Posted on 06/23/2006 6:57:44 AM PDT by Matchett-PI
Starting at 10AM ET, live from Washington, Rush moderates a discussion featuring the brains behind "24" -- Joel Surnow, Robert Cochran and Howard Gordon -- your favorite "24" cast members, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, Heritage Foundation analysts, more...
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Thanks for the ping. I'm listening...
I won't be able to stream this at work (too many liberals about) but will try to catch the C-SPAN replay at 7:00 tonight.
I have already had some dropouts. Looks like maybe server overload
Has it actually started? I'm only hearing background noise.
Thanks for the ping, waiting!
Ping the fans of the 24 show!
Only a full stage shot. No one on stage yet. The video earlier fooze and went blank a few times. Seems OK now. 7 min late and not started yet
Not yet...
Thanks for the ping! Here we are...I got in as soon as I saw the red button...
Things getting quiet...I think here we go...
Looks like it's just now starting! bttt
Welcome. I wonder what the holdup is?
NO...just lost audio...How's everyone else?
" fooze and went blank a few times."
I've done that a few times myself!
OK, back...must be server overload, like someone said.
I did as well for a few seconds.
Hey, aren't you going to live-thread this for those of us who don't have Rush 24-7?
Did it for him. Johnnie's doing some kind of "bikini research" today.
LOL
If you have access to C-SPAN 3, it is on now.
Thanks! He does have his priorities, doesn't he. :)
Thanks for the ping, Janice!
Here's a link...
http://www.vodium.com/goto/heritage/webcast.htm
Fregards,
Dave
OK...Right now, it's just the head of the Heritage Foundation who is introducing the topic. Thanking the armed forces. "There have been no terrorist attacks since Jack Bauer's been around"...but it's really the thousands of Homeland Security. SO we got everyone together. 24 & American Security, Fact, Fiction or something together? Chertoff going to be there.
See post #27...
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Referencing dedicated folks of Miami Security. Chertoff will speak with a few mins for questions...Apparently he'll be up first. Bio of Chertoff, talking about his work with Criminal Division Justice and Secretary of Homeland Security.
Justice Thomas is there with his wife. Getting a big round of applause. Really big.
It's a good link. (Let's hope it holds up)
See my post #29. People can watch it and save you the effort of trying to recount what is going on.
Whatever you do, DON'T turn on SPan 1. The Democratic Women are on! Arrrrgh!
Chertoff up: ... Thanks for intro...to Heritage. Many distinguished guests. Justice Thomas and wife; LOTS of applause for Justice Thomas...; Rush and Laura are there; (I didn't know Laura was going)...;cast members of 24...producers. Serious note: Observe we have had a series of arrests overnight. Reference to Atty. Gen. will not jump his Press Conference...limited as to what he can say. When you look at events in real life here and Canada, it reminds us that terrorism is a National problem, a threat that exists throughout the country and the world.
That was really amazing.
Why has 24 caught such public attn? Topic, intriguing premise. Thought provoking, typically the actors and the characters have difficult choices. To take drastic and difficult choices against a threat and to have to decide whether or not the choices of inaction. Trying to make best choices when there are a lot of bad options. People aqree that that reflects real life. Sometimes have to make decisions based on imperfect info..
Thanks.
Chertoff: Attraction of the show is people making the best decision they can at the time; realizing there is no "magic bullet" and you might be wrong. But a decision and action must be made and taken.
Rush said yesterday that he warned those who were providing the servers about that "probability". They told him not to worry and assured him that they would be prepared. :)
He is apparently in the audience. Was that your question? Rush is there but Chertoff is giving a short speech and will take a few questions.
I am so glad adults are once again in charge of this country.
Chertoff: when you are in the middle of an event with imperfect info and consequences high with wrong info. There IS a risk of mistake. But you HAVE to act. That's what the real life deciders who have to decide every day. Unrealistic: cannot decide life in 24 hours. People in the field also have to decide things not just in 24 hours. Importance of perservance. WE cannot be defeated unless we lose our will. Our perserverance and will is the key. Can't be decided in 24 hours, weeks or even months...Owe our operators the backing and perserverance and resoluteness which are the key to resolving the problem of terrorism.
C-Span 3 stream is excellent.
Thanks to all of Homeland Security, Coast Guard etc. catching bad guys. Real work is shown by many people at DHS, DOJ, DOD, etc. Lots of applause...
From yesterday's program:
June 22, 2006
Rush Previews Friday’s Heritage Foundation Event
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Here's what's happening. I gotta go to Washington this afternoon. The "24" gang, we've got two co-creators, Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran, the chief writer and exec producer Howard Gordon. Gregg Itzin, who plays president Logan, Mary Lynn Rajskub, who is Chloe, and Carlos Bernard, who played Tony Almeda. Tony Almeda is now dead, but he has been brought back to life for the seminar tomorrow. A couple people from Heritage, and Michael Chertoff, the director of homeland security. It's from ten to noon tomorrow. It's at the Reagan Building, and they went out and got the biggest auditorium they could there. I think it holds about 650 or 700 people. This is what they asked me not to mention until today because they couldn't handle whatever interests for attendance that there are. Knowing that would be the case, we've been working feverishly all week, because we don't control this venue like we control our own network. So we have been working diligently with a number of people to provide a live stream at RushLimbaugh.com of the panel discussion and seminar tomorrow that I am moderating.
Now, I always felt I have to cover my bets on this because no matter what we tell people about the demand they should expect, "Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, we can handle it," until it happens. "My God, we've never seen anything like this!" So we have tried to cover our bases on this. We have received confirmation from the Heritage Foundation and the people at the Reagan Center, and we will be able to stream according to our desires here. The streaming is being handled by a third-party company for the Heritage Foundation, and they have never experienced the Titanic, gale-force power of the EIB audience. So we've tried to prepare them, we've tried to let them know and they say, "Oh, don't sweat it, we can handle it." Regardless, we'll have it streamed, and if there are streaming problems tomorrow, fear not, it will be made available. We've already put a little banner up at the top of the home page at RushLimbaugh.com explaining this. Now, this is for subscribers only.
Now, I realize many of you are saying, "Well, how come it's just for subscribers, Rush?" Well, because there are massive costs in this, folks. Especially going through third parties and so forth, there are massive costs with this, to be quite frank about it. At some point the panel discussion, seminar, will be made available on the website down the road, some weeks from now, just as DVDs of Rush to Excellence performances are made available down the road and so forth. But if you're a member you won't have any problem accessing the streaming. It's from ten to noon at the Reagan building tomorrow. There's all kinds of fun events that we've planned before and after this. They're private. That's why I'm going down there tonight. No, we're not going to talk to Chertoff about cutting New York's funding. The point of the seminar -- I'll tell you how this came together. As I've told you people, I had a dinner party for the "24" gang at my fashionable Oceanside estate, which, according to New York Times, is going to be underwater here soon because of rising sea levels. Yeah, they sent a photographer down to Palm Beach and there's actually pictures of homes near the beach that might be underwater soon.
They're panic oriented. It's a beach erosion problem, it's not rising sea levels. I know it's beach erosion because those of us who live on the north end of the island have been taxed exorbitantly in order to move sand, which we have plenty of on our end, down to the middle and south ends of the island. But enough of that. Yeah, turtles will be right in the living room, and I'll have to turn the lights off inside the house at night. Now, so I had this dinner party back on March 29th, and among the many guests were Justice Thomas and his wife, Ginny, who works at the Heritage Foundation. The party went on until three o'clock in the morning and people were all over the house inside and outside having conversations, and one of the conversations took place between Joel Surnow and Ginny. "Hey, you know, it would be interesting to do a panel discussion in Washington sometime, if you could get there, about the effect of 24 on the public and the pressures that that might bring on the government in fighting terrorism and so forth." It led to Joel saying, "Hey, that would be cool."
So they put this together and I knew nothing about it, which is no big deal. I'm not suggesting I should have. I didn't know anything about it 'til about three weeks or a month ago, and I found out in a totally unrelated reason. And Ginny said, "Yeah, we're going to do this. Would you like to come moderate it?" I said, "Yeah, I don't know, I don't know if my hearing would allow me to actually do that well, depending on where it is and so forth." We worked on that, so I'm moderating the thing, and again it's ten to noon tomorrow at the Reagan building. I forget the name of the auditorium, but it's like 650 people. There's going to be people from Congress there, people from the administration, people from the state department. They've had massive media requests, Maureen Dowd wants to come. I don't know why she's coming, but she wants to come. She wants to show up. So there's that. We've got a big dinner tonight. Get ready for all this. (interruption) No, I'm not wearing a tux. I probably won't even wear a tie.
I've concluded that God does not want me to be choking while having a good time. I probably won't -- I may wear -- do you think I should wear a tie? Snerdley is shocked and stunned that I won't wear a tie. All right, well, I brought one. I have one tie that I wear. I actually got one tie now. I wear it all the time when I wear a tie, which is three or four times a year now. Let's see, we got a lunch tomorrow after the thing is over, and then a bunch of us are flying to the Dominican Republic tomorrow afternoon, just for some downtime to veg, and we'll be back on Monday, then back to work on Tuesday. So that's the scoop.
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