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Sept. 5, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 5, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Just broke down.
Cookie been trying to get me to eat something all day.
You know, you uh starve a what is it starve a cold feet of fever.
Is that what it is?
So he's been touting this this corn something or other chowder.
So I finally broke down at the top of the hour, had a little cup of it here, half a cup of it.
Pretty good stuff.
Pretty good.
It's like taco dip.
Got a lot of peppers in there, which is really not what I need at this point, sinus-wise.
But it uh it did it did feel good to finally eat something.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Uh Rush Limbaugh here with broadcast excellence on the EIB Network telephone number if you'd like to join us, 800 282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIBNet.com.
Here's an example of how the drive-by media distorts the meaning of a story and the facts of a story with a simple headline.
Story's out of Dallas, and it's by Gretel Kovec.
And the headline of the story, Musician is killed for banging on a door.
Now, when you read the story, this is not why the musician was killed.
But the purpose of this is to be critical of the new anybody can carry a gun anytime they want in law in Texas law.
Here are the details.
A Texas rock musician was shot to death here early Monday by a neighbor who fired through a closed door thinking he was scaring off a burglar.
The incident occurred just three days after a new law took effect, strengthening the right of Texans to use deadly force to protect themselves and their property.
The musician Jeffrey Carter Albrecht, 34, keyboardist with Eddie Brickell and the new Bohemians and the Dallas rock band Sorta, was shot in the head after he startled a man and his wife about 4 a.m. by pounding and kicking at their back door.
Mr. Albrecht had just assaulted his girlfriend who lives next door, and she had locked him out of her house, the cops said.
The neighbor, who has not been identified by the cops, was awakened by his wife's screams that someone was breaking into their home, according to the police report.
The man yelled for the person to go away, this rocker.
But when the pounding continued, he fired through the top of the door.
Mr. Albrecht, about 6'5, was stuck in the head.
Mr. Albrecht's girlfriend, Ryan Rathbone, said she believed he was having a bad reaction to the combination of alcohol and an anti-smoking drug they both had taken for a week.
The drug had given them hallucinatory dreams, Ms. Rathbone said.
This was not a drunken rage.
Carter would never have hurt me.
So these couples, this couple uh decides that this guy won't stop.
They beg him to stop pounding at the door.
Beg him to go away.
He won't stop, keeps pounding at the door and so forth.
Um, and killed for banging on a door is not quite accurate as to uh as to what happened.
Now, Boris Miles, who is a Democrat state representative from Houston and a former schools police officer, opposed this legislation that uh signed into law in the March, which strengthened the right of Texans to use deadly force to protect themselves and their property.
In July, Mr. Miles confronted a robber at his home construction site, shot him in the leg.
No charges were filed, but he said he still opposes a new law.
So a legislator can go ahead and use his own gun with deadly force to protect his property and himself, but he doesn't want anybody else to have the right to do it.
It's sort of like uh Senator Diane Feinstein of uh California.
She's against citizens lawfully arming themselves while she carries heat at the same time.
You didn't know she packs?
Diane Feinstein packs.
You might be saying, where?
Don't ask, folks.
But she packs.
Uh from the obvious department, yesterday, uh ladies and gentlemen, we treated you to the latest scientific research that established once and for all that men choose women based on their appearance.
This was hotly debated in scientific circles until the research came out.
People did not actually believe that men choose female partners on the basis of their looks.
On the other hand, we learned that women were far more discriminating.
Women have this primary fear, and that is they're gonna be bag ladies when they're 50 and 60 with no husband and no partner and no money.
So they they they tend to choose men that are not nearly as attractive as they could because they less attractive the man, the more likely he'll hang out and hang in there and not leave.
But men couldn't care less about that because they plan on leaving at least two or three times.
So they're out there looking for the lookers.
Scientific research.
Well, today, get this.
A State University of New York team quizzed over 1,000 students, and they found that women place a big emphasis on kissing.
They use kissing as a way of assessing the recipient as a potential partner, and later to maintain intimacy and to check the status of the relationship.
Men placed much less importance on kissing.
Men use it to increase the likelihood of sex, and that's about it.
The questionnaires revealed that men were less discriminating when it came to deciding who to kiss or who to have sex with.
And of course, what's it based on?
Looks.
Pure and simple scientific research.
Well, look at what you learn, folks, on this program that you didn't know.
None of us knew any of this.
Uh men were more willing to have sex with somebody without kissing.
Uh, to have sex with someone they were not attracted to and agree to have sex with someone they consider to be a bad kisser.
Sex was it.
Shocking, shocking, shocking news, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh just uh who would have believed this until this research came out?
Uh and it's from the BBC, but it's State University of New York team.
Why kissing means more to uh women?
Have you found that to be the case, Mr. Sneer?
You are expert in these matters.
Have you found uh kissing means more to uh women?
Okay, does it then she said yes.
Is it mean if if you as a man perfect, you become a really, really, really good uh kisser.
Will that stand you in even better stead since the woman places all kinds of emphasis on that?
Have you tried to perfect the art?
It works until they get to know you, and nothing matters after that.
All right.
We have such cynics on our staff when it comes to the wonderful male-female relationship world.
You know, yesterday we did the stats on the uh war on poverty and uh status of poverty in this country, and we we spent a lot of time on Robert Rector's analysis.
And it was stunning.
I mean, the the details, and I think it's important to uh keep drumming this a little bit.
There's a new addition to it today by Robert Samuelson in the Washington Post.
And really the the uh the first paragraph's all it's necessary to read here.
Says the government last week released its annual statistical report on poverty and household income, and as usual, we, meaning the public, the media, and politicians missed a big part of the story, and it's this.
The stubborn persistence of poverty, at least as measured by the government, is increasingly a problem associated with immigration.
As more poor Hispanics enter the country, poverty goes up.
It's not complicated, but it's widely ignored.
The standard story is that poverty is stuck.
Superficially, the statistics support that.
But it's not.
Look again at the numbers.
In 2006, 36.5 million people in poverty.
That's the figure that translates into the 12.3% poverty rate.
In 1990, the population was smaller.
There were 33.6 million people in poverty, a rate of 13.5%.
The increase from 1990 to 2006 was 2.9 million people.
Hispanics accounted for all of the gain.
And so this is uh this we the uneducated uh and uh unemployed illegal immigrants are the ones that are being talked about here, not legal immigration.
And it's it's uh uh it's it's something that can't be denied.
Whatever one's view is any sensible debate on poverty and how to fix it requires accurate information, and that's the rub among many analysts, journalists, and politicians.
It's politically or psychologically discomforting to discuss these issues candidly.
Uh Journalists are also leery of making the connection between illegal immigration and poverty.
Fifty-four reporters signed up for the uh the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities briefing last week on this, with one exception, me, Robert Samuelson.
None asked about immigration's effect on poverty or incomes.
The evidence is hiding in plain sight, and the facts won't vanish just because we ignore them.
Bias.
Bias is the reason the truth in its entirety doesn't make the papers when the poverty story comes out.
And a lot of other things.
Bias doesn't move the story forward.
It doesn't move.
There are two stories here for the drive-by's.
Poverty, bad.
Horrible, getting worse.
Republicans' fault.
They don't like charity.
They don't like welfare payments.
They don't like this.
They want people I have to get up and work.
Democrats compassionate and concerned, and they have all kinds of care.
Number two is the immigration story.
Yeah, we can't have it out there that these are the backbone of America.
Remember that?
Remember the debate this past summer?
The illegal immigrants are backbone of America.
Well, poverty is going down among the general population.
The only reason the poverty percentage stays where it is because the uh immigration, illegal immigration of untrained, uneducated uh people.
None of those two facts advance the narrative, advance the action line of the drive-by me.
So you ignore them.
You just you just flat out ignore them.
In fact, you ignore the even good news in the poverty story because there isn't good news in the poverty story.
If there is, we're going to ignore it.
We're not going to report it.
Because the poverty is a great issue for the Democrats.
I mean, got a Democrat candidate basing his whole candidacy on it.
He ought to be disqualified simply on the basis of the news that the Santos Bureau put out.
Quick timeout, we'll be back.
We'll continue in a moment.
Hi, welcome back.
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Uh let's see where we're going.
We're going to Lincoln Lincoln, Nevada.
This is uh this is Travis.
And welcome, sir.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
Big fan for years.
Thank you.
You bet.
I was calling about your last caller in the last hour.
Yeah.
Uh it amazes me the arrogance after all these years that some people have.
I I don't know how he thinks your career has survived all these years without his counsel.
But you know, I am a radio junkie, and it blows me away.
Not only are you number one, but you've been number one for years and years and years.
Too many years to really count.
Yes.
And I I think the reason you're number one is your delivery.
You know, you you say that not only do you like what you say, but you like hearing yourself say it.
I do too.
As crazy as this sounds, when I first started listening to you years and years ago, after I got out of the Navy, I was working as a floor installer in San Diego, California, and my boss used to listen to you.
And I had worked previously as a as a part-time DJ, and I just loved radio, but I had never listened to talk radio, and I knew very little about politics.
And hearing you is like listening to Chinese.
I didn't even understand a word you're saying, but I loved your delivery.
And I got to the point where I was addicted to your show.
I I don't like cats, I don't smoke cigars, and I don't like football.
But I love hearing you talk about all three.
And to me, that's an indicator of uh good radio.
Uh and I'm not trying to flatter you.
It's just a fact.
It's your delivery and how you make things so interesting.
And people just don't get that.
They think it's it's only information.
That's part of it.
It's information and the delivery, I think.
Well, you know, you're very astute.
Uh, and I I appreciate that.
Your perception here is uh I mean uh when you you don't you don't really know how profound an observation you've made uh when you say uh you don't like cats, golf, jets, or cigars, but you like listening to me talk about that is a profound uh realization on your part.
And I think uh most people I don't expect that kind of profundity and realization.
That that's that's the uh magicians don't expect their tricks to be understood.
Uh not saying I'm a magician at this is all tricks.
I'm just saying that.
Can I make another profound Well, but please make another profound uh make another profound point, yes.
Um I don't I hope I don't get myself in trouble here, but I I worked as a fill-in host at your uh Reno affiliate for years.
And uh I left a while back on great terms, and I I love everyone there and and they're the best.
But I gotta tell you, it even blows me away how some people, some of the higher ups, you've told stories in the past about how some of your bosses have challenged you.
Well, it was one thing for you to be challenged years ago before you had the credibility, but now for people to challenge Rush Limbaugh.
And I I can't believe some of the advice that I was given in the council hoping to someday turn this into a full-time career, and some of the advice is completely contrary to advice that you would give over the air.
And it just it blew me away.
So who did you listen to?
The people that have never actually done it, or to me, the best in the world at it.
Well, some of these folks, Rush, actually had done it and were very successful, not nearly as successful as you, but I'm talking PDs and some pretty successful and good folks, good folks who had my best interest and were coaching me.
I remember one time we got a newsletter from some guy, some suit who probably never been behind a microphone, but he has a business where he counsels radio people how to speak behind a microphone.
Yeah, there are gazillions of them out there.
And again, it goes out to all the DJs, so it was primarily for morning shows, but this guy went on in detail to explain how you shouldn't talk in the mornings about what interests you.
You need to find out what your callers are interested in, talk about what they are.
I gotta tell you, I said to myself, this guy doesn't know what he's talking about, Rush does.
Now I I'm not Rush Limbaugh.
I'm not a nationally syndicated guy.
I'm not even a local guy.
I'm just a little fill-in guy.
But Rush, I would go on the air and talk about things that were near and dear to my heart, whether it's family or marriage or whatever.
Let me cut to this.
This guy is absolutely full of it.
I don't care what you talk about on the radio.
You have to talk about it with passion.
It is passion that causes the magnetism.
It is passion that that that reaches out of the radio and makes people unable to turn away and to turn it off and a change stations.
That's why when you hear me talking about cats, my cat and you don't care about cats, it's the passion I'm using to discuss it.
And you can only be passionate about things you care about.
If I sat here and tried to please or talk about what I think my twenty million listeners want to hear, I would fail.
It's impossible please everybody, and you certainly can't do it the way this consultant was telling you to do it.
This business is so filled with people that have no clue about what they're doing.
You wouldn't believe a number of consultants that I've never met who claim to have had a role in shaping me as a young host out there.
Uh but that's I mean, success has many fathers, and failure is an orphan.
And I, of course, am a success.
So there are many fathers out there, most of them I never met, and none of them are supporting me.
Uh anyway, about these callers today.
Uh, and I appreciate your assessment.
Who are they to challenge me?
I've got a nineteen almost twenty-year track record here.
And all of a sudden, this month, I'm talking about golf.
Like I haven't been talking about golf for ten years since I started playing it.
All of a sudden talk about cigars this month.
Well, I've been talking about cigars since I started smoking them in 1992.
Maybe it was ninety-four, forget which.
No, it had to be ninety-two.
Uh so there's something going on here.
I don't think these callers are actually legit.
I think these callers this is all there's they're being inspired, let's put it this way.
And we know it, but it's fun to take these calls because look at the reaction it's getting.
People coming out of the woodwork wanting to defend me because they know the score about it.
And these people trying to get my goat, you're being rude.
Really think so?
I don't think so, ma'am.
You we might have a point.
They expect me to be something that I'm not.
What if I started critiquing all of you?
What if I started critiquing all the callers?
What after every call I critiqued you?
How would you like it?
Well, you would probably say, Well, you're the expert, and you're the guy, so we do get to critique you, but you don't get to critique us because we're amateurs.
Oh, yeah.
If you're gonna critique me, I will critique you.
Don't I was an amateur once, and I've I've I've way beyond amateur status now.
I was a rank amateur one time, like most of you people still are in terms of broadcasting and call.
I love you, don't misunderstand this.
Yeah, being rude again.
We used to do caller clinics on this program because people didn't quite get the purpose for calling the program.
We've done this in the past.
And I sit here and I'm very gracious, and I take all this criticism as though I don't know what I'm doing, and you all do.
What if I turned it around?
But I'm not rude and I'm not mean.
I don't do that.
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You know, uh uh talking about the unemployment numbers, Lisa Fabrizio, who writes for the American Spectator.com or dot org, the online version, has her take uh on the uh the unemployment, the welfare number, the poverty numbers.
Uh and she's got a couple of interesting and interesting points here after going through some of the numbers that we went through yesterday that Robert Rector at the Heritage Foundation uh came up with.
The the point being, she writes, the depth of poverty that exists in too much of the world is basically non-existent here.
But although our poor are better off than those in most of the world, so much so that millions of impoverished foreigners are willing to risk their lives and break our laws to join them.
Some Americans nevertheless do live in unfortunate, if not dire circumstances.
Of course, the difference is that the poor in this country have the opportunity to improve their lot.
It's called freedom.
Uh all Americans used to know the way to prosperity for themselves and their families.
It was and is pretty basic.
You got two parents working as diligently as possible, living in the same house.
Uh in his piece, Robert Rector concludes, in good economic times or bad, the typical poor family.
Listen to this.
I know it's tough to follow numbers out there, but but try to keep track here.
In good economic times or bad, the typical poor family with children is supported by only 800 hours of work during a year.
That amounts to 16 hours of work per week.
If work in each family were raised to 2,000 hours per year, the equivalent of one adult working 40 hours per week throughout the year, nearly 75% of poor children would be lifted out of official poverty.
So the point is that we know when people talk about people in poverty not working, all this talk about the minimum wage, and these people are valiantly and valorously good.
They're giving it their best.
They're out there struggling, they're doing everything they can, but damn it, the Republicans have stacked the deck against them.
The Republicans don't want them to earn any money, they want them to eat bugs and dirt and so forth.
The fact is they're only working 16 hours a week.
The ones who are really genuinely in poverty here, as we define it.
So when this subject has come up before, and I've had people on the phone talk about it, I said, Well, why don't they just go get jobs?
Oh, that's really easy for you to say.
Yeah.
I mean, it's what we all do.
Whoa, that's very insensitive.
What do you mean insensitive?
How can work is good.
Work does all kinds of good things.
Fills the day, it gives a sense of achievement, gives expectation, provides hope, accomplishment, money, income, all this sorts of things.
Yeah, well, easy for you.
Well, what if we all took the route that says, you know, I'm gonna let somebody else do the work?
I'll sit in the cart while somebody else pulls it and so forth.
Anyway, these numbers establish that poverty in this country is largely a result of people not working.
And you can't say, well, there aren't any jobs out there.
I mean, we've got we've got full employment left and right.
Of course, there are jobs Americans won't do, we are told.
Uh, but they are nevertheless available.
Linda in Whittier, California, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
I love your braggado show.
It makes me laugh out loud.
Well, thank you very much.
And uh the little tidbits on the outer edges of your life fascinate me.
But anyway, I wanted to talk about Larry Craig.
I want to tell you thank you very much for coming back from vacation and saving my sanity.
When I first heard about this, I was in absolute disbelief.
I thought, what a priggish, self righteous, judgmental, disgusting, faggish behavior by the elites on the Republican side.
Come on, there was nothing there.
It was stupid.
Should have been dismissed.
I was furious.
I and just to tell you who I am, I'm sixty-two years old.
I'm an eva evangelical Christian.
And I thought the whole thing was ludicrous.
Well, what did you think when Mitt Romney threw him under the bus and then drove the bus over him?
Because what Romney was trying, he was aiming at you.
Well, he missed.
Let me guarantee you.
There's nothing I dislike any more than all this self-righteousness.
I've never made a mistake.
Nonsense.
Well, I don't mean that, but that was clearly pandering to people like evangelical Christian.
Oh this man, he's playing footsee in a bathroom stroller Minnesota Why, not at our party.
Get him out of here.
Oh, he he's thinking that people like you are gonna go, yay, Mitt.
No.
You stand up for our values, man.
No, he That didn't fly, huh?
No, it didn't fly with me, I'll guarantee.
And most people I talked to think, this whole thing is ridiculous.
You know, prove it.
He has why didn't they at least wait until he propositioned the guy to have I mean he was I it's just stupid.
I couldn't even believe it.
And my local guy, when he t when he said that, I haven't turned him on since.
Last week I turned him off and said, that is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of.
And it's a guy I'm usually reading.
I'm gonna tell you, I I'm I'm I'm y you're saving my sanity today because yesterday every caller thought that I was full of it on this.
And that uh this the guy had to go for the sake of the party.
This is not about the party yet.
The party making it about the party and not in a good way.
I mean th this this um this whole circumstance if you want I reviewed it yesterday.
I if you want me to go back and review all of our guys that we have thrown under the bus in order to satisfy somebody starts with who?
We got rid of Rome got rid of Ashcroft.
Ashcroft was too rough around the edges.
Ashcroft was uh too insane, got rid of him.
And we uh they wanted Rumsfeld.
We got rid of Rumsfeld.
It didn't satisfy him, didn't please anybody.
They had to get rid of Foley.
I mean, the list goes on and on and on.
Gonzalez, he resigned.
They've been after him for nothing.
We had people on our side say, Yeah, you should go.
Oh, he's horrible, he's incompetent and so forth.
And these are these are these are people inside the beltway who don't seem to understand the the nature of the war or the battle that's uh that's going on.
The thing that really bugged me was you have Democrats of all people sitting in uh in moral judgment of us and and our our guys allowing that to uh to occur.
I appreciate the call, Linda.
Thank you.
Uh thanks very much.
This is Elizabeth in Port Charlotte, Florida.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hi, good afternoon, Rush.
Hi.
It's a pleasure, a distinct pleasure to talk with you.
Rush, two things about the insulting comments and self-absorbed.
This is on a good note, by the way.
Um, I don't believe that you insult people at all, as a prior caller indicated.
I believe that you tell them the truth and they don't like it.
Well, some of them don't like it.
I just I think I think all of this uh you're you're talking about the first caller who thought better than the second caller is gonna call me.
And a couple of other, you know, little things that I heard.
Yeah, yeah.
Um, but I'd like to go on to say that I like your directness, and I feel that you try to be honest and that you act on facts.
I listen to you whenever I can, and my husband will say to me when you come on the radio, he'll say, Elizabeth, your favorite person's on, and indeed you are one of my favorite people.
Well, that's very kind of I love the things you say, and also the person that said that um you were self absorbed.
Yeah, I believe you feel comfortable with yourself.
I like myself.
I'm very proud of myself.
Everybody should like me.
Yes, and sharing it is very, very nice.
It makes you vulnerable though.
But I think it's a beautiful thing, and that means that you feel very comfortable.
Some people may be jealous of this because of their inability to do this.
So, um, I think you're You do not know how right you are.
You have no idea.
I tell my husband I love you, and that's I say that in a in a pure way.
I think you're you're uh you're an intelligent man.
Um I love everything that you stand for.
And I'm a Christian, I'm a Catholic Christian, but you know, even if I wasn't, I'd still love you.
So um I God bless you, and uh may everything go well for you in your life.
I mean that from the bottom of my heart.
Thank you, Elizabeth.
Uh I I'm flattered beyond my ability to express it.
I thank you so much.
You're very sweet, you're very kind, and I happy and honored to have you as a as a member of the audience.
All right, we uh let's take a brief break here so I can cry.
Uh off mic.
Back after this.
Hey, a couple other items here in the news before we go back to phone calls about me.
Uh this is related also to um uh the poverty numbers that we just shared.
And this is uh this is from the uh uh European economics uh uh well that's it's it's from Reuters, but it's a it's a European economics correspondent.
Um, and it really is interesting.
U.S. keeps world productivity lead by working more.
U.S. workers are the world's most productive, followed by the Irish, though productivity is rising fastest in China and much of the rest of Asia.
This, according to the International Labor Organization, the uh ILO.
Now, you know what's interesting about this?
Um apparently NAFTA we don't have any jobs.
Jobs, no that jobs, and plus union membership is plummeting.
And I find that's what's very fascinating to me.
I don't mean to be critical of you union people out there, as you well know.
I like my kneecaps.
But I have to I have to make this observation out there.
Our productivity, the productivity in the workforce as a whole, at large, is going up as the membership in unions declines.
No, I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
But nevertheless, it's interesting to point out well, I don't know.
Remember, I got into that little snafu with the bricklayers back in the early days of this program where I said each new contract they require to lay fewer and fewer bricks with more and more breaks.
And they called and they raised hell.
But we found out it was accurate.
What I had said is it always is was accurate.
I mean, that's that's been the objective of uh negotiators is to get a shorter work day and higher wages and so forth.
So I just find it interesting that his union membership is going down, productivity skyrocketing.
Um our old buddy Nedra Pickler at the Associated Press.
This headline, Clinton promises to save Social Security.
Well, thank God somebody's going to.
I am just so thrilled.
Um by the way, I I haven't seen the stories of Norman Shu uh fleeing the jurisdiction.
Uh it ought to be it ought to be front page lead item uh relevance since it the guy didn't turn in his passport.
He did not, as required.
He didn't turn it.
I guarantee you this guy's in China.
Fort Marcy Park, maybe, but my bet is China.
He has fled the jurisdiction.
He's out of there.
We're never gonna see this guy again.
Nobody's gonna go try to find him.
Uh big Democrat Clinton fundraiser.
Anyway, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton promises, or she promised retirees.
Uh let me translate this as I read it, okay, because I I I know how to read between the lines here uh with the Nedra and the AP.
Uh Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton promised retirees, i.e., lied to old people, that if elected president, God help us, she will not cut social security benefits.
She will not raise the retirement age, nor privatize the system.
Uh that leaves only one thing, folks.
A 78% tax rate.
Your taxes, your kids' taxes, and go skyrocket.
I mean, that's the only if we're not gonna cut the benefits if we're gonna raise retirement age, we're not gonna privatize it.
And it's going broke.
There's only one option.
Throw more money at it.
And whose money?
Not hers.
She ain't gonna take mine either, Limbaugh.
I guarantee you that.
I got mine sequestered away.
Norman Shue got some of my money.
He's gonna be invested in a number of places, but she's not getting mine for this program, I guarantee you that.
The uh New York uh senator told the AA uh R.P.'s legislative conference she would bring a renewed national commitment to Social Security to the White House, meaning keeping it as is and taxing young people to pay for it.
That's all she means.
Uh last paragraph, Republicans shrank from the political challenge of remaking a program that provides benefits to millions of elderly voters.
Nedra.
Uh Republicans shrank from the challenge.
You helped, Nedra.
You and your buds helped kill it by saying you lied about what the plan was.
You lied about the whole privatization plan.
You drive by meeting, you Nedra and your buddies in the Democrat Party killed what the president and the Republicans did try to do.
Nobody's had the guts to do it, and then Mrs. Clinton obviously isn't gonna do it.
But Nedra Picker says Social Security saved, because Clinton says she's gonna do it.
Uh North Kingston, Rhode Island.
Rhode Island man's accused of extorting more than 20,000 from his elderly mother by repeatedly threatening to kidnap her cat unless she paid him.
Gary Lamar, arrested last week, released on $200 bail.
He's been ordered to stay away from his 78-year-old mother.
Police said he started threatening to kidnap his mother's beloved pet just over a year ago when she kicked him out of her home.
Uh wonder how old he was, still living with his mother.
It's about time she kicked him out of the house.
Reprobate, nothing but a sponge.
That's why I never had kids that never leave.
That just would never leave.
Lamar allegedly kidnapped the cat once during the past year and made kidnapping threats on an almost weekly basis.
Police don't think the cat was harmed, but they're still investigating.
Otherwise, if the cat was harmed, you get real trouble.
Um doctors are warning consumers of popcorn fumes in the microwave.
If you go out there, you get butter-flavored uh popcorn, you put it in there.
Uh consumers, not just factory workers, maybe in danger from fumes from buttery flavoring in microwave popcorn, according to a warning letter, because one person, one person got sick from popcorn lung.
Do you realize how much popcorn you would have to pop in your house every day for many days in a row for the fumes to infect you?
You'd have to be practically inside the microwave here, folks.
Either that or when you opened the bag, you'd have to bury your head in it and then burn your face.
But we're gonna have a warning label.
We're gonna have warnings.
We already got warnings on everything.
And don't be careful when you open the bag, it's gonna be hot.
Now the warning, danger, buttery flavoring could kill you.
You've been warned.
Don't sue us.
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Debbie in Olympia, Washington.
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