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Feb. 26, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 26, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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Hi, how are you folks?
Welcome back, Rushland Boy and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program today, is 800-282-2882 and the email address.
Oh, Rushbo at EIBnet.com.
Remember, when we go to the phones on Friday, the content's all yours.
I don't have to care about it.
If you think something needs to be said that hasn't been said, or if you have a question, a comment, just feel free.
800-282-2882.
Again, the number.
Now, still no seminar callers.
Not one has made it through here.
You know, I saw this headline, and I thought it was a story about Charlie Sheen, but it's not.
A Russian chimpanzee has been sent to rehab by zookeepers to cure the smoking and beer drinking habits that he's picked up.
He's fathered several baby chimps.
What other kind of chimp would you father?
An adult chimp?
The beer and cigarettes were ruining him.
He would pester passersby for booze.
This chimp in the circus, and they had to transfer him to a zoo in the southern Russian city of Rostov, where he fathered several baby chimps.
And somehow this chimpanzee ended up with cigarettes, learned how to smoke them and in beer.
Now, I'm watching the networks here, and they're getting ready for the press conference from SeaWorld.
This is the most amazing thing.
They've got the podium and microphone set up in front of the tank with a glass wall.
You can see the killer whales all swimming around, and one of them keeps coming to the glass as though it wants to say something.
It's right there, two microphones on this podium, and that thing keeps swimming up and puts his nose right on the edge of the glass, looks around, drifts off, and comes back.
Now, at some point, there's going to be somebody up there speaking at this press conference with his back turned to the tank, and that whale is going to come up there.
This is, I mean, and these whales, you know, they're just big dolphins.
They are just the largest dolphins.
They are said to be among the smartest animals on the planet.
And obviously it wants to say something.
It knows what's going.
It can see the crowd.
It can see the press in there.
I mean, they can see through the glass.
It knows there's a big audience in there.
And these things are used to performing.
Anyway, for those of you, for those of you who think that there's no difference in the two parties, that there's not a dime's worth of difference in the two parties, I have a list here.
This is put out by the National Journal.
I mean, it's the hotline people.
And what we have here, we have a list of the 10 most liberal senators.
And guess what?
They're all Democrats.
I was shocked to see this.
The 10 most liberal senators, shockingly, are all Democrats.
Who would have believed that?
The 10 most conservative senators, and you're not going to believe this, were Republicans.
Now, this is going to be tough for some people to digest because they think there's not a dime's worth of difference between the two parties.
Now, in addition to this, if you're not already reeling from this news that the 10 most liberal senators are Democrats and 10 most conservative senators are Republicans, get this.
In the middle, the 10 most centrists and House and Senate are all Democrat.
There's not a one Republican centrist in the National Journal list, not one.
Yet, independent voters are flocking to the Republicans right now.
So I don't know that's necessary to even go through the names here with you folks.
The news is just shocking enough.
All right, there's the press conference, and look at those whales swimming around.
What a staging area.
I mean, this is an incredible way to stage this press conference.
So look, I have to list four or five names here, but the 10 in the middle, from most liberal to most conservative, in the House and the Senate, they're all Democrats.
Every damned one of them is a Democrat.
So, I mean, the only place you find Republicans in this list is conservative.
Conservatives is on the Republican side.
I know that this is a shock to many, many, many of you out there, and this is the National Journal.
And they're ranking this by the way these people have voted.
It's not their opinion.
It's the way they have voted.
All the centrists are Democrats.
Now, that means one thing.
They're all liberals.
There's no such thing as a centrist.
There's no such thing as a moderate.
They're all Democrats.
They're all liberals.
I have a most amazing economic story here.
It's amazing because it actually reports the truth.
It is from state-controlled AP.
The economy rocketed ahead at a 5.9% pace in the final quarter of 2009.
It's stronger than estimated.
Now, remember, the initial report was 5.7%, and we were all expecting the revision to go down, because they always do.
They revised it up to 5.9%.
Now, you would think state-controlled AP, 5.9, almost 6% economic growth.
Whoa!
Let's break out the band and the champagne.
Let's get those zockey players from Canada, smoke some cigars.
The stimulus worked.
Wouldn't you expect that to be what follows in the story?
You would be wrong.
The economy rocketed ahead at a 5.9% pace the final quarter of 2009, but the growth spurt isn't expected to carry over into this year.
I could not.
Oh, I'm told that's not a killer whale.
That's Rosie O'Donnell.
I'm sorry, I'm not watching this in high definition.
So here you have state-controlled Associated Press.
You still with us in there, Wendy.
Wendy is our substitute transcriber today.
The growth spurt isn't expected to carry over.
AP is saying it doesn't matter.
It's a fake number.
And they're reporting it truthfully.
It's a fake number because it's all about replacing inventories.
It's not about any private sector consuming going on.
They admit in the story that the consumer market is dead.
The fresh reading on the nation's economic standing released by the Commerce Department today was better than the government's initial estimate a month ago.
Mark the strongest showing in six years.
Even so, it didn't change the expectation of much slower economic activity in the current January to March quarter.
Roughly two-thirds of last quarter's growth came from a burst of manufacturing, but not because consumer demand was strong.
In fact, consumer spending weakened at the end of the year, even more than the government first thought.
Instead, factories were turning out goods for businesses that had let their stockpiles dwindle to save money.
If consumer spending remains lackluster, as expected, that burst of manufacturing will fade, and the signs are not hopeful.
Consumer confidence took an unexpected dive in February.
Unemployment stands at 9.7%.
Home foreclosures are at record highs.
And many Americans are still having trouble getting loans.
I can't believe what I just read.
This is the first honest and truthful story on the economy in the AP in years.
Not just since Obama was immulated, but in years.
I can't believe, I'll guarantee it.
Rob Emmanuel sees this, and Exelrod sees this, and somebody's heads on a chopping block at AP.
You mean to tell us that you got a 5.9% fourth quarter growth rate and you write a story about how it's phony and it isn't going to last?
What are you doing to us?
Do you not know who you're working for, Emmanuel will say?
A stunning, stunning story.
There's something else in this foreclosure business.
Obama is going to, he's just going to move in there and say you can't foreclose to the banks.
I got to find this.
He's just going to say that you can't foreclose.
It's not American.
He's going to make these banks continue to keep people in their houses, not foreclose, regardless.
The federal government is going to order.
I'll find that story somewhere here in the stack of stuff.
A couple more soundbites before we go to the break.
I want you to hear Kent Conrad from the healthcare summit yesterday afternoon at Blair House.
If you think that the death panels are out of this bill, listen to Kent Conrad.
5% use 50% of the money.
Who are they?
They're the chronically ill, people who have multiple serious conditions.
A study was done with 20,000 patients, and they put a care coordinator on each one of them.
These are chronically ill patients.
And what they found was by coordinating their care, and the first thing they did, by the way, is go into their kitchen tables, sit down, get out all their prescription drugs.
On average, they found they were taking 16.
They found that by looking at them, they could eliminate eight.
The result was hundreds of thousands of dollars of savings per patient.
Now, who do you think this 5% using 50% of health care money is?
Who do you think the chronically ill are?
The elderly.
Exactly right.
And don't forget, the New York Times declared war on the elderly in one of their blogs this week.
We told you about that, about how, you know, these people, they're soaking up all the freebies.
They're getting all the benefits.
It's just not fair out there.
So here's Kent Conrad.
5% use 50%.
And you know what else?
There are a bunch of druggies walk in there and they got 16 different prescriptions.
We find out they could get by with eight.
You think that there aren't death panels.
Think again.
John Boehner eloquently destroyed Obama's bill yesterday and its entire premise.
Having a government takeover of healthcare, and I believe that's what this is, is a dangerous experiment with the best health care system in the world.
At a time when our economy is struggling, the last thing we need to do is be raising taxes on the American people.
You've got the individual mandate in here, which I think is unwise, and I too believe is unconstitutional.
Mr. President, what we've been saying for a long time is, let's scrap the bill.
Let's start with a clean sheet of paper on those things that we can't agree on.
Whoa, he just sat there and told the bamster that his bill is unconstitutional.
These guys were on fire yesterday, and they were likable when they were on fire.
And it was a Democrat that looked like a bunch of spoiled, rotten little brats, petulant little creeps, arrogant little smug you-know-whats.
We'll be back after this.
Hey, quick, Snerdly, you know the name of this group.
You couldn't be called that today, I don't think.
It's average whiteband.
Yeah.
Okay, here's the story.
President Obama and his administration are floating an idea to prohibit lenders from foreclosing on a home unless the borrower has been considered for the government's home affordable modification program.
A proposal would require servicers to initiate contact with all borrowers who are 60 or more days behind in their mortgage payments and offer them access to the federal modification program.
Only after the homeowner has been screened under the HAMP guidelines and it's determined that a loan can't be saved, could foreclosure proceedings commence.
I know it would take years, but it's not constitutional.
That program's backlogged.
It's unconstitutional.
This guy's reaching into the private sector and say, here's how you're going to run yourself.
I'm going to run you.
Nobody's going to go into this business anymore.
President Barack Obama is essentially saying to mortgage lenders, you exist to lose money.
You exist to lose money.
All right, to the phones we go.
This is Betty from Alfreda, Georgia.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
It's an honor to talk with you.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
Thank you.
I'm calling to thank you for helping to keep me informed, but also to thank you for helping to keep me fit.
And late last year, I started swimming to try and get some regular exercise, and I was swimming laps, and that very quickly got very boring.
So then I got a waterproof case for my iPod, and I started listening to music, but after a while, that got boring, too.
So then a few weeks ago, I realized I could download your podcast and listen to your show.
So I started doing that every night, and now when I'm swimming each morning, your show kind of makes the time fly.
I swim for about an hour and 20 minutes every day.
That's two miles for me.
And so I stay up to speed politically.
I'm just a day late.
And my only complaint is that when you say something funny, I start laughing, and that can get a little dangerous in the water.
I mean, just the other day when you reminded us about Biden asking that guy to stand up who was wheelchair-bound and comment, oh, God love you.
And I started laughing, and other swimmers probably wonder why I have this big smile on my face, but I'm just happy because I'm listening to you.
I'm getting informed, but I want you to realize the trouble that your jokes could be causing.
Well, thank you very, very much.
I'm still trying to revision this.
I know that they have underwater encasings for iPods, but what about the headphones?
How do you hear that?
It comes with waterproof earplugs, too.
And it hooks, I have, well, I have a number of iPods, but I use my Generation 1, that little square.
And then it hooks onto the back of my goggles to that band.
And I don't even know it's there.
And it works amazingly.
It's so weird to be swimming through the water and listening to very high-fidelity sound.
I don't sound like I'm underwater when you're doing this.
No, not at all.
It sounds terrific.
I mean, it sounds perfect.
It's very weird.
I can imagine.
Well, that's great.
I'm happy that you told me that.
I did not know that iPods were that flexible underwater.
Yeah.
I mean, it's a new world for me.
And now, I mean, it is so easy.
It takes me about one minute to take out your show that I listened to that day and then reload in your show from that day that you just.
You do it via iTunes?
You do it for me.
Yeah, through iTunes.
Through iTunes.
And I just have you set up as a podcast because I'm part of your whatever your monthly show where I can pay to be a subscriber.
That's the word I'm looking for.
Rush Limbaugh.com, as opposed to a premium member.
I don't know.
Am I?
I don't know.
No, you're a subscriber.
Okay.
Well, I think I'm a pre, I think, don't you have to be a premium member to be a subscriber?
No, we don't.
We don't, we don't, we don't discriminate and we don't categorize.
You're either a member or you're not.
You're a subscriber or you're not.
We have a free side, which is in, it only exists to entice people to join.
Okay.
It offers just enough to make you want more.
Okay.
That's the old performers create.
Just always keep them wanting more.
Well, I mean, I join because I pay something.
It's a pittance, but every month I pay something.
Well, we offer many different subscriber plans.
You can join for the year by two years, a combo with the limball letter, or you can pay monthly.
Well, which is really great for us.
I know.
You love me because I pay monthly.
But, you know, I'm glad you called about this because the people who put my website together every day, Coco and Coco Jr. up there, they never say anything to me, but they just, well, they send me, hey, we just posted this.
If you want to plug the site, we just, okay, that transcript's up there.
If you want to say that the media can now purposely go misquote you, because I have a phobia about saying, hey, folks, go to my website and become a member.
I'm very uncomfortable doing it, and I don't do it nearly enough.
And the podcast, I don't even know how many of you people know that we offer this, but it's the latest in portability.
We've been doing it a couple years.
But you can download podcasts.
Each hour of this program is its own file.
And it made available between a half hour and an hour after each day's program.
And you can download it through iTunes or you can download it through our website.
Even if you do iTunes, you have to set it up through rushlimbaugh.com.
And it really is a way.
A lot of people do it, use it the way you're doing it for portability.
You can't listen at the time the program's on or what have you.
And now, one other thing, you have given me an opportunity here to answer questions because there are people signing up for the podcast each and every day, and I get emails from them.
Rush, how come I don't hear your theme song?
How come I don't hear the parodies?
How come?
Why?
Is it something I'm doing wrong?
No, we're not allowed to.
The royalty rates, we already pay a pretty stiff royalty for broadcasting the stuff, but the royalty charges are just absurd.
They're ridiculous for online, be it a parody song or be it anything that's copyrighted.
And it just, it would make, we'd have to charge so much for this that you, it would not make sense for you to buy it.
I don't know why these people don't get, we're trying to change the royalty rates and charges, but they're not being open in reducing it.
So until that happens, you're going to be dry like they are.
The saga continues.
What was that, Snurdley?
I don't do what?
Who's blaming who?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're going to get to Wrangle here in just a second.
Wrangell is blaming his staff for all of his tax cheat stuff.
And the Democrats are now calling for Wrangell's gavel.
And I think, I'm pretty damn sure because of where these two guys are from, this is racist.
Early today, Representative Paul Hodes, a Democrat from New Hampshire.
Oh, wait.
Wait a second.
Yes, he wants Wrangell to quit his powerful committee post.
And that was quickly followed by similar statements from a pair of deep South Democrats had had to put in there at the Politico, Mississippi Representative Gene Taylor and Alabama Representative Bobby Bright.
Hodes, facing an uphill battle in a tough Senate race, released a statement saying, I honor and respect Wrangell's lifetime of service as a soldier serving our country in Korea and as a public servant, but Washington must be held to the highest ethical standards.
Regrettably, with the findings of ethics violations, Charlie Wrangell should step down from his leadership position.
And then Taylor, 10-term representative from the Gulf Coast, got in there and agreed.
But Wrangell is blaming his staff for this.
It's just, it's typical.
I didn't do anything wrong.
The staff did it.
But this is a problem for Pelosi.
Folks, I have to apologize to you here for a second.
I just, I'm sure it's because of the degree of fatigue that I'm feeling today brought about as a result of a late night of revelry last night.
I just got sucked in big time.
I just read this and I fell victim to what we all fall prey to now and then, and that is wanting to see a change.
I just shared with you this AP story in which a fourth quarter 5.9% growth rate was slammed.
The AP said it ain't going to hold up.
It's not even because there's any real consuming going on out there.
This is just a bunch of people replacing their inventories.
But there's no sign that consumer activity is going to jump up anytime soon.
And in fact, consumer confidence is at an all-time low last month.
And we haven't seen a story like this from the AP in years.
But particularly since Obama was imaculated, every economic story has been filled with rosy predictions and hopeful signs.
We've got a recovery going on out there.
It's admittedly very slow.
But the signs of recovery are coming.
I'm sorry to admit that I missed this.
It is apparent now to me.
The word has gone out that it's now more important to push for yet another stimulus bill than it is to try to talk up the economy.
I think the AP and the Democrats probably realize now that they aren't going to be able to fool anybody outside their lunatic fringe base that the economy is doing well.
I think they've given it a year.
They've given it everything they've got.
But every time they take the recovery is happening, job losses are slowing.
Some bit of news comes out.
It just nukes whatever good news they were trying to spread.
So apparently, The instructions to the White House have gone out to the AP.
Start building up support for the next slush fund because an election's coming up in November, and it's time to buy some votes.
They're going to have to buy some votes if they have a chance of holding on in some of these races.
So if I were myself today, I would have not been fooled by this.
I would have immediately recognized.
This is what I didn't see the stitches on the fastball today, and I apologize for it.
I should have known.
There's no reason the AP would all of a sudden go honest on us.
That's no different.
I chide you people when you tell me that you want the mainstream media to finally understand that we're right and start taking our side on things.
And I tell you, it's never going to happen.
What did I just do here?
I just assumed the AP had finally gotten something right.
And of course, that is an embarrassing error that I'm admitting to.
This two days in a row here, that my opinion audit, it's never fallen, but it's going to have to fall when the next report comes out.
My opinion audit has always gone up.
At least it stayed the same, but well, the global warming thing is big.
I mean, because that's 20-plus years of being right.
I know.
But snirdly, you know, when you're up at 99.5, you've got to be right a thousand percent for years to move it to 99.6.
But to move it from 99.5 to 99.3 just takes one screw-up.
So I may have trouble opening the next report.
I'll probably look at it the same as if I think it's a letter from the IRS saying you are being audited.
All right, back to the phones.
I really am sorry, folks.
Let you down on that.
Kathy, Canton, Ohio, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
How are you?
Fine, thank you.
This is one of the highlights of my life, but I think I know why you haven't gotten any seminar callers.
Oh, I'd like to know this because the president has asked them to do this.
I figured we'd be flooded.
Well, I think it's because they're not up yet.
Oh, I hadn't thought about it.
I mean, really, you start at 12 o'clock.
Come on.
That's a little early, don't you?
Yeah, and in fact, 9 a.m. out there on the left coast.
That's an excellent point.
I don't think they can manage that.
Do you have a minute for me to tell you just a little story about my 23-year-old daughter who is a rush baby?
Sure, by all means.
Well, when she went out from under our insurance and was about to go take a job that did not offer insurance, she wanted to just go without.
And of course, you don't tell a 23-year-old what to do, but we did make a suggestion, and we said, why don't you go and do some research to see about the most inexpensive insurance you could get that would just cover your major medical.
And she did that, and for about $75 a month, she's covered for anything major.
The rest of it, she plans to take care of on her own.
No.
Yes.
She's a rush baby.
Come on.
She's going to be hated.
I know.
She's going to be despised.
She's going to be called incentives.
Which you mean you are going to pay for.
She's going to be accused of bragging.
Oh, yeah.
Being out of touch.
I hope she's prepared.
Oh, yeah.
Well, she doesn't worry about it.
Good.
She takes it.
But I think she takes better care of herself because she knows that if she has to go to the doctor, she's paying the bill.
She probably knows.
She doesn't want to go to the doctor to spend her money on other things.
So I just thought I'd let you know that all of the talk of people cannot get health care.
It's bogus.
You know it.
You know it, and I know it.
All of this, nothing but sobs.
The Democrat Party exists to this day by making this country sound like it's a gulag run by Republicans, that there's no compassion, there's no warmth, that nobody has any heart, and the only people that have anything have it because they've stolen it from the people who really should have it.
And sob story after sob story after sob story.
Talk about props.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
It gets tiring.
Very much so.
Well, what is your daughter's name?
First name.
Her name is Rachel.
Where does she live?
She lives in Indianapolis.
Oh, well, you tell her that we are proud of you and her.
Because this is you've, and you said something very interesting.
23, you can't tell a 23-year-old what to do.
Not very much.
You can give advice.
Yeah.
She's almost to that turning point where she's beginning to ask us for advice.
Aha.
So it won't be long before she realizes how smart you really are.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, good.
But she loves you.
She's listened to you against her will when she was very small.
A heartwarming story.
I'm glad you called it.
Thank you very much for sharing that with me.
Oh, thanks, Rush.
Okay.
That's yeah.
Yeah.
Thanks very much for the call.
No, no, I'm looking.
I'm looking at.
I had a meeting.
We're talking about education here, right?
I had a meeting with Dr. Larry Arne, who is the grand poobah of education at Hillsdale College.
Now, we've talked to you about Hillsdale College a lot on this program.
They have 1,300 students.
They do not take a dime of federal money.
Student loan, none of it.
They want no finger of the government anywhere involved in their education.
They focus on the Constitution.
Nobody gets out of there with a 4.0.
Well, I shouldn't say nobody, but I mean, you can count the number of people get out of there with a 4.0 probably on two hands.
Now, we got, over the course of the next couple of weeks, we're going to have actual voices of students as part of their commercial message.
After talking to Dr. Arne, I'm going to go up there and I'm going to sit in on one of his Constitution classes.
They go three hours.
And he was telling us how they approach education at Hillsdale in this meeting.
And he said, our biggest challenge is to find a way to tell a student they're wrong when they're right.
At Hillsdale, ah, got your attention there.
He told this story.
He's big on Plato and Socrates.
And he's big on the whole notion that what separates us apart from everybody else is that we can speak.
And it is our speaking ability that lends us to this notion of reason and thinking, that being able to speak and reason and think are interrelated.
And he talks of opening a class on the Constitution.
He told me he called on a student to explain a question that he had posed to her.
And it's like a brain twister question.
I don't remember what the question was, but she aced it.
And he said to me, it took me nearly 10 minutes to make her feel uncertain.
It took me 10 minutes for me to make her lose confidence in her answer.
And I said, well, of course, of course.
At Hillsdale, nobody's ever right at Hillsdale except the professors.
He smiled and laughed.
He said, no, that's not the point.
We push them.
We push them.
Even when they're right, we want them to not quite be shook.
So they'll keep pushing and keep pushing to the point that they know they're right, not because they've memorized it or have been taught it, but because they've arrived at the conclusion themselves.
They are thinkers and critical thinkers.
And the only way you can push critical thinking is to make them think and to challenge them.
And sometimes if they're right, we'll tell them they're wrong.
It took me 10 minutes to shake this woman.
The toughest challenge he said he's ever had with a student.
Now, some of you might, why, this sounds awfully cruel.
No, this is not cruel at all.
This is education as it was meant to be.
You know, they have this monthly digest, Imprimus.
It's got a circulation of some 1.8 million.
You get that free just by going to rushforhillsdale.com.
This is a great, great student in Michigan.
It is a tremendous, this woman that he was talking about was an Iraq war veteran who'd come back to complete her education.
And she was advanced educated anyway.
But he's really put together a fine institution there.
And Imprimus is something they do offer free.
And they occasionally do constitution seminars on the internet.
But that's what they teach.
Because constitution, morality, where did all of this come from?
Who inspired the founding fathers to put all this together?
By the time you graduate from this college, you have no doubts about what an American is.
You have no confusion about what America is, how it came to be, why it is, why it's great, and so forth.
And you come out proud and you come out of there supremely confident in yourself.
So just go to rushforhillsdale.com.
Sign up for Imprimus and the tool around the website there.
So you'll see what I'm talking about.
I got to take a quick time out here.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
A black cat can cross my path anytime.
Stevie Wonder.
Here's another thing that Dr. Larry Arn said to me.
So they tell the students this all the time.
We will.
We will give you the F, but we'll feel terrible about it.
I'll guarantee you this.
There's no graduate that comes out of Hillsdale College that doesn't know instinctively that the drive-by media is a propaganda machine.
That's a thing that's not taught enough anywhere is thinking.
We just ramrod whatever propaganda, facts, Al Gore movies we want into kids' heads these days.
And we teach them to react to things in a knee-jerk way, not to think things through.
And largely because half the teachers teaching today don't know how to think either, because they're a product of the same corrupt institution.
Anyway, I'm going to be off of my high horse on this.
Here's Jared, 21 years old, Columbia, South Carolina.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I was thinking this was supposed to be called Flattery Friday, so I don't want to give you an ego boost or anything like that.
Well, I appreciate that.
I really do.
Well, you know, I actually called in one time when I was 10 years old.
I've been listening to your show for a very, very long period of time, 11 years.
And I can say that, you know, your last segment about the youth and thinking for themselves is I wanted to talk to you about healthcare a little bit and how, you know, it really doesn't matter that much at all because what's going to happen is in about 15 years when the baby boomer generation, you know, your generation, you know, starts to die, you know, what's left is my generation.
And the sad thing is, is we don't think for ourselves.
It's rather horrendous.
And, you know, healthcare is a simple thing.
Wait a minute, Jared.
Wait a second.
You haven't heard the baby boomers don't plan on dying.
Oh.
That's at least half of them.
That's just too unfair.
Yeah, you know, I don't know.
It was immortality effect or something like that.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I just, what I'm thinking is that my generation, we're very lazy.
You know, we're educated.
But what happens is whatever Force said to us.
You know, I guarantee you with your, how many listeners do you have, like 30 million, something like that?
Oh, yeah, easy.
Yeah.
Well, with a good percentage of those listeners, you know, they take what you say, you know, right away.
They don't ever judge whatever you say.
The same thing goes with, as you say, the drive-by media.
And so what happens is I consider myself a mild anomaly.
I get all my world news from very liberal sources, including like NPR and, you know, the USA Today.
And I read the New York Times every once in a while when I can get it.
But, you know, I listen to you every single day as well.
And so what happens is I try to create this unbiased realm around myself until I can distinguish what's right and what's wrong.
And I form my own opinions.
And when it comes to socialist issues, I was as liberal as they come.
You know, I'm 21.
If I'm not liberal in those means, I think I'm stupid.
But the thing is, is when it comes to money, in terms of government, I'm very anti-big government, and I'm as capitalistic as they come.
And what happens is we...
Well, you are rare.
You are...
You are.
Actually, I think there are probably more people your age that do think for themselves than you realize.
I mean, the baby boomers, I'm one of them.
But also, you know, the 60s radicals are baby boomers.
I have nothing in common with that bunch.
And they're running a country right now.
So your generation is still going to have all kinds of different capabilities and people in there with different ideas and abilities.
But young people are particularly easy to manipulate because they're idealistic.
And all you have to do is appeal to that.
Oh, don't you think everybody ought to have healthcare coverage?
And before you understand the economics, of course, everybody should.
Who could be against that?
And you own them.
But they're also very cynical.
And they don't vote quite as often as everybody thinks, which is a great thing for our country.
I want to correct just one thing that Jared said a mere moments ago.
This audience, I don't know that he meant to say this, but this audience is not a bunch of nine-numbered robots.
You people don't believe it just because I say it.
This audience is among the most thinking media audiences in the country.
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