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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Hey, hey, hey, hey, greetings, my good friends.
	And welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
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	The president spoke for five minutes today about a little over a half hour ago on the fourth anniversary of the Iraq War, PMSNBC essentially doing another one of their telethons, trying to drum up anti-war support and proclaim it a failure.
	The rest of the drive-by media pretty much in the same mode, and the president's uh speech, we'll get some sound bites of it.
	I wish it were a little bit more upbeat, um, totally, attitudinally, than it was.
	But I still say that all of these people on the left who uh have proud ownership of defeat have better start thinking about what's going to happen when this works.
	Where will they be?
	What will they say, and how will they handle it?
	Because it's uh it's it's clear that General Petraeus, with only two of the five divisions that are part of the surge or brigades, whatever they are, uh, in place, they all won't be in place until June, are uh are actually having a lot of success.
	We got a couple of interesting competing polls about uh the attitudes of Iraqis.
	That uh and it's interesting that the drive-bys are ignoring the good poll.
	Also, we had this we had this uh this uh anti-war protest in Washington yesterday, and of course, it was dwarfed in number by counter-protesters, which is also not being talked about much, if at all, in the drive-by media.
	Uh, there's also a uh uh a new commercial, a video commercial on YouTube that is a remake of the Apple computer commercial launched in 1984 during the Super Bowl, produced by great movie director Ridley Scott, done some good movies, and it just destroys Hillary Clinton.
	It literally destroys Hillary Clinton.
	And a tagline at the end of the commercial makes it look like that it's from Barack Obama.
	He's out there denying that it's uh uh his handiwork.
	I have an idea whose idea and handiwork this is.
	Uh could be David Geffen.
	Uh Geffen uh has the know-how, plus he could he can handle illegals on something like this.
	Uh just a wild guess, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
	But uh, this is a new era.
	You know, all of these campaign commercials that are going to be running on the internet, uh, television broadcast outlets are going to be uh I mean, they'll still get their money, they'll still get their their uh compliment of political ads, but uh it's it's gonna be all over the ballpark on the internet.
	It's a brave new world out there, and uh it's only it's only just begun.
	And the whole point of this ad is I mean, you've got Hillary on a giant screen with a whole bunch of drones, I mean, a bunch of mind-umbed robots that are filing in.
	It really it looks like the movie Soilant Green or uh uh any any just a bunch of people being filed in uh to uh to be dispatched.
	They're just zombies, and they're listening to Hillary on this giant screen, utter one cliche after another about her conversation with Americans.
	And in the down the down the aisle, there are two rows, or there's the two areas of seats.
	There's a there's a row right between them in the middle, and this woman uh looking like an Olympic athlete comes charging down, rolling a carrying a uh uh sledgehammer, and you winding up ready to toss it.
	Finally, she tosses it and just obliterates and destroys the screen, uh, on which uh Hillary Clinton is uttering her uh her uh uh uh her her uh cliches.
	And of course, it's called 1984.
	That that's got the uh the big brother reference uh in it.
	The this time the woman's wearing an iPod, by the way, got her candidate slogan on the t-shirt that she's uh that she's wearing.
	Um the tagline For this is on January 14th, a Democrat primary will begin, and you'll see why 2008 won't be like 1984.
	And there's an updated Apple logo transformed into an O. The Apple logo used to be an Apple with rainbow colors.
	This is an O with rainbow colors.
	And it uh it's followed with the logo Barack Obama dot com.
	And so here you have Hillary just mouthing uh inanities, cliches to a bunch of drones, and a woman walks in and just totally destroys it.
	Uh somebody has made a uh a copy of this that goes five minutes, a second version of it doesn't look nearly as professionally uh uh well done as the uh as the first, but it's still uh still fascinating.
	I guarantee you at Clinton Inc.
	They're trying to pinpoint who did this, and boy, if they can find out that Obama had anything to do with it, and he's out there denying it, of course.
	But this is the thing about the internet.
	Anybody can put anything up there.
	Hey, callers to a talk show.
	Anybody can call a talk show and claim to be anybody they want to be and say whatever they want to say, and how do you really disprove it?
	It's up to the responsibility of the host uh to determine uh whether or not something is airworthy in in that sense.
	But on the internet, and this is not a complaint.
	There there is there is no such uh uh filter or guide, and I don't mean to sound like a drive-by journalist here in worrying about no filter on the internet.
	That's not what I mean.
	Is it's anybody can put anything up there, put Barack Obama.com at the end of it, make it look like it's his.
	Uh whether it is or not, and it it it's uh I mean eventually we'll find out who did it.
	This is this is getting such rave reviews that the ego of whoever did this will not survive long uh in anonymity.
	Uh the person is going to want to take credit for it.
	The drive-by is continue to go nuts uh over the uh the U.S. attorney firings, a strange, strange headline today in the Associated Press.
	White House hopes Gonzalez will stay on.
	Hopes Gonzalez will stay on.
	What is that?
	The White House said today that it hopes Alberto Gonzalez survives bipartisan calls for his resignation and remains in President Bush's cabinets.
	Uh cabinet.
	Uh when asked if Gonzalez will serve for the rest of Bush's term, Tony Snow said, well, we hope so.
	What do you mean we hope so?
	Hey, hope he served hope he'll stay.
	It's up to him.
	I don't know.
	This this I talking about this last night with a uh with a friend.
	I I I just remain mystified over this White House's refusal to fight back on any of this stuff.
	There has to be a reason.
	And the reason cannot be that they don't understand that they are being targeted for destruction.
	They have to know that.
	It cannot be that they are uh relying on some miracle down the road to pop up and embarrass all these critics.
	I mean, if if if it's that, uh, Lord help us.
	Uh the the there has to be an active policy and philosophy that says we're not going to respond to this, and we're not going to fight it, and we're and we're not going to get down in the mud with the people leveling these charges.
	We're just going to give these people what they want.
	We're going to we're going to act embarrassed, we're going to act like we got caught.
	Uh some might say that uh, well, you know, the president.
	He he did he's never been partisan because he believes that being partisan is beneath the dignity of the of the office, and he's just not going to do it.
	Well, okay, fine and dandy, but it's why does that mean when they want Rumsfeld scalp, you give them Rumsfeld scalp.
	And why does that mean when they want somebody else's scalp, you give them them scalp?
	Why it it's far I'm telling you, it's it's beyond explanation to me.
	I do not uh I don't I just don't have an answer.
	And I have thought of uh every possibility out there.
	Uh and it's it's not just the president.
	Nobody uh within the administration uh reacts to this stuff in a uh in an instinctive or visceral way, the way all of us do, the way all of us would if it were us that were being targeted for destruction.
	Make no buns about this.
	You know, I I keep saying that the objective here of the Democrats is to take Bush out before the 2008 election.
	They're not gonna do that.
	They don't have time.
	Maybe they won't have time and maybe they won't get it done, but I'm gonna tell you right now, I full well, and I've been predicting this since before the 2004 election.
	I expect there to be articles of impeachment filed at some point this summer just to get the whole process going.
	Whether they succeed with it or not is irrelevant to them.
	I mean, if you want to, if you want to have the ultimate procedure in pestering and hounding the White House of all these Iraq resolutions and everything else that's going on, a U.S. attorney flub, uh, why not add uh articles of impeachment to it?
	Uh so I I uh well let me pull back.
	I'll I'll stop short of predicting it at the moment, but uh I I seriously will not be surprised when it happens.
	We got audio sound bites of a lot of things today.
	The Reverend Sharpton misspoke a couple times today during a press conference, responding to the three detectives being indicted in the Sean Bell shooting, a big story in New York.
	Huge story.
	This is the story where three cops uh fired 50 rounds at uh at an unarmed man a groom at a wedding and and uh coming out of a nightclub late at night, and uh now they've announced what they're gonna do.
	They're gonna indict the three cops, Sharpton at a press conference.
	We got we got audio and uh Al Sharpton still over the weekend outside the campaign headquarters of the uh uh uh star of the Internet today, Barack Obama.
	And uh CNN has decided to defend the Breck girl uh on the orchestrated and mean-spirited neocan neocon attack on his looks and on his femininity.
	And who do you think is the focal point of the CNN criticism?
	It occurred last Friday.
	It is I, your host, L. Rushbow.
	All that and much more coming up right after our first obscene profit timeout.
	Don't go away, my friends.
	On the cutting edge of societal evolution, in uh in in sort of a it's a setup to the uh story CNN did defending the Breck girl against uh allegations that uh his looks are uh a factor in the election.
	A story here that I found Friday night, this is from Livescience.com, man of steel mentality helps guys heal faster.
	Now we've heard uh all the stories over the years about how men don't ask for directions despite taking uh wrong turns all the time.
	Uh and uh, you know, just being individual.
	Just and I'm gonna do it on my own.
	I'm gonna get there on my own.
	I'm gonna stop it and stuff and asking directions and all these other cliches.
	And the stereotypical tough guy, a real man, rarely asks for help or shows signs of weakness because then he wouldn't be a guy.
	Uh many scientists have considered these masculine tendencies to be barriers to health and recovery, meaning you don't ask for help, you don't admit your weakness, then that's a sign of uh of uh a lack of health and a chance to recover and get stronger and so forth.
	However, a small study of about 50 men suggests the exact opposite.
	The man of steel mentality, often associated with military men and those in other high-risk occupations, can boost and speed up a man's recovery from a serious and or traumatic injury.
	It's been long assumed that men are not as concerned and don't take as good a care of their health, said uh Glenn Good of the University of Missouri of Columbia.
	But what we're seeing here is that the same ideas that led to their injuries may actually encourage their recovery.
	Now, this this uh, even though it's not cited here, I recall the story we had last week.
	It talked about genius men, creative men, and how it's impossible for them to stay wedded to one relationship.
	They're constantly out there uh needing new challenges and new thrills because they're easily bored, and it's this high risk-taking factor of uh of creative men that quite Einstein was cited uh as uh as an example.
	You wouldn't believe a number of guys I had, even friends of mine emailed me wanting copies of that, show it around.
	Because after that story, every guy that heard it thinks he's a creative genius now, as a means of uh uh I guess granting him the internal uh authority to proceed as he wishes.
	Anyway, so here we have this story about how uh man of steel mentality may get guys in trouble, but it also helps them heal faster.
	The annual incidence of traumatic brain injuries in the U.S. is greater than of all cancers, writes the study author, and men account for three quarters of such injuries.
	The number will increase if the Iraq war continues.
	But men who focused on their careers, success, power, and competition reported better relations in their community.
	The docile wusses, the pansies, the linguini spines were miserable.
	And they're always waiting for feedback.
	They're waiting for approval to make them feel good about themselves because they don't have the innate ability to do it within themselves.
	And uh men who focused on their careers and their success and their power.
	Uh the man of steel mentality participants showed greater improvement a year after their hospitalization.
	The immediate message here is to encourage psychotherapy along with traditional methods of healing.
	Therapists trying to help men recover from serious injuries could encourage men's masculine tensitive, a tendency to seek success, but discourage them from believing it's appropriate to exert power over women.
	And so I don't know what that is all about.
	Had to drag that in there.
	But anyway, just another one of these cliches that may be willing to fall by the wayside, which of course takes us to the Breck Girl.
	CNN very disturbed that there are assaults on the manliness of the Breck Girl that are taking place out there.
	Carol Costello with this report Friday on the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.
	It's sad how much looks play a part in this election.
	As for John Edwards, there is an orchestrated campaign.
	The politics of pretty is getting ugly.
	Now that he's front and center and looking fabulous in a laid-back gap kind of way, it's paved the way for his political enemies to brand him the equivalent of a dumb blonde.
	Take a peek at Rush Limbaugh's website.
	Edwards appears in a wig, and Limbaugh often refers to him in feminine terms.
	Also, we've decided any further John Edwards news, we will use this tune as uh official update theme for the Breck Girl.
	I'm woman.
	Hear me roll in numbers too big to ignore.
	Are you listening, Ann Coulter?
	All of this climax with NeoCon Anne Coulter's now infamous Edward Slur.
	Some say it was meant to further feminize Edwards to make him appear weak.
	As for why neocons would pick on John Edwards, well, one puddent says some believe Edwards is the guy who will eventually move to the head of the pack, and this is the strategy they're using to cut him down early.
	Others told me it was just mean-spirited fun.
	That that is a pathetic report.
	In the first place, we don't use Helen Reddy, Carol.
	We use the Breck girl singing the song.
	I'll let you hear it in just a f we've been calling him the Breck girl since 1984.
	Where or 2004?
	Where have you been?
	And it was it was a woman who referred to him as potentially the first female president.
	It was Kate Michelman who said of all the men out there, John Edwards has the most ability, the greatest ability to get in touch with women.
	He's for some reason understands them better.
	And of course, this led to the claim, just like Bill Clinton is the first black president that the Breck girl could be the first female president.
	Hey, we're just we're just reacting here to what Democrats are saying out there.
	Well, we did invent the Breck girl.
	Uh take off on the hair.
	Now, Carol Costello, somebody call her up.
	Tell her next time she does this report, this is the tune to use.
	This is the official John Edwards Breck Girl update.
	All right, there you have it.
	Uh a little bit of I Am Woman.
	That's uh Paul Shanklin, uh, vocal portrayal there impersonating uh the Breck Girl.
	How about the opening line of Carol Costello's story?
	It's sad how much looks play a part in this election.
	As for John Edwards is an orchestrated campaign.
	I don't there may be an orchestrated campaign out there, Carol, but we're not part of anything that's orchestrated here.
	We are the leaders.
	And if there are followers, more power to us.
	Quick timeout, be right back.
	Stay with us.
	That's right, ladies and gentlemen.
	Redefining hip on the radio.
	The Airbus A380 just now landing in Los Angeles.
	Well, an airplane.
	Uh the Airbus A380 landed earlier today in New York at JFK.
	They got two test models that are out there flying.
	They lost billions of dollars, Airbus did with delays getting this airplane online.
	No, I'm not gonna get I'm not gonna get an Airbus.
	The problem with getting an airbus plane that big is you have to go to commercial airports.
	You get stuck in ice, weather, snow.
	No, no, no, no.
	You don't want to fly one of those unless you have to.
	Um let's see.
	I just saw Something on CNN, and it just I mean, I laughed about it, but it burns me.
	You know the phony polar bear picture?
	It's out there with a polar bear, supposedly on a melting glacier, with nowhere to go.
	It's out there in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, nowhere for them to go.
	It's a hoax picture.
	It's phony.
	It's an ice flow created by the waves.
	The polar bears are out there playing around.
	They can get off of it, they can get on it, they can go wherever they want.
	They're not stranded.
	I just saw a fundraising ad for the Natural Resources Defense Council with the two polar bears on that ice floor, and as the commercial, the video proceeds, the ice flow melts into the letters SOS, with the two polar bears on top of the SOS.
	And I predict, you know, little children will see that Mommy, mommy, mommy, the polar bears, the ice food's almost gone, they're gonna die.
	What can we do?
	What can we do?
	These creeps.
	Also, it's breaking news here from ABC News.com.
	Walid Mohammed bin Atash has confessed to the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000, killed 17 U.S. uh sailors.
	Don't know if he was at Club Gitmo, but regardless, more fodder for the libs here, as they can ramp uh ramp up this uh this torture talk that they think uh plays with the American people.
	You know, give you an idea.
	If you instinctively think there are two Americas out there, and this is a country that is unlike its been in uh in a hundred years.
	Here we are.
	We are at war, and we have a war on terror going on.
	And here we had Kalique, our Khalid Sheikh Mohammed admit to planning and being the mastermind of 9-11 and a number of other terrorists acts.
	He may have been excessive, may have been uh, you know, taking the credit for some he didn't get credit for, didn't actually do.
	Either he's got an ego problem or he's trying to shield his buddies from a further pursuit of prosecution prosecution.
	But regardless, isn't it isn't it strange that uh we're talking 9-11, forget all the other things.
	Forget the 93 world trades and forget the just put 9-11 in your mind.
	Isn't it strange that that news was not greeted with any appreciation or celebration?
	It was greeted with utter contempt.
	It was greeted by the drive-by media with utter suspicion.
	Was he tortured?
	I'm telling you, folks, the people on the left in this country own defeat, and they are uh they are deathly afraid of any good news because they can't participate in it.
	They have gone so far out now in the uh concept of owning defeat that they can't afford good news.
	They can't afford victory, they can't afford anything like so it even the good news, even this even in in um this is a I don't know, uh uh commensurate comparable to if somebody captured Hitler or somebody had captured the people from Japan who ordered the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
	It would have been celebration.
	There would have been great pride, it would have been a sense of achievement and an accomplishment.
	There was none of that.
	Everybody in this country is so beaten down on this that uh that that that has it had it had no impact.
	And this is not a comment just on the drive-bys, but this is a comment on the people.
	Uh, our population, so beaten down by negative news about this that uh yeah, I I'll predict to you that if the surge ultimately is victorious, and if Baghdad is someday rendered peaceful, that will not be big news either.
	It'll uh it'll be clouded by how long it took, how many deaths were necessary to secure it, no big deal, could have been done sooner, shouldn't have been done in the first place, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	But now the guy who pulled down this is a big story, too, the guy who, along with the Americans pulled down the Saddam statue, he's apologizing.
	Saying he might have made a mistake.
	Drive by's found this guy.
	I don't know where he is, but he's a yeah, it might have been a mistake.
	I don't know.
	We might not be better off today than we are than we're then.
	I don't know.
	So anyway, we'll wait to find.
	I don't know if this guy Walid Mohammed Bin Atash was uh was at the club Gitmow, but wherever he was, I'm sure he was tortured will be the news.
	Here now, Al Sharpton, the Reverend Sharpton at a press conference today, responding to the three detectives who've been indicted in the Sean Bell shooting.
	Listen carefully.
	As we listen to the announcement of the district attorney.
	It falls short of what we would want.
	Clearly, in our judgment, all five officers should have been shot, should have been charged.
	Let me let me be clear.
	All five officers shot.
	All five officers shot.
	We do not endorse their being shot.
	Why didn't you say charged the next three times instead of all five officers being shot?
	The reason two of them weren't charged, I think they were auxiliary cops, they were unarmed.
	If I think the auxiliary cops didn't have uh didn't have any weapons.
	Uh but anyway, that's the Reverend Sharpton with the faux pas, the slip of the tongue.
	Uh, in our judgment, all five officers should have been shot.
	The Reverend Sharpton's still hanging out when he's not following the story outside.
	Campaign headquarters of Barack Obama.
	The uh Reverend Sharpton clearly upset that uh Obama by the way, there's a fascinating story in the LA Times today, which get this headline.
	Who wrote this?
	David Ahrenstein is his name, LA-based, writes about Hollywood and politics.
	The headline of his column, Obama the Magic Negro.
	Kid you not.
	As every carbon-based life form on this planet surely knows, Barack Obama is running for president since making his announcement.
	There's been no end of commentary about him in all quarters, musing over his charisma and the prospect he offers of being the first black president in the country.
	But it's clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office in the province of the popular imagination, the magic Negro.
	The magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by a snarky 20th-century sociologist to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown versus Board of Education.
	He has no past.
	He simply appears one day to help the white protagonist.
	Reach the description on Wikipedia of the Magic Negro.
	Well, he's there to assuage white guilt over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history while replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, uh dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure for whom interracial sex Congress holds no interest.
	The problem is that Aaron Right Aaron Stein says he's not real.
	Al Sharpton's real.
	Snoop Dogg is real, but Barack Obama is not real.
	He's just there to assuage white guilt.
	In other words, the only reason Obama's anywhere is because whites are willing to support him because they feel so guilty over slavery.
	Now, before you reject this, Shelby Steele has written a great book about the whole concept of white guilt and how it uh is allowing our society to become more and more passive about any number of transgressions that the country has made uh from its inception.
	Here's the close, like a comic book superhero.
	Obama is there to help out of the sheer goodness of a heart we need not know or understand.
	For as with all magic Negroes, the less real he becomes and seems, the more desirable he gets.
	If he were real, white America couldn't project all its fantasies of curative black benevolence on him.
	So those of you white people out there who are supporting Barack Obama, you are racists.
	That is the point that David Ahrenstein's made.
	So your attempt to assuage all of your white guilt by supporting Obama is worthless because you're just you're just exhibiting racism because you know he's not a real black.
	As Biden said, he's clean and articulate.
	What else did he say?
	Clean.
	Yeah, clean, good looking, articulate, one of the first, but he's not real.
	This is this is more of the drivel and the bilge that we get from the drive-by media.
	In order to be a real black, you gotta be a Sharpton.
	You gotta be a snoopdog.
	You gotta be a ludicrous or something like that.
	Obama can't possibly fill this role because nobody knows anything about him.
	And we don't want to know anything about him.
	The only thing that matters is he's black and he sounds good, and it allows you white racists to assuage your guilt.
	Now there is white racism out there, much of it it's on the left.
	Uh where the plantation mentality still resides.
	Now, let me ask you a Question.
	The term magic Negro has been thrown into the political presidential race and the mix for 2008.
	And the term magic Negro, as applied to Barack Obama, has been done by an LA Times columnist, David Ehrenstein.
	What do you think if I keep referring to Obama as the magic Negro from this day on, I will eventually get the credit and or heat for this.
	Magic Negro.
	It is a term and it's exactly as described here.
	It's its purpose is to allow whites the guilt-free support, but in Barack's case, it's only because he isn't a real black.
	And the LA Times, by the way, this is not the first of these types of columns.
	The only time there's been two or three columns like this is Barack Obama black enough.
	So forth.
	So there's there's a racist component out there of the editorial page of the LA Times that's obsessed with the race of Barack Obama and is with all leftists while they are obsessed with race, accusing everybody else of being racists.
	Be right back.
	You know, you stop and think about it.
	This this piece by um David Erinstein, the LA Times Today, Obama the Magic Negro.
	It's just infuriating.
	It is the left that continues to besmirch these people.
	It's the left that continues to question their so-called authenticity.
	These people are all human beings.
	I think if it's Sharpton, Reverend Jackson, these people are all human beings.
	Some of them in the race business.
	I understand that.
	But look at who it is that keeps focusing on whether they're authentic enough, authenticity based on skin color.
	Who is it doing this?
	It's the left.
	You know what?
	I got a suggestion for those of you at the LA Times.
	Let's cut to the chase.
	Go get an old-fashioned uh auction block and put it in a town square, put it somewhere where it looks like it's real, and just bring all these black people up there and auction them off and find out who it is that sells for the highest price.
	That's that's essentially what you're doing with all of these nonsensical categorizations.
	Obama's not black enough, Obama doesn't have he's not down for the struggle, Obama doesn't have a legitimate Siddharth C right background, Obama's ears don't look like a black person's ears are too big, Obama doesn't sound like a black person, he's cleaning our tickets a left saying all these things.
	Now he's the magic Negro.
	Which is a convenient trick for the LA Times to blame a bunch of white people for being racist.
	Well, okay, let's find out who they're just get an auction block and grab as many blacks as you want to put them up there and let's start the sales, LA Times, and let's see who it is.
	Hey, fetches the highest price.
	Isn't that essentially the way they're approaching this?
	These are commodities.
	These human beings are simply commodities, and they are there for some purpose other than their own human existence.
	You doubt the racism and the groupthink and the superiority of the leftists in this country, you'll be making grave error.
	All right.
	To the phones we go.
	Michael in Palm Bay, Florida.
	Michael, nice to have you on the EIB network.
	Hello, sir.
	Thank you very much for having me, Rush.
	First of all, I would like to say that I will not askwid my white guilt by going for Obama.
	I'll do it by going for the Limbaugh culture ticket.
	That's an excellent suggestion, sir.
	Thank you.
	Well, my point is is about this uh Clinton that might be from Obama, may not be from Obama commercial that's going on.
	Yeah, then YouTube, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Um, if you go to YouTube and look under Futurama, you'll find one that's titled the um Mom 1984 ripoff commercial.
	That entire commercial is a ripoff from the show Futurama that plays on Adult Swim every weeknight.
	Uh well, yes, but it's also a direct ripoff of an Apple commercial from 1984.
	Which uh helps which explains the transition because at the end it's Plan X and not FedEx, just like it's Obama and not Apple.
	It's totally targeted to the 18 to 24s.
	Uh speaking in that age range, I uh it's totally targeted.
	Are you in that age rage?
	Yes, sir.
	I am.
	I'm 24 years old.
	All right.
	Um what is it about the internet that uh I don't know I know you don't have a hard age rage here demo of 1824.
	What is it about the internet uh that that makes it uh or make this particular spot the internet targeted 18 to 24 year olds?
	It's not the fact that necessarily it's on the internet, it's the fact that it's getting all the news coverage that it's getting in the show is totally remember a few years uh a few weeks back with that Boston thing, the bombs that were supposedly in Boston, they were all these characters from this adult swim show called Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
	Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It's it's on in the it's on in the same it's uh uh just about the same time block.
	It's all targeted to the 18th to 24th, and it's just one of those association things that somebody of my age may make and be like, hey, well, I'm for Obama.
	Well, you know, no, it it actually, whoever did this, it's brilliantly done.
	It is very well done.
	And and look, here it is on the internet, uh, and all of a sudden it spread to the mainstream.
	I mean, I've seen the news networks today playing excerpts of the of the video.
	Yeah, the lady running in and throwing the sledgehammer.
	Yeah, hitting Hillary or Mom, right?
	Which is uh I I think uh if I would have done the ad, I would have put some different stuff up about Hillary.
	I would have put I would have had her comments up there about wanting to take Exxon's profits, for example.
	Uh there are any number of things other than her cliches.
	And one of the things that leads me to believe that a Democrat did this is that they're going after her cliches and not her substance.
	Because if somebody had gone after her substance, like I'm gonna I just want to take Exxon's profits or any of her other uh very leftist policy statements.
	Yeah, whatever.
	You know, th the you could you can say, well, maybe Republican organization did this, but the fact that a that the a Democrat or a leftist did this is it's still uh, you know, that there has been a push ever since I've been alive to get the youth vote.
	Candidates, they've tried MTV, rock the vote and all these things, and they they get a lot of registrations, but they don't show up.
	That's why you need to be back on TV, Rush, because you caught me back way when I was young, and uh I've been listening to you ever since.
	You're a rush baby.
	I I uh not not by birth, but by choice.
	Yes, sir, I'm a rush baby.
	Well, the point is, let me ask you, will the internet succeed in reaching these 18 to 24 year olds who because they've got other things in their mind, obviously, have no interest in politics?
	Um, I I think it'll get their vote just because so many uh I look at people my age, Rush, and they believe that I'm an idiot because I'm don't believe that global warming caused by man is.
	Well we we know that most eighteen to twenty-four year olds are still skulls full of mush.
	Well, we understand that.
	And we and we know that they're uh the ones that you would know have their minds have been flaked and formed by academia and so forth.
	Uh but that's that's where I think the internet is uh is is is gonna have a dramatic effect on reaching that age group, which is why it's gonna be fascinating to watch the kind of stuff that ends up there and uh and how so you're gonna see more candidates putting their commercials up there as opposed to broadcast TV to avoid all the expense, too.
	All right, folks, uh quick timeout here.
	Gonna take a gander, a couple more pictures of Valerie Plann, and then we'll be back and be ready for the start of the next hour here at the EIB network.
	Don't go away.

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