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June 17, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 17, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Greetings, my good friends, and welcome.
It's Rush Limbaugh, The Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's the fastest three hours in media, the fastest week in media.
Here it is already Wednesday.
Telephone number.
If you want to be on the program 800-282-2882, the email address El Rushbo at EIBnet.com.
Mike, I'm going to make a change here in the audio soundbites.
I want to start with number 11 first.
And then we'll go to number 28, stay in order from there.
President Obama, this is a political story.
President Obama traveled, oh, Ladin is at, well, what's the FDD?
Oh, yeah.
Okay, Michael Ladin is at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
All right, so he's moved on from AEI, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
He's an Iranian scholar, and he alone has been suggesting, asking the U.S. government, from George Bush on, to encourage the freedom movement inside Iran.
Anyway, the Politico published a story a couple days ago in the evening, White House reporters phoning it in.
President Obama traveled to Chicago Monday for a major speech.
The AMA, most of the reporters who cover him every day, stayed in Washington.
They watched it all on TV.
For media observers, it felt like a milestone moment.
While reporters sometimes skip short fundraising-only trips or journeys into the waning days of a presidency, it's hard to remember a time when a president traveled outside Washington for a major policy address just to have the press stay at home.
The reason for the change is simple, they say, money.
I wonder if this made Obama mad.
All these adoring lapdogs staying at home, staying in the office and watching on television.
I have another theory.
Why go?
You don't need to go.
You love the guy.
You can love him from Chicago, from Washington for a couple hours.
Well, what's the point of going?
It is a hassle to travel with the president.
Why the hell go?
I mean, they didn't expect any big news there.
They had the speech in advance.
You know, we used to have a watchdog media.
That's what they were called, watchdog media.
Today it's a lapdog media.
It's state-run, government-run media.
But even at that, Obama is miserable.
Last night on CNBC, talked to John Harwood, who asked this question.
Media critics would say, not only has it not come, but you have gotten such favorable press, either because of bias or because you're a good box office, that it's hurting the country because you're not being sufficiently held accountable for your policies.
Could you assess that for us?
It's very hard for me to swallow that one.
First of all, I've got one television station that is entirely devoted to attacking my administration.
I mean, that's a pretty...
I assume you're talking about Fox.
Well, that's a pretty big megaphone.
And you'd be hard-pressed if you watched the entire day to find a positive story about me on that front.
Oh, there he is.
He's whining about Fox News.
He owns every news outlet in America and around the world, and he's whining and moaning about Fox News.
Fox News is great, but the size of their audience pales in comparison when you add up every other media organization in the world that is run by Barack Obama.
Now, what is it, a week from tonight?
I have a suggestion for my buddies at Fox News here.
A week from tonight, two things will happen in the White House via ABC News, which is no longer independent.
ABC News is part of the state-run media.
The World News Tonight with Charles Gibson will originate from the blue room of the White House.
The focal point will be healthcare.
Later on 2020, ABC will originate a program on Obama's health care proposal from the East Room.
There will be no opponents, no critics.
Now, this is ABC joining forces with the Obama administration to push a very important policy to him.
How many of you understand that as an organization or as an industry and as journalists are taught, both sides of a story have to be part of every story?
In fact, sometimes it gets maddening.
We'll have a story, and you've seen these, I mean, you see them, every story you see, every story you read is this way.
It's structured this way, because this is how these people are taught.
Okay, so you have the premise of a story, and then there's always somewhere in a story, but critics say.
Now, depending on who, the critics may be few and far between, but still, the critics are there.
Both sides of the story.
That's the structure.
That is the theory.
That's how they're taught.
Do you know what some media guy at the Poynter Institute, which is a trade group that analyzes media and advises it, hey, look, you know, this notion about having opposing points of view, that's not what the news is.
That's not the requirement.
I mean, this network can cover both sides of this.
They don't have to have opponents in there from the RNC.
They don't have to have Republicans in there objecting to this.
So Obama's even standing on its head one of the tenets, quote unquote, of journalism.
State-run media.
Now, what should be done on Wednesday night to counterprogram this?
I have an idea for my buddies at Fox.
On the network, on the television network, run a movie, The Manchurian Candidate.
On the news channel, devote every show to health care with nothing but opponents.
Starting with, well, Shep won't do it.
Start with Bill O'Reilly.
No, start with Beck.
Start and get a head start.
Start with Glenn Beck at 5 o'clock.
Get nothing but opponents.
Since Obama's so upset with Fox anyway, since he doesn't get a fair break, let's just make it happen.
It's not true anyway, what he said about Fox.
He's got countless Democrat contributors on that network that are constantly defending Obama.
But go ahead, starting with Beck, do a show on health care, Obama's health care with nothing but opponents.
Doesn't have to be Republicans, just nothing but opponents, scholars, think tank people.
Then O'Reilly picks it up.
And then Hannity does it.
And then Greta does it.
Why are you frowning at me, Il Snurdbow?
I'm not going to get arrested.
I mean, look at if ABC, we haven't got, he's not Chavez yet arresting media.
He's not there yet.
But I mean, if ABC, state-run, ABC can go in there and do their news from the East Room.
You think Fox will ever be doing that?
Think Fox will ever do a special from the Blue Room or East Room?
So just counter it.
Just counter it and promote it big time.
Nobody else will be willing to do it.
You don't have to worry about CNN doing it.
You don't have to worry about those klutzes over at MSNBC doing it.
Fox is a natural place to do this.
Just run a prime time counter, including Beck, at 5 o'clock on the reasons Obama's health plan is bad, why it won't work, and what it really will mean to people.
Go ahead and let 2020 have their one hour of state-run propaganda from the East Room, and let Charlie Gibson have his 30 minutes of news from the blue room.
I take it back as 22 minutes of news from the blue room.
And then over on the Fox Network, Well, it's summertime anyway.
You're not going to broom American Idol to 24 for it.
Get in there and show the Manchurian candidate.
That's what I would do.
Quick time out here, folks.
We will be back.
We got some audio soundbites.
Again, to illustrate this Obama taking over what business is it today again?
New regulations of the financial sector.
Yeah, he's going to take over.
Yeah, back to that.
Every day, something new or recycled.
Won't stay off of television.
So sit tight, much more straight ahead right after this.
All right.
Sound bite here.
It's just ridiculous.
It's nonsensical.
It is absurd.
CNBC interview last night.
Obama's asked about deficits, spending, taxing health care, and all of this.
Specifically, are you open to curbing benefits for entitlement programs, more means testing, raising the retirement age for Social Security?
Listen to his answer here.
Well, this is something that keeps me awake at night.
There's no doubt that we've got a serious problem in terms of our long-term deficits and debt.
Stop.
I make no apologies.
Stop tape.
Who created it?
This is what's absurd about this.
He's losing sleep over himself.
Cue it back to the top.
He's losing sleep over himself.
I'll try to go through this without stopping again, but it's tough, folks.
It's tough to be lied to like this.
It's tough to be insulted like this.
To have your intelligence insulted like this, just sit here and not say anything.
Well, this is something that keeps me awake at night.
There's no doubt that we've got a serious problem in terms of our long-term deficits and debt.
I make no apologies for having acted short-term to deal with our recession.
I think the vast majority of economists, conservative and liberal, felt that extraordinary interventions were necessary to prevent us from slipping into a potentially deep depression.
No, they don't.
As soon as this economy recovers, and that means planning now and starting to take some steps now to deal with it, we're going to have to close that gap between the amount of money coming in and the amount of money going out.
It's a bunch of BS.
Stop the spending.
Look, the stimulus isn't working, right?
And so far, only 4% to 7% of it has been spent.
Cut the rest of it.
It isn't working.
There's at least $700 billion we could save and you might be able to sleep a couple more minutes at night.
No, I don't think he's losing sleep over anything.
I think this guy, if he can't sleep, it's because he's excited.
If he's losing sleep, it's because excited.
He cannot believe how easy it is to take over all this stuff.
He can't believe how easy it is to fool all these people.
He can't believe what a stroke of good luck that an opposition party doesn't exist.
He can't believe that there's not one Republican that won't stand up and say, stop this.
He can't.
I'm sure he can't.
Well, I take it back.
With this guy's ego, he probably is focused on Fox.
He's never been criticized in his life.
Never been laughed at.
I mean, folks, this is just this is like Colonel Sanders saying we got to stop killing and eating chickens.
Now, there's this next one.
After saying, we're going to do all this stuff, we've got to stop this recession.
We had to act fast.
We got to do this.
We got to do that.
We've got to plan now for the recovery.
The next question was, Do you think unemployment will hit 10%?
Yes.
You do this year?
Yes.
I think that what you've seen is that the pace of job loss has slowed.
And I think that the economy is going to turn around.
But as you know, jobs are a lagging indicator.
And we've got to produce 150,000 jobs every month just to keep pace, just to flatten this out.
So when will it start to come down?
You're starting to see the engines of the economy turn.
It's going to take a long time.
Okay, so you're still losing your job, and it doesn't matter.
You're a lagging indicator.
We're not even going to look at you.
Okay, so now let's move on to this other garbage.
I'm sorry to do this to you, folks.
It's a teachable moment.
Let me find the stupid stuff.
Here it is.
All right, another lie.
Another lie here.
White House East Room, Obama announcing his regulatory reform plan.
It is an indisputable fact that one of the most significant contributors to our economic downturn was an unraveling of major financial institutions and the lack of adequate regulatory structures to prevent abuse and excess.
A culture of irresponsibility took root from Wall Street to Washington to Main Street.
Okay, so everybody gets blamed for this.
We're all to blame.
We're all culprits here.
He's the one shining night, clean and pure as the wind-driven snow.
Come in here and fix it all up.
It was over-regulation.
It was government meddling that caused this.
It was all the regulations.
Do you know?
I saw this today.
The airline industry is regulated by the FAA.
There are 1,000 pages of regulations, which sounds exorbitant, does it not?
There are 132,000 pages regulating Medicare.
132,000 pages of regulations.
1,000 pages regulating air travel in America.
How many damn regulations are there in the financial business?
How many tax regulations?
All that garbage is just, it disinfuriates me.
It just gets worse as you.
Loans were sold to banks.
Banks packaged these loans into securities.
Investors bought these securities often with little insight into the risks to which they were exposed.
Stop the tape right there.
What?
We're talking here about subprime.
And he's right, but he doesn't say subprime.
Those are worthless loans.
They were made to people who couldn't pay them back.
And the banks that were forced to make the loans tried to come up with a scheme to make them worth something.
So they packaged them as securities or what these are the things that became the toxic assets, essentially.
And people did start buying this stuff, figuring that something would happen to it to give it value.
But all of this happened because Democrats from Bill Clinton forward, Barney Frank, and Chris Dodd demanded, and Acorn demanded that people that could not ever pay a loan back or even qualify for one be given one, essentially be given a house.
They were threatened by Janet Reno and others.
And regulators that tried to stop this were in turn threatened by people like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd.
All right, here's the rest of this.
And it was easy money while it lasted.
But these schemes were built on a pile of sand.
Government sand.
Executive compensation, unmoored from long-term performance or even reality, rewarded recklessness rather than responsibility.
And this wasn't just the failure of individuals.
This was a failure of the entire system.
The cough button sticking.
A little inside baseball broadcasting language there.
Ladies and gentlemen, the problem, the system, the only system that failed here big time was government.
Now, I'm not exonerating Wall Street people or Main Street people, but I'm going to tell you this.
Whatever problems existed in the credit markets, in the loan markets, whatever markets you want to talk about, not one of them was caused by how much anybody made.
Not one.
Executive compensation?
Well, there were no risks, Russ.
They got paid regardless.
Let me ask you, people don't understand how these people get compensated in the first place.
Sometimes it's exorbitant.
It was none of his business, by the way.
It's the business of the shareholders and the board of directors and this sort of thing.
But remember when United Airlines way, way back was just losing?
Like General Motors was losing.
And we learned one year that the CEO of UAL Corp that year made $1.7 million or something.
Everybody was outraged.
How in the hell is a guy presiding over a company losing billions make that kind of money?
And somebody said they would have gone out of business if it hadn't been for the guy.
Yeah, they might have lost billions, but they could have lost more and been out of business were it not for the talents of the guy.
You know, when people get involved in things they don't know anything about and just use stereotypes in him, which is what he's trading on here.
Private sector compensation is none of Barack Obama's business.
It's none of Bill Ayers' business.
It's none of Bernadine Dorn's business.
It's none of Jeremiah Wright's business.
It's not Rah Emanuel's business.
It is nobody's business.
And if a company is going to overpay an executive or a series of executives and they go south, then that's the price.
But we bailed them out for the purposes of controlling them.
Do one more before the break.
We did not choose how this crisis began, but we do have a choice in the legacy this crisis leaves behind.
Yep, yep.
So today my administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the financial regulatory system.
Right, right.
Transformation on a scale not seen since the reforms that followed the Great Depression.
All that means is that he and the Federal Reserve and Timmy Geithner are going to run it.
We're going to overhaul it.
We're going to run it.
Blames his predecessors again.
We didn't choose how this began.
Time to man up, Barack.
It's unseemly to keep blaming your predecessors.
Why stop at Bush?
Why not go back and blame Hoover?
We have to take a brief time out.
But you see, this is how he does this stuff.
I just think it's not playing as well anymore.
All these words are not leading to the hope and change that a lot of his voters thought so.
Or we're going to get.
So sit tight.
We'll be right back.
A friend of mine, Steve Gilbert, just sent me something, and this is fascinating.
He's got a blog, Sweetness and Light.
It's from just over a year ago.
I want to read this to you, and you are going to weep.
This is from May 2nd of 2008, 13 and a half months ago.
Headline, unemployment rate drops to 5%.
Subhead, employers cut fewer jobs in April, comma, jobless rate falls.
13 months ago, the unemployment rate was going down.
Looked at another way, more people were getting jobs.
It was at 5%.
4.7% is considered full employment, statistically.
Now, listen to the first paragraph of the story.
Employers cut far fewer jobs in April than in recent months, and the unemployment rate dropped to 5%, a better than expected showing that nonetheless reveals strains in the nation's labor market.
13 months ago, unemployment was dropping, and the Associated Press found that troubling.
There were troubling strains in the nation's labor market, even though there were fewer unemployment claims and fewer jobs were cut.
Now, contrast that with economic unemployment news today, unemployment news.
Today, when reporting, the unemployment news goes up to 9.4%, it's totally positive.
We reached 9.4%, but employers laid off fewer people in this cycle unexpectedly.
And that's it.
We're closing in on the bottom.
Hang in there, folks.
Meanwhile, 13 months ago, 5% unemployment dropping.
Portrayed as a bad signal.
Bad news.
Amazing.
Not surprised.
Windsor, Ontario.
Ed, I'm going to assist in Canada.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Thank you for waiting.
Yeah, thank you for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
I have a concrete example of the effect of the Ontario Canada health care system on one family, unfortunately.
Today's Windsor Star newspaper, page five.
This gentleman, he's 30 years old, husband, father, has been in the system treated for cancer, but it's come back.
He has stage 4 melanoma.
He has inoperable tumors on his heart and his colon.
There's one treatment available to him now.
It's interleukin 2.
It's essentially unavailable in Canada.
He and his wife, after hassling with the bureaucrats of the Ontario-Canada health care system, which is so praised, two months of hassling, they got approved to go to the United States and have the treatment done and paid for.
There are two world-class treatment centers in Detroit.
It would be half an hour from his house.
I'm looking at GM building in Detroit right now across the river.
He did not get approved for Harper Hospital or Carmano's Cancer Center in Detroit.
He got approved by the Ontario system for the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York.
Instead of a half-hour trip there and a half-hour trip back, I've had cancer treatment.
And I'm going to go ahead and do that.
Wait a second.
There's one word in what you're saying that ought to send chills up people's back, and the word is approved.
Here, you're describing a Canadian citizen with stage four melanoma and only a couple treatments available.
One treatment.
One treatment available.
And he has only been approved to go to one hospital.
It happens to be in Buffalo.
Approved.
That's where we're headed.
Approved.
He can't.
You mean to tell me this guy cannot get in his car across the border and go because if he goes someplace unapproved, Canada won't pay for it.
Oh, no.
He'd be hooked for it.
And he would have no follow-up care because he didn't do an approved procedure.
Approved procedure at an approved location.
Canadian single-payer health care.
Yes, sir.
When you've had cancer treatment, and I've had a half-hour ride home is plenty.
The four hours, I can't imagine that's going to affect his, well, his shot.
You know, your immune system is weakened by everything.
Just the survival.
That is not the only story.
It happens to be right here on the page.
The guy was not a person who abused his own health.
He used to run the Detroit Marathon.
He's a kinesologist.
He works in the health system.
Who cares if he abused his own health?
Well, he didn't.
But I know he didn't.
But in my version of freedom, who cares if he did?
Health care ought to be available.
There's nobody that doesn't abuse their health.
Some might say that doing all that jogging is an abusive treatment to joints and this sort of thing.
Who the hell knows?
This is all absurd.
This is just 1984-ish absurd.
The worst absurdity, Rush, is, and I've been listening to for a long time.
People do not understand.
We have freedoms in Canada more than almost anyone in the world.
But we have a lot of them just through cultural exchange with you people.
They're just, they're here because they're here.
You have these freedoms in law.
You have the Constitution.
You have all these things written down.
No one in the world has these, and you're letting them get taken away.
It drives us completely crazy.
Thank you, sir.
And you know why it's happening?
Because people think that letting go of their liberty is giving them security.
Well, we know the phrase about that.
They'll have neither.
Yeah.
I wish I had a better story to tell you.
It's a great story.
It's a great story in the sense of it's instructive.
Details are not happy for this guy, but for crying out loud, one treatment available.
It isn't available in Canada.
He has to be approved.
In other words, to take a step, save his life, requires the government approving it.
And that is going to happen wherever there's a government-run health care system.
And I'll tell you that, I'll tell you where this is headed.
If I can make this story worse, at some point, somebody's going to say, look, stage four, tumor, heart, tumor, wherever, only a couple places to do it.
We're not going to approve any treatment.
This is a waste of money.
We don't have the money for this guy's near the end of life anyway.
Give him a patch, and that's it.
That's where we're headed with this.
Because everything's going to be based on money and how we can't afford this, can't afford that.
And a lot of people are going to get a death sentence that today don't.
Thanks, Ed.
Appreciate the call.
A lot of gold mine calls on the EIB network today.
Bob in Red Wing, Minnesota.
Hello, sir.
Great to have you here.
Good talking, Yubash.
I was wondering if there's so many dealers being closed and so many plants in the United States being closed, these union workers must not be working.
How are they being satisfied?
Why are they so excited about Obama?
Well, some of them may not be.
You're talking about the rank-and-file workers as opposed to the leadership of the unions, which collect their dues and then pay it to Obama for their little seat at Obama's dinner table of power.
But the UAW owns a majority stake in Chrysler, a minority stake in General Motors when it's all said and done, and they'll have some funds to distribute to the pension and health care plan for the employees, even those who are out of work, as a result of this.
The dealerships, yeah, you probably have some.
I couldn't speak to how many service departments at dealerships around the country are unionized.
I just don't know.
There were quite a few of them here in Minnesota two years or so ago.
Well, I would have to think the reaction then from them is one of two things.
Either outrage, anger, or Obama has to do it.
We have to suck it up.
Obama's trying to help and fix things.
Some people are just blind with their support for the doofus.
Right.
And then another question I was wondering about these college kids that voted for Obama, and now he's spending all this money.
I'm retired, but they're going to have to pay this money back now.
They haven't figured it out yet.
They're not focused on that.
They're focused on getting their $400,000 a year job in their first house.
Okay.
They're too young to figure that out.
Wait till their tax rate hits 70%, and then they might get bad.
Obama voter.
Back to the phones quickly, ladies and gentlemen.
Remind me, by the way, you guys make a note.
I'm going to do this to myself.
I got to talk about a movie coming out on June 26th called The Stoning of Soria M.
It's about Iran.
And the timing of this is perfect with these elections in Iran.
And I've seen it.
Powerful, influential member of the media.
I had a screener copy.
And this is taught.
T-A-U-T, tight.
That's what you'll be watching.
And here's Joan in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania.
Hi.
Hi, Mr. Rush.
Hi.
Thanks for taking the call, and please keep up the good work.
Thank you, madam.
My question, or I guess my comment would be, I was under the impression that when Mr. Obama was going to offer a health care reform plan, that it was going to be on the same level that he and his family or the senators or congressmen have or representatives have along the same line as what they have.
Is this plan along their line?
Imagine their plan is this.
If it is, I'll sign up.
You can't get this plan.
I figured that.
This plan is essentially whatever you need whenever you need it at no cost.
And I don't remember Obama promising that.
I know every politician says, you ought to have the health care that we have in the U.S. Senate, in the U.S. House.
They always say that because people love hearing members of Congress rip government.
But there's no way to provide it.
I mean, you have 435 House members, you've got 100 senators, 535 people, and you've got 300 million or 200 million people paying for it.
Now, if you can find 200 million people to pay for your health care, I'll guarantee you it won't cost you a penny.
Well, that sounds pretty good.
Now, I'm a senior citizen.
When my husband was alive, I had insurance.
You don't sound old enough to be a senior citizen.
Well, thank you very much.
I'm a former Missourian.
I'm a transplant, so give me that insurance.
What part of Missouri?
St. Louis, Missouri.
St. Louis.
That was years ago, yeah.
Okay.
But I pay $363 a month to carry my insurance because I need it.
Right, you do as a seasoned citizen.
You're at the point in life where you do need it.
Right.
Now, if he taxes that, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be able to afford that.
No, wait, wait.
Are you employed?
No.
I'm retired.
No, no.
You're paying for it out of your pocket.
That's right.
You won't pay any seeable taxes on it.
This is employee-provided benefits that they're going to tax as income.
But you're just paying for this out-of-pocket as though you were going to the grocery store every month, right?
Right.
No, you won't pay any taxes on it.
Well, eventually I probably will.
Well, I can't see that.
It depends on how you define a tax.
I mean, if depending on what Obama gets done here, your $363 a month might become $500, and you could view that as a tax increase.
Or your option to buy it might go away.
Well, that's probably what will happen.
Your option to buy it's going to go away because whatever plan you're in, they might opt out of it and go into the government option, which is what a lot of insurance companies want to do, what a lot of businesses want to do.
Trust me on this, my friends.
Do not doubt me.
I'm happy to be able to help her straighten that out, though.
Reading, California.
This is Corinna or Karina.
How are you?
Hi, Giga Ditto from Reading in Shasta County, Shasta County, California, where unemployment is 16.8% rising, including myself.
Anyway, I'm a Republican school teacher, and I love your show because of all the brilliant, teachable moments you had, and your conversation with Jeremy today was so incredible.
I wish everybody in the country could have heard it.
But you missed what I think was a really valuable point.
It's always the case.
Here I'm being set up for a great compliment, and then you lower the boom, but you missed something.
Well, I'm sorry.
It's a small point.
Let me tell you something.
If I were Barack Obama, I would say to you, I didn't miss anything.
I don't miss anything ever.
You don't know what you're talking about.
And then I would hang up, okay, what did I miss?
Okay, what you miss is when Jeremy was saying that he was frustrated with the cost of his insurance and he called around and he could use the internet to search the country for a better program, the point you missed was under Barack Obama's plan, or rather I should say Emperor Obama's plan, he wouldn't have that option.
Eventually, that's true.
Yeah, he would have one plan.
It would be a government plan.
He'd be stuck with it.
And whatever they tell him about what he's approved for or disapproved for, he couldn't go anywhere else.
He couldn't go to Canada because they've got the same program.
He'd have to be stuck with whatever they have.
You can't call around if you have a government care.
Yes, yes, yes.
Technically, I'm going to argue with you on this.
Okay.
I didn't miss it because I've been saying that for the previous four or five days.
I didn't miss the opportunity to point it out to him in that precise moment.
Exactly.
And for somebody, for a Democrat who voted for Emperor Obama, who is just now starting to get that, that's the point that needs to be reinforced because I think he's still kind of starting to see where all this is coming from, and he may not have thought about that before.
Well, he got it now because I'm sure he's glued to the radio after the pep talk I gave.
Look, Karina, thanks very much.
Everybody thinks they can do it better.
If I weren't so strong and confident in character, I'd have walk out of here today just depressed, thinking I'd had a great call and somebody said, you should have done this.
You should have done that.
Anyway, I'm just kidding.
Corinna.
Ladies and gentlemen, I mean, you know, I am a man who has learned to cast fear aside.
And that's, when I learned to do that, I can't tell you how much my life improved.
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May as well tell you now, and I'll reminding you, but it's on June 26th, the stoning of Soraya M.
It's about how the Iranians deal with women charged with adultery.
In this case, it was a false charge.
It's a true story.
It's a false charge trumped up.
The stoning occurs in the movie.
You'll see it.
But you'll see the lead up to it as well.
One of the producers here is Steve McGaviti, or McAvidi, produced The Passion of Christ and Braveheart for Mel Gibson.
And it's, you know, they gave me a screener copy and I watched it, and I was amazed how fast the time flew by.
And I was, it's a, you gripped the seats through a lot of it, which I don't do much in a movie.
I'll be reminding you of it because this is who we're dealing with.
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