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Dec. 17, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 17, 2007, Monday, Hour #3
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No, I'm not kidding at all.
If you want, if you want the world to love the United States of America, stop foreign aid.
Just cut them off.
And you'll see more love and begging and adoration than you can shake a stick at.
Greetings, folks.
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None I'm serious.
And I remember proposing this way back in the early 90s.
Drastic change to foreign aid.
We have two lists.
We have the list of supportive good countries, we have the excrement list.
And if you're a country, you don't want to be on the excrement list.
How do you get on the excrement list?
Very simple.
All you do is trash us.
You run around, you criticize our country, you criticize our president while you're taking billions in aid from us, you get on the excrement list and you get cut off.
And you don't get off the excrement list until you've done two years of praising this country and thanking it and so forth.
I guarantee you, it'll never happen.
But it would make us the most loved nation on the face of the earth.
Until about a year after they get off the excrement list, then they start trashing us again.
They have to put them back on the exclamate list.
And we'd have to have the guts to keep doing that.
Now, uh this theory of mine, based on uh uh this drudge picture of Mrs. Clinton with the headline, The Toll of a Campaign.
Now it could well be that that's a sympathy photo too.
Make people feel sorry for how tough the campaign trail is.
Now I want to preface this is I know I know it's gonna media matter is gonna get hold of this and they're gonna take it all out of context.
We can expect that.
That's a badge of honor when this happens.
Uh but for the rest of you, I want you to understand that I am talking about the evolution of American culture here and not so much Mrs. Clinton.
It could be anybody.
And it is really not very complicated.
Americans are addicted to physical perfection, thanks to Hollywood and thanks to television.
We know it because we see it.
We see everybody in their uncle in gyms.
We see people starving themselves.
We people see people taking every miracle fad drug there is to lose weight.
We see guys trying to get six-pack abs.
We have women starving themselves, trying to get in a size zero and size one clothes.
Uh makeovers, facials, plastic surgery, everybody in the world's Botox, and this affects men too.
As you know, the haughty John Kerry botoxed his wrinkles out uh during the campaign.
People, there is this thing in this country that as you age, and this is particularly, you know, women are hardest hit on this, and particularly in Hollywood, as you age America loses interest in you.
And we know this is true because we constantly hear from aging actresses who lament that they can't get decent roles anymore other than in supporting uh uh roles that that will not lead to any direct impact, uh, yay or nay on box office.
And while Hollywood box office receipts may be uh stagnant, uh none of that changes the fact that this is a country obsessed with appearance.
It's a country obsessed with looks.
Um and then the number of people in public life who appear on television or on the big screen, who are content to be who they are, you can probably count on one hand.
Everybody's trying to make themselves look different, and in that situation, in that case they think they're making themselves look better.
Uh it's it's it's just the way our culture has evolved.
It's the way the country is.
Uh it's almost an addiction that some people have to what I call the perfection that Hollywood presents of successful, beautiful, fun-loving people.
So the question is this will this country want to actually watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis.
We know that the presidency ages the occupants of that office rapidly.
You go back and look at pick well, you can't use Clinton because he dyed his hair based on the audience he was speaking to.
But take a look at some pictures of Bush in 2000, when he was campaigning, 2001 when he was inaugurated, take a look at him now.
It's just been eight years.
The difference is stark.
He's kept himself in good shape and so forth, but the the you can say that this is a sad, unfortunate thing.
But men aging makes them look more authoritative, accomplished, distinguished.
Sadly, it's not that way for women.
And they will tell you.
Well, it snurdly, you know, you you you just you're sitting there thinking that I'm I'm I'm on the precipice of a cliff here without a bungee cord.
I'm not, I am I am trying to be look at if if I'm on the edge of the bungee cord, then I'll take the leap, bungee cord will save me because I'm this is I'm just doing giving you an honest assessment here of American culture.
I mean, look at all of the evidence.
I mean, I've just barely scratched the surface with some of the evidence.
And so will Americans want to watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis.
And that woman, by the way, is not going to want to look like she's getting older.
Uh because it'll impact poll numbers.
It'll impact perceptions, politics, perceptions of reality.
Uh so there will have to be steps taken to avoid the appearance of aging.
You know, politics, politics is not for sissies.
Now, I you know, I'm looking at people on the other side of glass here and they're laughing and they're smiling.
They think I'm making a joke here, and there's some big punchline.
I'm not what you're not laughing at that.
What are you laughing at?
You're laughing at how he's smiling because it's true.
Okay.
Mamon is smiling because it's true.
And what also happens in this, when you say something that's true that people don't want to hear, man, do you catch it?
I am fully prepared.
I'm gonna catch it here.
And that's really why he's smiling because he knows I'm gonna catch it, but you also are smiling because you know I can take it.
You know that I can catch it and throw it right back.
So, you know, politics isn't for sissies.
And uh being president ages men faster than normal.
This is this is just I think this is one of the intangibles.
And another thing, but we we have we've how many how many times have you said in your adult life you've had a candidate for president or some office that you really like, but it just doesn't come off well on television.
Just for some reason television doesn't compliment this person.
Uh I've often reminded you that politics is showbiz for the ugly.
And it is.
And when you you you you see people who are just you think, boy, they're really great.
They can't get anywhere because they just for some reason television doesn't compliment them, they don't look well on it, they don't handle it well.
Um, and it has an effect regardless how smart they are, how brilliant their policy.
This is one of the things that many people lament with the coming of television.
You go back and look at presidents that we elected prior to TV and presidents we elected after TV, and you will know there's a huge d do you think do you think a bloated president we had plenty of fat guy presidents?
You think one could get elected today?
There's not a prayer.
There isn't a prayer.
Remember when people said the way to tell if Gore's really going to run is if he starts losing weight?
It's just what it is, folks.
It's just what it is.
Perfec, the appearance of perfection and good health, all that ties into the perception of mental acuity, uh stamina, being able to hold up to the job, and I'm just suggesting one of these intangibles.
You know, people will never tell you in an exit poll, yeah, I voted for candidate X as he looks better than candidate Y. I don't like his position on uh on a Taliban, yeah, I look at a health care plan.
They don't tell you what the real reason is.
And of course, nobody else out there with the guts or the stupidity to address this as I am.
But it's just it's it's something to put in a hopper and to uh and to think about.
If it's give you a picture just to think about.
I'm not even gonna answer the questions for you.
Just want you to think about this.
Campaign is Mitt Romney versus Hillary Clinton in our quest in this country for for for visual perfection.
Boy, the time and he's breaks is really zipping by here.
And we are back, Rush Limbaugh.
Women are more willing to forgive Monica Scandal than Julie Giuliani, Judy Giuliani's trists is the headline from a story today in the New York Daily News by Helen Kennedy.
A straying husband is bad, but a homewrecker is worse, at least when it comes to who should end up in the White House.
That seems to be the judgment of women polled by the New York Daily News.
More women were likely to punish Judith Giuliani for tristing with the then married mayor when she was Judith Nathan than Bill Clinton for cheating on his wife in the oval office.
The uh Daily News national poll of female voters found that women by a forty to thirty-five percent margin said Judy Giuliani's affair with Rudy made her less suitable to be first lady.
However, they were more forgiving about Clinton's adultery.
Forty-two percent saying his affair doesn't make him less suitable to be first laddie, and 34% saying that it does.
C. C. Here's Andy in uh in Leimore, California.
Andy, I'm glad you called and welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hey.
Uh you have a question and then maybe a comment.
Um it seems to me that you're absent any kind of evaluation as to uh the performance of Mitt Romney yesterday on Meet the Press.
I'm just curious uh as to why that seems to be the case.
Uh in fact, I've got some Romney sound bites coming up in the uh second half hour of the program.
Okay.
Uh well, uh, you know, I guess my thoughts on that is, and I know that I'm just gonna be kind of bold, unlike what he seems to be.
Um I don't see much of any depth to him.
He seems to be very uh just political, and it was interesting that you were talking about appearances and so forth, because on the surface this guy looks great.
And you know, I haven't been following these people that are in the Republican uh party very long.
But last week uh Mitt made a pretty neat little speech there with H. W. or George H. W. Bush.
That was a great that that was a fabulous speech for what it was.
I agree with you.
And unfortunately, he didn't seem to carry that same kind of uh uh fortitude in his gut uh over to yesterday's performance.
And I guess one of the things that really bothered me most is that when he was asked by Tim Russert uh if he would use uh the you know the liberal terminology to try to catch people, a litmus quote uh quote unquote litmus test.
He said, of course not, and it was just so political, it was so superficial to me, nothing that I could really sink my teeth into.
It bothered me.
Uh an atheist, even being thought to have a position on the Supreme Court?
Ludicrous.
How would you think?
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I did he say an atheist conservative Supreme Court.
He said that would there be a litmus test?
Uh in other words, if somebody could.
Well, no, that's not you know though you know, you know better that the litmus test question is are you gonna make sure somebody wants to overturn Ruver's as Wade before you know?
It's all about that's an abortion question.
The atheist question came up.
He was asked, do you think atheists can be moral?
He said, Yeah.
Well, yeah, I I think that uh the litmus test is always used, you're correct.
But this is in the in the context of who would be suited to fit or to to be uh on the Supreme Court.
And I thought that it was very weak of him not to just come out and say, No, I believe that the founding fathers uh had a position, and that position was based on morality and godliness, and uh I don't see any reason why we shouldn't use this quote unquote litmus test to see who is suited to be on a court that has so much power.
I don't I don't think that's uh far-fetched at all.
Okay, now uh you know the the wh I agree with you about one thing.
I wish you would have carried over the themes uh that he addressed in that speech, because it would have been and he had the opportunity because Russert spent what twenty minutes of a whole hour yesterday talking about Mormonism and religion, so he would he had the he had the opening to do it.
He had to know the rush was gonna do that.
You can't you can't blame Russard.
I mean, you agree to go on the show, the show's what it is, so you've got to be able to to handle whatever uh absolutely can't sit there and complain, well the Democrats don't get asked these questions because you know there's a different standard.
Of course, I understand that.
But about the I guess I guess what it is that there's a leadership quality that uh I I I didn't see him fill.
I've been uh withholding judgment and just trying to to to learn about the city.
I want to ask you a question, and I'm not being I'm not being uh frivolous with this or or any other us with this, but I want to know something from you.
How did you think he looked?
Physically forget forget what he said, forget the words again.
How did he look?
Well, this is interesting.
I was listening while I was waiting online and you were talking about appearances, and I'm telling you, the guy looks great.
He looks presidential, he has the appearance.
I mean, if you you know, if you were to have a picture of somebody that would be put into a presidential uh mode, he's the man.
But see, that means very little to me, and I don't think it means a whole lot to the majority of the American people.
I I I really believe that.
Uh I uh but that's not to say that there are also uh quite a few people in the uh in the American group that uh do care about nothing more than appearances.
Um but no, he he looked looked great, but uh what does that mean?
I mean I'm interested in what the guy thinks.
I understand what your I'm telling you it means more than you know.
This is not an I'm don't misunderstand anything, folks here.
I don't endorse people in primaries as well unless they're just two people and and one of them is clearly above, and that's not the case here yet.
Uh I um you know the it's it's tough.
I've I've met Mitt Romney one time, and uh it was about forty-five minutes.
And he was as genuine uh and nice.
I I let me just put this there's not one in one moment in that 45 minutes I thought I was talking with an actor who was trying to spin me or show me something about himself that really wasn't true.
But that's true of Bush too.
Bush is so different in person than he is when you see him on television.
It's it's striking the difference.
Uh I have no reason to doubt you, that's for sure.
I never met him.
Uh I I guess to me, it just uh I you sound just like Romney, by the way.
You you d you sound very much like Romney.
I mean now your your inflection, your tonation uh uh sounds like a lot like Romney.
And you sound very genuine to me.
Well, you know, uh uh I I would hope to think that I am.
I believe that you are as well, and that's why I've listened to you for s so long.
Are you are are you tending to to want to vote Republican in the presidential race?
I gotta tell you, I have to confess.
Um I don't vote normally because I live in California, I already know what the outcome is going to be.
It is incredibly liberal.
Um and I know this is no excuse, but I always tell people if uh the the candidate that I would vote for loses uh by one one vote, I will apologize.
But I don't think that's gonna be the case.
California is uh it's I'm not gonna make a difference.
It just I'm just an observer looking at all this, and it just to me it just sickens me to see the lack of any kind of fire in the belly from any of these people.
Now, I can say this, however, that on the on the Democratic side, those people are just pathetic in my mind.
Uh, you want to talk about a lack of genuineness.
They're they're they're par excellence, they have zero in my opinion.
Well, I was gonna bring that up, but I decided not to, because you know, I I didn't want you to think I'm I was uh saying, hey, Mitt can be that if Hillary is.
I I didn't want you saying that.
But you're right.
There's no authenticity on that side of the aisle either.
No kidding.
Uh I I just I I I don't know.
It just struck me.
I mean, something is so basic as to who we would choose to be in on the Supreme Court, and and and yet he just seemed to vacillate in that, and then he he uh used the word fees rather than taxes, which is what they are, Tim.
They had a little battle back and forth.
It just kept it was on and on and on to think it was painful to be perfectly honest with you.
Well, we'll play some of these sound bites in the next uh in the next half hour, and you'll have uh audience have a chance to hear what uh what you heard.
By the way, uh Andy, I want you to grab your wallet.
Arnold Schwarzenegger in next month is gonna declare a fiscal emergency, meaning the budget deficit is gonna be like four or five billion dollars larger than they projected.
And they got and and they don't know what to do about it.
So they're gonna call a special emergency session of the assembly.
And that's only going to mean one thing.
Tax increases, period.
Grab all of you in California, grab your wallets.
What ought to happen out there is tax cuts.
Shrinking state tax revenue from the meltdown of the subprime housing market, the credit crunch on Wall Street, right?
So cut taxes to make up for it.
They're gonna botch this again.
Ha, welcome back.
We got the couple of Mitt Romney sound bites coming up here in uh in just a second.
Uh remember some time ago I mentioned to you that this election on a Democrat side, this primary is really a generational battle.
And it's actually going to be this way with the Republican side, too.
This is the last gasp of the 60s generation.
On the left, the anti-war crowd, the Hillary and Bill, you know, the summer of love Berkeley types, uh, to gain control of this country to put their hands around the neck of the United States up there in Maine and strangle it to death.
So that we give up and say, okay, okay, okay, whatever you want us to be, we'll be.
And they can make it their image.
Guess who's out picking up this theme?
A generational battle is brewing between baby boomers, more likely to support Hillary Clinton's presidential bid, and 18 to 40 year olds in the post-boom, X and Y generations credited with aiding Barack Obama's rise in the polls.
Obama himself is laying clear this is a generational battle, sort of like JFK, it's time to pass a torch to a new generation.
Uh Obama's got this figured out.
He's uh he's a lot smarter than the Clintons give him credit for.
Speaking of which, did you hear what former Senator Bob Carey had to say about Obama?
I like the fact that his name is Barack Hussein Obama, and that his father was a Muslim, and that his paternal grandmother is a Muslim.
Bob Carey said to the Washington Post.
This after the Clinton campaign says we're going to get rid of all this kind of references as being a Muslim and drug dealer and all this.
Here comes Bob Carey using the middle name.
I keep getting accused of calling him Osama Obama.
Ted Kennedy called him that.
We just made a joke out of it in a parody, but Ted Kennedy called him that in answer to a question at the at the National Press Club.
There's a billion people on the planet that are Muslims, and I think that experience is a big deal, Bob Kerry said.
The New York Post headline on this carries praise of Barack a big Obama.
*Gunshot*
All right, let's go to the audio soundbitch.
We have a couple of them here.
Mitt Romney on the Charlie Rose Meet the Press with Tim Russert yesterday.
And here's uh Russert's question.
There was uh headlines in the papers in June of 78 Mormon Church dissolves black bias, citing new revelation from God.
The president of the Mormon church decreed for the first time black males could fully participate in church rights.
You were 31 years old, your church was excluding blacks from full participation.
Didn't you think what am I doing, part of an organization viewed by many as racist?
I'm very proud of my faith, and it's the faith of my father's, and I certainly believe that it is a faith.
Um, it's true, and I I I love my faith.
And I'm not gonna distance myself in any way from my faith.
But you can see what I believed and what my family believed by looking at our lives.
My dad marched with Martin Luther King.
My mom was a tireless crusader for civil rights.
I was anxious to see a change in my church.
I can remember when when I heard about the change being made.
I was driving home from I think it was law school, but I was driving home, going through the Fresh Pond Rotary in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
I heard it on the radio, and I pulled over and literally wept.
Even to this day, it's emotional.
Right.
And he just started teared up there on Meet the Press.
And I wonder, I forgot to ask the guy from uh from Leimore, California, if if he thought this was a staged, you know, politicians tearing up.
It's a risky move if you try it.
If it's genuine, there's nothing you can do about it.
Uh well, the global warming guy tried it, but he got so he didn't just tear up.
He couldn't speak.
Had to leave the stage, a global warming guy.
That evo de boer.
Or ebo de boer.
Uh Yeah, but that's that's that's another story.
Uh then the next question from Russard.
Mike Huckabee said that the George Bush presidency's foreign policy is arrogant and a bunker mentality.
That's an insult to the president.
And Mike Huckabee should apologize to the president.
This is what Mitt Romney said about Iraq, however, in September of this year.
Okay, well, first of all, it is a mess.
Well, it is a mess.
There's no question.
That's not a reflection on George Bush.
If you're suggesting that it's equivalent to say that we made a number of errors and that we have a very difficult situation in Iraq, that's the same as saying the president is arrogant and bunker mentality.
That's where he went over the line.
It's very different to point out the mistakes that have been made, and the president's pointed out the mistakes as well.
And then to say that the Bush administration, our president is arrogant with a bunker mentality.
That's a completely different statement for which Mike Huckabee owes the president an apology.
Now, in these two bites, and those are the those are the two that we have.
We don't have uh cat Cookie, don't bother to go get them.
It's not well, maybe for tomorrow.
The atheist in the Supreme Court question, since that's what the guy from Leimore, California was asking about.
But in these two bites, folks, I just ask you, does this sound like a calculating actor?
As the guy from Lee Moore said to Romney sounded to him.
See, when you it goes back to the point I was making at the top of the program.
When you hear somebody, you don't see them.
I guarantee you.
How many times you've been driving along, you're listening to political debate, whatever it is.
You're listening to speech on the radio, you're you're listening to um I don't care, baseball game.
Sports of it, you're listening to it on the radio, you have to provide the picture.
This is what's great about radio, by the way.
The talented broadcast specialist doing radio.
Paints a picture with words.
I'm serious.
Television zones you out.
Television gives you the picture.
You don't have you you can just use one half, maybe one-third of all your sensory perception on radio, you gotta use it all.
You have to formulate the picture.
You have to listen to the words which help formulate the picture.
It's what we call in this business active participation, active listening rather than passive.
The other there is passive listening in radio, and that's when you need to lose the elevator music stations.
You can have it on in the background, you don't really care what's going on, but a program like this, which is compelling, is called active.
Television can be passive.
You can have television on, be doing gobs of other things.
You have television on, have your attention distracted, and you really don't mind.
Radio, a little bit different thing, because you're totally engaged.
So when you listen to Romney here and you don't see him, you don't have any idea what he looks like.
Does he come across as calculating and an actor and can contrived?
Doesn't to me.
But I if if you see it, you might come up with an entirely different perception.
Which is all I was saying at the top of this first hour about how important visual perceptions are with our with our Hollywood born and bred addiction to perfection.
Now Huckabee uh responded to Romney on late edition with Wolf Blitzer yesterday.
Uh blitzer said, okay, Romney wants you to apologize to the president.
What do you say?
I'm the one who actually supported the president's surge.
I supported the Bush tax cuts when Mr. Romney didn't.
I was with uh President Bush on gun control when Mitt Romney wasn't.
I was with the president on the president's pro-life position when Mitt Romney wasn't.
I was with the president on his position on same-sex relationships and marriage when Mitt Romney wasn't.
I was with the president on the legacy of the president's dad and Ronald Reagan when Mitt Romney wasn't.
So, you know, I don't have anything to apologize for.
Okay.
Not a bad answer, folks.
Not a bad answer.
He didn't answer the question, but it's not a bad answer.
He didn't talk about uh Bush and the bunker mentality and and so forth.
He was very critical to Bush foreign policies.
No, I was I was with the President of the Surge.
I don't know if he is accurate about all these claims about where Romney was uh and wasn't any of that, but still a um a good answer.
And you don't apologize.
I don't care what something like this, you don't apologize.
That's when you look like uh you're weak.
It's one of the cardinal rules, young media stars of the future.
You don't apologize until you have established a deep and loyal connection with your audience when it's genuinely required.
You know, but you don't do it to gain points.
You don't do it to score points.
You don't do it to uh for any reason other than uh being genuine.
Uh this is uh Nodra in Palm Desert, California, or Nadra, I don't know.
How do you pronounce your name?
Nadra.
Nadra.
I got it right the second time.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you, and Merry Christmas.
Same to you.
Um, Huckabee.
There's a Bert Lancaster movie that was made quite a few years ago.
It was called the Flim Flam Man.
Yes.
That's Huckabee.
Ah.
Well, probably that too, but anyway, it's a movie uh he's a water diviner and he keeps double talking everything and everybody looking for his water.
And uh that wasn't.
Well, what do you got against Huckabee?
What?
What do you have?
What have I got against Ogabee?
He says one thing one time and to one audience and another thing to another audience.
Like Arkansas, he raises taxes, everything that he could tax he raised.
And now he's telling people he doesn't believe in raising taxes.
Even though he's done it as governor.
Even though he's done it as as uh governor.
So that's the one.
Well, who is your who is your candidate out there, Nodrew?
Me.
No, um I don't even know.
I think we could be doing better jobs than these guys don't probably right now.
Um, but uh the other thing, uh Huckabee is a minister in a church.
Would we elect a Catholic priest?
Well, you former.
You're never a former.
I mean, once you're a minister, you're always you always have that word behind you and that feeling behind you.
Uh and would you elect a rabbi?
Uh as uh as a president.
Would you elect a first lady?
Um if it was the right one.
Okay.
Uh trip.
I thought I'd trip you up.
You're too fast for me.
Well uh by the way, what's what's the weather like out in Palm Desert today?
Uh 60.
60s.
Is that normal for this time of year?
Yes.
Uh uh probably December and the first part of January are our coldest month.
Yeah.
Now we start warming up to 70 and 80.
Well, cool.
Well, I hope you have a Merry Christmas, as you said in the beginning, Nodra.
Thanks so much.
I have to run because of the constraints of time and the very complicated programming format.
You have a good day.
You do the same.
We'll be right back, folks.
Okay, there's some other items here in a stack that I want to get to before we get back to the calls, because there's a lot of good stuff in here.
Um, a bachelor, this is in the UK Daily Mail, a bachelor who was believed to be the world's oldest man has died at the age of 116 in Ukraine.
His name was Nestor.
His last name was Nestor.
And he said that he lived so long, 116 years because he never got married.
Uh, in other news, uh by the way, he said they never found a mate uh because he was a short man and never had money.
According to a friend.
Short, never had money, and so never had a wife, lived to 116.
There is a um a journalist by the name of David Hazinski.
Uh this guy's a journalism professor, a former journalist, journalism professor, at some out-of-the-way here it is, associate professor at telecommunications and head of broadcast news at the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism.
He says that unfettered citizen journalism is too risky.
YouTube blogs, unregulated, it's too risky.
They gotta get rid of this stuff.
He thinks that regulation is the only way to have proper news.
He thinks in this piece, it's the Atlanta Urinal Constipation.
Uh on the 13th of December, he says that citizen journalism, like blogs or YouTube, isn't really journalism.
It opens the industry to fraud and abuse, as though there is no fraud and abuse.
NBC didn't blow up the trucks for Dateline NBC.
ABC didn't dress people up like Muslims, send them into a pack of Christians and hope for the best.
No, no, no.
There's no fraud and abuse in a drive-by's.
CBS didn't have Dan Rather on.
Those fraudulent, of course not.
Mr. What's your name?
Hazinski.
There's no fraud and abuse in the drive-bys.
Why do you think these new media rising?
Because your precious journalism industry is crashing.
Nobody trusts it.
Well, more and more people don't trust it.
So rather typical lib, rather than letting the public decide what they want to read or watch, the better idea is to regulate.
Monitor and regulate this new industry, the internet and blogs.
Does regulate sound like a mandate to you?
Regulate health care, mandate health care.
This professor wants what he considers to be the legitimate journalism outlets to find a way to regulate citizen journalism.
This would include political blogs.
Which is basically what my website is, Rush Limbaugh.com, except I'm not a journalist, but he wants to regulate it.
By the way, CNN is now using all the drive-bys that are trying to incorporate YouTube and all these blogs.
They're having bloggers on as analysts.
The genie is out of the bottle.
Mr. Kacinski or Hazinski.
But here's a story that he would love.
Iranian police have closed down 24 internet cafes and other coffee shops in as many hours as part of a broad crackdown on immoral behavior in the Islamic state.
You got a regular this thing, he says.
Mr. Hacinski does.
And so the actions of Mahmood Madinizad in Iran in shutting down these internet cafes, why that would just have to be met with great applause and approval.
Speaking of Iran, Zad said yesterday the publication of that U NIE report amounted to a declaration of surrender by Washington in its battle with Tehran.
Bush realized he can't win.
Certainly not before he leaves office.
Bush leaves.
No problem.
That's what you get.
It's exactly what these policy advocates disguised as intelligence people in the State Department and the CIA wanted.
Um Karen in Morgan Hill, California.
About two minutes, maybe a minute and a half.
Okay, how are you, Ash?
Fine.
You're my hero, I have to tell you.
Um, you know what?
Living in California in this liberal in this liberal state like the last caller was talking about, it is hard to vote because you know you're competing with so many people.
You've got homosexuality, you've got um pro-choice, you've got a lot of liberal ideas, and it it is hard for um a conservative person to feel that that their vote counts.
I have to tell you first off, I don't I haven't had TV in eight months.
So I have to believe, I'm I'm supporting your your thought that you're I'm listening to all the people talking.
I I don't even know what half of them look like, to be quite honest.
I mean, obviously Hillary and what she looks like.
Um, but I am voting more on their voice, and it is a different perspective.
I had to go online just to look at all the candidates to see what they look like, because I have no idea at this point, and that's because I'm stuck in the California housing crunch right now where I've got two houses on the market.
So I agree with you on that stand.
Um my other point was um dealing with having kids in the schools in California in this liberal area.
I think my kids are thinking that I'm insensitive to these liberals, because that's what they're being taught in school when I feel like I'm in a 50% tax bracket.
I'm paying for a lot of things that I don't have any control over, and I'm having my kids come home telling me stories of what they're hearing in schools that I don't agree with.
Well, how do you quit?
I got how old are your kids?
Um, I have one in high school, a junior high school.
Well, that's you look at you you're you're all either the mother at that age, you're never right.
Everybody else is right.
Um Mr. Sturdley, get our numbers.
This is important.
We have to talk about this tomorrow.
I have an answer for you.
Back after this.
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Fini.
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We'll be looking forward to it.
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