Amidst billowing clouds of fragrant aromatic second and third hand, well, that's primary and whatever, all cigar smoke.
Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
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We have gone back to the archives, ladies and gentlemen, the audio archives.
And I just want you to hear the exchange that took place between Stephanopoulos and Ram Emanuel on Stephanopoulos' show back on October the 8th.
Remember, the House Ethics Committee has come out with its report now that Democrats shopped the Foley story to papers, that they knew about it, and they were trying to get papers to run it.
They succeeded ultimately.
But the point of this is that they knew exactly what they were accusing Republican leadership of doing.
They were doing the same thing.
They were letting a known predator hang around and continue to do his dirty deeds, waiting for the opportune time.
Now, that's politics, mine and dandy.
These kinds of things happen, opposition research, but they lied about it, and we want to get the lie on record.
So we go back to October the 8th.
Stephanopoulos has as his guest Ram Emanuel and Adam Putnam, who's a Republican from Florida.
And Stephanopoulos says all week long there have been on talk radio and by Republicans and their allies that this was perhaps a Democrat dirty trick.
And I just want to ask you plainly, did you or your staff know anything about these emails or instant messages before they came out?
George, never saw them.
And I'm going to say one thing.
Let's go through the facts right here.
Are you aware of them?
Never saw him.
No involvement.
We never saw him.
No involvement.
And she said, not anything, George.
And what the fact is, this is a holy, no, there's a holy, no, never saw him.
And here's what I said after playing that bite on October the 9th.
That sounds like an evasion.
It sounds like a manual.
I never saw the instant messages.
But he's asked point blank, were you aware of them?
Never saw him.
Never saw him.
Doesn't mean he didn't know about it, ladies and gentlemen, trying to cover the issue.
What was interesting here, he had two former Clinton guys, one now an objective journalist on ABC, the other a congressman from Illinois running the Democrat Senate Campaign Committee.
And, you know, the revolving door between the offices of presidents and Democratic legislators and the media just keeps moving, gets wider and wider and wider.
Here's an interesting story on stem cells.
Ladies and gentlemen, healthy newborn babies may have been killed in Ukraine to feed a flourishing international trade in stem cells, according to evidence obtained by the BBC.
Disturbing video footage of post-mortem examinations on dismembered tiny bodies raises serious questions about what happened to them.
Ukraine has become the self-styled stem cell capital of the world.
There is a trade in stem cells from aborted fetuses amid unproven claims that they can help fight many diseases.
But now there are claims that stem cells are also being harvested from live babies.
In its report, the Council of Europe describes a general culture of trafficking of children snatched at birth and a wall of silence from hospital staff upwards over their fate.
The pictures show organs, including brains, have been stripped and some bodies dismembered.
It could possibly be a result of harvesting stem cells from the bone marrow.
What amazes me is that this story gets accurate representation and reporting from the BBC.
But I would like to ask Michael J. Fox and Claire McCaskill what they think of this story.
I don't think I'll have the chance, but on the off chance they will hear about this story.
I would love to know what they think about this.
Love to know what they think about this.
Remember, as this story says, unproven claims that these stem cells, embryonic stem cells, can help fight diseases.
There's no evidence whatsoever.
And now you've got exactly what the opponents of embryonic stem cell research have been saying is now happening.
Babies are being killed after they're born.
They're being stripped from the womb all for their stem cells.
People are being biomed.
This is what happens.
This is exactly what happens.
And this is, I'll tell you what this is, is a combination of a fraud from the medical science community, simply wanting dollars for research when they can't get any private money because there's no reason to invest in this.
It's got no future.
So they want to go to the federal government and get money.
The federal government in this country denying to do it.
And so the drive-by media is a perfect drive-by media example.
Drive-by-media hits on this, comes in, lobs the mortar fire, starts opening rounds of ammunition about how rotten the Bush administration is, about how rotten Republicans are.
Michael J. Fox runs TV ads claiming that Jim Talent wants to criminalize research into this when he doesn't.
Same thing with Michael Steele in Maryland.
And so the drive-by media gets this all worked up and they convince a bunch of people that there's hope when there's none, that there is a future when there isn't, that there is promise when there isn't.
And so people say, my gosh, my government's denying this to me and I want to be cured and I don't care what happens.
And so the Ukraine people, hey, there's a market for this.
Try our babies.
This is exactly what happens.
This is the point that I was trying to make and did make eloquently.
It was just ignored outside the audience of this program during the campaign, midterm campaign in October and November of this year.
Ward Churchill is back.
An ethnic studies professor from the University of Colorado, Ward Churchill, received a standing O last night from a crowd of more than 200 new school students.
This is in New York, after blaming the 2001 World Trade Center attacks on America's support for Israel and its sanctions against Iraq in 1996.
In a two-hour speech at the new school titled Sterilizing History, the Fabrication of Innocent Americans, Delivered Without Notes, Mr. Churchill traced what he called a pattern of mass murders as American foreign policy from the time of the country's inception to the events of September 11th, which he said the country was essentially asking for.
Here you go.
We've got a card-carrying wacko liberal socialist standing up and telling everybody who he is and who his buddies are in the process.
Ward Churchill also called the president of the new school, Bob Kerry, the former senator from Nebraska, a mass murderer and a serial killer to boot for having served in Than Phong, Vietnam.
Mr. Churchill also served in Vietnam, an act for which he said he has spent the rest of his life apologizing.
Mr. Churchill received cheers from the audience for comparing Bob Kerry to the serial killer Charles Manson.
That's who you've got moral equivalency in the president's chair at this institution, Churchill said.
How about a cage for Kerry rather than a president's suite?
He was invited to the new school by a student group, the Women of Color.
The university was not involved in the invitation.
We brought him here because he offers a framework in which we can conceptualize the struggles that our community is dealing with, said a junior at the new school, Jamila Thompson.
A person's work should be engaged critically.
His work allows us to build broad-based networks with Native Americans, Latinos, and anti-racist whites.
Now, Andrew Greeley, columnist Chicago Sun-Times on December the 8th, referred to me as the poisonous Rush Limbaugh.
Mr. Churchill is treated as a framework in which students can conceptualize the struggles of our community.
And his work allows them to build broad-based networks with Native Americans, Latinos, and anti-racist whites.
And so real poison, real extremism, insanity, if you will, celebrated by people on the left.
Nothing wrong with this.
Why this?
This is considered the free flow of ideas, the expression of ideas, which is what's supposed to happen at the university and academe and so forth.
Students yesterday jumped to his defense, arguing that his little Eichmann statement was taken out of context when it was publicized on Fox News.
Churchill yesterday seemed happier to cultivate his image as a provocative figure than to defend himself.
Campus cops were out in force.
Metal detectors were set up outside the auditorium for his appearance due to fear of a possible attack against the professor.
The talk drew little protest from the student body.
That is because people who oppose him have better things to do than to waste their time showing up at one of his speeches.
We'll be back.
Lectures.
Lectures without notes.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Isn't that impressive?
Two hours without notes.
Wonder how many other people do that regularly and routinely, but this somehow is supposed to impress us the power of the intellect of this lunatic.
We'll be back.
Stay with us, Spence.
Mannheim Steamroller, Christmas time on the EIB network.
Nobody, nobody will strip our joy during this Christmas season.
We just simply won't put up with it.
We'll not put up with the effort.
Too many people out there trying to do that.
Don in Chicago, as we go back to the phones.
Hello, sir.
28-day bidders, Rush.
Thank you from Chicago referencing that Andrew Greeley article.
You know, I grew up literally on that paper.
My dad retired 47 years as an executive advertising executive with the Sun-Times.
My brother currently drives for them.
But it's no wonder that sales of the paper are down.
Their advertising revenue is in the toilet because they can't sell papers.
And I think last week their stock hit an all-time low of below $6 a share, which means the paper is literally up for auction or whoever wants to buy it can buy it because heads are rolling.
It's just in a terrible state.
And it's no wonder because this paper has gone to the toilet because this liberal slant that it's got and this Padre on the wrong side of every issue he writes about.
But wait a minute.
Chicago's a liberal Democrat town.
I would think that Andrew Greeley would be loved and widely read.
Well, that may be the case, but he's still wrong on all the issues.
I mean, I think stardom's gone to his head.
Well, when did that ever stop liberals?
That's true.
No, seriously, when did it ever stop?
Being wrong on issues, being wrong on fundamentals.
When did it ever stop them?
You know, I know the newspaper business is in trouble.
I don't think you can attribute a columnist's efforts.
Well, you cannot, you cannot blame the entire freefall of any newspaper on a single columnist.
Newspapers, true, are in trouble.
The problem with the newspaper business is on the journalism side, not the business side.
They think they should be immune from bottom-line concerns, that the word profit will somehow impringe upon the great journalism that is taking place.
There's no effort on the part of journalists to connect with their audience.
Journalists have a sort of an elitist attitude.
They look at the audience as being a bunch of Nimrod know-nothings.
They're trained to write at a sixth-grade level.
So what does that tell you?
They think their audience is stupid, and they talk down to them.
That's the condescension.
And there's no effort to connect.
There's no attempt even.
And that's because of the elitism that most journalism today parades around in.
They assume nobody knows anything until they read it in the newspaper or maybe see it on television.
And the successful talk radio shows like this one, primary reason for the success is a direct familial type connection between host and audience.
And they don't understand it, but they resent it all to hell.
And so rather than debate us and rather than treat us fairly and challenge our ideas, it's just we have to be dehumanized and we have to be discredited and we have to be held out as almost alien type figures that in some cases should not even be allowed to speak publicly.
Yet journalists and newspaper people hold themselves out as the only thing linking the American population to the First Amendment and the rest of the Constitution.
It really is an arrogant bunch of people with a condescending attitude.
And if they ever learn to connect with an audience, and I bet there are newspapers out there that do and are doing pretty well, but that's beneath them.
Connect the audience.
We're not here to understand what the audience wants.
And that's not what I'm saying, by the way, but that's the way they interpret connect with the audience.
No, no, we're here to inform them whether they like it or not.
Journalism is the one business I know where the customer is always wrong.
Customer doesn't know what he's talking about.
Letter to the editor can complain about this, can complain about that.
People can cancel their prescriptions.
And people still, the newspaper people, it's just too stupid to know how good they've got it.
So it's the only business, and it is a business, where the customer is presumed always to be wrong.
Sharon in Fort Lauderdale, you're next.
Great to have you here on the EIB network.
Hey, Russ, how are you doing?
Good.
Mega Ditto here from a conservative woman down in sunny South Florida.
Nice to meet one.
Still know how to have fun.
Listen, I always try to call for political debate, but I ended up getting through with a comment I have on the heart attack grill.
Yes.
I'm a physician.
And I'm not sure.
You are.
Whoa, You just can't say that and move on.
I have questions.
Why not?
Well, because what kind of physician are you?
I'm an internal medicine physician.
Wow.
Yeah.
Woo-hoo.
Big time.
That's important.
Is it?
Well, I think, you know, just from my own perspective, if I went into a restaurant to have a heart attack burger, which I might, I don't want to see girls.
I don't have any problem with it, but I'd much rather see male nurses.
You know, the male nurses usually are better built and they have nicer arms.
And let them serve me a heart attack burger.
Yes, but we now.
No, no, no, no.
You're missing the point.
How many people do you think fantasize about male nurses?
None.
Well, that's just to make them mail something or other.
I don't know what male talk show has.
Now there you're talking.
There's a lot of fantasizing.
I think I found my new career.
There you go.
By the way, you know, I was.
I was thinking, Sharon, thanks so much for the call.
Was thinking something else here about the heart attack grill.
We've already posited ideas.
We give these away, by the way.
We're here to help capitalism.
We are here to help businesses.
John Basso runs the place out there.
He's the owner of the heart attack grill in Tempe.
We've already suggested stethoscopes so that the waitress nurses can check heartbeats after a couple of bites of these bypass burgers.
Wheelchairs so that the waitresses can roll the patients out of the restaurant after dinner, avoid liability issues, and build on the fantasy aspect and make sure, of course, after eating a quadruple bypass burger that you get out the door before you collapse.
You don't want them collapsing inside.
And then as an added bonus on the menu for an additional price, CPR lessons.
I guess it might be necessary at some point in the future at the Heart Attack Grill.
Cheryl in Cleveland, you're next on the EIB network.
It's great to have you here.
Cheryl in Cleveland.
Did she?
Oh, hi.
Nice to have you.
I thought you were going to commercial.
I, too, like Sharon, I never thought I'd be calling in for this topic because you were the person that guided me ever since September 11th.
I've been listening to you religiously.
And, you know, you've gotten me through a lot of times when I've doubted my backing of Bush.
And I appreciate that.
And I just want you to know that I think you're an awesome credit to the Conservative Party.
However, today, I am an RN, and I want you to know that I am not a feminist, but I want you to know that as an RN, we are taking care of our patients on an intimate basis.
It's really tough to draw that line.
We're doing things to our patients that no one else, including a spouse, would be doing.
Especially a spouse in these days and age.
Right.
You know, we always try to maintain a level of professionalism in our care of our patients.
I work at a facility that is known throughout the world.
I take my job very seriously.
I consider myself, I don't want to say a guardian angel, but when I have my patients for my shift, I do everything I can to make sure that no harm comes to them.
Have you ever known an experience, have you ever seen it or heard about it, where a nurse has fallen for a patient?
You know, I think it's mostly the other way around because I have been approached by patients.
I've been asked out.
But why is that?
Now, why is that?
Seriously, Cheryl, I do have to take a break, but I want you to hold on during the break.
And I want you to, because you've seen patients fall for, not hit on, but genuinely fall for.
It's a different thing here than objectifying them.
All right?
I want you to tell me why you think that happens.
I'll be back.
We'll discuss this further.
It's apparent this topic has, well, it's litten up the board out there.
Lit up the board.
It's a lightning rod issue.
Nurses and love.
That's exactly what happens here.
We think for you.
Go through the day's news.
I'm America's real anchor man.
Figure out what's happening out there.
Tell you what to think about it as an added bonus.
I'm going to go back now to Cheryl in Cleveland, Ohio.
Now, we're not talking about objectification here.
We understand that that's going to happen.
But why do you think that people fall for nurses?
In the hospital, in the hospital, not at the bar.
Right.
Okay, first of all, you know, when a patient is in the hospital and they're sick, a lot of them question their sexuality or their ability to ever perform sexually, especially if they have a terminal illness or they're very ill.
You know, so people revert back to an earlier stage in development.
In some cases, they're more needy.
Nurses take on, we're nurturers, we're intimately caring for the patients.
I think that's it.
I think somebody's just taking the time to care for them.
And not only that, they're in bed.
You know, we're, I mean, you know, essentially, which is half the battle already done.
Exactly.
Right.
But, you know, so people transform that, you know, the setting of a bedroom because they're in a bed and they're in their pajamas and they're, and then we're there and we're taking care of them and we're taught in nursing school not to be judgmental.
We care for patients regardless of how they think, feel, or believe about anything.
Okay, so given all of this, does this heart attack grill concept with waitresses scandally clad as nurses bother you?
It does.
You know what?
It does bother me because it's like I said, it's hard enough to maintain that level of professionalism to take care of patients with dignity and to be treated with respect.
Okay, so nurses are above parody.
Oh, I hear what you're saying.
I know.
Well, I mean, you know, there have been some movies.
Movies make fun of all kinds of professions and people, and people laugh at them, and some of them win Oscars, some of them win all kinds of awards.
Right.
Why does a place like the Heart Attack Grill get singled out?
It's because it's real and not make-believe on film.
Well, I think the only reason that it's singled out is because you've brought it to the attention of the public.
And I heard you talk about it a couple of days ago, and I wanted to call in, but at that point, I didn't have the time.
I was glad you were talking about it still today.
But, you know, it took us a number of years to overcome.
I don't want to say that we're above parody, but we're, I don't know how to say it.
It's not that we're pure, but, you know, I know what, look at, look at, look at, I can relate to you.
I know what you're talking about.
You take what you do very seriously.
You studied hard for it.
You had to go to school.
You're in service to humanity.
And you take it personally when people make fun of it and so forth, or make light of it, I should say, or what have you.
I'll tell you, I don't think a place like the Heart Attack Cafe is going to damage the reputation of nurses.
I don't think calling attention to something like this does that.
We all get made fun of.
We've all been made fun of our whole lives.
Some of us, I mean, some people get scarred for life because of it.
There's no question about it.
People can be cruel and mean.
For me, you can take it's a way of life in terms of political critics and so forth.
And I would be embarrassed if I were to go public and say talk show hosts must stop being parodied and must stop being made fun of.
We take very seriously what we do.
We are trying to inform the public.
We only want what's best for the country, and we are being destroyed and made to look like a bunch of buffoons.
But that would embarrass me to go do that.
I'll engage them in the battle rather than form an organization and become a special interest group and start protesting if I'm mistreated or if my feelings get hurt.
Because I think it's life.
And I think there are ways that you deal with this or can deal with it that are actually more effective than complaining.
What, Snerdley?
You disagree with this?
Well, Snerdley can't believe this is such a big topic.
Well, but you're a sexist.
How would you like being treated as a sex object, Snerdley?
Yes.
So you ask most men that question.
They would love it.
Most men would love to be sex objects.
This is what we don't understand.
The female and male brains are totally different.
I don't care what the feminists have tried to do or will try to do in the future.
There's no way that anybody's going to be able to make the emotional pathways and the neurological pathways in the brains of men and women similar.
Cheryl, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
How about Kofi Annan?
Kofi Annan went out to Missouri to deliver the first of his five farewell addresses.
Now, you know, I actually think that Kofi Annan is probably the one person most responsible for the mess at Iraq.
He ran an organization that didn't do diddly squat over 16 or 17 resolutions.
There were a gazillion threats, 10 years of barbarous Dreis and 10 years of BS.
The oil for food program, which propped Sudan Hussein up in power, allowed him to enrich himself along with Kofi Annan and his son and who knows who else at the United Nations.
If it hadn't been for Kofi Annan and the United Nations, Saddam Hussein would not have prospered, would not have been able to get away with threatening the world with his weapons of mass destruction.
The United Nations sat by, literally did nothing while Saddam Hussein was thumbing his nose at the organization.
All those resolutions, totally ignored, passed and ignored, which is the standard operating procedure of the UN.
The UN is never ever to be judged on results.
They're only to be judged on their intentions, just like liberals demand for all of their programs.
And, you know, even though all these social good do-gooder programs failed, miserably destroyed families, black families, and poverty-stricken families, our intentions were good, our hearts were.
At least we were trying to help.
What were you doing?
You were doing nothing.
We were trying to help.
Don't blame us.
Same thing here.
And now Kofi Annan has the audacity to go out and blame the United States.
President Bush just had a farewell dinner for him at the White House.
This is something, it boils down to something as simple as manners.
And the left has none.
From Ted Kennedy being invited to the White House to screen a movie about his brother JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis with the popcorn machine going and scotch bottles open to being allowed to write the education bill.
Any number of Democrats have been wooed.
This president has done his best, particularly the first term.
And they just treated him with meanness.
Just mean.
It's just plain and simple mean.
And Kofi Annan, the same thing.
He was given a farewell dinner, and I read that he was being given a farewell dinner by Bush.
And I said, why?
And then I realized it's the office.
Bush takes the office seriously.
This is something the presidency does when a UN Secretary General retires or moves on.
I just, I just, I find this whole scenario reprehensible.
Kofi Annan, head of an organization that exists to pick the pockets of Americans, that exists to cut America down to size, that exists to not solve one single problem.
Every time there's a major problem, who does the UN call?
It's us.
And we do our level best to fix these problems.
And what do we get?
Nothing.
No gratitude, no appreciation, just a bunch of lip from a bunch of socialists, thugs, dictators, communists, and tyrants led by an inept, incompetent boob who can't even pronounce words correctly half the time.
But something he said yesterday, I'm surprised.
I'm literally surprised that nobody has picked up on this.
To a headline reader or a drive-by journalist, you might think that Kofi Annan did the same old, same old, a very undiplomatic critique of the United States.
But if you parse his message, he cited the far-sighted leadership of the Truman tradition.
The far-sighted leadership in the Truman tradition, American leadership in the Truman tradition?
Harry Truman was both famous and controversial for ending a war with a bold decision.
In fact, two bold decisions, dropping an A-bomb on Hiroshima and another one on Nagasaki.
That was the far-sighted American leadership in the Truman tradition.
And let's talk about Korea.
Harry Truman ended a war in a decisive fashion, the only president to ever order the use of an atomic bomb.
So I'm wondering if Kofi Annan was actually hinting that we should drop a couple of nukes on Iran and anywhere else there's a problem in the world.
Solve it in the Truman tradition.
More Hiroshimas, more Nagasakis.
Yeah, this is just funny.
I just say, MSNBC just ran a little crawler across the screen.
Barack Obama endorsed the Chicago Bears last night.
How do you endorse a sports team?
What's so odd?
He says he's from Chicago.
Why wouldn't he want the Bears to win?
Barack Obama.
It's like a breaking news or flash.
Barack Obama endorses Chicago Bears.
Okay, who's next?
Virginia Wilmington, Delaware.
Greetings, and thanks for your patience in waiting.
Hello.
Hi, this is Virginia Mega Dittos from the First State.
I'm glad you just mentioned Osama.
I'm sorry, Obama.
Yeah, be careful.
We have a problem with the media and what they choose to report and what they don't choose to report.
And that was one of the things you talked about today where they failed to report Kennedy's misstatement.
If, for example, he had been a Republican, you can be sure he would have been reported.
No question.
And, for example, if William Jefferson had been a Republican, he certainly would have been crucified by the media.
We have more on Congressman William Jefferson Democrat Louisiana coming up, by the way.
Okay.
And you wonder if the media will ever hold Nancy Pelosi's feet to the fire about her statement wanting to have the most ethical Congress in history.
Anyway, I wanted to make a suggestion.
Fire away.
Seems like we're missing conservative reporters.
And I wanted to make a suggestion that you start a scholarship fund under your name, offering college sophomores who are currently majoring in things like English or psych or sociology who'd be willing to major in journalism.
And I would be willing to make a small donation to start up this fund if you would be willing to run it and name it.
You know, people have suggested this and similar things like, why don't you buy CBS Rush and just straighten it out?
I can think of better investments than to actually buy a network.
Besides, the idea that I could not a hostel take over and succeed is, I think, a little doubtful.
As for the scholarship plan, it's not a bad idea, but you're talking about, what, how many students?
What's going to happen to them?
Do you realize the Ford Foundation, the Rock of Ford Foundation, I don't know how many of these wealthy, wealthy philanthropist foundations were endowed by their namesakes and they were created in the image of their namesake.
These were entrepreneuric capitalists.
They have been totally taken over by liberals, totally taken over by the left.
The Ford family rolls over in its grave everywhere they figure out what the Ford Foundation is doing, a number of these summit things.
So I could give a scholarship.
We could start a series of scholarships.
By the time these young skulls full of mush end up going through journalism school, who knows what's going to happen to their brains, and we're going to end up funding it.
Well, you have to have some hope that if you screen your applicants.
I have hope.
I live on hope.
If you screen your applicants properly and they are truly conservative or conservative Republicans to start, they may end up as conservative Republican journalists.
Yeah, and then who's going to hire them?
Who's going to hire them?
Well, I'm sure that if they are qualified and good journalists, they will get hired.
By who?
I mean, their qualified good journalist has a specific meaning if you're going to go to work for a typical liberal news network or publication.
I think if we have a group of young people who are motivated and ideologically conservative, they'll somehow band together and they'll make a way.
Have their own organization.
They may start a new...
You don't know what's going to happen.
But if we don't start feeding young Republican or conservative journalists into the system, it's not going to change.
But I think it's happening.
And there are actually more conservative reporters out there than you know.
The New York Sun, of course, Fox News has their share.
There are a bunch of magazines like National Review, The American Spectator, which are conservative.
We've got moles at CNN, but I can't name names.
I mean, they're not having much effect.
Well, actually, they are because CNN is now starting to lose to MSNBC.
When you lose to MSNBC, folks, I mean, that's like losing to Marconi.
No audience.
It's incredible.
So maybe our moles are actually doing their work inside the bowels of CNN.
But there are Hillsdale College.
Larry Arne is doing his best to produce exactly what you say.
Pepperdine, there are a number of places, a lot of universities which are taking this mission up.
And they're always looking for grants and donors for scholarships.
And it's not a bad idea.
It really isn't.
Something's going to have to happen.
I agree with you.
Everybody gets frustrated at what can be done.
See, I have a little different perspective than all of you because I do what I do, and I have, since 1988, there has been a lot of progress.
Let me just give you an illustration.
Back in the Vietnam War era, Walter Cronkite was able to turn the people of this country against the war with one newscast, one day, one five-minute report.
Lyndon Johnson saw it, said, I've lost Cronkite.
I've lost Middle America.
I've lost the country.
And he decided not to run anymore, and that was it.
Now, the media doesn't have that kind of power anymore.
It took them three years to gin up anti-war support and the anti-Bush sentiment resulting in the November elections.
But there are also a lot of other factors in that election.
Who knows what would have happened if the conservative Republicans running for office would have had some guts and would have stood up for what the president was trying to do and tried to be unified rather than be cowed by the media.
This is something we're always going to have to deal with is Washington, D.C. Republicans not wanting to be criticized and wanting puff pieces on the style section of the Washington Post.
There's a way you do that.
There's a way you get invited on the Stephanopoulos show.
The way you get invited on Tim Russert and treated with respect, and that is you oppose your own party.
Hello, Senator McCain.
Hello, Senator Hagel.
Hello, Gordon Smith.
That's how you got on TV this past weekend.
Before that, nobody knew who Gordon Smith was outside of people in Oregon.
So it's a channel, but there is progress being made.
Their monopoly doesn't exist anymore.
They still have a lot of power, however, and they need to be battled.
And I appreciate all these suggestions in ways to succeed.
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