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Dec. 21, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 21, 2007, Friday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this program make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying.
And is the views expressed by the host on this program rooted in a daily relentless and unstoppable pursuit of the truth?
You know the drill.
It's Friday.
We move on.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Live Friday.
When we go to the phones, that means you're on the air.
That means you own the show, content-wise.
Talk about whatever you wish.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address Rush.
Or El Rushbo.
Sorry, El Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
New address, LRushbow at EIBNet.com.
Some people amass great fortunes thanks to their time in office, ladies and gentlemen.
Somebody needs to ask Hillary Clinton a couple questions, therefore.
How much money within a million dollars have you and your husband made?
Forget taxes.
We're talking gross income, any other assets of value since the day your husband left office.
And is this why you are also running for office?
We need to know.
We'd like to know how much did Mrs. Clinton and her husband profit?
And then she can tell us why Vladimir Putin is a corrupt man.
If these reports that he has squandered $40 billion or this kind of, I haven't a metal block on the word, but apparently he's amassed a $40 billion fortune in offshore counts, businesses, and cash and various Swiss banks and so forth since the time he has been ruling Russia.
Because it's out there, they're calling Putin corrupt because of this.
You know, I'm, you know me, folks.
I mean, I'm all for capitalism, and capitalists have no shame in how much money they earn, especially those who made their fortune thanks to their time as president.
Just how much of the Clintons earned?
I mean, it's $100 million.
Why shouldn't we know that?
How much money is at stake with a Clinton presidency?
If she loses, will the Clinton estate miss out on another $100 million or $200 million?
There was a devastating report in the New York Times yesterday, very long by Don Van Netta Jr., uncovering some of the donors to the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor.
And one of these guys donated something 31.
Who donates $31,300,000?
Has anybody ever donated $31,300,000 to you, Brian?
How about you, Snerdley?
They haven't to me either.
31.3.
I mean, 31 million people, 31 is odd.
31.3 is even odder.
And this guy also lets Clinton name Canada.
I think this guy lets Clinton fly around on his jet, as Ron Burkel flies around Clinton on his jet, or did, before they split up.
And of course, some of these donors to the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor, which, I mean, Obama could call it a slush fund.
Some of these same donors are being asked to contribute to Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign.
Shazam Shazam.
Now, Mrs. Clinton said in the last debate that she wanted to have a transparent government.
I want to have an open and transparent government, quote, unquote.
Well, she can start by releasing all of her First Lady papers, telling us how much money being president means to Team Clinton.
And we can talk about Vladimir Putin if we want to.
By the way, I have to remind you again, ladies and gentlemen, story the other day, 2,600 pages of documents from the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor have not been released, even though Clinton says he personally ordered them to be released.
And they're saying that Clinton's holding it up.
And Bruce Lindsay said, Bill Clinton hasn't held up the release of a single document, which is true.
He's held up the release of 2,600 documents.
Not one.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
I want to go back, show you cutting-edge societal evolution, how this program, with very little acknowledgement from outside the program, does impact the presidential campaign on both sides.
This is me from this past Monday on this very program.
Look at what they did.
Carl McCall, running for governor of New York, they trashed Carl McCall.
We ended up raising funds for Carl McCall, you and I, on this program together, because the DNC and Terry McAuliffe hung him out to drive.
Maynard Jackson, mayor of Atlanta, wanted to be chairman of DNC.
Clinton's move is, ain't no way, pal, Terry McAuliffe's getting.
Whenever blacks get to the point that they're rising to areas of prominence, positions of prominence in Democrat Party, guess who comes along and slaps them down?
Clinton Inc.
He was the nation's first black president.
And of course, Andrew Young's out there saying, yeah, yeah, he's had more black women.
He's been with more black women than Obama has.
And of course, dig applause line.
Wow, we, what a great recommendation.
And nevertheless, here's the first black.
And who's trashing him?
It's not Republicans.
It's not conservatives.
It's the Clintons.
All right.
That said this on Monday.
And I've said it even before Monday.
You know, the Billy Shaheen out there.
Yeah, cocaine.
He may even be selling drugs.
He's a black guy.
I said, you know, they're playing the race card on this guy.
Anytime a prominent black rises to a position that threatens the Clintons, smack down, baby.
This in the party that's supposedly tolerant of this affirmative action.
Mrs. Clinton, the Democrats believed all they really say about this stuff, they'd quit, pull out of the race, give it to Obama for the good of America, for the good of race relations in this country.
Last night, Anderson Cooper 180, the guest is David Rodham Gergen and the New Hampshire Institute of Politics Jennifer Donahue.
And they're talking about the Clinton campaign, playing the race card against Obama.
And Anderson Cooper says, Jennifer, is there a perception that Hillary Clinton is being singled out unfairly?
What Kerry did the other day and what happened last week on the drug issue with Shaheen and moreover with Mark Penn, who then kept repeating it over and over and over, they're playing the race card.
They're attacking his race.
And it's out there, finally out there in the drive-bys on Anderson Cooper 180, first introduced into the domain, if you will, by me.
So David Rodham Gergen has to jump in here to the defense of Clinton, Inc.
Cooper says, David Gergen, David Rodham Gergen.
Do you agree with that?
No, I don't.
I don't think they're playing the race card at all.
He happens to be black.
He also happens to be a very major dramatic candidate.
You don't think that saying that selling drugs and that did he buy it, did he use them, did he sell them has anything to do with race?
Wait a minute.
We went through a whole campaign back in 2000 in New Hampshire about George W. Bush and drugs, and he happened to be white.
Playing a race card suggests it's racially motivated and in effect is racist.
I think that's unfair to them.
Oh, of course it's unfair.
Why?
They would never, ever do anybody.
They would never, ever, ever do anything like, oh, Clintons play the race card?
No, of course not.
It would never happen.
But, of course, ladies and gentlemen, it did.
So they had to do some damage control.
After Anderson Cooper 180, so we go now to the Today Show this morning.
Phil in host David Gregory interviewing Barack Obama.
Yesterday was Chris Kumo.
Today it's David Gregory taking every Clinton Inc. charge and talking point and making Obama answer it.
I'd like to begin with something that former Senator Bob Kerry said this week and later apologized for.
He said the following: I like the fact, speaking of you, that his name is Barack Hussein Obama and that his father was a Muslim and that his paternal grandmother is a Muslim.
There's a billion people on the planet that are Muslims and I think that experience is a big deal.
Senator, do you think that warranted an apology or do you take that aspect of your background as a point of pride?
I don't think that Bob Kerry intended an insult in some way.
I think Bob was pointing out that some of the remarks were taken out of context and left out the fact that he was arguing how qualified he thought I was to be president and how the experience that I have outside of our shores will actually inform my judgment and allow me to be a more effective commander-in-chief.
That background and pointing out a Muslim background, not an attempt to poison the well in your judgment.
Well, I don't think, David, that he was trying to point out that I had a Muslim background.
And there is Barack Obama taking the high road.
They're trying to bait him.
They're trying to get him to act a little upset and angry at A, the question being asked, and B, angry at Bob Kerry and Billy Shaheen.
And he's not taking the bait.
Come back.
Your phone calls are next.
Stay with us.
People have been patiently waiting to appear on this program.
I want to go to the phones now.
We'll start in Pittsburgh in this hour with Charles.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Professor Limbaugh, nice to finally get on.
Thank you.
Okay, sir.
I was online this morning, and I was reading an article about Mitt Romney, and supposed some flip-flop on something he said about his father having marched with Martin Luther King.
Well, as I was reading the messages posted, there was like this raging battle between Huckabee supporters and Mitt Romney supporters online.
And then this issue came up about you and some Huckabee ally basically bashing the show and saying it's all about entertainment or whatever.
Well, I first want to say that I'm a registered independent, but I'm a conservative, and I'm leaning toward Huckabee.
But I read what the guy said, and I don't recall anybody coming out or Huckabee coming out himself and saying that he approved this message.
So I just wanted to know: was there any evidence that this guy that said whatever he said about the show or attack, however, he attacked you, was there any evidence that he's actually from the Huckabee camp?
No hard evidence.
It's just the reporter says that it's a DC Huckabee operative.
I don't know who it is.
If you had heard me first brought this up yesterday, I said, this is so incorrect.
This is such a tabloid cliché.
It's more like what Democrats say about me.
I said, I wonder who actually told this reporter at this blog at the Atlantic Magazine or Atlantic Monthly, their blog.
I said, who?
I speculated that it probably wasn't somebody from Huckabee's campaign because it doesn't make any sense.
There's no Republican in the world who has been paying attention to anything in the last 19 and a half years, understands that this program is what they said it was.
But the guy identified this person as a Huckabee supporter.
The Huckabee people in Arkansas all denied that the campaign had nothing to do with it.
Then I started speculating: well, who says things like this?
And then I thought, maybe it's McCain.
I thought this last night because McCain, whenever he gets mad at me, says, hey, it's just an entertainer.
You can't take Limbaugh seriously.
Well, he's good at what he does, but he's just an entertainer.
And then, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Then this morning, Ed Rollins is in an interview with CBSNews.com and starts talking about the reporter says, so you got Rush Limbaugh calling your guy huckster, which I haven't.
I've called his supporters hucksters, but I can't call him a huckster.
And they asked Rollins, why do you think Limbaugh is being critical of your guy?
And Rollins said, well, you know, these guys in their studios, they never expected this.
They never saw this.
And so they had their candidates chosen.
I did see it.
I was the first to see it.
November the 8th on this program, I asked people, because I looked at polling trends, and I said, you people better start asking yourself a question, Republican side, what if Huckabee wins Iowa, all the way back at November 8th.
And now you got Rollins out there saying, I don't know what I'm talking about.
He didn't mention me by name, but when you say studios, and he was asked about me particularly, so I assume he was responding to me.
And that's what I was responding to today, along with repeating what was said by, it is allegedly somebody from the Huckabee Washington operation.
Yeah, well, I know that what was sad to me is that, you know, conservatives are out there bashing each other over the head.
And every now and then, some liberal would chime in on the board and mock the fact that, you know, we were all arguing amongst ourselves.
But I tried to keep it positive, even though I have my issues with Giuliani and Mitt Romney.
But I just told them, you know, that they needed to go because I am, like I said, I do plan on voting for Huckabee because I do believe he'll win the nomination.
Charles.
And wait, let me finish.
Okay.
I know there are those that attack him on his issue with taxes.
Okay.
Everybody knows.
And I'm not saying this guy is a Ronald Reagan, but Reagan had to raise taxes in his first term when he was the governor of California to balance the budget.
If you want to get on Huckabee about being soft on crime, talk to the 16 families of the many executed in the state of Arkansas.
You know, if you want to attack him for his foreign policy, Charles, that's what I want to tell you.
I didn't attack.
I do.
I did not.
So you're speaking generically.
I said in another, we've had a series of brilliant monologues this week, Charles.
And what I said was, this is what a campaign is all about, examining the ideas of these people.
I'm a conservative.
I'm not a 75% conservative.
I'm not a 95% conservative.
I'm a conservative.
And that's what I'm looking at these guys.
What I'm trying to find out about them.
And when they don't want to talk about certain things and use other firewalls as a means of having to avoid discussing these things, their red flags go up.
Now, you can tell your little guys on these Democrat blogs that you're sitting and go going back and forth.
The response of those people is, hey, the Republican Party is where real honest debate's going on these days, the debate of genuine ideas.
And there's nothing wrong with it.
That's what campaigns are all about.
Campaigns are not about conformity.
They're about ideas.
And that's where I head when I look at people, not personally.
I don't have not attacked anybody personally.
I've not attacked Huckabee.
I don't know him personally.
People do say he's an extremely nice guy.
My only real quarrel personally with Huckabee is he's for exercise, and I'm not.
But that's it.
And that's not a political issue.
But it's, you know, I don't want to repeat the monologue here in the first hour.
It took me 45 or about 45 minutes to go through this, and I don't want to do it again.
But it'll be on the website tonight when we update to reflect the contents of the program.
Buster, Chattanooga, Tennessee, you're next.
Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Thanks, Rush.
Mega Rocky Top Dittos.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, listen, it's an honor to talk to you.
I've been listening to you for, well, since I came back to the States, my parents were missionaries in Africa, and I came back in 92.
Oldest brother was listening to you there on WORD and Greengall and a long time ago and follow you quite a bit.
Hey, my comment is about this rush.
I'm a preacher.
I travel all over the states and conservative.
And up until Huckleby really came in the front, what I was hearing from 90% of the people were that we don't have any conservative that really is a true conservative.
On the issues, obviously, were abortion, gun rights, and the homosexual agenda.
And then Huckleby really jumps up and the whole mood has changed.
Almost like it's been revitalized.
We see, they see a light at the end of the tunnel.
And the comment I have to make, I agree with you 100%, 90% of the time.
And even more than that.
Just the fact that something negative has come out against your show, which I like.
I feel like you shouldn't be so condemning to Huckleby when it is against something about you being an entertainer, which we know you're not.
But I think you're merchandising on that to build your reputation.
Not that it needs to be built, but it has to be maintained.
And I think it would be more suitable, I think, for the Republicans and conservatives if we could just kind of support our guy.
I think it does more damage to the Republicans getting the nomination.
I think the Democrats like you slamming Huckleby because I think Huckleby is the most winnable candidate that the Republicans have.
Well, all right.
Let's I learned and I'm not going to try to talk you out of it.
I'm not going to argue with you about it because you're committed.
It's your life.
It's your decision-making process.
It's your vote.
And it's yours.
And I'm not here to argue with you about it.
All I'm doing is raising questions about what I think are not even anywhere near conservative aspects of Governor Huckabee's experience and his governance in Arkansas.
As to the fact that I am taking on Governor Huckabee here for my own marketing or ego, no, I guess what you mean is that I am doing this today to somehow show people that I have power.
And I want you to believe me.
I've said this countless times.
I may have power, but I'm harmless with it because I don't even, I don't walk in here every day thinking about that.
I really don't.
I walk in here every day.
I want to just be honest and tell people what I think.
And that's what I did today.
I'm glad you called.
Back in a second.
Okay, folks, let me tell you what's going on now.
And I sadly and unfortunately must make this point reacting to our last caller.
What we have going on here is identity politics in the, I think, in a large swath of support for Governor Huckabee.
Identity politics is what the left does.
Do you know what I mean when I say identity politics, Rachel?
Okay.
Identity politics is you vote for the Christian.
You vote for the black.
You vote for the woman.
This is traditionally how the left looks at people.
We as conservatives don't.
We don't see you, for example, in a political sense, see a woman first.
We might see a woman first because you're beautiful, but we're men and we can't help it.
But in a political sense, you know, we wouldn't say you don't qualify, you're not smart because you're a woman, and we wouldn't say you deserve anything special because you're a woman.
We wouldn't look at a black and say, oh, poor disadvantaged slavery heritage, presidential material, without knowing anything about the guy.
We wouldn't, if there was the first admittedly open gay running, we wouldn't, oh, terribly discriminated against, really have had no chance.
We're going to vote for the gay guy because it makes us feel better about ourselves.
That's identity politics or a little strain of it.
And that's what's happening in the Huckabee race.
The identity of Huckabee is Christian.
Southern Baptist minister.
And that identity is covering and is being translated by his supporters as meaning whatever they want it to mean, as opposed to actually looking at how he's governed.
Like the pastor who just called said, Huckabee is the light at the end of the tunnel.
Pastor, the light at the end of the tunnel is the oncoming train, and you can't get off the track.
That's the light at the end of the tunnel.
And I think this is, identity politics was a fundamental feature of the Perot campaign as well.
People really didn't even care what his policy.
He didn't even have to articulate policies.
Remember that?
I'd say, Larry, here's what we're going to do.
We're going to say we're going to get rid of all these 757s.
We're going to have a bunch of Lear 55s.
We've got smaller airplanes in it.
He cares so much.
You own this country.
You own it.
This is your country.
We're going to get this country back to you.
That's identity politics.
And this is traditionally not what conservatives and even Republicans, right-wingers, do.
We're a little bit more serious about it.
And this is also one of the things that I detect.
And of course, one of the things that makes me convinced I'm right about this is that Governor Huckabee is doing what he can to avoid discussing his record and his policy beliefs and is in fact relying on his identity to keep people on his side in his camp and perhaps even grow it.
And in one way, we have to say it's pretty smart because on the other side, his opponents, you've got admitted conservative flaws, admitted conservative flaws which do trouble the Christian right, which is a large part of the Republican base.
Either support for abortion or gay marriage, things that would be disruptive to the culture.
And many people are very, very concerned about the culture.
So in Huckabee, the identity is Christian.
That means 100% thoroughbred on social issues, cultural issues.
Yet, if you dig deep, you find that the policy on immigration, if you look at Huckabee in an identity sense, and yet at the same time, you really think illegal immigration is destroying this country, then your identity association with Huckabee as a Christian likely will make you overlook the fact that he's opposite your belief on illegal immigration.
Jimmy Carter was a Southern Baptist, and he ran on that.
He tried to capitalize on this.
He ran on the religious identity, too.
I will never laugh to you except when I see the giant rabbit attacking my canoe.
Okay, remember that.
Anyway, Joe, in Yorktown, Virginia, it's great to have you with us, sir, here on Open Line Friday on the EIB Network.
Mega Doodos, Rush.
I'd love to talk politics and my candidate, who I support, but on the Nintendo Wii, we've had one, and it's fun to be able to drive a golf ball 350 yards at double beach or something, for real.
I mean, I can hit a golf ball in a Wii farther than I ever could in real life when I was good about 30 years ago.
So this thing is interactive.
So you can grab your golf club, you play the golf game, and you actually swing the club, and the ball goes on the TV screen, you go hit the next shot, you do it.
Yeah, absolutely.
You have to change clubs depending on where you are.
You've got to play the wind conditions, the terrain of the golf course, the terrain of the green.
So your face is sitting already playing.
Look, this is all well and good.
And I understand what you're saying.
It really, really is.
And don't misunderstand this.
I understand that this game is genius.
And I can understand how people get lost for hours and hours playing this game.
But it's like these kids, 16, 17-year-old kids playing these games on Saturday night, and they're out there.
I'm sure there's a find a woman to date game, just like you're on your golf game.
I'd rather be on a real golf course.
And these 16, 17-year-old kids are trying to find cartoon character women to date on these games instead of being actually out there doing the real thing.
This is not a comment.
It's not a critical comment.
This is just an observation because I am a societal observer and critic.
I mean, I'd rather be out playing for real, but I can sit down for 30 minutes and play around.
Yeah, I understand that.
I'm not, look, this game, you can't get it.
Looks at me.
Somehow, I don't know.
I don't know.
I just went out and asked if it was there.
And in the midst of nobody else being there, I couldn't get it here where we live here.
Couldn't do that.
I had to travel.
Well, I didn't, but I had to authorize travel at other places.
Joe, thanks for the call.
Cindy in Cincinnati.
Welcome to Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Cindy?
Cindy.
Is she going?
Doesn't sound like a deadline to me.
Cindy, put her on hole.
We'll go back to her.
She probably had to go do something with one of the kids.
Is she back?
There you are.
Cindy, you're back.
Sorry about that.
Yeah.
Hi, I'm Cindy from Cincinnati.
How are you?
Fine.
Thank you very much.
Where were you when I was desperately trying to reach out to you?
My husband beat back into me.
I'm so sorry.
The reason I'm calling is I was wanting to comment on the preacher that was called in before.
I am a Christian conservative.
My husband is a Jewish conservative.
And we don't look at the issues that most of the right-wing Christian conservative people are doing, such as that preacher.
We can see the forest through the trees.
We know what we need to win this election.
And Huckabee is not going to be the one that's going to do it.
I would never vote for someone just because they have the same beliefs in abortion that I do.
They're not looking at the whole picture here.
And I feel like a lot of the Christian conservative people are not looking at it like I am.
Well, I think you're probably right.
That's why I did the mini brilliant monologue on identity politics.
Cindy, thanks much.
Have a Merry Christmas.
I got to take a brief time out here, folks, and we're coming right back.
I just got a note from famed white comedian Paul Shanklin.
And he said he got his two boys a Nintendo Wii.
He says he looks at it as an abstinence machine.
If they're preoccupied playing the Wii, he's not worried.
That's an understandable way of looking at it.
South Bend, Indiana.
Bob, welcome to Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Well, good afternoon.
What an honor.
Thank you.
You bet.
Merry Christian Christmas to you, Rod.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, I know you sit down and have breakfast every morning with the president, and I know you really got a lot of influence there.
Would you, well, yeah, you know what you do.
Would you ask him not to ask his press secretary, that new lady, not to accept any questions from the press where Iraq and the word Iraq and the word war are linked?
Actually, there is no war in Iraq.
There is a battle in Iraq.
And the whole world has associated those two words together.
And we've lost the Battle of the Twin Towers twice.
We lost the Battle of the Coal.
We've lost the Battle of the Embassies.
But we're in the process of winning the Battle of Iraq, and we're in a process of winning the battle in an Afghanistan.
And when you look at it that way, you know, we've been 25 years into this war, so we're going to be another 75 before it's over with.
I understand your point.
This is one theater in the overall wall.
Yes, but it drives me crazy.
I want to throw my TV brick at the TV.
Well, you know, it's a toughie.
I'm having brunch with the President in Crawford on Sunday on my way to Missouri.
And I'll mention this, but I think that it's so ingrained now that you're going to have a tough time.
I know it is.
But hey, with your broad influence in this show you got, you could do it.
I know you can.
I mean, it'd be easy for you.
Oh, yeah.
It's easy.
Yeah.
I was emailing Tom Brady back and forth earlier in the season.
I think it was 6-0.
And the quarterback, the Patriots, played golf with him out of the ATT now.
And then I sent him a note.
And I said, I was looking at the future schedule.
I said, okay, I went through all the teams I had left in the schedule.
And I said, okay, these guys, you own them.
No problem.
You own these guys.
These guys are going to give you a little bit of trouble.
You got the Steelers.
You own the Steelers.
You own the Dolphins.
The Dolphins in Miami could be a trap game, but now going through the whole thing.
And Brady said it.
He replied after I took him through his 16-0 season.
He wrote back and he said, Oh, well, you know, why don't you become a coach?
This is so easy.
I think I'll just phone it in and I'll go out to California and take some time off.
So easy.
Yeah, he was looking at his schedule saying, Mark that one off, mark that one.
Why we don't even have to play them, he said.
So that's why I reacted when you said it's easy for you.
Yeah, it's easy.
Well, I know I'm an untrained high-rank amateur, but hey, would you like to hear what's going to happen at the Republican convention?
Oh, sure.
What's going to tell me?
It's going to be deadlocked.
This is what I'm hoping for.
A deadlock convention.
And then they'll go ask Newt Ginrich to run.
And he's going to pick Condi Rice as his running mate.
And that would be my dream ticket.
Well, we'll keep that.
We'll put that prediction over there.
Another example of how easy this is: just predict a locked convention, a deadlock convention, and a draft Newt movement.
What?
Okay.
Oh, Snerdley wants to know if Dallas is going to recover.
Yes, yes, yes.
Look at Dallas had a bad game.
Terrell Owens was joking, he says, about Jessica Simpson being up there in that cute little pink cowboys jersey, the pink number nine.
I saw Romo couldn't keep his eye off of her, though.
Will the Giants make the playoffs?
Yeah, I think they'll make the playoffs.
But you know, Kevin Everett, the Buffalo Bill that was paralyzed in the opening game of the season?
They're going to bring him back Sunday.
He's going to be, he's walking now.
He's going to be at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, New York.
And the Bills, who are now out of it.
It's amazing.
Teams can get fired up to be spoilers.
And it might be rainy.
I think the weather is supposed to be somewhat inclement, but not snow.
It's, I don't know, you know, the Giants are a, like it's earlier where the Steelers are now.
And every game's a roll of dice.
You just don't know.
The Cowboys are going to recover.
They'll be fine.
Playing Carolina, it's Saturday night.
You don't lose to Carolina unless you're Seattle.
Anyway, we got to take a brief time out here, folks.
I want you to sit tight.
We're going to come back as we always do.
We closed the program, the last program before Christmas, with Mannheim Steamroller's Silent Night with some salient comments from me.
Brief time out now.
We'll come back with that after this.
All right, I needed to specify I am not having brunch with the president in Crawford on Saturday or any other time.
It is not scheduled.
I'm simply responding to the caller who theorized that I had breakfast with the president every morning.
Thanksgiving is one thing and it's great.
Christmas, I always get more thankful at Christmas for some reason.
It's the greatest holiday.
Family memories of it are just irreplaceable.
And I hear this song.
It makes me tear up when they get to the end of this thing and they get the crescendo, the strings, the synthesizers, whatever.
It's Mannheim Steamroller and Silent Night.
And I'm not going to talk over too much of it because it's a beautiful song.
I just want to once again tell all of you how much you mean to me and have been for 19 and a half years and many more as we can do.
And I hope you have the best of the holiday season.
I know a lot of people are going through tough times in terms of memories, lost loved ones.
Our family does the same thing.
But nostalgia tends to always remind us of the good times, the happy times.
And I hope that your memories can be happier than sadder and that you take time to reflect on what this time of year really means.
Thanks so much for being part of this program in my life.
You have enriched it.
Continue to do so.
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