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Jan. 9, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 9, 2009, Friday, Hour #2
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Hi, folks, welcome back.
Great to have you with us.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
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It's Friday.
Let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And you know the rules.
Open line Friday.
We go to the phones.
The program content is all yours.
Not the way it is Monday through Thursday.
I only talk to people who want to talk about things I care about.
On Friday, I fake it if I have to.
If you call about something I'm not interested in, we'll still take the call.
800-282-2882.
In case you missed it, all of this unemployment, we're up to 7.2%.
We lost over 1.2 million jobs in 2008.
However, there was growth in certain sectors of the economy.
There was job growth in the areas of education, that means government.
In the area of health care, that means government.
And in the area of government, which also means government.
In those three sectors, education, health care, and government, employment grew.
All three of these sectors happen to be unionized in part or in total.
The propaganda now beginning, ladies and gentlemen.
Reuters with a story headlined thus, health care overhaul need not break the bank.
The Commonwealth Fund is the source for this story.
The Commonwealth Fund is a left-wing bunch that's been pushing socialist health care for years.
It's treated by Reuters and the rest of the drive-bys as some objective group.
Health care overhaul needn't break the bank.
How can anybody responsibly run a story in this climate saying that something that we're going to spend money on will not break the bank?
The bank's already broken.
We broke the bank last fall.
We broke the bank la and every the bank is still broken, and every new dime we spend breaks the bank even more.
Healthcare.
If um if we overhaul health care and make a national, it's over, folks.
It is over.
We will officially become a socialist nation if that happens.
Barney Frank had a press conference today.
I saw this press conference.
I saw this.
It was it happened after the program here had already started.
One of the things that Barney Frank said in his press conference, we are very positive toward the incoming Obama administration, but in this case, we are Reaganites.
Trust, but verify.
Now, what does this mean?
What is Barney Frank suspicious of?
I think this goes back to a couple things I said last hour and something Barney said.
He thinks Obama is way in over his head in terms of thinking he can bring people together with the power of his personality.
Because Barney says he knows these conservatives, and he knows how rotten to the core they are, and he knows how they don't cave.
And he's been there and he's seen it.
And he he doesn't think that Obama can persuade these conservatives to go along with it.
He thinks Obama's a little bit too impressed with himself.
I think also, you know, Barney, for all everything you want to say about Barney Frank, the one thing he is not intellectually stupid.
He's wrong on a lot of things, but he's a smart.
He's a very quick study.
He's fast on his feet.
Very well.
I don't.
I take back the fast.
Oh shit, jeez.
Please, I did not mean that.
I he's so let me just continue and move on here.
What I think Barney is aware of.
He th he knows Obama's not being specific here.
And he's going to make the specificity come from Barney and his gang.
And Barney doesn't want to go alone here on and Pelosi doesn't want to go alone.
They're going to want some Democrats or Republican support for some of this stuff when it doesn't work.
And Barney's not going to get away.
He's not going to let Obama get away with just being a figurehead sitting up there pretending to be president playing the game at it.
So, you know, and then the story here today, and we've got a bunch of them.
They've been running all week.
Now again, remember my admonition from earlier in the week.
Do not believe the template in which drive-by stories are presented, because there is an effort on the part of the drive-bys to portray Obama as a moderate, harmless centrist.
While the country moves left, and while he gets 95% of what he wants right off the bat.
This is from uh Stephen Olmacher for the AP, presidents elect Obama's proposed tax cuts ran into opposition through opposition.
Opposition.
Opposition?
John Kerry?
Uh Kent Conrad.
They don't like this $3,000 tax credit for companies that hire new workers.
And don't like it.
Not for the right reason, though.
I don't.
This is funny.
They think the money could be better spent.
The real reason to oppose this is if nobody's going to hire somebody at a cost of 50 or 60,000 when they have no work for them just to get a $3,000 tax break.
It ain't going to happen.
And when they don't do it, Obama's going to be able to point fingers at small business or business, say, see, they wouldn't help us out of the recession.
They didn't avail themselves of my plan.
I think that's what the ultimate game here is to be able to blame all this when it fails on the private sector for not taking advantage of the gifts that the Obama administration offered.
But still there's this opposition.
Is there really opposition or is this just a mechanism to present Obama as a centrist?
What?
What?
Mm-hmm.
Okay, now Snerdley has asked a good question.
Rare but good question.
When it doesn't work, aren't the American people going to blame the guy in charge?
Well, who's that going to be?
Obama?
I am surprised at this question.
I'm surprised that you would ask this question.
You think the American people are going to blame Obama?
Let me tell you what's going to happen.
Mark this date down, January 9th, 2009.
Within a week, because it's already actually started, within a week of the immaculate inauguration, we're going to start seeing stories that will not be true that feature man on the street interviews with people whose lives are starting to get a little bit better.
They see the light at the end of the tunnel now.
They get on more job interviews, and they're doing a little bit better.
You're going to the drive-bys will start setting the stage to create the impression in the minds of people that we're coming back.
When we're not just as they try to set up this mood that we're going to hell in a handbasket when we're not, notice how that works.
That convinces people, the old, the old uh the old saw about, well, I'm doing fine, but I'm hearing on the news.
My neighbor's about to lose his job.
We're in trouble here.
So how does it play when you're out of work, but you hear that other people are getting jobs?
If you are an Obama voter, you think your time is just around the corner, you've got to be patient because he's already working.
He's already his plan is already working.
Snurdley, why would people who voted for Obama on the basis of vibes, good feelings, and all this meaninglessness, all of a sudden turn substantive.
They're not no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
They're not going to lose their homes.
There was a piece of legislation being debated now to keep them in there.
They're not going to lose their homes.
The only people are going to lose their homes are people who can afford to pay for it, but for some reason don't.
There will be people out of work, but there will be hope because there's change.
And this attitude of hope will sustain people through the bad times because Obama's there.
This you've got to understand how the media is going to portray this.
And then to the extent that that doesn't work on everybody, There's always it was much worse than we knew because of Bush.
Remember, Bush is going to be a whipping boy.
I um I I would love to say that you're right.
That the American people, I'm going to take them too long to figure out that this is bogus, this guy sold them bill of goods, that their economic situation is in the toilet.
Somebody's about to hit the flusher.
And they're going to want change and so forth again.
But it's it, you know, it it took four years for that to uh materialize with Jimmy Carter.
Took four years, and Jimmy Carter ain't no Barack Obama.
Uh in terms of being able to hypnotize people while he uh while he speaks.
Just to show you how bad it is out there, let's go to the audio sound bites.
Last night, Fox News Channel's special report, Jim Angle, played a portion of a phone call he had with uh Larry Flint, the editor of Hustler magazine.
Sex toys and novelies are gathering dust on the shelves, and so uh I think the government has a responsibility to get out there and rejuvenate the libido and let us start enjoying the one thing left that's free.
That's uh Larry Flint, uh editor of Hustler wanting a bailout for sex toys and novelties.
Let's go back.
January 12th, 1999, Larry King Live, uh editor of Hustler talking to Larry King.
We put together a montage of his most salient comments.
Uh no, I do not.
Uh you sh you should uh I'm just uh I'm just really teed off.
That's Larry Flint uh been teed off since January twelfth, nineteen ninety-nine.
Now the sex toys and the novelties are getting dusty on the shelves, nobody's buying anything.
So it's bad what did he mean, the one thing that's free?
What did he say here in that first night?
said, get the government out there, rejuvenate the libido and let us enjoy the one thing left that's free.
...
Free?
Where does he get free?
Okay, we're back.
Get their phone calls here in a jiffy, but first we now have the audio of Barney Frank, who I said earlier is fast on his smart on his feet.
This was uh press conference in Washington today.
Particularly on the Democratic side, have a great deal of confidence in the new president and in the people he's appointed.
But in this case, we are Reaganites.
We intend to trust but verify.
And uh we're gonna verify in advance, we're gonna put some requirements in there.
And uh, to their credit, uh Secretary Summers addressed the Democratic caucus this morning, uh Secretary uh Geitner, who was quoted widely today, um they understand, and they don't differ with us.
This is going to be a good old-fashioned cluster, you know what.
This is gonna be a circus, but it's dangerous.
And we'll laugh watching these clowns, but on top, folks.
We are so screwed.
We are just oh, so screwed.
Let's go to the Fallons uh Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Jeff, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, it's an honor, Rush.
Thank you.
Megan Diddles from the Gulf Capital of the World.
Yes, sir.
I got a prediction.
Look at you here.
When when we start this bailout thing, I believe it's gonna end when we have to start bailing out the states.
Down here in the South, we're tired of bailing out Detroit, and all these liberal Dems are driving the states right into the ground.
I just don't think we're gonna have it in.
It's not gonna be in it for us to bail out any state.
Um well, yeah, you know, I I'm gonna I will believe this when I see it.
I know that there are a lot of Americans, don't misunderstand, I know there are a lot of Americans just livid about what's going on, but I'm not so sure they're the majority right now.
If we were to if we were to convict a genuine scientific, full-fledged national poll, I'm a little bit alarmed what the results would be.
Because we are in a recession and people tend to get very personal in a relationship in a recession.
It's all about them.
Uh and when you've lost your job, I mean, what else should it be about?
And if if if somebody's coming along as a Pied Piper and has all this flowery tongue lingo, gonna make it the the thing about Obama, he's actually telling people how bad it is and how much worse it's gonna get.
And that's also scary.
Presidents inspire.
They should but Russia's got to be honest.
Yeah, you can be honest, but you can inspire people because it isn't Obama and it's not Bonnie Pwink, and it's none of the other people that they've named are going to bring us out of this recession.
It's gonna be us.
And people are not self-starters.
People have to be motivated.
People have to be inspired.
If you can inspire them, they'll do it.
You tell people they're capable of more than they think they can do, and they'll go about trying to prove it.
High expectations, great motivational tactic.
He's doing the exact opposite.
He's he's making sure people sit around and do nothing but wait.
He's making it sound hopeless.
And if we don't do this instantly or soon, we've heard this for the past three months with every damn one of these bailouts.
We've got to do it now.
It's it's it's with a crisis, we can't wait.
So it's we'll we'll see.
Uh uh Snerdley is on your camp.
Sterling's in your he thinks that after a while, uh enough people are going to be affected by this, they're gonna turn on Obama and the Democrats.
I think that's gonna happen too at some point.
But believe me, the media is gonna be working against that proposition.
They're gonna be trying to convince as many people as possible things are getting better, even if only marginally.
While they're not.
Amanda in Atlanta, great to have you on open line Friday.
Welcome.
Hi, Russ.
Um, you know, your show focuses so heavily on the blunders and the hypocrisies of the liberals, and that's very entertaining.
But you know, the things that are right with the conservative movement, um, the rising stars, I grant you there's not a lot of material there, but it instills such fear and incites so much rage in the liberals that I I would love to see more from that angle.
Because one, I know you can make it terribly entertaining, and two, I can't believe that everyone with a conservative philosophy in government is just gonna sit back and watch all this.
Okay, so what is the as Larry King would say, what's a question?
The question is, I would like to see on your show more about what is right with the conservative movement, as opposed to just what's wrong with the liberals.
Because I can actually, being a longtime listener, I can talk more about what's wrong with the liberals than talk about what the the conservatives are doing right today.
Okay, uh name me a conservative you think is doing something right.
In elective office or in the media.
Well, I said Aside from me.
I said rising stars.
I think Jeb Bush and Sarah.
Jeb Bush just took himself out of the running for the Senate seat in Florida, uh Mel Martinez that opens up in 2010.
He'll be back.
Well, but maybe so, but uh we don't know when.
He's got the philosophy, he's got the name.
It's just a matter of timing.
The name right now is not helpful.
Well palin.
She'll be there.
She's by praise Sarah Palin.
Yeah.
I do.
This is what I don't understand.
This this program is an outpost.
My newsletter and website are go-to places for the for the uh uh the the exposure, the explanation, the um the selling, the love of conservatism.
That's what this program is all about.
By criticizing liberalism by explaining it, I at the same time present the alternative, which is uh right before I took your call.
I gave a great illustration of what a conservative mindset's all about.
It's about inspiring people, motivating them.
It's not about depressing them.
It's not about having them sit on their rear ends.
This program this program's a one stop shop.
It does all that you uh that you would want it to do.
This program's suggestion, my suggestion to Bobby Gindle.
Yeah.
Is the one of the reasons why he's being touted as a possible VP for McCain back then and why he's now on the short list for the Republican presidential nomination.
So I'm somewhat at a loss here.
But day after day, we don't hear Bobby Gendall's name.
We hear the angle of what's wrong with them as opposed to what's right with us.
Well, uh And you speak in concept, but you don't really talk about the people.
I mean, and I rely on your show for education at that, you know, at that level.
That I don't understand your complaint.
This program is better for your education any college class.
I agree.
Than any high school four-year class.
Uh the just so happens here, it just so happens that our friends, the liberals happen to be in power.
They're the ones that are the architects of the next two years, or perhaps even more, this country's future.
Yeah, but you gotta plant the seeds now.
And if you plant the seeds by keeping the liberals off balance by keeping in their face what we're doing right.
And being confident and proud of what we're doing right.
I mean, I'm so I'm so proud of my.
Let me tell you know, uh I'm I'm sorry here, Amanda, but uh there is a time to be polite, and there's a time to be assertive and be assertive.
I always talk about what's right about conservatism.
I always talk about the conservative principles that are out there.
That's not the same as talking up the GOP, which is still led by moderates and appeasers, and I'm not going to talk up the GOP when it's not led by conservatives.
It's the party that has to change, Amanda, not me.
It's the party that has to change, not the voters.
If they want to win elections, conservatives have to get hold of that party.
Moving on to other items in the stack of stuff, I just love this.
Headline in the Washington Post today, inaugural rentals begging for takers.
Across the Washington region, homeowners' dreams of a quick and easy payday are evaporating.
As the days tick down to the immaculate inauguration, and the immaculate inaugural housing market has gone bust in record time.
Those who listed their properties within a week or two of Obama's election victory were able to score deals, but those who jumped in a bandwagon after that have largely been left without offers.
And then they give us the usual journalistic template of a sob story involving a poor guy named Tim Tate, who heard that a neighbor had rented out his condo uh in downtown Washington for $3,000 for the week.
He and his friends hatched a plan to rent out their own units and use the profits for a twip uh trip to Morocco.
But two months after listing his condo on an inaugural housing websites, one bedroom, one bath, 2,000 bucks for the week.
Poor old Tim Tate has gotten Nerry and nibble, and neither have his friends.
He dropped the price twice.
The only inquiry came from European parents who wanted to rent it for their daughter's semester in the district.
It had nothing to do with seeing Obama.
The temple, okay.
Bad news, bad news, find somebody suffering.
What is the upshot?
The upshot of this is, as usual, all of these earlier reports of unparalleled popular support, unparalleled popular devotion.
Unparalleled four million people want to see Obama inaugur.
It was a lie from the get-go.
And what Tim Tate should have told this reporter from the Washington Post naming David Nakamura, get out of here, you're the one who created the circumstance and made me think I can rent out my little shack here for a thousand bucks and go to Morocco.
Remember all those stories?
Four million people.
Whoa, we're not gonna have enough porter parties.
Why were we gonna put all those people?
Oh Oprah, Oprah couldn't find a place.
Oh no, Obama couldn't find a place because mean Bush wouldn't kick anybody out of Blair House.
Oh no, oh no.
Oh room all over the place.
Why Obama was able to get a hotel that should have been sold out back in November.
I want to know who got kicked out of the suite Obama's in at the Hay Adams.
Oh, this it's so much.
This is what I mean, folks, get ready because when the when the guy takes office, you're you're gonna it's gonna be You're gonna see at it'll it'll be slow and coming, but there's gonna be news reports.
This is it's getting better out there.
People are, you know, we talked to Man in the street.
We went back and talked to Tim Tate, and even though he didn't collect his grand a week, so you go to Morocco, he feels better now.
It worked out even better because he got to go see Obama gets sworn in, whereas he wouldn't have even been in.
Oh, it worked out so well, he's feeling so happy.
It's gonna be story after story after story like that.
People's moods have improved dramatically.
By the way, uh Barack Obama has uh asked Congress, he did this yesterday to delay next month's plan switch to all digital broadcast television, warning that the TVs of millions of Democrats could lose the ability that and that's who hasn't upgraded, all these typical Democrat constituency out there.
By the way, you people who get converters to convert your analog TV to digital, if you even know what this means, those converters can be monitored.
This also saves me big trouble because the TVs, I have two cars with two TVs each, and they're in the seatbacks.
These TVs are ten inches, folks, but they're analog.
And so far I had received no information on what the manufacturer's gonna do to replace them.
But now I don't have to worry about it because Obama came to my rescue.
But see, here another brilliant government plan.
They gave everybody five years.
Five years to go digital, and here we are at the deadline, and not enough people have done it.
So we have to postpone the deadline or delay it.
Manchester, Connecticut.
Is that right?
Ken, nice to have you on the uh EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Yes, uh, I've been listening to you since you started with the Clintons.
That's 10 15 years ago.
Yeah, let's see.
1900 started with a Clinton's campaign I need to pretty go 15, 16 years ago.
I can't believe it's been that long.
Yeah, it's been realize they are still around.
Can you believe it?
Yeah.
Hey, what I was calling about on this analog.
Nobody said a word, nobody's doing anything.
Homeland Security ain't doing anything.
But millions of homes have battery operated TVs, and when the Northeast was without power for I don't know how many years, 40 million people without power a couple of years ago from Ohio to Maine.
Well, yeah, that uh that that uh that power outage.
Yeah, and then just a few Enron causes ago.
We had we had the ice storm, and we had a million people without power in northern New England.
Yeah.
And the people don't forget hurricane, don't forget Hurricane Katrina.
Yeah.
Uh some of these other hurricanes of the people without TVs, the battery operator, those are all analog, and if uh yeah, it it it's it could be a disaster awaiting to happen.
Yeah, when I was in Florida a couple of about three years ago with a hurricane that came through within miles, I used my portable uh TV to uh keep up to what was going on and what locations to stay away from and stuff like that.
So what's your point?
Why haven't they come up with some kind of a battery-powered converter for the TVs before this?
Uh why do they come up with a battery-powered converter for these battery operated TVs?
Right.
So you can get a lot of people.
Well, why don't I just why don't they just make digital battery-operated TVs?
I mean, what why but that means uh millions of people that have battery-powered radios and TVs are gonna have to go out and buy a whole new set.
And something new is not gonna be cheap.
When they first come out, they're real high price.
Well, uh there's a lesson here.
The lesson is who made this a requirement.
The FCC, wasn't it?
Well, yeah, but government.
Government.
Government.
The lesson government always costs you money.
Government never saves you money.
Government never streamlines your life.
Government never smooths ragged edges.
Government is sandpaper.
I agree with you.
All right.
But don't worry because Obama has recognized this dire emergency and has suspended the well, he has asked.
And I don't know how you turn him down, because if you turn him down, you're a racist.
That's why I don't understand about these senators saying they oppose Obama's plan.
These people are all racists.
I mean, that's what the Republicans are afraid of.
No, no, folks, I'm serious about this.
The Republicans are afraid to oppose Obama because they're afraid of being called racist, right?
Well, the Democrats in the Senate are opposing a lot of what Obama wants to do, so is Barney Frank.
Anybody calling him racist?
Well, no rush, but they're Democrats.
I know.
But the fact is it's it's bogus that Republicans are going to be called racist too.
They act in this basis of fear.
All right, folks, uh National Football League divisional playoffs are this weekend.
On Saturday, we have the Baltimore Ravens at the Tennessee Titans, who used to be the Houston Oilers.
My second favorite football team, coached by Bum Phillips.
I know the Tennessee.
Then at uh at 8 o'clock, that's at 4.50 to 8 o'clock on Saturday night.
We have the Arizona Cardinals in the Eastern Time Zone where they've not done well against the Carolina Panthers.
On Sunday at 1 o'clock, we have the Philadelphia McNabbs at uh at the New York Giants.
By the way, Hondo, one of my favorite sports columnists of all time.
Hondo in the New York Post, who does the picks, had to fill up 750 words today with some stuff other than football because only four games to pick.
And so he went, he talked to some bio rhythm expert.
The biorhythm expert said that this that Sunday is the worst day of the year for Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, twenty-five times more prone to accidents on Sunday than any day this year.
Now stick with me on this.
Hondo then quoted this expert as saying that McNabb will have the worst game of his career.
And Hondo thus predicts the Giants winning 34-9 Sunday afternoon over the Philadelphia Eagles.
The Pittsburgh Steelers will host the San Diego Chargers at 4.45 Sunday afternoon.
I am going to Pittsburgh for the Steelers.
Uh will be there.
And this if here's something, and this is just straight up.
This is not points.
Straight up, the divisional round is an entirely different betting proposition or picking winners than the wild card round.
The wild card round, I mean, that's up for grabs, and you a lot of time the uh the the road team favored does win.
But in the divisional round, this round, this Sunday, the home team winning statistic, since this current playoff formula was devised, is something like 71%.
So if you are in a straight up office pool, pick the home team on every one of these games this weekend.
If you want to get smart and start trying to figure out, okay, there's four games, 71% of the home teams, which road team will win.
What's the best bet do you think, Snerdley?
What's the of these four games?
Here are the road teams.
Arizona, Baltimore, San Diego, and Philadelphia.
What road team do you think has the best chance of victory this weekend in the divisional round?
Wrong.
Snerdley said Philadelphia.
It's the team that has the best defense.
And in this case, that's the Baltimore Ravens.
The Baltimore Ravens.
You also can look at in a in a game, you can look at records, and that would argue for the Titans.
That would argue for the Panthers.
That would argue for the Giants.
It would argue for the Steelers, would argue for the home teams.
Now you start putting points in.
The Chargers are getting six points against the Steelers.
Six Pointo today referred to Rothisberger, the quarterback of the Steelers, a human statue.
Because he's getting sacked, he just stands back there.
Six points.
I mean, you got the Steelers' offense has not been that explosive.
Six points.
The defense is.
So it's gonna be fascinating.
If you just but your best.
Who's peaking right now?
Who's peaking right now?
Who has certainly wants to know who has the Mo, who is peaking.
Well, it's tough to say because four of these teams haven't played in two weeks.
So you're momentum business is a tough thing to say.
Of the teams that played last weekend that have the momentum, let's say Baltimore.
And the Chargers.
Chargers have won five in a row coming in.
But they're beat up, you know, and they've got they've got.
It's it's it's an interesting slate.
It is a it is a fascinating slate.
Also, there's a review of 24 in the San Francisco Chronicle today that is out or yesterday.
It's just plain stupid.
I will share it with you when we come back after this.
Perhaps if there are people in the audience, those of you out there who happen to agree with Snerdley and disagree with me, who believe that the American people will not put up with economic failure for very long and will get mad at Obama.
May I remind you of the reputation Franklin Delano Roosevelt has to this day among people who voted for him.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt did an Obama and prolonged the Great Depression by seven years.
He won two terms and nearly got away with packing the Supreme Court.
The war came along, but there were seven years.
There were seven years of abject misery before the war came along during the Great Depression when the New Deal was put into place.
And as my buddy Steve Gilbert reminds me, people were singing songs of joy back.
We're in the money now.
We're in the money now.
And unemployment was at 25%.
It was much higher than what we have today.
And if you think, if you think a demagogic, flowery spoken candidate or president, with an accomplice media, can't convince people things are great when they're bad.
You've got another thing coming.
If they can convince them things are horrible when they're good, the opposite's also possible.
To this day, people who are alive have voted for Roosevelt think he's the greatest president we ever had.
And not because of World War II.
Because of Social Security.
Because of Medicare, because of the new.
So don't doubt me.
Don't think the American people that voted for this guy are going to turn on him in two years.
Tim Graham, I'm sorry to be depressing, but it's realistic.
It gives us an opportunity.
All of this, there's there's good in everything that happens.
This is a profound opportunity we have here.
It'll all unfold as we lead our way back to prominence here.
Tim Goodman writes for the San Francisco Chronicle.
He is, I guess, a television critic.
He has seen the same first four episodes of 24 that I have seen.
They premiere Sunday and Monday nights, 8 o'clock Eastern on Fox.
Give you just some excerpts of Mr. Goodman's review.
The headline, TV Review 24 out of sync.
Barack Obama has brought change to America.
He has made 24 pointless.
You want to talk about a non sequitur?
He has made 24 pointless.
Barack Obama's made 24 pointless.
Let me tell you how this show opens.
This show opens with Jack Bauer being grilled by a bunch of pompous perfect imitations of today's United States Senate who want to put him in jail for saving this country time and time again from terrorism.
We have a president in real life who wants to close Guantanamo Bay, who doesn't want a CIA director who has any knowledge of anything with a war on terror.
We have a president who wants to punish the real life Jack Bowers if he can find them because they're torture.
What do you mean?
Mr. Goodman, Barack Obama has brought change to America.
He's made 24 pointless.
But that doesn't.
24's allure.
Maybe in the first season or two had to do with how close it was to reality, but hasn't beyond that.
It's just a good show.
It's escapism, Mr. Goodman, that people love.
One more little point he makes here.
What looks to be happening in the early going on 24 is an end game of cancerous cynicism of lack of faith in the political system and in the American people.
I must comment further, but I am up against it on time constraints.
Here we'll be back stay with it.
Here is another line from Tim Goodman, San Francisco Chronicle reviewing the first four episodes of 24 that start Sunday night.
Premiering nine days before Obama takes office.
24 couldn't seem more outdated if there's audacity and hope and nationwide belief in the necessity of change.
Nobody sent the memo to the producers of 24.
I cannot believe it's okay if he didn't like the show.
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