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There has to be a back backlash, folks, on this media coverage of the Messiah.
There just has to be a backlash against the drive-by media.
It is I tell I was telling Snerdley in our in our kitchen back there, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lenin, Stalin never got this kind of coverage from their media.
And they owned it.
And they dictated to it.
I mean, this is amazing that McCain gets off the plane in New Hampshire yesterday with one reporter and one cameraman.
And the drive-by's are all now, you know, they talk about themselves all the time, and now they're they're they're defending this and they're analyzing this.
Uh at David Rodham Gurgen at CNN says, you know, Obama made a big, big mistake.
There's only one president at a time, and he's out there negotiating with Molliki and all these other foreign leaders as though he's the president.
Now it's a mistake if uh if if Obama pays for it, I don't know how he's gonna pay for it.
But I'll tell you that we we got we got countless examples of it.
And the Messiah did a presser today in uh in Amon Jordan, and the media is all upset because they uh they chose an outdoor site for the presser.
And the media had to sit there and sweat, waiting for Obama and then conducting the press conference.
I watched the press conference and I heard the answers.
I heard the answers.
I didn't hear too many questions.
I mean, the questions were asked, but I don't know what the questions were.
I mean, they didn't have microphones, and then a couple of reporters got got to a microphone.
You could hear their questions, but I mean, I got Obama's answers.
I don't know what he was answering, though.
But I'll tell you one thing I noticed he was that he was stuttering like Ed Koch.
I told Cookie, put together a montage of this.
Remember, uh, and I believe uh it was it was bad, folks.
Hey, was stumbling all over he actually said um uh Israel is uh I don't have it right in front of me.
But we've got we've got the sound bite.
We'll we'll get to all that in due course, but first there's some uh some uh some personal things need to get out of the way here.
Uh ladies and gentlemen, yesterday the official climatologist of the EIB network, Dr. Roy Spencer, a brilliant independent uh climatologist and scientist, former NASA's now at uh University of uh Alabama in Huntsville, testified before Senator Boxer's committee on climate change research, and they had the following exchange.
In conclusion, I am predicting today that the theory that mankind is mostly responsible for global warming will slowly fade away in the coming years, as will the warming itself.
And I trust you would agree, madam chair, that such a result deserves to be greeted with relief.
That concludes my testimony, and I'd be willing to answer any questions.
Okay.
I also want to point out that on your own blog, you said you never were told you couldn't speak about your scientific views.
And lastly, I guess it's a certain congratulations.
Rush Limbaugh referred to you as the official climatologist of the Rush Limbaugh Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Yeah, that's a tongue-in-cheek reference.
Right.
But I just wanted to point that out for people to understand.
I just want to make sure everybody knows what's really happening.
Oh my god.
Oh, poor Dr. Spencer.
Poor Dr. Spencer Barbara Boxer attempts to disqualify his expertise by linking him to this program.
Yes.
I just want everybody to know what's really happening.
What's really happening?
What did I write his testimony?
Did I write his opening remote?
What happened, Senator?
I think I'm gonna make Barbara Boxer the official clown of the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Can you believe that?
Where I just, folks, I can't tell you how much I wish my mom and dad were alive to see all of this, to have a brilliant independent scientist, a former NASA scientist, be discredited or be insulted simply because he has an association.
A tongue-in-cheek.
We don't have an official climatologist here.
I just know Dr. Spencer and he I learned from him.
He's a scientist.
Scientist that we all know and love and trust here.
He's written a great book about global warming, and these nine little Democrats, these little liberals, just have to go.
Dr. Spencer is now going to be more famous than he ever thought he would be.
Moving on.
The Nags, the Nationalist.
I just want, I just want everybody to make sure they know what's really happening.
What really happening, Senator Boxer?
What really happening?
I just wanted to point that out for people to understand.
Yeah, like I wrote his testimony.
Like the guy, he's just, I wrote his talking points.
I even had, I had a secret wireless communication in his ear.
I was answering questions they were asking.
And I was telling him how to...
Obama says there's going to be unity.
Okay.
Now moving on, the Nags, the National Association of Gals, last Saturday in Washington at the 2008 Nags Conference.
The president of the Nags, Kim Gandhi, announced nominees for their Hall of Shame.
Here is a portion of her remarks.
Rush Limbaugh for saying on his radio show that nobody wants to see a woman getting old in the White House.
We have these certificates we will send in the mail.
Their certificates say certificate of media offensiveness, awarded with great disdain, in recognition of stupendously ignorant and sexist comments made during the 2008 primary season.
Presented by NAS Media Hall of Shame.
I am so honored.
I hope I actually get this.
I know they didn't quote me right.
That's the whole point.
Here, we'll go back.
We'll go back.
This is the uh the the this this comment got under Kim Gandiskin right from the beginning.
The uh the chairman of the Nags.
This is from uh a PBS uh all chick chat show called To the Contrary, hosted by the radical feminazi Bonnie Urbe.
But what about the limbaugh line?
Let's get to that of you know, who wants to watch it?
Do we really want to watch a woman age on a daily basis before our very eyes?
Could he have said that about Mitt Romney?
Could he have said it about John McCain?
Well, one of the greatest guy with a face made for radio.
And the greatest stateman in the world was Margaret Thatcher, and she had a magnificent face, and it aged over time, and people only loved her more.
So, oh, that was pure sexism.
I don't think he would have said that even about a democratic candidate.
That's a nonsense comment.
And it's part of the Hillary Hayde.
There's no question about it.
And I hope it turns off his own middle-aged listeners, as much as it's turned off those debugs.
That was Eleanor Holmes Norton hoping again for more uh disaster.
Yeah, that's a good point, Snerdley.
Eleanor Holmes Norton, when she was young, she she was a stunner.
She was a looker.
And then when she was young, and then and they made her uh delegate uh to the House from D.C. that uh it's just that's that's what happens.
Is what happens.
I don't think Kim Gandhi was attractive ever, but Elder Holmes Norton.
Now she damn right was a looker when she was young.
The view was expressed by the host on this program, documented to be almost always right, 98.8% of the time.
By the little little correction, Dr. Spencer's testimony before Senator Boxer's Senate committee was this morning, uh, not yesterday.
All right, there's a um there's a uh uh uh a line of reasoning, a new media template that has surfaced, uh, ladies and gentlemen, to support the trip by the Messiah Obama to the Middle East.
And it is this.
Americans don't care whether the surge worked.
They're not interested in the surge.
David Schuster at DNC television made it plain on Scarborough show.
That Americans don't care about that.
The surge is this can't possibly help McCain the surge.
All the American people want is for the war to be over.
They just won out, they just went out, they don't care about the surge.
Uh this this is very clever on the part of the drive-bys, because Obama's all over the place on the surge.
Even after it's worked, he was asked by Terry Moran of ABC News, we've got all this audio coming up here.
I'm just setting a table.
He was asked if he would, knowing what he knows now, would he would he go back and support the surge?
He said, No.
I uh I wouldn't have supported the surge, and he essentially says uh that he wouldn't have supported it because he needed a political disagreement with George Bush to get the Democrat nomination.
So it's this is breath.
The arrogance of this guy is breathtaking, the arrogance of the media.
I I tell you, there's there's there is going to be a backlash on the part of the American people aimed at the drive-by media.
When all this is uh said and done, that people, even the drive-bys themselves are talking about it.
Now, here's a little here's a little entry from the politico.com.
It may not sway many voters, they say, but on Friday, as Obama embarked on an extended trip abroad, intended in large part to relieve concerns about his commander-in-chief uh bona fides, the terms of debate in Iraq began a dramatic shift that appears to favor his candidacy.
President Bush, who had been opposed to any timetable for removing American forces from Iraq, reached an agreement with Nouri Al Maliki to set a general time horizon for a withdrawal.
Now, what's happening here is that all of this stuff happens just coincidentally, happens at the same time that the Messiah is on the ground in the Middle East, and the drive-bys are actually portraying this as Petraeus agrees with Obama.
Malachi agrees with Obama.
All of these people involved agree with that is how this is being portrayed.
It is transparent, it is obvious anybody pays scant attention can see what is going on here.
There is no longer a media in this country.
There is simply an established propaganda arm for the Democrat Party, and any and all who relate to it in any way, elected and unelected.
So Obama goes to Afghanistan and says he would send more troops there.
This is after the president and the Secretary of Defense and our NATO partners have already said they were going to deploy more troops there, weeks and even months before Obama says it.
But the media report this as if some kind of great new thinking originating with Obama, that nobody else has had the idea, and that now everybody is agreeing with Obama after he has said it.
And they're doing this not under the cover of darkness.
They're doing this with all of us watching.
They figure they can get away with this because they haven't reported what's been going on in Afghanistan.
They haven't reported the success in Iraq.
And so when Obama comes along and says something about it, I mean, there's even this there's a story here in the stack about the media is excusing their their slavish reporting on Obama by saying, hey, we're doing good work here.
We're covering a bunch of stories while reporting on Obama.
We're covering the surge, we're covering Iraq, we're covering Afghanistan.
We're covering the Middle East.
And of course, the rejoinder to that is, well, you should have been doing that all along long before Obama ever got there.
But since Obama's going there, and now a lot of these reporters are reporting on this for the first time, and they're actually saying that what Obama's policies are, what his statements while on the trip and before are now being adopted by everybody.
Predicting or fulfilling my prediction, that this trip is specifically designed to raise to these uh lofty heights of statesmanship Barack Obama when he clearly has no idea what he's talking about.
As you shall hear soon when we get to the audio sound bites.
Now in Iraq, the goal has been to draw down our troop levels, and that's been announced repeatedly over the last several weeks.
White House, the president, they've all talked about this.
Now because of some general agreement to do that over time, Obama is said to have promoted this, and the policy is his, and that everybody in the region is agreeing with him.
And furthermore, the surge doesn't matter anymore.
It doesn't matter because the American people don't care about the surge.
They just want the war to be won and to be ended.
Well, the surge is the reason the war is going to be won.
We could lose it still by pulling out too soon.
Mookie's boys and the Iranians are sitting around salivating, waiting for their chance to get back in there, because they don't believe the Iraqis are fully.
Oh Obama also, you know what?
You know why the surge worked, folks?
You know what Obama said where the surge worked?
Had nothing to do with our military.
Very little to do with the military.
The Iraqis finally got their political act together.
That's why the surge worked.
The facts regarding Iraq are these.
Obama opposed the surge, and he did so repeatedly.
He was dead wrong.
The surge has worked, which he had to admit, but he's only done that begrudgingly because Obama cannot and will not accept the political consequences of his own idiotic comments, and he's not going to be held to them because the drive-bys are giving him credit for starting the whole withdrawal process.
Now, the fact that our government and the Iraqi government make arrangements for the Iraqi government to take over most military responsibilities, giving us the ability to reduce our presence there, is not some shocking new revelation undertaken because the former community activist came up with the idea.
This is laughable.
It is insultingly laughable that all this is happening because Obama had the idea, but they're honestly telling us this.
They are portraying it precisely this way.
Do you realize how absurd and irresponsible all of this is?
One other thing, too.
Since when does a candidate for president traveling to these countries as a sitting senator presume to make U.S. policy in any event?
He's a candidate.
We already have a president.
And Obama is pimping Bush's ride.
Bush has done all the heavy lifting here.
Bush and only Bush in terms of U.S. politics.
I'm not trying to leave out the military, please don't misunderstand.
Bush has had the entire Democrat Party, including Obama, lined up against him, trying to destroy him, trying to destroy victory, trying to ensure defeat.
It's insulting to listen to this pap, this flummery that Obama is some brilliant statesman who is responsible for all these new policies, which have been the general idea since the get-go in terms of how to get out of there.
Stay until the Iraqis can protect themselves and ensgram.
Obama came up with this.
I mean, even David Gergen on CNN had to say, let's you know, this is not good, this is not good.
He's not the president.
There's only one president at a time.
And candidates don't run around making policy on part of the United States.
Now, in addition to this being uh more evidence of Obama's uncontrollable arrogance, uh it is unacceptable behavior.
It's just not acceptable.
We have one foreign policy in this country, but the Democrats have been trying to sabotage it with Pelosi going over to Syria, a number of other Democrats going over, trying to undermine the policy.
If Obama wants to change U.S. foreign policy, fine, but he has to be elected first.
If he is sitting with these world leaders, working out details with them, it is a disgrace.
Come out of these meetings and announce that he is committed to sending 10,000 more troops to Afghanistan, Or that he and the Iraqis agree to some timetable.
It is dangerous.
It is pathetic.
It is.
Well, he has no constitutional authority to negotiate anything or to represent this country in these discussions.
He simply doesn't have the authority.
Moral or otherwise.
And yet, he is being granted that authority by the drive-by media.
Drive-by media are making this sound like finally we have a leader who knows how to handle these situations.
It is pathetic.
It is disgraceful to watch this unfold before our very eyes, and it is laughable.
It is egregious to sit here and watch the drive-bys defend themselves on this.
There is going to be a backlash.
And there's going to be a backlash against Obama on this too.
Drive-bys will notice it way too late.
If that's the case, you tell her to call Obama and stop bugging me about it.
He's the one encouraging all this Messiah business.
Hell, he thinks he is.
His wife thinks he is.
Do you hear the latest quote from the wife?
Unless they're elected children will die.
I'm not making it up.
She said this out in Denver.
I think it was last week or something.
I just heard about it.
Ed Morrissey writing about it at uh at the Hot Air blog.
Some of you, I've got it here.
It's in the stack.
I guess this is stuff to get.
But it if they're not elected, uh then a child will die, something like that.
Somewhere.
It's these people are absorbed with themselves.
By the way, before before we get on to uh the audio sound bites, and you've got to hear them.
You all know what Freddie Mack and Fannie Mae are.
These are these federal government private sector, which is impossible, federal government, private sector, mortgage loan institutions here that facilitate the mortgage industry and help fund it.
We know that they're bad shape, and we got to bail them out, right?
And the bailout may cost as much as $25 billion, if I'm reading this right.
Well, guess what they were doing at Feddy Mac and Franny Mae, or whatever they are, while all their shares were plummeting.
This is an assimercast news service.
While their stock values were plummeting 85%, Freddie Mack and Fannie Mae were contributing hundreds of thousands of dollars to pet projects of the Reverend Jacks.
In the past year, Freddie Mac paid 150,000, and Fannie Mae paid 100,000 to sponsor a rainbow push conference.
That is Jackson's main fundraising event.
Freddie Mack had also given one million dollars for the Jackson coalition to run an economic literacy program that the nonprofit coalition turned around and charged churches $1,000 to enroll in.
Freddie Mack also pledged one billion for mortgage loans, specifically for my.
Do you believe this?
Freddie Mack, Fannie Mae, $250,000 to the Reverend Jackson's Rainbow Push Monochrome Coalition to fundraise and then a million dollars for the Jackson Coalition to run an economic literacy program is a mortgage outfit.
Essentially it's a mortgage outfit.
And here they're giving money to the Reverend Dax.
And yet, and yet people want more of this.
They want more government.
Where do you fit?
Oh, oh, folks.
An egregious example here of drive-by media just puking.
All over Obama.
Lester Holt, NBC News.
described Obama's trip to the Middle East as his tour of duty.
I kid you not.
NBC News believes it appropriate to compare Obama's little summer camp trip here, his little tour of college campuses with the with the hovering helicopter parents, also known as the drive-bys, to compare it to an actual military tour of duty.
The nightly news was introduced.
See, on Sunday night, Lester Holes or Lester Hol uh Holt.
Tour of duty as Obama visits the war zone, the fight over where to send combat troops next.
Tour of duty.
You have got to be kidding me.
This is a king.
You know what Clinton did?
Clinton went in back, if you remember back in uh in the first term of his administration, he repeatedly referred to himself as on active duty because he was the commander in chief.
Okay, I think I think if this is tour duty, I think when Barry gets back, we need to give him a couple purple hearts.
Just like John Kerry, who served in Vietnam got.
That's that is that is just an example of how over the top this has gotten.
Now, grab audio sum by number 26 first, Mike.
I didn't know we'd get this this early.
I asked Cookie to put together a little montage here of all the stuttering around that Obama did in his press conference today.
And I want you to hear this because we didn't repeat anything.
Here goes 46 seconds.
And this is uh doing this because we hear constantly just what a great orator, what a great communicator.
Oh, this man smooth.
I just listen, this is this is uh a great illustration here of what happens when you take the teleprompter and the prepared remarks away from the dude.
Uh uh are uh uh uh uh um that that's a bunch.
Um so so let me tick these off.
Um so the issue is not a perception that uh let me put it this way.
Um we're trying to you know we've got a bipartisan group here and and uh uh and uh uh uh uh um uh uh uh now this is nothing new to me, folks.
I have been noticing this throughout the whole campaign.
Throughout the whole primary campaign when this guy's doing a press conference, he's doing a town meeting.
Uh uh uh and everybody talked about a great orator he is.
Today it finally it reached the boiling point with all its pap coverage that he's getting and all of this all the lies the media telling about this guy and how he's the m the prime mover behind all these policy changes over there.
Um I'm watching him stutter around outside of this press conference, speaking so slowly and without any energy, can barely be understood, babbling about things I can't even keep up with.
I d have no idea what he's saying because I don't know what the questions were.
But it was nothing dynamic about this press conference today.
I think the dynamism left this campaign and this guy a long time ago.
He's living off uh a legacy here, and I think some borrowed time.
Let's now go to the audio sound bites.
This is uh this morning in Amon Jordan, the Messiah lecturing his disciples in the press on their questions.
With respect to the search.
You know, we don't know what would have happened if the plan that I had put forward in January 2000.
How many questions are we?
Okay.
That's a bunch.
I'm gonna have to get a pen for all these triple questions you guys are.
You know, it's always a bad practice to say always or never.
These are difficult questions.
I'm I'm just trying to get to everybody I'll take the second question first.
I've been very clear on that.
Uh I was gonna save some of these comments until I I actually had these conversations tomorrow.
Uh it wasn't that we were avoiding the issue.
I need you to speak up.
You were speaking up very loudly when you wanted me to call on you.
Now that's it's a it's a montage, but uh this is this is the this is the Messiah lecturing his disciples on how he is to be quarried.
Now we uh but we goofed up and it was it was uh it's always my fault even when it isn't.
We goof up to you.
I want to start this from the beginning, uh, and we'll stay in order from here, but this is a montage of the Messiah lecturing his disciples in the media on how he is to be approached, the kinds of questions he's being asked, and all of that.
How many questions are there?
Okay.
That's a bunch.
I'm gonna have to get a pen for all these triple questions you guys are.
You know, it's always a bad practice to say always or never.
These are difficult questions.
I'm I'm just trying to get to everybody.
I'll take the second question first.
I've been very clear on that.
I I was gonna save some of these comments until I I actually had these conversations tomorrow.
Uh it wasn't that we were avoiding the issue.
I need you to speak up.
You were speaking up very loudly when you wanted me to call on you.
Yeah.
All right.
Now it we we we move on here.
I mean, that's how the whole press conference sounded to me.
I mean that that was not an answer to a question that was this Obama lecturing the disciples.
But that's how the whole thing sounded to me.
It just it just well, not just his tone and not just his temperament, but the fact it didn't make any sense.
Give me an example.
Uh the it this is he held it press conference.
Uh I don't know if this is in response to a question, because we couldn't hear the questions.
They didn't mike enough members of the traveling press corps known as the disciples.
But he's talking here about the surge.
With respect to the surge, you know, we don't know what would have happened if the plan that I had put forward in January 2007 to put more pressure on the Iraqis to arrive at a political reconciliation to begin a phase withdrawal, what would have happened had we pursued that strategy?
I am pleased that as a consequence of great effort by our troops, uh, but also as a consequence of a shift in allegiances among the Sunni tribal leaders, as well as the decision of the Sader militias to stand down that we've seen a quelling of the violence.
Everywhere we went, one of the biggest concerns right now is the fact that you've got scores of unemployed Iraqi men and women who are not getting the kind of opportunity that I think is going to be important.
What in the world?
Ladies and gentlemen, do you know what you just heard?
Do you hear what the Messiah did?
Did you hear how he explained the success of the surge?
He first went back and said, Well, we don't know if my plan to force them politically to get politically active would have worked, because we never got there.
But my plan would have been better, is what he's implying.
Then he goes on to say, yeah, there's some great work by the troops.
But what really happened here was there was a Sunni awakening, and the Shi is Shia militia, they stood down.
Does he think does he think that the Soder army and all of these disparate groups coming together just happened as a coincidence?
Does he think something happened in the Iraqi government that made this happen?
This guy is a jerk.
This is a jerk, ladies and gentlemen.
A pure jerk.
The success of the surge is what made all this political stuff happen.
But wait, but wait, there's more.
I'm confused.
Because isn't the line from Pelosi and Reed that the Iraqis have not met the political benchmarks?
And here's the Messiah undercutting them.
The Messiah just threw them under the bus by crediting the Iraqis great success in getting their political aspect together, and since they got their political act together and became a strong functioning government, why all these warring factions said, okay, we're through fighting, we're gonna come get together, and we're gonna split up the spoils.
How in the world does he think that happened?
This this is this is I I'm I'm at a loss for a word.
It's worse than deceitful.
This is a flat out lie, and he understands it.
This is pure politics.
He is meddling in the success of an American military operation and diplomatic operation.
He is right in the middle of it, trying to screw it up.
And once again, a prominent Democrat, this time, their presidential nominee is dissing openly the efforts and the success of the United States military.
We will be back after this.
Stay with us.
Look, folks, I don't want you to misunderstand me here.
Obama can say whatever he wants.
And I'm still gonna get infuriated when he lies.
And when he impugns the honor and the integrity of the men and women who pull this off.
He is so incapable of saying, you know, I misjudged this.
I made a mistake and move on.
He's so incapable of understanding the people of this country love the U.S. military.
The people of this country love victory.
They may want this war to end, but they don't want to lose it.
And he's got to run around and say, well, if it adopted my idea back in 2007, probably wouldn't ever have come to this.
But they didn't adopt my idea.
He hadn't been involved in any of this.
He's been involved in one thing and is trying to secure defeat.
He can run out there and lie all he wants in trying to cast the real victors here as the tribesman of Iraq.
He can do that all he wants.
The problem I have is when this sycophantic, slavish, Stalin-like media decides to promote, publicize as fact everything this little messiah happens to be saying.
Because he has no gravitas.
He doesn't know what he's talking about, but they are going to elevate him to statesmanship status if it's the last thing they do.
That's the one area McCain has some strength.
You know how bad this is.
One of the things Obama's been doing, Obama's been moving closer and closer to McCain on issues.
There have been stories in the media about how pretty much agree on things, global warming and all this sort of stuff.
And now here's Obama with the help of the media preempting the one strong suit McCain has competence, statesmanship, leadership in foreign policy and defense.
This is no accident.
It is very typical of the left here.
They cannot abide American success in any way in any theater.
Obama's no different.
We are succeeding in Iraq because of the tribesmen, because of the Shia and the Sunni.
And, of course, the political benchmarks being met by the Iraqi government.
Not the U.S. military.
Not General Petraeus.
Not our strategy there.
We won the Cold War and the Soviet Union collapsed not because of Reagan's strategy and execution, but because of Gorbachev.
And, well, it was just inevitable.
They still give Gorbachev the credit for ending the Cold War.
They hate.
you The United States being successful in any theater, particularly military operations.
Obama is no different.
I am, I'm pee if this makes me mad as hell to see this.
Here's another bite.
This is uh the Mothai talking about his judgment.
I don't have doubts about my ability to apply sound judgment to the major national security problems that we face.
These are difficult questions.
And you know, I don't think that anybody believes they have the perfect formula for solving some of these very difficult foreign policy problems.
Uh but uh I feel very confident in my worldview and my ability to shape a discussion that takes all arguments and facts into consideration and then come up with the best answer.
That is so frightening.
I don't he I told you yesterday he's got no concept of the ideology the ideological makeup of these enemies that we have.
He thinks everybody's just got different ideas.
Now, all ideas are good ideas, because you put them all in a hopper, shake them up and come up with a consensus.
And he has no doubts about his ability to apply sound judgment to the major national security problems we face.
Difficult questions.
I don't think anybody believes they have the perfect formula for solving some of these oh, they don't.
I thought you did.
And that the drive eyes were putting you up to it.
By the way, Cookie just told me that the 46 seconds of uh montage that we have on Obama stuttering is just part of it.
If she did all of them, it would take a three-minute bite.
I told her to do it.
Here's how it sounds again, ladies and gentlemen.
Listen to that.
Uh uh uh uh that's a bunch.
Um so let me tick these off.
Um the issue is not a perception that uh put it this way.
Um we're trying to bipartisan group here and and uh and uh uh uh uh uh uh just looking at satellite photos of this hurricane, Dolly.