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Dec. 24, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 24, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Obama's blue ribbon deficit panel can't even come to an agreement.
They couldn't even agree on their own plan, folks.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
I mean, for the last week, everybody has been breathlessly awaiting whatever this bunch comes up with, right?
For the last month, they've been waiting half breathlessly.
This week, everybody has been panting, eagerly awaiting whatever magic will come from Obama's blue ribbon deficit reduction at the commission.
This is Alan Simpson and Irksome Bowles.
And they could not even agree on their own plan, which just goes to show, ladies and gentlemen, that what we have proposed, 10% across the board is the only way to go.
Everything else is just going to be argued ad infinitum.
Just cut everything across the board 10%.
It can be done.
It's easily done.
I mean, if you just ignore the caterwalling, ignore the screaming, ignore the yelling, ignore the people who ostensibly will be in pain, because everybody's going to get cut 10%.
Anyway, great to have you.
Open line Friday.
Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB microphone for yet another excursion into broadcast excellence.
Here's a phone number, 800-282-2882.
Email address, lrushbaugh at EIBnet.com.
You people on the phones out there, you're not on the phones yet because Snerdley hasn't started answering.
When you do, I am zapped.
I am worn out.
The clock went off to the, well, the clock doesn't wake me up.
The sun wakes me up.
Whenever I just could not get out of bed.
I mean, it was a struggle.
It was, and I still, no, I was not up all night again.
I went to bed relatively early, like at midnight.
I could put my head down on this desk right now and fall asleep.
And if I were like half the people working in this country, I'd have called in sick.
But I'm here doing Open Line Friday.
Yep, the Commission members said that by winning over an 11-7, they needed 14 votes.
They needed 14 votes and they got 11.
Needed 14 votes to agree on this plan.
And the Commission members said that by winning over an 11-7 majority on the panel for its blueprint that they had defied expectations.
They failed and they defied expectations.
If this isn't Washington speak, I don't know what is.
You talk about having low expectations.
The expectations here were to fail.
And they did.
And they're clapping their hands over it.
Andy Stern voted no.
The SEIU guy.
You had Dick Turbin on there.
I don't know how he voted.
He voted yes.
Regardless, here's the way the Wall Street Journal blurbed it in an alert.
The deficit cutting plan by President Obama's budget commission failed to win the 14 votes needed to trigger congressional action.
The plan won support from 11 of 18 members.
14 were needed for official approval.
Still, Commission co-chair Irksom Bowles of Naukalana declared victory.
I wish life were that easy.
Yeah, Snerdley, can you imagine if it ever happened?
Hey, folks, guess what?
I just have to say we lost half our audience in the latest ratings report, and we're winning.
Can you imagine the chutzpah?
What, sir?
Well, no, I know we can't imagine it happening.
No, of course.
And B, it wouldn't be our response.
That's my whole point.
If it did happen and I were to say, hey, we're winning big.
We just lost half everything.
So Erks and Bulls here declares victory, saying the panel's non-partisan deliberations showed that it is possible to have an adult conversation about cutting the deficit.
What was it worth?
What was this adult conversation worth?
Who's buying the drinks?
That's something Simpson Babe's always talking about.
Who's buying the drinks?
Considering the breadth of the recommendations ranging from an overhaul of the tax code to aggressively cutting spending to widespread changes to Social Security, many economists concluded the Commission served its purpose.
Holy geez.
I wish it were this easy.
The Commission served its purpose.
This Commission was a fraud from the get-go.
Any commission that has as its objective a plan to reduce the deficit and does not even include Obamacare in the discussion cannot be taken seriously.
Adult conversation.
Why, those are nothing new.
We had plenty of those during the Clinton years.
They generally involve pizza deliveries and then trips to the little bathroom off of the, well, the study off of the Oval Office.
I mean, this whole thing is Saturday Night Live skit material.
This whole Wall Street Journal report declared victory.
Many economists concluded the Commission served its purpose by having an adult conversation.
And let's go to the audio soundbites while we have a chance here.
Now, this is not related to the Deficit Commission, but the certifiably insane Alan Grayson, Democrat congressman from Florida who was defeated in November, went to the floor of the House yesterday to speak out against extending the Bush tax rates.
And he did so.
He led off by having a picture of me, big picture of me on an easel.
That picture of me out at Pebble Beach in a golf tournament, big smile on my face with a giant stogie coming out of my mouth.
And this is what, and then after me, he did Beck and he did Hannity and he went on down the list.
And here's what he said leading off this discussion about me.
Let's take a look at the people who are really in charge, the ones who actually run the Republican Party.
Let's start with this gentleman here.
The man with the cigar, Rush Lambaugh.
Doesn't he look happy?
According to Newsweek, he makes $58.7 million a year, and extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich will mean that he'll have another $2.7 million.
Mega Dittos rush and mega money.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I play this only for the opportunity to correct a popular misconception about all this.
And of course, this is Newsweek's figure, 58.7.
I don't know where they got the 0.7.
It's actually 0.9.
Who's living hairs?
The bottom line here is the Bush tax rate, maintaining them, doesn't mean I'm going to get anything additional.
It means I'm not going to lose any of it.
Now, this is the, what are you laughing at?
This is a serious point that I'm trying to make here.
On Open Line Friday, this is a popular misconception.
This is how these guys are doing it.
These guys are suggesting that any of you who are quote-unquote rich are going to somehow get a windfall of new money thrown in your lap if the Bush tax cuts are extended.
And that's not the case.
Nothing's going to change.
The only thing that's going to change is I won't lose the 2.7 million.
If the Bush tax cuts are not extended, I will lose that.
It's not that I'm going to gain that much.
It's not that this so-called 58.7 is going to become 63 or whatever.
It's not the case at all.
What's at stake here is it's the 58.7 going to become 55.
I'm just using the number Newsweek used.
Let's forget the number.
It's not the point.
Now what are you laughing at?
Now what is so funny?
A man in charge of the Republican Party.
Well, that's just, that's just, that's just Grayson.
But do you understand my point here?
You guys are sitting in there laughing.
This is a very serious subject.
We're talking about the Bush tax rates.
You're sitting in there laughing.
And I'm trying to make a brilliant point here to people.
You know, we'll put the, we'll put, yeah, the picture's been up on the website countless times.
It's an AP picture.
You've seen it.
It's not a new picture.
But at any rate, for anybody who over $250,000, the idea that if the Bush tax cuts, Bush tax rates are extended, somehow we get a windfall.
It's not the case whatsoever.
This is all about whether or not the government's going to get that $2.7 million, as they say in my case.
It's not about, and this is how the Democrats have always used this class envy stuff as a means of securing opposition to the whole notion of where.
And wait till you hear the soundbites coming up, folks, about unemployment and tax cuts and tax.
Wait till you hear it.
I mean, it's getting more absurd by the day as the Democrats keep talking about it.
We'll get to all that.
Plus the unemployment number, 9.8%.
Now, this is very timely.
See, I can't help but look at this stuff as a cynic.
9.8% is going to facilitate the discussion of extending unemployment benefits.
It is also going to give Obama and whoever else needs it cover to go along with the idea of temporarily extending the Bush tax rates.
That 9.8%.
Who would have ever thought the number would have gone up after the election?
I ask cynically.
It went up, by the way, we added 39,000 jobs.
Now, I want you to stop and think of that.
We've had people try to tell us this week the economy is starting to boom, starting to recover.
In the United States of America, we added 39,000 jobs.
That is such a small number that it is impossible to represent statistically.
That's less than one-tenth of one millionth of 1%.
39,000 jobs in the United.
That's so small.
I don't even know how you calculate.
That's a rounding error.
My point is, that's horribly, horribly poor.
39,000 jobs, that's not worth talking about.
I mean, that's an accident.
This is bad news.
And guess what?
Guess what?
As the economy picks up, if it picks up, this is going to cause more people to start looking for work again.
And you know what's going to happen?
The unemployment rate is going to go up because more people will be counted.
Right now, it's 9.8% or under 10% because so many people have dropped out of the market for a job.
They're not even looking for one.
And that's how come that percentage is 9.8% or the U6 number is probably closer now to 18%.
As the economy picks up, if it does, when it does, is going to happen at some point.
More people, upon hearing the economy is coming back, will start looking for work.
That will expand the pool of people looking for jobs.
But the number of jobs created will lag behind the number of people who want them, obviously.
So the unemployment rate could be 10% by January.
Could be 10% by February.
What's that question?
The official program observer has a question with him.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
I have been asked by the official program observer, Japan's recession lasted for decades.
Could this go on that long?
It could.
It very easily could go on that long.
In fact, I got a soundbite with Austin Goolsby being asked if this is the new norm.
And while saying I hate discussions of the new norm, yes, it's the new norm.
Austin Goolsby, I mean, he's now marginally less sissy looking than Julian Assange.
And he was out there in front of the White House today talking about it.
Well, we've got a great soundbite roster here today.
We really do.
So we'll take a break here.
We'll come back and get started with all.
And by the way, we are doing exactly what Japan did economically.
If we don't alter what we're doing, we could see years and years and years of this stuff.
Now, stop and think.
Let me put this in perspective for you another way.
We all know that there are fixes for this.
We all know we've done two years of Obama and the liberal way of trying to so-called fix the economy, grow the economy, create jobs.
We all know that it hasn't worked.
All this government spending, all this debt, it hasn't worked.
We're now at 9.8% unemployment.
The alternative, conservatism, constitutional conservatism, smaller government, tax cuts, get out of the way of small business creating jobs, that would work.
Obama and the Democrats won't dare allow it to work because if it did, if they did, they would end up being discredited.
The biggest obstacle to this country getting back on track is the Democrat Party.
And until they are out of the way as a majority, we're not going to fully recover.
The last thing in the world Obama needs is for something he has been arguing against to work.
And conservatism works every time it's tried.
Lower marginal tax rates work every time they're tried.
Capital gains, marginal rates, whatever, they work when you lower them every marginal side.
They work every time it's tried.
And if they were tried now, it would also work.
That would discredit Obama, the Democrats, and that's why it won't happen.
So this nation's recovery, economic recovery, the well-being of this nation's citizens is second fiddle, is placed on the back burner, subordinated, if you will, subordinated to the notion that Obama's way must not be shown to be a failure.
So Obama and the Democrats, in order to preserve their whole identity, must, by definition, oversee the nation plunging into a further economic abyss.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Amberbach El Rushbo, cutting edge, societal evolution, open line Friday.
Provided Snerdley gets some good ones.
We'll go to the phones early in today's program.
You're going to hear in just a moment on the audio soundbite roster Austin Goolsby even topping Pelosi with his claim that unemployment benefits grow the economy and that they grow the economy even faster, even better if they aren't paid for, if they just add to the deficit.
So it's Keynesian.
So all the unemployment benefits, just more spending with nothing to back it up.
That's better for the economy than anything.
Meanwhile, the cold and hungry in Atlanta, in Georgia, are huddling, trying to find assistance for the cold in Obamaville.
Reminds us of what happened in Detroit a year ago.
Just amazing.
All this suffering, all this pain.
It was supposed to be eradicated, supposed to be wiped out, and it's only getting worse.
And now we're being told it's a new normal.
Quick question.
How many liberals, this is about the tax rates, the Bush tax rates, how many liberals the past 10 years have paid their income taxes based on the Clinton tax rates?
Because that's what we're talking about returning to.
If the Bush tax rates are not extended, we'll go back to the Clinton tax rates, 39.6 for the upper bracket.
How many liberals are paying that?
Did Bill Gates pay that rate?
Warren Buffett?
What about Pelosi and her husband or Harry Reid, Obama?
They pay that rate?
Are they willingly paying that rate is my point.
Are they showing leadership by paying the rate that they want to take us back to?
How many liberals the past 10 years have paid their income taxes based on the Clinton tax rate?
I dare say none of them.
I dare say that all liberals have been paying their taxes based on the Bush tax cuts.
And they say the rich have got to go back.
Did Charlie Wrangell pay that rate?
They censured Charlie Wrangell yesterday.
They didn't even, part of censure is reading all the charges, all the transgressions.
Pelosi does this after 6 o'clock.
She doesn't even read the entire list.
This is the first censure in 30 years, although I should say that Randall Duke Cunningham is in jail for doing essentially that which Wrangell did.
The only difference is that Duke Cunningham, a war hero, is a Republican.
And unlike Wrangell, Duke Cunningham didn't constantly run around talking about and reminding everybody that is a war hero.
Pelosi read just one charge after 6 p.m. yesterday, so they would not make the traditional nightly news.
She read one charge out of 11.
The penalty calls for having all charges read.
After she read the charge, and you'll hear this on the sunlights coming up.
After she read all the charges against Wrangell, he got a standing ovation.
Well, it might be a stretch to say a standing ovation, but the Democrats in the House gave him a resounding ovation.
I don't know if they stood up or not.
That would require energy.
But he got a lot of applause.
And wait until you hear what compiled this to headlines in advance of the unemployment number and how all these news agencies were expecting it to fall.
It's hilarious.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Open Line Friday.
Let me remind you again, Open Line Friday, you can talk about anything for the most part.
Monday through Thursday, you got to talk about things I'm talking about, things I care about, or you won't get past snerdly.
But on Friday, whatever you want to ask, that have nothing to do with politics, anything to do with current events, whatever you want to ask me, or whatever you want to say, feel free.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
I want to go back to this program.
I predicted this whole notion, 9.8, 10% unemployment would be the new normal.
And there was a lot in this prediction.
August 16th of this year, this is me on my own program.
I'll tell you what the new normal is.
No, the new normal is simply a construction designed to save Obama and the Democrats from any association with this economic collapse.
Calling this a new normal is simply to say, hey, this is not the result of any Democrat policy.
This is not the result of Obamaomics.
No, this is just America.
And by golly, by gosh, Obama's doing the best he can with it, but he's only got so much to work with.
A new normal, I mean, it's what it is.
This is not the result of bad economic policy.
This is not the fault of Obama.
New normal is defining the Obama Depression down.
This is ridiculous.
And you, as a citizen, ought not settle for the idea that this is America going forward, that this is the new normal.
Because I'm telling you right now, it's not.
All this quote-unquote new normal is, is an excuse.
It's giving Obama and the regime a pass.
We've gone from optimism to opticism and opticism, the optics, how it looks.
It's just the new normal.
Anybody who was optimistic at Obama's stimulus program, those are the people who need to be cast away.
Those are the people who need to be ignored.
These Keynesians?
Oh, yeah, this is the way they said.
This is what we have to do.
This will create jobs shovel-ready, all that rotgut.
We now know 20 months, it's all a bust.
All the bailouts, all the stimuli have failed.
And so now what we have with the new normal.
Yeah.
This is it.
Folks, get used to it.
This is the new America in decline.
And it's just coincidental that it happened when the Obama regime took office.
To give you an idea of how poorly Keynesian economics worked, the stock market never reached its 1929 peak until 1954.
Now, let me put this in perspective for you.
We tried Keynesian stimulus policy, FDR, the New Deal.
That's going to bring us out of the 1929 depression.
Guess what?
We didn't reach stock market peaks that existed in 29 until 1954.
It only took 25 years to get back to where we were in 1929 with Keynesian stimuli.
So the new normal means if you're not happy, tough toenails.
If you're not happy, lower your expectations, because this is it, baby.
New normal is designed to get you to give up.
New normal is a creation to get you to go ahead and accept mediocrity in your country.
While Obama presides over the decline.
So today on MSNBC, more proof this morning on Jansen and Company, the host Chris Jansing and White House Council of Economic Advisors, Chairman Austin Goolsby.
Have this exchange.
The longer this recovery takes, the slower it goes.
Does it increase the chance that a high unemployment number will be the new normal?
I don't buy into the new normal, but I do think you're highlighting a critically important issue, that of long-term unemployment.
Whether it's simply extending the tax cuts and the unemployment and benefits to maintain the demand in the short run before Christmas, I think we've got to keep an eye on the long-term unemployment problem, and it's one of the critical issues we face.
What did he say?
What did he just say?
He said zilch zero nada.
I don't buy into new normal, but I do think you're highlighting something here.
Whether it's extending tax cuts in the unemployment and benefits to maintain the demand, this is gobbledygook.
And this is the chief.
This is the head honcho.
Jansen then said, the worst numbers in seven months, more than 15 people who would like to get work cannot find a job.
Now that we're 17 months into this recovery, what do you think is going on here?
It's certainly below what was expected.
Collectively, we've seen some progress in the economy, but it's got to be way more.
And it's got to be well faster, and we've got to grow out of this.
It is absolutely imperative that we extend the middle-class tax cuts, not just the Bush tax cuts, but also the Obama cuts, and that in an environment like this, people who lost their jobs through no fault of their own and who are searching for new work, you cannot go yank the rug out from under them and end the unemployment benefits.
Well, let me ask you a question.
Let me ask you about that.
Again, we're getting gobbledygook here.
The Obama cuts and that in an environment like this, people who lost their jobs through no fault of their own and who are searching for new work, you can't go yank the rug out from under them and the unemployment benefits.
You can't yank the rug out from under them and the unemployment benefits.
What is he saying?
This guy is wandering in vain for a cogent thought.
So Chris Jansen, who I'm sure understands everyone, I'm sure this is making total sense to her, says, well, let me ask you about the proposition specifically because they're huddling.
Maybe even as we speak, representatives in the White House, the Republicans trying to figure out how to move forward on the economy.
The deal seems to be shaping up as this.
Democrats are okay in extension of tax cuts for the wealthy if they get those things that you just talked about, including the extension of unemployment benefits.
If that is what it ends up being, is that a net gain or a net loss for the economy?
What is critically important right now is that for the 98% of people that are looking at having their taxes go up, that we extend those tax cuts, that borrowing $700 billion to extend tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires, there's not a big rampant unemployment problem up among the billionaires.
This guy's clueless.
He cannot even make the case for his side.
He can't even do the propaganda right.
I mean, this is hilariously funny because this guy is totally incompetent.
Borrowing $700 billion to extend tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires?
That's his version of, well, if you extend those tax cuts, the Bush tax rates to millionaires and billionaires is going to cost the economy $700 billion.
And here comes this Schlub worrying about borrowing money.
$700 billion, we've got a deficit of $1.6 trillion.
So clearly, class envy politics is all this is not about growing the economy.
It's not about getting jobs going and creating jobs for people.
This is just glaring incompetence right in front of our very eyes.
Let's go to the phones.
People patiently waiting.
Open line Friday, we always try to get to the phones in the first hour of the program.
And we start in Sparks, Nevada, with Dave.
Thank you, sir, for calling.
You're up first.
How you doing, Rush?
This is a grand pleasure for me.
And I've been listening to you on KOH Radio ever since you first started in Sacramento.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
Well, then you were around when we had to ban calls from Reno for a while.
Oh, yeah, I remember that, too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was back in the early days of the program.
Yeah, it was a sordid circumstance back then.
We had to ban calls, but it ended up helping the situation.
It worked.
What I wanted to tell you, Rush, is, you know, I've been a veteran and I've been a truck driver.
I'm retired now.
But I'm so sick and tired of 10% of the public paying for all the taxes.
I got tax cuts quite a few years ago.
I never made over $30,000 in my life.
And I just am sick and tired of not being able to pay taxes because I was proud to pay taxes.
And I still think everybody should pay 20%.
And that's the way it should be.
Yeah, you're talking, this is the skin in the game argument that you're talking about.
Yeah, if everybody pays taxes, everybody feels responsible for government, and they're not spending somebody else's time.
Well, that used to be how it is.
Used to be how it was.
Not so much anymore.
But he's talking about the latest tax foundation numbers.
Essentially, 10% of income taxes are being paid by 68%, 70% of the people.
But everybody's paying taxes.
There are payroll taxes, Medicare tax, and so forth.
Income tax, yeah, about half the country or close to it is not paying income tax.
And interestingly, those are the people who are the targets of what Obama and Goolsby are talking about, the middle-class taxes.
We got to make sure the middle class, very few of them are actually, when it comes to income taxes, are paying that much.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, Dave.
Thanks so much.
A brief timeout, my friends.
Back with more right after this.
Welcome back, Rushland Bought Talent on Loan from God.
Happy to have you along.
The latest figures are 10%.
The top 10% pay 70% of all income tax.
Top 10% of wage earners, I don't care who they are, pay 70% of all income tax.
And those are the kind of taxes we're talking about here.
The Bush tax rates deal with income.
There's also, well, not just that.
There's capital gains.
The capital gains rates on the table as well.
In fact, there's an interesting story here about all the other taxes that are on the table and all the chaos waiting to happen.
Yeah, it's from the Washington Whispers section of U.S. News and World Report.
Mort Vuckerman owns this magazine, right?
Failure by Congress to extend the Bush taxes.
By the way, have you noticed just this week, now they're starting to talk about the Obama tax cuts as well.
That tells me they're going to extend these things.
It's a done deal, folks.
Done deal.
The Bush tax rates are going to be extended for everybody because they're throwing Obamas in there now.
Goolsby just talked about it.
Somebody else this week.
Obama did himself.
And, of course, our tax cuts.
So now, this is a recognition, the political popularity of tax cuts and extending them now.
And so Obama wants to get in on the action.
And his base, the Kook Fringe leftists, are fit to be tied that Obama is caving on this.
They're fit to be tied that we still got Gitmo open.
They're fit to be tied that Obama upped troop levels in Afghanistan and he is over there to visit the troops.
They can't believe any of this.
They can't believe anything that's happened here other than health care, and they're not happy about that because it didn't happen soon enough.
U.S. News and World Report delaying tax vote could crash stock market.
Failure by Congress to extend the Bush tax cuts, especially locking in the 15% capital gains tax rate, will spark a stock market sell-off starting December 15th as investors move to lock in gains at a lower rate than the 20% it would jump to next year, warn analysts.
While it's unclear how bad the sell-off could be, it could wipe out the year's gains.
Capital gains tax rate will increase from 15 to 20 percent if the tax cuts aren't extended.
The last time the capital gains tax rate increased, January 1st, 1987, from 20 to 28 percent, investors realize their gains at the lower tax rate.
This is from Daniel Clifton, Washington partner at Strategus Research Partners.
We would expect a similar effect this time around as investors see the tax rate going up and choose to realize their gains and incur the 15% tax.
What he means is that people sell their stocks before December 31st at the 15% rate rather than the 20% rate.
I'll tell you something else is going to happen.
The people in a position to are going to shift as much income from next year into this year to take advantage of the current tax rates so they don't have to pay income next year on the new tax rates.
You'll have people like Michael Eisner back in 1993.
Michael Eisner's dumped like $195 million in Disney shares.
He's the chairman to take advantage of the current tax rates to beat the Clinton tax increases up to 39.6.
Now, when that happens, that's going to have a deleterious effect on economic activity next year as well, because money and economic activity normally would take place in January, February, is going to take place in December of this year.
So the year-end report, wow, the economy really grew.
Look at all that activity going on out there in December.
And in January and February, we fall off the map because all that activity took place in December.
I, ladies and gentlemen, because I'm a powerful, influential member of the media, I know lots of people who've already made the arrangement to move as much January income as they can into December.
And the date, you know, anyway, anytime before December 31st, and they're waiting.
And if the tax rates don't change, they're not going to move the money forward.
If the tax rates do change, if they're not extended, they'll take the money.
They'll have it paid.
Now, most people can't do this, but those who can are going to do so.
So that's double whammy, not just the capital gains shift, but also standard income shift.
All of this activity just proves the value of tax rates and how they stimulate growth and activity.
Chip in Rutherford, North Carolina.
Nice to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, good afternoon, Rush.
Megadittos, and Merry Christmas.
Same to you, sir.
Yeah, I was talking to Beau about maybe changing topics a little bit and get off the political train for a bit.
I wanted to revisit top 40 radio and talk a little bit about those days into the late 60s, early 70s.
Do you think top 40 radio could work today?
Well, it would, of course, depend upon the music.
Yeah, exactly.
I don't, you're going to have to help me out.
Now, I hate to admit this, but since I lost my hearing, I don't know what new music there is because it all sounds the same.
I haven't listened to music since the early parts of this decade because I just can't hear it.
The only music I can listen to is music that I knew before I went deaf because my memory supplies the melody.
I don't really hear it because I don't have the hearing sensitivity anymore to do it.
So my memory does.
So I don't know, is there any music out there that is comparable to top 40 in the 60s and 70s?
Well, you know, not I don't think there is.
The Billboard charts are still published, of course, and then you've got your oldies stations.
The oldie stations are the closest thing to top 40 that there is.
And that format works depending on the music rotation, how big the playlist is, and the jocks.
I do think, yeah, nostalgia is a big thing.
I think it could be made to work.
I think you could, if John Rook could come back around, put WLS back together the way it was in the 60s and 70s, it'd be fun to try it.
It'd be interesting to see.
KXOK St. Louis.
Oh, KFI Los Angeles.
Or no, it was KHJ back then.
That would be fun to see.
But I think as retro as our society is, I don't think there's any question it could be made to work if you had the right people behind it, led, of course, by me.
Bush delivered turkey Thanksgiving troops in Iraq.
This year, the White House sent a turkey to Afghanistan.
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