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Oct. 13, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 13, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And if you don't think things are changing out there, what you need to know is what's happened to Playboy.
Did you see that?
I don't know what Dawn's going to do now.
Playboy magazine is going to cease publishing pictures.
You know why?
They've been done in by porn on the internet.
Isn't it the most amazing thing?
The original porn magazine done in by porn.
Well, you might know it's soft porn and all that, and I know a lot of you people claim you just read the articles, but anyway, that's some of the best evidence you can find that things are changing.
Not that you need it, but if you wanted to catalog it, you could.
Anyway, big, big, big day here, folks.
Here on the EIB network, Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB microphone.
The telephone number is 800-282-2882.
Caller Clinic yesterday must tell you.
I meant to mention this at the end of the program yesterday and I didn't get to it, but every caller yesterday was superb.
Did a little brief caller clinic, you know, just sort of a recap of procedures here.
And every caller just followed directions to a T. A caller clinic has nothing to do with content.
It's not an attempt to change what the callers have to say.
It's simply about brevity.
Get in, get it, and get out.
And a key reminder, I think a lot of people, thirdly, I think this is really true.
I think callers think that you and I talk before they go on the air.
Well, it's a natural thing to assume because callers are saying, I was just telling your screeners, I don't know what you just told the screener, and it doesn't matter because nobody heard it.
So at any rate, do you remember the first Fox debate?
The first Fox Republican debate and specifically the opening questions of Donald Trump, who, by the way, by the way, Trump has announced that he's going to live tweet the Democrat debate tonight.
That Trump is going to have more people reading him on Twitter than are going to be watching this debate.
Speaking of which, have you noticed that CNN is downplaying the expectation of ratings tonight?
If you've missed that, don't doubt me.
They're downplaying the ratings.
It's like Les Moonves of CBS is back again today talking about how ratings on TV ain't not as important as they used to be.
It's tough to find them.
And man, what a built-in excuse for not getting any ratings.
And that is to say that they don't matter anymore.
Now, here's CNN, and they've been salivating.
They've been chomping at the bit.
They're going wall to wall here from the Wind Resort in Vegas, promoting this debate and going overboard promoting.
I mean, the countdowns, and everybody that works at CNN seemingly is in Vegas, seemingly on the ground at the Wynn Resort, just hyping this thing and promoting it out to Wazoo and then telling everybody, yeah, well, don't look for the kind of ratings Fox got.
Why not?
I think expectations ought to be raised.
After all, who's in this debate?
The smartest woman in the freaking world is in this debate.
Hillary Clinton is in this debate.
What do you mean ratings are going to be down?
Shouldn't ratings be skyrocketing?
This is the presumptive Democrat nominee.
This is the next president of the United States, according to CNN and the Politico and the New York Times, NBC, ABC, CBS, USA Today, Los Angeles Times.
Take your pick.
She's the next president.
What do you mean ratings are going to be down?
I think expectations need to be raised, not lowered.
And if Hillary Clinton fails to deliver, that's her problem.
My guy, if I ran CNN, I sure as heck would not be making excuses before the thing even starts.
But that's what they're doing.
And they're admitting that this field of candidates, by the way, which is all white, even Van Jones, the acknowledged communist from the regime, he got thrown out of the regime in a controversial thing.
Well, he was discovered to be a communist.
They had to get rid of him.
He couldn't hide it anymore.
So he's at CNN.
Just like environmentalism is a new home of out-of-work communists, so is CNN.
So he's over there and he's talking about how this is horrible.
He said it's very bad, widest field since 1992.
And there's one woman and no people of color.
You look at the Republican lineup, and you have diversity across the board.
And of course, it never counts for anything.
But anyway, seriously, you know, folks, I'm being dead serious.
I know it sounds funny.
I'm a naturally funny human being, but I'm being dead serious.
CNN ought to be raising expectations.
If you run the place, you've got the big Democrat debate.
It's been overdue.
People, supposedly, it's the most popular party in the country, right?
Mrs. Clinton, the most popular woman, the smartest woman.
I mean, you've got the big draw, and you're downplaying it.
If I ran CNN, I'd be hyping this thing.
I mean, they're hyping it by hyping their coverage and stuff.
You know what I saw them do?
You know what I saw on CNN?
Have you ever watched a television documentary on anything?
And they'll have cutaway interviews with people in a documentary with a black background.
It looks like the Charlie Rose said.
And they'll be talking about their role in the documentary you're watching.
But they've been doing this with their reporters.
Dana Bash and Anderson Cooper have been cast in standalone interviews explaining what they're going to do tonight, how they're going to do it, what they're going to expect, how they're going to drag whatever out of whoever.
I mean, it's a total exercise in narcissism.
It's watch this debate because of us.
But they're downplaying expectations with the smartest woman in the world.
And I think they ought to be building it.
And I'm being facetious because, of course, they can't build up because she's not a draw.
She can't sell any books.
She can't draw a crowd anywhere.
That's what they know.
Why they're relying on trying to get people to tune in to watch Anderson Cooper and Dana Bash and whoever else.
I don't even know who else is going to be.
Jacob Tapper, maybe.
But if I were CNN, I'd start listing reasons why Hillary's debate ratings will exceed Trump's.
For example, Hillary Clinton's been richly supported by most of Hollywood for decades.
Hollywood influences American culture like no other.
And they've had all this time to promote her.
Trump just had a single reality TV show.
Hillary has Hollywood, okay?
Hillary Clinton owns the entire education system.
She owns all federalized union workers.
She owns most of the media.
Smartest woman on earth.
Republicans are conducting a war on women.
Women, I mean, it's just, it's made to order.
Except everybody knows that the vast majority of people tuning in tonight are going to be looking for a car crash.
They're look.
I mean, really, it's, it's, I think it's, I think it's just juicy.
And I'd back to the way Fox opened the debate with questions of Trump.
You remember that.
Mr. Trump, you have said the following about women.
Well, just to show you what you will not see on the Democrat debate tonight, we prepared a little, if only, parody.
We now join CNN's live Democratic presidential debate, brought to you by our sponsors, Prostate Magic and the League of Left-Handed Transgendered Voters.
Secretary Clinton is giving her opening statement.
And I want to thank CNN for hosting this debate so that we as candidates can address the issues that are so important to the American people.
I look forward to your questions.
Thank you, Secretary Clinton.
Now, our first question of the night.
Mrs. Clinton, let me mention seven names.
Paula Jones, Juanita Broderick, Kathleen Willey, Jennifer Flowers, Monica Lewitsky, Beth DeZoritz, and Denise Rich.
Now, tell us, how can you look at anyone with a straight face and talk to them about family values when it takes a village to satisfy your husband?
OK, CNN.
Just to show you the differences in the way these debates happen, it's a totally legitimate question.
I mean, if it's legit to ask Trump about the things that he has said about women in the past, why is it not relevant to ask Hillary about her husband?
He's going to be the co-president or the vice president or the first man, first gentleman, whatever.
And you've got reports now.
The bimbos are resurfacing.
Jennifer Flower is out there showing up, claiming she's got a secret.
The only reason she's alive is she's got a secret in a safe deposit box.
Did you see that?
Yeah, it was at World Net Daily.
She's got some secret about Clinton and a safe deposit.
But I mean, I'm adding that the reason she's alive, but I mean, she's got some secret that she's kept.
She's close to the vest for just this kind of moment in time in the future.
Don't know what it is.
But I guess it's a highly relevant question.
Hillary went Hillary went to the hotel where Trump is staying in Vegas and taunted him, supposedly, yesterday.
I mean, it's childish.
And you know something else that happened?
You know that we had a soundbite yesterday from the No Labels convention in Manchester, New Hampshire, which now is run by John Huntsman, Republican and God, Jim.
I'm having a middle block on the no, and that's Huntsman.
It's Huntsman, and then there's some Democrat.
You know, it used to be Mark, the guy that ran McCain's media back in 2008.
I can't remember, Mark, can't remember his last name.
Anyway, we played for you a sound bite from this yesterday where Trump got a question about women and so forth, and we played his answer.
And it turns out that that woman who asked the question was a Jeb Bush plant.
Jeb Bush campaign planted a woman in the audience at the No Labels deal.
Mark McKinnon, yeah, that's the guy's name, Mark McKinnon.
So anyway, they plant this woman.
The Jeb Bush campaign puts a ringer in this audience at no labels.
A woman who works on his staff has worked on Huntsman's staff.
Her name is Lauren Batchelder.
And she is an intern here and an intern there, but she's a campaign activist for Jeb Bush, and she was sent in there to ask Trump questions about women and so forth.
This is such a juvenile thing.
You know, the amazing thing about this is Jeb Bush would never do this to Hillary Clinton.
Nor would any of these other Republicans.
They'll run tricks.
They'll run juvenile little things like this against other Republicans, but they will never do this.
Jeb Bush, nor anybody else in this Republican field, would dare try to stack a Democrat meeting like this and put a ringer in there to ask embarrassing questions of Democrats, but they will do it against their own.
Rep Odio soundbite number 14.
This is how it started.
This is that woman, Lauren Batchelder, at the No Labels Problem Solver Convention.
And she's the woman who stood up and asked this question.
This is the Jeb Bush campaign worker.
Okay, all right.
So maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe you can prove me wrong, but I don't think that you're a friend to woman.
How what it right, and then here come the cheers.
You know, that question had to be planted because there's nobody on earth that would naturally ask that question.
Not of Trump.
Unless it's a planted question.
And so here you have a Republican presidential campaign, the Jeb Bush campaign, trying to expose a fellow Republican using this stupid war on women thing that the Democrats created.
This is, it's juvenile in this day and age to think you're going to get away with this, number one, that these people can't be found out.
It's the age of the internet, number one.
So you're going to find out who these people are.
Number two, it's just, it's so weird.
It's obviously a planted question.
Here was Lloyd Trump dealt with it.
I knew I shouldn't have picked her.
I respect women incredibly.
I have had women working for me in positions that they've never worked in terms of so many different jobs.
I had a woman who was in charge of the building of Trump Tower many years ago before anybody would have even thought of it and did a fantastic job.
I have given women more opportunity than I would say virtually anybody in the construction industry.
I have a daughter named Ivanka and a wife named Melania who constantly want me to talk about women's health issues because they know how I feel about it.
And they know how I feel about women.
I respect women.
I love women.
I cherish women.
And the Jeb Bush plant, Lauren Batchelder, had a follow-up.
I want to get paid the same as a man, and I think you understand that.
So if you become president, will a woman make the same as a man?
And do I get to choose what I do with my body?
You're going to make the same if you do as good a job.
And I happen to be pro-life.
Okay, I'm pro-life.
Okay.
If you're going to send somebody in, that may come back to give him some problems down the road.
But if you're going to send somebody in to taunt Trump, why do one on this?
Why not send somebody?
It's a no-labels convention, right?
Why not go in there and harangue Trump about what he said about Mexican immigrants?
Why not send somebody stand up and ask Trump about saying McCain's not a hero?
So maybe reignite those things.
Maybe they didn't do it because Trump's already survived those.
But the fact that they chose, the Bush campaign chose a woman to go in there and try to expose Trump on the war on women, a Democrat lie.
It's just juvenile.
It's just juvenile.
And that's right out of the Republican establishment.
And it was going to get caught.
It was going to be exposed.
And maybe they said to themselves, well, of course it's going to be exposed, but we're still going to get the event.
We're still going to get the question asked, and hopefully Trump will embarrass himself in the answer.
And so the fact that we staged it won't matter.
But it's backfired as it was destined to backfire.
Anyway, I've got to go to the first break, first busy, obscene profit time out here on the EIB network, and we're coming right back.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Great to have you with us here, El Rushbo, behind the Golden EIB microphone.
Did you see, what was it?
I forget, I remember where Obama said this, was 60 Minutes or maybe some interview somewhere.
Anyway, we made a mention of it yesterday that Obama said that Hillary had made a mistake on this email server business.
And my observation was, that's not good.
Hillary's out there trying to say nothing happened.
What a big deal.
When a president comes out and says that she made a mistake, then that puts the onus on her.
All of this on the Democrat side now, and media side.
I mean, this doesn't affect us because we're dealing with a bunch of, well, people are strangers to the truth.
But on the Democrat side, the Democrats, a lot of people, donors are really worried about this email thing.
They're worried about Hillary's plummeting in the polls.
They're really worried about a lot of things.
And they're worried that they got all this excitement about Bernie Sanders.
They don't know what they're going to do with him, except they know they're not going to let him have a nomination.
Now they've got to figure out how they're going to make that happen.
So Obama's come out, and he added to this.
He said that Hillary's illegal server was not a national security problem, which is rich coming from Obama because Obama is America's number one national security problem, if you ask me.
No, I'm not exaggerating, and I'm not going for laughs here.
I really mean it.
I think Barack Obama is our number one national security problem or risk, whether by accident, by design, but I don't know what else you'd call somebody who enables the Iranians to nuke up and then sees to it they end up with $150 billion to do with whatever they want, including buy new Boeing airliners and go out and sponsor terrorism in the Middle East.
It doesn't give me a whole lot of confidence in what's going on with Syria and the fact that Putin and Russia are making a move on the entire Middle East.
Yeah, it doesn't exactly comfort me that the president of the United States is who he is doing what he's doing.
I do think it's rich claiming that Hillary hasn't posed any national security problems when he is it number one risk, if you ask me.
There's even more devastating news for Mrs. Clinton, ladies and gentlemen, and it is that she now loses to any Republican.
She loses to any Republican in the field.
I don't care what the powers that be inside the Democrat National Committee of the Democratic Party think or have planned or what, but this is not part of the plan.
Was not something they factored or figured would happen.
In the first place, nobody figured Trump to be where he is, and beyond that, nobody figured Ben Carson to be where he is.
You know, Ben Carson, Ben Carson's lurking out there in second place, and he continues to light it up.
Ben Carson is every bit as unfiltered honest as Donald Trump is.
You know, Ben Carson has shaken up the political structure with an answer to a question on welfare that is something you and I have known and have believed all of our lives.
And you would, it's it's it's fascinating to me to watch people in public life and the media, the Democrat side, just react in shock and outrage that anybody thinks this kind of extreme stuff.
There were a couple of examples of this yesterday.
I've been trying to think of them.
I'm still suffering the ravages of this evil virus, folks.
I mean, I have the struggle here to stay 100% focused.
I'm close, close, but it's still there.
This is a vicious, vicious thing.
Snurdley has it now, which means everybody's going to get it.
Anyway, I wish I could remember what these two things were, but they're just normal, everyday common sense.
I think there were things that Trump said that nobody can believe.
Ben Carson went out and said that welfare increases poverty, creates dependence in people, and is only being used to buy votes.
And you would have thought that the most politically incorrect insult ever had just been made.
And all that is, all that Ben Carson said is just a simple common sense axiom.
Welfare in this country has become vote-buying.
Santa Claus.
That's what the Democrat Party has arranged.
That's why they want the illegal immigrants.
They want dependent.
They need a permanent underclass.
None of this is new.
But you know what else is shocking about it?
Honestly, Ben Carson is the only Republican saying things like this when it's standard, ordinary operating procedure, common sense every day.
Meaning there isn't an establishment Republican anywhere in the last 10 years who has spoken of welfare this way.
Or maybe 15 years.
And the fact that Carson's out doing it, an outsider, not part of the political business or machine, not part of the establishment inside the Beltway, whatever, not a politician by trade.
So he's just out there uttering simple, common sense truths.
And you would think that he has insulted somebody with the greatest insult ever.
I'm not exaggerating this.
The people who are reacting to this are not mocking.
They're not faking their outrage.
They're not doing it in order to portray Carson.
Some of them are, sure, but the vast majority simply can't believe he thinks it.
They can't believe he would say it.
It's mean-spirited.
It has no compassion.
It's the epitome of extremism and mean, just plain mean, to say things about welfare like that.
Yet that's exactly what it is.
But that's why Ben Carson's where he is.
He is not losing ground.
Carly Fiorina in some polls is down to single digits, but Ben Carson is just right there.
And he has a soft, mellow manner and manner of speaking, which betrays his thoughtfulness or portrays his thoughtfulness.
He's not a shoot-from-the-hipster kind of guy.
Like his statement about the Holocaust would have been a little bit tougher for Hitler and the gang if the Jews had had weapons in the Warsaw ghetto uprising is evidence.
The Jews there did have guns, and it was a tough thing for the Nazis.
They had a tougher time there than elsewhere.
He was exactly right.
The point is exactly right.
Common sense everywhere.
And it's just mind-boggling that this kind of common sense, which used to be standard operating procedure in a Republican playbook, isn't there anymore.
It takes an outsider, a couple of outsiders like Trump and Ben Carson to articulate what we all know to be ordinary, everyday, fact-of-life truth.
That's how far gone into the entire big government meme the Republican Party has gotten to.
But anyway, Mrs. Clinton, now being beaten by every Republican.
And I guarantee you this was not factored.
Whatever they thought would happen on the road to the coronation, they didn't think this was going to happen.
They're upset on the Democrat side about all the enthusiasm for Bernie Sanders and none for Hillary.
Now you throw Biden into this mix.
We have a Reuters story here by James Oliphant.
Half of Democrats want Biden in the race.
This is a Reuters poll.
Drumbeat for Joe Biden to jump into the 2016 presidential race is growing louder.
Almost half the nation's Democrats want the vice president to enter the field and challenge Hillary Clinton according to a new Reuters poll.
Biden won't be at the debate tonight, but 48% of Democrats surveyed in the poll wish he were a candidate compared with 30% who said he ought to stay out.
Support for Biden's entry into the race does not translate into equal passion for his candidacy, however.
Just 17% of those surveyed said Biden would be their first choice.
So you got 48% of these Democrats in the sample want him in there, but only 17% of those would support him, would make him their first choice.
46%, again, of the 48% who want Biden in would support Hillary.
Biden would also run behind Bernie Sanders, who remains the favorite of 25% of all the Democrats surveyed, which would seem to contradict some of these polls that we have seen that claim Biden would be the most popular candidate if we were to enter the race.
According to this Reuters poll, that is not the case.
And then the politico story: Hillary donors worry all the energy is with Bernie.
Hillary Clinton's major donors want her to show more fire in Tuesday night's debate.
Meanwhile, Hillary's on Saturday Night Live admitting that she's a robot trying to be funny.
Oh, yeah, I'm a robot.
I'm this.
All the places to go to rehab your image and to relaunch and relaunch and re-re-relaunch your campaign.
How many launches has Hillary had now?
With both candidates set to release fundraising totals this week, small donors have provided the overwhelming majority to $41 million raised by Bernie Sanders through the end of last month, a tally that's expected to exceed every campaign except Hillary's.
Her campaign pulled in $75 million between mid-April and the end of September, but a much larger percentage came from donors who each gave close to $2,700, which is the maximum.
So Bernie Sanders considered to be the candidate of the everyman because he's getting the lion's share to $10 to $15 to $25 donations, and Hillary's raking in the majority of $2,700 donations.
See, the big donors know that Hillary can be bought or rented.
I don't know if you ever buy a Clinton.
You actually just rent them.
You know, the Clintons ought to just establish themselves as an Airbnb business.
Might even do that with the White House if she gets back in there.
But you can rent Hillary until a bigger donor comes along, and then you'll get thrown overboard for the bigger donors.
Clinton's big money donors contend she could tap into the small donor fervor if she wanted to, but she's not.
And this has them very, very worried.
And this is not the first story we've seen describing nervous donors.
We've had it about Jeb.
We've had two or three of these about Hillary.
But still, throw all of this aside because it isn't going to be Bernie Sanders.
I could end up being profoundly wrong about this.
I just don't see, and there are powers that be in the Democrat Party, and I just don't see them letting that happen.
That would upset everything the Democrat Party has transformed itself into with nobody noticing in the last 20 years.
The Democrat Party is the party rich.
The Democrat Party is the party of Wall Street.
The Democrat Party is the party of the wealthiest people in this country, and they have managed to keep that a big secret, make everybody think they're still a big blue-collar party.
And they're not.
The Democrat Party is also the recipient of the most foreign government money.
And that would be the Clinton Crime Family Foundation.
Speaking of that, Doug Wilder, he's the former governor of what state, Snerdley?
Pop Quiz.
Doug Wilder, former, exactly right.
And he's the man named in honor of the Wilder Effect.
The Wilder effect.
For those of you in Riolinda who are new to this and don't know, the Wilder effect is white people in a poll lying to pollsters, telling the pollster they are going to vote for the black candidate so that the pollster doesn't think they're racist when, in fact, they're going to vote for the white candidate all the way.
The wilder effect essentially produces much higher poll results for African American candidates than are genuine.
And it was named after because Doug Wilder, in one of his election campaigns, was just polling through the roof.
And then when the election came, you could hardly find any votes.
So the political scientists got together and they dubbed it the Wilder Effect.
And there's another candidate, too.
There's two people that share this honor.
Well, anyway, Doug Wilder was on Fox News yesterday afternoon with Neil Cavuto, who said, you criticize President Obama.
You say he's not done enough for African Americans.
What do you mean by that, Governor Wilder effect?
Bill Clinton was referred to, as you've heard, as the first black president.
Now, I'm not saying that Barack Obama isn't motivated with good thoughts.
The results are in the pudding.
And so when he leaves office, the real question will be, look at the black unemployment rate.
Look at the horrible opportunities that exist for people to go to school and colleges and to get better educations.
Look at the neighborhoods.
Look at the crime rates.
Look at it all.
And look who's running the show.
It's Barack Hussein Obama.
Doug Wilder's back on this train where Obama's not authentic.
He makes the pointer Bill Clinton is the first black president.
He means it.
You mean?
Minor, minor correction.
Hillary Clinton did not say she was a robot on Saturday Night Live.
It was in an interview with BuzzFeed, a podcast type interview with BuzzFeed.
I didn't even bother sending the link for the audio up to Cookie because I really don't want to waste a lot of time on this show on Hillary.
I speak of this woman under duress every day anyway, but I'm kind of obligated to now since she's got this debate tonight and CNN's downplaying expectations.
I really think that's a big deal, folks.
I really think it's a big deal.
This debate ought to be through the roof if Hillary is so popular and so smart and the country can't wait for her to be president.
Why would you downplay expectations of viewership on this thing tonight?
You know, in that poll that shows Hillary Clinton would lose to every Republican.
Let me give you some numbers.
Carly Fiorina would beat Clinton 42 to 39 percent.
Margin of error.
Jeb Bush, 44 to 40.
Close to margin of error.
Donald Trump would beat her 45 to 40.
That's a little above any margin of error.
Ben Carson, 50.
Hillary, 39.
In this poll that shows Hillary losing to every Republican.
And what would be the headline?
I mean, wouldn't it be great if history repeated itself again?
Hillary beaten by another black guy?
First Barack Hussein O and then Ben Carson, and he's got the biggest margin of victory over Hillary in that poll.
It's a Fox News poll.
I know you're asking, what poll?
What poll?
It's a Fox News poll.
What does it matter what poll?
I mean, they're all out there.
Another question for Hillary, since I know that nobody's going to ask the Paula Jones, Kathleen Willie, Juanita Broderick question.
I know that's not going to happen tonight.
So here's a question for Hillary that would be legit and could well be asked.
Well, it won't be, but I mean, it suffices.
The Clinton Foundation, Mrs. Clinton, has taken millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia strictly enforces a legal system in which discrimination against women is the official law of the land.
Women are treated as property in Saudi Arabia, which has donated to your campaign.
Women are not permitted to leave the home without their husbands' permission in Saudi Arabia, which has donated to your foundation.
Women are not permitted to drive in Saudi Arabia, which has donated to your foundation.
A woman's testimony in a Sharia court of law is worth half a man's.
In other words, a woman is presumed to be lying half the time.
Women are imprisoned, beaten, and killed for violations of Islamic law in Saudi Arabia.
Women who engage in sex outside marriage are subject to the death penalty.
Women who are raped can be severely injured legally by their husbands.
The premise being that it's the Saudi woman's fault for being raped because she obviously violated Islamic law.
Women who renounce Islam are subject to the death penalty.
So, Mrs. Clinton, what is this war on women you say that the Republicans are conducting when all of this happens in Saudi Arabia, which is donating handsomely to you and your husband's foundation?
You know, folks, a part of me, it gets tiresome.
And another part of me, it's it jazzes me up.
Once again, your host, me, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-everything Maharashi, blamed in the New York Times today by David Brooks as the reason American politics do not work.
Me and this show 28 years ago are the reason.
Right there it is.
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