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July 8, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 8, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
And it's time for another summer spectacular, ladies and gentlemen.
L. Rushball, the engines are revved.
And we are raring and ready to go for another three hours of excellence in broadcasting from here at the distinguished and prestigious Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Have you seen the oil price?
The oil price, no, let me do what is it?
136.51 right now.
It's been down as low as about 135.15 uh earlier today.
This is down something five or six bucks just today, and it's down ten dollars.
I think from its all-time high that it barely hit uh and briefly hit one hundred and forty-six dollars a barrel, and all these people were saying, yeah, 150 right around the corner.
Now they're sort of backtracking.
It is starting to inch back up from what uh it was doing earlier today, but it is a ten-point drop, and everybody's trying to figure out what what's causing this.
How does it happen?
I look at if you looked at I looked at commodity prices yesterday, every commodity was down yesterday.
Some of them 1%, some 4%.
I mean, soybeans were down yesterday.
The whole the whole commodity market was was uh was plummeting, but I mean it was it was dropping yesterday, and oil, the futures market speculators uh is they're on the commodities market.
It's tough to know if if this is permanent uh uh or if it's going to be sustained or if it's just a buying opportunity now that prices gone down ten bucks, more people move in and buy some contracts figuring it's gonna go higher.
You just don't know.
But I think you know, I don't I don't think it has to do with market fear of Congress yet.
Um and I I don't think it has anything to do with a more conciliatory tone uh uh toward or in Iran.
I think one of the things that's happening, and this is how the speculation market works, and this is a wild guess, of course, using a very advanced and fertile brain, such as fact there's a story in a stack today that the brain creates noise.
And the smarter and the more active the brain, the more noise.
And I figured the older that you get, the less noise the brain creates.
Now, you people know about my brain, it's one of the best.
And my brain does create no, I'm I'm not kidding.
I uh some people have said, well, Russia's tinnitus.
Some people pronounce it tinnitus, just like the ringing tones that you hear in your ears.
Since I went deaf, I have this all the time, but in my right ear, constantly.
I mean, I it it's been there since I lost my hearing, and I I just finally it's gets become so much a part of my existence I have to concentrate on hearing it, but it's there.
I really think I'm hearing Gregorian chance all day long, and it's crystal clear.
And I asked the ear doctors about it, I said a mind plays strange games, but it literally sounds like a high quality tape just looped in my brain as though I have normal, very good hearing.
It's a strangest thing.
I read this story today, now it explains it.
I have a great brain, great brains make a lot of noise.
Why it's Gregorian chance, I couldn't tell you.
Speaking of soundtracks, sometimes I do hear soundtracks from westerns.
I do.
In fact, let me give you an example of a soundtrack of a Western that I sometimes hear.
You remember the old blazing saddles tune?
Well, my my brain plays a different version of that.
All right, all right.
That is white comedian Paul Shanklin, ladies and gentlemen.
Of course, the takeoff on uh Blazing Saddles.
Theme song for the movie Blazing Saddles.
Towards the US In fact, you know there's a uh what was I gonna say something on the tip of my fertile brain, and now these Gregorian chants are so loud that I cannot remember what it was it was gonna say.
Oh, well, it'll um it'll it'll come to me.
Uh let's go back to the crude oil price, because this is uh something that that uh wanted to close the loop on this.
If the barrel price is coming down, and if there's a substantive market reason for it, there has to be, one of the things, you know, in India and and the Chicoms, a number of other companies, uh countries subsidize the cost of gasoline.
I think if the Chicom's case, India, I don't know remember the exact price, but you uh if if you're an Indian citizen, whereas gasoline might be costing what it is, three, four bucks a gallon, the government subsidizes it to the tune of eighty cents a gallon in uh a number of countries, and they're ending these subsidies.
And the ending of these subsidies is causing people to drive less because the price for them is sky.
I mean, you if in one day the price of a gallon of gas goes from eighty cents to four bucks or three of them, that's a major shock, and so people are cutting back.
That that could be one of the factors.
We'll keep a sharp eye on this as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears today and see if this is just a momentary little blip in uh in what is happening.
But it has relevance because yesterday, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, as you know, we had a couple of phone calls from two very nice women who expressed what something is becoming more and more frequent here, uh, somewhat to my distress,
expressing uh more and more dissatisfaction with the role that I am or the lack of a sufficient role that I am playing in saving America from both liberal politicians of both parties, that doing the radio program and reshaping the entire media landscape, destroying the media monopoly, causing the Democrats to want to shut me down, is not enough.
I need to be doing more.
I need to be going out there on television and she said, What can we do?
One woman said, Look, I'm a professional, my husband's a professional, we're doing quite well, but all these increased costs for food, gasoline, and so forth, we're now living paycheck to paycheck.
I'm scared what's going to happen if Obama's elected and so forth.
And I can confided to her that I have the same concerns.
I mean, we all look at liberals, and we think if they get the chance, they're going to take away everything that we have.
Uh, with increased taxes, restricted liberty, and so forth.
And then I I I came across something that that kind of little light turned off or on in my uh in my again large uh unique exceptional fertile brain about how to how to deal with this.
And it coincides, this little light that went off, coincided with the latest Rasmussen report poll that shows for the first time ever, congressional approval rating is now in single digits.
The U.S. population gives 9% approval rating to Congress.
The percentage of voters who uh give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen reports tracking he's war.
This month, just nine percent say Congress is doing a good or excellent job.
Most voters, 52% say Congress doing a horrible job, which ties the record uh in that in that dubious category.
Now, amidst all of this, with a 9% approval rating, an all-time low, the media template is still what?
That the Democrats are going to pick up all these seats in the House and are gonna pick up all these seats in the Senate.
It's a foregone conclusion.
Now, if people are this upset with Congress, and the president's numbers are higher, you know, this is a risky thing to try to analyze.
You have to ask how many Americans understand that Congress is now run by Democrats.
How many of them think that Congress is just an extension of the White House and are blaming it on Republicans?
Well, you don't know.
Uh blaming it, blaming it on Republicans.
But I think one of the keys here, uh, that it in every call I get, and every comment I get with people talking about this, whether it's here on the program or uh in my uh in my highly focused uh uh personal and private life, it's the gasoline price.
And a gasoline price is the root of everything because that affects the cost of food, the uh cost of leisure time activity, the cost of entertainment, and it's a gold mine.
It is simply a golden opportunity for the Republican Party here to really make some big hay.
I'll give you what I'm thinking about after I come back from a brief timeout.
In the meantime, the National Transportation Safety Board said yesterday that they are going to investigate what caused Obama's dinky little MD 80 to make an unexpected landing in St. Louis.
It was traveling from Chicago to Charlotte aboard Fort Marcy Airlines When the when the pilot's first officer announced that they were experiencing controllability issues with the pitch of the MD 80.
And so Fort Marcy Airlines had to put down at Lambert Field in St. Louis.
And we found out that one of the things that happened during the flight was that in the back of one of these dinky little old MD 80s is a r is a rear door underneath the fuselage, and it'll come down.
And you can put out a you can you can put the uh the exit slide, the emergency slide.
It deployed.
It deployed in flight, and of course that would uh at altitude and speed.
That would have a demonstrable effect on controllability issues.
And I don't know if the pilots knew that that was the case at the time.
Probably warning lights in the cockpit, even on an MD 80 would uh indicate that.
Well, that's what I was thinking.
See, I was thinking somebody like a B. D. Cooper or whatever, D.B. Cooper bailing out with all the money.
Uh maybe somebody bailed out from that door uh figuring they knew what was going to happen.
After all, it was Fort Marcy Airlines.
Oh God, there we go.
The Gregorian chance.
This is not the way they sound in my fertile mind, you guys.
I mean, this it's close.
I don't I look, I don't need to hear it live.
I'm hearing it, I'm hearing it in my brain anyway.
Thank you.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB net uh work and the uh excellence in broadcasting network.
You know, this this is so funny.
Uh last last Friday, the Palm Beach Post, they have a uh uh oh, guess what the Palm Beach Post today on their website on their editorial pages running one of their talkback features.
Is Rush Limbaugh worth it?
Is Rush worth whatever for $50 million a year is what they say.
And of course, this is designed to get hits, which we're going to do.
We're gonna generate hits for them.
And most of the responses when I checked it this morning were in my favor.
They had to post the negative responses four and five times each uh to what I'm not getting to balance it out.
But I mean you know, I was then the last Friday they they've got this gossip columnist down here named Jose Lambier, and Jose ran a piece that read something like this.
Rush Limbaugh, known for his intense or something dislike for illegal Mexican immigrants, nevertheless went to a Mexican restaurant.
Now, would somebody explain to me what what does opposing illegal immigrants from Mexico or anywhere have to do with going to a Mexican restaurant?
The New York Daily News picked up the blurb today.
It's funny.
I I'm sitting here, I'm laughing myself.
Rush Limbaugh, noted for opposing illegal immigrants to Mexico, nevertheless went to a Mexican restaurant with his gal pal, Catherine Rogers, and they quote what the bill was and the tip that I left.
And I'm thinking, you people at the Palm Beach Post that just like I told CNBC the other day, if you don't get your act together over there and start reporting on this stuff actually, I'm gonna buy your paper after I buy CNBC, and I'm gonna shut it down too.
And this is after I put in an offer on the Pittsburgh Steelers, who apparently are up for which is apparently up for sale here.
Well, it that's that's the wrong way to describe it, what's going on?
I happen to be privy to some of the inside details on that, but uh No, no, no, I'm not gonna talk about it.
I'm not gonna talk about it.
The Steelers, the people No, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna talk about it.
But anyway, the the comments on the Palm Beach Post uh editorial page website, the uh opinion it's Rush Limbaugh worth it.
I he should be in jail for violating drug laws, you know, this kind of stuff.
But most of them are very favorable.
And they they reflect a very uh enlightened understanding of markets.
What do you mean, worth it?
What do you mean, or did maybe they would use the word deserve?
I'm not sure.
I don't does Rush Limbaugh deserve 50 or is he worth it?
And of course, most of them say, hey, if somebody's willing to pay it, yeah.
At uh any rate, what wouldn't name up name a park.
Well, you know, speaking of that, Snerdley says they ought to name a park after me, Downley.
I am the most prominent person in this community, and and I am I am, I'm I'm you know, treated the way I am.
I'm used to it.
These are a bunch of commie libs at that newspaper.
They've just had to lay off uh 140 people, the Obama campaign staff.
Um here in in Palm Beach County just suffered major uh major layoffs.
But they're naming they're naming a little street after Larry King in Los Angeles on Thursday.
Yeah, they are.
Larry King's getting his own street.
It's a street that intersects Wilshire Boulevard somewhere out there with a CNN uh building or uh headquarters uh happens to be in uh in Los Angeles.
Well, I don't know, it's a little bit of a street, it's not an alley.
It's it's a it's uh they no no don't put trash cans on this street.
It's it's I think it's a full-fledged street.
I think it's this little corner.
Uh or it's a one-way street.
Yeah, I mean, I you gotta I'm glad they do this for people before they die.
You know, they do all this stuff for people after they have left us, and the uh the honoree never knows about it.
So good for good for Larry.
Have you heard about this?
Folks, I'm thinking, and I haven't finalized details.
We've been working on the operational plans all morning here at the EIB network, but it may be time to uh implement a phase two of Operation Chaos.
Donald Sutherland, who is the father, as you know, of Kiefer Sutherland, who stars in 24, posted something on what was it, uh I guess the Huffington Post.
And this this what he wrote.
The Democrat National Committee's Terry McAuliffe mindset ruined the campaigns of Al Gore, John Kerry, and Senator Clinton.
And now the legions of McAuliphites who have surrounded Barack Obama are doing their damnedest to undermine the possibility of his presidency.
So Donald Sutherland believed this goes on, I'll finish in a minute.
Donald Sutherland believes that Terry McAuliffe and his operatives have infiltrated the Obama campaign for the express purpose of sabotaging it.
There's a well-sourced rumor of Machiavellian proportions running around that what's going to happen is that his base support, Obama's, will be so demoralized they won't have the vital conviction they'll need this August to withstand a McCall of push to persuade disenchanted delegates on the floor of the convention to make a resurgent Hillary Clinton, the party's nominee.
His heart and soul is being gutted, Obama's, and ours with it.
Yesterday morning's news in the Washington Post is that he's revised his positions on abortion and troop withdrawal.
His supporters are being sent to hell in a handbasket, and it has to be stopped.
This is Donald Sutherland.
Sutherland believes that somebody's infiltrated the Obama campaign and has suggested he make these policy changes, and they are dooming him, and there's a this this this conspiracy theory is that Mrs. Clinton, through Mr. McCaulff, is gonna is gonna massage things out in Denver so that he doesn't get the nomination.
You couple this with Obama's plane Fort Marcy Airlines having to take a detour to St. Louis for a mechanical problem.
You get the left wing kooks out there who are just convinced as they can be that the Clintons are not out of the picture, that they're still mobilizing behind the scenes to take down Obama.
Believe me, they do believe this.
So a ripe opportunity here for Operation Chaos.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, it's phase two.
Still pondering how to milk this.
Uh and I I think I think one of the ways we do it is encourage the Donald Sutherlands of the world, uh, that they finally have learned the truth that we have always known about the Clintons, and we welcome them to this realization.
We praise them for understanding exactly who they're dealing with.
We forget and ignore how they were duped and looked the other way when the Clintons behaved just this way when they were in power in the 90s.
We welcome them to the fold.
We suggest to them that they continue this investigation because they are right, because something smells rotten here in Messiahville.
The Messiah changing all these positions, angering the very people who gave him the nomination.
And Terry McCaulff said to be behind all of this.
Then to add to the conspiracy, guess who the Fox News Channel just hired as a contributor?
Howard Wolfson.
Who is Howard Wolfson?
Howard Wolfson was Hillary's spokesman during the campaign.
Howard Wolfson now at the dreaded Fox News, and what he's saying about Fox is they're the fairest.
They're the balanced, most balanced, and they are the best.
So the Clintons infiltrating Fox, infiltrating the Obama campaign, Operation Chaos lives on.
Want to go back to an audio sunbite of Barack Obama on July 2nd, six days ago.
This is uh in Colorado Springs, he said the following to a meeting of the editorial board of the publication Military Times.
Now, before before I play this, Obama the other day, when in in talking about his reversal on the war in Iraq, said that what he would do is that he would call in his chief joints of staff, and he would tell them, he would give them instructions to end the war now.
Do you know how ignorant that is?
The joint chiefs of staff, ladies and gentlemen, are not connected to the operational timeline or the operational chart, the organization chart of military operations.
The read they are distinct and separate from their respective uh uh services.
The Air Force chief, the Army chief.
They they come in, they advise the president that they're not part of the command structure, the command structure, and they're not allowed to participate in the command structure so as to maintain independence neutrality.
And Obama doesn't even know this.
He's gonna bring the chief joints of staff in there, and he's gonna tell them to end the war as soon as he is really flailing on this now, trying to recover from his his attempt to tell people, you know, I'm gonna have to look at the situation there, we may not be able to get out as quickly as possible.
So with that in mind, his total lack of understanding of how the organizational structure works, from the chief joints of staff all the way down to military operations in the field.
Listen to this comment that he made to the editorial board of the Military Times.
Precisely because I have not served in uniform.
I am somebody who strongly believes that I have to earn the trust of the men and women in uniform.
I don't presume that from the day I'm sworn in, every single serviceman or woman suddenly says this guy knows what he's doing.
Why are we elected to the community?
I have to display those qualities of leadership in listening, in standing up for our military on some of the critical issues we've talked about.
Blown delivering on my promises.
So that relationships and trust are built, and so that people uh who are serving in armed forces feel like, you know what, this is a guy who's looking out for us, and he's not looking just to score some cheap political points.
It's exactly what this whole comment was was an attempt to score some cheap political points.
Precisely because I haven't served in uniform.
I'm somebody who strongly believes I have to earn the trust of men and women in union.
Do you know what they think of you now?
You've done your best to denigrate them.
You've joined forces with Harry Reid in the surrender aspect.
You own defeat.
You're a member of the party.
The party that owns defeat's presidential nominee.
You've done nothing but say this war is worthless and that you want to get everybody out of there.
And it was fought for an unjust cause for an unjust reason.
I have to earn the trust of men and sir, you don't have to earn their trust.
They are your employees.
When you are elected president of the United States, it is their trust of you that you must earn.
This is and he knows this.
And I guarantee you that he's not going to sit in there pandering to these guys if he's ever in the Oval Office, and the joint chiefs come in, he's going to be telling them what he wants after listening to what they say.
They are servants, they are employees.
This is this is just he just pandering here to uh to military times uh in order to try to soften his anti-military image that he has built up over all of these months of the presidential campaign.
By the way, a special message to this audience from the Messiah.
And that is white comedian Paul Shanklin.
Impersonating the Messiah.
That reminds me, people send me emails.
What do you what do you mean white comedian Paul Shanklin?
That's a dig at the drive-by media, ladies and gentlemen, as we go back in time to the uh period of time earlier this year when we were playing quite regularly Barack the Magic Negro.
We were written about quite critically, as you can imagine, the drive-by media for the predictable reasons.
And they did some research and they found out that the singer impersonating Sharpton was white comedian Paul Shanklin.
The drive by is referred to him as white comedian Paul Shanklins before they realized that the original Barack the Magic Negro column on which the column was based is written by a black guy in the uh in the LA Times.
So when I say white comedian Paul Shanklin I'm just jamming it right down the throats of the uh of the drive by media.
Dwayne in Newwaukey we're going to start with you on the phone today, sir, nice to have you here.
Hey how are you doing Rush?
Very well sir.
Thanks.
Hey I just wanted to make a comment about uh that Midwest Airlines plane that uh Obama was flying on the Uh Fort Marcy Fort Marcy Airlines sir.
Fort Marcy Lines there you go.
Did you know that that plane that the entire plane is first class big wolf all le all leather seating from front to back.
I know all about it.
It's Kimberly Clark's airline right got it you got it.
I know all about Midwest I have nothing against Kimberly Clark by the way they started out this airline because they used to use a couple of these airplanes to as their corporate craft to get their um executives inspecting toilet paper manufacturing plants around the current other other such things but I don't care.
I understand it's an MD eighty it a first class seat and an MD eighty is like a coach seat anywhere else.
Well it's a little bigger than that but it's not as big as a first class seat on a genuine wide buy.
We're talking here about a I mean this is a very narrow tube in this fuse log I know my aircraft sir.
Well good that's great.
I just think that it's kind of the fact that he's uh got an entire plane that's first class just says a lot about him.
I mean why isn't he out there renting a plane that's like you know anyone else who would rent it's got first class well now see there's a no no no you don't understand the Messiah he goes and gets one of these MD eighties with all first class seats so he doesn't have to take as many people with him.
He doesn't have as much occupancy.
He doesn't have to mess around with the media.
There you go.
That's right.
That's right.
That makes perfect sense.
Absolutely.
I usually do.
He hasn't earned the job.
He just hasn't earned the job.
I mean, I think, you know, just what you were saying earlier about the whole military thing.
You look at McCain, and he's, in my opinion, he's earned the job.
Barack Obama's done nothing to earn the job.
143 days in the Senate, and that makes him qualified.
143 days out there, Dwayne.
Yeah, well, what do you know?
143 days out there.
forty three days in the Senate 143 days I will keep up the good work it's a habit Dwayne thanks very much for the uh call this is uh Rafael Raphael well way to leave out the A. Uh Raf Raphael in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Hi Rafael nice to have you here.
Megadidos Rush Limbaugh thank you sir very much thank you you're worth it and I am so glad that you're I think you're not making enough but I'm so glad that you're making what you are because you improved my life and my family's life.
So thank you Rush Limbaugh and yes you're worth it I have purchased I can't tell you how many things from your advertisers and my wife is a happy woman because of it.
Well that's that's a new one the program promoting healthy marriages to boot why thank you for that.
That's an awesome thing for you to say thank you and I'm a disabled vet Rush and I just want to say one of the best things you've done for me and my family is I'm not a Democrat.
I'm teaching my children to be self-sufficient and to strive for the best.
And I've learned that from you because my dad didn't know that.
He did the best he could.
But you're like my dad, Rush.
And God bless you for everything.
Well, thank you.
All the hard work you put out there for us to teach us.
And I am a better American and a better father because of you, Rush Limbaugh.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
And, you know, you're a disabled vet.
You're a genuine American hero.
You know that.
You are.
are you have you have you've sacrificed a lot that a lot of people have not that you you um you you're just you you you're owed a debt of gratitude the American you and your buddies and uh both in uniform and out uh all these years you you're owed a tremendous amount to uh by the American people you really are I'm flattered and honored that you are in my audience.
Well it it's my honor Rush I've been listening I got out of the Navy in nineteen ninety two February ninety two that's when I started listening to you and I always wanted to ask of of the many things I That first year, I I believe you received an honorary honorary doctorate degree from a university in Hawaii.
Was that true?
Um I don't know that I if I had a degree, honorary or otherwise, it would be a big uh uh blow to my image.
Okay.
I I don't think I've got an honorary doctorate from someplace in Hawaii unless it's a golf course.
Uh okay.
Well I I just uh I am looking forward to your new advertisers, what whatever may be, because I know you and the guys that the crew there uh wouldn't recommend it unless it was uh the best.
And I uh one of the first things I purchased, my wife was uh we're gonna celebrate uh first son uh 11th year birthday, and one of the first things I purchased when she got pregnant was uh a bed, select comfort bed, and we ha still have and it just made her pregnant.
Wait a minute out there, Ralph.
I want to make I want to say you got to bed after she became pregnant.
Yes.
Just a couple uh few uh a few months after we found out she was pregnant, because I wanted her to have uh it was a uh first baby.
I wanted her to everything to be well.
Well, that is just that is fabulous.
I had to that's great thinking, too, on your part.
Very thoughtful of you.
I appreciate it.
Rafael, I'm honored to have you in the audience, sir.
I have to run because of time constraints, but I'm glad you called.
God bless you and the crew there.
Thank you.
Same to you.
Uh do we have to take a brief time out here, folks?
There's much more straight in.
We haven't even scratched surface yet.
Sit tight.
I knew that.
I knew that.
I'm in charge here.
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
And what a great guy, Rafael.
Where was he where was he uh from, Mr. Snerdley?
Raphael, the last caller that Charlotte, North Carolina.
Charlotte, here's a guy.
Wife gets pregnant eleven years ago.
He goes out and buys a select comfort bed afterwards.
That's eleven years ago.
I sh uh how many years ago?
I should have asked him how many kids he's had since he bought the uh Select Comfort Bed.
I um I forgot that.
We've got we, in fact, we've got a brand new slogan for Select Comfort that we can incorporate in our next series of commercials.
Make your next rush baby on a select comfort bed while you set your own firmness.
The sleep number.
Anyway, would you I beg your indulgence here for another personal moment.
I had this buried later in the stack if I was going to get to it at all.
But I was uh going through some email very early this morning about 123 from the Rush 24-7 membership uh account.
And just, you know, like Raphael's call, this this email, they both just I mean, I they humble me like you cannot understand, and I'm may have difficulty expressing it.
Let me read this email.
It's from William Kucharski.
And I don't know where uh always in Colorado.
Dear Rush.
My father-in-law has had Alzheimer's for years now.
He's still somewhat coherent, but has lost control of many of his bodily functions, and he l no longer knows who his daughters are.
However, he was a big fan of yours for over a decade before he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
And last week, when Fox News reported your new contract deal, he suddenly blurted out, Well, good for Rush.
My mother-in-law, his primary caretaker, thought it was great, and let her know that her husband was still somewhere in there.
The human mind truly works in amazing ways, and I thought you'd enjoy knowing that deep in there you're still as important to him as you are to all of us.
Take care and Megadiddles from um I don't know, Louisville, Louis Vuitton, I should have pronounced it in Colorado, but this is from William Kacharsky.
And I read this, and I uh honest to goodness, I had I had my eyes are welling up here with tears, and I think some tears were streaming down the cheeks, because here I am.
I'm I'm it's at twelve thirty in the morning.
I'm in my office, I'm reading emails.
And you have to know, folks, that I I don't, you know, for all the bravado and stuff, I don't view myself as any different than any of you.
We're all in this together.
We're all Americans.
We all cherish the great things about this country that make it great, kept ourselves free, and you know that I've uh repeatedly said that the people who make the country work are you, not the elites and not famous people, uh not B list celebrities and this kind of thing, not the uh academics and so forth.
You you you're you're the people the anonymous backbone of America.
And when I get when I get an email like this or a phone call, such as the one I got from Raphael in Charlotte, North Carolina.
I really I don't I don't quite know how to uh react to it because I mean here I'm I envision this.
I envision a man with Alzheimer's and his family's around.
And this man has probably lived a very productive life.
He's had, I'm sure this guy and his family, like all of us, have had obstacle after obstacle after obstacle, which is what life presents us.
And they've overcome it.
And to get an email like this to suggest that in in this trying circumstance, that this man with ten years worth of Alzheimer's all of a sudden comes alive when my name is meant.
I can't describe it's not embarrassing.
I guess it's it's it humbles me a little bit.
And I'm thinking I just I knew I was gonna have trouble expressing this.
It's not I'm having trouble finding the words.
It's not the emotion, it's heavy, it's the words that I'm having trouble finding.
But I just I I've formed a vision of this family sitting out there, and I I guess it boils down to I I think people like this and you and Raphael are doing far more to preserve, defend, protect the country, than anybody in the media is, including me.
And when I am when I am treated to an email like this, it just it just humbles me.
So I wanted to thank Mr. Kacharski for the uh note, thank Raphael again for the uh for the phone call.
I just I appreciate it uh more than you know, and I wish I had a uh a better way of expressing it, but I gotta go now.
So folks, look at me.
One of the reasons we're all frustrated is some something that we know to be true.
This could be and should be a huge year, the year for Republicans.
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