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Dec. 23, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 23, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #1
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That's right, we're back.
It's El Rushball here on the cutting edge of societal evolution, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
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Honored to be here.
I'll be here today and Christmas Eve.
And Christmas Day, I think we have three hours of official EIB approved Christmas music on Christmas Day.
Is that correct, Mike?
Yeah, I never, my Christmas album never makes it into the EIB.
Oh, I'm in the EIB Christmas rotation.
Anyway, the Christmas album's dead, and now I've got a cat album out, which was keeping company on the hit parade with Megan Trainer, which was immensely exciting to me for a moment.
So I'm looking forward to the Grammy nomination for the cat album.
But it's great to be with you.
I am live at EIB's Prestige New York studio.
It's the first time I've been here in years.
We have Mr. Snerdley behind the glass.
He's casually dressed because Delta have sent his Delta sent his luggage to Raqqa in the Islamic State.
It's at the Holiday Inn in Raqqa, I think.
That's what Delta did.
So he's spending most of the show being fitted for shirts and suits.
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And it's great to be here in New York rather than at Ice Station EIB up in New Hampshire.
I can't get a parking space at Ice Station EIB in New Hampshire these days for all the George Pataki campaign staffers who are just taking up all the parking spaces in northern New Hampshire.
It's terrible.
Rush, before he left, touched on Schlongate, if you'll forgive the expression.
And Schlongate, there have been several breaking developments overnight on Schlongate.
Bernie Sanders has weighed in.
Jeb Bush has weighed in.
David Brock, who's Hillary's little court eunuch at Media Matters, has weighed in.
Bernie Sanders has defended Hillary and said, quote, I also went to the bathroom.
Breaking news from Bernie Sanders, Bernie went to the bathroom.
Jeb Bush has described Trump as making a great strategic error in bringing up Schlongate because Jeb says Hillary is great at being the victim.
Actually, I think Jeb is projecting a little there.
Jeb, on the evidence of this campaign, is great at being a victim.
He certainly makes a great victim for Trump.
They should be using him in the Charles Atlas ads if they're still running those.
And David Brock, the Media Matters guy, the Medium Addis guy, which is basically a Hillary operation, Media Matters for America.
He has said that the point of the Trump Schlong remark was to tag Obama as a black rapist.
This is David Brock, who has weighed in on Schlongate.
So Bernie Sanders has revealed that he also used the bathroom during that debate.
Jeb has said that this is a mistake because it enables Hillary to play the victim, having been schlonged.
The word schlong is interesting.
There are only apparently seven usages of it in the entire Lexis Nexus database.
Two of them from Trump's alleged jab at Hillary.
One is about a reality TV star.
One appeared in an obituary for Philip Seymour Hoffman, the late actor who played a, quote, gauche gay boom operator.
He played a gauche gay boom operator, Philip Seymour Hoffman, in the film Boogie Nights, a gauche gay boom operator.
I love, I just like saying, I've never said, I've been hosting this show for years, and I've never had the opportunity to say gauche gay boom operator.
So that's the secret phrase of the day.
This is, if you're in the spy movie, this is the secret password.
Mike has bet me, I can't say it five times fast.
Gauchge boom operator, ghosh gay boom operator, ghosh gay, ghosh gay boom operator, gauche gay boom operator with a crush on a long schlong superstar.
So the gauche gay boom operator and the long schlong superstar.
If you saw that boogie, I want to see Sean Connery playing a long schlong superstar in the film Boogie Nights.
But here is the interesting one.
In 2011, NPR's Neil Conan, like Neil Conan, is about like the most respectable guy at NPR.
He's Mr. Mainstream.
He's Mr. Respectable.
And he described the 1984 Walter Mondale Geraldine Ferraro campaign this way.
That ticket went on to get schlonged at the polls.
So Mr. NPR, Neil Conan, basically said that Geraldine Ferraro got schlonged, and nobody, no NPR listener mentioned it, nobody complained.
But when Donald Trump says that Hillary gets, you can say Geraldine Ferraro got schlonged if you're on NPR, but you can't say that Hillary Clinton got schlonged.
So we will bring you up to date on any breaking developments in Schlongate.
All this stuff is ridiculous because it's nothing to do.
It's like a bonus.
If you're a Trump supporter, this kind of stuff is just like a complimentary gift for subscribing, all these little things.
But the real reason why Trump is rising is things like the story that has come out today that Republicans are mad because they're tightening up the visa waiver program.
And what they're doing is there are 38 countries that are in the visa waiver program, and they're mostly the countries you would expect.
They're Western Europe and Australia and places like that.
Where if you hold a valid passport from France or Germany, you don't need a visa to come to the United States.
Now they're saying that if you have visited certain countries in the last five years, you will need a visa.
And these countries are Syria, Sudan, and Iran, supposedly.
And John Kerry has apparently assured the Iranians that not to worry, they are exempt from the visa wavening tightening.
So in other words, it's like all the great levels of American bureaucracy and vetting and all the rest of it.
The actual source of the problem is exempt from the massive bureaucracy that they are instituting to address the problem.
And it's because of that, because, you know, in the wake of San Bernardino, where this terrorist bride gets in and she guns down 14 people.
So they're saying, well, we have to tighten up the visa waiver program, but we'll make an exception for Iran.
It will be untightened for Iran.
And that's why Trump is surging.
Because when Trump says, let's have an end to Muslim immigration, that sounds less insane than exempting Iran from the new tightened immigration procedures.
And that's the insanity that's driving Trump.
We will actually be talking to someone, a whistleblower in effect, who's at the heart of the Department of Homeland Security, who investigated these kinds of cases and these kinds of situations until the Obama administration decided that as a point of policy, it didn't want to investigate Islamic backgrounds.
And he says that the visa questions they ask on the form are complete, completely pointless.
And they are actually questions like, are you coming to the United States with the intention of committing terrorism?
And if you check the no-box, which amazingly enough, 100% of people who come to the United States do, then you will be admitted to America.
We'll be talking with Philip Haney a little later on today's show.
But that's the reason why Trump is surging, because nothing Trump says is as insane as a policy that says it would be a breach of privacy to look at the Facebook pages of people who are coming to the United States, that we're going to institute a rigorous vetting procedure in which we'll ask them to fill in a form saying, are you coming to the United States with the intention of committing a terrorist atrocity, yes or no?
And we're tightening up in the wake of San Bernardino.
We're tightening up our visa waiver program, but we're making a special exemption to the tightening up for Iran.
Nothing Trump says or does is as insane as what the official position of the United States government on a lot of these issues is.
And that's why he is surging.
The latest poll, by the way, from CNN.
We're getting to the stage now when everybody comes back after the new year break, we're basically going to be, that is going to be the field in Iowa and New Hampshire.
And by the time we get to New Hampshire in February, only three guys are going to be coming away for that.
And right now, it looks as if it'll be Trump, Cruz, and the mainstream candidate, the so-called mainstream candidate.
Actually, right now, the mainstream candidate is kind of the fringe candidate.
In this latest poll, Jeb is down to 3%.
He's actually below Rand Paul.
I mean, again, this is when people say, oh, Trump is an idiot.
He's a buffoon.
Okay, here's what the smart guys did.
They spent $100 million getting Jeb Bush to 3%.
He's below the margin of error.
He's below Rand Paul.
They're all excited because Lindsey Graham pulled out of the race on Monday, and they're thinking, well, look, if Lindsey Graham's 0.2%, if he endorses Jeb, he could deliver his 0.2% to Jeb, and then that would crank Jeb up to 3.2% and he'd stand a chance of catching up with Rand Paul before the Iowa caucus.
They spent $100 million getting Jeb Bush to 3%.
That's how smart the smart people are in New Hampshire.
Mark Stein in for Rush, 1-800-282-2882.
We'll talk Schlongate.
Schlong farewell, Alfida Zain, adieu.
That's my favorite song in the sound of music.
I love it when the kids all come out.
Schlong farewell, Alfida Zein.
It's wonderful, wonderful Monday.
We'll take all your calls straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Take the halls with Bows of Holly.
It's the eve of Christmas Eve at the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Stein in for Rush, 1-800-282-2882.
I saw Eric Cantor on the television a couple of hours ago.
Do you remember Eric Cantor?
He used to be like the big shot guy.
He was whatever it was, number two in the Republican House structure to John Boehner.
And then he got primaried and nobody saw it coming and he got taken out in the primary.
He was like Mr. Establishment.
He was the kind of guy who would have been all behind this hideous monstrosity of a budget bill.
And he was explaining why it's all very well, you know, yes, Trump's at 40% in the polls and Cruz is at 19% and these other characters are making up the 4% and 3%.
But the real, you're looking for someone who's going to be tough enough to take on Hillary, who's going to, and Cruz would lose to Hillary, and Trump will lose to Hillary.
But Bush is the strongest candidate you can put up against Hillary.
Bush right now is at 3% in this new CNN poll.
Rand Paul is at 4%.
If you look at the Iowa numbers, between them, Trump and Cruz have over 70% in Iowa.
So the so-called mainstream candidate is actually having to fight for the 20-something percent that's left.
You know, that's the mainstream, but Trump and Cruz, the fringe candidates, have a combined 71%.
The Republican Party base is basically wanting to, it wants to, if it's going to divorce anyone, it's going to divorce the Republican Party establishment.
The Republican Party establishment are the guys who are going to have to go third party.
After 2012, Rush talked about this and he talked about it in connection with the budget deal.
And he made a very good point.
He said, well, what difference does the Republican Party make?
What difference does it make controlling the House and controlling the Senate when you give the president everything you want, when you lose every single time?
The point about the Democrats is that their establishment and their base are in sync.
They both want big government.
You know, on the one hand, you've got the dependency class and you've got the identity groups and you've got the massive government bureaucracy that ministers to them.
They're completely in sync.
And you've got like the sprinkling of crony capitalists who like to feel good about climate change and all.
They're all completely in sync.
The donor base, the donor class of the Republican Party and the actual voters are not in sync.
And basically, they've been diverging for the last 30 years.
Basically, since Reagan, they've been on different tracks.
So that the two-party, one-party state does not work for one of the two parties anymore.
It doesn't work for half the population of the country.
And half the population of the country has had it by being told by Eric Cantor that Jeb Bush, who is, it's not even the fact that he's a Bush.
The Bush is actually the least worst part of it in terms of his problems at the moment.
Because people on the whole, on the Republican side, they have reasonably affectionate views of George Bush Sr. and George Bush Jr.
The point is, Jeb Bush isn't any good.
He's no good at retail politics.
All he's got is $100 million and he's blown through it.
60% of the ads I see on TV in New Hampshire are Jeb Bush ads.
And he hasn't got a clue.
He's hoping to pick up Lindsey Graham's endorsements.
The endorsements are what's killing him.
He's running an ad in New Hampshire saying 27 admirals support him for the presidency.
Nobody cares about your 27 admirals.
Why wouldn't 27 admirals support you?
They've basically been employed by the Bush family for the last quarter century.
Big deal.
27 admirals.
You should have 270 admirals supporting you.
Nobody cares about that.
He did some town hall meeting, the one where he called Donald Trump a jerk, where he said, let me get this off my chest.
A Canadian blogger, Laura Rosencohen, said, this is the epic beta male moment of the campaign so far when Jeb Bush said, oh, I'd like to get something off my chest.
Donald Trump is a jerk.
And sitting behind him, he's got Judd Gregg, Republican senator, former Republican senator from New Hampshire, and all the Republican big shots from the Republican Party establishment.
How stupid do you have to be to have $100 million and not know that this is not a year for endorsements and sitting in front of washed up retired senators that nobody cares about and boasting about the number of admirals who support you?
Don't you understand, particularly when you're a Bush, you're the third Bush and you want to be president in 25 years.
You want to be the third Bush.
Your brother's been president and your father's been president.
The last thing you need is to say 27 Admirals endorse me.
Of course they endorse you.
You're the royal family of the Republican Party.
Why wouldn't you have 27 admirals on the payroll?
The Bush campaign is the least nimble, most stupid, most wasteful campaign.
You think what they could have done with that $100 million if they just actually tossed it into the Atlantic Ocean and watched it float out across the seas where some starving African peasant on the other side of the globe might have fished out one of those $20 bills.
Maybe it'd be Barack Obama's brother in Kenya who lives on $12 a year and he gets a sodden $20 bill out of the ocean that's floated over from Jeb Bush and it doubles his income for the year.
That would have done more good than Jeb Bush, Mike Murphy, a $100 million PAC has done with that $100 million.
The smart people in the Republican Party are too stupid, are too stupid even to know what they're doing with Jeb Bush's $100 million.
And that's part of the problem.
The problem with the Jeb Bush campaign is not Trump.
The problem is Jeb.
And all Trump did was point it out with a single adjective.
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Let's go to Ray in Livermore, California.
Ray, you're live on America's number one radio show.
Great to have you with us.
Yes, Merry Christmas and happy Uyghur Wednesday.
Dittos to you, Mr. Steiner.
Yes, big super Uyghur Wednesday.
Dittos to you too, Ray.
Yes, I think Hillary's missing a great opportunity here with the Schlongate comment in that, do you remember when Dane Quayle was in the vice presidential debate?
I can't remember the old guy, the Democrat he was debating with.
Yeah, that's right.
Benson, yeah.
Benson, Lloyd Benson.
And they went the John Kennedy route, and he said, I knew John Kennedy, and you, sir, you're no John Kennedy.
Hillary could use this.
She could say, I'm married to President Schlong.
President Schlong has schlonged more people in D.C. than anyone.
You, sir, Mr. Trump, are no Schlong.
Missing an opportunity here.
Yeah, that's true.
I would pay to see that debate.
That's pay-per-view.
You're absolutely right.
She was married to President Schlong.
You know, Kurt Schlichter, who's a Republican rep, but where's he from?
He's from out your part of the world.
He's somewhere on the West Coast, isn't he?
Somewhere out that way.
He was on with Don Lemon on CNN, and he actually tried to point this out.
He said, you're talking about someone who's been married, who's been an enabler for someone who's had all these sexual accusations against him, who turned his intern into an ad hoc humidor.
And Don Lemon on CNN finally says, we've had enough of this and cuts the guy off.
And that's what you should do by pushing back on this.
Push back on this the way Kurt Schlichter did.
And don't take it from them.
But you're right.
Instead, you know, all this works for Trump.
The problem now for the non-Trump part of the nation, because this thing goes back to June now.
Ever since June, people started saying Trump is going to implode.
Trump is going to implode.
Nothing he says doesn't work for him.
He can do what he wants and his numbers go up.
He's basically just nibbling 40% now in the latest polls.
With one exception, they've all had him in the high 30s.
That's since the Muslim comment.
Then since he said, let's end all Muslim immigration.
He's gone up to about 38, 39%.
He's tickling 40% in the polls.
He's twice as high as his nearest rival, Ted Cruz.
And Ted Cruz has got twice as many votes as Mr. Mainstream.
That's Marco Rubio.
And everyone else is a single-digit asterisk.
That's the genius of the Republican Party.
Nothing Trump does doesn't work for him.
Karl Rove, you know, Karl Rove isn't an idiot like Eric Cantor, but Karl Rove was also talking this morning and says he thinks this kind of thing is a distraction, that in a campaign, what matters is time.
And so we're running out of time till Iowa.
We're running out of time to New Hampshire.
So what matters is how you use your time, and it's unproductive to use your time talking about whether or not Hillary got schlonged.
And in fact, those rules don't apply to Trump.
Trump is happy to talk about whether or not Hillary got schlonged all the way to Iowa.
It's not going to work for him.
They've yet to find something that doesn't work for him.
And for all the complaints, by the way, that this is a distraction, this is trivial, this is vulgar, Trump was the one who raised something really.
Raised the immigration issue, and then he raised the Islam issue.
And when you look at the other guy, like I live in New Hampshire, and so I get, I've got nothing but primary ads now.
Nothing.
I would love to see a TV commercial for the self-lubricating catheter.
It's disappeared.
It's like they banned it.
They've disinvented it.
I will never see a self-lubricating catheter ad until after the New Hampshire primary now.
And I apologize for mentioning the self-lubricating catheter just off the back of the Schlongate discussion because it's all getting a bit leg-crossing this conversation.
But you look at the other ads, they're like from another world.
When John Kasich was doing his I'm Proud to Be the Son of a Mailman ad, Marco Rubio's going, oh, this is America.
This is the greatest way of living the greatest nation on earth.
We're the most American nation that's ever existed.
They're all doing ads as if Trump was never invented.
And Trump has blown apart all these rules.
And the only guy who's actually figured that out and bided his time and is now in a commanding second place and in the lead in Iowa is Ted Cruz.
So the whole what they've done they've done an enormous service, these two guys, just by blowing up the entire stupid conventions of the nominating process because the nominating process has failed for the last several cycles.
It hasn't worked for Republicans.
It ends up delivering them the decent loser, the guy who gives a great concession speech.
Nobody could be more respectful than I of Bob Dole's ability to give a really classy concession speech.
And if you're looking for the guy who will deliver, you know, a truly great concession speech, then McCain, Romney, Bob Dole, the Republican nominating process works just dandy.
But it doesn't work in the real world if you want to make a difference.
And I think that's – what's that, Mr. Snelly?
I couldn't – No.
No, no, of course, Mr. Selyas is the average American upset by Schlongate.
No.
No, of course not.
It's stupid.
We live in a world.
The biggest pop star of the day, apart from me, I'm like number three with my cat album.
And then there's Meghan Traynor.
Megan Traynor had a big hit by singing a love song to her bottom.
That's America.
It's all about that bass is basically all about how spectacular Meghan Traynor's bottom is.
That's what the pop song is.
They didn't used to have these kind of...
Mr. Sturdley's looking shocked.
It's all about how she's got a fabulous booty.
And that's what Meghan Traynor's big hit was.
Now, they didn't they didn't used to sing love songs.
Love songs used to be Mr. Certainly's looking baffled.
Love songs used to be all about boy meets girl.
And they didn't used to have, you know, some enchanted evening.
You may see your bottom in the mirror and think how fabulous it looks.
They didn't have songs like that in the old days.
Now Meghan Traynor has a big hit song about her bottom.
The biggest star of the Meghan Traynor is Miley Cyrus.
Miley Cyrus, who's twerking all over the TV.
She looks like Justin Bieber, except he's got perkier breasts.
You can't tell the difference.
The girly boy looks the same as the boyish girl.
And neither of them are, except she wears fewer clothes.
She's there in a sh a, I was going to say a schlong.
She's there in a thong.
She's got a schlong in a thong.
And she's standing there bent over, twerking in Middle America's face.
Twerking.
That's like, Mr. Sterling can't believe it.
You didn't have it in the old days.
couldn't switch on the Andy Williams Christmas show and have Andy twerking his bottom in your face but that now is where and so suddenly No, I don't.
Whose bottom are you talking about now?
Oh, oh, yes, no, I'd say her bottom is better than Nikki Minaj's.
This is, by the way, but Mr. Snerdley has got me off track here.
But the, here is the, here is the point.
You can't then have a culture in which people are twerking in your face and then suddenly, oh, what does this word schlonged mean?
I'm so, you know, I'm a dowager duchess and Donald Trump.
I got on the subway and Donald Trump broke in in front of me and I'm just so offended and affronted by it.
Yukada, it's completely ridiculous.
You know, she's the queen.
Hillary is running as the queen, which is unfair to queens.
I met a lot of queens over the years.
I've met my own queen, the queen of Canada, Queen of the United Kingdom.
I met the Queen of Netherland, Queen of the Netherlands, Queen Beatrix.
She gave me a very nice tour of Versailles.
We went around Versailles together.
I met the Queen of Denmark.
I met the Queen.
I sat next to the Queen of Spain.
I made her laugh so much that her makeup powder all fell over me and onto my shoulders, made it look like a terrible worst case of dandruff because the Queen of Spain.
I met tons of queens.
I've never met anyone as queenlier as Hillary Rodham Clinton.
And this idea that somehow you could make, you could say schlonged to the Queen of Spain.
You could say schlong to the Queen of Denmark.
Why can't you say schlong to Hillary Clinton?
This is nuts.
Nobody cares about this.
It works.
And as long as you do this, if you want to see Donald Trump go to 48, 57, 63%.
People say, oh, he's got a ceiling.
He's got a ceiling.
He can't say Mexico.
Sure, there's 15% of people who like him talking about Mexican rapists, but he's got a ceiling.
Okay, sure.
Then when he said John McCain is an idiot because he got captured, there's a ceiling for this kind of stuff.
Sure, it's 23%.
Then when he says, oh, menstruating women on Fox News, oh, there's a ceiling for that.
He can't go like 29%.
Now then he says, let's ban all Muslims.
Oh, there's a ceiling for that.
Oh, it's 34%.
Oh, Hillary Clinton got shot.
Oh, there's a ceiling for that.
Yes, the ceiling's 98% if this keeps up.
Mark Stein, infra.
I'm going to have a sedative and calm down.
But the idea that anyone cares about this is completely ridiculous.
The golden EIV microphone will take more of your calls straight ahead.
Hey, Mark Stein, Infra Rush.
Let's go to Rob in Dallas, Texas.
Rob, you're live on the Rush Slimboard show.
Hi, Mark.
Thank you for taking my call and Merry Christmas to you.
Merry Christmas to you too, Rob.
I also have to thank you, sir.
I needed a good laugh, and you have provided it.
Thank you.
Well, we do our best.
I don't know quite how we got to Andy Williams twerking, but you never can tell which way the conversation will go.
What's on your mind today, Rob?
Two quick points, if I bet.
Mr. Bush, I believe, started out at 14% of the popular vote.
Great campaign, $10 million per negative point.
That's right.
That's right.
He spent, he's now at 2% in New Hampshire, so in Iowa.
Yeah, so you and 3% nationally.
So yeah, he's basically spent $10 million for every negative point.
Has anybody ever actually done that in the history of political campaigning in the United States, Rob?
I don't think so.
I think we may have heard.
I don't think so.
One more quick point, if I bet.
Yeah.
For the sake of argument, let's say that Hillary Clinton is correct, that ISIS video uses Donald Trump to turn jihadists.
Right.
Okay, let's say that's correct.
You're saying that an otherwise peace-loving people of a peaceful religion can be turned to kill people because one guy says something bad about a Muslim.
That's delusional.
No, it makes complete sense, Rob.
If you look at the way the media, if you look at the way Donald Trump can use the word schlonged and David Brock accuses him of peddling Obama is a black rapist fantasies, it's entirely reasonable to suggest that, likewise,
a sentence from Donald Trump could inflame millions of otherwise peaceful Muslims who are all just quietly going about their business around the world, you know, sharpening the scimitar for in Raqqa, for ISIS, strapping on the suicide bomber belt.
They're all just leading peaceful lives, and then Donald Trump says something, and suddenly they're ready to kill and bomb and everything.
We've been wondering about the root causes.
The left is all about the root causes.
Ever since 9-11, they've said, well, well, yes, it's all very well to be angry and upset about a big smoking crater in lower Manhattan, but what we need to do is look at the root causes.
And after 14 years, it turns out that the root cause is Donald Trump.
This is valuable information because it suggests an easy and affordable way to bring the whole war on terror to a close, Rob.
So they've done a terrific job.
By the way, Rob, before we leave you, who do you like so far in the Republican primary?
I am certainly behind Mr. Trump and Mr. Cruz.
Okay.
So you're with the extremist fringe commanding 71% of the vote, as opposed to the respectable mainstream candidate with broad appeal, Jeb Bush, commanding 3% of the vote.
That's good to know, Rob.
Thanks for your call and a very Merry Christmas to you.
This is Mark Stein in for Rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, 1-800-282-2882.
And we'll take more of your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein in Forush, more breaking news on this Schlong business.
It's been used on Family Feud.
By the way, Family Feud, that doesn't mean it's Bill, Hillary, or Chelsea fighting over who gets to do the $2 million speech for some layabout Gulf Amir.
It's apparently a game show.
But on this Family Feud game show, it's the guy who's got everybody in Columbia on suicide watch since he announced the Steve Harvey, since he got the name of the Miss Universe.
If Donald Trump had still been running that contest, Steve Harvey would have been schlong by now.
But it turns out that the schlong came up on Family Feud as the answer to the question, name something an airline pilot might hold during a long flight.
And the Johnson family, the Johnson family, said that it was his schlong.
Could have been any kind of question, though.
Okay, name something a president of the United States showed to Paula Jones.
Name something that a president of the United States had to have photographed as part of a grand jury sexual harassment investigation.
Could have been any kind of question.
But it was, yeah, name something Hillary Clinton doesn't get to.
Oh, never mind.
Anyway, Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
I'm going to be here tomorrow, and then you'll be relieved to hear we have EIB approved Christmas music for three hours on Christmas Day.
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