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Oct. 24, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 24, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #3
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I know, I know, I know.
You people just, you don't know what goes on in here.
I got people sending me instant messages just want to shoot the bull.
They know I multitask so well that they think I'm just...
You need to talk more about that, and you need to expand on that point, and you need to...
Jeez.
Nobody thinks I can do this myself yet.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIV Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
A thrill and a delight to have you with us.
I have to share a story with you.
Now, you people who have kids in screw, this may be common, but this is the first I've heard of it because I do not have any crumb crunchers.
I know people that do, but I've never heard this story.
I mentioned recently on this program that Dawn, who transcribes the callers here for me in case I can't hear them, bad accent or connection or what have you.
She has a daughter, junior in high school.
She's taking an American history class.
And in this American history class, no American history is taught.
It's current events with a liberal propaganda twist.
The teacher in this class happens till she got caught, happened to give the kids the questions and answers to tests 24 hours before the tests so that they would all pass.
This was to provide cover for the teacher for those who supervised her.
If they saw the test results of the kids in her class, they would assume everything's cool in there and not focus any attention on her.
The reason that she was doing this, I'm guessing, based on the details of the story that I know, is that she's really not teaching American history.
She's proselytizing in there.
She's propagandizing liberal agendas based on current news events.
And the latest instance of this was today, where this, in American history, and it's a two-hour class, this teacher, a female teacher, a female Tommy Lib was talking about the S-CHIP program in American history and told a class, how many in this class, do you have any ideas?
Is it the usual 30, 25, whatever?
This teacher was telling the students in this class that Rush Limbaugh was attacking 12-year-old kids in the S-CHIP program and was going on and on and on about how George W. Bush was not paying for it and kids weren't going to get their health insurance and therefore weren't going to get health coverage and so forth in an American history class.
How do we know this?
We know this because Dawn's daughter was text messaging her from the classroom.
Well, I don't care if what's against the rules, what this teacher's doing.
There's a reason she's texting you.
She's texting you because she knows what's happening in this American history class is not right.
Mom, mom, the teacher's bashing Rush today on this S-CHIP program.
So this is what I'm asking you.
Parents, does this happen?
Do you get texted or emailed from, well, text message your kids in classroom to tell you what the teachers are teaching them?
In this case, you know, Dawn's daughter was asking, what do I say here?
I know this teacher's full of it, and I know this isn't right.
This is like the 12th example of this kind of stuff.
So the point is that Dawn, While working on this program, she had to text message her daughter back to truth about the S-CHIP program and this Graham Frost kid and the fact that he was already covered under the program.
He was not going to lose his health insurance or his health coverage.
Yeah, that it was a Republican program started in 1997 that the president wanted to spend even more on it, just not to cover people who weren't poor.
So in this case, the parent is teaching the student the truth while a class is going on because the teacher is spreading a liberal lie that is all out there thanks to media matters and so forth.
I'm just, this, of course, would never have happened in my day in school because they have cell phones, have texting or any of that sort of thing when this kind of stuff happened.
And it didn't happen.
Well, this kind of stuff didn't happen.
I mean, but the you know, students have always had complaints about teachers that go home, mommy, mom.
The difference then was, you know, if I went home and told my dad that some teacher was behaving in this way or that when I did it, teacher was right.
Teacher was always right.
The authority figure was always right.
And I must be the one that was wrong.
So in this case, we know that this is a bunch of propaganda in an American history test.
Now, somehow the principal of school found out that the kids are getting the questions and answers 24 hours in advance.
And you know what happened?
Principal just said, well, you can't do that anymore to the teacher.
And so the teacher had to announce to the kids, guess what?
I can't give you the tests and the questions and answers in the test anymore.
And of course, most of the kids got mad about it.
Kids being kids, hell, if they're going to get the answers to the test, freebie, take them.
School's just something to be endured.
Dawn's daughter engages this in a much more serious manner, is in there to actually learn and is being propagandized.
So I guess the question, what, Mr. Snirdley?
It's a okay.
Oh, I see.
This is, I just learned something I didn't know, and that is that this is an honors class, that the students in this class are at the top of the heap in performance and grades.
Look, I know what goes on in the classroom.
I know that's not uncommon.
Don't misunderstand here.
What I'm asking you, who have kids, do your kids text you during class to tell you what they're being taught outraising?
Do you have to text them back to truth?
I just find this stuff, it's a great thing that we're doing here today.
I mean, we're getting the truth to this young skull full of mush.
Yeah, Dawn just said it's a good thing she didn't know how to text me, or she'd be texting me in the middle of the program.
We're all multitasking.
Yeah, so anyway, I just, I find this it is, it is amazing the content of this so-called American history class.
We know this kind of stuff goes.
We know liberals have taken over the school systems in many parts of the country.
I'm not talking about that.
I'm just doing the texting back and forth from parent to child, where the child has to be told the truth by the parent in the midst of a lecture by the teacher, which is a crock.
Anyway, I've got a little story here: CNN.
Anderson Cooper and Tom Foreman on their show last night.
We don't have the audio of this.
Don't go get it, cookie.
We don't need the audio for this.
But the headline of the story says that all Business and Media Institute is the website for the story.
CNN predicts possible century of fires due to global warming.
Now, where did we last hear this theme?
We last heard this theme after Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricane Katrina, remember?
Oh my gosh, global warming.
We are going to have hurricanes that are going to wipe us out.
We're going to have 15, 20 of these babies a year.
The ocean sea surface temperatures are warming up as fuel as hurricanes.
It's going to be bad out there.
And of course, since then, we've had nine hurricanes, four this year, five last.
Not even half the number of named storms that we had during the year of Hurricane Katrina.
So last night, CNN's got this big show on, by the way, they're doing this week-long series, Planet in Peril.
And by the day, the president of CNN, John Klein, has sent a memo out to the staff.
He says, don't make, what does he say?
Don't make any don't irresponsibly tie the fires of these events to global warming.
Now, this comes after last night's show, where Anderson Cooper and Tom Foreman said that a century of fires is possible now due to global warming.
And if you heard it, if you hear about it down the road, keep in mind, ladies and gentlemen, the last time you heard this was hurricanes and global warming after Hurricane Katrina.
People have been patiently waiting here to appear on this program, as is quite common.
We'll go to Randall in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Randall, thanks for the program.
Nice call.
Nice to have you with us.
Mr. Limbaugh, what an absolute honor to get the chance to speak with you soon.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I appreciate that.
As to your first two hours today, I'd rather be in the nosebleed section at Qualcomm Stadium wondering whether my house was burning down than to be in my mansion on any other country on the face of this earth.
Wow, thank you, sir.
You would rather be in the nosebleed section at Qualcomm Stadium wondering whether your house was burning down than to be in a mansion on any other country on the face of the earth.
That's powerful.
Absolutely, Rush.
And the question I have for you pertains to my great local newspaper here, the Washington Post.
But would it be possible to ask you a quick semi-related question first?
Yeah.
Yeah, you are being taken to the woodshed by conservatives at Mediareform.com.
Have you ever been to Mediareform.com, Rush?
Never heard of them.
Okay, yeah, it's a group of conservatives who think that you and Hannity and Savage and Beck and these other conservative talk show hosts aren't doing enough to lead the conservative talk show listeners to take the country back from the media.
And you've not been there?
What?
No, I've not been there and I'm not going there.
I couldn't care less.
Okay, all right.
Well, here was the reason why I called you.
After your story came out Monday and the auction was a Friday and the auction was over, the first thing I did is I went to buy a Washington Post Saturday morning to see what the story was.
I went through the entire paper, no story.
So what do I do?
I go Sunday morning down to the local convenience store, buy a Washington Post because I don't get it delivered.
I go through the entire post, no story.
So I'm thinking, okay, well, maybe they're going to bring it back out on Monday when people are really reading the newspaper.
I go buy my paper Monday, come home, go through the paper rush, and there's one full page and three-quarter page story about Richard Mellon Scafe.
Nothing about George Source, nothing about Media Matters for America, but a full story about George Source.
And Rush, I'm telling you.
Was this about Scafe's divorce?
Is that what the story was about?
Yes, that's what the story was.
Yeah, they're all excited because they hope his divorce will bankrupt him.
You know, Richard Mellon Scafe is a piker compared to George Soros and what he's done.
Right, but my question is, do you think the Washington Post is trying to depress the conservatives who would be going to their paper to find out what they were willing to say about your particular case with the reason?
They're ignoring it because they're protecting the stupidity of Democrats.
The Washington Post, they don't even think about conservatives, the Washington Post.
Conservatives, what are they?
Conservatives read the Washington Times.
No, Harry Reid made a blunder, a big-time blunder, and they're trying to protect him.
But the Washington Post did have a story on their maybe it was in their style section on Saturday that I heard about that was just outrageous.
It perpetuated all the lies that Media Matters started, and it poo-pooed the event and the money that it raised, and it was just a little tiff between a senator and a private citizen.
Downplayed the whole thing, trying to make it sound a joke.
But the whole point of people like the Washington Post in a circumstance like this, story like this, is to protect and cover for the mistakes that Denji Harry made.
Look, we like to move forward here at the EIB network, but I will explain something about this that I think is newsworthy.
A lot of people like you, why didn't the Washington Post cover the original smear?
Why didn't the Washington Post cover Harry Reid in his statement from the floor of the Senate?
Why didn't the Washington Post or the New York Times do any of that?
The Times didn't get on this case for this story for seven days.
Well, the answer is they knew it was a loser story.
They knew the premise was false.
They knew that trying to make the case that Rush Limbaugh hates the military or is critical of the military is not going to fly.
So they ignored it.
The real story, however, is, and it could have been easily written, a headline: Senate majority leader smears private citizen from floor of Senate with falsehoods.
Why wasn't that news?
I'll tell you why it wasn't news, is because they cover, you know, what it's not, it's not what they do report alone, it's what they also don't cover that constitutes their bias.
And in this case, they were not about to rip the Senate majority leader, at the same time, give me any kind of credibility or credence or attention whatsoever, because they are waiting for when they think something said about me will stick to go with that.
They knew this one wouldn't stick.
They're waiting for the one that they think will.
It's a long time between next now and next November, folks.
And so they're just keeping their powder dry in the drive-by media.
Jimmy in Lafayette, Louisiana, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Mr. Limbaugh.
Hi.
I just wanted to make a comment that I think to compare the situation at Qualcomm Stadium to what happened at the Superdome.
I think those two are not comparable.
I think if you go to Qualcomm Stadium and you cut off the electricity, cut off the phone service, including cell phone service, cut off the plumbing, and put about 12 feet of water in about a two-mile area around there, and then maybe you have something to compare.
I made this point yesterday.
Qualcomm Stadium didn't spring a leak, that the Superdome did.
I think the comparison that you're hearing people make is not between the two structures and the circumstances, but rather the attitudes of people.
The big difference in the two, Jimmy, is that the local officials in New Orleans were derelict in getting everybody out of there in saying that what Qualcomm Stadium represents is an evacuation of the danger area.
In New Orleans, people were evacuated within the target area with the hopes that the structure would hold.
They had all those school buses to get people out, and they didn't.
That's the real difference.
And whether people wanted to leave or not, the evacuation plan was not put into place.
There are way too many people still left in because once the storm hit, and you talk about that 12 feet of water and the floods and the levees and so forth, there was no way out anyway, even if you did have vehicles.
It was up to the National Guard and their helicopters and boats.
And by the way, they did more rescues in Hurricane Katrina than in any other disaster.
It was a great performance by the Coast Guard.
It's been overshadowed and ignored by a lot of people.
But no, you have valid points there.
Okay.
Good.
Well, that really was my point.
What?
Are you reacting to people you've heard on the phone today?
Right, right.
And, well, not only on the phone today, but in the media coverage on television of the events, they're trying to compare the two tragedies.
And to me, there is no comparison.
Well, but I know what you're saying, but there are.
The media is doing this.
I know Katie Couric gave Qualcomm Stadium a big plug, as though it, an inanimate object, is responsible for doing a good job.
Right.
Not the people there.
But the dome, it just was overwhelmed by the storm.
Right.
Right.
Okay.
All right.
Well, thanks.
Thanks for taking my call.
Jimmy, it's a pleasure to have you on the EIB network.
This is Jeanette in Baltimore.
Hi, Jeanette.
Nice to have you with us.
This is one of my all-time favorite top 10 female names, by the way.
And I have called your show three times.
So this is a great day for me.
And I have to tell you, it was my daughter that insisted that I call you.
You were talking about Dawn and Dawn's daughter and whether or not this is very common.
My daughter had me homesick today.
I said, Mia, you have to come in and listen to what he's saying.
And my daughter was like, yeah, mom, that happens.
It happens all the time with us.
So she insisted that I call you and tell you.
Yes, many of, and I think it's more common with girls because I have four children, two girls, two boys.
It seems to be more common with girls than it is boys, where she's very much letting me know what's going on in class, what she's being told, what she doesn't agree with, speaking up, and having her mom back her up with her views and what she thinks is the right way to do.
Cool, this is very cool.
Your sons just don't care.
Well, no, I don't.
They just want to get out of class.
They're not going to be.
Yeah, really.
They're not really paying attention that much anyway.
They're just there kind of doing their thing.
They're not really caring what's going on.
Typical boys.
But my daughters are very passionate about what they do.
They're really interested in learning.
And my older daughter, who is in college-level courses at one of the best universities in the state of Maryland, which I'm not going to mention, has even gone through the same thing.
And she will text me and let me know what's going on in her college classes.
Because, of course, they all know that I listen to you.
And I've got all the facts behind me.
I know what's going on.
Well, this is cool.
I did not know.
I hate to be abrupt here.
I've got what we call in inside broadcast circles a heartbreak.
I have to run here.
I did not know this is going on as frequently as apparently it does.
But this is terrific because it's countering at the same time the BS in a classroom.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you with us, Rush Limbaugh, well-known, likable, harmless, lovable little fuzzball radio racon tour.
You know, we covered the DREAM Act.
It failed to get closure today, which means they tried to shut off debate, try to get 60 votes and vote on it and make a law.
It's an amnesty bill.
It's a stealth amnesty bill.
It failed.
They got 52 votes.
They can bring it back anytime they want.
But it was a Dick Durbin Harry Reid special.
So Congressional Quarterly at 108 this afternoon posted a story about the DREAM Act.
And get this headline.
Senate refuses to consider bill to aid children of illegal immigrants.
The Senate on Wednesday blocked the latest efforts to address the thorny immigration issue, refusing to call up legislation that would allow some children of illegal immigrants to legalize their status in the U.S.
That is not what this was.
It was a part of it, but that's not what this was to allow children of illegal to legalize their status?
Senate refuses to consider bill to aid children of illegal immigrants.
You know, do it for the children supposed to pass what happened here.
This bill, quite simply, would have said that any illegal, if you can prove that you were here before you were 16, you get conditional legal status, conditional status.
By the way, bring all your friends and family in.
Bring your family in.
With no DNA tests.
So you won't have to prove that they're your family.
Just bring them all in.
And they get conditional legal status, too.
And then they get the time spent prior to when they were 16, whatever, 16 to now applied to their application for green card.
Legal immigrants don't even get that.
But I had the idea that they can report this.
Senate refuses to consider bill to aid children of illegal.
This was an amnesty bill for crying out loud.
Journalistic malpractice.
You know, what's happening in the media is bordering on criminal.
Folks, it just is.
Freedom of speech notwithstanding.
This is just outrageous.
Dan in Jacksonville, Arkansas.
Nice to have you on the program.
I'm Megha Ditto from the great state of Arkansas in Jacksonville, home of the Little Rock Air Force Base.
Well, great to have you on the program.
I just wanted to bring up something.
I'm a truck driver, so forgive the background noise here.
I was in Jackson, Tennessee a while ago, and the view came on the TV there while I was eating lunch.
And Woopie Goldberg, wait a second here.
Dan, you're a truck driver.
Yes, sir.
Salt of the earth.
Well, thank you, sir.
Flannel shirts rolled up.
I mean, you're steaming on down the highway in your multi-18-wheeler.
Where were you watching the view?
Well, at the truck stop, they have these TVs on that have the weather channel and things like this, and somebody had the view on for some reason.
Every standard that we come to know in this country is under attack.
The view on in a truck stop?
Yeah, maybe I had something.
But she had made a statement.
They opened it up starting with the fires in California and so on.
And Ms. Goldberg decided that that would be her chance to belittle Mr. Bush by saying that why would he even worry about going to California and checking on them?
Look what he did at Katrina, which was absolutely nothing.
He said the only reason he showed up in New Orleans to check out what was going on down there was because he was shamed because he did absolutely nothing to help the people there.
And the only thing I could think of after she said that was, well, they got rid of Rosie O'Donnell and hired her, so they just got rid of an idiot to hire a moron.
That's the only thing I could think of.
I know.
These people are really moron, idiot.
We spend too much time, Dan, to politically analyze these people.
They're just dumb.
They're just closed-minded, stupid, uninformed people who have no desire to get things right.
And they are immersed in rage.
They're immersed in hatred.
Thanks for the call, Dan.
Next time, do me a favor.
You walk into a truck stop and they've got the view on or OPRA on.
Get up and turn it off.
You know, turn on something else.
Turn on, even if it's Seinfeld reruns, turn them off.
Don't let them take over our truck stops to well, maybe so.
Some guy driving a Volvo in there, but that's another thing.
If you see a Volvo in a truck stop parking lot, go to the next truck stop.
I'll tell you, folks, they're out there trying to infiltrate every tradition and institution that's made this country great.
Truck stops are certainly a great institution.
The view.
The truck stop.
Who is this?
Let me put the glasses on.
This doesn't look Whalen in St. Louis.
Hi, Wayland.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
The rush.
Thank you.
It's an honor to talk to you.
I'll make my point brief.
Thank you for being here.
I have been a Missouri National Guardsman since 2001.
And what I've seen post-Hurricane Katrina is the politicians will call the National Guard out out of sometimes just a knee-jerk reaction.
Because here in Missouri, our governor, Matt Blunt, has been absolutely massacred by the press, and he doesn't want the bad press of somebody saying, well, you didn't do enough.
So we get a strong windstorm that knocks out a few power lines, an ice storm.
We're called out just so we're on the front page of the newspaper.
People feel good because they see the government's doing something.
And a lot of what it is is just fluff.
We're out there being seen, but not really doing a whole lot to assist the situation.
So you've become a photo op and a prop.
Oftentimes, yes.
And I don't blame the governor for it because, I mean, he gets beat up in the press all the time.
No, but you know what?
I don't either.
But here.
It's not that I don't blame him.
It's what that represents that bothers me.
That so many people have to see that the government is doing something before they feel like things are under control.
Now we're talking power lines and this kind of thing, and the power company comes along and does that.
You know, I got to tell you something.
We had what year was it?
Was it a year before?
Maybe it was the year of Katrina because Katrina went through here before it found its way.
Maybe the year before we had two hurricanes hit on the same spot up there, just north of Jupiter, within three weeks of each other.
And then Hurricane Wilma came through there from the left, you know, starting Cancun, destroyed that, came up the Gulf.
And I remember we were on the north end of the island where I live.
We were without phone service for nine days, and we didn't have electricity for like nine days.
Cell phone was spotty and so forth, but I was fortunate in that I had advanced planned and put in a generator that has a multiple, multiple day supply of diesel, and it runs most of the functions in the property.
But it's loud.
And so neighbors, they're a little bit upset and jealous at the same time, those that had hung around.
But the point I want to make is that it wasn't long after they had cleared the streets of the debris and opened the bridges.
There were power company personnel from electric companies all over this country had driven down from Ohio.
They were from northern parts of Florida and from Georgia.
And they were working around the clock trying to get the electricity back on.
The phone company was working.
I remember driving home two or three times, just stopping to thank these guys because they were away from home.
They hadn't gone through a hurricane.
They lived in other parts of the country.
They're away from home and they're working around the clock and it's that time of year, hot, humid, muggy, miserable.
And they were kind of stunned anybody would thank them.
They never get thanked for what they do.
They're always out there when people are mad, have lost the power, fix it.
And a lot of my neighbors here on the north end would stop and would thank these guys.
And they were all surprised by it.
But we didn't sit around and wait for the government to show up.
The local government here went into action and hired these crews from outside because there just weren't enough.
Plus, you know, these companies are entrepreneurial.
They knew that Florida, the South Florida, was devastated and they're going to need a lot of help.
So they called us, hey, you need some trucks and some crews.
We can send them down.
They said, yeah, bring them on down.
We'll dig into the emergency funds paid for by the exorbitant property taxes of our residents to pay your exorbitant bills.
So bring them on down.
But I still stopped and thanked them.
By the way, it reminds me, Snurdley said, you know, Diane Feinstein made a rather intelligent comment about these fires out there.
I said, really?
What?
He said, well, she doesn't understand why these local communities continue to allow people to build homes in what is obviously a fire path.
These fires happen every year.
These fires take place every year.
There's a certain place in Southern California.
They don't all hit the same spot every year, but they air fires out there.
And depending on how out of control they get.
And she said, but we've got to restrict some of the zoning here, some of the residential zoning and permits so that people can't build there.
And well, that's getting close here.
The Fed's telling you where you can and can't live.
Snurdley said, no, she was just asking, why do the communities do this?
And I said, come on, that's the easiest answer on the face of the earth.
It's called property taxes.
Why do local communities let people build right on the beach?
When you know that you can have a hurricane, you know you can have a flood.
And the percentage of people in this country that live on the coast, if you count New York and come all the way down Philadelphia, Boston, Texas, and then out to California, the percentages of people live on the coast is larger than you think.
I don't remember what it is off the top of my head.
But by, you know, people who think, well, everything that makes sense, everybody move inland.
Get them away from the beach.
Too much disaster happens on the beach.
Well, then you get to live near water.
You just have to.
That's why people, you know, settlements were on rivers and so forth, which happened to flood.
And even if you find somewhere safe and you're landlocked, hello, Mr. Tornado.
Hello, Mr. Drought.
I mean, life carries with it risks.
That's why you insure yourself against them as best you can.
But the reason these local communities, I tell you, when I land in Los Angeles, I go to Burbank, sometimes I go to Van Nuys.
I'm driving into a hotel in Beverly Hills, and I go through some of the canyons of people have houses built on stilts on the side of a hill.
I would no more do that.
I would no more walk into their house as a guest.
I see the video of the mudslides every year that happen out there.
I say, how in the world do you get permission to do this?
This is a bunch of liberals out in Southern California, Los Angeles.
Property taxes.
Taxes, taxes, taxes, property tax.
The more times you build, the better.
I have to laugh, folks.
I have to laugh, ha ha, at the story I saw at the Associated Press.
Clinton says she'd give up some powers.
If elected president in 2008, Democrat Mrs. Clinton would consider giving up some of the executive powers President Bush and Cheney have assumed since taking office.
What kind of idiots do you people at the AP think we are?
She's going to give up power like I'm going to give her my airplane.
It ain't going to happen.
She may try to take it from me with these powers that she can't wait to.
Yeah, after she nationalizes one-seventh of the economy, and after she does some other things, takes all the profits of ExxonMobil, yeah, maybe she'll sit back and relax for a day or two and give up some powers.
But then the question is, how much of that will be transferred to her husband?
Dallas, Texas, this is Tom.
Tom, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, a real privilege.
Thank you.
I wanted to go back to the discussion you were talking about, teachers, and I'd like to encourage you to bring this up often.
It's the Hatch Amendment from the Goals 2000 Educate America Act, Section 1017.
And on its first bullet point, it talks about all instructional materials, teachers, manuals, films, tapes, et cetera, et cetera, that reveals any survey analysis or valuation concerning, number one, political affiliations or things political, has to be made available to the parents and guardians of children.
It also says it applies to any school receiving federal money.
So it sounds to me, with this one case that you brought up and similar to others you've talked about, that these people are violating federal law.
Well, nobody's willing to call them on it.
You know, the law is the law, but if nobody holds you accountable to it, it may as well not exist.
The teacher may not even know it does exist.
Yeah.
Well, again, I would encourage...
The 2000 Educate America Act.
What a...
What a misnamed piece of legislation it was anyway.
I'm sure the intentions were honorable.
It sounded like they were honorable.
Yeah.
As a sidebar here, when we talk about other issues such as the fairness doctrine, I'd like to hear some discussion on if we're going to regulate the so-called airways belong to everybody in trying to shut you down.
How about every time these guys have a protest on the mall, they have to ensure that we have a counter-protest on the mall because that's public property also.
It ain't going to happen.
And that will not be the way to fight it.
You know, television is not going to be subjected to it.
They're just talking about the fairness doctrine for radio.
There's no fairness doctrine for television, for cable, not even federally regulated and so forth.
But that's, you know, the way to, when this happens, if it does, the way to fight it's going to be on, you know, not with analogies.
Oh, why don't you do it to them too?
We don't want them doing it anybody.
And so it'll have to be beaten back in a different way.
Louise in Barrington, Rhode Island.
Hi.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
This morning's paper.
I saw Reed C's delay in vote on Iraq funds.
So I promptly called his office and I said, but did you listen to C-SPAN Monday morning where the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq was on a wonderful segment?
He's Boram Salai.
He's a deputy prime minister of Iraq.
He's actually a Kurdish man.
Was this, did this take place at the Brookings Institution?
Yes.
Was Martin Endick the guy talking to us?
Yes.
Yeah, I saw it.
Oh, you saw it?
Well, that was on.
We had to sound.
We got 18 monitors in our vast production.
I saw it.
Can you get a transcript of it?
Oh, we can do anything.
It was all good news.
It was wonderful news.
We don't have to tie the hands of this country here trying to get the money for it.
You misunderstand what's happening here.
We talked about this yesterday, Louise, and I want you to relax.
The president has requested more money for both wars.
Dingy Harry said, hell with that, because he knows it's going to happen.
They're not going to turn this down.
Bush is going to get his money just like the Democrats can't get their resolutions passed to get out of Iraq.
Harry Reid is simply trying to put up a stiff upper lip just to make a good impression here.
Well, I don't know what he thinks he's doing here.
When is he going to learn?
He already learned, Senator.
He's kicking your butt each time this subject comes up.
You know, your butt has been kicked so often lately, Senator Reid.
It's amazing that you have the ability to sit down pain-free.
When are you going to understand?
I still can't believe this that Mrs. Clinton's going to give up power in a drive-by buy into this.
I think I'll do a morning update on that for tomorrow, in fact, ladies and gentlemen.
In the meantime, we got to take our 21-hour break to relax and recoup, to calm down and to recompose.
We'll be back bright and early, same time tomorrow, revved and ready to go.
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