Time.
From our old buddies of the Associated Press, no less than a half dozen reports on the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort are being released to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the storm.
Told you this, told you to get ready for this, folks.
The reports document a host of problems from the still unfinished levies to the plight of small businesses in the city's continuing racial divide.
Why should there be any racial divide?
This place is a liberal utopia.
Why should there be a racial divide here at all?
Many of the reports focus on the failure of federal dollars to reach their intended targets.
Oxfam America, a charitable organization, reports point out that although $17 billion has been approved by Congress to rebuild homes in Louisiana, Mississippi, not one house has been rebuilt with that money in either state.
Well, now that's interesting.
Why do you think that is?
Why?
Well, yeah, if you believe it.
I mean, but let's just say the drive-by media is saying it.
That's what they're trying to, they're trying to get people all revved up.
Why would that possibly, how could that possibly be?
$17 million, $70 billion, sorry, approved by Congress to rebuild homes in Louisiana, Mississippi.
Not one house has been rebuilt with that money in either state.
Now, this is quite curious, ladies and gentlemen.
Could it be that the money just isn't getting to the people?
This is Louisiana, after all.
Could it be the money isn't getting to the people whose homes need to rebuilt to be rebuilt?
Could it be that people haven't gotten ready to rebuild their homes yet for whatever reason?
Could it be that while the money has been authorized, it's not there yet?
Congress can do what, hey, we're giving you $17 billion.
Sign the bill, president signs it, Mamo, done.
No, not quite.
Could it be that the bureaucracy of the federal government still hasn't gotten the money down there?
A report from the Democratic members of the House Small Business Committee found that 80% of small businesses on the Gulf Coast have not yet received loans promised by the federal government.
The Small Business Administration has approved loans in excess of $10 billion, but only $2 billion has found its way to business owners.
Obviously, the Bush administration hates Democrats.
Obviously, the Bush administration doesn't want New Orleans rebuilt and constituted as it was.
Obviously, the Bush administration wants Hurricane Katrina evacuees to stay in Houston, where they continue to wreak and ravish mayhem in that city.
In the meantime, the Louisiana Democratic congressman caught on FBI surveillance tapes, taking $90,000 in cash.
Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, has been selected by the Democratic Congressional Caucus to lead a delegation from Capitol Hill on a tour of New Orleans next week to, quote, join in prayer with the people of the region to reflect and remember.
Who wants to remember it?
You think the people that live down there want to relive this?
You want to see where they think the people want to go there and reflect and remember going through hell?
Maybe that's not what's going to happen.
Maybe what's going to happen is that Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, is going to take these Democrats on a tour to say, this is where I commandeered a United or a National Guard vehicle and had them drive me to my fashionable uptown neighborhood.
This is my fashionable uptown neighborhood.
This is where the National Guard vehicle got stuck in the mud while I was inside my house for an entire hour trying to get some items I desperately needed out of my freezer and my microwave.
And this is when I came out of the house and that's where the helicopter came to rescue us all because the original vehicle was stuck in the mud.
And this is how I got out of there.
And while all this was going on, this is the bridge where people were desperately waving to be picked up by helicopters that were actually ferrying me out of my uptown neighborhood with whatever it was I pulled out of my microwave in there.
One of the quotes is Ken Bohm, the chairman of the National Legal Policy Center, a political ethics watchdog group, said, I suppose if Representative Cunningham could get out of federal prison, they could have him co-lead the tour with Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
So all these remembrances, reflection and remembrance of going through hell.
Coming next, Rocky Vacarella, man who lost his home in Hurricane Katrina, met with the president in the Oval Orifice today.
And following the Oval Orifice meeting, they went out and met the press in a brief press conference.
We have the audio tape standing by.
Happily making the complex understandable here on the EIB network.
The more I read this story on what the new concept of survivor is that starts on September 14th, the more unbelievable it is.
What?
You.
Well, Mr. Snerdley is inputting here as the official program observer.
I will spare you his input.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
The president and Rocky Varella, New Orleans resident who lost his home to Hurricane Katrina, spoke to the press after a meeting in the Oval Orifice.
Here's the president first and a couple soundbites from Rocky Vacarella.
Rock's a plain-spoken guy.
He's the kind of fellow I feel comfortable talking to.
I told him that I understand that there's people down there that still need help.
And I told him the federal government will work with the state and local authorities to get the help to him as quickly as possible.
I want to thank the members of Congress of both political parties that helped us pass over $110 billion of appropriations.
And that's going to help the folks.
I told him that to the extent that there's still bureaucratic hurdles and the need for the federal government to help eradicate those hurdles, we want to do that.
And now here's Rocky Vacarella.
The president's people person.
I knew that from the beginning.
I was confident that I could meet President Bush.
And my mission was very simple.
I wanted to thank President Bush for the millions of FEMA trailers that were brought down there.
They gave roofs over people's head.
People had the chance to have baths, air conditioning.
We have TV.
We have toiletry.
We have things and necessities that we can live upon.
But now I wanted to remind the president that the job's not done, and he knows that.
And I just don't want the government and President Bush to forget about us.
Did anybody hear Rocky talk about Mayor Blanco, Governor Blanco, or the mayor, School Bus Nagan?
I didn't hear that.
Now, we don't have everything that Rocky said.
Get this next one.
And I just wish the president could have another term in Washington.
You know, I wish he had another four years, man.
If we had this president for another four years, I think we'd be great.
Okay.
Well, Rocky, you just blew it.
You had a chance to be a star.
The drive-by media could make a hero out of you and all that.
But then when you go advocating for President Bush to remain in power, you're just going to become another hayseed southern hick with an IQ of that of a pencil eraser.
Be ready, sir.
We are warning you here that your portrayal, if this gets any more coverage, will not be favorable.
Oh, how Mother Sheehan feels about President meeting Rocky Vacarella.
Well, Cindy already had her meeting with President Bush.
Cindy's not stable anyway, so she did.
She had a meeting with President Bush long ago where she was very thankful and so forth.
She just, Cindy's not stable.
It's typical the way the left uses people.
Let's go to the phones.
Chris in Dallas, Open Line Friday on Wednesday.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Hi, how are you doing?
Just fine, sir.
Well, I was calling to see if you were planning on getting one of those new Apple Mac Pros that they released a few weeks ago.
Yes, in fact, I'm getting four of them.
Really?
Yeah, well, Rocky.
I was wondering what you're going to do with your old computer.
Well, I'm going to turn them into servers.
Servers wait for the website for all the email accounts that we have here.
It'll become servers.
Yeah, I, well, no, no, no, no.
We have a server farm here at the EIB Southern Command.
They're going to be turned into servers here.
I have a computer here and at home and also at home and at work at the studio in New York, Chris, and that's why the need for.
Plus, I got a 17-inch Mac Pro when I take on the road when I need a computer on the road.
Right.
You're going to get one?
Well, I'd like to.
I'm starting.
I'm trying to follow in the true.
I'm a Rush baby, just as a matter of fact, and I was trying to follow in the true Rush footsteps.
I'm going to start my own web and graphic design business.
And I'd like to.
I'm going to get one of the new ones, but I really can't afford one.
So I was looking to see if you might be willing to part with one of your old ones.
Oh, that's.
You know, Rocky, or Chris, if I were paranoid, you know what I would think?
Well, I would think that you were just kissing up to me that you want to try to get one of my old computers thinking that I think I'll erase the hard drive, but you'll be able to go in there and get super secret data from it as maybe as a member of one of these Kook Lib blog websites.
You know, these new Mac Pros, they're not, you can custom make these things to where they're not nearly as expensive as the old Powerback G5s were.
Yeah, you can do them.
I'm not going to get mine until the middle of September because I order them loaded, and there's a delay with the Airport Extreme card and the video card that I want.
But no, they're great machines.
And, you know, the great thing about Macs is that you don't have any problem with viruses with them.
Right.
Well, I've got an old PowerBook, but it's just not doing the job for me as far as the kind of stuff that I'm going to need to do when I start the business.
Well, you know, this is an interesting question.
I mean, you want to start a business.
You want the business to be the best it can be.
And you've got the need here for a business expense.
I mean, the computer would be fundamental to your business expense.
So finding a way to get one will be crucial.
You'll make it pay for itself with the business that you're able to produce and generate with it, I would think.
You can get into one of these things for a couple thousand dollars.
Yeah, I'm sure I can.
I just wanted to see if you're getting one of those new ones because they work pretty dang fast.
Yeah, I'm sure you're not.
They are.
They are.
Well, I appreciate your interest in one of my old ones, but we have plans.
You should have called a couple weeks ago when I was getting rid of my projector in my media room.
I gave that to the homeless.
Computers and the homeless, I don't know.
I don't know how they connect to the internet out there under the bridge.
Well, could you get a wireless Verizon card or some such thing as that, perhaps?
Anyway, Chris, thanks for the call.
Amy, Louisville, Open Line Friday on Wednesday.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Megan Dido's from Another Rush Baby.
Thank you.
And I just had a quick comment on Senator McCain, what he said.
I'm a military wife, and my husband went over to Iraq as soon as the war ended, as soon as Saddam fell.
And I don't feel misled at all.
He told me, my husband told me before he went over there that this would be the hard part, not the actual war itself, but the stabilization.
Yep.
And I personally have not heard President Bush say anything but it's going to be a tough road.
Well, you know, look, the libs are something trying to make a big case out of this.
Bush lied.
You know, the theme is Bush lied.
So when you have the banner that says mission accomplished, Bush lied.
When Cheney says the insurgency is in its last throes, Cheney lied.
What's continually troubling about this is Senator McCain's pandering to the drive-by media at the expense of his own party and his own president.
On the one hand, he's very supportive of the president, very supportive of the war.
On the other hand, he thinks Rumsfeld ought to go because that fits and dovetails right with where the drive-by media is on Rumsfeld.
To come out and say that the American people were misled on this, why don't you tell us this at the beginning, Senator McClintock?
Why didn't you come when the president said what he said or said what you thought he said or when Cheney said what he said, why didn't you stop what you were doing and stand up and say, wait a minute, I don't think this is right.
The American people need to be told something else.
Why didn't you come in after the fact with armchair quarterbacking in 2020 hindsight like anybody can do?
But we played for you the montage there, folks, of all the coverage McCain got, and that's what he was angling for.
And if he thinks that this is going to help him with the Republican base, he's sadly, sadly mistaken.
Marty in Washington, you're next.
Nice to have you on the program.
Oh, thanks, Rush.
Pleasure.
Listen, everything you're saying about McCain is right.
He was a complete jerk and an idiot for saying what he did when he did.
But, you know, now that the elephant's on the table, I have felt this way for a long time.
I mean, since I saw those buildings, you know, five years ago go down and the TV set is that I did not understand why in the ensuing days and in the past five years, the president hasn't beat the living daylights out of this to tell people this is going to be hard.
It just hasn't come across.
And I don't know if the fault's his.
I think it is to a great degree.
Or certainly, as you point out, the traditional media has got its own template on this thing.
But, I mean, this is why Democrats are so much smarter than Republicans.
Their PR thing, they always prepare you for the worst.
This is going to have to be a horrible sacrifice.
And if Bush had done that when he had the political capital five years in the last five years and just hammered that home over and over again and how desperately we need for our security to have a democracy in Iraq, I don't think he'd be having the poll numbers that he does.
And again, you know, McCain was an idiot for doing it, but he's just saying something that every probably everybody in the Republican Party knows.
Well, I think my memory is that when it comes to the entire war on terror, which I've always considered Iraq to be part of, I think the president has gone out of the way to talk about how long this is going to take, that it's going to go on longer than his administration.
Now, if you separate the two and think Iraq is different, which is what many of the president's opponents do, and say it's just an isolated little campaign over there that has no relationship to the war on terror, then you could say, you know, the president has come out and specifically said he has a couple times.
I gave you one quote from 2003 when he said it's going to be hard.
It's not that he hasn't said it.
Your point is he hasn't said it enough.
You know, it's arguable.
You talk about the Democrats having great PR by telling people how rotten things are going to be.
I don't know that that's great PR.
I don't think it's a great way to boost morale of the fighting forces that are over there at the same time.
Well, that's just it.
He's been great as far as boosting the morale of the troops.
And maybe that's because he's too good of a commander-in-chief.
But on the other hand, the downside of that is, you know darn well, when it drags on, then the public back at home, the upbeat messages just aren't in sync with what's going on.
And I just, you know, it's a problem.
He's too principled of a man to engage in these Democratic PR things that they always seem to win.
And now we're paying the price.
We're going to pay the price.
Well, are they winning?
On what basis are you saying they're winning?
Polling data?
Well, I'm just polling data.
That's all.
Yeah, wait till November to see if they're winning.
I reject that.
I don't think they're winning.
I think that is part of the mindset that many conservatives had, that for 40 years, the Democrats always seemed to be outsmarting us.
They always seem to be a couple steps ahead of us.
Their PR always seemed to be brilliant and coordinated and organized.
I think they're not winning elections these days.
That party is falling apart.
Whether anybody wants to admit it or not, the Democrat Party is falling apart.
The idea that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry and Jack Murtha represent a brilliant PR campaign and team, I just reject that, and I don't fall prey to that.
Now, one thing I do want to talk about, though, before you go, and that is you wish the president had come out more often and more forcefully reminding the American people this is a worthy cause and here's what we're doing.
This is why it's going to take a long time.
We can't level the country because we're trying to establish a beacon of democracy there.
We need to show the Iraqi people that we have nothing against them.
We're not going to blow up their buildings.
We're not going to blow up their schools.
We're not going to level the country.
And thus, it's going to take a long time.
We're battling a number of insurgencies and so forth, terrorist actions, and it's a new kind of warfare.
I would love for that to have happened as well.
But more than that, I would have loved a really true American projection of power.
Had there been a true American projection of power, had there really been shock and awe, I think the American people would have a little bit more understanding or patience for this than apparently the polls say that they have.
I'm glad you called, Marty.
Thanks much.
A quick timeout.
We'll be back and resume right after this.
Hi, welcome back.
Nice to have you.
El Rushbo, Cutting Edge, Societal Evolution, Jenny in Toledo, Open Line Friday on Wednesday.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Megan Dido's.
And I wanted to ask you what you think of what would have happened if the current media was covering the Civil War.
Which side would they be on and how would they be covering it?
Well, if you go back, we don't have to imagine that.
The media back in those days was all national inquirer.
I mean, it was vicious back.
You think the media is bad today.
I mean, the reason the media is bad today is because they couldn't care less about the truth and they've chosen up sides and it's a side that often to many people appears to be injurious and detrimental to their own country.
But back then, the media was just horrible.
It's almost indescribable.
If you go back and look at pamphleteering past as journalism back then, you had some responsible outlets.
Well, I mean, the media today is bad.
Now, don't misunderstand.
All I'm telling you is, Jenny, that there was media back there agitating for Lincoln's defeat, agitating for Lincoln to lose this.
There was media in the South that was all for the Confederacy and all for defeating Lincoln and so forth.
So today, you know, I guess it'd be fun to play the game.
If today's Drive-By Media covered the Civil War, how would they do it?
I have to think about that because that could be an interesting exercise.
Well, you would have the New York Times on what side would they fall?
They're located in the North, but they have all this guilt.
Well, Lincoln was a Republican.
That's right.
Lincoln was a Republican.
Forget it.
Drive-by media would do everything they could to sabotage his effort.
They've been neutral on slavery and so forth in order to ridicule and be rate Lincoln.
Yep, that's it.
That's it.
Not hard to figure out at all.
Neutral on slavery.
Not wishing to be judgmental on this because Lincoln is a Republican.
They couldn't support a guy who tried to end slavery as a Republican.
That would upset the Apple cart of all apple carts.
Speaking of all this, the new survivor is actually a race between races, ladies and gentlemen.
It premieres on September 14th.
They are going to pit four tribes of people against each other.
The African American tribe, the Asian American tribe, the Hispanic tribe, and the white tribe.
And they are going to actually have a battle of races on the next survivor.
They know that it's going to be controversial.
They know it's going to, and people at CBS behind the scenes who just have heard about this sort of scratch their heads.
So what the hell are we doing?
What are we going to do?
The swimming portion.
How is that going to be fair?
And how come, you know, why no Arab tribes in this?
And why no Jewish tribe?
No, America.
Well, they'll do, oh, maybe, that's right.
They'll do the religious war next season on survivors.
They'll do the Jewish American tribe, the Arab American tribe, the Hispanic American tribe, whatever.
This is incredible.
A war of races on survivor, ladies and gentlemen.
I understand that ESPN is jealous.
They heard about this, thought they could come up with their own version of this in the sports motif, but they've lost out on it.
It's going to be fascinating to see if there's any fallout because this is a drive-by media.
This is CBS.
Sensitive.
We shouldn't look at people on their basis of their skin color.
We are all the same.
We are all one.
And now we're going to determine who's better at surviving.
Asian Americans, black Americans, white Americans, Hispanic Americans.
Who do you think will win?
We've handicapped the survivor race between the races, and we'll tell you who's going to win.
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