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Feb. 9, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 9, 2015, Monday, Hour #2
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And welcome back, my good friends.
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So like a lot of people, I was reading the news, uh, the narratives uh over the weekend, and I was following the Brian Williams headlines.
It's a it's a sad tale, ladies and gentlemen, of human tragedy.
And let's admit it, we all love human tragedy when it isn't happening to us.
And we follow it, and we sometimes commiserate with it.
Other times we give thanks it isn't us, other times say, how the hell can anybody be so dumb?
What in the hell's behind this?
How can you?
Then we think back to people in our lives that we know who are just like the person in question, whether it be Brian Williams or Obama or Clinton or anybody else.
And I found uh a usual batch of uh interesting opinion and stories.
There was there was one in the in the New York Post, and the last paragraph of the story is the only thing that matters to me.
It just kind of blows me away.
They're talking to a nameless expert, either a consultant or an employee of NBC News.
I'm not sure which because the story doesn't really make clear who their source is, it's just unnamed.
And I read it twice to find if maybe I missed something.
The source is not really nailed down as to where the source works or why the source knows anything.
The source is just presented as somebody who does.
And the source here is commenting on Brian Williams' self-imposed leave of absence.
And if you believe that, then you deserve to be lied to on the nightly news.
No, he didn't suspend himself.
The story is that well, what his story is that he became the news, and he became too much of the news too much of the time.
He said, presently I am too much, and by the way, now this matters for people that do the news.
That is the wrong word to use.
Presently does not mean right now, it means down the road.
I will see you presently means, give me a couple of minutes and I'll be there.
At present is what you should properly say.
So Brian Williams should have said, at present I have become too much of the news.
I've become too big a story.
But he said, presently.
Now, it may be a minor point to you, but to me, these are the kind of tests that people have to used to have to pass in order to get these jobs.
I I mentioned to you once, way back in the 40s and 50s, and I know things change, NBC gave staff announcers and others a pronunciation test to see just how erudite and sophisticated they were.
Because back then, it was these jobs are very very few.
I mean, CBS, NBC, ABC was it.
And they could get the cream of the crop in virtually every field they had.
Staff announcers, they could get the best.
You ever heard of Don Pardo, for example?
Umrators, anchors, you name it, they could get the best.
It's not so much the case now and what is the best is taken on a different definition.
But back then, one of the words on the pronunciation test that NBC gave was the word that's at present, the correct pronunciation is considered to be consummate.
As in you are a consummate professional, or you are a consummate pain in the rear.
But back then, the actual pronunciation of that word, the one demanded by NBC's standards and practice piece was consummate.
And if you did not pronounce that word that way, you failed that particular line on the test.
Today everybody pronounces it consummate.
But consummate was the preferred NBC pronunciation, but I'm making this up.
What by the same token, understanding a difference in presently and at present was considered to be in the same vein.
Now 99 people out of a hundred, nine hundred and ninety-nine out of a thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand out of a million.
Say presently when they mean right now, but they're they're incorrect in doing so.
So it's just become one of these things that's accepted.
Present.
Presently does not mean right now.
Presently does not mean at this moment.
Presently means in the future.
A short distance ahead in the future.
I'll be with you presently.
Is the proper use of that word.
At present is what you say if you mean right now, this very moment.
I I am at present talking to you from the EIB network.
But most people, I'm presently right here.
No, you're not present.
You're gonna be presently.
Where are you gonna be in five minutes?
It's just like, remember the poor guy, the financial guy on the Washington Metro, Washington, D.C., the city of Washington City Council, who attacked a budget proposal by calling it niggardly.
He got canned.
And all niggardly means is stingy.
If you're being niggardly, it's with an N I G G A-R-D-L-Y, niggardly means you're being stingy, tight fisted or whatever.
They fired a guy.
Because so many Doomkoffs thought he was using the N-word.
And rather than stand, no, no, no, I was using a real word.
Look it up.
Niggerly means cheap, means means tight.
They had to get rid of the poor guy.
And all he did was use the right word.
So I'm making a mountain out of a mole heel here.
But and I've not lost my place.
Brian Williams said that he has presently become too much a part of the story.
And he said, we journalists don't like to become part of the story.
And that, folks, simply isn't true.
That's why I wanted to go back and review broadcast news 1987.
Reporters and anchors making themselves part of the story is the definition of a good anchor these days.
Why else lie about the fact that you were on a helicopter when you weren't, that was shot down when you weren't, and you didn't arrive for an hour.
You want to be in the story.
You want to steal someone's valor in the military.
You want people to think you're dodging bullets out there in order to bring them the news.
They want to be in the story.
They want to change the story.
They want to influence the outcome of the story.
That's why I say there isn't any journalism anymore.
There is nobody standing around watching what happens and telling you who wasn't there, who weren't there what happened.
Journalism now is advancing an agenda, making you making yourself part of it if you can, in an attempt to affect the outcome of events.
That's why they're not news readers anymore.
They are narrative readers, if anything.
Not even that.
Read a teleprompter.
What makes a good anchor?
Can you do the right faces?
Can you do the concerned face?
Can you do the really concerned face?
Can you do the serious it may be the end of the world face?
Can you do the smiling friendly?
I'm your I'm your best friend face.
Can you wink at the right time?
Can you raise one eyebrow when a Republican is speaking to make people think that you know the Republicans full of crap?
It's all it takes to be able to raise one eye.
Peter Jennings was perfect at that.
Peter Jennings raised one eyebrow could destroy Republican legislation.
Oh, tell me these people do the news.
They are the news, and Brian Williams got caught.
Anyway, this nameless source at NBC News.
This is the last paragraph of the story, and they're talking about the self-imposed uh leave of absence, which was not self-imposed.
In fact, the executives are trying to figure out what to do at This very moment.
But this expert was telling whoever wrote the story for the New York Post look, Williams can't be gone long.
The timing here will be critical.
If he's gone too short, it won't seem like he's taken himself out of the game long enough.
If he's out too long, he looks like damaged goods.
And I read that and I said, You mean he doesn't look like damaged goods right now.
But he will look like damaged goods is if if he's off the news for too long.
Isn't he damaged goods right now?
Isn't that why he's off the news because he's damaged goods?
Now this guy's trying to go, well, the length of time at Brian's office is going to be crucial.
If he's not gone long enough, people are going to think that there hadn't been appropriate punishment, and nobody thinks it's that bad.
If he's gone too long, then it looks like he did really screw up.
It's really bad, and he's damaged goods.
But he already is that.
So anyway, this source inside NBC.
Now this gives us an indication of how they're looking at this in the executive suite.
And they're looking at it not from any avenue of substance.
They're trying to figure out the PR of it and how long the self-imposed leave of absence should be, and what your thoughts on Brian Williams' credibility will be based on the length of the leave of absence.
He also canceled appearance Thursday night on Letterman.
That kind of surprised some people, not me, but it...
It has it has happened.
But I tell you what, I I think what we're going to hear.
So I think Brian's going to come back.
He's going to come back, folks.
I just want to make a prediction right here.
What time is it?
Almost 117 Eastern time on February uh February 9th.
My prediction is that this hiatus is actually just a cover for Brian Williams' top secret mission to Syria and Iraq to keep ISIS from getting serious chemical weapons.
And we will learn when Brian Williams returns to the air that that's what he was doing, that all of this was a giant act of distraction and deflection so that he could make sure ISIS didn't get serious chemical weapons.
That will be the lead story is first night back.
Time to grab the phones.
We're going to start with Jim in Atlanta.
Jim, great to have you here on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Rush, my pleasure.
Great show today.
Love everything you have to say.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate it.
I really do.
That broadcast news piece that you talked about, that's prescient in the point that you made.
Another scene in that movie that really got to me, Holly Hunter, the sort of headstrong and knowledgeable newsy who wants to run everything.
Right when they're gonna put William Hurd in the big chair to cover the big event.
Yeah, William Hurd, not not Albert.
I'm I blew, I said Albert Brooks.
It's William Hurd, you're right.
You're absolutely right.
Yeah, Will William Hurd was the the guy who they're gonna put in the big chair.
And uh she says he's not ready, so she corners a network executive, takes him outside and says, Listen, this guy's nowhere near ready.
You can't put him in there.
It's uh it's not gonna work out.
And he kind of sneers at her.
And he says, Well, it must be nice.
It must be nice to be right about everything, to know all the answers.
And at that point, when you're watching the movie, you think she's gonna break down and say, Oh, well, I don't really know everything.
When in fact, what she tell you looks him right in the eye and she says, No, it's horrible.
Meaning she thinks she is right about everything, and that's the way those folks are.
Well, I can relate.
I do too.
And I tell you, it's a burden.
It is a it's a it's a burden.
Don't jump to the too big a conclusion, John.
No way you're talking about them, but it's a burden being right all the time.
People don't like it.
People are not impressed by it.
They don't like anybody that sure of themselves.
I got I can't, I can't, I mean, don't doubt me on this.
Absolutely right.
Now you're talking in her case.
What what did the character say in the movie when when he was when she was challenged with being right all the time?
Well, she you expect her to break down.
And if she thinks she's going to back off, but she's the typical liberal type who won't.
And she looks in right back and says, No, it's horrible.
Basically, yes, I am right all the time, and uh she's not ready for the chair and like.
Well, she was modeled.
That character was modeled after a real live person at the time at CBS News named Susan, something or other, who did who ran the ran the uh I mean ran the roost over there at the time.
And uh she she had a reputation that was pretty much what you say.
She says she was right all the time, and you buck her at your risk.
And she basically but but but the Holly Hunter carry, if I'm if I'm not you correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't she kind of save the day morally on this?
I mean, she knows this guy is an accident waiting to happen, and the executives don't care about the ethics of it.
The executives, all they care about is the numbers and the ratings.
They don't care if the guy's a fraud or a phony.
Certainly true.
Yeah, absolutely right.
And that's pretty much true today, too, right?
And all of the rest of this about about nightly news anchors being these I don't know, that the the there's no way they can measure up to the reputation and the image that these people have.
I mean, really, what are the qualifications?
Like I don't like talking this way because I'm I'm I'm it's uh it's it sounds like inter-business jealousy, and it it isn't that.
I just I I think this whole news business is a game.
It isn't news.
So much of it, and it's this true about a lot of our culture, not just the news, so much of it's fakery.
Remember J. R. Ewing, as long as you when you learn to fake sincerity, you've got it made.
And that's basically what we're talking about with liberalism.
When you have when you won the ability to fake your compassion and to fake sincerity, you've earned it.
But these people that that that that create these images and these impressions of people, these anchors, back in the old days, I mean, there were only two or three Americans that were capable because of life experiences.
They had been to the hell holes of earth.
They had been to the war-torn foxholes of they had been all these none of that matters to reading the news that is written by other people.
None of that really matters.
It was required for the resume because of what it meant for the image, but in terms of real qualifications, it's acting.
And the reason Susan Zarinsky, that's the name.
That's the name of the person in Holly Hunter character was modeled after Susan Zarinsky.
CBS uh CBS News.
But so much of this is just acting, it's fakery.
And the reason this bothers me is look at how many people believe it.
Look at look at how effective all of this drive-by media stuff.
The drive-by media.
The mainstream media has the Republican Party in a state of PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder.
The Republican Party is literally almost the establishment afraid to do anything for fear of what these people in the media are going to say about them.
And who are the people in the media?
That's what we're discussing here.
And it's it's just a it's a quietly disconcerting reminder of how effective all of this fakery and acting can be.
And it's nothing new.
I mean, look at the look at I just did it myself.
I just cited a total make-believe movie as evidence.
it's what it's what it's the power of that medium really is Jim I appreciate the call this is Jeff next San Antonio Texas it's great to have you with us on the program great to hear you How are you, Jeff?
I'm very fine.
Mutzuscracias LFA.
Uh-huh.
Thank you, sir.
I wanted to share with you, you are accurate all the time.
Over the last three weeks, you've been talking about the money supply and stock prices.
Right.
Fifty years ago.
An economist, Beryl Sprinkle, wrote a book called Money and Stock Prices.
And I as my senior thesis in 1968 as a finance major, I correlated that, and he was right on, and that was the Lyndon Johnson say.
But the second point where you were right.
I had the privilege to serving on a Federal Reserve council.
And I watched Alan Greenspan on our first meeting in July 2005, step up and go on a rant for 15 minutes about the systemic risk in Fannie Mae Freddie Mack.
It wasn't Republicans.
It was the Congressman changed the rules.
Oh, exactly.
If anything, it was Bush era regulators which were trying to get a handle on this and limit the damage.
And it was people like Barney Frank and other Democrats who literally threatened these regulators during congressional hearings, literally threatened them with their jobs and so forth if they if they pursued this stuff.
I'm surprised more people do not, you know, when when this whole subject of the disparity in wealth comes up and all of the uh the scandalous talk about income inequality and the gap between the rich and the poor.
I don't know why more people don't just utilize little common sense.
And this is not a backhanded way of praising myself, don't misunderstand.
But if you're going to print three and a half trillion dollars over the course of uh seven years now, and if virtually all of it is going to be used to prop up the stock market, end up one way or the other financing the purchase of securities and equities, which is what stocks are.
Then how it does it's it's simple math.
If you're gonna throw three and a half trillion dollars to the stock market, you are doing two things.
A, you're flooding people who are in the stock market with a pretty huge guarantee of return on their investments, or their wealth increases.
Second thing you do, you're insulating them from whatever else is happening bad in the economy.
So while the economy may be spiraling down out of control, in horrible shape.
Here's Wall Street over here, which is able to report great guns, big guns.
And that's the primary reason for all this disparity.
And we stay with the phones.
This is uh this is Phil in Melbourne, Florida.
Hi, Phil, I'm glad you waited.
It's your turn, and welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush, it's an honor.
Thank you.
Very much, sir.
Rush, I grew up in Cape four years behind you and had a similar childhood in that uh in a small town like that, we had unbridled freedom.
You've mentioned it many times.
I played pinball in the same bus station you did, and we'd leave on Saturday morning and say, what time's dinner?
We'd be home at five o'clock, our parents didn't know where we were.
Rush, that's what makes you the perfect host at doing what you're doing.
You have realized freedom and how wonderful true freedom is.
And you've realized down through the years that liberalism, liberalism in every form takes away our liberty.
It's not necessarily what they uh attest to, like uh liberal uh laws concerning um incarceration and things, but every time something like that does happen, they chip away at our freedoms in our liberties in this country.
And that's it's something that I just wish everybody could understand that when when it comes to you, not knowing you personally, but knowing how you grew up, you have to love liberty and freedom.
You do, and I know you do.
I can tell you do.
Well, of course.
Uh and that's what we need in this country.
We need a fresh dose of that.
And for people to be afraid to have their kids go outside, their kids are not expressing themselves, they don't have freedom themselves.
They grow up thinking, well, what's the big deal about freedom and movement, you know.
Let me find something.
Speaking of which, I put this, I think, in the middle to back of the stack, but you will not.
It's but it's about it's about further yep, uh just found it.
More speech restrictions at the University of Michigan.
Now, before I get to that, Phil, let me uh let me thank you and add to what you said.
This is Phil in Melbourne.
He said he grew up in Kate Girardo, which is my hometown.
He was four you say four years behind me, they were ahead of me.
Behind you.
Four years behind me, all right.
Now, I I was uh I was once asked, just to kind of buttress Phil's point here, at the risk of offending him.
I I don't want to offend people, but I was uh I was asked once way back a long time ago, if if I thought growing up in the heartland and uh in the center of the middle of the country, small town, was a factor in my success in terms of being able to attract a large national audience as opposed to succeeding in a region here, region there, but maybe not working in a region over there.
And I thought about it, I'd never thought about that until I was asked question, and then as I thought about it.
And uh I thought the answer to it was yes, I thought it was a clear factor, but I didn't want to offend anybody with the answer.
But I I I I do think there was something about Midwestern small town uh values and the way that that I learned life growing up.
And coming from a um a family that was steeped in politics doesn't cover it.
I mean, yeah, talk politics, but it was more we talked what was happening in the country.
And we heard opinions about it.
I mean, this happened all the time.
And the freedom and liberty, that that I do not take that for granted.
I think so many people do, you can't blame them.
They're born to it.
Few have ever had to fight for it.
The periods in every year where we remember those who died fighting for it are becoming less and less prominent, Pearl Harbor Day.
Uh June 7th, D Day.
These days is as the survivors are dwindling, there's less and less.
I don't know if it's attention or less and less, I don't want to say respect, but I mean, you know, it's it's become old news.
It's it's way back there in the in the in the way back past when people, a lot of people weren't alive.
And uh so uh yeah, I have a profound appreciation for it and the Constitution.
That's why I'm writing these children's books, Phil.
I mean, you you nailed it in part there, because I don't take it for granted, and not just because of my job.
I uh it to me it's rooted in the uniqueness of this country.
Why is this country so gr I've I ask this question all the time.
Well, how do you think it is in a group of people, us Americans, in less than 250 years, have become economically, militarily, culturally dominant in the world, like no other group of people, population country ever has.
When countries been around thousands of years, there's an answer to this question.
And it has to do with our constitution.
It has to do with the declaration of independence, it has to do with the entire American spirit and existence.
Revolutions are not unique, and civil wars are not unique, although ours was in a way, because we were fighting slavery and a number of other things, and over half a million people died to defend it, defeat it.
But yeah, these are things that I do not take for granted.
That I think a lot of people can't help themselves, but do.
But there's another thing uh about growing up in the Midwest, and I'm I am kind of afraid to admit this.
I didn't know.
I mean, really, folks, I did not know until I was in my 30s that people had second homes, and that they would go someplace different for the summer, or go someplace different for the winter.
We had one home, and everybody in town had one home, and you lived there year-round.
And you took vacations in the summer.
That's the only time you could.
That's when the kids were out of school.
There was no spring break then.
So one of the vacation years went to Florida.
Well, I grew up thinking nobody goes to Florida in the summer, everybody leaves because it's so hot.
Well, the only time we were able to go was the summer.
And yeah, it was hot.
But so what?
That's that's when we went.
So there's just some some um cultural things that I was.
Now, there was a family that had a house in Michigan, and they went there for a couple of weeks in the summer, but they didn't live there.
It was just a rental that it wasn't the cultural thing, like when I found in New York that everybody had two homes.
If everybody who was anybody had two homes.
He had one in the city and one in the country.
The one in the city might have been a cracker box matchbox place that you slept in Monday, Friday, and in your house was in the country, not everybody, but the people I was working with and so forth.
It was considered gauche to stay in the city for the weekend when I moved to New York.
It was you were really oddball weirdo if you stayed in the city the weekend and I look out.
There's a lot of people here, yeah, but they're nobody.
People loathe this city if they stay here, they don't want to stay here during the weekend.
You see, the restaurants are closed and all that.
I said, Oh, maybe so.
Anyway, all that stuff was new to me.
Um I learned it quickly.
But even now I've got one house.
The whole notion of two houses, just I see these people, these wealthy people got four or five, and I can't imagine the hassle.
I cannot imagine the hassle.
What do you mean?
What do we mean?
Wait a minute.
I have one house.
I have one house, meaning I I sold my New York apartment because of New York tax audits.
I sold that a long time ago.
I'm not complaining, don't miss it.
I'm just trying to try to buttress what old Phil here was saying.
Anyway, I I think that there is something to it being able to I don't know if if I had grown up, now this may not be true.
I I for me, I don't know about it.
If if I had grown up, say, in in New York and had only that as a childhood, I don't know that I would have succeeded at this program.
Snurdy thinks I would have.
Well, you're okay.
All right.
Uh Snerdley is saying that I would have succeeded no matter where I grew up because I had the right parents.
Well, thank you.
That's that's that's a factor too.
No uh no question.
Anyway, we'll never know, because I didn't grow up in Boston, New York, or Washington.
I grew up in Missouri.
Anyway, these speech restrictions, this is I I think people are losing freedom and liberty every day.
It's gotten to the point when you speak up about liberty and freedom, there's some people laugh at you.
Oh, come on, we're not losing our liberty.
Get off of it.
Would you come up with something real?
We're not losing our freedom.
That that is a standard reaction when you start talking about one of the things that the nation is threatened by with the Obama administration.
You just, you just, you know, you're gonna criticize him for anything, right?
What do you mean losing our freedom?
That's silly, we're not losing our freedom.
What do you mean political correctness is?
What do you think being afraid to say this or that because you're here or there is?
What do you think tax law is?
What do you think net neutrality, if they ever get that done?
What do you think that really is all about?
There's no question that this is this is happening.
And on campus, especially, where I mean, the ideal, what is the what is the academy?
I love the academy is where people of disparate points of view can gather and share a wide array of opinions.
Yes, the academy is where diversity of thought and diversity of ideal, diversity of life experience all meet to combine a rich textured mosaic of the beautiful landscape that is BS, there's no such thing on campus anymore.
No diversity isn't permitted.
Dozens of posters plastered across the University of Michigan, caution students not to say things that might hurt others' feelings.
This is part of a new inclusive language campaign at the state's flagship public university that costs $16,000 to implement.
Here are the words, some of the words declared unacceptable through the campaign.
Crazy, insane, retarded, gay, trammy, gypped, illegal alien, fag, ghetto, and raghead.
Those words are no longer permitted at the University of Michigan.
But that's not all.
You are not permitted to say on campus within earshot of anybody else at the University of Michigan, I want to die.
You are not allowed to say, my God, that test almost killed me.
You are not allowed to say on campus at the University of Michigan, man, that test raped me.
Students have been asked to sign a pledge to use inclusive language and to help their peers understand the importance of inclusive language, according to the campaign materials.
Though only in existence for one semester, the inclusive language campaign has maintained a strong presence throughout the university.
Students roaming the campus frequently encounter posters of all sizes, reminding them your words matter, and asking questions, such as, if you knew that I grew up in poverty, would you still call things ghetto and ratchet?
You are not allowed to talk about the ghetto on campus because it might offend somebody who actually grew up in one.
And you are not allowed to say that test raped me because you might offend an actual rape victim.
You're not to trivialize rape by saying that a test raped you because it's impossible for a test to rape you.
You cannot say, Oh, geez, I just said, you know, I don't want to die.
Because that might create incentive for someone to kill you.
I'm not kidding.
You're you can't say that's so ghetto.
And you can't, I don't know why you can't say ratchet.
What unless there's an insult to Hillary, Nurse Ratchet.
Why can't you say ratchet?
What what what does that mean?
When I hear ratchet, I think a nurse ratchet and one flew over the cuckoo's nest, and when I think of that, I think a Hillary.
Testicle lockbox.
University budgeted $16,000 for the campaign.
The program comes at a time when the university's raised tuition and fees for the last two consecutive years.
I'll bet you that complaining about the cost of tuition is also not allowed.
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Here's uh Jerry in my adopted hometown, Sacramento, California.
Hi, Jerry, great to have you with us.
How are you doing, sir?
I'm pretty well.
I'm glad you called.
I'm a longtime listener, first time caller.
Well, great to have you here.
Appreciate that.
How long you've been listening?
Long time means how long?
Since 88.
Well, that's that's as long as you could be.
And my dad was a fan too, sir.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
You know what?
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
Um by the way, Nancy Pelosi wants your phone number.
Right.
Nancy.
I'm sorry, that was supposed to be funny.
Yeah, well, she she could get it.
Remember, she works for the government.
She get she get my phone number anytime she wants it.
You're a good man.
Okay, now.
Why is Brian Williams still employed?
Why what happened when when uh Dan Radder went after Bush with no information, just a story, and made it up?
Well, well, that's a great question, because Dan Rather lied about somebody else.
And they then but but Brian Williams lied about himself.
No, no.
He went after a fighter pilot who was a Navy or the Air Force.
I think it was the Air Force.
Who?
Brian Williams?
I'm sorry?
Who went after the fighter pilot?
No, Bush was a fighter pilot.
Right, okay.
So you're talking about you're talking about rather went after the fire pilot.
Yeah, somebody else.
Right.
Okay.
So he flew.
No, I'm I'm a plane buff.
So he flew an F 104, which is a very difficult plane to fly.
He was a mathematician strapped to a rocket.
Okay.
Right.
And Dan Rowler went after him with no information.
I know, and you're wondering, okay, they they got rid of Dan Rather.
Why is Brian Williams still have a job, right?
Right.
It's a great question.
I think it illustrates the constantly changing world that we are in.
Standards are constantly in flux.
There aren't any standards anymore.
They are trying to figure out a way if they can keep him in that job despite having made it up.
Who knows how many times.
Don't forget.
They tried, they used a Brinks truck to try to hire a comedian to moderate Meet the Press.
John Stewart, NBC did.
Now you're thinking that in in uh in any other business where credibility was the coin of the realm.
This guy's gone.
They don't care why.
They don't care the circumstances, they don't care what else might have happened.
Gone.
But there's a reason why is not.
I don't know what it is.
Um it's I I I really think that if you get down to it, everybody's circling the wagons in private trying to figure out what the least damage to journalism, the news, whatever, and to liberalism is.
The cause.
The cause.
Anyway, by firing him, that's a tantamount admission that they don't want to go there, I don't think.
We've got to take a break here.
Words you can still use, University of Michigan.
Teabagger, cracker, redneck, right wing fascist, Nazi.
Those words are still permitted.
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