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Jan. 26, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 26, 2007, Friday, Hour #2
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Now this is just frankly absurd.
And this is a this is an example of the histrionics that are out there.
Former UN weapons inspector Hans Blitz is a former weapons inspector.
He is not a climatologist, he is not a weatherman, he's not accredited by the American Meteorological Society, and he probably doesn't know who Heidi Cullen is at the Weather Channel.
But he warned yesterday while he was in Cairo that global warming was a greater threat than weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, and he advocated promoting peaceful nuclear technology around the world.
The threat against the global environment and global warming are a greater threat than weapons of mass destruction, he told journalists in the final day of a visit to Egypt, promoting his commission's report on reducing weapons of mass destruction worldwide.
If that's the case, why the hell you're running around the world trying to get us to reduce weapons of mass destruction?
And if you want peaceful uses for nuclear technology, you better come to the United States and talk to Jane Fonda about it, Michael Douglas and a bunch of the Hollywood left who are responsible with one movie, the China Syndrome, for wiping out the nuclear power industry in this country or stalling it.
But I mean folks, just stop and think of this now.
Global warming is more dangerous than nuclear weapons.
Has anybody in all of this global warming business, has anybody projected the kind of death that would happen with one detonation of a serious nuclear weapon.
What in the world is going on?
This is an act of sheer desperation.
The fact that the world is not signing on to this hysteria is troubling these people, so they come up with the most frightening comparisons and analogies that they can.
But just stop and think of this using a little common sense.
I mean, even you people in Rio Linda can understand this one.
Global warming a greater threat than weapons of mass destruction and nuclear weapons.
Something as ridiculously stupid, arrogant and elitist as that ought to disqualify anything else he says about anything.
This man is a blooming idiot, a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance, and he is on an agenda roll.
And he's got an agenda, as do all of his socialist buddies at the United Nations.
But a statement like this ought to disqualify Hans Blix from being credible on anything else that he says.
Now we move on to the minimum wage debate.
I told you, I warned you people last year before the election, all during the year.
I told you that the big problem here with coming up with meaningful reform in immigration, meaning border security first, no more illegals and trying to track down the current ones here, is opposed by big business.
And many of you say that can't possibly be, Rush.
I mean, maybe some, but you can't possibly believe.
Well, I did, and as usual, I was right.
I also told you that it isn't gonna be long before we start seeing fallout between Pelosi and Reed over the Democrats' agenda in the House, because with 49 votes in the Senate, the Republicans can stop anything.
The real power to effect and stop or pass legislation now is in the House.
The minority is in the Senate, I'm sorry.
The minority in the House, any minority is powerless.
They have no power.
Have to understand this.
You can sit there and whine and moan about the Republicans in the House all you want, but they've nothing they can do to stop things.
Now you might say, well, hey, the Democrats, well, they had power when they were in the minority.
Yes, but that's because the Republicans chickened out and gave them some.
The Republicans refused to govern as conservatives.
The Republicans, as usual, didn't want bad things said about them.
And so they tried to go out and give the libs a little scrap scrap here or there.
But with party discipline and party unity, which the Democrats are going to have, the minority in the House zilch power.
Forty-nine votes in the Senate.
You can stop anything.
Because you need 60.
And so Pelosi's got our minimum wage bill.
It goes over to the Senate, precisely as I predicted before the election.
The same thing is going to happen with uh with anything they try to do on uh on taxing the oil companies.
If they come up with a windfall profits tax on big oil, it's gonna die in the Senate because there's some Democrats in the Senate who come from states that aren't gonna want to punish oil companies in those states.
And the same thing's happening in the minimum wage, and it's causing histrionics and hysteria on the floor of the Senate.
Late yesterday, Senator Kennedy said this in the New York Times today.
Childhood poverty is found to portend high adult costs.
Here it is in the newspaper today.
Just what we've been talking about.
The United States, the highest poverty rate for children of any industrial nation in the world.
The tape.
Let's compare poverty, shall we?
Do you want to examine the average poverty stricken person in America with the average poverty stricken person anywhere else on the planet?
Senator Kennedy.
You're not talking apples and apples.
But he gets even more histrionic here as things go on.
Who's delaying?
Who's opposing?
Who's using every kind of parliamentary tactic known to every possible parliamentarian to delay action on the increase in the minimum wage?
It lies right at the feet, right at the feet of the Republican leadership.
Make no mistake about it.
Make no mistake about it.
That's exactly right.
And we are applauding it here, Senator.
What is he upset about?
He's upset that there are tax breaks for small business in the minimum wage bill.
There aren't such tax breaks in the House bill, but they have been added in the Senate because there is a cost to small business, and they simply want to give some tax breaks so as to be able to afford the increase in the minimum wage without having to fire anybody.
Of course, you can't have tax cuts.
And so Senator Kennedy's out there saying, this, this the filibuster, fellowbuster, it's a fellow voter by amendment.
No.
Fellowbuster by amendment.
He then continued.
Why do we tell them after five days?
200 billion dollars more in tax cuts here.
$35 billion more in tax cuts there.
$8 billion more tax cuts for HSAs.
How many more billions of dollars do we have to give you, Mr. Republican?
How many more dollars do we have to give you to get an increase in the minimum wage?
Whatever we can get, Senator.
Because it's not your money.
And you're not giving it to anybody.
You are stealing it.
I saw a story.
That's what taxation is.
Particularly exorbitant taxation.
I saw a story about taxes in California yesterday.
I had it in the stack yesterday.
I'm trying to remember what it was.
Um tax revenues are down, I think it is.
Or they up.
I forget whatever.
That doesn't matter.
There was a line in the story that said the state earned blah blah XX from tax revenues.
State didn't earn anything.
It wouldn't have the money if it hadn't taxed people for it.
Man, I'd love to be able to earn Money that way, just go tell people you owe me X every month.
And then call it earnings?
Senator Kennedy, how much money do we have to give you Republicans?
How much m it's not your money and you don't give it.
The objective here, Senator, is to see to it that more and more of people's money never gets to you.
In the first place.
That's the purpose of tax cuts.
But here again, you shouldn't be surprised because small business is on the Democrats' enemies list.
Big oil is big pharma.
And try this.
I was reading something in the New York Post today.
You know, they're they're going after big pharmaceuticals.
I just can't stay a big and the government's now want to negotiate prices for Medicare, which means that the drug companies will not be allowed to recoup investments in the RD of new drugs.
I think one of the companies mentioned here is Pfizer.
Pfizer has a lot of drugs that are going to be uh their patents will be expiring, and that means anybody can make them and go generic on them within the next uh few short years.
It's going to add up to 14 billion dollars in lost revenue, and Pfizer's gonna be, or maybe it's Merck, I forget which, they're gonna be laying off in the New York area 600 workers and 10,000 nationwide.
Uh and of course, you know, that's not good enough for the Democrats.
They've got to inflict even more damage.
Anyway, Dingy Harry got in on this.
I was just watching him here at the top of the hour.
Uh, and he was whining and moaning about $350 billion in tax cuts for the minimum wage.
This $2 an hour increase in minimum wage, why, this is important.
People could use that mic, go buy health care.
And I about made a mess in my pants.
You're gonna go out and buy health care with a minimum wage increase of $2 an hour that phases in over three years?
Buy health.
If health care is that cheap, I want to know where.
Couple of more sound bites here on the minimum wage fiasco.
Dingy Harry cannot deliver the votes to uh to defeat the amendments uh that would uh uh uh just have the minimum wage straight without any tax cuts for business, small business.
There's also a another uh complication in this that's funny, and it demonstrates what I told you last week.
But first last year.
Well, let's first listen to uh uh Dingy Harry.
He was on hardball with Chris Matthews last night.
Question, what did you think your colleague John Kerry, Democrat nominee last time around, who you worked hard for dropping out of the 2008 contention so early in the battle.
He did the right thing.
I acknowledge that.
But he came so close, and that was such a terribly unfair election.
Here's a man who is a hero.
Decorated war hero.
Right.
And with his swift boat stuff, uh, the end of the campaign people wondered if he'd even ever been to Vietnam.
Uh John Kerry, he has a good American.
He's been a great senator, he'll continue to be a great senator.
Oh, we wondered if he'd ever been to Cambodia.
We wondered how many of the Purple Hearts were fake.
We knew he'd been to Vietnam, but he told us every time he opened his mouth.
Anyway, it was such an unfair election.
And Matthews said, You you think he was treated unfairly in the count?
Was it just in a campaign?
You think he got a good count in Ohio, for example, the end of that election?
I think the Ohio account was bad, but he's he's a good American.
He realized that it was time to end the election and uh not drag this on.
I think some votes could have been changed in the state of Ohio, but John Kerry did the right thing.
He just pulled the plug.
Sounds like Dingy Harry did not want this guy to be president.
He's happy he got out.
Yep, he did the right thing.
I acknowledge the right thing by getting out of the race.
And he did the right thing by not challenging what happened in Ohio.
Make no mistake, folks.
They are happy at the Democrat Party that John Kerry has uh has pulled out.
Now, business lobbyists believe that lawmakers will ultimately strip from Senate minimum wage legislation any sanctions against companies caught hiring illegal immigrants.
Whether they can keep it out of immigration law is another matter.
The uh Senate, 94 to zero vote yesterday inserted a federal contracting ban for businesses that violate immigration law into a bill that would raise the minimum wage.
Basically, uh and the provision was offered by a good guy, Jeff Sessions, Senator Jeff Sessions from Alabama.
And under this uh this amendment, companies caught hiring illegal workers while on a federal contract would be banned from government work for ten years.
Other companies discovered with illegal workers would be prohibited from getting federal contracts for seven years.
And I'm telling you, big business is howling.
They are screeching.
They think they might be able to get this taken out of the immigration of the uh minimum wage bill, but they're not so sure they can keep it out of any further immigration bill.
Uh or additional immigration.
I told you last year that, you know, one of the problems Republicans have is that a whole bunch of Republicans in big business want illegals flooding the country for the cheap labor aspect of it.
And you thought that's not that many, Rush.
Come on.
Telling you, it is.
Uh labor costs, number one cost of every business.
Lower you can make them, the better.
Uh it's just it's axiomatic.
Reg in Canton, Ohio, home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hello, Rush.
I talked to you uh the other day about the war.
I was wondering, um, are you still uh still gonna keep fighting for the New World Order or are you gonna take a stance with the the resistance manifesto like we talked about before and go against these these uh criminals that we have in power and stand up and be a man about it and joined?
I am going to stand up and be a man, and I'll stand with these people you call criminals in power, because what I fear more than the Iraqis and more than the insurgents is people like you.
The sh the sheer ignorance, the condescending, arrogant ignorance from people like you frightens me every bit as much for the future of this country as dealing with Al-Qaeda.
Because Al Qaeda knows how to get you on their side as the brief moments you appeared on this program now uh illustrate.
I hear people like you, hey, it's not just American troop deaths, look at all the Iraqis that are dying.
You don't care about the Iraqis.
You were fine and hunky-dory with them dying as long as Saddam Hussein was killing them.
You couldn't have cared less.
You didn't want to lift a finger about it.
Please don't bother me with this snivelling little drivel and sophistry.
I've got no time for it anymore.
Ed in Jacksonville, Florida, welcome to the EIB network.
Uh yes, Rush.
Nice to speak with you.
Yes, thank you.
Um I've seen in the news in the past day or two that President Bush is okay the killing of militant Iranians in Iraq.
Yes.
Do these sorts of political and military strategy strategy decisions actually come from the president?
Well, well, they might have they actually could have come from scooter libby.
I was just wondering how high up the ladder do these decisions actually work on here's here's the Washington Post story.
The Bush administration has authorized U.S. military to kill or capture Iranian operatives inside Iraq as part of an aggressive new strategy to weaken Tehran's influence across the Middle East and compel it to give up its nuclear program.
What uh let's for this is for the sake of discussion.
Let's say it did go to the president.
I have no doubt that it did.
It wouldn't bother me if it did.
What what what's important about that to you?
Well, it seems that the um liberals blame everything on the Bush administration uh on President Bush in particular.
And so I'm just kind of wondering how like what sort of level I I'm sure that President Bush doesn't control every aspect of the economy and the war in Iraq and all that.
More than you know.
Yeah.
So I was just kind of wondering is it just more mud being thrown against him when they come out in a derogatory fashion towards the Well, now that okay, now now I understand where you're going.
Uh it it doesn't even have to, the story doesn't even have to cite it Bush personally.
The headline, troops authorized to kill Iranian operatives in Iraq.
Administration strategy stirs concern among some officials.
Uh this is the the whole slant of this story is my gosh, this guy is insane.
This Bush guy's insane.
Doesn't he hear us telling him to get out?
Doesn't he hear us telling him he can't win?
Now he's gonna start killing Iranians.
Oh no, we're all gonna die.
Oh.
Meanwhile, the president is up there theoretically flipping the bird to all these people saying, I gotta defend this country.
We are in a war, and the Iranians are in there sponsoring the insurgents.
They are providing them with IEDs and ammo.
And I'm gonna start treating it as such, and we're gonna root these people out as well.
It's a war.
I can't believe not talking about you out there, Ed.
I just I I can't well, I can believe it, that's what's said.
But to me, makes it makes perfect sense.
Yet the Washington Post of Drive Bys published this as though it's another indictment against Bush's sanity.
See, they just can't, they just can't deal with the fact that he won't listen to them.
He's ratchet it up even more.
And they go, What are we gonna do?
What are we gonna do?
Be back in a moment.
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Well, union membership dropped to 12% of U.S. workers last year.
This extends a steady decline from the 50s, when more than a third belonged to unions.
After membership had held steady at 12.5% in 2005, it declined anew last year.
A decrease of more than 325,000 workers.
Membership had been about 20% in 1983.
When the Bureau first reported comparable numbers, about 35% of American workers were union members in the mid-50s.
The latest gloomy news for organized labor comes at a time when the group is pushing legislation in a Democrat-controlled Congress that would make it easier for unions to organize.
Labor laws aren't the only obstacle to union membership.
Much of the decline is coming from shifts in the economy, said Greg Denier, a spokesperson for the Change to Win, the Federation of Labor Unions.
Labor unions are pushing legislation that would let workers form unions more readily by simply signing a card or a petition.
Impose stronger penalties on employees who violate labor laws that allow for arbitration to settle contract disputes.
Advocates of the uh legislation say they doubt that it will get signed into law by President Bush, but they think passage in Congress would make eventual signing of the law more likely.
Union membership rate for government workers 36.2% was substantially higher than for private industry workers 7.4%.
What is that?
Union membership for government workers, 36.2% was substantially higher than for private industry.
Meaning private industry, which is unionized, is 7.4% unionized, and 36% of government workers.
And still, union membership happens to be declining, a related story from the Cybercast News Service.
Told by a union official to pay forced dues or change religions.
A teacher in Southern Ohio is challenging a state law that allows only those public employees who belong to certain denominations the right to claim religious objections to paying union dues.
Carol Catter, mathematics and language arts instructor in the St. Mary's district, filed a federal complaint.
U.S. District Court Columbus this week over an Ohio law that prevents the lifelong Catholic from diverting her dues from a union that she refuses to fund because it supports abortion on demand.
The teacher told the Cybercast News Service Thursday she'd been shocked to learn that her dues had to go to the Ohio Education Association, which is state affiliate of the NEA, which is just the branch office of the Democrat National Committee.
I had never belonged to a teacher's union because I know where NEA money goes, and I knew I never wanted to be a part of that, said Carol Catter.
When it became mandatory last year, we were told our dues could go to a charity.
However, she later learned that members of only two religions received the charity exemption.
If you're a Seventh-day Adventist or a Mennonite, you're pretty well covered because unions don't hassle them at all due to those denominations' history of objection to union membership.
If you're a Catholic, uh then you're you're out of luck.
So the union attorney told her if you want an exemption from union dues, you want your union dues to go to charity, you have two choices.
Pay your dues or change religions.
And the unions wonder why their membership is uh is uh is plummeting.
Uh this is uh Janie.
Janie is Soda Springs, Idaho.
Hi, Janie.
Welcome to the uh EIB network.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
Uh Bud Diddles from Idaho, where the global warming is causing us to have below zero temperatures for two weeks.
You want to hear something funny, Jamie.
Prince Charles and uh and his uh his wife Camilla are coming to the States this weekend.
They're going to Philadelphia and to New York.
He is being given an award somewhere for all of his diligent great work on climate change.
He's coming to warn us about global warming.
The wind chill may be zero.
Temperature in New York right now is sixteen degrees.
The wind chill factor has been as low as minus ten uh during the day to day.
And it's it's it's gonna warm up some over the weekend, but it's still gonna be a deep freeze while Prince Charles warns America of global warming.
It's just hilarious.
These people are just they're beside beyond themselves.
Anyway, what was it?
What was it that you called about?
Okay, I have a request and a suggestion.
I would like for us conservatives to have our own update song.
And I'd like it to be stuck in the middle.
Clowns on the left, jokers on the right.
Don't you think that would be a song by Steelers Wheel, that's from uh late sixties, early seventies.
Uh the problem is if we make that our conservative update theme, it's actually we're talking about conservatives being in the middle.
There aren't too many clowns on the right of us.
There are some.
Right.
But the are you there?
Yeah.
I was waiting for you to make your case.
Oh, well, I just I just felt like that it's not that we're in I I didn't look at it that way.
I just looked at it as us being in the middle of the clowns and the jokers.
And they are they're the ones that are trying to set the agenda and uh we're being overrun.
Well, I appreciate the thought on this.
I'm always looking for creative input here uh at the Rush Limbaugh program and the EIB network, but in this case, and this is just my uh I'll have to ponder this further.
This my knee-jerk reaction.
Anything that has as a conservative update theme, the description of me in the middle doesn't seem to work.
Uh I don't like middle rotors.
You know, there's nothing good that can happen to you in the middle of the road, folks.
You're gonna get hit.
You are going to get run over.
Uh, these moderates, middle of the roaders and so forth.
It's just just and that's where that song would uh would put us.
Uh but I appreciate the input.
I appreciate the uh uh the thinking and the theory out there.
And I understand that your your desire is to have conservatives reposition in people's minds as something other than the stereotype and the caricature that has been made.
Carolyn in Casper, Wyoming, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello, Rush.
Um I just wanted to say I'm honored to talk to you.
And my comment is that I am a very much distressed and disgusted that we'd learned nothing in Vietnam.
My husband fought in Vietnam, and it was nothing more than a political war.
We lost many lives, and yet here we turn around, and now we're in Iraq, and we've turned this into a political war.
Instead of going over there and realizing it's a war and getting on with it and getting done.
Uh wait a minute now, uh, Carolyn, who is this we.
Uh just uh leaders, I guess.
Democrats just no, the leaders and a the pres the president's a leader, he's not turning it into a political war.
The Democrats are politicizing the troops is what's happening here.
They are playing politics with the troops.
I agree.
I agree with that.
And the drive back.
But how can how can we uh expect to win a war when we don't give them the authority to do it?
Uh well, that hasn't happened yet.
Well, it it's the if you're on this way.
I mean, we're pr we're prosecuting uh uh we're prosecuting our men for fighting.
No, we're not the Democratic Party is in the media.
I'm not trying to I'm sorry.
I'm not explaining myself.
Well, yes, I know I uh you I know what you're trying to say, but I'm just I'm just I'm trying to re characterize it because the president ha the president has not surrendered the authority to prosecute the war yet, Carolyn.
And he's not he's not going to, and they are not going to seriously defund this.
This is a political, this resolution and all this is pure Democrat politics.
They're trying to frighten a bunch of Republicans into joining them.
Um this this is it's about everything but victory on their side.
But the president is not capitulating to it.
Well, what's happening here is that a Democrat the Democrats and the media, since they can't impeach Bush constitutionally, this is how they're attempting to ruin his presidency with this.
And they're not gonna stop.
The danger is how many Americans go along with it.
In fact, after his State of the Union speech, I think you need to be a little bit more hopeful of it.
I understand the anger.
I appreciate the anger.
Make sure that you channel it the right place.
Particularly when the next election day comes up.
The fact of the matter is that after the president's State of the Union speech, a majority of the American people want to win.
They watch the speech, they enjoy what he had to say.
If there was massive American sentiment for getting out of there, the Democrats would go ahead and defund the operation.
But they don't dare.
By the way, this trip that Pelosi and the Democrats are taking over to Iraq.
You know, there's a bunch of possibilities here.
One is that just going over photo ops, come back, say they've gotten a lay of the land, and it's not possible to win.
They give themselves credibility because they've been there, and they'll probably come back with some stories uh uh from a few nameless troops that we don't want to be here, please get us out.
This is all it's caused, so we'd be ready for that.
But there could be another reason why they're going over there, and that is they see the handwriting on the wall, which is we're gonna win this, which is that there's progress being made.
And they're trying to give themselves cover in any number of ways.
Whatever, the purpose of their trip is purely political, and it's aimed at their power and survival.
Not winning the war or not anything else.
But don't cave yet.
Don't believe that the majority of the American people agree with the kind of nonsense that you're hearing from Democrats and the media on television about this.
No, I can't.
I gotta I gotta I g no, I gotta go right home after the busy uh broadcast today.
I've got to get a haircut.
A haircut at home.
Who doesn't?
Welcome back, folks.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, cutting edge.
Societal evolution, all this uh hysteria here over whether Barack Obama went to a Muslim school or not, uh, when he was a young tyke.
And I he's out there and they say, no, he's a devout Christian.
He's goes to Christian school or church in Chicago and so forth.
And well, it's either it's fine with me.
I just I uh I I uh Islam's a religion of peace.
Why be so defensive about being a Muslim?
Uh and I I thought it was a greater liability in this country to be a devout Christian, frankly.
Uh whoever Congressman who's a Muslim.
Absolutely right.
Swore himself in there on the Koran.
So I I guess being a devout Christian is okay now, since b Obama is.
Uh Philip in Houston.
Welcome, sir.
Glad you waited.
You are on the EIB network.
Uh, thank you, Rush, and mega non-brainwashed ditto.
Thank you, sir.
Uh I have an an idea for you for uh a new TV show, if I could uh have opportunity to discuss it.
Everybody wants to be in a creative artist today.
I welcome welcome the idea.
Well, I know you value your your uh off time, and I'm thinking of a series maybe four times a year doing it during Sweeps Week, maximize uh you know, profit for you and the uh companies that might carry it.
Uh based somewhat on what Oliver North does with war stories.
Mm-hmm.
But do it do it as a uh political history.
Uh for instance uh FDR and the New Deal, how it's progressed through the years.
Uh you had that whole week with uh Kennedy into tax uh taxation, um Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis, et cetera.
And I think that would be great to have in the future, hopefully, for uh children in schools to teach them conservatism.
It's not a bad idea.
It and and it's uh uh you know I've I've toyed with the idea of doing uh back when I was doing my TV show, uh Ailes and I were toying with the idea of doing a Saturday morning cartoon show based on American history to counter some of the drivel that Saturday morning cartoons are now, you know, Captain Planet promoting anti-big business and pro-environmentalism and this sort of thing.
Uh problem with uh doing TV four times a year is it would disappoint far more people than it would uh satisfy uh four times year would simply not be enough for the audience.
Oh, I do have a cute title for it, too.
What would that be?
Uh the writing of American political history and riding without the W. The writing R-I-G-H-T-I-N-G.
Yes.
Well, you know, every now and then I get I get I get calls from people who uh who want me to uh venture back to television and so forth, and I I don't know.
Uh I've been through all of the reasons why it's not that big a deal to me uh on in previous previous occasions.
I mean I went I went I was out in LA the first weekend in January, and I I did uh on a Saturday, eight hours in the studio to do three ninety-second little skits.
There were I'm not complaining about I'm just I'm just telling you how it is.
There's a there's in in one of these skits I answer a phone.
Speaker phone.
There were twelve takes close up of my hand hitting the button on the phone.
You know why?
Because they were having trouble making sure that the lights didn't reflect off the phone.
So I said, look, get the makeup babe out here and powder the phone.
Why should this take twelve takes?
But that's their business, and they want to get it best, and they want to have plenty of options to cut and shoes and paste from and so forth.
Uh you know, it's just it's just hurry up and wait.
Uh and it requires meetings with a bunch of people that you really wouldn't want there, but they have to be there because TV requires five people for every spoken word.
It's just the way it is.
Stage managers, floor managers, producers, executive producers, assistant executive producers.
Uh I haven't had one meeting to do this program in 18 and a half years.
Not one meeting.
And I've never told somebody what I'm gonna do and uh just it's uh if I hadn't has such a rooted experience in radio, television might affect me differently, but there's no spontaneity in it.
Uh it's all stricted uh structured and and so forth.
But I always consider it.
I've never totally closed the door on him.
I just want to be uh honest uh with you people when you bring it up, because I am flattered uh by the suggestion.
Roberta in Pittsburgh, welcome to the EIB network.
Hi there, thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
I was just curious as to your opinion on the selection of the new head coach for the Steelers.
Mike Tomlin.
Yes.
Um, I I didn't know anything about him uh uh until his name started showing up on the uh you know list of potential head coach candidates.
And then I started reading about him, and uh, you know, he's uh disciple of Tony Dungey.
He's he's worked with with Dungey.
Dungey as a class individual does not hire people who aren't.
But you know what struck me about this?
I remember the first time I met Dan Rooney was at Giant Stadium as a preseason game.
The uh the Steelers are playing the Giants, and it was two or three years after they had hired Cower, maybe a year after being 1993, something like that.
And uh I asked him, uh because I was, you know, here's a guy 34 years old, nobody had ever heard of him, and the Steelers had hired him.
And uh and Mr. Rooney said to me, Well, I had never met him before he came into interview.
And the exact age, almost within days, uh of Bill Cower is Mike Tomlin, and he's assistant defensive coordinator.
That the Steelers, Chuck Knoll was an offensive uh assistant, but he was 37 when he was hired.
I think the Steelers have a pattern here.
Uh and with two coaches in the last uh ten thousand years, uh I I just I don't think that you can object to it yet.
I I'm excited by it.
I he's gonna hold on to three four defense, kept Dick LeBo.
He's not totally shaking everything up.
Uh I tr I trust Steelers' management on decisions like this.
They do not mess up and they're patient.
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