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Aug. 13, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 13, 2007, Monday, Hour #3
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Have you?
You know, I'm watching these pictures of the gouge that's on the underside of the shuttle Endeavor.
Another piece of foam came off of the external fuel tank, whacked the shuttle on the launch and dug all the way through the, the heat shield tiles and a couple of them affected.
They're gonna have to do a spacewalk probably to fix it.
I mean, they're running heat tests on it, right?
Do you know?
This never used to happen till the environmentalists got hold.
I forget what it is.
I think it was the Freon ban.
I could be wrong about this.
It was something banned.
They had to go to this protective foam on the, on the, on the.
It was well no, it might have something to do with asbestos, but but it's, it's.
It's a, it was a something.
It was a refrigerant uh, that they could no longer use this stuff.
Never used to happen.
Now it happens every launch.
We're more concerned about a meaningless, silly environmental thing than we are the safety of the crew on these shuttles.
I just it.
It boggles my mind folks, it does anyway.
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Barack Obama has put out a statement on the resignation announcement of Karl Rove.
Quote, Karl Rove was an architect of a political strategy that has left the country more divided, the special interests more powerful and the American people more shut out from their government than any time in memory.
But to build a new kind of politics it'll take more than the departure of a man or even an administration that constructed the old.
It will take a movement of everyday Americans committed to changing Washington and reclaiming their government.
Now.
This guy went to that convention of these wacko kooks at the Daily Cause, the yearly Cause thing.
Anybody can make a comment on political divisiveness aimed at Karl Rove having attended.
That is just beyond the pale now.
Last Tuesday night the presidential candidates Democrat presidential candidates had their uh have their uh fashion show before the AFL-CIO up there in Chicago Soldier Field.
17,000 union people in the audience and I don't know how I missed this.
Chicago Sun-Times has a story today that well.
Let's just read the paragraph.
Another indication of how well the surge is going came in a little noticed remark that Mrs. Bill Clinton made Tuesday during the AFL CIO presidential forum at Soldier Field.
Responding to a question about what the United States should do if, after a troop withdrawal, Al-Qaeda should take over Iraq, Clinton repeated her plan for pulling troops out.
She repeated for pull the troops out, but then said it's a possibility that Al-Qaeda would stay in Iraq and if that happens, I think we need to stay focused on trying to keep them on the run, as we currently are doing in Al-Anbar province.
So pull us out of New York, pull us out of Iraq, but then if Al-Qaeda should stay, what does she think is going to happen?
If we pull out, then we need to go back in there and keep them on the run.
I mentioned this because of the story that these two stories NEW YORK Times one yesterday and the editorial today said we can't get out of there now.
So obviously I'm right about this.
The NEW YORK Times is trying to provide her and all these other Democrats with cover because It's dawning on them now that we're not going to get out of Iraq.
The president's not going to succumb to the pressure.
I don't think there's going to find enough Republican defectors in the Senate.
The Democrats aren't to make that happen.
Probably have a veto-proof house on this.
I don't think in the Senate that's the case yet.
But this is, I don't know how I missed that.
And even this guy that writes a story, Steve Humphly, says, Yeah, well, it was a little noted remark that she made.
Companies seeking to cut rising health care costs are starting to dock the pay of overweight and unhealthy workers.
Clarion Health and Indiana Hospital Channel require workers who smoke to pay $5 out of each paycheck starting in 2009 for workers deemed obese.
As much as $30 will be taken out of each paycheck until they meet certain weight, cholesterol, and blood pressure standards.
That's okay with this.
Apparently, in this story, and this is this doesn't, it's okay with it.
It's in the Washington Times.
The smokers are okay with it, but the obesity thing is making people mad.
They think this is a civil rights question.
You can't dock my pay because of my weight.
This is a civil rights question.
They're all upset about it.
The obese, the obese crowd's upset.
Smokers seem content with it.
You know, we're funding health care for children with smoking.
We had a story in the first hour of the program that smokers are smoking less and buying less because of taxes, the increased taxes.
The new tax increase hasn't even gone into effect yet.
And so the evidence abounds raise taxes, you diminish an activity.
You cut back on it.
However, as I said, I think one of the reasons is you can't smoke anywhere.
Skinny, undernourished people are off the hook.
Yep, they don't get any of their pay duck.
Cholesterol is normal.
Blood pressure is normal.
That's right.
They don't get any pay docked.
Now, this isn't a healthcare company.
I have to point that out.
But nevertheless, the smoking thing, I've always marveled.
Smokers ought to be the latest version of American Heroes.
They single-handedly are funding children's health care.
And their taxes on cigarettes are going to go up a buck a pack if this ships thing signed into law by the president.
And cigars are going to go up to $10 a stick in taxes.
And there are going to be fewer and fewer tobacco products sold.
Then what are the programs going to do?
Then what's going to happen?
But you have to throw in the fact that people are smoking less also because there's nowhere they can outside the home, and people don't stay home 24/7.
So it's probably multifaceted reasons for this happening.
But the smokers are the new huddled masses.
I mean, you ought to see it in New York.
Drive down the street 10:30 in the morning during morning break time, lunchtime.
People huddled.
I don't care.
It could be 30 below and snowing in there out there.
What do you want to do, Mr. Limbaugh?
Smoke around all of us and give us camphor from feck and hemp.
No, I'm not saying that, Mr. New Castro.
He's just pointing.
We got so many real problems, and we got ourselves all wrapped up in a bunch of meaningless garbage that takes us away from all the constant attention on this low-hand person and the Paris Hilton and so forth as lead stories in news broadcasts.
Trumpet fanfare, time for an update.
Touch on some global warming news here.
Paul Shanklin sings as Al Gore.
It's a EIB network.
I am speaking over my own song so that competing programs don't steal it and use it themselves.
There you have it.
That's Al Gore, Ball of Fire, one of our three rotating global warming update themes.
An amazing story here from Reuters.
This is so full of see I Told You Sos.
I mean, try the headlines.
Scientists try new ways to predict climate risks.
Yes, you heard correctly.
Scientists are trying to improve predictions about the impact of global warming this century by pooling estimates about the risk of floods or desertification.
We feel certain about some of the aspects of future climate change, like that it's going to get warmer, said Matthew Collins of the British Met Office.
But on many of the details, it's very difficult to say.
What the hell does that mean?
We feel certain about some of the aspects of the future, like it's going to get warmer, but on many of the details, it's very difficult to say.
Which means they don't have a clue.
Which means they don't know.
The way that we can deal with this is a new technique of expressing the predictions in terms of probabilities, Collins told Reuters.
Scientists in the UN Climate Panel, for instance, rely on several complex computer models, which don't even take into account clouds and precipitation, to forecast the impacts of warming in this century, ranging from changing rainfall patterns over Africa to rising global sea levels.
But these have flaws, says here, because of a lack of understanding about how clouds form, for instance, or how Antarctica's ice will react to less cold.
And reliable temperature records in most nations stretch back only 150 years.
every argument i have made to not listen to these people they don't even i remember the big riff i did we We don't have the slightest idea how clouds are formed.
Nobody can predict what the percentage of cloud cover is going to be unless you've got a big front coming through and you're going to be overcast.
Well, on a day-to-day basis, they can't do it.
They have no clue what.
I mean, they know the process.
They don't know how big they're going to be.
They don't know what their altitudes are going to be.
They know nothing.
Under new techniques looking at probabilities, predictions from different models are pooled to produce estimates.
Meaning, the flawed research we get from one model is going to be combined with the flawed research from another model.
We're going to come up with probabilities based on what both of these flawed models say.
The approach might help quantify risks for a construction firm building homes in a flood-prone valley.
If a flood-prone valley is flood-prone, they already know the risk.
It's like people building homes on the beach.
You know that it can happen, that there's going to be a hurricane.
Can people still do it?
They're willing to take the risk.
Collins said that uncertainties include how natural disasters out of human control affect the climate.
A volcanic eruption such as Mount Punatubo in the Philippines in 1991 can temporarily cool the earth because the dust blocks sunlight.
Another sea I told you so.
Now, here's what's interesting about that passage to me.
They admit that a volcano is out of human control.
Well, tell me, if a volcano is out of human control, then how the hell is anything else involved in the weather in human control?
Somebody tell me this.
Hold on, hold on, of course.
Man is destroying the planet, Mr. Limboy.
There's no question about this.
There's been documented consensus of scientists.
And then the PS, the Résistance.
David Steynforth of Oxford University in England.
Climate science, a very new science.
We've only just begun to explore the uncertainties.
We should expect the uncertainty to increase rather than decrease in coming years as scientists work to understand the climate.
That would complicate the chances of assigning probability.
Now, wait a minute.
Well, we've heard from any different bunch of groups is no, there's no question anymore.
Scientific consensus, it's there.
These guys say there could be even more and more uncertainty in the future.
More and more uncertainty.
The more they learn, the more they realize they don't know.
Well, another Chinese corporate Titan is dead, this time not by execution, but by suicide.
When Mattel Inc. recalled nearly a million toys manufactured by Zhang Shuang's company, he fought hard to find a way to resume sales to America.
They were the lifeblood of his firm, Lee Der Industrial Company, LTD, and its lucrative share of the export boom driving China's economic growth.
But Zhang Shuhong's factories in the southern city of Foshan lay idle.
Workers started drifting off, fearing they would never start up again.
Then Chinese authorities sealed Zhang's ruin by announcing Thursday that he was prohibited from exporting toys until further notice because of the defects denounced by Mattel.
He was found dead in a company warehouse two days later, colleagues said, apparently having hanged himself in despair.
This is the guy they found lead in the toys that he was exporting to our kids.
That's not the only thing, by the way.
A Chinese court handed down a one-year jailed sentence yesterday to a Chinese newspaper reporter convicted of faking a story about steamed dumplings whose stuffing included cardboard.
Z Beji, at 28, pleaded guilty to damaging the dumpling industry's reputation.
So three key, well, this guy's not dead yet, but the corporate Titan killed himself.
The other guy was executed.
What company was he with?
What did he do that caused them to execute him?
Never forget.
Momentary memory lapse.
I think he approved bad drugs.
He was shipping bad drugs out of the...
No, he wasn't shipping them out of the...
Bad drugs for people inside China, I think it was.
Yeah.
I don't think we've started importing drugs from China.
I mean, not legal drugs.
Rick and Dayton, Ohio.
Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Great to have you here with us.
Thank you.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
I had, well, I just heard it said again, and the same, I saw Colin Powell on Meet the Press about a month or so ago, and he said the same thing you just mentioned there, that we never found any weapons of mass destruction.
And considering the 500 canisters that have been in the news, I just kind of wondered how he can actually say that.
Well, nobody at any level of government saying anything other than that.
And there's a reason for it, and I don't know what it is.
The best reason I've heard is that this is the popular rumor at high levels of credible people that I've talked to, is that everybody knows the weapons of mass destruction were there because Saddam had used them.
Right.
And they were spirited out of there into Syria, and Russian trucks helped do the thing.
And it is said that the diplomatic concern of not alienating Russia and making this public is worth more than exposing the weapons of mass destruction.
Which, I don't know if that's true.
That's just what I hear.
But Powell would, he's out there, they sent him up to the United Nations, all those pictures and all the testimony.
So, I mean, he's going to say there weren't any because he's the guardian of his own credibility inside the Beltway.
And that's the primary reason for that.
This Patricia St. Cloud, Florida, it is.
Nice to have you with us on the program.
Hi, Raj.
Hi.
Can you hear me?
Yeah, I hear you.
Oh, okay.
Just fine.
First of all, I'm very honored to speak to you, but I also told your call screener that maybe I shouldn't because I'm very angry at you right now.
Oh, no, what did I do?
Well, I don't, I think maybe I just didn't hear you, but I think when that guy called in about Mertha, that you told him you were saving the country and we didn't need to bother to fax or email or send Mirtha any, you know, censoring kind of emails because of what he had done about the Haditha Marines.
I'm going to pull a Bill Clinton here and deny it.
You didn't hear me right.
I never said it.
Just a few minutes ago?
No, didn't.
It didn't happen.
What did you say?
Snurgly, I'll tell you, I'm going to suspend you.
Look, it was.
It was a joke, and I didn't get it.
How long have you been listening to the program?
A little consistently.
Well, just, yeah.
A little over a year.
A little over a year.
Well, see, sometimes it takes longer than that to learn everything that can happen on this program.
I was being flamboyantly braggadocious for the sake of humor.
I thought it would be obvious.
So sorry.
Easy.
We do make the complex understandable.
And we do so happily each day here at the EIB Network.
All right, so we got a guy out there suing McDonald's for 10 million bucks, putting cheese on a burger.
He didn't order the cheese.
He's got an allergy problem.
10 million bucks.
And now we've got a guy named Leroy Greer suing 1-800 flowers because they inadvertently revealed the affair that he was having.
The guy calls 1-800 Flowers, orders flowers for his little hottie, and they send a thank-you note to his house.
So his wife gets a thank-you note and finds out he's sending flowers to some babe.
Bam!
So now he's upset.
He was in the process of divorcing his wife.
He's already in the process of divorcing his wife when the 1-800 flowers incident occurred and it didn't help his standing.
Now his wife is all the more eager to end their union.
She wants more money as a result.
Since she's found out that he was cheating.
So he's upset that they delivered a thank-you note, now suing the floral company.
He had specifically noted in his order he didn't want any cards or information sent to the house where his wife still lived.
Now blames the company falling short of delivering the flowers in a discreet manner, which just so happened to cause his wife to flip out.
He lives in Texas.
Wants one million bucks.
You think he has a case?
You think he's got a case?
Well, we'll see.
All right, we got to do this.
We got to talk about the Hawkeye straw poll in Ames, Iowa.
Number two, it was expected that Romney would win.
Number two was Huckabee.
Now, I mentioned this top of the program.
It's a big deal for Huckabee.
And I don't want to trivialize this, the winner or whoever, runner-up, riddy that, or I am.
I'm not trying to trivialize.
It's just so early.
It's six months until the first primary, 15 months till the actual election.
Three of the four leading candidates didn't even participate.
But the excitement with which the political press is treating this is, I think they're living in lives of quiet desperation.
They really have one track, singularly focused lives.
By the way, every voter in this thing had to pay.
So you could.
I'm still going to play the audio soundbites from this because it happened out there.
Should also mention that most campaigns pay the voters.
So that's why I saw a headline today, Romney bought his victory.
And I'm not trying to put him down.
Don't misunderstand this.
Tommy Thompson dropped out of the race.
He's more qualified than any of the Democrat candidates.
I'll tell you what's really interesting to me about this, and I still have to temper this with the fact that the three of the top four weren't there.
You have Romney as the winner, yet Mike Huckabee came in second.
What do they both have in common?
What do Romney and Huckabee have in common?
They're both governors.
They are not senators.
And senators do not.
I mean, it's a long haul.
Was it Jay?
Is LBJ the last?
Well, JFK, the last senator that got elected president from the Senate.
So anyway, we have a montage to get things rolling here.
The drive-bys have fallen in love with Huckabee.
They're referring to him now as McCain-esque.
And they're making a big deal out of his surprise win.
Mike Huckabee is a big story.
The Huckabee story is amazing.
You usually get what you pay for.
Huckabee got more than that.
As far as Huckabee, really, really big win for him.
Governor Huckabee was arguably the biggest winner yet.
How about Governor Huckabee?
Huckabee, I thought, gave a great speech.
Huckabee's conservative credentials have never been in question.
Mike Huckabee was a surprise second.
Huckabee surprised people.
He's been a media darling all along.
He's a straight talker, Ala McCain of 2000.
This breathes some life into what reporters hope is going to be a story about Mike Huckabee.
See, see, this breeds life into what reporters hope is going to be a story about Mike Huckabee.
I like Huckabee.
I don't know anybody getting offended by any of this.
This is just a little early.
Let's go to Huckabee's on Slay the Nation.
The Philin host, Jim Axelrod, who said, you ever look at the national Republican frontrunner, Rudy Giuliani, the pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-gay rights, Rudy Giuliani, say to yourself, how come I haven't been able to get any traction?
I think yesterday showed that we are getting traction.
I'm one of the few Republican candidates that's having the courage to talk about how we need to really separate ourselves from being the Wall Street Republican crowd.
We need to be the Main Street Republican crowd.
We need to quit being a wholly owned subsidiary of the major fund managers on Wall Street and start being more concerned about people out there in places like Iowa.
When was the last person I heard say that?
I don't remember who.
I just know it was a Democrat.
Democrat.
Well, that's why they're calling him McCain-esque.
That's why they're calling him McCain-esque on this stuff.
Here's the next question.
Draw some contrast between you, Giuliani McCain, and Romney.
What makes Mike Huckabee different?
I became governor and was able to get things done in the way of tax cuts and transportation to rebuild roads, some of the most significant education improvements and some innovative things, frankly, that many people wouldn't expect out of a Republican.
Focus on music and art and education, healthcare innovations.
You know, I didn't grow up a child of privilege, and I can relate to a lot of people out there who understand what struggle is like because a lot of Americans every day get up and they don't face the decision between are they going to vacation in the Caribbean or the Riviera.
They face whether they can squeeze the handle on the gas pump and put enough fuel in the tank to get to work.
And Mitt Romney was on Fox News Sunday.
And Wallace said you got 4,500 votes.
By way of comparison, eight years ago when he was first running, George W. Bush got 7,400 votes.
David Yepson, Des Moines Register kind of guru here called your victory a bit hollow.
I'm very pleased to win.
Let me tell you, I got a higher percentage even than the president got eight years ago.
And, you know, it was a warm day, and actually, it was difficult turning people out.
We hoped to get out about 4,000 to 5,000.
We did.
They came.
They voted.
I won.
Can't do better than that.
That's exactly what I was hoping for.
And frankly, the key for me is building that organizational base that propels me.
Okay, so that's it.
That's the roster of soundbites we have from the straw poll in Iowa, where you have to pay to get in.
And the candidates generally pay the voters to show up.
Now, I understand whoever comes in second is always, you know, when you got an expected front rating, I mean, you know Romney was going to win this because none of the other top tiers there.
There has to be somebody to come in second.
And the media is looking for a story to sort of get out of their boredom and the humdrums.
And so whoever would have come in second would have been, oh, oh, oh, what's this?
Who is this?
Where did this guy go?
Huckle, huckle.
Oh, Huckabee, Arkansas.
I thought Clinton ran Oregon.
Oh, no, he's the new governor.
Oh, okay.
Good.
We've got a story.
And that's what's propelling this.
And in Eugene, Oregon, welcome to the EIB Network.
Thank you.
Good morning, Rush.
Love you bunches.
Thank you.
For years, you have helped me in my morning 9 to 12 grunt work with my three kids, listening to you, and you've really helped me, you know, be positive and feel good about my conservative views in South Eugene, Oregon, which is not easy, believe me.
But anyway, I'm a golf fanatic.
I love golf.
I'm not playing right now because I don't have time, but I like what you had to say about golf last week.
I always enjoy when you talk about it.
But I followed the PGA thing this weekend, and I am totally anti-Tiger Woods and totally pro-Phil Mickelson.
So I just can't stand him.
But after yesterday.
Wait a second now.
Now, now, now.
You've got to tell me why you're so anti-Tiger.
I don't know.
I don't have a good reason.
After yesterday, I will maybe be thinking this through a little bit more because he always wins.
He always makes a six-foot putt.
He always does it.
And I just, I love Phil.
I don't know why.
He does.
No, wait, wait.
Tiger doesn't.
He didn't make those puts at the British.
He didn't make them at the Masters.
He didn't make them at the U.S. Open.
He doesn't always make those puts.
I'm going to tell you why you don't like Tiger.
Okay, tell me.
Because you are, I'm guessing.
My guess, you're so sick and tired of watching a televised golf tournament where Tigers playing.
And Tiger will drive the ball two fairways to the right, and the announcers will say, that's a great strategy.
You're probably trying to make the field think that he's out of the tournament or doesn't have his game today.
When Tiger misses a three-foot putt, it's on purpose.
Or it's a spike mark.
And you probably just get sick.
It's like people hated the New York Yankees back when there was one televised baseball game a week because they were always on.
Yeah, you could be right.
I will take that in consideration.
People hated.
I got to tell you, I have a couple observations.
Just wanted to ask you.
That had to be one of the best wins he has ever had in his life because 110 degrees, tough, tough, tough course, hanging in, and the guy just got married.
Now, getting married, not easy.
And especially in the first year.
And now he's got the little baby in arms.
No time, no sleep, no sex, no nothing.
I mean, this guy's coming in there.
Don't believe any of that.
No, that's true.
I really thought that they did.
I don't know about the sex, but don't believe this no-sleep business.
Well, whatever.
Maybe, but the no-sex, that's part of why he gets together.
His wife was a nanny.
Well, whatever she was.
I don't know.
But anyway, it is hard to be married early on.
It's hard to have kids.
Nicholas did it.
Come on.
You're doing.
Sorry, I hit the mic.
You're doing what broadcasters.
Everybody has kids and everybody works and they have these things.
And you.
Oh, but everybody does not excel like he does.
Sports that is so tough.
Yeah, and I, you know what?
I'm going to keep you on the phone because I got to go commercial break.
I'm going to tell you.
Oh, Grush.
Well, that's great.
Go ahead.
I'd love to hear anything.
I'm going to put Tiger Woods in perspective.
I can't believe you only learned about these far above average abilities of his yesterday.
No, well, no.
I've known about him.
I just didn't like him.
I don't like his parents.
I didn't like the two-year-old shots of him swinging on a Johnny Carson show.
I just didn't like him.
Yeah, you were just reacting.
You just didn't want to be part of conventional wisdom that was sopping up all this stuff.
Your dislike for Tiger was media-driven because.
We'll conclude this right after this.
Don't hang up.
All right, we're back with Ann in Eugene, Oregon.
Now, here's what I think you have to know about Tiger Woods.
And by the way, I'm probably going to make you hate him even more here.
No, you're not.
Yeah, well, if you already don't like him because of.
No, I like him more now because he's more normal.
Yeah, but just.
Okay, go ahead.
I need to hear what you need to know.
Now, that's, see, that's what it is.
When my team's at Pittsburgh Steelers, and in the 70s, they were unbeatable, and people outside of Pittsburgh and outside the Steelers fan base hated him because they were like a machine.
They were so good.
You just said, finally, he's human.
Why?
Because he's got a wife and a baby.
You think the baby's crying all night and he's up changing diapers because still win a golf tournament.
That's a very female attitude to have about this.
And it's worthwhile.
But I'll tell you what makes him, the reason he's able to do that, which, by the way, everybody, every guy that's been a success at anything and has kids has had to do that.
That's not that special.
What makes Tiger special is what's between the ears.
You know, when you get to him.
You're absolutely right.
I agree with that.
Okay, they all can hit it.
I mean, they all can chip and putt.
He's better at it consistently than most.
Focused.
What?
Focused, focused.
Well, yeah, but I think it's more than that.
I think people who have not played the game, even people who do, I don't think have the slightest idea what it is like to have that kind of performance pressure.
Yeah.
And to put it out of your mind and to not have it affect you.
He's got the biggest galleries every tournament he plays it.
He's just so mentally tough and focused and motivated that it's that's the marvel to me.
He's just smart.
I don't know him.
He's still all of that.
But he's brilliant.
Now he's more and going to be more because he is married and because he does have a child.
And that's not to say you have to be married and have a child.
That's not what my emphasis is.
Well, you'd better be because I wouldn't be what I am if I were married now.
Well, anyway, I just thought, you know, I didn't know how you, how do you feel about him?
What do you think about him?
Tiger?
Yeah, do you like him?
I think, oh, I've only met him one time.
But I think he's brilliant.
Yeah.
I think he's just the epitome of a class act.
I think he is, you know, like his parents, I think he's a great example of being raised well.
I think that he's just.
He gives a lot.
He gives so much.
Yeah, there's a lot to admire and a lot to see there.
They just hit me with him yesterday.
Somehow, just my focus.
Whatever it takes.
I mean, if he's been humanized to you because now he's got a wife and baby and can still do this, that's fine.
If that works for you, then that works for you.
But I'm having a tough time describing my impact because the one time I met him was on the putting green at the AT ⁇ T tournament at Spyglass.
And nobody would approach him.
Butch Harmon was a swing coach then, and his caddy was Steve Williams, but nobody would approach him.
And I said, I may never see this guy.
Because I walked up there and I asked if I could bother him.
He kind of looked at me, introduced myself, and I said, Larry, I just want to tell you one thing.
This is 2001, and he had that great year in 2000.
And I said, I just am, I have to tell you how impressed and amazed I am at how you deal with the performance pressure and the expectations that you have yourself and you know what everybody else's are.
That year 2000, that's seven years ago, there was a stunning year.
And the PGA that year, I think, was with Bob May out of nowhere.
Nobody ever heard of this guy outside of the PGA tour.
And that playoff, that was some of those shots he hit back.
Unbelievable.
They were far more impressive than yesterday.
Yesterday was impressive, too, because he was challenged for the first time in a long time.
He was challenged.
But he had a lot of other challenging things.
That's my thing.
That's just sort of my emphasis.
And, you know, I've had the wrong, probably the wrong.
I've just thought he's been coddled by his parents.
Here's the thing.
If he'd have lost yesterday, if Woody Austin, who I also played with and who is a real character, he wanted to throw my driver out of my bag.
I was hitting it so bad one year at the AT ⁇ T after he threw his own putter away.
This guy hit himself on his head with his putter and broke it.
But he's a character.
He's out of Kansas.
But if Tiger had lost yesterday, if Woody Austin or Ernie Ells had caught him, then you'd have had people saying, eh, you know what?
The kid was crying last night.
They would have come up.
None of it would have been true.
None of it would have been true.
I'm going to tell you what, this is the kind of situation 30, 50 years from now, people are going to be writing books, doing, there'll be movies and stories.
The legend of Tiger Woods is going to be every bit as big as Bobby Jones and Jack Nicholas.
And the people alive now watching it don't have nearly the appreciation of it because we're living our lives at the same time and it's just part of the fabric.
Sometimes we don't have the ability to stop and appreciate what real, unique greatness is when it's amongst us.
And I think that's him.
Well, it's another excellent, astounding, outstanding program in a list of outstanding programs.
Too long to count, folks.
And we will do another one tomorrow.
Be right here, ready to go, revved up.
So, look forward to seeing you then.
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