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May 9, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 9, 2008, Friday, Hour #3
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We are back.
It's friday.
Let's live from the Southern Command in sunny south Florida.
It's open.
Live friday, one big exciting, busy broadcast hour to go to wrap up this week, ladies and gentlemen, and we will talk to you, El Quicko, on the phones.
The telephone number is 800-282-2882 and the email address El Rushbo at Eibnet.com.
We've been discussing global warming uh, a little bit this afternoon.
Let me continue with uh with a couple of stories that I have here.
This is from Livescience.com and it also is from a couple of days ago.
Antarctica has not warmed as much over the last century as climate models had originally predicted.
According to a new study, climate change's effects on Antarctica are of particular interest because of the substantial amount of water locked up in its ice sheets.
Should that water begin to melt, sea levels around the globe could rise and inundate low-lying coastal areas.
This still makes no sense to me because of the whole ice in a glass theory, but we'll leave that aside.
A new study detailed in the april 5th issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters marks the first time that researchers have been able to give a progress report on Antarctic climate model projections by comparing climate records to model simulations.
Information about Antarctica's harsh weather patterns has traditionally been limited, but temperature records from ice cores and ground weather stations have recently been constructed, giving scientists the missing information they needed.
They were missing information.
They're still forecasting all of this rot gut melting.
This is a really important exercise for these climate models, said the study leader, Andrew Monagan of the National Center FOR Atmospheric Research IN Boulder.
Monagan and his team found that, while climate models projected temperature increases of 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit, over the past 100 years, temperatures were observed to have risen by only four tenths of a degree a degree off.
This is showing us that over the past century, most of Antarctica has not undergone the fairly dramatic warming that has affected the rest of the globe.
Hasn't affected the rest of the globe either.
The gap between prediction and reality seemed to be caused by the models overestimating the amount of water vapor in the Antarctic atmosphere.
The cold air over the southernmost continent handles moisture differently than the atmosphere over warmer regions.
The one reason that the Antarctica climate hasn't warmed as much as other parts of the globe is the existence of the ozone hole overhead.
It alters wind patterns, creating a swirling belt of bottom line is.
They don't know what they're talking about.
Their models predict this.
This isn't happening uh, and now they've got to come out with the face-saving excuses.
Here's another one.
USA today, also from two days ago, You really have been meaning to swap out your light bulbs for those new ones, and you really and truly didn't mean to leave your computer on the whole vacation.
You did, in fact, hear all those Earth Day messages, and yeah, you know you're not doing enough.
You know it, and you feel guilty.
Join the crowd.
More people, primarily women, are feeling guiltier this year than they were last about their not-so-carbon-neutral habits.
So says the second annual Green Guilt Survey commissioned by the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation, a nonprofit that wants you to recycle batteries.
Well, we certainly have no bias here, do we?
A battery company that wants you to recycle batteries.
Meaning, throw them away so they can be remade, but buy new ones.
In 2007, some 20% of Americans surveyed said they were feeling green guilt.
This year, that number jumped slightly to 22%.
Men actually felt less guilty this year, and women were carrying the burden of guilt more, 22% up to 26%.
This proves again that men are smarter than women.
Did I just say that?
I did.
Let me take it back.
It proves that men are less emotional than women.
But guilt aside, more Americans said they're stepping up their actions to make their lives a bit greener.
What's the primary motivation for people to be a little greener?
The children.
Some 17% say they'd do more if they had a child.
I'll guarantee you, if I had a child, it wouldn't make one damn bit of difference what I think about this hoax.
And I'd be inculcating my kid not to believe any of this stuff in a whole host of ways.
But I wonder why more Americans are feeling green guilt.
What could be the source for this guilt, folks?
Who could be responsible for this?
People would not be walking around feeling guilty were somebody not telling them to.
Got to be a combination of Al Gore and the drive-by media working in concert here.
Global warming could help Greenland to independence.
A new national anthem may soon be needed.
Greenland has taken its first tentative steps towards becoming an independent state.
Anders Fogue Rasmussen, the Danish prime minister, traveled to Greenland, which had been part of Denmark, since 1721 to present a report that sets out the road to full sovereignty.
The plan, which has been drawn up by a committee of politicians from Denmark and Greenland, envisages the phasing out of subsidies from Copenhagen as the huge island makes increasing use of its rich mineral and oil resources under a thick layer of ice.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, what?
There's what there?
Rich mineral and oil resources under the ice?
How did that happen?
How did that happen?
Well, it used to be warm there.
So global warming here is going to lead to freedom.
Sovereignty.
Greenland breaks away from Denmark.
Wow.
Global warming, giver of freedom, ladies and gentlemen.
One other little item here.
I want to go back to the tobacco settlement.
It's all related.
This is all related to liberalism.
It's all related to big government.
It's all related to a bunch of socialist liberals who want to intrude every possible way into your freedom and your liberty.
Do you remember all these big-time tobacco settlements where the tort lawyers, some cases, got fees of a billion dollars, divvied them up?
Some lawyers ending up with $200 million in these cases.
What were we told?
The tobacco settlements, in other words, going out and fleecing big tobacco for killing all these people and lying about it with the product, nicotine and old ed.
That money was going to do what?
It was going to fund education.
It was going to fund health, healthcare seminars and education on not smoking and so forth from Columbus, Ohio.
This is from adage.com.
Ohio has dismantled a foundation that paid for a statewide anti-smoking campaign, prompting the advertising agency that handled the account to lay off 27 employees on May 5th.
Northlich, Cincinnati, has handled the creative and media efforts for the Ohio Tobacco Prevention Foundation since 2002.
It's a tragedy that such a successful program may not continue, said Northlich CEO Kathy Selker.
I can't begin to express the depth of the personal and professional commitments our people made when you know that 40% fewer teens smoke today than when we began the program, you know that we've made a true difference.
As job losses mount in Ohio, the legislators raided the foundation's coffers to find extra cash to fund a $1.5 billion economic stimulus package.
So, Ohio's in deep doo-doo budget-wise, they raid the Tobacco Settlement Foundation to fund an economic stimulus package which causes people at work at the foundation to get laid off.
Lawmakers took $230 million of the $270 million in the foundation's endowment.
The tobacco settlement gave this foundation $270 million.
The state of Ohio came along and took $230 million of it.
Just $40 million will be left to fund anti-smoking efforts in the state, and any efforts will now be controlled by the Ohio Department of Health.
State officials estimate that after meeting contractual obligations for 2008, less than $25 million will be available for anti-tobacco programs out of the $270 million.
What are we to make of this?
Well, I want to first talk to those of you out there who think, who are misguided.
We were talking about this yesterday.
We've been conditioned.
We've been told.
We have been warned.
We need to hate every great institution in this country.
We got to hate every big corporate interest.
We got to hate big oil.
We got to hate big tobacco.
We've got to hate big retail, big drug, big pharmaceutical, big everything, big food.
Hate them.
Big insurance.
They're trying to screw us.
Big medicine.
They're trying to shaft us.
And we're to love government.
That's who we can love.
Government is out to genuinely help us.
If you buy that notion, if you thought politicians had your best interest at heart, just check this story in Ohio.
To hell with the smoking settlement, to hell with the anti-smoking foundation.
Screw it.
Politicians in Ohio saw a pile of money and said, it's ours.
We're taking it.
And you people that work at the foundation, too bad, go get other jobs.
This happened in most states.
This is just the most recent state where this happened.
I don't have a figure at my disposal, but it wouldn't take more of an educated guess to assume that most of the money in all these tobacco settlements that were supposed to go to health care programs never made it there.
They were appropriated by state legislatures for their budget operations.
The big tobacco settlements was big.
I mean, some of these in Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, they were huge.
But you know all they were?
You know all the big tobacco settlements?
You know all that was?
It wasn't about your health, and it wasn't about anger at big tobacco for killing people with their profits.
It wasn't about that.
It was about government taking their profits.
It was about a bunch of lawyers and state governments working together, Connecticut, to take the profits of big tobacco.
And they succeeded in doing it with all these lawsuits, class action and otherwise, by demonizing the tobacco companies.
And they succeeded.
I mean, look at smoking smokers despised.
There's a visceral hatred for people who do this.
We ought to be giving these people medals.
These are the people paying for health care in this country.
The taxes they pay on tobacco products.
They are funding health care for your little Johnny.
Well, you're out there thinking that they're the worst scum on earth.
You ought to be thanking them.
They've been so demonized that it was fine.
They've been able to find juries that will allow governments to come in and just take the profits of a country, socializing the profits of corporations.
This thing in Ohio is an illustration of the point.
$270 million in the big tobacco settlement goes to this foundation to fund anti-smoking programs in Ohio.
Guess where the money has ended up?
State government.
Those were profits from big tobacco that the state of Ohio is appropriated.
The way this was achieved was to claim that the money would support anti-smoking efforts and keep little Johnny safe and keep little Sally safe.
And we'll do it for the children.
And we'll get rid of Joe Camel.
You put a dollar bill on the floor, and I guarantee the first person to pick it up is going to be some government official.
A bureaucrat, an elected official, a staff member, or something.
Mark my words.
Same thing is happening with global warming.
You are being conditioned into buying into a hoax.
They're making you feel guilty.
You assuage your guilt by changing light bulbs, unplugging your stupid sunbeam toaster, unplugging your cell phone charger, going out getting a bunch of new light bulbs and thinking you're mad.
All the while they're going to raise taxes on you.
By the way, one more thing here.
I know the engineer staff's going to go nuts because I'm going long in this segment, but bear with me for just a moment.
I'm sure, ladies and gentlemen, you have seen the results, maybe you haven't, of the massive conservative electoral victory in the UK.
A new mayor, Ken the Red Livingston, is gone.
This new mayor is a former, he's a performer.
He's a columnist.
He was a television guy.
New mayor.
The Conservatives got rid of the Tories.
They've got rid of the Labor Party and a majority.
This is looking bad for Gordon Brown.
You know what the reasons are?
You know what the reasons are?
Among the reasons are these.
They have seen tax increase after tax increase after tax increase in the UK to stop global warming.
And guess what?
They've been at this a long, lot longer than we have, and their tax increases and their incursions on freedom have been going on for a lot longer here.
And there haven't been any results.
After paying all these taxes, after giving up all this freedom, after driving around in a bunch of junk automobiles, the tax increases kept coming, and still the claims of global warming not being stopped kept coming.
And the people said, well, this is never going to end.
And all of our efforts aren't working.
Now, this dirty little thing called illegal immigration, they finally got fed up with that too.
Back with just the boost.
Okay, quick, Brian.
title this tune for me.
No clue, eh?
What about you, Snerdley?
It's not exactly your fresh air, Quicksilver Messenger Service.
Back in the 60s, it was early heavy metal, big environmental song, Three Dog Nights Out in the Country.
You remember that song?
Before the breathing air is gone.
1968, we're polluting people's minds.
Before the breathing air is gone, before the sun is just the bright spot in the night time.
See if you can find out in the country from the profit system there, Mike, for the next segment.
I'm in 1960.
I remember playing this stuff on the radio my second year in the business, and I never listened to lyrics and songs because that's not what attracts me to songs.
What attracts me is the melody and the instrumentation and production.
And I'm sitting there playing this stuff, and Lord, I had no clue.
I'm helping to pollute people's minds about global warming and environmental destruction.
We got, Pierre, go ahead and hit it.
We don't have a time to play the whole thing here before the break.
And I remember loving this song every time it came up in the music rotation.
I mean, I even cheat the rotation when the program director wasn't around and play it more frequently than I was allowed.
I hope we get enough of the lyric line in here before the commercial break, which is about a minute and 10 from here.
Three dog night.
Yeah, here we go.
I mean, I feel like apologizing to every person in every city I've ever lived where I played this song.
As I mean, I was a global warming actor, an environmental not, didn't even know it.
I actually love the song.
It's a good song.
The melody's fine.
There's the meditation.
Before we go back to the phones.
Okay, three dark night out in the country before the breathing air is gone.
Before the sun is a bright spot in the nighttime.
I'm playing all this stuff in my second, third years in radio, and I don't know what this is.
I'm not listening to it.
This just goes to show you, because I don't listen to lyric lines.
I never have listened to lyric lines.
And just goes to show you how long they have been trying to pollute the minds of the youth of America.
Marvin Gaye had a great, great song.
I love this song, What's Going On?
Pure anti-war.
At a time I was pro-victory in Vietnam.
Big anti-war time.
I played it all the time.
I loved it.
And I sing along with it with the lyrics were, but they didn't.
Lyrics and songs do not penetrate me.
Some have, but on top 40 level, it never happened.
So here's another one.
On the What's Going On album was a song called Mercy, Mercy Me.
And in the background, you had Detroit Lions players Lem Barney and Mel Farr doing the war hoops.
And this Mercy, Mercy, Me, this also is about the ecology and how we're destroying the planet.
Yeah, and I had no idea.
I mean, I loved Marvin Gaye.
Sexual Healing, what a song that was.
That's the kind of environmentalism I like.
Sexual healing.
That was a great song.
Mercy, Mercy, me.
All right, that's enough of it.
I just, I, I just, I just, when I, when I finally figured all this stuff out, I just, I felt, I felt so guilty because I'm, I'm helping to pollute, you know, young minds.
This stuff is influential of people who listen to lyrics.
Anyway, Matt and Jericho Vermont, we go back to the phones here.
You're next.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
I'm a big fan.
Not of your singing, but the other stuff.
Good.
Good.
Well, you know, give me some slack on that.
You know I'm dead.
Okay.
I had a question a little off topic.
After the Holocaust, we said never again.
In 1994, over 800,000 blacks were butchered to death in the Rwanda genocide, and the Clintons did nothing.
Now the Clintons walk back in the White House, and here's my question.
We should all be outraged, but where's the outrage of African-American leaders like Obama, Sharpton, Clyburn, even Reverend Wright?
The Clintons did nothing about the worst genocide in African history, and not a peep out of all those sermons, nothing.
Why do you think that is?
This is an excellent question.
Thank you.
It is an excellent question.
In the first place, you have to understand Clinton was busy at the time saving Haiti.
He sent Colin Powell down there, and we got rid of Jean-Bétrand, whatever.
Here's the real answer to this, because I get questions about other such confusing incidents as well.
And the answer is that liberals are liberals first.
And they are whatever else they are second.
Be they Jewish, be they black, be they feminists, they're liberals first.
So what did we have?
And the circumstances are Rwanda.
We had Bill Clinton in the White House.
Who was Bill Clinton?
Toni Morrison called him the first black president.
She since, by the way, retracted that.
She's for Obama now.
She retracted it.
She said, no, no, I didn't mean he's black.
I just, the way he was perceived guilty before any evidence was in, it's the same thing that happens to my brothers in the soul community.
And that's why he was the first black president.
But he was never a black guy like Obama.
She's sort of taking it back.
But back then, he was the first black president.
And he was, he surrounded himself with the Reverend Jackson and all these sort of people, but he was a liberal.
He's a Democrat president.
He was being besieged by Ken Starr, the sex fiend.
He's being besieged by me, responsible for Oklahoma City, he said, besieged by a number of enemies, and the liberals circled the wagons around him.
Now, I'm not trying to be flippant with you, Matt.
This is how this works.
The black population in this country held that they were outraged at Ronald Reagan over what was going on in South Africa with apartheid, but they're going to support a Democrat president.
They're going to circle the wagons, especially when he's under siege because of problems of his own making.
And Clinton squared it all when it was all over.
And after the genocide, he bit the lower lip and he apologized.
And he admitted that he could have done more.
And they melted.
Their hearts melted.
At least Bill Clinton took responsibility.
He was a big man.
At least Bill Clinton admitted a mistake.
And I'm not being flippant with this answer.
That is precisely how he was able to get away with it.
It's why today Obama doesn't bring it up.
It's why Sharpton, Jackson don't bring it up.
Liberals are liberals first wherever you find them.
Tina in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello.
Hey, 24-7 guiltless SUV ditto.
Thanks much.
I appreciate that.
Okay, Rush.
Listen, I wanted to know what you thought about Dick Morris's comment that Hillary was going to, you know, battle it out for the next couple weeks, hitting on Barack Obama, and then, you know, let McCain get in there.
So, and she'll just, you know, tell the party line and let McCain and just in preparation for 12.
I have heard this theory advanced by Dick Morris and others that she now knows that it's over for 2008, and the next opportunity would be 2012.
The only thing standing in the way in 2012 would be Obama in the White House.
And therefore, Morris' theory is that Clinton will be the good soldier in public, but behind the scenes will be doing whatever she can to undermine Obama's general election campaign, setting the stage for it, because McCain, you know, he'll be 76.
If he wins the presidency, he'll be 76 in 2012.
And he's even mentioned the fact that he might be one-termer, which is why people are looking exceptionally closely at his vice presidential candidate.
You know, with the Clintons, you can't rule anything out, and especially that they don't quit and don't go away.
We think that this election will vanquish them.
We think that them being a lot of people make the assumption here that if she truly loses this and Obama's the guy, people, you don't, there are going to be people throwing parties in this country.
They're going to be so happy they think the Clintons are gone.
And it may be the case with Bill.
I don't know with Hillary and what her desires are going to be in 2012, but we'll be able to know here, Tina, because we will be able to tell who is undermining Obama during the general election.
We'll be able to find out if the Clinton's fingerprints are on it or not.
Okay.
We'll keep a sharp eye on that.
Thanks much for the call.
Some audio sound bites here from the roster before we have to close out today.
Al Sharpton, last night on television in New York, on New York News 1, the host Dominic Carter asked him the question, is Barack Obama the nominee?
There's no possible scenario that I see without the total destruction of the Democratic Party before Hillary Clinton become the nominee.
The worst thing in the world is when an entertainer doesn't know when the show is over, the audience is gone, the lights are down, you get ready to cut the bites off, but you're still on the stage singing.
It's over.
It's all right.
It's over.
Come sing another day.
But this show is over.
So Al Sharpton sending the signal that the show is over.
Hillary Clinton says, no, the show must go on.
Obama on the nightly news with Brian Williams last night.
Have you had any discussion about declaring that victory on the 20th after Kentucky and Oregon are decided?
That will be an important day.
If at that point we have the majority of pledged delegates, which is possible, then I think we can make a pretty strong claim that, you know, we've got the most runs and it's the ninth inning and we've won.
As I said at the top of the program, he doesn't want her out before them.
He wants her to stay in through West Virginia, Kentucky, because if she gets out, she's still going to win those.
If we're going to win both those states, it'll look very bad if he's losing those two states.
Is she not even on the ballot?
Well, she'll be on a ballot, but if she's not in the race because she is pulled out, that's a dirty little secret about the Obama campaign.
Bill Clinton yesterday on a campaign trail in West Virginia.
Before Indiana, Hillary's opponent said, well, she'll win Pennsylvania, and I'll win North Carolina, and Indiana will be the tiebreaker.
Then on election night, the story changed.
It was North Carolina's a tiebreaker.
Because in Indiana, she came roaring from behind in the first state that borders Illinois was outspent four to one, four to one, and won anyway because of people like you in places like this.
So don't let anybody tell you she can't win.
They want you to vote in low numbers so she doesn't get ahead in the popular vote.
If you vote in high numbers and your neighbors in Kentucky follow suit, we're going to roll through this thing.
We are going to roll through this thing.
So they're not listening to the Reverend Sharpton.
The president, the former president, then continued.
Don't believe all this stuff you read in the press.
She can still win this thing if you vote for her big enough.
They're going to have to resolve Michigan and Florida, and when they do, she can win the popular vote.
If you want to make absolutely sure we didn't go to all this trouble for nothing and we can win in November to turn this country around, she is your best choice.
She won't quit on you, so don't you quit on her.
I'm the only one allowed to quit on her.
Don't you do it.
Read what you want into this, but clearly they've got no intention of going away anytime soon, nor of creating the impression that they are going away anytime soon.
Now, the Brett girl, we haven't heard from the Brett girl in a while, but he's been back.
He was on the Today Show today with Matt Wauer.
And Matt Wauer said, now, Hillary is saying that Senator Obama's support among working, hardworking Americans, white Americans, is weakening again.
The whites in both states, Indiana, North Carolina, who hadn't completed college, were supporting her.
And that's raised some eyebrows because even though campaigns plot these things or chart these things behind the scenes, they don't often come out and say, whites are supporting me.
Did she make a mistake, Brett girl?
Is this just politics, old-style politics?
This is a battle.
It's a fight in both cases for their political future and for the future of the country.
And I think they're just in there fighting.
I think that's what she's doing.
But does that help the Democratic Party?
That comes the question.
Once this is resolved, and let's assume Brock is the nominee because they're certainly headed in that direction.
If Brock is the nominee, the question is, will we all be together and united in ensuring that all these voters that we're going to need in November come out and vote for Barack Obama?
Ooh, Brett Girl doesn't sound confident about the prospect of unity in the Democrat Party.
Then Matt Wauer said, okay, North Carolina primary was on Tuesday.
You had to go into a voting booth and make a choice.
I did.
Who'd you choose?
I voted, and I'm going to keep that between me and the polling booth.
Ooh, interesting.
The Brett girl wants nobody to know who he voted for.
A very simple reason why he's holding out for Attorney General in either administration.
He doesn't want to make any of them mad.
Then on Morning Joe Today on MSNBC, David Schuster said, there's been a lot of talk about how Hillary's campaigning.
Nobody here thinks that she necessarily ought to stop.
The argument becomes not so much about here's why I'm the most electable, becomes here's why this guy isn't electable.
Do you see any problem with that campaign?
I think that they've been in a tough fight, and it's hard to change, to move off of that.
You know, I think about when I made the decision to get out of the race, you know, and I was accumulating delegates, continuing to get, you know, votes and actually doing reasonably well.
But it became pretty clear to me that I was not going to be the nominee.
Yep.
And it also became pretty clear to you that your endorsement in North Carolina wouldn't matter because you couldn't even carry North Carolina as Kerry's vice president.
Want to go back to audio sombre number 10, ladies and gentlemen, because Bill Clinton is right about this.
It was on a campaign trail in West Virginia.
Before Indiana, Hillary's opponent said, well, she'll win Pennsylvania, and I'll win North Carolina, and Indiana will be the tiebreaker.
Then on election night, the story changed.
It was North Carolina's a tiebreaker.
Because in Indiana, she came roaring from behind.
That's exactly right, Voice.
They changed the scenario.
He's exactly right.
The Obama camp said, look, Indiana is going to be the tiebreaker.
That's why they got all fed up and started blaming me, Operation Chaos.
And now they've changed the scenario around.
And look at what this means is you've got Obama, strip it all the way, the guy's a constant whiner.
Don't know if I can handle four years of whining.
He's president Giselle in Houston.
Hi, Giselle.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Fine and dandy.
Thanks much.
I am a long-time listener, although I disagree with you 99% of the time.
But I like listening to you anyways.
Thank you.
Appreciate that.
We'll get you eventually.
Yeah, I'm one of those liberals.
I'm diseased.
I'm crazy.
I didn't say you're diseased.
You're just sick.
Oh, yeah, okay.
I want to talk to you about foreign aid.
Foreign aid, yes.
Yes, ma'am.
I know everything about you.
You need to know.
Okay, well, you guys, Republicans and conservatives, you're always claiming that Americans should be self-sufficient and successful on their own, not depend on the government, that welfare just rewards laziness and dependence, right?
Then you've proven.
Okay, then why is it okay for the U.S. to come and save the day whenever some country gets hit by an earthquake, a flood, some military political disaster?
Giselle, are you serious about this?
Yes, I am.
You give me.
All right.
If you're serious.
Stand by.
I'm going to answer the question.
Okay.
It's a far different thing to sit around and help some people who, through no fault of their own, have had their lives destroyed by a natural disaster than to throw money at perfectly good, able-bodied people to sit around and do nothing.
There is no comparison whatsoever in the two scenarios that you have presented to me.
How do you know there are perfectly good people who are sitting around doing nothing?
It's been proven.
Welfare reform has forced many of those into work in order to get a reduced amount of benefits.
Welfare reform is humanitarian.
It's the genuine compassion.
Welfare reform and getting able-bodied people into the workforce is the best way to encourage them in their self-esteem, to show them their true potential, to create a country with as many productive, peaceable people as possible.
Now, we have a lot of people in this country who, for whatever reason, can't work.
And we take care of them.
We're the most compassionate country on the face of the earth.
When our mortal enemies, the Iranians, had a devastating earthquake in the city of Qum, we sent aid.
We're good people.
We are the good guys.
And we want people around the world to be the best they can be.
But we don't want to pay them to be slothful when it's not necessary.
What a week this has been.
What a week.
We'll have the weekend here and can't wait to get started and revved up on Monday cleaning up the messes made by the drive-by media over the weekend.
Look forward to seeing you then.
Thanks for being with us today, folks.
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