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Sept. 25, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 25, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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Well, the um the customary annual physical checkup at the doctor's office may not be worth the time or the money, researchers said yesterday.
Somebody quick call the Breck girl.
His health care plan mandates that we do this.
About 63 million U.S. adults visit a doctor annually for a routine medical organicological checkup at a total cost of 7.8 billion dollars, according to a study intended to help answer questions about the value of this trip to the doctor's orifice.
More than 80% of preventive care provided by doctors does not take place during the annual checkup, the study showed.
That's right, more than 80% of preventive care provided by doctors does not take place during this annual checkup.
More than $350 million worth of potentially unnecessary medical tests are performed.
The researchers said Dr. Ativ Mehrotra of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the Rand Corporation who led the study Said we need to question encouraging everybody to come in for their annual physical.
There's a lot of money, a lot of visits.
A lot of adults go on to see their doctor for annual physical exams with a real unclear benefit.
It's the number one reason adults see their doctor, and yet we don't know whether it's helpful or not.
The uh study appears in the archives of internal medicine.
Merotra said that no major North American clinical organization advises people to get an annual medical checkup, but most adults think they should get one, and most doctors recommend them.
I'm not saying that preventive care in itself is not helpful, he said.
It's clearly helpful.
Mammograms, PAPs, mirrors, cholesterol screening, colon cancer, all that.
Patients ought to get those, but does it need to happen at this special visit, or can we get it some other way?
Large studies in the 60s and 70s failed to show that these checkups provide a significant medical benefit to the patient, and there has been a debate about their value ever since.
Sam.
Say what?
Who is it, ladies and gentlemen, that has been suggesting that way too many of us go way too often to the doctor.
Because, a, we think we can pay it.
It's free, it's uh covered by insurance or whatever.
Secondly, um we have been inundated with the notion that we should.
I well, I that's true.
I didn't know there was a debate about it until now, other than on this show.
But I didn't know they were doing uh actual research uh into it.
Um here's another health threat to lose sleep over.
Too much sleep can kill you.
But too little sleep can kill you too, according to a British study released yesterday.
A classic example of fear-mongering, crisis, and angst-ridden news, the real eye-opening news, the traditional eight hours a night model may be out the window.
In terms of prevention, our findings indicate that consistently sleeping around seven hours per night is optimal for health, said Dr. Francesco Cappuccio, the professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Warwick, the annual conference of the British Sleep Society.
Uh after pouring over to sleep habits and health outcomes of more than 10,000 British workers during two five-year periods.
Dr. Cappuccio and a research team found that chronic lack of sleep can more than double the risk of death from cardiovascular disease.
But they also found that those who sleep more than eight hours a night can more than double the risk of death from a variety of causes.
Do you believe this?
You gotta love this, folks.
Uh Still, Americans seem to fall right into the new sleep ideal.
The group also reports Americans average between 6.9 and 7.5 hours weeknights for 6.9, 7.5 hours on weekends.
Before Thomas Edison invented a light bulb, by the way, people slept 10 hours a night.
So the light bulb might be uh saving lives because leaving that much kills us, they said.
So uh That's right.
That's what I was just gonna say.
The life expectancy has expanded with the invention of the light bulb and people getting less sleep.
The uh Bush administration said in a new report yesterday, Social Security facing a 13.6 trillion.
Oh my God.
Annual budgets.
What?
Three?
The whole budget for the country is three trillion?
The uh Social Security facing a $13.6 trillion shortfall, and the delaying needed changes was not fair to younger workers.
Uh well, you know there's a strike going on at General Motors over just this concept.
Do you know that the retired workers at General Motors being paid their their health benefits and pensions?
Which they GM agreed to.
I mean I'm just giving the numbers here.
The number of retired people General Motors is paying outnumbers the employed people seven to one.
And so there's a strike because General Motors says, look, this can't go on.
It just can't go on.
And in the rank and file, I'm not uh I'm not sure how widespread this is, but you've got some younger workers and you've got the older workers, the older workers are like the older voters.
I don't care about the future because there's not much left for them.
So they want to get as much as they can right now.
They'll let the young people deal with it later.
The younger workers are general, hey, wait a minute here, our future's on the line here.
We're not sure we want to go on this strike here.
But Scott Ott, Scrappleface had had a great line that this GM strike, if it goes on, uh will hit Democrat presidential candidates the hardest.
Because the union members won't have any dues to cough up for the union thugs to donate to uh to Hillary or so forth.
So anyway, really, uh what we should do if we follow the General Motors plan, expand Social Security.
The reform is to expand it and then raise taxes on the rich and cover illegal aliens.
And then we can make the United States just like what's happened to General Motors.
Where there were for every one person working, there'd be seven people not working, depending on that one person to provide their benefits.
It's where we are headed, ladies and gentlemen.
Now here's an interesting little story.
This is in the Chicago Tribune.
Headline pretty much says it all, school discipline tougher on African Americans.
In the average New Jersey public school, African American students are almost 60 times as likely as white students to be expelled for serious disciplinary infractions.
Yet black students are no more likely to misbehave than other students from the same social and economic environments.
Research studies have found.
Some impoverished black children grow up in troubled neighborhoods.
They come from broken families, leaving them less equipped to conf Well, whose fault is that?
Conveniently omitted from the story.
It's the fault of federal government programs instituted by the late FDR, part of the raw deal, expanded on by Democrats ever since to create dependency.
They destroyed the families of the poor.
But look, let's go back to the original premise.
Almost uh sixty times as likely.
African American students almost sixty times as likely as white students to be expelled for serious disciplinary in uh infractions.
Now how and why does a monopoly, public screw system, dominated and run by Democrats and liberals, allow this to happen.
How can this happen?
how can New Orleans have been what it was?
Well, it was been run by liberal Democrats for I don't know how many years.
New Orleans, prior to Katrina and afterwards.
You want to know what liberalism looks like unchecked?
Check out New Orleans.
You want to know what liberalism looks like unchecked?
Check the New Jersey public schools.
What did we read what they spend something like $14,000 per student in the New Jersey public schools?
You know, that kind of money.
You could have a limo take every kid to school, take them over across the George Washington bridge to 21 for lunch, limo them back to school, limo them home, and still have money left over.
So where's the money going?
But despite that.
Sixty times as likely African American students to be expelled for serious disciplinary infractions in a monopoly run by liberals and Democrats.
How does this happen?
Second question.
How does a monopoly dominated and run by Democrats and liberals get this kind of press?
This is not good press.
This is the nor normally this kind of stuff would be suppressed.
I mean, it's a Democrat state.
Democrat governor, by the way, Corzine, you know, the ship's program, the S chip, they're calling it, because some people are not popping the P when they say ship program.
So now calling it S chip.
As a highly trained broadcast specialist, I have no problem popping the P when I need to pop the P. So I am perfectly comfortable saying the ship program.
And Corzine's saying, screw, I don't care what the Fed say.
I'm going to keep enrolling people as I see fit.
Law doesn't matter to him.
The Democrat run state.
So how does the story about the squalor of the New Jersey public school system end up in the Chicago Tribune?
I'm just fascinated.
This is normally the kind of thing that the drive bys would uh surpass.
Yes.
Well, Mr. Snertley, the official program observer, wants to know why the union hasn't fixed the problem.
Uh the problem of the disciplinary being so out of whack, disciplinary action, 60% of African Americans.
Why hasn't a union fixed the problem?
Um meaning the teachers?
Why am I the T teach?
Um I don't think they ever thought they would have to.
But the Chicago trib's blown the whistle on them now.
They may have to deal with it now.
Rush Limbaugh, once again fighting fatigue, up late last night, playing with new computer software at 3 30 a.m.
I get lost in this stuff.
At time flies, I forget uh just what's uh let's go have some music on and playing around with it and uh look up 115.
Okay, just another 10 more minutes.
And uh get back into it, look up 145.
50 more, two o'clock.
I'm gonna I'm gonna call it off.
And uh kept learning new things with it.
So it wasn't until 3.30 that I that I packed it in.
All right, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Back now to the audio sound bites, the uh one and only Mahmoud Ahmadini.
But first, I mentioned uh to you uh the propaganda reasons.
We should not have invited uh Mahmoud.
Nobody should have invited him to speak in this country because it just provides propaganda for his use back home in his controlled society.
Now here's an associated press writer in Tehran.
Maybe it's a terrorist for all I know.
An AP terrorist writing in Tehran.
Headline, Iranians criticize Columbia University's combative introduction for Ahmadini Zod.
Iranians on Tuesday called the combative introduction of President Mahmoud Ahmadini Zad, but a head of Columbia University shameful, said the harsh words only added to their image of the United States as a bully.
In a region where the tradition of hospitality outweighs personal opinions about people, many here in Tehran.
I'm on a puke.
In a region you're talking about Iran here.
In a region where the tradition of hospitality outweighs personal opinions about people.
Many in Tehran thought Columbia University President Lee Bollinger's aggressive tone, including telling Ahmadini Zad that he exhibited the signs of a petty and cruel dictator was over the top.
The uh surprising point of the last night meeting is the behavior of the university president, said state-run radio, uh describing Bollinger's introduction as uh full of insult, which was mostly Zionists' propaganda against Iran.
The chancellors of seven Iranian universities issued a letter on Tuesday to Bollinger saying his statements were deeply shameful, and they invited him to Iran to see the truth.
So um, not too many people talking about Bollinger, but this AP terrorist, uh, a reporter in uh in Tehran certainly is uh following the Iranian party line, is he not?
What I think it's a he who can tell what's the name of the Nasser Karimi.
You never know with some of these names, but sounds like it's uh it's a guy.
Let's go to the uh audio tape here, the audio sound bites.
Mahmood Ahmadinizad responding to these quote unquote insults leveled at him by Lee Bollinger.
I want to complain about the person who read this political statement against me in Iran.
Requires that when we demand a person to invite a speaker, we actually respect our students and the professors by allowing them to make their own judgment.
And we don't think it's necessary before the speech is even given to come in with a series of claims.
Hey, hey, it's all about students applauding the terrorists in their midst.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
This is fabulous.
Um, I've I've talked to several people, and and I'm I'm uh I'm a little bit surprised to tell you that uh some people think Mahmoud has a point.
This is not polite.
You invite somebody to sort of like a if if uh somebody said it was no different rush, and if you get invited on a TV show and they do it 30 minute setup, what a rotten S will be you are, and make you come out after that.
I mean, you wouldn't like that.
I wouldn't mind if they were telling the truth.
Uh Bollinger was telling the truth about old Mahmud, but some people say still you know it was a little impolite to do this.
So the question is why Bollinger do it.
Well, clearly, uh there are a lot of reasons.
One of them is money, obviously.
I mean, the guy was threatened with funding from alumni and boosters and uh others, plus there was there was uh incredible criticism from the right.
I I think what happened is this little guy, uh Bollinger just wanted some attention for his school.
But wow, this will really set me up well with the liberal community being open and tolerant of this little terrorist coming in here, as everybody knows that he hates Bush and we hate Bush, and so we'll have a little love fest.
And he didn't expect the reaction he got, so it was a CYA thing to go out there, but the pri who cares.
You know, who cares the motivation?
The bottom line is what Bollinger said, and it pulled the lid off of the jar that is housing the phoniness of the Democrat Party's belief about the war on terror.
Still to me, that was the major import of what happened.
You screw what Ahmadinizad said.
What Bollinger said about him and about the Middle East and the United States position, that to me was profound.
This is a major university president.
He is one of the leading liberal leaders of academic and he just he sold him out.
And I bet he I bet he's getting some grief privately, you know, probably being applauded on the one hand.
I mean, what was the cocktail party like last night for him?
You know, drive-by's ran the tape and they missed the story.
They ran the tape and they missed the story of it.
I it's it's well.
Yeah, they may have genuinely missed it or they may have purposely ignored it.
Um here is uh question.
Unidentified student says Iranian women are now denied basic human rights, and your government has imposed draconian punishments, uh, including execution on Iranian citizens who are homosexuals.
Why are you doing these things?
In Iran, we don't have homosexuals like in your country.
We don't have that in our country.
You don't need to sell it.
You don't need to sell it.
Thank you.
That you know in Iran, we do not have this phenomenon.
I don't know who's told you that we have it.
Oh my God, brother.
And the students who had previously applauded him started laughing at him.
Little Mahmood became a laughing stock at Columbia University.
You see, without Democrat talking points to follow, he really doesn't know what to say in this country.
He knows what to say about Hurricane Katrina, he knows what to say about Abu Ghrab, he knows what to say about secret European prisons, he knows what to say about uh Club Gitmo.
Uh, because all he has to do is listen to Democrats say it.
But this question came out of the blue because the Democrats in this country, of course, never rip homosexuals.
Uh so he was flying blind, and he had to do what I don't have that problem.
We don't have that phenomenon.
So he was he was uh it was off message.
He had no talking points furnished for him on that subject.
Thank you.
And I know.
Demo that each and every day here behind the golden EIB.
Microphone.
All right.
Now the uh Mahmood comment on gays.
Uh the media is somewhat stymied.
Uh and uh Matthews uh last night on Hardball attempted to explain what Mahmud meant.
You know what he meant.
We all know what he meant.
There's no, you know, there's no province town, there's no there's no place you can go if you're openly gay and enjoy freedom.
There's no locales.
I mean, I was two years in Africa.
I didn't see any gay hangouts.
Yeah, uh you won't see gay hangouts anywhere in the world of Islam.
That's one of the reasons you ought to consider them a huge enemy out there, Chris.
Uh a lot of them couldn't go to locales if there were locals because they're killed.
Uh, you know, they they uh they live in the shadows there.
Um and uh well I Mr. Snerdley wants to know why does Why does Matthews assume to know what he meant?
We all Well, this you know, it's it's a famous rhetorical trick.
Uh if you start an answer to the quote well, as we all know, or as everybody knows, that's a very clever rhetorical trick.
And Madeline Albright uses it.
Uh a lot of Lib Democrats use it when uh when answering policy quell, as everybody knows.
Uh everybody doesn't know what he meant.
He might have actually meant we don't have any here, because if we find them, we do something about it.
We don't tolerate it.
We don't have that phenomenon.
Yet there's a there's a there's a tendency here to to soft-sell this guy uh and not be honest about just the kind of regime he runs and the kind of terrorists that he is.
Um here, here's an even better example.
Christian Amanpur was on last night with Anderson Cooper on CNN.
And they are they're wondering why does he say these things?
Why does Mahmoud say these things?
For him today, uh to point blank say that they don't have homosexuals in in Iran is just why does he do this?
Why does he want to come here, make these kind of speeches, make these remarks about the Holocaust?
What is the audience he is trying to reach?
His own hardline audience, the ideologues who are still the fundamentalist hardline adherents to the revolution of 28 years ago.
He believes that that those who are angry with the United States because of the Iraq war, conversely admire him because he stands up to the United States.
So here they are.
Why would he say these things?
Why why would he come here and do this?
They had such high hopes that Mahmood would come and you know give a you know a stem winder, a barn burner, ripping George W. Bush to shreds, and instead he embarrassed liberals by saying they don't have any homosexuals in Iran.
Having homosexuals amongst you is the surest sign of enlightenment.
But not the Mahmood.
Why would he come say that?
Why would he damage his case?
That's what they're wondering.
Not the first time this has happened on CNN.
Uh we'll go back to August 1st of 2006, Anderson Cooper 360s in Northern Ireland.
Uh uh or Northern Israel, rather, he's on the Israel-Lebanon border, interviewing New Yorker magazine's Jeffrey Goldberg.
Uh, see if you remember this.
I think uh what what's been lost in a lot of this coverage is just how anti-Semitic Hezbollah is in their rhetoric.
It's absolutely Fascinating, Anderson.
Uh the anti-Semitism, there's two things that are fascinating about it.
One is how embedded in the the core of Hezbollah ideology, anti-Semitism is.
And I don't mean anti-Israel thinking or anti-Zionism.
I mean frank anti-Semitism.
The other thing that's so interesting about it is how blunt they are and how frank they are about uh their anti-Semitism.
They don't hide it, they don't try to mask it in any way.
They state very openly to you when you ask uh their their exact feelings about Jews, which are quite extreme.
This guy is stunned that an Islamist terrorist group would a be anti-Semitic and then be so open about it when they speak.
Why would they do this?
It's really interesting, Anderson.
Of course, so there's a precedent here for CNN to be curious about why totalitarians, terrorists, and thugs admit how mean they are, and how bigoted and prejudiced they are.
Like, why would Mahmud say that there are no homosexuals in uh in Iran?
I'll tell you why I think he said it.
I'm not gonna be flat out dead straight honest with you, folks.
If you've stu you know, you know it's not permitted in Islam.
It is not permitted.
That's the worst thing you can be, second only to being a woman in Islam, with these guys' version of it anyway.
What he when he got that question, remember, you I I think even after Bollinger's introduction, he thought he would be able to control the event.
You have to understand the mindset.
This guy's coming here thinking he's a hero.
The Democrats won the election in 06.
His party, bin Laden's party.
This guy on 60 Minutes talks about how America sucks because of Katrina, because of Abu Ghraib, because of Club Gitmo, because of secret European prisons.
He parrots what he hears from American Democrats.
He thinks he's on safe ground.
He does not have to come here and rip this country to shreds because the Democrat Party's doing it for him.
All he's got to do is echo what they say.
So he comes here.
The media is fawning all over his arrival.
You saw the motorcade that brought him in from JFK.
I mean, this little guy is getting all kinds of attention in this in this in this infidel country.
And he thinks he's got us wrapped around his little finger.
And part and parcel of that is the media fawning all over the guy.
Wherever he goes, there's thousands of them outside, hours in advance of his arrival.
And he's sitting there thinking, man, I got this one licked.
I'm gonna these people I'm what a bunch of dupes they are.
And he's he walks into Columbia yesterday, all confident as he can be.
Then here comes Bollinger's little broadside.
I get it unnerved him a bit.
Well, once that was over, I think, and especially when he gets the applause in his opening remarks, ripping Bollinger for being impolite and rude.
And the Democrats won the election, and I'm just saying what they say.
So I'm thinking, and I'm in a liberal enclave here.
I mean, I'm at a university, I'm a Columbia university.
They invited me.
He's got to be he's on top of the world, folks.
Feeling his oats, this is a high.
This is a huge rush, no pun intended.
And then all of a sudden out of blue comes this question on homosexuality.
And that's not in the talking points.
He hadn't heard the Democrats talk about that.
He doesn't quite know what to say.
So he comes out and he says, Well, we don't have that problem.
We have that phenomenon.
Uh there are no homosexuals in Iran.
What he was saying was it isn't permitted.
He didn't say when we discover them, we execute them.
He was just saying it isn't permitted.
Even when the audience laughed through his answer, he kept on with that line, because I think the one of the few times in the address yesterday he was off script.
We went right.
He kept talking about how women are God's greatest creatures.
We love women and we love this and we love that, and we hate war and all these sorts of things.
And everybody here's eating it up.
Everything he says, everybody's just eating it up.
So he gets this question.
It's not on a talking points.
He hasn't prepped for it.
And so he's he's he's he's left to think, okay, they love me.
Uh tell them the truth.
We don't have that phenomena in this country.
Because they don't permit it.
And he, you know, gets laughed at and so forth and kept on with it.
I don't think it's any great mystery what he meant.
I don't think it's any mystery uh that he was off his talking points.
Uh he's I look at I'm not exaggerating about this.
I am I I am confident that Mahmoud Ahmadini Zad goes to all these public appearances.
Now the UN will be different uh because that's going to be an audience of his peers in there.
So he can you know he can he can launch in there.
But when he's talking to American citizens, he thinks he thinks he's talking to people that also hate George W. Bush and love Democrats that love him, because that's all he's been saying the same things that they're saying.
Uh and and uh he knows that his comments about wiping Israel off the map don't get reported widely here.
He knows that his comments about attacking the United States and denying the Holocaust don't get widely reported here.
Uh he knows the American media is on his side, so I I I don't I don't think it controversial at all to try to detect what he meant, nor is it a mystery why he said it.
He's proud of the fact they don't permit homosexuals in Iran.
He's proud of it, and that's what allowed him to continue on undaunted through the laughter of the students.
We will be back.
By the way, in none of the Iranian media that I've seen, I haven't seen by any means all of it.
But that whole exchange has not been reported, either by this AP terrorist or the Iranian state run uh news service.
There's no reference to what he said about homosexuals uh at all.
And they have a closed society over there, so you don't know how much of the uh actual presentation the Iranian people have actually seen.
Uh, because I'm sure whatever they've seen has been carved up and edited uh with a fine tooth call.
Be right back and continue.
We just have three more sound bites uh on the uh Um Mahmood Ahmadine's odd uh story, two from him and one from Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington.
Uh but first uh people have been waiting patiently in the phones that's grab one or two here.
Uh John in Libertyville, Illinois.
Nice to have you, sir.
Welcome.
Hi, thanks for taking my call.
I think you have this exactly wrong.
I mean, I I think that yesterday you spent the whole day telling us how liberals were sympathetic to Ahmadinejad, and y what you say is true.
He walks into this liberal institution, here's Bollinger, a big liberal, and all these liberal students, and they rake the guy over the cold.
You were totally wrong.
And I gotta say, I think Mr. Bollinger did something that was so brave and and at the risk of offending you, I think to engage somebody directly that you take political issue with and tell them just what you think is takes a lot more courage than sitting in a radio studio calling people you take political issue with names, but never engaging them directly.
And I think Bollinger's a hero.
Really?
I I think that what's really been revealed here is just how wrong you were yesterday.
You said that's always about me.
By the way, I never apologize.
But what I did I know that what I what I said yesterday, I I probably I might have gotten pretty close.
I'd have to go back and listen.
I I did I did I apologize yesterday?
Did I say I did.
I said I had it, I did I did say I was wrong about it.
I said I was pleasantly surprised, and I gave this guy the biggest attaboy yesterday afternoon, uh, John, you have ever heard.
Are you still there, John?
Yeah, sure.
Okay, I did.
I gave this guy the biggest attaboy, and uh uh I I I was totally taken aback by then, you know, started one what might have caused this, motivation is not all that important, but I was still curious what what caused this funding and I think the criticism and so forth.
By the way, the students were not universally raking him over the coals.
He got a lot of applause from these I mean the Ahmadinizad did.
Well so did Bollinger during his introduction.
Bollinger was being applauded for the excoriation that he gave.
Yes, he was, but uh are you are you um would you describe yourself as a liberal or a conservative?
I I you know what I don't I don't describe myself with either one of those labels.
No, I I I try to think of myself as being more independent than that.
More what?
More independent I try to think of myself as being more independent.
Independent in it, okay.
But I mean, is that what it's all about with you is whether or not I'm a liberal or a conservative?
Uh no, no, I was just curious because I was if if you were a liberal, I was gonna say it's gotta be really tough for you to come here and criticize Ahmadinizad.
No, I don't you know what I I share Mr. Bollinger's criticism of my of uh Ahmadinejad and and I think uh I think that most liberals do, and I think that's why what you said yesterday was exactly wrong.
I I think that you didn't expect this.
What you said is true.
He did walk into a liberal institution surrounded by liberals, and rather than being sympathetic with him, as you've always told us, you told us that they're sympathetic with him, and rather than be sympathetic with him, they raked him over the call.
So they absolutely him.
John, I have played soundbite after soundbite after soundbite today of drive-by media members sympathetic to Ahmedini's odd.
I have played soundbite after soundbite of elected Democrats sounding just like him in attacking George W. Bush.
But I'm talking about Bollinger.
Well, fine.
I'm coming to Bollinger.
We haven't heard anything like what Bollinger said for four years from anybody like him anywhere in academia.
We haven't heard it from a professor.
We get Ward Churchill instead insulting us and calling us idiots and so forth for 9-11.
That's what we get out of the academy.
We don't get what Bollinger said yesterday.
Of course I was shocked and stunned.
I was in total disbelief here, almost hyperventilating, couldn't believe it.
Because the mask is off.
We now know that people like Bollinger actually do believe that there's a real threat going on out there and ought to be supporting George W. Bush rather than trying to support him.
And that's the import of what Bollinger said yesterday.
Thank you.
You're still up.
You're still up.
See, folks, another stirring example of when I say something about anything, there's nothing left to be said.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
All right, look, let's let's get this Bollinger stuff out there on the table once and for all.
The fact is it was a bone-headed move to invite Ahmadinezad to speak.
It had nothing to do with free speech.
Bollinger was taking tons of heat.
City, state, federal politicians threatening to cut capital funds and loans and all the rest from Columbia University.
We don't know what the donors were telling him or his own board, but he clearly he stepped in a you know, you put a bag, pile a manure in front of a liberal, and they will step in it, and he did.
I I think Bollinger knows that Ahmadinizad's the enemy and evil.
He knows it.
He knew it when he invited him, but he invited him anyway.
But I don't believe he denounced him because he knows he's the enemy, or he would have denounced him all along for the last five years.
I believe his little invitation was backfiring with those uh uh he needs the donors, the board, taxpayers, and so forth, and so voila.
Um that's that's what happened yesterday.
Now, everybody's going nuts over this NFL rule.
Uh I've had a lot of people ask me about this.
I hardly ever get football questions of people because they want to stick to the issues.
But the NFL sent out a memo yesterday to all 32 teams with new restrictions on the cheerleaders.
Everybody said, Well, what what's uh what's the big deal?
Well, the some some home teams are having the cheerleaders work out scantily clad outside or near the visitors' locker room and the route that they had to take to get to the field.
The theory being that home teams were using the cheerleaders to distract the opposing team.
Now, some of you may be laughing.
It's come on, these guys are wired for the game, they're not noticing this stuff.
Let me tell you something.
I told you I went out to the Hawaii University home opener.
Uh June Jones is a coach, and uh they played Northern Colorado, and we had to leave at halftime.
And it and and uh a little bit before halftime, actually.
And the route that we took didn't take us anywhere near anybody's locker room, but the cheerleaders for the halftime show were in there working out, stretching and all this, getting ready for the halftime show.
And I have to tell you, folks, it was a distraction.
And we stopped and we pretended not to be gazing, but we were.
And it was very fortunate that we didn't have to hit a commercial flight.
Because we had the freedom and the luxury to stop.
Now I can say if you put that outside the visitors' locker room before the game, or the route that they take to the field.
Um I mean, it's probably not gonna provide much of a distraction for very long.
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