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Oct. 19, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 19, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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All right, the candidate replacing Mark Foley on the ballot in next month's election has been barred from posting signs at the polling places clarifying that votes for Foley will actually go to him.
This is Joe Negrin that we're talking about, Florida Circuit Court Judge Janet Finn.
And I'm reading the story.
I mentioned his name.
Let's see.
How long do I have to read to find out Negren's name in this?
One, two.
Third paragraph.
Third paragraph before I find out the name of the Republican candidate replacing Foley.
The candidate replacing Florida's disgraced Joe Negren replacing Mark Foley on the ballot has been barred from posting.
I could have said that, but no, it's the candidate replacing that first program.
Second paragraph.
Foley, a six-term Republican congressman, resigned from Congress amid revelations.
He sent sexually explicit messages to young male congressional aides.
Let's see, no sex with the priest.
No sex with the pages.
What's the story?
Third paragraph.
Rules prohibited taking Foley's name off the ballot so close to the November 7th election.
So the Republicans' replacement candidate, Joe Negren.
There it is, the third paragraph.
Now, that doesn't mean Negrin can't do anything about this.
I kind of agree with the ruling.
I mean, I don't want to see yard signs all over the polling places, folks.
I really, if you open this up.
But what Negren's going to need is a guy or people just outside every polling place to talk to voters as they go in.
That is allowed because it happens to me every time I go vote.
These candidates are out there, and their assistants, their volunteers are out there, and they're passing things out.
Well, I've been asked if these people tell me to vote Republican.
I try not to talk to them.
I smile and I walk in and I offer them a quarter and keep walking.
I know what I'm going to vote for and who I'm going to vote for when I get in there.
But in this case, where the media is doing their best to keep the candidate's name out of the media and he can't put signs up, there's a way around it, and that's to put people out there to inform voters as they come in.
Now, I don't know, but most, I get irritated by that.
But do you, Brian, do you get irritated by people trying to tell you what's at stake when you go in there and vote?
You don't pay any attention to them at all.
Well, there's a way to do it and make it stick.
That's what he's going to have to do.
Walmart Stores announced today it's expanding a program offering $4 prescriptions for some generic drugs to 14 more states two weeks after rolling out the low-cost program here in God's Waiting Room, Florida.
Walmart said Wednesday it would call news conferences in states from Vermont to Alaska, but declined to say what they are about, except that they involved a major new initiative for consumers.
One state official familiar with the expansion who declined to be named because the topic is supposed to be kept confidential, comma, confirmed the announcements would be about $4 generics coming to those states.
Now, the Florida plan covers a month's supply of 314 prescriptions.
That number is made up of 143 drugs and a variety of dosages in solid or liquid forms.
Walmart said that it will host news conferences today with company execs and elected officials in the following states: Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona.
Oh, cool.
The illegals are going to get part of this benefit too.
Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nueva, Orta, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, and Vermont.
So, Walmart sticking it to critics and doing more for the market than any liberal social program whatsoever.
New York Times, be prepared for chaos.
On Election Day, new machines and lines and confusion will abound with an unusually large number of tight races and dozens of states shifting to new electronic voting systems.
Election officials across the country are bracing for long lines.
Heightened confusion at the polls on Election Day.
The New York Times puts on the front page today: North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Mississippi, and Missouri are among the states considered most likely to experience difficulties, according to voting experts who've been tracking the new technology and other election changes.
Hmm.
Arizona, toss-up races there.
Ohio, all appears lost there, but still some toss-ups.
Pennsylvania, big races there.
Maryland, big Senate race there.
Mississippi, Missouri, big Senate race there.
Why, isn't it interesting?
All these states where they expect trouble.
All this means is, ladies and gentlemen, that there's no confidence.
I don't care what anybody says.
This is the Dems and the media preparing for the eventuality that their polls are not accurate.
You know, I want to stress again, and I mentioned this from Rich Galen at his Mullings website.
He says the likelihood that some of these races are going to be very close is pretty good and that there could be a lot of recounts, as many as eight or nine of them, House races, maybe some Senate races.
And it could well be that on the morning of November 8th, we still won't know who controls the House.
And in addition to close races, we know now, and we didn't need the New York Times story to tell us, but part of the standard Democrat post-election strategy is to challenge everything, demand recounts here, challenge the legality, threaten that there was fraud and deceit, that the Republicans did this or that.
And so the result is that there are probably going to be quite a few days go by, maybe weeks, before we actually know who won some races.
Before we actually know who won the House.
That maybe the Senate.
Then when it's all said and done, let's go to December and let's say that either party, talk just about the House now, either party has a two or three seat majority.
That point, the horse trading begins.
Offers to switch parties will be made to various members.
All kinds of goodies will be offered.
Prominent committee chairmanships, special privileges at the gym, free lunch in the dining room for who knows how long, all kinds of little goodies, prominent meeting time with the speaker, reelection funds from outside the district.
Anything today.
Well, I'm serious.
This kind of horse get people to switch parties because the allure will be to be part of the majority.
And, well, sometimes, you know, free privileges in the gym is enough to switch somebody.
Depends on what their priorities are.
Yeah, Democrats could offer a pass to the page dormitory.
See, that's the kind of thing I'm talking about.
So it could well be that this is not going to be known for the longest time of who's actually going to end up running the show.
And when you add to it that the New York Times is all worried now, they went out and they found experts.
They're all worried about the legality of voting.
It's going to be fun, folks, and it's going to be a mess.
Whether it's a mess or not, it's going to be said to be a mess.
Brief timeout.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Stay with us.
Mike, do you have the PSA, the cut-and-run conservative cut-and-run PSA standing by?
I'm getting some emails from people who think I've lost it now, that I'm now attacking and making fun of the audience, and they can't believe it, and I should never, ever do this again.
Feeling let down by Republicans this year, then join the millions of true conservatives who have become cut and run conservatives and sit this one out.
If you're unhappy with anything the president, house, or senate has done in the last two, four, or 12 years, then show your patriotism by teaching them all a lesson they won't forget.
So take a stand, Conservative America.
Become a cut-and-run conservative and sit this one out.
And wait until you like everything Republicans do before you ever vote again.
Hey, Farbat George Soros.
If I had known this would work, I wouldn't have wasted my money on She-Hat.
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Rush Limbaugh, talent on lawn from God.
And back to the phones to Chicago listening on WLS.
Kenny, welcome to the program.
Great to have you with us.
Great to be with you, Rush, and a pleasure to talk with you.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
I had a comment, and then I'd like to make a football analogy, if that's all right with you.
Yeah, fire away.
Go ahead.
Thank you very much.
The comment is about polling.
I've been paying pretty close attention to polling for the last 10 years.
And you hear Gallup make a claim like how they're the historically most accurate polling service.
And Zogby and all those guys are, you know, they're all fairly good, but they're only good up until the last poll, basically.
They come in line with where the candidates are at.
But up until that point, these guys are historically favoring liberal candidates over conservative candidates.
So the theory is that as we get closer to election day, the polls will tighten.
In favor of liberal.
And the reason the polls will tighten is because the pollsters need credibility after the race.
Absolutely.
And so their last polls are the ones that are going to be compared.
And while they can drive turnout and they can drive mood and so forth with polls that favor a massive Democrat sweep prior to the election on the polls that we get close to the election, you will be not surprised if there is tightening in a number of them.
100% accurate, Rush.
Well, that's good.
We'll track this.
When I saw that up, when I heard you say that, it immediately clicked with me because I think you're probably more right than you are wrong.
I appreciate that, Rush.
And now, just a football analogy, okay?
All right.
Halftime, the Bears game against Arizona.
I worked at UPS.
I had to get up at one in the morning.
Want to bat.
I was sitting tossing and turning in my bed thinking, I didn't want to be a cut and run sports fan.
So I had to get up knowing that the Bears had an A-team, knowing that they were the winners.
I had to get up and watch the rest of the game.
Okay.
Now, it was the last quarter of the game, but the Bears rose to the occasion, and with beautiful precision from the B team, not from the A-team, they found a way to carry that out.
Now, the analogy, I guess, is this.
When you read the paper, you know, I read the USA Today, you see a comparison between the Montana races where this guy's down by 11 points.
And then they talked about the Tennessee race, but they don't give the numbers.
And the reason they do that is because there's a couple of states that the Republicans are going to lose seats in, you know, whether it be the Senate or the House.
But the overall game is keeping control, plus getting a filibuster-approved majority in the Senate.
And we will do that.
But, you know, it might not happen this year.
Well, you know, one of the things, you bring up football, and I watched that Bears game.
I watched the Bears in the Arizona Cardinals game.
There's some amazing statistics about that game, by the way.
Normally, when a quarterback turns it over six times, you lose.
The Bears won.
The Bears won 24-23 without scoring an offensive touchdown.
I mean, they are down 23-3 at halftime.
They get 21 points in the second half without an offensive touchdown.
A quarterback having the worst game of his career as a Bear, Rex Grossman, who was gross in this game.
There's something even more amazing about it, though.
And you've got to look at this in the Cardinals.
And I don't want to impugn the Bears.
They won the game, and they didn't give them the defense of the Bears played tough, led by number 54, Brian Erlacher, who once had Paris Hilton in the booth out there watching him play.
It didn't work out.
But the Arizona Cardinals contributed to this.
I was telling Brian earlier in the week, you just, you can't start the second half running out the clock with a 23-3 lead, and that's what they did.
Every first down they had was a running play.
It didn't take Erlacher, even said this after the game.
I'm watching and I'm yelling at the TV: do not run a play on first down next year.
Don't do it.
They're gaining no yards or losing two.
The Bears are putting eight, ten people in the box with Erlacher leading the charge.
They had no prayer.
And the Bears never doubted that they were going to throw or thought they were going to throw on first down.
It wasn't until they got the middle of fourth quarter that Leinert started shaking it up and throwing on first down.
But when he had to, he marched the team down for field goal.
Kicker blew the field goal.
The Cardinals could have won the game if the chip-shot 40-yard field goal would have been made, but it didn't happen.
But the Cardinals contributed to this themselves.
It wasn't that they gave up.
It's just that they became predictable and they sat on the lead.
I don't know.
Maybe some of their offensive players went to school where it was unfair to beat somebody by 40 points.
You never know these days.
As to another sports, Bill Belichick, the genius coach of the New England Patriots, has an analogy.
He brings out every now.
Last time he used this was the Super Bowl when I think they beat the Rams in the Super Dome.
And what he did, he brings out a horse, he brings out videotape of a horse race.
And he gathers the players in, and he starts the horse race and stops it at the first turn and says, okay, we're going to bet who wins?
Who wins the race?
And the players go, oh, well, it's easy.
I'm going to pick whatever.
And they all get into it and they pick a winner.
Halfway point, Belichick stops a tape.
All right, who do you think he's going to win now?
And the players go nuts and they start placing bets and doing three-quarters of the way stops the tapes.
Okay, who's going to win now?
And Belichick says, no more bets, because at no point during the time I started this tape did anybody know.
It doesn't matter what you think or who you think is going to win at the quarter point.
It doesn't matter who you think is going to win at the halfway point.
It doesn't matter who you think is going to win at the three-quarters point.
It matters who wins when it's over.
And he just, I think I read that he pulled the same analogy out this week as the Patriots are coming off their by.
He's got a different team and he's going through the same thing.
But all of these things are relevant to politics today in the sense that nobody knows what's going to happen right now.
Not a soul knows, not the pollsters.
Nobody knows.
And to start making bets and start making plans to start letting your mood be affected by what you think is going to happen now based on what nobody can know.
Nobody can know.
If we knew who was going to win, if the polls were accurate, then there would be no reason to have the election, would there be?
If the exit polls were accurate, there would be no reason to count the votes, would there?
But for some reason, we still, in this country, I don't know for how much longer, count the votes.
It isn't going to last too long.
If Democrats keep losing on the real vote count, we're going to stop counting the real votes and we're going to go on polls.
Pre-election polls and exit polls.
But for now, Democrats lose.
And I'm telling you, there is no way, there is not a person of this earth who knows what's going to happen on Election Day.
There is nobody who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.
There's nobody who knows what's going to happen tonight other than those for whom it is nighttime and are living it now.
And yet, we've got defeatist attitudes and we've got euphoria.
And we've got people making plans.
Democrats, Pelosi, first hundred hours, measuring the drapes.
They're celebrating on a 10-yard line, and they're about to spike the ball early and create a fumble.
A quick timeout.
Back with more in just a second.
Stay with us.
Welcome back.
Nice to have you.
We were talking about the Tet Offensive earlier, and I want to share some details of that with you.
Again, set the stage.
ABC thinks they cold cocked the president yesterday, got him to admit that we might be witnessing the equivalent of the Tet Offensive, Vietnam War Tet Offensive, in Iraq right now.
Because the media interprets the Tet Offensive as the defining moment that signaled America's defeat in Vietnam, forced us out of the war, and forced LBJ out of office.
And the truth of the Tet Offensive is that the Viet Cong who launched it got creamed.
They literally got shellacked.
But the propaganda that was presented by the pictures of the Tet Offensive made this country, it was Walter Cronkite that did it.
And the evening news guys, the presentation of pictures of the Tet Offensive made it look like it was impossible to beat the Viet Cong.
So many of them.
They just kept coming.
There are more of them than we thought had been born.
Where are these people coming?
We don't have a prayer.
Somebody wrote a book about this.
Peter Brestrup, a former Washington Post correspondent, documented in two massive books how the media covered Tet.
Book is titled Big Story.
The nationwide Viet Cong offensive turned out to be an unmitigated disaster for the Communists.
But the media consensus was just the opposite, an unmitigated defeat for the United States.
Cronkite, along with several hundred reporters from two dozen countries, focused on how the Viet Cong guerrillas managed to blast their way into the U.S. embassy compound, but they didn't make it past the Marines in the lobby.
They blasted their way in, had pictures of that.
War correspondents were also impressed by the view from the cocktail bar atop the Caravelle Hotel.
C-47s equipped with three Gatling guns on one side were strafing Viet Cong pockets in Cholan, the capital's twin city two and a half miles away.
Yet the Viet Cong did not reach a single one of their objectives and lost most of the 45,000-strong force in their attacks against 21 cities.
It was also a defeat that convinced North Vietnamese leaders to send their regular army, the NVA, south of the 17th parallel to pick up where the Viet Cong left off.
But Walter Cronkite and the news media proclaiming this a horrible defeat for the United States is what persuaded Lyndon Johnson to throw in a towel.
Six weeks later, he announced he would not run for a second term.
LBJ told one of his aides, I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America.
Guess he didn't have Cronkite to the White House enough to discuss things, right?
In fact, he had already lost most of America.
Perception had become reality.
This was 1968, by the way, the Tet Offensive.
And the media is just so eager to link the war in Iraq with Vietnam.
And Tom Friedman says, hey, it's a Tet Offensive all over.
And Bush, hey may be right, but Bush understands what the Tet Offensive is and wanted to give you the details of it so that you would not be.
Snerdley, as I mentioned earlier, learned only on this program a few years ago that the Tet Offensive was not an American defeat.
And most people, until the story is told, do not realize that it was not an American defeat.
And the Viet Cong blew it.
Lost 45,000, didn't achieve a single objective, but somehow made us quit.
Yeah, I know.
Well, Snerdley says the way he was taught, it was a massacre.
We were massacred.
The United States suffered a massacre.
Classic illustration.
Liberal drive-by media at work.
And back then, there was no EIB network or anything else to counter the absolute BS that came from the world's first-class media liberal, Walter Cronkite.
Officials in an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football, and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable.
See, they don't care if the kids get killed or get hurt.
They're worried about being sued.
Recess is a time when accidents can happen, said Willette Elementary School principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban.
While there is no district-wide ban on contact sports during recess, local rules have been cropping up.
Several school administrators around Attleboro, a city of about 45,000 residents, took aim at Dodgeball a few years ago.
We all know that, saying it was exclusionary and dangerous.
Another Willette parent, Celeste DeLia, said her son feels safer at recess because of the rule.
I've witnessed enough near collisions.
Near collisions?
Tag, I've witnessed enough near collisions.
Guess this kid won't be going out for football.
Now, in the meantime, ladies and gentlemen, the same hand-writers are worried about our children's obesity.
The weight problem is that.
Okay, fine.
We'll make them sit around or do whatever else they have you heard speaking.
Have you heard Major League Baseball is going to do, they're going to sell coffins with your team's logo on it or urns for your favorite fans ashes with the team logo on it?
Starting next season, fans of the New York Yankees, the Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, and the Los Angeles Dodgers will be able to have their ashes put in an urn or head six feet under in a casket emblazoned with their team colors and insignia.
Major League Baseball has entered a licensing agreement with Eternal Image, which hopes to eventually make urns and caskets for all 30 teams.
The company also hopes to have similar agreements with NASCAR, the National Hockey League, and the NFL.
But baseball was the first to sign on.
The funeral industry, by the way, you know what the funeral it is.
I had to do a speech on this in college when I flunked out.
I did the speech, but I didn't outline it, so I didn't get a good grade.
Do you know what the funeral industry generates every year?
It's an $11 billion industry.
It's an $11 billion industry.
And they're adding more personal touches from Harley-Davidson-themed caskets to one featuring the cartoon character Betty Boop.
Kurt Soth, spokesman for the National Funeral Directors Association, said the baseball products are part of a trend of trying to capture the life and the passions of the person that has passed away.
More and more families are wanting to have something that respects the personalities.
We've received at least 1,000 inquiries on this now since making the announcement in June.
I have a picture here of a Philadelphia Phillies urn.
And it looks like a milk jug on a home plate with the Phillies logo, and it's got the name of the deceased and their stats, like a baseball card, their life stats, then the Phillies logo, and then a baseball is the lid over the urn.
Okay, that's fine and dandy.
By the way, some statistics.
Midterm elections, six years into a presidency.
The average loss, I want you people to listen to this.
Because you're not going to believe it.
The average loss in midterm elections for the sixth year of a presidency, 44 House seats and seven Senate seats.
The average loss, this goes back to the beginning of the country.
The average loss in midterm elections is around 34 to 37 seats since World War II.
So if you want to talk about the modern era, the average loss in midterm elections, sixth year of a presidency since World War II, 34 to 37 seats in the House.
The average loss in a sixth year is 44 seats.
And nobody but James Carville's talking about that, and he had to go out and borrow $5 to $10 million to hopefully make it possible.
Sue in Memphis, nice to have you on the program.
Appreciate your patience and welcome.
Well, thank you, Rush.
I can't believe I'm talking to you.
This is great.
Thank you.
But I'm so sorry for you because you're talking to someone really stupid.
Because I must be because the media tells me I am because I'm a born-again evangelical conservative Christian.
And I must be doubly stupid to me, my family, and my friends, because we cannot wait to go out and vote and vote Republicans.
No, no, You're not going to vote.
You are a conservative Christian and you are mad over the Foley thing and the Iraq war, and you hate Bush, and you hate your Congress because they let you down, and you're not voting.
Well, see, I'm stupid because I didn't get that memo, and neither did my family and friends.
Because we can't wait to go out and vote because we know that the Republicans stand for our moral and values.
We know that Republicans are stronger in defending us against terrorism.
You are confirming that you're stupid.
I must be.
I must be by what's been going on in the last few weeks, by what everybody's telling me.
Me and my friends, not only are we going to vote Republican, we can't wait.
So I guess we're just dumb as sticks.
And, you know, we're from the Mid-South and the Bible Belt.
So I guess we're just really stupid.
Do you have a pickup truck?
Yeah.
No, but my husband's a blue-collar worker.
He drives a 72 NOVA.
Does that count?
Yeah, that's a pretty equivalent.
72 NOVA, that's pretty close to having a pickup.
Well, we're so stupid.
You got an NRA bumper sticker somewhere on that NOVA?
We don't, but we do believe in our rights to carry arms.
Yeah.
Got a copy of the Ten Commandments in the glove box.
We believe in the Ten Commandments.
And get this: we're so stupid that we're going to vote Republican, even though Foley did sin.
What he did was a sin.
But we're still voting Republican.
Yeah.
You know.
Okay, well, I sort of hate to hear this.
This is going to depress the cut and run crowd out there.
Well, you're abandoning them.
I'm abandoning them.
I know.
And that just makes me so stupid.
And you know what?
You know what?
I'm so stupid that my husband, I don't work.
He's a blue-collar worker.
We're doing well.
The economy is doing well.
We're so stupid.
We don't want to see our fruits go up.
You're buying all the Kool-Aid out there.
You ought to be miserable.
You sound way too happy.
I'm just, well, I'm too stupid to not be depressed.
I'm just too stupid.
I'm real happy.
And you know what?
I cannot wait to see when Corker beats Ford.
Can't wait.
I'm so stupid.
Rush, you know, I guess I'm just going to have to have some post-war.
Well, you know, Sue, I love talking to delusional people now and then.
Well, I guess I'm nothing going on.
No, this is great.
You've been fabulous.
You have no idea how perfect this was.
Great.
I'm glad you called, and happy holidays.
Thank you.
Same to you.
All right.
We'll be back in just a second, folks.
Stay with us.
I'm thinking we need our own line of coffins and urns.
Major League Baseball can do it.
We can do excellence in Broadway.
EIB logoed coffins and urns.
And our coffins, we could put an Ethernet connection in there so that the deceased would have a constant online connection to the website.
Excellence in burials.
It would never, ever.
And we don't even have to change the logo.
All right, let's talk a little family values here, ladies and gentlemen.
This is from Canyon Country in Southern California.
A woman shot a gang member Wednesday who had broken into her canyon country home while the gang member's mother waited outside in the getaway car, according to sheriff's deputies.
I love these family values.
A 29-year-old suspect whose wounds were not life-threatening snapped a lock on a homeowner's screen door, barged in as the woman retreated to the backyard, gun in hand, according to the sheriff's report.
To be honest, it's fairly rare, but occasionally it does pay off to own a gun.
Sheriff's Lieutenant Tom Brisky said.
To be honest, it's fairly rare, but occasionally it does pay off to own a gun.
I know law enforcement doesn't like people having guns in their house.
They just don't like it.
When suspect Mike Logo of Palmdale approached the woman about 10:45 a.m. through her back door, yelling at her as he advanced, the woman shot him with a Smith Wesson.38 caliber revolver.
Frightened, she hit him twice in the abdomen, once in the leg, missing a fourth time.
Three out of four is not bad.
Lugo managed to run from the Canvas Street address and house and got into the Dodge Intrepid his mother Cynthia Brandon behind the wheel.
Brandon, 55, drove off, but the Palmdale resident didn't know where a local hospital was.
So she flagged down a sheriff's deputy speeding on Soledad Canyon Road and Deep Creek Drive.
The deputy was responding to the 9-11 call from the house.
So you just never, ever underestimate family values, ladies and gentlemen.
Mom driving the getaway car while a gang member goes in to rob a house.
Sandy in Hartville, Ohio.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Great to talk to you.
Thank you.
I want to thank you for the cut and run conservative spot.
I think it's funny, but I also think it's a great awareness tool for people like my husband and me.
The last time we protested, we voted for Ross Perot, and we got eight years of Bill Clinton.
Oh, God, I remember that.
Yes, and we vowed never to make that mistake again.
So we're going to hold our nose and we're going to vote for DeWine.
And I hope he's listening.
Why are you holding your nose?
What did Dewine do that made you mad?
The reason I ask is because I'm going to give a bunch of emails.
Isn't Dewine the guy who obstructed John Bolton?
I said, no, that was Voinovich that did that.
Voinovich, but DeWine was right in there, too.
He's done so many.
Well, I know he joined a gang of 14 with McCain.
Yes.
On the stupid no-filibustering of judicial nominees.
Yes, he did.
He has not been a good Republican, I don't think.
No, he's already paid a price.
Didn't his son get beat in a primary?
Yes, he did.
Yeah, no question.
And that's when you take out your wrath is during primaries.
But you know, you're right about this parot, but I'll tell you, folks, I don't have enough time to go to the whole story, but that's in a 1992 campaign.
And our program, our network, is just kicking butt.
We are adding stations.
We're just going through the roof.
And a parole thing comes up, and I don't fall for it.
And I am immediately warning people that this is a deception, that there's something not right about this.
And I get that audiences tell him, no, no, Rush Perot is your guy.
You should be his VP.
Now you should be on a ticket with him.
Perot is you.
And I am cringing.
I am literally, this is long before we even knew Clint was going to be the nominee of the Democrats.
I just, I just, I was, I was, folks, I was panicked at how easily sucked in people were by it.
I was just panicked.
Made me question the intelligence of my audience.
And, well, it was new then.
We're only into four years.
Actually, it's three and a half at the time.
And I remember my broadcast partners at the time panicking, thought I was driving the audience away.
They'd plane ride home from a meeting in Atlanta.
You've got to go out there and take this back.
I mean, you're driving the audience away.
I said, you wait till the ratings come out.
And, of course, the suits and the executives were wrong, as they always are in this business.
And I was right.
But that's a good analogy because it's the same mindset today as existed then.
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