Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Boy, this has been a tough morning.
There's stuff still pouring in here.
Show prep still arriving.
One of my mistresses just broke up with me.
It's been a tough day.
It's been a tough morning, but you got to move on.
You have to plod forward.
Greetings and welcome, my friends.
Rush Limbaugh and the ex.
I should see Dawn in there rolling her eyes and shaking her head.
Where was I?
Oh, yeah, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-feeling, all-concerned.
Maha Rush Nishi.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
And the email address, rush at EIBNet.com was up very late last night.
So this might be one of these excursions into giddiness today, folks.
Just keep a sharp eye.
But before I do anything, I want to call for the attention of all military personnel, both in this country and around the world, listening to this hour on the Armed Forces Radio Network.
I have three stories.
Two of them are big.
The first one is just literally amazing.
It is from page A19 of the New York Times.
May I share with you how giddy with awe and pride I am over the job our military personnel are doing in Iraq.
Get this headline from the New York Times.
Militant group is out of Baghdad, U.S. says.
Well, now, who could that be, ladies and gentlemen?
Let me just share with you some of the details of the story.
American forces have routed al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the Iraqi militant network from every neighborhood of Baghdad.
A top general, top American general said today, allowing American troops involved in the surge to depart as planned.
Major General Joseph F. Phil, Jr., commander of the U.S. forces in Baghdad, also said that American troops had yet to clear some 13% of the city, including Sadder City, several other areas controlled by the Shiite militias.
But he said there's no question that violence had declined since a spike in June.
The Iraqi people have decided that they've had it up to here with violence, he said, noting that their demands for electricity, water, and jobs have intensified.
We have beaten al-Qaeda.
They call Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia.
We have beaten Al-Qaeda in Iraq in Baghdad.
They are out.
They have been routed.
Militant group out of Baghdad, U.S. says.
Only thing left is the 13% of the city controlled by Mookie and his boys.
This is huge news.
This is, I don't know if you can go and declare full-fledged victory, but this is profound news.
A-19 of the New York Times with a headline that's not going to inspire anybody to want to read the story.
You tell me that there's not an agenda in the drive-by meat.
I have people still try to tell me this.
This is almost like, shh, don't tell anybody.
Don't tell me, but I want to whisper in this block that's gone from Baghdad.
Don't tell anybody.
We have to report it, but we'll try to confuse it as much as we can.
That's probably what went on at the editorial meeting at the New York Times.
Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the homegrown Sunni extremist group that American intelligence allies say is foreign-led.
That is a quote from the story.
The homegrown group started by a Jordanian who was reporting to bin Laden, operating in Iraq during Saddam's reign.
The group to which all those Saudis, Egyptians, Jordanians, and other Arabs report after they pour in over the Syrian border, the group here is al-Qaeda, not Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, not al-Qaeda in Iraq.
The group is Al-Qaeda.
And the U.S. military has routed them from Baghdad.
Can't put this on page one.
No, no, no.
Got to save page one for the global warming stories and the coming recession and the snarky comments about French President Sarkozy.
Then, of course, this story from the Times Online.
First Sunni Shia fatwa against violence to be signed in Iraq.
Senior religious leaders in Iraq are preparing to sign an unprecedented fatwa against violence that will help reconcile the rival Sunni and Shia branches of Islam and herald new hopes for peace in the war-torn country.
Violence down, reconciliation is up.
It's not a quick, easy solution, one of the Imams said.
It's a long-term work, but we have to engage with these people continually.
Key thing is talking to them every day.
Never before has there been a Sunni Shia fatwa against violence.
It's never been heard of in history.
Will it make a difference?
Maybe not immediately, but we hope it will eventually.
Officials cite return of Iraqis to Baghdad as violence declines.
46,000 returned to Baghdad last month.
46,030 of them actually returned last month from outside the country to their homes in the capital.
So here basically are three terrific stories.
This last one about the Iraqis coming back home to Baghdad is in the Washington Post today.
And during all of these last, especially these intense last two or three months, maybe you could go all the way back to March when the surge was first plotted and Dingy Harry came out and said, it won't work.
We can't win.
The war is lost.
And that became the Democrats' political position.
No wonder the Times has to put this on page A19.
You know where the Post put the story about the returning Iraqis to Baghdad?
Page A20.
And that's why I wanted to bring this news to the forefront of the program today in our first hour and give kudos and congratulations to every one of you in the United States military.
Whether you've been to Baghdad, Afghanistan or not, whether you are there, you are a unit, a fraternity that so many of us in this country love, honor, and respect and hold in great awe.
You have not been given the credit that you deserve throughout this whole thing.
You have been used as pawns.
Politicians have maligned you, have called you names, accused you of crimes that you haven't committed.
Never seen anything like it.
And I never, I didn't see the outrage about these accusations and this treatment that I hoped to see around the country.
But despite all that, these people in uniform persevered, kept their eyes and their hearts on the mission.
And they rejected all of this talk.
They didn't let it affect them.
The surge obviously has worked.
All they got to do is the 13% of Baghdad still run by Mookie al-Sadr's boys.
So once again, congratulations.
And as I say, I wanted to make this the first thing I talked about today because it's being buried throughout the rest of the United States media.
We told you yesterday about the New Jersey, the residents, citizens voting down the stem cell initiative.
Guess what?
From the New York Times, New Jersey Democrats grapple with rebuke of stem cell initiatives, stung and puzzled by the defeat of a ballot initiative to borrow $450 million for stem cell research.
Leading Democrats in New Jersey struggled yesterday to explain why they're repudiated by voters and how they plan to finance this research for a center that's already under construction.
They were so confident they're going to win, I bet they've probably borrowed some money already just to get started.
On Wednesday, John Corzon, the governor, Senate President Richard Cody, and other supporters of stem cell research said they had little choice but to ask the state's pharmaceutical companies to help finance the effort and then try to squeeze money from a budget that's already facing a $3 billion shortfall.
After trashing them for years, after trashing big pharma, after trashing big drug, the people of New Jersey tell the government of New Jersey to do with their stem cell research center.
You can put it where the sun doesn't shine.
But they'd already started building it.
These are such slithery snakes, folks.
They'd already started building it.
So now they're going to go to the people they've been ripping for years with their hands out.
Hey, help us fund our research center.
Anyway, quick timeout.
We'll be back.
Lots to do on the program today.
Mrs. Clinton stiffing waitresses again.
Not tipping them on her middle-class express bus tour.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
I hope you heard today's morning update.
I hope you had a chance to watch it via video podcast.
Once again, cutting edge of societal evolution.
New York Times headline today, Big Tobacco Defeats Sick Kids.
This is about the Oregon cigarette tax increase.
And they write, one of the biggest disappointments in Tuesday's election was the defeat of an Oregon BI ballot initiative that would have raised the state's cigarette tax by 85 cents a pack to help pay for health care for uninsured children.
The outcome is a testament more than anything else to the shamelessness of the nation's big tobacco companies.
No, as usual, the arrogant elitists at the New York Times don't understand it.
Big tobacco didn't defeat anybody.
People defeated a smaller version of the S-CHIP story or bill.
This was, let me tell you what Democrats in Oregon were doing with this.
They were trying to pave the way for a national version, the S-CHIP version.
And they said, when we pass this thing out there and people are going to show they're all for it, why this is going to give all kinds of Democrats cover.
It's going to scare the Republicans who upheld the president's veto.
And the exact opposite has happened.
The people of Oregon defeated it and it wasn't close.
It was 6040.
And so now the big message that was going to be sent to Washington on the S-CHIP bill is the exact opposite that what they hoped it would be.
Wall Street Journal, Oregon voters send a message on Hillary Care.
Don't need to read this to you, just telling you that it's out there.
However, one thing you should know is that Democrats today have finished touches, putting the touches on their new version of the S-CHIP bill that they think the president will sign, or if he vetoes, that will have a chance of being overridden.
Tone dea.
In fact, it's not tone deaf.
They probably look at that result in Oregon.
The Democrats do and say, well, screw the people.
The hell would they doing that on illegal immigration, DREAM Act, after having it handed to them on this amnesty bill, trying these stealth ways to get this done?
Vigilance, folks.
You got to pay close attention each and every day because these slithering snakes are out there slithering around.
Presidential politics.
When Democrat Barack Obama's charter plane touched down Tuesday night in Muscatine, Iowa, aides were surprised that a car wasn't waiting to pick him up, take him to campaign events.
It's because they landed at the wrong airport flying in from Chicago.
Instead of going to Cedar Rapids, the plane touched down about 100 miles to the west in Des Moines.
The spokesman Tommy Viter said Wednesday the mistake on the flight from Chicago made Obama about an hour late for a rally at a community college.
While waiting, the crowd took to dancing and chanting because they knew that when Obama got there, the energy would just cease.
Also, from Burlington, Iowa, Barack Obama complained on Wednesday about an internet photo that claims a Democrat presidential candidate didn't hold his hand over his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance.
This is so irritating, Obama said, when asked about the photo in Muscatine, Iowa.
The photo, which is circulated widely on the internet, taken in September during Tom Harkin's annual barbecue fundraiser.
Message accompanying the photo claims Obama didn't observe the pledge.
Obama said the photo was taken during the singing of the national anthem, not the pledge.
My grandfather taught me to say the pledge when I was two, Obama said.
During the Pledge of Allegiance, you put your hand over your heart.
During the national anthem, you sing.
Did you learn the Pledge of Allegiance at age two?
Well, I don't think I did either.
Anyway, got a couple audio sound bites here for Senator Obama.
You got to hear this one.
This is in Old Wine, Iowa.
Woman, Jerry Putin.
And she was interviewed by David Green of NPR about Barack Obama after having recently met him.
Well, I've seen the commercials, and he just seemed sincere.
And he is for people like for my mom, my brother, and me.
So a lot of people would say a politician is the last place to turn if you really need help.
But you seem confident.
Yeah.
I mean, he just seemed like he really cared.
And, you know, and I never had anyone pay attention to me and my needs.
And he held my hand.
Okay.
So just an Iowa resident who met Barack Obama.
Never had.
Well, this is, look at folks.
I know there's crying everywhere in America.
There's crying everywhere.
There's crying before Congress by women from Alaska.
There's crying from women in Iowa.
This is a kind of mentality that the Democrats and the liberals have fostered throughout the country.
Want to go back to me, August 20th, on this program?
Listen to what I said.
This election is the last gasp of the 60s baby boomer generation to get control of this country.
You go back to the 60s, and the 60s are known for the left-wing student protesters and people blowing up bank buildings, wearing tie-dyes and blue jeans and causing all kinds of hell.
But there were a lot of conservative baby boomers back then as well who didn't subscribe to any of that.
I, of course, proudly among them.
But this is it.
This election is the last chance the baby boom generation has to secure its vision for the country.
Yesterday, correspondent Major Garrett talked with Senator Barack Obama, and Garrett said, What's the difference in change between you and Senator Clinton?
There's no doubt that we represent the kind of change that Senator Clinton can deliver on.
And part of it's generational.
I mean, you know, Senator Clinton and others, they've been fighting some of the same fights since the 60s.
And it makes it very difficult for them to bring the country together to get things done.
That's what he was saying.
He's taking my line.
He's out there saying these are baby boomers and they've been doing this for all this time.
And we need change.
We need a generational change.
He said this is just going to be more of the same.
The rivalries and the divisions that we've had are basically among baby boomers, and the Clintons will just continue that.
He's also calling her an old bag.
You know, she comes from the 60s.
You're an old bag now.
And, you know, Obama, now he didn't say it.
See, the problem is, you probably didn't even pick up on that because, well, I'm going to try a Barack impersonation here.
Well, there's no doubt we represent climate change.
Senator Clinton can't deliver on.
So you come on, just speed it up, Speedo.
There's no energy in what he's saying here, but he called her an old bag, and he says she's a relic from the 60s.
Exactly what I've said.
Folks, I want to posit here a couple things for you.
Everybody's asked me, and they continue to ask me, how come you haven't picked anybody in the primaries?
How come you haven't launched?
Well, I never do, but I've always answered it by saying, it's still too early.
There's so much flux out there.
Anything can happen right now.
And I want to give you just a couple of scenarios.
What happens?
Huckabee is really coming on strong in Iowa.
He is really coming.
What happens if he wins Iowa?
Which is a distinct possibility now.
What if Mike Huckabee wins Iowa?
What does that do to Mitt Romney and Thompson in New Hampshire and South Carolina, respectively?
Secondly, what if Hillary continues to stumble and either Obama or Edwards ends up being the nominee?
Now, I know nobody thinks that's possible, which is precisely why I focus on it.
The conventional wisdom is she's got it wrapped up, and the conventional wisdom is that Mrs. Clinton's got Clinton Inc. and that Clinton Inc. can get rid of anybody in her way.
But Mrs. Clinton has, she's got to get out of her own way for 13 months in a row or 12 months in a row in order to stop gaffing.
But just think about it.
If Hillary continues to stumble and either Obama or Edwards ends up the nominee, I mean, what kind of general election does this lead to?
Do you realize the shock?
Everybody figures it's Hillary and Giuliani right now.
But what if Huckabee wins Iowa?
And what if Hillary loses Iowa?
Her advisors are telling her if she loses Iowa, she's lost the nomination.
Half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair, ladies and gentlemen, we had an audio glitch on the first soundbite of the day.
It only affected people watching on the Ditto camera listening to the audio streaming of the program.
Those of you listening on terrestrial radio missed nothing.
But it means we've got to replay this audio soundbite.
This is Jerry Putini.
I don't know that I'm pronouncing her name right.
I'm doing it as close as it looks.
She's an Iowa resident, and she recently met Obama.
And NPR's David Green talked to her about meeting Obama.
Well, I've seen the commercials, and he just seemed Sincere, and that he is for people like for my mom, my brother, and me.
So, a lot of people would say a politician is the last place to turn if you really need help.
But you seem confident.
Yeah.
I mean, he just seemed like he really cared.
And, you know, and I never had anyone pay attention to me and my needs.
And he held my hand.
Now, I know some of you out there are just totally depressed when you hear this.
You're probably saying, see, Rush, your optimism is not warranted.
We've lost.
She's crying.
She's crying for what?
She crying because Obama seems so sincere.
We're finished, Rush.
We're finished if that's all it takes.
We're finished.
Don't doubt me, folks.
Don't get yourself down into this swirl.
This is not.
People who have these emotional needs like this, Democrats have always been around to fill them.
The difference is Obama probably won't even remember her down the road unless he's privy to this soundbite.
But have you heard the story about Mrs. Clinton and the waitress?
Now, what's interesting about this is that Mrs. Clinton goes into this greasy spoon diner that I guess all presidential candidates go into, and she sat down at the counter.
She had an entourage of people with her.
She had a little chat with the waitress, who's a single mother, it turns out, makes less than minimum wage.
And Mrs. Clinton had one of the specialties of the house here.
What was it?
Something about a stretched sandwich.
It's not stretched.
What is it?
A waitress's name was Anita Easterly.
Anyway, oh, here, a famous loose meat sandwich.
That's the specialty of this place.
Loose meat sandwich.
And then Hillary gets up and leaves.
And all of Hillary's entourage gets up and leaves.
And they head down to the next campaign stop where Mrs. Clinton starts talking about this waitress that she just stiffed without a tip.
And the waitress is not happy that Mrs. Clinton is talking about her without getting her permission.
And she's out there saying that the next campaign stop that if you vote for me, I'll make sure that these waitresses get a better deal.
I don't think the sandwich, the loose meat sandwiches, is named after Bill, Mr. Snirdly, because I think this place has been around as an institution longer than Clinton, probably before Clinton even went to Iowa for whatever reason.
So anyway, they stiff.
Now, the meal was complimentary, but that's no excuse.
The Clintons are pointing out, hey, the meal was complimentary, but nobody, and the other excuse was, well, she doesn't carry money.
Well, somebody in the entourage carries money, but I know the campaign is now saying that they paid $157 and left a $100 tip.
Now, the waitress is saying nobody got left a tip, quote unquote.
So the campaign's calling the waitress a liar.
What's new about that?
The Clinton campaign, this poor waitress.
You know what they, I'll tell you, you know what I'll tell you.
Well, the point is here, you know what women crossed the Clintons, Bimbo Eruption City.
This is not quite the same kind of bimbo eruption.
But here's the point of all this, folks.
The point is that Mrs. Clinton is just so self-focused.
She walks around and in her own mind, she's regal and she is royalty, doesn't pay for anything, and certainly doesn't leave tips.
Will be glad to exploit this waitress at campaign events, telling the story and how she got to know her very well and listened with great interest to the struggles the waitress faces in her challenging life.
And if I am elected president, again, Mrs. Clinton will say, then I will fix this waitress's circumstance.
So we're wondering, is this the tip of the iceberg?
Because it may well be, because Drudge went back in the archives and found Hillary did the same thing in 2000, stiffed a waitress at a diner during her Senate campaign.
There is a pattern here.
There is a pattern, but it's the attitude, folks.
It's the out of touch, not even thinking.
You know, I've told you many times, you can always determine the character of someone by observing how they treat people who can't do anything for them.
And a waitress who makes less than minimum wage can't do anything for Mrs. Clinton.
And so how did she treat her?
And the waitress is not happy about that.
It's not just the tip, it's that Mrs. Clinton's out there using her.
And by the way, ABC has written about this.
It's all over NPR.
The drive-bys, it's big a lot of places.
And they've gone back and got this story from February 2000 out of Albion, New York.
Maybe it's no big deal elsewhere, but it's all a buzz in Albion.
Hillary Rodham Clinton dropped into a village house, a favorite diner in this upstate farming town, ordered two orders of scrambled eggs, home fries, and rye toast.
So far, so good.
The locals appreciate a hearty appetite.
Breakfast was on the house.
When she left the waitress, a single mom found not a penny at her plate.
The locals have been talking about little else since Tuesday when she stopped for breakfast after making a speech about how New York's farmers are really hurting these days.
And then she goes in there and stiffs the waitress.
So there's a pattern here, but again, it's the attitude, folks.
We've grown up, all of us have, hearing.
Oh, it's the Democrats and the liberals that have compassion for the little guy.
They're the ones who care.
Look at the waitress here.
Well, I don't know if she's a waitress.
Our first soundbite.
Reduced to tears.
Because Obama cares.
Grabbed her hand.
Because Obama cares.
The Democrats get all this credit for caring.
And look at Mrs. Clinton.
Standard bearer.
Just another illustration of just the phony and artificially incorrect clichés that have attached themselves to the various political parties.
One other thing here, I asked you to consider a couple things here on the presidential politics front.
What if Huckabee wins Iowa?
What does that do to New Hampshire and South Carolina in terms of Romney and McCain, Giuliani, and so forth?
What if Romney wins big in New Hampshire?
And you've got a pretty big lead there.
And then Thompson wins South Carolina.
You realize how everything is going to be shaken up.
And because these primaries and cauckey are so front-loaded, we're going to have the nominees by February.
But I'm telling you, the conventional wisdom on this has a chance of being blown totally out of the water.
All right, let's go to the phones.
This is Terry in the Jersey Shore.
Nice to have you on the EIB network, Terry.
Yes, it's a pleasure to speak to you, Rush.
Thank you.
I am calling regarding the comment you made regarding Governor Corzine and the stem cell defeat.
Yesterday, he said that the voters of New Jersey did not quite understand the question.
Yeah, that's what Mrs. Clinton is saying about the illegal aliens and driver's license.
It's just too complicated for the average person to understand.
So despite the vote, we're going to go ahead and build the thing anyway.
Right.
And I, as a staunch Republican, in a Republican county, we're called central New Jersey, and from here on down south, we are red.
And I really, I take offense to him thinking that we have to follow in step with the rest of the North Jersey area in voting Democrat.
On my refrigerator, I have a bumper sticker for several years, and it says, I think, dot, dot, therefore I vote Republican.
Amen.
I've seen those bumper stickers.
Have you seen them?
Yeah.
And by the way, today.
When you see them on cars, they've been halfway ripped off.
Exactly.
And he did say that he was going to put that to a vote again.
Of course.
Of course.
Why, look at.
Terry, I have all the patience and compassion and understanding in the world, but where do you live?
Where do I live?
Jersey.
Yes, I do.
And you know, and I get upset when you say, you people of New Jersey, you keep on voting them in.
I don't vote them in.
I understand that, but you know you're the minority party.
You know what's going to happen.
You know the vote doesn't matter.
The Constitution didn't matter when the torch quit the Senate race.
That's right.
And they went and found the lout.
Oh, the judge, the Supreme Court said, screw the Constitution.
The Democrats deserve to have a candidate here.
So, I mean, if you've got a state Supreme Court to just use their Constitution for toilet paper, why are you surprised that Corzan was saying, screw the vote?
People didn't understand it.
We're going to build this research center anyway.
What are people like us supposed to do, Russia?
Move!
That's the only option.
No, I know.
It's tough.
It really is tough because you sound like you're a native.
Oh, yes.
Oh, yes.
I grew up right on the ocean.
Yeah, and you love it.
You love New Jersey, right?
I love it.
You know, surprisingly, it has a lot to offer, except for the majority party.
It's really a beautiful state.
Once you get past the dumps and the hazardous waste areas near Giant Stadium.
Yeah, we're down.
I'm just kidding.
I shouldn't have said that.
I was up late last night.
I'm still giddy.
That's just, that's an old joke and a cliche.
We're in the Red Bank area in South, and it's beautiful.
I fly over it every time I leave New York.
The departure route takes you right over.
We got to take off from Teterborough.
We've got to fly due after we throttle back for noise reduction so the New Jerseyans below us are not disturbed.
We're also embarrassed about our two singing friends, Mon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen from New Jersey.
Well, it's New Jersey.
What do you expect people from New Jersey are going to be?
I know.
The odds are they're going to be libs.
I know.
It's absolutely.
By the way, there's one thing that happened.
You know, you're one of those referendums the other day that passed.
Idiots can now vote.
And did you know that this is the first time in 17 years that a question on the ballot has been defeated in New Jersey?
First question is.
I did not know that, but if I could be serious here for a minute, Terry, what it means is, this was expert analysis from yesterday.
What it means is the people of New Jersey saw this not alone.
They saw it as a tax increase.
And that's not going to fly when Oregon turns it down 60-40, a cigarette tax to fund health care for the kids.
Democrat presidential candidate Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton called to the Bush administration today to tap in to the government's emergency crude oil and heating oil reserves to boost supplies and lower prices.
The Bush administration has said over and over again, crude oil and heating oil reserves should only be used to offset major supply disruptions, not to manage energy prices.
And he's exactly right.
Release the reserves for the...
Mrs. Clinton, can I tell you what it ought to be?
Mrs. Clinton should urge the Bush administration to build some new refineries, to drill for our own oil in the Gulf of Mexico and an and war, and to build some new nuclear plants.
This is a growth country.
We're not hunkering down and slinking away into the corners.
By the way, Senator Corzine in New Jersey said that his stem cell measure failed because the people didn't understand it.
Same thing's being said in Oregon.
Oregon's working poor will have to wait a little longer to get health care coverage for their kids.
Voters easily defeated Measure 50, a plan to raise tobacco taxes to provide universal health care for children after a record-shattering negative ad campaign financed by the cigarette companies.
You people in Oregon and the media and everything, you can lie to yourselves all day long about tobacco being behind this.
You don't understand.
People do not want to pay any more taxes.
Am I sounding too shrill?
People just don't want to pay.
My gosh, this ought to tell you, everybody hates smokers, Oregon.
Everybody hates them.
Here's a chance to soak them.
This was not a tax increase on the whole state.
This is a tax increase on a small little group of people who are hated and despised and reviled by the people that don't smoke.
A chance to really stick it to them.
And it goes down to defeat 60-40.
And of course, middle-class kids.
I know it's going to cover middle-class kids, too.
Ted Kulongoski, the mayor, I would say governor, tobacco industry won this battle, but they will not win the war.
In Salem, pediatrician James Lace said tobacco companies ran an effective campaign.
They outspent us four to one.
I think it failed because people got confused by the whole issue of the constitutional amendment.
Don't think so, Mr. Lace.
So once again, another example, arrogant condescension from liberal Democrat politicians who hold average people in contempt when they don't do what they are supposed to do.
The damn little mind numb robots.
Here's Richard in Brooklyn.
Richard, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
I would like you to give me your personal word of honor that that woman from Iowa, Jerry Santi, that was not a parody.
That is not walked in when that happened.
It was not a parody.
It was for real, huh?
Oh, my God.
I was going to say prayer for America.
I hope she's not representative of a citizen of Iowa.
Well, see, this, a lot of people are concerned here that we've already lost.
If that's all you got to do to get somebody's supports, hold their hand and tell them you care, then we're finished.
But you know what?
This is not unique.
Remember the Mississippi River floods when Clinton was president?
Yes.
He went out there and all he didn't do anything, he didn't stop the flood like Castro would have.
He didn't build anybody's house, bagged into it.
He just went out there and hugged those people.
Remember when Bush was late getting down to New Orleans?
He doesn't care.
He doesn't give a rat's rear in about us.
Really nothing new.
I want to play the bite again for you, Richard, because it's not a parody.
This is from National Public Radio.
Well, I've seen the commercials, and he just seemed sincere.
And he is for people like for my mom, my brother, and me.
So a lot of people would say a politician is the last place to turn if you really need help.
But you seem confident.
Yeah.
I mean, he just seemed like he really cared and, you know, and I never had anyone pay attention to me and my needs.
And he held my hand.
So that's, what was it?
I've already put it.
That's Iowa resident Jerry Putin.
You bet.
Richard, I understand that you appreciate the quality and artfulness of our work here.
And assuming that was a parody.
But that was real.
I can't stop thinking about that poor woman in Iowa.