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Sept. 12, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 12, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #3
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I'll bet you people watching on a ditto camera panicked.
My gosh, the show's starting, and there's no rush sitting there.
I never miss a show open, ladies and gentlemen.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back.
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Did the ABC movie change your opinion of Richard Clark?
I think his anti-Bush rhetoric is mostly self-serving, which is reprehensible in a time of war.
But as far as his role pre-9-11, the movie certainly gave the impression that Clark was the only high-ranking civilian who took terrorism seriously and advocated doing something about it.
I need you to grab audio soundbites 9 and 10 out there, Ed.
Ladies and gentlemen, I uh, as you know, reviewed this movie, and I saw it uh uh last week, and I told you last week that the hero of this movie is Richard Clark.
I told you you may not like that.
So I'm not surprised the way Richard Clark was portrayed the way he was, because I saw the way he was portrayed before it was uh aired on television.
I think I also understand it.
Richard Clark was the hero of the 9-11 Commission.
And despite what the Clinton Eastas and the Democrats are trying to tell you, the 9-11 Commission report was one of the central texts used by the writer and producer in preparing the movie.
Uh I don't know if you people noticed this last night.
I got some email complaints about this.
Uh the when the movie was over, they ran graphics saying that uh 9-11 Commission report had recommended something, what was it, 41 changes, and that the Bush administration had been given four F's, three D's, two C's, and one A-and-it made it look like the Bush administration is totally screwed up.
And I'd watched this, I'd seen this.
They didn't add that.
That's not an ABC ad.
That's been in the it was in the original.
And that's why when I watched this thing, I didn't think that it was totally pro-Bush.
I in fact, I don't think it was pro-Bush, period.
I think it was pro-anybody.
The truth here was that they uh got the truth out about what went on and didn't go on in the 1990s.
In terms of this movie path to 9-11 being pro-Bush, it was not.
And it wasn't pro-Rice.
If it was pro anybody, it was Richard Clark, who is now an ABC paid commentator.
And ABC did a little uh uh show last night.
Uh what'd they call it?
Um time, I guess.
Whatever they call her little magazine show.
They they fill it and by the way, here's another thing.
Some of you people send emails arguing with me, claiming I don't know what I'm talking about.
Because yesterday, I said that there'd only been one minute cut out of the miniseries.
And many of you people said that can't be rush because it only ran two hours and forty minutes both nights.
So there was a total of 40 minutes, had to be cut out rush, because it was five hours long.
I said, No, it was going to be broadcast over five hours when they originally produced it, they had to allow for commercials and things.
But you want to hear something interesting?
There they couldn't sell any spots.
At first I thought ABC decided not to sell commercials because of the sensitive nature of the program.
They couldn't sell it.
Nobody wanted to buy it.
And it was not because the advertisers had seen it.
They just didn't, they didn't want to be part of a 9-11 thing.
I mean, they knew what it was going to be.
It was and so automobile manufacturers didn't want to, you know, have uh a commercial go out and buy our new Toyota by our Ford by our Chevy by our truck right after an American just got blown up in a terrorist event.
They just they didn't want to be associated with it.
So ABC decided to run it spot-free.
So they had plenty of time to put Bush's 20-minute speech in there and little discussion every night after the uh after each episode had run, after each each night's run had had completed.
But they only edited out a full minute of this thing.
I was when I watched last night, I was sort of surprised some of the things that they left in.
Uh the the whole Barbara Bodine episode, she's the ambassadoress at uh at N Yemen, portrayed by Patricia Heaton.
She'd written a piece Friday in the LA Times, claiming none of that ever happened.
Uh, but I don't think the Clintons cared about her.
Uh the Clintons cared about Sandy Burglar and Bill Clinton himself, And to a certain extent, Madeline Albright.
Now, the woman that played Madeline Albright, I thought really got it.
And the left was really upset because they think that Albright was portrayed as uh as a B.I. itch.
And and uh I I thought it was I I thought they captured her demeanor and her facial expressions there.
That was Kiefer Sutherland's mother.
Who played Madeline Albright.
Uh her name is Shirley Douglas.
And it was her father, I think it was her father.
Cedar Keefer, yeah.
Keefer's grandfather or great-grandfather, who came up with the Canadian socialist health care.
Uh there are a lot of lot of uh ties here to uh certain things.
But you know the woman that portrayed Patricia, the CIA agent who was just upset with the CI director George Tennett and a number of others, that was Amy Madigan.
Now, I don't know if you know this or not, but Amy Madigan and her husband Ed Harris are two of the biggest liberals roaming the Hollywood uh desert that you would ever run into.
And when I first saw when I when I saw this thing the first time, I said, how did they get these liberals to play these parts?
Other than everybody needs work and everybody needs to get paid.
The bulk of this, by the way, was filmed in Toronto.
I don't know about the externals.
I don't know where they where they went to get the uh external shots, outside shots, but uh, you know, the the some of the actors in this in this uh in this piece were obviously playing roles that uh didn't fit their own ideological bent.
At any rate, Richard Clark, who did emerge a hero, and I told you last week this was going to be the case, was featured last night on a um little program aired after the path to 9-11.
Charlie Gibson, ABC News anchor guy, introduced and uh and interviewed Richard Clark, who's a paid ABC News consultant.
Gibson said the attack had come.
If one of those attacks that John mentioned had been successful, John Miller, uh, we'd be blaming the president.
The fact that attacks have not come, should we give the president credit?
Well, we should give the president and the entire bureaucracy some credit.
But the thing is we shouldn't rest on our laurels.
As long as there are people out there, thousands of them, tens of thousands of them, who want to kill Americans and who in fact are willing to die in the process.
And as long as we have vulnerabilities here, uh, like the subways, like the container ships, like the chemical plants that we haven't fixed.
If you add up intent of the bad guys and vulnerability of our own people, eventually there will be another attack.
Okay, I agree there's gonna be an attack, whether we've shored things up or not.
By the way, two things on this.
I I tell you, I I'm getting a little fed up with John Kerry and the Democrats, and now Richard Clark advertising to terrorists what they think our vulnerabilities are.
The ports, the subways, the container ships, the chemical.
Why don't you just draw them a map?
Well, the reason they do this is to blame Bush.
This is all a setup for if there is another attack, Bush didn't do this, Bush didn't follow 9-11.
There can't, in a way, they can't wait, but it'll backfire on them.
Uh it'll backfire big time on them because they can't claim that they are in this game.
They'll have to do another history rewrite.
The other thing about this is that I don't know whether Mr. Clark knows it or not, but he's making a pretty damn good case here that we need to be at war with these people.
As long as there are thousands, tens of thousands of Americans that uh uh people that want to kill Americans, willing to die in the process, sounds to me like a pretty damn good reason to be at war with these people.
Which is not, ladies and gentlemen, the Democrat Party line.
Now, last night on the Fox News channel, Your World with Neil Cavuto, he interviewed uh uh Israeli author Natan Sharansky.
And Cavuto says, You and Israel list terrorism is a common event.
You're almost sadly used to it.
We've not been struck on U.S. soil in five years.
So many Americans have forgotten about this, or at least they're not as worried about this.
What do you say to those people?
If you had no losses in five years from the terrorist attacks, it only means that you are tremendously successful against in this struggle against this enemy.
That you, your government, your army, your intelligence are tremendously unbelievably successful.
And you have to keep this success.
You have to strangle this uh success.
You have to cherish every day when there were no losses, but you also have to be ready.
The struggle is not yet finished yet.
It continues.
And uh well, we go through these stages every day, and we know how it is important to win.
And we can win with the weapon of freedom.
Natan Sharansky, uh with a little bit different take there than Richard Clark.
Uh Clark, yeah, we gotta give him some credit, but we shouldn't rest because it's gonna get killed again soon.
Because the ports are vulnerable container ships, chemical plants, it's only a better time.
Dayton Sharansky says it only means you are tremendously successful against in this struggle against this end.
Anyway, I thought it was a nice juxtaposition to hear those two sound bites back to back.
Federal judge yesterday refused to block a law that requires Arizona voters to present ID before casting a ballot.
A U.S. District Judge Rosalind Silver, appointed by Clinton in ninety-four, uh, issued her order a day before today's primary, the first statewide election for which voters will be required to show ID.
The law has already been used in some municipal elections.
The 2004 law requires that voters at polling places produce government-issued picture ID or two pieces of non uh uh of other non photo IDs specified by the law.
Also requires proof of citizenship when registering to vote.
Boy, Democrats get hammered with this ruling.
Parts of the law were aimed chiefly at illegal immigrants.
A number of challengers had sued to prohibit election officials from enforcing the uh registration and polling place ID requirements.
Critics said that the law would disenfranchise voters, particularly minorities and the elderly, and that requiring voters to acquire and produce ID would be a burdensome thing in time, money, and effort.
And they also claimed it hinders voter registration drives.
Well, the Democrats making it plain that they're upset they can't engage in election fraud and that they can't cheat.
Remember what I said about voter registration drives.
I'm a the Democrats still haven't figured this out.
They live under so many false assumptions.
They live in a totally alternative universe.
They think everybody thinks like they do, that everybody hates Bush, Rice, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Halliburton, and that um for some reason people just aren't showing up to vote and great.
Just register these people, register teenagers, register the young, rock the vote, register women, league of voters, whatever, get them out there.
And then magically Bush loses and Democrats win.
What they forget is that they are up against a motivated, impassioned, informed enemy called Republicans and Conservatives.
And a motivated, impassioned, informed enemy will outdo people just going through the process each and every time.
And this little thing here about the voter or the required photo ID hindering voter registration drives.
They have inadvertently described to us uh and let us in on what their fraudulent tactics were to be back in just second, folks.
I meant to tell you this little story yesterday, slipped my mind.
As some of you may remember, I was in Los Angeles over the weekend.
I flew out there right after the broadcast on Friday, because I had some work to do very early Saturday morning.
I uh I participated in the production of a little pilot television show uh that is going to be presented to a network later this month for eventually sale.
I'm not gonna be a cast member, I just had a little bit part in it.
We had to shoot this thing at seven in the morning, because uh some of the other people had to catch airplane flights by ten or eleven o'clock.
Well, uh it was not too bad.
I I it was it was uh six, seven o'clock uh in the morning is uh uh like nine or ten o'clock body clock time, East Coast time.
Here's the problem.
The problem was to get out there, um, got got to my fashionable hotel suite and extra bedroom uh at seven o'clock, and then had a little card game and had some dinner and so forth, and uh and and and try to go to bed at midnight.
Now, my problem is on the road, and I just haven't dealt with it.
It's possible.
But I have to take my cochlear implant off when I sleep.
So when I take it off, I'm 100% deaf and thus cannot hear an alarm clock, cannot hear a wake-up call, cannot hear anybody shouting at me.
That comes in handy often, even when I'm not asleep.
So I had to get up at like 5.
And when that happens, I really stay sort of half asleep out of fear I'm going to miss it.
Normally, the sun will wake me up, any kind of light whatsoever.
But this was before dawn, so I couldn't rely on that.
And leaving lights on in a room really wouldn't be able to go to sleep.
So I didn't get a whole lot of deep sleep on Friday night.
Went in, did the thing, required makeup, wardrobe, all of this.
It was fun.
But when it was over about 10 o'clock, the producer and the director said, hey, you want to go grab some breakfast?
And I was kind of looking forward to getting back to the hotel and just chilling for a while, watching a little football because there was a big party that night.
But I said, okay, I'll be a good member of the team.
He said, sure.
They said, okay, well, just get in the car and go with me.
We went to an IHOP.
I hadn't been to an IHOP.
Yes, I did.
I went to an IHOP.
No, there aren't any pictures.
There were, this was one of the strangest experiences.
There were 16 of us that went to an IHOP about 1030 in the morning.
I have gotten seated faster at Le Cirque and places that had to wait a half hour at IHOP.
We're right there waiting by the cash register.
And it's crowded.
It's crowded.
It's crowded in there on Saturday morning.
So, you know, I'm sitting ducking there.
And everybody's just having the biggest time.
When's the last time you've been to an IHOP, Limbaugh?
And I said, it has to be 1976 or 1976, 30 years ago.
And I said, but don't sweat it.
You know, this is good for me.
This is, people say I've lost touch.
This will get me back in touch.
What did I order?
Oh, something I haven't had in a long time.
Biscuits and gravy and two links of sausage.
And a scrambled egg.
But this was funny.
No, I don't eat pancakes except for a pregame meal before a sports event.
When I carbo-load.
At any rate.
There's plenty of carbs in this anyway.
I mean, biscuits and gravy.
I've never been big on pancakes anyway.
I feel like a bowling ball.
I feel like I've eaten a bowling ball when I have pancakes.
So anyway.
We sit down and we're all really scrunched up here.
They've put a bunch of tables together.
IHOP tables are for two.
And they've put them, sandwiched them all together.
We're really sardined in this little section of the restaurant.
And the waitress finally brings out the coffee cups and the coffee and pours the coffee.
The coffee they put on a table in these little thermoses.
Plastic thermoses, you know, that you'd put in your RV.
And, oh, you know, you go, okay.
So, so, and I don't put creamer in, Mike.
I just black with artificial sweetener.
And there was this bowl of artificial creamer stuff that the woman sitting next to me put two up in her cup of coffee.
And I looked and I said, what is that?
Because it was different color than the normal coffee made creamer.
It was liquid stuff.
I said, what is that?
French vanilla, she said.
Oh, wow.
I got to try that.
I've never had this before.
So I opened one of these little French vanilla coffee creamer things, put it in there, and it was delicious.
And I started raving about it.
And they just couldn't believe this, that I didn't know about French vanilla coffee creamer.
At the IHOP.
So, so, anyway.
It took about 45 minutes.
Once, you know, I sat down to order to have everything delivered or served.
I was starting to get cramped in there.
And it was sort of difficult to get out.
You know, the tables are loaded.
all the syrup on each every table oh you know that too so uh when I got up and uh my host said okay when we fin when I finished eating he said okay, look, you can go now.
You can go.
I had had my car out there, and as I've gotten a car and I'm driving by, my friend brings this whole just out of the restaurant, comes running after me, stops the car, gives me a whole bowl of these French vanilla coffee creamer things to take with me as a souvenir of my first trip to the IHOP in uh at least at least 30 years.
So don't anybody ever tell me ever again that I am out of touch or that I have lost touch.
Turn it up to at least 800 decibels, ladies and gentlemen, making sure you do not miss a single syllable.
I promised last week we'll do a fourth hour this week.
It looks like that'll happen on Thursday, a fourth hour, meaning we just continue the program for however long I want to continue it only on RushlinBoard.com, only on the internet, it will not be.
Uh broadcast here is Rick in Columbus, Ohio.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
Mega Ditto's from that little blue spot in the middle of the great red state of Ohio, right?
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate the phone call.
Long time listener.
Just uh appreciate everything you do.
Uh just an observation to the Democrats and the uh leftists, uh, their hypocrisy uh when they talk about Bush trying to uh make uh this uh 911 thing a political issue.
Uh, what about the Wellstone Memorial?
They didn't have a problem with that.
What about Rosa Park's funeral when they got up and uh talked about weapons of mass destruction?
Um I I think they're I I think they're bankrupt, like you say.
They're just Hell, they politicize everything, Rick.
Yeah, everything.
They look at everything through a political prism.
Hell, Jim Moran out there yesterday in Arlington, Virginia politicizing, but they say Bush shouldn't do that because he's president of all the people.
He should listen to a Democrat.
The new Castrati.
Yeah, well, I just like to say one more thing to you, and I say this as an unabashed heterosexual.
My life is now complete.
I've talked to my idol, so thank you.
I appreciate that.
Thank you.
Yeah, that's very, very kind of you to say.
I am uh moved each time uh I hear something like that.
Mentioned this earlier.
This is the New York Times.
Republican collapse may not be so imminent.
It's by Michiko Kakutani.
Despite lots of talk about President Bush's dismal poll numbers, corruption scandals involving Delay and Abramoff and a toll at the war in Iraq and the mishandling of Hurricane Katrina may take on the Republican Party in this fall's elections.
Veteran political reporter Thomas B. Edsell had some bad news for Democrats.
While such developments may take the GOP down in individual elections, he writes in his book, Building Red America, the Republican Party holds a set of advantages, some substantial, some marginal, that have enabled it to eke out victory by slim margins in a majority of closely contested elections, and that'll probably give it an edge in the foreseeable future.
Edsel covers uh did cover, doesn't any longer national politics for the WAPOL from 81 to 2006.
That's inside baseball talk for Washington Post, uh accuses the Republicans of using their closely contested victories to advance a conservative agenda that does not have the decisive support of the peoples, of further polarizing the electorate and cynically forcing it to pick between extremes and of using the slimmest of political margins to try to remake America as well as America's role in the world.
Uh I don't care.
This is just a lib writing, and the Republicans win, and it doesn't entitle them to do what they want to do.
Conservatives win, it doesn't mean anything.
When conservatives win, they should do what liberals want them to do liberals are the ones that run the show.
These governing from the extremes, as though the extremes are only found on the right.
But the point of this is it's just another warning to the Democrats.
You guys better stop.
You guys better stop assuming that everything is going your way in these elections.
One of the things Edsel says is that in his opinion, the Republican Party has Marginalized the country and continues to win elections by using wedge issues like abortion and gay marriage, which push voters' anger points and motivate the base.
And he says that like it's a bad thing to motivate your base.
Well, what about some of the cockamami insanity we're getting from the left on how to motivate that base?
These are people do things that question whether or not they're even interested in this country winning the war on terror.
And by the way, Mr. Edsel, the Republicans didn't bring up abortion and gay marriage and make it the issue.
The Republicans defended and responded as adults.
We didn't make these issues, we didn't bring these things up.
We didn't run around and until gay marriage came up as a political issue, and the law didn't mean anything in San Francisco or other places.
And when abortion was the single most important thing.
Well, they did what I do or get up and defend the institutions and traditions that uh that we uh think are important to the survivability of the country or survival of the country.
We don't bring this stuff up.
Your kook side does.
We simply defend our beliefs.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, a woman admitted to smoking marijuana daily with her 13-year-old son to reward him for completing his homework.
Amanda Lynn Livelsberger, 30, pleaded guilty to several charges Monday, and will be sentenced on November 27.
Uh Amanda Lynn Livelsberger of uh uh Co Wago Township admitted in court she had been smoking uh marijuana with her son since he was eleven, and that she often gave it to him as a reward.
Wonder what the Duke University professor who says homework is worthless would have to say about this.
Mark in Grand Island, New York, welcome, sir.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hi, greetings and dittoes from the government workers' paradise of New York.
Thank you, sir.
Listen, I wanted uh to comment on your opening uh of the show about the uh how the Democrats are all agog over Bush mentioning uh the Iraq war in his 9-11 address.
Yeah, feel free.
And it it it comes down to the classic liberal unassailable argument on a false premise.
The false premise being that bringing Iraq and into a speech about our terrorist attack in 9-11 is somehow politicizing 9-11 speeches, and it's unassailable because oh, we should be in mourning.
It's it's this is a time for mourning, and we it should only have talked about the 9-11 attack, not not Iraq, because somehow that's not part of the war on terror.
So I you know it's it's just a who politicized the war in Iraq in the first place.
You got me.
I don't know.
I you know, I think Well, the Democrats did.
I I think that that the 9-11 attack was a colossal miscalculation by our enemies.
I think that they instead of driving us away from Israel, which apparently has been their stated purpose all along, instead of doing that, it brought us to them.
It it it it angered the country.
It's it and that's where Afghanistan started, and that's when we went after Iraq was we realized we can't take the hits anymore.
So it was a colossal mistake.
Whereas in Spain it was a a complete success.
I mean, they they uh there was a communique that said, you know, let's hit the the Spanish and they'll elect the socialists, and uh you know, and we can do business with them.
And sure enough, they they did, and the socialists were elected, and they pulled out of Iraq.
That's right.
Now that is an excellent point to make.
All these other countries around the world are being hit.
Yeah, we're not.
Al Qaeda hasn't gone dormant.
Terrorists have not gone dormant, they are hitting other places, but not us.
And the other day, uh Zawahiri, Ayman Al-Zawahiri said the next targets are gonna be uh Israel.
What else?
Israel and Middle East.
Uh countries in the Middle East which are not supporting the Hezbows, for example.
He I think he called out Saudi Arabia.
Al Qaeda's always had Saudi Arabia in their the crosshairs, by the way, uh for the because they hate the royal family there, the f the house of Sawd.
Uh we aren't the only enemy, and Zawahiri said uh those are in the crosshairs next.
But take these people at face value.
Anyway, you mentioned uh uh mark the uh solemnity of the 9-11 uh ceremonies yesterday, and how the Democrats decried the president politicizing it.
And yesterday, as I was preparing to close the program and do the morning update, I said, you people better listen to the whole thing.
So I'm not kidding.
Listen to the whole thing, otherwise you will misunderstand it.
But try this.
We had moments of silence, we had ringing bells.
Uh we read the names of the dead Americans, a loud TV news footage of the attacks, limited footage.
Uh the confused panic that followed.
Uh they got all this stuff after out of the archives and they aired it once more.
But you know, something about this.
I mean what the what these people do?
These people shut us down going to work, they stopped an election in New York.
Uh it's a shame the towers are not being reconstructed already.
And I do like the fact that we go to work on 9-11.
That we don't have it yet called a holiday where just people sit around and remember.
But we need to do more, ladies and gentlemen.
Because the way we're dealing with this is not America.
We should treat 9-11 like every other day of historical importance, like a holiday with all the trimmings.
The nation's airlines ought to market and promote 9-11 travel deals with emphasis on New York as a destination.
What better way to remember the devastating impact on that industry?
What better way to remember the the devastating and heroic actions of the first responders than with a nationwide fire sale.
Every item, every store on sale, no interest charged until 9-11 the following year.
Some brave retail chain, maybe Walmart, where America shops ought to have an Osama sale, because after all, as I heard a reporter say last week, it's Osama's anniversary, too.
Instead of uh political campaigns going quiet on September 11th, they ought to become the unofficial kickoff date of the political election season, because it did anyway.
Political types ought to break out cool in the gang, celebrate, celebrate good times, tune to get the show on the road.
Time to stop all this solemnity and whining over 9-11 and get back to what we do best in America.
Buy, sell, consume, campaign, and party.
Now, some of you probably aghast, didn't hear the update.
Gee, Russia, you're losing it.
Just when you think we're not going to have any more McNabb moments in ESPN, look at what you're doing.
Well, hang on, folks.
Because if you're offended by these suggestions that I just made, let me ask you a simple question.
Why aren't you offended that the left in this country, the Democrat Party, seems to remember that 9-11 actually happened only one day a year.
Compare the left and its solemn remembrances, and pondering politics of yesterday, with the hand over the heart.
Compare that with today, tomorrow, two days ago, three days ago, when it may never have happened.
I mean, 9-11 happened one day a year.
That's when they admit it.
So if you're offended by my little attempted humor at turning 9-11 into a holiday, ask the left why it is that they only remember 9-11 actually having happened one day a year.
All right, listen to this.
A P story by uh by Ben Feller, the uh AP education writer.
Dropping out of Haskruel has its costs around the globe, but nowhere steeper than in the U.S. Adults who don't finish has scroll in the U.S. earn the 65% of what people who have half school degrees make.
According to a new report comparing industrialized nations, no other country had such a severe income gap.
We suck.
We are so Mean we are so uncaring.
The point of the story.
Well, what do you expect, Mr. Feller?
Do you know how advanced this economy is?
How specialized it is getting?
Do you expect people that don't finish high school to actually get close to those who finish Hascrew all our college?
Audio soundbite time, uh ladies and gentlemen.
There's a new crisis out there.
This uh this morning on the CBS News, the what is the early show?
CBS this morning, whatever they call it.
The hostette, Renee Siler interviewed Julie Valise of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Another classic illustration of the chicken of the news.
Uh this is the news study by the Consumer Product Safety Commission reveals a startling statistic.
The number of children killed by tipping televisions has reached ten this year.
Double the number of deaths in an average year.
So ten kids killed this year by TVs falling off the ledge.
That's double what it has in an average year.
Five.
We've got a crisis.
And Renee Siler asked the uh the babe here, Julie Velis of the CPSC.
Why is this happening?
The CPSC can only speculate.
People buying larger TVs but not investing in stable furniture to put it on.
Also, we have a new generation of parents, and so this is something that we have to educate and re-educate.
Parents have so many hazards that they have to think about, and this is one they just really need to be aware of.
God, ever anybody ever think that some kid's pulling the TV down on himself.
What a bunch of helpless stupid idiots in this country.
Did I tell you I saw this story in a wall in USA Today a couple weeks ago?
All about how retailers try to fool you into buying things you don't need.
Yes!
Yes, it's never been done before, folks.
You walk into a mall, you walk into a store, they've got the candles going, the scent machines, the colors, it's all designed to psychologically separate you from your money.
And this story was tips.
Advice on how to avoid the seduction of them all.
Try not going.
But the insinuation is that we just a bunch of idiots.
And news has become advice and tips on how to get through life and now the latest controversy.
Tipping TVs.
Ten a year.
We got a crisis.
And the CPSC is advising us what to do.
Well, don't invest in in in cheap furniture, buy stable furniture.
New generation of parents who are really dumb and stupid too.
So this is something we have to educate and re-educate.
I'm gonna tell you something.
If we have to have the government or any bureaucracy or agency of the government, educate people on whether or not an object is too heavy to be put on a certain table or something that we are we are.
I shudder.
I literally shudder to think.
Anyway, uh yeah, we need to have hearings.
We need to have congressional hearings.
I want is there videotape as America's funniest videos recorded one of these?
Some kid sitting there watching television, unbeknownst to TV just flies.
How does that happen?
How does this happen?
How does a TV just tip over?
Obviously, it doesn't.
Something has to happen for the TV to tip over.
I mean, something is not in motion has got to be put in motion.
So I uh They did a whole segment on the CBS morning news, what do they call the show?
A whole segment on tipping Rush, don't you care that our children are?
That's not the point, folks.
Ten TVs tip over and kill kids, and yet nobody's suggesting we ban the wheel or the car.
And so I have a different view of the people involved in this and their real sense of compassion.
I don't think it's about that at all.
Back in just a second.
Hey folks, the economy here is uh doing pretty well.
More people than ever before.
Can afford TVs big enough to kill.
A big problem in the United States.
Have a wonderful day, folks.
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