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Oh, I got to change the channel.
What was it?
204 is headline news, right?
CNN headline news Snerdley tells me is going to do a feature on its Obama not Osama.
Now, what can that possibly be?
What can that possibly be other than about me?
You think they're going to do a piece on Ted Kennedy?
Well, we won't speculate.
We'll just wait and see what happens when it airs.
When it's you guys are monitoring in there, and I just changed a channel in here.
Might be a man on the street piece.
Oh, they're interviewing people on this.
Well, we'll keep a sharp eye.
Cookie roll on headline news.
Anything interesting, we'll have it for you here on the EIB network.
Little email here, ladies and gentlemen, from a subscriber to rushlimbaugh.com.
The subject, the real deal on nurses, parentheses, I'm married to one.
Dear Rush, I started dating nurses many years ago because I realized that they are what the military refers to as a force multiplier.
Whenever you have a group of women working together, they have to talk.
And if they're single, they talk about the last date they had or the next one coming up.
If you score a good impression with a single nurse, you can expect to eventually meet her co-workers on a date.
That was my marketing angle.
The real attraction happens when they have the opportunity to care for you when you get sick or injured.
They are natural caregivers.
And they're when we men get to see them in their natural state as nurturers.
We can't help but be attached to them and attracted to them.
I had a totally non-sexual relationship with the lady I would eventually marry, partly because I was dating somebody else.
That was until I came under her medical care.
I got to see what she was all about as she tended to some pretty nasty burns I inflicted on myself by removing the cap on a hot radiator.
Her tenderness with my painful injuries got my mind moving in her direction.
A few months later, she showed her skills when I was horribly sick with the flu.
I couldn't resist the attraction.
Nurses are great.
I'm lucky to have married one.
Most of them hadn't read this.
I just read the first.
I can't tell you what he says.
I just cannot do it.
I refuse to do it.
I'm sorry, folks.
If I had read the whole thing, I would not have even started this.
I'll tell you during the break, Sterdley.
Most of them are blank, it seems.
Unfortunately, it also seems that this characteristic...
I really owe you an apology.
I should have reread this whole thing.
Let me see if I can do this with appropriate bleeps.
Most of them are bleep, it seems.
Unfortunately, it also seems this behavioral characteristic ends roughly 18 months after marriage.
Being a nurse does not exempt them from acting like every other woman on the planet, much to my chagrin.
Still, if you want to play that hand, so to speak, I'll place my bet for better or worse with a nurse.
I'll tell you what, this guy burned himself, got the flu, did all kinds of things just to get married.
That is devotion.
You hear about this Troy Smith, the Heisman Trophy winner, was not allowed to take the Heisman Trophy on the airplane with him back to Columbus, to Ohio State.
Airport security would not allow him to put it on the airplane.
He wore a black leather jacket with the Heisman logo on the back when he arrived at the airport from New York, where he presented, was presented the most coveted trophy on Saturday night.
Now, the last Ohio State Buckeye to win was Eddie George.
He won the Heisman in 1995, had his trophy get stuck in an airport x-ray machine, lost the tip of its right index finger, and it bent the middle finger.
So Smith said, We decided to have it shipped.
Didn't want to take it through the X-rays.
Didn't want to do all this.
They wouldn't let him take it on board.
Which tells us, ladies and gentlemen, there's a new threat out there that we didn't know it.
Trophies lead to terrorism.
Just like we learned that mother's milk formula and other gel and liquids, we can profile that so we can profile trophies, can't allow trophies on the airplanes.
But what's the whatever.
I mean, it's obvious.
This story involving Troy Smith has been tremendous in opening our eyes to another terrorist threat that we had no idea existed.
Trophies.
I don't know about you, but I feel a lot safer.
Here's a story, a companion story to the Heart Attack Grill out in Tempe, Arizona.
It is from the UK Times.
Shoppers are continuing to pile their trolleys and baskets with unhealthy food despite the government's focus on tackling Britain's obesity crisis.
A survey of food buying patterns of 12 million consumers in the UK has found that in the past four years, 44% of people have made no change to their eating habits at all.
Only 8% of shoppers have moved towards a healthier diet, while almost as many are deliberately shunning a good diet and eating more junk food.
The findings from Dunhumby, the retail consultants, who have scrutinized the sales data of 10,000 everyday ingredients, clocked up on Tesco loyalty cards, as well as interviewed 2,000 customers, suggest it'll take more than a generation before Britain becomes a nation of healthy eaters.
The findings will come as a blow to the efforts of Caroline Flint, the public health minister, and the Food Standards Agency, who are attempting to encourage people to eat a more nutritious diet.
Study also appears to suggest that consumers need the help of the agency's traffic light system of red, amber, and green alerts on packs to help them choose a healthier mix of food.
The traffic lights are being strongly opposed by food manufacturers who claim the system is simplistic and demonizes food.
Now, what a hoot.
What an absolute hoot this is.
If there's ever any evidence the nanny state doesn't work, I mentioned this, I think, maybe earlier this week, maybe last week, people are going to do what they want to do.
You tell them they got to go drive a hybrid, and if they don't want to, they're not going to.
Electric car, ditto.
Tell them they got to stop eating all this trans fat and all this rot gut stuff.
I want to know what they're going to do about the restaurants in New York.
You can take the trans fats out of the restaurant.
I mean, the grocery stores.
Take them out of the restaurants.
But what about the trans fats in the grocery stores?
What will the mayor do there?
Despite the fact that our governments have been torturing us for years with the news that we are fat, stupid slobs, we are pretty much telling them to shove it.
We eat whatever the hell we want to eat, but now they're making the move to tell us it's because we can't cook, and they'll be forcing lessons on us.
You watch, that's the next thing.
You've got to learn to cook your own food.
You can't rely on fast foods and so forth.
These little nanny Nazis, I'll tell you, folks, it's just pervasive now throughout our culture.
Prime Minister Tony Blair said today he found it unbelievable and shocking that Iran hosted a conference examining whether the Holocaust took place, a meeting Israel's prime minister has condemned as a sick phenomenon.
You only have to see what's happening in Iran in the past couple of days to realize how important it is that all people of moderation in the Middle East try to come together and sort out let me tell you, Mr. Blair, for all the great things you said about multiculturalism in your country yesterday, let me tell you something.
People of moderation aren't going to solve diddly squat in a cesspool like the Middle East.
Number one.
Number two, why in the world are you shocked?
Have you not heard what Mahmoud Achmadinezad has been saying for the past year and a half?
He intends to wipe Israel off the map.
Just as he compared it to the Soviet Union, just as the Soviet Union no longer exists, soon Israel will no longer exist.
And he's not talking about Israel imploding of its own weight by any stretch.
How in the world can somebody say he found it unbelievable and shocking that Iran would host a conference trying to prove the Holocaust didn't happen?
The Bush administration weighed on in this.
Bush administration condemned Iran today for convening a conference of people who deny the Holocaust happened, calling the move an affront to the entire civilized world.
Yep, yep, yep, yep.
We can condemn, we can say it's shocking, we can offer all of our offense and words that we want.
It's not going to mean diddly squat.
Peoples of moderation solve the problem.
That just makes me laugh.
People of moderation.
People of moderation don't even know who they are.
They're cowering in the corner inside their houses while all the hell is going on outside.
And when somebody tries to do something about it, the moderates are the first one.
Don't do it.
Oh, no, don't do it.
Don't do it.
It's going to be worse.
They're going to kill me.
Don't do it.
Okay, just let them run amok.
Moderates.
One of the guests, one of the invited guests at the there wasn't a Holocaust convention in Iran was David Duke, the former Grand Kligon, whatever they are, of the Ku Klux Klan.
In fact, Tony Blair said, if you're going to invite the former head of the Ku Klux Klan to a conference in Tehran, which disputes the millions of people who died in the Holocaust, then what further evidence do you need to have that this regime is extreme?
I guess we should celebrate that the world finally gets it now about Iran.
Patience rush.
Patience.
Bureaucrats are the last to know.
They're the last to see it.
And even then, when they do see it, they just run around going, I'm shocked, I'm surprised, I'm stunned.
I don't have any audio soundbites, of course, of David Duke, but folks, Jimmy Carter, it would be difficult if you just put quotes up on paper side by side and ask, so who said this?
David Duke or Jimmy Carter?
You'd have a tough time separating the two.
Back in just a second.
And we venture back to the phones here.
It's El Rushball with talent on loan from God.
Marquette, Michigan.
And Lauren, you're next.
I appreciate your patience.
Hello.
Yes.
Regarding this latest budget in Congress, you had mentioned after the election that it was liberating not to have to carry water for the Republicans anymore.
And there's a conservative who thinks less spending is good for America.
I was thinking that we should give credit to whichever party cuts out pork barrel spending, even if it is the Democrats.
Yeah, you're talking about the earmark legislation, right?
Yes.
Well, not too fast here.
You are being, and I don't blame you because I was seduced too when I read the story.
You have to go all the way to the end of this story.
Here are the details.
The news is out there that the Republicans left Congress in a total financial mess.
The Democrats are upset about it.
The White House is upset about it.
And the Democrats have said, you know what?
The only thing we can do is cancel these earmarks.
We're not going to have these pork barrel projects in this budget.
We're just going to cancel them out of there.
And people are going, yay!
And the White House is a little upset about this because there were some things in there they wanted.
But people are being sucked in.
Wow, they're getting rid of earmarks.
If you go to the last line of the story, Lauren, you will see that the Democrats are going to spend the money, just not on the earmarks.
Those projects have been killed, but not the money to fund them.
The money will be going to things the Democrats care about, health care.
Well, there are two of them.
Grants.
Yes.
Programs that the president has not spent enough money on that the Democrats like, grants to various things, and, of course, the eternal and proverbial health care.
So while the earmarks are gone, the spending remains.
It's just now going to be directed by the Democrats to their pet projects, the things they believe in.
So don't get too excited about this.
Here's Eric in Kansas City, Missouri.
Nice to have you, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hey, Rush, 24-7 to do.
Thank you very much.
Hey, I used to angry, so angry yesterday when I heard about Kofi Annan's speech here in Kansas City or Independence.
And I just thought it was very ironic that he just chose Truman Library of all places to do that when the Truman Doctrine was really what gave us the Cold War and probably was more responsible for getting us into the Vietnam War than anything else.
And I just thought it was very coincidental that he chose a president like Truman who is very similar in many aspects to Bush.
Yeah, let me see if I can find that.
I read that aspect of it, too, about the Truman Doctrine.
Yeah, that's what got us basically to, it's kind of like Bush's preemptive thing where we're going to go.
Yeah, yeah, basically we're not going to sit around.
We're not going to tolerate action against us or our enemies, their allies rather, around the world.
You just can't get it.
Basically, that's what it is.
And he was out there.
There was a lot of irony.
As I said, citing Truman as a moment in American history for great leadership.
I interpreted Kofi as perhaps saying we should nuke Iran.
If Truman are around, that's what we might do.
He dropped two atomic bombs, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I just, look at, Kofi Annan is out there.
He goes to Independence Truman Library and invokes Truman.
He's counting on the fact that nobody's really going to do any analysis of what he said.
They're just going to, oh, Kofi Annan was here and he's honoring Truman.
And by the way, that's how the drive-by media is reporting it.
Kofi Annan was here, Anand Truman, a great American Democrat, by the way.
Yes, great, great Democrat.
So nobody's, you know, big mistake to expect any kind of depth from anybody in the drive-by media anywhere.
This is Sandra in Philadelphia.
You're next.
Great to have you with us, Sandra.
Okay.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
I'm so excited.
By the way, congratulations, Sandra, on being alive today.
I read about the murder rate in Philadelphia being problematic as sky high.
So I wanted to send my congratulations to you.
You're still breathing.
Well, thank you.
It's actually kind of hard to live here when you're a Republican.
That's even more of a challenge.
You're a bigger target, I know, than the criminals are.
Yes, yes, I am.
I called because I listened to your show, and I've heard you talk about the fiasco with the oil for food program through the United Nations.
And I was in New York City this weekend, so I went to visit the United Nations and go on one of their tours.
And when we were sitting in the Economic and Social Council chamber, the guide was talking about what that committee does in terms of promoting human rights and ensuring protection and a status for women.
How could you stay through that?
You were listening to some of the biggest liberal drivel in the world.
I couldn't have stood it.
I would have had to walk out.
Well, I feel you always have to listen to both sides so that you know what your enemies are saying, you know, and how they think.
Well, I already do.
I know that.
I know.
You know that.
So I'm just getting personal experience with it.
Okay, I feel like it was interesting, and it was kind of hard to be polite and nice, and I tried to be diplomatic about it.
But I asked them, you know, I was a little concerned about how the money is being spent in the United Nations and what they're achieving.
And when she talked about how one of the focuses was for crime prevention, it triggered my mind of the oil for food fiasco.
And I said, you know, I said, I don't know if you agree with what the newspapers are reporting on this, but I'm just curious, what has the council done to make sure that this kind of problem doesn't happen again?
And I was kind of surprised because she said that that wasn't a responsibility of the council.
It was a responsibility of the volunteering organizations to make sure the money got spent properly.
And I thought, I listened to you, and she wasn't going to go into further detail on that.
And I thought you might make some comments as to why she would say that.
Typical pass-the-buck bureaucrats.
Okay.
We're not responsible.
Kofi Annan's whole speech.
If anybody's responsible for the Iraq war, it's Kofi Annan.
All those resolutions the UN passed that were not enforced, allowing the oil for food program to keep Saddam propped up and wealthy while compromising and corrupting everybody that was associated with him.
The UN, there was an independent investigation by Paul Volcker.
Claudia Rosette of the Wall Street Journal has done the greatest work in dissecting and reporting on the scandal of the oil for food program.
Kofi's son was involved.
Kofi was involved.
But it gets clouded in the good intentions and the big heart and the hopes and dreams of the UN.
But they're not going to investigate themselves.
That's what this guy was telling you.
Well, we have no control once we give the money away.
It's up to the volunteer agencies that do this.
That's nothing more than bureaucrat passing the buck, which is common.
And thank you, Johnny Donovan, and welcome back, one and all.
The Christmas season series of shows and broadcasts here on the EIB network.
Well, we move on to Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
The Washington Post today says that Nancy Pelosi wants to finagle away to put Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, on a lesser committee than the House Ways and Means Committee.
He did sit on that committee until they discovered $90,000 in coal cash in his cold freezer.
It is speculated by people in the know that he will be indicted in the first half of 2007.
Democratic leaders who have vowed to run a more ethical Congress are struggling now with how to respond to the reelection of Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, whose Washington home freezer once held $90,000 in alleged bribe money.
I think he's a perfect candidate to be seated once again on the House Ways and Means Committee.
This is a Democrat, Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, $90,000 in cash in the freezer.
That shows he has ways and shows he has means.
And the name of the committee is Ways and Means Committee.
I think the committee may have a lot to learn from the expertise here that has been exhibited by Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
Now, Nancy Pelosi stripped a congressman of his seat on this committee in June.
A source close to her said yesterday she's more likely to place him on the lower profile committee or a lower profile committee and hope that the controversy dies down.
The problem with this is, ladies and gentlemen, the heading up of another committee will be Representative Alan Mollahan, a Democrat from West Virginia, who has also come under ethical scrutiny.
What committee is this guy going to head up?
This story is from the Hiltz about the Congressional Black Caucus.
We have all the Yosembites coming up.
They're very, very upset at Pelosi for threatening to keep Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, off of the Ways and Means Committee.
Mollahan, I think, what's he going to, this guy showed up with two cents in his back pocket after he's elected and now has a net worth of $5 or $6 million or maybe $12 million, something like that.
And it's, I mean, this guy is as tainted as Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana is.
And he's up for a committee chairmanship.
And so the Congressional Black Caucus, how can you do that?
You're going to put your white guy in a committee chairmanship and you're going to put Jefferson on a lesser committee.
Here is Barbara Lee, the vice chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.
She is this radical leftist out of California.
And she's on Washington Journal today.
And the host said, explain why you feel the way you do about Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
Here's the headline in the Hills.
CBC Black Caucus calls for Jefferson's reinstatement.
We're talking about ways and means here.
The people of Congressman Jefferson's district have spoken.
They've re-elected him to Congress.
Secondly, Bill Jefferson is a leader.
He is a person who deserves because his people elected him to be here.
And in fact, you're guilty.
In America, you're innocent until proven guilty.
Democracy should work.
And in fact, there's so many issues in New Orleans, Katrina, the issues of poverty, you know, housing.
And he's been very effective, as his people, as his constituents have demonstrated in addressing those issues.
Really?
Has anybody been effective down there?
How can she say that?
So anyway, well, he won, so he's a leader, and he should be put back on that committee.
A caller from California then said, I have a problem here with Congress.
You spend hours and hours and millions and millions of dollars for these committees to investigate, but yet no one's been brought up on charges for these things that they've done wrong.
You wasted public money with these committees and all, and no one's been recommended for nothing.
Over the last few years, there has been very little oversight in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Very little accountability.
We've had very few oversight hearings.
We've had very few investigations.
And I believe that you'll see in this next Congress more oversight and holding individuals and the administration accountable.
Nice evasion there.
Caller from Wisconsin said, Look, I'm concerned about this whole idea, you know, having a black caucus.
And aren't you afraid that that kind of gives the impression that you, you know, you're not really for Americans, but unless they're black, I mean, that's the assumption I got.
The Congressional Black Caucus, let me say to you, stands for all Americans.
If you look at our agenda, if you look at our positions on education, on environmental policy, on social justice issues, on education, on a bunch of socialists.
You're a bunch of socialists.
I'm working not only for the black community, but for America and to make this country what it should be and can be.
Well, fine then.
If you're working for all Americans, change the name from the Congressional Black Caucus to the All-American Caucus.
See how that flies.
By the way, I don't know if you've heard this or not.
This is a tragedy, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm surprised that it went undiscovered as long as it has.
Four Capitol gift shops recently removed several items, including small toys and children's jewelry, after an investigative team of Democrat staffers found that the items contained dangerous levels of lead.
Democrat staffers investigated gift shop items for Capitol gift shops and found dangerous levels of lead.
This prompted a statement from Barack Obama.
He said, as a parent of two young children, it's frightening to think that a toy or memento like the one sold in the Capitol gift shops could unknowingly expose my daughters to toxic lead.
Cue the violins.
This guy is going to have an opinion on everything.
And it's going to be a Clinton-esque opinion.
By the way, there's a story here in the Christian Science Monitor: What's Driving Obama Mania?
And basically, just a couple paragraphs here.
It isn't a single set of issues such as the war or the economy.
Rather, the attraction to Obama seems to be a mix of his own compelling personal narrative and many voters' desire for a less caustic brand of politics.
Ross Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers, said, It's the sense that you're in the presence of someone who is touched with the gift of grace.
Obama exemplifies the hope that there's some way to triumph over the intense polarization of American politics.
A barely known state lawmaker and community organizer in Chicago, Obama shot to superstar status after an electrifying speech at the 2004 Democrat National Convention in Boston and with fawning puff pieces by major media outlets in the past two months.
I added that.
That's not in the piece.
So there you have it.
He's on the case for the toxic lead and his children being exposed to it in a Capitol gift shop.
And he's someone touched with the gift of grace.
Heather in Claremont, Oklahoma.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Welcome.
Hello.
How are you?
Good.
Thank you.
How are you?
Pretty good.
Pretty good.
I have a question for you.
I need to.
It kind of goes in line with your little diner with the nurses, the sexy nurses and the complexity.
Hey, don't call this place a diner.
This is the Heart Attack Grill.
A Heart Attack Grill.
Okay.
Well, we have an issue in, I live in a suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
And we have an issue where there's a haircutting place for men in Tulsa called Eye Candy Cuts.
And the haircutters dress sexy.
Short skirts, high heels, thigh-high stockings, you name it.
And, of course, the neighbors are upset about it, even though you can't see into the business.
When they're cutting hair, you can't see.
I want to understand this.
The name of this business, the name of this establishment is iCandy Haircuts.
Correct.
And it's for men.
It's a barbershop.
It's for men.
Correct.
Correct.
So now they have a group that is lobbying the state board to try and get the dress codes for hairstylists to be changed so that they're covered from shoulder to knee.
You see how wound we are?
Where is this wound so damn tight?
This is just.
You wonder why people don't realize we have an enemy that's trying to wipe us out?
They go get upset about this.
I mean, this is just.
I just thought you would get a kick out of hearing this and to let you know that it's not just in Arizona, that it is actually made it to the heartland.
Let me tell you something out there.
Heather, this is not new.
Businesses have been doing.
Ever heard of the Playboy Clubs?
Exactly.
I mean, this is not new.
This has been going on since biblical times.
It's been going on since Caveman days.
This is just human nature.
There's nothing more than entrepreneurism, but we're wound so tight.
We can't objectify these haircutters by dressing them this way.
And we can't.
And of course, nobody's worried about the insult it is to men.
No.
Nobody worries about that.
Oh, the best way to get a man to part with his money is to show him a little titillation.
There you go.
Well, if I were one of these wound too tight little SOBs, I'd be leading a movement to stop this on the basis it's offensive to men.
It's objectifying and it's stereotyping us.
This is absurd.
And it's obscene.
People just, you know, nobody has a sense of humor anymore.
No, they don't.
And they don't want to have it.
And if somebody's having a good time, then somebody needs to, fund police need to show up and stop it.
As long as nobody else is having a good time, nobody can have a good time.
That's right.
Exactly.
Exactly.
I just thought that would be a good story for you to tell.
Let me ask you a question, Heather.
How many women have tried to get into this place to get their hair cut?
Just to see the competition.
They actually did a little story on it on the news.
And pretty much anybody can go in there and get their haircut as long as they're not a child.
If they're over 18, they can go in and get their hair cut.
Sounds fair to me.
It doesn't sound like they're discriminating at all.
You know, as long as they leave a tip, they can get their hair cut.
Well, you know, that's good because we had this story yesterday of the four-year-old, yeah, four-year-old sexual predator who's been charged with sexual harassment at some school for, you know, basically trying to hug the teacher.
Oh, yeah.
The teacher's aid or whatever.
All right.
Heather, thanks for the call.
Thanks for the heads up.
You're welcome.
Appreciate it.
We'll be back and continue.
She didn't take a breath in that whole phone call.
Did you notice that?
Okay, folks, a lot to do here, and not much time to get it all in, so listen fast.
Oh, by the way, a lot of people have been emailing me about the pictures of the sculpted penguin that are on my website.
And after they note what a gorgeous piece the sculptured penguin is, Pelican.
Sorry, Pelican.
It's not the point, which is why I asking me about the floors.
Everybody is stunned with the floors here at the EIB Southern Command.
They're Bellawood, Hardwood Floors, one of our sponsors.
And we paid for it.
We don't trade things out, folks.
We paid for it.
Clean transaction.
Time Magazine setting John McCain up.
You know, Time Magazine and all the drive-by media, McCain was their guy.
And now they're concerned on two fronts.
They don't like his new slogan, common sense conservatism.
It just doesn't have the same ring to it as Straight Talk Express.
And they're also very concerned that McCain is not going to be bound by federal spending limits and will not take federal matching funds because if you do that, you're limited to how much you can spend.
McCain is not going to take any federal funds, meaning he can spend whatever he wants.
And the drive-by medius is, how does a guy who was instrumental in McCain Feingold getting the money out of politics do this?
So, what it indicates to me is they have never understood who the guy is.
And they've built him up simply on the basis that they loved him for hating Bush or criticizing Bush, criticizing Republicans.
And they're getting ready to turn on him.
The New York Post has an interesting story today by Ian Bishop.
Barack Hussein Obama is how it starts.
He's a soaring political superstar right now, but he also sports one of the most liberal voting records in the Senate and has a shady land deal in his recent past.
Democrat activists are swooning over Obama as an alternative to Senator Hillary Rodham Rodham.
Voters still have a lot to learn about the first-term Illinois Democrat.
The seeds for the seedy land deal were planted in 2004 when Obama got a big money book deal after winning his Senate seat with the book money.
He bought a swanky Illinois mansion in June of 2005 for $1.6 million.
On the same day that Osama closed, or Obama closed on the mansion, Tony Rezco, a tainted political fundraiser, paid $625,000 for the adjacent vacant lot.
Now, this land deal in 2005, and the deal is with this Tony Resco guy who's a tainted political fundraiser and has been indicted by feds since in an alleged pay-to-play scheme.
So Obama takes his book deal money, goes out and buys a $1.65 million mansion.
The same day that that house closes, this Resco guy paid 625 big ones for the adjacent vacant lot.
Six months later, Obama expanded the size of his yard by buying a strip of Resco's land for only $105,000.
Obama insists the transaction was above board, but he's been contrite about the appearance of impropriety.
Now, you don't think this just happened to show up, do you?
Who do you think might be behind leaking details of a shady land deal, ladies and gentlemen?
I think it'd be the land dealmeister herself.
That would be Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Clinton war machine, starting now to leak a few things out about Obama and so forth.
Matt in Redlands, California, quickly, quickly.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello, Rush.
Since the Iraq surrender group says we should talk to Iran, why doesn't Bush send Mel Gibson and Jimmy Carter to join David Duke and Ahmed Didijan at the Holocaust Never Happened Conference?
I'm sure they could all agree that if we just let Iran wipe Israel off the map, we would, as Chamberlain said, have peace in our time.
What do you think, Rush?
I think that that's a great way to illustrate the pure folly of the suggestion from the Iraq Surrender Group.
You don't call it study group, it's the Iraq Surrender Group here.
We've got to bring Syria and Iran in there.
We've got to help them, or they have to help us, extricate ourselves.
Only they can bring order to the region.
And this bunch Ahmadinejad now is conducting is the Holocaust Didn't Happen convention.
Send the Iraq Surrender Group over there to talk to them at that convention.
You don't need to send anybody else.
David Duke can handle that end of it.
More terrorist instructors at a truck driving school in Rhode Island thought it was suspicious.
One of their students wasn't interested in learning how to back up.
They thought it was suspicious.
He probably was carrying a trophy, by the way, too, in the cab when he was attempting to get his license.
And a little more than a year after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is booming in its Latino population.
Sad to say, gotta go.
It's one of the saddest moments of the day for millions of Americans.