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Dec. 21, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 21, 2007, Friday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the hosts on this program make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying.
I guess the views expressed by the hosts on this program rooted in a daily, relentless, and unstoppable pursuit of the truth.
You know the drill...
It's Friday.
We move on.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
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It means you own the show.
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Talk about whatever you wish.
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Some people amass great fortunes.
Thanks to their time in office, ladies and gentlemen.
Somebody needs to ask Hillary Clinton a couple questions, therefore.
How much money within a million dollars have you and your husband made?
Forget taxes, and we're talking gross income and the other assets of value since the day your husband left office.
And is this why you are also running for office?
We need to know.
We'd like to know how much did Mrs. Clinton and her husband profit?
And then she can tell us why Vladimir Putin is a corrupt man.
If these reports that he has squandered 40 billion or this kind of I haven't a metal block on the word, but it's apparently he's amassed a 40 billion dollar fortune in offshore counts, businesses, and cash and various Swiss banks and so forth, since the time he has been ruling uh Russia.
Because is out there they're calling Putin corrupt.
If because of this, you know, I'm uh you know me, folks.
I mean, I'm all for capitalism and capitalists have no shame in how much money they earn, especially those who made their fortune thanks to their time as president.
Um, just how much of the Clintons earned.
I mean, it's a hundred million.
Why shouldn't we know that?
How much money's at stake with a Clinton presidency?
If she loses, will the Clinton estate miss out on another 100 million or 200 million dollars?
There was a devastating report in the New York Times yesterday, very long by Don Van Netta Jr., uncovering some of the donors to the Clinton library and massage parlor.
And one of these guys donated something 31.
Who who donates 31,300,000?
Is anybody ever donated 31,300,000 to you, Brian?
How about you, Snerdly?
They haven't to me either.
31.3.
I mean, 31 million being is odd.
31.3 is even odder.
And this guy also lets Clinton some Canada.
I think this guy lets Clinton fly around on his jet.
As Ron Burkle flies around uh Clinton on his jet.
Or did before they split up.
And of course, some of these donors to the Clinton Library of Massage Parlor, which I mean now, Obama could call it a slush fund.
Some of these same donors are being asked to contribute to Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign.
Shazam Shazam.
Now, Mrs. Clinton said in the last debate that she wanted to have a transparent government.
I want to have an open and transparent government, quote unquote.
Well, she can start by releasing all of her first lady papers, telling us how much money being president means to team Clinton.
And we can talk about Vladimir Putin if we want to.
By the way, I have to remind you again, ladies and gentlemen, uh story of the other day, 2600 pages of documents from the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor.
Uh have not been released, even though Clinton says it personally ordered them to be released.
Uh, and they're saying that Clinton's held holding it up, and Bruce Lindsay said Bill Clinton hasn't held up the release of a single document, which is true.
He's held up the release of 2600 documents.
Not one.
Let's go to the audio sound by sound.
I want to go back, show you cutting-edge societal evolution, how this program, with very little acknowledgement from outside the program, does impact the presidential campaign on both sides.
This is me from this past Monday on This very program.
Look at what they did.
Carl McCall, running for governor of New York.
They trashed Carl McCall.
We ended up raising funds for Carl McCall.
You and I on this program together because the DNC and Terry McCaulayff hung him out to drive.
Maynard Jackson, mayor of Atlanta, wanted to be chairman of DNC.
Clinton's moving is ain't no way, pal.
Terry McCaula's got it.
Whenever blacks get to the point that they're rising to areas of prominence, positions of prominence in Democrat Party, guess who comes along and slamps them down?
Clinton Inc.
He was the nation's first black president.
And of course, Andrew Young's out there saying, Yeah, yeah, he sees had more black women.
He's been with more black women than Obama has.
And of course, big applause line.
Wow, wee!
What a great recommendation.
And nevertheless, here's the first black and who's trashing him.
It's not Republicans.
It's not conservatives.
It's the Clintons.
All right, that said this on Monday.
And I've said it even before Monday.
You know, the Billy Shaheen out there, yeah, cocaine.
He may even be selling drugs.
A black guy.
I said, you know, they're playing the race card on this guy.
Anytime a prominent black um rises to a position that threatens the Clintons, smack down, baby.
And this in the party that's supposedly tolerant of this and affirmative action.
Mrs. Clinton, the Democrats believed all they really say about this stuff.
They'd quit.
Pull out of the race, give it to Obama for the good of America.
For the good of race relations in this country.
Last night, Anderson Cooper, 180.
The uh guest is uh David Rodham Gurgen and the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, Jennifer Donahue.
And talking about the Clinton campaign playing the race card against Obama.
And Anderson Cooper says, Jennifer, is there perception that Hillary Clinton is being singled out unfairly?
What Kerry did the other day and what happened last week on the drug issue with Shaheen, and moreover, with Mark Penn, who then kept repeating it over and over and over.
They're playing the race card.
They're attacking his race.
And it's out there.
Finally out there in the drive-by is on Anderson Cooper 180, uh, first introduced into the um domain, if you will, by me.
So David Rodham Gurgen has to jump in here uh to the defense of Clinton Inc.
Uh Cooper says, David Gergen, David Rodumgergen.
Do you agree with that?
No, I don't.
I don't think they're playing the race card at all.
He happens to be black.
He also happens to be a very major dramatic candidate.
You don't think that saying that selling drugs and that did he buy it, did he use them, did he sell them, has anything to do with race?
Wait a minute.
We went through a whole campaign back in 2000 in New Hampshire about George W. Bush and drugs, and he happened to be white.
Playing a race card suggests it's racially motivated, and in effect, it's a racist.
I think that's unfair to them.
Of course it's unfair.
Why they would never ever do it if I would never ever, ever do anything like that.
Oh Clinton's play the race card?
No, of course not.
It wouldn't ever happen.
Um, but of course, uh, ladies and gentlemen, it um it did.
So they had to do some damage control.
After Anderson Cooper 180, so we go now to the Today Show this morning, uh filled in host David Gregory interviewing Barack Obama.
Uh, yesterday was Chris Kumo, today it's David Gregory taking every Clinton Inc.
charge and talking point and making Obama answer it.
I'd like to begin with something that former Senator Bob Carey said this week and later apologized for.
He said the following.
I like the fact, speaking of you, that his name is Barack Hussein Obama, and that his father was a Muslim and that his paternal grandmother is a Muslim.
There's a billion people on the planet that are Muslims, and I think that experience is a big deal.
Senator, do you think that warranted an apology, or do you take that aspect of your background as a point of pride?
I don't think that Bob Carey intended an insult in some way.
I think Bob was pointing out that some of the remarks were taken out of context and left out the fact that he was arguing how qualified he thought I was to be president, and how the experience that I have uh outside of our shores will actually inform my judgment and allow me to be a more effective commander-in-chief.
That background and pointing out a Muslim background, not an attempt to poison the well in your judgment.
Well, I don't think, David that he was trying to point out that I had a Muslim background.
And there is Barack Obama taking the high road.
They're trying to bait him.
They're trying to get him to act a little upset and angry at A, the question being asked, and B, angry at Bob Carey and uh Billy Shaheen, and he's not taking the bait.
Come back.
Your phone calls are next.
Stay with us.
People have been patiently waiting to appear on this program.
I want to go to the phones now.
We'll start in Pittsburgh in this uh in this hour with Charles.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Professor Limbaugh, it's nice to finally get on.
Thank you.
Okay, sir.
I I was online this morning, and uh I was reading an article about Mitt Romney, and suppose it's some flip-flop on something he said about um his father having marched Martin Luther King.
Well, as I was reading the messages posted, there was like this raging battle between Huckabee supporters and um Mitt Romney supporters online, and then this issue came up about you and some Huckabee ally basically bashing the show and saying it's all about entertainment or whatever.
Well, I I first want to say that I'm a I'm a registered independent, but I'm a conservative, and I'm leaning toward Huckabee.
But um I read what the guy said, and uh I don't recall anybody coming out or Huckabee coming out himself and saying that he approved this message.
So I just wanted to know was there any evidence that this guy that said whatever he said about the show or attack however he attacked you, was there any evidence that he's actually from the Huckabee camp?
And um hard evidence, it's just the reporter says that it's a DC Huckabee operative.
I don't know who it is.
If you had heard me uh first brought this up yesterday, I said this is so incorrect.
This is this is such uh a tabloid cliche.
It's more like what Democrats say about me.
I said, I wonder who actually told this reporter at this blog at the Atlantic uh Atlantic Magazine or Atlantic Monthly their blog.
I said, Who?
I speculated that it it it probably wasn't somebody from Huckabee's campaign.
Uh because it doesn't it doesn't make any sense.
There's no Republican in the world who has been paying attention to anything in the last 19 and a half years, understands that this program is what they said it was.
But the guy identified this person as a Huckabee supporter.
The Huckabee people in Arkansas all deny they the campaign had nothing to do with it.
Um then I started speculating, well, who says things like this, and then I thought maybe it's McCain.
I thought this uh last night because McCain, whenever he gets mad at me, says, hey, it's just an entertainer.
You can't take Limbaugh seriously.
Well, he's good at what he does, but he's just an entertainer.
Um wait, wait, wait, wait.
Then this morning, uh Ed Rollins is in an interview with uh uh CBS News dot com and starts talking about uh the reporter says, so you got Rush Limbaugh calling your guy Huckster, which I haven't.
Uh I've called his supporters hucksters, but I can't call him a huckster.
And they asked Rollins, why do you think Limbaugh's being critical of your guy?
And and Rollins said, Well, you know, these guys in their studios, they never expected this, they never saw this, and so they had their candidates chosen.
I did see it.
I was the first to say it.
November the eighth on this program, I asked people, because I looked at polling trends, and I said, You people better start asking yourself a question.
Republican side, what if Huckabee wins I am all the way back at November 8th.
And now you got Rollins out there saying, I don't know what I'm talking about.
You didn't mention me my name, but when you say studios, uh, and he was asked about me particularly, so I assume he was responding to me.
And that's what I was responding to today, along with repeating what was said by it is allegedly somebody from the Huckabee Washington operation.
Yeah, well, I know that what was sad to me is that you know, conservatives are out there bashing each other over the head, and every now and then some liberal would chime in on the board and mock the fact that you know we were all arguing amongst ourselves.
But I I tried to keep it positive, even though I have my issues with Giuliani and Mitt Romney, but uh I just told them, you know, that they needed to go because I am a like I said, I do plan on voting for Huckabee um because I I do believe he'll win the nomination.
Charles.
And uh wait, wait, let me finish.
Okay, I know There are those that attack him on his issue with taxes.
Okay, everybody knows it.
I'm not saying this guy is a Ronald Reagan, but Reagan had to raise taxes in his first term when he was the governor of California to balance the budget.
If you want to get on Huckabee about being soft on crime, talk to the 16 families of the many executed in the state of Arkansas.
You know, if you want to uh attack them for um uh foreign policy, I'd be.
Charles is what I want to tell you.
I didn't attack.
I do not have a lot of people.
I did not.
Okay, so you're speaking generically.
I said in another we've had a series of brilliant monologues this week, Charles.
And what I said was this what a campaign is all about examining the ideas of these people.
I'm a conservative.
I'm not a seventy-five percent conservative, I'm not a ninety-five percent conservative, I'm a conservative.
And that's what I'm looking at these guys um well to what I'm trying to find out about them.
And when they don't want to talk about certain things uh and use other firewalls as a means of of having to avoid discussing these things, and I think that the red flags go up.
Now, you can tell your little guys on these Democrat blogs that you're sitting them go going back and forth.
You you there the response of those people is hey, the Republican Party is where real honest debate's going on these days, the debate of genuine ideas, and there's nothing wrong with it.
That's what campaigns are all about.
Campaigns are not about conformity.
They're about ideas, and that's where I head when I look at people, not personally, I don't have not attacked anybody personally, I've not attacked Huckabee.
I don't know him personally.
People that do say he's extremely nice guy.
My only real quarrel personally with Huckabee is he's for exercise, and I'm not.
Um but that's it.
And that's not a that's not a uh political issue.
But it's you know I don't want to repeat the monologue here in the first hour.
It took me 45 or yeah, but forty-five minutes to go through this, and I'm I don't want to do it again.
It'll be on the website tonight when we update to reflect the contents of the program.
Buster, Chattanooga, Tennessee, your next.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Thanks, Rush.
Mega Rocky Top Ditto.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, listen, it's an honor to talk to you.
I've been listening to you for well, since I came back to the States.
My parents were missionaries in Africa, and I came back in 92, and my oldest brother was listening to you there on uh WORD and Greenville and uh long time ago, and follow you quite a bit.
Hey, my comment is about this, Rush.
Uh I'm a preacher.
I travel all over the the states and uh conservative.
And up until Huckabee really came uh in the front, what I was hearing from uh 90% of the people were that uh we don't have any conservative that really is a true conservative on the issues obviously were abortion, gun rights, and uh uh the homosexual agenda.
And then Huckleby uh really jumps up and the whole mood has changed.
Uh almost like it's been revitalized.
We see they see uh a light at the end of the tunnel.
And the the the comment I have to make, I agree with you 100% 90% of the time.
And uh even more than that.
Just the fact that uh that something negative has come out against your show, which I I wish I like.
Uh I feel like i you shouldn't be so condemning to Huckleby when it is against uh something about you being an entertainer, which we know you're not.
But uh I I think it i it is you're your uh merchandising on that to build your reputation.
Not that it needs to be built, but it has to be maintained.
And uh I think it would be more suitable, I think, for the Republicans and conservatives, uh, if we could just kind of uh support our guy.
I think it does more damage uh to the Republicans getting the nomination.
I think the Democrats like you slamming Huckleby because I think Huckleby is the most winnable candidate that the Republicans have.
Well, all right, let's I I learned and I'm I'm not gonna try to talk you out of it.
I'm not gonna argue with you about it because you're committed.
It's your life, it's your decision-making process, it's your vote.
Uh and it's yours.
And I'm I'm I'm not here to argue with you about it.
All I all I'm doing is raising questions about what I think are not uh even anywhere near conservative aspects of uh Governor Huckabee's experience and his governance in uh in Arkansas.
As to the fact that I am taking on Governor Huckabee here for my own marketing or uh uh ego.
Uh no, I I I guess what you mean is that I am doing this today to somehow show people that I have power.
Uh and I want you to believe me, I've said this countless times.
I may have power, but I'm harmless with it because I don't even I don't walk in here every day thinking about that.
I really don't.
I I walk in here every day, I want to just be honest and tell people what I think.
And that's what I did today.
I'm glad you called.
Back in a second.
Okay, folks, let me let me tell you what's going on now.
And I I I um I sadly and unfortunately must make this point reacting to our last caller.
What we have going on here is identity politics in in the uh in, I think in a large swath of support for Governor Huckabee.
Identity politics is what the left does.
Do you know what I mean when I say identity politics, Rachel?
Okay.
Identity politics is you vote for the Christian.
You vote for the black.
You vote for the woman.
This is traditionally how the left uh looks at people.
We as conservatives don't.
We don't see you, for example, in a political sense, see a woman first.
We might see a woman first because you're beautiful, but we're men and we can't help it.
But in political sense, you know, we we wouldn't say you don't qualify, you're not smart because you're a woman, and we wouldn't say you deserve anything special because you're a woman.
We wouldn't look at a black and say, oh, poor disadvantaged slavery heritage, presidential material without knowing anything about the guy.
We wouldn't, if there was the first admittedly open gay running, we wouldn't say, oh, terribly discriminated against, really have had no chance.
We're gonna vote for the gay guy because it makes us feel better about ourselves.
That's identity politics or a little strain of it.
And that's what's happening in the in the Huckabee race.
The identity of Huckabee is Christian.
Uh Southern Baptist minister.
And that identity is covering and is is trans being translated by supporters as meaning whatever they want it to mean, as opposed to actually looking at how he's governed.
Uh like the the pastor who just called said Huckabee is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Pastor, uh the light at the end of the tunnel is the oncoming train, and you can't get off the track.
That's the light at the end of the tunnel.
And I think this is this is it identity politics was uh fundamental uh feature of the Perot campaign as well.
People really didn't even care uh what is policy.
He didn't have to, he didn't even have to articulate policies.
Remember that?
I'd say, Larry, here's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna say we're gonna get rid of Ali 757 is gonna have a bunch of Lear 55s again, smaller airplanes and he-ho, he cares so much.
Uh we you own this country.
You own it.
This is your country.
We're going to give this country back to you.
Um that's you know, I d identity politics.
And this is traditionally not what conservatives uh and even Republicans, right wingers, uh, do.
We're a little bit more serious about it.
Uh and this is uh also one of the things that I detect.
And of course, the the one of the things that I I uh makes me convinced I'm right about this is that Governor Huckabee is doing what he can to avoid uh discussing his record and and uh uh his his policy beliefs, and is in fact relying on his identity to keep people on his side in his camp and perhaps even grow it.
And in his in in in one way, we have to Say it's pretty smart because on the other side, his opponents, you've got admitted conservative flaws, admitted conservative flaws, which do trouble the Christian right, which is large part of the Republican base.
Either support for abortion or gay marriage, uh things that that would uh be disruptive to the culture, and many people are very, very concerned about the culture.
So in Huckabee, the identity is Christian, that means 100% thoroughbred on social issues, uh cultural issues.
Uh yet, if you dig deep, you find that the policy on immigration.
What do you if you're an I if if you're if you look at Huckabee in an identity sense, and yet at the same time you really think illegal immigration is destroying this country, then your identity association with Huckabee as a Christian likely will make you overlook the fact that he's opposite your belief on the illegal immigration.
Uh Jimmy Carter was a Southern Baptist, and he ran on that.
He tried to capitalize on this.
Um he ran on the the religious identity, too.
I will never lie to you except when I see the giant rabbit attacking my canoe.
Okay, remember that.
Anyway, Joe in Yorktown, uh Virginia.
It's great to have you with us, sir, here on Open Line Friday on the EIB network.
Uh mega diddles, Rush.
I'd love to talk politics in my candidate who I support, but on the Nintendo Wii, um, we've had one, and it's fun being able to drive a golf ball 350 yards.
Uh at Double Beach or something for real.
I mean, I can hit a golf ball in a wee farther than I ever could in real life when I was good about 30 years ago.
So this thing is interactive.
So you can grab your golf club, you play the golf game, and you actually swing the club and the ball goes on the TV screen, you go hit the next shot.
You do it.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, yeah.
You have to change clubs depending on where you are.
You've got to play the wing conditions, the uh the terrain of the golf course, the train of the green.
Uh so you're basically sitting on any play.
Look, it I this is all well and good.
And I understand what you're saying.
It really, really is.
I'm and I don't don't misunderstand this.
I understand that this game is genius.
That that and I can understand how people get lost for hours and hours playing this game.
But it's like it's like these kids, 16, 17-year-old kids playing these games on Saturday night, and they're out there like I'm sure there's a find a woman to date game.
Just like Euro near golf game.
I'd rather be on a real golf course.
And I these 16, 17-year-old kids are trying to find cartoon character women to date on these games instead of being actually out there doing the real thing.
Uh this is not a comment.
I just not a critical comment.
Is this just uh an observation?
Because I am a societal observer uh and critic.
Yeah, I mean, I'd I'd rather be up playing for real, but you know, I can sit down for 30 minutes and you know play around.
Yeah, I understand that.
Uh I'm not look at this game, you can't get it.
Except me.
Somehow, I don't know.
I I I don't know.
I just went out and asked that it was there.
And then in the midst of nobody else being there, I couldn't get it here where where we live here, couldn't do that.
I had to travel.
Well, I didn't, but I had authorized travel into other places.
Joe, thanks for the call.
Cindy in Cincinnati.
Welcome to Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Cindy.
Cindy.
She gone.
Doesn't sound like a dead line to me.
Cindy.
Put her on hole, we'll go back to her.
She's probably had to go do something with one of the kids.
Is she back?
There you are.
Cindy, you're back.
Sorry about that.
Yeah, I'm hi, Cindy from Cincinnati.
How are you?
Fine.
Thank you very much.
Where were you when I was desperately trying to reach out to you?
My husband beat back into me.
I'm so sorry.
Um, the reason I'm calling is I was wanting to comment on the preacher that was uh called in before.
I am a Christian conservative.
My husband is a uh Jewish conservative, and we don't look at the issues that most of the right-wing Christian conservative people are doing such and that preacher.
We can see the forest through the trees.
We know what we need to win this election, and Huckabee is not going to be the one that's going to do it.
I would never vote for someone just because they have the same beliefs in abortion that I do.
You're not looking at the whole picture here.
And I feel like a lot of the Christian conservative people are not looking at it like I am.
Well, that well, that's that's I think you're probably right.
That's why I did the mini uh brilliant monologue on identity politics.
Cindy, thanks much.
Uh have a merry Christmas.
I gotta take a brief time out here, folks, and we're coming right back.
I just got a note from uh famed white comedian Paul Shanklin.
Uh and he said he he got his two boys, a uh a Nintendo we.
He says he looks at it as an abstinence machine.
If they're preoccupied playing the wee, he's not worried.
That's an understandable way of uh looking at it.
South Bend, Indiana.
Bob, welcome to Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Well, good afternoon.
What an honor.
Thank you.
You bet.
Merry Christian Christmas to you, right.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, I know you sit down and have breakfast every morning with the president, and I know you uh got you really uh got a lot of influence there.
Would you would I well yeah, you you know what you do.
Would you ask him not to ask his press secretary, that new lady, not to accept any questions from the press where the Iraq and the war the word Iraq and the word war are linked.
Actually, there is no war in Iraq.
There is a battle in Iraq.
And the whole world is has associated those two words together.
And we've we've lost the Battle of the Twin Towers twice.
We lost the Battle of the Cole.
We've lost the Battle of the Embassies, but we're in a process of winning the Battle of Iraq, and we're in a process of winning the battle in an Afghan stand.
And when you look at it that way, you know, we've been 25 years into this war.
Yeah.
So we're going to be another 75 before it's over with.
I understand your point.
This is one theater in the overall wall.
Yes, but the uh it drives me crazy.
I want to throw my my TV brick at the TV.
Well, you know, it's it's it's a toughie.
I'm having brunch with the president and crawford on Sunday on my way to Missouri.
Okay, I mention this, but I think I think that it's so ingrained now that you're gonna have a tough time.
Uh I know it is.
But but hey, with your with your broad influence in this this pro this uh this show you got, you could do it.
I know you can.
I mean, it'd be easy for you.
Oh, yeah.
It's easy.
It's yeah.
I was emailing Tom Brady back and forth earlier in the season.
I think it was 6-0, and they was the quarterback, the Patriots didn't play golf with him out of the ATT now that I so sent him a note and I said, I was looking at the future schedule.
I said, Okay, I went through all the teams I had left in the schedule.
And I said, Okay, these guys you own them, no problem.
You own these guys, these guys are gonna give it a little bit of trouble.
You get the Steelers, you own the Steelers, they're gonna be probably you own the Dolphins.
The Dolphins in Miami could be a trap game, but um going through the whole thing.
And Brady said that he replied after I after I took him through his 16 and oh season.
He he wrote back and he said, Oh, well, you know, why don't you become a coach?
This is so easy.
I think I think I'll just phone it in and I'll go out to California and take some time off.
So he so easy.
Yeah, you just look at his schedule saying, Mark that one off, Mark that one why we don't even have to play them, he said.
So that's why reacted when you said it's easy for you.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's easy.
Well, I know I'm an untrained high-ranked amateur, but uh, would you like to hear what's gonna happen at the uh Republican convention?
Oh, sure.
What uh what's gonna tell me uh what's there it's gonna be deadlocked.
This is what I'm hoping for.
A deadlock convention, and then they'll go ask Newt Ginrich to run.
And he's gonna pick Condy Rice as his running mate.
And that'll be my dream ticket.
Well, we'll keep that.
We'll put that prediction over there.
Yeah.
Um another example of how easy this is.
Uh just predict a locked convention, a deadlock convention, and a draft newt movement.
What what?
What?
Okay, bro.
Uh the oh, Snerdley s snurdley wants to know if uh Dallas is gonna recover.
Yes, yes, yes.
Look at Dallas had a bad game.
Uh Terrell Owens was joking, he says about Jessica Simpson being up there in that cute little pink cowboys jersey, the pink number nine.
I saw Romo couldn't keep his eye off of her, though.
Um will the Giants make the playoffs.
Yeah, I think they'll make the playoffs.
But you know Kevin Everett, the uh Buffalo Bill that was paralyzed in the opening game of the season.
They're gonna bring him back Sunday.
He's gonna be, he's walking now.
He's going to be at uh at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, New York.
And the Bills, who are now out of it.
Uh it's amazing.
Teams can get fired up to be spoilers.
And it might be rainy.
I think the weather's supposed to be somewhat inclement, but not snow.
Uh it's uh the you know, the Giants are a uh like certainly where the Steelers are now, and it every game's a roll of dice.
Uh you just don't know.
I think the Cowboys, Cowboys are gonna recover, they'll be fine playing Carolina Saturday night.
You don't lose to Carolina unless you're Seattle.
Um anyway, we got to take a brief time out here, folks.
I want you to sit tight.
Uh, we're gonna come back as we always do.
We uh close the uh program, the last program before Christmas with uh Manheim Steamroller's Silent Night with some salient comments uh from me.
Brief timeout now.
We'll come back with that after this.
All right, I need to specify I am not having brunch with the president in Crawford on Saturday or any other time.
It is not scheduled.
Uh simply responding to the caller who uh theorized that I had breakfast with the president every morning.
Thanksgiving is one thing and it's great.
Christmas, I always get more thankful at Christmas for some reason.
It's a greatest holiday.
Family members uh of it are just uh irreplaceable.
And I hear this song, it makes me tear up when they get to the end of this thing and they get the crescendo, the strings, the synthesizers, whatever.
It's Manheim Steamroller and uh Silent Night.
And I'm not gonna talk over too much of it because it's a beautiful song.
I just want to once again tell all of you how much you mean to me.
And have been for 19 and a half years and many more as we can do.
And I hope you have the best of the holiday season.
I know a lot of people are going through uh tough times in terms of memories, lost loved ones.
Our family does the same thing.
But nostalgia tends to always remind us of the good times, the happy times.
And I hope that your memories can be happier than sadder, and that you take time to reflect on what this time of year really means.
Thanks so much for being part of this program in my life.
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