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July 20, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 20, 2009, Monday, Hour #3
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Well, looky here.
Looky here.
I'm looking at the Fox News Channel.
Mitch McConnell is a guest right now.
You know what Mitch McConnell is saying?
Mitch McConnell is saying that Obama's stimulus plan is a failure.
And once again, I, El Rushmore, the pioneer, I take the arrows on this.
Except when I said I hope he fails, I hope he doesn't succeed implementing this stuff.
He has failed.
This is a disaster.
Greetings.
Great to have you with us.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
And the Limbaugh Institute, Advanced Conservative Studies, 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
This I love this headline from Time Magazine.
Well, their website, Time.com, utilities scramble to meet the power needs of electric cars.
And there aren't that many of them, folks.
David Kaufman likes people yelling at him as he drives through La Cañata, California, the wealthy suburb north of Los Angeles where he lives.
What they're shouting about is battery-powered electric vehicle.
One of the up to 30,000 estimated to hit the streets in Southern California in the next 36 months.
The biggest expected e-car surge in the country.
They all want to know what is that?
Where is it?
Where can I get one?
Utilities scramble to meet power needs of electric cars, and they're not even 30,000 on the road yet.
That's just what they're projecting.
These stupid environmentalist wackos think that the energy that comes from a plug in your garage is just magic, and therefore it's clean.
They don't understand that it's coal that's being burned to power their stupid electric cars.
Here I'm going ballistic.
It comes from coal.
All these people thinking they're saving the environment.
these idiots.
Big Oil.
Now, you know what Big Oil's doing?
Big Oil's running around investigating in pond scum.
There's another name for pond scum.
It It's called um algae.
But big oil is well, they want to be players at the table here.
You know, that Obama's got everybody scared to death.
Big oil is looking into the possibility that Pond scum will provide some sort of new energy.
I've got the story here in the stack.
Uh, before we get back to audio sound bites, we got some great ones here yet to come, but let's move forward and let's be hypothetical.
Let's say we get Obamacare.
Let's say we get it next month.
Let's say we got it in August.
What's gonna happen to abortion?
Certainly the government can't refuse to pay for abortions when it's the only way people can get them.
What do you think is gonna happen to the number of abortions when the government's paying for it?
I've often, you know, the the in discussing abortion over the course of this program's histoire, I've really talked about it in many ways.
One of the ways is the medical ethics way, which a lot of this is now coming true.
I remember way back even when I was working at KFBK in Sacramento, when people started uh playing games with uh genetics, uh doctors some there was some news story that soon we're gonna be able to tell you whether your kid's gonna have a fat gene, a red hair gene, a fair skin freckled gene, or what have you.
And I said, if that happens, then parents are gonna be able to say, I don't want that kid.
It's got to be conceived first before they know.
So you abort the kid because and then I said, what happens if they do identify?
This pure speculation.
What happens if they ever identify the genetic marker that defines whether somebody is homosexual?
And they tell the parents.
You're gonna see the biggest switch around from pro-choice to pro-life you've ever seen in the in the gay community.
And I said, but if if if we're gonna decide who lives and dies at the beginning of life, and then if we're gonna decide what kind of people are gonna be, we don't want any redheads, we don't need fat people, we don't want any freckle faces, whatever people, you know, parents would find objectionable.
We don't want any blondes, too many, who knows whatever they come up with.
It doesn't matter.
Now what happens at the End of life.
What happens then?
What happens if you conceive a child that has Downs syndrome?
So we're not gonna pay for that child to be born.
Aren't they mad at Palin for having a Down syndrome child?
What what if what if I mean, folks, this is all possible?
That's that's why everybody is trying to alarm or alert everybody to what this health care plan really is.
It is the single greatest tool to regulate every aspect of our lives this government could ever have, all predicated on whatever they want to say.
Quality of life costs at the end of life.
We decide who lives and dies at the beginning.
We're certainly going to decide who lives and dies at the end.
84-year-old guy needs a quadruple bypass and a heart valve?
Ain't going to happen.
Bye.
Just didn't by design it won't happen because it wouldn't facilitate saving any money.
It wouldn't be worth the investment.
This is this is dreadfully serious stuff that is being talked about here in the most irresponsible, dreadfully irresponsible way by this president.
To talk about it in terms of a crisis mom and dad can't afford checkups for the kids when nobody's leaving this country to find health care for their themselves or their or their kids.
It just it's just irresponsible.
And I think they're in a state of disarray.
You have Mitch McConnell out now saying Obama's pin porculus is a failure, and a media jumping right on that, of course.
They they they love that.
So the magic is sort of on the way in here.
Now let's I want to I want to go back in Histoire.
Uh we had some quotes, but I didn't have the audio.
We had some quotes of what Joe.
Actually, grab number five here, Ed.
I'm changing the order up on Ed on the fly here.
We'll do five seven six.
Uh I I heard some things Joe Biden said.
And last Thursday, I instructed Cookie on air to do the following.
Cookie, you gotta get audio of this speech when it's given.
We got to do a Bob Torricelli on this.
Come see what I see everywhere I go.
Workers rehired, and by the way, Harley Davidson is cutting 1,000 more jobs as profits plummet.
This is from the Milwaukee, Wisconsin Journal, Sentinel.
Come see what I see everywhere, Biden says.
Workers rehired, factories reopened, cops on the street, teachers in the classrooms...
These people are a joke.
The only reason he can be saying this is if he's walking around Washington because their unemployment rate's only 6.2 percent employment's growing.
It's government.
People in the D.C. area literally do not have in in an ordinary day anywhere near the life experiences, or they don't even see the same things, people outside of Washington C. So I I said, do a Bob Torricelli on this.
Well, what's a Bob Torricelli?
Well, we put together a Bob Torricelli montage uh when it was proven that he had taken a bunch of bribes.
He went to the Florida Senate when he was a senator from New Jersey, April 18, 2001, to deny all these charges.
And what we did, he took a bunch of bribes from a guy named David Chang.
And it was no question he ended up resigning over this.
Brad Simon.
Well, he didn't resign.
They pulled him out of the re-election race when his poll numbers were down, and they put Lautenberg in there.
But anyway, uh what you're gonna hear here is Torricelli, angry as he could be in the Florida Senate, denying the charges, while David Chang's attorney Brad Simon lists all the things that uh Torreselli accepted.
To challenge my integrity is beneath contempt.
I do not deserve this treatment.
Two watches, a Rolex watch, diamond earrings for his girlfriend.
I have never a television set.
Ever.
Oriental rug, grandfather clock, other antique items.
Done anything.
Suits at any time.
Approximately 14 deliveries of uh envelopes of cash to Torcelli's house.
To betray the trust of the people of the state of New Jersey.
Never.
All right, so I said, look, we uh uh cookie put one of these together on Biden, saying, Come see what I see everywhere I go.
So we did it.
Here is Biden telling us to look around the results of the stimulus combined with uh the money honey, CNBC, Maria Bartra Romo reciting economic facts.
To those who say that our economic decisions haven't saved jobs.
Unemployment right now at nine and a half percent.
It simply hasn't worked.
Consumer sentiment taking a dive.
I say look around you.
Gasoline up a dollar sixty-five to two dollars sixty-five.
I say, don't let your opposition to the recovery act blind you to the results.
The numbers speak for themselves.
Come see what I see.
The Obama administration stimulus is not working.
Come see what I see.
I say look around you.
Oh, these are just great.
This is just to illustrate uh uh.
I don't even know what you call it anymore.
I I just I just and and this grab number 32 before we go to the um EIB obscene profit timeout here.
This is June 30th.
Uh this is a town meeting in Delaware.
An unidentified woman and Representative Mike Castle have the following exchange.
It's about Obama's birth certificate.
I want to go back to January 20th, and I want to know why are you people ignoring his birth certificate?
He is not an American citizen.
He is a citizen of India.
Thank you.
I am a new father fought in World War II with the greatest generation in the Pacific Newtrate.
I want my country back.
You're referring to the president there, he is a citizen of the United States.
All the women decides from this country in 1776 till the present time.
I think we should all stand up and give plenty of agents set the flag.
I still give freedom.
Everything right now.
State of Delaware, Mike Castle.
Town meeting.
Woman wants to know why.
Nobody is interested in the fact that he hasn't shown anybody his birth certificate.
If he couldn't understand it, she was saying, he's a citizen of Kenya.
I'm American.
My father worked, fought in World War II, the great generation Pacific Theater for this country, and I don't want this flag to change when I get the crowd went nuts.
There's all kinds of stuff bubbling up out there.
We gotta go.
Brief time out, we'll be back right after this.
So what we'll do while we're waiting, Ed, for those to be sped up.
We'll start here at uh number 11, 111213.
All right.
Back to the phones now.
Richard in Philadelphia.
Great to have you, sir, on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, welcome.
Uh I'm a uh critical care and pulmonary physician outside of Philadelphia.
What is a critical care physician?
I I take care of patients who are in the intensive care unit on mechanical ventilators after surgery.
I mean, sick patients.
I see.
Okay, thank you.
And they come up with heart failure, pulmonary failure.
Anyway, you know, the the pay I work in a city hospital.
Wide range of insurances to no insurance to the best.
And everybody gets what they need.
They need a they need a pacemaker, they get it.
They need a consult for any physician dialysis, they get it.
There's no questions asked, and no consultant has ever refused a consult.
The day that may I stop you there for a second because you've just don't lose your train of thought.
Okay.
But you've reminded me we never do hear these horror stories in this country of people who need the things you just described being denied them.
We never do hear that.
We hear it from Canada, we hear it from Great Britain, but we you're you're right.
It doesn't happen.
Everybody listening is wondering, well, you just made this on whether they can pay for it or not, they get it.
They get it.
Pay for it is after the fact.
They get what they need.
I I I've had uninsured patients who got defibrillators at 25,000 a pot uh uh a pot, but nobody bought it an eye.
They needed it, they got it.
There were no questions asked.
The day a government bureaucrat tells me that I can't put a life-saving pacemaker in a 95-year-old lady who is otherwise vital is the day that I retire.
I'm 54 years old.
Right.
I'm at the end of the line.
I'm I'm actually looking at this more as a consumer of medical care than a provider anymore.
Because my wife my wife's a primary care physician.
And she takes all the insurances, half of which don't show up for appointments.
And this is that then most of the patients are the ones who are getting free care.
Because there's no sense of responsibility anymore.
Yeah, that's a whole nother app.
And and and one other thing if I if I may, the AMA, uh I have only joined the AMA a few times, and that's to get malpractice insurance.
I have never been a member of the AMA otherwise.
And they've really uh embarrassed themselves today going for this uh proposal.
I'll tell you, I uh I am so glad you called because you just said something that we all know but we never voice or even realize.
Uh be it in the emergency room or wherever.
You're and you're talking about intensive care.
You're talking about people admitted to the hospital.
All we all we what we do hear in this country are stories about how people do get turned away if they prove they if they can't prove they can pay.
That's no way.
I mean, it's not true because we don't hear we do not have these stories of people dying because they didn't get this or that.
We do hear these stories from countries that have socialized and government run health care systems.
But but it when a uh I mean I've gone up against insurance companies.
Uh, can I have a a quick story?
A patient of mine was going to go home on a on a on a tracheostomy collar with a hole in her neck and a lot of equipment after being saved after three months.
The local independent insurance agent here would not cover the ambulance ride home.
She lived on the third floor.
So I actually called the insurance company up and I said that I will report them to the local news agency because they what pictures they would get from a uh a patient sitting on the lawn because they they refused an ambulance ride home by the insurance company.
And actually that that got them to get shake their rear end and get the ambulance.
If I call a government bureaucrat, they would say, uh press number nine and leave a message.
Exactly exactly right.
Exactly illustrating the private sector handles this stuff.
Caregivers are caregivers.
I'm a patient advocate and I've always has it, and so are my partners and and the people with which which I work.
We're up to I mean there's bad apples in every group, but you have people from all various economic circumstances in your hospital.
Absolutely.
And uh you do the best you can and you communicate with the families, and you know, when this comes along, I'm I'm hanging it up.
I'm not I I can try to retire best I can, and so can my wife.
Well, let me ask you this.
You said you collect after they go.
Yeah.
They pay after they leave.
Right.
Uh I we do hear about people who get care.
And I've heard this.
I'm I've I had a friend of mine repossessed the cars of people who uh welched on their hospital bills.
Um but but you make the hospitals make deals with them, right?
Do what you can to recover the money.
Absolutely.
And there are plenty of patients that give false information, uh, false cards, false false numbers, and you don't get paid, you you try your best.
But we have so much write-off in in uncollected bills.
But I start to pay my malpractice and my staff and the other doctors, I haven't really truly gotten a raise in twenty years if you if you go against inflation, because I I don't have a lot of procedures, and I just do medical bedside clinical care.
But I don't have much I have one procedure that I that I don't do very much, it's a bronchoscopy, but that's that's it.
So you do it because you love it.
Yeah, I mean it there's there you you know there's plenty of days you go home and you say I hate this, but you know, the few patients that that come by, especially after they die, because I take care of some sick patients and they thank you for trying your best and making my my husband's last days uh memorable.
Or or a comfortable.
And you get a lot of satisfaction out of that.
Are you serious when you when you tell us that if this plan as you understand it is implemented, you're out?
If if the day that I am forced to not provide patient care that I that I deem and and my colleagues and consultants deem critical, and some government high school dropout is gonna tell me, No, you can't have that, Granny's too old, then then I I that's your Hippocratic oath.
Isn't it?
Most certainly is.
Yeah.
And uh tell me, in your sphere of friends and colleagues who are also in your business, is the sentiment common that you just expressed?
Well, I mean, so certain doctors I work with are full bore behind uh Obama.
You know, I call a lot of them the bow ties because they they don't get out of the lab and they're churning out their papers.
But they don't work on the front lines like a lot of us who get calls at three and four in the morning.
The bow ties.
Yes, that's what I call them.
Because they don't get out of the lab, they're churning out their papers, but they don't work on the front lines.
You know, they want to see a few patients.
They have to see a few patients uh uh over over time because they have to fulfill their obligation to the medical school.
But other times they can't wait to get back to the lab so they can churn out more uh documents to get more funding from NIH.
I was playing golf yesterday with a guy uh who's telling me about his family.
I knew him uh from just previous golf tournaments, not a close friend, and he said he's very proud of his daughter where she's gonna go to uh medical school wants to be a heart surgeon, and because it was golf, I did not say, are you sure she wants to do that given what's coming to health care.
But what would you tell somebody who wanted to be a heart surgeon?
Well, I have two kids, and they're grown up and they're in their twenties and graduated, and my wife and I never encourage them to be doctors, but we never discourage them either.
We let them see what the real world is, and they listen to us at dinner and our complaints, but also our sense of satisfaction of doing the right thing for people.
I mean, that's you know, if you're you do your best, and then you work around the obstacles that people put in front.
Richard, great call.
Thank you so much.
Oh, yeah, screams of joy at the very mention of my name, Rush Limbaugh, the excellence in broadcasting network.
Last Thursday night in New York City, President Obama showed up at the 100th uh anniversary celebration of the NAA L CP.
That would be the National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People.
Now, I play these four bites because I, it was I L. Rushbo who told you prior to the election of President Obama that our race industry would not end, racism as an American original sin would not end.
It would only get worse.
Now, as with the healthcare sound bites, we have speeded these up.
It I find it's much more palatable to listen to this.
And it also has a couple of other added benefits.
I don't want to have to mention it or easily figured out.
So here is um Obama, the NAA L C P. Make no mistake, folks.
Racism is alive and well in this country.
The NAALCP told as much by President Obama.
Make no mistake.
The pain of discrimination is still felt in America.
By African American women paid less for doing the same work as colleagues of a different color and a different gender.
By Latinos made to feel unwelcome in their own country.
By Muslim Americans viewed with suspicion, simply because they kneel down to pray to their gun.
By our gay brothers and sisters, still taunted, still attacked, still denied their rights.
Oh, this is the original litmus test.
This is the original list of sins.
This guy is out there stoking more hatred among these people.
He's not bringing this together.
Where's the unity?
Here, we get three more of these.
Here here, the President Obama lists all of the excuses the left makes for African American failure.
If you're African American, the odds of growing up amid crime and gangs are high.
Yes, if you live in a poor neighborhood, you will face challenges that somebody in a wealthy suburb does not have to face.
But that's not a reason to get bad grades.
That's not a reason to cut class.
That's not a reason to give up on your education and drop out of school.
No one has written your destiny for you.
Your destiny is in your hands.
You cannot forget that.
That's what we have to teach all of our children.
No excuses.
No excuses.
Okay, yeah, give them all the excuses.
Give them all the excuses and say no excuses.
If you're African American, the odds are growing up a bit crime and gangs are higher.
Yes, if you live in a poor neighborhood, you'll face challenges somebody in a wealthy suburb doesn't have to face.
Not a reason to get bad grade.
Now, Bill Cosby got drummed out of the black race for saying this stuff, right?
I don't yeah, well, I know who runs the neighborhoods and who runs the schools in those neighborhoods uh and and uh uh look snerdly it speaks for itself I I really don't need to editorialize here uh let's let's now listen to um Obama in full preacher mode kids can't all aspire to be LeBron or Lil Wayne I want them aspiring to be scientists and engineers doctors and
teachers not just ballers and rappers I want them aspiring to be a Supreme Court justice I want them aspiring to be the president of the United States of America unless you're Clarence Thomas unless you're Condoleezza Rice unless you're Walter Williams unless you're Dr. Thomas Sowell then you can forget about all those aspirations because people like Obama are gonna chop you into liver and
finally this is Obama's world view.
My life could have easily taken a turn for the worse I drive through Harlem or I drive through the South of Chicago and I see young men on the corners I say there but for the grace of God go out.
They're no less gifted than me they're no less talented than me but I had some breaks well what were the breaks meeting a bunch of communist mentors gee if they could all meet Reverend Wright think their lives would be improving if they could all meet Frank Davis with their lives and what what's the question Mr. Snerdley the program observer has a I Well that's a good question.
The program observer is asked how do you think the brothers in Harlem hear this when the first black president says he when he drives through there and he looks at the brothers in Harlem he says there but for the grace of God go I what must the brothers in Harlem think so basically what Obama's saying here is that we're all just winners of life's lottery.
It's all luck.
And the government's going to come in here and make it so there's no luck.
And everybody finishes off just as bad as everybody else finishes off.
Or ends up just as bad as everybody else ends up.
But here's the, folks, the real point about this is, this president promised unity.
We've got to get past all of this.
We can't continue to think this way.
he's out he's stoking fires of resentment in this speech he's not you think of the opportunity he has to inspire by going before this group and saying he did he took the opposite route this speech didn't inspire anybody all it does this speech gave them continued reason to be resentful.
He reinforced the existing attitude that exists in the race business today I don't know when's the last time you drove through Harlem anyway.
I think Caroline Kennedy was there more recently than he's been there.
Didn't she have lunch with uh Sharpton at uh the Soul Food place Sophie is that what it is Sylvia's yeah Sylvia's I remember that that's when she she blew it she started eating on camera you didn't no seasoned politician even Ted Kennedy eats when there are cameras around it just you can't possibly look good doing it.
And if you spill something it's uh it's even worse.
All right Cameron in Martinsburg Pennsylvania hi and welcome to the EIB network hello Rush those uh sound boy sound like a bad Ross Perot imitation but anyway with regard to health care uh this isn't rocket science we need to get back to a time when you can you as an individual or family you can deal with the doctor in hospital directly get the insurance insurance companies out of business except for catastrophic situations.
I I realize people would need insurance for situations like that.
But get the insurance companies out deal with the doctor and hospital directly therefore cost would be well there's there's there's one way of getting started on this and that's the concept known as HSA's health savings accounts and the health savings account idea uh naturally sprang from conservative thinking.
Or sprung.
Well, it originated with conservative thinking.
And it basically is this.
The federal government's spending X on health care every year per person.
So theoretically, you would divvy up the amount of health care per person, and you would give each adult that amount of money to spend themselves on health care and for their children.
And they would go shop and they'd find the best deal, whatever doctor they want at whatever price, and whatever they didn't spend on health care they got to keep.
It's all it's just it's just returning their money to they're already being taxed for this.
You've got it, the government's not giving anybody anything under HSA.
The government is returning what was money earned and produced by people in the first place and letting them spend it.
That's the way you get started on the consumer choosing services he can afford to pay, like hotel rooms, airplane flights, and so forth and so on.
And then you get you get started here on bringing a free market cost and ability to pay-oriented system back into health care.
HSAs have been specifically killed in the house plan.
There is no way they are going to survive the Obama administration of Pelosi.
Do not want you having that freedom or that ability to spend your own money on your own health care.
And by the way, whether it's with a health savings account or not, they do not want you having the ability to pay your own money for your own health care.
This bill is not about health care, folks.
It's not about health care reform.
It's not about making your health care better, it's not about giving you more access, it's going to give you less.
It's not about anything they are saying it's about.
Quick timeout, we'll be back.
I've got much more.
Not a whole lot of time.
Time's tight, but we'll squeeze it in there.
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Hurricane insurance.
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But I mean, you hope you never have to use your car insurance.
You hope you never have to use your health insurance.
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Maybe library for those of you in Rio Linda.
And I couldn't wake it up.
What is this?
Couldn't wake up, couldn't wake the display up, couldn't wake the monitor up.
It was on, but it stayed black.
I mean the keyboard, trackball, mouse, nothing happens.
So I said, well, maybe the damn thing froze up while I was gone.
Sometimes computers do that.
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And that's hit the power button on the front to power it down, hold it down long enough and restart it.
Same situation happened.
It turned out the keyboard had come, the connector had come loose somehow.
I'm still not sure that was it.
I don't know what, but so I had to run get a spare, I have spare everything.
See, I have insurance.
I ran and got a spare keyboard and I plugged it into USB slot on the front of the computer, and that's what it was.
So and but then I fired some stuff up on a bunch of system preferences that changed, like fonts that I had set for certain programs.
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I've only been gone two days.
What the hell happened?
So I started looking at it.
I didn't lose any data, but you just you just never know.
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Howard in Springfield, Illinois.
Hi.
Hey Rush, thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
I heard you mention Walker Cronkite earlier, and it really fired me up.
Uh I feel that he did more single-handedly than any other American to uh cost us lives in Vietnam.
When he got on the news and said we cannot win, we need to be out of Vietnam, the will to win in Vietnam went south.
Even more than Hanoi Jane.
People trusted him, and he used his own personal opinion, and he literally cost us combat troops in waiting for the.
Yeah, that was uh that was about the Tet Offensive.
Now the Tet Offensive was a surprise invasion of the South by the North uh Vietnamese.
And we repelled it.
And they they took significant casualties in North did.
We had the Tet Offensive was actually very successful in it, but that's I think when Cronkite said, this reporter, it's clear that this war isn't we're gonna do war to Cronkite.
And, you know, I was talking to my buddy F. Lee Levin last night.
And F. Lee has an interesting theory on why Cronkite was loved and adored.
And see what you think it is, because he looks like Walt Disney or looked like Walt Disney.
The mustache, the hairstyle, the engaging uh evuncular grandfatherly look.
Everybody loved Disney and they associated him with all the wonderful things that Disney was back then.
And I think I think there's some uh there's some merit to that.
Plus, but but aside from Huntley Brinkley and uh the the then just bursting on the scene ABC, Cronkite was it.
And I remember Lyndon Johnson, I've lost Cronkite, I've lost the American people.
And see, the the drive bys today hanker and and just hope to have that kind of power once they never will because it's the market's not too varied.
But a lot of people share your view about uh Cronkite.
I I grew up having, you know, my my dad thought they were all a bunch of liberal biased phonies.
Dad was right.
My dad, my dad, of course my dad was my dad was uh the only time my dad was wrong that I could ever remember was when he told me I would not amount to anything if I didn't go to college.
It's the only time he was he later in life learned.
Tough to admit, but he he admitted he was uh he was wrong.
Yeah, you're talking about the Tet Offensive, and I You know, Cronkite uh retired and started speaking out, the real Cronkite then served every it was there for one and all to see and hear about you know what he really was and he was just a classic liberal that uh in many ways defined what journalism is today.
It just burns me up that he gets so many accolades when he actually cost us uh I believe probably 10,000 American lives when they were withdrawn to the populated areas to let the Vietnamese Vietnamized the war, and we lost troops for another two and a half years that were totally demoralized because of the people back home.
Yeah, but you can't you can't just give Cronkite alone the credit.
I mean, you've got to you gotta spread it around.
Guys like Bob McNamara, who recently passed away at age ninety-two.
I mean, these guys are all David Halberston wrote about it, the best and the brightest.
They hadn't the slightest idea who they were doing, running a war from uh the White House.
Anyway, uh Howard, I appreciate the call.
I'm out of time here, folks.
We'll be right back and wrap it up.
Oh, yeah, I'm gonna get to that to my Hillary and and uh carbon emissions India China.
Oh, yeah.
And and we gotta I have a whole lighthearted human interest stack, but I felt you gotta get to the meat and the issues to the health care, especially.
But uh all week left to get to all these other things.
If you listen three hours a day, you won't miss anything, folks.
Everything, if I don't talk about it, it's not worth you knowing.
Just be confident of that.
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