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Jan. 11, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 11, 2008, Friday, Hour #3
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Hi folks, welcome back from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's the EIB Network in a brand new episode of the Rush Limbaugh program on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday!
And I promise we're going to devote this hour to your phone calls.
I asked Mr. Snergley at the break, how many calls have I taken?
He said, two.
I said, two?
I've taken two calls on Open Line Friday.
He said, yep.
He also said, these are the best shows.
Just kidding, folks.
I can't wait to talk to you.
Here's the telephone number, 800-282-2882.
Email address, rush at EIBnet.com.
By the way, something I don't think has been mentioned, I'm going to spend a little time here on the Democrat side of things and the other exciting news items out there.
Have you ever stopped to think back to the New Hampshire primary the couple days leading up to it?
Remember the drive-by is all excited that Mrs. Clinton in pre-election polls was going to lose anywhere from five to 12 points.
And throughout the day of the New Hampshire primary and their coverage, all excited about this.
This didn't hit me until a little bit later.
But it was, to me, unique.
The drive-bys up until recently would just bend over forward, grab the ankles for the Clintons.
You know, whatever.
But we started noticing in the summertime and in the fall some pretty hard-hitting hit pieces from former slavish Clinton reporters like Ron Fournier of the Associated Press and our old buddy Nedra Pickler of the Associated Press.
And there was quite a lot of serious dumping on the Clintons.
And then the New York Times in the week leading up, Bill's not attracting any crowds.
His audiences are half asleep.
They're walking out early.
It got me to thinking, you know, this was, it was the reason for this.
And I think that the reason that all the drive-bys, and I mean all, you'd be hard-pressed to find one who was not dumping on Hillary last week.
And you know what I think?
I think the reason they did that, the reason they were falling all over each other to trash her, was out of sheer relief that she might not be the candidate.
And I think it was very illustrative in showing just how much the drive-bys hate the idea of President Hillary.
I still don't think they're still out there talking about, they're excited over Obama's endorsements, the culinary union.
Janet Napolitano, the governor of Arizona, has endorsed Obama.
That's another thing.
You realize there seems to be a lot less fear on the Democrat side of going against the Clintons.
I mean, the Clintons have let it be known as the machine candidate.
If you're not with us, you're forever going to be on the outs.
If you don't endorse Hillary, then you're not going to be part of our administration.
You're not going to be granted good favors and blah, blah, blah.
And there seems to be less and less fear of that.
Now, in South Carolina, James Clyburn, Democrat member Congress, ranking member Congressional Black Caucus, assumed all along to be going for Hillary.
He's backed off.
He's upset at the Clintons' term for Obama and foreign policy not having done enough spade work.
They're not happy with the way the Clintons have used disguised racism in dumping an Obama.
If Clyburn, and I don't know if it's going to happen, but if Jim Clyburn decided to endorse Obama in South Carolina, that's one endorsement that might have an impact for all this talk about Bill Clinton being the nation's first black governor or president.
And how stupid was that?
But that's something that survived as well.
So I have detected that the drive-bys are not that enamored of the Clintons anymore, and we're just looking forward to her getting shellacked.
And it may be they're just tired of being slaves.
It was eight years.
Try this headline.
PETA, people for the ethical treatment of animals, requests vegetarian diet in jail for cannibalism suspect.
Sheriff's officials were astounded.
Where is this?
This is Tyler, Texas.
Sheriff's officials were astounded yesterday by a letter requesting the man accused of murdering his girlfriend and possibly participating in cannibalism be placed in a vegetarian diet to keep him from being involved in any senseless killing while incarcerated.
This is not the onion.
This is not Scott Ott.
This is not scrappleface.
This is not satire.
PETA requests vegetarian diet in jail for cannibalism suspect.
Look at this twisted story.
This is from the Baltimore Sun, but it's about New Jersey and Maryland.
The state's high court upheld yesterday a decision to deny a driver's license to a Maryland resident whose permit in New Jersey was suspended because he had forged citizenship documents.
Ramiro Silba Alvez, who is from Mexico, received a New Jersey license that was withdrawn after it expired in 91 because the applicant had made misrepresentations on his application when he arrived in the United States.
Unlike Maryland, New Jersey requires applicants to prove they are American citizens before licensing.
But Maryland law prohibits its motor vehicle administration from issuing driver's licenses to people whose licenses are suspended in other states.
And remember, this is the issue that tripped up Mrs. Clinton, driver's licenses for illegals.
For the Los Angeles Times, Democrats hit the trail again with friends.
Let me tell you how the Times writes this, and let me translate it for you.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton spent the afternoon and evening campaigning in Nevada, whose 19 caucuses will be the next important Democrat contest.
She snared an influential endorsement of her own, Henry Cisneros, the first Latino secretary of housing and urban development.
Can I rewrite that for you?
Can't tell what the headline for this story ought to be: Hillary picks up support from indicted politician who had mistresses.
Subhead, and it's not her husband.
Well, Cisneros served in Clinton's administration.
He was indicted on all this.
He pled it down to a felony.
But nevertheless, also, the drive-bys, you know, this story's been out there a long time.
It's been that the Chicago Tribune has been spending a lot of time on this story.
The drive-bys just ignored it.
But now all of a sudden, Brian Ross and the ABC Investigative Unit are on the case.
In sharp contrast to his tough talk about ethics reform in government, Senator Obama approached a well-known Illinois political fixer under active federal investigation, Antoine Tony Resco, for advice as he sought to find a way to buy a house shortly after being elected to the United States Senate.
The parcel included an adjacent lot, which Obama told a Tribune he couldn't afford because it was already a stretch to buy the house.
On the same day Obama closed in his house, Rezco's wife bought the adjacent empty lot, meeting the condition of the seller, wanted to sell both properties at the same time.
Rezco had been widely reported to be under investigation by the U.S. attorney and FBI at the time Obama contacted him and has since been indicted on corruption charges by a federal grand jury.
What's interesting about this is that Obama was making U.S. Senator's salary of what, $140, whatever it was back then, and his house of $1.6 million.
Hmm.
Subprime loan, anybody?
Working wife.
Oh, sorry.
Yes, working wife making $180,000.
$200,000.
Mrs. Clinton in Las Vegas yesterday, walking Hispanic neighborhoods.
Have you seen the video?
Out there going door to door, walking Hispanic neighborhoods, walking inside some people's houses, sitting down and talking to them, talking about the subprime mortgage.
She said, unscrupulous lending leads to bad mortgages, which lead to foreclosures, which lead to people with nowhere to go, and vacant neighborhoods that can go rapidly downhill.
We treat these problems as if one is guacamole and one is chips when they go together.
We treat the problems as if one is guacamole and one is chips.
I mean, you let a Republican say this about a bunch of Hispanics?
I'll tell you something.
She was walking down the street.
Not Sir Douglas Quintetches about a mover.
She's walking down the street there with all the entourage.
And let me just give you some of these quotes in the story.
It's from the Las Vegas Review Journal.
Gilberto Santana, 38, sat on the edge of a chair as Hillary sat in a brown leather sofa in his living room next to his wife and his two young crumb crunchers.
Santana told Clinton how his wife Elizabeth, a housekeeper on the strip, was barely supporting the family single-handedly while he was unable to find work for two months because of an operation.
We're sort of struggling, he said.
We're getting there, but you have to be strong to make it.
Clinton asked a couple questions about their mortgage, his disability payments, and answered his questions about immigration and the war and health care costs.
Stroking the four-year-old little girl's head, Hillary said, I feel so strongly if we don't take care of our children, we don't take care of our future.
Gilberto Santana said, we are doing everything we can to make sure that everyone in Las Vegas votes for you.
In broken English, one woman told Hillary Clinton how she wasn't making money as a broker anymore.
I have no income at all.
How am I going to survive?
How am I going to survive?
Choking up with emotion, the woman said, in my neighborhood, there are brand new homes, but the value is nothing.
I'm glad you're here so I can tell you because you're going to be the president, I know.
A man shouted through an opening in the wall that his wife was illegal.
Mrs. Clinton shouted back, no woman is illegal.
To cheers.
No woman is illegal.
Mrs. Clinton in Las Vegas, drumming up votes for the Las Vegas caucus.
Right.
She wants to hit up ice.
Immigration control enforcement.
Yep.
No woman is illegal.
This isn't playing the gender card.
No woman is illegal.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
All right.
Oops.
Hang on, folks.
A little tickle to the throat here.
Now, I know I've got better manners than that, but this is radio.
And if I sip this silently, it'll be dead air.
And dead air never hurt anybody.
So I slurped it on purpose.
To the phones, Rosalinda in Seymour, Indiana.
Rosalinda, I remember you.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
I'm just fine.
You know how I remember you?
What's that?
You have the dog that you named Mr. Limbaugh.
That's right.
And the last time you called and told me this, after you hung up, I got a little concerned because you didn't want you to start calling the vet and say, Mr. Limbaugh, I need to bring Mr. Limbaugh in to be neutered.
Mr. Limbaugh has rabies.
Can I bring it?
It was very didn't want you to call a vet and say that because that's how rumors get started.
Yes, I was laughing for about 15 minutes after that.
Well, how are you, Rosalinda?
I'm doing great.
I wanted to let you know we bought a new home and it came with a barn, which we inherited a cat, and so we decided to name her Hillary because we're not fans of cats.
And she likes to torment Mr. Limbaugh and our other dog, Maddie.
You just keep adding to it.
Yes, but I also wanted to say, just wanted to thank God because tomorrow is my husband's birthday as well, Tim.
So happy birthday to you and Tim.
Well, thanks, Rosalinda.
I appreciate that.
Does the cat, Hillary, is it just a regular run-of-the-mill mutt cat?
I don't know what she is.
She's black with gold speckles all over.
She's very interesting looking.
She could be a reverse leopard.
Yeah.
Does this Hillary make Mr. Limbaugh foam at the mouth?
She makes him very aggravated because he's on a chain, and so he can only get so close to her.
Oh, that's not good either.
Mr. Limbaugh on a chain.
But it's typical.
What kind of dog is Mr. Limbaugh?
Well, they said he was a beagle, but he's looking more like a boxer.
All right.
So we think he's a boxer.
All right.
All right.
That's good.
That's cool.
Now, Rosalie, another question before you get to your topic.
I'm stunned.
We live in a depressed economy.
We're almost near recession.
And yet you bought a house.
A second house.
We own two now.
A second house with a barn.
Yes.
Now, this frankly does not compute to me with, you know, here we are on the verge of a recession.
How is this possible?
You could buy a second house as a barn with a throw-in cat.
I don't know.
God has blessed us.
We have good jobs, and we make a good living.
You mean you and your husband work?
Yes.
Well, that must be it.
That must be it, yes.
Good.
And that means there are jobs to be had.
All right.
Rosalind, I mean, have you, Academic Times?
I know you live out there in Seymour, Indiana.
I don't know what there is public transportation there, but you take the bus, do you take light rail to get where you're going?
No, we actually have to drive vehicles, and we actually just got a new truck.
Well, one more time.
This is not fear of you.
Here you are bragging about your affluence to a nation that is cringing in fear, cowering in the corners, fearing a recession.
And listen to you.
You just blithely, proudly brag about all your acquisitions.
Well, again, we're blessed.
And I actually work in an industry where I encourage people to save for retirement and save in the stock market.
So what is that industry?
That's rare.
Yeah, 401ks.
So, you know, I'm definitely sending out the opposite message of most people.
Terrific.
Well, it's great to know that you're in the audience.
People like you are greatly appreciated.
Now, enough banter.
What was it that inspired your call today?
Well, I watched the Republican debate last night, and I was really excited to see Fred Thompson more fired up, more passionate.
But my one concern with him is that the media claims that his campaigning efforts are very kind of lazy.
And so with this whole Obama rock star kind of thing going on, you know, would he really be able to compete with that?
Would he really be able to get people behind us?
This is so have you have you listened to?
Did that upset you?
What?
What the media is saying?
Well, they just keep lifting Obama up.
Oh, there's so much energy in his campaign.
Of course they are.
Let me tell you what they're trying to do here.
I hate to be redundant, but you've been so busy buying things.
You may not have had a chance to listen to the whole show today.
But the whole purpose of this is to dispirit conservatives like you into not supporting Thompson or the candidate of your choice.
They're building up McCain.
They never say McCain can't afford a loss anymore.
They never say McHuckabee can't afford a loss.
But they're out there saying, if Fred loses and his campaign's too late, it doesn't matter.
He got tarted too late.
If Rudy doesn't win soon, he's out.
If Romney loses Michigan, why?
He's done and so forth.
They're trying to build up candidates on our side that they think Obama and Hillary or Hillary could easily beat.
They will tell you who the conservatives are each and every time by trashing the Republicans they fear who are conservative, and they'll go soft on the Republicans they think are moderate, not as conservative.
Don't fall for this.
With you, it appears they're succeeding in doing exactly what they want to do.
You liked Fred's performance last night, but he's starting too late.
Where has this been?
We've only had two states.
Well, they haven't succeeded because I was a Mike Huckabee supporter.
I'm an evangelical Christian, and so at first when he was way down in the polls, I thought he was a pretty interesting guy.
But as more scrutiny has come and I've been looking into it, I've moved on to other candidates.
So, you know, even though I'm an evangelical, I'm not behind Huckabee.
I think there's other things that are just as important.
Well, look, you're making a great point.
It's fluid on both sides.
It was just five days ago that Obama had gone from a three-point victory in Iowa to what was going to be a five to 12-points victory in New Hampshire to a two-point loss.
Five days.
Drive-bys beside themselves.
We've had two states.
We've had states where the Republican population, voting population is mostly conservative, haven't even weighed in yet.
Be patient.
Very fluid out.
That's exactly right.
Real life, it is what it is.
One of our themes here at the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
So Hillary Clinton says no woman is illegal.
Fine.
Solution to this.
Every man crossing into the border get a sex change first.
Come across the border in Mrs. Clinton's administration.
He, she will be legal.
By the way, Mrs. Clinton, there's something going on here.
I've had this story in a stack, and I want to bring it to your attention.
Mrs. Clinton, the Nevada caucuses are approaching on January 19th.
She reflected upon her defeat in Iowa in the Hawkeye caucus, and she suggested that caucuses cause a disenfranchisement of voters.
And the ABC is here theorizing that she's trying to lower expectations for her campaign.
She said, yeah, you have a limited time on one day to have your voice heard.
That's troubling to me.
You know, in a situation of a caucus, people who work during that time, they're disenfranchised.
People who can't be in the state, who are in the military.
They can't be present.
They're disenfranchised.
She didn't admit to any frustration about the 60,000-member culinary workers' recent endorsement of Obama, but.
Now, there's two things.
She's either trying to lower expectations or she's trying to get a bunch of people to skip out of work and come back to the state and go to the cauca.
One of the two.
Steve in Middleburg, Virginia.
Nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, wow, Rush.
Three calls.
You act like it's your show.
Thank you.
Anyway, happy Friday to you today and happy birthday tomorrow.
Appreciate that, sir.
Thanks.
In any case, I wanted to let you know that last week I participated in Man on the Street with ABC News.
I was in D.C.
And it was about the economy generally.
And she asked me about the news, Babe, asked me about flatline economic news.
That was her words, her connotation, I believe.
And I reminded her that economies are generally cyclical, not linear, with a natural level of rise and fall.
And she seemed visibly annoyed when I said that.
So she pressed me on several other issues, you know, mortgages, gas prices, unemployment.
And without knowing that I was a grad student of the Institute of Higher Advanced Conservative Studies, excuse me.
And so I took them one at a time, and I brought to her attention that the mortgage crisis seemed to be brought on by predatory and unscrupulous lenders, came up with people submitting fraudulent loan applications.
And the worst part about these people is they now expect the taxpayers to pay for their foolishness and fraud and pick up their casino tab.
And that it's not my fault at Bush's that somebody making 30K bought a $500,000 house.
And then on gas prices, she asked me about that.
And I said, if there's so much concern about gas prices, why are SUVs flying out of showrooms?
And how come Honda Insights that get 70 miles per gallon aren't selling on hot cakes?
And I suggested the logical solution, of course, drill Anwar and everywhere else, build more refineries and nuclear plants until Al Gore invented.
Let me guess.
You're calling to tell us this because they didn't use any of what you said.
I doubt it.
But, you know, I told her until Al Gore invents a car that you can stick a garden hose into and drive it away, that's what we needed to do.
And I asked her who was blocking all this from happening.
And she said with a straight face, I don't know.
And I told her that, you know, it's not my fault or Bush's fault that some people buy more car bus than they can afford to fill up with gas.
And then unemployment, I said that when Clinton had similar numbers, they carried him around their shoulders and gave him gold stars.
And then I ended up by saying that these problems can be solved if we stop electing liberals and Democrats to responsible positions in government.
And then you could really tell when the economy was in trouble was when women stopped buying cosmetics.
I looked at her real close when I said that.
And then she, you know, and then I think that's when she hit the erase button.
Yeah, I guarantee, even if you had a prayer of having some of your words used on their Man on the Street report, that cosmetics comment aced you out.
But my guess is you're describing this woman when she was perplexed totally by what you were saying.
Something like this.
Is that what you said?
She looked at me like a social disease.
Just her body language, her facial expressions, everything.
I was saying nothing that she wanted to hear.
That's what I could tell.
It wasn't only that you were saying things she didn't want to hear.
You were saying things that didn't compute.
You know, most drive-by media people have very narrow visions.
And it's just like all of liberalism.
They've got this little cocoon in which they've woven, which they've woven, in which they live, and to set up this security blanket for themselves.
And anything that's at odds with it doesn't permeate.
It's like you were speaking a foreign language to her.
Economy's good.
The economy's good.
It's your people's own fault for the...
Why, why?
I'm...
I'm sure she thought you were the biggest blue-ring idiot on the face of the earth, even though your IQ is probably three times as high as hers.
I've been told, but anyway, that's my birthday present to you.
I appreciate it.
Well, that's really, that's a fabulous story, and I appreciate it.
Also, this subprime thing, you know, who's responsible for this?
You know, I mean, you can say that it is people who took out loans knowing they couldn't afford them if the ARM went up.
You can say it's predatory lenders, but who made the lenders predatory?
Congress.
The American dream, Mr. Limbaugh, we must have equality.
And if some people can't have homes in this country, it's not fair.
If only the rich can have homes.
So we need people, we need to stop the process of redlining Mr. Limbaugh.
So Congress makes these financial institutions go out, lend money to people who can't afford it if certain economic circumstances occur and voila.
And now it's bailout time.
You knew, you knew it was going to happen.
I get people.
I just checked email to break.
People do not believe me when I say I'm just going to sit home and watch football on my birthday.
Folks, I've told you, I don't know how many birthdays are not a big deal to me.
There's no big achievement.
I'm working on it.
It's embarrassing to have attention call to me on a birthday.
There's no achievement there.
It's living a year longer.
Yep, yep.
I could say it was a marginal achievement if I still live in New York.
But it's, well, no, it is a great birthday.
People just can't believe that I'm just going to sit at home and watch football.
You have to understand.
I had three different friends saying, well, you put together a group of people you like at a big party.
No, I want to spend my birthday with my favorite person, me.
And I want to watch football.
It's the greatest football weekend of the year.
Second greatest following.
You realize how many people would love to be coming over to my house to watch football.
Well, I'm not going to do it because it'll become a party.
It'll be a distraction.
I am a good guy to watch football because I watch the game.
And I explain the game if people don't understand it because I'm not going to sit there and have them.
Can we go do something else?
I don't understand this.
Men, too.
It just depends on who shows up.
So nobody's going to show up.
Door's going to be locked.
Front gate's not going to be answered.
Oh, yeah.
Predictions.
Let's do some predictions for the wild, for the this is the semifinals, the division rounds.
See if I got these point spreads off the top of my head correct.
We've got the Packers hosting the Seahag Seahawks in Green Bay, 3:30 Central Time tomorrow.
It's going to be 26 degrees with temperatures falling.
The Seahawks kicker is going to wear heated pants underneath the football pants, heated underwear, little hand warmers in there, because kickers don't get much activity.
They've got to run around on the sidelines, practice kicks.
I think, what is it, eight points?
Seahawks getting eight.
That's that is tough.
I don't know if the Packers can beat the Seahawks by eight points.
The Packers are not playing well in cold, inclement weather.
So I take the Seahawks plus the eight.
Tomorrow night, the Jacksonville Jaguars into New England for the Patriots.
The Jaguars are getting 13 and a half points, folks.
All this, you know, the conventional wisdom with the sports media is, you know, it's sort of like the way they cover politics.
If Thompson doesn't win here, he's finished.
If Romney doesn't do well in Michigan, he's done.
If Romney doesn't win in New Hampshire, he's done it.
If Romney didn't win in Iowa, he's done.
If Giuliani can't get this momentum going, he's done.
For the past four weeks of the regular season, the drive-by sports media has been saying first it was the Steelers.
They had the best chance of beating the Patriots.
And a couple other teams.
Now it's the Jacksonville Jaguars who have the best chance of beating the Patriots.
And I understand why people say this.
Jacksonville getting 13.5 points.
But here's the deal, folks.
You do not bet against Bill Belichick when he has two weeks to prepare for essentially a wildcard team.
You just don't.
But Rush, but Rush, he hasn't known that he was going to play the Jaguars until last Saturday.
No.
The Steelers had faced the Patriots, and the Chargers have faced the Patriots.
And those were the other two teams that might end up playing the Patriots.
They had not faced the Jaguars.
Belichick spent most of his time in the off week studying the Jaguars because he only had a file on the Pittsburgh Steelers and the San Diego Chargers.
They're ready for the Jaguars.
Now, the reason I'm tempted to take 13 and a half points here is because they've got a running attack.
The Patriots have been vulnerable on the ground this year on the defensive side.
And the conventional wisdom here, their linebacking core is getting a little age and wears down toward the end of the game.
That one of the reasons the Patriots have been running up the score is to protect themselves against defensive fatigue, age, and breakdown in the later stages of the game.
Again, more conventional wisdom.
I wouldn't get rid of anybody they've got on that defensive side of the ball.
Brewski, Junior Sayow, Rodney Harrison.
But regardless, if they do have a powerful running attack, the Jags do, and if they can control a time of possession enough, I mean, the way to keep the Patriots from scoring a lot of points, keep them off field.
But the Jaguars have been up there before.
They played the Jaguars two years ago down in Jacksonville.
Jaguars have been up there in a playoff game before in the snow.
It got creamed.
They got wiped out.
Different team, obviously, but you don't bet against the Patriots when Belichick has two weeks to prepare.
I'm tempted to take 13.5 points.
On Sunday, we have who we got?
We got the Giants and Cowboys.
Yeah, Dallas.
But before, who's the other game?
Oh, the Chargers, San Diego, and the Colts, and this is another nine-point game.
This is the Chargers are getting nine points.
Take the Colts, lay the nine.
No questions asked.
Giants, Cowboys, take the Giants plus seven and a half.
I think they'll cover.
And this is going to be a much closer game than a lot of people think.
The Giants, Eli Manning standing a little taller.
They're coming in with a lot of confidence.
T.O., they'll do something with the high-ank sprain, at least get him on the field.
It'll be a distraction, double team.
But that's going to be a good game.
And I'd take the seven and a half points in that one.
Cowboys probably win, but I think the Giants are cover.
Quick timeout back after this.
And by the way, on the football games, and Mr. Snurdle, this is for you because point spreads don't interest you.
But if you just want to pick straight up winners and losers this weekend, because you've got the two top seeds going with all the home field advantage head bye weeks, the home team wins over 75% of these four games.
Home team wins 75%.
Forget the spread, just straight up.
So if you want to play the game just straight up, if you can find somebody that lets you play it straight up, then keep that stat in mind.
Nick and Tallahassee, nice to have you, sir, on Open Line Friday.
Yes, sir.
How are you doing today?
Good, sir.
You just had some questions and just a thought, or wanted to know your thoughts on some stuff.
Bobby Bowden being the most winning is coach in college football and everything.
I was just wondering what your thoughts were on him and whether he should retire or whether he should try to stick it out and hopefully turn this program around.
I think I played golf with Bobby Bowden once down here in Florida prior to a boosters dinner.
Was in the spring, after spring practice.
And he was, it's been about five or six years ago.
It was over in Naples, I think, Fort Meyer Summer.
He was just feisty as he could be.
It was a blast to be around.
He was actually a pretty good golfer.
You know, he is the face of that team.
And I think, you know, if they hadn't designated who is the offensive coordinator or the defense coordinator to be the head coach when he retires?
Jimbo Fisher.
Jimbo Fisher.
What is he, defense or offensive coordinator?
He's offensive coordinator.
Okay.
If they hadn't done that, it would have been a problem recruiting and all.
But now they can go recruit guys out of high school and say, there's continuity here.
Jimbo Fisher is going to take over.
And Jimbo Fisher, by the way, rejected opportunities to go somewhere else.
He's established his loyalty.
So, you know, Bobby Bowden is a face of that franchise or face of that program, and he's entrenched.
And they're going to kick him out of there just like he's going to kick himself out of there.
It's like Joe Paterno at Penn State.
So, no, I have all the respect in the world for Bobby Bowden.
I don't know him that well.
And I don't really follow college football that closely till we get to the end of the season because I didn't go to college.
So I have the rah-rah alma mater spirit.
Plus, college football teams don't wear socks.
I think they look like amateurs.
So I just, it's tough for me to get into it.
But having met Bowden and the overall success of that program is such.
Look at the number of people, number of players they put in the National Football League that end up playing well and being stars.
There's something to be said for it.
And I wish him the best.
I really enjoyed getting to meet him.
His kids, his sons.
I've never met them, but they seem to be really good guys, too.
Ultimate plus for the program from an outsider looking in like me with no intimate inside knowledge.
Bud in Red Wing, Minnesota.
Thanks for waiting and welcome.
Thank you very much, sir.
Nice to speak to you.
Happy birthday, Bob.
Thank you very much.
I just wanted to call and talk to you because just before you went on vacation at the Christmas holiday, you had done this brilliant monologue in response to comments by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Oh, yes.
And I was highly impressed with that.
I mean, you're always impressive, but I mean, this was so insightful.
Well, this is a guy, Dr. William Rowan, the Archbishop of Canterbury, typical, you know, liberal priest, was disparaging every, well, you know, the star of Bethlehem.
It didn't stand still.
Stars don't do that.
He did everything he could to say, don't believe in biblical miracles.
Don't believe it.
He went even so far as to get close to the resurrection.
Say, well, you got to, you know, you can still be a Christian and have doubts about the residence.
No, you can't.
The resurrection is the key.
Christianity is all about Christianity.
If that didn't happen, then none of it happened.
And for an archbishop, the Archbishop of Canterbury to come out and try to water it down like that.
He can have whatever religion he wants.
I remember what I said.
He can have whatever religion he wants, whatever faithful belief he.
Don't call it Christianity.
Absolutely.
It's just another one of these liberals trying to tear down institutions and traditions that people find comfort in.
They use his anchors.
It burned me up.
I'll never, especially on the verge here of Christmas.
Well, Bob, Bud, I appreciate that.
That's very nice of you to have remembered since before the holidays to call and tell me that.
Final timeout of the day, and we'll be back and wrap it up here in just a second.
Thanks to everybody for the birthday greetings and the happy birthday wishes.
And I really do appreciate it.
I'm just surprised people remember it because I don't ever talk about it.
It's much appreciated.
And I hope you have a great weekend.
Be back here Monday, all revved up to clean up the mess made by the drive-bys the next two days.
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