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May 20, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 20, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Well, look at this.
So they they declassified the documents found in bin Laden's compound that we went in there and killed him.
And of course, the drive-by's are focusing on the on the documents that showed he continued to hate America and was continuing to plan the acts of terror against us, but there's other stuff in this treasure trove that interests me.
Greetings, folks, and welcome.
Great to have you back with us.
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The National Intelligence Director has declassified some of these documents.
And there are books by well-known leftists like Noam Chomsky.
Bin Laden was reading books on the titles wage inequality in France.
He was a leftist.
Is it any shock that Osama bin Laden was a leftist?
In fact, there's even a, as I understand this, there is even an oke on video of bin Laden either giving or rehearsing a speech on class warfare and the despotism of big money.
And he goes on for about 40 seconds and starts stumbling and losing his place.
He gives up.
But the guy was a redistributionist.
He was a typical leftist.
And I can you it's not going to get much coverage.
All they're going to talk about is the uh the documents they found in there that show he was still hating America planning terror attacks.
Can you imagine if they had found a copy of one of my books in there?
Can you imagine?
That would be the headline.
But since there are books by a bunch of leftists in there, whole hum, no big deal.
And there's more to this.
We'll have a review of the documents declassified as the uh program unfolds.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, before I get going here today, I really, really need to offer you a sincere apology for the last hour of the program yesterday.
I mean, it was an absolute bomb.
And it was because for the first time in I don't know how many years, I abandoned totally my professionalism.
And I allowed myself to be totally distracted by a bunch of stuff that was happening, had nothing to do with the program, off-the-air stuff that was just well, I even alluded to it a couple of times during the program.
But the bottom line is that I ended up being distracted, and I don't remember very much of the last hour of that program, and that means it wasn't very noteworthy.
If I don't if I don't remember it.
So, and I and I I tell you that, you know, I do this every day.
The the only measure that I have for this program each day is, you know, when I say meeting and surpassing uh all audience expectations, I sincerely mean that.
I uh this program has always been for the audience.
It's never been for the media.
It has never been for Buzz or PR or hype.
It's always been for the audience.
And I'm very empathetic in uh relating to you and imagining how you are hearing the program.
And if you thought yesterday's last hour was an abomination, I would have to agree with you.
Uh the great thing is that in this business is always tomorrow.
Uh when you do one of these programs every day, there's always tomorrow.
Tomorrow is now here.
Uh snerdle.
It was a great hour.
It was a you don't need it, it was not a great hour.
I'm telling you, it wasn't a great hour.
Now I know that the only thing wrong with it wasn't long enough.
Don't give me that.
I'm I'm look at you know, I I had these two stories on the women that madmen story.
I mean, I just went through the motions.
I didn't even have the I might as well not even done those two stories yesterday because I added nothing to it.
I just may as well anybody can do what I did.
I just read because I was so mad.
You do not know how mad I was.
And that's it's rare that I allowed this to happen.
I'm able to compartmentalize and you know, put everything out of my mind for these three hours and then join the drudgery afterwards.
But it overcame me yesterday.
And even if you didn't know, and I doubt that you I mean, it was so bad you had to know based on comparisons of previous programs and what you expect it was bad.
So I've been waiting all day for this hour to start here, so I could apologize to you because I never ever.
I mean, yesterday was the equivalent of phoning it in.
But it was even worse than that, because I was going through the motions of trying, phoning it in, you don't even try.
But I was going through the motions of trying in the third hour.
I just was unable to overcome these distractions.
Now I've got to tell you something funny.
You know, as you know, I was one of the first in America, as understandably it would be, to receive an Apple watch.
I have uh two of them.
I have the, it doesn't matter, they're all the same on the inside, but I've got a stainless steel with the Milanese loop band and a sport watch and aluminum, just the cheapest sport watch with a white band.
But you can mix and match the bands.
You can change the bands around, put any band you want on any watch.
So anyway, when I was first talking about getting the watch or not getting the watch when I was telling you how it was not all that hot to trot about it, I said, look it, I know I'm out of shape, and I don't need a watch to tell me that.
You know, that then and they were selling the watch as a big, big uh addition to your health life.
That it was going to make all kinds of great differences and contributions to your health.
Which, of course, I know.
I mean, I don't need a watch to tell me that I'm sitting too much or that I don't get enough exercise or what because I do all this by choice.
But anyway, I got the watch, and about a week ago I decided to turn on that app that measures all that physical activity.
It's called activity.
And after I had spent my time spearminting with all the other things, the watch does, I said, you know what?
I'm gonna turn the damn thing on, this activity app, and I'm gonna see what actually happens here.
And you enter your height, your weight, your age, and you'd be honest, because then it measures things, measures your activity based on what you need to do to stay healthy given those factors.
Your age, your height, your weight.
Uh there was another thing it asked, I don't remember maybe it was gender.
And there was no option for both.
I was I looked for that, but there was there was no option for both.
So the defaults, I think, on this, I didn't change any of the defaults.
The default is 500 calories a day as a goal, as an objective.
I turned on the the feature that reminds you to stand up and move around once an hour.
And I turned on the aspect of the app that measures activity.
And then there's another one that somehow measures exercise.
I don't quite know the difference in those two.
But I turned it all on.
And sure enough, every 10 at 10 minutes before every hour, the watch taps me and tells me to stand up.
And it happens 12 times a day.
And I have met my goal ever since I've met the goal every I have yet to not stand up when this watch told me to stand up.
It's a stand up and move around a little bit.
And that alert won't go away until you act on it.
You have to dismiss or okay.
And I get up.
I you know what I did?
I even got up and took my own plate back to the kitchen today.
Because the watch happened to tell me to stand up right when I had finished eating.
And when I'm on the golf course, and it's I'm I'm getting a lot of motion and activity around there.
This this act, this app goes nuts praising me on the golf course.
Whoa, man, you are exceeding your goals today.
Keep it up.
You are on the road to health, the watch says.
So last night, this is the to me, folks, is hilarious.
Last night, I am sitting on the sofa.
I'm either reading, preparing for the program, feeling sorry for myself over how bad the last hour of the program yesterday was, or trying to find something to watch on television, and I looked over in my adult beverage glass.
There was not an adult beverage in it, but it was empty.
So I said, okay, I need to get up and go refill it.
Well, that is about a 20 foot walk from my sofa to the bar area in my library.
And when I got to the bar area in the library, I realized I hadn't eaten dinner.
And I have a secret stash of lime-flavored Doritos in a secret drawer in my library.
So I grabbed that secret sack of lime-flavored Doritos or Tostitos, whatever they are, and I started snacking on them.
After about two bites, the watch dings.
I get an alert.
I look at the watch.
It says, now I'm eating, folks.
I'm standing there eating Doritos, and I get an alert on the watch congratulating me for having reached the goal of burning 500 calories during the day.
It told me that while I was eating.
I looked at it, I said, I've got to take a couple of screenshots of this and send them up to Coco at the website so we can post them.
It doesn't say what I was doing.
I'm just having to admit that to you.
But it's it's it's can you imagine getting an uh uh uh a praise alert for burning calories while you're standing there eating Doritos.
If the watch had known I was eating Doritos, I doubt it would have praised me for burning calories.
Anyway, there's a graph that accompanies the notification that you have reached your goal of burning 500 calories a day.
And it's a it's a chart actually that shows you which hours you are the most active.
And do you know when during the day I burn 80% of those 500 calories?
Right here.
Noon to three, sitting on my rear end.
The watch says is when I burn 80% of the 500 calories a day that it is measuring me burn.
Now, why do you think it does that?
I'm not moving.
But my arms are going all over the place, and I'm gesticulating like crazy, and I do stand up during commercial breaks and so forth.
But I do believe that I do burn a serious amount of calories uh while sitting here doing the program and all kinds of incredible.
It's it's stationary, but nevertheless, it's it's uh an expenditure of quite a bit of energy.
And anybody who has been here and watched the show would understand that.
So anyway, I took a couple screenshots of the watch telling me, praising me, that I had reached my 500 calorie goal, and the chart that I just described showing my active day and when I burn the most calories.
But again, I just I I started laughing out loud, and I wondered what Tim Cook would say when he found out that his watch praises me for burning calories while eating junk food.
Is that what the watch was intended to do?
Okay, we have more boring news from Hillary Clinton today.
And the politico, by the way, politico has an interesting story about this that I think puts a lot of this in perspective.
I do not have the political story right in front of me.
I didn't bother to print it out because once you know it's in the political, you know what it's gonna say.
I saw it referenced on another show on TV.
And it said whoever was talking about the political story was was quoting from it and saying, Hillary's not running for president.
You've seen it.
She's already in her mind, she's president, she's running as president.
That's why she's not talking to the media.
That's not why she's not spelling out issues.
She didn't have to do anything.
She's already elected in her mind.
She's trying to create the aura that she's a fate accompli.
That she's already elected.
That all of this is a mere formality.
She doesn't need to campaign.
She doesn't need to persuade.
She doesn't need to spell out her issues.
She's already serving as president.
It's an attitudinal thing, and it also, it's a policy thing because it it's what permits her to avoid questions.
It's what permits her to not have to enunciate her policy's the president.
She didn't have to tell anybody anything.
It's not like she's seeking the office in her own mind.
She uh she did finally take some questions from the media yesterday, but they were not satisfied.
But she doesn't care.
Because it's not about running, it's not about seeking office.
It is, in her mind, already occupied.
These uh next, and the strategies is sit by and don't distract from the Republicans beating each other up.
That the real news is going to be the Republicans.
There isn't gonna be an Elizabeth Warren candidacy, there isn't gonna be a Biden, there isn't gonna be a de Blasio, it ain't gonna be an O'Malley.
And if there is, it isn't gonna be serious.
Hillary has it locked up.
Hillary's got it in a bag, and so she's going to start and has been acting presidential.
And she's gonna have media cover for doing this, what the political story is about, essentially.
Did you see I didn't even know, by the way.
Did you know that there I love Lucy, the old uh 1950s comedy show is on TV.
I Love Lucy outrated the Mad Men finale on Sunday night.
And I I don't even know where I Love Lucy aired.
It's obviously some cable channel.
Let's see here.
It doesn't say.
Lucy scored twice as many total viewers as uh Brooklyn 999.
Lucy out scored Mad Men easily, 6.4 million viewers for Lucy, 3.3 million viewers for Mad Men.
It's almost Oh, it was always on CBS.
CBS ran a special rerun of a couple of Lucy episodes.
Oh, that's colorized.
Yeah, I did the story I read about it.
The colorization looked horrible.
Looked like crayons or cardboard or whatever.
Now stop and think of that.
You think the millennials even know who I love Lucy is or what it was?
And yet it outrates madmen almost by double.
Anyway, what else do we have?
Get this headline.
Hired Black Lives Matter protesters have started a new Twitter hashtag called Cut the Check.
Acorn hasn't paid them.
All of these Black Lives Matter protesters in Baltimore and New York, they're all being paid, and they haven't been paid.
It's not spontaneous.
It's not genuine.
It's not all these protests are bought and paid for, except they're not being paid for.
So now the Black Lives Matter gang has a new hashtag called Cut the Check.
What is happening in Ramadi, what is happening in Iraq is a national disaster.
It is a disaster owned exclusively by the Obama administration.
Details on that money.
Hey, guys, a question for you.
See what's just a real quick question here.
This is from uh uh a TV station website in Seattle.
If you if if you uh woke up to find a 28-year-old 240-pound woman on top of you, engaging in sexual relations with while you're do you think you'd remember how it got started?
The guy in this story doesn't.
Already the middle of the week.
Rush Limbaugh doing that which I was born to do, and that is host the program here.
Soon to be starting our I don't even know anywhere, 27th year is what we're gonna be starting on August 1st.
Anyway, uh speaking of sexism, ladies and gentlemen, did you see it was Fox News Ed Henry actually forcing Hillary Clinton to have take some questions in the media for the first time in almost I think it's over a month, isn't it?
So 30 or 40 days or something at Mrs. Clinton is not taking a question.
And I was kind of surprised.
We've got it's it's sound bite number two coming up here in just a second.
I was surprised when I found out about this that the uh the rest of the real reporters there didn't go after Ed Henry like they did that guy Neil Munro from the Daily Caller when he dared to ask Obama questions at one of his uh Bergdoll Garden uh performances that was not supposed to feature questions.
You remember, I mean they literally chased Neil Monroe off the White House grounds because he asked Obama question when there was a no questions appearance.
Anyway, here it is yesterday, Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Uh and during the event, uh, White House uh correspondent Ed Henry Fox News and Hillary have this little back and forth.
Wait, wait, wait.
Yeah, maybe when I finish talking to the people here.
How's that?
I might.
I'll have to ponder it.
But I I I will put it on my list for due consideration.
Oh, she's so funny.
Oh, she's getting a question from the media to answer some questions which she hasn't done in over a month.
Well, you know what?
I'll ponder it yet.
I'll put it on my list.
And the rest of the drive-by's just eat it up.
Rest of the drive-by's just left.
As I say, I'm surprised they didn't chase Ed Henry all the way back to Des Moines and let him not get back on the press bus.
Ha!
How are you?
Rush Limboy executing a signed host duties flawlessly, zero mistakes.
Ladies and gentlemen, there are rare moments.
Nevertheless, they happen, rare though they may be.
Where I get introspective, and I seriously ask myself if I have lost touch with a sizable percentage of the American public.
It's usually, as I say, it's rare and it usually happens about an issue.
But I'll tell you something.
The fascination that people have with Hillary Clinton, I just don't.
I'm not fascinated.
I'm not intrigued.
I'm not afraid of...
I'm not anything.
I do not get it.
I do not get, I mean, it see you you everybody in the media, I don't care what media can't get enough of Hillary Clinton and Clintons.
I think they're a couple of frauds.
I think they're phonies.
I think they are dastardly mean spirited people.
I mean, if you look at the organizations they have set up to do away with their enemies like media matters for America, the people they deal with and so forth, they're they're a destructive couple of people who get to hide behind the public face, a good old boy and uh early feminist icon and so forth.
But even with all that, I have to struggle here to be interested in Hillary Clinton every day.
But Rush, but Rush, I know you're saying she may be elected pre.
That's what I'm talking.
I don't understand how she even has a prayer.
I other than the D by her name and somebody with a D by their name running for president, the eventual nominee is gonna get minimum 230 electoral votes just for showing up.
I understand that.
But I do not.
I don't understand any aspect.
Uh, she's not the smartest woman.
She's none of what they have all said about her for these years.
She is one of the most devious.
She is one of the men.
I mean, the nurse ratchet is who she really is.
And...
I don't know.
The the the current scandals are not fun because they're not scandals.
They aren't gonna matter a hill of beans.
It's like I I mentioned yesterday, and I don't, again, I'm gonna have to preface this.
I'm not criticizing Steve Hayes.
Do not misunderstand me.
But he's part of the drive-by media, the mainstream media uh inside the beltway business, and they have a particular way of looking at things like every other group of people do.
And his story yesterday, Hillary's worst day of a bunch of bad days on the campus to who?
To whom Hillary, she hasn't been hurt yet.
She's not in danger of losing the nomination.
We've got another piece today.
I've got it right here, Ron Fournier, who's been in the Clinton tank since the 80s, is writing yet another piece on how he's so profoundly disappointed in Mrs. Clinton, and that she's not what he's always thought she was.
And it isn't gonna matter.
This is this is why what what scandal?
Well, you and I all know the Clintons are out, have they been selling access, what they've been doing would land a Republican in jail.
But there is not one serious effort to do anything about it other than talk about it and laugh about it and try to be the smartest person in the room in analyzing it and characterizing it.
It's criminal.
What matter it matters to who?
It doesn't.
It doesn't it doesn't matter to the millennial where we are, if if the Republicans or somebody like me happen to be the one pointing it out to them, they will automatically reject it because it's not coming from people who they think look at Hillary objectively.
So all this criticism of Hillary from the media on the right, from talk radio, it doesn't persuade anybody because it's disqualified.
They don't think we're objective about Hillary.
They think we've got a long-held bias against her, and that we'll lie and make things up about them.
And what happens is it rallies people to their defense.
I know it's coming from the left, in addition to us.
It's coming from the Washington Post, but the low information crowd doesn't read that either.
Low information crowd, there was something at Yahoo news that they might have seen.
I mean, I guess it has potential.
I've just had 27 years here of nothing affecting them.
Twenty-seven years, nothing takes them off their game.
Twenty-seven years, nothing changes their popularity.
Twenty-seven years, nothing changes their political prospects.
Twenty-seven years, nothing affects them.
And I just, after twenty-seven years, it's funny to watch people go, oh wow.
Oh, ho ho ho ho, we might have them now.
Yeah, I've been there done that.
Twenty-seven years.
There is no been there done that.
There is no, we got them now.
And part of what bothers me about that is that couldn't happen if the people of country weren't lackadaisical about it.
But the people of country are willing to if she got a D by her name, then whoever votes D is perfectly willing to give her a pass on all of this.
Anyway, uh give some examples here.
Here's a media montage of the drive-by's today, just thrilled that she's taking questions.
Because you see, the drive-bys that support Hillary, they also live in formulaic uh little enclaves.
And a presidential campaign is a formula.
And there are certain things that you have to do if you're running for president.
One of them is you have to talk to press.
Uh you have to press conferences, you have to take questions, you have to do this, you have to make personal appearances, you have to go out there unpaid.
You have to go out there and do the rubber chicken circuit.
She's not doing any of that.
It's got them worried.
They don't think this is the route to victory.
So Ed Henry forces her to deal with the press yesterday, and they're all just thrilled about it.
Hillary Clinton taking questions from the media for the first time in weeks.
And Hillary Clinton taking questions from the media for the first time in four weeks.
Clinton answered reporters' questions for the first time in nearly a month.
Hillary Clinton now, she's doing something she hasn't done for nearly a month.
Took a sparse five minutes worth of questions.
Hillary Clinton, she finally answered some questions over five or six minutes.
See that?
Five or six minutes.
And they're thrilled.
They're excited and made their day.
And I'm saying this is like this insults my intelligence.
You know, this idolatry, this falling for, this making them bigger than life insults my intelligence.
Anyway, here's George Will.
This last night on special report with Brett Bayer on the Fox News channel.
Brett Bayer said, Hillary Clinton and the media today.
What do you take away from it, George?
The fact that she has allowed what we will call her strategic reticence to become the issue of the campaign indicates not for the first time how little aptitude she has for her chosen profession, which is public life.
Second, she didn't say an awful lot, except that she wants the emails that she obviously wanted to conceal for a long time.
There's no other reason for having her own private servers.
She now wants them out as fast as possible.
The problem is we have seen from the IRS and its complicity with the Justice Department, how long you can take if you really want to drag your feet.
And there's no question but that they could get the emails out a lot faster if they really wanted to.
Question is why don't they?
What do you mean why don't they?
We all know why they don't want it.
And here's he's Hillary out there, why I want those emails out.
That's BS.
You don't want those emails out.
Just like you want the truth of Benghazi out.
She doesn't want the emails out.
And here's a what's a federal judge, the Justice Department originally said, you know what?
There's a lot of paper to go through here.
Mrs. Clinton destroyed what's on her server, supposedly.
Actually it's not, but she says it is.
So we got to go through a lot of paper.
We can't release any of the investigation in these 30,000 emails until January, 2016.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Nope, you're gonna not wait that long.
You're gonna roll this stuff out as you translate it.
You're gonna roll this stuff out as you read it.
You're gonna roll this stuff out starting as soon as you can, and there's gonna be a daily dose of this stuff or a weekly dose.
Now the Clintons and the Obamas will go find a different judge to appeal this judge and delay the release of these emails even beyond January.
But George Will's right here.
She continues to uh display just how little aptitude she has for this for her chosen profession, which is public life.
She didn't say anything.
And by the way, what she did say, you see how easy it is with the media.
She took six questions, and now those subjects are all old news.
She took six questions of whatever.
She answered those six questions, and now she's done it.
So those questions have been asked and answered, and it's old news.
Don't ask me any more about the emails.
Don't ask me any more about whatever else, because it's old news I've dealt with.
That's part of the technique, too.
And the media is largely acquiescent with this.
Hillary's tiny little staff personally reviewed all 55,000 of her emails in just a little bit more than a month.
And the State Department says they don't have nearly the personnel to deal with that many emails that fast.
They need the rest of this year and half of January of next year.
So you tell me Hillary's tiny staff is more efficient and gets more work done than an entire State Department assigned.
And they're only doing half as many emails as Hillary's staff personally reviewed.
There's a total like 55 or 60,000.
She is released.
Half of them, about 30,000.
There's 30,000 that she claims that she destroyed.
But the first 30,000 that she released, I want those emails out there.
I turned them in.
That's what the judge said, not till January.
The State Department said, not till January.
The judge said, no, you're going to get them out much sooner than that as you get them, as you get them done.
But we don't even need the emails.
We don't even had the news yesterday from the from Judicial Watch, official State Department documents, that everybody in their uncle lied about Benghazi.
Lied.
They knew ten days in advance it was a terror attack, and they knew the group.
They lied to everybody.
They lied to the families of the four fallen heroes who were killed in Benghazi.
Lied to their faces while standing next to their flag flag-draped coffins.
Everybody knows it, and nothing happens.
Not a single thing happens.
Everybody knows.
Well, I mean, not everybody, but those of us in this sphere of interest, everybody knows now that and we knew from the get-go because the Clinton's Obamas were involved in it was a lie.
We knew the video story was a lie.
Anyway, I gotta take a break, folks.
Sit tight.
We'll get into your telephone calls when we get back.
Okay, to the phones we go.
Jim in Central Illinois.
Great to have you, sir, and welcome.
Nice to have you on the program.
Thank you for taking my call, Russ.
You bet.
Listen, I uh I was listening to your program yesterday, and you were just uh apologizing at the beginning of today's program.
Yes.
For having a bad program.
Bad hour.
I'm very, very curious.
What was it that upset you and got you angry that you got distracted in your mind?
If I tell you that, I'm gonna get I'm gonna get irritated all over again.
You you can handle it.
Look, it it wasn't it wouldn't serve any purpose.
Uh it it it had nothing to do.
Well, that's not even I was gonna say it had nothing to do with the program.
It actually had everything to do with it, but not in any way that you would figure out.
Oh, okay.
You're not going to talk about it.
It was a tech issue.
It was a tech issue.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
That's as well.
Well, I didn't I didn't notice it.
Well, you and I listened to You're very very nice.
Did Snurley put you up to this.
Did you actually call and want to talk about Hillary and said, and somebody said, No, look what I want you to talk about is, and then you're launching in this, or is this what you really called about?
That is exactly what I called about.
Well, that you're very nice.
I appreciate that.
But I'm no.
I don't know how you know.
It's a bother that so many people either vote for a person like that or think she's something she's not.
She she l I mean I I don't know how people could not figure out what she is.
You got me?
I'm with you.
I'm I've I've been trying to explain for 20, whatever it is, number 25, 26 years.
Um and uh it it doesn't matter to the people that have D's by their name.
It just doesn't matter.
Hell doesn't matter with Obama.
We we you couldn't have right in front of your face every day a greater example of presidential failure and incompetence than Barack Obama, and yet it never touches it.
The limbaugh theory is in full swing.
Everybody thinks something's wrong with the country, and they never even think to look at the White House in trying to figure out why.
For the first time in American history, I guarantee if the economy were doing this with a Republican in the White House, might have been forced to resign already.
In disgrace.
With all the other added scandals, you have a president that basically spits on the U.S. Constitution, and you watch how fast the left all of a sudden cares about the Constitution.
Um she is, she's what she is.
Sad fact is, though, that when you start talking about millennials and people of a certain age, they do not know the Hillary you know because they weren't old enough or even alive in the 90s.
And if it is ever explained to these people what Hillary's role was in destroying women that her husband had betted, I mean that ought to disqualify her with all the millennials who think that that's that kind of stuff is just outrageous.
Any kind of mistreatment of women is actionable.
Well, Hillary Clinton led the movement to mistreat and destroy women with whom her husband had slept.
And you would think that when the millennials find that out, it would change their mind.
It I'm telling you, it's gonna depend on who tells them.
I mean, look at what we're doing now.
Here we have a national radio show, and I'm discussing a certain group of people when they hear about something.
Somehow they are able to be kept ignorant of uh the primary characteristics of both Bill and Hillary, and they have an entirely John's view, that's the power of the of the uh entertainment media as well as political media as well.
Anyway, Jim, I appreciate it.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate your nice words uh about yesterday and your attempt to get me to get into the dirt on this, but I'm not going back there.
Yeah, here's another thing.
Tonight tonight's David Letterman's last show.
I used to think, back in the old NBC days, when Letterman I used to think that the Letterman show was the most uh creative television show, late night TV show that I'd ever seen.
It was unique, it was different, and I just I thought it was spectacular and great.
Every aspect, I even remember certain aspects of certain shows.
But shortly after the move to CBS when when Letterman, and I think this was it it coincides, you know, right sadly with my arrival on the scene, 1988, 1992, slowly Letterman lifted the veil, and his show became obviously left-wing tilted and liberal and became less funny.
I remember with Johnny Carson's last show.
That that was a culture shock and disappointment to me.
This one, eh, it just it just hasn't registered, which is kind of disappointing to me because the guy's a broadcast professional and with a with an amazing track record of achievement.
But the politics of it, the things that that program's done to distort people's attitudes and minds, it's hard to overlook it.
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