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Jan. 25, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 25, 2008, Friday, Hour #3
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Hello, friends.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program, the nation's most listened to by far radio talk show with the most educated and the most informed audience in all of media, including broadcast news channels and nightly news broadcast this according to the Pew Center for the people of the press.
It's Friday.
Let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Only an hour to go today before we head into the uh the weekend.
It's gonna be a tough weekend after there's no NFL football this weekend.
So that means golf.
And the beach.
Well, looking at it anyway.
Telephone number 800-282-288-2, the email address, Rush, or L Rushbo, sorry, new address, L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
All right, about this torture business.
We had a caller in the last hour talking about McCain and waterboarding, and you you probably heard the conversation and I uh the senator said basically the ticking time bomb situation he wouldn't even resort to torture, which I don't think waterboarding is, but we'll get to that in a minute.
Uh he said he wouldn't resort to torture even in a ticking time bomb situation with a nuclear blast ready to go off, a terrorist knowing where it is, because he wouldn't want to diminish us uh and have us lose face in the rest of the world.
Aside from the the erroneous substance of that, why this why this compulsion is sound like liberals.
But do you know this whole this whole business of torture is so overblown, and so is the ticking time bomb point.
Uh it's the bombs we don't know about that have the chance to find about.
Find out about.
Uh we would still have the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, or that section of the Pentagon has been rebuilt, but we would still have a Twin Towers.
If we had gotten everything we knew out of Zacharius Massawi, the 20th hijacker, but instead, we wouldn't even look on the guy's laptop, much less interrogating.
We never even got to the point of torture with Massawi.
We were all hung up on civil rights and so forth.
Uh when it when it comes to the question on torture, you know what McCain could have said is look, I know what torture is, and turning down the air conditioning a little bit or playing rock and roll music, and even putting underwear in the top of these guys' heads is not torture.
And it's offensive at anybody would say it is.
McCain knows what torture is, and he knows that what we were doing is not torture.
But he it was it was obsessed with was sounding like libs at this point, which and President Bush has done that earlier in his campaign for 2000 on the president.
And it just it it puzzles me as to why this uh why this happens.
But he he chose liberal praise here over over the option of protecting the country in the ticking time bomb uh situation.
Um following his arrest, this is from Court TV, by the way.
Following his arrest, authorities search Massawi's home.
They found two knives.
They found a manual for a Boeing 747.
They found fighting gloves and shin guards in the name Ahad Sabet.
One of the many aliases, bin Al-Shib.
Yamzi uh Ramsey Ben Al-Shib goes by, uh, written in a notebook.
And while they seized the laptop, they needed a warrant to view the information stored on the on the hard drive.
The warrant was denied uh based on the FISA Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, uh, a civil liberty statute.
If we'd have found out what was on this guy's laptop when we had this guy, when was it?
In August?
That we had Miss Alley, the 20th hijacker.
So we're not even we're not even really talking about torture in in terms of protecting the country.
So it's a it's a it's a misguided debate, but this whole torture argument was being launched by the Democrats to handcuff our efforts in the war on terror, and there was Senator McCain echoing that lingo.
And I just whether it's Senator McCain or any other Republican, I just don't understand it unless there's some reason to help or to assist Democrats in hand tying President Bush, which is doubly difficult to understand.
That a Republican with Senator McCain's foreign policy expertise and his history and experience would join.
So just a it's a giant question mark for me.
Now, what a we got a drive-by caller here uh recently, Mr. Snurdley advised me of this during the break here at the top of the hour, and uh this is an excellent point.
A caller, by the way, a drive-by caller, somebody calls it can't stay out of line.
But the caller said, you know, I'm really puzzled here.
Last year, uh, for much of the year, all we heard from the Democrats in the drive-by media was the necessary implementation, a re-implementation of the fairness doctrine.
Because these talk radio guys, they've gotten out of hand.
There's no balance out there, and we have to get fairness back into the public debate.
This has to happen.
Uh, and uh Pelosi and who's this, Maurice Henshe in New York and a number of their Democrats were talking about threatening to do it.
It got so severe that Mike Pence, Republican in the House, uh, launched legislation to have a forever ban on the re-implementation of the fairness doctrine.
And it was all because we were too powerful.
And it was all because liberal talk radio couldn't make a dent.
And it was all because well, the one medium that the drive-by's and the Democrats and the Liberals don't control talk radio, they had to shut it up rather than engage us in ideas just like political correctness.
They hear something you don't like, they shut it up rather than engage it.
And the drive-by caller said, now look where we are.
Now we come to January, and these same people who were just hogwallering all over about the fairness doctrine, now can't wait to proclaim you, Mr. Limbaugh, irrelevant and dead.
That you are dividing your party and you are losing.
That McCain is beating you.
You can't get your supporters to vote the way you want to every way and I've not told them which way to vote, by the way.
Uh I've not uh what?
Never have.
Well, in presidential races, I make it kind of obvious, who I'm for and against, but I mean tur in tur but in a circumstance like this, I'm not out there telling somebody, go vote this way.
And I'm I'm not saying don't do this.
You have to infer that uh from things that you hear me say, but I haven't said it directly, and yet they are eager to proclaim me as irrelevant, and at the same time they tell me I should shut up.
So I guess the caller's point was there's no need for the fairness doctrine now, is there?
Since I don't count anymore.
I mean, I can't even get these Republicans to do what I want to do.
Or what I want them to do.
And beyond that, uh, in fact, uh, how about all this talk that I'm just in a tank for the GOP?
And now the GOP won't won't follow along.
It's uh it's fascinating.
Uh speaking of McCain, Paul Campos, uh Scripps Howard News Service, about three days ago had a piece on the media's love affair with uh with McCain.
And he said, one of the curiosities of American politics is the media's ongoing infatuation with Senator McCain.
A bit of this is based on things such as McCain's opposition to torture.
Um unfortunately, we can no longer treat opposing torture like opposing child molestation, i.e., something one assumes is standard equipment in a presidential candidate rather than a luxury upgrade.
Yet most of the journalistic love affair with the Republican senator is based on other factors.
Consider this typical endorsement from the Orlando Sentinel.
While McCain, quote, has stuck to his principles at the risk of sinking his campaign, Mitt Romney has abandoned positions that would have alienated his party's conservative base.
Uh unquote.
Uh I checked a computer database and discovered that in the national media, Romney is at least six times more likely to be described as a flip-flopper than McCain is.
But this doesn't merely ignore, but actually inverts the truth.
The fact is that no presidential candidate in either party has flip-flopped as egregiously as Senator McCain on such a wide range of issues.
Here's just a small sample of Senator McCain's recent uh series of remarkable conversions to politically convenient stances.
On abortion rights, McCain has done a 180 from favoring only the most minor restrictions and opposing the overturn of Roe versus Wade to supporting an almost total ban while advocating that the Supreme Court reverse Roe immediately.
McCain has transformed himself from a deficit hawk who mocked supply side economics into somebody who sounds like he's drunk deeply from the wackiest vats of supply-side Kool-Aid to the point where he now claims raising taxes decreases revenue.
A claim so wildly in conflict with the facts.
For example, federal tax revenues have almost doubled in real terms after the Clinton tax increases, but it's either a shameless lie or a product of astounding ignorance.
Uh raising taxes decre raising taxes does decrease uh revenue if it's done if it certainly certainly can.
But in any way, uh, in regard to ethanol subsidies, McCain has gone from treating them as the worst sort of pork to becoming a strong supporter of a program despised by economists but beloved of Iowa farmers and the good people at Archer Daniels Midlands.
Six years ago, McCain sternly condemned uh Jerry Falwell's an agent of intolerance.
Eighteen months ago he gave the commencement address at Fall Wells University, while openly embracing one of the most noxious figures of the religious right.
Now, there's a guy from the Scripps Howard News Service, Paul Campos, uh, from whose piece I'm reading here.
Um these are just a few examples from a far longer list on topics ranging from immigration to campaign finance reform to gay marriage to accepting support from various sleazy characters that he previously shunned.
Senator McCain has either completely reversed his views or seriously equivocated regarding what they are this week.
Uh yet the media continue to lavish him with worshipful pins to his supposedly uncompromising commitment to principled leadership, uh no matter what the political cost.
Part of this is accounted for by lazy autopilot journalism.
But part of it is something worse.
When it comes to Senator McCain, many of the sophisticates at the top of the media pyramid are like masochistic spouses who uh treats open infidelity as a twisted sort of faithfulness.
They love McCain because when he lies to their face, he doesn't even pretend to be doing otherwise.
According to this pretzel logic of a certain kind of journalism that counts as candor.
When you openly lie to a journalist and don't try to tell them you're be you're being honest about your lie, then that's candor.
All this would be merely amusing if McCain were not such a genuinely tragic figure.
The young man who showed such exemplary courage uh in the face of his North Vietnamese tormentors has become an old man whose courage abandoned him when he subjected uh when subjected to the more subtle tortures of worldly ambition.
Paul Campos is a law professor at the University of Colorado and can be email address here, and this appeared in the Scripts Howard News Service on January 26nd.
All right, brief time out.
As it's open line Friday, your phone calls are next, right after this.
Everybody's a winner, hot chocolate.
Rushlin bought talent on loan from God.
And as promised back to the phones, Jerry in Wheeling, West Virginia.
Great to have you with us today, sir.
Hello.
It's a nice speak with you, Russia.
It's quite a pleasure.
Thank you.
Uh, I've got a question, and then I'm gonna hang up and I'll listen to your answer.
Uh I understand how economics works somewhat.
And the price of oil today is anywhere between ninety to a hundred dollars.
It's been up and down.
My question is being that it's an election year.
Someone like George Surrows or even uh the people that's selling the oil, the uh um sheep OPEC.
OPEC, yeah.
Can they manipulate the prices?
Can they have their buyers come in and buy it at a higher price and just hang on to it till later?
That's my question.
And I'll let you answer this and I'll get down to radio.
Well, wait a minute now.
Wait, I'm not gonna let you off the hook that easily.
Okay.
What do you think?
I think it's possible.
I mean, anybody with enough money can do anything.
Um can you re can you recall uh a period of time how old are you?
I'm uh fifty-eight years old.
You are fifty-eight.
All right.
Well, you're you're uh you're a year older than I am.
So do you recall in in any of your adult life when the price of oil was manipulated without holding withholding it from the market, contrived shortages to affect elections?
Uh personally, no, I can't.
The only the only time I can remember blatant examples of this would be with the contrived shortages of oil being allowed into the country in the 70s to be refined.
But there was not a shortage of oil.
They were just withholding it from us uh for a host of reasons, and they did get the price, uh and it happened rapidly, went from 25 cents up to a buck inside of two years.
But you know, since 1969, when gasoline is about 20, 28, 12, 25 cents a gallon, uh in 40 years uh it's gone up basically $2.80, maybe three bucks, which is not really a whole lot.
So when you talk about the price of oil, you really take it down to the root level of the price of gasoline because that's what it's gonna, that's how it's gonna manifest itself in terms of affecting people's lives.
And uh there have been investigated eminent Democrats after Hurricane Katrina.
They went into these gouging examinations and analysis, they had these hearings and they were just convinced that big oil was playing games by getting the price up there left and right to gouge people, and they have yet, the Democrats have yet to be able to find one instance of it.
Uh in fact, John Kerry, the haughty uh John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, suggested during the 2004 presidential campaign, uh that he did two things.
He the first thing he did was say that if he were president, he'd be on the phone with OPEC, and he'd make sure to get the price down and get the price.
Whatever had needed to be happening at the time.
Carries, oh, get on the phone and oh, make those great things.
And it wasn't long after that, and he accused Bush of doing the same thing behind closed doors.
Uh I think it when you're talking about the price of oil, and even the price of gasoline, do you know that the uh everybody expected after Hurricane Katrina, we had a refineries were shut down for a while, we had some oil wells out there in the Gulf, and people were panicked.
Oh my God!
Oh my god, gasoline prices all over the distribution pipes and uh systems and all upset.
And for a while, you know, you could found six dollar a gallon gasoline in Atlanta uh for a day or two.
But do you know what kept the price down?
You know why none of that happened after Hurricane Katrina?
Because we import refined gasoline.
It's so tough to manipulate markets when it's global.
Let's say that George Soros does try to impact the price of oil.
George Soros may have it in for Republicans, but the ChICOMs couldn't care less about George Soros.
If George Soros starts monkeying around or tries to, and he can only way he could do this would be on the commodities market, which is where these fluctuations in the price of oil are taking place.
When you you know what you want to I don't I'll look this up, because this is fascinating.
We need to go into what the speculative price of oil, the futures price of oil right now is you said between 90 and 100 bucks a barrel.
Go to the government's publications, uh, and I'm not sure which publication this is, but it's it's it's out of the uh Office of Management and Budget, and find out what we're actually paying per barrel of oil that we import.
It's nowhere near 90 to 100.
That's just the futures market price.
Uh but but uh it it's it always astounds people.
I don't I don't I just I don't think with global market and oil is the fuel of this world functioning.
And when you try to up the price artificially somewhere, it's gonna have an effect somewhere else down the line.
I don't think anybody could sustain a uh full-fledged world increase, dramatic increase in the price of oil.
I just don't think uh I've if if it were possible, it'd be happening all the time.
And it doesn't happen all the time.
And I know what you're saying, you think that the Democrats or Soros might do this to impact the economy and give the election to re Democrats and Bush's in office.
Uh they're gonna try things like this.
Uh but they really don't have too far to go.
Most people think we're in a recession anyway when we're not.
Open line Friday rolls on uh back to the by the way, there's a huge fire out in Las Vegas, a three alarm fire at the uh Monte Carlo Hotel and Casino.
Uh and it's uh they got fire trucks and uh departments there and so forth.
Uh it looks, you know, I'm I'm just telling you what it looks like.
It just looks like a scene from the Middle East on your average day.
Uh it looks like the fire is spreading down.
It's at the top of the hotel.
Uh the very top floor and so forth.
It looks like it's moving down on on one side of it.
Uh thick, thick black smoke.
They're getting all the residents out of the hotel, moving them to other hotels.
Audio sound by time.
Uh let's go back to the debate.
The debate last night here in Bolkaraton.
Uh Tim Russert said to Mitt Romney, Governor Romney, do you trust Senator McCain and Mary uh or Mayor Giuliani on the issue of being tax cutters?
I trust these two gentlemen and I respect them greatly.
Now, I also support the Bush tax cuts.
Senator McCain voted against them originally.
He now believes they should be made permanent.
I'm glad he agrees they should be made permanent.
I think he should have voted for them the first time around.
The Bush tax cuts help get our economy going again when we face the last tough times.
And that's why right now, as we face tough times, we need to have somebody who understands, if you will, has has the private sector, has the business world, has the economy in their DNA.
I do.
I spent my life in the private sector.
I know how jobs come and I know how they go, and I'll make sure that we create more good jobs for this nation.
And one way to do that is by holding down taxes and making those tax cuts permanent.
One of the things that amazed him.
I listened to this.
Of course, this makes total sense to me.
It obviously makes total sense to me, but I I sit and I imagine other people watching the debate, and they say, you know, they'll think that government, like Hillary Clinton could run health care better than somebody who's actually in that business.
Hillary Clinton could run the oil companies better than somebody that actually is in that business.
Uh and of course, people that have never had any experience running business at all in government, and you realize how many people think that government should dispense some of these services and run some of these business.
Fright, we've got uh Sylvester Salone on the phone uh just back from Las Vegas.
Sly, welcome to the programs.
Great to talk to you again.
Oh, thank you very much.
Real privilege.
Uh I watched your movie the other night.
I watched it uh well, this is I guess I watched it Wednesday night.
Sly, my staff, I came in and told everybody about it.
It was about this time in the program yesterday.
I started telling everybody about the movie.
Uh, and I got so passionate about it, I they said you better stop, you're giving everything away.
Oh, no, listen, thank you very much.
Uh I was actually when we were making a film, I was thinking about after you seen Rocky Balboa, I said I really wanted to give you the you know the other side of life a real contrast and try to be true to the Rambo ideal and what he represents to a lot of Americans.
Well, you know, you why did you pick why why did you choose to pre uh uh uh uh premise this movie on what's happening in Burma?
I mean here's Rambo.
He's uh retired living in Thailand, capturing snakes for people.
We know I have no idea how he got there.
Uh uh why did you decide to focus on that?
Well, I originally had him coming back to uh America and I was gonna deal with the uh Mexican border situation, MS-13.
Then I thought that really wouldn't resonate around the world.
Then then I said, Why don't we go back to the Vietnam War?
That had the most traumatic effect on his life.
So he's kind of drawn back into that jungle where he feels safe.
It's almost kind of like his uh second family, an indifferent family, but a family, the jungle of the indifference.
And then uh I called Folge of Fortune magazine and certain factions over the UN.
I said, What is the most underreported human rights violations on the planet?
A real hell on earth that no one knows about.
And they said, Burma.
I said, Why?
He says, Well, the Burmese pay millions of dollars every year to lobbyists and PR firms in Washington to basically squelch what's going down over there.
They have the longest running civil war in the world, sixty brutal years.
Now, your portrayal of the uh and I you wrote this, and you had you had uh uh from what I was able to count in the credits, it's like ten or maybe eleven different production arms and elements.
That's true.
Okay, so that that tells me that it took a lot to get this made.
Exactly right.
Okay, so your portrayal of uh of the doctors and the nurses, the that from the church group to go in and and try to help the sick.
Right, I mean, it's so right on the m and I right on the money, and I was stunned to see it from uh from a Hollywood movie, but you've you've always had the uh the ability to get away with this kind of thing in your in your work, but I mean it was just right on the money.
There's I at times I was standing up and laughing at it, and uh and other times I was just I w I found myself getting angry.
Um I don't want to give too much of it away, but when after you save twenty people's lives, the guy tells you he has to report you because it's never right to take a life, he wouldn't even be alive, and those people are alive and amongst us today.
Oh, very very much so, and uh I actually did a lot of research on these they actually believe what they're doing is is is right, and that someday there's gonna be this mystical moment and we're all gonna join hands to sing we are the world, and when the truth is Rambo says uh, you know, war is natural, peace is an accident.
That's a fact of life.
It's unfortunate that we can m we can start a war in five minutes, but it takes us a hundred years to make peace.
So what comes more natural?
So he's trying to tell these people all the medicine, all the Bibles, all the optimism and and this naivete doesn't work in a savage world.
Uh and and well, I'm not gonna tell anybody whether they learned the lesson or not, but it's you pr you portray them uh flawlessly.
Now I want to ask you about this because I've after I saw it, uh and I watched it a couple nights ago after I saw it, I saw the first review.
Said it uh it's missing a plot.
The uh review that I read in the New York Post today, uh it was also not glowing, which I think is fabulous news for you because I don't spend a lot of time reading movie reviews, but the ones I do always seem to be critical, and those movies just do buffo.
If I could be really candid with you, if my name was Scorsese or Coppola right away, it'd be uh uh take it a certain way.
I I represent something, especially to the liberal press.
When Ronald Reagan came out and and jokingly said Rambo's a Republican, the die was cast, so people cannot even interpret the movie.
I find it incredibly irresponsible that when this savagery is going down, like USA Today gives it one star, they don't even review the idea of what is happening to Burma, they couldn't care that the monks were slaughtered.
It's just like whatever Stallone represents to a kind of like right is might, let's squash him immediately and make this sound trite and it's just a vehicle for a man who should be sitting in his wheelchair retiring.
The odd thing is there's a lot of hope out here, Rush, because the majority of the people who want to see Rambo were twenty-eight years old and and to 40.
And the people are going to see this movie are the younger generation because they're looking for a representation of what uh uh real values are, what it means to be a man, and as Rambo says, you know, live for something or die for nothing.
You know, and it's like zil you have to take a side and and and really stand up and and be willing to walk the walk.
And these people just don't walk the walk.
I am the anti-Christ to what they represent.
I mean what they stand for.
And it's sad because I sometimes want to write them and go, you know, if you just looked into the Burmese situation, rather than scathing me, you could have wrote something positive because by the time this article is written, probably about nine children have been murdered, and all you've accomplished is just throw another rock at me, and it really has no more uh impact.
I mean, I've been rocked for the past thirty years.
That's the only unfortunate thing is they don't look at the political ramifications of trying to be positive.
Just they just go after what they think I represent, which is hard right core, uh jingoistic, you know, irrational, uh savage instincts, and it's completely wrong.
I try to walk the balance in this film when you show both sides.
Well, but you know, the the even if it has been all that's true, and uh uh but but even though you've risen above it with the content of your movies, you your your movies reach people, you connect with your audience.
They love the movies, and that's the these critiques are not gonna matter.
Uh they don't they don't matter that much.
They th these people cannot kill a good movie and they cannot make a bad movie.
No, that's true, actually, and then I started to think about it, said well, maybe this is a if this person really did like your film, then you've missed.
You've done something wrong.
You've now joined them.
Well, congratulations on it.
I know uh uh let me ask you y when I when I mentioned the reviews and the critics, you got uh I got a little rise out of you.
How important is that?
I mean, may maybe I'm wrong.
I mean, is it is it more important than I think to the success of your movies or you've got a franchise.
Rambo's a franchise.
No, not really, Ross.
It's like it's just that when when people have a certain uh uh uh kind of uh self uh uh an agenda that it really goes out, let's just just let's just be negative and not see things as they are, and and that always bothered me.
If at the end of every critique, just like when you have a child and you criticize the child, say, okay, now here's the way we think you should do it.
Here's the way we think it would be better.
If you're going to be destructive in criticism, you should also be constructive at the very end and say, hey, why don't you try this?
At least it may not be right, but at least it gives a fair and balanced reporting.
But the most important thing is I really wrote it for people to enjoy it's a matching film that also hopefully it brings about a little uh awareness to a situation that's so sad.
Uh well, it's also this is a this is a um you bring mercenaries in for them.
Rambo's usually been a one man show.
You bring some some assistance, and why'd you do that, by the way?
Well, I think uh to be realistic that uh at Rambo gets at a certain point that when you do it as a one man army, I think it's now it's kind of you're you're into fantasy land.
Uh to realistically carry out a situation like situation like this, I thought I'd bring in mercenaries, but the mercenaries also represent people that have kind of like been so shown as soulless, and you can buy and sell them, but by the end of the movie, you've learned that Rambo could have never succeeded without them, because as they say, they send in the devil to do God's work sometimes.
Well, great, well, you know, you stick to your guns because while you're sitting there talking about what they think you ought to do and who you think who they think you are, uh, based on some political identity, just tell them to look at their own box office receipts and say what makes you people think you know what you're doing.
There you are.
There you go.
So great to be talking to you again, and I thank you very much for liking the film, and I hope I hope your uh audience enjoys it too.
You uh they will.
They will.
If if I do, they will.
Well, if I do, they'll go see it.
Thank you.
The audience, not mine, um robots, uh, independent independent thinkers like you and me.
But look, thanks for I was talking to Arnold Schwarzer last night.
He came to the premiere.
He says, Rush is the man.
This is one man that like he could get a rise out of me, and I never win a debate with him.
Okay.
Well, thank you.
I'm surprised he said that.
No, he didn't.
He really respected me.
He says, I'm telling you, that's one powerful individual.
I swear.
Well, it's that's um curious.
Uh look, Sly, thanks for passing and thanks for sending me the movie, too.
I I appreciate the having a chance to see it.
And all the best with it.
Thank you very, very much.
Sylvester Stallone is Rambo, and it I think it's tonight when it uh when it debuts and premieres and starts.
It's uh the runtime on this thing, I should tell you, the runtime is uh minute twenty, minute twenty-six, the rest of its credits.
It's it's an hour twenty-six.
Did I say minute?
I I meant to say it's eighty-six minutes.
I get verbal dyslexia.
It runs about an hour twenty-three, hour twenty-six, a slow credit roll.
At the end it takes it up to an hour and thirty-three minutes if you want to sit and watch a whole credit roll.
Uh, there's some gaps in it.
Like I said yesterday.
Um here here's here's Rambo out there in the middle of the Taiwanese or uh the uh the Thai jungle, he's in Thailand, just out in the middle of nowhere capturing snakes to stay alive, and out of the blue comes this bunch of doctors and nurses just walking into this bedraggled place that he lives with no explanation of how they got there, no explanation of where they came from.
No well, they might there might be explanation of where they came from.
I hearing this was not captioned, so I couldn't hear the whole thing.
They just walking out of the blue.
No indication of how the hell they found the guy, and then after they're captured, uh the guy from their church who sent them shows up in a palm beach sport coat and a white pair of pants in the middle of the jungle, trying to hire Stallone or Rambo to go get these.
How did he get them?
There are little things like that that that are that are that are left out of this.
Uh but you don't the end, they they're they don't they don't matter any much to the very much to the way this whole thing plays out.
But that's my two cents.
I'm not a professional movie movie reviewer.
All I can tell you is I liked it and I didn't once think of getting up, and I didn't once look at a watch.
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Hi there.
Uh Russ, uh Megadinos.
Uh, we could have an in stimulus package if we let it be known that we're gonna start drilling for oil, the oil futures would fall like a rock, and people would have enough money to spend and we wouldn't be sending it over to our enemies.
Uh what do you think of that idea?
Well, uh I went through a lot of this yesterday.
I must have spent about 20 minutes on this yesterday.
Um but the the this you know the five myths of foreign oil dependence and so forth.
But as far as the stimulus is concerned, I went through a whole list of things.
Yes.
Including if you really want to stimulate the economy, get the federal government to suspend gasoline taxes.
Do you know what percentage of the gallon per gallon price you pay is taxes?
Try fifty cents time you get federal, state, and local.
Suspend gasoline.
If you really want to stimulate the economy, you want to do it now.
Uh there are all kinds of things.
But yeah, we ought to be drilling for our own oil uh for for uh any reason.
Security reasons, uh the fact that we depend on foreigners, although most of our oil comes from uh Canada and Mexico.
We're not primarily dependent on the Saudis.
Um, contrary to what everybody thinks.
Beyond that, as I said brilliantly and eloquently in this monologue, we're a growth economy.
We lead the world.
And conservation is not going to lead to growth.
Conservation's fine in and of itself.
Uh we need we've got plenty of our own oil in a number of places.
The very people demanding uh that we stop being dependent are the very people preventing us from getting our own sources out of the ground.
Uh Robert in uh Leeds, Maine.
Welcome, sir to Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Yes, hi, Rush.
First time caller, longtime listener.
Thank you.
I wanted to uh mention to you about uh uh when I first seen the New York Times article about McUh Clinton and McCain.
My first reaction was that Hillary had a running mate.
And uh I was a little shocked.
Uh the second one.
The second uh comment I have is is about the infatuation the media has with John McCain.
And my whole uh theory is on the fact that I think they're banking on that if if a Democrat does not get elected president, that um their good buddy John McCain will be.
And it's really isn't gonna be this you know any different.
It's gonna be status quo for them.
And well, that yeah, that that theory is has been advanced that uh because there's no question.
Like the Times endorsing McCain.
Uh they're not gonna vote for McCain.
They're not gonna endorse McCain in the general, and and Democrats criticizing Clinton so forth are gonna vote Clinton.
These media people are not gonna vote for McCain.
Uh I think, in addition to they like McCain because he talks to them, invites him on a bus.
Uh, he will at times, you know, he's a maverick because he criticizes President Bush.
You've got to understand the drive-by's and the Democrats hate Bush.
When any Republican comes out and criticizes Bush, they are universally loved.
Plus, he puts them on a bus, talks to them, answers their questions, uh, and so forth.
But there's there's another there's another um reason behind this, and and that is that let me let me put it to you this way.
No drive-by media newspaper is going to ever endorse a conservative.
It's just that simple, folks.
It is never going to uh the timing on this is horrible.
I just got a story cleared the wires that inside Hillaryville at the campaign headquarters, they are just miserable.
That's the story.
That there is no happiness in there at all.
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