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Merry Christmas to you.
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Did you hear about the guy who got thrown off the plane because of Merry Christmas?
He was, what was it, an American Airlines flight?
The guy was enraged in New York.
Now, I don't have the guy's name.
I wish I did, kind of.
He was escorted off an American Airlines flight on Thursday because he became enraged when flight attendants wished him a Merry Christmas.
Was it Al Gore?
I have no idea.
I have no idea.
Who gets mad because of Merry Christmas?
It's like these, the guy probably is a writer for Salon or something, one of those left-wing websites.
He gotta be one of these left-wing people.
Who gets upset about being wished Merry Christmas?
Liberals.
Liberals do, which reminds me of another story.
We were just talking about this one before we came on air.
A topless pro-choice woman.
This is the headline from the New York Daily News.
A topless pro-choice woman snatches baby Jesus from Rome.
Yes, at the Vatican, she got the baby Jesus and decided to do her own Christmas message.
A blonde pro-choice activist wearing nothing over her torso except the written words, God is woman.
Interrupted a nativity scene at St. Peter's Square in Rome on Christmas Day.
There was an online video.
Yes, Snerdly, you can go see the online video if you want to see the crazy blonde, topless woman running around the Vatican.
I'm that is yes.
You can get them in New York City without having to go to the Vatican.
She grabbed the baby Jesus, hoisted it over her head, and yelled a message.
She was quickly apprehended.
Now, here's the thing.
So this is some group called Femin, an organization of topless female protesters who oppose the political power of the clergy, and I guarantee you have no sense of humor whatsoever because they're feminists.
The group stated on its website that the unidentified, oh, she's called a sex streamist, was part of its massacres of the innocents campaign to oppose the church's stance on abortion.
Ironic, they're calling it massacres of the innocents.
The maniacal desire to control women's fertility is a common trait of many religions, national socialism, nationalism.
You get the picture.
Just, I mean, Christmas brings out the crazies, but it also does, thankfully, bring out some good heroes.
Josh Rofes in Covina, California, was about to leave for work Wednesday morning when his green Honda, filled with most of the family's Christmas presents, had been stolen.
The San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports the gifts which had been hidden away to avoid curious kids spoiling for this prize were gone.
Now, here's the kicker.
This is the kicker here.
They got a 10-year-old, an 8-year-old, a 7-week-old, and a 4-year-old.
At 10:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve, the police officer who had taken the report called him.
When Josh Rofes walked outside, you know what happened next.
Well, many of you do.
If you're a liberal in New York City today, you think he was gunned down by the police when he walked outside.
I guarantee you, people are listening to this story in New York City.
The liberals out there who are freezing their patuke off, protesting, and they think this guy must have walked out his front door and the police gunned him down.
No, when he walked outside, half a dozen police officers and two fire officials from Los Angeles County walked towards him bearing gifts, toys, bicycles.
When they learned that the 10-year-old was 10, they went back for more age-appropriate toys for him.
Police officers doing a good job.
You just, the media doesn't want to report on these stories because it interrupts the narrative.
It is all about the narrative for them.
You know, I'm deviating.
You get in here, you fill in for rush, and you come up with all these stacks of things you want to talk about and all these stories that are appropriate stories to talk about for the day.
And you kind of sit down and you kind of weave together, and then you get thrown wild cards and crazy people being thrown off planes for Mary Christmas.
By the way, it is the second day of Christmas.
I will have my lights up through all 12 days of Christmas.
My wife will be livid with me.
I can hear her right now: no, it's because you don't think I'm off the tree until February.
I turned the lights off at least after the 12 days of Christmas.
It's one of those great ones.
So, the narrative, you know, the narrative on sexual assault.
It is one in five women has been sexually assaulted in her college years.
This is what the president has said: one in five.
But now, in the wake of a new federal Department of Justice report showing the incidence of rape and sexual assault on campus to be far lower and trending down, the statistic is being called into question.
Yes.
So, Claire McCaskill, the senator from Missouri, and others are now saying the statistics, they don't matter.
These people, they are so invested in these things.
This ties into where I was going to begin.
Can the Republicans shatter the Obama coalition in 2016?
I'm sorry, I got to apologize.
It is the day after Christmas 2014, and we do have to talk about 2016.
Bill Crystal has a story out with all the Republican candidates, other than Rand Paul.
I'll explain why he didn't put in Rand Paul, who I like, but nonetheless.
So, he's got this.
But, Bill Barrow from the AP, can the GOP shatter the Obama coalition in 2016?
And despite Democrats' midterm shellacking and talk of a depressed liberal base, many still like their starting position in 2016.
Roy Texera, yes, the Democratic demographer who all of the left takes comfort in, he says that it's okay because demographics favor the, you know, folks, demography is not destiny.
What does it say about Democrats that they invest all of their efforts on winning on skin color, and now they've got a problem with white skin color?
White people don't like the Democrats.
Let's go back if we can.
I found this.
I saved this story after the 2008 election, and it has just come back perfectly many times.
This is from Nate Silver.
Remember Nate Silver at 538, who all the Democrats, they comforted themselves with him in 2012 and 2008.
In January 29th, 2009, he wrote a piece for his blog 538.
The title of it says it all, The Republican Death Spiral.
Upset about the Republican opposition to the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
Upset by blocking the rollout of HDTV, all of these things.
Remember, this was written.
The Democrats had come into Congress in 2006.
They had taken back the House and the Senate.
President Obama had won in 2008, beating John McCain.
So here everyone proclaims the Republican death spiral.
Remember, back in 2008, Republicans, they could never win in New England again.
Marginalized, alienated from the people, just a bunch of angry white men.
Listen to this.
Again, 2009, the McCain campaign radically overestimated the impact House Republicans may be replicating their mistake.
Self-described conservatives are only 20% of the population.
The base is not necessarily becoming smaller, but it's not sufficient to win elections.
Republicans, in other words, they can't keep winning elections just by catering to their base.
That, according to Nate Silver from 2009, now look at it.
Now look what's happening.
Do you know, this is all connected.
The angry Christmas protesters, the liberals upset by Merry Christmas and whatnot.
During 2004, people accused Republicans of epistemic closure.
They would shut off all debate against their knowledge and opinions.
New facts were not allowed into the conversation.
New facts were not allowed in.
New data points could not be reconciled.
The debate was over.
The Republicans were dominant.
That's what the media accused them of.
I believe we're on the point of Democratic epistemic closure.
Eric Metaxas has an article in the Wall Street Journal: Science increasingly makes the case for God.
I tweeted that out last night.
I tried to avoid politics on Twitter the entire day, but I tweeted that out on Christmas.
People went nuts.
The atheists who follow me went nuts.
You've got all these things.
The New York Times ran two articles yesterday to start the day.
They ran two articles.
One from an atheist on Christmas Should Just Be Another Day.
And another from a Unitarian anthropology professor on how you can go to church and use God as a metaphor.
Let me read you this quote from the professor, the sociology or anthropology professor, the Unitarian.
She said, part of the reason for going to church without a faith is for community.
Religion is fundamentally a practice that helps people to look at the world as it is and yet to experience it to some extent in some way as it should be.
Much of what people actually do in church, finding fellowship, celebrating birth and marriage, remembering those we've lost, affirming the values we cherish, can be accomplished with a sense of God as metaphor, as story, or even without any mention of God at all.
Remember in 2012 of the Democratic Convention, they ran that opening video the first night of the Democratic Convention.
I was still at CNN at the time before I moved to Fox, and I remember discussing this video.
Remember, it ended by saying that we all belong to the state.
The state was the only thing we were all a part of.
You've read these stories about the billboards around the country from atheists ridiculing people at Christmas.
You had the Washington Post the other day run the story that says God is not real by a supposed religion studies professor.
This is all part of a pattern.
Whether they know it consciously now or not, it is part of a pattern.
Go back to the 2008 election.
Where is this?
Here it is.
I had this.
I dug into my treasure trove of old stories.
November 9, 2008, Obama drew in religious voters.
He went in, he went out, he made, Rosalind Carter said about Ronald Reagan, he made us comfortable with our prejudices.
Barack Obama has made the left comfortable with their prejudices.
He can ridicule conservative voters for clinging to their guns and religion bitterly.
The left believes now that they've won.
They believe that they are the absolute majority.
They believe that there can be no more debate.
Epistemic closure for them.
So now what they've done in 2008, the Obama campaign was very good about taking religious imagery, hope and change, and Greek columns and speeches in Berlin about the world beginning to heal, the oceans beginning to recede.
Very messianic language and turning it into a secular cause.
They have, as this professor giving away the game about Christmas, done.
They've taken God as a metaphor for the state.
So you see Neil Tyson yesterday on Twitter, the atheist astronomer out ridiculing people for celebrating Christmas and all the liberal Democrats retweeting him.
You see the president go out and use religious evangelical language to get people to go vote for him for hope and for change and for oceans receding and the world healing.
It's all part of a plan.
The left doesn't have anything to rally around other than the state.
And the state is failing everybody right now.
So they've got to amp up the language.
Eric Erickson in for Rush Limbaugh.
We'll be back.
Resist We Much on Twitter tells me I misquoted it.
It's not the state, it's the government.
That's right.
It was from 2012, the Democratic National Convention.
The government is the only thing we all belong to.
And since it's failing us, the left has to go into double hysterics to try to keep the corral closed and keep all the Democrats in and fleeing.
You know, there was a story the other day, I think it was in the Washington Post, that the young who signed up to join the government when Barack Obama got elected, they decided it would be a good and noble profession since they all voted for Barack Obama and he was their God.
Well, now they're running away from government.
They're all quitting their government jobs, which is a good thing, I think.
How about we go to a phones?
It is an open line Friday here at the Rush Limbaugh program.
1-800-282-2882.
Let's go to Jeff from Cleveland, Ohio.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Thank you for taking my call.
I got to tell you, this is the first time I've ever managed to get through.
I'm trying to be generous the day after Christmas with phone calls, Jeff.
Thank you.
I wanted to talk to you about the whole race situation that's happened since Ferguson and up until now.
Okay.
I think the reality that we're seeing has not been expressed by either side.
And the reality that I see is that, in fact, racism has, to a very, very great extent, been overcome in this country.
I don't think anybody would disagree that if a black person, whether he's a lawyer, a plumber, an air conditioned man, you name it, if he is competent, he will get a job.
And if he doesn't, it won't be because of his color.
I don't think anybody has a problem moving into a neighborhood or buying a house.
So the issues that once existed, certainly meeting with restaurants and things like that, there was a time when demonstrations were in place.
But I think the infrastructure that dealt with the race issue, I'm talking about particularly the black infrastructure, they don't have any creativity into how to take it to the next level.
The only thing they know what it's demonstrating.
Yeah, I wonder how much of it is generational as well.
I agree with what you're saying, and I wonder how much of it is generational.
I've got some stories here today about some of the off-the-wall things Al Sharpton's been saying in the past week.
I'm reminded of the, was it in the story of Exodus, that they had to wander for 40 years and let the older generations die off before the new ones could go to the promised land.
I found when I was a city councilman in Macon, Georgia, the younger members of council were not hung up on the issues, particularly race-related issues, the older members of the city council were hung up on.
Those issues, they just, they didn't exist for us.
They weren't a source of grievance for us the way they are.
And let's be honest here.
You've got a generation of people on the left, like Al Sharpton, like Jesse Jackson.
I won't even try Rush's Reverend Jackson.
Those guys, they make a profit off of keeping these divisions alive.
I mean, look at what, Amy Pascal, the Sony movie president, after the emails are leaked and she's in an exchange about what should she suggest was Barack Obama's favorite movie.
Of course, she's got to have the obligatory meeting with Al Sharpton to kiss the ring.
And I'm sure someone's got to find jobs there.
There have been all these email leaks out lately and other leaks and reports in the press about how you've got an entire culture out on the left in particular of race baiting and racial grievance mongering.
And these people make good money off of this.
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton wouldn't, well, okay, Jesse Jackson wouldn't lead the lifestyle he's leading, but for what I would characterize myself as a shakedown of what he does whenever any of this happens.
Now, Al Sharpton's different.
We know Al just doesn't pay his taxes, and that's why he's been able to live the way he lives and get this cushy gig from MSNBC, which again, that was another, there was a story out the other day about Comcast and how Comcast hired a bunch of lobbyists to go to Washington and trying to make inroads with all the people who say we need more diversity and promising Al Sharpton a TV show and whatnot.
These people make a career off of it, which is why they have no incentive to move beyond it or to have it change, to move on, to heal.
They can't heal because then they won't be able to profit.
That's just the reality.
Eric Erickson in for Rush.
I'll get there.
Mr. Snerdley is giving me a hard time about these Republican presidential candidates.
For various reasons, I like a lot of them.
I don't many of them get elected over time.
No, no, no, no.
I'm not a big Christie fan.
I like him personally for a number of reasons.
I don't want to write him off out of the gate.
Oh, I will.
Okay.
Look, I'm just going to go here now.
So, Bill Crystal has a story up at the Weekly Standard of all the Republican presidential candidates who he thinks would be better than Hillary Clinton.
And he lists virtually everyone who could run.
I mean, the graphic says it all.
I don't even need to read you the story.
I mean, Lindsey Graham is on there.
Carly Fiorina is on there.
Joe Scarborough, Rick Santora, Mike Pence, Chris Christie, Marsha Blackburn even is on there for the Congresswoman from Tennessee, Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, you name it.
The one guy who's not is Rand Paul.
He's not on the list.
And so Jonathan Martin from the New York Times on Twitter today suggested that it looked like Rand Paul had been forgotten.
And Bill Crystal replied, No, I only wanted to list people who'd be better than Hillary.
I think Rand would be better than Hillary.
I have no doubt Rand Paul would be better than Hillary.
Now, some of these guys, look, I do my annual red state gathering thing.
We're going to do it in Atlanta next year.
I want to get all these presidential candidates to come down and talk about where they want to see the country grow.
I have issues with Jeb Bush on Common Core, on immigration, you name it, but he was a good conservative governor of Florida, so I don't want to write him off just yet.
But do we need three Bushes to be president?
Do we need another Clinton to be president?
I have my doubts all around.
He would have.
Look, I think he would be better than Hillary.
I think Rand Paul would be much better than Hillary Clinton.
Oh, we'll get into that.
By the way, welcome back to the Rush Limbo Show.
It is Eric Erickson in for Rush today.
Hope you had a Merry Christmas.
800-282-2882 is the phone number.
It's an open line Friday, and it is the day after Christmas.
So we will be much more generous with phone calls around here than Rush might otherwise be.
Just don't tell him.
In fact, let's go to Mike now, calling from Is it Chico, California, Mike, that you're calling from?
Hello.
Hi, Mike.
Hi, Eric.
Boy, nice to hear from you.
This is a good day for us.
Well, absolutely.
Thank you.
Merry Christmas.
Listen, Merry Christmas to you, too.
I was reminded about the Democratic Convention that we were watching it on the television.
And all of a sudden, they kind of get through all the hoopla and they get to a vote on their platform.
And I was just stunned when I realized they had voted to take God out of their platform.
Yes.
I remember this.
Not only did they vote to take him out, but I guess whoever was the rules chairman had the floor.
These were the procedural votes before the actual convention started.
And they realized what a PR disaster it was going to be.
So they did the vote again, and it was very clear that they voted against putting God back in the platform.
And nonetheless, he slammed the gavel down and said it was back in, and the crowd booed God.
Exactly, Eric.
And I was appalled by it, and I brought it up to my Christian friends and family and talked about it.
And several of them, by the way, are Democrats.
And you know what?
I was stunned that they were not shocked also.
Yeah.
I mean, and then I never heard it in the news.
I never heard it anywhere else.
The government is the thing we all belong to, and they boo God.
What was that?
Sorry?
I just thought it was a great time to bring that up at Christmas time because a lot more people will hear it that don't realize that they're a Democrat and they supported this party that took God out of the platform.
What do you think the odds are that the guy on that American Airlines flight yesterday who was pulled off because he nearly started fighting flight attendants for wishing Merry Christmas?
What do you think the odds are?
He was one of those Democratic Party attendees who booed God.
You know, I think the odds are pretty good.
Mike, thanks very much for the phone call.
Yeah, you know, this really is one of the things that the Democrats need to keep in mind.
Again, if you're just tuning in, starting the show today for Rush, one of the points I wanted to make was the Democrats now, the left in particular, the reason they're running these signs, atheist signs at Christmas, in the New York Times and the Washington Post, they're running stories from atheists about how we need to get rid of Christmas and things like this.
It's because they feel it slipping away from them.
They thought, after 2006, they were the permanent majority.
The Republicans in 2004 had thought they were the permanent majority.
They were wrong.
The Democrats now think they're the permanent majority.
2010 was just a blip by angry, racist white people.
And then 2014 happened.
And it was even more devastating for the Democrats.
And not only that, this is very key here.
And the media doesn't report on this, but the Democratic farm team is destroyed.
If you look all the way down to the local level, I believe it was the Cook political report noted that this was the most devastating loss for Democrats, even down to the state legislative level in the last hundred years or so.
Go down further than that to the county and the city and those parts of the country that have partisan municipal races, but then partisan county races as well, sheriff races and whatnot.
It was devastating for the Democrats.
And so they've got to run the atheist billboards and they've got to run the op-eds attacking Christmas and Christians and they've got to convince everyone the government's the only thing that we belong to as a security blanket for themselves.
Remember, they're not talking to the rest of the country.
They're talking to themselves.
When Neil Tyson gets on Twitter and is heckling Christians, he's not talking to them.
He's talking to liberals.
They've all got to rally.
Now, whether or not at this point they know it's intentional, it is what they're doing, whether they intend it or not.
They're trying to comfort themselves.
They're trying to make sure they know we're still loud and proud and atheist and anti-theist, and we are opposed to Republicans.
We're opposed to conservatives.
And by God, we're still the majority.
There is a problem for them, though.
It's a problem Mike gets at, from California, no less, that his Democratic, members of Democrats and his family recognize.
You know who the most religious people in America are?
Any idea?
It is not Southern white people.
It's Hispanic voters.
Now, my apologies to Hispanic voters because I know the only people who talk about you as Hispanic voters tend to be people in the media.
You are Venezuelan, you're Nicaraguan, you're Guatemalan, you're Colombian, you're Mexican.
You are of different nationalities, and you're blanketly labeled by the media Hispanic.
Nonetheless, people from Central and South America, immigrants into this country, are the most religious people in the country.
So as the Democrats circle the wagons and pat themselves on the back and say, by God, we're still the majority and we can still talk disparagingly about religion and tell people God doesn't exist and the only thing that's real is the government and our collective effort, doesn't do them any favors with Hispanics.
And we know from the 2014 exit polls, Republicans did better with Hispanic voters than they've done in the past.
Here's the other side point to this.
Democrats and many Republican establishment types, probably Jeb Bush, many establishment Republican types.
They believe demography is destiny.
By God, we need immigration reform so Hispanic voters, they don't hate us anymore.
We need to do X, Y, and Z because demography is destiny.
And oh my God, we're getting more Hispanic and black voters and whites are going to be a minority and we're going to lose.
Here's the thing.
Demography is not destiny.
Good policy is destiny.
And you don't have to win Hispanic voters or black voters, thanks in large part to Barack Obama.
Republicans now have such a lock on white voters, they just have to continue to be able to make inroads, and particularly with Hispanic voters.
And the more Democrats saber-rattle over gay marriage and abortion and hating God and just the secularism of the Democratic Party, the more likely it is to drive Hispanic voters to the Republican Party.
In fact, I've had Democratic analysts who you would know if I said their name tell me that one of their big concerns in the Democratic Party is that the longer Hispanic families stay in the United States and take up roots, the more likely they become to identify as Republican voters, which they're playing a short-term game, thinking that if they can bring Hispanic voters into the Democratic Party, they can lock them in just like black voters are locked in.
I don't think they can.
I think they're playing with fire.
And this intended or not, this process of rallying themselves to pat themselves on the back and console themselves with Christmas isn't real and Republicans are haters and whatnot, that's going to do nothing but alienate more and more people from them.
Eric Erickson in for Rush Limbaugh.
Welcome back.
Merry Christmas.
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It's very difficult to do two things at once.
But you can go to E.W. Erickson on Twitter or Facebook if you want, or even Instagram for that matter.
Okay, I'm going to go back to the phones.
It's an open line Friday.
It's the day after Christmas.
We're generous here.
Nina in Greenville, South Carolina, one of my favorite cities.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Oh, thank you so much.
I'm glad I was able to get through.
I did want to talk a little bit about the people who are offended by Christmas.
And I've experienced that with especially somebody that I work with.
She is constantly saying, well, I don't participate with Christmas.
But yeah, I haven't seen her turn down one Christmas gift.
She's been in there eating the Christmas cookies.
Yeah, and I thought to myself, you know, it's so easy to accept the junk.
You know, this is stuff that people, you have it.
Even money.
Let's say somebody gives you money, you're going to spend it.
It'll be gone.
They don't want to refuse that kind of gift.
But yeah, they refuse the greatest gift of all, which is the Son of God, Jesus.
And I thought to myself, they get so offended, even just today, this morning, I said to her, did you have a good Christmas?
She said, I don't participate in Christmas, but I know she's gotten a bunch of gifts.
She's been turning out one of them.
But she, you know, she's gotten a lot of things on discount since the day after Thanksgiving, unless she's decided to mark them back up off the sale price.
She's been participating in Christmas, whether she's known it or not.
Nina, thanks very much for the phone call.
800-282-2882 is the number for the Rush Limbaugh Show.
You know, Snerdley, actually, I've got a, you should see the studio.
I may have to take a picture of this and put it on Instagram.
The amount of paper surrounding me today, I've killed an entire forest.
And then Snerdley sent me some stories I had missed.
People stealing people's presents.
Where is this story?
Oh, my Lord.
Yes.
Yes.
That one.
Okay.
I can tell you right out of the gate the problem with this story.
Where is this now?
Yes.
An 18-year-old and his 42-year-old wife.
That right there, I tell you, that was my red flag the moment I saw the story.
Stealing stuff on Christmas, stealing the Christmas ornaments and stuff out of people's yard to decorate their own house.
The 18 and 42-year-old.
Here they are.
Colorado Springs, no less.
I got a buddy of mine who's texting me right now from Colorado Springs.
Wonder if these people live down the street from him.
18-year-old Jeremy LaWallen and his 42-year-old wife, Carrie Garley, stole displays to decorate their own yard.
Now, I get it.
This is a pattern in practice with these people.
I mean, the wife robbed the cradle for her 18-year-old son, not son, husband.
And now that the police were tipped off by a neighbor who had his decorations stolen, then spotted a very familiar-looking Christmas display in the suspect's front yard.
They admitted to it, more than $2,000.
Now, this is the interesting thing.
The wife has thrown her husband back under the cradle, saying that he acted alone.
She didn't know the decorations were stolen, she claims.
Wow.
And then there's a Pennsylvania babysitter stole a two-year-old's Christmas present from under the tree and returned it to the store so he could pocket a $30 refund.
Sean Azelman on Monday was arrested by police.
Notice the police here again, people.
The police are the good guys here.
They're arresting this 24-year-old who's still in jail.
Hallelujah.
That's a Christmas miracle right there.
He's still in jail.
He took the unwrapped gift from the Watson Town home while he and his girlfriend were babysitting, found the receipt in the mother's bedroom, took the gift to the family dollar store, forged a signature to complete the return.
How low can you go at Christmas time?
A 24-year-old and his girlfriend were babysitting, and they found the receipt in the mother's bedroom.
I'm going to offer no further comments there.
I'm just, I'm not.
And last but not least, look, I'm not going there.
There may be children listening, snerdly.
I've already talked about the topless pro-choice woman snatching baby Jesus in Rome.
There's only so much I can do here without getting myself in trouble.
Listen, there are many reasons they could have been in the mother's bedroom, these two lovebirds.
Yes, looking for jewelry and receipts to the Dollar General.
That's what they were doing in the mother's bedroom, making the bed, maybe.
With no cash to offer burglars, an Ohio couple was robbed of four puppies on Christmas morning.
This is from Wooster, Ohio.
A Wayne County sheriff's captain says three men slipped through an unlocked sliding door around 6 a.m. Thursday.
The suspects confronted a 32-year-old man.
They said the man was struck in the face with a handgun.
21-year-old woman held at gunpoint.
They got puppies.
I mean, and you know what?
I guarantee you, the thieves who stole the puppies, they voted for Barack Obama.
I guarantee you.
I guarantee you they did.
They had to have.
And same with the thief who took the present from Dollar General.
I mean, that's just typical Democrat Party behavior right there.
Taking it and getting cash back, redistributing things.
That's my theory.
I'm sticking to it.
Eric Erickson infrachland, but we'll be back.
One thing I did not do on Christmas Day that I usually like to do is go see a movie.
I wanted to go see Unbroken, which, by the way, so it's not getting the greatest reviews.
I really want to see this movie.
The book was fantastic about Luis Emperini, the Olympian World War II hero.
So I read a number of reviews about Unbroken, and all of it.
Hollywood is so cynical.
Movie critics are so cynical.
All of the reviews say it's just too feel-good.
It's too, well, you know what's going on.
Of course, you know what's going to happen.
It's called a biography.
You can read the book and find out what's going on.
You know what was going to happen in The Hobbit, for that matter.
If you read the book, it's based on a book.
But the cynicism of some of these critics over this movie, I really want to see it.
I want to see American Sniper too, but I don't even, you know, they trot out these movies to qualify for the Academy Awards, and American Sniper is one of them.
I don't think it's anywhere in the Atlanta area right now, which is where I would have to see it.
I'm coming broadcasting from Atlanta or Macon, where I live.
I don't think American Sniper's out, but I really want to see that too.
It's getting good reviews.
The Gambler.
I like to watch movies on Christmas Day.
I hope you guys had a good Christmas.
I made my gumbo.
I'm from Louisiana.
Even if I live in Georgia, I made six liters of gumbo, and it's all gone.
The whole family ate it.
I stayed up all night drinking Christmas Eve.
You got to drink to make gumbo.
I'm from Louisiana.
It's required.
So I stayed up very late doing that and had to be up very early for the kids for Christmas.