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Some of the details of the bin Laden tape, supposed bin Laden tape, have been released.
Now, this is a hoot.
In the first place, there is no specific threat to the United States in the tape, unless there's one in code.
But there's no promise that we're going to get hit again.
There may be some code in there, but nothing direct.
But it is amazing, folks.
It is a liberal rant.
He blames the U.S. for global warming.
He blames U.S. corporate interests for corrupting the political process because our politicians have to run out and raise so much money in order to run for president.
He excoriates the Democrats.
Now I understand why some people were saying earlier that this tape could not be good for Democrats because what apparently he says on this tape, does bin Laden lookalike?
I'm sorry, I refuse to believe it's bin Laden.
Does me, if I'm wrong, when we find out, I'll be glad to admit it.
Don't have to do it very often, so I'm used to it.
But I'm going to tell you this.
He excoriates the Democrats.
He lets it known, lets it be known that he favors what they promise.
He said, you Democrats won the election in November because the American people want this war in Iraq over.
But what have you done?
You have continued to authorize billions and billions of dollars for the war.
You are failing in your mission to the American people.
Go on and on with things like this.
They're blaming the United States for global warming and stealing the world's resources.
We're basically the, it is a liberal rant.
It's everything you would hear out of San Francisco.
It's what you would hear from a major college campus from any, you know, take your pick of a professor.
It's on the Senate floor.
It's anything you would hear out of the mouth of an average elected Democrat that it's stunning.
And I can't wait to get hold of the actual transcript of this thing.
Because, I mean, it's obviously in a language.
Damn it.
And that would be worthless to play that because we wouldn't understand it.
We're going to get the transcript of this thing.
It may not happen until Monday, but I was watching the drive-bys.
Jim Miklashevsky on PMS NBC was going through the brief during the break here at the top of the hour.
He's going through a brief summary of the transcript.
He's focused on how this cannot help the Democrats.
It might not.
Well, what do you think?
Whose sake are they on anyway?
Why is this a surprise?
I mean, when they are, when the Democrats in this country, look good, they've invested in defeat.
They own defeat.
And they're cementing that investment today and yesterday, and they'll do so next week when the Petraeus report comes out.
How can anybody assume they're on anybody's side but bin Laden's?
Rush, you can't say it that.
Why not?
You know, this just like back to the old Nicaragua days.
Let's review this, you know, because I don't care what intentions are.
I care about end results.
So we've got a budding little Soviet client state down there in Nicaragua run by Danielle Ortega, who, by the way, back in power down there.
However, I don't know what shape his government's in after Hurricane Felix went in there.
But regardless, you remember the Contra wars, and Reagan was trying to do everything he could to get some money down there to the Contras, the so-called freedom fighters, the modern equivalent, our founding fathers, try to defeat this Soviet beachhead being established.
And the Democrats in Congress voted down every funding effort, which is what led to the Iran-Contra scandal and so forth.
But that's the point.
Any attempt to fund these, the Democrats were constantly voting it down.
And then after a number of votes, Ortega would get on a plane and go to Soviet Union.
And he'd come back with a big aid package from the Soviet Union.
And he'd start bragging about it.
The Democrats in Congress, you can't embarrass us this way.
And they'd send people like George Miller from California.
Kerry went down there a couple times.
They scold the guy.
You can't do this.
And so people started saying, you know what, you guys are actually voting with the communists to Sandinista government down in Nicaragua.
You challenge our patriotism.
Well, sir, you may not be voting for them, but what would be the difference if you were?
I mean, the result of your actions is you are supporting the establishment of a Soviet beachhead in Nicaragua.
By the way, they still speak glowingly of Castro.
They're not threatened at all or bothered by Hugo Chavez.
So it's the same situation here with the Iraq situation.
They may cringe and they may react at allegations that they're on the side of the terrorists, but how are their votes and their statements to be interpreted any other way?
We certainly can't claim that they're on our side.
Not when the side that we're on is victory.
They are clearly not for victory.
They have no interest in it.
Total defeat.
So this bin Laden tape makes it clear that he is on the Democrat side and he excoriates them for not doing what they were elected to do.
Now, if I'm a Democrat and this tape comes out and I accept the fact that this is actually bin Laden, which of course they will, and I got this guy who blew up 3,000 Americans and would like to do it as often as he could, sidling up to me, being critical because I'm not doing my job to do what he wants accomplished, which is us out of Iraq.
How would I feel?
Would I be the slightest embarrassed if I'm Jack Murthy, if I'm Dingy Harry, if I'm Nancy Pelosi or any of the Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer?
Am I embarrassed at all that Osama bin Laden is on my side?
I would think that I would be.
I just, but I don't think they look at it.
I don't think that is what gets through their thick skulls.
You know, they'll come out with the requisite, there's a piece of the, the only difference between him and a bag of manure is a bag, whatever they're going to say.
But to people paying attention, folks, there can be no mistaking it.
Osama bin Laden expects the Democrat Party of this country to do his bidding and excoriates them for failing in this latest tape of his.
We hate the USA.
Osama bin Laden and the Democrat Party with featured stars impersonated there by our old buddy Paul Shanklin, well-known white comedian as the drive-bys labeled him during the Magic Negro crisis.
Before we go to the break, here is Jim Miklashevsky at the 2 o'clock break news break here on PMS NBC, a partial report on the content of the alleged bin Laden tape.
Bin Laden, according to this transcript anyway, says that the vast majority of Americans want it to stop.
Thus, you elected the Democratic Party for this purpose, but the Democrats haven't made a move worth mentioning.
On the contrary, they continue to agree to the spending of tens of billions of dollars for the war in Iraq.
Yeah, and he goes on to excoriating them just like their own rabid supporters are at moveon.org and all these fringe kook websites.
Bin Laden probably posts there.
And you've got the United States being blamed for global warming.
Remember, the whole just obscene, extreme left-wing agenda apparently comes out of this guy's mouth in this purported tape.
Hang on a minute here, folks.
Lady arriving show prepper.
You won't believe this.
You will not.
Well, you will believe it because of where it comes from, but you won't believe it.
Oh, yes, they must have the slowest printer in the world up here in this studio.
All right, here we go.
Judge acquits nude carpenter of indecency.
It is from San Francisco.
Well, actually, it's in Oakland.
It's the Bay Area San Francisco Chronicle newspaper.
Percy Hannibal.
That would be H-O-N-N-I-B-A-L-L.
Percy Hanneball, an Oakland carpenter with a fondness for working in the buff was acquitted today of misdemeanor indecent exposure.
I wanted to go to trial to prove a charge couldn't stick, that it was an overreaction, said the building contractor.
He's 51.
You don't expect all of a sudden to see somebody in a nude, but there was never a threat.
There was never anybody in danger.
Of course, of course, there's not.
This is part of the culture in San Francisco.
In 2005, Hannibal was working on a bookshelf project at a client's house in the Montclair district of Oakland when a neighbor spotted him carrying materials in a nude.
The neighbor happened to be a police officer in Berkeley, so she reported him.
It's great to know the cops enforced the law out there.
He was engaged in an activity where he was not intending to draw attention.
He was simply doing his work.
He was not acting in a lewd manner, said his lawyer.
Hannibal had previously clashed with local law enforcement over public nakedness.
Berkeley had cited him three times since 2002.
Anyway, the lawyer says he's learned his lesson.
He's not going to continue to work naked, at least not where he'll be in a public area.
Apparently, this guy has a history of a history of working naked.
Who would hire this guy?
I mean, yeah, you're walking around with construction equipment nude.
I mean, you got to at least be wearing the safety glasses.
Why would you hire somebody to work around your house naked with sharp tools and so forth?
Contractor tools and so forth.
Well, I tell you what, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, that's yeah, the perpetual butt crack.
I mean, you have to wait for the guy's jeans to fall down when he bends over into the sink.
And this from Atlanta: authorities in Atlanta are looking for the persons responsible for setting dogs on fire, including a six-week-old puppy.
Since the beginning of July, shelters have seen too many dogs coming in burned.
Pet rescue groups say that they believe it may be a new trend.
Thursday, six dogs were found burned, all in the same fashion.
They've had flammable liquid poured on them and then set afire.
Officials suspect could be a gang initiation because the burned dogs are coming from a wide area.
They don't think it's the act of just one person.
I don't understand how this even made news.
This is just a cultural thing.
Well, look, that's what we've been told.
We've got to learn to accept these things.
We're told these cultural things, setting dogs on fire to get initiated into a gang.
No big deal.
David in Forest Park, Georgia.
Welcome.
You're back with us.
Open Line Friday continues.
Hello.
Hello.
Georgia Conservative Life Itself on Loan from God Mega Ditto.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Something, I heard something in the Republican debate the other night that actually brought a tear to my eye.
What was that?
In response to Ron Paul's rant about how the Republicans would lose votes if we didn't get out of Iraq immediately, Mike Huckabee said something along the lines of even if we lose elections, we should not lose our honor.
And that is more important than the Republican Party.
And that brought a tear to your eye.
Absolutely.
I think it's about time that we have politicians who put more emphasis on wanting to do the right thing and telling people honestly what they intend to do that they believe is the right thing from the conservative perspective than saying anything to get elected.
Well, no question about it.
That's the age-old lament about politics.
And that's why the people, you know, people you're talking about who have done that, been able to pull it off in an authentic way because they are authentic, have genuinely won elections in large landslides.
Ronald Reagan comes to mind.
FDR had that ability.
Nixon came off as authentic when he ran in 1968.
I'll never forget, that was his comeback tour.
And I'll never forget some of the town meetings that he was doing.
He came off as really, really authentic.
And that's interesting.
You know, Huckabee is when these things all started, everybody said, Russia, force.
I don't know.
It's too soon.
You never know.
Anybody can spring out of this thing in a surprise.
Now, Huckabee hasn't moved into top tier yet, but I think that he's attracting a lot of attention that nobody expected to go his way.
And we'll see where he goes from here.
But I've had a lot of people respond positively about Huckabee in the last two debates.
So it's interesting that you call and make that observation.
I appreciate it.
Jupiter, Florida, not far.
It's far enough, not far from the EIB Southern Command.
This is Mark.
Great to have you, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Rajmega, Cigar Smoke and Dittos from the best shop in Florida.
Thank you, sir.
What's that?
I have a point I want to make about most of your show today and these Democrats and the Paul Shanklin song about how these modern liberals really do hate America.
But can I relate a real quick story about the greatest generation in this point?
About the Greek generation.
Yeah, the greatest generation, yes.
Okay.
My first manager in the insurance business 25 years ago was a bombardier in a B-24 and he flew 53 missions.
And he once told me over lunch when I was a young guy that he despised the Democrats.
He'd been a lifelong Lifelong Republican, and he despised them because they would always put party in power above even the interests of the United States.
And at the time, I thought that was way, way over the top.
But having watched it now, all these past years and decades, and particularly through this war, and listening to the remarks of Baghdad Jim McDermott and Chuck Schumer, et al., the whole Pelosi bunch, I'm convinced that he's absolutely right.
They really do hate America.
I mean, I reminded your screener and anybody I talked to on this subject that the reason you call him Baghdad Jim is because he traveled to Baghdad with David Bonnier right before the war broke out when we were debating it of whether to go to war and basically said on international TV on CNN that he had met with Saddam and that he trusted them and he thought he was basically a decent guy and made the case why the American people should not believe their president, George Bush.
Right.
We remember all that.
Look, I've got to take a break.
This is, I'm going to hold you over so you can get to the point that you originally called about, but I've got to take a brief time out now.
So don't go away.
I know.
Half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair, we go back to Jupiter, Florida.
And Mark, all right, what was it you actually called about?
Well, that was my main point is that you're calling it right, and it's not over the top.
That what these guys are doing these days is treason, pure and simple.
And the greatest generation, had Jim McDermott and David Bunyer done that in December of 41, gone over to Europe and proclaimed that we should listen to Hitler and ignore Roosevelt, they would have been strung up from a light pole when they got back to this country.
And we really, you know, you're on the right track and we need to start calling it what it is.
This is treason.
They're undermining our military.
They're undermining all of our efforts.
And it has very, very real implications for the safety and the future of this country.
And it's no question about it, right?
Absolutely right.
Okay, so the first point that you wanted to make was your B-24 bomber pilot boss.
I thought you were going to talk about Obama.
Osama, Osama, Osama, sorry.
Oh, yeah.
Well, he's from the greatest generation, I suppose, huh?
Well, he's clearly.
They're worried at PMS NBC.
Just had Mick Leszewski on there again reviewing what Bin Laden said.
Now it's a rambling message in which he excoriates the Democrats.
But he's rambling.
Some places it's incoherent.
The only threat that he mentions is continuing to kill us in Iraq.
But he really blames Democrats for not following through on what they say to the American people: look, you want out of Iraq, and you elected a Democrat to do it, but they're not doing it.
I just, I sit there, I watch this stuff, and I just, I really do wonder what must it be like for these Democrat leaders to hear these tapes come in with bin Laden and Zawahiri and have them be saying exactly what I'm saying.
I mean, if I'm a Democrat leader, if I'm Dick Durbin, if I'm Schumer, and a bin Laden tape comes in, am I proud?
Am I proud because bin Laden hates Bush and I hate Bush?
So the enemy is my friend.
Still only 2007.
Already the candidates have been measured on practically every scale.
Now, Gallup has borrowed one that it calls the feeling thermometer ratings scale.
Senator Barack Obama wins the race for warmth while Senator Hillary Clinton leaves many cold.
Gallup said today that it recently tested the public images of several of the Republican and Democrat candidates.
Of these, only one of them, the adorable Barack Obama, stirs up warm feelings in the majority of Americans.
Clinton's image is the most polarized of this group.
Nearly as many Americans say she leaves them cold as they say feel warmly toward her.
That's not a surprise.
We need a poll for that.
Another one of these obvious studies like chimpanzees are smarter than two-year-old human beings or the other way around, but I don't believe that survey.
Here's now here.
This is Associated Baptist Press.
This is a religious news organization.
Progressive Baptist women wary of Hillary Clinton's candidacy.
Many Christian conservatives have put her on the anyone but category that they'll vote for.
However, progressive Christians, who some think should be the seniors, the senator's natural allies, aren't jumping on her bandwagon.
What?
What?
What is it, progressive Christian?
Is that liberal Christian?
Is that?
You mean there are liberal Christians?
Well, this is going to shock Hollywood.
Has that shocked that woman who said liberal Christians?
How can that be?
While Clinton might win some evangelical support if she can portray her faith as authentic, say political observers, she simply must win support from progressive and liberal Christians to have a chance of gaining the White House.
Now, that's a fascinating assertion.
I've not heard that.
I've heard she's got to get the dumb women's vote and the smart women's vote.
Right now, she has a dumb women's vote.
Barack's got smart women's vote.
She can't lose the black vote, smart or dumb.
She needs a Hispanic vote.
She needs a union vote.
She needs teachers' vote.
But I've never heard she needs a liberal Christian vote.
This is a new one.
So, let's keep digging in this story, shall we?
Clinton's campaign is aggressively cultivating liberal Christians who are enjoying some time back in the spotlight after years in the religious rights shadow.
But so far, such Christians' response to Senator Clinton has been tepid.
Even some Baptist feminists are saying they have yet to warm up to Baptist feminists.
Is there such a thing?
Well, obviously there must because I think one wrote the story, Hannah Elliott.
Well, let's moving here.
Many progressive Christians are attracted to Obama, who has a more liberal voting record than Clinton.
According to the National Journal, he earned a rating of 86, 100 being perfect.
In a 2006 tally, Mrs. Clinton earned a rating of 70.2.
Others say that Clinton's perceived aloofness is the main reason why more women haven't jumped to endorse her.
The perception of Clinton as an overly scripted candidate doesn't set well with evangelicals.
Hillary is too polished.
She's very cool.
There's just something about her that people don't like, said Garrison, some guy named Garrison writes books.
Former Texas Governor Ann Richards said it's because she's a strong woman, but I don't know why.
AG, on the other hand, somebody who listened to the story here said Clinton's manner is not the primary issue in her lack of enthusiasm for the senator.
Get this quote.
I'm not curling up with you at night, and I don't need a best friend in Washington, AG said.
I need somebody that I feel comfortable with around the nukes and around my womb.
So this liberal Christian is saying, Hillary, stop this business of being my friend, and I'm not going to curl up with you at night at your website.
I'd need somebody to feel comfortable with around the nukes and around my womb.
And I don't necessarily feel comfortable with you around either.
So these polls about Hillary and her unlikability or their numbers and the unlikability are, I think, pretty accurate because the sentiment's been there and understood by people long before the poll came out.
Moveon.org Is asking its members whether it should support primary challengers of anti-war Democrats whom the group says have not been sufficiently forceful in their opposition to current Iraq policy.
MoveOn.org said a Democrat majority has failed.
MoveOn on some issues, usually because too many of them are afraid to fight.
Well, here we go.
MoveOn.org echoing the Osama bin Laden tape.
And so moveon.org is going to target.
They're talking about targeting Democrat incumbents who aren't doing enough to advance the Democrat agenda.
I hope they do.
They'll probably campaign better against them than we do.
Mark and Cleveland, welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Nice to have you with us.
Thank you.
I wanted to ask or go back to the complete statement made by Tehran Chuck, because in the complete version, he goes on to say that Maliki seems to be reveling in his own incompetence.
And it strikes me that not only is Senator Schumer slagging off our military, but he's also slagging off the Iraqis for refusing to embrace federalism.
Oh, they've been doing that.
They've been ragging on Malachi for months.
Ever since the surge started working, they've been focusing on the lack of political progress.
Now, this guy hasn't met the benchmarks.
It's been laughable.
But what is your point is that their criticism is total.
It's not just the U.S. military, it's of every aspect of the enterprise.
Well, sure, he could have been slagging off our own revolution.
I mean, you have to have complete control of the country.
I mean, the war is being won, one city and county and what have you at a time.
And you can't have political cohesion until the whole thing is won.
Exactly right.
That's the nature of fighting counterinsurgencies.
We went through this yesterday with an expert in fighting counterinsurgencies and war in Algeria in the 50s.
And that's exactly right.
You win it town by town, province by province, state by state, however you want to go, but you can't do it the whole country at one time because you have to have the population on your side, which is what's happening, which is what makes that original statement by Senator Schemer so sophistry.
It's stupid, purely political and stupid.
And we got news, we got that he was trying to walk back his comments yesterday, but I didn't see him walking back any comments.
We wouldn't have played them anyway, but I still didn't.
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This is Cybercast News Service building a fence across the entire 1,952-mile border of the U.S. and Mexico can be done with only two requirements needed, according to engineers.
All that takes time and money, said Brian Damkroger, senior manager for border security and exploratory systems at the New Mexico-based Sandia National Laboratories.
Yeah, it's a large-scale project.
It's not high-tech.
You just have to have people to throw at it.
You'd also need the political will to do it.
And that's exactly, you know, the idea that we can't build a fence.
Folks, you know, I'm very optimistic about this country, as you well know, but that doesn't mean there are things that don't trouble me.
And not just culturally.
You all know what those are.
Can we go back to the 1930s?
In the 1930s, what was happening?
The Great Depression.
Look at what we built in the 1930s.
We built the Golden Gate Bridge.
We built the Bay Bridge, both in San Francisco.
We built the Hoover Dam.
The Wall Street, the Empire State Building came in early and under budget.
All this in a depression.
You know, we say we can't build a fence.
We're not building things.
We still have a hole down there at ground zero coming up on six years Tuesday.
And you know why we got a hole down there?
Because nobody can figure out what to do.
We've got, well, I think they have now, but they should have just put the damn things up a foot taller than the previous building.
Just rebuild them like they were.
And this time put some asbestos in them.
Can't do that.
Can't do that.
Can't put asbestos in Norway.
Can't put things on the space shuttle to save the crew.
We've got to put things in the space shuttle or risk the crew's life to save freaking environment.
We had a bunch of groups down there that wanted a 9-11 memorial that basically chastised America for all these PC acts.
Racism, sexism, introduction of syphilis, taking land away from the engines, environmental destruction.
And they had some people down there that were going to go along with this because you're going to have a bunch of liberals running a town.
You try to appease all these various interests rather than tell them to shut up and go to hell.
It's a 9-11 memorial.
Take your garbage someplace else.
We're not building things.
We've got to get hamstrung and tied up.
Are there going to be any trans fats restaurants in the new towers?
We can't have that get all bogged down.
Are we going to have smoking areas for the smokers?
What are we going to do about fires?
All this garbage?
We're just hamstringing ourselves away so totally unnecessary.
Bill in Jacksonville, Florida.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.
Hi, Rush.
Megadittos.
Thank you.
And long-time listeners since the days of the lost furniture from Sacramento to New York.
Yeah, well, that would be day one.
Anyhow, an interesting thing about the bin Laden comments is that if the jihadists were doing so good, how come he wants the Democrats to get us to pull out?
Yeah, I know.
There's all kinds of contradictions in here.
But see, he doesn't, you're concluding that on his own.
He doesn't really say it.
What he says is that the American people elected Democrats to get us out.
The Democrats are failing.
And they got to snap two.
And the only threat that he makes is we're going to keep killing you in Iraq.
And our brothers are doing a great job.
Our brothers, he said, will continue to do a great job.
But that's exactly right.
If we're losing, why kick us out of there?
Why not just cream us?
Why not leave us there as the sitting ducks that we are with no buddy armor and no up-armored Humvees and all these other wacko, idiotic things the liberals think.
If we're just sitting down.
That's an excellent point out there, Bill.
Gregory in Philadelphia.
You're next.
Hello, sir.
Sir Limbaugh.
Hi.
Loyal disciple.
I've been for years.
Well, thank you.
I wanted to voice.
I'm looking forward to seeing you in Philadelphia in October, too.
I just wanted to voice my feelings about this whole anti-Western Europe thing.
I don't know European politics intimately, but I know Italian politics very well.
And I can tell you that the Italian right wing is alive and well, despite the fact that they were able to bounce Berlusconi.
You have to keep in mind that we're fighting a cultural war all over the world as far as what we're trying to get accomplished.
And imagine my chagrin when I go to Italy and talk to my right-wing friends in Italy, and they think that Nancy Pelosi speaks for America.
I mean, there's plenty of people in Europe, in Western Europe, that understand what we're doing, that support us.
And frankly, Berlusconi would still be Prime Minister of Italy right now except for the fact that the Italian left managed to use Iraq as a leverage point against him, too.
I know, I understand.
Look, I've maintained all along that the people of Western Europe are not nearly as opposed and filled with hatred and rage as has been reported.
I just refuse to believe it.
The leaders are another thing.
I'm talking about places like Sweden and Norway, Germany.
I think Germany's coming around.
France has obviously come around.
But the Labor Party in Great Britain is especially, the UK is especially wussy.
And, you know, some of the interior Western Spain, you know, they're there.
I don't think they're openly being critical.
This is the point that I made in that conversation we had with a caller, that Western Europe is all of a sudden sidling back up.
There's a new Americanism because they need us because they are in the economic outs.
The European Union didn't work out the way they thought it was going to work out economically.
The Chinese, the Chikoms, are presenting all kinds of new threats to them.
And you cannot have a nation that survives on the basis of its aristocracy.
Its elite liberal socialist aristocrats who sit up there with their little ascots on and sip tea from their little cups and start condemning everybody else who doesn't see the world in a civilized fashion as they do.
And that's who's been running the show in far too many of these Western, including the UK, not even including Italy in all this.
So I appreciate your calling and wanting to defend the motherland.
Back after this, stay with us.
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Lego to Cincinnati, this is Don.
Nice to have you, sir.
Welcome.
Hey, Rush, Conservative Dittos from Cincinnati.
Thank you.
Just curious, I've been watching this MSNBC thing with Jim Meklaszewski and the curious coverage that has been going on since this thing broke.
Fox has went into a little bit of detail on it, MSNBC.
Now, CNN came to them this afternoon, and they sort of looked at it a little bit and did not cover anything that had any detail.
And then they kind of yawned and moved on.
It's kind of curious.
You're talking about the bin Laden tape?
Yes, the bin Laden tape.
So CNN is not telling anybody the transcript details of bin Laden excoriating his allies, the Democrats.
That's right, exactly.
And I tell you what, on MSNBC, that Keith Oberman, he has a pathological hatred for Bush.
And I tell you what, nobody's watching that show.
And occasionally I'll flip over because I'm the political junkie.
But, you know, I've never, NBC is out of the way.
Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute.
You got to be.
Now we've got to rein you in.
This is a man eminently qualified for NFL pregame show commentary now.
It's not good enough in the old days, but now you have all kinds of deranged, insane, lunatic, liberal political commentators on NBC's Sunday night pregame NLFL show.