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Aug. 14, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 14, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #2
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And welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh and the most listened to radio talk show in America by far.
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Great to have you with us, folks.
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Barack Obama, it's getting bad out there.
He's saying some things here, folks, that are really stupid.
Now, let me retract.
Impolitic.
And that were he, anyone else, would have him laughed out of the race by now.
Thank you.
Now, to put this in a recent spat here in some historical context, from yesterday in the UK Guardian, the wife of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Sunday admonished those who question her biracial husband's credentials as a black man, calling the issue nonsense.
Michelle Obama said, we're still playing around with the question, is he black enough?
Stop this nonsense.
We're messing with the heads of our children.
She said that raising the specter of whether her husband was sufficiently black sent a confusing message to kids.
She also told several hundred people that she hoped her husband serves as a role model in how he helped raise their two young daughters.
If you can't run your own house, you certainly can't run the White House.
Okay, so she's upset that they keep asking, is he black enough?
Well, here we go to the Washington Post today, and we got a headline, the black enough question.
Who's asking?
In case it wasn't clear enough the first time, Senator Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have each said separately and increasingly forcefully in recent days that they're fed up with the black enough debate.
Well, I've been fed up with it since the first time I read about it in the Los Angeles Times.
I think it's demeaning, it's insulting, and it is indicative of who the real racists in this country tend to be, and they are liberals.
The people who see a human being and note skin color, sexual orientation, or other factors first, more often than not, are going to be liberals and form judgments based on it.
If you dig deeper in this Washington Post story, you say campaign aides didn't cite a specific example of this not black enough criticism that they hope to put to rest, noting instead that reporters have questioned both Obamas on the issue.
They've done more than question Obama.
They've written pieces.
They have written stories.
Why, the LA Times, a black columnist, actually wrote a column entitled Barack the Magic Negro.
And his point was he hadn't been around long enough.
Nobody could possibly know what he stands for.
So a bunch of guilty white liberals say they're going to vote for him because he's the magic negro.
Why, they can make themselves feel really good about themselves.
And then there were all these, there have been Chicago papers, Indiana papers, a number of papers who've kept this question alive.
Is Barack Obama black enough?
Is he down for the struggle?
And of course, he got into a little dispute early on back in March with the Reverend Sharpton.
The Reverend Sharpton wouldn't sign on to his campaign real fast.
The Reverend Jackson did.
But Reverend Sharpton was, you know, he was not yet convinced.
He was getting a little jealous.
In fact, Joe Biden, another Democrat, went out and said about O'Biden, about Obama, said, you know what's really great?
We finally have a clean and articulate black guy in our field, in our presidential field.
That's really good.
Now, he's trying to be complimentary, of course, but if you think we finally have a clean and articulate black guy, what must you think of other blacks who've been in a race like the Reverend Jacks and the Reverend Sharpton?
So, Sharpton, he's sitting there saying, Hey, what do you mean?
I take a shower every day.
I'm clean.
I'm articulate.
I can speak.
I've been doing it for a long time.
I could even be understood through the bullhorn at the public protest.
So, it inspired a tune here based on everything in this stems from what we found said or written by liberals.
Paul Shanklin as Reverend Sharpton.
It's just typical.
Reverend Sharpton could not stick to the lyric line and ended up protesting outside the song.
It went off script: everything in that song spawned by liberals.
And they're not through.
Now, in Newsweek, how does Obama woo downscale Democrats?
He charms the elites, but how does Obama woo a must-have downscale Democrats?
Now, what's a downscale Democrat?
If they were talking about Republicans, they just say rural hayseeds or rural pro-life Christians or some such thing.
Downscale Democrats.
We're talking about poor.
Downscaled poor and stupid Democrats.
That's what we're talking about.
And now Newsweek's asking, how does Obama woo them?
On a sunlit Friday afternoon in July, Barack Obama stopped by Beverly Van Fawson's farm in Adele, Iowa, to speak about rural issues.
It was standard Hawkeye State stumping until the senator took a stab at sympathizing with farmers whose crop prices have stagnated.
Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately?
See what they charge for arugula now.
In Iowa, where he was, there's not one Whole Foods store.
Number two, how many people in Adele care about arugula?
I don't think that it's arugula country.
So he's, there isn't a whole food store in Iowa, I read.
Andrew Romano, the author of the piece here, said, someone near me whispered, What's arugula? said Van Fawson, 74 years old.
You can't find that in Iowa.
Same goes for Whole Foods.
The closest locations, reported the New York Times that night, are in Omaha, Kansas City, Kansas, and Minneapolis.
And of course, the bloggers all pounced out there.
So he's got to go out and develop a solid base among downscale Democrats.
If you don't get the downscale Democrats, it's very hard to get the nomination set.
So now, in addition to not being black enough, he's not poor enough.
He doesn't know how to relate to the poor.
And then there's this.
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama was warned by a friendly voter Monday to avoid public spats with his Democrat rivals, but remarks he made later could add fuel to the criticism against him.
Maggie North of Claremont, New Hampshire, told Obama he risks becoming part of the usual political scene if he keeps being drawn into well-publicized disputes with rivals.
Now, how ridiculous is this?
He's in a presidential primary campaign.
He's got to argue with these people.
He got a campaign.
I guarantee you that independents, moderates, and so forth, ask them what they're all about, what they care for.
It's me.
Everything's about them.
Me, me, me.
I want to feel good.
I don't want to be around his rancor.
I just want to feel good.
Can't you all just get along?
And I suspect that this is what Maggie North of Claremont was attempting to convey to Barack Obama.
He says, you can be it, North said at a small gathering in a Hanover restaurant Monday morning that drew eight people.
Let me read that to you again.
This complaint from a supporter came at a Hanover, New Hampshire restaurant Monday morning.
It drew eight people.
You can be the nominee, but you got to stop.
Excuse me for being blunt.
You've got to stop getting involved in a way people are fighting each other, chewing you up a little more.
Obama said, that's what you do when you run for president.
But during a later appearance before about 800 people in Nashua, Obama made a comment likely to further the spats that he's warned about.
Asked whether he would move U.S. troops out of Iraq to better fight terrorism elsewhere.
He brought up Afghanistan.
He said, look, we got to get the job done there.
That requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there.
Okay, so out of the blue comes this allegation that the U.S. military is bombing villages and killing civilians.
Now, I know why he's saying it, because if you go read your average kook left-wing blog, that's what they think.
And so he's just trying to appeal to them here.
But that was very impolitic, folks.
Seasoned, intelligent presidential candidates, even in primary circumstances, especially in the general, but even in primaries.
No more.
You haven't heard somebody say, I mean, the closest we've got, Tom Tancredo said he would bomb Mecca.
And, you know, that's about the same thing.
You just don't.
And Baramos, Obama's also said he'd go in there to Pakistan, whether Musharraf knew we were coming or not and so forth.
This is just he's not racking up points.
I have to tell you, he's getting away with it a lot more than, say, if Hillary had said this or if old John Edwards had said it.
The static that would have descended upon them would have been pretty loud.
He's getting a little bit of a pass on some of this stuff.
Not a total pass, but he's getting a little bit of a pass on it.
But this is not good.
I'm talking about in terms of just being smart, something to say in a middle campaign.
You just don't say stuff like that.
I know we're going to get to Elizabeth Edwards.
We're going to get to Hillary, too.
Hillary's got her presidential papers, presidential records in her own testicle lockbox at the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor, and they're not going to be released until after 2008's election or the 07 election or whatever.
Yep, there it is.
We'll get to that in just a second.
I got to get to the phones.
People have been patiently waiting.
Chicago.
And Jim, thank you, sir, for your patience.
And welcome to the program.
Good afternoon, Rush.
It's a pleasure to speak with you.
Thank you.
You know, what you said about the liberal media and Obama black enough?
Yeah.
Well, it's really the liberal white media for the most part, because the liberal whites in the Democratic Party have always been able to tell the blacks who their leaders were, like the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
This goes back to Clarence Thomas for Uppity Black People.
So Obama is not black enough.
So who do you vote for?
You vote for Hillary.
He's not poor enough.
So who do you vote for?
Hillary.
They want to keep their power, the white liberal power, so they will bat down any black candidate, any black person that wants power in that Democratic power.
You make a good point.
You make a good point.
And I'd say that the percentage of what you're saying is accurate, that those in the drive-bys are doing everything they can to boost Hillary, although the last couple of days she's taken a couple hits.
But I also think that there is a systematic narrative in all these Barack stories as written by white liberals.
And the question, is he black enough, is something they really are curious about, something they're really wondering about.
And you touched on it.
When have they ever supported a black candidate?
You've touched on it many times in your program.
Well, I got to tell you.
They're a black candidate that they have not supported.
They left them lurching out in the world.
I'm going to answer the question.
Barack Obama is where he is precisely because of pop star treatment that he got early on from the drive-by media, building this guy up, crafting an image for him.
He couldn't have done it himself, not been around long enough.
He's been in the Senate less than two years.
He hasn't done enough to have this image of himself.
He gave one speech at the 04 Democrat convention.
The drive-bys built him up.
Now, I know what you're saying.
When did they ever wanted a black person to actually win?
But what they're afraid of, and they've promoted the guy, but he's got to be a certain kind of black.
He has to have roots to slavery, civil rights movement, and all that, because that's a fundamental element of the liberal Democrat coalition.
No, he has to give the power to the white liberals, and that's why Jesse Jackson is the liberal white black leader.
Because whenever there's an issue about minorities or black issues, the white liberals media turns to who?
The Reverend Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton.
When Al Sharpton wanted to be president, what would they do?
They put up Paramosley Brown against them because they were worried about South Carolina and Washington, D.C. After that, she bowed out.
And he went back and made a speech, and they gave him some money, and he went away.
Keep all the history of the white liberals.
Federal matching funds, that's right.
His mama told him not to run.
Now, I originally called about the 25-cent bottle tax.
Being here from Chicago, the highest volume gas station in the country is right here on the Indiana border with Illinois.
The thriving business is a sale of cigarettes because, and that's not on the Illinois side, it's on the Indiana side.
So these idiotic politicians from Illinois have destroyed the gasoline industry on the Illinois border, the cigarette business on the Illinois border.
And I got one even better for you.
And Alderman went to a Cubs game and saw all those fans up on those rooftops.
And guess what, Rush?
Sure enough, there's now a tax on those people that watch the games from the rooftops in the Chicago.
Is it a city tax or is it a Chicago Cubs ticket?
Is it Chicago?
No, it's a Chicago City tax.
The Alderman saw all those people up there and says, wow, they're not being taxed.
And this is an honest, odd truth, Rush.
You don't have to tell me.
A liberal will see anything walking and moving, and if he discovers that it's doing pretty well, we'll tax it.
It's the way it is.
I want to go back.
Thanks for the call, Jim.
I want to go back to his point here about the Democrat Party and the white liberals.
And I've often described white liberalism and the Democrat Party as the plantation.
Because he's right.
The way this works, the reason why Clarence Thomas was such a threat during his confirmation hearings, because Clarence Thomas, a conservative, would thus become the most powerful black man in America as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
He's not an activist in such a sense, but he threatened the prescriptions necessary to get anywhere if you're black in this country because he didn't go at affirmative action.
didn't adopt the procedures that liberals demand and the people like the Reverend Jackson demand made him a huge threat because the civil rights coalitions in this country exist precisely because the Democrat Party grants them positions at the power table.
So the Reverend Jackson is a prominent and well-paid Democrat.
His job is to make sure that he keeps the thinking in the black community the way it's been for the last 50 years, to make sure that vote turnout remains 90% or more Democrat, and then he gets repaid.
Obama, when it comes to the drive-bys now, they've built him up and so forth, and they'll take him out in time, as will Clinton Inc.
But there is a genuine concern here that he may not be black enough.
He doesn't have the roots that the Democrat Party requires of black leaders.
Back in a sec.
Hey, you left out Nobel Peace Prize nominee in that list.
And that I am.
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We have quoted on several occasions in this program stories from the German magazine Der Spiegel.
Der Spiegel is as virulently anti-America and anti-war in Iraq as any American publication, as any British publication, if not more so.
Thus, the following story is fascinating.
Der Spiegel, this is from Ed Morris in his Captain's Quarters blog.
Der Spiegel has reflected and led overwhelming German opposition to the war in Iraq practically from the moment of the invasion in 2003.
Bush has been on a cover a lot, unflattering pictures, negative headlines like power and lies.
But the magazine finally, Der Spiegel, decided to send their own reporter for an in-depth tour of Iraq, and they realizes that the world media has missed the story.
Now, something's happening here, folks.
When a magazine like Der Spiegel does a 180, which they've done, I'll read you the relevant excerpts here in a second.
The New York Times, well, we can't get out of Iraq now.
It's going to be there quite a while.
And we know all that's to give cover for the Democrats, or to the Democrats, to help rescue them from their untenable position of defeat for the United States military and the United States.
And you've had these two guys from Brookings with their story in the New York Times a couple weeks ago about how the surge is working, and everybody's coming to the conclusion that the surge is working.
And so it's regroup time.
Here's Der Spiegel.
Since June, Ramadi residents have known the war only from television.
Indeed, U.S. military officials at the Baghdad headquarters of Operation Iraqi Freedom often have trouble believing their eyes when they read the reports coming in from their units in Ramadi these days.
Exploded car bombs, zero.
Detonated roadside bombs, zero.
Rocket fire, zero.
Grenade fire, zero.
Shots from rifles and pistols, zero.
Weapons caches discovered, dozens.
Terrorists arrested, many.
Ramadi is an irritating contradiction of almost everything the world thinks it knows about Iraq.
It is proof that the U.S. military is more successful than the world wants to believe.
Ramadi demonstrates that large parts of Iraq, not just Anbar province, but also many other rural areas along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, are essentially pacified today.
This is news the world doesn't hear.
Ramadi, long a hotbed of unrest, a city that once formed the southwestern tip of the notorious Sunni triangle, is now telling a different story.
Story of Americans who came here as liberators, became hated occupiers, and are now the protectors of Iraqi Reconstruction.
That is, well, it's news to them because they discovered it.
They actually sent a reporter over from Der Spiegel and discovered this.
Not all the sweetness and light in this lengthy multi-part dispatch.
Parts of Baghdad worse than one might imagine, Ulrich Fickner writes.
And one can sense the civil war that awaits when outside authority disappears.
Other parts of the capital have improved in ways that exceed expectations, but both have this in common.
Only the Americans could keep the lid on Baghdad long enough to keep war from exploding in the city.
Der Spiegel, only Americans can keep the lid on this.
You know what's driving this?
I'm going to take a big, bold leap here.
I'm going to tell you what's driving this.
It is groupthink, and it is groupthink in the part of all of these media people in capitals around the world.
And it's quite simple.
They understand the Democrat Party in this country who they want to win the White House because they want a weak United States.
They want people running the United States who will give up our treasury to the United Nations.
They want a Democrat in the White House who will consult the rest of the world before taking any action whatsoever.
They do not want another Republican.
They do not want a Rudy Giuliani, for example, or a Fred Thompson or a Mitt Romney in the White House.
They don't want a tough, no-nonsense leader and man in the White House.
They prefer a Democrat.
Such is their hatred for George W. Bush.
Even though he's not running, they hate him, and any other Republican to them is going to dislike him.
So the world media has got to save the Democrat Party.
The Democrat Party has gone, as I keep saying, over the cliff.
It has to be reported that this is working.
And I'm sure they cringe at saying only Americans can keep the lid on Baghdad.
Americans have done, the U.S. military is doing great things in Ramadi and the Sunni triangle.
It has to grate on them because in their hearts they want us to lose.
But if we don't, where does it leave them and the people they prefer to be running this country?
It leaves them out in the cold.
So I'm telling you, you've got the New York Times here offering cover for the Democrats to come back from the abyss to join the call for victory.
I think also, and you've got the world media doing the same thing, and I think also they know what this Petraeus report's going to say.
They're hoping against hope that he issues a report that says things are hopeless, but that doesn't quite jive with what everybody is seeing over there.
So I think what they think Petraeus is going to report is that there's a great success, so much success that we can actually start bringing some troops home.
And who's going to get credit for that?
George W. Bush.
And that's the Democrat Party's issue.
Bring the troops home, get us out of Iraq.
If the Petraeus report says, you know what, we don't need as many troops here.
We're doing great.
The surge is working.
We can start a little bit of a drawdown.
I mean, not a mass exodus.
Don't misunderstand.
But if he says in any way, we can get by with fewer troops, why, Bush plan successful.
Democrats have to find a way to get in on that because that's their issue.
And so this is a prelude to the report coming out in September.
It's why Dingy Harry shelved all the Iraq timetable withdrawal bills.
It's why you're not hearing him.
Has anybody heard from Dingy Harry on the war in Iraq since the recess started?
Anybody heard from Nancy Pelosi?
We haven't, have we?
Because there's nothing they can say that would be commensurate with their line of attack prior to the recess.
So, what's going to have to happen here is: if Petraeus' report says, don't need as many troops here, this is really working well.
We've got a long way to go, a lot of challenges ahead, but we think we can do this with less troops.
Democrats are going to have to have a position which they can say, see, we did it.
We made it happen, we brought it about.
We've been calling for less troops.
They're not going to get away with it because we've got Dingy Harry on tape.
Everybody else does too.
He proclaimed defeat, Pelosi.
We got him saying we don't care what Petraeus says.
Not going to matter what's going over there.
Is it working?
We got that lunatic Murtha.
We got all these soundbites.
We can remind everybody, but they're going to have to recast their position on this.
I can't emphasize that when Der Spiegel does this, folks, it's like the BBC changing its mind.
And I wouldn't be surprised if that happens down the road as we get closer to September.
Not predicting it, but I'm just saying I wouldn't be surprised.
Los Angeles Times story here: full force of troop surge hits militants.
Helicopter gunships attacked sites suspected of being insurgent hideouts, and U.S. and Iraqi soldiers staged simultaneous raids across Iraq on Monday as coalition forces unleashed the full force of the U.S. troop buildup with Operation Phantom Strike.
The U.S.-led commando operations targeted Al-Qaeda in Iraq and Shiite Muslim militants by striking at what were suspected to be safe haven.
They blew up a huge safe house.
Saw the footage on television.
At least 17 militants suspected of being insurgent leaders were captured.
Coalition officials said dozens of insurgency strategists and financiers were arrested.
A senior source in the Badr militia near the southern city of Najaf said a man detained in that holy city was a key figure.
So al-Qaeda and Muki al-Sadr's boys are being targeted here.
And it's working.
Full force of troop surge hits.
When's the last time you can remember a story in any drive-by media publication of valor and great success and tremendous strategy and victory by the U.S. military?
I'm telling you, something's changed.
And don't, when it's the drive-bys, folks, don't believe me.
I don't believe that they're doing this to help the military and to help George Bush.
This is about saving the Democrats who have gone off the eclipse.
Even this, this is stunning.
There's another Los Angeles Times story in Iraq, another summer of power shortages.
I saw the headline.
I said, well, you know what?
I don't have to read this.
The U.S. military failing to rebuild the Iraqi infrastructure.
It's in bad shape, and we're destroying it, as Obama says, by bombing from the air, raiding and destroying civilians.
U.S. military, U.S. operations, Baghdad, uncivilized, no chance of being held together.
Why?
Infrastructure falling apart.
The electricity grid is in bad shape.
But that's not what the story is about.
Well, it's about the failing grid.
But get this.
And early on in the story, decades of corruption, neglect, and war have left Iraq's electricity grid on the verge of collapse.
Iraq's electricity grid was already in severe despair, disrepair before 2003, which is the invasion date for those of you in Riolinda.
So corruption and neglect, the Saddam days, outweigh war as the cause of the electrical grid problem in Baghdad.
A burst of truth, another burst of truth from the drive-bys.
The power is on in the south and north because, you know, Baghdad sold when Saddam was there.
He stole all the electricity from the south and north of the country and gave it all to Baghdad where he was.
Now they've distributed some of that power to the north and southern parts of the country.
And there's not as much in Baghdad, but they're distributing it throughout the country.
They're making improvements.
War has improved the electricity situation.
Los Angeles Times.
It's time to save the Democrats, folks.
Back here in just a second.
All right, back to the phones.
We still have to come, Mrs. Clinton, who actually did a Nurse Ratchet type appearance yesterday.
We have the audio sound bites.
And Elizabeth Edwards all over the place.
I tell you, you have to shake your head in amazement at this.
The Brett girl has his wife go after his enemies again.
This time she's going after all these other Democrat nominees.
Well, a Brett girl, I don't know, I don't know what he's doing when she's doing this, but he's never around.
You never see him, always pops up later.
I'm really proud of Ma Wap.
Way she went after Ankola, whatever.
Tom and Neves, Minnesota, welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Oh, thank you, Rush.
I'm glad to be on your show.
I appreciate that, sir.
Thank you.
Yes.
Got a question about something that was brought up yesterday, okay?
And on the news, I was listening to this how they're having a toothpaste recall that was made.
The toothpaste was made in China, and it has a little bit of radiator coolant in it.
And this made me start thinking about the dog food and these toys that have been recalled as well, too, with the lead paint on them.
Yeah.
Okay.
Now, this all comes about, you know, with the dog food killing the dogs, the lead paint that's bad for the kids, the toothpaste that's bad for us.
It's only bad for the kids if they eat the paint.
And, you know, when I was a kid, my mom did not let us lick the windowsills.
You know, this is, this is, there's a reason lead was in paint.
There's a reason they used Freon on the space shuttle tanks so they didn't damage the, I'm off the beaten path.
What's your complaint?
That they're sending all these inferior products here, and why are we trading with them?
Yeah, why are we trading with them?
Well, because in general, trade with foreign countries like this is good.
It provides cheaper prices for consumers, makes the dollar go farther.
It sponsors international cooperation.
It's a good thing.
Free trade is an excellent thing.
Now, you have incidents like this, and they're all being bundled together, but the THICOMs are taking care of this.
They execute the company's CEOs who screw up.
And the other day, one CEO, the toy company guy, killed himself.
They have a different sense of honor over there than CEOs around the world.
But these are anomalies.
I'm going to dirty little secret too.
I'll tell you something.
There are always political reasons for things as well as economic.
One of the problems we face with the THICOMs is that they are a giant communist country, and they have a military, and they present a formidable military foe should such circumstances arrive.
One of the purposes of the U.S. government, any government, well, I would say this is not true if the wrong Democrat ended up.
One of the ways that you destroy a totalitarian regime is by trading with it, by introducing capitalism, by exporting capitalism, say to a closed society.
You know, China now has a billionaire.
They've got multi-millionaires.
The biggest challenge that the president of China has every day, Hu Zhintao is his name, his biggest challenge when he wakes up is finding and creating 25 million new jobs a year.
And the reason he has to do that is because he has to keep the majority of the Chinese popular, a lot of it that lives in the countryside in the countryside.
If those people can't find work and means to support themselves and live, they're going to flood the cities.
And that would cause the CHICOMs to lose control of their population.
They don't want to lose control of their population any more than the Soviet Union did under Glasnost and Perestroika.
But when you introduce capitalism and you start trading and you give them this trade balance that they have a surplus with us and they're invested in our treasury bills, it weakens us in some sense, but without the United States, they're nothing in an economic sense.
That's true for much of the rest of the world, too.
So this is a slow but steady process of actually opening up that country to a less totalitarian regime, freedom for the people, economic freedom, and economic opportunity and advancement for the Chinese people.
And that's a theory behind it.
Now, these tainted products that come in, those are anomalies, unless the Chikoms are actually trying to kill our kids and our dogs and cats.
And some people wouldn't put it past them.
Well, that's kind of what popped in my head when I sit there and think, well, you know, it happened with the dog food, then the toys, now the toothpaste.
I mean, you know.
Yeah, but nobody died from it.
Some people got sick.
The dogs did.
Some sort of dogs and cats did.
I don't mean to call them nobodies, but the recalls are happening, and we've got enough inspection systems here that Mattel knows when they're getting lead-tainted toys in.
Believe that, I'm going to tell you, when the Chikoms start executing the CEOs that do this stuff, it means they don't like this either.
This does not help them.
They're going to have people saying a different version of the question that you are asking.
And they're afraid that a lot of Americans are going to stop buying Chinese stuff because of this.
So they will try to get a handle on it pretty quickly.
Try this headline from the UK Daily Mail: stab-proof, stab-proof school uniforms go on sale to protect pupils from knife attacks.
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