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RUSH: Ed in Chicago, you\u2019re great, great to have you on the program. Nice to have you with us on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. How you doing? Dittos from the —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — democratic heartland of the Midwest hopefully for not long.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: Listen, you were talking about the Academy Awards, and I think you missed one of the highlights. The highlight was when Kathryn Bigelow, who won the best director for The Hurt Locker, received her award, you have to take a look and focus your attention past Kathryn and look at the presenter, Barbara Streisand.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, you know, you\u2019re absolutely right about this. I\u2019m surprised that Streisand didn\u2019t stab Bigelow.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, she looked like a vampire that just had a steak driven through her heart when Bigelow —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Kathryn Bigelow praised —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — congratulated and thanked our troops.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — congratulated and thanked the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They bring Babs out for the big best picture award, best director, and they have to give it to Bigelow, and when she announced it was Bigelow, what did she say, we\u2019ve crossed another threshold, first woman ever to win the best director.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And she did it twice. She came back out after it won best picture and thanked the troops again.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep. And I thought it was wonderful.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was. You know, The Hurt Locker is the — how to put this? It\u2019s the least-seen best picture in the history of the Oscars.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It only made $14 million, I believe. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s going to make more now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, sure it is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It cost $15 million to make. Avatar cost, what, $250 million to make and made $2.5 billion. And the director of Avatar used to be married to Kathryn Bigelow.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, that\u2019s a kick.<\/p>\n

RUSH: For two years, 1989 to nineteen eighty — well, maybe three, depending on when it started. And so yeah, that was interesting. Now, this movie, The Hurt Locker, have you seen it? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I have.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not without controversy. The guy who wrote it, his name is Boal, claims that the actual soldier involved here that is the focus of the movie claims he had the idea, gave it to the reporter, and the reporter stole it. So that\u2019s being discussed, and then Special Forces and Special Ops guys who have seen the movie have said everything in this thing is wrong, they don\u2019t have us in the right uniforms, there\u2019s no way a guy would go outside the Green Zone all by himself, no way, never happened.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m a Vietnam vet myself.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I watched various movies portraying the war and the fact is is that they have to take some freedoms because basically war is pretty boring. As we used to say, it\u2019s 99% boring, then 1% of the time is when your adrenaline really rushes, and to think of how they could really portray the war in a correct light, I mean people would leave the auditorium. It wouldn\u2019t be any good to watch.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I haven\u2019t seen it yet. I\u2019m not being critical. I\u2019m just telling you some controversy surrounding it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, there\u2019s always going to be controversy because the guys that actually live it can always pick it apart.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. They are.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It really doesn\u2019t portray what they do on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But again, who would sit there and want to watch what they do on a daily basis —<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, I don\u2019t want to take anything away from Bigelow here, you understand this?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, no.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But Cameron never had a chance.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Up against his ex-wife in Hollywood, there is no way that he\u2019s going to win this thing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think Babs showed her true self, though, because like I said, when Bigelow came through and thanked the troops both in Iraq and Afghanistan, Babs\u2019 face, what\u2019s left of it, like I said, it looked like a vampire that was just exposed to sunlight for the first time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, yeah. As I say, I\u2019m surprised she didn\u2019t put a choke hold on her or something. ‘Cause, you know, it\u2019s bad enough that Obama has escalated things in Afghanistan, they\u2019re not happy about that. Now Hollywood basically awarded a director who comes out and thanks the troops rather than Obama. You know what I expected to happen last night? It didn\u2019t happen, and this tells me this is how bad it is for Obama. He should have won an Oscar just in case he decides to act later in life, just like he won the peace prize. He won the peace prize on the come, and so they should have given him an Oscar, but he didn\u2019t get mentioned, Obama didn\u2019t get mentioned, and neither did Bush and neither did Cheney and neither did I. Drudge got mentioned, but that\u2019s \u2019cause he was in a movie. But you know it\u2019s bad out there when they don\u2019t — and even Ben Affleck, he was a presenter, and Ben Affleck, you know, he came out the other day and he said everybody is disappointed in Obama, having to close Gitmo, he\u2019s escalating these wars, redid the Patriot Act. They\u2019re not happy out there. <\/p>\n

If anybody was going to come out and sing Obama\u2019s praises it would have been Ben Affleck, but it didn\u2019t happen. (interruption) I\u2019m not answering the question, Brian. I don\u2019t have to explain to you. ‘First you\u2019re watching The Bachelor, and now you\u2019re watching the Oscars?\u2019 I\u2019ve watched the Oscars before. I watched The Bachelor — (interruption) I have not lost control of the remote, and I haven\u2019t lost control of my television. (laughing) The staff here is very, very brave. Very brave. I\u2019ve not lost control of the remote. If I want to watch something she doesn\u2019t want to watch she goes in another room. I don\u2019t lose control of it. I watched The Bachelor because I finally had to do some cultural examination and analysis of — and I\u2019m telling you, I am very frightened. I told you this after I saw that show, I am very frightened. Is it not obvious? You want me to tell you why? Let me think about it. Let me think about it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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