49:42 that would probably end it. They seem to be pretty consumed though with the health care bill. Oh yeah, that's the only thing you can think about. By the way, so the health care thing, which is becoming a fiasco and it's also a nothing to see here moment, there was something interesting. I have a clip. Let me see if I can find my clips. I have a clip from a Hannity show where he has Dick Morris on. Now Dick Morris was a security advisor? No, no, Dick Morris was a, he's a campaign manager, he's like a Karl Rove type of consultant that used to work for Clinton. And he's the guy who got busted for being with a bunch of one too many hookers.
50:25 And so they rousted him out of office and now he's just been a mean-spirited, you know, shill for the Republican Party. But, uh, he's still irked about it and he writes a column that's always... He's the one who tried... But he's also like... He's a... Talk about COINTELPRO in terms of his style. He's the one who was trying to push the Republicans into running, uh, Although it could have done worse in terms of the fact that they lost. But he kept pushing them to thinking that Hillary was going to run. He said the only way that the Republicans could win would be to run Condoleezza Rice for president. Oh right, I remember that. And he was dead serious about it. Or I mean he wasn't really, I think he was just trying to get him to do it because it would have been a complete fiasco.
51:09 But so he shows up on Fox a lot now and he makes a bunch of weird comments. But he actually made something that was kind of interesting on Hannity. And the curious thing is that Hannity completely missed the whole point. He just flew right over his head and Hannity went on with something else. But I think we should play this little clip and then we can discuss. an aspect of it. Because there's no point in that. The more the bill is likely to pass, the more you're likely to vote against it. Because the first thing that's going to happen is it's going to ruin the healthcare system. Everybody's going to suddenly be paying a tax. Everybody's going to suddenly have their insurance premiums go up, which they might anyway, but now they'll blame the bill. You know what Colin Powell said about Iraq? You break it, you own it.
52:09 Well Obama will be responsible for everybody that doesn't have a stubbed toe properly treated once this thing passes and the Democrats will take it on the chin and Becker will explain it later But I think what he's saying is they've got an ace in the hole then they've shown a willingness to bribe. They've shown I miss something important there at the end almost a guy for everybody that doesn't have a stubbed toe properly treated, once this thing passes, the Democrats will take it on the chin. So what is he saying there, John? Well, apparently Hannity didn't know, but it was pretty obvious if you listen to it. First of all, the triggering point for this message, and you have to assume this is true with a guy like Morris,
52:53 When he says, they were talking about how all the operatives of the Democratic Party are told by the administration to say that the bill is a done deal, they're going to pass the bill. And so Morris' triggering point here, if you want to break it down, is he says, I was wondering why. And then he explained that the reason he's wondering why is because of the bills going to be so easily passed it gives everybody in the democrat party especially the blue dogs the opportunity to vote no on it without having to worry about you know it's not passing because it's a little bit different right because it could be they they can always say hey look uh... i voted against it and it passes anyway
53:31 Yeah, it wasn't my fault. They can say it to their constituents because there's a lot of Democrats that are in congressional districts where people don't want this bill to pass and they're obliged to pass it because of the promises made during the campaign but they just as soon vote no if they can and if the message is out there that it's a done deal and it's passed well then they can obviously vote no and so Morris says why are they doing what you know that this doesn't make any logical sense. now but if you take it one and course kennedy didn't pick up on any of that went on something else to say right which is on the way to a we had to have to play a little uh... douchebag So here's what I'm, I was trying to say, well that's an interesting theory and what is, is there a way of looking at this in a meta way? In other words, can we look above it and perhaps in Morris's bewilderment, let's assume that it's done on purpose and for a reason, which is to make sure that the bill actually doesn't pass because Morris makes a bunch of interesting points.
54:29 If the bill passes and the insurance rates go up, don't forget we got the election in 2012, it's two years away. Let's say this thing passes, next thing you know the insurance rates go up, people don't get their stubbed toe fixed, all these things happen. All you start hearing is complaining for the next two years about well you passed this bill, well you got screwed in the deal, and most people think, and by the way today's the day the budget group comes out with the congressional, yeah the CBO. cbo so anyway so they go so so the possibility exist that i believe this is the beginning since will bomb has got more money than anybody else in the insurance companies uh... now this is the fact we you go ahead and look he got to be a million dollars a year all street insurance companies and wall street banks how about this for an idea
55:18 First, they try this crazy scheme to just pass some sort of a memo to make it look as though they approved some bill which nobody's going for. And then they have these talking points. It's almost as if the Democrats are doing everything they can at the highest levels, in other words, Obama's boys, to submarine this bill so it doesn't get passed, but in such a way that they don't get blamed for it. They can say, we tried, the Republicans screwed it up. This is despite the fact that they got this huge majority every which way.
55:53 The Republicans screwed it up, we tried and they won't take, you know, then they can be kind of blameless for the thing going down the tubes. Blame Rush Limbaugh, blame, you know, the blue dog Democrats. They can just throw blame at everybody and try to move on to the next thing because this thing is already a fiasco and the way it's headed, if it does pass... It could actually be more damaging than the fact that Obama couldn't get it passed. I mean, you have two bad things that can happen. One, Obama doesn't get the bill passed, the city is incompetent. Or if he does get it passed and it goes south, which is likely in the way Dick Morris sees it, then Obama gets blamed for all this idiotic, you know, the public didn't want it because they pushed the polls in the other direction.
56:38 I mean, it just seems to me that this is rigged not to pass. It's interesting because another thing I saw yesterday is that Dennis Kucinich, who I believe to be the Democratic Ron Paul, After the president literally took him on the plane, on the Air Force One, and you know, wined and dined him, the guy flipped. He says, okay, now I'm voting for it. It's really important. I've got to do this. And that was disappointing. Yeah, but it was also, yeah, but here's what it looks like. It was disappointing on the surface, but was it really? Or was it just theater?
57:16 that went as follows. Obama's so hard up to get anybody to vote for this thing that he gives them a free ride home on Air Force One at the cost of some godly amount of money. Which, by the way, would get me to flip in a second. I'd be like, you're great! So you fly him up there for some ungodly amount of money that the cost of flight is 747 and he flips over and it looks like he was bribed and there's a meme going out there, oh everyone's bribing, the Nebraska guy's bribed, bribed, bribed, bribed. Right, the Louisiana land purchase. It actually makes it look worse. Interesting.
57:59 Then it makes it look better, and I think it may be part of the theater. Now whether Kucinich is part of the scheme, I doubt. But he played the role perfectly. What's happening there, John? Do you have helicopters flying over? It's the garbage truck. Black garbage truck. It's garbage day. Nothing exciting. Nothing to see here. Move along. It's garbage day here in California. Well that's very interesting and of course, you know, this is the week or maybe next week I guess is when something's supposed to happen. Sunday. Oh really you think Sunday? That's what everybody thinks, yeah. Wow, wow. Okay.
58:41 So we'll see. I mean, I think that we're seeing a lot of theater on both sides of the aisle and it's like what they really want is still up in the air and I think it's gonna bomb out. So it won't pass is what you're saying? I'm thinking it's not going to pass and I think the reason for it is Obama's boys have decided that they're going to have to pull back on this one. And they might as well just blame it on the Republicans and move on. Yeah, and this way Kucinich by the way gets off, he doesn't get It's like it could have been brought into the, you'll say, look, here's what we're doing. You can flip now and then at least when the thing bombs out, you won't get blamed. But if you're one of the people that was on the other side, we're going to throw blame at you. So maybe it's a good idea, even though we know you hate this bill, don't worry, it's not going to pass, but we know you hate it. So if you just flip over to our side for now, which will help us in our scheme, you won't get to take any of the brunt of it. And you know, everything's good.
59:40 Although it just seems so perpendicular to his stance on like you know the illegal war and all this is just like what? Just makes no sense that he well make sense in that regard if you think about it as theater, right? So I think the whole thing is gonna fall down and I think the reason is because of this I think there I think I think Morris has nailed it. I think he was he hit it right on the money He says people are gonna blame Obama for every stubbed toe, you know over the next two years And it's gonna make him difficult for him to get reelected Meanwhile we had our first earthquake here in Los Angeles. Yeah Which was there's a mild one though. I