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Dec. 21, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 21, 2007, Friday, Hour #2
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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You are listening to a program said by many to be the most influential radio program in America.
And quite simply, you are listening to the best radio program in America on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
You're so egotistical, Mr. Limbaugh.
You're insufferable.
He just brags all the time.
It's all he does.
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And when we go to the phones, the program's all yours.
You can talk about whatever you want since it is Open Line Friday.
It's day five of the Hillary photo and my brilliant monologue on Monday about our addictive culture, culture addictive to perfection, and where I ask the salient question, will people want to watch a female president age daily before their very eyes?
The coverage has now reached Bangkok.
Ladies and gentlemen, Ellen Wolfhorst writing in the, what is it, the Bangkok, well, it's a Bangkok news, the Bangkok Post.
Hillary Clinton not only battling for the U.S. presidency, but as a controversy over insulting remarks on a conservative radio program showed she is also combating female stereotypes still prevalent in the U.S. Influential talk show host Rush Limbaugh, noting his country was obsessed with appearances, exposed the old prejudices when he launched a salvo at Mrs. Clinton, referring to an unflattering photograph of a hackard, wrinkled.
I did not describe the photo that way.
I didn't.
They are.
I didn't use the word haggard and wrinkled.
I just referenced, I didn't even describe the photo.
Mr. Limbaugh questioned whether America would want to see a woman age, as presidents tend to do while serving in the White House.
They go on to quote some of the things I said.
They go, I've talked to all these experts.
Kathleen Dolan, political science professor, University of Wisconsin, author of Voting for Women, How the Public Evaluates Women Candidates, says, well, you know, we've come a long way.
We've come far enough, and it's okay for Hillary to run for president, but we've not come far enough for it to be okay for her to run as a creature without gender.
She's still a woman running for president, brings all that baggage about stereotypes and image and attractiveness.
I think she's responsible for that, folks.
And then remarks such as Mr. Limbaugh's have little influence among voters, said Susan Carroll, political scientist at Rutgers University.
People who support Hillary Clinton will continue to support her, and I don't think a few wrinkles will scare them off.
And people who listen to Rush Limbaugh, by and large, are not Hillary Clinton supporters.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is not entirely true, as Tom Daschell told us after the 2002 midterms.
It continued on television last night on the Fox News channel on the O'Reilly factor.
He had on Bernie Goldberg and Jane Hall to talk about the controversy.
His question, Bernie, everybody in the world, including you and Jane, you've been photographed me, of course, in an unflattering light.
Is it legitimate for the press to use something like this?
If they're using it in order to make her look bad, no, it's not legitimate.
It's out there for two reasons, Bill.
Rush Limbaugh made it an issue, and the liberal media hate Rush Limbaugh, so they picked up on it.
And because this is one of those subjects that makes some people feel uncomfortable.
It's not fair.
It's not fair that women who are getting older are looked upon one way, but men who are getting older are looked upon in a much better way.
Well, you know what?
It may not be fair.
A lot of things are unfair.
Bernie's got it right.
That was the point of the monologue.
Did you hear the monologue, Rachel?
You heard it.
All right, then what is the point of the monologue?
And somehow, my sincerity is now being questioned.
Can you believe that?
My El Rushbo's sincerity about really being concerned of this unfairness is being questioned.
Next, O'Reilly said, Jane Hall, this should go right up your wheelhouse here.
Hillary Clinton's running on experience.
We want experience, but we don't want wrinkles in a woman running for president.
It's a double standard.
Rush Limbaugh said, Do we really want to see a woman age as the leader of this country day to day?
Maureen Dowd said, When you want to go after a woman and you don't like what she stands for, call her a hag.
I think the media are deciding that Hillary Clinton's campaign is in trouble, and this becomes one of those things that people who don't agree with her put out there and say she's looking old and tired.
I think it was mean-spirited.
Okay, so O'Reilly thinks that it was mean-spirited.
So, ladies and gentlemen, this story continues to survive and thrive out there and will continue to do so, no doubt.
Because, you know, as I said yesterday, I can play these people like a Stradivarius.
I can straight play them like a violin.
I know what's going to tick them off.
I know what they're going to focus on.
And so, we've been in control of the news cycle on this for five days.
Now, Mrs. Clinton, her husband's out there saying that she is a world-class genius.
Let me ask some questions about this.
As I mentioned in the first hour when discussing the Huckabee campaign, one of the things I like to do here is ask questions.
Do world-class geniuses have forced, uncomfortable laughs when asked simple questions about their area of expertise?
Do they have other people handle complex investment schemes like cattle futures?
Are world-class geniuses the last people on the planet to realize that their spouses are world-class philanderers?
And in terms of helping people, I just have been fighting for people for 35 years.
I've been fighting for children for 35 years.
Whose philosophy is she borrowing?
She's borrowing the philosophy of Karl Marx, another alleged world-class genius.
Her solution to correcting free markets is to nationalize them.
By the way, I finally saw that commercial.
I saw the whole thing, and we played like 13 seconds of the soundbite from it.
And just from the sound, it sounds like she's making fun of herself.
She's not that commercial.
She is telling everybody right up front what she's going to do.
She's going to give universal this.
She's reaching in or grabbing little things out of her Christmas basket there to distribute to people.
And they're all big-time government programs.
It was not an attempt to be funny.
World-class genius to impose government control.
She would seize the profits of oil companies.
She would socialize medicine.
She would not bring choice to a failing state-run education system.
In fact, she would expand the failing system by imposing it on preschoolers.
That's what the TV commercial was about.
Universal pre-K.
And she apparently believes our soon-to-be bankrupt Social Security shell game is one tax increase away from being fixed.
Karl Marx, another alleged genius, has proven to be a world-class failure when it comes to helping people.
His ideas have brought misery.
His ideas brought financial ruin and a significant loss of liberty and loss of life to hundreds of millions of people.
And yet, Mrs. Clinton's a world-class genius emulating this.
She doesn't understand the flaw in this philosophy and the genius.
You want to talk about genius?
Founding fathers.
If President Clinton were honest, I mean, he would give a lengthy speech on why Hillary is a world-class pain in the butt.
If Hillary was as great as Bill's been saying, why not spend more time with her?
Why not spend the night together every now and then?
Merry Christmas, ladies and gentlemen, from all of us, the EIB Network and El Rushbo back after this.
Merry Christmas once again from all of us here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the Limbaugh Institute.
Here's another question for you.
Is America ready to watch an aging Bill Clinton running around with 18 and 19-year-old interns in a third term where he has actually not been on the ballot?
I want to reiterate what I think is going on with this campaign.
I don't think any of this stuff is accidental.
Clinton out there on the stump and trying to take all the attention away from Hillary.
They know she can't get elected on her own.
And she's got to have him out there.
And this is really a referendum on him.
He wants it to be a referendum on him for his legacy, for everything else.
He wants to be essentially the reason she is elected.
That will validate him in his mind, a lot of other people's minds, and gets a third term without it having officially been one.
And of course, do we want, as America, see an aging Bill Clinton with the Washington Post continuing to write stories about the power crackling from his jeans?
As they did during his first term, back to the fawns to Bozeman, Montana.
This is Greg.
You're up first in this hour.
Nice to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Mary.
Make it Christmas.
Thank you, Rush.
Thank you.
Hey, I'm a Huckabee guy, but I'm thinking about switching.
You're a Huckabee guy, but you're thinking about switching.
Why?
Well, I don't know.
All my people are Ann Coulter, New Peggy Noonan, and all these people are, I don't know, they don't like him.
And I don't know.
I mean, all the stuff's starting to come out against him.
It's starting to make me nervous.
Well, that's what, you know, that's what campaigns are for.
You know, examining people's positions on things.
But I would make up your own mind.
I wouldn't listen to influential figures to shape and form your mind for you.
I mean, it might send you in a direction that your curiosity would take you, but I think maybe some people that you think you respect were not on board when you were caused you to actually start looking, and that's why you know what some of these positions are that you now think, wow, I didn't know that, right?
Right.
I think some of it is like the last campaign where everybody bailed out on Howard Dean because they thought he was, well, I mean, he was kooky, but they thought he was unelectable.
And I'm just, I don't want to do that.
I mean, I don't want to just jump to somebody that I think can win that isn't necessarily line up with what I believe.
Well, when is the Montana primary?
I don't think it's till March.
Got a little time.
Yeah, you got a little time to figure it out.
Right.
The Republican side, it may not shake out in February.
This is so bundled up there that this could go way deep into the primary season and perhaps even to the convention.
There are some political professionals speculating that that could happen.
Once again, nobody knows.
I still, you know, I'm not necessarily saying history repeats itself all the time, but Howard Dean, 2004, I mean, clear front, nobody was even close going into the Hawkeye cauckey.
And then when people actually cauced and they came out of there, Dean was nowhere near the top where the polls had put him and so forth.
And it was then that the Democrats sort of happily got rid of the guy and said, ooh, John Kerry, the haughty John Kerry came out of nowhere.
He's electable.
And they really got behind him without knowing what he was all about.
Snerdley is saying you conveniently vowed that I destroyed Howard Dean's campaign.
I've forgotten that.
I don't remember what I said about the Dean campaign.
I don't know that I've got the ability to affect a Democrat campaign.
I really don't know.
Look at Snerdley.
It's like this guy.
This was the funniest thing.
I hate to keep referring to this, but it's fun.
On Tuesday, Scott Rapapore from Channel 2 in New York went out on the streets in Manhattan and played people some video and audio of what I'd said about Mrs. Clinton aging and so forth.
And these people, oh, he's an idiot.
Just because I had said it, they were going to reject it.
That's why I told the guy, go out there with a camera crew.
He has not taken me up on this, but it'll be a fabulous report.
I said, go out there with a camera crew and just tell people, just random people on the street.
Rush Limbaugh said sky's blue.
Well, it may be, but who's he to say?
Well, it may be, but I know he's an idiot.
What's that got to do with it?
Why are you telling me just because I say it to people on the left, they will reject it or they will cast it aside?
Do you really think that the comments here that we're making on Hillary and Bill are going to affect Clinton voters in Iowa?
I'd be stunned.
I'd be stunned.
Yeah, but I know the driver's license is illegal.
But remember, Tim Russert brought that up.
You know, I started it, put the thing in play, but it was Russert who brought it up, and she was the one that stumbled in the debate for everybody to see.
It wasn't that I told them that she had stumbled.
If I had told them she had stumbled when they hadn't seen it, well, see Limbaugh, he hates the Clintons anyway.
He was never going to say anything good about him.
And they would have rejected it.
But the income, or the outcome rather, is not important.
Sharing the ideas with you on our side of things is what's important to me.
George, South Windsor, Connecticut, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
Yeah, Rush.
You know, I'm totally upset every single time people take a shot at you and say that your content is entertaining and it's all about entertainment and it's Washington speak.
It's one thing to insult you, but then that insults me because I spend three hours a day listening to you.
And so it insults my intelligence that I'm wasting my time listening to entertainment and listening to Washington speak.
I listen to you because I want something different.
I want the facts.
And you're only one vote, Rush.
But the millions of listeners are millions of votes.
And I think Huckabee made a big mistake by either acknowledging this or not or sending someone out to say what he said because what you say does matter to not just you, but millions of people.
And I'm tired of always having to defend you because of people like in Huckabee's camp that have taken a shot and say, oh, yeah, your content is just entertainment and it's the same Washington speak.
It's not.
It's different.
And that's why I listened to you.
And I think he made a big, huge mistake in this.
You know, you have made an excellent point about something, Hen, here, and it's this.
The one thing that I'm not sure that the critics that you're talking about, or just any of the critics who out there label me an entertainer or whatever else, I think a lot of it is that they can't and don't want to debate ideas.
So it's a typical discredit strategy in your eyes.
What they're trying to do is discredit me in your eyes.
What they don't get, and it's stunning to me, what they don't get, because these are people out trying to get votes.
How do you get votes?
You connect with people.
You connect with them in a personal way.
That's what's happened on this program.
All of you in this audience and me were like one big happy family.
And whenever I get the same, you know, when you people in the audience are insulted as mind-numb robots, I take that personally too, just as you take it personally when they come after me.
If they don't understand, they can't break this connection.
And you know why?
Because they had nothing to do with making it.
One of the things I love to say is that Drive-By Media did not make this show, and so they can't tear it down.
One of the things I always marvel at is public figures who rely on the media to make them big by spreading spin or buzz or PR.
Because when you rely on anybody else to establish your bona fides and your character and so forth, they can also destroy it.
But if they don't, if they have nothing to do with making somebody and establishing a connection that that person has with their audience, they can't destroy it.
And yet that's what they're trying to do because they do not understand it.
The level of ignorance that exists throughout the country from critics of this program who just don't seem to understand how and why it works after 19 and a half years is a mind-blower.
I'm reminded what I did with Howard.
I endorsed Howard Dean.
Is that what I did?
I endorsed Howard Dean in the Hawkeye Caucy.
And that's what killed him with Democrats.
I'd forgotten.
I'd forgotten.
I endorsed Clinton, too, in 92 for 20 minutes and then denied it for the next hour and a half.
Let's see.
Well, I don't know, but I was trying to illustrate another thing there.
Clinton was out there lying every day about things he had done in his childhood all the way up to his present, at the present time.
And I thought, well, I got to illustrate this.
Illustrate rather than just, you know, the guy just has trouble telling the truth.
That's not going to make the impact.
So I thought I would pull to Clinton.
So I endorsed him.
And I was a very, very powerful flowery endorsement.
And I took calls from people.
I can't believe what I just heard.
You just, I said, no, I didn't.
I did not endorse Bill.
I heard you.
You do it.
You did it.
No, I didn't.
For an hour and a half, I took calls from people claiming they had heard me endorse Clinton.
I denied it.
I said, well, even if I did, it was in my youth.
It was 20 minutes ago.
You can't hold me accountable for what happened 20 minutes ago.
It's my youth.
Trying to illustrate what Clinton was doing.
It was fun, but it didn't work.
I am veggie this week.
It's snurdly asking me what I'm going to do this week.
I'm going to play golf tomorrow.
I'm vegging.
But while I was in New York, I had handy AV guys come out and upgrade a DirecTV system because they put the new satellite up there.
They've got like 75 or 80 HD channels up there now.
And so I wanted to get them.
So I had to switch out some receivers.
So I got home last.
I was all excited to see if it works.
I got home pretty late last night after dinner.
I guess I walked into the house at 1.30.
So I went into the library, I checked some mail, and then I turned on the TV and I went through what some of the new satellite channels are.
And some of them came in and some of them didn't.
Some of the new HD channels, like Cinemax wasn't coming in, CNN wasn't coming in, which I care less about, but it's available.
I want to see it in HD, Weather Channel, some of these other things.
So I got a hold of the AV guys.
I say, hey, what's going on?
They said, well, we got a big problem here with, it's a 5LNB dish now to get all these HD channels.
And there's a problem with satellite 99B on my dish.
The satellite is okay up there.
So we got a multi-switch on the dish that feeds a distribution switch, and we think that's the problem.
So they're over there working on it now.
So I'm kind of eager to get home to see if they fix the multi-switch on the distribution switch so that 99B can get these HD channels to my new direct TV receivers.
So that's what I'm going to be doing.
And I'm going to veg.
No, it's true.
I'm vegging because I do need to recuperate.
And I got to go to Missouri over the weekend for a few hours for Christmas and then come back.
I'm going to do some more vegging.
Because, I mean, it's recharge of batteries time.
I mean, get back here on January 2nd or 3rd, whatever.
I don't know.
When am I coming back?
3rd.
That's the day to Hawkeye Cauckey.
You know, and then back on the 2nd.
Yeah, I thought it'd be back a day before the Hawkeye Caucasians.
It's actually January 2nd.
I'm coming back.
So anyway, that's what I'm going to be doing.
I love, I got a couple medical stories here, folks.
The seven great medical myths.
Reuters.
Reading in dim light won't damage your eyes.
You don't need eight glasses of water a day to stay healthy or lose weight.
Shaving your legs will not make the hair grow back faster.
These well-worn theories are among the medical myths, seven medical myths exposed in a paper published Friday in the British Medical Journal, which traditionally carries light-hearted features in its Christmas edition.
Despite frequent mentions in the popular press, the need to drink eight glasses of water, scientists found no scientific basis for the claim, either to help you lose weight or just to be healthy.
The other six myths are: reading in dim light ruins your eyesight.
The majority of eye experts believe it's unlikely to do any permanent damage, but it may make you squint or blink more and have trouble focusing.
But it won't ruin your eyesight.
Shaving makes hair grow back faster or coarser.
It has no effect on the thickness or the rate of hair regrowth, according to studies.
Eating turkey makes you drowsy.
It's a myth.
Eating turkey does not make you drowsy.
Another myth, we only use 10% of our brains.
Those myths arose, or this one arose, as early as 1907, but imaging shows that no area of the brain is silent or completely inactive.
You know how they figured that out?
I mean, you can really see it if you go get, what's the thing?
It's not an MRI.
It's a PET.
You get a PET scan.
They can show you.
It's a thing they use to search cancer.
And they can light up the brain in any number of ways in that thing, and you can see that the whole thing has activity.
Hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
This is a myth.
It doesn't happen.
Mobile phones are dangerous in hospitals.
Myth.
Studies have found minimal interference with medical equipment.
Myth.
But you still can't turn one on in there in most hospitals.
They also left off another popular myth, and that is that exercise burns a lot of calories.
That exercise burns as many calories as we thought.
Get this.
New York Times.
Gina Colata is the authorette.
The spinning class at our local gym was winding down.
People were wiping off their bikes, gathering their towels and water bottles, walking out the door when a woman shouted to the teacher, how many calories did we burn?
The instructor said about 900.
My husband and I rolled our eyes.
We looked around the room.
Most people had hardly broken a sweat.
I did a quick calculation in my head.
We were cycling for 45 minutes.
Suppose someone was running, and the rule of thumb, 100 calories a mile was correct to burn 900 calories, we would have had to work as hard as somebody who ran a five-minute mile for the entire distance of nine miles.
Exercise physiologists say there is little in the world of exercise as wildly exaggerated as people's estimates of the number of calories they burn.
I knew this.
I knew this instinctively before I read the story.
I knew this.
Despite the displays on machines at gyms with their precise-looking calorie counts, and despite the official-looking published charts of exercise and calories, it can be all but impossible to accurately estimate the number of calories you burn.
Now, you can use your heart rate to gauge your effort, and from that, you can plan routines that are as challenging as you want.
But researchers say that heart rate does not translate easily into calories.
And you may be in for a rude surprise if you try to count the calories you think you use during exercise and then reward yourself with extra food.
There are so many myths out there.
Just, they're all over the place.
Stern has just asked the question, and the answer to this is so much common sense.
How much water do you need?
Drink when you're thirsty.
How much food do you need?
Eat when you're hungry.
Now, most people eat when they're not hungry, too.
I don't think you can't OD on water, but I mean, we're talking about what they say you need.
Well, you can OD on water if you're in a contest trying to see how long you can hold it without urinating.
But excuse me, but beyond that, drink when you're thirsty.
One of these myths is drinking coffee or pop or Brian, in your case, the sugar-loaded Gatorade, oh, that doesn't count to water.
Well, what the hell is it?
What is the base substance in all those things?
It isn't blood.
I mean, what does it take to make coffee?
Why would coffee beans distort the value of the water you pour in the pot?
But people have been led to believe this.
Coffee's a diuretic.
It is for some people.
Coffee's not a diuretic for me.
It's another myth.
How many myths can we keep?
Coffee is a diuretic.
I once had somebody, some dietician, tell me on one of my many diets, whatever you do, don't drink coffee on a diet because caffeine ends up putting a little shell around cells and you end up retaining water.
And you shouldn't do that.
Stay away from...
There's so many myths out there, and it's really none of these things are as complicated as people want to make them out to be.
Ralph in New York, nice to have you, sir, on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, Merry Christmas from your favorite foreign correspondent behind hostile enemy liberal lines.
Thank you, sir.
Great to have you here.
It's good to talk to you, Rush.
Listen, I hope I can bring up a couple of things.
The first thing I wanted to bring up was the thing about Huckabee.
And I agree with you because I'm a conservative first before a Republican.
My voter registration card says conservative on it, which is why I feel I can't back a guy like Huckabee.
But at the same time, to the critics of Rudy Giuliani about some of his social liberal policies that I have to disagree with because I first-handedly watched Rudy Giuliani dismantle organized crime.
I seen him turn drug-infested, warzone-looking neighborhoods like East Harlem, the South Bronx, neighborhoods in Brooklyn into livable, viable neighborhoods where kids are going to school in the morning, men are going to work.
I've seen him turn Times Square into the sleaziest pornography junkie-ridden paradise into one of the best tourist attractions.
Yeah, that was a shame.
Huh?
That was a shame.
It took away such identity from New York.
But you can't get everything right.
I know.
You can't identify unless you hear a siren or an ambulance at night.
But see, the people, the reason I bring that up is because the people, the critics of Giuliani, don't understand that this is a guy who gets things done when people tell him he can't do them.
Now, as far as the things he did in New York with immigration and the gay rights, I think he had to maneuver for a certain degree in the city itself.
Look, but as a leader.
Let me tell you something here, Ralph.
And we've addressed this before, and this is not a whine, and it's not a complaint.
It is a fact.
The D.C. Wall Street media axis of the drive-bys is doing everything it can to influence the Republican selection process.
So it's up to the candidates to be louder than the drive-bys are.
I mean, Mike Huckabee's getting a pass for the drive-bys.
They are excited that he might get the nomination.
They don't want Rudy because Rudy might be able to beat Hillary.
They don't want Romney because of the same thing.
They don't want Fred Thompson for the same thing.
They're doing everything they can not to focus on the things that you're talking about.
And instead, they're taking aim at the two or three things.
Each candidate deviates somewhat from conservatism.
And there's a story after story after story.
Will Republican-based voters support somebody who lived with a gay couple in the middle of a divorce?
Rudy, Giuliani, yeah.
And then this is how they're trying to influence people.
But aren't you doing it, Rush?
No, I'm just repeating what they've already done.
That stuff's out there.
You didn't know that, Sterdley?
Oh, it's out there.
Same thing with Rudy's position on abortion.
They're trying to divide the Republican base.
That's why when Huckabee comes along, they don't have to divide the Republican base because they think if they nominate Huckabee, if they succeed in getting him nominated, in one fell swoop of a presidential campaign, they can take Huckabee out, same time take out the Christian right once and for all.
That's what they want to do.
That is, they're salivating over this.
And so when you call here and you go through the resume of Giuliani, if you wanted to try it with Romney, there's no question.
Real life experience is what it is, as you described with Rudy in New York and cleaning it up.
But that's not what they focus on, not the drive-bys.
The drive-bys are focusing on the deficiencies and the deviations from a so-called conservative norm.
So these guys, they have a double-dose order.
They've got to overcome these attacks, and they know it going in.
All right, a little long here in the segment.
Ralph, always a pleasure to hear from you back in a second.
Stay on the cutting edge of societal evolution, Rush Limbaugh.
I say it.
You believe it.
Don't doubt me.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, Hillary Clinton, fighting for 35 years for children.
She's been out there working hard, fighting for change for children.
And yet, after 35 years of fighting for children, she still can't convince her brother to pay his child support to the children he fathered with his estranged ex-wife, the daughter of Barbara Boxer.
Still, after 35 years of fighting for kids, can't get the brother to pay child support.
She is a genius.
That's right, Limbaugh.
Yeah, she's an unqualified genius.
And you know it, and I know it.
How many of you people are trying to find one of those Nintendo Wii games?
These things are all the rage.
I had many people ask me, Rush, can you use your powerful, influential member of the media?
I've gone to Best Buy.
I've stood a line of four in the morning, and I got my number.
Stand in line.
I show up and they're out of them.
And I can't find one anywhere.
So I went into gear because I thought, what a snap.
There's no such thing in my life as sold out.
So I have somebody who can get anything.
And I put her on it.
Three days.
Three days we got, what are you saying to me?
What are you saying to me?
I scored one.
I scored one.
That's why I did three days.
I scored one up in Rockville Center in New York.
And I then, in the process, I found out that the reason they're so hard to get is because the first iteration of the Wii, it kind of buggy.
And so they came out with a revved version, and it was that version that was really hard to get.
And in order to get, I had to buy a lot of the accessories, packages, games, wireless controllers, and this sort of thing.
Everybody's trying to get a hold of the week.
I had never heard of it until I was asked if I, as a powerful, influential member of the media, could secure one.
And so anyone got it, so forth, and send it to where it's supposed to go so that it'll be some little spoiled, rotten kid will have a very Merry Christmas.
I'm sorry.
I'm just trying to be funny with that, folks.
Really, it's, you know, I was a spoiled, rotten kid, so that's why I can relate.
Well, what do you mean it's on?
By the way, I didn't pull any strings.
I mean, I didn't call anybody at a store or a manufacturer and say, hey, Rush Limbaugh, powerful, influential member of the media, wants, didn't do that.
I'm telling you, I got somebody who can get anything.
There is no such thing as sold out in my life.
Now, sometimes I have to use my name.
In this case, I didn't.
And I wouldn't, by the way, because we got it.
Anywhere, there's a story.
Get this.
The reason I tell the story is because obviously this thing is wildly popular.
I mean, it's so many kids and parents want to get these things for their kids for Christmas.
It's gotten to the point now that some of these stores are selling after the fact gift cards.
Put a little envelope under the tree.
Hey, little Johnny, you're getting a Wii.
It just isn't here yet.
Sandy Claus ran out of them, but Sandy left this look.
It's going to be here soon.
That's how popular things are.
So here's a story from the French news agency.
Parents are fooling themselves if they hope Nintendo's Wii active games console, which uses a wireless handheld controller to replicate athletic movement, will stop their youngsters becoming obese.
Researchers in sports science at Liverpool John Moore's University, northwestern England, recruited six boys and five girls between 13 and 15 and fitted them with monitoring device to calculate energy expenditure.
They played four games for 15 minutes.
Then they played on the sedentary Xbox 350, which is made by Microsoft.
The three other games are sports, bowling, tennis, and boxing played on Wii Sports with a five-minute rest between sports.
And all the children played on the consoles for one hour.
Energy expenditure using Wii was significantly greater than the Xbox, but it's misleading.
The total number of extra energy units burned using Wii amounted to only 60 calories per hour, or about a quarter of a Mars bar.
Now, we just had the story.
They don't know how to measure calorie use when you're exercising.
But how many parents are actually buying a wee because they think it's going to get their kids off the couch, stopping potatoes?
You have to take something that's very popular.
Apparently, a lot of kids want this.
Now I have to run the thing down.
You have to do a story.
Hey, kid, the toy is worthless.
Hey, mom, the toy is worthless.
You're still going to be a fat slob.
Researchers in London say so.
That's time flying by, as it always does.
You see, Vladimir Putin may have squandered and hidden away $40 billion as he leaves office next May.
Makes me wonder what the real wealth of the Clintons is.
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