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March 19, 2007, Monday, Hour #2

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	The views expressed by the host on this program make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying because we are in a relentless and unstoppable pursuit of the truth.
	We find it and proclaim it and people go nuts.
	Which is fun to make happen.
	Greetings and welcome back.
	Just guess what just happened.
	I just got a note from H.R., trustee chief of staff up in New York, the BBC called.
	And uh in fact, let me just read the note to you here rather than paraphrase this thing uh BBC.
	Let me move the microphone here we can hear me.
	Just got a call from uh the presenter on one of the BBC shows.
	Would like to use a ten-second soundbite of something you said about Obama from a while back in concert with clips and all sorts of other radio shows in the U.S. Now we declined because that's that means we know what they're doing.
	Ten seconds of all the things I've said about Obama.
	For example, today you could take ten seconds of me saying Obama is the magic Negro.
	And make it look like I said it.
	Rather than the fact I'm repeating it from an LA Times column today.
	So the BBC is getting ready to and we declined uh their permission to use us in that regard.
	We said if you want to do just on Rush, and we'll send you a compendium, what's been said.
	No, no, we're not interested in that.
	So they're doing a hit piece on on uh on Talk Show Host in America, the way they're talking about Obama, which is which is precisely my point.
	It's the LA Times, and it's Joe Biden, and it's all these other people who are raising questions about his authenticity.
	In fact, there was an honest story, but even it, and I forget where it was last week.
	Might have been a blog.
	I I forget.
	And uh this this the person writing this story begrudgingly admitted that even Rush Limbaugh is saying there's something to this Obama guy, and so he's not being overly critical of Obama.
	But then the Snide follow-up was that's because so many people are excited about the so many people on the left are being critical of Obama for one reason or another that Limbaugh is not being genuine in his uh respect that he's showing for Obama.
	It's gonna of course it can't be, obviously.
	I mean, if things are 180 degrees out of phase here.
	Uh LA Times today referring to Obama as the magic Negro.
	And I'm gonna keep referring to him as that because I want to make a bet by the end of this week, I will own that term.
	By the end of the day, by the broadcast engineer shouting at me over the IFP.
	Oh, people, what is an IFB?
	It's an intercom.
	It's just a it's a it's a private, you can't hear them there.
	I got people chattering at me all the time.
	Uh and I don't know what IFB stands for, it's a television term, but we use one here.
	That's that's it's just closed circuit loop.
	At any rate, um he's shouting at me, you'll own it by the end of the day if you keep referring to Barack Obama as the magic Negro.
	We'll give it a shot.
	We'll see uh what happens with this.
	Two competing polls, ladies and oh, here's the phone number, 800 282-2882.
	If you'd like to be on the program.
	By the way, um, as I mentioned on Friday, we are we're launching a new website design today.
	Everything that's been in the website will be there.
	Uh it's uh just to me, it's a much more organized presentation.
	Uh each day's content is specifically uh noted.
	Uh you will uh you'll see it when we update it for today's show's content, uh, hopefully around six o'clock tonight, Eastern time, could be later since this is the first day.
	And honestly, we're not putting a beta on you out there.
	We're not we're not putting something that's bug laden and hoping your complaints help us work it out.
	One of the we would hope to launch this a month ago, and we've been trying to iron out all the bugs ourselves.
	Uh one of the last things that held us up and wasn't discovered till Friday night by me was that the disgruntrificator wasn't working.
	Uh no matter what button I punched on the disgruntrificator, nothing happened.
	Well, we can't have the disgruntrificator not work on the website, so we had to spend the weekend rewriting the code for that.
	Uh well, no, you don't you you we have to we no I've just been asked if we can still get parts for the disgruntator.
	We have to have to manufacture our own parts uh for the disgruntator and have them in stock standing by in case we need it.
	At any rate, uh uh at the top of the we've redesigned the uh the title uh uh graphic.
	It's um it's much sharper, much, much nicer, much more modern looking.
	Uh and underneath that are tabs for every show, the last five or six, seven shows.
	And you click on those tabs, you'll get that show's content without having to go to the archives page.
	Uh it's it's it's going to be much easier to uh navigate.
	Uh and and everything that is uh on uh the website as reflected by the uh program uh will be right there, front and center, top of the website, easy to uh find without a without as much clutter uh as there has been.
	We're looking forward to launching this thing, and I just wanted to give you a heads up.
	I wanted to assure you we have not launched a beta out there.
	You are not testers.
	I'm sure that you're gonna find something that doesn't work.
	Half of you find things that do work but don't work for you.
	Uh and and we we work diligently.
	Well, not half.
	Like just today, well, iTunes was updated to 7.1.1.
	And every time iTunes updates, I get I get eh five or six emails.
	I can't download the podcast anymore.
	Yes, you can, and it's nothing to do with the iPod upgrade.
	I forget what the fix for this is.
	It these problems never happen to me.
	Uh I'm using a Mac.
	Uh but regardless, uh, they do happen, and we uh we try to get them resolved as uh as quickly as possible.
	So that's a heads up on the uh unveiling of the new website design.
	Uh and a new little feature, too, by the way.
	We're offering a uh uh a daily newsletter that's a hurry-up edition of the website that night.
	Uh and of course, an additional fee.
	We make no apologies for our success here, nor do we apologize for continuing to build on it.
	Uh we are uh offering uh a little prize to the first eight or ten, I think it is that sign up, and that's a free eighty gig IPO.
	Uh eighty gig.
	Miniaturizing of these hard drives is um uh amazing.
	The technology advances that are occurring in the midst of our lives are breathtaking uh to behold.
	Anyway, you'll see that window uh as the news site is uh is unveiled tonight at rushlimbod.com.
	Couple of competing polls about life in Iraq.
	Uh from the Times Online, UK newspaper.
	Most Iraqis believe life is better for them now than it was under Saddam Hussein, according to a British opinion poll that was published Sunday.
	The uh survey of more than five thousand Iraqis found the majority optimistic despite their suffering and sectarian violence since the American-led invasion four years ago.
	One in four Iraqis has had a family member murdered, says the poll by opinion research business.
	Only twenty-seven percent think there is a civil war in Iraq.
	Now, the drive-by media are not going to be happy about this.
	They're gonna come in as an enormous blow to the cut-and-run brigade in this country to learn that most Iraqis believe that life now is better than under the tyranny of Saddam.
	And by a 61 to 27% margin, they don't believe there's a civil war in their country, which will force the drive-bys in this country.
	This is a res this is a respected newspaper, the Times Online.
	They're gonna have to do something to discredit this poll and suggest maybe that the Iraqis themselves do not know there's a civil war.
	Well, they won't say that.
	The Iraqis so uh so uh uh traumatized uh and uh shattered that they don't even realize the plight that they're in.
	However, ladies and gentlemen, another poll.
	Oh, by the way, uh 33 percent saw effective reconstruction efforts.
	Sixty-seven percent uh call them ineffective.
	It's it's not a perfect business.
	Everything the news in it is not perfect, but the vast majority think life is better than under Saddam, and a vast, vast, vast majority think they're not living in a civil war.
	However, USA Today has a poll out.
	Most Iraqis live in fear of violence four years after the invasion.
	Four years after the invasion, nearly nine of ten Iraqis say they live in fear the violence ravaged in our country will strike them and the people with whom they live.
	Just five percent say they worry Hardly at all about the safety of those in their household.
	The findings are part of a survey of Iraqi public opinion sponsored jointly by USA Today, ABC News, the BBC, and ARD, a German TV network.
	The full results from face-to-face interviews with the 2200 Iraqis from February 25th to March 5th are released today.
	This other poll, by the way, by opinion research business talked to 5,000 Iraqis, over twice as many, and that poll shows an entirely different result.
	At least that's how the reporting of it looks.
	So this poll that USA Today published here and did jointly with ABC and the BBC.
	Very good news for the drive-by media.
	Very good news for the Cut and Run Brigade.
	Very good news for those who own defeat.
	Be interesting to know exactly where the Iraqis were polled and when.
	And uh geographically, if it's all Baghdad, if it's throughout the country or so forth, this we don't yet know.
	All right, the president spoke about the uh four-year anniversary of the Iraq war today.
	We'll let you hear a couple sound bites when we get back.
	Hi, the president.
	Uh five-minute address, final speech in the White House this morning about 11 30 on the fourth anniversary of the commencement of hostilities in Iraq.
	Uh he asked for patience and uh uh said this is going to uh continue to take time.
	Uh there's far more to be optimistic and upbeat about than I I let's let's go to the audio.
	I will uh comment as it uh as it unfolds.
	Here's the president addressing the nation, a portion of his remarks we got two sound bites.
	Members of Congress are now considering an emergency war spending bill.
	They have a responsibility to ensure that this bill provides the funds and the flexibility that our troops need to accomplish their mission.
	They have a responsibility to pass a clean bill that does not use funding for our troops as leveraged to get special interest spending for their districts.
	And they have a responsibility to get this bill to my desk without strings and without delay.
	It can be tempting to look at the challenges in Iraq and conclude our best option is to pack up and go home.
	That may be satisfying in the short run.
	But I believe the consequences for American security would be devastating.
	Now there's nothing wrong with this.
	Sorry, that please hear me.
	There's nothing wrong with this.
	Uh, in in and of itself, but it it still is uh uh attitudinally, tonally, uh, in response to criticism.
	It's still it's still giving critics allowing them to define the terms on which comments about the Iraq War made.
	They're all kinds of upbeat positive assessments that could be spoken of in an upbeat positive way.
	We've seen stories left and right that the surge is working.
	Uh Petraeus is doing a great job.
	We still don't have any sight of Muki al-Sadr.
	He's still hold up in uh in Iran.
	Uh and and the uh the neighborhoods in Baghdad are quieter than they have ever been.
	You could you could you could uh bullhorn this.
	Uh, and you could you could uh talk about how this is working and so forth in a very upbeat and positive way, rather than respond to it in the uh within the the context of the critics and uh and what they're saying.
	Now he talked also about wanting a clean bill to fund the troops.
	You may be wondering what he's talking about.
	Well, the Democrats have a price for that.
	The Democrats have a price for continuing to fund the troops in the Iraq War.
	Now, the President has requested a hundred billion dollars for this, both in Iraq and Afghanistan.
	He wants an additional three billion to replenish the disaster relief fund and uh uh that devolved that into a uh uh log rolling extravagance of 124.6 billion.
	Uh now the the well, the Democrats want that.
	Uh and here's here's what's in this bill that the that the President does not want and what he's referring to.
	There's $25 million in the Iraq funding Bill for spinach.
	And the $25 million for spinach is designed to attract the vote of Sam Farr, who is a California farm region liberal.
	Perhaps spinach growers who lost business due to last year's E. coli scare need the taxpayer bailout, but it won't intimidate the Taliban unless Mr. Farr plans to draft Popeye, says the Wall Street Journal.
	Other parts of this bill, $20 million to restore farmland damaged by freezing temperatures during global warming.
	And $1.48 billion for livestock farmers.
	And don't forget the $74 million to ensure proper storage for peanuts, an urgent national security need.
	This happens to be about the same amount that House Democrats propose to increase spending for operations of the Army Reserve.
	They want $74 million to ensure proper storage for peanuts, and that's about what they're spending on the Army Reserve.
	This is the bill the president's talking about that's being cluttered.
	But the way to look at this is this is the price the Democrats are exacting for their support.
	Now, you might say, so what, Rush?
	I mean, this is politics as usual.
	Well, so what is this isn't what they said they were going to do.
	They said they were going to have an open, clean government to get rid of all these uh earmarks, they're gonna get rid of all the profligate spending, they were going to balance the budget.
	But no Congressman ever says that means it.
	No politician, very few whoever say that mean it.
	And you can look at the total of the federal budget every year and just cite for me one year where it's gone down.
	It hasn't.
	So uh there's uh there's a veto pen waiting for this, perhaps.
	Be interesting to see.
	Here's the next bush bite that we have.
	Four years after this war began, the fight is difficult.
	But it can be won.
	It will be won if we have the courage and resolve to see it through.
	I'm grateful to our servicemen and women for all they've done.
	For the honor they brought to their uniform in their country.
	I'm grateful to our military families for all the sacrifices they have made for our country.
	We also hold in our hearts the good men and women who've given their lives in this struggle.
	We pray for the loved ones they have left behind.
	The United States military is the most capable and courageous fighting force in the world.
	And whatever our differences in Washington, our troops and their families deserve the appreciation and the support of our entire nation.
	Once again, this is a uh a response to the critics.
	Uh you could say it can be won, but you could also say we are in the process of making very pro very good and noticeable progress.
	Uh the thing about this is the American people want to win this.
	If they didn't, the Democrats would succeed in defunding it.
	The American people want this won.
	They want the U.S. military victorious.
	George Patton said it.
	Americans hate a loser.
	Especially when it's them and when it's their country.
	And mark my words, if there were any part of that that were not true, the Democrats wouldn't have any trouble passing any of these resolutions.
	They would be resolutions with teeth, and they would be able to defund it.
	If that's where the actual support of the American people was, the Democrats would have confidence to move forward.
	But they don't.
	They're nothing but rhetoric.
	Robert and in Herndon, Virginia, nice to have you with us, sir.
	Welcome.
	Hello, how are you?
	Fine, sir.
	Thank you.
	Yes, yes.
	Uh, by the way, I was at the uh the anti-war rally on Saturday here in Washington, D.C. And uh it turned out to be the uh Vietnam War reenactment weekend with the original cast, unfortunately.
	Yeah, it's just a bunch of wrinkled has bins.
	Yes, yes, baby boomers on parade.
	So it was quite a show.
	You know, there was a gathering of eagles, uh, gathering of eagles protest uh at the same time, and they had the counter protesters uh, and they dwarfed the anti-war crowd in numbers.
	Yeah, when I when I went over there, um I saw these American flags, and I thought, oh no, are the left getting smart and adopting the American flags?
	And then I realized, no, that's uh that's the pro-American rally.
	Yeah, they're not they're not waving the anti-war crowds, not waving the flag.
	This is uh an interesting point that you make, uh, your observation.
	It is one that uh has been noticed for the last four years.
	There have been a number of anti-war rallies around the country.
	Uh one of the one of the funniest ones was uh some some conference involving Central American countries and trade.
	It was down in Miami, and they had a bunch of anti-war protesters, and they really were a bunch of gummers.
	People walking around with uh, you know, them uh What is this stuff that you glue the false teeth in?
	Uh fix it, and yeah, I got their cans of fixing it in the back in the back pocket, replacing the cans of chewing tobacco.
	Uh you know, walking around in their wheelchairs.
	If this group ever stopped and smiled at the same time, they'd stop everything and declare it Halloween.
	Of course, this group doesn't smile, so there was no fear of this.
	But it's this is aging retreads from the 60s.
	They have not recruited a bunch of youths.
	The 18 to 24 is only the college students of today not out there marching against this war, other than slight places like the Bay Area.
	And this is uh this is distressing.
	Of course, the drive by's ignore all this lady.
	And the drive by the fact that this protest was dwarfed.
	I know.
	And thank you, and welcome back.
	Here we are, Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man with talent.
	On loan from God.
	Selected members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said Friday in a cautionary bulletin to the cops.
	An FBI spokesman said parents and children have nothing to fear.
	Really?
	Well, then why issue the story that suspected members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the U.S.?
	How does that lead to parents and children having nothing to fear?
	Because they'd have no more room for fear, folks.
	They are full of fear over global warming.
	They have to worry about extremist driving buses.
	Asked about the alert notice, the FBI said, Well, there aren't any threats.
	No, no plots, no history leading us to believe there's any reason for concern, although law enforcement agencies around the country were asked to watch out for kids' safety.
	But there's nothing to fear.
	The bulletin, parts of which are read to the AP, did not say how often foreign extremists have sought to acquire licenses to drive school buses or where it was sent Friday as part of what officials said was a routine FBI and Homeland Security Department advisory to local law enforcement.
	But parents and children have nothing to fear.
	Well, who are these extremist bus drivers then if if parents and children have nothing to fear, it must it must be people like this.
	From the Orlando Sentinel, the website for IRIDE Trolley boasts comments from its readers.
	An efficient way to move around, wonderful not to have to rent a car.
	The bus driver called me a raghead.
	Operators of the tourist bus on International Drive fired a driver Thursday after a Turkish American couple who had visited Orlando complained about comments he made over at a loud speaker to his passengers.
	Hilal Isler of upstate New York said she and her husband Vulcan Isler were offended when the driver launched into a monologue after they boarded the IRIDE Trolley Bus about eight o'clock on March the 5th.
	The driver greeted the passengers, told a blonde joke, and then said he was an equal opportunity offender.
	What shocked the uh Islers, both college professors, was his talk about Muslims.
	And now they're telling us we're supposed to be nice to these Muslim terrorists who are trying to kill us all.
	Here in America we call them ragheads or towel heads, but that's not right.
	What they wear on their heads is more like a sheet.
	We should be calling them sheetheads.
	I have to admit that made me laugh.
	So now we know who the extremist bus drivers are that have uh that have been hired and applying.
	These are people that tell jokes about Muslims and blondes.
	No wonder the FBI is concerned.
	My husband and I were shocked we felt insulted and distressed, said Isler, who is Muslim but doesn't wear a traditional head scarf or anything else that would identify her as such.
	The passengers broke into laughter, she said.
	So the Turkish couple approached the driver.
	We're Turkish, we're Middle Eastern.
	Can you appreciate how badly this makes us feel?
	How would you feel if these sorts of things were said about you?
	Her husband asked.
	The driver said he wouldn't mind, responding in a voice that mimicked her husband's Turkish accent.
	The uh Islers, or Isolers, I'm not pronounced this, who had spent the day visiting SeaWorld and outlet shops hunting for bargains, left the bus upset but thinking they would let the incident go.
	a day after they got back to New York, however, Hilal Isler sent a letter to the people that run the iRide trolley.
	Imagine there are others who've been on the receiving end of this sort of treatment, she said.
	When she didn't hear anything in response for a week, she sent another email Wednesday morning.
	She also forwarded the email to the Orlando Sentinel saying she felt slighted.
	Now Luann Brooks, executive director of the International Drive Master Transit and Improvement District, which owns the IRID, told the Orlando Sentinel the driver had been identified on Thursday and fired.
	Although the bus had no cameras to document what happened, Brooks said she believed Isler's account and blamed the delay in action on the company's spam filter, which she said had blocked Isler's original email.
	Now why would that be?
	What a convenient new excuse that well, we didn't get your complaint.
	somehow our spam filter identified your email as spam.
	But they got an anti-Muslim filter on their email filter.
	At uh any rate, the Sabiha Khan, the executive director of the Orlando Office of Care, said she receives two to three complaints a month about discrimination against Muslims in Central Florida.
	Mostly the incidents go unreported.
	At Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, Hilal Isler is professor of anthropology, director of student diversity programs.
	Her husband is a professor of computer science at an engineering college.
	And this was their third visit to Orlando.
	At Shamu Stadium at SeaWorld, she said flying eagles and the American flag flashed on the jumbo screen.
	Audience members were shouting, we support the troops and go America.
	The scene said it irked her.
	Or she said the scene irked her.
	We were not in a military rally here.
	Maybe they don't want us here.
	We won't be back.
	My gosh.
	Okay, one thing to be called a sheethead when you're Muslim and not wearing a towel on your head...
	When you're driving on the iRide in Orlando, but can you imagine the humiliation of going to Shamu Stadium in Orlando at SeaWorld and having the American flag flash in front when you live in America and when you teach at American universities, and when you are Turkish Muslim, can you imagine the humiliation of having to go of all places?
	Shamu's stadium threatened killer whales in captivity performing for these uh uh gullible human beings.
	And all of a sudden the American flag pops up, and the crowd at Shamu Stadium start shouting, we support the troops, and they report that they were offended.
	They were not at a military rally.
	So this must be what the uh the these extremists that are hiring or applying for jobs, driving buses and so forth, and that's why uh kids and uh and their parents should not feel threatened, because it's basically just a bunch of American anti-Islamic racists that are applying for these gigs.
	No, sweat it, folks.
	Uh go ahead, feel free, put your kids on the bus.
	FBI got it covered.
	Ted Pocatello, Idaho.
	Welcome to the EIB network.
	Yes, I was just I want to make a comment about your comment that you made about uh Senator Brock Obama, who's who is a black man.
	I think I don't think they should refer to him as a Negro, even though we are Negroes.
	I'm I'm black man myself, and I don't think they refer to us as Negroes.
	But if they if they if they do, then then I guess that's okay.
	But I don't think they should say that to Senator Barack Obama, a Democratic presidential candidate who's got a lot of people.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
	What what did I say?
	You said that you said that they quoted in the Los Angeles Times that they that they said something to Barack Obama, said he was like the uh miracle Negro or something.
	Magic No, no, no, it's a magic Negro.
	Well, the magic Negro is blacks aren't ashamed of being Negroes, but but okay, just like when they flew that Al Jazeera.
	Why are you calling me?
	I I didn't I didn't say it.
	You need to be calling a guy named Aaron Stein at the LA Times who came up with the uh the uh colorful uh uh description of Barack Obama as a magic Negro.
	Okay, the only donor joining why should that because I'm listening to your program and I'm avid listener of your program, and I know that that that Senator Biden made some kind of comment like he's the cleanest out of all of them and everything else.
	I mean, the I mean those aren't really puff shots, you know, but the you know, I if it goes national.
	Yeah, but you know, you have to say something.
	Are you Democrat or Republican?
	I'm the I'm Democrat.
	Well, it's Democrat saying all these things.
	You know that.
	Yes.
	Are you saying I shouldn't repeat them?
	No, because no, because that's talk that's radio talk show.
	But I but Bob Drive is just saying that made that make that makes the black community.
	Wait a second.
	Radio talk shows somehow get denigrated because we repeat what liberals say, in this case, the magic Negro about Barack Obama.
	So you you somehow we've descended to a new lull by quoting what's in the LA Times that the LA Times is excused for this?
	No, what I'm saying is that maybe you should take the position to maybe defend that and maybe say, quote unquote, they are not Negroes.
	These are black people.
	Well, I didn't say it in so many terms, but I pretty much excoriated them.
	I hope you heard that.
	These people are, you know, the racists in our society, uh uh, Ted, are are these white liberals.
	They're the ones that notice your skin color before anything else, and they're the ones deciding whose skin color uh is dark enough and therefore who's authentic enough and who's been down for the struggle.
	It's those people doing this, it's not me, it's not talk radio.
	True.
	True.
	And they always they they always do that.
	They already do that to the blacks that are that are that are moving up.
	That's right, because they represent a threat, the civil rights coalition's prescriptions that you can't move ahead in this country because of racism.
	But I think but I think us as blacks have moved on and and we can move on, and I think Barack Obama may very well be the two thousand uh uh Democratic nominee for President of the United States, and I don't think they should refer to him as that.
	And I would I will I mean if I lived in Los Angeles and I lived there and I know Wait, don't forget the purpose.
	The LA Times wrote this piece.
	They say that he is the magic Negro because a bunch of people who are white who are supporting him are only doing it because they have a bunch of white guilt, and they think by supporting uh the magic Negro that that they can assuage their guilt.
	Uh in essence, he's saying that these people the white people that support Obama mostly are racists, that they don't know anything about him because there is nothing to know.
	That's what they say.
	That's what this guy wrote in his column.
	There's nothing to know.
	He's not been around long enough.
	People support this guy, obviously have to support him because he's black and it makes them feel better.
	So they are racist.
	The the guy who is racist here is the author of the column accusing I mean i it's as though there's a death wish uh for black candidates, no matter who the black candidate is, if there's any white support, it's not genuine.
	It can't be because whites are racist.
	And in this case, since Obama's gotta be the magic Negro, because nobody knows anything about him.
	So there's no reason to support him unless you have white guilt and you want a black guy to make you feel better.
	But it it's it it's other it's it's other points to support him, and and even though they they may take us for reparations and all the stuff that you said before, um, you know, they have to look beyond that.
	I mean, but but but we can't control the United States, and and I did not read the article, I was just going by what you said on your talk show.
	And uh I'm not I'm not not really saying anything bad about you.
	I just said why, you know, why repeat that phrase?
	I heard you say I'm going to own that phrase, you know, by the end of this day, you're gonna be able to do that.
	Well, but that's that no, see.
	Glad you asked that.
	Because my point is that the LA Times raised it.
	The LA Times columnist Aaron Stein writes about it.
	And I simply said if I refer to Obama the rest of the day as the magic Negro, there will be a number of people in drive by media and on left wing blogs who will credit me for coming up with it and ignore the LA Times did it simply because they can't be critical of the LA Times, but they can obviously be critical of talk radio.
	It's such something beneath us all.
	That was that columnists.
	Just making a point out there, Ted, that I don't own the comment.
	I don't own the phrase, the LA Times does, but by the end of the day, if I keep using it, they'll say I do own it.
	Okay, and then I'm just going to say that that columnist probably is a Jew and now wait a minute.
	On what basis are you making that supposed to be?
	I'm I'm making the assumption just on just on his name.
	I would say he's a Jew, and and and it is a lot of racism in Los Angeles, glad lived out there, and and that that probably goes on, but we have a strong NACP chapter out there that will probably handle that.
	We'll see.
	Look at the LA Times has run two other pieces on Obama.
	The most recent one is the past month or so on is he black enough?
	And the answer is no.
	Yes, but they always say questions like that.
	I mean, I mean, why would that question arise?
	Why would that even arise when when they aren't black people?
	They don't know what black is.
	You know, we can always say stuff like that.
	They baby they always want to say, is he black people who are not?
	You know, but that's this this is what's crazy.
	That only certain people are allowed to know what black is.
	That's absurd.
	And it's the LA Times and the left, it's raising questions about the authenticity of who's black enough.
	And I mean, it's this is it is dehumanizing its demeaning, and it is racist, and your buds at the NAA L C P did not go to the LA Times and say, what is this?
	Is Obama black enough business?
	They didn't.
	They stand mute out there.
	They're liberals, and they're not going to criticize each other.
	They are liberals first.
	I don't care whether feminists and actors or actresses or whether they are liberal Jewish people or liberal black people in ALC.
	They are liberals first and everything else second.
	Ted, great call.
	Great conversation.
	Glad you got through, but I have to run because of the constraints of time.
	I'd be right back and continue here after this.
	Where was I headed?
	Oh, it's coming home from playing golf yesterday, and I was fit to be tied, by the way.
	I'm not gonna bleed on you people about this, but I just I had a horrible round of.
	I am still depressed over it because now I know what I'm doing wrong, and I I can't fix it.
	I mean, I'm fine out there on the range.
	I get out to the golf course, and uh it's just I did lost the game back in November, and I went to somebody here's what you're doing wrong, and I fix it on the ranch, can't fix it on a golf course.
	It's depressing.
	So I'm driving home, and I'm in a blue funk.
	And the caddies yesterday couldn't read a green to save their lives.
	I finally blew up at them on the 18th hole, and Mr. Reed by three feet.
	Should have followed my own instincts.
	Never forget that.
	Always follow your own instincts.
	So I'm listening.
	I'm I'm listening to a replay on the Fox News channel of Fox News Sunday.
	And Britt Hume uh uh in the round table with uh with the host Chris Wallace, essentially accuses Valerie Plame of lying under oath.
	When she told his cockamami story about how she's minding her own business at her little covert desk there at Langley headquarters, and a troubled junior officer working uh beneath her, gets a phone call from the vice president's office and then erupts into a panic and says to Valerie Plame, Vice President called, and they they want to know something about the yellow cake in this year.
	Well, what's the vice president doing calling here?
	What who does he think he is?
	And just at that moment, just at that somebody happened to be driving by or walking by and heard the story and said, Valerie, uh you we need to send somebody over there.
	Uh, your husband has been.
	I didn't send him, I didn't have the authority to send him, didn't mean yet have the authority to recommend him, Ms. Plame.
	Anyway, the interesting uh thing about she may have lied if she because she was under oath.
	She raised her right hand, and uh Henry Waxman swore her to oath.
	She she told and swore to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, uh, so help whatever.
	Uh and Byron York has uh an interesting piece, National Review Online today uh about Plame's testimony before the House Committee on Government Oversight.
	And it's true that she testified in February 2002 that well, she testified that uh a 2002 young junior officer who worked for her at the CIA came to her very upset after a call from the vice president's office asking about reports of an alleged Iraqi purchase of uranium in Niger.
	And she said as she was telling me what happened, somebody passed by another officer heard this.
	Mrs. Wilson testified.
	Uh he knew that Joe had already, my husband had already gone on some CIA missions previously to deal with other nuclear matters, and he suggested, well, why don't we send Joe?
	That's what she testified under oath, and that was the beginning of her husband's mission to Africa.
	But it turns out that Valerie Plame was also questioned about these events during the investigation into the Niger uranium matter by the Senate Intelligence Committee, and they were watching.
	Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee were watching eagerly her appearance on uh what was it, Friday?
	Yeah, Friday uh days rung.
	Bye, real quickly.
	And Sunday night, Senator Chris Bond from Missouri, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a statement that Mrs. Wilson didn't tell his committee about any junior officer or the call from the vice president's office, or the passing CIA official.
	Friday was the first time we ever heard that story, Bond said.
	Obviously, if we had, we would have included it in the report.
	If if Valerie Plame's memory of events is improved and if she would now like change her testimony, I'm sure the committee staff would be happy to reinterview her.
	Of course, Congress is very upset when it gets misled, aren't they?
	Like the U.S. attorney story.
	Very, very upset.
	I don't think they're upset here over the false testimony of Miss Plaim before one of these two committees will be back.
	We had a drive by caller, couldn't hang on, had an idea.
	We need black offset credits like carbon credits.
	If you're not black enough, go out and buy some blackness with some credits.

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