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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 uh 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.
I mean, next year, we are joining the nation and 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.
Here we are on the one and only EIB Network, the most listened to radio talk show in America and the world.
A telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800 282-2882, and the um email addresses rush at EIBNet.com.
Did an idiots from 2Js ever show up?
Still not here.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, the bars.
The bars are on now.
Bars are off.
The dental cams on.
Sorry, don't panic out there.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Well, we got a lot to do here today, folks.
Um surprisingly rockin'.
Surprisingly active for a uh a three-day holiday weekend.
I guess the first thing here, I I must admit, I'm a little impatient with uh 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 uh account, the uh subscribers at Rushlimbaugh.com, members of uh 24-7.
Uh, dear Rush, please read the following.
It's a column by Debbie Schlossle regarding uh 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 uh what we have here is a politically incorrect liberal bent on this program and on 24 and and and that the Muslims are getting uh soft treatment 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.
What who's doing it?
Yeah, we may have a limp-wristed administration, but folks, can you think ahead to the future and what uh the Democrat administration might actually be?
What do you mean politically correct?
The whole Democratic Party treats this issue that way.
This is a I mean this is all my interpretation.
But besides all of that, it's a television show.
And it's the 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 would I I mean, you watch it or not, I I don't know how if you start it you can stop it.
You get caught up in all these things that you think are messages or are uh uh liberals are taking over the show this year or what have you.
Uh you just 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 from the 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 I get tired of the wimps in the White House too, but my friends is that something new?
Uh the the 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 I have maybe 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 uh airing, but 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 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 that um 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, uh, it blows me away.
And that was the first thing that that caught one.
I didn't even know these guys that do this show.
I'm I mean, I didn't meet them until I'd watched the first two episodes.
I I just 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 is uh is more jam-packed, has got more production value.
It's it's got uh it's got more of everything every season's had.
It's gotten better.
It just keeps getting better.
So I 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 uh I learned this, I guess about a year ago.
The worldwide audience for 24 dwarfs of the the um uh U.S. market, in terms of DVD sales and a number of things.
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 they love it.
Uh they've got a they've got a worldwide market with this show here, primarily serving the um uh I just I know two Jays is here.
I just saw him deliver.
Well, whoopee.
Whoopee.
What good does that do me?
Two Jays 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 gonna do something at a certain time and they don't repeatedly.
You know, that it gets to be a um problem.
Anyway, folks, I'm telling you, these two episodes tonight, just sit back.
I 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 the Martha McCallum show at one o'clock, which is on the same time I am.
And I I told him one of the little uh uh answers to a question I gave, you civil libertarians are gonna love the first four or five episodes of this.
What I meant by that was uh the uh the the left who who you know wants uh uh terrorists to be uh treated with lawyers and and uh so forth uh like is happening.
I think it's happening, by the way, judges taking over the war on terror and so forth.
I said, you liberals are gonna love this.
You civil libertarians are gonna love it.
I warned you people uh that there are some things that, but it's a TV show.
Sit back and marvel at the brilliance and the genius that goes into producing it.
All I know is it's in the entertainment medium, and when I stand down to watch it, I can't stop.
Uh that to me makes it a good show.
I'll get wrapped up in uh in all the other stuff that uh 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, angling thing and caddling carrying.
Oh, come on.
Rejecting my recommendation flat out like that.
Now, maybe I'm Taking it as a personal insult.
Who knows?
Folks, you've got to hear this.
We had this in the Soundbite roster last Friday, but I will admit 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, uh, only in ceremonial situations or close votes.
They always rotate who gets to go up.
The same thing in the Senate.
They got a different different people uh that 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 Starkist 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 dollars in stock in Starkist or Del Monte.
And that really raised some hackles.
So Republicans are trying to make a point about this, uh, trying to insert an exemption for Samoa.
Democrats are into the stem cell bill.
Uh this is uh Representative Patrick McHenry from North Carolina, and Barney Frank listened 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.
Excepting American Samoa.
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 do that?
No, no, the gentleman, the gentleman, how many times could not conceivably be a point of order?
Chair will not answer my question.
The gentleman will not interrupt.
Is exempt from this legislation.
Well, the chair is presiding gentleman when I make speeches in the guise of a parliament inquiry.
No, the gentleman will suspend.
Gentlemen from the gentleman from Texas out of fire in the head.
You hear him pounding that gavel?
Gentlemen was dispensed.
You cannot do it.
Put up in every sounds like he's he's he's chopping meat with that with gamble.
I mean, the spindle was flying on.
Uh we're gonna have to keep this in the roster.
This was this one of the all-time audio subbites.
Barney Fra these guys, they couldn't wait to get their power back.
And now they're up.
Shut up!
Shut up!
You can't speak, bam bim!
You can't talk, you can't do it.
Shut up.
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 anchor man, your guiding light, a living legend.
Well-known radio recon tour.
Actually, just a harmless, lovable little fussball.
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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 Lacrosse 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 Radder.
Why in the world do you think?
Don't tell me why why got to reach a big audience?
No.
We 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.
Uh just I don't understand it.
I just don't.
And then there's something amazing happened in New Jersey that uh in the education system.
We got to uh tell you about that.
Lots lots of stuff here to do, but we start in the phones.
Bob in Etonville, Washington, your first on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Yes, Rush.
Megadettos and all that good stuff.
Hey, I'm calling up uh, 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 you'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 showing for?
Well, 24 is just good enough.
You've been talking on an hour for 25 minutes since you came on.
You know.
Hey, this is a flip.
Let me tell you because my review and assessment of the program was challenged by a bunch of people who subscribe to my website.
I thought it was a big thing.
What?
Is that all it is?
Is about a dollar?
Oh, a buck.
Yeah, that well, I don't know what we talked about.
I'm not ho 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 911.
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 something clean.
You know something.
This is one of the problems, Bob.
Now seriously.
Okay.
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.
I 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, I'm, 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 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.
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 we we talk about all kinds of things that go above and beyond politics.
But you know something?
Uh Bob?
Even those things that are not directly tied to politics always end up having a political point to 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 uh and the war in uh 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.
Uh, but you you you weren't harsh.
Doesn't bother me.
I'm happy for the opportunity to explain to you what this uh 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 uh for keeping the twenty-four 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?
What where are we going next, Snertley?
Come on.
Don't be don't it doesn't show up here.
You're doing a two-Js on me, making me wait.
Dave in uh Valprazo, Indiana.
Welcome to the program.
Megadiddoes rush uh from a disgruntled rush baby here in uh is this uh is this a call wait, is this a call about 24?
No, it is not.
Oh, never mind, we're not talking about anything but twenty-four.
I'm gonna put you back on hold.
Give me line three.
Don't go away, Dave.
Uh I want to get this stuff out of the way, Snurdley.
Dave and Alexandria, Virginia.
Hi, welcome to the program.
Yeah, hey, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You been I've been dying to talk to you since I've saw the 24 last night, the first ten minutes about negotiating Jack Bauer over to the Terrier terrorist.
I just couldn't help but think that one of the themes are policy.
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 ondone thinks Bauer doesn't know what he's talking about.
That's totally unrealistic.
I'm able to overlook it.
The idea last night that the show opened negotiating with terrorists.
Um, 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, I 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 I can't see getting mad over this.
I just can't.
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 uh 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 argue McHenry's trying to get an something in the bill on the stem cell bill about Nancy Pelosi's exemption from the minimum wage increase for American Samoa.
So 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 gravite.
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 Samoa.
The chair is not saying anything.
Mr. 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 that be?
No, no, the gentleman, the gentleman, how many times could not conceivably be a point of order.
Chair will not answer my question.
The gentleman will not interrupt.
Is exempt from this legislation.
Well, the chair is presiding the gentleman will not make speeches in the guise of a parliament inquiry.
Damn it.
No, the gentleman will suspend.
Gentlemen.
The gentleman's protected was out of the way in the past.
The gentleman's protected was out of the way in the past.
Also, you gotta 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 yesterday's this week with George Stephanopoulos.
Schwarzenegger appears, and uh 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 stogus together.
So at least we have something in common.
We do.
At least we smoke stoggies together.
Okay.
So um and refresh your memory, what what what this was about.
You know, 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 know, uh you have to suspend what you think about welfare.
Mostly welfare cuts, if coupled with a jobs program, are very good.
That's that's what welfare reform at the federal level was all about.
But if you take that out of it, just say, okay, we're going to cut benefits for Americans and grant them to illegally, just scratch your head.
And then you combine that with the uh, you know, environmentalist wacko policies taking the lead here on greenhouse gases and global warming.
I was scratching my head.
Uh then uh Steffi follows up and and Arnold says that my my criticism doesn't bother him.
But does it bother you the conservatives like Rush Limbaugh think you're betraying them?
No.
I don't uh try to please the conservatives.
I don't like to uh oh try to please uh 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 the 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 their?
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.
So that makes all this uh understandable.
Is anybody is anybody out there talking about Republican schools and Democrat schools, Republican air and and uh Democrat air and uh forth likes to please the people.
Uh well, we all we all you know make the mistake of wanting to please the people.
Uh generally but politicians, he's not a public, but you lead uh 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.
Stefanopoulos says, Do you think President Bush would be doing better if he followed your approach?
You've had very uh 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 to 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, uh 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 mu in the country today.
Just say you're sorry.
Show remorse.
Say your admit your mistakes, whatever.
Yeah, but didn't like calling it a girlyman.
It was wrong to call them girlymen.
Uh didn't it help get him elected?
You know, one of the uh the things about that 2005 special election, uh, that's that I don't want to get into the details, but that's got its own dynamic.
Uh and the reasons that that that O5 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, nobody's used.
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.
Uh 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, uh, in addition to all that Arnold is saying.
But here, my friends that P.S. They are KGO television San Francisco, ABC affiliate, a montage of anchor Carolyn Tyler's report.
Governor Schwarzenegger's 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.
I 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.
Uh I just wanted to let you know about some of the things that our university is doing to celebrate Martin Luther King Day for uh diversity.
Our topic of discussion this year is feminism in uh race relations.
You're gonna love this one.
Um 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 uh comments this morning during our convocation, which I was required to attend by my English class.
Uh in talking about empowering women, she forgave the mothers of Donald Rumsfeld and Clarence Thomas for giving birth to them.
She praised women who ignore 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 uh and told him about the um what was it, the Queen Bee effect that you were talking about a couple weeks ago?
Yes.
Yeah, and it was just and this thing just it goes on.
And we have some several, we have several uh possible classes that we can go to for the rest of the day, including uh the no child left behind act and how underachieving minority students are affected.
Well, look, you know, I this is hilarious in one sense.
It's also frustrating.
It's a great example of how the left has corrupted uh academia.
And I'm I'm gonna have more on this uh when we got to the Duke uh lacrosse case.
That this I 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 uh office to handle it.
Nyphong wanted to be recused, knife long wanted out, and fine, Mike, you're gone.
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 for we're we're not even gonna get the case files till next week.
We we it's do whatever 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.
Uh there's no case.
You know, this is one of the things that just frustrates the the the all get out of me about 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 matter.
Not the 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 in the in the attorney, and I'm not 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.
Uh I'm gonna tell you what.
Well, what is DNA guy on last night, the lab guy, and he he admitted again that he and Niflong withheld exculpatory evidence, and knife long even after he knew the exculpatory evidence existed, was out there still trashing these three guys.
If if I'll tell you 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 them to school with this kind of a faculty with this kind of a 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 with those three guys?
I mean, they were 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 feminine female students or whatever?
But this was all tolerated.
You know, so of course I'm not surprised you're gonna have some lunatic show up on Martin Luther King Day, do a little convocation here on feminism and uh what, the civil rights move or what have you, and then say she forgave the mothers of Rumsfeld and uh 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, which is one more comment here.
He is aligned since you want a feud out there at KGO TV.
All right.
He we heard him outline his agenda here.
He's he's just is we know what it's gonna 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 these welfare cuts, and how's how that's gonna 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 gonna 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.
Uh, and it's uh I said Time Magazine, it's Tom Bevan, uh, B E V A N, I think it's time.
At uh at any rate, trying to write Nyphong'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 LaCrosse players who were falsely accused of rape but remain in illegal crosshairs thanks to the outrageous and unforgivable behavior of Mike Knifong, the Durham DA.
The interview is available at CBS News.com in two parts.
And then here's the here's the closing of the post.
Looking more and more like disbarment and further disgrace await knife long.
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 in the process.
You know, I I don't think that this is automatic that knife wong's anything happened to him.
Uh when's the last time you can remember any jurist or DA or prosecutor being punished for anything?
You think these guys don't circle the wagons around themselves?
I mean, I I'm sure it's happened.
I'm sure there's been a prosecutor disbive it looked it up, but my just using my fertile memory.
I don't recall it.
And there have been outrages like this.
Is this probably the PS that are these fence of outrages?
But uh I'm not at all confident that uh this is gonna end up as so many people now think with Duke liable and paying big money and knife embarrassed and uh and so if more so than he already is.
Rich in uh I hope so, but who knows?
Uh Rich in Miller Place, Long Island, uh, where's the uh you're next.
Uh, welcome to the program.
Thanks, Rush.
Uh mega running the gamut diddos.
Rush, uh 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 you could watch, you can start watching uh this season first.
Uh 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 any of season five of them, maybe 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 uh uh besides, if you start with season one, look at all the fun awaiting you as you watch these things.
That's but that that that's that that would make the uh the most sense.
Biggest problem for you is gonna be, you know, listening to people talk about this season as it airs when you haven't seen it.
So you're gonna need your blinders on uh about that.
Anyway, I gotta run here because of the uh constraints of the programming format.
We'll be right back.
Has 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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