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June 24, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 24, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #2
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And we're back, and we're great to have you with us.
It is great to have you with us.
We are happy to be with you, Rush Limbaugh from the EIB Southern Command.
And another excursion into Broadcast Excellence.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
And the email address is lrushbow at eibnet.com.
During the break, I went back and did a little research, folks, because the notion, I still can't get over this.
I can't get over the fact that this guy from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the Atlanta Urinal Constipation yesterday, I can't remember his name off the top of my head, but I'll find it.
Went out and said that, look, we're going to still be criticizing people here because Obama doesn't have any slave blood.
He's not authentic.
He's not black enough.
Ain't got no slave blood.
He said that Michelle Obama has slave blood, but Obama does not have slave blood himself.
And as such, the genuine civil rights movement, blacks, will not have a representative in the White House.
Therefore, the race industry can go on.
One of the bits of research, and I've vaguely remembered this, it is a Chicago Tribune story from March the 2nd of 2007.
Many people know that Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama's father was from Kenya and his mother from Kansas.
But an intriguing sliver of his family history has received almost no attention until now.
It appears that forebears of Obama's white mother owned slaves.
Remember this?
This according to genealogical research and census records.
The records, which had never been addressed publicly by Obama or his relatives, were first noted in an ancestry report compiled by William Adams Wright Weisner, who works at a Library of Congress and practices genealogy in his spare time.
The report on Wright Weisner's website carries a disclaimer that it is a first draft, one likely to be examined more closely if Obama is nominated.
Well, Obama has been nominated.
Has this been examined more closely?
Might the Southern Christian Leadership Conference look into this?
I mean, if Obama's white mother, white mother, if Obama's white mother from Kansas owned slaves, could it be said that Obama has slave blood?
Well, can I give you a name, Sally Hennings?
Hemmings.
I mean, we don't know what went on between Obama's relatives and the slaves.
We don't really know.
It could well be, it could not be, but he does have an ancestral relationship with slavery on his white mother's side.
Now, many of you have been sending via email questions since last hour's segment with our official Obama criticizer, Bo Snerdley.
One of the questions most frequently being asked is if the official Obama criticizer, Bo Snerdley, has any slave blood himself, because people think this might be a qualification in terms of your being black enough, officially black enough to criticize.
Let me just put the question to you.
Do you have slave blood flowing through your veins?
As I've said previously, I am certified black enough.
Yes, I have slave blood.
I also have Native American blood.
Indian blood for those in Rio Linda.
Yes, and I have Irish blood coursing through my veins as well.
So it shows up under the microscope.
All of them, different ones, they show up.
You've actually had your blood microscoped.
Yes, and they identified slave blood.
This was part of the process.
Yes, they identified the different segments.
True.
African blood that's there, slave blood there, Indian blood there.
is a separate slave blood hemoglobin that you can see in the microscope.
Yes.
They're chained differently.
Leave that alone.
I had no idea.
And the Irish, the Irish blood.
Oh, yes.
A little bit more red at the top.
So you've noticed all three of these in your...
Four of them.
There's the African blood.
African, well, that's not the same as the slave blood.
No, the slave blood happens when you came to America.
You got slave blood then.
Oh, I see.
Okay.
And as far as you know, Obama has none of this.
And what I understand, Obama has no slave blood.
He has African blood and he has Caucasian blood.
White cells, a lot more white cells in the blood for Obama.
The white blood.
Yeah, what do those look like in the microscope?
White.
That would make sense.
So you're saying the white blood cells in Obama would be the white blood from his mother.
That's what Joe Biden was trying to say when he said articulate.
It's code words.
That's Democrat code words.
Code word for what?
White blood cells?
That's what Joe Biden was saying.
Those are Democrat code words.
Articulate mean he didn't have slave talk, right?
Right.
So there's slave talk.
Okay, well, I appreciate this enlightenment.
Official Obama criticizer Bo Snerdley answering questions from the audience whether or not he has slave blood.
Now, I mentioned right before the end of the previous hour, I got this email from a guy.
His name is Ray Paddock, and he's a subscriber at rushlimbaugh.com.
Dear Rush, I hope you can help me here.
My girlfriend did me a favor and cleaned my house, which gave me pause.
How many of those types of girlfriends are there anymore?
Did he a favor, cleaned her house?
He then says, I had the latest issue of your newsletter and a few newspapers laying around my computer desk.
Well, you can guess what happened.
My girlfriend tossed everything out.
Is there any way to get another copy of or access it online?
I've saved every issue to date, and this one was going to provide an excellent teaching opportunity for my daughter, who's 27, who's buying the global warming and Obama pap.
Thanks, Ray Paddock.
Mike, Mike, doesn't want his girlfriend to clean his house in what?
Well, that's true.
That's true.
I'll get to that in a minute.
What I'm trying to figure out here is if the girlfriend threw out the limba letter on purpose in a fit of peak, in a fit of anger.
There's no way we can know without hearing from Mr. Paddock, and even he may not know.
Mr. Paddock, we'll see what we can do on a back issue.
You're making no promises because every one of these things is so popular.
You wouldn't believe how many.
I mean, I run some tests.
You know, I have the limba letter sent to me.
Standard post like you get yours.
You would not believe the number of times it's defaced.
Little pages ripped.
20 years.
It just is actually kind of funny.
In the meantime, Mr. Paddock, you don't want this happening again.
I mean, your girlfriend did you a favor and did what?
Threw away your research material, threw away your newspapers.
You need to solve this problem.
And what's the problem?
The problem is you think your girlfriend did you a favor by cleaning your apartment or your house or whatever.
You've got to prevent this from happening again.
And there's one way and only one way to get her to stop cleaning your house, and that is to marry her.
George Carlin passed away the other day in Santa Monica, California.
A lot of people think of George Carlin as a wacko-liberal satirist, controversialist, or what have you.
And he was, on occasion, he was, but he really skewered everything.
And when it comes to the environmental left, George Carlin was one of us.
I have some sound bites to illustrate this from Carlin appearances over the years.
Let me tell you about endangered species, all right?
Saving endangered species is just one more arrogant attempt by humans to control nature.
It's arrogant meddling.
It's what got us in trouble in the first place.
Doesn't anybody understand that?
Interfering with nature.
Over 90%, over way over, 90% of all the species that have ever lived on this planet, ever lived, are gone.
They're extinct.
We didn't kill them all.
They just disappeared.
That's what nature does.
We're so self-important.
So self-important.
Everybody's going to save something now.
Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.
And the greatest arrogance of all.
Save the planet.
What?
Yeah, he then can.
This is great stuff.
And of course, these are things the left ignores about George Carlin.
But listen to this next one.
I'm tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren't enough bicycle paths.
People trying to make the world safe for their volvos.
There is nothing wrong with the planet.
Nothing wrong with the planet.
The planet is fine.
The people are difference.
Difference.
The planet is fine.
Compared to the people, the planet is doing great.
It's been here four and a half billion years.
Do you ever think about the arithmetic?
Planet has been here four and a half billion years.
We've only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over 200 years.
Yes.
Does this not sound like things you have heard on this program?
200 years versus 4.5 billion.
And we have the conceit to think that somehow we're a threat, that somehow we're going to put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that's just a floating around the sun.
The planet has been through a lot worse than us.
Been through all kinds of things worse than us.
Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sunspots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles, hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages.
And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference.
The planet isn't going anywhere.
We are.
We're going away.
George Carlin, this was out of character for him for many of his monologues and his shows on HBO.
But I wanted you to hear these because they're dead right on the money.
And he even got some applause from his audience, which is also a healthy sign.
Now we move on to June 18th.
We're going back to last week.
Public access television show, Democracy Now, with host Amy Goodman.
Why are we even worrying about what's on a public access television show?
Cookie, you're working too hard.
She has to watch all of a public access television show.
You know, all this can mean is that the drive-bys are getting too predictable and they're nothing new there, so she's got to go to the outer reaches of the fringe.
Public access, television show where?
Public access.
Do you know what public access is?
You know what public access on cable?
It's like where Al Goldstein worked.
It's where Robin, what's her name, Bird, the nudist in New York, is where she had her channel, public access.
Remember Robin Bird?
Cookie's watching public access.
Amy Goodman?
Public access.
Anyway, they had Ralph Nader on, Ralph Nader on public access.
And she said to Ralph Nader, the meteorologists are talking extreme weather.
Those two words, but not global warming.
Yes, well, you know, the connection will be made more and more between extreme weather that's occurring all over the world, the increase in water vapor, the effect of that.
It's amazing how some people who doubt global warming, I guess like Rush Limbo, want to wait until the oceans overcome our literal landscapes.
And I don't know what more evidence they're going to require.
Water vapor?
More water vapor going up?
Think back to what you heard George Carlin say.
This is a classic example.
Here we have an arrogant, smug liberal or whatever Carl or Nader is these days thinking that the world began on the day he was born.
It's also distressing, not only, I mean, what am I doing on public access?
That is a tumble.
This is one of the reasons I like satellite.
There is no public access on satellite.
Here's James Hansen, this screwball who 20 years ago testified before Congress that we only had 20 years.
Now he's saying we've got 20 more, but this is our last chance.
This is the guy that wants to put the oil executives on trial for treason or high crimes or what such thing, which high crimes against humanity and nature.
And this still has me offended because nobody knows who the oil execs are.
Nobody knows their names.
How many times have you turned on the TV and seen a big oil exec out there saying anything about global warming?
They don't talk about it.
I do.
Anybody needs to be brought up on charges, high crimes, treason, or whatever against nature, it's me.
After 20 years of hard work to be ignored this way, the only solace is that it's some insane lunatic who has left me out of the mix.
Here he is at a hearing with the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and global warming, a portion of James Hansen's remarks.
These CEOs are the potential people, the captains of industry, who could solve the problem.
So I just want to draw attention to them.
So in my opinion, I say that if they don't change their tactics, that they're guilty of crimes against humanity and nature.
And they should be tried in one way or another.
Now, when I hear this, you know, you and I, of course, have the natural reaction.
We split a gut laughing.
But I wonder what these leftists out there and the ordinary Americans who buy into this, what do they think when they hear something?
I'm not talking about rabid leftists who would agree with this kind of deranged drivel.
Well, what about the average American who is really interested in whether or not global warming is happening or not?
You know, there are these people that pay a little attention and they'll watch the drive-bys and they'll hear these stories about the whales and the polar bears and so forth.
And their kids will see Gore's movie and they'll go home and go, mommy, mommy, mommy, we're killing the polar bears in a big wig.
Of course, parents don't want their kids unhappy, so they sign up.
But what about these people that just see one or two reports a week about global warming, and they're just a little concerned about it, but they don't really know for sure.
And then they hear something like this.
You know, I would love to be a fly on the wall in the average ordinary American's house who is concerned about it, but it's not a big issue.
What do they think when some wacko nutcase from NASA, who they don't know has been bought and paid for by George Soros, says that big oil executives need to be brought to trial for high crimes against nature?
I mean, this is extreme.
This is ludicrous.
This is insane.
This is stuff of satire.
And I just, I have this desire to understand how average Americans who pay scant attention react to this.
Do they scratch their heads?
Do they look at themselves and go, hmm, never looked at it that way?
Do they think this guy's a kook?
Because if they don't, if they don't pay enough attention, they can't have that much passion about it yet.
They're just paying a little attention here or there.
And face it, that's who these guys have to appeal to.
You know, the global warming issue is just like any other political issue.
It's got its passionate believers on both sides.
But the people in the middle of Great Unwashed, you know, who their lives are still focused on being first in the lineup blockbuster if they can afford to get there, hear this kind of stuff.
These are the people that have to be persuaded this is a big problem.
And I just wonder how they react to it.
I guess there's no way of knowing, but it's just one of these things that makes me curious.
In the meantime, to the phones, to Mooresville, Indiana.
This is Charlie.
Hello, sir.
Meghadittos, Rush, what an honor to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
You've taught me through the years how fun it really can be to irritate liberals.
Well, I think it's time to bring the Teamsters to the front of the headline.
They are mostly responsible for the price of this oil.
Teamsters.
Yes.
Teamsters are largely responsible for the price of oil.
Think it through.
Who through all the years has been the major contributor to the Democratic Party?
Well, other than Nixon, the Teamsters.
Organized labor and the Teamsters, correct.
And who would you say probably is going to lose their jobs once the products, the prices keep going up and up and up because the fuel costs are going up and up and up?
It's the Teamster members that are going to be laid off.
How ironic, huh?
Yeah, except that they've got the Teamsters pension fund, retirement fund, and a number of other things.
But I see what you're saying.
I meant that the Teamsters supported Nixon.
Not that Nixon was a Teamster.
I was just discussing the average American in terms of the reaction to the lunatic James Hanson of NASA.
The average American has actually been partially quantified or identified by a Harvard University study.
Harvard University found the average American walks about 900 miles a year.
Now, stop and think of that for a second.
365 days in a year, right?
365.
That means that over the average American walks over two miles a day.
I am not buying this.
Brian, do you walk two miles a day?
I mean, you do exercise regular.
You don't go to malls and walk around with your wife, and it adds up to two miles a day.
Two miles a day.
If this is true, somebody's walking my share.
I don't walk a mile a year.
And even that's by accident, if it happened.
No, I hate walking.
I despise it with a passion.
I have hated it from the moment I first learned how to do it.
Well, I do walk on the golf course when I have to, but even when you walk a golf course, you're walking anywhere from five to seven miles, depending on how long it is and how straight your shots are.
But that's it.
Let's see.
Okay, let's just assume it's true for the sake of this.
The average American walks about 900 miles a year.
Another study by the American Medical Association found that Americans drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year.
That would include wine, beer, distilled spirits, Listerine.
No, you wouldn't believe, mouthwash.
You wouldn't believe what people drink out there.
It has isopropyl.
So if the average American walks about 900 miles a year and consumes 22 gallons of alcohol a year, that means that on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon.
Which is not a bad thing.
I mean, if you're talking about efficiency and so forth, that's a damn good use of alcohol.
But I still don't believe it is 900 miles a year is the distance the average American walks.
Tim in Robbinsville, Minnesota.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
Yes, sir.
I wanted to comment real quick on that, you know, James Hansen's little harebrained idea.
I think it could be the absolute best thing to possibly happen.
It's obviously a defensive response to what's been happening to their claims.
I mean, if you look at what's going on over in Europe, they had a poll that just came out a couple weeks ago that showed something like two-thirds of the people in Europe do believe that, in fact, it's just hype, that the scientists are overstanding it.
They're not buying it.
And you know why?
Because they have been paying for it a lot longer than we have.
They've had their taxes raised.
They've had restrictions on the kind of cars they can drive.
They have incredibly high taxes on their petrol over there.
And yet, after all of this, the people who raise their taxes under the premise they're going to reverse global warming are still raising all these wild-ass claims about it, as though it's getting worse and worse and worse.
And these people are saying, wait a minute, we're paying all these taxes and we've made all these alterations in our lifestyle and it's not helping.
Screw you.
And that's going to come to the rest of the world at some point.
You're right.
Exactly.
Well, I mean, you've got Greenpeace is being sued in Spain.
John Coleman wants to get Al Gore in court to get him to debate.
This could be the opportunity to do that.
If they call him to the stand, he has no choice.
I'd love to see him up on the stand.
The earth has a fever.
Yeah.
What thermometer did you use?
And in what orifice did you insert the thermometer on the planet?
Exactly.
Hey, Rush, if I could, I'd like to ask you one last question.
Yeah, what would that be?
Okay, I've heard you, you had a young man on a little while ago, was, I believe, just graduating, and you wanted to give him a graduation gift.
And you asked him what he wanted.
Okay, I want to ask you, and I'll admit, at the moment, I couldn't possibly buy whatever it is you would want.
But I want to know, what do you want?
Every listener to your show owes you a debt that could never possibly be repaid.
But no, no, no, no.
I'm only 34.
I know living in this country at some point I will be successful enough to buy you something.
I want to know what it is you want, Rush.
Man, you know what?
This is an interesting question because it's like asking me to name my favorite movie.
I draw a blank on all that I've seen.
And I ask the people who asked me this to give me some time while I search my memory of the movies I have seen.
When people ask me, the first movie comes to my mind is The Graduate.
So I guess it's my favorite movie, but I don't really know because I'm forgetting things that I have also enjoyed.
What do I want?
I've got to think about that.
Nothing.
No, no, no.
Come on now.
You've got time.
Like I said, I'm by no means successful.
Okay, how about I want world peace?
You know, if I could possibly do that, I guarantee you I would.
I'm making it up.
I don't believe it's possible.
So I'm just trying to sound like a Miss America contestant.
Well, I tell you what, Rush, eventually you're going to slip.
You're going to say there's something out there that you don't have that you want.
And if at the time I've got the finances, it'll show up on your door unannounced.
You know, there is something I want that I don't have.
And I'm having a hell of a time with them, and that's Gardenia-scented candles.
But I don't mean little dinky ones.
I'm talking about giant ones.
But don't I'm in the process here of working that out.
Don't go messing around with Gardenia candles.
I have that handled.
I don't know if I feel manly enough to walk into a store to buy those anyway.
Let me tell you something.
A guy who is confident enough to tell you he loves Gardenia-scented candles is a guy who is robustly confident in his masculinity.
Oh, well.
Well, you know, Rush, I really mean it when I say that, though.
The listeners to your show in this country owe you a debt for what you do.
Now, now, now, now they don't.
It's a little over the top.
I appreciate it.
I know you've admitted you don't do very well at accepting compliments, but it's something that to do.
All right.
And I appreciate you taking my call, Rush.
You bet.
Thanks.
What do you think I want?
I mean, if you're going to ask me this question, you've obviously got something in mind.
You know, actually, I don't.
I've listened to you for about two years now.
I was actually prompted by a liberal to start listening to you.
I was always being accused of being influenced, having never listened to you, so I started listening.
And I owe the liberals, I guess, a debt of gratitude for pointing me in your direction.
But I don't know you well enough to know what there would be that would put a smile on your face.
Well, I have a smile on my face most of the time.
I've been really blessed.
I have a charmed life here.
I've been blessed with being able to do what I've always wanted to do and to do it pretty well.
That's how I've always defined success.
People have friends who get together when you're young and you start discussing success and what would it be and how do you define it.
And it's interesting to have these discussions with people because when you're young, you tend to attach financial aspects to success.
And in those discussions, it was always fascinating to me to ask people in their 20s, what do you think big money is?
If you were going to go out and earn big money this year, what would it be?
And it was fascinating.
There was no wrong answer to it.
It was just fascinating to me to listen to what people thought was big money.
And it was always, you can calculate it, always was a percentage above what they already earned.
It was a specific figure as I did my calculations.
But when we're talking about success, it took me a while to finally understand it, being fired a bunch of times and so forth.
But success to me manifested itself some years ago in something, very simple proposition.
Doing what I have loved to do, I say born to do, that's nothing more than doing what you love.
Finding your passion, and then doing it well.
That's success, and there's no monetary attachment to it.
If you find what it is you love to do and you do it, and you do it well, all those other things fall into place.
The people who define success financially and pursue it on that basis, they might get the money, but they're not going to be happy on, well, odds are they won't because the focus on money will mean you never have enough.
The focus on money means you're always going to be judging and comparing yourself on money based on somebody's always going to have more than you do, and so you're always going to find yourself coming up second or third or way down the list.
So success is a, you know, it's not that it's not that hard a thing.
The most difficult, difficult thing about success is identifying what your real passion is and then finding a way to get people to pay you for it.
Most people's real passions, Brian, you could testify to this.
Most people's real passions are their hobbies.
Seeing people that really have hobbies, all the time they spend on those hobbies, the minute they get out of work, they start focusing on whatever the hobby is.
And if they could figure out a way to get paid for doing their hobby, and this is the one country where you can do that, where you can figure out a way, you can create your own job, you can create your own service, you can create your own product.
Speaking of Gardenia candles, since this whole conversation yesterday that I had with the customer representative at Joe Malone named Beth, who, by the way, she sent me another note yesterday afternoon, right after the program, I am the most requested woman at Joe Malone.
I am just being, and she said, I mean, we're almost shut down here with requests for candles.
And they're all from men, Mr. Limboy.
You tell your audience that it's all men calling here wanting Gardenia candles.
So I spent some time yesterday afternoon doing a little bit more extensive internet search on candles.
My original search, which I didn't spend a lot of time on, was large Gardenia candles.
And it turned up some things, but nothing that lit my fire.
So I decided to expand the search.
And as I did that, you would not believe the number of little entrepreneurs all over this country who have started candle businesses because they loved candles when they were a kid and they wondered how they were made.
There's this one place called Giant Candle Company.
I don't even know where it is because their website doesn't tell you where they are.
But custom-made, you can choose your size.
You can choose your scent.
You can choose your color.
It's amazing.
And there were other little places too that were engaging in this kind of thing.
And I'm reminded of this only because here are people who, for whatever reason, not only did they love having candles, they were fascinated about how they were made, how they were scented, why they were made in certain shapes, why people didn't make them bigger or smaller.
So they've done it.
And this is the, I don't know how well they're doing, but they love it.
You can read when they give you their history of how they came to be existence on their website.
You can see they're just following a passion.
And they're in the process of fulfilling a dream here, and then they become successful.
And they're in the process of doing what they love, and that drives them.
And, you know, they may not have large advertising budgets, so we've taken care of a couple of them here who may have that problem.
See how it works out.
Entrepreneurs find entrepreneurs.
Anyway, I appreciate that.
That was Tim.
That was it.
Tim, what do I want?
I don't.
People aren't going to.
I don't think about what I want.
I just buy it.
We had to call at the bottom of the hour the guy who said that one of the major culprits involved in the rising oil price and gasoline price, diesel price, Teamsters unions.
What was his reason, Snerdley?
What did he say was the support Democrats and Democrats have got in the way of, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, it really, I mentioned a long time ago that if jet fuel, if it ever got to $10 a gallon, folks, it would destroy the aviation industry.
It would literally change it forever.
$10 a gallon, they don't have enough ways to surcharge you to be able to continue to fly.
And it's not there at $10 a gallon yet, but it's on the way.
Look at this.
The latte effect of the go-go years had Americans spending $4 a day on coffee.
Now the downturn is forcing them to rethink the wisdom of such habits.
The price of gas, milk, eggs, everything you can't control is going up, so you need to watch the things you can control, said Michelle Hovis, a 31-year-old stay-at-home mom from Iron Station, North Carolina.
So what does this mean?
Starbucks is next to get hit?
People aren't going to pay $4 for a latte?
They are getting it.
Yeah, but they were getting hit before the price went up.
They were going through one of their cycles of people weren't innovating enough when the ex-founder, CEO stepped back in and was going to fix it.
And, you know, Otto Steve jobs didn't quite work out.
But anyway, four bucks for a latte down at Tubes.
We had this story yesterday about the kids in Montgomery County outside Washington, D.C., because the price of diesel, the school district, next fall when school starts up, kids are going to have to walk longer distances if they use fewer school buses to transport them around.
Washington Post today, consumer pain goes beyond the pump.
This is about how pizza delivery outfits are charging you now to bring the pie to your pad.
Dominoes, Pizza Hut, whoever else the hell delivers out there.
What's the other company they mention in this story?
Pizza Hut, Domino's, Papa John's all charging to bring the pie to your pad.
In some cases, $10.
And this is $10 to bring the pizza to your pad.
I mean, these are, you know, $10 here, $10 there.
These are fundamental shock changes in the way people have been accustomed to living their lives.
Buy-buy $4 latte.
I mean, a latte as much as a gallon of gasoline.
The value just isn't there.
What do you do with the latte but drink it and later on you eliminate it?
Where does it get you?
To the bathroom.
Not too many good miles out of the cup of latte.
Gasoline is a far different thing.
Now look at what's happened to United Airlines.
United Airlines is eliminating 950 pilots as part of its overall cutback strategy that includes grounding a lot of gas-guzzling jets.
The airline plans to eliminate 950 pilots in addition to earlier cutbacks among management ranks.
The cuts represent about 12% of the total number of pilots employed by United.
Here you go.
This is a direct result of the creeping upward price of Jet A, jet fuel which comes from oil, ladies and gentlemen.
Now they asked Obama what he thought about this.
And Obama said, you know, I just would have liked to have seen the firings to have occurred more gradually.
They went out, they asked Michelle Obama about 950 pilots being fired or eliminated from United Airlines.
She said, for the first time in my life, I am proud of United Airlines.
Here is Cameron in San Antonio, Texas.
Cameron, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Turn the radio down out there, Cameron.
Actually, I don't mind.
I get to hear myself.
I never get to hear myself.
You do, but I never do.
Cameron, are you there?
Not too many good miles out of the cup of latte.
Now look at what's happening to United Airlines.
What are we on the 40-second delay today?
We must be because I'm still talking about Latte.
Over the time he gets there, by the time he realizes we're trying to get to him, it's going to be time to go to commercial break.
Let's see what happens here.
Cameron?
Cameron, Cameron.
Cameron, baby.
Nice, nice talking to you, but we've been trying to get you for 40 seconds.
You're listening to a 40-second delay, and I have to go to commercial.
Fastest three hours with media, man.
We're zipping through here today.
Already two of them in the can.
On the way over to the secret location housing artifacts of the future Limbaugh Broadcast Museum.
But we'll be back.
Lots more straight ahead.
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