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RUSH: Well, this is hilarious. I\u2019m sitting here monitoring PMSNBC during the break, and you know what they\u2019re doing right now? They are doing a serious hand-wringing segment on the nuke explosion last night on “24” and whether or not it will help Bush. They\u2019ve got some yin-yang Democrat guest and some former assistant press secretary for Bush, debating whether the nuke explosion on a television show will help Bush. Help Bush? They\u2019re going on and on and on about how this show is watched (interruption). Oh, look! They just put a caption up: “John McCain and Rush Limbaugh are huge fans.” So the whole point is that “24” is nothing but propaganda, designed to prop up the Bush administration, or Bush personally, by lighting off a nuke last night in Valencia, California. Uhhhh. (Laughing.) They are worried to death! Anything that they think might turn public opinion around on the war on terror, they\u2019ve gotta do a segment on, and they gotta bring in people. Folks, it\u2019s a television show!<\/p>\n

Right before the break ended, the Democrat — and I never heard him of this guy. I don\u2019t know who he is. (Some red freckle-faced kid whose parents would not have had him had been proper testing, because who wants a redheaded freckle-faced kid these days when you can put designer babies together, so he\u2019s lucky to be alive.) He\u2019s there saying, “Jack Bauer can\u2019t seen save Bush and his administration…” He\u2019s deadly serious! “Not even Jack Bauer…” and of course Drudge had a story yesterday that some Fox unnamed source told him, “Yeah, it\u2019s time to…” I forget the exact quote. Time to give the country a wake-up call or some such thing, as though the nuke in the show is designed to show the American people what can happen. Well, it can, but (laughing). I moderated a seminar last June for the Heritage Foundation with Howard Gordon, who is the lead writer and executive producer, and Joel Surnow, who is the executive producer-creator, and Mary Lynn Rajskub was there (Chloe) and Carlos Bernard (Tony Almeda), and a couple other people, and Bob Cochran, who was Surnow\u2019s co-creator, and of course they were kind of amused at the serious think tank-type questions that were being lobbed at them. They said, “Well, we do take terrorism very seriously, but it\u2019s a television show, and we write this thing so many months in advance that to try to predict future events and then tie our show to them is sort of impossible. We don\u2019t do that. We\u2019re just trying to make every episode better than the last one,” but these libs in the media are panicked, because a nuke\u2019s been lit off, and they\u2019re worried the American people will say, “Well, you know, that actually could happen here,” and will that help Bush? You see, they\u2019re on the verge out there, folks, of turning the whole country against Bush on not just Iraq, but the whole war on terror. It\u2019s hilarious to watch this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Scott in Austin, Texas. Thank you, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, hi, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, talking about the “24” show. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s intentional propaganda the way those others were saying, but the first thing I thought of when I saw this nuclear explosion is I thought, “Good. Maybe that will wake some people up who have forgotten about 9\/11 and how serious this is,” but the more I think about it, as the debate goes on and people trying to get some of these people wishy-washy types to be more serious about the war on terror, “Look what could happen, nuclear war,” I\u2019m wondering if the other side is going to say, “Ah, that\u2019s just TV! That\u2019s just a TV show. That could never happen,” when it could happen.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask you a question.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you really think that the liberals as we\u2019ve come to know and love them today, who are convinced that America is responsible for all of the bad things happening to us –, that we have created hatred around the world because of our various “selfishness,” our “pollution,” our superpower status, all these things — and as such their guilt is so profound they feel that we are justified in losing a war. “We deserve to be taken down a couple notches. We deserve to lose. We deserve to be embarrassed,” and so forth. Do you really think a television show which lights off a nuke in the context of terrorism is going to cause them to change their minds about anything?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, on a certain level —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — do think we deserve… There\u2019s a segment of the crowd that thinks that. I don\u2019t think anybody is ready for a nuclear bomb. I hope that isn\u2019t the wake-up call they need. Maybe just the show is what they need to get serious about it. They\u2019ve forgotten about 9\/11. That was a million years ago to them. That\u2019s ancient history, and they\u2019re not taking it seriously anymore.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I know. A lot of people aren\u2019t, because they don\u2019t have to. This is not hard, psychologically, to understand. We are at war, but we aren\u2019t! The country doesn\u2019t have to come together for us to be at war. Those who don\u2019t want to even acknowledge that we are at war don\u2019t have to! Their lives are unaffected by it. Their jobs are there every day, more so than ever before. Affluence and the opportunity for it is at an all-time high. I have to find the story in the stack yesterday that dovetails with this. It\u2019s all about how the middle class is doing everything it can to pretend it\u2019s rich! It\u2019s trying to live its life (or live their lives) as they read that the rich do. So there\u2019s clearly a desire on the part of more Americans than ever before to be upwardly mobile because they think they can reach it. The liberals keep running around, “Well, we haven\u2019t sacrificed.” What do you want us to do? “Well, you should pay higher taxes.” We don\u2019t have to! What is this notion of sacrifice? Nobody thinks they have to in order to fight this war on terror. Hell, the Democratic Party in this country has done its best, Scott, to erase of memory of 9\/11!<\/p>\n

New York City still can\u2019t agree on a plan to start rebuilding the World Trade Center. When that starts going back up, it will bring some memories; we\u2019ll refocus. But in the end — and I really don\u2019t throwing cold water on things. I really don\u2019t, because I know people get all excited about their own interpretations of things, but when it comes to the nuclear light-off last night, the nuclear explosion on “24”, please try to keep in mind the context of the program. This is Season Six, and you have to keep doing something new. I know they debated this a long time. They wondered about the ramifications of it and so forth. What it boils down to is: at the end of the day they\u2019re doing a television show; it\u2019s highly competitive out there, and they just can\u2019t keep repeating the same old thing. In fact, I wonder what they\u2019re going to do next. What else is there to do after six years of this kind of exploration of terrorism on “24”? This is just my guess, okay? I\u2019m just like you. I don\u2019t know this. I\u2019ve not discussed this with my buds there. I think they\u2019re going to throw everything there is left in the scenarios of militant, dramatic terrorist acts in this country into this season and then next year move on to something else. I have no clue what it would be. So there are still four suitcase nukes out there in this show. Folks, you think one nuclear blast is shocking? What if there are four more? Well, there won\u2019t be four more, because Bauer has to save the day on one of them, I would think.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019ve got the sound bite here from the redheaded freckle-faced guy that was on MSNBC a moment ago with Norah O\u2019Donnell discussing the propaganda that 24 is for the Bush administration. His name is Michael Feldman, and he\u2019s a blogger at HotSoup.com. He\u2019s a former Algore advisor, and Norah O\u2019Donnell said, “The Drudge Report yesterday online quoted an unidentified Fox executive as saying, ‘It\u2019s time to wake up the country.\u2019 Is this propaganda, or is it entertainment?”<\/p>\n

REDHEAD: Look, it\u2019s entertainment, and not even Jack Bauer can save President Bush and his administration, especially right now and given his popularity, but — but seriously, I think the American people know the difference between fact and fiction. But, uh, in a post-9\/11 world, especially in a place where Americans have fears, uh, about, uh, their homeland, attacks on their homeland, uh, about terrorism, popular culture can tap into something, and there\u2019s no doubt that these issues in this show taps into a psyche, uh, with the American people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, then you ought to be worried, Mr. Feldman, because your party is doing everything it can to say these fears don\u2019t really exist.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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