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Nov. 5, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 5, 2007, Monday, Hour #2
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Greetings to you, music lovers and thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
Rush Limbaugh, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned, maha-rushnishi.
Here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone number if you want to join us today, 1-800-282-2882.
And the email address, rush at EIBnet.com.
I had to check the email here at the top of the break, and a lot of people are asking, how come you're not talking about Hillary?
What happened on the Sunday shows?
Look at.
I spent all day Friday on this show on Hillary, and I think that's what put me in a blue funk.
I've got this huge Hillary stack here.
I just didn't want to make this show all about Hillary like Friday's was.
I'm going to get to it.
Look, folks, I opened the wound.
I forced that question at the debate last week on Mrs. Clinton and the illegal driver's license, the driver's license for illegals.
And all over the Sunday shows yesterday, they're picking at her.
So other people are doing the work now, as usual.
I'm the pioneer.
I'm the trendsetter.
I start the snowball rolling down the mountain that causes the avalanche.
The avalanche happened yesterday on the Sunday shows.
Let other people handle it for a moment.
We'll pick up on it in due course.
Also, this writer's strike, the Writers' Guild of America.
They're picketing.
I'm not quite sure if the strike is full-fledged yet or not.
It might be.
Now, what I've heard about this is that the first casualties are going to be soap operas and the late-night comedy shows such as Leno, Letterman, things like that.
And I have to be honest.
I have to be honest.
When I saw that late-night comedy shows would have to go into reruns, which might happen tonight, Leno and Letterman, my first reaction was, you got to be kidding.
You got all these so-called brilliant funny men, Leno, Letterman, Stuart Colbert, and they can't do their shows without writers.
Do you know how many writers we have here at the EIB network?
We have Zilch.
And even if we did and they went on strike, we wouldn't have to go into reruns because the host is the focus and the drive of the program here.
And I'm thinking, for crying out loud, what a bunch of whims.
Okay, so the writers go on strike.
Do the show yourself.
Sit there, write up some jokes, do a monologue, unless that's considered crossing the picket line.
I'll tell you, this is just...
And now the news writers may have to go on strike.
What kind of writing is involved in the news for crying out?
The news is what happened.
Well, that's a big tell-all, isn't it?
That news writers go on strike.
I know.
Just rip and read.
Just take writers and read it as your own anyway.
In my case, these late-night comedy guys.
Well, I don't want to go any further than what I've already said.
But I have to chuckle at all these people's great reputations, great comedians.
Their writers never do get the credit.
This is one of the things the writers are striking about.
And really, one of the things they're striking about is the distribution of revenue over these new sources, the new media like the internet and downloads and this kind of thing, DVDs, rather than broadcast, because there are a lot of shows being downloaded now through services like iTunes, and the writers don't get any credit for that, and they want some.
They'll get a participation in that.
And the studios are saying, screw you.
You get paid for writing it, and that's it.
We'll continue to give you your residuals and so forth on things that are broadcast.
And the writers are saying fewer and fewer things are broadcast.
And fewer and fewer DVDs are being sold.
And more and more downloads are taking place on the internet where the writers don't get to participate.
One more thing, also, about NBC and this 150 hours of their green initiative.
I was watching the football game last night, as you know, the slaughter of the Philadelphia Iggles by the Dallas Cowboys.
And, you know, the pregame show, they went dark.
Well, they didn't go dark.
They turned off their Klieg lights.
You can still see these guys in the studio, but they're trying to set a good example.
They had this big satellite map that shows all the lights on in America, all up and down the East Coast and the Gulf Coast and the West Coast.
All these lights are on us.
They're urging us to turn off our lights, save power.
I made sure all my turtle lights were just blazing last night.
I went and turned on more lights in the house than I needed on.
This is how I react to this.
And then they got the little blimp, little blimp flying over the Lincoln Financial Field where the Eagles are being slaughtered by the Cowboys.
And lo and behold, the baseball stadium, the Phillies Park, nobody in there.
The baseball season's over, and it's fully lit up.
All the outside lights lighting the field, fully lit up.
I said, what is this?
Then they flew over, I think, what was Franklin Field, where the Iggles used to play.
I think it's at Temple University, if I'm not mistaken.
Regardless, there was something going on there, probably a UNICEF fun drive, who knows what it was, but there were people running around, not very many.
And I'm looking at the TV and they say, well, what are all these lights?
You just got through in your pregame show, urging everybody to turn the lights off.
Here's Philadelphia.
They're showing skylight skyline shots of Philadelphia.
Every office building in the world is lit up in that town.
It looked beautiful.
There was nothing wrong with it.
And so we get preached to to turn off all the lights.
There's an empty baseball stadium blazing, nothing going on there.
All of Philadelphia's downtown is lit up.
And I'm looking at the TV and saying, how dumb do you think we are?
Turn off all the lights.
If you're going to lead a movement and demand Philadelphia go dark and have no reason for your blimp, in fact, play the football game in the dark.
You realize how hypocritical this is?
We got to turn off our lights.
We got to turn off our televisions.
All of that sort of stuff.
And then there's poor Oprah.
Oh, hell, what a tragedy, ladies and gentlemen.
What's the story?
Sexual abuse at Oprah's Academy in Africa, right?
Is this in South Africa?
It's in South Africa.
And it should be noted that Oprah wept.
If you read the, what is it, AP?
The AP story on Oprah, Oprah wept.
It's almost biblical.
I can just see little students, the Oprah Academy, being told that Oprah wept, and they're bowing their heads in prayer.
Oprah wept.
Oprah, the Oprah wept.
A female, by the way, did the abusing in the Oprah Academy.
That probably was a UN employee.
I have no clue where Oprah found him.
But she said it's one of the most devastating events in her life.
See, other women cry, ladies and gentlemen.
Oprah wept.
Oprah weeps.
Other women just bawl their brains out.
I mentioned to you last hour that I was watching PMS NBC, a weather guy, beautiful, crystal clear day in New York, talking about all the pollution that's out there causing global warming.
And I interviewed a bunch of little kids about recycling on the streets of New York City.
The weatherman's Jeff Ranieri, and he may be a good guy.
I mean, when you work there, you got to do what they tell you to do.
You got to go out there and do this green BS.
So here's the exchange that Ranieri had with a little kid.
I think the little kid's name was Mika.
Can't think in a ball.
And how do you recycle him?
Show me with your feet.
Well, we step on them first and then we put them where we got to put them.
Wow, that's fantastic.
So you can see little people doing their part.
And while it may seem little, it certainly adds up to a lot in helping to save the Earth.
Damn it.
Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan pulling a Hugo Chavez, basically telling the court to go to hell.
One thing that, you know, the liberals watching Musharraf have to be enthused and excited.
The Supreme Court had a ruling that's saying, look, you got to give up your army leadership post and you got to have elections.
And he said, screw you.
And it fired him.
If it's that easy to get rid of a Supreme Court, what are the libs worried about?
You know that they're salivating out there over watching this.
He did.
He pulled a Hugo Chavez wanting to hold on to power.
And it is tough to figure out.
The United States is worried about this, obviously, because of the instability.
They've got nukes in Pakistan, and there's a concern here that Musharraf is just simply trying to arm himself and prepare himself for perhaps a coup led by al-Qaeda types who are holed up in eastern regions of Pakistan along the Afghanistan border.
So this situation does deserve watching.
Santa is being told to lose weight in the UK before Christmas because he's failing to set a good example for the kids.
The traditional children's hero, best known for feasting on mince pies left out on Christmas Eve, has always sported a bulging midriff.
But shopping center bosses are giving the well-wisher his marching orders to the nearest gym to tackle the increasing problem of obesity.
The revelation comes after a medical report earlier this month stated that by 2050, more than 50% of Brits will be obese, with Santa Claus providing a bad example for the kids.
And I get a little bit of a point.
I always wondered how Santa Claus managed to get down my chimney, being as big as he is, but that just made me think the guy's magic.
Apparently, there are ways around being obese.
Fiona Campbell Riley, a spokeswoman for a shopping center, said, Santa has been around for years, but society has changed.
Our Santa needs to reflect this.
Bluewater's Santa boot camp is getting Santa in shape and setting a good example to children who idolize him.
He'll still be the same lovable, jolly man, but he will be fitter and he will be healthier.
Along the same lines, nothing but whining and moaning.
Get this.
I am not making this story up.
This is out of Chicago.
And the slug line for this story is the complaints choir.
From bad dates to people who chew gum too loudly to global warming, no complaint is too ridiculous or too sublime for the international complaints choir movement.
Now it's reached the U.S., thanks to a couple from Finland, out to combat the persistent American belief that it's best to think positively and keep complaints to yourself.
That's insane, said Oliver Kuchikilinen, 35, after the complaints choir of Chicago debuted this weekend in a sold-out auditorium at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
We say you should sing complaints out.
Acknowledge that things aren't as they should be.
It's therapeutic.
Now, this Oliver Kochdi-Kilinen and Tolervo Kilinen, both of whom are artists, hit on their idea three years ago while pondering the Finnish word valitis quaro, which translates into complaints choir and refers to people complaining in packs.
They started choirs from Australia to Israel devoted to the notion that it's healthier to belt your gripes out and better yet in four-part harmony.
And what they want to attack here is the constant American optimism.
They don't like the constant.
It's serious.
They don't like constant American optimism.
After starting more than 20 such complaint choirs all over the world, this couple from Helsinki say that they traveled here to end the tyranny of the positive attitude in America.
So everybody just wants to be miserable.
They just want to whine and moan and complain.
Speaking of the whining of America, it was, when she looks back on it, a fairly routine disaster.
Late one Sunday, after a busy weekend with three kids, working mother Romy LaSalle was staring down at a pile of her son's vomit in her hallway.
I left it there.
I hoped the dog would eat it, she said.
But when the dog failed to eat it, LaSalle was left cleaning up and with a feeling that she'd sunk to a new maternal low, so she did what she often does when mortified.
She picked up the phone and called a girlfriend.
Yeah, my girlfriend was amused and disgusted.
I felt better right away.
At the moment, I knew I was onto something.
And that something has become true mom confessions.
An actual website.
It's an outline posting board for moms to share their worst mistakes, misdeeds, and misgivings.
Since starting in April, more than 100,000 women have contributed to confessions, from one-line gripes about in-laws to intimate accounts of diminished sex lives.
It turns out we're all riddled with guilt and ambivalence and regret, she says.
We've bottled this up for too long.
Now it's time to unload.
Parents are unloading like never before, whether trading horror stories at birthday parties or penning memoirs.
More parents are finding comfort in swapping tales of their woes, whining and moaning and complaining.
Parenting books once dealt primarily in sweet sentiment and motherly resolve.
Now they're filled with tales of supermarket tantrums, strained marriages, each a supposedly more intimate expose of the ugly underbelly of family life.
The title says it all: Mommies Who Drink.
I was really a good mom before I had kids, is the title of one post.
I was really a good mom before I had kids.
I'll tell you, you know, the chickification of everything here is just spreading.
It's a, she's probably a great wife before she got married, too.
I mean, if you're going to say that you're a great mom before you had kids, and you're probably a great wife before you got married, that's why I was a great husband until I got married.
I mean, no wonder I'm in a blue funk.
All of this, just ridiculous self-absorption.
You know, if you've got a problem out there, I agree, you shouldn't hold it in.
But tell the person to whom you have the problem.
If your kid's puking all over the floor and you don't want to tell the kid, go to the bathroom, teach a kid to puke in the right place.
Well, for crying out loud, these people are just lousy parents.
If you're having a diminished sex life with your husband or your wife, go talk to them about it.
To say it's therapeutic to post it on a website for the whole damn world to read about?
There's nothing therapeutic about that.
That's cowardly.
Bye, by B-I-H, B-I-H, B-I-H, wine, wine, wine, moan, moan.
This is all this drama.
I mean, all of this drama for crying.
I'm glad I have not met any of these women.
No, I don't think I've met any of these, Mr. Snurdly.
The odds are that they may have called me, but I don't think I've met them.
Mike in Austin, Texas.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hey, Rush.
I just wanted to call about the whole NBC green thing they got going on.
Just remind you that General Electric is putting forth a lot of capital spending right now to try to get ahead of the curve of this whole emissions controls that I think they see coming down the track.
And I think this is all part of the strategy.
You mean when you say try to get a hold of the emissions control, the regulation, you think they're trying to get ahead of government?
I do.
I think they see it coming down the track.
And, you know, they've got all these outlets to go out there and push it.
And it could either be a big strategic boom for them or it could be a bust with the money that they're spending.
Well, but what would be the purpose here?
Just to keep government off their back by showing, hey, we're the leaders in this, leave us alone?
I think it gives them a strategic advantage to be ahead of the curve with what they're doing right now.
So when the controls are forced upon everybody, they're going to already be there and everybody else is going to have to catch up.
Yeah, perhaps so.
You know, I don't like.
Yeah, well, I'm sure there's money involved.
There's no question there's money involved, especially when you've got a corporation, that there's money involved, and they clearly think that there's a profit opportunity here somehow, probably more than anything else, relating to what they think are a majority of opinion in the country, or what is a majority of opinion, that there is warming going on.
And so if they can portray themselves as green and all this, supposedly people will be more loyal and then will watch NBC's bad shows.
But nobody's going to watch a bad show just because the nation or the corporation producing it is on the right side of the so-called environmental hoax.
Yeah, but I think they have control of a news outlet.
Well, they've got the control of one news outlet, but their news outlet's not regulated.
Yeah, well, just another angle to think about.
Well, I appreciate that.
You know, I was going to say, I hate anecdotal stories, folks.
I really do because they're not scientific.
I want to share you just some observations from where we live in South Florida.
Because I think it isn't going to be very long before a bunch of people are going to wake up in the midst of all this global warming hype and realize it's getting colder.
Down here, I've been here since 1997.
And the high humidity of summer, usually, up until four years ago, lasted till the middle of December.
And temperatures of high 80s, sometimes low 90s, all the way till the first week in December.
Last three years, remember last Thanksgiving, I had a whole family here.
And Thanksgiving week, the first three days, the high temperature barely made it to 68 degrees.
And we've already had, we haven't had record cold, but it's nowhere near.
The humidity is gone now.
And it's chilly out there at night.
And we're just barely into November.
This has not happened since I have been here.
Now, I've been here forever.
I've only been here since 1997.
But I'm telling you, my personal observations are that where we live, it's getting chillier earlier in the winter.
Talent on loan from a god.
Rush Limbaugh, your guiding light, period.
Interesting story from the Wall Street Journal today.
Frustration builds for Democrats.
I want to warn you about this because the story is correct and that we all need to be really, really, really careful.
Because this is when Democrats get really nuts.
When nothing works, when they've been trying left and right to get things done in Washington and nothing works and they start getting frustrated, that's when they blame us for their failures.
That is when they decide we need to be punished for not understanding their brilliance.
The way in which Senate Democrats wavered and then consented to the confirmation of Michael B. Muccase as Attorney General reflects the party's broader struggle to make headway on its national security agenda, all despite President Bush's unpopularity.
On questions such as Mr. Mukasi's stance on waterboarding, warrantless wiretapping, and the war in Iraq, Democrats have been stymied by Republicans in Congress and the White House.
That has sparked frustration among supporters, especially those on the left, who anticipated that last year's congressional takeover would force some policy changes.
These dashed expectations are one reason polls give Democrats an approval rating lower than Mr. Bush's.
The difficulties faced by Democrats on these issues look certain to complicate the party's bid to expand House and Senate majorities or regain the White House in 2008, a wartime election in which national security will be a major issue.
This takes me to a companion story found today in the Washington Times, Change Called Crucial 408.
It's by Donald Lambro.
Democrat strategerists are warning their party and its presidential contenders that they have failed to connect with the voters' demands for change.
In a memorandum on the state of their party one year before the election, strategerists James Carville and Stan Greenberg said that Democrats have yet not found their voices as agents of change, except perhaps on Iraq, and they risk falling short of their political potential in 2008.
The conservative attack machine will soon launch nuclear war against a Democrats nominee when he or she emerges.
And a lot of the discontent of the country could fragment and push voters to third parties and some even back to the Republicans, particularly if liberals fail to tackle key grievances like immigration and taxes.
Well, hell's bells.
This is Carville and Greenberg's memo.
If they fail to tackle key grievances like immigration and taxes, the Democrats are on the wrong side of both.
What do you mean, fail to tackle them?
They have tried to tackle immigration and they've had it stuffed right back down their throats.
And they keep trying to go back to immigration.
Amnesty.
They're pushing amnesty at every crook and cranny.
Nook and cranny.
Crook works better in their case.
And they're having it rammed right back down their throats without any KY jelly to lubricate it on a way going down.
It's hurting.
And these guys think that, my gosh, they're having all kinds of problems tackling key grievances, taxes?
You think the people of this country want their taxes raised?
The dire warnings by Mr. Carville and Mr. Greenberg coincided with a nationwide Quinnipiac University poll.
That poll showed former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, the Republican frontrunner, leading Mrs. Clinton by a razor-thin margin, 45 to 43%.
This was a survey of 1,636 voters also showed that just as many voters had a favorable view of Mrs. Clinton as those who had an unfavorable view.
Yes.
She is perfect polarization, which is not what you want in a presidential candidate.
The Clinton Express has, I'll get to that in a second.
Clinton Express has hit a bump.
Future polls will show if it's been derailed, said Maurice Carroll, Quinnipiak's director of polling.
Now, I want to go back to this last sentence on the number of voters.
What, just a second, hang on.
All right, here we go.
The survey of 1,636 voters also showed that just as many voters had a favorable view of Mrs. Clinton as those who had an unfavorable.
What?
What an artful spin of an absolutely, totally negative result in a poll.
When half the people hate your guts, that's the story.
If you're running for president, when half the people disapprove of you, yet they write this thing up.
Just as many voters had a favorable view of Mrs. Clinton as those who had a none.
It's called burying the truth or burying the lead.
So the Democrats are frustrated.
Nothing's going right.
They are not tackling the right key issues here, according to Greenberg and Carville.
And then in newsweek, Fareed Zakaria, the election will not be the Iraq election.
Where have we heard this before?
Ladies and gentlemen, I ask you, where have we heard this?
Where have we been told?
Sorry.
Where have you been told that the 2008 presidential race will not be about Iraq?
I told you that.
I told you it's going to be about the future of the country.
It may be about national security.
I know a lot of people thought I was nuts because, no, Iraq, that seems to be the one issue, but it's not.
And now Fareed Zakaria has gotten hold of it.
Petraeus' new strategery is working, though not exactly for the reasons initially advertised.
Why?
Well, because a success in March to victory, economy will be number one.
That's what this guy says.
The economy is going to be the number one issue because we're going to have victory in Iraq.
The Democrats are not going to be able to run very much on it.
But told you that.
That's exactly what I mean when I tell you on the cutting edge of societal evolution when you listen to this program.
One more thing before we get to the phones.
This is from the Financial Times by Michael Frank, who's the vice president of government relations at the Heritage Foundation.
Really, the headline says it all here.
Democrats wake up to being the party of the rich.
A legislative proposal that was once on the fast track is suddenly dead.
The Senate will not consider a plan to extract billions of extra taxes from mega-millionaire hedge fund managers.
The decision by Harry Reid, author of the Rush Limbaugh Smear Letter and Nevada Democrat, surprised many Washington insiders who saw the plan as appealing to the spirit of class warfare that infuses the Democrat Party.
Liberal disappointment in Harry Reid, who wrote the smear letter of Rush Limbaugh, was palpable at media outlets such as USA Today, where an editorial chastised, quote, the Democrats who control Congress and claim to represent the middle and lower classes ought to be embarrassed at caving on this.
Far from embarrassing, this episode may reflect a dawning Democrat awareness of whom they really represent.
For the demographic reality is that in America, the Democrat Party is the new party of the rich.
More and more Democrats represent areas with a high concentration of wealthy households using IRS service data, IRS data.
The Heritage Foundation identified two categories of taxpayers, single filers with incomes of more than 100 grand, married filers with incomes of more than 200 grand, and combines them to discern where the wealthiest Americans live and who represents them.
Democrats now control the majority of the nation's wealthiest congressional jurisdictions.
More than half of the wealthiest households are concentrated in the 18 states where Democrats control both Senate seats.
The new political demography holds true in the House, too, where the leadership of each party hails from different worlds.
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat leader of the House, represents one of America's wealthiest regions, San Francisco, has more than 43,700 high-end households.
Fewer than 7,000 households in the western Ohio District of Republican leader John Boehner enjoy this level of affluence.
Income disparity, to use the class warriors' favorite term, is great and greatest among the districts of lawmakers that lead each party's campaign arm.
Maryland Senator Chris Van Holland chairs a Democrat congressional campaign committee.
With more than 36,000 prosperous households and a median income of nearly 70 grand, his suburban Washington district even outsparkles Ms. Pelosi's.
In contrast, fewer than 5,000 such wealthy households are found in the largely rural district of his Republican counterpart, Tom Cole from Oklahoma.
The median income there, only $35,000.
So the Democrats are the new party of the rich based on their constituents, based on who they represent.
Who could doubt this?
Hollywood, San Francisco, New York.
They are the new party of the rich.
This is why Dingy Harry put off the vote or actually tabled this whole thing on raising taxes on hedge fund managers and portfolio asset managers because they're largely Democrat contributors.
Dirty little secret, isn't it?
They're largely Democrat contributors.
Once they figure out, plus, they were lobbied quite a bit.
Dingy Harry, author of the Rush Limbaugh Smear Letter, lobbied heavily by a number of people.
But the truth is out now.
The difference is that the Democrat wealthy feel guilty about it, or want us to think they feel guilty about it.
Quick timeout, your phone calls are next after this.
As promised, back to the phones we go.
Billy in Denton, Texas.
You're up next, sir.
Thank you for calling.
Greetings, El Rushbro, mega carbon-emitting fat Santa Dittos from Texas.
Thank you very much, sir.
After my parents, you're pretty much my number one hero.
Well, I appreciate that.
I really do.
Thank you.
Even am I in a blue funk?
Even in your blue funk.
That's what I'm calling about.
Because I'm in a bit of a blue funk myself.
I'm blue about being green.
I recently graduated from college, and I'm pursuing a dream of being a television and film writer.
And I'm really happy.
I'm hardworking.
But now I have to deal with the threats of oppressive environmentalist regulations.
And I'm just a regular guy.
Just a guy.
What can I do?
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
This is interesting.
You feel in a blue funk over the coming oppressive environmental regulations.
So that means you're not being persuaded or propagandized by these messages into thinking that you have to get on this train of sacrifice and tax increases and rolling back your lifestyle in order to be a good person.
No, sir.
I've been blessed with the clarity of thought, and I see through it.
It's just politics.
It's the recent wave of politics that we're hearing.
And it's something that I'm afraid.
I feel like the environmentalists are using terrorist tactics of fear to try to get me to change.
But I'm not going to change.
Well, that's right.
They are using tactics of fear.
They are exactly.
You are exactly right.
Their target is people like you and others who don't pay all that close attention, who are not really independent thinkers.
They go along with a crowd crowd.
And that go along with a crowd crowd as typified by last night's football pregame show.
Yeah, I watched the game last night.
I couldn't believe it.
A studio in candlelight.
And I just graduated with a degree in radio, television, and film.
And our studios are humming.
So no matter what lights they turn out, the desk had two huge L C D screens operating right underneath.
I know.
The lights are irrelevant.
Well, the Klieg lights are pretty powerful.
It was just a show, but the target audience watching a football pregame show, you would have to say, is average people, people who live their lives.
So here comes this giant sermon in a football pregame show.
You know damn well that they are the target, just like you feel like the target.
But you asked me what to do.
What do I do?
I'll tell you exactly what to do.
It's what I always do and what I advise everybody.
For example, if they start talking about a recession, just don't participate.
That's what I'm trying to do.
Well, just do it.
People are making me feel guilty.
Don't give them that power.
Don't give them that kind of power.
Why should you let these people make you feel guilty over what?
Well, I mean, I'm a struggling guy.
I just got out of college, and I have enough to deal with, but with this on top of it, it's just another layer.
Billy, Billy, if I were there, I would grab your shoulders and I'd start shaking you to the point that child services would come and haul me away.
Well, I'm glad you're not here.
Do not let this affect you that way.
You are giving these people more power than they deserve to affect the way you think about yourself, the way you think about your future, and your mood overall.
Don't give them that power.
You don't have to participate in this stuff.
It's like me.
You know, I watched this pregame show.
I made sure.
When I saw that last night and they urged me to turn off the lights, what did I do?
I went and turned a bunch on.
Exactly.
That's what I want.
And you'll feel better about it.
I want a way to counteract it.
I want a way to show.
I mean, I feel like the voice of the rational and the reasonable is not being heard besides your program, of course.
But I feel like a mouse.
Oh, it's like anything else, Billy.
There's more people out there like you than you know.
I hope so.
And believe me, you just got out of college, and I've been doing this for 20 years, and I've had calls from people about different subjects, usually the news media, and they've wanted me.
You've got to point out the lies and the bias that were on the newsletter.
I said, I don't really need to point it out because more people saw it and believe like you do than you possibly know.
It's just people like you are not covered, although you are now.
There's a whole new media movement that gives voice to the things that you believe in.
But just as a general rule, I mean, this is stuff that not only should you not allow yourself to be made to feel guilty by surrendering that kind of power, guilt is a horrible thing.
You know what you're doing?
In all candor, you are self-suffering.
And there's no excuse for self-suffering.
There was enough suffering in life brought on by real events without you telling yourself stories that can't possibly, you know, can't possibly know and start suffering over things like that.
I mean, self-induced suffering deserves a slap in the face.
Wake up.
It's not good.
It's not productive.
It doesn't do a damn thing for you.
And it's not necessary here.
The second thing is, don't participate in it.
You don't have to join the crowd.
You don't sound like a guy who joins a crowd anyway.
Here's the thing.
I'm working on being a television and film writer.
Okay, wait a minute.
Now, what's that got to do with this?
What am I missing here?
I might be missing something.
Well, maybe I wasn't clear enough, but okay, NBC is now going green and doing these things, and I feel like that might affect my chances of getting a gig.
Why?
Because you don't subscribe to the things that they want written?
And I'm a conservative.
Well, hey.
I've got great ideas, and I feel like I want to put them out there, but I don't want somebody standing in the way just because I don't subscribe to Al Gore's movie.
Okay, then crash cross NBC off your list.
I mean, look at that's just why go someplace you wouldn't be wanted anyway.
Why go someplace that every day is going to be a struggle and a fight that you're going to end up losing and alienating?
There's so many other opportunities.
You know, this writer's strike going on ought to scare you more than that.
It is scary, but it provides an opportunity for me.
I'm kind of, I don't really know what to do right now because I want to be heard and I want to be noticed.
But now eventually one of my goals was to get away from the pressure.
Well, wait a minute.
But I don't want to cry.
Wait, wait, wait.
That's the wrong goal.
That's the wrong goal.
What you're telling me is, what you're telling me is you want fame.
Let the fame come from achievement.
You should be focused on, I want to go work, and I want to do the best I can.
I want to write the best stuff that's been written, and I want to write the funniest or whatever, and let that get you noticed.
If your objective is to get noticed, if your objective is to be heard.
Well, my objective is to get work first.
Well, okay, good.
But there are going to be plenty of places to get work.
This is the United States of America.
And if worse comes to worse, start your own writing shop and start writing stuff and sending it out and find clients.
The opportunities here are limitless as long as you have that attitude.
I'm way along on the brick.
I've got a goal.
But listen to what I said to you.
Well, the fastest three hours in media got two of them in the can.
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