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July 15, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #2

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	Yes, I know.
	In fact, it was one of the perhaps one of the most dead-on CI told-you saws that I've had in the last six months.
	It'd be hard to say it was one of the most dead-on CI Told You Sows in the last two years because there have been so many of them, but certainly in the last six months.
	No, no, I'm not going to mention it here, sure.
	Why do you think I'm bringing it up?
	Greetings, my friends, and little inside big-time broadcasting there.
	Rushlinbaugh of the EIB network behind the Golden EIB microphone for broadcast excellence as straight ahead, fastest three hours in media.
	Here, telephone number, if you want to join us, is 800-282-2882.
	The email address is lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
	Month ago, a month ago, I went on a riff about the lone remaining monopoly in the drive-by media, that being the Associated Press.
	And I pointed out how dangerous they are.
	They still have a monopoly in the sense that every newspaper in the country subscribes to their service and prints their BS.
	And yesterday, Politico.com ran a story about the new Washington or the editor bureaucrat chief, whatever it is, Washington Bureau Chief, I forget what title he has.
	Ron Fournier, the former White House reporter, has decided, and I don't know how long ago they decided this, but it probably coincides pretty much with my noticing it.
	But they decided that he decided from now on the AP is going to start putting opinion in the news.
	That people are just too stupid to figure out what the news is without an opinion being thrown in there.
	Honestly, this is what I had the story in the stack yesterday.
	I don't think I have it anywhere near here, but I'm summarizing it pretty closely.
	Ron Fournier said, yep, we're going to have to put news in there, and we're going to have to, I mean, put opinion in the news because what amazed me when I read this is that they didn't think they had been doing this for all of these years.
	But now the cat's out of the bag.
	And the bottom line is, ladies and gentlemen, I shouldn't say this publicly, but I know that you know me well enough that I can do this, and you will not misunderstand me.
	Ever since the news of my contract extension was announced, there is a mad dash on the part of many people in media to get into the opinion business.
	Because they're thinking, man, really, there's a boat that we're missing here, they're saying.
	You've got all of these television people now having their agents call radio stations trying to get radio talk shows.
	You now have AP suggesting that they're informing us they're going to start inserting opinion in their stories.
	At the same time this is happening, the LA Times gets rid of its editor.
	The Chicago Tribune gets rid of its editor.
	And do you know, by the way, can I make a comment?
	Both papers are owned by the Tribune Company.
	Both papers are owned by Sam Zell.
	Sam Zell is a broadcaster.
	Do you know who Sam Zell brought in to run his newspaper company?
	He brought in Randy Michaels.
	Now, who is Randy Michaels?
	You may not know who Randy Michael.
	Randy Michaels is one of the greatest creative radio guys in the history of radio.
	And Randy Michaels is now running newspapers.
	So the newspapers are being taken over by radio people.
	The newspaper people trying to get into radio.
	The newspaper people, AP are now going to try to get into opinion, which they have been doing all along, saying that their stories, there's just too much gray out there in the average news story.
	That the morons that read it can't understand it without an opinion in there.
	Now, what's two things stand out?
	I've always warned people: don't try this at home.
	I make this look easy.
	The great always make what they do look easy, but you shouldn't try it at home.
	Now, all these people are going to try to do opinion.
	What they don't understand is the reason their circulation is plummeting, the reason their ad revenue is plummeting, is precisely because they have been doing opinion disguises news, and it's opinion that a lot of people don't want.
	I would venture to say that most of their subscriber losses are coming from people who are conservative or simply sick and tired and being insulted every day with the same old narrative.
	I mean, we got what, four years of an Iraq war, and the story every day is the same.
	It parrots the Democrat Party line, whatever it is.
	It means I don't need the LA Times and Chicago Tribune for this.
	So, it is amazing what is happening here.
	A well-known, at least in the business, broadcast genius is now running the Tribune newspaper.
	Do you know how this has to grate on them?
	Oh, it grates every time Michaels or his underlings send a memo out there.
	They just gnash their teeth on this.
	So, Ron Fournier, running AP, said, Okay, we're going to stick opinion in our news stories now to help people out.
	People don't want that.
	When it comes to journalism, if somebody's going to say that they are a journalist or that their enterprise is journalism, people rightly have expectations that it's going to be informative, that it's going to be news, that it's not going to have opinion laced subtly or overtly throughout the piece.
	So, this is and then when you accuse these people of bias, they have a cow considered a huge insult, and then tell you again that you don't know enough about their business to comment on it for circling the closing the loop that you people and all of us are just idiots.
	Yet, have you, there's a there's a story out there, this this uh NBA ref Tem Donaghy apparently they have now discovered that he was he was betting on games and and perhaps was fixing games he called in order for his own men.
	Is that about right, Brian?
	Don't follow basketball that closely, but probably it was it was he was refereeing games that he had bet on and he was finagling calls and so forth to facilitate the outcome he chose.
	They found out that he's been talking to another ref during all this.
	There might be another ref involved.
	The commission, David Starn, said there aren't any refs involved before this latest news hit.
	But it's not the point.
	The point is that the AP is just livid over the fact that there might have been bias in the NBA, that the referees might have had, or at least one, might have had an interest in the outcome of the game.
	And they are offended as they can be.
	And they're talking about how the NBA and sports in general is now under severe scrutiny.
	And people are really questioning the fairness of it all, from steroids in baseball to who knows what's going on in football to the referees in basketball.
	And they need to look in the mirror.
	If they're going to get that outraged over bias in the NBA, how about do you think maybe your readers might get a little tired of your bias?
	You people in the drive-by media have chosen an outcome on every election I've been alive.
	And every election I've been alive, your chosen outcome has been the Democrat win.
	And you playing, you Put forth your business charter as being just as fair and just as uninterested in outcomes as do the referees at the NBA.
	So I find it just ironic and wonderful.
	They get so upset about a sports event that might be fixed.
	The outcome might have been decided other than by the competitors on the court.
	And yet this is the business that gave us Dan Rather and the phony Bill Burkitt documents trying to actually turn an election.
	And then they circled the wagons and gave him an award because he was being rightly criticized for this.
	Two more.
	Yes, Mr. Sternly, what's what's the ask ask me that?
	I didn't get it all.
	Ask me that question during the commercial break upcoming, the windfall profit break upcoming, and I'll answer it.
	I got two sound bites from President Bush in his press conference today that I want to play for giving a lesson to the drive-by media and the press corps acting today like a bunch of second graders.
	Unidentified reporters said, Mr. President, do you think the oil companies are investing capital to find more reserves with the price at $140 a barrel?
	Do you think that they're investing capital to find more reserves?
	That's their business.
	What a question.
	At $140, you bet they are.
	Here's the president's answer.
	Absolutely.
	Take an offshore exploration company.
	First of all, it costs a lot of money to buy the lease.
	They tie up capital.
	Secondly, it takes a lot of money to do the geophysics to determine what the structure may or may not look like.
	That ties up capital.
	Then they put the rig out there.
	Now, first of all, in a federal offshore lease, if you're not exploring within a set period of time, you lose your bonus.
	You lose the amount of money that you paid to get the lease in the first place.
	And once you explore, you know, your first exploratory, if you happen to find oil or gas, you will find yourself in a position where a lot of capital is tied up.
	And it becomes in your interest, your economic interest, to continue to explore so as to reduce the capital cost of the project on a per-barrel basis.
	And so I think they're exploring.
	He couldn't believe the question.
	Are they exploring?
	That would be like a reporter saying, Mr. President, Mr. President, with the price of gasoline, what it is, is General Motors still making automobiles.
	Next question.
	Well, that wasn't another question.
	The president just added this to it.
	The people say, what about the speculators?
	You know, I think you can't help but notice there's some volatility in price in the marketplace, which obviously there's some people buying and selling on a daily basis.
	On the other hand, the fundamentals are what's really driving the long-term price of oil, and that is demand for oil has increased, and supply has not kept up with it.
	And so part of our strategy in our country has got to be to say, okay, here are some suspected reserves, and that we ought to go after them in an environmentally friendly way.
	Oh, yeah, of course, go after them in an environmentally friendly way.
	I like what the Air Force does, what the Navy does.
	Just dump the gas.
	By the way, I got Mr. Hassara, Colonel Hassara, sent me another note last night about one of the funniest events that happened during the Balkans, the Kosovo-Balkans War, whatever.
	I've got to find that.
	I don't even try to paraphrase this.
	But the bottom line is that I think it was some country we had sold a bunch of FA-18 hornets to.
	And one of these flight crews on a bomb run.
	The bomb wouldn't drop off.
	It got hung.
	This happens now and then.
	And when the bomb hangs, you can't land with the bomb on the plane, so you've got to drop it somewhere.
	They try to find a target or they try to find something where there's nobody around.
	This crew decided they were going to fly out to the Adriatic Sea and drop it there.
	Well, everybody was listening on the there were 17 coalition Navy ships out there in the Adriatic Sea.
	There were 17 navies out there, ships from 17 different countries that were out there listening on the frequency, and they all said, No, you're not dropping that bomb in the Adrian.
	We're down here.
	So they directed the crew to a Navy frigate that was removed.
	They said, Look, don't make the frigate your target, but drop it around there somewhere.
	So they did, and they jiggled it off, and the bomb went down and it blew up.
	And the frigate guys got on the hoard and they started thanking the Hornet crew because gobs and gobs of dead fish had floated up to the surface and they had dinner for a week because of that bomb.
	And we're back.
	El Rushbo serving humanity.
	Nice to have you with us as I meet and surpass all of your expectations.
	Daily, this is Yvette in Minneapolis.
	I'm glad you waited.
	Yvette, you're next.
	Hi.
	Hi.
	You are my media.
	I just wanted to tell you that.
	And also, to express some concerns, for example, and your opinion on this, Osama bin Laden, a long time ago, said he was going to bankrupt our nation.
	And with all the chaos that's been going on with the oil and the housing and food and all these things, I'm trying very, very hard not to let those things bother me.
	Well, they're going to bother you.
	It's quite natural to be bothered by this stuff.
	Bin Laden did say he wanted to bankrupt America.
	This is before 9-11, I believe.
	And he hoped that 9-11 would do it.
	He hoped to take it down.
	The World Trade Center would do it.
	They had some other plans, too, that went awry.
	But Obama did, I think, also suggest that he hoped to be able to get the domestic or the worldwide oil price up to $144 a barrel, which it has been.
	It dropped about, oil price dropped like eight bucks instantly today, started creeping back up.
	But nevertheless, this stuff is happening in the United States right now, Yvette, is not happening because of Osama bin Laden.
	Well, I know that we're a strong nation, and I know that we have a strong president.
	And it's a very complicated thing.
	This is the problem with it.
	It's a very complicated thing.
	I read an analogy today that perhaps is a good illustration of what happens.
	Take a water supply for a city, for example.
	And let's say somebody very slowly but surely starts poisoning it.
	Not enough for it to be noticed anytime soon, but the poison continues to build up and build up and build up.
	And finally, a bunch of people start getting sick.
	That is what's happened here.
	The government, because of unbridled growth and tampering with free markets with things like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and all insuring mortgages and lending money to people or directing that money be lent to people who couldn't pay it back.
	What's happened is that the financial system has been poisoned.
	The problem is that just as when the water supply of the fictional city I was discussing had been poisoned, what people didn't do then was go, okay, who put the poison in here?
	What they did was blame the water.
	Right now, people are blaming our system rather than figuring out and understanding why the hell this happened.
	This happened because the government got involved.
	Government grows.
	Government knows no limits.
	Government knows no bounds.
	And we have been papering over credit problems for years and years and years and pretending that we didn't have them.
	We have been papering over debt problems for years and years and years, pretending that we didn't have them.
	And now all of a sudden, a lot of institutions that we thought were solid and had assets backing their worth don't.
	And we don't have the money in this country to put every American in a 3,000 square foot house.
	Can I say just one other thing with regard to this Casey letter?
	You know, that's also a situational thing.
	What's on her priority list, the woman who wrote that letter, may not be on my priority list or yours.
	So that was a moot point for him to bring that letter out, in my opinion.
	Yeah, he was trying to create a national crisis.
	Absolutely.
	And it shows the ineptness of our people out there.
	Well, yeah, the senator, you mean?
	I agree.
	What it also does is illustrate something else, that this woman, Tammy May, wants a senator to reprioritize everybody else's lives.
	I mean, if she were content to reprioritize her life, she wouldn't have bothered sending him the note.
	If she wanted to make food, number four on her, by the way, here's the, for the office of just joining us, Bob Casey, senator from Pennsylvania, before a Senate committee with the Fed chairman today, read a letter he got from a constituency.
	A constituent asking, a named Tammy Mae.
	She's a working mother with a single mother with two kids, and she wanted Casey to reprioritize things.
	House first, daycare second, gasoline third, food fourth.
	Note what's not on there.
	No climate change.
	No global warming.
	No health care.
	No Iraq war.
	If she wants to make food fourth on her priority list and her house first, see, this is the problem.
	Let's talk about her number one priority being the house.
	Maybe, just maybe, I don't know.
	But maybe she's one of these people that was allowed to borrow money that had no business being lent money because she never was going to be able to pay it back, particularly if it was an ARM and it happened to be adjusted upwards.
	We can't put everybody in a 3,000 square foot house in this country and pay their electricity and pay everything else.
	And yet the government has sought to make people think that's what the government's there for because people in government get elected.
	They want people's votes.
	So the financial system here has the analogy's flawed a little bit, but it's been poisoned.
	And right now we're not looking at who poisoned it.
	We're blaming the system.
	There's nothing wrong with the system.
	It's like campaign finance reform.
	McCain said, the system is corrupting us.
	We are good politicians, but it's no, the system is fine.
	People corrupt themselves.
	System doesn't reach out to corrupt anybody.
	We'll be back in just a second.
	Hey, quick question.
	Anybody miss the Clintons?
	Anybody missed the Clintons being around?
	We're back.
	800-282-2882.
	This is Kevin in Raleigh, North Carolina.
	Hi, Kevin.
	Nice to have you here.
	Hey, Rush, it's an honor to speak with you.
	Thank you, sir.
	Hey, I haven't heard you mention your new 3G iPhone.
	I was just curious if you'd received yours.
	Yes, I do have.
	As a powerful, influential member of the media, I do have a 3G iPhone.
	Well, I'm a 24-7 member, and I like to watch the DittoCam.
	And I know I have the old iPhone.
	I was just curious if the new one would allow me to log on and watch it live.
	No, not yet.
	The iPhone is not our fault.
	The iPhone does not have what's called flash video in it.
	The video has to be encoded in certain ways.
	YouTube makes some of their videos available for the iPhone and other smartphones that don't have Flash video, play live video.
	But not every YouTube video is encoded this way.
	I don't know enough about it to tell you what it is, but we do a live stream on the DittoCam.
	The file would be pretty big to code as a three-hour video or so, or even three one-hour videos every day.
	So until they get flash in, and I know the people that, you know, some of the third parties are working on trying to put flash in it, but the thing's only so big.
	There's only so much they can do in this thing and have the battery last.
	I mean, a 3G chip, have you got your 3G yet?
	No, no, I haven't.
	Well, it churns the battery.
	It churns the battery even faster because that's why they didn't put it in it first.
	You're going to have to charge it every day.
	And if you use it a lot, other than talk time, you'll get a lot of time, talk time out of it.
	But if you use a lot of data, downloading or browsing emails, websites and so forth, it'll churn the battery really quick.
	You can turn the 3G off and save it a little.
	It's no worse than anybody else's battery, and it's probably a little bit better, but it does, if you put all these things in there, battery will last half an hour.
	But they're working on that.
	This is still the second version of this.
	One thing I saw the other day about the iPhone, I just don't believe this.
	In the new software version, version 2.0, they don't have cut and paste in it.
	And they invented cut and paste for crying out loud.
	I mean, that was the first thing when you got a computer that you learned to do was cut and paste.
	And it clearly is applicable here in the iPhone.
	BlackBerries have it.
	So they talked to one of the chief executives of the iPhone division at Apple.
	It's not very high on our priority list.
	In putting together things for version 2.0, we got our priority list, and it wasn't very high.
	And I think I don't understand that.
	But maybe they just can't find a way to do it, but it's got to be at some point included.
	But other than that, it's cool.
	It's a nice upgrade.
	Well, Rush, I appreciate it.
	I just wanted to ask you about it, and thank you for all your due.
	It's an honor to speak with you.
	Thanks, Kevin.
	Thanks so much for the call.
	Nice to have you with us.
	Charlottesville, Virginia, next.
	And Natalie.
	Hey, Natalie, welcome to the program.
	Hi, Rush.
	I've been listening to you since I was 16 years old.
	I'm a lifelong Republican, and I have to call and disagree with you about your comments about the Bob Casey letter.
	Yeah.
	I thought they were rather insensitive and unsupportive of this woman.
	She is just trying to put a home over her children's head, and she doesn't want to relinquish her responsibilities on the mortgage, so she wants to pay that.
	And she needs to get the kids the daycare.
	She needs gas to get the daycare, you know, because the daycare and herself to work.
	So food is just going to naturally fall forth on her priority list.
	And, you know, I have to say that you're just falling into the liberals' hands on this.
	You're sounding like a liberal, I mean, a limousine conservative.
	You're just giving them more fodder to run with.
	It's saying, oh, those Republicans, they're so heartless and uncaring.
	No, no, no, Natalie.
	I can't believe in your heart you actually mean all that you just said because it isn't true.
	How is it not true?
	Well, in the first place, this woman was trying to tell a United States Senator that he ought to take charge and reprioritize everybody's life this way.
	I'm curious.
	I heard you talking to a previous caller about that.
	I'm curious, how exactly do you come to that?
	Because she wrote the letter.
	She's free to reprioritize her life however she wishes.
	What does Bob Casey have to do with it?
	How do we know that Bob Casey's got his life prioritized correctly?
	Well, that I'm quite sure he does.
	Would you rather see her not pay her mortgage and not be a responsible citizen and honor her dad?
	Well, what has that got to do with this?
	She doesn't say here she can't pay her mortgage.
	She says, I gather she says she can't buy food because she has to pay the mortgage.
	I don't know.
	But you misunderstood my point.
	I do think.
	How many kids do you have?
	Do you have any kids?
	I have three under five.
	You have three under five?
	Yes, I have three kids under five.
	All right.
	Now, I'm going to create a hypothetical for you.
	Okay.
	You have infants, and you've obviously got one very young.
	Yes.
	And you know when the infant wants to eat, it wants to eat, and that's all it knows.
	That's all it cares about.
	That's true.
	All right.
	And are you going to put that fourth on your priority list?
	Are you going to go out there and go talk to the savings and loan about your house?
	Well, Rush, not to be too explicit, but I just, you know, I'm nursing, so I just pop it on the boob.
	So he doesn't count.
	I have some.
	All right, all right, all right.
	But you're not okay, then let's move up to the four-year-old.
	Okay.
	The four-year-old, you don't pop on a boob anymore.
	No.
	So the four-year-old gets hungry and can tell you he's hungry, she, whatever, wants some milk, wants whatever, and you say, no, I have to make sure that the roof isn't leaking.
	You know, I have to say that we, you know, my husband is unemployed right now, so we have had to make some serious changes to how we handle our budget.
	And I have had to be a lot stricter about when they can eat and what they can eat.
	And I've had to cut back on maybe getting them certain snacks and certain foods that we would have gotten before.
	They're not serving or anything, but I'm not going to the food pantry yet.
	But, you know, I'm like a lot of other people right now.
	We're having to watch.
	But if the dollar keeps falling and gas costs keep going up, you know, something else is going to have to give.
	And if you see, in that scenario, as I listen to you describe your current circumstances, in that scenario, I would say that the number one priority for you, because it's affecting everything else outside of your husband's unemployment, is gasoline.
	The price of gasoline is affecting everything else that you're doing.
	It is affecting how much food you buy because food's more expensive.
	You have less income now, so you have to be choosy in what kind of food you buy.
	But the prices of food, the availability, and the ability to go get it, all related to the gasoline price.
	Are you in danger of losing your home?
	No.
	Of course, we're not.
	All right.
	So you do have concerns other than your house.
	But let me ask you this, getting back to Tammy Mae here in Pennsylvania.
	You have these concerns.
	Are you going to write a letter to Senator Webb and tell him of your circumstance and ask him to do something about it and ask him to read the letter to the chairman of the Federal Reserve?
	Now, Tammy Mae didn't do that, but she writes this letter.
	She obviously wants Senator Casey to come in and fix her life.
	I have to, I don't want Jim Webb or any other senator to fix my life or my husband or our family circumstances, but I would like to see some real action on the energy front, and I would like to see some real action on addressing the dollar value issues because that affects also what my food costs.
	Okay, well, let's talk about what kind of action that would be.
	Please don't misunderstand any tone.
	I'm not trying to grill you.
	I'm trying to walk through this with you.
	Okay.
	Because I want to understand what you think and what you believe.
	So you want somebody to do something about energy prices.
	Absolutely.
	Okay.
	What is it that you think the government or an individual in the government can do about it right now?
	Well, I think they need to open up drilling.
	All right.
	Good answer.
	Thank you.
	That away.
	You're not asking somebody to wave a magic wand.
	No.
	You're not asking to go after and really tarnish the speculators or bury the oil companies.
	No.
	Right.
	Okay, cool.
	Well, then you have a pretty good idea that one of the problems that we have in the rising price of crude oil is that representatives in our government are standing in the way of what you know needs to be done.
	Yes, they are.
	And I think we all need to rise up and start complaining to them every moment we get.
	Amen.
	So, closing the loop here, when I see Bob Casey read a letter from his constituent that spells out how she thinks everybody needs to have their priorities redone and wants him to do it, I think this is where we got into the problem in the first place.
	Every time government fails at something, people still go back to it and ask them to fix it.
	I think, Rush, that she wrote that letter because it does feel like our senators and our representatives are completely out of touch and they're only self-serving.
	They only want their own piece of the pie, Bob Casey included.
	Amen.
	Amen.
	And that's where I think more that's where her letter is coming from is that, you know, or at least my letter would be coming from.
	Look, you guys are only after your own highs here, and I would like to see some real action, not just serving their own silver platters.
	I totally understand.
	Now, you and I are discussing this Tammy Mae and her letter, and neither of us know the woman.
	That's right.
	And so we really don't know why she wrote it.
	We only can guess.
	You have a guess, I have a guess.
	My guess, your guess is based on you think you can relate to her emotionally.
	My guess is based on something that has nothing to do with emotion.
	Why the hell write the letter?
	If you want to change your priorities, just do it.
	If she writes the letter, and by the way, she says we have to reprioritize.
	Who is we?
	No, Tammy, you want to reprioritize, you go right ahead.
	But don't get Senator Casey involved in reprioritizing me.
	Oh, I agree with you there.
	She doesn't include we.
	Pardon?
	We is the key word there.
	She should exactly right.
	Anyway, Natalie, I'm glad you called.
	You're sweet to call.
	You're sweet to stay on the phone.
	What?
	By the way, am I still insensitive?
	No, you aren't.
	You were fine, Rush, and thank you for taking the time to answer my call.
	I appreciate it.
	I've waited a long time to talk to you.
	Well, my pleasure.
	Anytime you want a call back, feel free.
	Thank you.
	We're here.
	Thank you.
	You bet.
	Full service.
	Broadcast the Russian Block Program back after this.
	This is just, this is cute.
	Rockport, Missouri has an unusual crop.
	Wind turbines.
	The four wind turbines supply all the electricity to the 1,300 residents of Rockport, Missouri.
	Makes it the first community in the United States to operate solely on wind power.
	That's Jim Crawford, a natural resource engineer, University of Missouri Extension in Columbia, said that's something to be very proud of, especially in a rural area like this.
	But we're doing our part for the environment.
	And you go down.
	And the last, well, the third to last line.
	The turbines will also provide savings to rural electric companies and will provide electric services for at least 20 years, the lifetime of the turbines.
	Anybody who is currently using Rockport utilities can expect to increase, expect no increase in rates for the next 15 to 20 years.
	You want to bet?
	You people in Rockport, we own Rockport, by the way.
	Huge station there.
	You people, if you think that your rates aren't going to go up for 15 to 20, do this.
	I want somebody in Rockport, Missouri, tomorrow morning when you get up, turn on your toaster oven and turn on your dishwasher and see if the turbines still work.
	Excuse me, laughing at my own humor.
	You have to.
	You have to put the system to the test.
	Jerry in Lansing, Michigan, you're next on the EIB network.
	Hi.
	Hello, sir.
	How are you?
	Fine, sir.
	Thanks very much.
	Well, the reason I was telling was regarding this letter that was written to Senator Casey from Pennsylvania.
	Yes, Tammy Mae, the well-known by now, constituent, Tammy Mae.
	Right, right, right.
	Oh, and by the way, I don't miss the Clintons at all.
	Thank you.
	You're welcome.
	She's got her problem is she has confusion with her needs as opposed to her wants.
	She wants a house, I'm sure.
	We all do.
	But all you really need is a roof over your head.
	And so maybe she should look into downsizing.
	Well, we don't know.
	She might have a house.
	We simply do not have enough data here.
	You're right.
	If she doesn't have a house and is writing Senator Casey to get her one, we're in trouble.
	Absolutely.
	But we've been in trouble for a long, long time now.
	Yeah, and to put food fourth on your list, obviously that must be going down into the wants category as opposed to the needs category.
	And if she has that confused, she's not going to be around very much longer to write very many more letters.
	Well, this is an excellent point.
	Food is a necessity.
	Absolutely.
	It is a need.
	It's not a want.
	Yeah, and so I just, you know, for her, I would say you need to step up and accept the personal responsibility for your own wealth.
	Now, see, now you're being harsh.
	No, I'm not.
	Now you're being cold-hearted.
	No.
	And you're giving everybody the wrong idea about conservatives.
	When you tell her, this poor woman has got nothing left in life but to write her senator.
	You're telling her to step up.
	You're telling her to accept responsibility.
	You cold, cruel SOB.
	Don't you understand?
	You are feeding the fuel of fodder that the liberals always say about us.
	I can't believe you.
	Oh, I know.
	But, you know, it's like Sam Kinnison said, you know, half the people that are homeless in the country eat better out of the dumpsters in this country than half of the world does.
	Which is to a certain extent true.
	Yeah, but that was very harsh and insensitive, too.
	I'm sorry.
	But sometimes the truth hurts.
	You want another example of Sam Kinnison?
	This is hilarious.
	He's lampooning.
	Who is Sally Struthers?
	Would feed the children to go over to Africa and then surround herself with starving, genuinely starving little kids.
	Yeah.
	With the flies buzzing all around, and she's implugging the kids.
	Won't you help?
	You sorry.
	You sent some money.
	Pleading.
	And Sam Kinnis, we know you went over there with food.
	You're not going to starve.
	Give those kids your sandwich.
	Instead of asking everybody else.
	He had his great moment.
	Sam Kinnison did.
	And just real quick, I got one little quick dig in this morning on Barack Obama.
	We have a local sports talk radio show up here.
	And I call in last couple of days regarding the whole Brett Favre situation.
	And I've kind of been flip-flopping back and forth on it.
	And I started out my comment by saying, you know, I'm sorry to say, but I've been flip-flopping more than Barack Obama recently.
	On Brett Favre?
	Yeah.
	Whether he should come back or not?
	Well, just the whole way everything's kind of been handled and everything we're hearing.
	First, I thought, you know what?
	Let him go.
	Let him do what he wants to do.
	He's earned that right.
	But then again, he's got two years left on his contract.
	And why would you release a guy that's going to possibly go to the Vikings, excuse me, the Minnesota Vikings or the Bears and play the Packers twice a year and maybe beat them.
	The Packers are in a no-win here.
	Well, absolutely.
	And, you know, the best thing they can do is to say, hey, come on back.
	It's your job just like it was before.
	But gosh darn it, don't do this to us anymore.
	Well, you know, you can't play.
	If a guy wants to play, and they were, you know, they were one drive away from the Super Bowl last year.
	Yeah, and then he wants to play with him.
	What I don't understand is the viciousness of some fans.
	Stay away.
	Five.
	You can't do it.
	Why can't he do?
	If he wants to play and the Packers can make it accommodational, you know, find it in.
	It's a free country.
	Anyway, I would love to talk about this more, but we've got another timeout here, Windfall Profit timeout.
	Back with more after this, my friends.
	No, I did not hear Natalie call me a limousine conservative.
	What an insult.

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