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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 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.
Welcome back to the EIB Network.
Rush Limbaugh here, high atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan this week.
I said the other day that I love winter when I watch it on television.
Smack dab in the middle of it here, but it's cool.
45 minutes to travel to work today.
Not that far.
I don't live that far from the EIB building, but they've got all these travel restrictions.
You can't turn right on this street, off of that street, and so forth through Christmas.
So we had to do the circuitous route to get here, but we got here.
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No, 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 excrement list.
And we'd have to have the guts to keep doing that.
Now, this theory of mine based on 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 because I know it's going to Media Matter is going to get hold of this and they're going to take it all out of context.
We can expect that.
That's a badge of honor when this happens.
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 and their uncle in gyms.
We see people starving themselves.
We 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 into size zero and size one clothes.
Makeovers, facials, plastic surgery, everybody in the world is Botox.
And this affects men too.
As you know, the haughty John Kerry Botoxed his wrinkles out 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 roles that will not lead to any direct impact, yay or nay, on box office.
And while Hollywood box office receipts may be stagnant, none of that changes the fact that this is a country obsessed with appearance.
It's a country obsessed with looks.
And 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.
It's just the way our culture has evolved.
It's the way the country is.
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, 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 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, snurdly, you know, you're just sitting there thinking that I'm on the precipice of a cliff here without a bungee cord.
I'm not – I am trying to be – look at – if I'm on the edge with a bungee cord and I'll take a leap, bungee cord will save me because this is – I'm just 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 because it'll impact poll numbers.
It'll impact perceptions.
Politics, perceptions of reality.
So there will have to be steps taken to avoid the appearance of aging.
You know, politics is not for sissies.
Now, I'm looking at people on the other side of the 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.
You're not laughing at that?
What are you laughing at?
You're laughing at how, oh, 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 going to catch it here.
And that's really why he's smiling because he knows I'm going to 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 being president ages men faster than normal.
This is just, I think this is one of the intangibles.
And another thing, but we have, 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.
I've often reminded you that politics is show biz for the ugly.
And it is.
And when 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.
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 notice a huge, 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 is really going to run is if he starts losing weight?
It's just what it is, folks.
It's just what it is.
Perfection, the appearance of perfection and good health.
All of that ties into the perception of mental acuity, 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 because he looks better than candidate Y. They're not going to tell you, I don't like his position on the Taliban.
Yeah, and 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 something to put in a hopper and to think about.
If it's, let me give you a picture just to think about.
I'm not even going to answer the question for you.
Just want you to think about this.
Campaign is Mitt Romney versus Hillary Clinton in our quest in this country for visual perfection.
Boy, the time of these breaks is really zipping by here.
And we are back.
Rush Limbaugh.
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A straying husband is bad, but a home wrecker 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 trysting with the then-married mayor when she was Judith Nathan than Bill Clinton for cheating on his wife in the Oval Office.
The Daily News national poll of female voters found that women, by a 40 to 35 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, 42% saying his affair doesn't make him less suitable to be first laddie, and 34% saying that it does.
See?
C Here's Andy in Lemore, California.
Andy, I'm glad you called, and welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hey.
You have a question, and then maybe a comment.
It seems to me that you're absent any kind of evaluation as to the performance of Mitt Romney yesterday on Meet the Press.
I'm just curious as to why that seems to be the case.
In fact, I've got some Romney soundbites coming up in the second half hour of the program.
Okay.
Well, you know, I guess my thoughts on that is, and I know that I'm just going to be kind of bold, unlike what he seems to be, I don't see much of any depth to him.
He seems to be very 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 Party very long.
But last week, Mitt made a pretty neat little speech there with George H.W. Bush.
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 fortitude in his gut 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 if he would use the liberal terminology to try to catch people, a litmus, 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.
An atheist even being thought to have a position on the Supreme Court?
Ludicrous.
Wait, Did he say an atheist conservative Supreme Court?
He said that would there be a litmus test?
In other words, if somebody came in.
No, that's not, you know better.
The litmus test question is, are you going to make sure somebody wants to overturn Roo versus 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 think that the litmus test was always used.
You're correct.
But this was in the context of who would be suited to fit or to be 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 had a position, and that position was based on morality and godliness.
And 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 think that's far-fetched at all.
Okay, now, you know, I agree with you about one thing.
I wish you would have carried over the themes that he addressed in that speech because it would have been, and he had the opportunity because Russert spent, what, 20 minutes of a whole hour yesterday talking about Mormonism and religion.
So he had the opening to do it.
He had to know Russert was going to do that.
You can't blame Russert.
I mean, you agree to go on the show.
The show is what it is, so you've got to be able to handle whatever occurrences are.
Oh, absolutely.
You 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.
I guess what it is, there's a leadership quality that I didn't see him fill.
I've been withholding judgment and just trying to learn about it.
I want to ask you a question, and I'm not being frivolous with this or any other us with this, but I want to know something from you.
How did you think he looked?
Physically, forget what he said.
Forget the words.
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 were to have a picture of somebody that would be put into a presidential 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 really believe that.
But that's not to say that there are also quite a few people in the American group that do care about nothing more than appearances.
But no, he looked great.
But what does that mean?
I mean, I'm interested in what the guy thinks.
I understand what you're saying.
I'm telling you, it means more than you know.
This is not an ⁇ don't misunderstand anything, folks.
I don't endorse people in primaries as well unless they're just two people and one of them is clearly above, and that's not the case here yet.
It's tough.
I've met Mitt Romney one time, and it was about 45 minutes.
And he was as genuine and nice.
Let me just put this.
There's not 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 striking the difference.
Oh, I have no reason to doubt you, that's for sure.
I never met him.
I guess to me, it just.
You sound just like Romney, by the way.
You sound very much like Romney.
I mean, now, your inflection, your tonation sounds a lot like Romney.
And you sound very genuine to me.
Well, you know, 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 so long.
Are you tending to want to vote Republican in the presidential race?
I got to tell you, I have to confess.
I don't vote normally because I live in California.
I already know what the outcome is going to be.
It is incredibly liberal.
And I know this is no excuse, but I always tell people if the candidate that I would vote for loses by one vote, I will apologize.
But I don't think that's going to be the case.
California is, I'm not going to make a difference.
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 Democratic side, those people are just pathetic in my mind.
You want to talk about a lack of genuineness.
Par excellence, they have zero, in my opinion.
Well, I was going to bring that up, but I decided not to because I didn't want you to think I was saying, hey, Mitt can be that if Hillary is.
I didn't want you saying that.
But you're right, man.
There's no authenticity on that side of the aisle either.
No kidding.
I don't know.
It just struck me.
I mean, something is so basic as to who we would choose to be on the Supreme Court.
And yet he just seemed to vacillate in that.
And then he used the word fees rather than taxes, which is what they are.
And they had a little battle back and forth.
It just kept on and on.
It was painful, to be perfectly honest with you.
Well, we'll play some of these soundbites in the next half hour, and you'll have audience have a chance to hear what you heard.
By the way, Andy, I want you to grab your wallet.
Arnold Schwarzenegger next month is going to declare a fiscal emergency, meaning the budget deficit is going to be like $4 or $5 billion larger than they projected.
And they don't know what to do about it.
They're going to 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 going to botch this again.
Hi, welcome back.
We got a couple of Mitt Romney soundbites coming up here in just a second.
Remember, some time ago, I mentioned to you that this election on the 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 Alove Berkeley types, 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 the torch to a new generation.
Obama's got this figured out.
He's a lot smarter than the Clintons give him credit for.
Speaking of which, did you hear what former Senator Bob Kerry 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 Kerry said to the Washington Post.
After the Clinton campaign says we're going to get rid of all his kind of references as being a Muslim and drug dealer and all this, here comes Bob Kerry 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 and a parody, but Ted Kennedy called him that in answer to a question 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.
A New York Post headline on this, Kerry's praise of Barack, a big Obama.
All right, let's go to the audio soundbush.
We have a couple of them here.
Mitt Romney on the Charlie Rose, I'm sorry, Meet the Press with Tim Russert yesterday.
And here's Russert's question.
There was 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 fathers.
And I certainly believe that it is a faith.
Well, it's true, and I love my faith.
And I'm not going to 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 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.
All right, and he just started teared up there on Meet the Press.
And I wonder, I forgot to ask the guy from Lemo, California, 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.
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.
Evo de Boer or Egbo de Boer.
Yeah, but that's another story.
Then the next question from Russert.
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 Booker.
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 two that we have.
We don't have – Cookie, don't bother to go get him.
It's not – well, maybe for tomorrow.
The atheists in the Supreme Court questions, since that's what the guy from Lemoore, 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 Lemore said that Romney sounded to him.
See, when you 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 listen to a political debate, whatever it is, you're listening to speech on the radio, you're listening to, I don't care, a baseball game, sports event, 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 can just use one half, maybe one-third of all your sensory perception.
On radio, you got to 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.
There is passive listening and radio, and that's what you need to listen to.
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 contrived?
Doesn't to me.
But 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 Hollywood-born and bred addiction to perfection.
Now, Huckabee responded to Romney on late edition with Wolf Blitzer yesterday.
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 President Bush on gun control when Mitt Romney wasn't.
I was with the president on the president's pearl 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 Bush and the bunker mentality and so forth.
He was very critical to Bush foreign policies.
No, I was with the president on surge.
I don't know if he's accurate at all these claims about where Romney was and wasn't any of that, but still 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 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.
But you don't do it to gain points.
You don't do it to score points.
You don't do it for any reason other than being genuine.
This is Nodra in Palm Desert, California.
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.
Huckabee, there's a Burt Lancaster movie that was made quite a few years ago.
It was called The Flim Flam Man.
Yes.
That's Huckabee.
I was going to talk about Elmer Gantry for a second.
Well, probably that too.
But anyway, it's a movie.
He's a water diviner, and he keeps double-talking everything and everybody, looking for his water.
And that reminds me...
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what do you got against Huckabee?
What?
What do you have again?
What have I got against Huckabee?
He says one thing one time 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 governor.
So that's it.
Who is your candidate out there, Nadra?
Me.
No.
I don't have a question.
I think we could be doing better jobs than these guys.
Probably right now.
But the other thing, Huckabee is a minister in a church.
Would we elect a Catholic priest?
Well, former.
You're never a former.
I mean, once you're a minister, you always have that word behind you and that feeling behind you.
And would you elect a rabbi as a president?
Would you elect a first lady?
If it was the right one.
Okay.
I thought I'd trip you up.
You're too fast for me.
Well, by the way, what's the weather like out in Palm Desert today?
60.
60s.
Is that normal for this time of year?
Yes.
Probably December and the first part of January are our coldest month.
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, Nadra.
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 the stack that I want to get to before we get back to the calls because there's a lot of good stuff in here.
A bachelor, this is from 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.
In other news, by the way, he said they never found a mate 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 journalist by the name of David Hazynski.
This guy is a journalism professor.
He's 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, the University of Georgia journalism professor.
He says that unfettered citizen journalism is too risky.
YouTube, blogs, unregulated, it's too risky.
They've got to 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, 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 the drive-bys.
CBS didn't have Dan Rather on.
Those fraudulent, of course not.
Mr. What's Your Name?
Hazinsky.
There's no fraud and abuse in the drive-bys.
Why do you think these new media are 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 healthcare.
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, rushlimbaugh.com, except I'm not a journalist, but he wants to regulate it.
By the way, CNN is now using all the drive-bys to try to incorporate YouTube and all these blogs.
They're having bloggers on as analysts.
The genie is out of the bottle, Mr. Kaczynski, 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've got to regulate this thing, he says.
Mr. Hacinsky does.
And so the actions of Mahmoud Ach Madine Zad in Iran in shutting down these internet cafes, why that would just have to be met with great applause and approval.
Speaking of Iran, Ach Madinizad said yesterday the publication of that 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.
Iran has no nukes.
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.
Karen in Morgan Hill, California.
I want to try to get to you because they've been waiting a while.
Thanks very much for calling.
Got about two minutes, maybe a minute and a half.
Okay, how are you, Rush?
Fine.
You're my hero, I have to tell you.
You know what?
Living in California 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 pro-choice.
You've got a lot of liberal ideas.
And it is hard for a conservative person to feel that their vote counts.
I have to tell you, first off, I haven't had TV in eight months.
So I have to believe I'm supporting your thought that I'm listening to all the people talking.
I don't even know what half of them look like, to be quite honest.
I mean, obviously, Hilary and what she looks like.
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.
My other point was 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 old are you quits?
How old are your kids?
I have one in high school, a junior in high school.
Well, that's yeah, look, you're always the mother.
At that age, you're never right.
Everybody else is right.
Mr. Sterdley, get our numbers.
This is important.
We have to talk about this tomorrow.
I have an answer for you.
Back after this.
Well, the fastest three hours in media once again proves itself to be the fastest three hours in media.
The fastest commercial breaks in media, too.
Show's over.
Fini, we are adios amigos.
And be back tomorrow, though.
We'll be looking forward to it.
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