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December 15, 2006, Friday, Hour #2

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	I'll tell you what, I barely made it back into broadcast studio here for the start of the hour.
	My watch is a minute slow.
	Anyway, I'm here, and I always am.
	My middle name, Dependability.
	It's Rush Limbaugh, The Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
	It's Friday, my friends.
	Here we go.
	Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
	It's open live Friday, where the views expressed by the host on this program are not the only views you will hear.
	Monday through Thursday, I determine what we discuss.
	On Friday, I open it up to you.
	And when we go to the phones, the program's all yours.
	You can ask a question.
	You can complain.
	You can bring up any subject at all that you want, whether I care about it or not.
	Monday through Thursday, if I don't care about it, we don't talk about it.
	But on Friday, I break that rule.
	Here's the number, 800-282-2882, the email address rush at EIBnet.com.
	Great to have you with us.
	By the way, programming note.
	I mentioned a couple days ago that I have seen a pre-screening copy of Rocky Balbola, the new Sylvester Stallone movie.
	And I was, frankly, I was surprised by how good it was.
	I don't know what's left to tell in this story.
	And Stallone is going to be on the program here just a few minutes.
	We're targeting this for 118 to 130, 129 this afternoon.
	And I meant to mention that to you in the first hour.
	We put it up on the website, but I forgot to mention it, so I'm mentioning it now.
	Also, have you people following what's happening?
	We got this trade mission going on with China.
	We have Hank Paulson, the new Treasury Secretary's over there, took Elaine Chow with him, the Labor Secretary.
	And we have big problems with the Chikons.
	Their currency valuation is causing us problems.
	So we went over there and we implored them to change the valuation of their currency to help with the balance of trade.
	The Chinese told us to go to hell.
	They said, you complain to us?
	We have been sending you cheap trinkets, toys, and stuff all throughout the 90s.
	It's enabled you to keep your inflation in check.
	You haven't had any inflation is because of us.
	And then don't start complaining to us about our currency.
	And I think we just sort of sat there.
	The UN has this amazing thing going on right now, these dictators and thugs, the Barcina Star Wars.
	It's a day-long tribute to Kofi Annan.
	One lie after another is being told.
	World's upside down.
	Eleanor Clift in, let's see, this would be the, I guess, Newsweek, but it's the MSNBC website, has a column called Democrats and the Johnson Crisis.
	Tim Johnson's health crisis is a reminder of the fragility of the Democrat majority.
	What the party should do now.
	And let me just read you some excerpts of this.
	Just as Wellstone's untimely death costs the Democrats a key Senate seat, Johnson's illness should inject a sense of urgency into the Democrats' agenda.
	No one would have put the robust-looking Johnson on an endangered list.
	Democrats have plenty of octogenarians and Septuagintarians to worry about making it through to the next election.
	A health crisis that strikes without warning is a reminder of the fragility of the Democrat majority.
	With the direction of U.S. policy for the next two years riding on Senate control, Democrat leaders cannot afford to sit around figuring out how to position the party for 08.
	That doesn't mean they have to overhaul Social Security, but they should do what's doable.
	Don't delay.
	Raise the minimum wage.
	Try to lock in whatever reform protections they can.
	Life is ephemeral, and so is control of the Senate.
	There is a precedence for senators to remain in office despite being decapitated.
	Senator incapacitated.
	Sorry.
	I told you, no sleep last night, a giddy day.
	Senator Joseph Biden suffered an aneurysm soon after dropping out of the presidential race in 88.
	He was 45 at the time, eight months before he was back at work.
	Today, he's considered one of the brightest minds in the Senate on foreign policy.
	Not by many.
	Plus, he's a likely presidential candidate, demonstrating there is life after brain surgery.
	That's debatable, too, Eleanor, at least in his case.
	Now, under South Dakota rules, unless Johnson or a member of his family declares him incapacitated, he can continue to serve indefinitely.
	The doctors will soon have their say about Johnson's prognosis and assuring him that he remains.
	Now, get this.
	She is now dispensing medical advice to the doctors.
	She writes this.
	Assuring Johnson that he remains a U.S. Senator could be an important part of his recovery.
	If that's the case, however, eager the Republicans are to reclaim Senate control, it's hard to imagine the governor of South Dakota, who is a Republican, wanting to do anything that would jeopardize Johnson's recovery, like naming a Republican to replace him.
	I told you this was going to happen.
	I knew this was going to happen.
	The drive-by media mounting a campaign, even now, to intimidate and influence the Republican governor of South Dakota should he have to name a replacement.
	Eleanor Cliff's tack.
	Don't name a Republican.
	Why, that would hinder his recovery.
	In fact, and the doctors need to tell him that he will remain a U.S. Senator.
	That could be an important part of his recovery.
	Look, I'm not a doctor, but I don't know that the problems here are emotional.
	When you have the abnormality that Johnson has, and apparently he's had it since birth, and the bleeding on the brain, I don't know that there's emotional,
	maybe part of it, but at any rate, she's giving medical advice and starting the move to make sure that the governor out there gets the message that it would hinder his recovery if he appoints a Republican to replace him should he have to resign.
	And then, I mentioned this earlier, the Grim Reaper may be stalking a couple of other Democrats.
	John Fund notes in Opinion Journal's political diary, Hawaii, represented by two 82-year-old Democrats, Daniel Inoue and Dan Akaka.
	And Hawaii's Republican governor, Linda Lingle, would presumably nominate someone of her own party if a vacancy or two developed, though admittedly ghoulish.
	This new political parlor game is kind of fun.
	At 89 years old, Robert Sheets Bird is even older than Hawaii's senator.
	Then they mentioned 74-year-old Ted Kennedy.
	Should he be unable to complete his term because of morbidity or mortality, the governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, would replace him with a Republican.
	But Romney's out.
	I know Romney's out.
	He's not going to be governor for very much longer.
	Anyway, this is.
	Just a cold town.
	Quick timeout, Sly Stallone after the break.
	Stay with us.
	Welcome back, folks.
	Rushlin Boy, the cutting edge of societal evolution, Open Line Friday on the EIB Network, Little Mannheim Steamroller, Christmas Bump Music.
	Welcome to the program Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa.
	Movie comes out, it's the 20th, correct?
	Right, the 20th, right?
	Thanks for joining us today.
	They sent me a copy of it, Sly, and I want to be honest with you.
	I didn't know what was left to tell in the story.
	I've loved all these other Rocky movies, but there's been a long hiatus now.
	And I put it in, and I was stunned.
	You cover every demographic in this.
	I mean, looking at it from a production and marketing point, it looks like the first Rocky movie cinematography, cinemagraphically.
	You haven't gussied it up with a bunch of computer-generated fireworks and stuff.
	No, it was just, you've got life messages in this.
	There's no profanity that I was able to hear.
	It's a movie for everybody.
	Right, PG.
	Well, you know, what has happened is a good friend of mine is Susan Faluti, who wrote that book, Stifft, which a couple years ago is about the diminishing and kind of like diluting of the American male in the workforce.
	And after, you know, we're like this planned obsolescence almost for World War II.
	And every generation, it seems to get harder and harder for a man to express himself.
	And we seem to be slowly being moved on this conveyor belt out before we're ready to be moved out.
	And it was kind of, I wanted Rocky to show that he still, as he says, has some stuff in the basement.
	He has a flame in his heart.
	And I think a lot of the American male feels that way.
	But society goes, nah, sorry, you've had your, you know, you're up at bat, and it's time to move on.
	I go, well, maybe you should move on when you're ready to move on.
	If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.
	Well, the interesting thing you brought up here, basically the feminization of the American culture.
	Not just for men in their late years toward retirement or middle age or what have you, but throughout.
	But look, I think you highlighted this.
	One of my favorite scenes because it's so poignant with the way the culture is today.
	Your son, I don't want to give too much of this away, but the conversation you have with your son when he begs you not to take this last fight.
	Right.
	Because he needs to get out of your shadow, and for him to do that, you need to go away.
	And what you say to him, and it's not a long scene, just had me cheering.
	I have to be, I don't cheer much at movies, but it had me standing up.
	Thank you, Rush.
	Well, you know, I guess a lot of fathers and sons have sort of had this conversation in some incarnation, and I certainly have.
	And I think it's an ongoing battle.
	It's almost from biblical times of, you know, sharper than a serpent's tooth.
	And finally, the father has to say, stop, stop.
	You have to be accountable, son.
	Is this the last Rocky movie?
	Oh, yeah.
	That's why I used the name Valbo, Rush.
	He said, I didn't want another number attached to it because I could infer there would be another one.
	But I felt so bad the way the fifth one turned out.
	I don't know what.
	I was just off my game, off the mark.
	Maybe it was my lifestyle, but I was not thinking for the audience.
	I was thinking maybe for myself.
	And, you know, you have some downturns, careers have peaks and valleys.
	And I had a lot of time to think over the last 10, 12 years.
	And I thought, you know, if there's one thing I'd like to remedy was the way that character went out.
	Of all the other characters I could deal with, but that one really bothered me.
	But the opportunity at that time, I was 53, and it said, it's over.
	You know, the last film didn't work plus you're too old.
	I said, but this is a movie about, you know, being too old, but willing to take the humiliation to try to remedy right or wrong.
	And they said, no, you know, you're just talking about yourself.
	I said, no, I think there's a lot of people out there that wish they could go back to that crossroad in their life and change something.
	And if not that, maybe they just want to do something to purge grief or rid themselves of some feelings and you need an outlet.
	And they said, no deal.
	Luckily, after six years, MGM was sold.
	And Harry Sloan, who came in as a new CEO, said, you know what?
	I'll take a gamble with you.
	And I have to, I'm really indebted with him and Joe Ross of Revolution.
	You wrote and directed this.
	Is that part and parcel of the problem you had getting it done?
	Yes, yes, that.
	But more than anything else, it was age.
	You know, society, especially Hollywood, I think it's about 50% ahead of society in getting rid of its workers.
	You know what I mean?
	Because we're so in the limelight.
	It's, you know, women, men, I mean, it just chews you up and spits you out.
	And now we have so many market outlets, you're really on a fast lane.
	Before, you know, you had a star like Tyrone Power or, you know, Kurt Douglas, and they have a 50-year career.
	Now, if you have 15, consider yourself lucky.
	Well, everybody's looking for the 18 to 24 demographic or even younger.
	But even, you know, this movie is going to hit that demo.
	You know, again, I'm tempted.
	I'm not a movie critic, so I don't want to give too much away here, but it's a love story that women are going to absolutely adore.
	Fathers and sons are going to learn a lot from watching this.
	It's a movie about staying true to your desires and going for it when everybody tells you you can't do it and shouldn't do it.
	I mean, there's a lot here.
	I think you're probably going to cover the demographic that they look for that they think you can't get anymore.
	Well, actually, you know, believe it or not, we're testing higher in the younger demographic.
	And, you know, I'm hoping that the baby boomers, my generation, come out and support the film because if they do and the film performs, that will be a message to Hollywood that, you know, there are 78 million of us out there that start making stories about us that are age-appropriate and more profound than just us being relegated to the angry father or the angry mother in movies and bring our stories up to the forefront.
	We'll get the baby boomers up because the baby boomers think only about themselves and you've made a movie about them in a way.
	We're talking with Sylvester Stallone.
	Rocky Balboa is up on December 20th and I was fortunate enough to see a screening of it on Wednesday night.
	You shot two endings for this.
	What was your...
	I know how it ended.
	I know what I saw.
	What made you decide on this ending?
	Because of the budget, we had really one shot at this.
	And, you know, I didn't want to second guess myself, but just in case, I shot just the opposite ending to think, well, could it possibly be that we should have this ending, which, you know, I'm kind of like at not liberty to say, but that'll be in the DVD, the opposite one.
	But life kind of like you never know, you never know.
	And I've done this so many times in films.
	You think you have it.
	You think you've nailed it.
	Then you're in the editing room.
	You go, oh, my God.
	Roger, that's why so many films go over budget.
	90% of the time, you know what they're reshooting?
	The ending.
	Well, how much, let me ask you something.
	In my business, I don't listen to consultants because I don't have to.
	In fact, when I got rid of consultants and bosses is when I began to prosper, just following my instincts and my guts.
	And you mentioned having to test this movie.
	How much of your work in your career did you have to be a slave to what consultants and testing and focus groups are saying rather than just following your gut on it?
	Well, it's funny.
	Up until like 1980, 82, 83, you had this kind of like pioneer spirit or cowboy mentality, and you flew by the seat of your pants.
	You say, ah, you know what?
	Wisdom says I shouldn't do this, but I have a gut feeling.
	That's gone now.
	Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are greenlit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.
	And you're a slave to them.
	If they don't think they can sell it, if they don't have a hook, then the movie doesn't get green lit, even no matter how much they say, oh, I kind of like this film.
	Well, what's the angle?
	We're not sure what the angle is.
	So that thing is thrown to the wolves.
	So this is the first film.
	It's a long answer.
	But this is the first film I've done just using instinct since 1990.
	Wow.
	Well, time's dwindling here.
	Let me ask you a couple more things.
	You use as your opponent here Antonio Tarver.
	Right.
	He plays Mason the Lion Dixon.
	Love the name.
	But you, did you ask somebody?
	You asked Roy Jones Jr. first?
	Uh-oh, you heard that.
	Believe it or not, I called Roy Jones Jr.
	I wasn't sure.
	I always loved Tarver because he was verbal and he had a certain kind of chrism with something about his face.
	He said, I like.
	Roy Jones is a little more sinister looking, but I said I have to approach both of them in case one of them falls out, one breaks a hand, who knows?
	I called Roy Jones 31 times.
	Not one phone call was returned.
	On the 32nd time, I said, you know, I got to move on.
	Thanks anyway.
	I called HBO, who Roy Jones worked for at that time.
	They said, Sly, I don't feel so bad.
	We pay him, and he still doesn't pick up our phone calls.
	Do you have issues with this guy?
	Do you know him?
	You mean Roy Jones?
	Yeah, I do.
	It's so odd.
	He's just one of those kind of guys that just, I guess he has a phone phobia.
	Well, maybe.
	But it turned out great.
	I'm so glad.
	I think Tarver, because of his fighting ability and his superior height, gives a better visual than Roy Wood.
	He looks plenty sinister, too.
	He does.
	He does.
	But he's not so monstrous.
	Like some of these guys today, Rush, are literally behemoth.
	He's like an old school fighter, and it's really not, he's not playing a villain.
	This is about the battle that people have within themselves.
	That's an excellent point.
	That's true.
	This is about you, and the opponent here is...
	I should point out, for those of you curious, the boxing, and I checked the run time on my player, and the boxing scenes make up the last 20 minutes of the movie, 20, 25, they're...
	The rest of the movie is all about the things we've been discussing.
	Sly, it really is good, and I didn't know what to expect, and I thought maybe it was going to be difficult to relax.
	You can say it.
	It's okay.
	But I really did enjoy it.
	I enjoyed it as much as any of these movies.
	And I wish you the best with it.
	You know what?
	You're very kind.
	I appreciate it.
	Thank you very much.
	All the best.
	That's Sylvester Stallone.
	And, you know, I don't normally, you know, Passion of the Christ.
	What else did I see this week I talked about?
	Rookie Bill Book.
	Oh, yeah, Saw Apocalypto.
	I don't do many of these screenings, but the ones I have seen and watched, I liked.
	And this one right at the top, the life lessons in this are well worth seeing.
	We'll be back in just a second.
	Stay with us.
	Gladly, ladies and gentlemen, making the complex understandable.
	Open line Friday at 800-282-2882.
	I have to tell you, I was surprised when Sylvester Stallone, one of the first things he said about making the movie was how the culture's forgetting men, and men can't be men in the culture today.
	And he wanted to make a movie that addressed this.
	He specifically said it in relationship to a man aging and getting into the latter years.
	But that was refreshing to hear.
	It really was.
	It was right on the money.
	And I'm glad to know that that was one of the impeti behind the make impetuses impeti making the movie.
	All right, Open Line Friday.
	I know you're patient and waiting out there.
	Without any further delay, we go back to the Fawns.
	Bill in Chicago, thank you, sir.
	Welcome to the EIB Network.
	Gee, Rush, what a thrill.
	Thank you.
	Megadittos from a former Marine Naval Aviator.
	Well, we're honored to have you here.
	When'd you fly?
	Well, I flew.
	As a matter of fact, I'm the guy that trained a lot of the Marine pilots that made the last flights into Saigon and brought our Marines and embassy personnel out.
	That was HMM-164, one of my old squadrons.
	Wow.
	So, anyhow, I'm also a history major, and tomorrow is the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge.
	And I thought it was appropriate to remind everybody that we lost 90,000 young men in about a 30-day period, 1944, 62 years ago, same age as I am.
	And I wonder how the press would react today if we lost that many people in such a short period of time.
	You know, we have talked about the Battle of the Bulge in exactly that context throughout the media's efforts to gin up anti-war support as they breathlessly and pantingly counted up to 1,000 deaths.
	You know, we almost lost that war.
	Eisenhower was running out of men, and they started emptying flight schools, officer training corps, bringing in 16 and 17-year-old kids to fight in that battle.
	And I think the problem with people that don't study American history, they have no sense of context to how important this war in Iraq is to us.
	That's exactly right.
	And it's not that they're not studying it, it's they're not being taught it as you and I were taught history.
	Right.
	The whole history curriculum has changed.
	I'll never forget when I read John Silber, who was at the time president of a university in Boston.
	I'm not, I think it was Boston University.
	I'm not sure which.
	But he was a brilliant guy, and he did a study of high school textbooks that were being used at the time.
	This was in the early 90s, mid-90s perhaps, high school textbooks all over the country.
	And he found that in most of the textbooks, the average reference to Abraham Lincoln was a paragraph.
	And there were multiple pages devoted to recent Democrat presidents and so forth.
	It was astounding to me.
	I think the whole public education history curriculum is responsible for people not knowing history.
	And frankly, a lot of people are bored by it because everybody's looking forward.
	Well, how can you love this country if you don't understand the sacrifices?
	Well, precisely for our previous reason.
	It's not just how can you love the country, it's how can you appreciate it if you don't know how it was formed, what was necessary, and what sacrifice the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, the risks they took.
	Absolutely.
	They legitimately pledged their lives, sacred honor, and their fortunes, and many of them lost a lot because they signed.
	I agree with you 100%.
	Battle of Bulge, 90,000 deaths.
	Well, we've even put the...
	What is the correct figure on this, Bill?
	Because we talk about this.
	There was a training exercise for D-Day, and there was an accident, and I think there were multiple thousands injured and wounded in that one, right?
	Well, it was a feint, and it was a training exercise.
	And basically, the whole landing crew, and it was joined an American or British group, and they were wiped out, and the rest that weren't killed were taken prisoners.
	Those are just absolutely staggering numbers.
	90,000 of the Battle of the Bulge, 130,000 Germans were killed.
	It doesn't even compare to the Battle of Okinawa.
	You know, these tremendous sacrifices.
	And my son's going to be going to the Air Force.
	I'm very, very proud of him.
	But when you look at 2,940 young men and women killed in Iraq and how critical it is to the safety of this country, God bless every one of them.
	But the sacrifice pales compared to what we went through in World War II.
	Well, there's also another big difference, Bill, and we've had a number of things converge, speaking of history, at the same moment in time.
	We have had the evolution of 24-7 media that can go anywhere worldwide, and we have that media which has now dropped all pretense at objectivity.
	That media today is totally invested in our defeat, and they have spent three years trying to amplify the deaths in Iraq with smoking scenes of ruin and blood for 20 or 30 seconds every night for three years on the nightly newscasts and so forth.
	That's called subjectivism.
	That's where you create your own morality based upon what you believe, and you try to force everybody else into that belief system.
	There's no moral equivalency to it.
	It doesn't stack up on a moral code.
	And that's what we're being preached to every night, and that's what our children are being subjected to in school.
	So there's a new word I'd like everybody to think about, subjectivism.
	Well, what do you think would have happened if we'd have had this kind of media, this kind of technology, during the Battle of the Bulge?
	Well, you know, interesting enough, and I talked to my parents about it, they told me that when Patton was brought down because he slapped a soldier, that the American public was strongly behind him.
	But the press made such a fuss about it that he was chastised.
	So evidently, this is an ongoing battle.
	And the problem is that you have to learn what American history is all about so you can read between the lines.
	This is not something that's just happened the last 10 years, 15 years, 20 years.
	It's been going on ever since I was in college.
	I was a Goldwater supporter at the University of Vermont.
	It was back in the 60s.
	Conservatives were unheard of.
	A group called Young Americans for Freedom.
	And back then, everybody liked to be called a moderate.
	Does that make you a friend with any particular?
	Hey, there's still plenty of those wusses today.
	I mean, they haven't gone away.
	Absolutely.
	So here, I've seen a total change in how Americans look at themselves in the conservative movement.
	Well, you just nailed it.
	You just nailed it.
	I was talking about this with Sylvester Stallone a moment ago.
	The way Americans look at themselves, the baby boomers in particular, that's all they do is look at themselves.
	Everything's about them because they had a charmed life.
	They think their lives are tough, had to invent all their traumas.
	I'm one of them.
	I know this.
	I know where of which I speak.
	And, you know, our society is becoming more and more passive.
	It's, I don't know, sort of shocking and amazing to see.
	But, Bill, I'm glad you called.
	I must move on.
	I have the Battle of the Bulge on my DVD server system at home.
	I'm going to watch it tomorrow because I am veggie part of tomorrow.
	I am because this nonsense of last night, I didn't get my veggie in last night.
	I'm going to pull it out.
	I'm going to watch it.
	Jerry in Milwaukee, I'm glad you waited, sir.
	Welcome to the EIB Network.
	All right, thanks for taking my call, Rush.
	I hear you and other conservatives unfortunately say that, make statements about judicial activism and judges making rights.
	Well, the framers, our framers of our Constitution, created the Ninth Amendment.
	That means rights not enumerated, not listed in the Bill of Rights in the previous constitutional amendments exist.
	Those are rights that exist even if rights weren't enumerated.
	Wait a second.
	First place, you have misquoted me.
	I do not say that activist judges create rights.
	Activist judges create law.
	Okay.
	The Ninth Amendment applies to Congress being able to do things, and it's just a coverall.
	Hey, just because we don't mention it here doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
	But you have to understand something, though, about rights.
	And this is where I'm going to lose you.
	Rights descend from God.
	Human rights descend from our Creator.
	We are born with a natural yearning spirit to be free, for example.
	We are born as human beings with certain things built into us.
	The only thing governments do is take them away.
	The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to protect people from government.
	And when judges start making laws that affect people's lives that are not in the Constitution, when they start using foreign law to justify their own personal policy preferences, that is not rights being created, my friend.
	That is freedom being lost.
	Learn it.
	Love it.
	Don't bother me anymore.
	Listen to what I say and learn something for once back in the moment.
	Okay, time once again to straighten out this judge thing.
	So many people, especially liberals and young people, have such a gross misunderstanding of the whole concept of rights, where they come from, the purpose of the Constitution.
	If one thing, and it's hard to pick out just one when we're talking about the Constitution, but if there is one thing to remember, ladies and gentlemen, its purpose was to limit the ability of government to encroach upon our freedoms.
	It was government that they distrusted.
	It's not the other way around.
	The Ninth Amendment was never meant nor contemplated to grant the role of judges, the right of judges to start adding things to the Constitution.
	It was never an instrument to empower judges.
	Never, ever.
	I don't think his use, the last caller, I don't think his use of the word rights was coincidental.
	And I don't think he was trying to misquote me.
	I think there's a large misunderstanding when people say, I have rights.
	I have my rights.
	People throw that around and they don't even know what they're talking about.
	Judges are out there inventing law.
	They are writing and creating law which is not constitutional.
	That happens in Congress.
	Anytime a Supreme Court justice consults foreign law, he is violating the Constitution of the United States.
	And he's finding a way to get his own personal preferences into American law.
	If he can't find any precedent for what he wants to say or how he wants to rule in American jurisprudence, go off to Namibia.
	And if you can find some there, we'll use it.
	We'll import it.
	But they do so selectively.
	But it's just absurd.
	The Constitution.
	See, this guy, to liberals, judges are gods because they think it's judges that are standing in the way of the evil discriminating conservatives because liberals think that conservatives want to take their rights away from them because they think conservatives are judgmental and see right and wrong and black and white and they're simpletons as a result.
	They don't see the gray nuance of complexity and so forth.
	It's just a bunch of ne'er-do-wells who don't want to be judged.
	They know they're not doing the right thing half the time, but they don't want anybody to tell them.
	And they don't want any standards whereby any of these things could be measured because in that way, liberals can address all forms of human imperfection and say all forms of imperfection equal normalcy.
	And who are you to judge it?
	It's a perversion.
	Fact, I know a lot of you liberals, you're going to think I'm nuts, or that I'm trying to propagandize or something.
	The Constitution leaves most judicial authority to the creation of Congress.
	Not all, but most of it.
	Congress has the sole responsibility or most of the responsibility in setting up the court system.
	That they have abdicated the responsibility doesn't mean that they don't have it.
	It's just that judges have risen to such positions of prominence in this country that nobody dares take them on.
	It's gotten to the point now where Sandra Day O'Connor, late of the Iraq Surrender Group, by the way, is actually out making speeches saying judges ought not be criticized.
	Well, they're just a branch of government, Madam Justice, and they're not protected, and they're not insulated.
	You're not royalty, and you're not kings and queens.
	At no time during the Constitutional Convention or any of the ratifying conventions afterwards in the states did anybody argue that the courts would have the power to manufacture rights or law.
	That was never, it wasn't until Marbury versus Madison that the whole concept of the Supreme Court deciding which laws are constitutional and not even began.
	The Supreme Court in its early years didn't even deal with cases like that.
	Not until Marbury versus Madison when they said, you know what, we don't have enough power here.
	We want to tell you schlubs over in Congress whether you're right or wrong about what you're doing.
	The Ninth Amendment, and that's what this little guy called about.
	The Ninth Amendment was adopted because somebody argued against the Bill of Rights.
	Some argued against the Bill of Rights.
	They were concerned that some would think that these are all the rights vis-à-vis the federal government that we had.
	And if they weren't listed, we didn't have them.
	The Ninth Amendment is a recognition that we have God-given rights apart from what the Bill of Rights say, but it doesn't mean that we're empowering judges to act like kings and decide what rights we have or don't have.
	That was never the contemplation.
	But since the left is getting all these weird, oddball rulings and laws from these judges, they love it.
	And they're looking anywhere they think they can find it in the Constitution for justification for what they're doing.
	And bam, somebody has told this poor little guy, zero in on the Ninth Amendment.
	Some professor somewhere, some bus, or some activist somewhere has steered him to the Ninth Amendment as a justification for what he believes.
	And it's been totally misrepresented to him.
	Just as I say, the Constitution's purpose is to limit the power of the federal government, including the courts.
	It is a document of specific enumerated powers between the branches, including the judicial branch.
	Back in just a second.
	Who's next on this program?
	It's Phoenix.
	And Jim, nice to have you on the program.
	Jim, welcome to the EIB Network.
	Hey, male registered Nerth Ditto from Phoenix, Arizona.
	Thank you very much, sir.
	I appreciate it.
	Yeah, I was going to go to the cardiac grill, but my wife won't let me.
	Why not?
	What does that matter?
	Go anyway.
	Hey, I wanted to talk about this fragile majority, but I wanted to compliment you on your interview with Mr. Talon and your last summary about the conservative ideology about the courts and rights.
	That was superb, sir.
	You just do a superb job.
	Thank you, sir, very much.
	I appreciate that.
	Well, you're full of nice things.
	The fragile majority thing, I don't understand this hand-wringing by the media that we have this fragile majority when just a few short weeks ago they were telling us that the election was a clear, very loud voice about the rejection of Republican ideology and pro-Democrats.
	And now suddenly we have this fragile majority.
	It's like, which one is it?
	Very shrewd of you, sir.
	Very, very shrewd.
	Deserve a trip to the heart attack grill.
	Really, why won't your wife let you go there?
	That's that's why won't she let you go?
	Well, actually, I live way on the west side of town, and the cardiac grill is way on the east side of town.
	Oh, so it's the gas price.
	Okay, well, that makes sense.
	She probably runs a family budget.
	Well, you're actually right.
	It was conservatism.
	We all know this wasn't the case, but the media conservatism got knocked out, swept off its feet.
	And yet, in the Senate, the Democrat majority is so fragile, it's held together by octogenarians who could die at any moment.
	Oh, no, can they dare even bring it up?

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