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May 11, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 11, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Oh, you really said that with excitement.
I know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's Friday.
It's everybody's tired.
Everybody is trying to avoid stepping at it.
I understand that.
We are not timid here.
Even though it is Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
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For those of you relatively new to the program, Open Line Friday is different from Monday through Thursday in this way.
Monday through Thursday, we only take calls from people who want to talk about things I care about.
But on Friday, we broom that.
If you want to call and talk about anything, whether I care about it or not, we'll generally take the call.
I mean, we still have some standards here to uphold and some limits, but regardless of that, I don't I don't have to care about it.
It's a tremendous uh career risk taken by someone of my stature to turn over the content of the program when we go to the phones to a lovable uh and deeply appreciated, but nevertheless, bunch of rank amateurs.
That's you.
I am the highly trained broadcast specialist, and I know what I'm doing, and you don't.
Uh but the purpose of a call is to make the host look good, and all and you all do that uh repeatedly.
Uh Open Line Friday is uh it's sort of like a day off for Mr. Snerdley, who's the call screener today.
Well, you can pretty much accept anything in there because of the relaxation of the rule.
Now he's in there cursing.
Anyway, there's uh exciting stuff going on out there, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
The Baltimore Sun has continued to add to their story about the the hate crime committed against me uh and my Baltimore affiliate, WCBM, the uh defacing of the billboard.
You know what they did today?
They published a map.
They published a map to the billboard.
So if you want to drive through Baltimore, if you don't know where it's, it's somewhere off I-83.
I didn't print the map out.
I don't have it in front of me, but I've printed a map that you can go to go look at the billboard.
We've uh we've uh we've discussed all this with WCB, and we're gonna leave the billboard as it is.
They're gonna put the line up there.
Uh uh something along the lines of uh listen to find out what the left doesn't want you to know.
Uh yeah.
I'm thinking this is I mean, if they're publishing maps to the billboard, they're they're making this a cultural attraction.
This this this billboard, this defaced billboard of me, is gonna end up being one of the top cultural sites in the city now.
I mean, Orioles suck.
Uh they're having a lousy season.
You got you got crab cakes, you got the inner harbor, and you've got the limbaugh billboard.
All on your list of things to do if you are in uh Baltimore.
Also, uh, I I think uh that uh some of the some of the public schools in Baltimore might want to now have uh field trips.
Uh class field trips to the billboard.
Yeah, because it is now one of the most well, it's one of the top cultural sites in the city now.
Everybody is trying to figure out who did it.
And there's uh there's all kinds of speculation.
Uh uh one uh one one listener, WCBM sent uh Tom Maher, the host that precedes me there an email thinking it might be some students from the Maryland Institute College of Arts campus.
It's close to the billboard.
Plenty of paint since it's an art college.
And apparently it's a blindly radically liberal campus.
Uh where it is i it it this place is reputed to have many, many students who literally hate me.
Uh for all I know, it could have been a class assignment.
It could have been the this could have been a homework assignment dished out by one of the uh one of the professors there.
But we're uh Dean Dean at Coco's out again today.
Uh you you can find that map.
Well, Drudge link to it.
Uh why don't you go ahead and put it on our website uh so that you it's a Google map.
Uh It's just unbelievable.
More fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Have you seen what Hollywood's gonna do?
Hollywood is they're gonna require an R rating for movies where smoking takes place.
What is this?
In a Hollywood movie after the orgy scene, after the mass murder scene, after the blood and gut scene.
If one of the participants smoke, the kids can't watch it.
Yeah, well, I I don't know.
I I well, I don't know if it's going to apply to the black and white movies.
That's that's a good question.
I haven't I haven't read this in uh in detail, but I want to I want to give you something to think about here with this new R rating for smoking in movies.
Do you realize that every anti-smoking politician of a certain age grew up when movie houses allowed smoking and they're all alive?
You you could smoke in movie houses not long ago, and and and the people who did that are still alive.
It takes a long time to kill you.
Uh smoking does.
Uh and I'm gonna I want to warn you people as less and less, fewer and fewer Americans smoke.
There's gonna be more chaos, there's gonna be more angst, there are gonna be people more on edge out there.
Uh and so it's less tax revenue.
Well, they'll do something with the tax revenue.
They'll they'll uh just keep increasing it.
I as I've said before, I think I think we all owe smokers such a debt of gratitude.
Hell are paying for everybody's health care.
Uh they're they're paying for so much uh because of their habit, not they're buying all these cartons and packs of cigarettes.
Yeah, I love heartwarming stories.
We love to focus on heartwarming stories here on Open Line Friday.
And this uh this is from Nashville, a convicted murderer put to death in Nashville yesterday, got his last meal wish after he died.
Now, you might be wondering how can this be?
How can somebody have a last meal wish granted once they've been executed?
Well, here are the details.
Philip Workman had turned down the usual final meal of his choice, traditionally offered the condemned.
He instead asked that a vegetarian pizza be given to a homeless person.
Prison officials refused.
But news accounts of his request touched a nerve with the public.
Uh Nashville's Union Rescue Mission received 170 pizzas.
Uh listeners to a radio station in Minnesota also reportedly ordered pizzas sent to an organization for troubled youth.
So uh even the condemned and the executed did a good deal.
Uh, always never thinking of himself, even in his last moments.
Engineers vegetarian pizzas to the homeless uh in a in a final act of selflessness uh right before being cooked.
I I just love these heartwarming stories.
Also, here's a story that Kennedys, the Kennedys must, they're gonna love this story.
A Hamden Hampden county man, Massachusetts, who allegedly tricked his brother's girlfriend into having sex with him by impersonating his brother in the middle of the night, cannot be convicted of rape.
Oh, folks, do you really this is a this is in the Boston Globe today in the Kennedys?
This is the kind of thing they'll cut out of the paper and they'll frame and they'll put it on all of their walls of bedrooms and so forth.
This this decision came from the state's highest highest court yesterday, controversial decision, uh, that affirms the court's long-held view that sex obtained through fraud is not a crime.
Oh man.
The great day.
Well, I don't know about a great day in America, but I'm saying it's a great day for the Kennedys.
I mean the Supreme Judicial Court unanimously ruled that a judge should have dismissed the rape charge against Alvin Sulliveris, who's 44 of Westfield, because Massachusetts law has for centuries defined rape as sexual intercourse by Force and against one's will.
And that it is not rape when consent is obtained through fraud.
Oh, don't you just love these liberal meccas?
It's not rape when consent is obtained through fraud.
The case dates to a night in January of 2005.
A woman was living with her boyfriend Dwayne Sulliveras in a basement room of his dad's home.
Alvin Zuliveris was also staying at the same house.
Excuse me, Dwayne Sulliveris, now 33, was working night shifts.
At three in the morning, a woman later told authorities she was awakened by the sound of the door opening to the dark room and said, Duane, why are you home so early?
But she didn't get a response.
Then uh then she said someone she thought was her boyfriend got into bed, removed her clothes, and had sex with her for about 10 minutes.
He got up, opened the door, she saw that it was Alvin Sulliveras.
Uh after uh Hamden County prosecutors presented their case, Sullivera's trial lawyer asked Superior Court Judge Tina Page to acquit his client for lack of evidence, but the judge refused.
The case went to the jury, uh, which couldn't reach a verdict.
Lord, okay.
Well, let me take a break here.
Lots lots of stuff still ahead.
Finally we might get to our global warming stack today.
Uh I had to put it off uh last couple three days, but it looks like we'll get to it.
So sit tight.
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If you want to be on open line Friday, we'll be back and continue after this.
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Rushlin bought talent on lawn from God.
I I should mention I am I'm in one of these giddy moods.
It was a late night last night, uh, uh ladies and gentlemen.
Very, very late night.
Went to dinner at some at some friends.
A major major diet pressure the next 10 days, but oh, these next 10 days are going to be a huge challenge.
I got I'm I'm I'm I won't even give you the details, but I oh, yes, by the way, this reminds me.
Half hour news hour premieres Sunday night on the Fox News channeling.
It's I think it's 10 o'clock.
It's after Hannity's show.
Now I'm not gonna be in this episode, but I am going, I'm gonna next weekend, I'm gonna be in LA.
I'm gonna shoot a couple episodes as the president.
Uh and one episode is me.
I haven't seen the sketches yet.
I'll get those uh well sometime in advance of getting there, but be in New York a lot of next week doing stuff and then to LA next weekend.
But the half hour news hour premieres, people have been asking me, hey Rush, you said Fox picked it up when I can't it's it starts, it's a 13-week run, and it starts Sunday night uh at uh at 10 o'clock.
So uh at any rate, it uh very lately.
And I'm in a I'm in one of these giddy moods.
I mean, the I go through the stacks of stuff here, and the stuff that strikes my fancy is all this lighthearted stuff.
Um by the way, I got an email from somebody who says, you know, this guy that died in Nashville that refused his last meal and instead uh wanted the uh prison authorities to send a vegetarian pizza over to the homeless.
That that really wasn't that thoughtful, Rosh.
If he really cared about the homeless, he'd have he'd ordered pepperoni pizza because the homeless need protein.
And I have to admit uh that that's that's probably true.
There's a story in the Washington Post today that cannot possibly be welcome in John Edwardsville.
The uh headline says, Edwards says he didn't know about subprime push.
Uh the hedge fund that employed John Edwards, the Breck girl, markedly expanded its subprime lending business while he worked there, becoming a major player in the high-risk mortgage sector that Edwards is pillaried in his presidential campaign.
He has.
He's been out there ripping the subprime uh uh mortgage sector that's because it's high risk.
He's been pillaring it, and and the hedge fund that employed him expanded its subprime lending business while he was there.
Now, Edwards said yesterday he was unaware of the push by the firm, its Fortress Investment Group, uh, into subprime lending, and that he wishes he had asked more questions before before taking the job.
Well, this is this is a crock.
The first thing he says he was there, he went to the hedge fund to learn about poverty.
To which I said yesterday, well, I'm gonna go work in a soup kitchen to learn about being rich.
How absurd is this?
He had no clue what was going on at this hedge fund.
They were thinking they were creating it.
Uh he was He was there when all this was happening largely as a result of the rise in subprime lending and the cooling housing market housing market, home foreclosure filings rose to 1.2 million in 2006, an increase of 42%, and that hurts.
At the same time, the drop in value of subprime lenders has presented a buying opportunity for investors like Fortress.
Now Fortress hired the Breck girl as an advisor in October of 2001.
Wait a minute.
How can you hire somebody as an advisor when they say they're going there to learn things?
If you're an advisor, you teach.
If you are an advisor, you advise.
But he said he went there to learn about poverty.
Then while he was there, he had no clue that this firm was expanding its subprime business while he's out there ripping the subprime market all to hell.
Yeah, they five they hired him in October 2005, nearly a year after his losing campaign as uh as uh John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, by the way, is vice president at the time.
Uh Fortress owned a major stake in Green Trees servicing LLC, which rose to prominence in the 90s, selling subprime loans to mobile homeowners.
And now services subprime loans originated by others.
Well, now let's let's let's let's be honest here.
If you're if you're selling subprime loans to mobile homeowners, uh the odds are that the majority of them are going to be in that category that Edwards calls the second America.
They're less affluent, shall we say.
And of course, the subprime market ends up taking advantage of these people, and Edwards didn't know what was going on because he was there learning about poverty.
Last July, Fortress expanded its stake in the industry by buying Texas-based Centex Home Equity, a top 25 subprime lender for an estimated 540 million.
Edwards knew none of this while he was advising this much.
Edwards said yesterday he recalls being told at the time of his hiring that some of Fortress's private equity holdings did lend to start-up businesses, which is why he asked about predatory lending practices, but he couldn't recall whether the firm's partners told him it had a major stake in Green Tree.
Those are the things I remember.
They may have told me more.
Uh had he learned that Fortress owned a loan servicer with a history of predatory lending practices, he said, I would have asked some very specific questions about well, you didn't because you didn't even know.
I'm telling you, that this is a long article and it goes on and on and on.
Uh but I'm I guarantee at Camp Edwards today, this is not a good day.
Edwards said that his role at a company with a growing stake in the subprime industry should not be seen as undermining his commitment uh to the poor.
He noted that since the 2004 election, he's founded a poverty think tank.
He started a charity for poor college students and assisted campaigns to raise the minimum wage.
You know where subprime loans have been particularly prevalent?
New Orleans.
Enough said.
Um shouldn't be seen.
So his big house shouldn't be seen as hypocritical.
Uh his work at the hedge fund shouldn't be seen as undermining his commitment to helping the poor because he had a think tank.
He had a think tank, and you know what the think tank did?
They and he even said this.
I don't think the think tanks open.
He had a think tank.
It had a temporary well, it had a start and stop period, and they issued papers.
They sat around and they thought, which is what some people do at think tanks, and then they wrote what they thought down in paper, and they released these papers, they're called position papers.
And as though that's not been done before, and of course, as though what are you gonna do?
Take the position papers down to the homeless, say, here, have this for dessert after you have the vegetarian pizza from the dead guy in Nashville.
I mean the hypocrisy, Ladies and gentlemen is overflowing out there trying to stoke up all kinds of class envy, uh saying he's going to this place to learn about poverty, which is a joke and an insult.
And if a Republican had said that, it would have been treated as a joke and an insult.
They've been laughed out of the place.
Now he says he was an advisor.
Well, you don't, you don't if you're an advisor, you're not there to learn things.
You're there to advise and teach.
And he says he didn't know all this was going on while he was there, which you know what it all adds up to.
He probably wasn't there.
Just got all put his name, Rainmaker on the letterhead, gets a little money for it and so forth, and uh uh gets himself some private sector experience after doing the think tank gig for the poor, and it's uh it's all coming home to roost now.
Okay, get some phone calls when we come back, so sit tight, don't go anywhere.
Our buddy Bo Diddley taking us back to the content portion of the program.
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
800 282-2882.
Open line Friday.
By the way, um uh guess what we just found here.
You know the brick girl, we get a new name for him.
He's the golly candidate.
He didn't know anything about the hedge fund.
Gully.
He didn't know about the war when he voted for.
Golly.
And there's a moral to this, folks.
Just because you know about hair conditioners doesn't mean you know anything else.
All right, to the phones we go to uh Bulford, uh, North Carolina, and this is Angie.
Glad you called and welcome.
You're up first today.
That's an awesome responsibility, by the way, because you, as the first caller, set the tone for everyone who will follow.
Hello.
Yes.
Hi, Angie.
Hi.
You're on the you're on the real radio now.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
I'm I'm thrilled I got through.
It's an honor to be talking to you.
Thank you very much.
You're welcome.
Um I just had a comment about a caller yesterday that really struck a nerve with me.
The one who said that the comment was made in the classroom about what do you get when you subtract liars from Democrats.
Yes.
And I just thought if this has been teach being teached in the classroom or being taught in the classroom, then maybe we should focus more on a separation of politics and academia rather than church and state, because our youth are being bombarded by the left.
And that can that makes me concerned for the future of the party.
Well, it's it's this is not new.
This has been this kind of stuff has been going on a long, long, long, long time.
And you're never gonna get separation of uh politics and academia because it's that the that's why people in academia are there.
It's all about politics.
It's they're all liberals, and they use education as a as a as a tool to advance their agenda.
It's about indoctrination, it's not about education.
Uh but you know the the the uh again underlying that is there's just boiling rage and anger out on the left.
And it it is irrational.
I explained it yesterday, and I don't want to uh be a broken record on this and repeat myself, but uh the these people feel threatened, folks.
They used to own everything.
They used to run Washington, they used to have a monopoly in the media.
Uh and they they've lost those.
Uh there's now obviously huge competitive alternative media.
Uh and and they're they they can't get anything done done in Congress, even though they run it again.
They've still got a Republican in the White House they have to deal with.
They're just fit to be tied.
Um and they they're also angry because they don't like opposition.
They don't think there ought to be any opposition.
They don't have to explain themselves to anybody.
Uh and I think that this is eventually all this stuff is gonna come home and uh uh uh and and uh to roost for them.
I just don't know when.
But but but trust me, um everything comes around eventually.
Um I can't give just personal examples here uh to illustrate what I mean.
Throughout my career, and I'm sure yours too, when you wherever you've worked, you've been shafted.
Everybody has.
One time or another, maybe multiple times, and it makes you mad, and you want to seek revenge, you want those people to pay for it, but you're powerless at the time to do anything about it.
But if you just sit back and wait, those people eventually get theirs.
I could give you Well, a recent example in my case, but I don't want to I'm not I'm not gonna No, no, no, no.
I'm not no I'm not gonna I'm not trying to tease you, but I'm just saying this stuff comes when when you've got bad actors, when you've got literal creeps uh that that in gay like these professors and so forth, it's gonna come back and bite 'em.
Uh it's gonna come back and haunt them eventually.
It always does.
What goes around comes around.
Uh the way you treat people will come back on you.
It always does.
Uh and uh it may take time and you may never know when it happens, by the way.
But but it always does.
And in this case, we will know it because the Democrat Party is sowing seeds for a giant landslide defeat somewhere down the road, make no mistake about it.
Mike in Miami, you're next on open line Friday.
Great to have you with us.
Thanks, Roger.
It's a pleasure.
I I think it should be obvious to you, Edwards, that the way to alleviate poverty is through granting credit to the poor.
There's a guy that won a Nobel Peace Prize for that by uh showing that if you gave credit, uh microcredit, uh that i you build economies.
The su uh we ought to be thanking God for the subprime market, because in the last few years hundreds of thousands of people who would not otherwise have been able to were able to buy their first home.
Something that is a basic tenant of getting people out of poverty.
Right, but what wait a minute, wait, wait a minute.
What's the downside when you start lending money to people who really can't afford it and you make a special deal for them and and then they run into trouble or the rate rises and and they can't pay it off?
Rush that's that is on the individual.
That is uh there's a lot of individuals who are financially irresponsible.
That's not the problem of the lender, that's the problem of the borrower.
The lenders go back twenty, thirty years.
There used to be uh d discrimination in lending, neighborhoods that wouldn't be lended to, people that wouldn't be lended to.
We don't hear those uh those problems in the last five to five, six, seven, eight years all the housing boom with it.
That's true.
They're given the big thing.
People that would would previously have been victims of discrimination, not been able to have gotten credit, were able to get credit by their first home, be ha have barely a job, live in an apartment.
Now, if uh if people had eyes bigger than their stomachs and were buying five hundred thousand dollar houses when they can only afford a two hundred thousand dollar house, that's not the problem of the subprime lender.
That's the problem of the borrower.
No, no, no.
I I understand that.
I'm saying that there's some people on the low end here uh that the subprime you'll correct me if I'm wrong on this.
I may be uh uh being taken in and fooled here by the drive-by media.
But like this story on the Brett Girl, uh with with the Fortress Group, they were heavily involved in the subprime market uh for mobile homeowners.
Well, uh uh th a lot of people want to own their homes uh that that that really are not financially able to, and yet they're still being uh lent money and they're having trouble paying it back at some point.
Well rush uh Rush Rush, there used to be a thing called character lending.
Not uh not looking at a balance sheet, but looking at the individual.
And people of good character would take out what they think that they could reasonably afford to pay.
And that goes back to the borrower uh you know, I you you've you you might have had some egregious instances, but overall, I think the capital markets were making a very uh uh a business decision on loaning to lots of people, and what they probably did the capital markets is they misjudged the amount of deadbeats that were out there.
And now the now the subprime market is in trouble.
But uh an entire industry is getting castigated for open-ended lending, which is in in in the in grand scheme of things, a very good thing, something that should be encouraged.
Mike, what what what business are you in?
Well, I'm close to that business.
I wonder I'm on the I'm on the building side, okay?
I'm on the billing side.
But I can tell I'm on the billing side.
But I can tell you that I've know personally a lot of people who otherwise would not have normally qualified that were able to buy a house and and get a little mortgage, and did very well with that.
And look, there's gone on and looked at the.
I know there's there's no question about it.
Drive by media's been trying to scare up this housing bubble for how many years now?
They've been trying to scare because everything is doom and chaos, doom and gloom and so forth.
But well, look, I'm glad you called.
I would only Depart in one minor way with you in discussing what's uh the best cure for poverty.
Uh and and it's uh uh not only access to credit, I mean I'm not I'm not disagreeing with that, but the best cure for poverty is free markets.
Uh the the uh it's not government programs.
We've tried that.
The world has tried it, it doesn't work.
Uh access to capital and free markets is the is the well, education, it goes without saying, uh is is one of the fundamental characteristics to getting rid of poverty.
I would suggest, by the way, folks, that in this country we have compared to real poverty in other parts of the world.
We have poor people here, but relative to uh the way a lot of people in this uh on this world live on this planet live uh our poverty is quite a few steps up.
When you start talking about uh people in the under the poverty line in this country own cars, some of them have their own house, some of them have televisions, multiple televisions, air conditioning, and so forth.
That's that's not poverty.
I don't know, they're there are pockets of uh uh disadvantaged people in this country.
I'm not trying to gloss over it, but we've done a remarkable job here uh in in dealing with and uh the people who are in the worst shape in this country regarding the future are those who become totally dependent on the meager subsistence they get from these redundant government programs who have not at all developed their own potential ambition, uh, or or any of those characteristics which are the ultimate ways out of it for uh for everybody.
I've always marveled.
You know, back during the the heated homeless days, uh I would say on the radio or say in a speech somewhere, you know, well, why d why don't these people just get a job?
And a liberal would say, oh, easy for you to say.
So what what what in the world is uh uh insulting about that?
Well, easy for you to say get a job.
What what if all of us said the hell with a job we'll just sit around and wait?
What what I mean, a job is honorable.
Work is how many people define themselves.
So it it's you know, the the left, you know, it look at their their never-ending commitment to the concept of failure on the part of most people, is what holds the people under their tutelage down.
No expectations of success.
The left has no expectations that the poor can rise above their circumstances, and so they they think they're perpetually locked.
That's why in the abortion debate, the Libs tried to say, well, we don't get a mother and give birth to that baby.
Oh, well, look at the neighborhood it's gonna grow up.
Look at the circumstance.
Economics, wait, nobody wants to be born into poverty.
Take a look at the uh successful people all over the world who were born into such circumstances.
I mean, it's just it's it's depressing.
I don't want to talk about it anymore.
The whole thing is depressing me.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us.
It's open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Listen to this audio, somebody.
This was this morning on Washington Journal on the C-SPAN.
Brian Lamb is the host today, and he was talking to the chief White House correspondent for ABC News, Martha Raditz.
And we talk about the drive-by is all over the place, uh, as you know.
And one of the points that I've always made to me about the drive-by is is they're still carrying this illusion.
They still put forth this illusion, a delusion as far as they're concerned that they are objective.
They are objective.
And of course, that's one of the big problems, because everybody knows they're not now.
Everybody knows that they are agenda-driven, and for the most part, they've thrown in with their buds in the Democrat Party.
So a caller from South Bend, Indiana calls into C-SPAN and asks Martha Raditz, I'd like to know uh if you're guest this morning, if she's a Republican, a Democrat, or an independent.
We don't talk about those things.
We don't talk about those things at all.
I'm an objective reporter.
Uh we can't uh we don't really talk about that.
I wouldn't talk about it.
Well, I I'd like to I'd like you to find a reporter that does.
Could you tell me the last time that you voted for a Republican?
I I'm not going to tell you anything about how I vote when I vote and who I've ever voted for.
I am here as a journalist.
I am not here as a political representative of either party.
I am a journalist, and that is my job to try to maintain objectivity.
It is not I'm not calling in on a call show to tell you what uh what party I belong to.
I'm a journalist.
But if you want truly objective, it wouldn't make any difference, would it?
there's an appearance of conflict of interest, you know, and if I came out here and said something like that, there would be people saying, aha, see, she's not objective.
See, it's uh it's it's sort of funny listening to all this.
They twist themselves into pretzels, uh trying to maintain this this uh premise of objectivity.
You know, folks, uh let's talk about objectivity for a second.
This is an object lesson.
Thinking informed, engaged human beings.
And Martha Raditz is one, and and so are most of the members of the Drive My Media.
As are all of you, and as am I. I'm probably the king of the engaged, informed, and uh thinking individuals out there.
And as such, we care.
Why would you be engaged?
Why would you be thoughtful?
Why would you uh uh be someone who endeavors to learn about things if you didn't care?
So the fact that you care means, furthermore, after that, that you're gonna have an interest in outcomes.
See, I think it is humanly impossible to be uncaring or uninterested in the outcome of event, whether you're a journalist or anybody else, if you are a thinking, engaged, involved person.
So this whole concept of objectivity has always been a strange one for me, and I think it's a fallback position, and it's used to camouflage and hide what real thinking and engaged people uh are are are uh are are doing.
The drive-by's are the classic illustration of this.
Here is Jack in Pompano Beach, Florida on Open Line Friday.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
You you do a wonderful job, I'll tell you.
I appreciate that.
Thank you.
That's because I'm a thinking, involved, engaged person.
I think I am too.
But what I call about is recently they've decided to rate movies based on the amount of smoking in them uh as well as sex and violence.
Yeah, what it's I think the the i if it's pervasive or if smoking is glamorized and is going to get an R-rated.
Yeah.
So what what came to mind is uh uh the whole generation of us in the 30s and 40s that uh learned to smoke because of bogey and bacall.
And uh I think it's about time we sued the uh maybe we could get Edwards to sue the movie industry for getting us all to smoke.
Because now they've admitted the culpability to it, you know.
Well, now that is an interesting concept.
As is as litigious as our society is, and as many tort lawyers as there are out there chasing ambulances, yeah, I bet you you're agree with it.
I'll bet you your comment is reverberative.
The problem is most tort lawyers are rabid Democrats, and of course, most Hollywood types are rabid Democrats.
Well, they might get them fight each other.
I know, but whether you gotta you gotta ask the question will ideology trump the quest for books.
Yeah, you got and and uh but you know what'll happen with this, I mean, if this ever does happen.
This is the rating.
This is not Hollywood's not admitting anything here.
Yeah, this is the motion picture rating, whatever it is, the M P R A XYZ, they're the ones that are doing this.
Uh and if they just slough this off back to big tobacco.
Yeah.
Well, I just brought it to mind because I've thought for years that uh that it was really because of the movie industry that uh it still is there's no question look at the the people I watch movies.
Yeah, I mean, they light up, they look cool, they look sophisticated.
Yes, there's there's no question.
I mean, they put this stuff in movies on purpose, folks.
People like to see it.
I see the divorce rates down, and I've real frankly I'm undecided about whether that's good or bad, folks.
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