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Nov. 20, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 20, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host on this show make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's because the views expressed by the host on this program are rooted in a relentless pursuit of the truth.
That's why you must be well adjusted and able to face the truth on this program without going nuts.
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For Democrats, Iowa's still up for grabs.
This is their take on the poll.
The ABC poll that shows Hillary at 30 and Obama at 26 and the Breck girl down there at 22%.
The pull quote paragraph here, she appears more vulnerable on questions of character.
31% found Obama to be the most honest and trustworthy, about double the percentage who said the same of Clinton.
As I said, I wouldn't be surprised if the Clinton campaign calls whoever polls for ABC and say that's a personal attack.
Put a poll question in there about who's honest and who has integrity, that's a personal attack.
And then warn the ABC pollster against doing this kind of thing in uh in future polls.
While about three quarters credited both Obama and Edwards with speaking their mind on issues.
Only 50% said that Clinton is willing enough to say what she really thinks.
Forty-five percent said she's not sufficiently candid.
Folks, this is not good for her.
This is this is the kind of stuff that she'd hope to avoid.
She's in a tough race now.
This is a fight.
We weren't expecting this.
And uh these numbers are pretty high.
They're basically she's not authentic.
She's not opening up.
She's not being honest in the New York.
In fact, audio soundbite number five, because it kind of buttresses this.
Just listen to Tim Russert talking to Matt Wower about that today on the Today Show.
Uh Matt, what is interesting, the trend lines are definitely towards Obama.
But when you push people and say are you most likely to attend the caucus, the lead is even closer.
It's about two points.
But what's in here, Matt, is what they tell us about the candidates.
We ask them who has the most experience.
And overwhelmingly, people say Hillary Clinton.
Look at those numbers by a margin of three to one.
And yet, who do you trust?
Look at this, Matt.
By a margin of two to one, they say Barack Obama.
Yeah, see, by so who do you trust?
That's that that's that old question.
Uh that that's a personal attack.
Uh Srussart making the point who the author of the original personal attack.
Mrs. Clinton, what about driver's licenses for illegals?
I'm gonna get your testicles, Tim, and put them in the lockbox.
Uh, you know, you're not allowed.
You're not you're not supposed to ask these kinds of questions.
This is a fascinating piece, too.
Nicholas Wapshot at the New York Sun.
What do these three Americans have in common?
John Deutsch, the CIA director between May of 95 and December of '96, face criminal charges for storing state secrets on his home computer.
David Hurdlinger, a former Arkansas prosecutor and judge, pleaded guilty to mail fraud in 1986, having accepted bribes to waive charges against those accused of drunk driving.
Alfredo Luna Far Regalado failed to mention to a customs official he was smuggling into America more than the $10,000 permitted.
If your answer is they're all free as a bird, having been given a last-minute pardon by President Clinton, you're right.
Though that's not the answer the examiners are looking for.
The correct answer is that all three who were indeed pardoned at the last minute by Bill Clinton have made recent financial contributions to the presidential campaign coffers of Senator Clinton.
The news that Mrs. Clinton has accepted money from three criminals who were pardoned by her husband is highly contentious.
Or more accurately, two criminals and Mr. Deutsch, who was on the point of being charged when he was let off the hook.
Sure to prove hugely embarrassing to Mrs. Clinton's campaign.
As Mr. Clinton argued in a spirited defense of his actions in a New York Times a month after he left office.
Presidents are free to pardon whom they wish.
There's only one prohibition, however.
There can be no quid pro quo.
And there certainly was not in this or any other pardons and commutations that I granted, he wrote.
And with the Clintons, that might have been true at the time.
But now these three who have been pardoned have been donating, they have been seen donating to the uh to the Clinton campaign in Florida.
Rudy Giuliani, uh, campaigning at the NASCAR next to well, he was shown it a picture there uh in in Florida, is the most popular presidential candidate in Florida.
Fifty percent of voters willing to consider voting for him.
This is a Mason Dixon poll in a potential matchup with Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
Giuliani wins 5043.
Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney also beat Hillary in Florida, although their wins are within the margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points.
Uh Hillary Clinton, the only candidate in Florida polling, Democrat or Republican, with higher unfavorable than favorable ratings.
And this is everywhere.
This is what we talk about with this the polarization factor.
Her negative Carl Rove raised that on this very program.
The the high negatives that she has are not the stuff that uh presidential candidates uh win on.
I mean, the the the that that's that's way too divisive.
So all these polls today from Iowa and Florida, bad news for Hillary.
My guess is that they have known about these polls for a while.
You know, the Clintons are a couple steps ahead because their internal polling is no doubt showed them these events or these results.
Uh and so probably days before the CNN debate, uh, the Clinton camp knew how bad the bleeding was, and thus we saw Wolf Blitzer threatened.
We saw Obama threatened with that little leak to Robert Novak.
Now the Clintons are several moves ahead because they have better information than the drive-by media does.
But I would I would bet that the level of panic inside Hillary's war room last week must have set the campaign on DEF CON one.
Maybe to DEF CON two.
The orchestration with CNN, and there can be no doubt, folks.
There can be no doubt that there was orchestration with CNN.
Uh it's it's rather remarkable.
It's it and the down in dirty gutter politics that's shoveled up to Novak shows there's considerable fear inside what everyone believes to be the unflappable Clinton campaign.
See, I'm telling you, uh, they're in a fight.
This was not intended.
This was not anticipated.
Uh it isn't unflappable, and this is interesting.
Her Nixonian and her Clintonian dirty politics for the first time may be rebounding right back at her.
Right into her face.
Uh this is the first campaign that she's run where the rules have changed, i.e., the era of limbo.
She doesn't get a monopolistic blank slate.
I mean, she can have CNN in a tank for her, and she can have some of the other drive-bys in the tank for her.
Uh, but that's that's not enough to get it done.
In other words, the sunshine, ladies and gentlemen, shining on the Clinton campaign has never been as bright as it is now.
And uh Hillary may not have uh calculated the sanitizing effect of the era of limbo.
Actually, I think she has.
Um, and is in, you know, full anti-era of limbaugh mode.
Remember her talking about all the the mud slinging and the and and the debate against her?
Uh scripted.
That was a plan.
Just like the uh just like the uh uh gender card.
The only mud out there comes from her campaign.
That's what I mean.
The mud's being slung by her and it's not coming back and hitting her.
Uh a little bit of a distraction because she knows uh all the mud she had in her purse and accused her opponents of what she was about to unload.
Uh that's the level of deceit at uh at play here.
Fix was in at CNN.
She knew Obama would be threatened soon after, and just to tie it all up in a pretty bow, she accuses fellow Democrats of throwing mud at her now.
When she and her campaign are the ones that are most likely uh behind it.
All right, brief timeout here.
We'll come back and uh we'll get to your phone calls, other other things in the stack of stuff.
The New York Times today, front page above the fold.
Baghdad starts To exhale as security improves.
My friends.
I can't tell you how much that story and headline front page, New York Times, infuriates Hillary Clinton.
And Harry Reed and Nancy Pelosi.
Well, there's some moderately major Supreme Court news here, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome back to the EIB network and El Rushbo.
Supreme Court said today that it will decide whether the District of Columbia can ban handguns, a case that could produce the most in-depth examination of the second amendment in nearly 70 years.
The justice's decision to hear the case could make the divisive debate over guns an issue in the 2008 presidential and congressional elections.
The government of Washington, D.C. is asking the court to uphold its 31-year ban on handgun ownership in the face of a federal appeals court ruling that struck down the ban as incompatible with the second amendment.
Tuesday's announcement was widely expected, especially after both the district and the man who challenged a handgun ban asked for the high court review.
Oh boy, this is this this is the kind of thing.
It could go either way, and if it goes the wrong way, we in deep doo-doo.
I'll tell you uh the Justice Kennedy will be the target here.
There will be puff pieces in the Washington Post style section, encouraging him to do the right thing here.
Excuse me.
Um, well we'll keep a sharp eye on this.
I I the only way this would have impact is if we get a decision next next June on the case, which I guess would be entirely possible.
To the phones we go to Harry in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
I'm glad that you called, sir.
Thank you.
Rush Turkey and football is about as American as you can get.
And uh this year, uh as you mentioned earlier this week in your program, uh the game on Thanksgiving will only be broadcast by the NFL network.
I have been briefed on this matter, Rush, and the problem is the NFL network only wants to be carried as a basic package by the cable conglomerate.
So if you have cable, you're not going to be able to watch this game.
You're only going to be able to watch it if you have satellite.
Right, and I have satellites, so I don't really care.
I don't rush.
But the only exception is if uh if you're in the uh visiting team's hometown, it's broadcast for free, and it's also broadcasts are free over the air.
The home team uh city as long as it's a good thing.
No, no, no.
That's not gonna happen.
Well, it no, it is the case, Rush.
The NFL has told me this.
I've been briefed on the matter.
Wait, the NFL told you there's gonna be over the air broadcasts in the visiting scene visiting team city of the NFL network games.
Yes.
And the home city as long as the game sells out 72 hours in advance.
I will have to I'll take your word for it.
I will have double check that.
I thought the NFL was playing hardball, was not even going to do that.
Well, they don't want to alienate their fans.
I mean, I'm surprised the NFL has told it out this way.
Come on, they're already alienating the fans.
But except I've done some research on this since I last talked about it.
And you know who most people are blaming for this?
The cable companies.
They're not blaming the NFL.
They're blaming the cable companies.
Well, I'll be interested to see how their views will change after Thanksgiving when people turn on the TV to find out there's no NFL.
Uh, look at the Thanksgiving game is uh the Thanksgiving night game is uh the Indianapolis Colts at the Atlanta Falcons.
That's not the game that's gonna get anybody worked up.
The next the game's gonna be worked up is on the 22nd, 29th, and that's a Green Bay Packers at the Dallas Cowboys.
That's gonna be the game that's gonna have everybody they're in 35 million homes.
The NFL Network is 110 million homes are wired for cable.
It's Comcast and Time Warner which are providing the obstacle here, not willing not willing to accept the financial deal that the NFL is demanding.
The cable companies are saying, look it.
Aside from these these eight games that you have for us at the end of the season, all you're doing is reruns the rest of the year.
Well, you got the draft and you've got the uh you got some of the other things, but you don't have there's no reruns.
We can we our we already provide ESPN, ESPN news.
I mean, our our our viewers can get all the football they want.
Well, Rush, the uh the NFL is saying that Comcast, they have their own sports network TV, and I mean it's not it's so far.
and they feel like they should be on the same package that Tomcap Sports Network is on, which is basic cable.
Uh yeah, but well, I know they want basic, but the problem is that the NFL wants, I think between b it it it's a it's a figure that varies, but they want something like sixty to seventy cents per subscriber paid for by the cable company for carrying the network.
Do you know what?
You know what ESPN gets per subscriber?
I have no idea.
Take a guess.
NFL network wants 60 to 70 cents.
I would say uh I would guess 15 cents.
Three dollars and nineteen cents.
Some of the NFL are the cable companies pay ESPN over three bucks per subscriber.
Wow.
There's a lot going on here that uh, you know, cable television is an intricate business, and the way revenues are generated for providers in the cable company is a formula, and it differs for every network.
But Rush, one last point, though, out of the top twenty-five uh highest ratings of all time on cable television, twenty-four have been NFL games.
Yeah.
So they should have more leverage.
They're providing them ratings.
Uh cable companies don't care about ratings.
They care about subscribers, and they've got the subscribers.
Cable companies are not the cable companies, it's the it's the networks on the cable companies that carry about the ratings or care about the ratings.
Cable uh cable companies don't care about that.
They're they're strictly in it for money.
Uh I this is getting to the point where uh I'll tell you how how much friction there is in here.
The federal government is thinking of imposing binding arbitration.
And having, you know, having a mediator and arbitrator look at the dispute and make a ruling and having it be binding uh between the NFL and Comcast and Time Warner Cable.
Those are the the two big holdouts.
Uh because fans are fans are, you know, they're writing their Congressman, Congressman can't do anything about it.
They're writing their state representatives, state representatives can't do anything about it.
Uh and the state representatives and the and then Congress feel a little helpless because they would love to be able to show their fans they could they could do something about this to resolve the uh the dilemma.
Uh anyway, it's that that it's the 29th with the Packers at the Cowboys that that that's gonna cause this to come to a head.
If it does if it doesn't happen by then, then the last game of the season on Saturday night, the New England Patriots at the uh at the New York Giants, and that the Patriots are going for an undefeated season, Giants will be fighting for the playoffs, probably a wild card berth, unless the Cowboys collapse.
Uh that's that's gonna be it's interesting to uh to watch this.
I look and I'm glad you called.
I appreciate it, Harry.
This is uh Ken in Boundbrook, New Jersey.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, good afternoon, Rush.
Good afternoon.
Speak with you.
In any event, um I'm responding to the the story you spoke about earlier about uh this uh economics or financial analyst who claims that the uh people that are going to be hurt most by the credit downturn are poor and minorities.
Well, the fact of the matter is that poor people don't get new car loans typically because they can't afford it.
Yeah, but this is the okay.
I wanted to make you uh have that stipulation out there.
The story was really about uh the fact that the subprime mortgage crisis and the credit crunch in home mortgages is ready to bleed and spill over now to the purchase of automobiles.
And of course, the press, the drive-by is in their obligatory fashion, put it this would be hardest on uh on the poor and minorities.
They left women out of this one because I guess didn't quite fit.
But I guess they're part of the minorities.
But anyway, uh the fact of the matter is that credit crunch in in mortgages has nothing to do with retail.
Uh Ford Motor Company Credit, uh, GM credit, you know, they all have their own lending units.
They can these guys can sell their own product and have historically done so in the past by financing their own sales.
So anybody with a if they need to, anybody with a heartbeat will get a uh a car loan.
As far as the credit crunch or the m mortgage meltdown, So called.
The fact of the matter is it's simply a credit meltdown, not a mortgage meltdown.
The credit markets aren't lending to certain credit levels.
It's, you know, what people forget is that markets work.
And you can look at this, the so-called credit crunch, the subprime problem.
There's a major correction going on here because of some things that were done that uh weren't kosher.
The markets work if you just let them work themselves out.
It's the pain that's caused in something like this problem.
Hey, question is my voice on tired today.
Is my voice on tire today?
And North Carolina mistress is playing monking with my mind.
So I sound so worn out, so my voice sounds so tired.
Well boo.
That's irrelevant.
That happens all the time.
I mean, but does my voice sound tired?
You got to be honest.
Don't sit in there.
All right.
I didn't think so.
In fact, I was just remarking, I'm amazed I have the energy and the uh uh connectivity that I am displaying today based on the lateness of the night.
Last night, the Dubai government agency that bought into Deutsche Bank this year said yesterday it was considering investing in U.S. financial services firms affected by the mortgage market crisis.
The thing is, Dubai can wipe out the debt.
They can wipe out, wipe out the crisis.
DIFC Investments, one of the agencies Dubai has used to buy foreign assets, is identifying good opportunities for acquisitions, quote unquote in the United States.
The governor of the Dubai International Financial Center said on Monday, asked whether the targets could include U.S. banks like Citigroup and Merrill Lynch.
Omar Ben Suleiman told Reuters, without mentioning names, we have a track record of taking stakes in banks with the right partners for management.
The price has to be right, and the strategy has to be aligned.
Asked whether it made sense to invest in banks which have taken a hit from the mortgage crisis, he said, yeah, but we're looking at all sectors, not just the financial sectors.
They're also by what's what's that chip firm?
Right?
They're buying into AMD.
Uh, you know, which makes computer chips.
So now they're going to be buying into the mortgage crisis, perhaps.
And now they're buying into AMD manufactures chips.
We can't have the Dubai ports deal.
We can't have Dubai Ports World managing some terminals in our ports, but hey, here's your laptop made by Dubai.
Wonder what kind of spy technology they put in there that you don't know about.
You know, seriously.
Uh what's happening in Dubai is fascinating.
And uh you remember I was telling you last week that the deal that the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi in Dubai, have made with the Airbus.
$30 billion worth of new jets with Airbus, some A350s, some A380s.
Uh Boeing got just a smidgeon of the offer.
And one of the interesting things about that, to me, just the first interesting thing that you know, the airline business uh uh is a cyclical business, and and you measure your success in elements of 10 years, increments of 10 years.
Uh and because of that, you have to have a you have to have pretty good strategic marketing uh in fuel prices, what they're gonna be, fuel supplies and this sort of thing.
If you're gonna if you're in the airline business and you're buying up new aircraft, don't you think that you have to be pretty sure that there's not going to be any problem coming up with jet A, which is the fuel, which, by the way, for those of you in Rio Linda comes from oil.
And we keep hearing about all the oil crunch and the oil shortage and this and that, where the tricoms are drinking it all up, and in India they're gonna get in the game too, and blah blah.
All of this doom and gloom talk about energy, but the people that are in the jet business keep cranking them out, and people in the flying of the jets business keep buying them up, and they don't run on solar, and they don't run on windmills on top of the fuselage.
And they don't run on little batteries like in a back of your hybrid.
Second thing about about uh Dubai, and this is a point that I tried to make during the whole controversy over the Dubai ports deal.
And that is the United Arab Emirates is exploding business wise.
It is literally exploding.
Tiger Woods' first golf development project will be in Dubai, Ditto Ernie Ells.
In addition to all of that, they are building uh homes, hotels, rental units, properties.
They're building islands out in the Gulf on which they are building homes and hotels.
It's an amazing thing to see.
And just rising out of the dust of the desert.
This is an ugly desert.
I flew over it.
This Dubai just pops right out of it.
This is brown.
This is not gorgeous sand like you see in Lawrence of Arabia.
This this just looks like dirt.
And it's r city and all this stuff's rising out of it, and they're building it out in the Gulf.
The last thing, the last thing they want is this little nut job in Iran getting nukes.
You know, they they're they're making huge investments.
Uh they're becoming the financial capital of that part of the world for certain.
Uh, maybe on the way to unseating Hong Kong and maybe on the way to become a major, major financial capital, not just they're what they're looking to be a vacation destination.
Uh the premier vacation destination for people that live uh on that part of the planet.
They're nine hours ahead of us.
So right now it's uh it's coming up on what, 11 o'clock there at night, 20 minutes at 11.
Uh but uh the the we we can't have them on our can't have Dubai Ports World running the ports.
Uh Halliburton's gone over there, uh relocated their headquarters, the oil services business.
I just I just think it's fascinating to watch because it's what we used to be.
Which is what we used to be in terms of growth, uh in terms of we're gonna be it.
You go back and look what this country did in the Great Depression.
Can I just give you a list of some things we built during the Great Depression?
Now I know that we needed make work projects because we needed people for to give people jobs, but we still had the capital to do it, and we had the will to do it.
We built both the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, built the Hoover Dam.
The Empire St Empire State Building went up a year early.
All of this in the 30s, in the Great Depression.
And I, you know, I've I've long been fascinated with a Golden Gate Bridge.
I finally got to take a trip when I lived in Sacramento to the top of the South Tower.
Uh, because I've always been amazed.
You go to Fort Point, which is beneath the South Tower, and you stand there and there's no bridge and say, I'm gonna build a bridge here.
What would I do first?
I would have no clue.
I'm not an engineer.
Uh and they didn't have the high-tech cranes and equipment to build bridges like we do today, and yet they did.
In the meantime, the World Trade Center has been a hole in the ground for six years.
And we're all it's not that we can't build things anymore.
Of course we can.
It's that we get all caught up in political correctness.
Uh and and the environmentalists uh liberalism basically putting a roadblock to anything new and progressive that's technologically advanced.
When you see Dubai, and I know they've got all kinds of oil money and this sort of thing, but we're not a poor country.
This is this is we and we could have a lot of our a lot more oil money than we have if we simply would drill um for well, right?
But people died during the building Empire State Building.
Yeah, people people died building the Golden Gate Bridge, too.
People died building buildings.
Uh oh, that's what you think liberals won't let things get built today because people buy, because of oppressive management that will force the workers into unsafe conditions for low wages and no health care.
Right, that's exactly so we don't build things.
Or else we have an argument over who is going to be honored when we build the World Trade Center.
And it turns out that the original proposal was to honor nobody, it was to rip the country for all of the indiscretions and oppressions that we have visited over minority populations.
Let's go to uh drums, Pennsylvania.
Janet, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Your energy is unstoppable.
Thank God.
Thank you.
I'm hoping you can put my mind at ease, actually.
Um I am just scared to death that we have convinced the powers that be that Hillary does not deserve the nomination.
And I'm afraid they're gonna pull a fast one and bring in Al Gore.
And then what do we do?
Uh I don't think Al Gore has the slightest interest.
Yeah, well, I think that's part of the game plan.
I think he's lurking in the background, and of course he doesn't have any interest.
We'll need him.
He'll come in and he'll save the day.
Let me tell you something.
I got a story yesterday.
I didn't get to it.
It's in yesterday's stack.
By the way, does my voice sound tired to you?
No, it does not.
Your energy is unstoppable.
I appreciate that.
Thank you for noticing.
We've got Al Gore with a the the it's a story on his uh his business future, his um plans involving the global warming movement, and the story makes it abundantly clear that like everything almost in all cases, if you want to get the answer to why something's happening, follow the money.
Al Gore stands to get I mean filthy wealthy.
Okay, setting up some of these companies to deal with global warming and carbon dioxide, uh, and and it's all a scam.
But it's all it's all oriented toward making money for people who invest in these uh in these schemes and so forth.
And I I don't know.
I I I think I think Gore's sitting pretty pretty in his mind.
He won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Bill Clinton hasn't.
But that's what I mean.
He's got it.
You don't think he's got it to come in and save the day and be president of the United States.
I look at anything's possible.
But I I think that um I I just I could I don't see it.
Could be dead wrong.
But look at I'm just scared because I mean, even she's even bad in the polls now.
And what are they I mean, how could anyone nominate her?
You know what I mean?
Like, even the Democrats.
Not so fast.
This is Clinton Inc.
we're talking about.
Okay.
Look at there's a look at let me just I just printed this out right as the break was in me.
Obama headline is Obama, I tried drugs as a teen.
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Tuesday told Haskrul students in Manchester, New Hampshire that when he was their age, he was hardly a model student experimenting with illegal drugs and drinking adult beverages.
Stopped by a study hall at Manchester Central Has School answered students' question about the war in Iraq and his education plan.
When an adult asked about his time as a student, he spoke bluntly.
He said, I'll confess to you, I was kind of a goof off in high school.
My mom reminds me of that.
And he talked about his drug use and alcohol use.
Now, we have, you know, Novak.
Novak has this story over the weekend that the Clinton campaign has this scandalous note that they're on on Obama, but that they're not gonna release it.
Well, by letting Novak have it, somebody just released it, although nobody knows what.
Now, a few short days later, Obama admits using illegal drugs and uh sipping adult beverages while a screw a goof off.
Now, people like me who read the stitches on a fastball put two and two together and wonder if this is not a preemptive in case this scandalous item happens to leak or be leaked or what have you.
But it's it's it's still way early.
But but about Al Gore.
Look it.
Al Gore had a desire when we when uh when he left the White House in 2000, that was to become president.
It didn't happen, and he probably still thinks it was stolen from him by the Supreme Court, but he also blamed the Clintons for being a drag on his campaign with all the scandals and the blue dress and that sort of stuff.
So what's he done since?
Well, he suffered the defeat in 2000, but then he's gone out, he's made a movie.
He technically doesn't have an Oscar, the producer's got the Oscar, but he's got an Oscar.
Bill Clinton, all he's got is a room at Ron Burkle's house in Beverly Hills.
He's got a Nobel Peace Prize.
Clinton does not have a Nobel Peace Prize.
Uh he's got is he's he's in his mind he has risen above the Clintons.
And I just think I don't think he wants to put all his money he has in a blind trust and uh and run for president.
You know what the biggest indication of this is.
Hmm.
You know what I mean?
What would it be?
The fact that now don't laugh.
I'm not I'm not trying to be funny about this.
He hasn't gone on a diet to lose weight.
You're right.
You're right.
He looks terrible.
He doesn't look presidential.
Well, that it's it's a sad thing, but your television age.
Uh and you know, weight's what it is in terms of people having respect for you.
Yeah, you're right.
You're I hope you're right.
Yeah, I usually am.
You can bank on it.
Later I've show prep.
This is from the Los Angeles Times.
Forget the driver's license and the credit cards.
The most important piece of plastic in Cheng Wang's wallet is his new medical identification card, featuring a picture of a heart and the city's signature skyline.
Cheng Wang, who has diabetes and other ailments, says the healthy San Francisco program saved his life.
When he uh emigrated here in May to San Francisco to be closer to his elderly mother, the 64-year-old Taiwan native brought enough pills to last seven months.
When those ran out, he didn't know what to do.
He had no medical insurance.
Scared him.
Then he learned about a groundbreaking San Francisco city health plan that provides a network of care to uh residents, regardless of their ability to pay, immigration status, or existing medical conditions.
Ching Wang, a proud man with oversized glasses, said it's important to him that the program is not purely a handout.
It's a bona fide medical plan offering free care, free of charge to those who can't pay, and on a sliding scale to those who can't afford to contribute to their care.
When he finds work, he says he'll pay up.
It's precious, said Cheng Wang, the retired painter holding out his card.
It gives me peace of mind.
The uh the city's initiative is a first of its kind local solution to what's become a pressing issue nationwide, how to provide the poor and middle class with affordable health care.
Americans spend more than two still more than sixty million people remain uninsured or underinsured.
Oh now!
So we've gone from 47 uninsured to sixty million uninsured and underinsured.
So this is universal health care, folks.
San Francisco's found the way to do it.
Another way that the Democrats are going to give everyone an American ID so that they can vote.
That's what this is about.
He's got his medical identification card featuring a picture of a heart and his city's signature skyline.
Sir.
It's uh well, because free Mr. Snerdley says, how is free not a handout?
Because uh when you can pay, you are expected to donate to your health care.
But when you can't pay, it's free.
So if health care is all you care about, you really don't need to get a job.
It's a hand the whole the whole thing's a handout.
I know the whole thing.
Well, you that's a that's a fine point, Mr. Snerdley, because you know, you Cheng Wang, obviously this story here is portraying him as an honorable upstanding uh uh well, not citizen, but guy.
If he intends to pay, it's not a handout.
See, you're missing the point of intentions.
You you you want to look at people and you want to see uh reprobates.
You you want to see people with the citizens of San Francisco are paying for this guy's health care.
He's not, but the citizens of San Francisco are it.
It gives him peace of mind.
So this is this is uh this is how this.
You know, when I saw this, you know, we every uh one of the things that we've been able to secure here at the EIB network is there's the the snerdly family, every call screener.
Every call screener since this program's inception in 1988 has been a snerdly, and we had one named Ching Wang.
We did.
We had Melva, we had uh we had Mario, uh, and we had Cheng Wang, Ching Cheng Wang sturdy.
And he would be about sixty-four years old now.
By the way, Obama admitted to sampling cocaine in his uh memoir.
Also, Cheng Wang, San Francisco.
We are we feel confident, solid guy.
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