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May 16, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 16, 2008, Friday, Hour #3
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And greetings to you once again, thrill seekers all across the fruited plane.
The award-winning, thrill-packed, ever exciting, increasingly popular, growing by leaps and bounds.
Rush limbaugh program on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And we have an hour to go, and I owe a lot of you people a lot of phone calls in this hour.
I was intending to speak with Jim Nance a couple segments, first half hour.
And it just kept getting more and more enthralling.
People sending me emails, Jim Nance for president.
Some said Jim Nance for vice president.
So we'll uh we'll make it up to you.
You get a lot of phone calls coming up in this hour.
Great to have you with us.
Telephone numbers 800 282, 2882 if you'd like to appear.
And the telephone number is uh the email address rather is El Rushbo at EIB EIB net.com.
I'm stuttering here because I'm distracted by what's on television.
I'm watching Fox.
Apparently McCain has hit back at Obama over Obama, hitting it.
McCain.
Uh for agreeing with Bush on Bush's appeasement remarks.
The White House.
This is from Mark Ambinder at the Atlantic blog, the Atlantic Monthly Blog.
Uh he's got a post that uh just recently went up saying the White House was talking about Jimmy Carter.
Uh Bush when he made the speech of the Knesset in Israel was talking about Jimmy Carter.
He wasn't talking about Obama.
It doesn't matter.
I'm they they thought, you know, these people have this notion in the Obama campaign that the world revolves around them that everything going on is about Obama.
And their reaction was a godsend.
Because they know he said this.
They know that whatever Bush said about whoever it was, it is applicable to Obama.
We had the audio soundbite earlier.
What soundbite number was that?
Was that number eight?
Uh, Mike, I've got my transcripts uh buried here.
With the Obama comment from back in February or March of the debate down in Austin, Texas.
That was number here.
Play the Obama said this.
He did say that he would he would meet with the people like Akamadinizad without any preconditions.
I would meet uh without preconditions, although Senator Clinton is right that there has to be preparation.
It is very important for us to make sure that there was an agenda, and on that agenda was human rights.
Releasing of political prisoners, opening up the press.
Uh and that preparation might take some time.
But I do think that it's important for the United States, not just to talk to its friends, but also to talk to its enemies.
All right, so there he is.
He said it.
This is the what whatever.
This is why the Democrats are all circling the wagons and trying to attack Bush.
And it's laughable now that they're attacking Bush because Bush, you know, you're not supposed to attack the president when he's on foreign soil, right?
This is this is the old saw.
Now, naturally, the Democrats have ignored that for the last six years.
They've they've gone, uh Clinton, Gore, any number of them, have gone overseas and delivered policy speeches critical of Bush and this country.
And we all sit here, we watch this.
How's the drive-by let them get away with this?
Because the drive-bys are in a tank for Obama as they would be for any Democrat presidential nominee.
And they hate Bush.
So this is it's just the way it is.
But what's interesting, the Obama people are not demy denying that he said it.
They're just simply saying that uh that uh this was just uh the unfair attack, a personal attack, uh violating years of protocol and so forth.
And in the process, ladies and gentlemen.
Obama, in his vitriolic overreaction, in both form and substance, is violating the same principles that he is railing against.
That is, in form, he's being as divisive as he is falsely accusing Bush of being in his strident personal attacks against Bush and McCain and and Bush didn't even attack him.
On substance, he's calling Bush's foreign policy dangerous and other adjective far worse than Bush supposedly said about the Democrats.
And yet these people are complaining.
They're like a little bunch of spoiled kids.
They need to grow up and say, okay, you want to have a spirit of discussion about our opposing philosophies?
Fine.
But no, we can't do that because we will lose that discussion.
So we have to whine.
And we have to pretend like we are little kids here and that we're being insulted and so forth, and that we've been turned into victims.
And if Obama, he's the great unifier, right?
Obama's going to unify us all.
Yes, this is a great example of how.
You know, we got a Republican nominee who's moving in their direction to try to embrace him and say, hey, we can all get along.
It's Obama pretending that he's the great unifier, and all he's doing is being divisive himself.
He wants to, yeah, I mean, he's pretending to approach civility, uh, but it's just pretense.
This is um it's amazing to watch.
We have some soundbites here from Obama at his town meeting in Waterloo, South Dakota.
Here's the first.
Yesterday, uh George Bush was before the Israeli parliament.
The president did something that presidents don't do, and that is launch a political attack targeted towards the domestic market in front of a foreign delegation.
On a day when we were supposed to be celebrating the anniversary of Israel's independence, he accused me and other Democrats of wanting to negotiate with terrorists.
We were appeasers, no different from people who appeased Adolf Hitler.
That's what George Bush said.
Now, that's exactly the kind of appalling attack that's divided our country and that alienates us from the world.
And that's why I'm running for president.
This is, you know, this guy is Clinton Jr.
This is this is pathological.
You know, a rational analysis of this is a waste of time.
It's just a pure waste of time trying to explain to people why Obama's lying through his teeth.
Uh I don't think his supporters don't want to hear that he's lying through his teeth, because they already hate Bush.
So whatever Obama says, but if this is just that that is sewage.
What he said is sewage.
It is just pure unadulterated drivel.
Here's the next bite.
Then not an hour later, he turned around and embraced George Bush's attacks on Democrats.
He jumped on a call with a bunch of bloggers and said that I wasn't fit to protect this nation that I love because I wanted to sit down and negotiate with tough diplomacy, accuse me of not being fit to protect this nation, this nation that's given me everything that I have.
So much for civility.
Well, I want to be perfectly clear.
If George Bush and John McCain want to have a debate about protecting the United States, that is a debate that I'm happy to have, and that is a debate that I will win.
Rad oh, rat all right on.
The fact of the matter is he said exactly what they're saying.
He said, that he would meet without preconditions with people like Mahmoud Ahmadinizad.
Now let me explain what the preconditions business means.
Normally, when the president of the United States is going, we're not talking Secretary of State or some undersecretary, the vice president or a member of Congress or some delegation.
When the President of the United States extends his offices, the executive branch of the United States government to a foreign leader, it grants a legitimacy to that foreign leader.
Back in the old days when we did have summit meetings with the Russians and the Soviets.
All of the official work, all the treaties, whatever it was that was going to be agreed to and signed, all happened months prior to the actual summit.
The summit was ceremonial.
Yeah, they had around, they sat around and chatted and so forth, and they did the official signing, but all that stuff was done.
Those are the preconditions.
And you do not meet with your enemies until you have gotten something from them.
And that's the purpose of the summit.
So when Obama says that he is going to meet without preconditions with Ahmadini's odd, it means you're going to head him over for coffee.
Or he's going to go there, or he's going to have Ahmedini's od here.
In the process of doing so, the legitimacy will be anointed, if you will, legitimacy will be established for Ahmadini Zod, and Ahmedini's dad can sit in the Oval Office and tell President Obama to go to hell.
And it's going to happen whether he likes it or not, because the 12th imam is waiting to come out of the well, and all I got to do is destroy Israel, and you, President Obama can't stop me.
And if you don't have a scheduled meeting with some preconditions where that kind of stuff's not going to happen, then you let little old Ahmadini's on leave the White House and he goes out, tells the world what he just told the president.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
Uh But the president, President Bush is exactly right.
This is the whole thing.
John Kerry, global test, you go back to uh any number of years with liberal Democrats.
They do think that the force of their intellect can turn evil people into good people just by talking to them.
They do.
This is why this is struck home.
This is why Obama is reacting the way he is.
I mean, this is a direct hit.
These people, they should have ignored this, but they're acting like this is major because it was.
This has spelled out exactly who they are, not just Obama, but his whole party.
And their reaction to this is illustrating it for one or you know the uh thing that we've talked about on this program when I first started, and I had all these criticism that was full of lies, and I don't know what to do with about it, and seeking advice and uh get one group of people say, You can't let that stand.
You have to react, you have to respond, you have to stand up for yourself.
Then every time I did it.
The people who were criticizing me smiled and rubbed their hands together and said, aha, direct hit.
Must bother him.
Must be true.
So stuff that's not true, I I ignore you know the other stuff, you just consider the source, but you don't elevate him.
And this is what Obama's done.
He has confirmed that this bothers him, and why does it bother him?
Bothers him because it's true.
So now they're all circling the wagons a couple more bites.
Here's the next one.
I'm a strong believer in civility, and I'm a strong believer in a bipartisan foreign policy.
But that cause is not served with dishonest, divisive attacks of the sort that we've seen out of George Bush and John McCain over the last couple of days.
John McCain has repeated this notion that I'm prepared to negotiate with terrorists.
I have never said that.
The irony is a story broke that he was actually guilty of the exact same thing that he is accusing me of.
And in fact, was saying that maybe we need to deal with Hamas.
And that's the kind of fear peddling, fear-mongering that has prevented us from actually making us safer.
They're trying to fool you and scare you, and they're not telling the truth.
And the reason is because they can't win a foreign policy debate on the merits.
Strong believer in civility, bipartisan foreign policy.
He's now saying that he would present his expectations to our enemies.
Um says he never said that he would meet with terrorists.
What is Ahmadini's at?
He said he would.
This is where he's stuck.
And Bush has not been uncivil.
Bush did not.
Bush never attacks the Democrats.
This is something we all know all too well.
We wish he would have been attacking the Democrats the last four or five years.
Here's the final Obama bite.
I believe we need to use all elements of American power to pressure Iran, including tough, principled, and direct diplomacy.
That's what John F. Kennedy did.
That's what Ronald Reagan did when dealing with the Soviets.
And that's what the president Stop the tape.
That's not what Reagan did.
Have you ever heard of the Pershing II missiles, you idiot that were put in Europe?
Have you ever heard of Grenada?
Have you ever heard of what we did down in Nickorak?
We did not just sit around and talk to these people.
I can't handle anymore.
This guy is dangerously uninformed.
So I don't know if George Bush is calling his own Secretary of Defense a Pizer.
I don't know who he's talking about.
It's time to present Iran with a clear choice.
If it abandons its nuclear program, support for terror and threats to Israel, then Iran can rejoin the community of nations.
Stop the tape.
Stop Earth to Obama.
That has been the policy for the last ten years, sir.
We even turned it over to the precious Europeans.
They're so much better than we are.
We turned it over to the European Union.
We've turned it over to everybody.
We let everybody else do.
We've turned it over to the United Nations.
And you're you want to go to the commercial.
I I can't, I can't literally deal with this.
Hey, look, here's the here's the truth, folks.
Barack Obama would not only meet with terrorists, he has one as a good friend.
William Ayers.
Barack Obama's a flat out liar.
He's a manipulator of words.
He's a manipulator of events.
He went from saying no preconditions.
Now he says he never said that.
He lays out preconditions.
He's flailing around on the deep end of the pool.
He's yet to learn how to do the doggy paddle.
He's he's reacting like a child because his position is childish.
He's acting like a child who has been upbraided by a parent.
And he's being defiant because he knows the parent is right, but he doesn't like the parent, doesn't like who said this, and so it's here.
Take this.
This this is a young elitist kid from Northeastern Academies, has a sense of entitlement.
He thinks he is above criticism because he thinks he is so special.
Yes, I'm entitled to say this.
Of course I'm entitled to say it, Mr. Snerdley.
I don't I don't follow the list of things I went through earlier that we're not allowed to talk about.
I mean, with Obama, we started out, we couldn't talk about his big ears, because that made him nervous.
But we've gone from that to this.
Not only can we not mention his ears, we can't talk about his mother.
He can't talk about his father.
We can't talk about his grandmother unless he does.
Brings her up as typical white person.
Can't talk about his wife.
Can't talk about his preacher.
Can't talk about his terrorist friends.
Can't talk about his voting record.
Can't talk about his religion.
We can't talk about appeasement.
We can't talk about color.
We can't talk about lack of color.
We can't talk about race.
We can't talk about bombers and mobsters who are his friends.
We can't talk about schooling.
We can't talk about his name.
Hussein can't talk about his lack of experience.
Can't talk about his income.
Can't talk about his flag pin.
Started out, we can't call him a liberal.
Started out, we just couldn't talk about his ears.
Now we can't say anything about him.
Here's uh Peter in Hudson, Wisconsin.
I'm glad you called sir.
Welcome to Open Line Friday.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Um, well, I have a question for you about um about a class I'm in.
Um we're I'm in a government class.
I'm a senior in high school.
And um, in this government class, uh we we do round tables once a week run by the students where we talk about uh different political issues or just issues um in government.
And uh this week I'm running the round table, and it's about um post secondary school mandatory service.
Um kind of uh like military internship stuff.
Yeah.
Um a lot of European countries, yeah.
So um like I had this idea.
I've been listening to you for two years, and it's been great, and I had this idea, this crazy idea that I could call you and ask you uh what you thought about about um post uh secondary school mandatory service, uh what you thought the conservative view is, what you thought the liberal view is, since you know the liberals better than themselves.
Well, you know, the the the liberals bring this up now and again.
Uh-huh.
And they and they do it within the context of we all need to give back.
We all need the sacrifice.
They do it in the context of, well, you can help pay off your steward alone, uh, you know, by helping an illegal immigrant across the street or into the 7-Eleven, uh what have you, uh stalking the parking meters in San Francisco for the homeless to come raid, you know, any any number of kind of good works like that.
I I'm against anything compulsory.
This is the land of freedom and the home of the brave and so forth.
We don't have a draft here.
I I'm not saying there's not any value in it.
Uh there are a lot of people who could benefit tremendously from uh the kind of idea you're talking about in terms of discipline, hard work, you know, getting fit, getting in shape, and so forth.
But when you when you start when you start down the compulsory road, then you're gonna have everybody wearing uniforms, and we're gonna have all these people out sweeping the streets like the I'll never forget the first view of uh Beijing that we saw on television when Nixon landed there.
Uh all these little Chikom people in their head that were just like Ants out there sweeping the snow off the streets and so forth because they didn't have uh high tech equipment to do it.
But I go back and forth.
I just the whole the whole compulsory thing, once once you're once you're talking about uh people that are 18 and 19 until you have a military draft.
I'm not I'm not uh big on that.
Back in just a second.
My friend Andrew McCarthy.
National Review Online says, you know, I'm confused.
Obama sat in Wright's church for 20 years and can't remember hearing Diddley Squat.
He hears 20 seconds of a Bush speech in Israel, it doesn't mention his name and heard everything.
Now that's pretty damn perceptive.
He's just a little child here.
But this is the best day of his life, because this is the day he thinks he's got the nomination.
And by the way, folks, don't think I haven't noticed what's going on here today.
This guy, little Barack, has been on television live since 12 noon Eastern time, and this is not an accident.
Going to Cape Girardo was not happenstance.
Back to the phones, it's open line Friday.
This is Alan in uh in Gainesville, Florida.
Great to have you here, sir.
Thank you for waiting.
Good to be here.
Uh good job, Rush.
Hey, I'm calling about what we're talking about, about all this ridiculous outrage about what President Bush said yesterday at the Knesset in Israel on appeasement.
Yeah, yeah.
And what I want to know is if this was such a horrible thing to say, then why did he get such a strong applause from the people in the room who are all important dignitaries and legislators from all uh branches of the Israeli government?
Well, I'll tell you what was the wrong thing to say.
It was the right thing to say.
No, it was the wrong thing to say as far as well, because Obama's saying he never practices appeasement.
He's not his foreign policy's not about appeasement.
This is a personal attack against Obama.
You gotta understand we're dealing here with a Messiah.
This guy's on the ground in in South Dakota thinking everything happening in the world today is about him.
Really?
So Bush makes this speech.
Obama thinks it's a personal attack, when his name is not even mentioned, uh, talks about his foreign policy when there hasn't been a foreign policy yet that he has had.
Uh this we're we're we're dealing with a profoundly swollen ego here.
I agree, and that's what the liberals do.
They turn things around.
You can't say anything, and and right away you're attacking them, even if you're telling the truth.
They yell and scream.
Um this is the way they protect themselves.
Yep.
This is the way they protect themselves.
And and furthermore, they don't care.
They uh they don't care whether we like them, they don't care uh whether we respect them.
All they want to do is cream our clocks.
We, on the other hand, we want them to like us.
We want them to know that we're good people.
We want them to know that we really don't hate anybody.
We want them to know that we're really not racists.
Well, some in our movement say, well, some of us are racist, but we're not, I'm not, I'm not, and I don't want you to be confusing me with those people, so they couldn't care less what anybody thinks of them.
If they if they did, they wouldn't stay and do half the stuff they do.
There's they're they're totally focused on their agenda.
Now, they're not all that united.
They're got we got some problems.
I mean, in the stack of stuff here, there's some, you know, Obama got the endorsement of the uh abortion gang, nahrol.
I am telling you that there are certain women in the Democrat Party who are livid because they think Hillary should get the NARAL endorsement.
They're oh, yeah, they're a couple of them on television last night, and they are livid.
These w and it's it's just like I said, we've been took for two weeks, these women, they're been they're basically they're being told, go back and iron my shirt.
Go back and do the dishes.
Your glory days have come and gone.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We we needed you at one time on abortion, we needed you and all that, but your days are past.
We got this young stud now.
And this young stud's gonna take us to the promised land.
And we don't need a bunch of bitter, angry hags like you women thinking that this party owes you.
Oh, they're flipped to be because that's exactly how they think they're being treated.
With Hillary being kicked to the curb, Hillary being disrespected.
This was her nomination.
Don't you understand?
This was her presidency.
This was her pre I have not seen her on TV today.
No, no, no, no.
She doesn't exist.
You know, she's now been reduced to poor Hillary.
All the respect that people had for she's just poor Hillary now.
Poor Hillary, poor little Hillary.
Poor little I mean, even Ann Coulter calls her poor little Hillary now.
That's how bad it's gotten for Hillary Clinton.
Even Ann Calder calls her poor little Hillary.
Mark Levin has stopped calling her her thinus.
He feels sorry for her.
She's just been and these women that were supporting her, if this is their life, don't you know they have been they have been they've been forced to eat the dirt, the excrement sandwiches their whole lives as they climbed the ladder of feminism.
And the Democrat Party, just like they do with every other group, they'll use them up and when no more needed by kick you aside.
And they'll come back in uh, you know, convention November, they'll come back and they'll do their best to get these babes votes.
But the Democrats don't have to be united.
Uh the Liberals don't have to be united in order to behave instinctively.
And so this is what they're doing.
This Obama reaction, this is an instinctive liberal reaction.
You don't you don't attack us.
Who the hell you think you are?
You attack us.
You tell the truth about us, who do you think you are?
That's and so they they don't have to have a meeting to figure out the strategy to respond to this.
This is just instinctive.
Our side has to have all these planning meetings.
Strategy said, Well, how do we do this?
And we have our little groups and we have meetings and think tanks.
We get together and plot all this policy wonk stuff.
They just instinctively ped down the tracks.
Anyway, uh, who's next on this program?
Linda in Jackson, Mississippi.
Hello.
Hello?
Hello.
Hello, Mr. Limbaugh.
Hi, Linda.
How are you?
I'm just wonderful.
Thank you so much for educating me and the uh ways of politics.
Thank you.
And thank you so much for taking my call.
You're welcome.
I had a very simple little question I thought of for probably ten years, maybe not that long.
But I wanted to ask you, and then after I told Mr. Snerley I had one simple question, I decided maybe I should make it as a statement.
Therefore, being a perfectly honest, wonderful human being you are, you would not be forced to have to answer.
So I concluded over listening uh to a few statements that you've made over the years that you must practice TM.
And you don't have to answer me if you don't want to.
Um because you're such a wonderful gracious um gentleman, uh, one of the things, and uh Well, now wait a second, but you are curious.
I understand the uh structure that you have created here, making your statement uh in observation form, uh, thereby uh not requiring me to provide an answer, but you still are curious.
I'm still what you're not curious.
I am curious you are curious, yes.
Uh, but I don't I didn't want to put you on the spot because it's a question that may um ostracize you maybe a little bit because it's not looked upon uh by everyone.
It looks it's looked upon as kind of you know, something strange uh to practice transcendental meditation.
Cosmic consciousness?
There's nothing strange about cultural.
Oh, it's not, but uh I mean, maybe not more so where you're from than from I'm I where I'm from.
It it is not as uh strange.
How many times how many times a day do you meditate?
Twice a day for thirty years.
Oh, you just you just been in for three years.
Thirty.
Thirty.
I'm sorry.
Well, are you are you on the road to cosmic consciousness?
I would like to think so, yes, sir.
Because that's the objective of the Maharishi Mahash Yogi.
Yes, sir, and I think you're very much there too, because you keep bumping into me in my lucid dreams.
Uh-huh.
That helps a lot.
So when you are meditating, which is another one of the lucid dream.
No, no, lucid dream is when you're asleep.
Well, you're talking about when you're sleeping.
Yes, meditating.
Linda, I've heard that line before.
I mean, when I when I was younger, I used to use that line all the time.
You know, I had a dream about you later.
No, it's not uh it's not that kind of dream.
Um a lucid dream is when you observe your dreams.
Yeah.
But I mean I'm still in them.
I mean, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it's not a pickup line.
I'm not trying to pick you up.
Well, I didn't think you were.
Although.
You did make a comment once a couple years ago.
My husband and I heard you talking about being at a party, and that you wished you could meet some real people.
We volunteer.
We're real people.
We would love to meet you.
Well, that's awfully sweet.
I uh you you got a great memory.
I do not practice transcendental meditation.
I know people who have.
And that's that's why I know the uh the terminology.
Good.
Okay.
And I know about the mantras.
Uh-huh.
Uh I have talked about Maharishi University, which is in Iowa.
Yes, sir.
And I did say, you know, they got a basketball team there, and I said the uh the official cheer has blocked that vibe rather than uh Yes sir.
But uh Well, I thought you must have some familiarity with it, or maybe uh being as um a high state of consciousness as you are in.
Maybe that was one of the uh tools you used.
Yeah, wish it were, but I wish I could tell you it was, but it's uh it's it's not, even though I'm I'm familiar with it.
As I say, I've I've known some people who've uh done it, but they don't they don't do it any any uh any longer.
Anyway, Linda, you're so sweet.
I'm glad you called.
I gotta be back after this.
Take a break.
Uh much more straight ahead, saying more in five seconds than most shows will stay in a week.
Don't go away.
George Thoroughgood.
And the destroyers.
Is this golden earring?
Oh, this is trying to I thought was back to the bone.
Well, chalk it up to the cochlear implant.
Didn't do to me.
Other news, ladies and gentlemen, Miller Brewing CEO says beer drinkers are trading down to economy beers.
Cash-strapped drinkers starting to trade down to economy beers.
This is Tom Long, who is the CEO.
We think it's primarily driven by a decline of disposable income and pocket money that American consumers are feeling right now.
So the volume of beers sold remains stable.
The company expects to sell more lower priced beers this year if gas prices continue to rise.
Sacrifice.
We are sacrificing.
By big story about uh all these new home buyers able to get into the market here because the crisis, don't you know, of the credit markets and the uh subprime, why all these foreclosures, why a lot of people who used to not eighteen months ago couldn't anywhere dream of having a house can now get one.
It's amazing how this all works.
Science Daily, a new paper by North Carolina State University archaeologist Dr. Scott Fitzpatrick shows that Ferdinand Magellan's historic circumnavigation of the globe.
For those of you in real linda means who went around the world in the ocean, was likely influenced in large part by unusual weather conditions, including what we now know as El Nino, which eased his passage across the Pacific Ocean, but ultimately led him over a uh thousand miles from his intended destination.
Wow, you mean we had weather back when Ferdinand Magellan was circumnavigating the globe.
We had we had natural occurring climate cycles back then.
He must have had a lot of cows on his fleet.
A lot of methane.
Sea lions died of overheating.
This in Portland, Oregon, a tragic story.
Six protected sea lions found dead in government traps this month died of overheating, not gunshots.
Uh as had been initially suspected, the deaths halted a controversial program that allowed Washington State in Oregon to trap and kill sea lions in an effort to stop the mammals from eating endangered salmon.
So you know, this is the the salmon runs had stopped.
Uh so n here we are.
Never content to let nature just be who she is.
We think we have to, you know, we kill one animal now to save another.
Just can't leave our hands off of it.
Aaron in Jacksonville, Illinois.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Great to have you here.
All right, thanks for taking my call.
you've really made my afternoon.
Appreciate that.
Hey, I'd like to change gears a little bit here.
Uh you have mentioned before that because you're uh influential member of the media society that you get advanced copies of uh different shows and stuff like that.
And I was wondering uh first off, do you get those in high def?
And also wanted to say thanks to you for being a pioneer in that sort of technology so that people like me can finally talk our wives into letting us buy that technology.
Well, you're very kind, sir.
That's very to recognize this.
No, I have uh the uh the previews that uh that I am sent have yet to be produced in high def.
That's that's a matter of I mean, it's just a matter of time.
That's that is going to happen.
Sure.
So you're subjected to S S D then, huh?
Yeah, and it's noticeable.
You know, I here's here's the thing.
I've had a lot of people say, Rush, you really tell a difference in this Blu-ray DVD stuff than uh than standard definition.
Depends on what television you're watching it on.
But I have, you know, in my in my uh theater, I've got a sixteen foot screen, uh rear projection, glass screen.
And you by the time you you you you put a standard definition anything on that screen, uh, it's it's you know, that's it's gonna break up.
I mean, you you know, watch standard broadcast or a standard DVD.
It's not bad.
The DVD is better than standard broadcast.
By the time you put something high definition on that, it is stunning.
It is overwhelmingly beautiful.
Now, you watch, let's say if you have one L C D of whatever size, 30, 42, even 47.
Uh, you might have a little I mean, you unless you're really a video file like I am.
Ever since these V CR sort of came out came started coming out, I have been obsessed with the best picture I'm I can get if I'm gonna watch this.
Absolutely.
And so uh and that right now is 1080p.
Mm-hmm.
And that's what blue that's what Blu-ray discs are standard discs are 480i.
Right.
So uh the time you but if you're gonna if you're gonna watch a Blu-ray disc versus a standard definition disc on say a 42 inch plasma, the average person may not I think the average person would notice the difference if it's the right movie, if it's the right if the right picture.
Women, you know, they couldn't care less.
Just they just want the machine to come on when you turn it on and they want the picture to be where it's supposed to be.
But absolutely.
When you blow this stuff up to like a screen sixteen feet diagonal, then it's you I mean, there's no comparison to difference.
Yeah, and you know, even going see, I've got 1080i because I bought mine a couple of years ago and got the Blu-ray and absolutely love it.
And you know, I went and got the uh Planet Earth after they had it on TV.
Yep.
And and any more, it's just like I don't even like to watch the stuff on SD.
I mean the sound is funky, the picture can be funky, and then if you even go to the off-air broadcasts, you know, like we have out here in central Illinois, it's just it's one of those things that I wish that would be a thing of the past.
Love the hate love the HD stuff.
I hear you.
I mean, I've got the point, you know, I'll I'll watch I'll watch you know turtles being eaten by alligators if it's an HD as opposed to uh Fox News.
Yeah.
Now Fox News is in HD.
Now they haven't they're they're they've got uh one show right or two shows are in H D uh, but only on a couple cable systems.
They're going HD, I think full time in um sometime July.
Uh but uh not gonna be on direct TV until sometime later the spring.
CNN's already up in HD.
Uh ES it's it's there's just no comparison.
It really isn't.
By the way, Blu-ray is the winning format in the new DVD high definition wars, HD DVD didn't quite make it.
Blu-ray did, and that's gonna speed the whole process of people getting into that market.
And you can thank also me uh for that because I chose Blu-ray early on and have every Blu-ray disc, other than a stupid little, you know, how to dance stuff out there, but every movie and TV show, I've got it.
I'm setting the stage.
Holiday Road, I'm on it.
Charity golf trip, gone Monday, Tuesday.
Jason Lewis here Monday, Mark Davis on Tuesday.
I'll be back Wednesday.
Have a great weekend.
Great time this week, folks.
It really was.
I'll see you on Wednesday.
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