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You got to be kidding me.
By the way, where's a program archivist?
The program archivist is back from vacation.
I saw him in here earlier.
Where is he in there?
There, the program archivist now arrives.
All right.
Yes.
Welcome back.
Welcome back from a nice vacation at home with the kids.
Once again, 800-282-2882 is the number.
You got to be kidding me.
Vladimir Putin, the man of the Time Magazine's Man of the Year.
Do you understand how irritated Gore has to be over this?
Well, I thought I should be in the running.
They called me.
The Time magazine called me.
Well, they sent me an email, as you know, because you forwarded it to me some weeks ago wanting my suggestion.
And I said, hell with this.
If they're asking me for my suggestion, it means that they're not considering me.
So I blew them off.
I didn't even reply to it.
Vladimir Putin, come on.
I guess old habits never die.
The drive-by media remains fascinated with communism.
And they remain fascinated with the KGB.
And they remain fascinated with the old concept of the Soviet Union.
This is not going to amuse Cheryl Crow, a bride getting married in toilet paper, two-ply, extra-soft toilet paper.
Lovebirds Jennifer Cannon and Doy Nichols of Lexington, Kentucky, plan to get hitched Wednesday in a public restroom.
She will be wearing a gown fashioned from glue, tape, and Charmin, ultra-soft and ultra-strong toilet tissue.
Bad news for the guy because we all know you're never supposed to squeeze the Charmin.
But the great thing about this wedding is, since it's all happening in toilet paper, the wedding and the marriage will be easy to flush once it comes time.
Santa Claus says that a woman who sat on his lap was naughty.
Did you hear about this?
Some guy, some said the security officer at the mall said that Santa Claus had been sexually assaulted.
Sandrama Lamey, 33 of Danbury, Connecticut, was charged with sexual assault.
Santa's had an icicle in your pocket and breach of peace.
She was released on a promise to appear in court on January 3rd.
Ho, ho, ho.
Oh, ho, ho.
Folks, it just will not await.
Wait a minute, Putin.
Get this.
We were talking about marriages a moment ago and how easy a marriage that's, well, I don't consummate it, takes place in toilet paper, easy to flush.
Get this from Washington Township, Michigan.
It's about 25 miles north of Detroit.
A woman who was angry because her husband wanted her to turn up the heat in the house.
Oh, by the way, speaking of heat, you know that we're into the second week now of people in Oklahoma, thousands of homes still without power because of that ice storm way back.
And I put out a call yesterday.
Snerdley claims that nobody took me up.
I wanted to hear from some environmentalist wackos in Oklahoma who are without power telling us how wonderful life is now and how it would be when you get rid of all the coal-fired power plants.
Yeah, I mean, this is what they're after.
So I want to hear how wonderfully rosy and charming life is in Oklahoma in these areas from an environmentalist, but we haven't heard from any of those.
Lines remain open for that.
800-282-2882.
Anyway, woman was angry because her husband.
I sound like I have a cold today.
I don't.
Yeah, it's now.
I just, I was up late last night.
I mean, it was, yo.
Yeah, went fashionable Fifth Avenue cocktail party last night from 6 to 8.
8.
8 was barely getting started.
Anyway, not a whole lot of, you know, I've been burning a candle at both ends up here.
I can't handle it up here any longer, three or four days at a time.
It's the city that never sleeps.
You can't do anything in a city anymore, but still, it's the thanks to the nanny mayor.
Oh, where was I?
Oh, yes.
Upper Washington Township, Michigan.
Woman who was angry because her husband wanted her to turn up the heat, pulled out a gun and shot their flat-screen TV while the husband cowered behind a pillow.
My wife's got a 65-year-old guy called 911.
His name is Joseph Gruz.
My wife's got a gun.
She's shooting at me.
Told the operator that Cheryl Gruz, 61, was mad because he wanted the heat turned up.
She fired around while he hid his head in the pillow, striking the plasma TV, and then went upstairs.
See, guy's on the phone at 9-11.
He says, Yeah, she's all excited about it because she's so cheap.
His wife had picked up another extension, was listening while he called 911.
Wife tells the operator, I want you to hear my side.
I'm not going to hurt him.
He's pushed me over the edge.
That was all.
He's had a stroke and he's taking it all out on me.
The husband says, No, I'm not.
Yes, he is.
The wife tells the dispatcher.
Cheryl Gruz was arraigned Monday in Romeo District Court on a charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm, perhaps 10 years in prison.
She also faces a felony firearms charge, freed on $50,000 bond until preliminary examination on January 15th.
She was also told by the judge to get into a domestic violence program.
In Rome, you can no longer name a baby Friday.
Italian judges forbade a couple from naming their child Friday after the character in Robinson Crusoe.
They thought that it recalled the figure of a savage, thus creating a sense of inferiority and failing to guarantee the boy the necessary decorum, said the couple's lawyer.
A couple considering appealing the decision.
The judge, the court went ahead and named the kid Gregorio after the saint on the day he was born.
Can't name it, kid Friday, according to the judge.
Energy bill, what a disaster.
It's just an absolute disaster.
I cannot.
Energy bill boosts fuel economy standards.
100-watt light bulbs to vanish, and you're going to get stickers on your car saying how much your carbon footprint, what your emissions are.
In addition to the sticker with the price, you're going to sticker telling you how much your car is going to pollute.
All the warning stickers and all the sun visors that make you think you're an idiot.
Jane Harmon, Democrat California, said, in this bill, we ban by 2012 the famously inefficient 100-watt incandescent bulb.
The question remains now: this energy bill creates no new energy.
In fact, it stands in the way of the creation of energy.
The question ought to be, how many miles will your next car get per new light bulb?
I mean, I haven't seen the bill myself.
I've just seen, I doubt members of Congress have either.
They just signed the damn thing.
But is the bill title energy bill end with a period or a question mark is my point.
Because it could just as easily be called what energy bill.
Petroleum, nothing in it.
Nuclear, nothing in it.
And war, nothing in it.
A big brag here in the bill, a big talking point is that the cafe standards, the fuel, the mileage standards, the cars increased from 25 miles per gallon to 35 miles per gallon in 13 years.
Remember my trip to Detroit talking to some executives up there.
I asked them, are you going to build that big 16-cylinder Cadillac that you were thinking about?
No, we can't.
I said, why not?
Fuel standards, the government.
For crying out loud, oh, yeah, the public's all worried about global warming and they're the customers, so we got to give them what they want.
35 miles per gallon.
In 2012, that is going to make me mad.
I am not going to drive a car that gets 35 miles per gallon.
I'm just not going to do it.
I'm going to find a way to buy a car that gets eight or 10, like I get now.
Because I'm not going to drive around in some little podunk lawnmower with a couple seats on it and think I'm cruising around.
They don't say how many years will it take to replace all the existing less efficient cars.
We have 250 million odd cars on the road.
I don't know how many we sell every year, 10, 15 million.
I'm not guessing.
But at that rate, you can forget the 2020 to 13-year illusion.
It could take 20 or 30 years to get all those cars off the road, especially if people end up liking them versus the junk that's going to come out 35 miles per gallon.
It's just, it is maddening.
It is bowing to a bunch of stuff.
I'm looking.
I'm all for fuel efficiency and that kind of thing.
But nothing in this energy bill was oriented toward growth and finding and producing more energy.
It's all about conservation, which is not even half the story.
It's important, of course, but you can't grow an economy simply on conservation.
The comment, the brilliant monologue that I gave on Monday on this program regarding Mrs. Clinton and the society in which we live's perfection addiction will not go away.
The story will not go away.
WCBS TV went out on the street.
They ran a news story like I used to be covered in 1988 or 89.
They actually used video of me from 1980, 88, 89.
It's exactly the way I got covered when I first started this show.
It is just funny as hell.
And we're going to listen to it when we come back from this break.
The story just will not die.
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I'm sure you've heard about the little fire that took place in the executive office building, the OEO over across the street from the west wing of the White House.
The ceremonial office of the vice president, which I, of course, a powerful, influential member of the media, have seen on several occasions, had some water damage and some smoke damage.
The drive-bys, some in the drive-bys actually think that Cheney might have started the fire to destroy more CIA tapes or other sensitive documents.
From MSNBC this morning, the anchorette infobabe contessa brewer talking to reporter at Kelly O'Donnell.
And Brewer said, Look, how much paperwork?
How many files, important documents might have been in that building?
We're talking about top-secret, highly classified documents that are in those offices.
What's important about this is that under the Presidential Records Act, all paperwork that emanates from the office of the president or vice president, and it's known as the executive office of the president, all of that must be preserved for legal reasons.
Now, when any company has a fire, much less the White House, there's always a problem about preserving documents.
What's lost?
Can records be recreated?
It will be an issue for them to explore.
No, it will be an issue for you to explore because note the suspicion.
It had to be just see Cheney in there with a book of matches.
You know, fireplace.
He's reading documents.
Yeah, let's just make it look like there was a fire.
No, it's yeah, I said I could just understand these guys, it's the way they think.
Look, before three stories just came in, the show prep here never stops.
Headline: hot bugs get more sex.
Being hot can lead to more sex, especially if you're a male ambush bug.
This is from livescience.com.
Global warming, obviously great news for bugs.
Get this next study: female monkeys may shout during sex to help their male partners climax, according to new research.
Just like humans, isn't that why humans do it?
Does that way women do it?
Yeah, just shout, and it's, you know, come on.
Come, yeah, well, I don't know.
Who are who?
What do you say, Snerdley?
Are they faking it?
A typical, a typical question from a typical sexist and misogynist, Mr. Sterdley.
Are the female monkeys faking it?
You know, I'm not even going to read the rest of the story to find out if they researched that.
I can't believe they're researching this in the first place.
And I don't understand this.
From Reuters, scientists trace the roots of feeling cold.
Nerves that sense the icy slap of an Arctic wind or just a cool breeze take their orders from a single protein.
Researchers said on Monday, shedding new light on how we experience cold.
Nobody's going to be cold in a few years.
Global warming.
Why waste money on this study?
Well, it's a stupid study anyway.
How we feel cold?
What are we going to change it?
So nobody feels cold so you can die without knowing you're dying.
I guess, so these Arctic explorers who had a turnback from their global warming tour because the temperatures were 100 below zero and they got frostbite after like 30 seconds out there.
If you turn off the cold sensor in the brain, they could keep going while looking for global warming at 100 degrees below zero.
All right, to the audio soundbites.
The story that just will not die.
I knew it wouldn't.
I can play the drive-bys like a violin.
I know what they're going to hook on, and they did in this case.
CBS News in New York, WCBS Channel 2.
This is old school drive-by media treatment.
Take my comments out of context, play them for people on the street, go interview the obligatory feminazi, and in case this case, a local president of the NAGS, the National Association of Gals, roll video from 1988 of me, and the end of the story then pops up.
This is how the media operated, folks, before their monopoly was broken.
Here is a portion of the report by Scott Rappaport.
Is that the guy that called you, Scott Rappaport?
Well, okay.
We told him where to go and what to find to get the truth, right?
You told him, took him right to the website, gave him secret passwords.
Is very curious, but what, well, well, he was, but his editor wasn't.
Because remember, the editor said, look at what Limbaugh said.
Go do something with this.
And the reporter called him.
He's like, well, I want to find out what this is all about.
So we directed him where to go to find out what it's all about.
I'll bet you he wanted to do a different story than what they made him do.
I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt based on his original phone call to you.
Rush to judgment?
Will this country want to actually watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?
That's Rush Limbaugh yesterday exploring the electability of one Hillary Clinton for president based on her looks and age.
That's just so wrong in every possible way.
He's an idiot, so what do you expect?
Oh, that's preposterous.
Seems it was this photo of the 60-year-old Hillary that led to Limbaugh's questionable Clinton query.
This, despite the fact that some of Mrs. Clinton's opponents weren't exactly spring chickens themselves.
Men aging makes them look more authoritative, accomplished, distinguished.
Is this a joke?
Come on.
Is these type of comments that really make women mad?
Sonia Osorio is president of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women.
It can serve only to really, really annoy people.
But anyone, even if they know it's Rush Nimbaugh, to just say such ridiculous things.
Limbaugh says his Clinton comments are less about Hillary and more about an American culture where looks matter, like it or not.
Ugh, well, I hope he's not right.
And for Rush, well, let's just say there's no such thing as bad publicity.
Scott Rappaport, CBS 2 News.
This is a.
I haven't heard a Ron Radio TV reporter in a long time.
Did you catch that guy's voice?
See if I can.
Rush to judgment.
Seems it was this photo of the 60-year-old Hillary that led to Limbaugh's questionable Clinton query.
Then yesterday on the Fox News channel, Martha McCallum, the live desk, had this exchange with David Korn, the Uber lib, who I guess he fled the nation magazine.
He's now Mother Jones.
It was a very unflattering photo, a recent picture of Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail.
So Rush Limbaugh on his radio show asked this question.
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 will impact poll numbers.
It will impact perceptions.
And he acknowledged he's probably going to get a lot of heat for that statement when he said it.
But let's go to David Korn.
David, fair picture or unfair assessment of how people perceive a woman president aging over the course of the job.
Listen, Rush Limbaugh is not the arbiter of what's good taste or what American opinions or morals should be.
I don't know if he answered the question.
What the question was, was it fair, didn't want to address it.
Maureen Dowd addressed it in the New York Times today.
And the gals on the View yesterday, they knew what I was talking about, and they discussed it seriously and civilly.
And Maureen Dowd doesn't dispute what I said and actually backs it up and confirms it.
I'm shocked.
People don't want the truth.
See, that's everything that I have said.
It was sympathetic.
Everybody knows that heard what I said in that monologue about our culture's addiction to perfection and how it started and where it's sustained, movies and television and so forth.
Everybody knows that it's the truth.
It's some people don't want to hear the truth.
And our goal, we get political correctness.
You hear these people in the CBS clip, well, that's him.
Limbaugh said, he's an idiot.
I wish this were Scott Rappaport.
You know, I gave you the benefit of the doubt a moment ago.
I got an idea for you.
It's going to be a fun thing to do and give you a new story.
I want you to grab your camera crew and I want you to go back out on the streets of the city and I want you to run up to people and get a play a tape of them.
I'm going to say it here right now.
Ladies and gentlemen, he's going to tell you this one time.
The sky is blue.
When there are no clouds and it's daytime, the sky is blue.
Okay, go out and play that for people and get their reaction.
I've just uttered another truth.
See if people go, well, Captain Limbaugh.
So what?
He's an idiot.
I would love, Mr. Rappaport, for you to get the reaction of New Yorkers on the street to a simple truth and find out how controversial the sky being blue can be made because I'm the one saying it.
Maybe, maybe, but he's a jerk still.
He's still a jerk.
What does he mean by this?
What is he even talking about it for?
What's that to do with anything?
Mr. Rappaport, you got a gold mine here.
If you just, if you go do this.
Now, Maureen Dowd, as I mentioned, the girls in a view yesterday, they treated it intelligently.
They did it with a civil fashion.
And Maureen Dowd, let me give you some excerpts from Maureen Dowd's column.
Yes, it's true that looks matter in politics.
It's also true that perfecting the outer shell has become an obsession in this country.
Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, John Edwards almost always look good and pretty much the same.
Dark suits are casual wear.
Fred Thompson always looks crepuscular and droopy.
Often Hillary looks great and sometimes she looks tired, heavier, or puffier.
Since this is the first time we've had a woman who was a serious contender for president, it's been an adjustment to watch her more changeable looks and to see the lengths that she goes to get the right lighting and to make the right wardrobe choices.
Her campaigns devising strategies to humanize her, make her seem more warm and material.
The public still has no idea what part of her is stage managed and focus grouped and what part is legit.
It's pretty pathetic at this stage of her career that she has to wage a major offensive by helicopter and web testimonials to make herself appear warm-blooded.
Now, Maureen Dowd just hit Hillary harder than I did in that monologue while accepting and agreeing with the premise.
But elsewhere in the drive-by media, over in the sandbox, over in the playground at PMS NBC, Dan Abrams, desperate for publicity, desperate to get noticed.
Dan Abrams' middle name is Notice Me.
And I'm helping.
Well, I'm helping because they need help over there.
I'm doing all I can to help Abrams.
He tries to imitate me.
I haven't heard it yet.
He tries to imitate me in this, we have a montage of him promoting his upcoming segment last night on me.
The far right now finding a new way to attack Hillary Clinton, questioning whether she's too old to get elected.
As Rush Limbaugh put it, will the country want to actually watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?
Coming up next, right-wing radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has found a new reason to go after Hillary Clinton.
Coming up, Rush Limbaugh goes after Hillary Clinton, asking if this country will actually want to watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis.
Okay, so when he got around to doing this segment, they had Tony Blankly on and Stephanie Miller.
And Abrams says, did aging in office hurt Hillary's husband Bill?
Dan, did you read what I said?
Dan, you got to be careful when you want me to notice you.
I'm going to notice you.
When you're an idiot, I'm going to mention it.
And you're an idiot.
I pointed out that men, society, looks at aging men and they get more distinguished.
Some say they get more handsome, more authoritative, and so forth.
I said it's unfair.
It's the way it works.
It's sadly not that way when women age.
Sadly, read it.
It's in there, Dan.
Anyway, did aging in office hurt Hillary's husband, Bill?
He was 54 when he left office.
Reagan, ripe old 77.
What about Margaret Thatcher?
You know, look, I don't quite get what the allegation is.
Joining me again, Stephanie Miller, Tony Blankly, Tony, what do you make of this?
I mean, is this the right non-attack attack on Hillary?
Look, it may not be fair, but it's true that in politics, in TV broadcasting, in any public figure, people pay attention to your appearances.
One of the things we were all talking about was, well, Gore won't be running for president unless we see that he's losing weight.
Americans usually elect the taller man president.
The hair dye and the facelift are the staples of people who are on television, men and women alike.
So the fact is that we do pay attention.
I think that it's unfortunately the case that whether you're a man or a woman and you're running for president, you need to look as good as you can look.
Absolutely.
It's a television age.
But Abrams, as it is often the case in a sandbox, didn't listen to his own guest's answer.
Turned to Stephanie Miller, who is a babe on some days.
She knows what I mean.
Says, Stephanie, this seems to be a back doorway to attack Hillary.
Is it?
Please, this is so sexist.
Fred Thompson, I enjoyed his work as Gollum on Lord of the Rings.
Give me a break.
I mean, are we really going to put this as a standard of something we're going to judge our presidential candidates by?
I'm not advocating it, Stephanie.
You know, you people, it is amazing how the truth is just out there or what somebody's actually said.
And you have your little knee-jerk reactions.
I am not asking the American people to look at Mrs. Clinton that way.
I'm just suggesting or asking if they will because, you know, remember the story we had some months ago now, and it was one of these little funny, lighthearted things at first, but then I thought about it.
And it's not, you know, what the biggest fear among women who age is is becoming bag women.
You know, 55, 60 with no relationship and no job.
And they worry about it.
Look, the dirty little secret is the women listening to me know that this is a very factual assessment of our culture today, and it is very unfair and it hurts.
And it bothers them greatly.
Now, one thing to argue against Hillary being harmed by this is that when you Hollywood and television, look at the primary demographic there.
Hollywood movies, most of them are made for guys that still have acne, just reached puberty, you know, under 24, and they don't vote.
So it might not be a big deal.
Television, a little bit different, but still they aim for the lowest common denominator in terms of age demographics they can.
So it may not be that big a factor.
I was just asking the question based on that picture that was up.
Do we have any more on this?
Let me turn the page here.
Pages are sticky.
The paper in this printer by the way, really low grade.
Sticks together, not like it all it is in Florida.
Oh, yeah, we'll see.
It's not even worth it.
They just talk about Golda Mayer and Margaret Thatcher, and again, miss the point.
I was talking about American culture, ladies and gentlemen.
As I pointed out yesterday, if Margaret Thatcher or Golda Mayer, by the way, Golda Mayer, that was 1950s and 60s.
Different culture altogether then.
And by the way, she didn't care, and Margaret Thatcher didn't care.
It wasn't what it was about for them.
You wouldn't, if Margaret Thatcher were running for president today, as she was when she was the Iron Lady, we wouldn't have her mom doing television commercials telling us how wonderfully she was when she was a kid and how nice she is.
And we wouldn't have focus groups, and we wouldn't have one day focusing on change, and the next day focusing on likability.
If Margaret Thatcher were campaigning, we would be treated to a smorgasbord of great ideas, proposals for the future of the country.
Nobody would even be thinking about the reason that this is even a subject because Mrs. Clinton has made it one.
She's the one focusing on her appearance, her personality, and all these sorts of things.
So she's going to do that.
I, ladies and gentlemen, am going to ask the question.
This National Inquirer story, John Edwards Lovechild.
I've been having trouble with this.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure I buy this.
But I think I understand why the story hit last night from NBC.
In an insider advantage poll in Iowa, John Edwards leads among 977 likely voters, 30, 26, 24 over Clinton and Obama.
He's also the clear second choice winner, 42, 29, 28 over Clinton and Obama.
It's the first poll to show Edwards solely in lead in Iowa since July.
Bamo.
National Inquirer story hits last night.
Edwards has Love Child.
Now, less than three weeks until an important election.
And we have another liberal dirty trick.
We've had Obama selling drugs.
We've had Obama going to madrasas and Muslim parents, or mother and grandparent.
So now we got another liberal dirty trick.
Edwards has begot a love child.
Now, this obviously didn't come from the Republicans.
Republicans got their own problems to worry about before messing around with the Democrat campaign.
Well, I've been trying to think who leaked, who planted, who dropped this story right before a neck and neck primary.
So let's go through the list of possibilities.
Could be Obama.
Well, we're told he's not that kind of guy, that he eschews the politics of old and these dirty tricks and opposition research, and he wants to run a new campaign, a higher-level campaign above all of this.
As any others run that kind of campaign, Bill Richardson, would Richardson drop this kind of bomb?
Don't think so because he's actually running for VEP.
He's not running for president.
Chris Dodd?
I think Chris Dodd would do this.
Chris Dodd wouldn't hit double figures in the polls if two of the big three dropped out.
And he knows it.
Kucinich?
This doesn't strike me as something that Kucinich would do.
How about Biden?
Would Biden do this?
Joe Biden?
Maybe Biden's campaign leaked it.
I mean, wouldn't he like to move up into Caucasi?
He's got more experience than the three of them, and this could be his last chance.
The thing about Biden, though, he wouldn't do this until somebody else did it first because he copies people.
So I doubt it that it's Biden.
If it's not Obama, and if it isn't Richardson, if it's not Dodd, and it's not Biden, and it's not Kucinich, who can it be?
Who would plant this kind of a story, this ugly story right before the election?
Beats me.
I cannot take Mannheim steamroller in a Christmas bump rotation.
Merry Christmas, happy holidays to everybody from all of us here at the EIB network.
Seriously, thinking about this Edwards love child, maybe built that big house down there in North Carolina with the extra wing because of the extra family.
Who knows?
I don't even know.
It just, something about it, folks, doesn't ring right to me.
I can't.
It's just a gut feeling and instinct.
But the thing I don't know, who does it help?
I mean, where are Edwards voters going to go if they abandon Edwards?
I haven't seen any polling data on that.
I've seen that Edwards is everybody's favorite number two, and he's now tied in one poll, he's ahead in Iowa.
But if something happens to Edwards like this, or he pulls out, I don't know where his vote's going to go.
And so I would guess, my instinct would be that his votes would go more to Obama than Hillary.
But that too is just a guess.
I'm sure some polling people have the polling date on this.
I haven't seen it.
Also, everybody thinks that this is a typical Clinton Inc. type of event, and it is.
But how does a story about infidelity help Hillary Clinton?
If it's going to disqualify Edwards, it's going to give him problems getting a love child out there.
Why would the Clintons want to revive that unless it's sabotage from inside the campaign?
It could be any number of things to explain this, and all we can really do is speculate on it.
To the phones, we start in Spokane.
And this is Janet.
Great that you waited.
And welcome to the EIB network.
Merry Christmas, Russ.
Hey, same to you.
Thank you.
I live in the state of Washington, and our governor is a female, Christine Gregwire.
And she wasn't particularly pretty when she started office, but I have watched her age, and I have the same perception you do.
It's not pretty.
And you think that, you know, maybe her handlers would pick up on it and try and help her.
Let me ask you a serious question about this.
You're a woman.
Does the whole concept of aging and appearance bother you?
And I know you're not in politics, but I mean, here you are.
You're basically agreeing with my assessment about your governor out there, and it's not pleasant to watch.
But you're saying this is a woman.
Do you feel queasy saying something like that?
No.
Wow, brevity is the soul of wit.
No, I don't.
I think, you know, especially if you're in the spotlight like that, I think it doesn't look like she takes any great pains to boost her looks at all, and she didn't start out particularly, you know, anything.
Actually, you know something?
There's something to be said for that.
Now, I can understand people wanting to look their best and taking basic steps to do it.
But I kind of admire people who are comfortable enough in their own skin to be who they are.
Don't have to go out and get hair plugs, don't have to go out and wear toupés, don't have to go out and do all these other things.
They're happy with who they are.
And there's something to be said for that.
Because it's one thing to be genuine on the inside and genuine on the outside, but you start monkeying around with your outside.
What does it say is inside you as well?
You need to doctor that.
But yet the pressure exists.
Don't forget, folks, this is another truth.
And this one established me as one of the nation's great thinkers, but it also has created decades of firestorms.
And that is undeniable truth of life number 24.
And that is that feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of American culture and society.
And I'm sure in politics, you would have to acknowledge that it's worked.
Without, I'll just say one thing.
This is, here comes another truth.
I can just tell, I have empathy.
I know some of you are uncomfortable with all of this, but truth is the truth.
Remember when Jennifer Granholm was elected governor of Michigan?
Remember how everybody went, wow, she's so pretty.
She's so pretty.
She said, blonde.
Wow.
Even, wow, she's too bad she can't run for president because she's not born in America.
Now, Notwithstanding your own personal assessment of Mrs. Grandholm's appearance, the fact that people noticed it tells you what.
You know, it just goes to show that you have to be where the employees are, or you just lose control.
Folks, you wouldn't believe the call that Snerdley has put up there and he actually wants me to address.
Somebody wants my thoughts on Britney Spears' 16-year-old sister getting pregnant.
Now, America couldn't care less about that nor my opinion of it.