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April 16, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 16, 2007, Monday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this program are right.
And by virtue of the consensus, the American people, I am the most accurate media figure in the country today.
Well, I've got the largest audience.
I got more people that listen and agree with me than anybody else out there.
So by virtue of the consensus, the American people, just like consensus of scientists, we got global warming.
Well, the consensus of the American people, and I'm it.
And I'm proud to be it.
It's great to have you with us here, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
All right, kiss cardio goodbye and lose weight.
Right here.
I knew I was right.
Sometimes I'm right even when I think I'm wrong, but I knew I was right on this.
All I had to do was get on a stupid treadmill.
See, if I walked a mile in a half hour, I'd burn 100 calories, which is what, a Fig Newton?
Give me a break.
I know for a exercise, this guy says it in this book, cardio aerobic exercise kills everything but the appetite, which is not good if you're trying to lose weight.
Jim Karris, a New York Times best-selling author, this is actually an ABC story, and the fitness trainers book has caused controversy.
Of course it caused controversy because violating everything all these so-called experts have ever said about exercise and weight loss.
In the cardio-free diet, Karis shares why, according to him, cardiovascular exercise alone will not help you lose weight and keep it off.
He says that instead of spending an hour running on a treadmill five times a week, you ought to learn how to perform strength training exercises for 20 minutes a day, three times a week.
Then they have an excerpt from the book.
Are you interested in losing weight, keeping it off, and completely changing your body shape to the astonishment of all your friends?
What if I told you this goal is best accomplished without ever stepping on a treadmill or elliptical machine again?
I know you're skeptical, but let me ask you something.
Have you, like millions of Americans, spent hours and hours per week on the treadmill trying to lose weight?
What about the elliptical trainer, the bike, the stair stepper, or VersaClimber?
If so, have you dropped any pounds and kept them off?
No.
Well, what about spinning?
What about cross-country skiing?
Typo?
How about those nice long walks in the spring and summer?
They help keep the pounds off?
No, but sure pretty, weren't they?
Aerobics class, stepping, hiking, swimming?
No.
Snowshoeing, rowing, salsa dancing, sweating to the oldies?
The reason none of this works is both shocking and completely true.
Cardiovascular exercise alone won't help you lose the weight and keep it off.
Well, you're probably saying, well, I've been told thousands of times that cardiovascular exercise is a key to weight loss.
Yeah, that's what we were all told, but that was simply the wrong advice.
I ask people all the time, how are you exercising to lose weight?
And most people say cardio.
And I say, well, is it working?
They say, well, no, but I just need to do it more often and for a longer period of time.
How many of you people do?
How many of you people are out there doing this?
You're running around, you're walking around, and you come back and you're not losing any weight.
I got to step it up.
Well, if something's not working, why would you do more of it?
You keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.
Albert Einstein had a name for this type of logic, insanity.
Cardio is mindless.
You hop on the treadmill, you jump on the bike, you step on the elliptical trainer, you turn on the tube, you pop in the earphones or your iPod, flip through your favorite magazines, and off you go to nowhere fast.
What are you accomplishing?
Absolutely nothing except a Zen-like trance during which you should meditate on the following mantra.
Mindless exercise yields forgettable results.
How many of you people go to the gym?
Of those of you that go to the gym, I don't go to the gym, obviously, because I already know all of this.
Let me ask you a question: How many people in there do you think are liberals doing the same thing over and over again with no results whatsoever?
But they buy into all of this pop culture rhetoric on this stuff.
You know, more than 20 years as a weight loss and fitness professional, Mr. Karas says, I have been working with clients one-on-one, and I've been leading, teaching, and training a team of the best and brightest physical trainers in New York and Chicago.
We've been in the field, identifying cutting-edge research, testing it, and then bringing the best of the best information and instruction to our clients.
After 20 years of experience, I'm convinced cardio kills.
It kills your weight loss plan, it kills your joints, it kills your internal organs, and it kills your immune system, your body composition, kills your time, and it kills, most of all, your motivation to stay committed to losing weight.
But there's one thing that cardio doesn't kill, and that's your appetite.
The more cardio you do, the hungrier you get.
You burn a few measly calories, then you eat twice as many Fig Newtons afterward.
The result, weight gain, lots of it.
Cardio is the channel surfing solution of exercise.
It's mindless and, as you have experienced, resultless.
And then they go on and publish chapter one in this.
And he guy says, Hey, I fell for this myself.
I mean, look, I believe, like so many people, that working up a good sweat equates to a good, effective workout.
Basically, more sweat equals better workout.
It's a common misconception, just like everything else in the world.
We have to learn to work smarter, not harder, to get ahead.
In the last 30 years, since the cardio craze has taken off, do you think Americans have lost weight?
In 1987, there were 4.4 million treadmill users.
By 2000, that number had exploded to 40 million users, more than a 900% increase.
Consumers spend more on treadmills than any other home exercise equipment.
Yet, since 1980, the number of overweight Americans has doubled.
According to Duke University, maybe not wise to quote them these days, but we'll stick with it.
63% of U.S. adults were overweight or obese in 2005 compared to 58% in 2001.
Now, given that there are 300 million Americans, that's an additional 15 million Americans who became fat or obese in just four years.
How can this keep happening?
It keeps happening because Americans continue to listen to the wrong advice.
They want to believe the answer to their problems is as easy as putting one foot in front of the other, but nothing worth having is that easy.
And then he goes into what I told you about losing weight.
It's calories in versus calories out.
And the key is your resting metabolism.
That's if you're just in bed all day, that's resting metabolism.
And do you know that 60 to 70 percent of daily calorie burn occurs during resting metabolism?
Have you, let me ask you people this as a well-known diet expert, and that I am.
I have always noticed that I weigh the less or the least every day in the morning.
Get up in the morning.
What have I been doing all night?
Sleeping.
And I haven't been sleeping on a treadmill.
Well, Rush, that's because your food's digested.
No, it's not.
You've got a steady resting metabolism.
I saw a story a couple months ago: sleep more, you lose more weight.
Now, I know you're looking at the doubting Thomas's in there.
Okay, try it.
You people that believe in all this cardio stuff, go out and do some cardio and get on a scale and see if you've lost weight after doing it.
Well, it doesn't happen that fast, Rush.
What do you mean doesn't happen that fast?
Your least weight.
How many times do you go to the doctor, get a checkup?
They want to weigh you.
You want to go first thing in the morning, right?
So you'll weigh the least.
So the doctor will complain to you the least.
Last thing you want to do is go in there after you've had lunch.
Some of you probably go to the gym, get in a sweat box, get in there and cardio and think you'll weigh a little less after you do that.
And you might if you've sweated a bunch of water out, but it ain't gonna take long.
Start guzzling the old Perrier, and whatever you sweat out, I'll be right back on, so forth.
You really have to eat less.
And he goes on to say that it's weight training, and it's not described in this story, so I don't know what kind of weight training he's talking about.
You got to buy the book for that.
But he says that that's what increases your metabolism by 15%, and that's what increases the burning of calories.
Strength training is the key to weight loss because it's the only way to maintain and build lean muscle, which boosts your metabolism.
And of course, you burn more calories the more muscle you have, just keeping the muscles in tone.
And I've heard this from exercise gurus who are trying to convince me to do it.
But you know, me and exercise, screw all of it.
But if you're going to use it as a weight loss plan, weight training apparently is the way to go, according to Jim Karras.
Hi, welcome back, my friends.
Nice to have you here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Tampa, Florida.
This is Matthew.
Matthew, great to have you with us, sir.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Yes.
Mega Cigar City Dittos to you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
You know, I was sitting at lunch last week and I was enjoying La Flora Dominica Legaro.
And that's what I'm smoking at this very moment: a La Flora Dominicana double Leguero chisel.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, it's a very good cigar.
Yep.
Tickash.
I was actually wondering about this annual cigar dinner you tell us about every year.
And I was wondering how a fellow evil big tobacco supporting conservative like myself might get admitted next year.
Well, what you have to do is get hold of Cigar Ficionato because they start talking.
It's a monthly mag as well every couple months, I think.
And they mention as we get close to the date when it's coming up.
And it's, you know, tickets are $1,000.
It's tax deductible because it goes to the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
It's black tie.
So if you get your money in soon, I mean, there are people there from out of town every year, people I haven't seen before.
So it's not a closed list.
It's just 800 or 1,000 people who are having to squeeze into this room.
Oh, sounds like a good time.
Oh, it's a hell of a good time.
It starts, well, the reception starts at 7.
You get out of there at midnight.
There's an auction.
The evening leads off after we've moved into the dining room.
Marvin goes up to the podium and says, okay, we're going to auction off our first items tonight in like six bottles of wine wrapped in paper bags.
You don't know what you're buying.
And the bidding starts for the bottles of wine.
They're usually magnums or double magnums because you've got 10 people because the rule is you have to open it that night and serve it at your table when you buy it.
And I always buy the first bottle, whatever it is, because it's become a tradition.
And then it goes from there.
And then you eat the appetizer course, or dessert in our case first, whatever.
And then the other auction items pop out.
There's a nice little catalog explaining the auction items.
And various people come up and make brief short comments.
We had Rudy, we had Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jeff Greenfield got up and made some remarks.
Shank and of course, I always get up and say a few words.
It's just a fun night.
And the great thing about these cigars is that they bridge all these gaps, all these ideological, political gaps.
It's not a political night at all.
It's just people who have that one thing in common.
And plus, it's a beleaguered group.
We're all under siege because we're smokers.
Everybody's trying to wipe us out.
And we're getting together as a form of solidarity.
So it is a fun time.
You would love it if you could attend one.
Just get a subscription to Cigar Ficionado or pick it up on a newsstand starting late next year, this year, late this year.
Because the dates always, it was late this year.
It was April 12th.
Normally it's the first week of April on a Monday or Tuesday.
But this time it was a Thursday for the first time in a long time.
It had to do with the availability of the room, and I'm sure it had to do with the Board of Health and when we could get the exemption, one-night exemption to light up and all that.
Ellis in Montgomery Village, Maryland, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush, before I get to my point, I just want to say thank you for doing God's work by creating an entire industry of conservative talk radio that has so successfully informed roughly 40 million Americans.
At Mediareform.com, I am launching a revolution with this call today, Rush.
Today is the day that you start passing off the baton rush because at Mediareform.com, we are going to take those 40 million conservative talk show listeners and lead a revolution to take this country back from the enemy within media that's undermining this country, Rush.
Is this your website?
This is my website.
It's never been launched before.
This is the launch right here.
It's a blog.
It's going to hold you guys accountable on conservative talk radio for not talking about Democrat senators or congresspeople who are powerless puppets, but to take our country back through the media rush, what we have to do is put them in the free market sector.
In other words, Rush, the entertainment, the media, and information has to be delivered unsubsidized because only then, Rush, will they have to rely on our willingness to part with our discretionary dollars and say whether we think it meets our expectations of quality, Rush?
It's the same theory why you were so successful because you have convinced us that you are worth listening to.
And the media rush, once they are completely separated from sponsorship, will have to rely specifically and solely on our willingness to purchase their products.
That's not going to happen.
Now, I admire your effort here.
And I also was at one, no, because this is a business.
I don't care whether it's television newspapers or what it's a business, and advertising is what they use to support it, what they sell to support it.
Now, the practitioners in the drive-by don't care about advertising, but the people who own the operations that do it do.
And you're not going to wipe that out, just as you wouldn't wipe it out on talk radio.
And even if you're, well, you go to satellite radio, you're not wiping out, you're wiping out advertising, but they're still going to sell to subs, still going to sell to subscribers.
Also, I would say to you, don't ignore these so-called powerless elected Democrats.
The Democrat Party is all one machine, and they all coordinate, and they live for it.
It's all one big unit, big wheel, different spokes.
Mike, Denham Springs, Louisiana.
Is that right?
Nice to have you on the program.
Hello.
Yeah, Rush.
This is Mike.
I'm on a cell phone with an earpiece.
I think I'm having trouble.
Can you hear me all right?
Yeah, I hear you just fine.
Yeah, fine.
This thing about Imus, I find it amusing because I was actually watching the program as it unfolded.
And he was describing something he was watching on TV.
And he mentioned the hair and the tattoos.
But when the girls all got on stage, their hair was done to its perfection, and they were all wearing team jackets so nobody could see the tattoos.
Now, this is what are you doing here?
I mean, not even Imus is trying to say people misunderstood.
It's not a question of misunderstanding.
It's a question of overlooking it.
It's a question of overlooking what?
What he said.
They're talking about the H-word and a national.
Here's the point about this.
I made this at the top of today's excursion into broadcast excellence within the universe of the Imus audience, and I guess that includes you.
And by the way, kudos for having the guts to admit it.
Nobody raised the stink.
He said what he said, and nobody said a word.
The audience didn't, audience didn't, Imus audience didn't go crazy.
The guests on his show didn't go crazy all had a yuck about it.
And that was April the 4th.
And this thing blew up last week.
It took a while for the media watchdogs and the YouTubes and the moveon.orgs and all these, you know, America, who is supposedly now so outraged, didn't even hear it.
I'm not trying to be slimy here, but the audience for the Imus show, folks, is tiny.
It's an insignificant audience.
But even those who do listen or watch it, there was no reaction to it.
It wasn't until all these other actors got in gear.
And as they got in gear, they got in gear with their outrage, their mock outrage and so forth.
And that's how America learned of this.
America learned of it on YouTube.
And here's another point about this.
All these other sources, a move on to YouTube, Media Matters, whatever, and all the television shows, they uttered the words that Imus uttered 10,000 times as many times as he did.
But in the context of repeating these horrible words, can you believe this was said?
And then they repeated what he said.
I've got the sound tape, a soundbite tape of what Imus said.
You got to play it on this program.
I could maybe do it to illustrate a point, but I'm not going to.
But they were all doing it time and time and time again.
So I think there's a little illustration here of how this all goes down, how it all happens.
Within the Imus audience universe, there was not even a blip about this.
And I'll tell you when I knew this was over.
I had a big party on Saturday night, about 35 people, and I had 13 people staying a weekend at my fashionable abode down here that Vanity Fair so hates.
Do you see what they did?
They got their green issue.
They published a picture of my house, talked about how I'm a buffoon destroying the planet with the way I live anyway.
And oh, yeah, I got the story right here.
It's not on the internet, but people were telling me about it.
Yeah, this James Walcott guy.
It's funny.
I mean, people who know me and listen to this program read this, are going to think it's a comedy bit.
But this guy is dead serious about all the, at any rate, we're all talking about, and everybody's got their Imus opinions of what happened to Imus and this sort and so forth.
And all the opinions were all interesting.
But I said, I knew this was over when the Rutgers basketball team and the university, the president, and the athletic director and the coach did their one-hour press conference.
That was it.
That's when the advertisers are going to peel away.
And that's when NBC and the suits at CBS are going to say, well, we can't do anything about this.
A lot of people thought Imus blew it going on Sharpton, and he did.
But it wasn't until the Rutgers press conference that I knew that it was just a matter of time.
So you can say whatever he's, well, he just repeated what he saw on television.
But I don't think on television they use the description of that.
That was his producer's version of it.
Imus made the mistake of repeating what the producer said.
It's not about him, folks.
All this stuff is not about Imus anymore.
You got to understand that.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers an editorial from the San Francisco Chronicle from yesterday.
I had the story in the paper from last week that precedes this editorial, but I never got to it.
But it is a story about how blacks, black people, are leaving San Francisco.
It's an inhospitable climate they're leaving out there.
And the newspaper decided to editorial, editorialize on this yesterday.
And the summation I would give you on this is, is that it's notable because it's saying in this San Francisco Chronicle editorial that San Francisco has an attitude problem with blacks and that they're not open-minded.
I mean, the population isn't, not the blacks.
San Francisco officials putting together a task force to develop a strategery to preserve the city's rapidly declining African-American population and possibly attract new African-American residents, a laudable goal, but at this late date, San Francisco's black population dropped from about 13.4% of the city to 6.5% over the last 25 years.
Is there anything the city can really do?
If so, are other San Franciscans likely to be as enthusiastic as are their officials?
The mere fact that city officials feel the need to put together a task force to stem the bleeding of African American residents to other communities reveals how far this ship has already sailed past the horizon.
San Francisco likes to bill itself as a diverse city, but the numbers, 53% white, 33.5% Asian, mostly Chinese, expose its relative homogeneity in comparison with other cities such as LA or New York.
San Francisco has the lowest proportion of black residents of any big city in the country, even lower than Seattle or San Diego.
Demographers have also noted that the African Americans who move out of San Francisco tend to be upwardly mobile, so that the few blacks who are left constitute a poorer underclass.
Certainly the isolation of these residents underscores San Francisco's uneasy feelings toward them.
It's this last point that truly underscores the difficulty city officials will have if they're serious about this task force.
Yeah, housing's expensive in San Francisco as it is everywhere.
It's also true that San Francisco and the left coast in general lack the rich troves of African American history that cities in the south east of the Mississippi have to offer.
It doesn't help that when San Francisco bulldozed the Fillmore District in the 50s, it destroyed not only a vibrant community, but also the city's chance to create a repository for its own African American history.
That event, in fact, points to the real problem, San Francisco's attitude.
So here you have the San Francisco Chronicle editorializing about black flight from the city as an attitudinal problem in the city of San Francisco among the people who live there.
Now, this is a liberal mecca, folks.
San Francisco is a liberal mecca.
They pride themselves on all of all things liberal.
Diversity, tolerance, open-minded, and yet it's the upwardly mobile black citizens who are fleeing the city in droves.
By the way, let's go to the right coast here.
Well, Bradenton, Florida is on the left coast of Florida, but still, let's go east.
Five years ago, Arlene Sweeting, noted activist, radio host, and unabashed free thinker, opened a tiny cafe near McKechney Field in Bradenton, Florida.
In time, Fogartyville Cafe became something more than a hole-in-the-wall joint that served tofu, organic coffee, and no war bumper stickers.
It became a refuge for aging hippies, would-be radicals, and part-time poets, a liberal landmark in a decidedly conservative city.
But now, as Arlene Sweeting and co-owner Dave Beaton prepare to sell the Fogartyville Cafe to focus in part on a small radio station over in Sarasota, the community that Fogartyville fostered is trying to save it.
We have to, said Billy Johnson, a stained glass maker.
We can't let this place close.
It's too important.
The task of saving the Fogartyville Cafe is bigger than it seems because Arlene and her pal have already moved on to their radio station and so forth.
You know, when I read this, and this is out of the, I think it's the Sarasota Herald Tribune, it goes on to list all the things they could do to maybe save the Fogartyville cafe.
I thought I was reading Scott Ott at Scrapple Face or something from The Onion.
Thought I was reading a parody.
Perhaps the regulars need to start a co-op.
No, they decided there aren't enough of them to do it.
Perhaps Fogartyville could be rented out.
That's an idea, said another regular.
Maybe they could lobby an investment firm for the cash.
Only if they promise to think like us, though.
These liberal landmarks falling by the wayside in several places.
Paul and Cincinnati, nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Ditto's Rush.
Yes.
I think the two most important words to take away from the Imus thing is public airways.
That's going to be the Kool-Aid by which to drive by and administers the poison.
Yeah, I've noticed that.
Public airwaves, we're in charge of public airwaves.
The public can say what they want and don't want.
But there's a little irony in that, too, in that the first place Imus got canned was cable, and there's no such, there aren't any regulations on cable.
Say whatever you want there.
Hello, HBO.
Hello, MTV.
This does resonate, though, with the public.
Yeah, well, I'm still.
I don't know.
Do you have a feel for how many of the American public really got this worked up over all this?
They're being worked up.
Well, they were.
I know, but that's one point.
They were being worked up.
Correct.
But when they first heard about it, when they just first heard the news, do you think, I mean, I didn't see protests all over the country.
I didn't see the evidence of national outrage.
It took them a while to gin this up.
Well, it's a constant.
That's where the powers lie.
All right.
So is there an antidote in your mind to this public airwaves phrase that they are using?
You're right about that.
Well, you and a few others, when you see it coming, maybe you can divert it.
But this is going to be the standard phrase.
I mean, it's going to be, you tell a lie long enough.
I understand.
Look, it's all about ridding the public airwaves of conservative information.
And they'll do it by saying that conservatives lie and the conservatives are racists.
And that's their announced plan anyway.
I mean, this is one of their objectives is to just, they don't want to hear it.
The tolerant, compassionate ones, Stalinists, folks, is what this is.
And it's all tied to liberalism and general principles.
But make no mistake, the intensity of this directly tied to the upcoming presidential race.
This is all about the Clinton machine.
I cannot emphasize this enough to you.
The Clinton machine, the Democrat Party, the drive-by media, inseparable.
Same entity.
For all intents and purposes.
Tucson, Arizona.
This is TJ.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Yes, sir.
Just a quick note.
You can get an appetite suppressor in a health food store.
It's fennel.
You've got to get the medicinal grade.
But anyway, I was wondering if Al Sharpton really was sent after Imus by the Clinton team because he's been in the habit of referring to Hillary as Satan for the past 50 days or so.
I was wondering if you think this was more personal than philosophical.
And my other question I want to get to you is: what do you think Al's going to get for being the hitman for the Hillary Camp all this time?
I've read that.
I forget where, but I read that, I think, this morning.
It might have been yesterday that Imus would refuse to have Clinton on the show, Hillary, Mrs. Bill Clinton, and had called her Satan and so forth.
And somebody speculated that that's what motivated the Clintons to aim at Imus and finally take him out.
I don't know whether I look at it.
All I know is this.
With the Clintons, there are no coincidences.
But this is speculation on something I don't know.
I don't think this would have happened whether the Clinton machine had sent marching orders out to anybody or not.
So I look at, I want to stress this again, and I don't mean to insult anybody here.
This is not about Imus.
If you keep focusing on the IMIS aspect of this, you are going to be distracted from seeing what the real objective here is.
Nothing against Imus saying this, and he probably would disagree.
That's all about me, Lynn Boy.
What are you talking about?
But he's irrelevant in this now.
The fact that it's still being talked.
Look, if it was about Imus, it would be over with.
But you've got Sharpton.
I got my list, he's saying.
I got my list of who's next, and I got this, and the media matters, Peter.
Oh, they're all lining up to do this.
This is a big notch in the belt here.
And this is just the beginning.
Well, it's not even that.
This has been going.
This is the biggest get so far.
And of course, for people who did the get, who got the got, this is fuel, motivation, inspiration.
Do you think these people aren't out there celebrating, flexing their moments?
Look at the power we've got.
And of course, what is it that made them gave them that power?
It was a bunch of executives at CBS and NBC cowering in fear in the corners to a number of things.
And the elevation of Al Sharpton and the Reverend Jackson as the arbiters of public morality and public taste.
Now, you go figure that.
If somebody can figure it out, I know that they've got their positions of power because the Democrat Party has elevated them there, but there's nothing more absurd than that.
I mean, that's just patently ridiculous.
But it is what it is because the objective is the point, not whether they have any credibility doing it.
I don't care about being credible when they do it.
All they want is their results.
Anyway, I have to run here because of the constraints of the busy broadcast format.
Back here in just a second.
You see this story over the weekend in the UK Telegraph.
The headline says it all.
Women may be able to grow own sperm.
This is filed into the category men.
What are they good for?
Absolutely nothing.
Women could one day grow their own sperm, says a scientist who today claims to have turned bone marrow into early stage sperm cells.
His team now studying how to grow fully-fledged sperm from bone marrow as a means to restore fertility in young men who have undergone cancer treatments could be five years before trials start.
Along with cloning, this could mark the second technique that makes men redundant or unnecessary.
Grow their own sperm.
Grow their own sperm.
No, I'm just thinking of all kinds of lines about growing your own sperm and but I'm going to stay away from it there.
Anyway, here's Sunana, I guess that is.
Sunana in Encinitas, California.
Hi, Sunana.
Glad you called.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
It's an honor to speak to you.
Very quickly, I want to find out why no one is talking about the Diane Feinstein story.
It's been completely brushed under the rug.
It's bigger than anything that Halliburton and Cheney was going on then, but yet nobody is talking about it.
Well, now let's leave it at that.
Let's do a little exercise here.
And I'm just going to assume you people in the audience know what.
Let me brief you.
She recently resigned from a subcommittee in the Senate that has great sway on the apportioning of military contracts.
And many of them went to her husband, companies that her husband is prominently invested in or even controls.
She got out of there, and it's been a local, an alternative weekly, or I think in the Bay Area, which has been really pounding the drums on this.
But nobody in the drive-bys have picked up the story, and that's what that's what Sunana here is talking about.
So, Mike, why do you think that is?
Obviously, I know why it is, because nobody wants to bring up this impropriety when it's one of their own girls.
There you go.
It's a perfect dog.
It's all of our people.
Why is Fox not talking about it?
Why are you know senators not calling for her resignation?
Where's all the Republicans?
They're mum on this and.
Oh, God, here we go again.
I look at if don't ask me to explain why the Republicans aren't talking.
You should know that.
They're not going to make this is not what they do.
The drive-bys don't care about it because it doesn't fit the agenda.
They're going to take one of their own out.
Plus, she quit when she realized that things had gone wrong.
I can imagine the way this whole thing would be spun.
As for Fox News, I don't know that they haven't talked about it.
I haven't seen them lately.
I can't believe that somewhere on Fox News, somewhere that this story hasn't at least been mentioned.
But you're whistling Dixie.
You're going by the graveyard here if you think the drive-bys are going to talk about this.
Rush, she did not resign from being on the Senate Rules Committee, which is all about ethical behavior.
Well, no, why should she?
She's Diane Feinstein.
She's a liberal Democrat.
They never do anything wrong.
You know, look at back when Bill Clinton was abusing women.
It was the women's fault.
They were trailer trash, and it was a bunch of right-wingers bringing it up.
And, you know, Hillary was out there defending her husband, showing her strength in the matter.
No, There are two Americas.
There's a different playing field for these people.
See, the problem is, Diane Feinstein is not corrupt.
She wasn't trying to profit.
That's not who liberal.
Liberals cannot.
By definition, liberals cannot engage in anything that's racist, sexist, homophobic, or corrupt.
That's not who liberals are.
So, whatever the truth is here, it isn't that.
And it doesn't even interest them.
Well, I mean, I know you're laughing.
It's a laugh of frustration.
But that's what other explanation for this is there.
The only other explanation is that the San Francisco Chronicle hasn't done the story.
It's some weekly, or I believe somebody referred to it as an alternative paper.
That's a bunch of leftists.
I know they might chalk it up to being an uncredible source.
Who knows?
But glad you brought it up because it just shows the total double standard that exists.
Let me take a brief time.
That will grab one more call, maybe two, when we come back.
Portland, Oregon.
And Brian, you're next with El Rushball.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush.
Good to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Quick point here.
Hillary's going to go visit the girls' basketball team, the Rutgers Girls' Basketball Team.
Yeah, I knew that.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
She was reigned out of going out there last week, and Corzine was auto-accident out of making it there.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
But we all know why she's got her reasons.
A quick point here.
You know, I think right after that, why doesn't she go down and visit the Duke players?
Well, I love all these questions.
They're great questions, but they answer themselves.
Yeah, really.
I mean, the.
Well, all's fair and fair here.
Yes, I know, but you'd have the doubting zombie.
Wait a minute.
You can't compare these two things.
No, no, I'm not trying to compare them.
But, you know, I mean, you know, the girls, they deserve okay.
Hillary wants to go see them.
But, you know, how about the Duke guys?
Well, the Duke guys are already rich, elitist, white guys for the Northeast, and they're strong, and they don't need to be pandered to.
But you've got to understand how liberals look at their constituents.
Victims, weak, incompetent, need to be bucked up.
It's a presidential campaign.
This is just pure pandering.
You know the answer to these questions and so forth.
I think these kinds of realizations on the part of more and more people that don't get expressed is a sign of progress, too.
I wish I had more time, but I don't, folks, we have to get out of here.
But we're off to a great start here at a brand new week of Broadcast Excellence.
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