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Nov. 16, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 16, 2007, Friday, Hour #3
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I've been wondering why things have been hottest volume-wise volume's been too loud in here today.
Cleaning crew.
Volume on the console was all the way up.
I just now noticed it.
Heyway, greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Rush be thankful, Brandt's not your fault.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
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Yes, Mr. Stanley, what's question?
That's okay.
You know, that's a great question.
I forget this.
I haven't made any, I haven't made a football prediction all season.
What are we up to?
Week 10.
Wow, we haven't even done any environmentalist wacko picks.
I've been sticking to the issues.
You know, it's a uh but that's what open line Fridays for.
That's a good point.
I'll have to get the schedule out.
And uh and look at the schedule.
At any rate, open line Friday, folks.
That means when we go to the phones, you own the program.
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Here's Dingy Harry announcing uh why the Congress is not going to give the President any more money for his damn war.
President got 470 billion dollars this week.
We met with Secretary Gates, he indicated to us there's 187,500 people in Iraq as we speak.
He said the Army is going to be just fine until the end of February.
The Marines okay till the middle of March.
I guess we expect too much from President Bush to recognize that this business that we're in of government is one that we're bound by the Constitution, that we have certain obligations and duties, one of which is to make sure that there are three separate and equal branches of government.
We're going to continue to do what we can for the troops, recognizing that we've been told by the Secretary of Defense that everything is fine until the end of February, and with the Marines until the middle March.
How much more could we do than say, Mr. President, if you need the money, here it is.
But just let us have a little accountability for the American people.
He said no.
Uh something here does not jive with something I read earlier today, and that is that Gates said, War funds are depleted.
Right here it is.
In the Washington Times, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday, if Congress fails to approve war funds this week, combat troops and civilian personnel will face reductions in services and equipment.
The spending cuts would take effect next month if Congress doesn't pass an emergency war spending bill.
Um basically says that they've got enough.
We can only move a total of 3.7 billion under general transfer authority, which only amounts to a little over one week's worth of war expenses.
So Gates says he's got a little more than enough necessary for a week.
Dingy Harry just said that Gates told him he's got enough money through February and March.
Now, what are we to make of this?
Uh this is in fact, you know, remember the facts I got from Duncan Hunter yesterday on this.
The provision in the House bill that would require it, it failed, but it would require the president to give Congress 15 days' notice uh before moving troops around, reactionary troops, support troops.
It would basically hamstring the war effort.
It would make it would make search and destroy, seek and destroy response to attacks impossible.
For people like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, they have to approve it every 15 days or for a period of 15 days.
Now, Gates told uh the Army and the Marines to prepare to lay off 100,000 defense department workers and another 100,000 civilian workers.
Um if that's what he has to do in order to keep the war funded, well, good.
You know, let that let that fall down on the Democrats' shoulders as well.
Uh those workers will find out about it.
Uh both the Defense Department and civilian as uh as well.
There's a, you know, there's an all-out assault here on the U.S. military taking place in the drive by media to set it up.
I want to go back to yesterday, CNN's American morning.
The uh co hostette, Kieran Chetry, talked with the president of Shell Oil, John Hoffmeister.
Uh he said to him, people are very fed up about the price of oil, and you you set out to explain to them what more about why we're seeing this rise in oil.
Well, it was more to listen, listen to Americans about their issues, their concerns, to see what could we possibly do about it.
And I tell you, I've come away with a very strong conclusion, and that conclusion is it's time for Americans to agitate their government to open up more oil and gas resources in this country.
We are slipping in their production of oil and gas in this country year over year.
We are prohibited from 85% of the outer continental shelf.
Most Americans don't know.
Well, you're saying is you can only do offshore drilling in about 15%.
15%.
That's it.
So we're pulling on exports from around the world into this country.
We have billions and billions of barrels of oil that we can't touch in this country by public policy.
It's time to tell our politicians, let's get more oil and gas in the short term so we can work on alternative energies over the longer term.
This is a drumbeat that we have been sounding on this program for I don't know how long, and these people that are clamoring for the end to dependence on foreign oil, the environmentalist wackos, the Democrats, American leftists.
You just heard the number, 85%.
We can't get it.
I don't care whether it's an an war, the Gulf, or off of the off the left coast, we can't get it by virtue of public policy.
And that means elected officials in both the federal government and state governments are stopping it on the basis of the fear of oil spills or accidents or whatever.
How often do you hear about this at an oil platform in the Gulf?
How often do these happen?
They don't.
They only happen is when some ship captain gets drunk and drives into a tanker bridge or something else.
But that's it.
Uh these and it's it's it's part of the business anyway, to be quite honest with you.
But this has been one of the most frustrating things, and this is part of portraying the uh uh the whole image of the country today is doom and gloom.
We're heading into Thanksgiving.
We're supposed to be miserable, price of oil is going up.
Uh air travel is going to be jammed because uh airports are so crowded and blah, blah, blah, blah, price of Turkey is going up.
The war news in Iraq is bad because they can't get the troops funded.
They're just doing everything they can to make you as miserable as possible, and I implore you to not believe it.
This guy said he had to go out on a tour of the country, the president of Shell Oil.
He said he wanted to listen to people, and what he what he heard shocked him.
They don't know how much oil is is available to us.
Domestically.
Because they're not being told.
The second thing is the Chicoms are drilling with the Cubans in the Gulf right now.
The Mexicans have just found a huge field, and as did Brazil.
Eight and a half billion barrels, Brazil just found, maybe more than that.
Everybody in the world, if they have oil as a resource, is doing what they can to get it except us.
We're talking about conservation.
And we're talking about all these alternative sources like hybrid and natural gas-powered buffet for public transportation, which nobody wants to use, by the way, other than places where there's no choice like New York.
When's the last time you saw a light rail train full with anybody?
Nobody wants to ride that garbage.
But all these people want to get the projects built because they'll save the environment, and it'll cost less per passenger to transport the Myther Limbaugh to and from their worker job.
Uh in the meantime, we are a growing economy.
Conservation's fine.
Not wasting is fine, but that does not constitute growth.
And I'm gonna tell you, the American people, they may not know about all the oil that's left untapped, but what they do have is expectations that every year their lives are going to get better economically.
Because they're Americans.
That's what it means to them to be Americans.
Life is gonna get better.
It ain't if we stop growing.
We are a growth economy, we always have been, and that's exactly what's under assault with global warming, by the way.
One more sound bite here before we go to the break.
Uh Karen uh uh Kieran Chetri, CNN said, Well, should people start looking at ways to cut their usage, like buying smart cars, buying hybrids, trying to use less?
Well, everything that we can do to conserve helps in the short term.
Over the longer term, we need more energy.
The economy grows.
We need more energy.
People like their lifestyle, they want to drive, we want to help them drive.
Amen.
But yet big oil is the enemy.
And Hillary Clinton wants to take their profits.
How may tell you how the Democrats and the American left look at this energy business?
The thing that you have to understand is it ain't about America.
All this talk about alternative energy and hybrids, and that's not about making America better.
All this talk of conversation, not about making America cleaner.
The way they think power votes, getting as many people in their base to vote for them as possible, as many independents.
By keeping the oil that we have that we could drill and would decrease dependence on foreign oil, by keeping our oil in the ground and untapped, they become heroes to the environmentalist wackos.
Then when the shortages of the necessity to import and that suppression of supply is depressed.
What happens to price?
Look at the price of oil now.
Some of it's speculation, some of it's supply and demand.
And the price is going to continue to go up.
And what happens then?
When the low supply, the artificially low supply, there needn't be a low supply given our reserves that are untapped.
That low supply drives up the price.
They become the heroes of the poor and the freezing.
How do they do that?
Because they then attack big oil for gouging.
And of course, everybody hates big oil just like they hate the boss.
So you've got people in the in the Northeast who use home heating oil, and the price is going up because we've got an artificially depressed supply thanks to Democrats.
Those people have to pay through the roof for their heating oil, and the Democrats become their champions.
They don't solve any problem unless Hugo Chavez comes to the rescue and sells it cheap.
So the very people that are causing rising prices benefit twice from causing it.
A, the environmentalist wackos love them and give them lots of money.
And B, the poor, the hungry, the thirsty, the freezing, think the Democrats are the ones standing up for them.
That's the way they look at it.
That's the you know they're not they're not interested in improving America's lot in the world, particularly not when a Republican is in the White House.
Listen to this.
This is last night, a couple nights ago on CNN situation room with Wolf Blitzer, and the uh the Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr, on the military's use of oil.
If you think it's expensive to fill your gas tank, just consider what the military is going through right now.
From Iraq to the high seas, every day the U.S. military guzzles 340,000 barrels of oil in the tanks, ships, and planes it uses.
The week before the war in Iraq began, back in 2003, the cost of oil was just under forty dollars a barrel.
Now it's nearly a hundred dollars a barrel.
And the cost of all of this to Americans is about a hundred and twenty-four billion dollars.
Yeah, you see, then yes, they do that.
They did.
I told you there is an all-out assault on the U.S. military, including now with oil and fuel and how much they use and waste and so forth, and how much it costs us.
That's only our freedom out there using this stuff.
How come, Ms. Starr, you don't go find out how much it's costing American taxpayers to fund Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and all the redundant children's health programs out there.
Why don't you tell us how much that's costing taxpayers?
If it costs taxpayers 124 billion dollars to fuel a military, that is cheap compared to the 65% of our budget, which is entitlements.
124 billion dollars is cheap investment given what that fuel is used for.
But now we got to attack the military and how much it's costing Americans.
These people did spicable.
And it's you know, it it it's hard for me to not say that I detest these people in the way they think and the way they want to present news to people and the way they want to constantly make people mad and make them feel helpless and hopeless, doom and gloom and all of this, greatest country in the world, and a drive-by meeting, a Democrat Party alliance designed to sabotage that.
Russell in Memphis, your next, sir.
Thank you for waiting.
You're on open line Friday.
Hi.
Hey, Russ, it's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you.
Uh I wanted to say to the last caller, Kevin, we appreciate your service to this country.
And um my question comment for you is I was not around for the Reagan administration.
I'm eighteen.
Um from everything I've studied and looked at, he was a tremendous, tremendous president.
Um I'm also a big George W. Bush fan, aside from immigration, I've agreed with almost every single thing he's done.
My question for you is where would you rank George W. Bush with Ronald Reagan?
Well, uh I that's a tough comparison because they're not the same people.
Uh Ronald Reagan was the leader of a movement.
He was a genuine leader of a conservative movement.
Every speech, every public appearance, Ronald Reagan was defining conservatism as it related to America.
He was defining America.
Uh did you hear Sarkozy's speech, the soundbites we played from Sarkozy's speech when he spoke to Congress last week?
Uh sorry, you well, we got I've got I've got to get those back out of the archives.
Not today, Joe.
Well, Joe, if you can find a couple up and get them to me, because they're they're just awesome.
You were you that's what Reagan did.
The the message that he sent every time he spoke was on the greatness and the potential of America.
Right.
He is a he is a better communicator than Reagan.
Well, I mean, uh I mean Reagan is a better communicator than George W. Bush.
Yeah, but it's not it's not just communication skills.
I'm talking about the message.
Now, Bush is a Republican.
He is conservative on some things, but he is not a conservative, and he doesn't view himself, he doesn't want to be the leader of an ideological movement.
Uh and so it you you can't you you can't really compare the two.
Now, if you want to talk about historical perspective, uh they're gonna be looked at differently, but you have to understand the history of the Bush administration, the accurate history will not be written until uh most of us are long gone.
The historians are going to write that history are not yet born.
The people writing the history of the Bush administration now and for the next 30, 40 years are going to be the people that detest Bush, hate Bush, as gonna be filled with lies.
Uh it's it's it's gonna be filled with the distortions.
The textbooks in American high schools, junior high schools, and colleges are gonna be filled with the same gunk.
But eventually, I think uh Bush is is uh is is one of few presidents who is actually sought to transform America's place in the world.
Uh and uh out of necessity, what with the 9-11 attacks?
Uh he is a president that is attempting to establish a uh a democratic oriented beachhead in a part of the world where nobody thinks it's possible.
Now, we've had our arguments with him about doing that, should that be the priority or should it happen after victory.
There's some of us thought, yeah, I love the idea, because you know, his theory is that all human beings are the same.
We all have a yearning spirit to be free.
We don't like to be constrained.
Uh and I I agree with that a hundred percent, but I think focusing on that first rather than achieving victory first was maybe a strategical blunder.
Uh but if he pulls it off, if if this if this happens, if Iraq becomes what his vision for it is, uh then the historians down the road are gonna write tremendous things about Bush and and the way he persisted.
Uh here he is supposedly a lame duck president, and he is not acting like it at all.
He does not portray at any time that any of this stuff, personal attacks, the policy attacks, the uh opposition to his primary policy Of uh the war on terror, he never betrays that it bothers him personally.
Uh he just keeps plugging away at it.
Some people say stubbornly, uh what have you.
But you but at least with with Bush in this regard in this one area of his administration, he has not wavered on it at all.
And I'll tell you, given where the Democrats have been, thank God he hasn't.
This could have been a disaster had a lesser president with the same policies caved in the middle of it.
We would have all we already have been experiencing more terrorist attacks.
Uh we have had none since uh since nine eleven.
Brief timeout, folks.
Back with much more right after this.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you.
Open line Friday rolls on, Rush Limbaugh and the excellence in broadcasting network.
Now, this I love, you don't see this much.
The Nevada Appeal.
Conrad Vellen is the column.
Who is Conrad Villa?
Let me the regional finance director for the civ Sierra Nevada Media Group, which includes the Nevada Appeal.
You can reach him at the email address.
Contrary to reports, the nation's economy is robust.
Just exactly his column is many of the things I've been saying.
It's just nice to see it in print and said by somebody else.
Here's the concluding paragraph.
Therefore, folks, despite all the gloom and doom being peddled to us by the mainstream media about this economy, the facts just don't support the hype.
Recent polls show that more than sixty percent of those polled think that the country is heading in the wrong direction, and that President Bush has received poor marks for his handling of the economy.
So what's the right direction?
If the past seven years constitute a poor economy, I'd be very interested in learning what makes for a great economy.
Well, I can define a great economy for you.
It's when a Democrats run us into a recession, blame Republicans in the previous administration for it, and then tax the rich.
That's can that's considered a great economy.
Here's Bill in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Bill, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Rush.
Pleasure to talk to you, sir.
Thank you.
Um just wanted to call and thank you for bringing on Mr. Levin today, um, touching on the latter end of the subject.
You know, the your program's always about pretty serious issues, and I thank the good lord for you and what you do.
And um just wanted to say I had a blue healer, his name was Boone, had it for seventeen years, and um best dog a man could ever have, and he passed away the same day that my uh oldest daughter was born.
He passed away in the morning, she was born that night, and talk about falling into a pile of dung and come out smelling like a rose.
And uh just wanted to thank him for his book and you bring him on, because I know you don't bring a lot of people on, and in the chaotic dynamics the world is in today, Pep can definitely bring on an unspoken peace.
Well, you know, it's I I've been checking the uh email here uh uh the Rush 247 subscriber account, uh, and I'm getting it's it's it's voluminous.
Uh, with people describing that they were reduced to tears, and it was uh uh one of the best segments that they've ever heard on this program.
Thought that was a little bit excessive, but I'll I'll take it.
Uh everybody has uh a lot of the uh same sentiments that you have.
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I really am.
Thank you, sir.
You bet.
Terry in Tacoma, Washington, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hi, good morning.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
Uh it I I just first want to say that uh you know, I years ago thought I had uh the answer.
I thought uh uh possibly the Democrats might even have the answer, though Cole woke me up.
I started listening to you and other conservative radio hosts, and I have been shown down the path by you guys.
I wanted to talk about uh what has happened in Olympia when our troops have been coming back.
This happened just last night and a few days ago.
Uh this this is uh is this is this where the anti-war groups protested the returning troops and equipment?
That's right.
And they and they concrete poured concrete over the railroad tracks.
They they poured uh yeah, wet concrete on the on the tracks.
They were throwing objects in front Of the uh moving convoy laying down in front of the convoy, and even some cock eyed uh councilman from the city of Olympia is criticizing Olympia Police Department and the State Patrol for their handling of these people who are trying to delay a military convoy.
That convoy belongs to you and me.
I want those people and that equipment back at Fort Lewis where they belong.
Right, they were coming home.
They're not even going to war.
And they did this.
First, they protested them last year when they were leaving.
And now they don't want them to come back.
You know, it sounds like Hillary, make up your mind.
Do you want them to go or do you want them to stay?
You know, do you want them to come back home or not?
You you're you're you're looking at these people in the uh in the wrong way.
You're you're you're looking at irrational people and you're trying to define them and understand them in a in a rational sense.
And that's not possible.
Uh irrationality to the degree these people out in Olympia Washington have displayed, and the anti-war movement has made up quite a few of this type of uh of person.
Uh they're just their wives are miserable.
They want to get noticed.
Uh they feel left out of mainstream society.
And so, you know, everybody wants to m have meaning in their lives.
And everybody wants to make a difference.
And these poor people are just irrelevant to the functioning of this country.
And they know it.
So this is what they do to call attention to themselves at the end of the day to make themselves feel like they stood up for something potent, and to make themselves feel like they had courage, and to make themselves feel like they were brave.
When in fact they're just glittering jewels of colossal ignorance who have no contribution of any substance to make uh at all.
What really aggravated me about this when I heard about it, uh Terry, was that there aren't gonna be any charges.
The local prosecutors out there are not gonna charge them with it.
These people poured wet concrete over train tracks.
If if that's that has to be a crime in anybody's world, uh plus the other things that they did.
But you know, it's freedom of speech, Mr. Limbaugh, if protest that's what made America great, defense, all that stuff, yada yada yada.
We have the Sarkozy bites.
And this goes back to the call I got a minute ago wanting to know the difference between uh how how does Bush stack up with Ronald Reagan?
We played these bites the day that uh Sarkozy spoke, and maybe it was the day after he spoke, November the seventh.
He addressed a joint meeting of the House and the Senate.
And we've cut all the applause here.
It's been shortened for the uh constraints of time to deal with constraints of time.
But uh I want you to when you listen to these things, forget that it's a Frenchman.
That's that's marvelous and and and tremendous enough.
You should ask no, in fact, don't forget that.
Ask yourself why all of a sudden, in a world where we are told that we are hated and we have to rebuild our image.
How come pro-American conservative leaders are being elected in all these democracies like France, like Germany, uh and a number of other places.
The Democrats can't get anything right.
They can't tell the truth about anything.
They just have they have a and it's aneshuma to them the truth.
So do keep in mind that it's a Frenchman.
But also I want as you listen to these four sound bites, ask yourself how you would feel if an American presidential candidate of any party happened to be saying these things.
To the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who with their own hands, their intelligence and their hearts built the greatest nation in the world.
America did not say and everything will be given to you.
Rather, she says come.
And the only limits to what you will be able to achieve will be those of your own courage, talent, your boldness and your talent.
Rado Raddo Rado Rado, second bite.
The America that we love throughout the world embodies this extraordinary ability to grant each and every person a second chance.
Another chance.
failure is never the last word.
There is always another chance.
Here, in your country, on this soil, both the humblest and the most illustrious citizens alike know that nothing is owed to them.
And that everything has to be earned.
That is what constitutes the moral value of America.
Rado, Raddo, Raddo.
There were Democrats applauding this, but they would never say it.
Not enough Republicans say it.
Not enough citizens realize it anymore.
I heard these I was practically standing out of my chair here the first time I heard of them.
Here's the next bite.
America.
Liberated us.
And this is an eternal debt we owe America.
Every time an American soldier falls somewhere in the world.
I think of what the American army did for France.
I think of them and I am sad.
Come on, as one is saddened to lose a member of one's family.
This is Nicholas Sarkozy, the new president of France.
You will not hear.
An elected Democrat speak this way of the U.S. military today.
A Frenchman.
By the way, he's smart.
He has every reason to think this and feel it.
It just it just stuns me that there is so much understanding of the greatness and purpose and the reason this country is what it is outside our borders than there is inside among our elected officials.
Here's the final sarkozy bite.
We need France to be stronger.
I am determined to carry through the with the reforms that my country has put off for all too long.
I will not turn back.
I will implement all of them because France has turned back for all too long.
I have come to present to you today a France that comes out to meet America, to renew this the covenant of friendship and alliance that Washington and Lafayette sealed in Yorktown.
Together.
Let us be true to their memories.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen.
I say this to you.
On behalf of the French people.
Long live France.
Long live French American friendship.
Rado, Rado, Rado.
Now, how does this how can this even be when the Democrats and the drive-bys are out talking about how we're hated in the world and we've lost our standing, we've lost our reputation.
But when you listen to that, did you imagine how you'd feel if some American candidate, either party?
How do you feel if they were saying something things like this about this country?
Why is it become so hard for America?
You know why?
Because of pandering.
We've gotten the point where people are hurting Mr. Limbaugh.
People are suffering, and they need their leaders to understand that.
So our leaders run around and talk about I understand your hurting, and I am representing change, and I'm going to make sure that your pain is going to vanish.
Vote for me.
And so you end up pandering to people just just to make them think that you care about them.
When the uh the the key to unlocking misery is within each and every one of us.
And it's the person in your life that can show you how to do that that becomes the best teacher you ever had.
And that was one of the multitudinous things about Ronald Reagan that had made him able to connect with people.
Back after this.
New York Governor Elliot Spitzer said at a private fundraiser that he wants a Democrat-controlled New York State Senate to legalize gay marriage as one of its first priorities in 2009.
A witness to the remarks told the New York Post.
Spitzer is a gay marriage proponent.
He pledged to help Democrats next November win three Senate seats.
They need to gain the majority.
One of the first things we're going to do when Senate Minority Leader Malcolm Smith is the majority leader is gay marriage.
The witness recounted Spitzer telling some 60 people who paid up to $10,000.
each to attend the event in Greenwich Village on Wednesday night.
Everybody applauded when he said that, said the witness, who was among senators, Democrat activists and lobbyists at a fundraising event for the Senate Democrat Committee.
It was held in a library of the elegant West 13th Street home of HBO's Oz creator, Tom Fantana.
Two other witnesses, including an elected official, said they couldn't recall Spitzer's exact lingo, but added it to governor suggested that a Democrat controlled state Senate would follow the State Assembly's action this year in passing for the first time ever, a gay marriage bill.
So just had his lunch handed to him on driver's licenses for illegals.
Just had to get rid of the internet sales tax that he wanted to institute in December.
And you're probably saying, what does he not get?
It isn't that he doesn't get it, folks.
It's that you don't matter.
Those driver's licenses are going to find a way to issue them.
And he's going to find a way to raise taxes.
And if he wants his gay marriage thing, he's going to find a way to get it done.
Doesn't matter.
You may be able to stop it temporarily.
Protests and what have you, but these guys, the smartest people in the room, you just don't understand, and the issues are too complex, and therefore your opinions don't matter on this because you're just not fully briefed.
You're not sophisticated enough to understand.
Here is uh Dwayne, 17 years old in Northeast Ohio.
Nice to have you on the program, Wayne.
Uh hi, Rush.
Um, I'd like to start off by saying that I've been listening to you since I was three years old.
I'm quite the veteran here.
A rush baby.
Yeah.
How about that, huh?
Um, I'm calling to uh I'd like to note the liberal influence on teenagers now, because I I watch MTV for the music, okay?
And they're all about, well, we need teenagers to vote, and we need this, that, and the other thing.
We need young people to vote and be politically active.
But there's no conservative influence.
There's no balance about it.
Nothing says.
Um nobody wants to say the conservatives have some good ideas too.
Say, Duane, you are seventeen.
Yes, sir.
I want to applaud you at your age, noticing this.
What I also want to tell you is I'm 56.
I remember when MTV started, back in 1980 or something.
And it's always been what it is.
These get out the vote efforts, these rock the votes and all, they've been doing this probably since Clinton to 92.
Okay.
Um, I'm glad you noticed it.
What you need to learn is that's who they are.
And that's what it is, and it isn't going to change.
Did you see, did you happen to see the story yesterday that uh some people went out and talked to some students at New York University and asked them what they would take to give up the right to vote forever.
I heard about that.
An iPod touch or uh free ride to college.
Okay.
Well, what was interesting about that?
An iPod touch uh or for a free ride to college, uh uh they any number of things to give up the right to vote.
That way, the way to look at that is that is why these MTV rock the vote things never work.
They did they may register these young kids, but they don't go out and vote.
If you, when you turn 18 and register and vote, you're going to be among the exceptions.
They get all excited about the civics of registering and so forth.
But the the the election day, they don't show up in the same numbers that they have uh that they've registered.
It always is a bust.
Last year, or 2004, the Democrat convention, Shaw Sean Diddy Combs, whatever had a voter registration, vote or die was one on a t shirt.
Um, and these guys do it again just to get great press.
Look how much they care about the country, but the young demographic don't show up, at least the Democrat side doesn't.
You'll be unique.
Thanks for the call.
I got to run real quick, right after this.
All right, here's an NFL prediction for Sunday.
Take the points, the Miami Dolphins plus the points over the Philadelphia Eagles.
And don't be surprised if it's a Dolphins straight up win.
See you Monday, folks.
Have a wonderful weekend.
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