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Feb. 9, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 9, 2007, Friday, Hour #3
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Rush is in Pebble Beach, the annual Pebble Beach Golf Tournament that used to be called the Bing Crosby Golf Tournament.
It's kind of an annual pilgrimage for Rush.
He's there.
I was in New York this week myself for Fashion Week, so since I was around, they asked me if I wanted to fill in and do the program.
I don't want any laughter from any of you.
Giorgio Armani themselves in there running the program today.
I've got to talk about Scooter Libby because Ann Coulter has gilted me into it.
Anne Coulter, who is the only diva of the conservative movement, wrote a column a few days ago in which she excoriated conservatives for letting Scooter Libby twist in the wind.
Her column led with, I think a very provocative thought.
She asked, why do so many conservatives go lefty, go right o when they get to Washington, D.C. What happens to them?
And her answer is, well, maybe part of it is because you're never there for them if they get set upon.
Nobody even knows what Scooter Libby is accused of doing.
Most people probably think he's on trial for being the guy that linked Valerie leaked Valerie Plame's name to Robert Novak.
He didn't do that.
This whole thing is an absolute travesty.
And somebody ought to stand up and defend the guy.
Scooter Libby, whose real name is Lewis or I Lewis Libby, is a patriotic American who has been serving his country his entire life.
He was Vice President Cheney's chief of staff.
And he is the victim of a prosecutor who simply couldn't admit that the crime that he was sent to investigate never happened.
Because the media and the left were obsessed with the Bush administration.
They decided to turn into a huge story, a throwaway line in a Bob Novak column about the wife of the guy that was sent to Niger to investigate whether or not Saddam Hussein ever was pursuing uranium from that country.
Became a matter of controversy because of Bush's reference to it in one of the State of the Union addresses.
Joe Wilson, who's Valerie Plame's husband, came back and concluded that there was nothing to the story.
In fact, Joe Wilson has since been disproven.
What we've learned about Joe Wilson is that he was a bad operative and that his wife, Valerie Plame, put the fix in to send her husband over there.
Nonetheless, the left was obsessed with finding out who it was that told Bob Novak that Wilson's wife is in the CIA.
For the longest time, everyone presumed that it was Carl Rove.
The media doesn't like Carl Rove.
American liberals don't like Carl Rove.
The biggest reason they don't like Carl Rove is the same reason that all college basketball fans outside of Indiana, Texas, don't like Bobby Knight.
Carl Rove wins.
He won the election in 2000 and he won again in 2004, and for that reason the left hates him.
There was this presumption that Novak's source was Carl Rove.
So we've got a special prosecutor name that bring Fitzgerald out from Chicago.
He convenes this long, long, long, eternal, unending investigation, supposedly to find out who was Bob Novak's source.
In fact, we've come to learn that he knew very early on who Bob Novak's source was.
And it wasn't Kyle Rove.
It was Richard Armitage who was the number two person in the State Department and someone who did not have an axe to grind with Joe Wilson.
He wasn't one of the hardliners in the administration.
It was the State Department under Powell that was urging a go slow attitude toward Iraq.
In other words, the guy that told Bob Novak about this was simply telling Novak it didn't have any real agenda, which is why Richard Armitage hasn't been charged and why no one has criticized Richard Armitage for his rule.
Nonetheless, The investigation continued.
And everybody in the Bush administration was questioned.
The FBI, the grand jury, including Scooter Libby, who apparently was one of many people who knew or found out that Joe Wilson's wife was Valerie Plane, who's in the CIA.
When he was questioned, Libby said he learned this from Tim Russett of NBC News.
Said he called up Tim Russett to complain about some coverage on an unrelated story, and that's when Russard said, Hey, did you know that uh Joe Wilson's wife is in the CIA?
Tim Russert denies it.
Says, yes, they did have the conversation in which Libby called up to complain about a story, but no, I never told Scooter Libby anything about Valerie Plane.
On that and that alone, felony charges have been brought against Scooter Libby.
He's accused of lying about how he learned that Joe Wilson's wife was in the CIA.
Libby then went on to tell several other reporters about this, none of whom reported on it.
The Novak story was still the only one out there that was ever really at issue.
So Libby is not accused of revealing the identity of a covert CIA operative.
Valerie Plame, in fact, isn't a covert CIA operative.
She was an analyst.
Yet this prosecutor had to find something, and he found one guy who, while being questioned here, said something that might not be true.
And the sole evidence that we have that it isn't true is that Tim Russard said he wasn't the one that mentioned this to Scooter Libby.
So it's a he said he said case.
Does the jury believe Scooter Libby or will they believe Tim Russert?
My prediction is they're going to believe Tim Russett because Tim Russett is one of those rare journalists that you actually think is telling you the truth.
He isn't, hasn't been exposed yet as a uh total spinmeister or charlatan, so they're probably going to believe Russard.
But why would you why would you automatically presume Russert is the one that is telling the truth?
How do we know that it isn't Russert that actually did tell Libby, but because he had earlier denied that he had said anything to Scooter Libby about it, he's now saving face to maintain his own credibility.
We don't know that.
I'm not saying we do know it, but we don't know it.
Secondly, there is no motivation, and there was never a motivation for Scooter Libby to lie in the first place about where he learned about the identity of Joe Wilson's wife because he knew that he wasn't the guy that leaked it to Bob Novak anyway.
There was no incentive for Libby not to tell the truth.
Here's what I think happened.
I think both people believe they're telling the truth.
I think Tim Russert is convinced he didn't tell Scooter Libby anything about Valerie Plame.
And I think Scooter Libby is convinced that it was Tim Russert who mentioned it to him.
The investigation by the special prosecutor went on a year after all of this occurred.
And it's pretty apparent here, since Armitage knew about it at the State Department, Judy Miller of the New York Times knew about it, all these other reporters knew about it, that a lot of people knew that Joe Wilson's wife was in the CIA, and nobody ever thought it was important.
So now you're supposed to remember a year earlier who first told you.
Most of you have been following this story to one degree or another.
When did you learn that Valerie Plame was the wife of Joe Wilson?
Nobody remembers that.
Yet they've turned this into a crime, and this man who has ably served our country faces the prospect of having his career end at end in ruin and go to federal prison.
And for what?
He didn't leak anybody's name.
He said something that may or may not have been accurate in an investigation that didn't lead to an underlying crime.
You compare this with the last administration.
You could start with Clinton himself, who, under oath, knowing exactly what the truth is, said he never even remembered whether or not he was ever alone in the Oval Office with Monica Lewinsky.
Did Bill Clinton ever go to trial?
He was impeached in the House, not convicted in the Senate, never faced criminal charges.
What was a more direct lie?
What Scooter Libby thinks he remembers or Bill Clinton not remembering if he was ever alone in the Oval Office with Monica Lewinsky.
He then repeated his lies before a grand jury.
Twice told that story.
Now let's talk about Sandy Berger stealing documents out of the National Archives and lying about the reason for it, saying he wanted to prepare for testimony.
Stealing documents and then going back and restealing the same documents.
You wonder why.
Conservatives are leery of the entire environment in Washington, D.C. You not only have to be an honest person, you not only have to be a decent person and serve your own country.
You've got to make sure that every I is dotted and every T is crossed.
You can't make an error at all.
And if you do, there will be a lynch mob out to persecute you.
In the meantime, your own side, which has this belief in the system, not believing that you could actually have a put-up case like this, your own side just kind of abandons you.
How many of us have paid any attention to the Scooter Libby trial?
And how many of us will care if he's convicted?
Well, it just may be that the guy, at worst, is mistaken about what he recalled.
Or at best is the victim of a journalist who is trying to protect his own reputation.
Either way, what's happening to him is wrong.
And if he is convicted, which I predict he will be, President Bush needs to do the right thing, which is to pardon him.
This uneven playing field that we conservatives have to participate in, isn't ever going to change.
But it doesn't mean that we have to accept it and not speak up about it.
Scooter Libby's a good person.
This isn't Haldeman and Ehrlichman and Watergate all over again at all.
My name is Mark Delling and I'm sitting in for Rush.
This is the Rush Limbaugh program.
It's open line Friday.
Your guest host today is me, Mark Belling.
Twenty-five million dollar prize on the line, Richard Branson, he's the head of Virgin Airlines and the guy that's been hanging around with Al Gore lately.
He's offering up $25 million who can ever the first person who can solve the global warming problem.
$25 million, first person to come up with a way of scrubbing greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere in the battle to beat global warming.
He was flanked by climate campaigners, including former Vice President Al Gore, ex-British diplomat Crispin Tickle.
I'll enter.
Let's just have every last American business shut down because then the problem will be taken care of.
In the meantime, we have our own $25 million competition.
Explain how the Ice Age ended when man wasn't around.
How did that warming occur?
Let's talk about the Edwards bloggers.
Now, this is a great story.
John Edwards has these two bloggers who work on his website.
And they're part of his campaign.
While blogging, they have written things that Edwards now wants to dissociate himself from.
He says they personally offended him, but he's not going to get rid of them.
This is the problem that Democrats have with the base of their party.
A very large segment of Democratic voters is filled with hate and intolerance.
They not only despise Republicans, they despise anyone conservative, and they despise anyone who doesn't see things like them.
John Edwards can't throw these two bloggers over the side because then he'll be ripped by that very base that they come from.
In the meantime, he doesn't want to be perceived by swing voters as being like the people that work for him.
One of the bloggers in writing about fundamentalist Christians used the term Christofascists.
Christo fascists.
The other blogger said that the Catholic Church has its position on birth control, opposition to it, because they want to produce more Catholic babies who can go on and tithe for the church.
Edwards says he finds both statements offensive, but he isn't going to fire the bloggers.
So they're both around.
One of whom used the term "Christofascist," referring to Christians, and the other suggested that the Roman Catholic Church, which is still the largest single denomination religion in this country, has its position on a very important moral issue on the basis of simply producing more members for the Church.
I want to contrast that with two other stories, both from American universities.
CW Post University and Long Island.
Five students have been fired from their jobs as residence assistants, RAs, because the university has deemed that they engaged in activity that is insensitive to Muslims.
What they did is they made a video in which they donned ski masks and pretended to be hostage takers.
That was it.
Muslim groups objected, saying that this was insensitive.
The university has dumped them from the positions as RAs, and the question is still open as to whether or not they're going to be able to continue at the university.
So it's okay for John Edwards to have on his campaign staff somebody who's running around using the term Christo fascists.
And it's okay for Edwards to have somebody else in his campaign staff impugning the Roman Catholic Church, but a bunch of RAs at some university out on Long Island can't do a video in which they pretend to be hostage takers because that offends Muslims.
Back home in my own area of Milwaukee, we've got a small two-bit college named Carroll College.
It's in Waukeshaw, Wisconsin.
They held earlier this week a Martin Luther King ceremony.
Now Martin Luther King Day was last month, but at Carroll College, I guess they do things a little bit slowly.
They sent out an all-campus email announcing that they'd have the Martin Luther King ceremony.
The email had on it the line, this message is of high importance.
One of the people who received the email is an adjunct professor of French.
He responded to the email with the words, really, give us a break.
They fired him.
The college said he will never teach there again.
As an adjunct professor, that's somebody who's a part-time guy.
He teaches some semesters, other semesters he doesn't.
He isn't teaching right now.
They just say they didn't fire him where he merely told him he's never going to teach here again.
All he did was respond to an email about a Martin Luther King Jr. event with the words, really give us a break.
That's it.
No racial slurs, no attacks on King, no criticism of the event, merely really give us a break.
He has said what he was objecting to was simply the line in the email that said this message is of high importance.
The college says that this was deeply offensive to many on the college community, including many African Americans.
And the college believes that that comment in the email violates the college's acceptable use policy.
So you've now got a professor who was fired for the incredibly vile thing of saying, really give us a break about a Martin Luther King ceremony.
In the meantime, over on the left, John Kerry continues to have on the campaign of a man running for president of the United States someone who's using the term crystal fascists.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
I'm trying to keep up on the Anna Nicole Smith story merely because I feel as though I ought to, in case someone in this hour calls and wants to talk about it.
Shepard Smith is wearing a pink shirt and a pink tie.
Is that now in?
See, I don't keep up on these things.
I'm from Wisconsin.
I'm fairly lucky if I've got a sweater on here.
It's it's fashion week, so he's wearing a pink shirt and a pink tie.
Okay.
Uh if it sounds like I'm demeaning all of you who have an interest in the Anna Nicole Smith story, I'm not.
I'm actually paying a little bit of attention to it.
I paid some attention to the story about the astronaut.
But see where I come from.
If we really want to get into the tabloid stuff, the real story is the battle between Dale Jr. and Teresa for control of Dale Earnhardt Incorporated.
Dale Jr. has said today that he wants controlling interest in the team that he drives for that was founded by his father.
The problem, of course, is that he left the team to his wife Teresa, who is Dale Jr.'s stepmother, and Dale Jr. may leave the team unless he has controlling interest in it.
So that's the kind of tabloid stuff that we want to talk about.
Detroit, Michigan, Robert, you're on Russia's program with Mark Belling.
Hey, how are you doing?
I'm great.
Um my major comment is that uh the Libby problem could probably have been abated somewhere along the line when asked about it.
All uh Bush would have had to do was say, listen, you I can't understand how in the world you can have a crime of lying about something that when you were looking for a crime that didn't say that didn't occur.
The same thing the same thing happened to Martha Stewart.
They had an investigation as to whether or not she was guilty of insider trading.
It turns out she was, and it turns out she wasn't tipped off by her boyfriend about dumping stock in the company, but she wasn't honest about one of the things they asked her about, even though there was no underlying crime.
In the case of Scooter Libby, though, he wasn't even the original target of all of this.
This is simply Fitzgerald running around trying to put everybody under oath, hoping someone somewhere would make a misstatement so he could bring a criminal charge against him so he wouldn't have to crawl back to Chicago saying, you know, they gave me my shot to be a special prosecutor, my shot at the big time, and I came back with a great big zero.
He didn't want to admit there was nothing there.
So the only thing he could find was Scooter Libby said it was Tim Russett, whereas it might have been someone else, so he's turning that into a felony.
It's just wrong.
And Fitzgerald and Fitzgerald was never authorized to be the prosecutor on that case in the first place.
Well, he was named to be the special prosecutor to investigate the CIA leak, and it became this giant grand jury, which is marauding in all directions, and they end up coming up with this charge against Libby based on something that I think at worst is an honest mistake.
He has no motivation for not being truthful about this because he was never the guy that leaked Valerie Plaine's name in the first place.
I President Bush needs to put an end to this if there's a conviction.
It's just wrong that this guy who served his country loyally for so many years is facing this over what?
Over nothing.
In the meantime, Bill Clinton can give our nuclear secrets to China, and that's just fine.
In the meantime, you've got all these other politicians who faced all sorts of problems, and that's all just fine.
The Democrats still have in the House of Representatives Elsie Hastings, that's fine.
But Scooter Libby said it was Tim Russard when it was really somebody else who first told him of a Valerie Plame, even though Scooter Libby himself is not accused of wrongly naming Valerie Plame.
It's a joke of a charge.
And nobody is standing up for Scooter Libby.
It what it does draw attention to is just how clean the Bush administration has been is that this is the best they can find in seven Years of corruption in the Bush administration.
Thank you for the call.
Chicago and Bob.
Bob, it's your turn on Russia's program.
Thanks very much for taking my call.
It's a pleasure to be on.
Thank you.
Um I don't usually call talk show programs, but I heard something yesterday that the Chicago City Council was considering, and it just it just blew me away.
They are considering imposing a new tax to help balance the uh the uh budget imbalance, and the tax is going to be fifty cents for every bullet sold in Cook County.
That is beautiful.
People should be aware Chicago is also the city that is banned foie gras, which is uh stuffed, I think uh goose or duck liver uh from being served in restaurants on the grounds that it's cruel to the ducks and the geese.
They want to have a tax on bullets, huh?
Yeah, this is great.
You know, it's gonna it's gonna uh require well, it's it's probably gonna uh lower the fifty cents a bullet, huh?
The gang members won't be able to afford they won't be able to afford their bullets, so they won't be able to kill other gang members.
It doesn't occur to them that they might just buy their bullets elsewhere.
You know, Chicago actually has a mayor who's not that bad.
He's a Democrat, but he's not bad in Richie Daly.
And every time I see him interviewed when dealing with these stupid ordinances passed by his city council, you can tell he doesn't want to have to talk about it.
They b they've banned smoking in Chicago, he doesn't want to have to talk about that.
He's tried to get them to do get rid of the foie gras, okay, fifty cent tax on bullets.
This is something, by the way, that will spread.
I predict that your city is going to be in the forefront of this.
Thank you for the call.
Sussex County, New Jersey, Lori, you're on Russia's program on Open Line Friday.
Hi, Mark, how are you today?
You're doing a great job.
Thank you.
Um just wanted to make a comment about Anna Nicole Smith.
I'll be your Anna Nicole Smith comment this hour, and that is I had to Google her to figure out who she was when I drove all over the internet yesterday.
You didn't know who she was?
You know, the thing is that when I grocery shop, you know, you you can't magazine.
I have seen the name Anna Nicole Smith on, you know, magazine covers and and never bothered to read the magazine, and I don't know who she is.
So when I saw that she died yesterday, I thought, gee, maybe I should find out who this was.
And you still don't know who she is because she hasn't ever done anything.
That's what I found out.
I googled her and we didn't like that.
She was a playboy playmate and had a baby, you know, and has been married that oh, yeah, that she was the woman who married that rich old guy.
You know, I've heard you know, I remember hearing about that several years back.
And so you did kind of know.
You sort of knew she married the rich old guy, and it was the case that went to the U.S. Supreme Court and all of that stuff.
Once my memory was joded, I mean I didn't remember I couldn't have told you, oh, yeah, she was the one who married that guy.
Once I read it, I was like, oh, yeah, yeah.
I remember hearing something about some young, you know, model who married an older guy.
But I just I laughed because about an hour ago you made a comment that everyone in the country knew who she was, and I'm thinking, well, I didn't really know who she was.
I I'd heard her name before, but I had no idea who she was.
But even after, even though you didn't know who she was, it kind of turns out that you did know who she was.
She's the o the other celebrity that I would compare her to would be Paris Hilton.
I mean, two people who are incredibly well known for no real reason whatsoever, but they've captivated the attention of so many Americans.
I mean, in the end, the Anna Nicole Smith story is sad.
I mean, I think that she I've been struggling throughout the program to come up with something eloquent to say about her.
The closest I came earlier was to say that Bill Clinton really dragged us into this trailer park culture in which anybody's lifestyle was kind of okay and people kind of enjoy watching people like this because it makes them feel as though, well, I'm okay, you're okay.
I I guess the closest thing I can come up with to a comment that has something to offer with regard to Anna Nicole Smith.
When you go to a baseball game or a football game or basketball game, and you watch one of them on TV, you see the camp whenever the camera goes to the crowd, everyone tries to get into the picture.
Anna Nicole Smith was someone who was determined to get into the picture.
She chased the limelight, even though she really didn't have any reason to be in the limelight, other than the fact that in many ways she was a beautiful woman.
And in order to stay in the limelight, she had to make a mockery of her own life.
They did a reality show in which the cameras followed her around being as stupid as the Osborns were.
I didn't know that.
So she well, she cre she created her own persona and she was rewarded every time she made a bad decision in her life because that gave her the thing she most wanted, which was publicity.
So in her great desire to be famous, she got all of that, and in the end, it's probably the thing that killed her.
She received ratification every bad decision that she ever made.
And I'm not going to go so far as to say that we killed Anna Nicole Smith because we didn't.
She is an example, however, of the lust that some people have for personal attention, even if it means making incredibly self-destructive decisions and having a terrible effect on the lives of the people around you.
And that's the closest thing that I can come up with to an intelligent comment on the passing of Anna Nicole Smith.
My name is Mark Belling, and I'm sitting in for Rush.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
It's Friday.
That means on Russia's program, it's open line Friday.
I should probably take a couple of calls, therefore.
Windsor Lock, Connecticut, David, you're on Russia's program.
Hey, good afternoon, Mark.
Thanks for taking my call.
Thank you.
I was just calling because it occurred to me that uh if Luth Libby wanted to get uh real due process in this country, he should simply disclose his Al-Qaeda connections.
Yes.
Yes, the if only Scooter Libby were a terrorist, the left would be screaming about not violating his rights.
If only Scooter Libby were a member of Al-Qaeda, too bad Scooter Libby wasn't down there at Guantanamo, then we would not be tolerating the trumped-up charges against him.
Doesn't that tell you something, though?
That a country that ties the hands of the president of a president who is trying to wiretap conversations with terrorists, he's accused of trampling all over our rights.
But a special prosecutor who conducts a three-year investigation, and the best he can come up with is a public official who may have misnamed who told him something when what he was told was not a violation of the law, that that's deemed to be a felony.
But it does put everything in perspective.
Al Gore yesterday said that the current global warming threat is the first time an action of man has threatened civilization.
Ted Turner, who's a nut, made similar comments.
The rhetoric and the hyperbole on global warming is getting to be so over the top, aside from the still unresolved debate about whether or not we're having real warming,
best we can tell at 0.7 degrees Celsius in the last 100 years, and regardless of whether or not man is contributing to it or causing it, to suggest that we're destroying the planet and the world is going to come to an end.
Why do they have to take it to those levels?
Worst case scenario, we're told that in 100 years, sea levels will rise by two feet over 100 years.
That's the worst case scenario.
But they perceive this as the greatest threat to civilization.
Look at the number of liberals who are far more panicked by global warming than they are by terrorists.
How many people have died of global warming?
How many people are currently threatened by terrorists?
Global warming may or may not, I think may not be an incidental consequence of human activity.
Terrorism is a deliberate attempt to kill people in order to advance a radical religious agenda.
They're attempted to get dirty bobs.
They blew up one of the most famous buildings, the Twin Towers.
They hit the Pentagon of the United States and they tried to take out the Capitol building.
We have a nation Iran that's pursuing nuclear Weapons that's run by a bunch of religious zealots.
Yet you've got a political movement in this country that laughs at those of us who are concerned about that.
Why, well, you're inventing your hyping the threat.
How many times have they accused Bush of for political purposes hyping the terror threat?
They have made it almost impossible for the administration to continue to prosecute individuals who are suspected of terrorism and they don't want us to hold individuals who are known terrorists.
That they laugh at.
But then they tell us that global warming, which has raised the temperature of the world half a degree in 100 years, may wipe out civilization.
Well, what kind of prioritization is that?
That's the way a nut thinks.
In everybody's personal life, we have to decide what the real problems are and what they aren't.
And we all have problems with this.
Sometimes we make a bigger deal in our lives about things that mean nothing.
We go absolutely crazy because the neighbor did this.
Or your child did something that isn't all that bad, but you told him not to do it, and we let things like that drive us crazy.
But then it takes a real crisis in our life.
Someone getting cancer, terrible automobile accident, something really bad happening, marriage breaking up, a real crisis that has profound impact on our lives, and we step back and we realize what is important and what isn't important, and we're crazy for working ourselves into the terrible depressions that a lot of people get into over nothing.
But at least then we're able to step back and see what is important and what isn't.
Look at the left in this country.
They aren't afraid of bin Laden.
They don't perceive a real threat in the Islamist movement that is calling for a jihad against Jews, against Christians, and against anyone who doesn't think the way they think.
But they're terrified to death that some poor Joe driving an SUV is gonna burn the planet up because the temperature has gone up one half degree, 0.7 degrees in the last 100 years.
They haven't even asked the question of since we know that our planet has had changing temperatures as long as it's been a planet, why the temperature right now is the optimum temperature.
What was the optimum temperature 100 years ago?
Was it during the ice age?
How do we know that the temperature right now is the right temperature?
What is the perfect temperature for the planet?
Did the planet have it wrong?
All these other millions of years that they claim that it exists?
But they've determined that right now is the right temperature.
The temperature can't change, it is drastic consequences if the temperature does change, and this is the greatest threat that we face.
How can you take that movement seriously when you talk about who's going to lead the world?
Look at the time and the energy that they are spending on global warming, and then look at how they laugh and mock at the notion of fighting the war on terror.
And you ask yourselves who's got their heads screwed on straight.
My name is Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I was talking about this inability of the left to prioritize what is important and what isn't important.
In their minds, they're against anything that Bush wants to do.
So therefore, anything that Bush is concerned about isn't important, and anything Bush doesn't want to do, well, that is important.
In the end, if you step back and evaluate their actions, they just look silly.
John Kerry is now making an enormous stink about Major League Baseball's decision to take its extra innings package and put it exclusively on Direct TV.
Baseball, like a lot of other sports, has a cable deal where if you pay extra, they'll give you like all the games that are played in a given night and they'll be ten channels of baseball games.
The NBA has the same thing, and so on.
Presently almost every cable system picks this up.
If you've got uh the uh special set cable package, you can get it.
Baseball's cut a deal that they're going to do it exclusively with direct TV.
The Dish Network would be out and all the cable systems will be out, and a lot of baseball fans who enjoy watching ten games in the same night are upset, and John Kerry's making us think about this.
First of all, this is the only way to watch baseball because baseball is so dull that you need ten games going on to find it interesting.
But for John Kerry to intervene on this shows you, I think really how trivial people on the American left have gotten with regard to public policy.
Thank you for listening to me today.
My name is Mark Belling.
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