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A Most Excellent Multi Media Moment

Yesterday, Saturday, a drive to Orlando-instead of listening to the radio, we listened to 5 Glenn and Helen Podcasts (just scroll down to download each) via my Ipod. These podcasts are really, really good:

Fat Kids and Beer (download here)

Glenn and Helen Interview John McCain (download here)

Interview with Chris Anderson who wrote the book,  The Long Tail : Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (download here)

Interview with Austin Bay and Jim Dunnigan on North Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the War in General (download here)

Interview with Andy Kessler on the Revolution in Medicine (download here)

And for your Sunday viewing pleasure, don't miss this little video ditty, Al Gore's Penguin Army (HT: MacsMind).

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Today's Index of the Rush Limbaugh Program

Rush is back from vacation today and so is my index of his show. Today's topics include: Senator Frist's position on stem cell research, Bush's recess appointment of John Bolton as Ambassador to the UN, the Adkins Diet, Condoleeza Rice's statements regarding the Israeli/Palestinian situation, the launch of Gore TV, has Bush turned away from the new tone, and Kennedy gets an earful from the troops.

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DittoPod Index - June 15, 2005

This is a brief description of the topics covered on Rush's program today. The time noted indicates where in the podcast (mp3 file) the topic begins.

Hour 1 - Rush Limbaugh Program

:45 - At a fundraising event last night President Bush finally took the gloves off/Rush gets tired of carrying the water for this administration/MSM most interested in the porn star who attended the event
2:43 - Rush's web site has a Gitmo brochure that includes a picture of a guy on a sailboat/the guy is Senator Kennedy/liberals in Congress make the US appear weak/McCain says that our country's reputation is suffering because of treatment of Gitmo detainees
7:35 - Rich Galen's blog thinks that if Sen. Biden insists on closing Gitmo, we should move the terrorists there to a prison in Delaware/prisoners at a prison in Delaware are not treated real well
10:06 - McCain said on TV that the judicial process should be moved forward/Thomas Friedman in the NY Times got the close Gitmo idea started
13:06 - Friedman in the NY Times today calls for doubling the number of troops in Iraq
16:03 - Caller comments on Sen. Sessions comments that the whole tone of the Gitmo hearings is ridiculous, that it gives aid and comfort to the enemy
20:00 - Bush rips Democrats as nothing but obstructionists/media today has not covered the event/Bush contined with the message and tone the next morning
24:08 - Energy bill is held up by Democrats not wanting to drill for oil in Anwar
27:50 - NY Times did cover the President's speech
28:18 - Ohio primary yesterday: son of Sen. DeWine lost, finished fourth/people of Ohio are fed up with judicial activism and voted against DeWine's son
29:54 - Caller says Rush being unfair to Friedman because he's defended the war in Iraq/Rush says Friedman has been uneven about the war/Rush has noticed a pattern/Rush thinks there's collaboration between politicians and journalists - from both parties
34:15 - Caller says that loss of DeWine's son makes it clear that a McCain candidacy is dead in the water

Hour 2 - Rush Limbaugh Program

:25 - Rush researched Friedman's record on Iraq/in May 2004 he wrote a column saying that the Bush cares more about winning reelection than doing well in Iraq
3:05 - Republicans thinking about raising retirement age to 69/increase in age would be over 20 or more years
5:57 - Gov. Schwarzeneger's speaking out against high property taxes/lawmakers are surrendering to the governor on major issues
10:28 - Caller reminds people that Kerry and others protested Nixon in the 70's when he tried to send more troops to Viet Name/Rush says Kerry et. al. are being consistent because the goal is to remove the President from office/the more troops in Iraq, the more troops at risk
14:24 - Caller says that the President is preaching to the choir, that he needs to get out of the oval office and tell the people
15:49 - LA Times piece asks who should apologize for the filibuster that was employed to stop anti-lynching legislation/the filibuster remains indefensible
20:54 - 1968: Senator Byrd condemning Martin Luther King/Democrats lead the filibuster to stop anti-lynching legislation
22:17 - Caller says that military doesn't have the resources to double the troop numbers/will give Democrats the chance to call for a draft
24:03 - Caller says that a hostage was rescued in Iraq
25:40 - American Muslims of Puget Sound discussed with FBI agents as to how to relate to Muslims/gave them list of what to avoid when with Muslims
28:42 - Reporter called Byrd's spokesman if Byrd had participated in any lynchings/spokesman said he wasn't sure
30:15 - Caller wants to see McCain compare Gitmo to the Hanoi Hilton
34:17 - Sen. Leahy soundbite ridiculing Sen. Duncan's focusing on excellent food served at Gitmo
35:40 - Frist says he'll force a vote on Bolton this week

Hour 3 - Rush Limbaugh Program

1:45 - Democrats want to see more documents re the Bolton nomination/Rush thinks that the gang of 14 deal has emboldened the Democrats to keep the filibuster alive
4:18 - Environmentalists have gotten cave bugs more protections than people in Texas/movement is economically foolish
11:48 - Drive by caller suggests that if kids in NY are hot, we should send them to air conditioned Gitmo
14:24 - Caller wonders why NY didn't let kids out of school earlier in the year when it's cooler/reason is that kids have to attend school a certain number of school in order to qualify for federal money
17:40 - Caller says Club Gitmo is lacking entertainment/people at Club Gitmo don't like fun
19:00 - Caller reports that his Senator compared Gitmo treatment to Pol Pot, etc.
22:50 - A principal asked teachers to reconsider grades of 98 high school students to see if they could get D's instead of failing grades
24:40 - From the American Thinker blog: Rush reads Durbin's statements on the floor of the Senate yesterday/compares treatment of Gitmo prisoners to way Nazi's, Soviets and Pol Pot regimes treated their victims
31:33 - Caller outraged by Durbin's comments and called his office and told him he was a traitor
33:22 - Caller says that there's already entertainment at Gitmo: puppet shows and women

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DittoPod Index - June 14, 2005

This is a brief description of the topics covered on Rush's program today. The time noted indicates where in the podcast (mp3 file) the topic begins.

Hour 1 - Rush Limbaugh Program

1:08 - Annenburg survey that many Americans think Rush is a journalist/reporters wanted Rush's comments
4:51 - Rush gives his take on the Michael Jackson trial/Rush admires the jury for their decision/thought the prosecution's case was poor
19:07 - Gitmo: journalist admits that journalists do not pick sides in the war/disconnect that journalists are Americans but do not side with the country/Rush says that Harry Reid and his ilk are the ones humiliating this country
21:45 - Rush speculates that Republican Christians might want to go to Gitmo so they can freely practice their religion/Gitmo may be a great vacation spot for oppressed Christians in the US
23:11 - Duncan Hunter shows the media actual meals served at Gitmo which are excellent food/Gitmo food superior to what our active military gets to eat/Gitmo interrogations revealed who 20th hijacker is/12 of those released from Gitmo have returned to battle to kill Americans
28:46 - Time Magazine reporter reports on TV about the behavior of the 20th hijacker at Gitmo/one tactic was to have a female interragator with the detainee/20th hijacker is being treated more humanely that Terri Schiavo was treated/why didn't the MSM report how well the Gitmo detainees are being fed

Hour 2 - Rush Limbaugh Program

1:40 - If we need to close Gitmo because of national embarrassment then the US Senate should be closed too
2:13 - Time Magazine reporter is compared by a caller to what Jane Fonda did/Rush says that the media's template for this war is the Viet Name war template
5:22 - Time reporter describes the 20th hijacker as oddly innocent, that he doesn't know where Cuba is or what dinosaurs are/Rush says the reporter is excusing what the 20th hijacker has done/more example of the disconnect between the reality of the war against us and the way the media reports it
8:20 - Time reporter claims that the media doesn't feel sorry for the Gitmo terrorists/Rush says this arrogance is driving a wedge between the media and average Americans
9:53 - Congressman Rangle says that he's sure that all American who is fighting is worried about themselves because of what we're doing to detainees at Gitmo/a caller tells Rush that absolutely does not agree with Rangle and asks where the apology is to us for the horrors inflicted on Americans by the enemy
15:35 - What's really galling is that people like Rangle don't understand the enemy even after 911
16:15 - Gallup poll shows that public confidence in the press has fallen to all time low
17:48 - Rush calls for a 90 day cease fire in Iraq by the MSM and weak Republicans' efforts against the war
20:24 - Caller says that President Bush should be daily hammering home the fact that we are still at war
21:24 - Reason Gitmo detainees are not taken to US territory is so they remain ineligible for the rights of people on US soil
22:22 - Caller states that the last time he was embarrassed by the government was when Clinton was carrying on with Monical
23:14 - Putin said that African countries used to practice cannibalism and that the comparison between Russia and Africa was not fair
24:41 - Caller says that Dutch captured enemies during World War II and were put on Bonaire/prisoners liked it so much that after the war they bought the island
26:06 - American kids are supposedly going to school hungry while the terrorists trying to kill our kids are living like kings
27:07 - New poll that majority of Americans think that the action Iraq will lead to a freer Middle East
29:42 - When most media outlets do a poll it needs to be considered an editorial by that outlet
30:22 - A contractor say that there were discussion with Kofi Annan regarding Cotecna's involvement with the Oil for Food program
33:30 - Breaking News: a helicopter with 7 on board crashed near Wall Street, pontoons deployed, all 7 people were rescured

Hour 3 - Rush Limbaugh Program

4:33 - Sony will add CD copy protection to all their CD's/the Millenium Act is main reason behind Rush's podcasts containing no music
5:40 - Senators of both political parties are traveling on business and not paying for it
8:30 - Steve Job's commencement speech at Stanford: told the graduates that dropping out of college was one of the smartest things he ever did
13:08 - Caller is excited about upcoming elections/the 7 Senator dwarfs have jazzed him to become more politically involved/Rush agrees that in a political sense Gitmo, etc. will backfire on the liberals
16:16 - Article about George Lackoff saying that liberals must speak from the heart and not from polls
19:10 - VP Cheney said on TV that Howard Dean is "over the top."
20:21 - Dean says that Fox News has a conservative bias/Rush asks how that's the case since many liberals appear on Fox News
25:42 - Caller says he flew missions to/from Abu Ghraib prison when it was under siege in May of 2004/this is an example of a US humanitarian mission that came under fire
27:50 - Washington Post today writes that McCain and Jeb Bush ticket makes the most sense for 2008 ticket/Democrats fear such a ticket
31:00 - Caller says that Fox News is not fair when putting Alan Colmes up against Hannity/challenges Rush as to how he can advocate for moral values when Rush has been divorced three times and has been a drug addict
34:19 - Caller tells Rush that he gives a commencement speech every day/her son returned to college after he started to listen to Rush

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