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Jan. 15, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 15, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know, every year I get conned into working on Dr. King's birthday.
Actually, kids are out of school today because it was my birthday on Friday.
This is...
No, I mean, I got tricked into doing this back in 1989 or 1990, and it's just become a habit.
Next year, we are joining the nation in taking a day off in honor of Dr. King.
Book it.
Put it on the calendar now.
Get the guest host lined up or a best of show or whatever, because we're out of here a year from today.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program.
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And the email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
Did idiots from 2Js ever show up?
Still not here.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
The bars.
The bars are on now.
Bars are off.
The ditto cam's on.
Sorry, don't panic out there.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Well, we got a lot to do here today, folks.
Surprisingly rocking, surprisingly active for a three-day holiday weekend.
I guess the first thing here, I must admit, I'm a little impatient with some of you people who were sending me caustic notes about the first two episodes of 24 last night.
For example, I have two of them here.
Let me just share them with you.
Dear Rush, these are all from my subscriber account, the subscribers at rushlimbaugh.com, members of 24-7.
Dear Rush, please read the following.
It's a column by Debbie Schlussel regarding this season's PC bent on 24.
Can't we have one series which deals with the reality of Islam?
Next one, Rush.
I have mixed feelings about the new 24 season.
I love the action, but I hate the limp-wristed liberal political correctness attitude toward the Muslims.
Also, the undertone of bringing up all the mistakes of previous administrations and trying to make people fearful the Bush administration is trying to do the same.
You probably don't see it that way, but that's how I felt about it.
Regards and kudos.
Signed Richard.
And there are a bunch of others who think that what we have here is a politically incorrect liberal bent on this program and 24 and that the Muslims are getting soft treatment and so forth.
I am amazed.
Who is it blowing up the country?
There must be 11 or 12 cities that are having terrorist attacks going off in the first two episodes last night.
Who's doing it?
Yeah, we may have a limp-wristed administration, but folks, can you think ahead to the future and what a Democrat administration might actually be?
What do you mean politically correct?
The whole Democratic Party treats this issue that way.
This is all my interpretation.
But besides all of that, it's a television show.
And it's one of the best television shows I've ever seen.
You can't get up from your chair.
The action is riveting.
The plot twists.
I mean, watch it or not, I don't know how if you start it, you can stop it.
get caught up in all these things that you think are messages or liberals are taking over the show this year or what have you, I have the advantage of having seen six more episodes than you have, because I've seen the first eight.
And I'm just telling from the standpoint of unexpected, shocking, I can't believe I just saw that surprises to, gee, could that really happen?
To, you know, I get tired of the wimps in the White House too, but my friends, is that something new?
If these guys were trying to send a real, real message, they'd be doing something in the policy arena, not doing a television show.
I mean, I have maybe my disconnect with some of you on this, and I know it's not all of you.
They ain't got that many emails.
Got some last night, too, when the show was airing.
And far more of them are just gushing with praise for the show.
So don't get the wrong idea here.
I think where there may be a disconnect is that I look at this show and I marvel at how they do it.
I marvel at the production.
They do two shows at a time.
Two shows every three weeks.
They really blow things up.
They do things in a television show that are reserved for movies that take months to produce.
The writing, the plot twists, the things that are inserted in this program that keep you glued to your chair and have you exhausted when it's over, just from a creative standpoint, with all the television shows that are out there competing against them.
And so just that alone, the creativeness, the writing, the production, it blows me away.
And that was the first thing that caught one.
I didn't even know these guys that do this show.
I mean, I didn't meet them until I'd watched the first two episodes.
I marveled at it then.
My appreciation for it has only increased.
You realize most television shows in the sixth season have had their Jump the Shark moment and they're finished.
And they've started declining.
There are exceptions, but most of them are unlike this one.
This season six is more jam-packed.
It's got more production value.
It's got more of everything every season's had.
It's gotten better.
It just keeps getting better.
So if I were you, I wouldn't get all concerned and panicked and sidetracked about the politics of this because as you know, over the course of the season, all that stuff evens out.
And by the way, their audience is the country.
And let me tell you something else.
Do you know that the, and I learned this, I guess about a year ago, the worldwide audience for 24 dwarfs the U.S. market in terms of DVD sales and a number of, you know why?
And this was not intended, by the way.
But in a lot of countries around the world, people love seeing the U.S. get bombed.
They love it.
They've got a worldwide market with this show here, primarily serving the—I know 2Js is here.
I just saw him deliver.
Whoopee?
Whoopee?
What good does that do me?
2J's is the place that provides lunch for the staff, and sometimes I steal some of what they get.
And of course, we have standing order stuff supposed to be here by 11 o'clock.
Shows up at five minutes after 12 today when it's useless to me.
You guys go ahead and chow down while you work.
I cannot.
So, but I'm not bitter about it.
People say they're going to do something at a certain time and they don't repeatedly.
You know, that it gets to be a problem.
Anyway, folks, I'm telling you, these two episodes tonight, just sit back.
And I, by the way, I said, I did a little interview for Fox last week that they didn't use much of on their one o'clock show to Martha McCallum show at one o'clock, which is on the same time I am.
And I told him one of the little answers to a question I gave.
I said, you civil libertarians are going to love the first four or five episodes of this.
What I meant by that was the left who wants terrorists to be treated with lawyers and so forth like is happening.
I guess happening, by the way, judges taking over the war on terror and so forth.
I said, you liberals are going to love this.
You civil libertarians are going to love it.
I warned you people that there are some things, but that TV show, sit back and marvel at the brilliance and the genius it goes into producing it.
All I know is it's in the entertainment medium, and when I sit down to watch it, I can't stop.
That, to me, makes it a good show.
I'll get wrapped up in all the other stuff that people seem to...
Some people, a relatively few...
But as I say, you still made me impatient.
Maybe I'm taking this too personally.
Maybe I tell people it's a great show, and I get little sniffy, sniveling, oh, come on.
Rejecting my recommendation flat out like that.
Now, maybe I'm taking it as a personal insult.
Who knows?
Folks, you got to hear this.
We had this in the Soundbite roster last Friday, but I was so distracted when that show started yesterday, I didn't even have a chance to read the whole thing.
We had this Friday.
I missed it.
My bad.
But you got to hear this.
This was late Thursday on the House floor.
Barney Frank was up there acting as the Speaker.
I mean, the Speaker seldom goes to the House floor, only in ceremonial situations or close votes.
They always rotate who gets to go up.
The same thing in the Senate.
They've got different people that actually run the show.
And Barney Frank had the gavel.
And this is a bunch of Republicans trying to make a point about Nancy Pelosi's Star-Kissed Tuna giveaway.
You know, this is the minimum wage exemption that Samoa got because Starkist tuna is in her district, Del Monte.
You know what was learned later on?
That her husband, Paul Pelosi, owns $17 million in stock in Starkist or Del Monte.
And that really raised some hackles.
So, Republicans are trying to make a point about this, trying to insert an exemption for Samoa.
Democrats are into the stem cell bill.
This is Representative Patrick McHenry from North Carolina and Barney Frank.
Listen to this exchange.
Barney has the gavel.
Yes, the gentleman may state the inquiry.
So the chair is saying that I may not offer an amendment exempting American Samoa.
The gentleman is making a speech and will suspend.
The chair is not saying anything.
The chair will let me finish my question.
The gentleman will suspend.
The chair has answered the gentleman's question.
The gentleman will state the point of order.
How many times did I signify?
No, no, the gentleman, the gentleman, how many times could not conceivably be a point of order?
The chair will not answer my question.
The gentleman will not interrupt.
Is exempted from this legislation.
Well, the chair is presiding.
The gentleman will not make speeches in the guise of a parliament inquiry.
Comment.
No, the gentleman will suspend.
Gentlemen from Texas.
The gentleman from Texas is out of the fire in the ass.
You hear him pounding that gavel?
Gentleman, we'll suspend.
You cannot do it.
Sounds like he's chopping meat with that gavel.
I mean, the spindle was flying.
We're going to have to keep this in the roster.
This is one of the all-time audio sound bites.
These guys, they couldn't wait to get their power back.
Now they're up.
Shut up!
Shut up!
You can't speak, Bam, Bam.
You can't talk.
You can't do it.
The gentleman will suspend.
We got to take a break.
We'll be back here in just a second.
Stay with us, mate.
And welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchorman, your guiding light, a living legend, well-known radio racon tour.
Actually, just a harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
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All right.
Let's go to the phones and let's deal with this so we can move on because there are lots of things here.
I have got to talk to you about this North Carolina situation with the Duke LaCross players.
This is outrageous.
I have got to talk to you about President Bush going on 60 Minutes last night.
I do not understand why in the world anybody in this administration would go on 60 Minutes, anything to do with CBS, after they've made heroes out of Bob Woodward, Bill Clinton, and Joe Wilson, and Richard Clark, and after the forged document fiasco with Dan Redder, why in the world do you think, don't tell me why I got to reach a big audience?
No.
We already know that CBS in their pre-broadcast press release totally misrepresented what the president said about admitting that he had made mistakes and so forth.
I don't understand it.
I just don't.
And then there's something amazing happened in New Jersey in the education system.
We've got to tell you about that.
Lots of stuff here to do.
But we start from the phones.
Bob in Eatonville, Washington, you're first on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Yes, Rush.
Megadittos and all that good stuff.
Hey, I'm calling up.
You know, up here in this Democratic state of Washington, I'm one of the few conservatives that's left up here.
I'm at the base of the Mount Rainier, and they're running me up the hill.
The problem I got with your show is you keep evaluating all these TV shows like 24.
What are you?
A show for Fox and all these people?
Wait a minute.
What other TV shows?
Wait a second.
What other TV shows am I shilling for?
You said all these TV shows like 24.
Well, yeah.
Well, what other TV shows am I shilling for?
Well, 24 is just good enough.
You've been talking on and out for 25 minutes since you came on.
You know, this is a funny thing.
Let me tell you because my review and assessment of the program was challenged by a bunch of people who subscribed to my website.
I felt all of this is about a buck.
What?
Is that all it is?
It's about a dollar?
Oh, a buck.
Yeah, I don't know this besides.
I'm not fortunate enough to be hooked up to no internet or none of this stuff here.
But I listen to your show, and I've been listening to it religiously since 9-11.
Well, then what's the problem?
I'm watching you change, man.
You're getting off of the conservative point of view.
You're talking about fictional stuff.
You might as well be talking about Snager and Cluny.
You know something?
This is one of the problems, Bob.
Now, seriously.
Okay, let's see.
Well, you've been listening since 9-11.
That's correct.
I started this show in 1988.
This show has always run the gamut.
This show is not politics wall to wall.
And if it ever got that, I would get bored.
If you've ever heard me on Open Line Friday, say Monday through Thursday, we talk about what interests me.
And I'm willing to roll the dice.
This is not about a buck.
This is about me doing the show I want to do and being happy in the process.
And I love to share the things in my life that I enjoy.
I want people to enjoy them too.
And that's all this is about.
I'm not shilling for anybody.
Yeah.
Well, Rush, you know, maybe that was a little harsh word and all this here.
And I apologize if I offended you in any way.
But I think the people that I hang around with up here in the hills, we listen to you and Sean Hannity and Michael Savage and the rest of these guys because we don't get any other point of view up here in this state.
And let me tell you, when all I hear is 24.
That's not all you hear.
You know what?
I didn't even talk about 24 on Friday.
I didn't talk about it Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday last week.
I talked about it one day last week.
I talked about it today because it premiered last night.
Yeah, but you talked about it two, three weeks ago.
Yes.
You got all eight versions.
And that's the real problem.
I got all eight episodes and nobody else did, and that's not fair and it's not right.
Look, you don't need to apologize.
I'm happy you called here and asked for an explanation of things.
But we talk about all kinds of things that go above and beyond politics.
But you know something, Bob?
Even those things that are not directly tied to politics always end up having a political point to them.
Look at what these people are upset about the show.
That we're coddling terrorists.
That's right up the alley of what we talk about on this program regarding the war on terror and the war in Iraq.
But you don't need to apologize.
And I don't care if you sound harsh.
Some people are snobs and some people aren't.
And if they're snobs, you can't change them.
We have snobs just like we have nice people.
I'm not saying you're a snob, but you weren't harsh.
It doesn't bother me.
I'm happy for the opportunity to explain to you what this is all about.
And keep in mind, we have now extended the 24 discussion four minutes because of your call.
So I theoretically could blame you for keeping the 24 discussion going.
You could have said nothing about it, and I would have dropped it and moved on to the things you want to hear.
Who's next on this?
Where are we going next, Snurderly?
Come on.
Don't be, don't, it doesn't show up here.
You're doing a two-jays on me, making me wait.
Dave in Valprazo, Indiana.
Welcome to the program.
Mega Dittos, Rush, from a disgruntled rush baby here in the.
Wait, is this a call about 24?
No, it is not.
Never mind.
We're not talking about anything but 24.
I'm going to put you back on hold.
Give me line three.
Don't go away, Dave.
I want to get this stuff out of the way, Snurdy.
Dave in Alexandria, Virginia.
Hi, welcome to the program.
Yeah, hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
I've been dying to talk to you since I saw the 24 last night, the first 10 minutes, about negotiating Jack Bauer over to the terrorist.
I just couldn't help but think that one of the themes in this show, and it's amusing to me, I sit here and laugh at it, but there are devices that people at write and produce TV shows have to use.
Jack Bauer, for five years, has never been wrong in what he has told his bosses is going to happen regarding the enemy of that season.
And yet, every episode, there's somebody in a position of power from the president on down thinks Bower doesn't know what he's talking about.
That's totally unrealistic.
I'm able to overlook it.
And the idea last night that the show opened negotiating with terrorists, you know, when I first watched it, that didn't even strike me because I'm not looking for those kinds of things in this show.
I just take what they give me and enjoy it.
But I got an email from somebody who had seen the first episode.
I can't believe we're negotiating with terrorists.
Don't they know?
Meaning the writers.
Well, I'm sorry.
That's the first time I considered it.
But I have to tell you, John Kerry's been negotiating with terrorists.
A bunch of senators have gone over and met with Basher Assad.
You think there aren't Americans who won't try to negotiate with terrorists?
They're advocating the Iraq surrender group advocates negotiating with Iran and Syria and terrorists.
There's clearly an element of the American political spectrum that would do it.
And who knows?
Maybe that's who's been elected in this fictional TV show.
But I don't watch it for this stuff.
Those things, I can't see getting mad over this.
I just can't.
A good time.
In the midst of one, here behind the golden EIB microphone, Rush Limbaugh at 800-282-2882.
You people are a feisty bunch today.
Now I'm being accused of not being honest about the Barney Frank soundbite.
You looped that.
That's the same thing over and over again.
That's what it sounds like to me.
No, my friends, this is 50 seconds.
Barney Frank and Patrick McHenry from North Carolina arguing McHenry's trying to get something in the bill on the stem cell bill about Nancy Pelosi's exemption from the minimum wage increase for Americans.
Samosa, listen to it again.
Understand, nothing is looped here.
Nothing is repeated.
Only television networks do that without telling you using video of me.
We, whenever we loop something, tell you.
But mostly involving liberals, we don't, like the gravitas soundbite, all those journalists referring to gravitas.
We don't loop things unless we do it for effect here.
But we didn't loop this.
Here it is in its entirety.
Yes, the gentleman may state the inquiry.
So the chair is saying that I may not offer an amendment exempting American.
The gentleman is making a speech and will suspend.
The chair is not saying anything.
Mr. Chair, let me finish my question.
The gentleman will suspend.
The chair has answered the gentleman's question.
The gentleman will state the point of order.
How many times did actually?
The gentleman, how many times could not conceivably be a point of order?
The chair will not answer my question.
The gentleman will not interrupt.
Is exempted from this legislation.
Well, the chair is presiding.
The gentleman will not make speeches in the guise of a parliament inquiry.
Comment.
No, the gentleman will suspend.
Gentlemen from Texas.
Also, you've got to hear this.
A feud.
I'm involved in a feud.
I'm involved in a feud with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and I didn't even know about it.
Let's go to the yesterday's this week with George Stephanopoulos.
Schwarzenegger appears, and Schwarzenegger and Steffi have this exchange.
Rush Limbaugh does not like your new agenda at all.
He looks at what you're doing on health care, looks at what you're doing on global warming, and says.
This sounds like it's right out of the liberal playbook.
I mean, this is no different to what Greenpeace could say if they had somebody that was the governor of California.
Well, at least we still have to smoke stogies together.
So at least we have something in common.
We do.
At least we smoke stogies together.
Okay.
So, and refresh your memory what this was about.
Environmental ideas are one thing.
But the curious thing is from California and the state of Washington is health care for all children, health insurance for all children, including the children of illegals, in the midst of welfare cuts for American citizens.
Now, you have to suspend what you think about welfare.
Mostly welfare cuts, if coupled with a jobs program, are very good.
That's what welfare reform at the federal level was all about.
But if you take that out of it, just okay, we're going to cut benefits for Americans and grant them to illegally, you just scratch your head.
And then you combine that with the environmentalist wacko policies taking the lead here on greenhouse gases and global warming.
I was scratching my head.
Then Steffi follows up, and Arnold says that my criticism doesn't bother him.
But does it bother you that conservatives like Rush Limbaugh think you're betraying them?
No.
I don't try to please the conservatives.
I don't like to try to please the liberals.
I like to please the people.
I am a public servant.
I'm not a politician.
The people of California want to move forward.
They want to have their roads built.
They want to have the schools built.
They don't want to get tied up in arguments.
Are we building Democratic roads or Republican roads, Democratic schools or Republican schools?
Do we breathe Democratic ear or Republican clean air?
It's all nonsense.
We all breathe the same ear and we all want to enjoy the schools.
End of story.
Well, that explains it.
This is why I didn't understand.
Arnold's not a politician.
He said that he's not a politician.
That makes all this understandable.
Is anybody out there talking about Republican schools and Democrat schools, Republican-air and Democrat-air and forth, likes to please the people?
Well, we all make the mistake of wanting to please the people.
Generally, politicians, he's not a politician, but you lead the people because you can't please everybody.
And when you start trying to please everybody, you bomb.
You literally will bomb.
And then it went on.
Stephanopoulos says, Do you think President Bush would be doing better if he followed your approach?
You've had very different responses to political setbacks, political adversity.
You seem to reach out.
President Bush's critics, at least, say he's just doubling down.
I figured out after the 2005 special election that I have taken the wrong approach by being too pushy, by being personal about things and attacking people and saying girly men and all of those things.
That didn't move the agenda forward.
But that was my way of expressing myself then.
I didn't know any better.
If I would have known any better, I wouldn't have done it.
And then I've learned that there's a better way, and that is to bring people together, not to insult them, but to actually bring the best out of people, bring the best out of Democrats, bring the best out of Republicans, because we have such brilliant people in our capital.
Well, okay.
Basically, let me translate this for you.
This is, I'm sorry, and that is the most successful route to acceptance, forgiveness, whatever else in the country today.
Just say you're sorry.
Show remorse.
Admit your mistakes, whatever.
Yeah, I didn't like calling him a girlyman.
It was wrong to call him girly men.
Didn't it help get him elected?
You know, one of the things about that 2005 special election, I don't want to get into the details, but that's got its own dynamic.
And the reasons that that 05 special election is one of those ballot initiatives lost was because the timing of the election, there was no other, it was a December election, I think.
Nobody votes in December.
There was nothing else on the ballot.
And of course, the president was out there campaigning, and Arnold got mad at the president for going out there competing for campaign dollars at the same time Arnold was trying to get his ballot initiatives passed.
I think there's a lot of payback actually going on here, in addition to all that Arnold is saying.
But here, my friends, the P.A. Cédér resistance.
KGO Television San Francisco, ABC affiliate, a montage of anchor Carolyn Tyler's report.
Governor Schwarzenegger is having a feud with Rush Limbaugh.
Two big personalities are butting heads over political policy.
Talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been publicly criticizing Arnold Schwarzenegger, saying the governor's new agenda sounds like something out of the liberal playbook.
Schwarzenegger calls it a centrist approach and says he's his own man.
He doesn't care what Limbaugh labels him.
There is no feud.
This is not Rosie and Trump.
There is no feud here.
It would be a feud if I called Arnold a loser and a girly man.
But I haven't done that.
And I don't intend to.
At any rate, this is how these things get started.
Just wanted you to be able to hear it.
Valprazo, Indiana.
And Dave, thank you for waiting, sir.
We're back to you now, and I appreciate it.
Oh, it is a pleasure and an honor to be on with you, Rush.
I just wanted to let you know about some of the things that our university is doing to celebrate Martin Luther King Day for diversity.
Our topic of discussion this year is feminism in race relations.
You're going to love this one.
We had a speaker, the co-founder of the Black Think Tank out in San Francisco, Dr. Julia Hare.
I wrote, luckily I had a pen and was able to write down a couple of her comments this morning during our convocation, which I was required to attend by my English class.
In talking about empowering women, she forgave the mothers of Donald Rumsfeld and Clarence Thomas for giving birth to them.
She praised women who ignored the men in their lives and said that women make better CEOs than men.
At which time I turned to my friend right next to me and said, and told him about the Queen Bee effect that you were telling us about a couple of weeks ago.
Yes.
Yeah, and it was just, and this thing just, it goes on.
And we have some several, we have several possible classes that we can go to for the rest of the day, including the No Child Left Behind Act and how underachieving minority students are affected.
Well, look, you know, this is hilarious in one sense.
It's also frustrating.
It's a great example of how the left has corrupted academia.
And I'm going to have more on this when we get to the Duke lacrosse case.
I don't know if you see that press conference on Saturday afternoon where the North Carolina Attorney General announced that he's taking a case over and assigning two prosecutors in his office to handle it.
Ny Fong wanted to be recused.
Nyphong wanted out.
Fine, Mike, you're going.
But I'm getting ahead of myself here, but they said, well, you know, we don't know anything about this case.
I wish we could promise a speedy conclusion, but we can't promise anything.
We're starting from scratch.
I mean, we haven't seen the case file.
We're not even going to get the case files till next week.
We can't rule out anything.
We can't rule out rape charge.
Oh, okay, so we're looking at another year of this, perhaps?
And the parents of these three guys are facing another year or whatever length of time it is of legal fees to start all over again.
There's no case.
You know, this is one of the things that just frustrates the all get out of me about the legal system.
This case is not about the evidence because there isn't any.
This case is about the seriousness of the charge.
And so some stripper comes forward now with three or four different versions of what happened to her that night.
And we've got charges based on that.
The charge is the only thing that matters.
Not the veracity of the accuser, not the legitimacy of it.
No, the nature of the charge.
The nature of the evidence here is irrelevant.
I can't believe these people in the attorney.
And I'm not, you know, I know from a legal standpoint they have to say certain things, but I can't believe they don't know anything about this case.
Can't believe they do not watch television or read the local paper in Raleigh.
I'm going to tell you what, 60 Minutes had this DNA guy on last night, the lab guy, and he admitted again that he and Nyphong withheld exculpatory evidence.
And Nyphong, even after he knew the exculpatory evidence existed, was out there still trashing these three guys.
If I'm an American parent and I have an athlete being recruited to Duke, I say, no way, I first place don't want to have to send him to school with this kind of a faculty, with this kind of a local law enforcement agency, and I don't want to have to start saving millions of dollars here for legal fees if some wacko comes along and makes some unsubstantiated charge that happens to fit a liberal political template and so everybody accepts it and believes it.
What happened at that campus With those three guys.
I mean, they were walking through campus after this all happened with big banners saying, castrate them, suspend them, expel them, or what have you.
Can you imagine if anybody had done that with a group of gay students or female students or whatever?
But this was all tolerated.
You know, so of course, I'm not surprised you're going to have some lunatic show up on Martin Luther King Day, do a little convocation here on feminism and what, the civil rights movement or what have you, and then say she forgave the mothers of Rumsfeld and whoever else, Cheney, Clarence Thomas.
The thing you have to understand here, these people are not trying to be funny.
They mean this stuff.
As for Schwarzenegger, one more comment here.
He is aligned since you want a feud out there at KGO TV.
All right.
We heard him outline his agenda here.
We know what it's going to be, and there's nothing centrist about it, and there's nothing conservative about it.
How is big government and massive spending and massive taxes in the public's interest?
What is centrist about any of this?
Arnold's agenda, he may say he's culling from the best of the right and the best of the left, but I don't see any conservatism in it.
Other than he's welfare cuts and how that's going to work.
But I don't see much conservatism in the rest of it, which is fine.
I mean, he can do what he wants to do, but when he calls it centrist, it isn't.
It's liberal.
And I'm sure there are powerful liberal forces arrayed at Arnold in many places he goes in that state.
We'll be back in just a second.
I'm going to have more on this in the next hour when I have more time to get into it.
But there's an interesting post here at the Time magazine blog.
And it's, I said, Time Magazine, it's Tom Bevan, B-E-V-A-N.
I think it's Time.
At any rate, trying to write Nifong's wrong.
As far as compelling TV goes, Bush's interview with Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes pales in comparison to Leslie Stahl's sit-down with the families of the Duke La Crosse players who were falsely accused of rape but remain in the legal crosshairs thanks to the outrageous and unforgivable behavior of Mike Nyphong, the Derm DA.
The interview is available at CBSNews.com in two parts.
And then here's the closing of the post.
Looking more and more like disbarment and further disgrace await Nyphon.
In that sense, it seems like justice may finally be done in this case, but not before a whole lot of lives and reputations have been ruined in the process.
You know, I don't think that this is automatic, that Nyphon's having anything happened to him.
When's the last time you could remember any jurist or DA or prosecutor being punished for anything?
You think these guys don't circle the wagons around themselves?
I'm sure it's happened.
I'm sure there's been a prosecutor dispute, looked it up, but just using my fertile memory, I don't recall it.
And there have been outrages like this.
This is probably the piece d'étatist of outrages.
But I'm not at all confident that this is going to end up as so many people now think with Duke liable and paying big money and Nyphong embarrassed and so if more so than he already is.
Rich in, I hope so, but who knows?
Rich in Miller Place, Long Island.
Where's the you're next?
Welcome to the program.
Thanks, Rush.
Mega running the gamut dittos.
Rush, basically on TV, I watch sports and news.
However, I feel like I'm missing the boat here on this show 24.
Where would one who's never watched one episode jump in?
Season one, episode one?
Yeah, that's the best thing to do.
That's the way to go.
Yes, yes.
I mean, you could watch, you could start watching this season first.
There's nothing in season one that is connected to season six.
There are things connected from season to season, but not, you know, season two didn't have much to do with season four or into season five.
I mean, it may be tiny little things, but you can watch any season starting from day one and get the show as if you started with season one.
But I guess you start with season one because you'll see the transformation.
You'll see how it's improved.
You'll see how it's gotten better and better and better.
And besides, if you start with season one, look at all the fun awaiting you as you watch these things.
But that would make the most sense.
Biggest problem for you is going to be listening to people talk about this season as it airs when you haven't seen it.
So you're going to need your blinders on about that.
Anyway, I got to run here because of the constraints of the programming format.
We'll be right back.
Here's bad news.
They surveyed some college campus people, kids, students, and most of them don't really know all that much about Martin Luther King.
We'll have details, and it's not a surprise to me, of course.
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