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July 20, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 20, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Rush Limbaugh, the big golden EIB microphone, telephone numbers 800 282-2882, the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
All right, uh, ladies and gentlemen, if there's one country that uh Obama should apologize to, it's a British.
Here's why.
Now follow me on this.
They got this joint press conference going right now.
It's about how they're going to really take it to the Taliban.
You have if it's a given that Obama believes the Bill of Rights is deeply flawed.
Right?
It is a given that Obama believes the Constitution can't possibly mean what it says.
Barack Obama believes the founders of this country were obviously wrong in their thinking.
They were they were wrong to declare independence, much less to fight a war.
Barack Obama simply does not agree with the founder's premise that an oppressive centralized government is something worthy of scorn and ridicule.
He is in favor of an oppressive centralized government.
Barack Obama is closer to King George than he is to the founders of the United States of America.
What the founders created has now come full circle.
To where it is clear Barack Obama is more comfortable with what the founders left than what they created.
Barack Obama probably in his heart and mind has a greater affinity for that which our founders rebelled against than he does for that which our founders founded.
Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, slave owners, rich, white, men of property.
They had a perfectly good elitist, top-down central planning government with an authoritarian micromanaging tax happy king.
And what did they do?
They rebelled.
What's the problem?
Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin had it perfectly good, and they didn't know how good they had it.
And they sought to rebel against that.
So what Barack Obama is doing is returning this country to its roots, which are 18th century England.
In Obama's world, if ever a country was owed an apology, it's Great Britain.
And by him.
If Obama were true to form in this press conference today, he would apologize to Cameron and the British people for the fact that we ever rebelled against them in the first place.
Because our founders and the original populations had no idea how good they had it.
Obama is trying to show us how good our founders had it.
Uh no, snurdly, I'm not saying this to make a point.
To me, this is a logical progression.
Obama doesn't believe in a bill of rights.
The Bill of Rights is too negative against the government.
Obama believes in a second Bill of Rights that spells out what government can do for, can do to people.
There wouldn't be a need.
I mean, if what what's the one thing standing in Obama's way for what he wants to do?
The Constitution Constitution, who gave us that?
Washington Jefferson, Adams Franklin et al.
Stands perfectly to reason here that Obama has a much greater affinity for that which we rebelled against than an affinity for that which we founded.
So Obama closed the loop today.
Apologize to the Brits for ever doubting them.
Apologize.
Here so you love apologizing a country.
This is a country you should apologize to.
If you're being intellectually upfront and honest.
President Obama wants federal workers to cut down on business travel and commuting by car as he seeks to reduce heat trapping emissions produced by the federal government.
Of course, this is going to apply to everybody with him.
The White House is announcing today the government will aim to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from indirect sources like employee driving by 13% in 2020, compared with the 2008 levels.
Earlier this year, Obama directed agencies to reduce pollution from direct sources, such as buildings and government fleets by 28% in the next decade.
A group of Democrat lawmakers wants to uh this is the political group of Democrat lawmakers wants to use the immigration reform debate to fix one of the most hotly contested aspects of the health care law, provisions that bar immigrants from using new government programs to get coverage.
Well, Shazam Obamacare for illegal aliens.
He lied.
Guess what?
A group of Democrat lawmakers wants to use the immigration reform debate to make sure that illegal immigrants get access to the health care bill.
The move by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus would add a contentious new element.
Passing a bill that puts eleven million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship.
But the lawmakers say they're merely f merely following through on a pledge that they made when the health care overhaul was passed in March.
And they expect the White House and Democrat leadership to do the same.
So just like the individual mandate was not a tax, now it is.
Just like, no, no, no.
There are not going to be any health benefits for illegal aliens.
Oh yeah.
Yes, there are.
We're going to seek it even as we speak.
Here's Bob Schiefer, by the way.
Let me grab um this call from Birmingham Alabama right now because I want to use the Schiefer bite in conjunction with the call from Allen in Birmingham.
Alan, thank you for calling.
Thank you for waiting.
Welcome to the EIB network.
I want you to know that I really appreciate you giving me a chance to uh express myself.
I've been holding this in my crawl for years.
I don't know what you remember exactly, but when the Olinski thing came up and they announced it, they had all the uh CBS announcers and all of that.
Schieffer was very indignant as a father of girls in the defense of uh Olinski and the fact that an older man would take advantage of her.
Then suddenly, maybe hours later, he mollified his views and decided, well, it's uh it's his personal sexual life.
Well, Schiefer is no man.
Wait a second.
Now, I'm not trying to be provocative here.
Yeah.
But I don't remember that.
I know, but I do.
So when the Lin Lewinsky thing first hit Schiefer was angry that a power was angry like any father would be.
That that a powerful man would take advantage of Lewinsky because Schieffer has daughters.
You would be like me.
I raised four children and two girls.
By God, if that had happened to my girl, I would have been after him, you know.
Okay.
Now I'm not disputing you.
I'm just saying I don't remember it.
So then that's what I say it happened so long ago.
But I want you to know that once he saw maybe his job was in jeopardy, he mollified his views to the more conventional idea, well, it was his personal sexual life.
Like heck, it was.
If that had been my daughter, I'd have been in his face, you know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So Schaefer moderated his views.
So we don't wait a minute.
Uh it went along with the conventional wisdom, which was, hey, it's his private sex life.
It didn't affect the way he was doing his job.
That's wrong.
It's none of our business.
Right.
But at first he reacted like a father with some gut.
Yeah.
But eventually his guts w were gone.
So you think somebody got the Schaeffer?
Oh, I'm certain they did.
Yeah, I'm sure it was his job.
I'm sure it was the way they wanted to present it.
Yeah.
Well, we'll find that.
I uh I know it is so long ago, but I want you to know I've always held that in my heart that Schaeffer is not much of a man.
All right.
Well, he's a liberal.
I mean, it would go hand in hand.
Yeah.
And I thank you for letting me get it off my chest.
Right on, right on, Ellen.
Thanks, uh, thanks very much for the call.
Let's go back to last Sunday CNN's reliable sources, Howard Kurtz, interviews interviewing Bob Schaeffer about his interview with Eric Holder.
And Kurtz says, let's start with the obvious question.
Why did you not ask Eric Holder about the former justice officials' allegation that the case against the new Black Panther party was dropped because of racial politics?
I was on vacation that week.
Uh this happened.
Apparently it got very little publicity, and I just didn't know about it.
I mean, God knows everything, but I'm not quite that good.
Uh every once in a while, something will slip by me.
And in this case, it just slipped by me.
If I'd have known it, I'd have asked about it.
I know about this lawsuit.
Uh this is about something that happened back in 2008.
But I think any reasonable person would also answer there hasn't been a lot of news about it until this Justice Department official came forward.
Yeah, and the Justice Department official came forward before you went on vacation.
The Justice Department official came forward a couple three weeks ago.
But I think Bob Schieffer's probably telling the truth.
I don't think Bob Schaefer did know about it.
I I don't think Bob Schiefer had the slightest idea.
Bernie Goldberg had a uh had a had a great analogy.
I'm gonna paraphrase this.
But Bernie Goldberg on Fox Last Night had a great analogy.
A terrorist bomb could go off in Bob Schaefer's neighborhood, kill thirty thousand people.
But if it wasn't reported in the New York Times, Bob Schiefer wouldn't know what happened.
Which is pretty descriptive of the shell that these people all live in.
Charlie Gibson, Charlie Gibson didn't know about the acorn tapes.
He was on vacation too.
And I didn't know about that.
I certainly would have asked about it if I didn't know about it.
I didn't know about it.
I know no clue.
Uh Brad Sherman, Democrat California.
I I didn't know about this Black Panther.
It wasn't in any of the media that I requor it wasn't.
It wasn't in any of the media.
Because there is no media.
Back after this.
And we're back.
Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
We go to Charlotte, North Carolina.
Gary, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Rush, thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
Uh congratulations on your marriage.
Thank you.
Uh many decades of happiness.
Thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate that.
Uh I've I've been listening for a while, and and it seems to me like your blood pressure was up a little bit earlier, so I'm uh happy to be able to change gears a little bit.
I wanted to point out to you if you haven't seen it, the uh banner story on Sports Illustrated's website right now is Let me let me guess.
Let me guess.
Don't don't don't give me any hints.
Okay.
You said the lead, this is the main sports illustrator website, not a not the baseball website, not the football website, not hockey the bass, the main sports illustrator website.
The main page, yes, sir.
And the the banners for the lead straight has to have something to do with race.
Nine times out of ten, their lead story has to do with race.
Does this have anything to do with race?
Uh actually it does not.
Well, that's odd.
But that is very, very odd.
Are you are you sure there's not a racial component to this story that's the lead item at Sports Illustrated?
Uh, unless it involves food.
Um when I went to look at it uh uh as I was having my lunch, my jaw dropped.
The story is on gluttony at the ballpark.
And it's talking about the alarming new trend of unhealthy food at the ballpark.
And if you go into the story, uh they're quoting the American Medical Association, the obesity statistics.
Uh you know, I'm just wondering if they're gonna start checking my body mass index to get into the ball game.
I doubt it.
Um the the the ballpark is the one place where that kind of eating is encouraged because of the concession prices.
I know it it just seems to me that this that you know this is all kind of ties in with all the discussion of obesity and and uh isn't this wouldn't wouldn't you say um that the the discussion of gluttony in the ballpark, i.e.
what people eat and a sports website, Sports Illustrated deciding that it's too much uh that people are in the wrong stuff.
W would you say this has a political component to it?
Well, it sure seems like that to me.
Most definitely is who's making food political?
They actually asked the question in the article is it socially responsible for ballparks to be serving these kinds of foods?
Like what?
Well, like the high fat hot dogs and the uh the they're talking mainly about the uh uh the sections at the ballpark where uh you pay one fee and you can eat as much as you want.
Um you know, more and more ballparks are going to that, and they're saying, you know, it's uh it's socially irresponsible to do that because it's making people unhealthy.
Um let's see.
I have I've logged into this story.
The author of the story is Brett Logirato, if I'm pronouncing it right.
Blurring the line, this is part of the story.
Blurring the line between value and gluttony is something that worries nutritionists and health professionals about the promotion.
Anytime you uh have an open buffet, people are more likely to eat more and drink more, said Lona Sandon, a registered dietitian, an American Dietetic Association national spokesman.
It's perceived as cost-effective.
Well, not when it comes to your health.
So the the food Nazis are now moving into the ballparks with the aid and assistance to Sports Illustrated.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Now, and I just want I want people to remember you all laughed at me when I told you they were going to try to get rid of your SUVs.
And you all laughed at me when I told you, don't this trans fat stuff fresh, come on, they can't solve stuff, come on, Rush, never gonna happen.
And now the venerable sports illustrated, quoting a bunch of wacko leftist food Nazis.
If they don't like what's being served at the ballpark, don't go.
If they don't like what's being served at the ballpark, don't buy it.
But it is none of their business.
Oy, they...
Oh.
I'm telling you the sports media is no different than the rest of the media.
There is no media.
It's just the ruling classes, just a bunch of leftist drivel, no matter where you go.
That's really caused a lot of premature death, right?
We've been serving hot dogs, hamburgers, French fries, cracker jack, peanuts, cotton candy.
Um this is the ruling class saying don't let them eat cake.
Well, I guess so.
Grilled asparagus, uh, you know, uh uh arugal with watercress vinaigrette, uh salad and so forth.
This is this is no different than the people for science in the uh in the public interest, nutritionists.
Obesity, a major problem at American ballparks, right?
You know, the um in the National Football League, every pregame meal is a buffet.
The teams, every pregame meal is a buffet.
You would not believe what's on your average NFL team pregame meal buffet.
You would not believe it.
NFL teams eat between four and five hours prior to a game depends on the team.
Uh and this is all they the teams have their own nutritionists.
And I've seen it.
It's you would love to go to one.
This is some of the finest food you've ever eaten.
Well, most pregame meals are breakfast given the time of the game, but but it's it doesn't matter what time of game uh what time of day the game is, the pre-game meal buffet is the same.
There's always omelet stations, pancakes, bacon, cheeseburger, french fries, steak, fried chicken, gravy, mashed potatoes, whatever they want.
If you want five bacon lettuce tomato sandwiches, if you're an offensive lineman, you get it.
Whatever you want.
It's it's it's the eggs of any kind the way you want them, steak any kind the way you want it.
Fruit.
Healthy stuff too, what people would call healthy.
But it's it is what it is.
Baseball does not have a pregame meal.
Although, you know, when I worked at the Kansas City Royals, there really wasn't any food in the locker room.
Uh there was A beer keg for after the game that was unlocked after the game.
And after the game, they did bring in a giant spread.
The home team and visiting team had a catered spread of buffet that was brought in after the game.
And some players ate it and some players didn't.
Some players went out for dinner after the game, went home, others were sitting in there chowing down.
It was but it's a buffet.
Last time I was at a Major League Baseball Park, the locker room, off the locker room, there was a full-fledged restaurant available to the players.
From the time they got to the ballpark to the game.
So if these people at Sports Illustrator want to complain about what fans are eating in the stands, they better take a look at what players are eating as well.
This is all absurd.
It's none of their business anyway.
It's none of their business.
And to be concerned about buffets at the ballpark, folks, we're losing our freedom here.
We're losing jobs.
We have an attack on the American private sector.
We have an attack on capitalism going on right before our very eyes.
The country as we've known it and loved it is under assault.
And the best we can do is to have stories of great concern over the size of portions and the quantity and type of food available in the ballpark.
We ought to be thankful there's still enough people that can afford to go to the damn ballpark and watch a ball game and pay ticket prices at the prices they have to charge these days to pay the players.
Instead, what are we concerned about?
The fat content of a hot dog on a buffet at a ballpark.
Somebody want to point out we might have our priorities out of whack.
Alright, I have this story here from uh SI.com.
Growing trend, all you can eat sections at big league ballparks.
More than half of all Major League Ballparks offer all you can eat tickets.
All you can eat tickets.
People are eating tickets.
That can't be what they mean.
All you can eat tickets.
Fans appreciate the cost certainty, and it uh has boosted ticket sales in Major League Baseball.
Nutritionists aren't big fans of the fad, which they fear encourages binge eating.
I read the story during the break, and the story is um uh in large part about the Baltimore Orioles.
Now, what are those fans supposed to do?
Go there and watch the team play.
When you go watch the Orioles, you gotta do something besides watch the team play.
And eating is one of the best things you could do to distract yourself.
Everybody knows this.
Now, seriously, this this story, this this folks, this is a classic.
This is a perfect example of propaganda from the left, pushing their agenda under the guise of journalism.
This is journalism in here.
This is Michelle Obama's agenda.
And now it's all the way on a pages of sports illustrated.
It's all about obesity.
AP, David Ginsburg, First Lady Michelle Obama showed off her throwing arm Tuesday after making a pitch to Major League Baseball to help her fight childhood obesity.
Lo and behold, SI leads off AP follows up.
Look at how they work together.
Michelle Obama announced the Major League Baseball, a Major League Baseball Players Association will team with the White House in the Let's Move campaign, which promotes exercise and healthy eating for America's youths.
So there is no media.
This isn't journalism.
This is propaganda.
This is pushing Michelle Obama's agenda.
At the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards.
The entire Major League Baseball Players Association, all 30 players who agreed to be part of the public service advertising campaigns.
It just means so much to these kids to see you guys joining in this, Michelle Obama said at Oriel Park at Camden Yards, home of the Baltimore Orioles.
Your voice means so much more to them than anything we can say.
After the formalities dressed casually in a print top, white pants and sneakers.
Obama joined members of the Orioles in a Tampa Bay rays in a clinic four kids from local baseball teams.
Obama participated in all three stations for about a half hour playing catch, throwing grounders, and shouting encouragement to the children.
Folks.
My heart's bleeding.
Isn't I mean are you just so sweet here?
Major League Baseball now being co-opted by the White House in an obesity campaign.
Uh AP, you are no longer the associated press.
They are the orchestrated press.
They need an official new name, the orchestrated press, not the associated press.
And I by the way, I'll bet Michelle Obama can still throw a baseball better than Barack can.
I'll bet I'll bet if we saw videotape we'd all come to that conclusion.
Cookville, Tennessee, this is uh Mary, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush Dittoes.
Thank you.
I've got to put my cheese covered chili dog Bud Light and Potato Chips away to talk to you.
Well, I wish I were with you.
One of the reasons I wanted to be part owner of the Rams was to be able to go to the pregame meal.
I just love chili dogs.
Um I wanted to remind your listeners that um when Obama was in the Gulf on one of his photo ops, he encouraged everyone to come on down.
You know, the food is great, the water's fine, the beaches are beautiful, there's plenty to do, and he goes to Maine.
Right.
And flies the first dog on a private jet by the way.
Well, yeah, but uh there was also his aid to camp bodyguard, body double.
Uh who knows who else, Reggie Love was also on the plane.
Plus, it was a small jet.
It wasn't a full-fledged yellow, it was uh forget what it was, but yeah, bow the first dog flew on the jet.
Well, I don't know why there wasn't room on the other one for the rest of them, but whatever.
It's you know, so much for carbon footprints.
Uh exactly right.
But I would love to know how many vacations he's been on since he encouraged everyone to go to the golf.
Can you imagine what it would have done for the golf for him to go down there?
No, that would have been just the opposite.
I mean, how many people have gone to Maine?
Yeah, that's true.
I think Obama goes to the Gulf.
Anybody else is going to follow?
There's no way.
What you go where the president is, you can't get around.
You can't do anything.
But he could have set an example by going down there vacationing.
He did set an example.
He told us what to do.
That's as time he opens his.
By the way, he's going back to Martha's Vineyard next month for his vacation.
Uh, not the golf again.
Oh, no, no, not going to golf.
Well, there's no more reason to go to golf.
I mean, they've they fixed a leak.
Yeah, well.
So far.
See, everything's fine.
Yeah.
Now, n they should have been cleaning up before they fixed the leak.
Uh should have been cle well.
I think I think people were trying to.
It was it was it was uh administration officials who were getting in the way.
Let's go to Katie, Texas.
Thanks, Mary, very much, Linda.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Well, hey, Rush, this is Linda.
How are you?
I'm fine and dandy, thank you.
I'm so excited to talk to you.
My girls are in the other room listening.
Um I called the Monday after the Sunday that the Bob Schiefer uh piece ran.
I was getting ready for church and I was watching him interview Eric Holder.
And we got to that last part and talked about how uh Americans are cowards about racism, and he didn't mention the Black Panther um issue.
I just I just couldn't believe it.
I was dumbfounded.
So Monday around lunchtime, that that next Monday, I was calling and I called his number.
I got it off of the internet, and he answered the phone.
And I couldn't believe it.
And he he I said, Is this Mr. Sheeper?
And he said, Yes, this is.
Who is this?
And I said, It's Linda Fowler from Cayden, Texas.
And he said, Um, I'm sorry, I don't normally answer my phone, but I'm expecting a call.
And I asked him my question, and he first he said, Oh, well, it would just must have been an oversight on my part.
So I pressed him a little bit and I said, Well, if it had been like the Klan in front of a polling station, I think everyone would have been covering it.
And he said, Well, wait a minute, what are you talking about?
And I gave him all the particulars about this uh, you know, it happened in Philadelphia, and and he asked me when it happened, when did this happen?
I was like, Well, at the 08 elections, and I told him he could get on YouTube And search it and he could see the footage of everything.
And he said, he said, I'm sorry, I just don't know what you're talking about.
I have not heard this at all.
And I'm like, well.
Wait a second.
You called him after he was asked about the you didn't.
No, I called him not yesterday, but a Monday ago.
Oh, uh-oh.
You called it all before he was interviewed by Howard Kurtz.
Yes, yes.
I called him, and he normally doesn't answer his phone, but he was expecting a phone call and he picked up his phone.
By the way, did you know that there's a there there is a Bob Schaefer School of Journalism?
It's at Texas Christian University.
No, I didn't know that.
There is.
Wow.
Well, he just, I mean, I and he was very, I must say, he was very nice, he's very kind.
He didn't try and rush me off the phone.
He let me ask all of my questions.
And I, you know, I told him, hey, I was born in 67 in Mississippi, so I was, you know, any time something like this goes on on either side, I just am always interested.
And I just couldn't believe that he didn't ask Mr. Holder the question.
But he told me he didn't know.
He didn't know about it.
He said and he seemed just as genuine as he sounded.
Uh I saw the clip uh with the the CNN clip, and he sounded exactly like that.
I mean, he really didn't know.
He didn't he didn't know about it, and I'm I'm sure had he known about it, he wouldn't have cared.
Well, yeah, that was you know, that's uh it's a little bit odd how so many things are skewed these days.
But remember, there is no media.
Bob Schaeffer, he thinks of himself as a journalist, but he's not a journalist.
And he's not a reporter.
You know more than Bob Schaefer does about what's going on in your own country.
You do.
And it's not your profession.
It's his profession to know.
He doesn't know.
And he happily admits it to you.
So there is no media.
There is no journalism.
Uh you know, it it's their business to know these things.
You you make it your business to know.
I make it my business to know all this stuff that they're doing.
I make it my business to know what's going on in the country.
They don't.
Because that's not their business.
Their business is not to know what's going on.
Their business is to spread propaganda and advance an agenda.
Or to stay a member of the ruling class.
Now, here's something else, folks.
Thanks for the call, and I appreciate it.
If if if there is no journalism or there's no media anymore, then all these polls are worthless too.
We got it, we gotta play this all out.
We have to stop looking the media for information in all the polling that they do, because their polling has done is is nothing more than quote unquote news making, but we know they don't make news.
They advance agendas.
They try to shape news.
They try to shape opinion, and that's the purpose of uh of polling.
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Back to the audio sound bites this afternoon in Washington.
Seems like every time Obama goes anywhere where there are other world leaders or whenever uh world leader comes here, Obama tells them that the days of America being the engine of the economy of the world uh over.
And today is no difference.
Wall Street Journal's Laura Meckler said uh President Obama, your opening statement, you referred to the fact the British government has been taking some very tough steps to get their budget in order.
You said you had committed to cut the deficit in half.
Could you talk about whether you think that those decisions are going to be the decisions that they're making?
They're going to need to be made here on a similar level beyond pledges.
When I came into office in January of 2009, I was very clear at the time, even before we knew the severity of the recession that we would experience.
That we have a structural deficit that is unsustainable.
And that for our long-term growth and prosperity, we are going to have to get a handle on that.
In the first uh G twenty visit that I made in April to England, I was very clear to the rest of the world that what they cannot rely on is an economic model in which the United States borrows, consumers in the United States borrow.
We take out home equity loans, we run up credit cards to purchase goods from all around the world.
Oh, okay, there you have it.
So hey, world, you're on your own.
We're not dominating anything anymore.
Of course, the United States is borrowing, and the United States is printing.
But blame it on Bush.
Blame it on the American consumer.
Blame it on Americans.
Yeah, we uh we were giving a false sense of power to the rest of the world, projecting a false sense of power to the rest of the world anyway.
Sue in Cincinnati, you're next in the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, Megadiddoes.
Thank you.
Um I've read a couple of books on American journalism from during the American Revolutionary War.
And there back then there was absolutely no pretense of truth, objectivity, honesty.
I mean, it was all and out war between the British press and the American press.
And I'm wondering where the notion of objectivity ever came from, because we certainly don't have it today.
What do you think?
Uh well, interesting question, because you know you're she's right.
Uh back during the the days of our founding and and afterwards, I mean the press back then.
You think it's bad today.
It was all tabloid back then.
I mean, the stuff that we see today about Lindsay Lohan, that's how they wrote about George Washington.
It's how they wrote about Thomas Jefferson.
The pretense, though, of objectivity, uh, that's it, that's you know, it's a good question.
I I I would have I just uh make a wild guess at when that came into play.
Um as something that journalism itself proffered as an aspect of what they do.
Well, I was just gonna say that I'm old enough to live through the Walter Cronkite days, and I think you're right.
I think he fostered that idea, and he was the perfect person to do it.
Well, CBS uh fostered the idea, he was the most trusted man in America, of course now I am.
Uh I think the the the the best the best guess I could make is that the fantasy of objectivity started around World War One, and then you know, Joseph Pulitzer was one of the most outrageous tabloid yellow journalists in the history of yellow journalism.
And it was so bad that Joseph Pulitzer, in an in an effort to uh to salvage his own name and his own reputation, created the Pulitzer Prizes.
And the Pulitzer Prizes were awarded for excellence in journalism in X, like in commentary, local news reporting, uh, you know, the uh the Nobel the the Pullitcher for destroying the highest ranking official, uh uh whatever it is.
I think probably if you had a peg it, and this is a wild guess, but uh the it would be after Pulitzer and and uh and Randolph Hearst, uh William Randolph Hearst, that's it was it was yellow all the way, uh, and they had to try to put it back together, and that that would be my guess.
And it survives until this day.
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