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Feb. 17, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 17, 2006, Friday, Hour #3
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We're back.
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If you are a subscriber or member, Friday means it's open line Friday, so we go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And here's the telephone number, 800 282-2882, the email address rush at EIBNet.
Just remembered I forgot to go find the picture of the Eagle.
But I know I've got I've got 8,000 pictures up there in my um my computer library.
And I um I'll be able to find it because it's in the first batch.
I've I've got little albums made of them.
Anyway, telephone number 800 28282, and the uh.
Well, I got a lot of stuff here in the stack I want to get to, and I promised.
Oh, correction, correction, correction, correction, correction, correction.
I misspoke.
Uh, it is the USS Iowa that San Francisco City Council members don't want any part of.
It is not the USS Missouri, USS Missouri is uh is in Hawaii.
So uh member of the 101st Airborne, 21 year veteran of the screaming eagles called last hour.
Want to know what's the latest on Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
You'll remember uh Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, during Hurricane Katrina, commandeered two, no less than two uh uh rescue vehicles and National Guard units or groups, and uh made them take them to his home.
Uh in the midst of life-saving attempts at uh rescue.
Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, had to get some stuff out of his house.
And he brought out something that looked like a stove or a microwave.
And by the time the reason it took two, because he was in his house so long, the original vehicle got stuck in the mud in the street outside his home.
So had to call in a second one to uh extricate and and essentially rescue Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
Now, this is a scandal.
This is a real scandal.
This is not a phony and trumped up scandal such as the one the are the ones the Democrats try to make out of every news story.
Uh Washington Post has the details, and it's from yesterday's paper.
Around Washington, Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, nurtured a reputation as a serious, even wonkish lawmaker, a grade school dropout son, who graduated from Harvard Law School and was elected Louisiana's first black Congressman since Reconstruction.
Then came the allegations last August that Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, had orchestrated a corruption scheme.
Federal investigators are targeting Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, who's 58, for allegedly demanding cash and other favors for himself and relatives in exchange for using his congressional clout to arrange African business deals.
A former aide to Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, recently pleaded guilty to bribing Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, and is cooperating with authorities.
Sources familiar with the case say that a plea agreement with the lawmaker, uh, that would be Congressman William Jefferson is being explored.
Jefferson's world is toppling, it says here.
Tall and lean, Congressman William Jefferson at times has looked ashen as he walks the halls of the Capitol.
Those who know him describe him as shell-shocked by the turn of events.
Depending on Jefferson's fate, his central New Orleans district, damaged badly by Hurricane Katrina, and in need of effective representation in Washington, could face a rowdy special election.
The political scene is so chaotic that Republicans believe they could win the gerrymander Democrat seat.
It's all clear as mud, said Edward Renwick, a Loyola University political scientist.
Now this guy, you can tell he is shell-shocked.
It's horrible.
He walks the halls looking ashen.
Oh, he was such a smart man.
Oh, he Had the world in his fingertips.
Oh, isn't it a shame?
This guy, Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, is not getting a fraction of the heat that Dick Cheney is getting or has gotten.
Or George W. Bush or John Ashcroft or Condoleezza Rice.
Congressman William Jefferson's woes are unwelcome news for his party.
Oh, how terrible.
Oh, that this makes us cry.
It's unwelcome news for his party and his uh his woes have undercut the Democrats' election year assertion that Republicans have created a culture of corruption.
That's right.
A real scandal will always get you in trouble if you're out there lying about the other guys being corrupt.
This is just another technique, this so-called culture of corruption.
I I'll tell you what, this is going to fall so flat.
More lobbyists give Democrats money than they give Republicans money.
Dingy Harry is got some problems in this Abramov thing.
That's why you're not hearing about Abramov as much now.
Because Abramov's going to touch some Democrats, so you're not hearing that much about it.
They've been out there trying to establish this culture of corruption.
It's just another attempt at dredging up something that has no basis in fact.
It's trying to make reality out of a lie.
Now, when they control the media, they could do that.
But they can't anymore because they don't control the media.
They don't have a monopoly on it anymore.
Okay, so back to the story.
The Washington Post is terribly upset here because this real scandal is going to be problematic for the Democrats assertion that there is a Republican culture of corruption.
If Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, is indicted and pleads guilty or is convicted, he will have to step down or face expulsion.
But if he is indicted and decides to go to trial, he may remain in Congress and stand for re-election.
The course Congressman Tom DeLay, Republican Texas, has followed since being charged last year.
The investigation of Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, and the recent guilty plea by a former aide give Republicans the chance to argue that corruption in Washington has a bipartisan tinge.
The investigation of Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, became public on August the third when FBI agents raided Congressman Jefferson's homes in New Orleans and Northeast Washington.
They found about $90,000 in cash in his freezer.
Now, I, at the time this news was uh was uh unearthed.
I actually praised uh Congressman Jefferson for this move.
If you're gonna have $90,000 in cash, why not put it in a freezer?
You want hard cold cash at a moment's notice, and the freezer will definitely keep it hard and cold.
That was actually a very smart move on the part of uh Congressman William Jefferson, but for some reason the authorities knew exactly where to look for his cash.
They also rated uh five other locations, including the Kentucky and New Jersey offices of iGate Inc., a high-tech firm that has uh become central to the investigation, along with a house in Potomac owned by Atiku Abu Bakar, the vice president of Nigeria.
So he's part of the deal, too.
What there was a phone deal, apparently.
Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, was involved in setting up phone deals in uh in Nigeria.
IGate has denied any wrongdoing, as has Atiku Abu Bakr, the vice president of Nigeria.
Uh Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, was raised in Lake Providence, Louisiana.
One of ten children graduated Harvard Law in 72, served in the state Senate before being elected to the House in 1990.
He's someone respected for doing his homework on issues, said Silas Lee in New Orleans political analyst.
He's viewed as a very serious, very studious person.
So what?
So's Dick Cheney.
Here we're getting a puff piece profile.
That's part of a report of a real scandal involving a Democrat in Washington.
At uh at at any rate, in 2004, um, somebody named Brett Pfeffer, that's the former aide who has uh copped a plea, Brett Pfeffer.
He copped a plea on January 11th.
In early 2004, Brett Pfeffer told Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, about his new investment job.
Jefferson told Pfeffer about a telecommunications opportunity in Nigeria and about IGate, which held the rights to a technology that enabled copper wires to transport high speed internet service to a wide array of consumers.
So in mid-2004, Pfeffer brought Modi to Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana's office in Washington.
There she was introduced to the founder of IGate, who has since been identified as Vernon Jackson.
Not long after, Modi's company entered into a licensing and distribution agreement with IGate for the exclusive rights to market and distribute the company's technology in Nigeria.
Modi agreed to invest 45 million dollars for those rights to IGates technology and equipment for the Nigerian deal.
She put up three and a half million and agreed to finance the balance of the export import bank and right smack dab in the middle of brokering all of this is Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
Okay, couple of emails.
You and your caller miss the true impact of the story.
And he's talking about the guy who called and told me that he witnessed uh uh mature or old bald eagles swooping down and stealing food from uh younger bald eagles that were getting fish out of a river up there in Homer, Alaska.
He said, Rush, you you and your caller miss the true impact of this story.
You see, eagles are truly an inspiration for us all.
The young eagles go out and they bust their rear ends to put food in their tables and in their mouths, but before they can even revel in their spoils, they must first take care of the uh uh distinguished elder members of their flock, uh to whom they obviously owe everything.
See, Rush, it isn't stealing that the old Eagles are engaged in.
They're only taking that to which they're entitled.
He's saying this is like social security.
He said the Eagles are just practicing social security.
The old Eagles are demanding that the young Eagles take care of them.
Could well be.
Another form of taxation.
Friend of mine logged on to the Daily Cause website just to see what the Kook bloggers are saying after the Harry Whittington statement.
I'll just give you two of them.
Gotta wonder if Whittington has stock in Halliburton.
Didn't it split yesterday?
Now the the meaning of that is, of course, Halliburton also had a gun to Whittington's head.
The theory is that uh if Whittington had been honest and admitted that Cheney shot him on purpose, Halliburton's stock would have plummeted and Whittington would have lost a bundle.
They assume that Whittington has stock, so Whittington had to go out and lie and protect Cheney in order to make sure Halliburton's stock stayed up.
That's that's theory number one.
Number two.
This guy Whittington, who was shot in a huge is a huge GOP donor.
He's the very definition of party over principle.
He'll do whatever it takes, even take a bullet or several to help his team win.
In fact, I'd be shocked if he'd said or done anything different.
You can bet that Carl Rove has had this guy on speed dial all week.
F people ask me, how how can you how can you laugh so much at the how can you not?
How can you not, when you understand how respected this website is on the Democratic Party side and and in much of the uh much of the media, David in Fort Worth, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
Major national champion Longhorn Ditto's from the great state of Texas.
It's great to have you on the program.
Thank you, sir.
Rush, I was listening to Mr. Whittington's comments to uh the media's press conference today, and he thanked the media for their prayers and well-wishes.
And I thought, I scratched my head and thought, what media was he listening to?
Everybody who I heard was saying, can't we nail Cheney if Whittington dies?
Can we get him for involuntary manslaughter?
Sounded to me like they were praying the man would die.
Uh that's a good point.
It's a good point, but I think that's just a testament to his class.
Absolutely clear.
Is it it was the same way Bush is.
I mean, you know, Bush, Bush will not insult his critics.
Bush uh will in fact throw them sugar, will throw them candy when he talks to them at all.
But that's that's what I I think I think Whittington is brilliant.
Obviously, he's a very smart man.
I think the real point of that comment was what he was really saying to him.
They know what they've said about him.
They know they haven't sent him well wishes.
They know that they have been writing stories about how much fun it would be if he dies, and that's his way of telling them he knows what they've been doing.
And he's trying to make them feel about two inches tall.
I listen to comment about the age.
Yeah, and the comment about the age.
I don't think they've got I don't think most members of the meeting, they're so self-focused and self-important that the th those kinds of um uh comments, I don't think they even penetrate the skull.
I I I don't I don't think they have the what would be the the the not just intelligence, they they just don't have the capacity to understand when they are being royally put down.
That's why we say did I rush.
Thank you very much.
He was doing that, he was doing that uh throughout this this.
In fact, let's let's play them again.
If you're just joining us and you haven't heard the uh the Harry Whittington uh cuts 13 and 14, I'll just I'll tell you what I mean here.
Here's here's the first.
We'll parse this after he's uh finished.
I've read and seen many of your reports, and I know your job isn't easy.
Stop tape.
He's saying I think just the opposite.
I've read and seen many of your reports, and it's all such BS, I can't believe it.
Resume.
I couldn't have been here earlier.
So you could see what a lucky person I am.
Stop the tape.
I regret I couldn't have been here earlier so you can see how stupid and wrong you have been.
For many years, my family have been friends of the Armstrongs down in Kennedy County.
Stop the tape.
They are fine, fine people.
We have visited them for over 25 years and have had some wonderful trips and visits, pleasant memories that we cherish forever.
However, this past weekend encompassed all of us in a cloud of misfortune and sadness.
That is not easy to explain.
Stop the tape.
He is including everybody that was at that hunt weekend.
This is not just about the vice president or about me, but this has this has this has put a cloud of misfortune on all of us.
You have you have gone out and made every effort you could to impugn the purpose of this trip and what really happened at this trip, but these are people we've known for twenty-five years, nothing but pleasant memories that we will always cherish.
And the sadness is not easy to explain, but if you had any humility, you might have a way to relate and understand it yourselves.
Especially to those who are not familiar with the great sport of quail hunting.
Stop the tape.
Why don't you learn what you're talking about before you start writing and talking about it?
It's obvious from the coverage I've watched, you don't know diddly squat about quail hunting.
We all assume certain risks in whatever we do.
Stop the tape.
Life is dangerous.
We don't all get to sit in the press corps and have our daily jobs handed to us.
Whatever activities we pursue.
And regardless of how experienced, careful, and dedicated we are.
Accidents do and will happen.
I was not targeted.
The vice president wasn't trying to kill me.
It was an accident, and that's all it was, and it hasn't been worth half of the coverage that you have given it.
My family and I are deeply sorry for all that Vice President Cheney and his family have had to go through this past week.
Stop tape.
This one they will not understand.
They are thinking this guy ought to hate Cheney.
They engage in projection.
Cheney shot this guy.
What's he doing expressing sorrow for all that Cheney and his family.
If Cheney had to go through and Cheney's not hurting, you're the guy that's been in a hospital.
This is why they don't understand class.
And they never will understand class.
We send our love and respect to them as they deal with situations that are much more serious than what we've had this week.
Stop the tape.
Again, he's admonishing these people.
You've made a mountain out of a molehill compared to other things happening around the world, like the United Arab Emirates trying to buy six ports in this country, which ABC News can't and Compton didn't even know is going on, or the war in Iraq, or the war on terror, or the Iranian build up of nuclear weapons, um, any number of stories going on far more important than this, but you have abandoned all of it to focus all your time on your hope that I get sick and die.
We'll finish parsing this after this brief timeout.
Won't be long.
We'll get back to your phone calls after that at 800 282-2882.
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All right, we're gonna go back uh finish parsing the uh Harry Whittington statement here uh and and to uh translate it for you, uh the especially those of you in the media who may be listening, so you'll understand what he was actually saying to you.
We now resume in progress, right where we left off before the break.
And we hope that he will continue to come to Texas and seek the relaxation that he deserves.
Stop the tape.
Uh this is uh this is Mr. Whittington inviting the vice president back to Texas, back to the ranch, back to the quail hunt.
Probably said, if you need to shoot me again to get relaxed, go ahead.
We know you got a big job, we know you need some relaxation from it, and we were happy to have you here, and we hope you will come back again.
Message we don't hate the vice president.
I don't blame him for anything.
There is no animus whatsoever.
I also thank all of you are understanding the best you can that medical attention is very important to someone my age.
Stop tape, stop tape, stop tape.
That is that is his classy way of saying, you idiots.
When somebody seventy-eight years old gets shot with bird shot, the first thing that has to happen is to get that person to the hospital, and and rather than send out a telegram or an email to David Gregory in the in the White House press room.
Thanks for understanding to the best you can that medical attention is very important to someone my age.
He's frankly saying you don't understand diddly squat about what went on out there on Saturday.
And this is his kind and gracious way of saying it.
And you haven't failed to give my age.
So you have no excuse.
You've been telling everybody I'm 78 years old, you have no excuse for not understanding what the important sequence of events was when this accident happened.
Uh here's Joe in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Hi, Joe, you're next in Open Line Friday.
Hello, Rush.
I hope you're having a great day.
Thank you, sir.
Uh I just wanted to say I lived in New Orleans, I was born there all my life.
This is about Katrina.
I saw heard about that report they put out yesterday, trying to put blame on everybody.
The only people that we can depend on to fix that city or those levies, or the federal government, because since I was a kid, I was there for Betsy and other s storms.
I've heard I had heard from my dad, from everybody in the city.
Even when Amon Landry was the mayor over there.
That's how far back I'm going.
I was like a teenager.
They said if a bad hurricane hits here, this city will be wiped out.
Everybody knew it.
It's not just my fault.
It's the officials' faults, the ones we elected, the people did not force the elected officials to fix these levies.
Even though, since I'm a kid and I'm 58 now, we knew this would happen if a hurricane hit, and nobody would fix it.
So I don't see if they didn't fix it in fifty-eight years, would make them think the city or the state is going to be a good idea.
You know, this is interesting.
I want to make sure I understand before going off on a brilliant rant and monologue.
I want to uh make sure I understand that I uh what you're saying.
Are you saying that in this instance the feds have to fix it because the locals in New Orleans are simply incompetent?
And the state.
They haven't done it in fifty-eight years.
I uh I don't know.
I guess they're incompetent, or either they take whatever they're doing with the money that they should have been fixing it with.
Corrupt, incompetent, that's your theory that uh Well, I knew a man at one time lived in New Orleans.
I won't tell you what he did for a living, but he said that's what I love about this city.
He said, if you got enough money, you can get away with anything.
Yeah.
So I really think the Federals uh have to do it because the citizens, and I'm I was one of them.
I lived there most of my life now.
And it got so ingrained in us that the hurricane's gonna pass us by, it'll miss us.
I even still felt that way.
I stayed in Baloxy for Katrina, so it was ingrained in me since I was a kid.
You know, we can dodge it, we'll get past it.
But people always said, the ones with any sense, I can remember my dad saying the right hurricane hits here, the city's finished.
And it's got to be they haven't done it, like I said, the city people and the state people fifty-eight years.
You know, the Corps of Engineers, my friends worked for for him, I know him.
They do not give them the right help to do what they have to do.
Yep, yep.
Yep.
All right.
Um brilliant monologue and ramp time.
Now, as I just I just wanted to make sure I understood it.
First place, what you saw in Washington yesterday with a Katrina report was the typical CYA.
A couple of three people, and then a nameless or a faceless agency take all the blame.
We've had our fall people, uh Mike Brown took the fall, Churtoff got his yesterday.
Members of Congress who authorize the money get to act as bystanders and and uh uh spectators as though they had nothing to do with any of this.
They get to sit in judgment of everybody else, and they pounced and they wrote their report, and it's just it's a CYA.
And that's it, pure and simple.
And they admit we weren't prepared, we didn't have to do anything, and we don't have to do it.
We don't have a clue what we were doing, and blah blah blah, blah blah blah.
And now let's let's move on uh to the next disaster that will screw up and we'll do the same thing again.
Now, as to your point that the feds have to rebuild the city, if that's true, then I'm gonna revise my theory that New Orleans uh will be okay.
Because I've always thought that it would be okay.
I've always thought that the entrepreneurial spirit, regardless how long it takes, that city will come back.
Now it's it's gonna be different.
I mean, a lot of the people that have left don't want to go back, and why would they?
What I mean, why would they want to go back to what we were told it was in the immediate aftermath?
That place should have been a liberal utopia.
There shouldn't have been any racism, shouldn't have been any unhappiness, shouldn't have been any unemployment, because liberals have been running that place, Democrats, state, local level, for who knows how long.
That should have been the model for what liberalism could do for all of us.
And it is, but not the way they intended.
I um in in uh something I was I was uh it was the weekend of the AFC championship game.
And I was flying from Palm Springs to Denver to watch the uh Broncos and the Steelers.
And I is uh as I was uh leaving the hotel in in Palm Springs, there was some Katrina news story on, I forget what it was, and then in watching a little bit of it on the airplane flying to Denver.
And it was on my mind.
We landed in in uh in Denver, uh actually landed in Boulder.
Um I wanted to I wanted to actually touch down in a liberal enclave and and because it's it's you know, I love to take risks uh in life.
You can't go through life uh uh without taking risks.
You gotta confront fears, you gotta confront obstacles and overcome them.
And you know, I I do it every time I cross the bridge here, go to West Palm Beach, so I'm used to it.
And so I uh uh driving around with this Katrina thing in my mind, and I'm looking at here's Boulder and over there is Denver and how did this happen?
Yeah, I got to thinking, and just my mind exploded in the whole concept of this country, city after city after city.
How did it happen?
Did the federal government decide there's gonna be a city in Denver?
We're gonna put it there, we're gonna build it, it's gonna look like this, it's gonna have this kind of people.
No, it just happened, and it happened over the course of time.
It didn't happen immediately.
This is so obvious, but what to when you when you think about it in the context of rebuilding Katrina, we all now hear that the f the feds have to do it.
Well, the feds have to go in there and what that means is the feds have to give us the money.
But the the federal government can't build a city.
The military could, the military does it all the time.
When they uh set up camps around the world.
That it's amazing what I saw in Afghanistan.
Here's a country that's been around longer than we have, and the military has more modern facilities than uh 95% of the population of Afghanistan has, and they set them Up within weeks.
So we know the military can do it.
The military is the one institution that functioned flawlessly in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
But the government, the federal government cannot rebuild a city.
The taxpayers provide the money for it, but it's gonna have to happen at the local level.
City is that's what gives every city its local flavor.
And I've always had faith, because this is America.
I'm starting to sound like a National Honor Society candidate here, a Miss America contestant, but it's America.
These things happen.
Like I'm watching Bush on television.
He's doing a speech somewhere.
I think he's in Florida, isn't he?
Isn't he here?
He is somewhere.
Yeah, he's over in Tampa.
And he's uh he's been going on and on for over an hour and a half here.
He started at one o'clock or one thirty, a little over an hour.
And I just saw a little, I'm watching a closed caption, and I just saw Bush say the following.
You can make it if that's your desire in America.
And I said, Whoa, to have to tell people this.
As though that's news to some people.
You can make it if you have desire.
I know what he's saying.
He's talking about the great abundance of opportunity here and freedom and economic advancement that's possible for everybody.
But isn't that understood?
And you know, sadly it's not.
You know how many people this country think that they're doomed and they've got no chance because there's a whole political party telling them that.
And it has been for 50 years.
Liberalism and Democratic Party activists and elected officials have been telling people they don't have any hope.
They've been telling the black community that, they've been telling any minority community that because they've discriminated against.
You're nothing but victims.
You don't have a chance because George Bush is stealing money from you to give tax cuts to the rich.
So you've got a major political party in this country actually talking doom and gloom and economic depravity and poverty to people.
So the president's out there saying, Oh, in this country, you can make it if you have the desire.
And I've always thought that that in any collection of people, be it in a city or a housing project, even a commune.
You're gonna have a certain percentage of can-do people.
As I said earlier, there are three kinds of people in this country.
There are people that make things happen, there are people that watch things happen, and there are people that wonder what the hell happened.
In every group you're gonna have the smallest group is the people that make things happen.
But even in New Orleans, there have to be people who make things happen, like this Mardi Gras thing.
They're trying to make something happen.
They're trying to bring back tourism, they're trying to get back to tradition.
That's all good.
There are naysayers out there.
You can't do it in the face of this misery, in the face of this suffering, the face of it, how do you dare think about that?
Because they're trying to make something happen.
No, they're not, they're just trying to get rich.
That's how it happens.
What are we talking about in New Orleans if not economic rebuilding?
Anyone can listen to the naysayers.
Here's another little statistic.
Five percent of the population of this country make this country work.
Ninety-five percent are in the cart being pulled by five percent.
They're the ones that are watching and wondering what happened.
Well, those that make things happen do so.
But you're not gonna find this at the federal government.
My gosh, folks, they can't they can't.
The bureaucracy is such that they can't get hardly anything right when it comes to uh this kind of look at this headline.
President Bush request more funds for war and hurricane recovery.
72.4 billion for the war on terror.
19.8 billion for hurricane recovery in two separate emergency spending requests sent to Congress.
19.8 billion, hey.
It's only more money.
Get some more tattoos, get some more sex toys at condoms to go.
Hey, let's have it.
So the rebuilding of New Orleans is gonna have to be done locally.
Uh and it's gonna be up to the people that live there to elect a responsible group of people to do it and lead them.
And if they don't, the people of this country get what they want, they get what they choose, deserve in in circumstances like this.
But I've always had faith that this is Uh gonna happen down there because there's too many people that want it to.
So many people that want it to happen, and they will see to it at some point.
You know, even they're gonna wait around and see what kind of seed money they can get.
Once they figure that out, they'll have to take steps based on that information.
One other thing I said I've been watching Bush.
I was also watching Cheney.
Cheney went out at one o'clock and he spoke to the Wyoming legislature.
And I was watching the media leading up to this.
And I swear, folks, the media was actually hoping that Dick Cheney would go up and admit during the speech that a Wyoming legislature that he purposely shot Whittington, was trying to kill him, and is going to turn himself in after the speech.
I mean, it was just it's just incredible what they were hoping for.
I mean, he didn't say that in so many specific words, but all morning long, the press talking about the what's Janey gonna say about the shooting.
What's he gonna say about Whittington?
Is she gonna admit it?
Sort of stuff.
Anyway, a little long here.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back in just a second.
I just got a memo from the staff.
I got a memo from the Northern and the Southern Command joint staff.
It says to our boss from the staff.
Dear boss.
That's me.
Monday is President's Day, which is an observed company holiday.
However, unlike the last company holiday, the staff is not off, and we will be at work.
Since you are expected to work the holiday, you are permitted to take a comp day of your choice.
Thanks in advance for your cooperation.
I know what this is about.
This is about January, what was it, second or third when I'm the only one that showed up at work on that Monday?
I showed up here.
I didn't back to work.
It's the first day of the new year, first work day.
And by about quarter nine, I figured something was wrong because Snerdley hadn't shown up and the coffee wasn't turned on.
That's his job.
And then I started calling calling the Northern Commands, nobody answered the phone.
And I finally got hold of somebody, said, no, no, we're we're off today.
Well, I said, Well, thanks for telling me.
So what they're doing is informing me that we are working on Monday.
I know that.
I've never missed the President's Day.
Um what am I going to do with my comp I don't I don't know when I'm going to take a comp day, but when I figure out what I'm going to do with a comp day, I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
By the way, uh in addition, ladies and gentlemen, to the three kinds of people, those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what the hell happened.
Um there are also those who want to make a difference.
And you can say they don't fit in the equation.
But I want to make a difference.
They're going to fall somewhere in the spectator group or the curiosity group.
Gee, what the hell happened here?
I was trying to make a difference.
Yes.
And you might say there's a fourth category.
Those who try to obstruct those trying to get things done.
Very quickly, JJ and Chattanooga.
Got about a minute here, but I wanted to get to you.
Okay.
Rush, a couple of weeks ago you were talking about uh the kids going to college, what was happening.
Yes.
Well, when I retired, I went back to college and audited a lot of courses, which means I just paid a fee, but I could be in all the classes.
Right, no great.
A couple of political science and American history courses for uh senior uh student.
Well, I got the book ahead of time and I went through it and I corrected everything in the book that was half truths or not truth at all.
What did you do?
Challenge the professors?
Oh, I did better than that.
When I wrote my essays, I footnoted them.
And the one that I was talking to your uh your uh Okay, well, what happened?
I know we got about what happened was this.
The guy gave me a uh uh one of the professors gave me a uh an uh American modern politics a bad grade.
And I had twenty-eight footnotes on two pages.
Okay.
So I asked him why.
I I I hate to say the minute is that it's look, it's not your fault.
It's I it's not your fault.
I should I should have given you more than it.
In fact, I'll tell you what we'll do.
We'll get your number, we'll call you back next week, we'll call you on President's Day, and you can tell the story all over again at your own pace.
Because I do want to hear it.
It's not his fault.
This is why you should never try what I do here at home.
Here we go.
A little more hot chocolate.
Everyone's a winner.
All right, folks, uh, have a fabulous and uh wonderful weekend out there, and we will be back and uh reignite everything on Monday.
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