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Oct. 27, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 27, 2006, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hang on a minute here, folks.
I gotta read some real quick.
All right.
Program content warning.
Get the kids away from the radio.
You have to get the kids away from the radio.
I'm not kidding.
This is not a trick.
It's not, it's not a st a typical radio stunt.
Get the kids away from the radio.
It's Friday.
Let's uh go here.
Live from a Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
All right, now you know the rules for open line Friday.
Well, uh let me explain the rules for Monday through Thursday.
As you people know, I, Rushlin Boy, am a benevolent dictator.
There is no First Amendment on this program.
Nobody has a right to speak other than me, unless I grant it.
And nobody has a right to be heard.
Monday through Thursday, I don't talk about things that don't interest me, as I would sound bored, and nobody would listen.
Although I actually cannot imagine that.
On Friday, though, I take one of the greatest career risks known to exist in modern media.
Because when we go to the phones, uh the callers, the audience on the show.
You can talk about whatever you wish to talk about.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address rush at eIBNet.com.
Now, another thing, the even though we can talk about whatever you want, the there are some rules here that I have had in place since this program uh debuted in 1988, and these rules actually precede that.
Uh we don't listen to complaints about the phone bill or the electric bill.
We have made an exception to listen to complaints about gas prices, but uh the normal things that uh you hear elsewhere we don't do here, uh but other than that, uh, everything is fair game.
Again, 800-282-2882, and the email addresses rush at EIBNet.com.
I'm not kidding about getting the kids uh away from the radio.
And also, I guess I should issue a warning to those of you who are upset with graphic sexual descriptions.
Uh if if that kind of thing makes you uncomfortable, you shouldn't listen either.
And I'm warning you, I I'm not springing surprises on you, not shocking you, and I'm giving you ample time to go turn on a soap opera or or what whatever you wish, or to turn the radio down, is I'm gonna I'm gonna count down from uh like five.
And when I reach one, if you're still listening, and then something you hear offends you.
You listening at your own risk, you can complain all day.
Certainly is frowning at me.
You don't think I should read this stuff?
I don't think you understand the importance of this.
Five, four, three, two, one.
You don't think I'm gonna actually be able to read it, do you?
You think I'm gonna get to it, and I say, ooh, I don't think.
I well, all right.
Uh the controversy here involves new uh uh the the uh Virginia Democrat candidate for Senate, James Webb.
Yesterday, George Allen, the George Allen campaign unleashed a press release that exposed Webb's fiction writing, which includes graphic underage sex scenes.
Mike, did you get that audio?
All right, good.
Uh then maybe I won't have to read it because we have Mr. Webb on audio actually discussing this.
Uh people from our Blowtorch affiliate in the nation's capital, WMAL ran into him on the street and they got him to say some things.
Uh and I have not heard this yet.
So I won't play this until we uh I'll listen to it during the break.
We just got it.
Uh the book in question here is Lost Soldiers.
Uh written by Jim Webb, Democrat candidate for the Senate in Virginia.
Here's an excerpt.
Shirtless man walked toward them along a mud pathway.
His muscles were young and hard, but his face was devastated with wrinkles.
His eyes were so red that they appeared to be burned By fire.
A naked boy ran happily toward him from the little plot of dirt.
The man grabbed his young son in his arms, turned him upside down, and put the boys in his mouth.
Now the press release as provided by the Allen campaign is entitled Webb's Weird World, The Author's Distributing Writings, Disturbing Writings Show A Continued Pattern of Demeaning Women.
Here is a another passage.
This is uh from let's say what's this uh Well uh in something to die for.
Another web book, Fogerty watched a naked young stripper do the splits over a banana.
You heard this one, Mr. Snerdley.
Okay.
You've read this.
You've read these books.
Ho ho ho ho you're backing out now to the excerpts you've read.
All right.
Fogerty watched a naked young stripper do the splits over a banana.
She stood up, her face smiling proudly, and her round breasts glistening from a spotlight in the dim bar.
Left the banana on the bar, cut in four equal sections by the muscles of uh of her female anatomy.
I uh let's put it that way, I rather than actually use the word.
Yeah, I I this one's harmless.
Okay, go all right.
Something to die for.
Fogerty watched a young naked young stripper do the splits over a banana.
She stood back, stood back up, her face smiling proudly, her round breasts glistening from a spotlight in a dim bar, and left the banana on the bar, cut in four equal sections by the muscles of her vagina.
Uh now what?
Do what?
Ver uh you mean from a country such as this?
Uh all right, this is okay, here we go.
Snerdley now egging me on in there.
He could see jawbone and ashley asthmatic, two guards at a Vietnam prison camp napping together in the grass.
Is this the one you mean?
They faced inward, their arms entwined.
It looked like they were uh masturbating each other.
It didn't surprise him.
It was common to see men holding hands, embracing playing with each other.
Some of them, the guards uh had wanted him.
I mean, he could he could tell in those effanescent moments between his Bao Cow Ball, the obligatory deference when a guard entered his cell and the first word or blow that followed.
Quick, grinding voices, turgid with repressed passion and exploratory reaching of the hand near his groin.
Okay, these are the writings, fiction writings of uh Democrat Senate candidate in Virginia, James Webb.
Uh books have been out there for a while, uh, and nobody has commented much on them, but they are out there, and uh it this is the kind of thing that uh people unaware of this are gonna have a logical question or two.
Uh what what kind of mind is it that creates this stuff, thinks about this stuff, dreams about this stuff uh uh and then puts it to paper?
Uh what what what kind of guy actually does what is it about Mr. Webb that we don't know?
Uh I have a couple questions.
Has Denny Hasterd ever written books like this?
Well, they well the reason I ask is because uh the drive by media to Democrats said that Denny Haster should resign.
I'm I'm wondering if Denny Haster has ever written any books like this.
And uh Mr. Snardley, do you have a banana?
I mean you No, I'm not asking you to do anything.
I just could you bring a banana and you have a banana I want to put the banana in it.
Oh, you does anybody you guys have was there a banana delivered in line We don't have a banana here?
What about our What what what about what about our condom classes for the staff here?
I thought we well it's probably a cucumber that we have.
Well, we're required federal regulations, You know, we gotta teach the staff uh various things.
I wonder, I wonder if any uh impressionable young House pages have read this book by uh or these books uh by Democrat Senate candidate Jim Webb.
I know that Lynn Cheney and Newt Gingrich uh have written novels, but they don't use graphical details uh like this.
Uh uh Mr. Webb was uh was on a Washington radio station today and and the host of the station was reading these excerpts to him.
And Webb said, I I don't know why you're reading that on WTOP.
I think it's a little inappropriate for you to read this on the radio.
And the host kept reading it uh from uh from the novel Something to Die For, in which Webb describes the female stripper and the sex acts on the banana.
And Webb said, as as the host finished the excerpt, I don't think that's appropriate for you to read on the radio.
And then Webb said, look at uh uh a young boy with uh uh father picking up a young boy upside down and and and putting it in his mouth is not a sex act.
Webb said that's not a sexual act.
What about the banana and the stripper?
Is that a sexual act?
Uh quick timeout, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh go get the No, no, don't go get the kids yet.
Back in just a second.
Stay with this open mind, no banana in their brand on the EIB network.
It's open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh program.
A thrill and delight to have you with us.
Our radio station in Washington, WMAL caught up with uh the Democrat candidate for the Senate in Virginia, Jim Webb, and asked him about the uh passage in his book regarding the uh the boys uh uh.
Well, here, let let uh let Mr. Webb uh describe it himself.
That was something that I actually saw as a writer in a slum of Klong Tui in Thailand, in Bangkok Thailand, it was not a sexual act.
It's being characterized as a sexual act.
Uh that's that's the uh uh well there it's not a sexual act, ladies and gentlemen.
He was just describing what he'd seen uh as a writer, you can see things and can write about them, but it's it's uh not a sexual act.
Here's another passage.
He saw the invitation with every bouncing breast and curved hip.
He was 13, she was fifteen.
In a few moments she drew him to her, and he murmured in his quiet voice, I'm still small.
Uh you're large enough, she answered, and he found that he was.
Uh so, you know, let's let's keep some things in mind, ladies and gentlemen.
The uh campaign headquarters for uh Jim Webb, the Washington Post, has tried to destroy George Allen with a typically manufactured slur campaign based on the word macaca, and occasionally said use of the N-word and of course the Confederate flag,
and there have been pages and pages and issues after issues written about what kind of evil must lurk in the mind of George Allen posited by the Washington Post.
I uh did I wonder when did Nancy Pelosi know about this?
When did how many Democrats in a leadership have known about Webb's book and didn't say anything?
How many people have known what's in these novels and didn't warn the American people?
I went to Democrat Underground and they're imploding over there.
They're wondering how in the world nobody could have known this.
Why did anybody wait until now to deal with this?
They are they are they are in it in a fit of depression at a number of left-wing blog sites.
I'll tell you something else.
There's a tide turning, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
As we've told you all week, Jim Tallant is uh is up three points in two polls in Missouri over Claire McCaskill.
Uh uh Ben Cardin and Michael Steele are tied in Maryland, and Steele's got some problems with the NAALCP backed out of a debate.
Uh the the uh uh Steele campaign has just issued a new ad uh defining their position on stem cell research.
Cardin, as you know, has voted against it, yet he's being supported by people who are for uh uh stem cell research, even though he's voted against it.
The New York Times has two interesting stories today.
Uh one is that the and this is true, that this gay marriage ruling in New Jersey uh has got Democrats worried all the hell because Republican candidates are energized by this.
The here's the here's the thought process.
Okay, gay marriage, legal in New Jersey.
It just keeps expanding.
And now we're on the cusp of an election for the House of Representatives in the Senate.
What if the speaker is San Francisco Nancy Pelosi?
This is the kind of thing that the Democrats are scared to death is going to revive what they have thought is a depressed GOP base.
I don't think the GOP base has been that depressed, but even if it has been, this is the kind of thing that can revive it.
The Democrats know it.
The New York Times also has another story about black enthusiasm, black voter enthusiasm in this election is suppressed.
That uh hurts Democrats.
There's a lot of uh panic at the uh at the Democrat National Committee House organ, the New York Times today.
And I think you're seeing, as we talked about all week, polls are starting to narrow now because these polsters and others are going to have to have credibility once the race is over and once the elections come in.
Uh and and all of the all the work that's been designed to depress, suppress conservative Republican turnout has been done.
All of the polling data with their inflated Democrat samples and Democrat waiting, producing these massive Democrat victories of 40 to 50 seats in the House at 30 or 20 or whatever.
Uh they're being revised now.
And everybody on the left's starting to get a little bit nervous.
Now you've got these uh the releases here from uh the Allen campaign of what's in these novels that Jim Webb has uh has written.
This cannot be helpful.
Uh this has to be this is a good move, it's a well-timed move.
And you might be saying, come on, it's a something he wrote, big deal.
One of the comments from the left that I saw in Democrat Underground is hey, hey, you tell those hicks in the South that the Bible has worse stuff in it here than what Webb wrote.
Go ahead.
Keep excusing it that use the Bible as tell people the Bible is worse than what Jim Webb wrote.
Do it.
Make that one of your salient campaign issues, Dems.
Try it.
That's what some of them are thinking.
But there's there's the there's some panic out there.
Because when you you might just say, well, why Russell's novels, no big deal.
Well, a lot of people are wondering, what the hell's in this guy's mind?
You know, what what what's he sitting around thinking about?
This on the heels of Mark Foley?
I mean, you people expect this to just be ignored after this brew ha-ha, this this panic conniption over Mark Foley.
I wonder when did Nancy Pelosi know what was in this book that Jim Webb or these books that he wrote?
When did any of the Senate Democrat leaders know?
What did they do?
What have they not been doing to protect the children based on his writings in this book?
You know that impressionable pages in the House probably heard about this book.
You know that impressionable pages in the House are probably reading these books.
I mean, this young and innocent, virginal 16, 15, 17-year-old pages in the House dorm.
Now that Foley's gone, what have they been doing?
But nobody thought to protect them.
Nobody thought to warn anybody on the Democrat side about what's in the web books.
No, all we've had is macaca.
And George Allen looks rotten in cowboy boots, or George Allen is too tight with the Confederate flag or some such.
It's been a typical liberal Democrat smear campaign, void of any substance, any discussion of any substance of the issues.
And so, if that's the kind of campaign Democrats want, George Allen, I guess, decided, fine, here's what you're gonna get.
You want to run a campaign based on this kind of stuff?
You want to do news stories based on this kind of stuff?
Fine.
Here is Jim Webb and the things that he's written in his book.
Try this.
Uh there are frequent uses of a racial slur for blacks and descriptions of Vietnamese women as monkey-faced.
He uses the N-word and monkey face to describe blacks and Vietnamese women in some of these books.
We'll be back in just a second, folks.
Uh Mr. Snartley, you may not believe this.
I'm being asked to reread these excerpts a little slower and with even more feeling.
Uh that than I than I did the first time.
These are the excerpts from uh Jim Webb books.
The here's folks, here's here's the thing.
Every one of the books that he has written uh has this kind of stuff in it, uh referring to uh uh blacks with several different racial slurs, Vietnamese women as monkey face.
Uh remember the the context of this is that the Washington Times single-handedly, as the Jim Webb campaign office, campaign headquarters is singularly set out to destroy George Allen over manufactured and exaggerated things, such as macaca and the Confederate flag.
It has been a hate fest from the Washington Times.
But this is what I was telling you yesterday.
This is who the left is.
This is who the drive-by media is.
They lie, they make things up, they smear, they destroy, they avoid the substance of issues.
Again, they're trying to destroy Rumsfeld again.
My first call here.
Let's listen.
Glenn in Lavonia, Michigan.
We go to the phones here on Open Line Friday.
I'm glad you called, and welcome to the program, sir.
Hey, Rosh Diddles from Lavonia, Michigan.
Thank you very much.
Well, you your Cardinals have got our Tigers on the run, but uh around Detroit here, we're hoping that we're gonna be able to do a repeat of the 68 series.
Yeah, it's uh you know, it's the only thing wrong with this World Series is that they're having to play it in the conditions they're playing in.
Baseball's not to be meant to be played with a windshield in the 30s.
I agree with you.
And threatening rain and and uh and so forth, but uh you know, but you y you're you're your your your great one hundred and eight mile an hour fastball relief pitcher, Zamaya got to work on the easy toss to first base.
He's thrown two away now that really have uh permitted the Cardinals to win.
Yeah, I know that that that hurt big time around uh around uh Bemo town here, but we're we're still pulling for him.
We're hoping that we can do a repeat of 68, and we wish him the best.
Well, Tigers have had a great season.
There's th there's there's no question they have.
You guys ought to be very pr this is illustrated.
Detroit is a baseball town.
It always has been, and it's great to see this.
Yeah.
Um anyway, reason that with Colin.
Uh I uh was wondering about uh your take on Donald Rumsfeld.
Um I'm a conservative, and you know, I fully support our effort in removing the Hussein uh regime.
Uh you know, it was something that needed to be done, you know i in the post-9-11 context, and given Hussein's history of pursuing weapons and his aggression against his neighbors, but I've had problems with uh how the post-war was handled and and the planning for it.
And uh particularly uh I've had problems with Rumsfeld.
And there are some other noted conservatives, like Bill Crystal, for example, who have called for him to resign, and Crystal's even uh predicted that after the election he's gonna go.
And when I've listened to your show, you've seemed fairly supportive of Rumsfeld.
I was just wondering what you um what your thoughts were on.
All right, let I'll I'll appreciate a question.
Uh uh let me attack it this way.
First thing first, I I don't look to what anybody else thinks to form my opinion.
So you can give me a list of people who thinks that Rumsfeld has to go, and it wouldn't matter to me.
What I look at uh is who's at the top.
George W. Bush.
The idea that Rumsfeld has to go uh is is I think formulated on the basis that he's an independent contractor, Bush can't control him, and he's out there doing things that are harmful to the administration if Bush hasn't authorized and Bush doesn't.
No, I refuse to believe that.
Rumsfeld personally to me, I have a lot of respect for him.
This man is uh quite achieved in his life.
He is very accomplished.
He is brilliant.
Uh he uh he was uh the CEO of G.D. Searle when uh when Aspir Tame Equal was uh released in the market.
That was very big thing.
He has been in public service for a lot of his life when he doesn't have to be.
Donald Rumsfeld is uh is is a pioneer taking the arrows.
He doesn't have to do this.
Uh I think it's easy to get caught up in conventional wisdom because the war's not going as we wish it were.
And you know, it'd be it'd be nice.
I heard somebody say the other day.
It'd be nice if life were a TV machine and we could rewind back to where life was uh a couple three years ago and start over, but we can't do that.
I mean, I we could all come up here with mistakes that we think have been made after three years of watching them and then go back and say, how come these experts didn't know this or didn't figure this out?
I don't think our problem is Rumsfeld started out, I think the the the lot of military brass and some military commentators don't like Rumsfeld because he's autocratic and he doesn't listen.
And he's got his own mind made up about things.
One of the reasons some people don't like me, Glenn.
Uh, he's inflexible.
He knows what he knows, believes what he believes.
Won't listen to anybody, won't take anybody else's counsel.
One of his first missions was to change the scope of the army from its post-Cold War or uh in its cold war construction.
The Clinton administration left the U.S. military in a bad state of affairs.
It had to be rebuilt, and Rumsfeld was trying to modernize it for future conflicts around the around the world.
Uh there's always going to be opposition in the Pentagon to that.
Don't think that the Pentagon loves him.
There's some people in there trying to destroy him.
It's like any other corporate business.
Uh people at the top are always targets.
But I don't I don't know what replacing the Secretary of Defense is going to change.
When you get right down to it, put Daffy Duck in.
I don't know who you put in there.
What difference is it going to make?
The President of the United States tells us that he's listening to the generals on the ground.
Abizad and George Casey.
Uh and and Rumsfeld runs the Pentagon and so forth, but well, who we supposed to put in here?
What difference would it make?
What kind or do you just want to punish somebody because the the war hasn't gone the way everybody wants it to go?
We can talk about that too.
You know, we've got a strategy, and the strategy is we're going to build an outpost of democracy in the Middle East.
And we're going to do that first.
We're going to do that at the same time we try to defeat the insurgents.
Well, the first thing to do and defeat we get two things we can do to defeat the insurgents.
Kill Muki Al-Sadr.
We should have killed Al Sadr way back in the first days of fighting in Fallujah, but we can't T Fo back there.
We can still do it because he is the number one insurgent leader, not the Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani.
Second thing we can do is see to it that Saddam Hussein is executed.
That will do that will uh depress and diminish some of the support for the remaining Bathists in that country who think Saddam's going to emerge from all this and resume power.
And by the way, that notion is being furthered with the absolute idiotic comments of Hans Blix, who's out there turning back the TiVo machine three years, saying this has been a total mistake.
I know it's tough.
We can't leave now.
United States can't leave now, but they shouldn't have gone in in the first place.
Um and it would be better off.
That country would be better off with Saddam Hussein back in power if he had stayed in power, and Blix is out there saying this.
We have the drive-by media sending notes to terrorists saying we're going to give you a fair shake if you'll give us some exclusive video so we get video on CNN of terrorists taking pot shots, sniper assassinations of U.S. troops.
Uh these are complicated things.
There's a new kind of war.
Uh it's uh uh something that that if you want to go back to the TiVo machine, maybe what we could have done is all right, we're gonna go in there and level this place.
And then we'll build the democracy.
And I'm for that.
I'm still for that now.
I I think win the war, and we have the power to do it.
The question is, do we have the will?
We have the power to do it.
Will we?
Well, obviously not, because we're trying to build a democracy uh at the same time.
We don't want to blow up the infrastructure and create ill will with the Iraqi people, so forth and so on.
I just and and and by the way, Glenn, there's one other reason, and this is perhaps the reason I should have mentioned first.
When a bunch of liberal Democrats, like Jack Murpha and Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean, and John Kerry and Ted Kennedy and Carr Levin start demanding Rumsfeld resign, I put him in concrete boots in the Pentagon.
I am not gonna sit here and join with the Democratic Party in having every leader in this administration quit.
They want Rice to quit.
They want Rumsfeld gone.
They wanted Rove in jail.
They had Rove in jail.
They look at and they lie about all of these people.
They want Bush impeached.
They want Cheney thrown out.
Where does this stop?
What is this that everybody gets caught up?
Republicans have to resign.
Republicans should quit.
The minute Democrats start demanding this, I become their blood brothers on the Republican side.
I am not going to sit here and help and participate with a a head chopping operation led by the Democratic Party.
For that reason alone, Rumsfeld's not going anywhere as far as I have anything to do about it.
Back in just a second.
I have uh noticed, ladies and gentlemen, I've been paying extra special attention.
The drive-by media not focusing at all on the uh salacious content of uh Jim Webb's novels.
Uh I'm sure the Washington Post is hoping this just goes away, doesn't bubble up.
Our Washington affiliate, WMAL today spent three hours this morning on it.
Uh some of the calls they were getting uh uh were hilarious.
Uh I think it went wall to wall with it.
And of course, that's right in the Northern Virginia market area where the election will be won or lost.
Uh so it is hot and heavy in the nation's capital.
It owns the airwaves in the nation's capital, where a lot of the drive-by media is.
So a studious effort to ignore this and hope they can contain it uh within the Northern Virginia Beltway area is uh is ongoing.
Uh we'll see if it bubbles up.
Uh it it's uh it's it's it's fascinating to watch what they think is news and what isn't news.
Actually it's not fascinating, it's just it's there's ongoing illustrations of it uh each and every day.
All right, we're gonna go back to the phones.
We have a um we have a man you've you've heard this guy call us before.
He's traveling the northern hemisphere, visiting every market in which this broadcast is heard.
He is up to number five hundred.
He is in Mexico City, Mexico.
Is that right?
Mexico City, you're in Mexico, Paul.
That's right, Mexico City.
You're in Mexico?
I didn't know I didn't know we had an affiliate in Mexico City.
I think I I haven't been able to uh pick up that pirate station that we were going to start in Juarez, but uh I've been getting you on my uh laptop, my uh Rush 247, and I got a wireless laptop, so that's how you're doing it.
What are you doing?
If you're if you're on a if you're on a tour to go to every market in which the stations hurt, how'd you end up in Mexico City, or are you gonna illegally immigrate to avoid taxes when you come back?
I I actually have a job.
Uh my job is traveling uh the northern hemisphere with a uh mobile design center, uh mobile showroom, and the Mexico affiliate, Hapela Mexico affiliate that I've spent three weeks working with their people.
Well, you know, there's a lot of money flowing to Mexico from people in the United States sending their wages home to their families down there.
It's uh last I saw was forty billion dollars a year or something like that.
So there's a burgeoning market for you down there to sell designs.
Oh, yeah.
Well, we uh we have uh an affiliate down here in uh a little city called Carataro, I believe it is, just outside of Guadalajara, and they uh they I've been working with them for the past three weeks all over Mexico.
I'm coming back to the U.S. this weekend, so where are you gonna go?
Uh El Paso.
Uh no, I'm couching over in Laredo and then uh on to um New Orleans and then five weeks in Florida, so working with uh Florida salespeople down there, and uh but I want my Rush Limbaugh shirt, the one with the with the with the thousand stripes collar down in Mexico,
and uh there was people who recognized it and recognized the uh signature on the right sleeve that said Rush Limbaugh, and they'd walk up to me and uh start telling me that they'd been in America and they had heard you and uh they didn't always agree with you, but at least they heard you.
Well, that's just like it is here.
I'm not surprised.
I've gone global this week, Paul.
Um I have a salesperson I work with in Connecticut, and he's a staunch New York Yankee fan and a committed liberal.
And we played golf, and he informed me that the course dress code required a shirt with a collar.
And I said, Well, you got a choice.
I got a Boston Red Sox shirt, a Rush Limbaugh shirt, and the George Bush windbreaker.
And he said, Oh, God, don't make a Yankee, a liberal Yankee fan pick one of those.
Just wear something and I'll live with it.
So I wore my Rush Limbaugh shirt, Which aggravated in the most, I hope.
Uh, good.
Well, I'm happy to hear.
Paul, you always have interesting things when you call.
The pirate station uh was in Juarez, uh, Mexico.
It's right across the Rio Grande.
Uh, and it was a pirate station that uh that broadcast uh 50,000 watts, but it might have been a hundred thousand watts in Mexico, I think it was.
Uh and it uh it broadcasts throughout the northern and and uh and northern hemisphere, Central America, and so forth.
Uh and it uh it broadcast programming into the United States that would not have been permitted in the United States at the time.
This is back in the 60s or 70s.
The station's legit now.
Uh but we do not have a an affiliate uh in Mexico.
Uh uh there well, there's a there's a we think that there's a pirate station in Trinidad, Tobago that's still operating, carrying the EIB network.
Uh a lot of them all out there, but we have we we uh it's hard to keep track of all of them, specifically because they're they're pirates and they uh they have their transmitter on boats and they run around the ocean.
Speaking of all of this, there's a piece in uh thanks, Paul.
Great to hear from you and uh and uh let us hear from you when we get to New Orleans.
There is a story by Otto Reich today in the uh National Review Online that the Cuban government is quietly bringing in dignitaries from all over the world to uh start planning the arrangements for Fidel Castro's funeral.
Uh this is serious.
He's got stomach cancer.
It appears now that this is widely accepted as true, and people are wondering if he's already passed away, may already be dead.
And the story that Mr. Reich has uh in the in in uh in RO today says that the uh Cuban government is modeling their funeral for Fidel Castro after that of Pope John Paul II.
And that dignitaries and media people from around the world are being flown in to select the best spots for their cameras, the best seating locations.
And when I read that, I'm not making this up, and I read this today.
I wondered about the Democrat Party delegation to the uh to the funeral of uh Fidel Castro, who will lead it.
Uh and and what seating prime seating locations might they get, and what kind of demand will there be for tickets among the Democratic Party in this country for prime seats at the Fidel Castro funeral.
Now, it's not known whether he's passed away or not.
It that's just speculation, but it is seems to be foregone conclusion that he does have stomach cancer.
By the way, he has not been seen.
There haven't been any pictures of uh Fidel Castro since he was seen yucking it up with Hugo Chavez during a meeting of non-aligned nations before Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinijad came to the United Nations and made their uh famous speeches.
Uh as I mentioned earlier, tide may be turning Republican chised uh GOP tries to use marriage ruling to rally base, New York Times.
Uh have to go into detail about this because this has got them this ruling's got them scared to death in the Democratic Party.
Another New York Times story Democrats feared disillusionment in uh in black voters.
Uh the reasons for this I will explain uh as the program unfolds today.
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