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Dec. 14, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 14, 2007, Friday, Hour #3
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And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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Already, it's Friday.
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Boy, what a week this has been.
Yesterday I got here, and I really didn't even know what day it was.
It has been an intense week.
And it's been a very social week, too.
But all these things have been running together, looking forward to the weekend.
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You know, a little more on the Clinton implosion.
And clearly, when you've got Howard Feynman out there writing that she could lose four early states, Nevada, South Carolina, New Hampshire, and Iowa, there clearly is something going on out there that was never planned for.
I think the Clinton advisorate team, the campaign team, they were just, they were just so smack dab convinced that this primary stuff was just a coronation.
It was essentially a coronation parade around the country.
And they had it all figured out.
They knew that the Republicans, after Mrs. Clinton got the nomination, were going to screw it up by going back and focusing on the 90s where the Clintons had all of sympathy and people wouldn't want to relive that.
Well, Hillary's talking about change.
They had it all figured out.
But then something went wrong at Wabash Central.
The sleas, the techniques that you and I have all known Clinton Inc. capable of and famous for started to show up when she began to run into problems, when the coronation ceased to be a coronation and actually became a battle.
And guess what?
The sleas and the typical character destruction, politics of personal destruction characteristics have been introduced into the campaign by the Clintons, by Clinton Inc.
And everybody can see this.
Republicans haven't said a word.
Republicans haven't done anything to cause this.
Nor has Obama, other than Sho Will.
The only reason there's sleas in this campaign is because the Clintons have introduced it and their guy continues to introduce it, Mark Penn, after last night trying to use the word cocaine again in association with Obama after the campaign supposedly apologized for it, then tried to revitalize his kindergarten business.
Matthews said to him, let me ask you this.
Guys, you all know the history of the Hawkeye Caucy.
And it could be that you're the campaign that slips ahead when the other two are fighting in the gutter, as somebody put it.
If the campaigns of Hillary and Obama involve themselves in what the senator from Illinois said as a kindergarten student or whether he used drugs or shared them or whatever, doesn't that allow John Edwards to sneak by, both of you guys.
We all know that Senator Obama raised this question about whether or not there's a 20-year effort to become president, that he actually launched an attack.
This kindergarten thing was something that was a joke at the end of a long research document.
It was not meant to be taken serious.
What was serious was that Senator Obama said his being, you know, age six to ten was a, in Indonesia, was a qualification for me.
Let's set the Christmas A chart.
Every day they go out and prove David Axerot.
David Axerot's not about change.
David Axerotti, I want to ask you a question.
Do you believe that you're a victim here?
Is your candidate a victim here of a series of attempts to try to diminish him by going after his ambitions as a five-year-old, his admitted drug use as a kid, as a youngster, a younger person?
Is this an attempt to try to bring him down to size so the Clintons can beat him?
Well, look, I don't know.
You'd have to ask Mark what the intention was.
See, they're not rising to the bait at all.
The Obama people are not rising to the bait at all.
And so here you have Penn once again bringing up this kindergarten business in the 20-year ambition to be president, as though Mrs. Clinton just decided last year that she wanted to be president.
Now, get this.
The major presidential campaigns are flooding the state of Iowa with hundreds of field staffers, and there's at least some concern that those operatives could show up for the Hawkeye cauckey, the precinct caucus, on January 3rd and distort the outcome of the opening test of the presidential nominating process.
The number of operatives, an estimated 150,000 people on the Democrat side, over 80,000 on the Republican side, most of the concern comes on the Democrat race, where unlike the Republicans, the rules governing who can participate in a caucus technically include residents, recent residents, who may leave the state immediately afterwards.
We went through that.
You basically can show up that day, say you want to participate in the caucus, and you can go to one.
And you can vote there.
And you can leave.
In New Hampshire, you can do the same thing.
Yeah, I intend to move here.
Now, this reminds me of Florida 2000.
Remember Florida 2000?
Literally plane loads of Democrat Party lawyers flew into this state to try to get involved.
They just can't help but cheat.
They just can't help it.
Oprah Winfrey's recent campaign swing with Democrat presidential hopeful Barack Obama, greeted with wild cheers and record-breaking crowds.
It was not a record-breaking crowd.
It might have been a Democrat record-breaking crowd, but it wasn't a record-breaking crowd.
You heard, Rachel, I drew 29,000 people at the Anti-Football Stadium in 2000.
I, El Rushbo, drew 40,000 at Pew Wallop, Washington for a statewide candidate running for governor, John Carls.
That's record-breaking.
But beside the point, some of the talk show hosts fans, some of Oprah's fans, are not happy that she's become politically outspoken.
Many are sounding off on her website.
One of them says, Oprah, count me as tuned out for now.
Another one says it's a real turnoff for a lot of your fans.
Another one wrote, she's crossed a line and lost my trust completely.
But what's especially interesting about reading Oprah's website is why some of those fans seem to be upset.
The way she stumped for Obama, they say, seemed to pit white against black.
I've been inspired to believe that a new vision is possible for America.
Oprah said while on the stump with Obama, Dr. King dreamed a dream.
We get to vote that dream into reality.
But back on her website, one commenter wrote, Winfrey has artfully begun her stump speeches alongside Osama with a negative racial tone.
Another commenter wrote, Don't pit blacks against whites.
Do you know what the most amazing thing is to me about this?
Not the black versus, the people think Oprah's not political.
Just because she's out there with a candidate for the first time means that this is the first time she's political?
Oprah Winfrey is as political as anybody in the drive-by media.
See, this is ignorance is the most expensive thing that we pay for.
From the BBC, obesity cannot be tackled by just encouraging healthier eating and more exercise, health experts say.
Oh, really?
When I read that, my antenna went up.
The red flags ascended.
The experts, led by London-based academics, say governments, oh, governments should adopt more sophisticated approaches.
Work conditions, food subsidies, town planning, and advertisement restrictions are all key, the experts wrote in the British medical journal.
These experts, led by a University College of London academic, agreed, saying tackling obesity was far more complex than just encouraging healthy eating and more exercise.
They said large supermarket change had displaced small family-run stores and encouraged bulk purchases, convenience foods, supersized portions.
They also criticized the impact of food advertising, which they said encouraged children in particular to desire foods high in saturated fats, sugars, and salts.
And they said urban planning and design could play a key role in encouraging people to walk around towns rather than rely on cars.
Did you, I'm going to tell you what all this means, Mr. Snerdley.
What it means is that they in Europe, and it's soon to follow here, are going to use obesity into a method of control of the population.
This is what liberals want.
It is what they do.
It has all the ingredients.
You people too stupid to know that going to Costco is killing you.
All these bulk purchases, big supermarkets, got to get rid of them.
Like here, we got to get rid of Walmart.
We got to change the way food advertises.
We have to have new urban planning so more people can walk places.
This is nothing more than an effort under the guise of government caring about you to control you.
Plain and simple.
Rachel, you look doubtful in there.
You know, I'm sure a lot of you people are doubtful.
You cannot believe because you don't want to believe.
You don't want to believe that governments would do this?
Go to this extent to control the population.
Wake up, folks.
We're way on down that track.
Because the urban communities they're talking about would ban the use of automobiles and certain things.
You would have to walk.
They've just gotten through.
You know, they've been urging healthy eating and lots of exercise.
And miraculously, somehow it's not working.
We need stricter measures because we care about people.
We care about obesity.
It leads to diabetes and heart disease and stroke and death.
And we, your government, want to protect you from yourself because you can't do it yourself.
Your impulses have led to these unhealthy foods that you want to eat in two large portions.
It's none of their damn business.
I know this is UK, but the UK just signed away its sovereignty, folks, joining this giant European Union.
They literally just signed away their sovereignty.
So did France, so did Germans.
They don't think that's what's happened.
But they have.
They're trying to become the United States of Europe, essentially.
And they're doing this.
It's a bunch of socialists.
The ruling classes of Europe think they know better than everybody else.
They think they're going to get a better handle on immigration.
They're going to have more economic output by pooling their resources.
They still don't get it.
It has nothing to do with any of that, or not as much as it has to do with the genuine overall culture.
In the meantime, next story.
This is from Men's Science.
It was published.
I'm sorry, it's at msnbc.com and it's their men's health section.
Suppose you were forced to live on a diet of red meat and whole milk, a diet that, all told, was at least 60% fat, about half of it saturated.
If your first thoughts are of statins, stents, bypasses, you may want to consider the curious case of the Maasai, a nomadic tribe in Kenya and Tanzania.
In the 1960s, a Vanderbilt University scientist named George Mann found that Maasi, or Maasai men, consumed this very diet, supplemented with the blood from the cattle they herded.
Yet these nomads, who were also very lean, had some of the lowest levels of cholesterol ever measured and were virtually free of heart disease.
Scientists, confused with the finding, argued that the tribe must have certain genetic protections.
But when British researchers monitored a group of Maasai men who moved to Nairobi and began consuming a more modern diet, they discovered the men's cholesterol subsequently skyrocketed when they started eating the more healthful food.
This story goes on.
It's a long story, and we will link to it at rushlimbaugh.com.
But the point of this story is that no one has ever proved in science or anywhere else that saturated fat clogs arteries or causes heart disease.
Nobody has ever proved it.
It's just somehow everybody believes it.
There's a really salient paragraph or two in this story that I will share with you after we come back from this brief timeout.
Okay, let's go to these salient paragraphs.
1977 was still a promising idea.
That was the year Congress made it government policy to recommend a low-fat diet based primarily on the opinions of health experts who supported the diet heart hypothesis.
It was a decision met with much criticism from the scientific community, including the AMA.
After all, officially endorsing a low-fat diet could change the eating habits of millions of Americans, and the potential effects of this strategy were widely debated and certainly unproved.
We have spent billions of our tax dollars trying to prove the diet heart hypothesis.
Yet study after study has failed to provide definitive evidence that saturated fat intake leads to heart disease.
It has yet to be proved.
The most recent example is the Women's Health Initiative, the government's largest and most expensive, $725 million.
The results of that study published last year show that a diet low in total fat and saturated fat had no impact on reducing heart disease and stroke rates in some 20,000 women who had adhered to the regimen for an average of eight years.
Nobody has ever proved saturated fat clogs arteries or causes heart disease, and they have spent gazillions trying.
I'm not surprised.
All the myths that are out there in food and health, and yet we're supposed to believe these global warming scientists when these idiots can't even get this little thing right?
Mary Ann in Albany, I'm glad you called.
It's great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Nice to have you with us.
Oh, thank you.
I have to say that I don't always agree with everything that you say.
I've listened to a lot.
You've had me on the phone quite a while.
The reason I called was I find it very, I'm not really sure what the right word is.
I think you're wrong about this MLB steroid controversy or what did you call it yesterday, McCarthyism.
As an aunt of a young boy who's aspiring to get into baseball, I certainly would not tell him that he should use any kind of unhealthy additive to his body.
Right.
You're supposed to play the game naturally.
You're not supposed to drink anything, ingest anything.
It's supposed to be natural.
Wait a minute.
You can't have Gatorade.
Gatorade is nothing but a sugar water.
Well, but it's not good for you.
All that sugar?
It gives you an uncle.
Okay, so you're telling me that sugar is going to bulk you?
I'm trying to point.
No, I'm trying to point out to you.
I'm admitting this.
You need to be more responsible of all the millions of people that listen to you, that you say listen to you.
You don't even, did you hear what I had to say about this today?
I did, and I listened to what you said yesterday, and I find it very irresponsible.
What did I say?
I refer to this as something that's called McCarthyism.
What did the McCarthyism is publishing names of people who supposedly are guilty when nothing's been proved about them?
Of course it's been proven.
You're not going to tell me that the owners of these teams know nothing.
People are not that stupid other than maybe some of the people that listen to you and believe the things that come out of your mouth.
Marianne, wake up.
George Mitchell is not a court of law.
Of course not!
The evidence he collected is hearsay.
It has.
Well, you know what?
If this isn't true, then the players can come out and sue him.
And we'll see if they do.
But that's not the point.
It is the point.
No, it isn't.
What's McCarthy-esque about this is accusing somebody.
Actually, McCarthyism is a bad term because McCarthyism was accusing known communists of being communist.
So why did you use that word?
Well, because it's simply a one-word way to convey what I thought about a simple phase of this.
But I said so much more than that about this.
You think I'm advocating?
Wait a second, Marianne.
Marianne, I'm going to ask you a question.
Are you thinking I'm advocating steroid use?
That's what it sounds like, yes.
How?
How in the world do you get that?
By not refuting what they're saying.
By not refuting what you're saying.
You have, I don't, I am not.
You don't even know what I said.
That's what's so frustrating here.
You think I said something that I didn't.
Let me ask you one question.
You are supposed to be a responsible adult.
I understand you are not a parent, but I'm sure you have family members that have children.
I am.
If one of those children came up to you and said, hey, listen, Uncle Rushbo, I'm not hitting the ball like the rest of my teammates are hitting the ball.
And what do you think I can do?
I've tried lifting weights.
I see a lot of my friends.
You know, they're injecting steroids.
You think I should do it?
Are you going to tell him?
Absolutely not.
You have to ask me this?
I'm asking you that question.
You have to ask me that question.
There is nothing I've said, Mary Ann, that would indicate to anybody, you're the first person in the history of the world, thinks I'm advocating steroid use.
Hang on, we'll continue this.
I know.
And thank you very much.
No, no, seriously.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks so much.
No, no, no, no, it's plenty.
We go back to Albany and Mary Ann.
Mary Ann, you know what?
I think it's really bothering you.
Please don't patronize me, but what?
You know, Sterling says you're so sweet and nice when you're talking to him.
I am sweet and nice, but I just find what you're saying to be very irresponsible.
You don't even, you haven't.
You really, Marianne, I mean this with all sincerity.
You haven't taken the time to listen to what I'm actually saying.
Believe me, I am not a right-wing person.
None of that matters.
It doesn't matter against me, but I listen to your show every day.
It doesn't matter.
I'm not holding anything against you.
You're the one being contentious with me for no reason.
I have given you no reason to be contentious here.
Actually, you have.
You have given millions of people reason to be contentious because you're the only one that's called me and accused me of something I didn't say.
It is your, it is your, um, that's how you come across.
Oh, geez.
I am an adult.
I am a parent.
And when I hear you talk about men and boys becoming emasculating, when you say that this is.
Here we go now.
You stick with it long enough, folks, and you get to the real nut of it.
The real nut of it.
Yeah, this is what you're really mad about.
This is what you're really mad about, that I have said men and boys have been emasculated by people like you.
No, not at all, because one thing I can honestly tell you is that I don't treat any man any differently than the way they treat me.
And my children are involved in sports, and my nephews are involved in sports.
And I can tell you, my nephew got a scholarship to a very, very well-known school to play hockey.
This is joke.
And the last thing on their team is any of them being emasculated.
They are taught the thought to win.
You're trying.
Okay, go ahead.
You're trying what?
To get a word in.
Okay, go ahead.
I think what you're really upset with me about is that I'm not condemning the same people that you think everybody else is condemning, i.e. these players.
But my analysis of this went far beyond that.
I'm not, this steroid stuff has been around for years.
The names on this list, some of them are surprised, some of them aren't.
That's not the point to me.
The point to me is why now and why are they?
Wait, let me finish this.
I think the whole purpose of this, this ought to make you mad.
I think the purpose of this report is to exonerate past behavior in Major League Baseball because now they put so many names on the list, Marianne, you can't punish them.
You can't asterisk them.
You can't disqualify them.
You can't say Bonds should be asterisk and not anybody else.
It's impossible.
Baseball should be asterisk.
You can't do it is the point.
But they should.
Bud Selig, and Cooperstown, I live near Cooperstown.
Everything changes.
That might happen because the sports writers who are really miffed about all this may not elect some of these guys to Hall of Fame.
There's going to be fallout for them.
Don't misunderstand.
But I'm talking about the league and baseball as a business cannot now.
This really, aside from his legal troubles with perjury in San Francisco, this really exonerates Barry Bonds.
And nobody's looking at it that way, but it does.
I'm not saying it should.
I'm not saying that he's not guilty.
I'm saying in terms of everybody was focused on him and he was the one guy really cheating more than anybody else.
We now know that's not true.
We've always known it isn't true.
Now we've got a couple other three other big names on this.
So Bonds is no longer a single villain.
If you look at this from a business standpoint, a public relations standpoint, this is the best thing that could have happened for Bud Selig because Bud Selig is exactly what liberals think George Bush is.
He's indecisive.
He sweeps things under the rug.
He pretends that they're not.
Well, it's all about money.
What?
This is all about money.
Of course it's about money.
This is a huge business.
But you, I just, I think what aggravates me more than your political views set aside, what annoys me is.
You know what?
I think you really like me.
I think that's that you like me a lot and you're frustrated by it and you're fascinated by it at the same time.
You actually like me a lot.
Rush, I don't know how your head fits through the door most days.
It's a big door.
But I find you to be funny.
Yes, I can laugh at you.
I don't agree with your political stance at all.
I can't say at all.
There's a few things I do agree with you about.
But most days when I listen to the radio, you infuriate me.
And some of your commercials that I didn't necessarily hear on my local radio station as I was listening to while I was on hold, I actually, my heart is racing because it made me mad.
But that's beside the point.
It's the funniest parody's going in modern American.
It's not parody.
Yes, it is.
It's really insulting.
Give me an example.
Well, you know, I will give you one example that I heard.
That's good.
That's what I asked.
Oh, who was it that you made somebody came on and parried Obama's mother, his mama jokes?
Oh, that was Al Sharpton.
I think that's horrible.
I mean, I could never, and I have never, ever said anything about somebody else's mother.
My husband lost his mother two years ago.
Oh, God.
No, tell me it isn't so.
No, I don't.
You know, I am glad to get calls from people like you because it helps center me.
It helps me realize what I'm dealing with out there when people hear things out of context and do not understand the point.
No, you can't make fun of somebody's mother.
Do you have a mother?
I did have.
Okay, would you want somebody now saying, you know, your mom is so fat that, you know, when they squeeze her, gravy comes out or something?
Marianne.
What?
You can't make fun of somebody's mother.
You just can't.
It's not, I'm a mommy.
You can't make fun of mommy.
You can't.
And I think you need to be more responsible on how you say things because I know you have a lot of people on the right who want to take and suck these things in that you say and run with it.
But when it comes to, I think what bothers me, and just let me get this last point, is that you have millions of people who are parents that have children that may be involved in sports.
And by not...
Oh, we're back to...
I did not advocate steroid.
I did not advocate steroid use.
I never have done so, wouldn't do so.
You have totally missed the point because you don't listen.
You are too busy talking.
You do not listen.
The Al Sharpton parody of Barack Obama is brilliant.
It spins off Joe Biden.
Why am I wasting time?
Spins off Joe Biden insulting Obama by saying he's articulate and clean.
It made Sharpton mad, and he was upset because he's clean and he was a presidential candidate.
And then you had a black L.A. Times columnist refer to Barack Obama as a magic Negro.
And that you heard is a series of parodies to illustrate that it is literally.
What I heard is somebody taking a stab at their mother.
No, you didn't.
You missed it.
You missed it.
Mike, grab one.
Just grab one of these things.
We're going to play it, and you're going to listen to this thing with me together on the phone, okay, Marianne?
No, I can't.
It makes me mad.
Where's your guts?
You can gut it up for 45 seconds, Marianne.
I know you can.
You've been gutting it up with me for 10 minutes.
I have.
And you aggravate me every day.
But all I want is the point I want to get to.
I think you're so fascinated with me, you can't stand it.
Oh, honey, if that's what you need for the day.
See, honey, you just grabbed it.
If that's what you need from a Democrat from upstate New York to make your day.
There you go.
But the one point I want to get to.
Your points are over.
We're going to listen to this.
Ready?
Is it ready?
Listen, this Marianne.
Here comes.
I just told the engineer to grab one at random.
See, the context is, Marianne, that he's so mad and Obama won't come because Obama's getting all this praise and Sharpton's not.
And he wants Obama to come out and talk to him and debate him about the issues.
And Obama is ignoring Sharpton.
And this is the way we chose to parody it because it was funny.
I get satire.
I get parody.
You just can't knock somebody's mother.
You can't find something else.
I mean, you can humiliate Hillary on Daylight.
How about Obama's mother?
That parody's about Al Sharpton.
Sorry.
That is.
Al Sharpton parody.
Here, listen to this with me.
If you're just a kofus.
Now, Marianne, I want to treat you here.
You're my guest.
Just listen to a couple stanzas here of this song from Al Sharpton.
You'll really like this, too.
Okay, that's enough.
What do you think of that, Marianne?
horrible that is just how do you even think that is remotely funny I find no humor in that, and that's what I mean.
You are.
When's the last time you did laugh, Mary Ann?
I laugh at you every day.
It's not nice to laugh at people like that.
And three to six, I laugh.
You shouldn't laugh at you.
Why are you laughing at me?
You're not supposed to laugh at people on the radio.
I laugh at my children.
I laugh at my husband.
I'll bet that's true.
Now you're getting nasty.
Marianne, I would love to continue this.
I really would.
Okay, but I just, all I'm asking is that you need to be more responsible on how you spread the word.
Yes, ma'am.
Yes, ma'am.
As you said.
Yes, ma'am.
Here's a responsible hang-up.
By the way, before we leave, I mentioned I was going to keep this alive today, and I forgot to do it.
You've got to hear this sound if you didn't hear it.
Contessa Brewer yesterday, PMS NBC Live, talking about a new poll of Iowa Democrats.
The latest MSNBC McClatchy poll of Iowa Democrats shows Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in a statistical, dead heat.
And they make fun of George Bush.
Statistical.
The influence of this program for you just everywhere.
By the way, Marianne, I want to thank you for a wonderful call.
If I were your husband, I would say, honey, it's vacation time.
We are going to Aruba Pac-Light.
Anthony in Pittsburgh, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Mega Deados.
Thank you, sir.
Now, I have a question.
Say if the Democrat actually wins office and we win the war in Iraq while they're in office, what do you think is going to happen?
Do you think they'll take credit or what?
Hell yes.
They're going to try to take credit.
If there's a big, if it's an easily understood victory, even this year, this coming year, they'll try to take credit for it.
They're not going to get away with it, but they will try.
They will say, oh, yeah, well, it was our tough resolutions.
We sped George Bush up.
We told him to get this done and over with.
That's who they are.
Absolutely.
Do you honestly think people would actually fall for that?
I mean, the whole time they've actually been.
Anthony, there's a lot of ignorance out there.
There is a lot of ignorance.
Anthony, to answer your question, I'm being dead serious now.
You think people actually believe that?
Do you realize that 40% of this country is prepared to vote for Hillary Clinton?
That's just as absurd to me.
Somebody tell me what she's done, what she qualified for.
She's the wife of a former president.
She's fought for children for 35 years.
What's she done?
She's botched everything she's tried to fix.
She doesn't get anything right, and yet 40% of this country is willing to vote for her for president without knowing diddly squat about her.
She's a soap opera figure along with her husband.
So would people believe Democrats if they start taking credit for winning the war?
And if they got the assistance of the drive-by media, hell yes.
There are plenty of Americans.
Ignorance is the most expensive thing we pay for in this country.
Will they get away with it is another thing, but they'll certainly try it, and they'll have a number of their loyal lunatic fringe that'll buy into it.
Los Angeles, this is Bill.
You're next.
I'm sorry.
It is Bill.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Thank you.
Yes.
I just wonder why you think it's unfair.
It's an unfair advantage for the Democrats to flood caucus areas in order to vote if the Republicans have the same opportunity.
I said that the Clintons just can't help but cheat.
I was talking about the fact they're flooding the state with 150,000 operatives on cauckey day.
Yeah.
The Republicans about 65 or 70,000.
We know the Democrats cheat.
We know that voter fraud exists on the Democrats side.
We know it does.
Well, two hours ago, you didn't have a problem with our sports entertainers having an unfair advantage by using steroids.
So big deal.
I did not say that.
I was asking people to think about things.
You know what I hate?
And I've had, this is two out of three calls.
I'm getting knee-jerk reactions.
Ignorance is the most expensive thing we pay for.
I am trying to inspire thought.
You're being contentious with me for no reason.
I'm trying to inspire people to think.
I want them to come to their own conclusions, not mine.
When they start thinking, they will conclude as I do.
When people are knee-jerk and react on biases and prejudices, they will not come to the conclusions that I come to.
I was not advocating steroid use.
I was simply trying to draw analogies to people who say that it's cheating and that it's enhancement.
It's the entertainment business.
Why don't we hold everybody else to the same standard?
You know, there's parts of this whole thing, plus parts of this whole thing that rubbed me the wrong way by the way it has been handled, Congress being involved.
This whole report is the result of Congress.
This is another major business in America trying to keep Congress off its back.
An inept Congress, which is now seeking to attack the Congress, the government of Iraq, as being unqualified or incompetent or whatever.
The government of Iraq is far more competent, getting much more done than the Democrat Party's getting done.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, that's it.
That's it.
We've about wrapped it up here for the busy broadcast week.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence here on Open Line Friday.
There's not enough time to be fair with another caller.
Let me just close out the week here by telling you what a thrill and a delight that it always is to be with you here.
And we never know what's going to happen.
Two of these last three calls, last recalls, just perfect open line Friday phone calls.
By the way, for the guy about cheating in New Hampshire or in Iowa, the Democrats have different rules than the Republicans do in terms of who can show up and who can vote.
There's no question here that Democrats don't trust even their own voters to vote the right way, much less the people of the country.
But it's still two or three weeks away.
There's still anything that can happen here.
And we, of course, will keep tracking it, ladies and gentlemen.
We'll be in New York for most of the week next week.
I said the other day, I love winter when watching it on TV, but now I got to go mess around in it for four days.
So we'll see you from the EIB building first thing Monday.
Look forward to it.
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