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Feb. 15, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 15, 2007, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversational assault across the fruited plain.
It's the fastest week in media.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program already at Thursday.
It is Thursday, isn't it?
I've been going to bed at four o'clock every afternoon and time zipping by.
Feeling a little bit better is slowly progressing.
Back to the all-clear stage.
After suffering the ravages of the deep common cold virus.
Looking forward to talking to you today, folks.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882 and the email address rush at EIB net.com.
One of the one of the darkest days in the history of the House of Representatives is slated for tomorrow.
This is where they're going to vote on this non-binding resolution.
And the slow bleed process to take the president out of actually the process here is to eliminate his isolate him politically and to limit his ability to maneuver is similar to what happened with the uh Democrats in the Congress during the Vietnam War with Nixon.
They actually never did cut off funding for Nixon, but they did tell him where he couldn't send troops.
And it eventually it led to a debacle.
And the same thing is is being planned here by people that are calling themselves courageous.
People who are telling themselves and their audiences that they are acting in the best interests of the country.
But I tell you, there is there's not there's no soundbite.
There's no torturously crafted statement.
There is no skillful twist of logic, no lawyerly proclamation, no media spin whatsoever that will turn the House vote tomorrow, this non-binding resolution, into anything but a disgrace of historic proportion.
The only positive here in the uh the these debates is that the House is showing they have the courage to show they have none.
They are demonstrating for each and every one of us that they have all the courage in the world to show that they have no courage whatsoever.
Do you know what courage would be here?
Courage would be going against the polls and supporting the mission.
Courage would be going with the poles and cutting off funds.
That's neither of these options are on the table for these people because they don't have the courage to do either of those things.
All they have is the courage to say, we support the troops, Mithra Limbaugh, we support the truth.
And that, my friends, is not support.
It is the guidance of political consultants who tell them what to say.
But what message are they sending to our troops?
What message are they sending to the enemy?
What message are they sending to Pelosi's children and grandchildren?
Speaker Pelosi, uh Congressman Hoyer and Mertha.
You might be conning the moderates out there, no doubt you are.
But you know you're not fooling the left.
Your rag tag mob out there who want immediate withdrawal, and you're not you're not fooling the right who want uh who want victory.
This historic BS, this historic Barbara Streisand will have little effect now, but um it'll put you in the record books for arranging one of the darkest days in the history of the House of Representatives.
And this is excuse me, I still have the hacking coughs here, and I'm not I'm not gonna take any cough medicine, because I don't care what it's if it says non-drowsy on it, it makes me drowsy.
So I'm gonna sit here and have to endure this stuff, which means the cough button's gonna be used a lot, like right now.
We've been gut this up for three hours, and I can take the cough medicine at three o'clock Eastern time.
At any rate, I want to share with you an email I got today, and you've you've heard me uh uh uh read emails from this soldier, uh, this airman in the past.
This is the guy who ran the uh the control tower at Baghdad International Airport.
Ended up, he and his boys ended up throwing a faulty French refrigerator off the top shelf of the control tower.
Says, hey Rush, I'm scratching my head here.
None of this makes any sense.
The national news media show lots of our American servicemen and women dying over there in Iraq and getting killed, helicopters being shot down, roadside bombs going off, et cetera, et cetera.
Yet when you're there, when you work with the Americans and Iraqis who are actively engaged in rebuilding the country, who are out going after the enemy, there's this ever present sense of optimism, this prevailing upbeat mood of doing good.
Just go talk to the wounded servicemen at Brooks or Bethesda.
And I have, he's right, and they'll tell you the same.
Likewise, the Iraqi civilians that I work with were more excited about their economic prospects.
They were eager for their families to experience a better life than the life they had under a totalitarian regime.
There's an upbeat mood out there in Iraq rush.
The country and its new democracy are moving forward and the enemy hates it.
On the subject of civil war or civil strife in Iraq, from what we can tell, there's no civil war or civil strife as the news media puts it.
The terrorists are coming from outside the country and killing civilians, as many as possible, in order to gain a foothold in Iraq.
And they play this stuff on TV to make us sick, and it's working.
We are getting sick.
But Iraq is getting strong.
If there really is civil strife in the country, then why don't we hear statements in the news about Shia leaders taking responsibility for Sunni killings and vice versa?
Well, this is why, because they aren't doing that rush.
That's why we never hear news reports from the so-called civil strife combatants themselves, because there aren't any.
The Iraqis are trying to build up their country and make it work.
Meanwhile, the enemy comes and kills everybody they can, and they run away from the scene or die in the blast themselves.
One more thought, and I hate doing math, but think about this rush.
There's anywhere from 500 to 1,000 road vehicle convoys per day, 500 to 1,000 road vehicle convoys per day in the country of Iraq.
One or three of these vehicle convoys at most get hit by an IED each day, which destroys maybe one or two vehicles.
Most convoys have anywhere from twenty to one hundred vehicles.
Now, what are your odds of being tagged by an IED with these numbers?
In summary, Rush, I remain confused, amazed, dumbfounded by the news media view of the war, and yet Americans are buying it.
Why?
How can we believe only one side of the story without seeing the whole picture?
The whole story, as it unfolds, does anyone really know, other than those who are there what's really happening in Iraq?
Is there any chance of getting any of this news reporting being done right?
America is doing good things over there.
Our troops are awesome.
They are an inspiration, a model of courage and of selfless patriotism.
Why don't people back home trust them?
Megadiddles rush very respectfully Taz.
Well, how would you people answer his questions?
Why why why do the people here distrust the troops, don't see what's going on as a positive.
I I wrote him back.
I'll I'll just fire point blank, tell you what I told him.
Taz, back in the old days, Walter Cronkite was able to kill the Vietnam War in one newscast.
The drive-by media is not nearly as powerful, but they still have power.
And for many Americans in this country, and this is a shock even still to me, but for many Americans, millions, they only get their news in 30-minute doses from the 6 30 nightly newscasts on the networks.
That's it.
They don't watch cable, they don't listen to radio, they just they're out, you know, playing bingo, croquet, whatever they're doing, shuffleboard during the day, and then they get in and start, you know, having the um drink the stuff that keeps the bowels moving and start watching Brian Williams.
And that's it.
That's all they get.
And after three and a half years of a steady drumbeat, of failure, destruction, death, body counts, and so forth, it's totally understandable why people would think all has been lost and all is going to hell in a handbasket over there.
Simple human nature.
There's another side to this too.
And that is we can read all these emails that we get from soldiers in Iraq, like I just read to you from Taz, who tell us what they see.
But if there's nobody in this country who is willing to tell this story from a position of leadership, then these guys can sit there and write these emails all day long.
The simple fact of the matter is that if the news in Iraq is good, we need to hear it from the upper echelons of the administration.
We need to hear it in a way that is robust.
We need to hear it in a way that is inspirational and motivating.
And we don't.
And so since we don't hear, when and and when these press conferences uh all we hear, yes, it's tough and it's gonna get tougher and things haven't gone well and so forth.
Taz, I hate to tell you, but uh uh when when the when the civvies over here are not spreading the word as you feel it and see it in Iraq, you're beating your head against the wall.
It's frustrating.
And then when you've got the Congress, so the House of Representatives, particularly led by the Democrats and Nancy Nancy Pelosi doing their level best to achieve defeat, invested in defeat.
Uh I can't imagine how frustrating it is for you guys, because I know how frustrating it is for me, an average ordinary American civilian.
But all this stuff going on and the troops in the field, both in Afghanistan and Iraq watching all this.
Uh I've I don't know why you guys haven't thrown your guns away and said the hell with this.
What's this for?
By now already.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
People requesting that I post uh Taz's uh email I just read at uh website Rush Limbaugh.com.
I just uh sent a copy of the email up to Coco, the webmaster will get it posted at Rushlinbaugh.com ASAP.
Um there there's something there's something else here, folks, that's that's also troubling about this.
This is the New York Times.
So we have to question it, but it's probably true.
Excuse me here just a second.
Twelve Republicans arrived in the uh House chamber yesterday to set aside their party allegiances and lend their names to a resolution intended to rebuke President Bush for his Iraq policy.
Representative Howard Koble of North Carolina said that Iraqis had their chance at freedom, but they chose civil war.
Representative Stephen C. Lotarette of Ohio argued that troop buildup was a tactic that had already failed.
Representative John J. Duncan Jr., Tennessee suggested that military contractors had profited mightily at the expense of the American treasury.
These are Republicans joining Democrats in the resolution tomorrow, a total of uh of twelve of them breaking ranks here.
Uh it's it's unbelievable.
And it's it's there there's you know, there's so many answers to the uh to the question that Taz asked me.
Uh, why is this happening?
One of the one of the one of the greatest well, in fact, let me th I can I can help answer this by using this call here as a springboarder transition.
This is Rip in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Rip, I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi Rush, good to talk to you.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, well, I think the problem we're having is that even when we get even if there is any good news out of Iraq, and I've always been against the Iraq war, I should put that up front.
I'm a libertarian.
But even if there is any good news, I think when it comes from higher ups in Washington, now we have a real credibility issue.
Just like when Clinton lied about how I did not have sexual relations with that woman, you know, we can't believe a word he said after that.
And I think you know, they drummed up this war.
You know, now we're seeing that uh the facts were manipulated to uh to give us a reason to go over to Iraq.
They that we really didn't have to prove.
Let's let's stick with the your theme.
Excuse me.
Let's stick with your theme of uh uh fact that Bush has no credibility.
Uh one little aside on Clinton, uh uh, even after he lied, the liberals and the media continued to believe him.
They didn't hold that against him.
I mean, even though he's lied on wrong, right.
Bush doesn't lie, and that's all his reputation is.
Bush may be a number of things.
He may not be the best Spoken president, he may not appear to be the brightest, uh, but he doesn't lie, and yet everybody thinks he does.
Now, this is key.
You talk about credibility.
Why does Bush have no credibility?
It goes beyond Bush having no credibility.
This is the greatest the great danger here is that the military doesn't have credibility.
As an institution, it is in the process of being destroyed by the left, by the Democrats, and by the drive-by media.
Even to this day, there was a there was an article in uh in New Yorker magazine, New Yorker magazine by Jane Mayer.
And I spoke to Jane Mayer for this story because I was asked to.
It's a story about torture in 24, the TV show 24.
And this is uh uh there's a a whole bunch of different approaches that Jane Mayer takes, but basically she went out and she found people in the U.S. military who are saying, 24, stop the torture because you're making U.S. soldiers think it's okay to do.
I I could not believe this when I read this stuff.
As an aside, I told the friends at 24, don't do this.
This is this is a woman that tried to destroy Clarence Thomas with uh with Jill Abramson, who's the D.C. Bureau chief of the of the New York Times.
That it was too late.
We've gotten to the point now where a television show is being used to destroy the U.S. military, folks.
A television show.
We've had Abu Ghraib, we've had Club Gitmo.
There is an all-out assault on the U.S. military.
Forget the president.
We now are in a living in a world where I don't know what percentage of the population of this country thinks the U.S. military is indeed the focus evil of evil in the modern world.
Now, the many of the American left have always thought that, and they've despised the military, and they have darn it.
They've done everything they can to discredit it over the years, but it is it has it has just gotten uh magnified and worse, and now the U.S. military is nothing but a bunch of rapists, predators, murderers.
Uh we get emails like we get here from soldiers and airmen like Taz who don't understand why the American people don't understand the good work they're doing.
Taz, it's far worse than you realize.
I mean, there's a good decent size of this population that still has a tremendous love and respect for the military, and I think it's still the majority, but the the number of people who have a distrust and an and an a building dislike and bordering on hatred from the military is stunning as well.
That number is stunning, and it's not an accident, and it has nothing to do with what the military has or hasn't done.
It has to do with the image that's being created by the American left and the drive-by media.
I mean, to the point of taking a television show, this is a long piece in the New Yorker magazine.
And it is it is replete with some of the most ridiculous stuff that uh I have I have ever seen.
Uh it and and so the military is nothing more than a bunch of torturers, uh cheaters.
I mean, it's it's it's it's incredible.
So when you talk about the problem here with the war in Iraq is Bush's credibility, it goes far farther than that.
And I to the extent that the president is involved in this, you know, you can have all the commentators in the world, like me and uh and others singing the praises of various things, be it individuals or the military or what have you.
But folks, we're no match for a nationwide left-wing media, both national and local, which is willing to destroy every institution and tradition which has defined this country's greatness in the past, if at the top you don't get similar rebuts.
If if if if the administration uh if if this is hard to say, but I mean if if if you if if if there are positive stories to be told, if there's good news to be told, uh uh it it it's it's gotta come.
And the chief executive has to be willing to engage his opponents rather than embrace them.
Rather than meet them Halfway, especially when it comes to preserving the institution of the military, and especially when we're at war, a war he considers serious.
The war against terror, people that want to destroy our way of life.
Where's the compromise here with people who wanted to invest in defeat?
I don't understand where why you have to be bipartisan when it comes to victory and defeat.
Where in the world is there as middle ground on victory and defeat when you're talking about the country and the U.S. military, the left versus the right in this country.
We must get along, Mr. Limbaugh.
We must compromise partisanship is ripping the country apart.
Left wing is a liberalism is ripping the country apart.
And you libertarians out there, God love you, but it's time you took a stand here.
Sit there and have all these lofty opinions of you moderates too.
It's about time you took a stand and understand what is what is uh really at stake here and what's happening.
Because we're only talking about the future of the country.
Anyway, I gotta take a break.
We'll be back here in just a second.
Stay with us.
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All right, I just give you an example of something here.
This 24 story in the New Yorker by Jane Mayer starts out innocently enough with who Joel Cerno is and is a conservative and so forth, and that's all, you know, that's a crime too, to be a conservative in Hollywood.
You gotta raise the red flags over that.
Uh and then, and then slowly, when Jane interviewed me, and I I knew what I was in for here, by the way, I've been there done that.
Uh, started off innocently enough.
Oh, tell me about your friendship with Joel and how did it start?
And uh she wasn't taking any notes.
She was at the mall with her kids.
Uh, and uh after about 15 minutes, what about the what about the torture?
You know, the ACLU and so forth.
And I said, you know, you you guys are are you're just not a mission here, aren't you?
You're gonna try to discredit this television show.
You're this whole thing, this whole New Yorker story is nothing more than a continuation of the Abu Grab, Guantanamo Bay Club Gitmo, discredit the U.S. military, shame this country over torture, as though it's commonplace, as though it is common practice, as though that's what defines the U.S. military.
Incumbent or inherent in this, and I I have to tell you, inherent in this, is some of the most righteous indignation among some of the most ignorant people about what happens in war.
Uh the the idea that it is as it is war is as high brow and as clean cut as a bridge game at the Harvard Club.
Spare me.
And these people who are writing all this in this outraged, uh, righteous indignation over torture haven't the slightest idea.
What is at stake on the battlefield with this particular enemy?
And we never, we never hear about the torture they inflict.
We never hear about the atrocities that the enemy, in hell, when the enemy commits atrocities, somehow we are responsible for it.
We get blamed for it.
Either through profiling or we're too big of a superpower, or what have you.
Anyway, this story has in the New Yorker has now triggered all kinds, this is the way it works in a drive-by media.
Now triggered all kinds of supplemental stories elsewhere in the drive-by media, such as this.
This is CNN, the situation room with the Wolf Blitzer last night, talking to the uh info babe Carol Costello about 24.
And Wolf Blitzer says, and by the way, folks, I want you get the wrong idea.
I'm not that we're not defending the TV show 24 here.
We're not even talking about it.
We're talking about the attempt to destroy an institution that has kept this country safe, the U.S. military.
That's what's happening here.
This is just the vehicle that the latest vehicle being employed.
So Wolf says to Carol Costello, it's a hit American TV series seen around the world, and critics say it may be encouraging U.S. troops and others to engage in torture.
I haven't heard anything more ridiculous.
Now, I the the the New Yorker story asserts this.
And they gone out and they've got quotes from people that Say this.
But up for I I have to tell you this is so ridiculous, it's so patently absurd that highly trained and disciplined members of the U.S. military are getting ideas from a television show.
Where do you think the television show gets its ideas?
You think these guys in Hollywood are making this up out of their heads?
Some of them do, but they have manuals.
They've got they've had conversations with people.
This is also in the story in New Yorker.
They've consulted experts on this.
Do you you think the U.S. military doesn't know about torture?
Do you think they have to get ideas from it from a television show?
So you got a twofer here.
You you you uh you get to try to destroy the U.S. military and a television show at the same time.
So anyway.
Wolf says it's a hit American TV series seen around the world.
Critics say it may be encouraging U.S. troops and others to engage in torture.
Uh here's a montage.
Excuse me, folks, I'm not taking cough medicine today because it zones me out.
I don't care if it says non-drowsy or not, it does.
Here's a montage of Costello's report, and you'll hear a voice here of a terror analyst by the name of Ken Robinson.
You know, it's hard to wrap your mind around this one, a TV show influencing professional soldiers, but there are some who say it is, and it's dangerous.
An advisory to our viewers.
Although Twenty-Four is a fictional TV show, the images from the program we're including in this report, well, some of them might disturb you.
Oh, come on.
Torture as a tool.
It's used often and effectively in the Fox TV counter-terrorism drama 24.
24's good guy torturing his own brother.
Jack Bauer, the tough, sensitive undercover operative, justifies his.
Stop the tape a second.
His own brother in the TV show happens to be working with people blowing up nuclear bombs in the country.
The whole premise of this show is the ticking time bomb scenario.
It's a television show, Carol!
What a dip bleep you are.
It's a TV show.
It's got a scenario that ticking time bombs.
His brother.
This is absurd.
This is it's oh, they've never heard of this show before.
Jack Bauer may as well be Superman.
He may also be Steve Canyon.
You know, he may as well.
Why don't you go gripe up what's what Superman does or Batman does in some of these movies?
Look at what Batman did to the Joker, Jack Nicholson.
Come on, you want to talk about torture?
This is absurd.
Play the rest of the street.
To save America from Islamic extremists who have just detonated a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles.
That the fictional hero would torture is disturbing to human rights first.
It worries American soldiers want to be like Jack.
And while that sounds far-fetched, Ken Robinson, a national security analyst who served in special operations units, including the CIA, says 24 is becoming a problem.
The United States military is concerned about it because they've started receiving evidence that soldiers in the field have been impacted by it downrange in Iraq.
Utilizing uh techniques which they've seen on 24 and then taking them into an environment in the interrogation booth.
The general from West Point went to meet with 24's to get the show to depict torture in a more realistic way.
To show the audience such tactics often don't work, are against the Geneva Convention and hence have consequences.
We did hear from the Department of Defense, in fact it sent us this statement.
It says our policy is to treat detainees humanely.
Our men and women who handled detainee operations are professionals, and they understand the difference between a TV show and reality.
Yeah, well, that should have been the focal point of your story instead of this Ken Robinson guy.
The U.S. military is concerned about it.
They've started receiving evidence that soldiers in the field have been impacted by it downrange.
utilizing techniques they've seen on 24, taking them into an environment, into the interrogation booth.
Sigh.
Anyway, uh the the whole the whole point of this is uh if you missed the first part of the show, I'm bouncing off a letter, an email we got from a soldier, an airman in Iraq who doesn't understand, he thinks there's great news going on over there, don't understand why nobody knows it, why all these people are losing faith and so forth, and I'm trying to give you a down the line sort of illustration here of all the assaults uh that are taking place.
Now, Gail Schister today in the uh well it's Philadelphia Inquirer.
24 tamps down the torture.
Uh it wasn't protests that carried the day, but the programmers' belief that torture had gotten trite.
Now I don't want to give any trade secrets away here, but this is so much BS as well.
I'll tell you what I'm talking about here in just a second.
Let me read the story.
Fox's 24 will become less torturous.
Not because the U.S. military, human rights groups, and children's advocates want it too.
Uh Howard Gordon, executive producer of the uh hit thriller, uh is the one saying that we're gonna tamp it down.
Uh what was once the decision to cut back on torture is driven by creativity, not criticism, according to Gordon, in its sixth season.
24 has become so torture heavy that it borders on cliche.
Uh, Gordon says, what was once an extraordinary or exceptional moment is starting to feel a little trite.
The idea of physical coercion or torture is no longer a novelty or surprise.
That's not something that we as writers want to use as a crutch.
We'd like to find other ways for Jack to get information out of suspects.
Our appetites decreased.
Personally, I think the audience may be tiring of it as well.
My wife says it's too much.
There's the real reason why.
The torture is uh coming out of 24.
The writer's wife's tired of it.
Now, the point is.
We gotta have to see when this uh torture actually comes out because I can't give away too many secrets here, but what is this?
This is February the 15th.
They've probably finished uh episode 20.
They only got probably got four more to shoot, maybe six more max.
Uh, and people are reacting to the torture that's happened through episode nine.
Now, episodes ten through eighteen at least are done.
And they're not gonna go the idea that what's happening now is gonna have an immediate impact on next week or the next week after that's episodes of twenty-four is just flat out uh wrong and uh and B.S. Let me grab a quick phone call here before we uh go to the break.
This is Jay in Seattle.
Thanks for waiting, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Good morning, Rush.
I just want to explain what torture is.
Torture is when you read a letter from a guy like Taz that's over there risking his life each and every day, and the United States Congress and the United States Senate are on the floor every day calling Taz a liar, and they call the generals a liar.
And when you take six people who in total that were convicted in Abergrave, tried and convicted under a U.S. military court martial, and you label 3.1 million military American servicemen and women, and you label them as torturers, that is torture.
And that's what the Democrats do to our military each and every day.
Amen.
Don't need to add anything to that.
Well said, back in just a second.
Hi, how are you?
El Rushbo.
Still suffering the ravages of the common cold virus.
A troublesome hacking cough.
Not taking cough medicine today again, because I don't care what it says, it does make me drowsy.
I don't care what brand, I don't care what, it makes me it zones me out.
Can't do the show zoned out, refuse to do it.
I just got an email from a friend who said, Rush, I like 24, but even I had to turn it off Monday night when they got the drill out when the terrorist bad guy got the drill out and started drilling guy's shoulder.
Now, the point is this.
This this is this is and by the way, the the person who sent me the email is a good, good, good liberal.
All right.
Now I have found so many people think make believe is truth, and truth is fiction.
It's a television show!
The drill did not permeate the skin!
It's Hollywood, it's make believe.
The blood is colored water or food covering or jello or what have you.
Yet real life bad stuff.
Real life bad stuff is written off.
Fake torture in a television show.
Everybody watching knows It's not really happening.
Don't you?
Don't you?
It isn't really happening.
They probably do five takes.
The actors go home.
There's not a mark on their bodies.
Unless there's an accident.
Then of course there's a big settlement.
And it all works out.
I don't know.
My patience for all this is worrying because the subject is torture, as though the real crime that's being committed in the world is U.S. torture, not the massacre of innocence by militant Islamo fascists.
We're getting away from the point of what all this is about, and we end up blaming ourselves.
We've got the drive-by media ginning up as much anti-American sentiment as possible in concert with the Democrat Party in this country.
And in the process, we're trying to tear down an institution which is designed to maintain this country's freedom and to protect it.
That's its sole purpose.
And it is under attack as the criminal element in this war.
And I've about had it with this idiotic, silly, irrational way of looking at this.
the nation of a bunch of pansies.
Geneva, Ohio.
This is Beth.
Welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
This is an honor, and I really want to thank you for your steadfast support of our troops.
Thank you very much.
You know, this week I really am not qualified to talk about the troops, according to liberals, because I've not been a troop.
Well, neither have I, but I do work for a troop support organization, so I'll consider myself a little bit knowledgeable.
You ever been in a foxhole?
You ever been shot at?
Um, no.
You're not qualified to talk.
Thanks for calling goodbye.
Um I I did want to say, though, that you know, I have seen this week such a despicable display of these people in Washington.
And I am ashamed to say my own representative, Steve La Torette from Ohio is one of them.
And, you know, I I am disgusted.
I am absolutely disgusted.
And I can tell you right now, the troops see this.
They hear this, and it is affecting them.
And let me tell you something about your congressman.
Why do you think your Congressman's breaking ranks with his party and joining the Democrats on this?
Well, probably looking at a poll or something.
Well, no, he thinks he see Congressman run for election every two years.
Oh, yeah.
And and so uh he he thinks this is what's necessary.
He's probably looking at presidential approval polls, republican approval polls, or what, and I'm no doubt that he thinks this is what he's got to do to get reelected.
Well, you know, he will not have a sign in my yard the next time, I'll tell you that.
But you know, it it's thank God our true have each other to count on right now because they sure as heck can no longer depend on the support from their government or the lazy spoiled, and I have to say uninformed American public, because I am I'm about where you are right now.
I am disgusted.
So good.
Well, we can we can form a club, the disgusted.
I'll tell you something else.
Help me with my memory here.
It's the irregular breathing patterns of hosting the program causing the coughing, because prior to program it wasn't coughing at all.
Anyway, uh, Mr. Snerdley, remember all the way back late 80s, early 90s, uh all of the uh uh debates in Congress about violence and sex in television shows.
What did the what did Hollywood tell us?
Doesn't affect kids.
No, no, no.
It's just a TV show.
Tipper Gore was on a war path and uh and uh Lieberman was on the war path, and McCain was threatening uh, you know, bigfoot jack booted thug action against these people who didn't clean up their act.
And uh, and of course the drive-by media was right in there supporting Hollywood.
Wow, this is this is just television show.
You conservatives are going nuts here.
You conservatives and your social values, dammit, you are screwing everything up.
You are destroying creative and artistic license.
Don't pick on Murphy Brown, Dan Quayle's an idiot, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Then it's a Murphy Brown and Candace Bergen brilliant uh artist, brilliant actress, uh, ten times as smart as Quail.
Shut up, Quails.
Now all of a sudden, they got a popular show that is associated with conservatives, and we got to destroy it because of the influence it's not only having on kids, the influence it's having on highly trained members of the U.S. military.
It's insulting my intelligence.
We'll be back in a moment.
All right, I think I'm gonna break down.
I think I'm gonna go get some cough medicine here and risk becoming loopy.
Who knows?
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