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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.
Everybody's tired.
Everybody's trying to avoid stepping in it.
I understand that.
But we are not timid here, even though it is Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday from goody, goody, goody dumb drugs, ladies and gentlemen.
Open Line Friday on the EIB Network and the award-winning Thrill Pact ever exciting, increasingly popular Rush Limbaugh program coming to you from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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And the email address, rush at EIBNet.com.
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.
And 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 have to care about it.
It's a tremendous 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 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.
But the purpose of a call is to make the host look good, and you all do that repeatedly.
Open Line Friday is sort of like a day off for Mr. Snirdley, who's the call screener today.
Well, you can pretty much accept anything in there because of the relaxation of the rules.
Now he's in there cursing.
Anyway, there's exciting stuff going on out there, ladies and gentlemen.
The Baltimore Sun has continued to add to their story about the hate crime committed against me and my Baltimore affiliate, WCBM, the 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 printed a map that you can go look at the billboard.
We've discussed all this with WCB.
We're going to leave the billboard as it is.
We're going to put the line up there, something along the lines of listen to find out what the left doesn't want you to know.
I'm thinking this, I mean, if they're publishing maps to the billboard, they're making this a cultural attraction.
This billboard, this defaced billboard of me, is going to end up being one of the top cultural sites in the city now.
I mean, the Orioles suck.
They're having a lousy season.
You've 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 Baltimore.
Also, I think that some of the public schools in Baltimore might want to now have field trips, class field trips to the billboard.
It is now one of the most, well, it's one of the top cultural sites in the city now.
Everybody's trying to figure out who did it.
And there's all kinds of speculation.
One listener, WCBM, sent Tom Marr, 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 where this place is reputed to have many, many students who literally hate me.
For all I know, it could have been a class assignment.
This could have been a homework assignment dished out by one of the professors there.
But I'll tell you what, Dean, Dean Coco's out again today.
You can find that map.
Well, Drudge linked to it.
Why don't you go ahead and put it on our website?
It's a Google map.
It's just unbelievable.
More fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Have you seen what Hollywood's going to do?
Hollywood is that they're going to 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 guts scene, if one of the participants smoke, the kids can't watch it.
Yeah, well, I don't know.
Well, I don't know if it's going to apply to the black and white movies.
That's a good question.
I haven't read this in detail, but 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 could smoke in movie houses not long ago, and the people who did that are still alive.
It takes a long time to kill you.
Smoking does.
And I want to warn you people: as less and less fewer and fewer Americans smoke, there's going to be more chaos.
There are going to be more angst.
There are going to be people more on edge out there.
And it's less tax revenue.
Well, they'll do something with the tax revenue.
They'll just keep increasing it.
As I've said before, I think we all owe smokers such a debt of gratitude.
Hell, they're paying for everybody's health care.
They're paying for so much because of their habit.
They're buying all these cartons and packs of cigarettes.
I love heartwarming stories.
We love to focus on heartwarming stories here on Open Line Friday.
And 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 to 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.
Nashville's Union Rescue Mission received 170 pizzas.
Listeners to a radio station in Minnesota also reportedly ordered pizzas sent to an organization for troubled youth.
So even the condemned and the executed did a good deal.
It was such a nice murderer, always never thinking of himself, even in his last moments, engineers vegetarian pizzas to the homeless in a final act of selflessness right before being cooked.
I just love these heartwarming stories.
Also, here's a story: the Kennedys, The Kennedys must, they're going to love this story.
A Hamden, Hampton 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, and 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, the bedrooms and so forth.
This decision came from the state's highest court yesterday, controversial decision that affirms the court's long-held view that sex obtained through fraud is not a crime.
Oh, man, a great day.
Well, I don't know about a great day in America, but it's a great day for the Kennedys.
The Supreme Judicial Court unanimously ruled that a judge should have dismissed the rape charge against Alvin Sulaveris, 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 mechas?
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, Duane Sulaveris, in a basement room of his dad's home.
Alvin Sulaveris was also staying at the same house.
Excuse me, Dwayne Sulaveris, now 33, was working night shifts.
At 3 in the morning, a woman later told authorities she was awakened by the sound of the door opening to the dark room and said, Dwayne, why are you home so early?
But she didn't get a response.
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, and she saw that it was Alvin Sulaveris.
After Hamden County prosecutors presented their case, Sulaveris' 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, which couldn't reach a verdict.
Lord, Paul.
Okay.
Well, let me take a break here.
Lots of stuff still ahead.
Finally, we might get to our global warming stack today.
I had to put it off the 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.
Rush Limbaugh Talent on Lawn from God.
I should mention, I'm in one of these giddy moods.
It was a late night last night, ladies and gentlemen.
Very, very late night.
Went to dinner at some friends.
A major diet pressure the next 10 days.
But these next 10 days are going to be a huge challenge.
I won't even give you the details, but I'm.
Oh, yes, by the way, this reminds me.
Half-hour news hour premieres Sunday night on the Fox News channel.
I think it's 10 o'clock.
It's after Hannity's show.
Now, I'm not going to be in this episode, but I am going.
Next weekend, I'm going to be in LA.
I'm going to shoot a couple episodes as the president.
And one episode is me.
I haven't seen the sketches yet.
I'll get those well sometime in advance of getting there, but I'll be in New York a lot of next week doing stuff and then L.A. next weekend.
But the half-hour news hour premieres, people have been asking me, hey, Rush, you said Fox picked it up.
Wins I can't.
It starts, it's a 13-week run, and it starts Sunday night at 10 o'clock.
So at any rate, very late, and I'm in one of these giddy moods.
I mean, I go through the stacks of stuff here, and the stuff that strikes my fancy is all this lighthearted stuff.
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 wanted the prison authorities to send a vegetarian pizza over to the homeless.
That really wasn't that thoughtful, Raushri.
If he really cared about the homeless, he'd ordered pepperoni pizza because the homeless need protein.
And I have to admit that that's probably true.
There's a story in the Washington Post today that cannot possibly be welcome in John Edwardsville.
The headline says, Edwards says he didn't know about subprime push.
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 has pilloried in his presidential campaign.
He has.
He's been out there ripping the subprime mortgage sector because it's high-risk.
He's been pilloring it.
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, it's Fortress Investment Group, into subprime lending, and that he wishes he had asked more questions before taking the job.
Well, 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 going to 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 creating it.
He was there when all this was happening, largely as a result of the rise in subprime lending and the cooling 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 Brett girl as an advisor in October of 2001.
Now, 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.
They hired him in October 2005, nearly a year after his losing campaign as John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, by the way, as vice president at the time.
Fortress owned a major stake in Green Tree 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 be honest here.
If you're selling subprime loans to mobile homeowners, 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 punch.
Edwards said yesterday he recalls being told at the time of his hiring that some of Fortress's private equity holdings did lend to startup 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.
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, this is a long article and it goes on and on and on.
But I guarantee you 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 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.
So shouldn't be seen.
So his big house shouldn't be seen as hypocritical.
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?
And he even said this.
I don't think the think tank's 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 on 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 going to 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, 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.
He'd 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 to put his name, Rainmaker, on the letterhead, gets a little money for it and so forth, and gets himself some private sector experience after doing the think tank gig for the poor.
And it's all coming home to Roost now.
Okay, get some phone calls when we come back.
So sit tight.
Don't go anywhere.
How old, 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, guess what we just found here?
You know the brick girl.
We get a new name for him.
He's the Gal Lee candidate.
He didn't know anything about the hedge fund.
Gal Lee.
He didn't know about the war when he voted for it.
Gal Lee.
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 Beaufort, 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 real radio now.
Oh, okay.
I'm thrilled I got through.
It's an honor to be talking to you.
Thank you very much.
You're welcome.
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 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 makes me concerned for the future of the party.
Well, this is not new.
This kind of stuff has been going on a long, long, long, long time.
And you're never going to get separation of politics and academia because that's why people in academia are there.
It's all about politics.
They're all liberals, and they use education as a tool to advance their agenda.
It's about indoctrination.
It's not about education.
But, you know, again, underlying that is there's just boiling rage and anger out on the left.
And it is irrational.
I explained it yesterday.
I don't want to be a broken record on this and repeat myself, but these people feel threatened, folks.
They used to own everything.
They used to run Washington.
They used to have a monopoly in the media.
And they've lost those.
There's now obviously huge competitive alternative media.
And they can't get anything 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.
And 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.
And I think this is eventually, all this stuff is going to come home to roost for them.
I just don't know when.
But trust me, everything comes around eventually.
I can't, I give just personal examples here to illustrate what I mean.
Throughout my career, and I'm sure yours too, 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 going to, no, no, no, no.
I'm not trying to tease you, but I'm just saying this stuff comes, when you've got bad actors, when you've got literal creeps that engage, like these professors and so forth, it's going to come back and bite them.
It's going to come back and haunt them eventually.
It always does.
What goes around comes around.
The way you treat people, it'll come back on you.
It always does.
And it may take time, and you may never know when it happens, by the way.
But it always does.
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, Roche.
It's a pleasure.
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 showing that if you gave credit, microcredit, that you build economies.
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 tenet of getting people out of poverty.
Right, but what's wait a minute?
Wait a minute.
What's the downside when you start lending money to people that really can't afford it and you make a special deal for them and then they run into trouble or the rate rises and they can't pay it off?
That is on the individual.
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 20, 30 years.
There used to be discrimination in lending, neighborhoods that wouldn't be lended to, people that wouldn't be lended to.
We don't hear those problems in the last five, six, seven, eight years to have a housing boom with it.
That's true.
They're given that.
People that would previously have been victims of discrimination and not been able to have gotten credit were able to get credit, buy their first home, have barely a job, live in an apartment.
Now, if people had eyes bigger than their stomachs and were buying $500,000 houses when they could only afford a $200,000 house, that's not the problem of the subprime lender.
That's the problem of the borrower.
No, no.
I understand that.
I'm saying that there's some people on the low end here that the subprime.
You'll correct me if I'm wrong on this.
I may be being taken in and fooled here by the drive-by media.
But like this story on the Brett girl with the Fortress Group, they were heavily involved in a subprime market for mobile homeowners.
Well, a lot of people want to own their homes that really are not financially able to, and yet they're still being lent money and they're having trouble paying it back at some point.
Rush, Rush, there used to be a thing called character lending.
Not looking at 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.
You know, you might have had some egregious instances, but overall, I think the capital markets were making a very 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 subprime market is in trouble.
But an entire industry is getting castigated for open-ended lending, which is in the grand scheme of things, a very good thing, something that might be encouraged.
Mike, what business are you in?
I'm close to that business.
I'm on the building side, okay?
I'm on the billing side.
But I'm on the billing side.
But I can tell you that I know personally a lot of people who otherwise would not have normally qualified that were able to buy a house and get a little mortgage and did very well with that.
And I know there's no question about it.
The drive-by media has 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 the best cure for poverty.
And it's not only access to credit, I mean, I'm not disagreeing with that, but the best cure for poverty is free markets.
It's not government programs.
We've tried that.
The world has tried it.
It doesn't work.
Access to capital and free markets is the, well, education, it goes without saying, 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 the way a lot of people on this world live, on this planet live, our poverty is quite a few steps up.
When you start talking about people under the poverty line, 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 not poverty.
I don't know.
They're pockets of disadvantaged people in this country.
I'm not trying to gloss over it, but we've done a remarkable job here in dealing with it.
And 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, or any of those characteristics, which are the ultimate ways out of it for everybody.
I've always marveled.
You know, back during the heated homeless days, I would say on the radio or say in a speech somewhere, you know, why don't these people just get a job?
And a liberal would say, oh, easy for you to say.
So, well, what in the world is insulting about that?
Well, easy for you to say, get a job.
What if all of us said to hell with a job?
We'll just sit around and wait.
I mean, a job is honorable.
Work is how many people define themselves.
So it's, you know, the left, you know, look at 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 think they're perpetually locked.
That's why in the abortion debate, the Libs tried to say, well, we don't win that mother and give birth to that baby.
Look at the neighborhood that's going to grow up.
Look at the circumstance.
The economics are waiting.
Nobody wants to be born into poverty.
Take a look at the successful people all over the world who were born into such circumstances.
I mean, it's just, it's depressing.
I don't want to talk about it anymore.
The whole thing just depresses 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 C-SPAN.
Brian Limb 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-bys all over the place, as you know.
And one of the points that I've always made to me about the drive-bys 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 Radditz, I'd like to know if you're a 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.
We don't really talk about that.
I wouldn't talk about it.
I'd like you to find a reporter that does.
Could you tell me the last time that you voted for a Republican?
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 party I belong to.
I'm a journalist.
But if you were truly objective, it wouldn't make any difference what it appears.
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 sort of funny listening to all this.
They twist themselves into pretzels trying to maintain this premise of objectivity.
You know, folks, let's talk about objectivity for a second.
This is an object lesson.
Thinking, informed, engaged human beings.
And Martha Radditz is one, 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 thinking individuals out there.
And as such, we care.
Why would you be engaged?
Why would you be thoughtful?
Why would you 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 going to 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 are doing.
The Drive-Bys are a classic illustration of this.
Here is Jack in Pompano Beach, Florida on Open Live Friday.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
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 called about is recently they've decided to rate movies based on the amount of smoking in them, as well as sex and violence.
Yeah, I think if it's pervasive or if smoking is glamorized, then it's going to get an R rate.
Yeah.
So what came to mind is the whole generation of us in the 30s and 40s that learned to smoke because of bogey and bacall.
And I think it's about time we sued the, 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.
Well, now that is an interesting concept.
As litigious as our society is, and as many tort lawyers as there are out there chasing ambulances, I bet you'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.
You're trying to get them fight each other.
I know, but you got to ask the question, will ideology trump the quest for books?
Yeah, you got to do it.
But you know what will happen with this?
I mean, if this ever does happen, this is the rating.
Hollywood's not admitting anything here.
This is the motion picture rating, whatever it is, the M-P-R-A-A-X-Y-Z.
Right.
They're the ones that are doing this.
And they just slough this off back to Big Tobacco.
Yeah.
Well, I just brought it to mind because I've thought for years that it was really because of the movie industry that look at the people.
I watch movies.
I mean, they light up, they look cool, they look sophisticated.
Yes, 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 frankly, I'm undecided about whether that's good or bad, folks.
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