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May 27, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 27, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Hey Cookie.
I didn't have time to send you a flash note on this, but I just it was at the top of the hour break.
I was watching video tape of the McCain speech.
I told Cookie earlier today, no audio sound bites of the McCain speech, because it he started right when this program started.
Those people are going to learn.
They don't do their speeches when this show's on.
Cookie, I just saw that the anti-war protesters, a bunch of goofy looking kids, but they still showed up and they protested McCain's speech.
I want that audio.
I will play protesters at McCain's speech from Denver this morning.
Greetings.
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See the uh McCain camp release at health records and medical records on Friday.
Over a thousand pages, over a thousand pages of medical records.
And the USA Today headline.
Report McCain appears.
Cancer free, comma healthy.
Appears.
A thousand pages.
Bill Clinton hasn't released a paragraph of his medical records.
McCain a thousand pages, and they say appears cancer free.
Appears healthy.
What that means is they still think something was held back.
How about this?
Have you heard about this out in Santa Fe, New Mexico?
This is, by the way, this is where Joe Wilson and um what's her name?
Valerie Plane Valerie Plane moved.
A group in Santa Fe, New Mexico says the city is discriminating against them because they're allergic to the Wi-Fi wireless internet signal.
And now they want Wi-Fi banned from public buildings.
Arthur Furstenberg says he is highly sensitive to certain types of electric fields, including wireless internet and cell phones.
I get chest pain, and it doesn't go away right away, he said.
Furstenberg and dozens of other electro-sensitive people in Santa Fe claim that putting up Wi-Fi in public places is a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The city attorney in Santa Fe is now checking to see if putting up Wi-Fi could be considered discrimination.
City Council Ron Trujillo says that the areas are already saturated with wireless internet.
Hey, it's not 1692, it's 2008.
Santa Fe needs to embrace this technology.
It's not going away, Trujillo said.
The city attorney hopes to have a legal recommendation by the end of the month.
So here you have a whole city of Santa Fe.
A couple people show up.
You're going to snap that.
You're going to snap this.
We're allergic to Wi-Fi thing.
You're going to snap it.
And the city attorney is okay, well, we'll look into it.
I mean, this is don't go to the public building.
This is in the old days, in the old days, these people said, Look, you know, if you don't like this, move to a cave.
Or don't go to the public building.
Tyranny of the minority.
Uh Senator McCain.
A couple of items here.
This also from last Friday.
And it was quoted here in uh Michelle Malkin post on her on her website.
He gave he gave a couple speeches last week, and I missed this.
Little reference in one of the speeches.
McCain said, I don't like obscene profits being made anywhere, and I'd be glad to look not just at the windfall profits tax.
That's not what bothers me.
We should look at any incentives that we are giving to people that are industries or corporations that are distorting the market.
This is about big oil.
For crying out loud.
I don't like obscene profits being made anywhere, and I'd be glad to look not just at the windfall profits tax, but we should look at any incentives that we are giving to people that are industries or corporations that are distorting the market.
How you Senator McCain, government is doing things?
Giving incentives that distort the market?
What the hell's government doing to big oil?
What the hell incentives are there to big oil?
I guess even worse.
Political today on global warming, it's McCain versus the GOP.
John McCain's tempestuous relationship with his own party will be on full display when the Senate dives into a major global warming debate next week.
This is this is Warner Lieberman.
The question facing Senate Republicans are they ready to embrace their presidential nominees more liberal ideas for climate change ideas, like a cap and trade system, or will they stick to the conservative hands-off approach to global warming backed by President Bush?
It's a debate that may very well divide Senate Republicans and show voters yet another fissure in an already beleaguered party.
Democrats don't seem eager to offer a smooth path toward any bipartisan compromise that would give McCain any political cover.
On global warming and other issues, McCain's office is engaged in an intensive behind-the-scenes message coordination effort with Mitch McConnell, whose press office holds daily phone calls to map out the message of the day.
Every Tuesday, McCain's senior advisors meet with Republican senators at the National Republican Senatorial Committee to chart their agenda, and about once a week, McCain himself chats with McConnell.
Now, let's see.
This is Graham, Lindsay Graham.
Hang on just a second, folks.
Grab the trusty pen.
Grab the trusty pen.
I guess this is Lindsey Grahamnesty, who is also a uh a senator.
Uh John McCain was into climate change before it was cool, Graham said.
But that's the one issue where the majority of the conference may go the other way.
Conservatives hope that McCain will back a more market-based approach rather than the government mandates on carbon emissions that are part of the Central Senate proposal.
We're starting to see a coming together on energy, said Jim Dement, Republican South Carolina.
Hopefully he can help us find a position between Warner Lieberman and where we are as conservatives.
But in this internal debate, one can already see a distinct change in a Republican outlook.
Conservatives are trying to figure out legislative options on global warming rather than simply playing defense and mocking environmentalists on the topic.
The global warming deniers have taken a back seat.
One GOP Senate aide said, You've already seen the shift on energy and climate change.
You're not going to see tax breaks for oil companies.
You'll see us talking more about climate change where we didn't before.
So the Republicans here, apparently, even the great Senator Jim DeMint, talking about finding common ground with McCain on this.
So what we have here, there was a great piece, Peter Ferreira, in the American Spectator last week, writing, in this case about David Fromm, who is a conservative commentator and author, writer, National Review Online.
And this whole concept that I constantly rail against, and that is accepting the premises put forth by the left, and then trying to monkey with them a little bit and change them so they're not quite as bad.
Add a little conservative touch to it.
There's a there's a term that Peter Ferrara came up with to describe this.
And I can't forget the first was two words, the second word surrender.
Um, but that's what apparently is going on here.
When you accept the premise of the left and then try to tweak the end result, you fail to stand up for what you believe in, and you've just surrendered.
And it appears now that what's happening with the Republicans in the Senate is that they are prepared to surrender and sort of try to find a way to compromise with McCain to keep him consistent on his presidential issue, supporting a cap and trade, uh a camp and cap and trade program.
But the headline here is really all that you need to know.
On global warming, it's McCain versus the GOP.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and to continue right after this.
Okay, we do have audio of the protesters at the McCain speech today in Denver, Colorado.
And it's uh it's a short bit's 21 seconds.
And bliss war.
And bless war.
And bless more.
I have town hall meetings all the time.
I'll be having one tomorrow where people are allowed to come and state their views and we exchange them.
And the one thing we don't do is interfere with other people's right to free speech, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Senator McCain responding with courtesy to the long haired maggot infested dope smoking FM types who showed up and were unable to unfurl their t-shirt.
It was a most inept protesters I've ever seen.
You guys are going to have to step it up.
It was an embarrassment.
Two clowns stand up.
It can't be an un unfurl a t-shirt, correct.
If you're gonna if you're gonna protest, protest.
All right, Aaron in Philadelphia, you're next.
Great to have you here on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Russ, it's great to speak with you.
How are you doing?
Good.
Thanks much.
Good.
Well, uh I just want to do a couple things.
I want to uh jump on this before the tree huggers do.
Uh Mars' temperature might have something to do with the radius of its orbit.
It's further away from the sun than the Earth is, so I've glad you explained that.
The people in Rio Linda, the radius of its orbit might not have been understood all in the audience in Rio Linda.
So basically what you're saying is, of course, Rush, it's going to be minus hundred degrees on Mars, they're farther from the sun.
That would be play a part.
Yeah, a part.
But again, astrophysics is not my area of expertise.
Well, look at I understand it.
I've been waiting for somebody to call and say, but rush, but rush.
And you were the first to do it.
But here is the answer.
If the tree huggers, the environmentalist wackos, if they call here and say it, the answer is wait a minute, you guys say the sun has no impact on global warming in this country.
Uh-huh.
On this planet.
And they do.
They have they don't model the sun.
They don't factor sunspots or flares or any solar activity.
They don't.
They can't afford to.
Their theory would crumble faster than uh than than uh dust in a in an Indiana Jones movie.
Well, what is the next thing we're gonna have to do?
Stop wearing sunscreen because it's bleaching the coral reefs.
I'm a physician, and let me tell you, I'd rather deal with uh preventing melanoma than bleaching the coral reefs.
Really, what kind of doctor are you?
Uh I'm general practitioner.
General practitioner, cool.
Yes.
So um I'm a humanist and I try to help people and save their lives.
So the next time the tree huggers have a problem with the cost of health care.
Remind them that it's going to get even more expensive as the cost of a barrel of oil goes up.
Because all those disposable sterile plastics and the sterile saline and the refrigerated blood products that have to get shipped all over this country are gonna go up in cost.
It's uh if this uh bag of uh normal saline right now cost 180 dollars a bag.
One liter of salt water, 180 dollars, it's gonna go up even more.
We have to make sure the number one priority, and I hope somebody from McCain's uh uh group is listening.
We have to make sure the number one priority for us is to become energy independent for our healthcare system.
Uh energy independent well uh yes.
Meaning we need to go get our own.
And yes, that I know exactly what you mean.
But I want to go back to this look at by the way, oil is under 130 bucks.
Oil is falling.
Oil is falling.
I warned you people, I told you last week this is a bubble, that the market's not gonna be able to support this never-ending three and four dollar a day increase in the price of oil.
I don't know if it's a trend down or not.
I don't know what's going on, but it is it was 135 bucks last week and it's 129, just under uh 130 dollars now.
If somebody comes along and tells you we'll rush, we'll rush.
Of course it's minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit on Mars or much further from the sun.
Doesn't matter.
Because the sun's not a factor of global warming here.
If the sun's not a factor here, it can't be on Mars.
They got 95% of their atmosphere's carbon dioxide, they ought to be melting.
There ought to be one hell of a greenhouse effect up there.
Who's next on this show?
Carl in Charleston, South Carolina.
Great to have you here, sir.
Hi.
Greetings from the low country of South Carolina, Mr. Limore.
Thank you, sir.
I was wondering if you could pass along some of your wisdom.
I recently watched the HBO production of a film they aired called Recal.
I saw that.
That was uh an interesting piece, but uh in light of the Democrats' desire to regain control of the White House and the Republicans' hope that we will keep the White House.
I was wondering if you might be able to share with your listeners if you think we may see another run in the courts for the White House.
I think we should.
I think Mrs. Clinton should go to the courts.
I have been advocating this as part of Operation Chaos.
You know, there I watched this movie, this recount movie, and it was told from the Democrat perspective, as they admitted that it was, and but it was a documentary, and it was it was just fraught full of holes.
There were facts left out, there was dialogue made up, things that people never said that they were quoted as saying.
But unless you knew uh all the details, you might not be able to figure this out.
This thing got it so wrong.
The premise is wrong in the first place because the media, the U.S. A-to-day bunch, CNN, and the New York Times all went down to Florida after all of this aftermath was over.
They looked at all the evidence, they counted votes every which way you can think of, and in no count did Al Gore ever lead in Florida.
He would not have won Florida with a statewide recount with a full recount in Palm Beach, Miami Dave, and Broward counties, Volusia County.
They they could not find a way that Gore won, and yet HBO does this piece last night.
They also left out something else crucial.
The United States Supreme Court had to shut down the Florida Supreme Court twice.
In the movie last night, they only had to shut it down one time.
But after the first United States Supreme Court ruling, the Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, Charles Wells, said, I've got a piece of paper from the Supreme Court, and they've told us to stop this.
And Barbara Pariente, who was, I think, now the Chief Justice, basically said to hell with it.
And so the Supreme Court had to shut them down again.
So they only portrayed the Supreme Court shutting them down once.
You had a rogue court.
You had a runaway Florida Supreme Court rewriting election law after the election had been certified, which meant that no matter what happened in all of this, the U.S. House of Representatives, the I mean the Florida House of Representatives had certified Bush as the winner of the 25 electoral votes, and it was the U.S. Congress that was going to solve this, and Dick Cheney was going to be there to break tie vote.
There was no way Gore was ever going to win this.
And this is why it's been so amazing to watch the left since 2000 think they got cheated out of an election.
I'm sure they still think they did.
But they are not grounded in reality.
Now the question from Carl in South Carolina, could something like this happen again?
I have told Mrs. Clinton.
Sue, Al Gore started this whole thing.
He litigated the 2000 results.
They are not going to count all the votes from Florida and Michigan as it stands now.
They're going to disenfranchise voters from two large states, lots of minorities, as the only way Obama can win.
Now, if if if the Democrats are not careful here, especially if they're going to keep running these stupid movies like recount, where the whole theme of that movie last night was count every vote.
And the Republicans were standing in the way and being bullies and did not want every vote recounted.
In fact, the Florida Supreme Court ordered a statewide recount when the Gore people had never even asked for it.
That's how absurd it got.
But the point is this.
Ever since Florida 2000, the Democrat Party has run around with a theme that Republicans obstruct the vote, that they do not count all the votes, or that they do whatever they can to screw Democrat votes into not counting, tamper with the machines and all that.
Now here the Democrats find themselves in this cacophonous and crazy chaotic nomination scene in which the Democrat Party, in order to secure this nomination for Obama and to end the chaos, is not going to count the votes from Florida and Michigan.
So if the Democrat Party chooses its nominee on the basis of every vote will not count, then they are forever with any intellectual credibility Canceling one of their big talking points, which is count every vote, but it's the Republicans who stand in the way.
Example, Florida Aftermath 2000.
They've got they've got huge huge problems.
The Saturday is the meeting of the Rules and By Laws Committee, which is where they're going to figure out what to do with the Florida and Michigan delegates, and how are Dean's guy responsible for figuring this out.
This isn't over, folks.
It's not over.
Chaos is not over.
They've got a lot to think about here.
Documented to me almost always right, 98.8% of the time.
As you know, a year ago in March, so what, about fourteen months ago, the Los Angeles Times ran a piece entitled The Magic Negro, Barack the Magic Negro.
And the premise of the Magic Negro is this is a black guy comes along and makes liberal liberal whites assuage their guilt over our racist past by supporting the black candidate when they had no clue what he stands for.
This was not a favorable piece to Obama.
This is this is the Hillary guy, David Ahrenstein, who was upset that Obama was getting supported by so many people who had no clue who he was.
Thomas Sowell, uh writing in National Review Online today, has come up with a better explanation even than the Magic Negro.
Let me read excerpts.
I remember the first time I went to Milton Friedman's office when I was a graduate student at the University of Chicago back in 1960.
I noticed he had a black secretary.
This was four years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
There was no such thing as affirmative action.
It so happened at Milton Friedman had another black secretary decades later at the Hoover Institution.
She was respected as one of the best secretaries around.
When I mentioned to somebody at Hoover that I was having a hard time finding a secretary who could handle a tough job in his in my absence, I was told I needed somebody like Milton Friedman's secretary, and that there weren't many like her.
At no time in all these years did I hear Milton Friedman say, either publicly or privately, that he had a black secretary.
William F. Buckley's wife once mentioned in passing at dinner in her home that she had been involved for years in working with a scruel in Harlem.
But I never heard her or Bill Buckley ever say that publicly.
Nor do conservatives who were in the civil rights marches in the South back when that was dangerous, make their presence a big deal.
For people on the left, however.
People on the left, however, blacks are trophies.
Mascots must therefore be put on display.
Nowhere is that more true than in politics.
The problem with being a mascot is that you are a symbol of someone else's significance or virtue.
The actual well-being of a mascot is not the point.
Liberals all across the country have not hesitated to destroy black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal, often replacing working class neighborhoods with upscale homes and pricey businesses, neither of which the former residents can afford.
In academe, lower admissions standards for black students is about having them as a visible presence, even if mismatching them with the particular college university produces high dropout rates.
The black students who don't make it are replaced by others, and when many of them don't make it, there are still more others.
The point is to have black faces on campus as mascots, symbolizing what great people they are running the college or university.
Many, if not most of the black students who do not make it at big time high-pressure institutions, are perfectly qualified to succeed at the normal range of colleges and universities.
Most white students would also punch out if admitted to schools for which they didn't have the same qualifications as the other students, but nobody needs white mascots.
It goes on.
Dr. Thomas Sowell, today who is black, for those of you unaware, uh writing today at National Review Online.
Mascot Politics.
Mm-hmm.
Not Barack Obama's name is not mentioned in this piece, uh, which is why, Mr. Snurdley, I didn't mention Barack Obama, other than to draw a contrast, they had referred to him in the LA Times as the magic Negro.
Uh the concept of Magic Negro black guy comes along, whites who have no idea what he stands for can say they're for him so they can show prove that they're good people, get rid of their guilt.
In this case, he's talking about universities.
Um people on the left, blacks are trophies or mascots.
You know, I would I would be more uh in hon to mention Joe Biden in this context rather than Obama.
Well, Biden came along, say finally we got a clean articulate.
Black guy, serious chance to win our nomination.
I think it's great.
Mascot politics.
Thomas Sowell.
All right.
Audio soundbite time uh sorry.
There's some you know, I'm I'm really struggling here.
I got great audio sound bites, and uh, we've got some good calls, too, and a lot of women today.
How do you explain that snerdly?
Carolyn in Warren, Michigan.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
Hi, I'm I'm pretty nervous.
And I hope I can articulate my point well.
But I think there's a situation uh that that can happen that everybody can win.
Now you you talked a couple weeks ago and you waxed very eloquently about the way that Hillary should should take this, the way the Democrats are treating her.
She's worked her whole life towards this.
So she th the the party's disenfranchising a lot of the women.
Also with his not counting the votes in Florida and Michigan.
Yep.
On the other hand, let's face it, he's a liberal so and that that author you were talking about even last week was saying maybe a good strategy for him would be to pick a Democrat.
What better Democrat than Hillary Clinton?
You just move a little bit more to the left, she move a little bit more to the right.
Well, they could market this.
She could say I just want to make sure I understand this, Carolyn.
Are you suggesting that McCain, in order to pick up disaffected feminist votes, women angry because Mrs. Clinton is one of once again being kicked aside for the young dweeb that McCain chooses Mrs. Clinton as his vice presidential running mate.
Sure.
And I mean Hillary can say, I've seen the light after being Democrat all these years.
I don't know.
I'd have to run that by David Brooks and Bill Crystal uh uh and get their approval on this.
They might find it attractive.
Talk about change, forget Obama.
This is real change.
They could even imagine him up on the stage there with Bill and Hillary and uh McCain all holding hands up in the air, even get old Bill uh get old.
Well, you know, the only thing, I mean, McCain would have to McCain would have to have a lockdown contract with these people.
You know, and and Hillary'd have to promise to stop talking about assassination.
Uh a couple other things too.
Uh so I know what good's a Clinton contract, but you still got to go for it.
I don't know.
It's we'll put it at we'll put that in a hopper, uh, Carolyn.
Um Hillary Clinton as McCain's vice presidential nominee.
Some will find it appealing.
Lucille and Tarzan of California.
Hi.
Hi.
I just uh I'm so discouraged about everything, all uh the bad things that are going on and being said in the you know about the Democrats and and then McCain, we need we need some positive things to hear about McCain.
He's all we have, and uh I I don't I don't know how to try to sell him without you giving me some ideas of uh some good positive things about him.
He certainly is not my idea of an ideal candidate, but as I said, he's all we have.
So you want some help, some assistance in positive aspects of aspects of Senator McCain in order to quote unquote sell him to people that you know who may be doubting him.
Yes.
Okay.
Um I know it's not easy.
Well, no, that's not a good idea.
As they said he's all we have.
Yes, I know.
Um see.
What could we say?
Um You could say that McCain is is is for the war.
I mean, he he he wants to win the war.
He's a big he's a big uh you know, is he's strong on national defense and national security.
Thank goodness for that.
Except for global warming.
Um let's see.
You you know the hit the the story of what happened to him in that prison cell is I don't know if you know the details of this.
Jeffrey Lord at the Americanspectator.com today has uh written a great piece.
We should link to that uh at the American Spectator Today because uh Jeffrey Lord's piece because it it it goes into great detail about the true brutality into evil that the North Vietnamese were in the way they dealt and the way they treated McCain for the five years that he was uh prisoner of war.
Uh he's also uh says that he's for lower taxes and reigning in uh government spending.
But the problem is that he opposed the tax cuts that he's now so we don't know.
Yes, yeah.
But there's always character and leadership.
That's good.
Yeah.
That's that's good to use.
He's got a pretty wife.
That's true, too.
And she's an Anheuser Busch distributor, and that ain't bad.
He loves America.
Sounds good.
And you can't say that about some of Obama's people.
Oh my goodness, no, I can't.
You really can't.
You really cannot say that about some of Obama's people.
True.
Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dorn.
His wife.
Uh let's see.
What else?
Uh well, that's a good start.
Yes, it is.
We'll work out.
You put those in the hopper.
Who what kind of people you haven't trouble convincing out there, uh, Lucille?
Well, um, it's uh, you know, a Democrat state, and uh Well, it's worse than that.
That's you know, in fact, if you heard it, you know where Needles is, right?
Yes, I do.
Needles is gonna secede.
That's very crazy.
Needles, I'm not kidding.
I've got the story.
Needles, California is fed up.
They want to move to either Arizona or Nevada.
They're fed up.
They are fed up.
Arizona, Nevada are growing.
Needles is fading away.
They closed the hospital, the state closed the hospital there or reduced its capacity or something.
The mayor, everybody in Needles is fed up.
They want to secede from the state of California.
Well, that's that's a idea.
I mean, your governor out there.
Oh, it's it's Oh, it's a m there.
I also have a story in the stack here.
The highest paid employees in the state are government employees.
Mm-hmm.
And they want to hire more of them.
It's so unfortunate what's happened to California.
It's just really because I love it so much.
I really do.
Anyway, Lucille, I have to take a quick break, okay.
Thank you.
Thanks for your ideas.
You're more than welcome.
Uh we'll brief time out here, we'll be back and continue after this.
Back to the phones we go here on the Rush Limbaugh program, kicking off a brand new week of broadcast excellence.
George in South Windsor, Connecticut.
Welcome, sir.
Yeah, Rush, I wanted to get your take on um Oprah's rating drop.
I know it's only seven percent, but seven percent of millions of of uh viewers is a lot.
And ever since she went in the tank for Obama, talk about disenfranchising the people who got her to where she is, which are mostly females of of all c color and race.
And uh now she's down big time.
Well, you know, they there are two things you look at here.
The uh the national numbers, the the total viewing audience is down seven percent.
But where she's really lost some viewers, um and and well, let me give you the numbers first and give you a little caveat, but she's lost a significant percentage of women 25 to 54, and most of her audience is white.
And so and and but it's not just that.
Her magazine is down, her website uh is is not doing as well.
Uh some of her other ventures, like the she had that show on ABC called um The Big Give, and it started out fifteen million viewers the first night and it lost a third of its audience over the remainder of the run uh of eight weeks and she didn't want to do it again.
But I would be very careful about this stuff because you know, as one who deals in ratings, uh there are so many vagaries of these things.
Like for answers example, I'm on over 600 radio stations.
I don't know how many TV stations she's on, of course, not quite as many, but uh we have a number of rating periods in radio.
Generally they're they're every every three months.
The uh winter, the spring, the summer, and the fall books, and the the spring and the fall are the two that are really paid attention to more than the others for advertising rates.
But I could I can be up in 400 markets and be down in 150 smidgen and be flat in some of the others and overall up.
You know, it's just it's a it's a very, very complicated radio ratings are nothing like TV ratings.
Uh TV ratings, you know, they're the Nielsen boxes, they're a little bit more immediate.
But I'd still be very careful about this, because I don't think this is permanent.
I I think I think once this election season ends and some of this stuff is forgotten, she'll reinvent herself and get back.
She's also spreading herself pretty thin with all these other things that she's doing, and that's watering down her focus on the TV show.
I think I I I'd I'd be very careful.
Start writing off Oprah Winfrey here based on seven percent.
And I think, you know, it's interesting.
People who are at the top, they're not writing about how many audience what kind of audiences stupid Jerry Springer lost.
You know, what kind of audiences uh Regis and what's her name lost?
What kind of audiences the babes on the view lost or gained?
I don't know.
Point is they're not talking about that.
They always shoot at number one.
They always gang up on number one and try, you know, they build people up and then slam them back down.
So I'd be very careful.
I wouldn't, I wouldn't write her off.
It it may be true.
I don't know if this is media template.
I mean, they don't know why these women aren't watching.
They don't know, they really don't.
They can go out and interview a sample, but they cannot talk to every woman that's got a Nielsen media box in her house and say, why aren't you watching Oprah?
Oprah, there's there's even a media template here.
And the media template is that when Obama or when when when Oprah went out with Obama, that she, you know, she she politicized a program that has supposedly never been political, and that drove some of the women away, and that that template is erroneous.
Oprah Winfrey is the essence of political.
She has always been political.
There's no doubt Oprah Winfrey is a huge lib.
The problem for Oprah is that there are two huge libs, and she chose one.
And so the ones that liked Hillary, it's quite natural they'd get mad at her.
But they'll be back once this is all over.
This is why you will never see Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods start endorsing candidates or taking a position on any controversial issue.
Michael Jordan realizes that Republicans and Democrats, independents, progressives, atheists, Christians, they all buy tennis shoes.
And Tiger Woods understands the same thing about the products he sells.
They all buy Buicks, they all buy golf balls, the ones that play.
There's nothing in it for Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods to come out and start endorsing candidates or to even let anybody know what their political leanings are, even though we all know that Michael Jordan's a Democrat, but he doesn't stump for them.
He does it's not part of his identity.
Oprah, you know, she made that leap.
She chose a liberal when she already is one when there were two to choose from.
So I wouldn't uh I wouldn't get too happy about this, because it it really doesn't mean much.
She will be back.
I think as the Huffington Post, some woman writing about this recount show last night on HBO, which a movie, a documentary.
It was fictionalized in a lot of places, said, you know, after watching this, I'm just as glad Gore didn't win, because that movie shows the Republican bullies would have destroyed his administration anyway.
Some movie.
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