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Sept. 9, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 9, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Hey, I want to just wrap up a thought that I started on this whole thing with the NFL, the National Football League of New England Patriots.
There's a huge, huge story in ESP in the magazine by Dan Van Netta or Dale Van Netta, I think either he or his brother used to write at the New York Times.
If it's the same Van Natta, it's a guy that wrote about Watergate.
I'm sorry, Whitewater on the uh on the Clintons.
At any rate.
Oh, I guess I should also mention, I think it's either in the Boston Globe or the political of all places.
There is a piece by a Boston sports writer suggesting that nobody in New England ought to ever watch ESPN again.
Was that the Daily Caller?
Okay, I know it's one of those dailies.
Apparently in New England, they're just seething with rage at ESPN over the way they had prejudged Brady, made him out to be a reprobate cheater and was guilty and so forth.
The Chris Mortensen reporting that 11 out of the 12 footballs were deflated by two pounds when they weren't, as it turns out, they went 11 months before correct.
There's real animosity here between Patriots fans, just New Englanders in general and ESPN.
And on the heels of that comes this giant ESPN story by Dale Van Netta or Dan Von.
It's uh Don Van Natta Jr.
And Seth Wickersham.
And get this from this article.
In fact, many former New England coaches and many former New England employees insist that the taping of signals of opponents wasn't even the most effective cheating method that the Patriots deployed in that era.
Now remember the sources here are former Patriots employees and coaches.
That's what's claimed here.
And what they told ESP in the magazine is that during pregame warmups, a low-level Patriots employee would sneak into the visiting locker room and steal the play sheet that list the first 20 or so scripted plays for the opposing team's offense.
ESPN says the practice became so notorious that some coaches put out fake play sheets for the Patriots to steal.
Numerous former employees say that Patriots would have someone rummage through the visiting team hotel for playbooks or scouting reports that might have been tossed in the trash.
Now, the Patriots, by the way, have issued a statement blasting this article.
But you also remember that the Indianapolis Colts, and Tony Dungey confirmed it, that when they went into New England to play the Patriots at Gillette Stadium, they went outside the locker room to have strategy meetings because they thought the Patriots had bugged the visitors' locker room.
So this stuff is all over the place out there.
Now getting into an NFL locker room is harder than getting into the Oval Office, folks.
You have to be credentialed.
Even have you have you seen coaches on the sideline, they were lanyards around their neck or posted.
Even the recognizable head coach has got to have a credential to get into his own locker room.
Now, I don't know how anybody gets some low-level schlub sneaking in an NFL locker room without a lot of people being in on it.
That's just hard to do.
And my point is I really question this.
Baseball's different.
At least it was.
I have some experience at this when I worked for the Kansas City Royals, but still it was tough.
And if it was discovered that somebody from the other team is, I don't care how low on the totem pole they were, it would have been a huge scandal.
The person would have been kicked out.
They would have been holy hell raised over it.
The other thing is the play sheet, this this first 20 plays, not every team does that.
Some teams, head coach scripts the first 20 plays for his own offense, no matter what they're going to do those 20 plays, no matter what the situation is.
They're going to run those 20 plays because it's strategically been put together, and they're going to learn how the defense operates in those 20 plays, and those first 20 set up the rest of the game.
Not all teams do it, but I can guarantee you that no head coach would leave it laying around for some schlub from the other team to walk in and pilfer.
You know, they're kept uh in laminated folders to protect from the elements from rain and this kind of thing.
They're just not pieces of paper.
It's eight and a half by eleven color coded.
You've seen the head coach holding these things if you've noticed coaches on the sideline watching these things.
Uh coaching the games, you've seen the this play sheet.
The idea that some equipment guy or some low-level schlub could walk in there and just walk out.
It's so hard to get in one of those locker rooms that I just don't see that.
Now, going through the visiting team hotel, that's another thing.
Uh you could you could bribe a hotel employee.
You know, I've often wondered, pregame meal, championship game, why not get the hotel to poison the pregame meal?
So everybody has diarrhea a half hour before kickoff.
How hard would that be?
Well, you know why it doesn't happen?
Because the visiting team goes in there the week before, they have their own security and they monitor everything and they're on site what it is the most you wouldn't believe it.
These teams don't just arrive haphazardly like a tour group and go check in and wander around.
They have security in town a week, but no matter the postseason, regular season, the visiting team will have representatives show up on Tuesday.
Teams scheduled arrive on Saturday.
Everything is deeply, deeply secured and observed and so forth.
So I just now, this is some years ago when all this is alleged to have happened.
But the security was not that lax even years ago.
It's always been really, really, really tough to put things over on NFLT when they're traveling on the road.
Now, as I say, you could, if you wanted to buy a maid, a cust custodian, a room service waiter or whatever.
But playbooks, you know, they're not randomly left around and thrown away, and many of them are on iPads now, and you don't find those in the trash can.
So I just I have to say that a lot of this sounds dubious, even though we're talking, what, ten years ago now, in the era of spygate, but a lot of this sounds really, really dubious.
But there it is in ESPN The Magazine, written by a former New York Times reporter, Don Van Nata Jr.
Now the Patriots, you know what else is not mentioned that has been before?
The Patriots acknowledged they were videotaping.
They would videotape trying to steal signals, the other team.
Something else that's been alleged was that the Patriots had succeeded in some cases of being able to pirate the radio signals of the other team.
For example, when the offensive play caller, the coach, radios in the next play to the quarterback.
It is alleged that Patriots have been able to monitor those conversations for years in some stadiums.
My thought on that, if that's true, and if somebody knows that, that would have been shut down too.
That wouldn't be something that's alleged.
That'd be something that's dealt with.
If that were happening.
But it all adds up.
If you want to know why the league pursued this deflate gate for as long as they did, all of this has to be why.
All of these allegations, some of these owners believe this stuff.
Some of these owners believe the Patriots have been doing this stuff and more, and they're dead serious about catching them, and it's all rooted in the fact that a lot of people, owners and others, executives in the NFL thought the Patriots got off lightly with their spy gate punishment.
Okay, here's the audio from the Morning Joe program today where they just savage poor Mrs. Clinton, who was attempting to appear authentic and human.
Yeah, when you tell people, yeah, she's gonna be more human today, make note.
Uh how do you do that?
More human.
I've never understood that.
How does a human being act more human?
I mean, I know Hitler would have trouble, but other than that, how do you do it?
Yeah, she's gonna be more spontaneous, you'll see it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And she's gonna really, really be uh authentic, you'll see.
I just anyway, so they were hyped with all that.
And the first bite, this is uh they're they're reviewing, by the way, uh Mrs. Clinton on ABC with David Muir.
We have Joe Scarborough and John Heileman and Mika Bzhinski.
Just listen to how flat the voice is at the end.
Seriously, this was this was a hostage video.
It's almost as as if she purposefully said it as quickly and as flatly and is as unwillingly.
Unwillingly uh as as humanly possible.
The whole the point that she's now gotten to does suggest that everything that she has said previously about the fact that no one's paying attention, it hasn't affected my campaign, none of this has mattered, no one cares, that that has all been a lie.
Now remember, this is PMSNBC.
These are people in the tank for the Democrat Party.
These are people that circle the wagons around endangered Democrats, wounded Democrats try to save the day, and look at what they're doing.
They are destroying her.
They are taking it as their objective to destroy every thing she tried to accomplish in this interview.
Listen to how flat her voice is at the other hostage video.
It's like she was purposely and and it it just flat, unwilling.
Yeah, unwilling as human possible.
Wow.
And then there's more.
Here's the next bite.
Kind of suggests it way to describe this weekend.
He just said it, it's all so ham fist.
Well, and and uh I'm just gonna say, I uh I think she can do ten times better than this.
I really do.
I've seen it, I know it, and I know it's in her, and I I want it to work for her, which is frustrating.
Um, but there's a couple of things that they cannot get around, and that is being overly controlling to the point of freakish.
They can't get around, and that's being overly controlling to the point of freakish.
They can't.
Folks, it's always been true.
The more she speaks, the worse her numbers get.
It's it's documentable.
I've mentioned it countless times before.
When Hillary goes silent, that's when her numbers go up.
The more she talks, the more people hear her, that's when her numbers plummet.
And it's because of things like this.
It was a it was a dead abject failure as far as the drive-by's are concerned.
Now, we don't know what the low information viewer thought of it.
We don't know what the low information crowd thought of it, but the people telling them what to think of it really think it was a bomb.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, let's head to the phones.
We're gonna start in Philadelphia.
This is John.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Big fan of yours.
We really appreciate everything you're doing.
Well, thank you.
I want to start by I want to quickly say I'm not a Hillary fan at all.
But I think she's handling this all wrong.
She's trying to be a nice person, as you said.
No one thinks of that.
She's thought of rightly or wrongly as being a tough guy.
What would you think if she came out and said, Hey, America, you know this Iran deal you've heard about?
Not all it's cracked up to be.
There's a lot of holes in this.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, it's too late.
She's already claiming credit for it.
She's claiming, in fact, that she's the one that led Obama to it.
So she can't go out and rag on it.
Let me find the uh audio.
So grab audio soundbite number six.
I want you to listen to this with me, John.
This was this morning at the Brookings Institution where she shows up, she makes a speech to high-ranking establishment elites.
My starting point will be one of distrust.
You remember President Reagan's line about the Soviets.
Trust but verify.
My approach will be distrust and verify.
We should anticipate that Iran will test the next president.
They'll want to see how far they can bend the rules.
That won't work if I'm in the White House.
Well, That sounds really threatening.
Now, even in addition to that, she started out by claiming that she and Obama worked together on the Iran deal, that she is partly responsible for making it happen.
She went out and touted it, John.
She was saying it's one of the greatest things, but then to distance herself from Obama.
She says what you heard her say.
But the Iranians, you know, they're gonna test the next president, and it's gonna be me.
And they're gonna get away with it.
Because they know I'm tough.
Except she didn't say it like that.
She said, my approach will be distrust and verify.
We should anticipate that.
Iran will test the next president.
They'll want to see how far they ain't no ways tarred, can bend the rules.
That won't work if I'm in the White.
I mean, I can see the Ayatollah hominy now quaking in his sandals.
Well, she's acting like she's acting like a Republican.
She's begging to lose.
She does this.
If she came out with a tough voice, she might have to say, but the way she's talking, you're right, she's not gonna be successful at that.
Well, here's the thing.
I mean, I've just all I can do is guess here.
You know, I've only met Mrs. Clinton one time, and it was at a wedding.
And there were no discussions of it.
I've met her one time.
Uh I uh and I'm I I know her because I know liberals.
And folks, I don't care what you think of me.
The one thing that you cannot deny is that I am right 100% of the time when I tell you who these people are, based on their ideology.
I know who liberals are.
I'm more honest about who they are and what they're gonna do than they are.
I know exactly what they're gonna do when.
I can tell you why they're gonna say they're gonna do it.
I can give you every selling point they think they're gonna use.
In addition to that, I know this woman.
Even though I don't.
And the reason why we get interviews like we got today on ABC, and the reason why we get literally, this is how she sounded.
My starting point will be one of distrust.
There's a reason for this.
Mrs. Clinton is aware that people do know her.
She is aware that people have figured out she's Nurse Ratchet.
Well, now they're laughing in there on the other side of the glass.
I'm telling you, everything she does is designed to dispel that.
It would be no different.
Let's I'll use me as an example.
You know some of the horribly rotten, false things asserted about me out there.
Just pick one, whatever they are.
Imagine if every day on this radio show, I coped an attitude designed to disprove what was said about me.
I'd come off as phony and as stilted and stiff as she does.
Because I would not be myself.
She's not being who she is here, folks.
I'm telling you, she resents having to do this.
This is beneath her.
She resents that this is what's called for.
She resents that becoming president requires this kind of thing.
She has paid her dues.
In her mind, she has more than paid her dues.
She gave up her own life for this party in her mind.
She sacrificed her own future and saddled it with Bill Clinton's.
And then she got what that meant.
She had to cover for him, back him up, protect him in order to preserve the party and her future.
Don't think there's not a lot of resentment there.
For most of her political life, Hillary has not been able to be who she is.
That's why she laughs in this cackled like Arkansas broadbeam kind of.
It's everything's unnatural.
Everything is.
That's why they have to telegraph before she goes out what she's gonna be.
You know, we're gonna hit The reset button here for the third time, you're gonna see an authentic Hillary.
You're gonna see uh comical humorous Hillary.
You're gonna see uh human Hillary.
And the reason they're doing that is because we're not gonna see that.
They want us to think that we're seeing that.
That's why they put those words in front of us using power of suggestion, because she isn't any of those things.
You know, back when I uh early 90s, I was invited to appear for a solid week, full episode as myself, on a TV show called Hearts of Fire, produced by her friends, Harry and Linda Bloodware Thomason.
And it the effort, they were they were trying to soften me on the Clintons.
I mean, it was a it was legitimate undertaking on their part.
I I gladly went along.
Uh they were trying to tell me that I was wrong about them in very subtle ways.
We never had a conversation about it.
They were just extending all kinds of nice to me.
All kinds of respect.
And I remember during that week, if I heard it once, I must have heard it 15 times.
How much fun Hillary is.
Oh, Rush, you would not believe.
She loves umbrella drinks.
You wouldn't believe that, but man, she's just the funniest person when you go out there, you have a couple drinks.
She's the life of the party.
Right.
This is what they're doing now.
I mean, does there anything about the woman that makes you think she's the life of any party?
So everything they have to tell people what she's really like because nobody ever gets to see it.
Because they don't trust it.
Anyway, be right back.
Don't go away.
You know what I just learned?
The staff is watching the Apple event.
On the other side of the glass, they are watching the Apple event.
Snerdley just said, wow.
And I said, What?
What?
That stylist?
Man, does that stylist look red?
He's watching the Apple event.
They're introducing the iPad Pro with the exclusive keyboard and the stylist Johnny I for the video right now.
Meanwhile, Ted Cruz is at the anti-Iran nuke deal rally.
And Ted uh Ted Cruz, I think it'll be joined by Donald Trump there.
That's happening live on uh on Capitol Hill.
The Ayatollah hominy.
Israel will not survive the next 25 years.
That's according to the Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Ali Hominy, making his point today, a series of threatening remarks published online in a quote posted to Twitter by Hominy's official account.
The Ayatollah hominy addresses Israel, saying, You will not see the next 25 years.
He adds that the Jewish state will be hounded until it is destroyed.
That quote comes against a backdrop of a photograph showing the Iranian leader walking on an Israeli flag painted on a sidewalk.
You know, on the during the week that the U.S. Congress is gonna authorize this deal, the Ayatollah hominy is out bragging how this means the end of Israel in 25 years.
It's folks there spinning in our face, and they're loving every minute of it.
They're bragging about this deal, they can't wait to this.
By the way, speaking of, well, I don't I'll save it.
I've I've learned a little bit more about this whole movement of refugees.
And one of the things that's been really puzzling me, I don't know what made me think of it here in the Ali Hominy story.
But I saw yesterday, I could not believe it.
After the show yesterday, I got home as doing show prep for today, and I saw a story that Angela Merkel is gonna permit 800,000 refugees to enter Germany this year and 500,000 a year going forward.
And she's happy about it.
She's excited about it, and she even said, hopefully this will change our country.
And that stopped me dead in my tracks.
I said, whoa, what is this about?
This required further research.
These are significant numbers.
800,000, and these are Muslims.
The vast majority of these are Muslims, said to be Syrian refugees.
They're not just from Syria, but most of them are military-aged men.
And they are not satisfied, as we talked about yesterday, staying in in Greece or Italy.
Germany, they want Germany and Sweden.
Germany and Sweden, the two wealthiest countries in the European Union, and Germany is welcoming them.
Angela Merkel is welcoming them.
I said, Well, I d I was dumbfounded.
I was paralyzed.
I did not understand this at all.
Even her saying that she hoped it would change her country.
And you know what I found out?
Germany is losing its labor force faster than any industrial nation in the world.
Germany's birth rate is so far below replacement levels, they have a crisis.
The only way they can maintain their current economy is this kind of humanity influx.
Because they simply are not having enough births in Germany to keep the population where it is.
The population is shrinking and will continue to shrink, which means the labor force will shrink.
And the smaller the labor force gets, of course, there's only a percentage of the labor force that's actually talented really good, the truth about any group of people.
You always have your standouts.
So there would be fewer and fewer, and sh that's why she's welcoming.
I mean, 800,000 this year and 500,000 every year for who knows how long.
And she's right, it's gonna change the country.
I don't know if she's aware.
I uh this is uh you know, it is said that even modern-day Germany still feels a lot of guilt over Hitler and the Nazis, and they still feel some of them that they have a long way to go to prove they are not that anymore.
And that well the thing about that is if that's true, if if if that's part of the policy, if it's part of the thinking that they have to go overboard and showing people they're no longer any way anywhere near what the Nazis were.
Well, they're going too far.
The the the the people that they are permitting in.
Oh let's just say that the militant Islamists and the Nazis were allies in World War II, and the majority of these hundreds of thousands of people entering Germany are Islam.
Don't know how many of them are extremist Islamists and so forth, but there have to be some.
So it's kind of ironic in that sense.
Now, I don't I'm just I don't I don't know how much of a factor the the desire to distance themselves from the Nazis still is in terms of the German leadership mindset.
But one thing is clear, they are welcoming this inflow of people because they are not having a birth rate anywhere near sufficient to keep their population where it is, which means their economy cannot maintain its growth.
What a precarious position to be in, and what an incredible really dangerous kind of need that has cropped up in uh in Germany.
This is giving a lot of people a lot of nervous pause.
I mean, would she welcomed them in and welcomed how they're gonna change the country?
People literally were stopped in their tracks.
What?
Anyway, back to the phones.
This is Susie, Mobile Alabama.
Great to have you on the program.
Glad you waited.
Hi.
Hi, thanks, Rush, for taking my call.
You bet.
First of all, I know you already have Bill Clinton nailed as far as imitating him, but you just nailed Hillary had me laughing.
That was perfect imitation of her.
Thank you.
Very, very appreciate that.
Oh, you're welcome.
My question is you said earlier that Barney um uh Bernie Sanders would never be the nominee.
That's right.
That that they would not let it.
That's right.
Who do you mean they?
The DNC?
Yeah.
And if so, is that going to be true with the RNC if they don't want Trump or Fiorino or Carson then?
Well, they Bernie's gonna be easy to deal with.
Trump would not be easy to deal with compared to Bernie.
Why why is that?
Well, because Bernie it's he's he'll a couple of threats and he'll get in line and he'll tell his people to get in line and so forth.
He Bernie is gonna have the thrill and excitement met simply by virtue of experience.
By getting this far.
Uh but even if the DNC has to resort to threats, they're not gonna see Bernie means it.
Bernie means that he wants to separate the Democrat Party from Wall Street.
He wants to distance the Democrat Party from corporations and money.
They're the evil, and he wants to deal with it and get and get the Democrat Party out, and that's what the Democrat Party is.
They're never that that's the source of their power now.
Money being do you think he'll end up running independent then?
And who's that gonna who is that gonna screw up?
Is it gonna be screwing up?
The Democrat nominee, Hillary, or the Republican nominee.
I would love it if Bernie Sanders went independent.
I would love it.
He you know he is he's not even a Democrat.
You know that he's a registered independent quasi socialist, that's what he calls himself.
Exactly.
So, yeah, it would be great if he ran as an independent.
I would love the Democrats get a taste of that medicine.
You don't think he'd be taking votes away from a Democrat?
I mean a Republican?
I think not enough.
I think the Democrat machine would just bury the poor guy.
I think they're just humoring him and tolerating him now to make it look like they're fair and open and all that.
He's an entertaining old codger.
But at some point it's going to be time to send him back down to the bedroom in the basement.
Okay.
All right, well, you know what?
You do have a point.
Maybe him running independent would be a a good ticket.
Uh well, you can hold out hope.
I mean, I I might be misjudging uh Bernie's commitment here.
I know he's excited.
Who wouldn't be?
He's drawing big crowds, he's having a lot of fun, getting a lot of media attention.
He's more famous than he's ever been.
Um on the other side here, Hillary appears to be buried in the usual Clinton morass, which is going to get solved at some point, always does.
But Bernie's not Barack.
Bernie Bernie is not this attractive guy.
He could he could split the Democrat Party, but if he stays strong and if if he you know gets some resolve and he's not gonna be smothered, kicked out, or what have you.
I must be honest, Susie, I have never even considered until you called today.
Bernie Sanders is a third party candidate.
I've just maybe you've got a point.
I've just never seen that in my mind as I envision the future.
I see I see Bernie, you know, getting a knock on the door at two in the morning uh from some Democrat lawyer, or even Bill Clinton.
Hey, Bernie, how you doing, bud?
It's been fun, hasn't it?
Yeah.
Have you you remember a name Andrew Cuomo?
You remember what uh yeah, Bob Torres Delly, do you remember uh those names ring a bell with you?
Yeah, we pretty much destroyed those guys because they they uh didn't know their place, Bernie.
I'd hate the same thing have to happen to you.
And you've been such a good old codger for the party, and you have a lot of fun out there.
But um I don't know, Bernie.
Uh do you want a lot of people at your funeral?
Because it's uh it may come down to that.
And I I I'd hate I'd hate something to go wrong in that regard.
I think you really need to think about what you're doing here.
Hey, heaven Bernie, look, whatever happens, whatever happens, just make sure you always keep looking behind you.
Okay.
See ya.
Harold Ford Jr.
Harold Ford Jr., I once appeared on stage with Harold Ford Jr. and Willie Brown at the Milken Institute convention out in LA at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
That's the hotel where Whitney Houston drowned in the maptub.
And the Milken Institute is uh it's Michael Milken, and I've gotten to know him through the uh annual cigar dinners.
He prostate cancer foundation and a number of other things.
He's a great, great guy.
And I I really had a good time meeting Harold Ford.
He was uh Democrat in Tennessee, left politics, went to Wall Street, dibbles and dabbles in both now.
But is a nice guy.
He's a really uh nice guy.
Even though we were at total odds on stage.
Um he's not one of these mean-spirited name-calling uh kind of I've run into him socially a bunch of times.
Anyway, my point leading up to this is that Harold Ford Jr. has come to Hillary's defense after her appearance on David Muir's World News tonight, and her overall lackluster performance in dealing with this email scandal.
And I think what Harold Ford Jr.'s saying here may be, it could easily become the new public defense, the new media defense for every criminal in the world.
And it's real simple.
Harold Ford said in her heart, Hillary didn't intend to violate the law.
And the reactions oh my God, of course she didn't.
She didn't mean to do it.
She's a good person.
Of course she she didn't mean to do it.
In her heart, she never intended to be a criminal.
No way.
And that is supposed to make it easier for people to forgive her.
And I think if it works, even if it doesn't work at Hillary's case, it's something that is uh so pithy and and poignant that it's going to be picked up by others, particularly in the political world where crime or chicanery is in the hey, in his heart, he really didn't mean to violate the law here.
Scooter Libby, you know, in his heart he didn't.
Now, it probably won't work, it won't help Republicans.
But it's made to order for Democrats.
Here's Vince in Atlanta.
Glad you called, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Ross.
How are you today?
Good.
Excellent.
Yeah, so you were talking earlier about the uh the invasion of uh of Europe.
And um I I have to say, I I find it very ironic that for 50 years, the United States provided uh sufficient security and protection for Europeans from the Soviet Union that they could build these um you know these these outrageous uh social programs.
These welfare states, they allowed we allowed them to build welfare states.
That's why people are making these trudges up there.
And and and that's kind of the point where for um for all of that time, instead of spending five or six percent protecting themselves from the Russian bear, they could take two and three percent of their economy and turn into social programs, and now after six years of of basically a vacuum of American leadership, it's those um it's those same social programs that we allowed them to build that are now accomplishing what the uh Ottomans couldn't do in the 14th and 15th century.
Yeah, it's kind of like what Vladimir Lenin said.
We will sell the capitalists the rope they will use to hang themselves.
Exactly.
And and it and it is absolutely it's an invasion, but it's it's like the uh uh it's uh Europeans are simply opening like Angela Merkel.
I mean, look, you're exactly let me tell you something.
Let me tell you how right you are.
It is a welfare state invasion, there's no question.
And I told you yesterday that I've been watching this three series or uh three-season series of a Danish show on Danish politics called Borgan, B-O-R-G-E-N.
I don't know how the words pronounced in Danish.
It stands for the word castle, and it castle is what they call their parliament.
And it was good.
It's all in Danish, it's all subtitled in English.
Very little English is spoken.
It's uh it's a foreign TV series.
I found it on iTunes.
And every season, it's it's about a woman who eventually member parliament would become prime minister, the battles that she endures, the home life, family strife, the pressures and all that.
And in a couple of episodes in season two, it's three or four years old.
They uh have a storyline on their part in the coalition that Bush put together in Afghanistan.
And just to illustrate your point, remember this is a TV show produced in Denmark for the Denmark audience, and it's it's steeped in reality.
They lost eight soldiers in an attack in Afghanistan, and that caused panic in their parliament.
Eight soldiers.
And that led them to a whole debate about whether they should pull out of the coalition.
Eight soldiers.
Eight soldiers.
Losing eight meant uh oh, we've got to get out of here.
This is what I need.
What do you mean they lost eight soldiers?
What's your point?
I know I kind of had to rush through it because of time constraints.
I will explain what I mean when we get back from the break here at top of the hour.
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