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October 8, 2010, Friday, Hour #3

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	Hi folks, welcome back.
	It's Friday.
	Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
	It's Open Line Friday.
	You know who I am and you know what we do and you know how we do it.
	Even on Friday, I checked the email.
	Lots of people irritated that I didn't take a call for the first hour and a half on Open Line Friday.
	I can't win.
	I do a great, extraordinary show every day.
	No appreciation.
	Still can't win.
	Still always doing something wrong.
	Oh, guess what?
	I do owe some people an apology.
	Earlier this week, we played our Barney Frank update theme, My Boy Lollipop, with the usual sound effects added in.
	What I forgot was that on our daily podcasts, we cannot feed any music because of royalty issues.
	We can't feed the theme song at the opening of the program.
	We can't play any of the parodies.
	We can't play any music.
	And so during the Barney Frank update theme, all people on the podcast heard were the added sound effects totally without any context.
	And I got lots of email about that.
	And it ran the gamut.
	Some thought it was funny, others thought it was abrasive and offensive.
	You can imagine what that would sound like without the song My Boy Lollipop.
	So I that's always been a frustrating thing for me about the podcast.
	The royalties that are being charged to play music over the net, it's just absurd.
	It's ridiculous.
	The price that we would have to charge for the podcast would make it senseless to do.
	The Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee, the Senate campaign committee, is moving all of its money out of Missouri.
	Meaning the campaign of Robin Carnahan, the Secretary of State, the Democrat Party is abandoning.
	This is a sign that the Senate race may be moving beyond their grasp.
	Four Republican sources, this is in the Hotlines National Journal today.
	Four Republican sources who monitor media buying and three Missouri TV stations have confirmed to the hotline on call that the DSCC has canceled reservations from October 11th to October 25th.
	The Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee still has reservations in Missouri for the last week before Election Day, but they have requested cancellations in Kansas City and the NBC affiliate there, which is KCTV.
	So with all these ad-buy changes, they say here it's worth keeping in mind that they're fluid and they can change at any time.
	The DSCC could still go on the air of Missouri during this time period, but it would have to pay a higher ad rate than it first received.
	So they're pulling their money out of there.
	They've squeezed about all they can here out of the Carnahan family, the way the Widow Carnahan, Russ Carnahan.
	Russ Carnahan's where the Black Tea Party guy got beat up two summers ago to Town Hall.
	I mean, his sister Robin, the Secretary of State, not going well.
	I mean, she's the one that had to come up with a fake Tea Party candidate playing all kinds of games to try to split the vote going for Roy Blunt, and it isn't working.
	Then you couple that with, we have this from the public polling, I mean, a hard left polling outfit in North Carolina.
	And the headline here is, Obama's big drop in blue states.
	One of the most amazing things in our polling over the last month has been how dreadfully bad Obama's approval numbers are with likely voters in a lot of states that he won by large margins in 2008.
	Public policy polling polled 12 states since the beginning of September.
	At October 1, Obama won by at least nine points.
	And in all but three of those states, Hawaii, California, and New York, his numbers are underwater.
	And by only one point in New York.
	Now, this is big.
	Now, if you go to CNN, by 47 to 45%, Americans say Obama is a better president than George W. Bush.
	But that two-point margin is down from a 23-point advantage a year ago.
	CNN poll, was Bush better president than Obama?
	Americans are divided over whether President Obama and his, or his predecessor, has performed better in the White House.
	And a CNN opinion research corporation survey released today also indicates that in the battle for Congress, Republicans hold large advantages over the Democrats among independents, men, and blue-collar whites.
	The poll also indicates that Republicans are much more enthusiastic than Democrats to vote.
	And by 47 to 45%, Americans say Obama's a better president than Bush.
	But that's down from a 23-point lead that Obama had a year ago.
	My how the Messiah has fallen.
	Now, Biden, Vice President Bite Me, do you remember Vice President Bite Me insulted an audience at a campaign rally?
	He said, you are the dullest audience I have ever spoken to.
	That was at a fundraiser for Robin Carnahan in Missouri, where the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee has announced they're pulling money out of that race.
	They're going to spend it elsewhere.
	So the all indications are that they are conceding that race.
	She doesn't have much of a chance.
	Audio soundbites, this is some good stuff we've been keeping on hold.
	This is late yesterday afternoon in Bowie, Maryland, Bowie State University, a rally for the reelection of Governor Martin O'Malley.
	President Obama spoke.
	I'm pretty sure if I said the sky was blue, they'd say no.
	If I said they're fish in the sea, they'd say no.
	See, their calculation was, if Obama fails, then we win.
	That was their calculation.
	I continue to live rent-free inside the mind of Barack Obama because there wasn't one Republican who said this.
	It was just I. Only I, El Rushbo, said, I hope he fails.
	See, their calculation was, Obama fails there, we win.
	That was their calculation.
	Now, meanwhile, he's at a campaign rally for somebody else talking about himself.
	Now at this rally at Bowie State University, a rally for the re-election of the governor Mark Nomali, while Obama was speaking, a protester shouted, you are a liar, and this caused a bit of a kerfuffle.
	Come on, liar!
	Get out of the liar!
	You're a liar!
	You're a liar!
	Get out of here!
	Come in, Jasher!
	Get yourself here!
	You don't want to f ⁇ you!
	Just your average peace-loving, tolerant, left-wing rally for an incumbent mayor.
	You're a liar!
	And Obama I start insulting.
	I think it was very funny.
	They're fainting again, by the way, for the Messiah.
	Again, yesterday afternoon in Bowie, Maryland, at Bowie State University, while Obama was speaking.
	I think we might have had somebody faint down here.
	So if we got the paramedics right here up front, everybody's pointing at them.
	Now, they'll be all right.
	Just make sure that you give them some space.
	And if somebody has a bottle of water, you might want to get it to them.
	That sounds like it's on the teleprompter.
	That sounds like it's on the teleprompter.
	They're going back.
	I mean, they're really turning back the hands of time.
	They're going back to their own grooveyard of forgotten favorites.
	When Obama was out there as the Messiah, all these people were swooning and fainting.
	And that's exactly what he said when it would happen during the campaign.
	Might have hit somebody faint down there.
	Get the paramedics right up here, right there.
	Get a bottle of water.
	Give them space out.
	Good friend.
	They'll be fine.
	He doesn't know they're going to be fine.
	There were 15 of them that keeled over.
	And I read a news account of this.
	I forget where it was.
	CNN, Washington Post.
	They said it was because of the heat, that it was an unusually warm day at Bowie State University.
	So I went out there and I checked at the weather underground.
	It was a blistering 74 degrees.
	You ever heard of people fainting in blistering temperatures of 74 degrees?
	15 of them dropped over, keeled like flies.
	And right on cue, as though it's on the prompter, Obama calls out for the paramedics and then dispenses his own medical advice.
	Give them space, back off, find a bottle of water, they will be fine.
	Then another one went down after this one.
	There's another one up here gotten a little hot.
	Let them sit down.
	Let them sit down.
	All right.
	We got another bottle of water.
	If we can get another bottle of water up here and a medic up here.
	You believe this.
	They were dropping like flies, fainting, 15 of them in total, during a blistering hot day at Bowie State, Maryland, or university in Bowie, Maryland.
	And right on cue, does it not sound to you, Dawn, like this is on the teleprompter?
	There's another one.
	Let him sit down.
	All right.
	All right.
	Got another bottle of water.
	Somebody has a bottle of water.
	Make sure he gives them some space.
	Medic!
	Medic!
	Just like it's, you know, on the battlefield.
	Now, the media, the media is trying to explain the three dozen getting ill at Bowie on the temperature.
	Blistering high of 74 degrees in Bowie, Maryland.
	Now, we should note here that the audience was largely comprised of college students, which is to say they were mostly children under the age of 27.
	Who else is going to show up in the middle of the day to see President Obama?
	So you had children under the age of 27.
	What are the odds that these children under the age of 27 had just realized that they are not going to get their health insurance for free on their parents' policies?
	I have to make a correction out there.
	Biden did not insult the Robin Carnahan audience.
	It was an audience in Wisconsin, probably for Feingold, but it could have been.
	Somebody in Wisconsin said the audience was the dullest audience that he had ever spoken before.
	And the audience said, why don't you just take your butt out of here?
	No, they didn't, but we can dream.
	But anyway, you're wrong about bite me.
	I mean, nobody would really notice, but I correct myself anyway because I care about my own accuracy.
	Mark Charlotte, North Carolina.
	Great to have you on the program.
	Hey, Ditto's Rush.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	You bet, sir.
	My son just turned 18 this year.
	His name is Chris, and he cannot wait to vote this year.
	He's a huge fan of yours.
	So he's like the rest of us, very excited about his first vote.
	Congratulations.
	This is going to be a big deal.
	Yeah, we're ready for that.
	Listen, I'm in the financial services business, and I was at a series of conferences, and they had one guy come up and present how the markets did, depending on which side of the House was in control of the Senate, the House, and the presidency.
	One of the things that you've been so eloquently able to communicate to us is that the markets like gridlock.
	Absolutely.
	And it was fascinating, Rush, what they came up with when they showed that it didn't matter which, whether Democrat or Republican, if all three controlled all three of them, if one controlled all three, one party, the markets averaged about 4%.
	The time when the markets were the highest was when the Republicans controlled the Senate and the House, and there was a Democratic president.
	It was astounding.
	It was by far the most active and prosperous market that we had.
	And I think it was just a testament to what you've said about the whole concept of gridlock.
	It showed it right there in real numbers.
	It was fascinating.
	Well, here are, here are the real numbers.
	The average stock market gain during a Democratic Congress is about 10%, plus 9.8.
	The average stock market gain during the Republican Congress is 30%, plus 30.
	The average stock market gain during a Democrat president with Democrat Congress plus 13, with Republican Congress, plus 32.
	Yeah, it shows who controls the purse strings, right, as well.
	Who really controls where the money's going?
	The most recent example, you got two of them.
	You'd be Bush and the Republican Senate and Clinton, the Republican Senate, and House as well.
	So, no, but you're absolutely right.
	The markets love gridlock.
	Now, this might surprise a lot of people who are saying, why?
	When nothing gets done, that means there are no laws punishing anybody being passed.
	When nothing gets done, there aren't any new regulations to have to overcome.
	When nothing gets done, there aren't any new taxes.
	When nothing gets done, the government is essentially dormant.
	And that's what capitalists like, is a dormant, out-of-the-way government that's gridlocked, unable to move.
	And that is what's in store here, Because the Republicans are not going to have enough votes to override certain Obama vetoes.
	And gridlock is also predictable.
	You know what happens during gridlock.
	Markets and businesses love predictability.
	Ron in Richmond, California.
	Thank you for waiting, sir.
	You're next on the EIB network.
	Hello.
	Thank you.
	Hey, Rush, I just wanted to thank you so much for being a great American.
	I listen to you every day.
	And I had a comment and question regarding the stock market.
	Yes.
	Because I keep hearing that the feds are injecting the stock market.
	And I'm wondering, because I predicted this with my wife about a year ago when the stock market went way down, actually about a year and a half ago.
	And I was curious if our government is injecting it as well besides the Federal Reserve.
	And if the feds are, are they using our tax dollars?
	Or are they just putting money up?
	And throwing it in there.
	Wait a second now.
	This is an excellent question because last, well, in the fall of 2008, when the TARP was necessarily the imminent financial collapse, we were told, unless we had these bailouts, immediately the whole world financial system would collapse.
	The Federal Reserve lent $2 trillion to somebody, and we still don't know who got the money.
	That's above and beyond TARP.
	Oh, my goodness.
	There were court cases.
	You know, people said, we have a right to know where this money came from, whose money is it, and where did it go?
	And we still don't know.
	Now, I want to be as accurate as I can here.
	When I say that the Fed is injecting money in the stock market, they're not buying stock.
	What they're doing is enabling other investors, not the mom and pop, the average you and I type investors, institutions.
	They are complicated process.
	But they're basically putting cash, which is available for investment into people's hands for the purpose of bucking up the stock market.
	Wow.
	Now, everybody thinks the Fed is an independent agency, and it is.
	But it's clear if you just look at what's happening.
	I mean, you've got economic morass, melees, destruction all over the place, except everybody in the dreaded, hated Wall Street area is going through the roof.
	Have you noticed this?
	And today we go through the 11,000 barrier.
	Now, why is this happening?
	Obama's been running against these people.
	He's been telling these people that the only thing separating them from the people with the pitchforks is him, and yet they, in this economic downturn, Wall Street doing well.
	Some people think this is by design, which is to counter today the bad jobs news, bad jobs numbers, that they're desperate prior to an election to make it look like there's something positive somewhere happening in the economy to give Democrats some hope, give voters some reason, perhaps possibly to vote for Democrats.
	People do believe this kind of manipulations take place.
	Talent on loan from God.
	Dr. Ryan Ma.
	Dr. Ryan Ma is a scientist, a climatologist, a good guy at Florida State University.
	Monitors cyclone activity.
	For the official record, Dr. Ryan Ma's 2010 Global Tropical Cyclone Activity Update.
	Current year-to-date analysis of Northern Hemisphere and global tropical cyclone accumulated cyclone energy and power dissipation index has fallen even further than during the previous three years.
	The global activity, the bottom line here is global activity, tropical cyclone activity is at 33-year lows and at an historical record low where typhoons form in the western Pacific.
	Also, see this, I'm reading from the webpage here.
	There's a chart, very simple, easy-to-understand chart.
	And you can see that we are in a 33-year low.
	I mean, the tropical cyclone activity, typhoons, hurricanes in the northern hemisphere, western Pacific, Caribbean-Atlantic, 33-year low.
	And it says here right in this post, also see additional blog posting with recognition given to Rush Limbaugh's tropical cyclone knowledge.
	They have repeated my hurricane forecast for this year, or they've linked to it at rushlimbaugh.com and have acknowledged my tropical cyclone knowledge.
	Coco will link to this at rushlimbaugh.com.
	Coco, it's www.coaps, C-O-A-P-S.f-S-U.edu slash MawTropical.
	Just search Dr. Ryan Maw, Florida State University.
	You'll find this.
	Somebody needs to call Gore.
	Look, we've got a genuine hoax and a fraud being perpetrated out there.
	All seriousness now.
	We got this fraudulent movie, a fraudulent book.
	Look at how many people believe all of this calamitous, apocryphal stuff that's going to happen because of global warming and hurricanes, and we're at a 33-year low for global tropical cyclone activity.
	Tamara in Yakima, Washington, go back to the phones with you.
	Great to have you on the program.
	Hi.
	Thank you, Rush.
	It's great to talk to you.
	My husband listens to you every day, and he has your phone number memorized.
	Thanks very much.
	The reason I'm calling is the statement that you made a few days ago calling President Obama a jackass.
	I understand and realize that the liberal news media, the government news media, is making a big deal out of that, and probably because they can't find anything else to criticize you about.
	So I looked up the word, jackass is a legitimate word in the Webster Dictionary.
	Right.
	It has two meanings.
	The first one is a male donkey, we're all aware of.
	And the second one in the Webster Dictionary says a jackass, a stupid or foolish person.
	Netwitch.
	Fitz.
	And I thought that said.
	And I thought, well, maybe the rest of the world needs to know that that is a legitimate word and a good definition of probably most of the Democrats, liberal Democrats in our Congress today.
	Let me tell you, let me just tell you, Tamara, why this cut these people to the quick.
	This ran originally on Jacob Tapper's ABC blog site.
	The fact that I had called Obama an economic ignoramus, economic jackass.
	Most of it was pretty much in context, what I had said.
	Every comment, and there were hundreds.
	Every comment posted on the ABC, i.e., state-controlled media blog site, agreed.
	That's why they had the cow.
	Because so many Americans agreed.
	I mean hundreds all over the place.
	And then it spread went viral.
	From Jacob Tapper's blog site to all kinds of other blog sites that picked it up.
	And the comments on those sites were overwhelmingly in agreement with I, El Rushbo, your host.
	And so that's what sprung him into action.
	And I'm just going to say again, now, if you're the state-controlled media and you have somebody, if you don't do it yourself, you have somebody monitoring this program.
	And for a year, you're told that I said, you know, this guy is purposely destroying the U.S. economy.
	He is singling out this country for destruction.
	He doesn't like it.
	He's been raised to believe this country is the problem in the world.
	That bothered him.
	In fact, they didn't even refute the charge.
	Nobody even denied it.
	To this day, nobody, Axelrod Pluff, nobody from the White House has denied that.
	Not that they would.
	But actually, I think they would.
	If it's so out of the mainstream, if it's just so icky, how can somebody say that?
	That they would laughingly.
	But not a word.
	No refutation.
	No acknowledgement.
	But then he's a jackass.
	All hell breaks loose.
	Go figure.
	This is Tommy.
	Is it Tammy or Tommy?
	Tommy, Richmond, Virginia.
	Great to have you on the EIB Network.
	Hi.
	Thank you.
	Mega Pittsburgh Steelers Dittos.
	Thank you very much.
	So I wanted to call and talk about the chickification of football.
	Yes, ma'am.
	I don't think you need to do pink breast cancer awareness to get women to like football.
	Either you like it or you don't.
	And if you're a woman, you want to see men being men and hitting hard and hard-hitting football.
	I don't want to wear a pink Steelers jersey.
	I want to wear a black and gold jersey.
	And I don't think you can.
	Also, I do bring my husband beers while we're watching the game.
	So I thought you would like that.
	Hubba, hubba.
	All right.
	So you want men to be men.
	You want to watch Manly.
	Yes, I do.
	I want to watch Troy Palomar.
	You don't want to watch Metrosexuals play football.
	No, not at all.
	Who would?
	Okay, so tell me this.
	What do you think of Tom Brady's haircut?
	I don't know.
	You know what's interesting about Tom Brady is I watched the first part of the game the other night on Monday night, and I put up What's Up with Tom Brady and a bunch of girlfriends wrote, you mean the good-looking one?
	And I was like, yeah, but he's not playing well tonight.
	And then I didn't see the second half and I didn't see him go forward.
	That was a special teams victory.
	Yes.
	That really was.
	The Dolphins special teams fell apart Monday night.
	It's amazing.
	The women that I know who watch football are just, what's with Brady's hair?
	In fact, a lot of the male sports writers are wondering, what's with Brady's hair?
	Why doesn't he cut it?
	And of course, there's an obvious answer to this.
	But nobody wants to state it.
	But, well, you know, he's a model.
	He has to do these things.
	Right on.
	Right on.
	But that's right.
	I love what she said.
	She wants men to be men.
	She don't want to watch men playing football in pink Steelers jerseys.
	She likes manly.
	That is so refreshing to hear.
	I love it.
	All right.
	Brief timeout.
	Back with more right after this.
	And we are back with the Reverend Dr. Kenneth Hutcherson, who is the pastor of the Antioch Bible Church in Seattle, Washington, former starlinebacker of the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys and the Seattle Seahawks, known affectionately to all of us as the Hutch.
	I was hoping you'd make it in this.
	I've been telling people you were going to call.
	You guys had me blocked, Bert, posting early one, letting me in, you know.
	No, no, no.
	You were not blocked.
	You never be blocked.
	Nobody could ever block you anyway.
	I'm trying to see her recover from the wedding.
	How are you doing?
	Very well.
	Thank you very much.
	It was a great time, my man.
	It really was.
	And you were just amazing.
	The Hutch performed the actual matrimonial ceremony of Catherine's and My Wedding.
	And it was great.
	It was superb.
	Everybody loved it.
	It was superb.
	So congratulations.
	Thank you, sir.
	Tell Catherine this love her and keep you smiling like you were that day.
	She does that.
	Hey, you got to be careful, man, about that humanization and chickification of the NFL, you know.
	Well, I mean, I only brought it up because you said you wanted to talk about it.
	It's getting awfully bad out there.
	And you really got to watch out for those good-looking women in football jerseys, too.
	I heard you comment a little earlier.
	Well, you know, Tony Romo, Tony Romo has not even recovered yet from just the simpson being in that jersey and got blonde sided.
	Yeah, that was a trip to Cabo, I think.
	During the playoffs, during a bye-wink during the playoffs, that's a good point.
	That's a good bus like Samson and Delilah.
	You got to understand it.
	But these are just the simple facts, bro.
	How many men do you see on the sidelines as commentators today?
	How many men do I see in the sidelines as commentators?
	Oh, the Sideline Reporters.
	Yeah.
	Tony Siragusa is the only one I can think of off the top of my head.
	Only one.
	That's the only one.
	You can look at football all day Sunday, Monday night, and the interviews is by women.
	A salt?
	What's up with that?
	Do you say, well, what's wrong with it?
	What is right with it?
	That means it's the trickification of the NFL.
	Get some guys out there that really know what language to use with these guys.
	Let the men be men.
	I had a call from one of the ladies that ran for governor up in New Jersey, excuse me, New Hampshire.
	And you know, one thing she says is, as a woman, I want men to be women, just like your earlier caller.
	You want to attract women to football?
	Let men be men and quit chicklifying them.
	So you think sideline reporters being women, like I happen to, some of those women actually know this, they know the game, Hutch.
	I mean, they know it, X's and O's.
	But, what, 10 to 1 knows it better than men?
	Well, I don't know about that, but they know it.
	How many men do you hear about going in the, with problems in the dressing rooms these days?
	I'm a man of the clump rush, and that Conteen of whoever she was, I couldn't even look at her picture, you know, and I got God in front of my eyes.
	Well, but it's guys, it's a game for men.
	You don't hear very many things going on with the women in the WLBA about men being in the dressing room.
	You know what the WLBA is.
	That's the women less men back.
	Oh, no, Hutch, don't do this.
	You're a man in a cloth out there now.
	Hey, most of the, there's no problem there because most of the guys on the court.
	I mean, let's be honest.
	We are trying to make women the number one thing about the NFL.
	And we're losing what the games are all about.
	And we're bringing the women in because women want to see these men be men, not walk around being afraid to be hit.
	Look at the quarterbacks today.
	How many quarterbacks are we getting hurt?
	Hutch, let me tell you, this series problem, they're dropping like flies.
	You're dropping like flies.
	You can put the number of top-line make-or-break quarterbacks in the NFL in one hand out of 32 teams right now.
	Why are they dropping like flies?
	Because there's no hitting drills anymore, even in practice.
	They blow the whistle on them before you can even get to them.
	Why not just put dresses on them?
	Well, Bradshaw said that way, but no, Jack Lambert said that way back in the 70s with the Steelers.
	Well, I'll tell you why.
	Because they first started.
	Well, it's about money.
	The quarterbacks are the stars.
	The quarterback, you know, if these guys aren't playing, there's not as much reason to watch the game.
	And plus, if you take women, if you take women out of the game, there won't be any more Inez signs running around the New York Jets.
	We got to come to the conclusion, whether we lack it or not, that what all the new rules is an over-exemplification of sensitivity.
	Look at the whole thing.
	No taunting.
	Rush, this is the NFL, National Football League, not so long.
	And you're getting penalties for taunting the guy that you just ran over and knocked out.
	That was part of the game.
	Yeah, now this I agree with you.
	And the end-zone celebrations and the taunting and this kind of thing.
	But Hutch, I know why they're doing this.
	And you do too.
	Oh, yeah.
	You know why they're doing it.
	Because that taunting is going to lead to some weapons being brought on the field someday if they don't stop it.
	I mean, you know.
	My big thing, Rush, is why is all the new rules, even leading with your helmet these days?
	You can't really lead with your helmet.
	You can't lead with your shoulder.
	15-yard penalty, 10-yard penalty.
	It's almost like if you hit some guy too hard, it is unsportsman-like conduct.
	And celebration, you can only celebrate by yourself.
	And if you celebrate, you're only celebrating with one other player.
	And then there's no free conditions of practice on your celebration.
	You get penalty, penalty, penalty.
	Most of the things look like it's going towards the brothers, Rush.
	What is the penalty towards the white players?
	Well, that's a percentage question.
	I mean, that's just, that's how many of the that's look.
	I got 30 seconds here, and I want to react to this because I think it's only going to get worse.
	I think they're going to legislate more of the so-called toughness or hard-hitting, some people want to kind of call it violence out of the game.
	As more and more people watch it, as more and more helmets keep flying off guys' heads, as more and more concussions take place, you watch.
	It's going to get worse, Hutch.
	They're going to do what not they won't end up flag football.
	They're going to take away the three-point stance.
	There will not be offensive and defensive lineman three-point stances anymore.
	That's coming, especially 18-game schedule.
	I wouldn't be surprised if that happens to reduce the collisions that take place at the snap.
	I wish, well, they might lose hardcore fans, but their TV audiences are at record levels right now.
	That's partly because the rest of TV is such a wasteland.
	Hutch, thanks for calling.
	I'm really way out of time, and we'll talk soon.
	Thank you very much.
	Well, another exciting excursion, a full week of it, broadcast excellence in the can.
	And as Obama told his supporters yesterday in Maryland, don't make me look bad, thinking this election when he's not even on the ballot is about him.

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