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February 14, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #2

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	Yes, greetings to you, thrill seekers, music lovers, conversationalists all across the fruited plan, Rushland Ball still ravaged by the common cold virus, and especially rotten strain of the common cold virus.
	But nevertheless, here in the prestigious Attila the Hung Chair at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	Looking forward to talking to you today.
	Telephone number 800-282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIBNet.com.
	This is a pretty good story here, given that this Valentine's Day.
	Excuse me a second.
	Well, you know what?
	Hell with it.
	I'm just going to spray this stuff.
	Zygem Koughmist.
	At any rate.
	The uh the story has to do with vasectomies, which I think is a story that is uh has a place here on Valentine's Day.
	U.S. scientists say that they have determined that vasectomies might place some men at risk for an unusual form of dementia.
	Northwestern University uh researchers discovered men with primary progressive aphasia, which is a neurological disease in which people have trouble recalling and understanding words.
	Now, you know, the longest time women have been waiting for scientific proof that men think with the part of the anatomy other than their brains.
	And if now we've got vasectomy research showing that there is dementia in men, the inability to retain and understand certain words like take out the trash, stop following so closely.
	You never listen to me.
	I mean, if if men are forgetting those words, uh that would it makes makes total sense.
	Of the non-impaired men, uh, 16% had undergone a vasectomy.
	In contrast, 40% of the men with a vasectomy uh with a disease, the lack of understanding of words that had the uh had the surgery.
	And by the way, the professor on this is a woman, psychiatry professor Sandra Weintraub, principal investigator in the study, began investigating a possible link between vasectomies and primary progressive aphasia, when one of her male patients connected the onset of his language problem at age 43 to the period after his vasectomy.
	Uh Wine Traub and her colleagues surveyed 47 men with PPA and 57 men with no impairment.
	And this is where the stats come in.
	40% of the men with PPA, the disease had had the surgery.
	That's a huge difference, so they may be on to something there.
	Uh let's see.
	This is this not fun.
	Now, bodyguard claims he could be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby.
	What is this?
	Number five in the line?
	Well, six, since I put myself in a line yesterday.
	Just for the uh the fun of it.
	And the latest is that uh they wanted to put a hold on the ones to do with the body.
	They asked a California judge to put a 10-day hold on the body.
	Well, no, they said California.
	Well, I was reading the graphic on Fox.
	If they asked a California judge, it might have been a typo.
	I thought that was weird too.
	When it said California judge.
	Anyway, the judge said nope.
	Uh Bank of America has begun offering credit cards to customers without social security numbers.
	Now, who are these people?
	Well, they're typically they are illegal immigrants.
	Uh, this in a Wall Street Journal yesterday.
	In recent years, banks across the fruited plain have been offering checking accounts and even mortgages to the nation's fast-growing ranks of undocumented immigrants, most of whom are Hispanic.
	Uh adding these emigrants generally have not been able to get major credit cards.
	Well, I wonder why.
	You know, I called my credit card company once.
	And I said, I need to get a card in an assumed name in an AKA, also known as.
	They said, no problem as long as you have a social security number for that name.
	Well, I said, how could I?
	It's gonna be a fake name.
	Well, then we can't do it.
	Well, I should have told them I was an illegal immigrant, and then I could have gotten it.
	This is uh for those of you that have any hope that anything's going to be done about this, you can forget it.
	This is like this is like ending entitlements.
	This is like reforming the tax code.
	It isn't going to happen.
	I hate to be a preacher of doom here, but when this stuff starts happening, the new Bank of America card is open to people who lack both a social security number and a credit history as long as they've held a checking account with the bank for three months without an overdraft.
	Bank of America tested a program last year at five branches in LA, and last week expanded it to 51 branches in LA County, home to the largest concentration of illegal immigrants in the country.
	The bank hopes to roll out the program nationally later this year.
	Must be a burgeoning market out there.
	It has to be.
	I mean, if the banks are willing to give credit cards to people without SSNs.
	And New York City's Department of Education says that it will open a public scrule next fall dedicated to Arabic language and culture.
	The Khalil Jibran International Academy is one of 40 new scruels that will debut in the city next September.
	Education officials say that although half the classes at the Scrual will be taught in Arabic, they uh want to enroll a diverse student body, a school set to open in Brooklyn.
	Why are we are we failing the Arabic speaking community in this country in uh public education?
	It must be.
	I don't know, folks.
	Some days I I I when I listen to public officials not figure out why some Muslim immigrant would cut loose in a mall, not being able to understand why it would possibly happen to be scratching their heads about it.
	Some days it just doesn't make sense.
	Yesterday we um, and there are more and more of those days popping up.
	Yesterday we had the story about uh adoption.
	And how uh some group out there, gay and lesbian groups, had ostensibly done research showing that adoptive parents are actually better for kids than their natural parents.
	It didn't say could be, they actually are better.
	And of course, people called here and wanted to start debating this, which I said you're missing the point here.
	You start debating this and you're accepting the premise and think it needs to be debated.
	You have to understand this is total hocum.
	Well, of all places, ABC News has a story here from last night by Gary Langer, who is their director of polling, which debunks this story and two others, the story on naps and spouseless women.
	On stories ranging from the value of naps to the administrations of adoptive parents, it's not been a terrific week for the sober reporting of scientific data.
	Then again, it rarely is.
	Too bad they don't include global warming.
	Speaking of this, Mr. Snertley made a pretty bright observation to me at the top of the hour break, went in there to his office, and we're watching the tube, and all these reporters, as they are wont to do during snowstorms, are standing out there in the snow.
	And Snerdley said, you know, I've been watching this for the last couple days.
	These people actually seem shocked that it's snowing in February.
	They seem shocked that we are having cold temperatures and record cold and record snowfall.
	I said, why would you think they'd be shocked?
	These people have bought hook line and sinker into the global warming model.
	This isn't supposed to be happening.
	Of course they're shocked.
	Then we saw a crawl that went across the screen, deadly snowstorm strikes Northeast.
	And once again, a lack of perspective.
	Do you think, let me just ask you a question.
	In the civilized and the advanced state of life that we in this country experience today and enjoy, do you think the number of weather-related deaths are higher today than they were, oh, say, 75 years ago, 100 years ago, 150 years ago, 200 years ago?
	Of course not.
	But the drive-by media wants you to think that it's never been worse, that weather related deaths are at an all-time high because of global warming or ice or snow or what have you.
	Anybody ever heard of the Donner Party?
	These are the people traversing the uh the Sierra Mountains, Nutton Range, just in the out in Nevada, California, it got so bad, so much snow, so much ice, so much cold, they resorted at cannibalism, and they survivors documented it and so forth.
	And you know, the one reference that could be found to the weather in all of the writings of the Donner Party was it was an unusually cold winter.
	They weren't whining, they weren't moaning, they weren't asking where's FEMA.
	They were just making observations.
	Think about the pilgrims.
	If it hadn't been for the Indians showing them how to start a fire, my gosh, who knows how many of them would have died.
	Think about the pilgrims, the early arrivals, the colonial days, when you've got snow and ice storms like this, and the only source of heat is a fire in your cabin.
	The idea that that uh we have it tough these days.
	Deadly snowstorm, deadly ice storm, deadly heat wave, and so forth.
	And yet the uh the the incidences of weather-related deaths have to be minuscule today compared to uh times gone by, particularly in the in the distant past, and even the not too distant past.
	Now I know what some of you are saying, Rush, what about the 35,000 that died in fan Spain and France during a heat wave a couple of years ago to global warming.
	Yeah, I remembered that.
	Didn't have air conditioning.
	Uh number of problems settled in, but that's probably the kind of thing that happens in a in in a in a less advanced society where there isn't air conditioning, where there isn't places and shelters for these people to go and so forth.
	That's probably a good illustration of what it used to be like every year when there were heat waves, which there were, of course.
	Anyway, I'll I gotta take a break.
	When I come back, I'll get to the uh details on this adoption story as um as explained by Gary Langer, the director of polling at ABC, right after this.
	Hi, welcome back.
	All right, let's get to this adopted uh adoption story yesterday.
	Just to remind you of this and the AP was breathless in reporting this thing.
	It was uh they couldn't wait uh to report the fact that uh a couple of groups, uh, gay and lesbian groups were just ecstatic over research involving a hundred and sixty-one uh uh families, quote unquote, uh, that adopted parents were better for children than their natural parents.
	Uh and there was there was no skepticism.
	This was just a puff piece from front to back.
	So last night um at ABC News.com, Gary Langer, the director of polling, addressed this as today's new bundle of joys a study on adoptive parents published in the American Sociological Review.
	The AP report on this study looks darn newsy.
	Adoptive parents invest more time and financial resources in their children than biological parents.
	What might have been made clearer, of course it should have been made clearer, Gary, but there were not, they're not this is an agenda story.
	They weren't trying to be clear about anything.
	They were advancing a notion here.
	What might have been made clearer is that this is so because adoptive families have higher incomes and more education.
	When the data were controlled for income and education, there is no significant difference between married mom and dad adoptive parents and mom and dad biological parents, both do equally better than other family types.
	Now, the report's basic finding is that compared with being raised by a biological mother and father, being raised by an adoptive mom and dad does not unequivocally constitute a disadvantage in the allocation of resources to young children.
	Now that's not the same thing as saying it is an advantage over being raised by two biological parents, which is the tack the AB story AP story took.
	In fact, the study says that we find the two adoptive parent family structure is remarkably similar to the two biological parent family structure, and that both are better than alternatives.
	The AP report also notes in its lead to the story and discusses at some length the notion that this report is challenging arguments that have been used to oppose same-sex marriage and gay adoption.
	In fact, the study specifies that because there are too few such families to analyze in the data, it's focused only on married male and female couples who adopt.
	So the whole story was bogus, or the vast majority of it was bogus, because there weren't enough families, gay parents, adopted families, to put in the study to control them.
	The whole thing was as we suspected yesterday.
	I told you was why silly to debate this.
	It was an AP agenda story.
	All right, to the phones.
	David in South Bend, Indiana, I appreciate your patience.
	Thank you for waiting.
	Welcome to the EIB network.
	Hey Rush, how are you doing?
	I I was going down the road listening to that this clown that called you and you know, trying to argue with you about troop numbers and all that, it's just incredible.
	I don't think these people seem to understand, and and and I don't know if I mean obviously our news media can't make it clear to anybody.
	We've been fighting Iran for thirty something years.
	You know, the president of Iran was the guy that uh took over the American embassy back in 79.
	That's who we're fighting.
	That's who we've been fighting, and the whole reason he's he's you know got sabers rattling and all that type thing is he's got us on both sides of his country.
	You know, and all this you know, with the Muslims and what have you, it's just it's it's spooky.
	But uh yeah, I was just over there for a year, and I just want to say that you know, the American troops that are over there are doing a fabulous job, and some of the finest American people that this country has to offer, they're putting their lives on the line for people like that to make a phone call is just it's sickening.
	Well, this we know I can imagine how sickening it is.
	It it's frustrating to all of us to listen to that kind of dribble, but you have to understand that it that that that phone call was was taken primarily for its comedic uh value.
	I as to fighting Iran, I have long suspected that this whole thing in Iraq was actually a proxy uh for for dealing with uh with Iran in uh any number of ways, just as the Hezbollah war in in Lebanon with the Israelis as a proxy for uh for Iran.
	And and people the the dangerous thing here, David, is that people in this country, the anti-war types and the uh drive-by media will say, Well, wait, wait, how can you we believe anything you people tell us about Iran?
	You got it all wrong about Iraq.
	You lied about the intelligence or the intelligence was wrong.
	So how can we believe anything you say about Iran?
	And that's why we've got our we're gonna hands tied now.
	But I was gonna say, Rush, you know, speaking of the media, the the thing is that since I have been back, I've had more people come up to me, I mean, just people like in stores or any place I've been, I'll wear a jacket that has, you know, a military emblem on it or something.
	And the first thing they ask me is, is are we winning over there?
	And is the news media telling us the truth?
	And I say, we're winning, and the news media is not telling you the truth.
	And they go, that's what we thought.
	And I mean, it's amazing how many people say that.
	They do not believe the meet the news media.
	As far as they're concerned, CNN, Al Javier are the same thing.
	And when I'm sitting back here in the States watching this stuff, it is incredible to me.
	I read a book just before we deployed called Militant Tricks, and it's incredible how when you look at the television today and they blow up a cafe in Baghdad, how people think the entire country looks like that.
	I was there for a year, it does not look like that.
	I sat through briefings, we were attached to the first Marine Division, and we are clearly winning, and it's just any of this, you know, all this type stuff about whether or not Iran is supplying, you know, the the IEDs and stuff, but we have briefings every single day.
	They know where this stuff is coming from.
	We know who's supplying these type of IEs.
	Right.
	Well, let me let me let me give you the scope of the problem, though.
	The scope of the problem is that uh for four years.
	See, back in the Vietnam days, Walter Cronkite was able to uh end the Vietnam War with one broadcast.
	It's taken the drive-by media this time about three years, three and a half years, of never-ending daily assaults uh on the American people with televised newscasts featuring pictures such as you just described, a burning car representing the entire country of Iraq.
	Uh there are more people than you know in this country who do not get news from anywhere but the 630 and 7 o'clock newscasts.
	Most of them are middle-aged and up, and that's all they watch.
	They don't watch cable, they don't read newspapers, that's all they watch, and that's what they believe.
	And so the the polls in this country uh you can't discount them.
	Uh the the the The polls, they ought to be what they are, given the never ending assault on the census that the drive-by news reports for the past three and a half years have been.
	And look, I'm gonna tell you something.
	When the president will not criticize the media for misrepresenting the facts and so forth, uh it it's for whatever his personal reasons are, professional reasons, it makes it all the more difficult for stories like yours told Calvert countless times they've been told on shows like this,
	uh to permeate the public mind because there are no pictures associated with uh with your words, and they've been bombarded for three and a half years with pictures to the other effect.
	Back in just a sec.
	Here we are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
	Rush Limbaugh, the prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies to Riverside, California.
	This is Randy.
	I'm glad you waited, sir.
	Welcome to the program.
	Hi, Rush, mega conservative, 37-year-old Ditto's.
	Perfect demographic information for us here.
	Great to have you on the program.
	Hey, Ed, a comment about something you're talking about a little bit earlier as you were speaking on the Valentines, and you almost sounded bless your heart, a little bit disenchanted with the Valentine experience.
	Really?
	Um yeah.
	I mean, uh, when you were mentioning about sometimes uh us men uh kind of discharging our dutiful obligations to our uh would-be sweeties or wives or uh significant others, and uh all three.
	And that's something actually the whole concept actually of dutiful obligation really doesn't coincide, I think, with uh the whole relationship of love.
	And take for example, if I were to come home today at the end of the day, and uh I got uh a bouquet of flowers and a beautiful card for my wife, and I come home and I walk in the door, and she says, Wow, look at this, look at you.
	And uh I said, I've also got dinner reservation set up for us at uh say something like Ruth Chris Dake House.
	That'd be fine and dandy, but but looking at But if she were to ask me, Randy, why is it that you have done this?
	And if I gave the answer because it was my my duty.
	Uh that I'd be in a doghouse, definitely.
	No, no, no, no.
	You're missing I I am not disenchanted with the Valentine's experience, as you say.
	Okay.
	But using using your scenario, um, if I if I heard you right, those are your gifts to your wife or her gifts to you.
	Those are my gifts to her.
	Come home.
	Okay, so she says, Randy, why are you doing she's not gonna say Randy why you're doing it, because she's expecting it, because it's Valentine's Day.
	And that's why the reason why she's expecting there is no spontaneity here.
	It's all perfunctory.
	It's all no, no, no, no, no.
	Then that's the thing because it it's not that it's a very good thing.
	Well then why didn't you do it yesterday?
	Why didn't you do it yesterday?
	Because because that's the thing.
	Because for her, today is a special unique day.
	And because that's important to her, for it's like you know, celebrating someone's birthday or something like that.
	All right.
	So it's an Valentine's Day is important to her.
	And it is important to me too, but because it's got that special I mean, we call these things holidays, for example.
	It's because it's it's particular recognition on that day for that idea or the concept.
	And because uh of that level of importance, because it's important to her, nothing makes me happier than on that day.
	I mean, for her, for example, for her birthday, birthday isn't a f a day for her.
	For her, the birthday is a week long.
	Yeah, I've been there and done that.
	Uh right.
	So, you know, but but but that's where the joy comes from relationally.
	Like I love her like that.
	I do and uh Valentine's.
	Look at that's that that's fine.
	You're you're you're you've fallen a trap, you don't even know it, and ignorance is bliss.
	You're having a wonderful time out there, and that's cool.
	I I'm not trying to destroy anybody's good time.
	I'm just looking, I'm I know.
	I'm not a conventional wisdom do it because everybody else does it kind of guy.
	Oh, definitely not either.
	Uh I I saw the spontaneity as well.
	Uh when we go out.
	I mean, for example, we've got like a weekly date night kind of a thing.
	And that's something that's tentatively kind of scheduled, but it's not.
	Come on, but I just want to tell you something, Randy.
	Two days from now, this is when on Friday night, do the same thing.
	And don't, because she won't be expecting it, and see what you get.
	Oh, definitely.
	No, don't say definitely, do it.
	Okay.
	Just do it out of the out of the clear blue, out of clear blue, and just see, just compare the reactions.
	That's all I'm telling you.
	Okay.
	Can I send you a bill?
	You see that guy.
	Ha, ha, ha.
	Bye.
	No.
	This is part of expressing your love and adoration.
	I understand.
	But just good, it's been a pleasure, Rush.
	All right, thanks, Randy, for the call.
	I appreciate it.
	Uh uh Ramesh in Houston.
	You're next on the EIB network.
	Hello.
	Uh Megaditto's Rush.
	As a former member of uh blame the right wing conspiracy when my skull was still full of mush.
	I'm proud to say I'm recovering and uh been put on the right path thanks to thanks to the EIB network.
	Well, great, I appreciate that.
	Welcome home.
	Sir, I'm calling in regards to something I saw last night on CNN.com, as even before I got into the EIB network, I found myself disenchanted with the media so much to the fact that I don't even own a television anymore, and I get all my news off the internet.
	And I saw a report by a gentleman.
	Well, actually, let me preface this by saying the AP was constantly flooding uh news sites about how Mookie Sauter fled.
	And I was like, wow, they're actually using positive words that might reflect well on the Bush administration.
	This can't last more than six hours.
	And then sure enough, round around midnight last night, CNN comes on with their wonderful Michael Weir, who likes to show videos of G.I. is getting sniped at.
	Yeah, we've got the sound bites here.
	And people you people have to hear this.
	Uh Ramesh.
	Thanks, thanks for the phone call.
	This is Anderson Cooper 45.
	Uh, the fill-in host last night was John Roberts.
	And he's speaking uh with Michael Ware, who is the CNN uh quote unquote correspondent in Iraq.
	And uh John Roberts says senior White House officials say that Muki Al-Sadr has fled to Iran out of fear for his safety because of the coming troop buildup.
	Any idea where Mukhtadah Al-Sadr is, Mr. Ware?
	This is the same White House that thought there was weapons of mass destruction here in Iraq, and who, until recently were telling us things were going well in the war in Iraq.
	So what we've heard from the White House and the reality on the ground here in Iraq are often two different things.
	He travels frequently, and often that is to Iran.
	There's plenty of reasons for him to go there.
	So has he left or has he fled?
	We woke up, a member of Parliament from his political faction, a spokesman, that gentleman said that Mukhtada is still here.
	So CNN will accept the word of the enemy rather than the word of his own government.
	Of course.
	What's new about that?
	But here you have CNN relentlessly spinning for the enemy, shooting down reports that Al-Sadr has fled Iraq.
	By the way, this was who I originally saw this as an ABC report.
	Uh in the uh in the second bite we have on this, John Roberts says, Well, hey, look, Michael, if he did leave, would it have any impact at all?
	At the end of the day, tactically, operationally, it would amount to diddly squat.
	Mukada will be able to direct his militia and political forces from anywhere he wants to.
	So the enemy can do no wrong.
	The enemy is all powerful.
	Bush lies, the American government lies, the military lies.
	We only get the truth, what's happening in Iraq from the uh enemy.
	There you have it.
	CNN.
	Uh thanks so much.
	We can always count on you.
	You heard about the tape from Amon Al Zawahiri.
	I I uh I know this this came out uh uh early in the week, and I wasn't here on Monday, and this thing hit on Sunday, I believe it was.
	But there's the most amazing passage in this thing.
	Um he spoke directly to Democrats in the United States Congress.
	And here's what he said.
	As for the Democrats in America, I tell them.
	The people chose you due to your opposition to Bush's policy in Iraq.
	But it appears that you were marching with him to the same abyss.
	And it appears that you will take part with him in the defeat and certain failure with God's permission.
	And the American people shall discover that you are all one side of the same coin of tyranny, criminality, and failure.
	That failure which, by the grace of God, has neutralized the endeavors of the traitors who entered Kabul and Baghdad on the backs of American tanks and has dashed their hopes as they see the Mujahideen come closer and closer to victory, which has led them to urgently appeal to America for help and implore it to continue to occupy their lands and raise the banners of the cross over their heads.
	Now is it just me?
	I have been commenting on this ever since prior to the election last November.
	Here you have number two to Osama, who I'm not even convinced is still alive, Eamon al-Zawahiri telling the Democrats that they are failing in their mission, in their promises.
	In the campaign prior to the 2006 November elections.
	This guy is suggesting that they promised to do exactly what Al-Qaeda wanted, and now they're not doing it.
	Now, probably some of these weird moon bats from the Democrat kook base probably think Zawahiri's right on the money.
	They think the Democrats aren't being gutsy enough with these non-binding resolutions and so forth.
	But does it strike, and I'm talking to those of you moderates out there, I know that the people in this audience who are rock ribbed conservatives right along with me are appalled by this.
	But those of you who are moderates, and I know you're out there, you lurk.
	You don't want anybody to know you're there, but we know you're there, and you know who you are.
	Does it not trouble you at all that the enemy of this country so often sounds policy-wise identical to the Democrat Party, and that their objectives, i.e.
	the defeat of the United States, are inseparable?
	Does it did it ever stop?
	Do you ever this ever occur to you?
	I really wonder.
	Uh and judging by the last, you know, last year's elections, you don't know.
	It's tough to ascertain.
	Be back in just a sec.
	Hi, how are you?
	Welcome back.
	L. Rush Ball, your guiding light, and living legend.
	All combined as one harmless lovable little fuzzball.
	Steve in Minneapolis, your next.
	Great to have you on the EIB network.
	Hello, sir.
	Hello, hey, uh Mega Ditto alternate universe Ditto there, huh?
	Thank you, sir.
	Have you with us?
	Uh yeah, I just wanted to point out that uh this kid, this Muslim kid who did this killing.
	Uh they don't want to talk about his religion, and when Ellison ran for office up here, they certainly didn't want to talk about his religion.
	But they're just beating Mitt Rod and right with this Muslim thing.
	What do you think?
	Oh, I think the uh there's that that's pretty good observation.
	They're doing everything they can.
	In fact, it's laughable.
	It's it's it's comical.
	Uh in fact, I'm going to take the occasion here to break my silence on something.
	This, because this this uh uh well, I've been sworn to secrecy until it was going to air, and I can tell you about it.
	Uh but this this notion of of looking long and hard, trying to find out what could have caused this young man to do this right in front of everybody's face, and they refuse to see it.
	Because everybody's afraid to be accused of racism or profiling or what have you.
	And yet, Mitt Romney announcing himself for president of the United States, while where he came from and what his religion's all about, why he we can we can give him a media anal exam over all of that.
	We can try to discredit him left and right for it.
	It's it's outrageous.
	Now, folks, let me tell you what I've been I've been uh curious or eager to tell you for the past number of weeks.
	I have uh just a second.
	Excuse me, I have recently mentioned to you I've been out to Los Angeles and taping some uh uh skits for an upcoming television show.
	And the show is called a half hour news hour, and it is produced by Joel Cerno, who is the creator, co-creator, and executive producer of 24.
	It's comedy show, and it is a takeoff on uh on liberal news these days.
	It's a 30-minute show, and the Fox News channel has bought two of them.
	Essentially, these are pilots.
	These are uh these are programs designed to see if they work.
	Uh after which, if they do, then the big time budget flows and and uh the shows get produced for real.
	So they got two test runs coming up.
	The first one is Saturday night, uh I'm sorry, Sunday night at 10 o'clock after Sean Hannity's new one hour show.
	And in these episodes, uh I open each show in a skit as the president of the United States.
	Uh and Ann Coulter is the vice president of the United States in each of these skits.
	Now they're only we went out and did uh three of these.
	Uh only two of the programs have actually been produced yet.
	And as I say, the first one airs on Sunday night at uh at ten o'clock.
	Now the the Fireside Chat, I did a I did a version of a Fireside Chat skit that uh would have opened the third show had it uh had it run.
	Um and actually, no, that that I take it back.
	The Fireside Chat skit does run in episode two.
	Uh Fires and and they're gonna put that on YouTube this afternoon, is what I'm told, uh, for people to get a look at.
	And I'm not I'm not sure I'm not that versed in YouTube.
	I don't know how to find things.
	If you just look under half hour news hour, you can either use the um the acronym one-two for half or spell it out half hour news hour.
	Uh sometime this afternoon is going up, and you can get a uh uh a heads up.
	That's in episode two.
	But uh these are this is uh if if you some of you old enough to remember that was the week that was the old David Frost show from back in the sixties, that was a satire on the news.
	This is somewhat like that.
	It looks like the Daily Show, and it's a takeoff on the Daily Show, and it uh it's it's it's basically satire.
	Now, some of the reviews, I've been reading some of the reviews and TV guide, as is typical, the left is so predictable when they review conservative comedy.
	They say it's mean spirited.
	It takes swipes at people.
	As though left wing humor does not take swipes at people.
	But that's not what this show does.
	This show takes swipes at hysteria.
	It takes swipes at the silliness of the hysteria of global warming, or the serious the the silliness of people actually idolizing Shay Guevara, a mass murderer.
	And in one of the in the in the second episode, as it relates to this last caller, they do a brilliant satire on the uh on the London sat the London uh uh uh terrorist bombing that was thwarted with the eight or nine uh Muslim gentlemen suspects involved, and they've got this pointy-headed, worthless intellectual expert from some Washington think tank, who is an expert on terrorism.
	Uh and uh they have this guest, and they it's a female and a male anchor of news, is the the f the focus of the show, and they interview this guy and they mention all of their names, eight Muslim names in a row, bam, bam, bam, bam, and nobody can get the link.
	Nobody can figure out what these eight suspects have in common.
	It's identical to what's happening in any instance, uh be it with the the mall shooter out in Utah, Salt Lake City, or wherever else.
	Uh it's uh it's these are these are pretty funny shows, and I was I was thrilled to be asked to do these little opening skits uh uh in them.
	It's hard work doing this stuff.
	I told you we're out there for eight hours in the studio to do three of these things.
	Uh but uh they look good and the first one airs Sunday night.
	I'll be talking about it more and more, but the the key is that it needs an oil, and I'm gonna be blatant here.
	You know, normally I sit here and just tell these things to you, and if you find these programs or these books or these things I recommend finding dandy, but uh in order for this show to have a success uh chance at success, for these two pilots to be picked up and actually made into a regular series uh with with some substantive production values and so forth, they needs an audience.
	They need an I think the first one, oh I know the first one's Sunday night at ten o'clock Eastern on the Fox News channel, and the second one, I don't know if it's the following week or not.
	I'm gonna have to get clarification on that because I've seen two conflicting dates, but I do know the first one airs uh Sunday night at ten, and the fireside chat version in the second episode of Me as President will be on YouTube sometime this afternoon.
	Back in just a second.
	Okay, two big hours, two big, busy broadcast hours are down.
	One more, and I, your highly trained broadcast specialist, am raring and ready for it.

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