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That's it my friend for this edition of The World I'm well thank you for listening I will be back with you tomorrow same time same place on these very same civil network stations I am the retirement Professor Marty shatter signing off God bless him a cd Mark. 96 point 10 am 1170 p.s. Are. Now America's number one show on one pop culture and all. Yes this is Tom Michael Medved Show. Another great day in this greatest nation on God's green earth not the last broadcast not the last live broadcast for us of 2018 because we're going to be here on Monday but it is maybe the last broadcast before the last weekend of the year just past and in time to look back at what happened this year what was important what mattered and where are we going in the year ahead one of the things we can I think certify is that almost certainly we will be living with a shutdown for at least a few days in the new year and that means that with the shutdown heading into its 7th day. Tomorrow and on the 7th day they rested well people are furloughed have been resting a lot but the government still going to end up owing them money is there a better way to handle this thing we'll talk about it coming up on The Michael Medved Show We'll also talk about what has been commercially a phenomenal a phenomenal year for movies. And I'm not talking here about the quality of the art history or the substance of the films or the families who debility of any of these movies were not about just sheer dollars and not just dollars because sometimes they make up those movie dollars by raising prices higher and higher and higher more people by a very substantial percentage of going out to see movies in 2018 why we'll talk about that and talk about the best and the worst movies of the year plus I'll give you a full frank and fair review of the big new movie about Ruth Bader Ginsburg it is called on the basis of sex and no it is not a steamy and c. 17 melodrama it's it's actually a p.g. 13 rated. Tribute to the. Supreme Court justice who is having a quite a moment right this moment we will get to that and also review the new Oscar contender Beale Street could talk it's from the director who won the Academy Award for moonlight which was just a couple of years ago Ok when we get to all of that. We will try to assess what it all means in the context the culture and the changes and where we're going but one other way to look at that is who do you admire most it's an annual Gallup poll and what's interesting is somebody who is one the Gallup poll for my most admired woman for 17 years in a row has been knocked off her throne and in fact the most admired man and most admired woman actually have something in common this year they both have the same last name. No it's not Donald in millennia though they both turn up on the list among the most admired males and most admired females and that certainly is not Bill and Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton had one most admired woman in the world 17 years in a row. As it's unbelievable for the 1st time in the last 17 years a woman other than Hillary Clinton has been named by Americans as the woman they had Myer most this is from the Gallup poll former 1st lady Michelle Obama who finished 2nd to Clinton 3 times and is currently touring to promote her recently released autobiography which is called Becoming in it is a gigantic bestseller she won by a significant margin this year Oprah Winfrey was 2nd so Hillary dropped from 1st to 3rd she's not even president and she's run into controversy and a following popularity in esteem because it it isn't even close Michelle Obama was chosen by 15 percent of the people who were asked they just asked an open ended question who is the most admired woman in the world to you and Michelle Obama got 15 percent Hillary Clinton got 4 percent Oprah Winfrey got 4 percent Hillary is actually tied with. Now I'm not sure you would those who admire Malani you know would feel any admiration at all for Hillary or vice versa but I think this raises all kinds of interesting questions is who do we admire and why if you were asked this question who in the world would you pick as the person most to admire it's I think a revealing question for a lot of people in terms of refining what it is that you would mire what you think the world needs more of what you think deserves praise 180955776. If you want to come up with your own nomination for most admired male most admired female and explain the reasons why I would love to hear 818-095-5776 our phone number Ok the. The male side of the equation there's been the same winner for a Levon consecutive years he has the same last night name as the winner for most admired female last name is Obama it's Michelle and Barack Obama wait a minute wait I thought this was supposed to be the most incurably racist horrible bigoted country where no one who is black can possibly get a chance that President Obama was handicapped by the fact that it was black I don't believe that's true for a minute President Obama was chosen by 19 percent of Americans as the person admire most if that's you by the way you can call and explain what you admire about President Obama Donald Trump was chosen in 2nd place by 13 percent and they're really the only ones who registered the other candidates that they put down for most admired person George w. Bush 2 percent Pope Francis 2 percent Bill Gates one percent Bernie Sanders one percent Bernie Sanders you think he's the most admirable male in the world guy who honeymooned in the Soviet Union he did and it was before it was Russia it was the old sunny Soviet Union who conceived his only child while living in a tree house he did most admirable person there as Bernie Sanders below Bernie Sanders Bill Clinton the Dalai Lama. Joe Biden I'm surprised he's not higher and then Elon Musk really most admired person in the world hasn't he gone off the rails just a bit you think in 2018 he's going to be one of the biggest losers of the year and then Mike Pence Mike Pence would have been higher if you hadn't been sitting like the Elf on the shelf in that meeting but when so well between Trump and Pelosi . That was the meeting where President Tom said he would be proud to shutdown the government in any event those are your most admired men most admired women or most admired man and why one of the things that I think is very clear here is we have a tendency in the United States to only honor and recognize people when they die because if he were still alive certainly I think you could make a case that George h.w. Bush deserves consideration for the most admired person in the country I will tell you that I believe and you've heard me express this before that the late John McCain who we also lost this year would deserve consideration for the most admirable mail in the United States but you can't list them because they're no longer with us but we still want to recognize people who are exemplary Americans deeply patriotic Americans who. Who deserve some recognition not just when we miss them when they're gone 180955776 Sherry in Cleveland you have a nomination for most admired woman. Hey Sherry you're on. I would say that making what really is. The most admired female of the time I see articulate she hands up our democracy for the United States prowl and wherever they're against all the bullies in the world that are have a critical and Sorana. You know that's a that's a very very good nomination in fact Nikki Haley is on the top 10 this year as 1st time she's placed on the top 10 the. Places unfortunately right below Ellen De generous who I think probably deserves the distinction considerably less than Ambassador Haley I am still waiting to see what exactly Nikki Haley is going to do next whatever it is I know will be of great service to the republic and to its people we will be right back on more about most admired people and is it usual for the president not to win no it's not usual it happens and it happened this time and why do you think we'll get to that and more coming up. Very very. Very. Very sad. To see. The end. 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On the list of the most admired women in the world Michelle Obama won by a mile I mean 15 percent of people picked Michelle Obama Oprah Winfrey 2nd so the 2 most admired women in the world according to the annual Gallup poll was been doing this for more than 50 years the 2 most admired women in the world are African-American and it goes Michelle Obama Oprah Winfrey Hillary Clinton is 3rd with 4 percent tied with manya Trump at 4 percent and then after manya and Hillary Queen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth holds the record for having been on this list more than anybody else I think the Billy Graham I believe was the the great record holder on the male side of things Billy Graham was always a list of most admired and deserved it and Queen Elizabeth deserves it I mean she is as we mentioned with her Christmas message she's a class act she's followed by Uncle Americal who's going into retirement and then Ruth Bader Ginsburg who is played by the very talented and glamorous British star Felicity Jones in the new movie and then right below Ruth Bader Ginsburg Ellen De generous white of don't know puns have died on the list below. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is Ellen De generous and then Nikki Haley and then this one this has to be a ringer they say that people just saying Who do you admire most in the world that a full one percent of people said of Sinai remember her the. Pakistani girl who. Was persecuted for going to school she's Nobel Prize winner she got one percent I don't know one percent of Americans really can say Malawi on his side and then Nancy Pelosi. Whether she rises in the list will I think depend on how she handles the government shutdown and the matter of impeachment which I just hope we don't move toward I hate the fact that so many folks in the me are just licking their chops for impeachment Let's go to to your calls on most admired to. Jim in Columbus Ohio Jim you're on the Medved Show I Michael Hey how are you I'm well. I'm enjoying your program a lot Well thank you I hope you sign up as a med head member so you can keep getting it every day. Yes I have not but I anyway I wanted to comment on that I Well thank you for your problem have created well as likely I'll make a special deal it's $0.99 for the 1st month. Ok I could probably swing that Ok thank you making me big but go ahead. So she may not be quite as popular as some of your guests but I was always admired by Marcia Clark. I just thought I don't know she was the o.j. Prosecutor Yeah yeah i just some reason see inspired me because I just felt like she. Was a class act you know she was actually trying to bring some justice and I felt like you know that whole trial was just you know at the end of it the way it in the I just felt I don't know any way I always enjoy it's very it's very interesting because I understand she's had a pretty good career since the o.j. Trial but she lost as a prosecutor I mean that's that's I think by yeah but well good for you I've never heard that one before but I'm I hope Marcia Clark you're listening wherever you are and there's a guy right guy in Columbus who in Mars you and you had somebody on the male sign. Yeah I'm going to have to go with George he was a class act too I mean I know a lot of people or maybe not quite on the same so I just I just thought the guy was remarkable was a perfect. But under what he had to go through with our country was 911 and the way he handled himself I have with every decision they made the right one but I just I just thought he was a class act I really admire by the way I agree with you completely he would he would definitely be on my list of most admired people right now I don't know if you know but in his post presidency he's become an extraordinarily talented painter and when you look at his paintings they're they're beautiful and they're well done and he's making a great deal of money on them all of which is going to wounded veterans and. Have a President Bush is amazing guy. And we have been in touch with him and he honestly is someone who is just as warm and decent and kind and smart a human being you may not recognize a smart part of that's there too he's a terrific guy and I appreciate appreciate your call thanks so much Jim. Let's go quickly to Bob in Philadelphia Bob you're on the Michael Medved Show. Michael Well I'm coming from a conservative point point of view but it's funny what you just said about George Bush I think he was out of his league he didn't know what he was doing we shouldn't have been over there we've got multiple deployments of our guys. And it's all kind of a mess up and I'm sorry to say that because I liked the bushes but you know what they're the worst thing that ever happened to us. When you say they are the worst thing that ever happened to us what do you have against President George Herbert Walker Bush. Nothing except that he should have gone in and taken out the rest of that you know wait wait wait wait either you either think the father handled it right or the son handled it right and I thought you said the son handled it wrong I did see the Son handle it wrong Ok. Michael Yeah you're I've listen to you a lot I know you won't be able to say this. But I can tell you this you know that they felt it wrong and though I'm able to say anything I want on the air and I believe that they both handled it right in terms of the initial campaign and one wonderful military victories at relatively low cost it was the occupation of Iraq that was the mistake and the way that was hand we'll be right back on the meds. He's done a superb job. Steve. You . 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On the Michael Medved Show they say in the Gallup poll that just carrying on about the most admired man and most admired woman most admired man in the world for the 11th year in a row is Barack Obama. Anybody out there want to explain why Barack Obama is the most admired I will say that he he looks better as a host president. And then as a president I mean when you remember some of the things like his debates with Mitt Romney by the way Mitt Romney is somebody it seems to me who would deserve consideration he's going to be an important important force in the u.s. Senate where he's going to be instantly not just a Senate freshman but a Senate leader because of his long time leadership in the Republican Party in the business world and a guy who succeeded virtually everything he's ever done and succeeded brilliantly except running for president which he did not succeed but I was thinking about those debates with Obama and Romney and particularly that 1st debate do you know that in polling history there is no presidential debate in history where the response was so overwhelming that one guy won it was an overwhelming majority even Democrats acknowledged that that Romney won that 1st debate with Obama Obama was asleep and we did not respond was not credible was dodgy and Romney was on top of this game it was great and by the way there was greater polling disparity that Romney won the debate that 1st debate 2nd debate was a different story Romney won that 1st debate so overwhelmingly that all of a sudden he gained ground in the polls and it was momentum and it looked good for a while he won by a court in polling by even a larger factor than Kennedy won over Nixon in the 1st debate back in 1960 In any event it says here like the Queen of England Winfrey and Hillary Clinton have long histories finishing among the top 10 women. The Queen of England appeared 50 times more than anybody else in history and that's because she had to work her way up from the bottom and to toil and overcome adversity and Ok I know I'm teasing about that but there is a factor about that with Oprah Winfrey I think one of the reasons people name Oprah Winfrey so much is not only is she charitable and seems to be good hearted and but she works her way up from very difficult circumstances 18095776 our phone number let's go to. Is that. Jim or Tim in Seattle Jim Jim in Seattle yes I would like to put forth a trike. But I'll start with what I thought of 1st Michael Prince the. He's about 85 years old I think he's formally retired but he's been a. Tireless worker on the left for a long long time. He did write a book that turned into a textbook He's written many books to take you name me title I don't know who Michael Parenti is Tell Me Yes Well that's one of the sad tragedies of our time is that not enough people tell me why you admire him so much what did he what does his book say what his book called. I was going mention is called Democracy for the few It's actually been a textbook he was a professor and then he protested the Vietnam War and he was beaten badly once and . Ostracized from the. Academic community so he's been when you think that when do you think that happened. Well no I think you recounted in a book he wrote called dirty truth you could Ok so when when do you think that happened that he was beaten badly and ostracized for being anti Vietnam I was on campus during that period and I will tell you it was much more likely people got ostracized for being pro Vietnam on most college campuses where about me as case I think you disagree with. Well I don't I don't I don't know him I don't know his experience or if that if any of that don't have you remember you remember the night you 68 Democratic Convention Dark Horse hardly a case of being anti-war that turned out well the caucus brutalized people in Chicago Well the demonstrators 1st in 1968 the demonstrators 1st came there to make trouble and to close down the convention and cause vandalism and trouble and the police got out of hand there's no question about it but these were not just peaceful innocent demonstrators they were u.p.s. That was the use in the youth international party. And they came slaughtered pigs and things like that to show their respect for cops. We will be right back on the med that show this came in from Greg in Hawaii regarding relief factor. 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And that's because I do approve President Bush he he did something that was quite remarkable toward the end of his term and by the way he had the full support of Don's a Trump he did and kudos to both of them in rescuing us from a complete total financial meltdown in one of the most successful federal program to in history and it's one of the reasons I believe that President George w. Bush will be remembered like his father as one of our more successful presidents not one of the greatest presidents but a near great and I know you're laughing right now but just wait people people would laugh if I had said that about George Herbert Walker Bush I would have after he lost to Bill Clinton but if you take a look at polls of historians now George Herbert Walker Bush as you saw at the funeral is viewed as a near great president and near Great probably only because he did not get re-elected George w. Did anyway the the point about George w. Bush actually facing up to helping the country it seems to me that should be the standard if your time out who you would mire and why is somebody who helps improve the world improve the country improve his part of reality is something that the that should be deemed admirable not part of that. Has to involve at least some form of integrity and what integrity means integrity comes from all one like being integral being integrated like the different parts of you fit together there's not one part here and one part there and you're not all over the place and unreliable you're a united whole and. Look one of the reason I think people admire President Trump is be cuz he doesn't take any guff and he stands up to the media and he lets people have it if they disagree with him many hold his ground he holds his line and he often wins but with his trip to Iraq recently there were there were 2 examples of both why people admire him it seems to me and why I think that's dubious and the reason that I think people admire him is because sometimes you have people on c.n.n. Who just carp and can Vetch and go want to about stuff that really doesn't deserve that attention. And yet they did it regarding his trip to encourage the troops for Christmas listen and bar we saw the president signing a campaign had a right to have his make America great again have is that unusual to see the president doing that on base does this run the risk of the president you know facing some accusations that he's turning some of this into a campaign stop what do you know well you know this is very interesting the pool reporters traveling said that the troops brought the hats with them including one hat that said from 2020 we will have to see if that actually proves to be the case the question is if they if they brought them or if the president brought them what Commander allowed that to really happen because this is very much against military policy and break at least Ok stop stop stop the troops are not supposed to wear hats that's against regulation and they didn't they brought the hats that they own to have the president sign question I would ask if somebody had a Maggette and you got the chance to have Donald Trump sign it personally would you do it. Yeah I would absolutely they went on like this what would the concern be something like that is going on do you think we're just you know a soldiers there he's got a hat is in his locker and he runs over and says hey when I can have another chance for the president to sign one of these thing I look at any kind of blurs the line because the Trump is his slogan and where is that whereas you know where that line but barbs right it is in fact a campaign slogan as a campaign item and it's completely inappropriate for the troops to do not say I quit I think I think this thing is stupid really stupid what they're not supposed to do is wear caps but the idea that look I mean when when George w. Bush went over and spoke the troops and he got huge positive response tremendous response very popular in the military and. Of did that have a political element to it of course it did it inevitably does this was phony However there's another thing that people complained about which is not phony and it's serious and I cannot believe that there are conservatives who are justifying it present trouble to apologize he lied to the troops and he lied about a pay raise and it was beyond stupid it was just pathetic and honestly the fact that people say oh yeah that's just Trump being Trump what if Obama had done that what if Bush had done that and what I'm talking about is he said this he said you just got one of the biggest pay raises you ever received unless you don't want it does anybody here is anybody here willing to give up the big pay raise you just got I don't see too many hands. Ok Don't give it up it's great you know what nobody deserves it more you haven't gotten one in more than 10 years more than 10 years and we got you a big one I got you a big one and then he was cheered Ok it's not true any of it. It's not a big pay raise later in the same it's that this thing he said he demanded that they get it hey a raise of more than 10 percent the pay raise he got was 2.6 percent President Obama got pay raises of 3.4 percent President Bush got 3.6 percent considerably bigger pay raises not only have they is it not true that they haven't gone pay raises in 10 years and he repeated that they've gotten pay raises every year for the last $30.00 and yes president probably got them a bigger pay raise in 2018 than in 2017 but it's not the biggest pay raise they ever got later he said he had plenty of people they came up they said you know we could make it smaller we could make it 3 percent we could make it 2 percent we could make it 4 percent I said No make it 10 percent make it more than 10 percent and then they cheered it's not more than 10 percent it's less than 3 percent and this is the reality doesn't matter about your admiring somebody that he was because surely this is something that he knew. 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He gave to the people of America part of Redwood National Park as a memorial to. A child that he tragically lost and there's the woak Grove at Redwood National Park and it's a beautiful thing and he's a beautiful man and I can't think of anyone who has touched so many people through his writing The Caine Mutiny was his book Winds of War War and Remembrance a young blood walk was a lesser He did a 1st novel is called City Boy it was wonderful and you had chance to read any of her men Woakes books the historical novels or just the novel novels Marjorie Morningstar one of his books do yourself a favor most under-rated of contemporary novelist major can her novelist be cuz he's a religious guy and a conservative guy. Let's go to Scott in San Francisco Scott you're on the Michael Medved Show. I admire Pete Rose he is 3 things right there number one he ought to yes. 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