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Dec. 15, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 15, 2006, Friday, Hour #2
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I'll tell you what, I barely made it back in the 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 line 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 uh 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.
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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 uh I have seen a uh pre-screening copy of uh Rocky Balboa, the new Sylvester Stallone movie, and I was frankly, I was surprised by how good it was, I though what's left to tell in this story.
And Stallone uh is going to be on the program here uh just a few minutes.
Uh we're targeting this for 118 to 130, 129 this afternoon.
Uh and I meant to mention that to you in the first hour.
We put it up on the website, but I forgot to mention, so I'm mentioning it now.
Uh also, are you people following what's happening in the uh we got this trade mission going on with China?
Uh we have uh we have uh Hank Paulson, the uh the new treasury secretary is over there, took Elaine Chow with him, the labor secretary, and we have big problems with the Chikums.
Uh uh their currency valuation is causing us problems.
So we went over there and uh we implored them to change the valuation of their currency uh to help with the balance of trade.
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, it's because of us.
And then don't start complaining to us about our currency.
And we I think we just sort of sat there.
The UN has this amazing thing going on right now, these uh dictators and thugs, the bars Barcena Star Wars.
It's a day-long tribute to Kofi Annon.
One lie after another is being told.
World's upside down.
Eleanor Clift in uh 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.
Just and let me just read you some excerpts of this.
Just as Wellstone's untimely death cost 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 septuaginarians 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, writing on Senate controlled 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, uh uh Elinor.
At least in uh 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 remain I 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 don't name a democracy.
Don't name a Republican.
Why why that would not that would that would hinder his recovery.
In fact, and the doctors need to tell him that uh that that he 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 uh uh the the abnormality that Johnson has, and apparently he's had it since birth, uh and uh uh the bleeding on the brain, I I don't know that there's emotional maybe part of it,
but at any rate, she's giving medical device now uh advice, and starting the move to um 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 uh Opinion Journal's political diary.
Uh Hawaii represented by two eighty-two-year-old Democrats, Daniel in no way and Dan Akaka, and Hawaii's Republican governor, Linda Lingle would presumably nominate someone of her own party if a vacancy or to develop, though admittedly ghoulish.
This new political parlor game is kind of fun.
At 89 years old, Robert Sheets Byrd is even older than Hawaii's senator.
Uh 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, Matt uh Mitt Romney would replace him with a Republican.
Uh but Romney's out, I know Romney's out.
He's not going to be uh governor for very much longer.
But anyway, this is uh just a cold town.
Quick timeout, sliced alone after the break.
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Welcome back, folks.
Rush Limboy, the cutting edge of societal evolution, open line Friday on the EIB network, little manheim steamroller, Christmas mump music.
Welcome to the program, Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa, the movie comes out uh it's the twentieth, correct?
Right, the twentieth, right?
Uh thanks for joining us today.
I uh they sent me a copy of it, Sly, and I I must 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 I um I was stunned.
I I I uh the it you you cover every demographic in this.
I mean, looking at it from uh from a production and marketing point.
It looks like the first Rocky movie cinematography uh uh cinem cinematographically, it you you haven't gussied it up with a bunch of uh uh you know computer generated fireworks and no, it's it it was just it you've got life messages in this, there's no profanity that I was able to hear.
It's for every it's a movie for everybody.
Right, PG.
Well, you know, uh uh what it happened is uh you know, a good friend of mine is Susan Faludi who wrote that book stiffed, which a couple years ago is about the diminishing and and kind of like diluting of the American mail in the workforce, and after we, you know, uh we're like this planned obsolete almost for World War II, and every generation it seems to get harder and harder for a man to express himself, and 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 uh I wanted Rocky to show that he still as he says has some stuff in the in the 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 it's the pleasure will be worth the pain.
Well it uh the interesting thing you brought up here basically the feminization of the um of the American culture.
Right, right.
Not not not just for men um you know in their late years toward retirement or middle age or what have you, but uh throughout but look you you I think you highlighted this uh one 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 what you say to him 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 it had me standing up well you know I I guess a lot of fathers and sons have sort of had this conversation in some incarnation and I certainly have and and I think that's a 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 that you have to be accountable son.
Is this the last Rocky movie that's why I used the name Balboa Rush is that I 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 uh 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 ten, twelve years and I thought you know I if there's one thing I'd like to remedy was the way the 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 fifty three 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 uh try to to remedy or you know right or wrong.
And I 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 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 I'm really indebted with him and Joe Ross of Revolution.
Now you uh you wrote and directed this is that part and partial the problem you had getting it done?
Yes, yes that but more than anything else it was age.
You know society, especially uh Hollywood I think it's about fifty percent ahead of society and getting rid of its uh workers.
You know what I mean?
Because we're so in the limelight is 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 had a star like Tyrone Power or uh you know Kurt Douglas in to have a 50 year career.
Now if you have fifteen consider yourself lucky.
Well everybody's looking for the eighteen to twenty four demographic or even even younger.
But I even you know this movie is going to hit that demo.
You know I I again I'm tempted.
I'm not a movie critic so I don't want to give too much away here but this is a this it's a love story uh that women are gonna absolutely adore uh father fathers and sons are going to learn a lot from watching this it's a 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 there's uh there's a lot here.
I I think you're probably gonna cover the demographic that they look for that they think you could 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 b 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 seventy eight million of us out there that start making stories about us that are age appropriate and more profound than just us being relegated to you know the angry father or the angry mother in movies and bring our stories up to the forefront.
Oh, we'll get the baby boomers up, because the baby boomers think only about themselves and you've made a movie about them.
Right.
Uh in a way.
We're talking with Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa is up uh on December twentieth, and I was fortunate enough to see uh screening of it uh on Wednesday night.
You shot two endings for this.
What was your what I know how it ended, I know what I saw.
What uh what made you decide on this ending?
You got because of the budget, we had really one shot at this.
And you know, I I didn't want to second guess myself, but just in case I shot just the opposite ending uh d to think, well, it could it possibly be that we should have this ending, which you know I I I'm kinda 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 and you go, Oh my god.
Ru Rush, that's why so many uh films go over budget.
I've ninety percent 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.
I've just uh in fact when I got rid of consultants and bosses is when I began to prosper, just following my instincts and and my guts.
And you mentioned having to test this movie.
Uh how how much of of of your work in your career uh were i 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, uh uh up until like nineteen eighty, eighty eighty two, eighty-three, you had this kind of like pioneer spirit or cowboy mentality, and you flew by the seat of your pants, and 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, ninety percent of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.
And uh that 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?
Well, we're not sure what the angle is, so that thing is thrown to the uh wolves.
So this is the first film.
Uh long answer.
But this is the first film I've done b uh uh just using instinct since you know nineteen ninety.
Wow.
Well uh uh time's dwindling here.
Let me ask you a couple more things.
Uh you use as your opponent here uh Antonio Tarver.
Right.
He plays Mason the Lion Dixon, right?
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 I wasn't sure.
I always loved Tarbor because he he was verbal and he had a certain kind of crisp, but there's something about his face.
He said, I like.
Roy Jones is a little more sinister looking, but I said I have to t approach both of them in case one of them falls out, one breaks a hand, who knows.
I called Roy Jones thirty one times.
Not one phone call was returned.
On the thirty-second time, I said, you know, I gotta move on.
Thanks anyway.
I called HBO, who Roy Jones worked for at that time.
They said, Sly, don't feel so bad.
We pay him, and he still doesn't pick up our phone calls.
You have issues with this guy?
Do you know him?
I mean Roy Jones, yeah, I do.
Yeah.
It's just it's so odd.
He's just one of those kind of guys that just I guess he has a phone phobia.
Well, it it maybe but uh, but it turned out great.
I'm so glad I think Tarver, because of his uh fighting ability and his uh his superior height gives a better visual than Roy Wood.
Well he looks plenty sinister too.
He does, he does.
You know, it's just but he's not so monstrous like some of these guys today, Rush are literally, you know, behemoth.
He he's he's like an old school fighter, and it's really not uh he's not playing a villain.
This is about the battle that people have within themselves.
That's an excellent point.
That's uh that that's uh that's true.
This is about you, and then the uh the opponent here is yeah, I should point out the for those of you curious, the the boxing, and I checked the uh the runtime uh on my player, and the the the boxing scenes make up the last twenty minutes of movie, twenty twenty-five.
the rest of the movie is all about the things we've been discussing.
Sly it really is good and I and I didn't know what to expect and I thought maybe it was uh uh gonna be difficult to to to realize you can say it it's okay.
But I really did enjoy it.
I enjoyed it as much as any of these uh 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 I don't normally, you know, Passion of the Christ.
What else did I see this week I talked about?
Rocky Bell.
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.
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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 is forgetting men.
And men can't be men in a culture today.
And he wanted to make a movie that addressed this.
He specifically said it in relationship to a man aging.
and and getting into the latter years but uh that was refreshing to hear it really was right out of money and I'm I'm glad to know that that was one of the uh impet uh behind the uh the make impetuses impeti uh uh making the movie all right open line Friday I know you're uh patient uh waiting out there so with uh out any further delay we go back to the phones.
Bill in Chicago, thank you, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hey Russ, uh what a thrill.
Thank you.
Mega did megaditas from a former uh Marine Naval Aviator.
Well we're honored to have you here.
When'd you fly?
Well I flew um as a matter of fact I'm the guy to train a lot of the uh Marine pilots that uh made the last uh uh flights into uh Saigon and brought our Marines and uh embassy personnel out that was uh HMM 164 one of my old squadrons.
Wow so anyhow um I'm also history major and tomorrow is the uh beginning of the Battle of the Bulge and I thought it was appropriate to mind everybody that we lost ninety thousand young men in about a thirty day period in nineteen forty four sixty two years ago uh 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 I we we have talked about the Battle of Bulge in exactly that context uh throughout the media's efforts to gin up anti-war support as they breathlessly and pantingly counted up to one thousand deaths.
You know the we uh we almost lost that war ice there was running out of men and they started emptying uh flight schools uh officer training course bringing in sixteen and seventeen year old kids to find in that battle and I think the problem with uh people that don't study American history they have no sense of uh context of how important this this war in Iraq is to us uh that's exactly right and I it 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 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.
there were multiple multiple pages devoted uh to recent Democrat presidents uh and so forth it was astounding to me so I I think the whole uh public education history curriculum is responsible for people not knowing history and frankly there are 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 for either for our freedom it's 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 the the the the fifty six signs of the Declaration of Independence, the risks they took They they legitimately pledge their lives, sacred honor, and their fortunes, and many of them lost a lot.
Absolutely.
Because they signed.
I don't I I I agree with you hundred percent.
Uh battle of bulge, ninety thousand deaths.
Well, we've even put the uh you you give me what 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 and I think there were multiple thousands injured and wounded in that one, right?
Well, it was it was uh it was a feint, and it was a training exercise, and basically the whole landing crew, and it was a joined uh uh American and British group, and they were wiped out, and uh the the rest that were killed were taken prisoners.
Um those are those are just absolutely staggering numbers.
Uh 90,000 battle the bulge, 130,000 Germans were killed.
Doesn't even compare to the uh the battle of Okinawa.
You know, these tremendous sacrifices, and and you know, my son's gonna be going to the Air Force, so I'm very, very proud of him.
But when you look at twenty nine hundred and forty young men and women killed in Iraq, and how critical it is to the to the 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, uh, Bill, and and it's we we've had a number of things converge.
Uh speaking of history at the same moment in time.
We have had a the evolution of twenty-four-seven 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 twenty or thirty seconds every night for three years on the nightly newscasts and so forth.
All coupled rest.
That that's 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.
If 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 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 uh battle of the bulge.
Well, you know, interesting enough, when I talked to my parents about it, uh they told me that uh when Patton was uh brought down uh because he slapped a soldier, uh that the American public was was strongly behind him, but the press made such a fuss about it that he was chastised.
So evidently that this is an ongoing battle, and uh the problem is that you you have to learn what American history is all about so you can read between the lines.
This is not something that just happened the last uh ten years, fifteen years, twenty years.
Uh it's been going on ever since I was in college.
I was uh a Goldwater supporter at the University of Vermont.
This is back in the sixties.
Conservatives were unheard of.
Uh group called Young Americans for Freedom.
And uh back then everybody liked to be called a moderate.
That meant you weren't brand with any particular those wusses today.
I mean, they haven't gone away.
Absolutely.
So here I've I've seen a total change and and and how Americans look at themselves in the conservative movement.
Well, you just you just you just nailed it.
You just nailed it.
Well 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.
Uh 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.
Um and you know, our society is becoming more and more passive.
Um it's it's uh 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 gonna watch it tomorrow.
Because um I am vegging part of tomorrow.
I am because this is this nonsense of last night.
I am I didn't get my vegging in last night.
I'm and I'll I'll I'm gonna pull it out and I'll watch it.
Uh Jerry in Milwaukee.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
All right, thanks for taking my call, Russ.
Um I hear you and uh other conservatives unfortunately say that make statements about j judicial activism and judges making rights.
Well, the 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 um 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 you have to you have to understand something, though, about rights.
And this is where I'm gonna lose you.
Rights descend from God.
Okay.
Human 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 on 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 a moment.
Okay, time once again to straighten out this judge thing.
So many people, especially liberals and young people have have the such a gross misunderstanding of the whole concept of rights, where they come from, the purpose of the Constitution.
If you if you 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 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.
Any time 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 uh jurisprudence, fine, go off to Namibia, and if you can find some there, we'll use it.
We'll import it.
But they do so selectively.
Uh but it's it's 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 they don't 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?
Just it it it's it's a uh a perversion.
Fact.
I know a lot of you liberals you're gonna you're gonna 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 the most 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, uh is actually out making speeches saying judges ought not be criticized.
Well, they're just a branch of government, uh, madam justice.
And they're not protected, and they're not insulated.
You're not royalty.
Uh and and you are you're you're not kings and queens.
Uh 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 v.
Madison that the whole concept of the sub of the Supreme Court deciding which laws are constitutional and not uh even began.
The Supreme Court in its early years didn't even deal with cases like that.
Not until Marbury vs.
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 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.
Uh they were they were concerned that some would think that these are all the rights vis-a-vis the federal government that we had.
And if they weren't listed, we didn't have them.
The Ninth Amendment is 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 a Ninth Amendment.
Some professor somewhere, some bus, or some active somewhere has steered him to the Ninth Amendment as a justification for what's he what he believes.
And it's been totally misrepresented to him.
Uh 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 Nurse Dino from being Arizona.
Uh 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 car uh conservative ideology about the courts and rights.
That was super, sir.
You just do a superb job.
Thank you, sir.
Very much appreciate that.
Well, you're full of nice things.
Um, the uh fragile majority thing.
I want to 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-Democrat.
And now suddenly we have this fragile majority.
It's like which one is it?
Very shrewd of you, sir.
Very, very shrewd.
You deserve a trip to the heart attack grill.
Really, why won't your wife let you go there?
That's a 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 that makes sense.
She probably runs a family budget.
Well, uh uh you're you're absolutely 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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