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July 24, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 24, 2008, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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The disciples and the drive-by media are panting breathlessly with coughs thrown in, awaiting the address, the sermon from the Messiah at the Victory Tower in Berlin, ladies and gentlemen.
This, by the way, is a site that was chosen by Adolf Hitler because it had good aesthetic value for him to address.
No, it's true, people.
This is the Victory Tower.
It's a phallic symbol out there, and it was constructed there.
And Hitler did move it, moved it to this location in order for it to provide a good backdrop for...
No, I'm not making no analogies here.
I'm just...
I'm giving you a little history about the place.
Now, the crowd looks pretty big, but Obama's a little concerned here because when he flew into Berlin, he said, I didn't know the space was that big.
We've got to get a lot of people in there to fill it, and they haven't filled it, at least from the camera angle that I have.
They're admitting it's a political speech now, and as such, the U.S. State Department has sent a directive to...
Oh, by the way, folks, do you know what Obama did before he left Israel?
He stopped in Bethlehem.
I was told this.
He stopped in Bethlehem to visit the site where he was born.
He didn't allow any media in there because he didn't want to disturb the animals.
And it was from there that he flew into Berlin and he saw that this big space he's got to fill with all these people.
U.S. State Department has sent out a directive to all the employees in the embassy that they're not allowed to go to this because it is a political speech.
And so they're not, it's a campaign rally is what it is, and that's why they're not allowed to go.
The drive-bys are breathlessly anticipating this.
It comes up in a little over an hour.
And no, we are not going to jip it.
You want to jip it?
You want, just in live translation.
You want me to jip this?
We might jip a little bit of it.
I don't know how long it's going to be.
I don't want to jip the whole thing.
People don't turn into this show to hear Obama snurdly.
They turn in to hear me.
And they're starting to tune in to hear the official Obama criticizer more and more, too.
But they certainly don't tune in to hear Obama.
Anyway, we'll have more comments on this.
There's an NBC poll out that's not good for Obama.
He's getting no bump out of this trip.
That's an NBC poll.
He's losing in a lot of ways to John McCain in terms of who do you trust more to deal with the problems?
Who's closer to your values?
McCain wins big in both these.
And the surprise is at NBC, they did this on the nightly news last night with Chuck Todd, Chuck T, as he's known.
Everybody's stunned that NBC put this bit of news out.
There's that.
And we've got some samples of speeches that have been made in Berlin by JFK and Ronaldus Magnus.
Now, both those speeches were at the Brandenburg Gate.
This is at the phallic victory tower, Hitler's phallic victory tower in another part of the city.
But they're not going to, when you hear, you're going to hear JFK bites especially.
Obama nor any Democrat could give the speech that JFK gave.
Here, let's just play the sound bites.
Let's start with two, three, and four.
And here is, oh, I keep forgetting I want to mention this.
I was busy working on show prep last night, as I always am, doing it for you, doing it for me, too.
And I got an email note from a friend with a website.
She said, You've got to click on this.
It's live from the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
So I clicked on it and I was live streaming excellent picture quality of Obama showing up and then going to the Western Wall and placing his prayer in the crevices, something I, ladies and gentlemen, have done.
Did this back in 1993.
Then walking out, there were campaign signs there.
Now, I don't know who put them up, but this is a sacred, holy site.
And this place last night was turned into a bit of a campaign.
And the drive-bys are not reporting this, but he was not universally loved at this place, at this site last night.
You have heard that one grab number five.
I keep confusing the broadcast engineer.
This is, I heard this last, this is an unidentified protester at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
It was early in the morning, pre-dawn in Israel, about 5:08 when Obama got there.
He left at 5:20.
And this is one of the things that happened.
Were you able to hear that?
Protesters shouting, Jerusalem is not for sale, Obama.
Jerusalem is not for sale.
Jerusalem is our land.
Jerusalem is our land.
CBS also has a story about, poor old Barry, he just can't get past the fact that his middle name is Hussein, and it makes people over here in Israel a little uncomfortable.
And they hold up a copy of Harris.
I think it was Sheila McVicker is the info babe that did that story.
But there was a lot more ruckus than just this one guy, this is the point.
And they got out of there pretty quickly.
There was some resentment here that the whole event had been turned into a campaign appearance, which is exactly what it looked like, by the way.
And it was crowded.
It was a lot of people there, even at 5:08, 5:20 in the morning Israeli time.
I don't know, folks.
I tried to take my bias, but the whole meaning of this trip out as I'm watching this, because I've been there.
I have been to this site.
And I know the only thing you hear there are prayers.
It's outdoors.
You hear neighborhood sounds and so forth.
But this seemed unseemly.
Something with a bunch of SUVs pulling up in there, Obama getting out, walking in, being escorted by Israeli officials, being told what to do.
He's following his lead and then leaves.
And people were shaking his hand too.
Don't misunderstand.
But there was a lot more ruckus than the drive-bys are reporting.
Here's Ronaldus Magnus on June 12, 1987, at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin.
General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate.
Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate.
Mr. Gorbachev, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
Ronaldus Magnus, June 12th, 1987, West Berlin.
The wall shortly thereafter came down.
Ronaldus Magnus, of course, an elected president.
Speaking not as a candidate and not at a campaign rally.
Let's go back now to 1963, June the 26th, President John F. Kennedy.
There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future.
Let them come to Berlin.
And there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere, we can work with the communists.
Let them come to Berlin.
And there are even a few who say that it's true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress.
La si nach Berlin in common.
Let them come now.
There's President Kennedy.
There's not a Democrat alive who would make that speech today anywhere.
Democrats today are appeasers.
Did you hear any appeasement here?
There are some who say that we should work with the communists.
Let them come to Berlin.
Obama, there are some who say we should work with Iran.
There are some who say we should work with Castro.
There are some who say we should work with Chavez.
Barack Obama, for all the hopes that you disciples have invested in him, the most merciful cannot make a speech like either Ronaldus Magnus or JFK.
Here's another bite from President Kennedy's speech, June 26, 1963, Brandenburg Gate.
We look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe.
When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades.
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin.
And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words, Ich bin ein Bierlina.
And a crowd went nuts with that.
Now, a couple things here.
Not only could Obama not make this speech, nor could any other Democrat today, because they are appeasers, plus they don't see that much wrong with communism, if the truth be told.
But he couldn't make this speech either because Obama believes it was a mistake to free 25 million Iraqis from tyranny because it angered our enemies.
We are so afraid of angering our enemies today.
Obama wouldn't make a speech like this, not aimed at Iran.
George W. Bush will, but there is not a Democrat who will do it.
Now, the Germans have a great sense of humor.
Now, one of the things that I don't think too many people know, a Berliner in Berlin is a doughnut.
And so the Germans, even after Kennedy left, it's a kind of a doughnut.
And they had a lot of fun with Kennedy.
They respected what he said, but they're a bunch of jokesters.
Now, I've mentioned the fact that the victory tower is Hitler's phallic symbol or a phallic symbol.
They're not there now, but a couple still shots that I have seen during show prep today of two giant Obama balloons very close to the top of the victory tower.
Oh, yes.
Oh, yes.
Proving, ladies and gentlemen, that the Reverend Jackson still has not succeeded in removing the nuts of the Messiah.
I'm just thinking about those audio soundbites of Ronaldus Magnus and JFK.
At the Brandenburg Gate, 1963, John F. Kennedy tells the communists their days are numbered.
1987, 1988, 1989, the communist days are over.
A Democrat president and a Republican president on the same path, bringing about the same objective.
Well, JFK laying it out, Reagan fulfilling it.
Within that time, there were a number of Republican and Democrat presidents who didn't think it would be possible.
Kennedy did, and Reagan pulled it off.
And people talk about unity and compromise.
There wasn't any compromise.
There was a single-minded purpose, an objective that was morally correct, and that was to end the tyranny of communism in Europe.
And JFK recognized it.
It's striking to listen to those bites today and realize that there isn't a Democrat, or maybe Joe Lieberman, there isn't a Democrat around who would make a speech like that, who would dare speak of our current enemy or enemies in that regard for fear of making them mad.
Just striking to see how changed the Democrat Party, even though we know it, it's amazing to see in 45 short years just how drastic the Democrat Party has moved left.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, other news out there, and we never get sidetracked here by single issues.
Lots of other news is being made.
We'll be talking about Obama quite a bit on the program today.
Still deciding editorially whether to jip all or a, well, I can tell you we're not going to jip the whole thing.
We might jip a portion of the Lord Messiah Barack Obama's speech at the Victory Column today in Berlin.
We're not going to do the whole thing.
There was a big protest.
Yeah, it wasn't that big.
It's sort of meager, actually.
It was a meager protest outside the offices of the Fox News channel recently.
Two groups showed up complaining of racism on the air at the Fox News channel.
They had a rapper show up.
Rapper's name is NAS.
I don't know how you pronounce his name, but he showed up.
Moveon.org was there.
Colorofchange.org was there.
Stop its asking Fox to stop its racist smears against the Obamas and other black Americans.
You know, I'm watching this.
I saw a videotape of a little bit of it.
I've got some still shots here.
And I'm just waiting for this group to go over to Jesse Jackson's office and start protesting him for racism.
I mean, Jesse Jackson used the N-word, not about Obama, but about these people.
I don't think that's ever happened on the Fox News channel.
Minimum wage, ladies and gentlemen, set to rise today, 70 cents.
However, listen to this.
The Associated Press, Christopher Ruegeber, minimum wage set to rise 70 cents, comma, but higher costs across the board eat into the raise.
About 2 billion Americans get a raise today as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents.
The bad news?
So there always has to be bad news.
The bad news is, if you ask me, that it's happening.
Because it's going to lead to more unemployment, which we will not hear about.
Or we'll hear about the unemployment, but we'll hear it in the context of Bush's economy.
The bad news, higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses will pass the costs of the wage hike to consumers.
Wrong.
They might do that, but they'll also have to fire some people.
The increase is from $5.85 an hour to $6.55 an hour.
It's the second of three annual increases required by a 2007 law.
And of course, the AP had to go out and find a suffering American to show that the minimum wage is irrelevant, even after everybody gave all kinds of credit to the Democrats for passing it and gave all kinds of credit to it theoretically, institutionally, when it was being debated.
Workers like Walter Jasper, who earns minimum wage at a car wash in Nashville, are happy to take the 70 cents an hour minimum wage.
But workers like Walter Jasper will struggle with the higher gas and food prices, hammering Americans.
Walter Jasper, who with his fiancée supports a family of seven and who earns the minimum wage plus commissions when customers order premium car washes.
Says it'll help a little.
The bus fare he pays every day to get to work already went up to $4.80 this spring from $4.
He says, I'd like to be on a job where I could at least get a car, said Walter Jasper, who with his fiancé support a family of seven.
This reminds me, I didn't mention this when this happened, folks, and many of you are going to think that this is harsh and callous.
There was an AP story out of Ohio about a poor immigrant family that no longer, because of the status of the U.S. economy, could no longer afford to eat meat.
Did you see that story?
They could not.
It was a mother and daughter.
You couldn't tell which was which in the picture.
Honest to God, folks, you could not tell which was which.
This tag team had to weigh 800 pounds.
That was not mentioned anywhere in the story, but the picture, I mean, you couldn't miss this.
So he had AP dutifully reporting the squalid conditions, the poverty-level conditions.
These poor Ohioans have to work, and the only place that they can possibly get a job is within walking distance.
I forget what the company is, but the company's getting ready to move.
And it was just one of the biggest sob stories I have ever read.
And it was all in great detail here.
And I read this, my mouth is hanging open.
I'm looking at the accompanying pictures.
My mouth is hanging open.
I cannot believe I'm reading this.
I'm just going, damn, how does this story even get written?
At least, if somebody at AP was thinking, don't publish these pictures.
My friends, I kid you not.
You're looking at combined tonnage here of 800 pounds of this mother and daughter in the story about how they couldn't afford meat.
They can afford something.
I think, folks, a lot of it is probably delivered.
All right, we are back, ladies and gentlemen.
El Rushboe here on the cutting edge of societal evolution as we have more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I want to thank Steve Gilbert of the Sweetness and Light blog, sweetnessandlight.com.
It was NPR that did the story on the mother and daughter in Ohio.
It was on All Things Considered, who can't afford meat.
The headline here is: For some, meat is out of reach.
A generation ago, the livelihood of Gloria Nunez's family was built on cars.
Her father worked at General Motors for 45 years.
Nunez and her six siblings grew up middle class.
Things have changed considerably for this Ohio family.
Nunez's van Fan broke down last fall.
Now, her 19-year-old daughter has no reliable transportation out of their subsidized housing complex in Fostoria, which is 40 miles south of Toledo.
Now, that's all you need to know.
Now, for those of you watching on a DittoCam, I'm going to attempt to zoom in so that you can see the picture of the subjects of this sob story.
And keep in mind now, for some, meat is out of reach.
This is a terribly sad story.
Okay, let's see who wants this at the same time.
All right.
There we go.
Do you see that?
Let me straighten it out here.
I'm giving the people watching on the Ditto Cam a chance to see this.
That's the lovely mother and daughter family no longer able to afford meat.
Well, you can't tell which one's the mother and which ones.
That's what I was saying.
You just can't.
Now, I don't know when I saw this.
How do you take this?
How in the world do you take this seriously?
Now, I realize this is a tease for those of you that aren't able to see the program on the Ditto Cam, but that means you should sign up.
You should become a subscriber.
You can watch the program here every day at www.rushlimbaugh.com.
Yeah.
Here, okay.
People want to see it one more time.
All right, I'm going to throw it up there one more time.
Here we go.
Is that focused?
I can't.
Is it focused?
Okay, good.
The Nunez family after the van broke down.
You see what I mean about they're getting something to eat, and somebody has to be delivering it to them.
All right.
Starks, I'm sorry, Stallsville.
Is that right?
Stallsville, Ohio.
This is Paul.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Good to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
I wanted to respectfully remind you and gently correct you.
A few minutes ago, you said that you talked about the protesters and how they should go after Jesse Jackson for using the N-word.
Yes.
And you said you postulated that that word had never been heard on Fox.
I'd like to remind you gently that that word was uttered on Fox that the late Tony Snow had the venerable Senator Robert Byrd Democrat from Virginia.
My goal, you're right.
He used that word and never heard a thing about it.
You are absolutely right.
We have even played that soundbite on this program.
I had said that it slipped my fertile mind.
So I stand corrected.
The N-word has been uttered on Fox by the estimable West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd.
Can you imagine if you had done that or if McCain had done that or if someone on the right had done that?
Yeah, of course.
Well, look at Reverend Jackson did it, and they decided to protect him at Fox.
It was somehow, you know, it leaked out.
Somebody, I mean, Fox did not broadcast it until it leaked out.
Now, some people think that Fox leaked it, but I happen to know that's not the case.
More on the minimum wage, ladies and gentlemen.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger plans next week to slash the pay of more than 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum, not the state minimum wage, the federal minimum wage of $6.55 an hour in order to help ease the state's budget crisis.
This is according to a draft executive order obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle.
It's a huge budget fight out there in California, and this is the development.
More than 200,000 California state workers to get the minimum wage to ease the budget crisis.
The state minimum wage, $8.
They're not going to get that.
They're going to get the federal minimum wage of $6.55.
Their proposed pay cut for hourly employees would take their wages well below the state minimum wage of $8 an hour.
The governor's plan could face an immediate challenge from Democrat straight controller John Chang, who will continue to pay state workers their full salaries no matter what Arnold says, even in the face of his executive order.
Cutting workers' salaries will do nothing meaningful to improve our cash position.
The executive order is nothing more than a poorly devised strategy to put pressure on the legislature to enact a budget.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, let me comment on this.
Because ordinarily, I mean, what is the natural gut-check human reaction to this?
It's horrible.
How can you do it?
Why, that's terrible.
Just to move them back to minimum wage, horrible.
No compassion.
How can you just, with the stroke of a pen, do that rotten?
That's bad.
But wait a minute.
They do have a big budget crisis out there.
And wasn't it just a couple weeks ago here that we were lamenting the tricks played by states and local communities when their budgets get cut?
What do they tell us?
They're going to have to cut essential services.
They might have to fire cops.
They might have to fire firemen.
They might have to get rid of emergency medical services workers.
And this is how they always create the panic amongst the population already overtaxed to the hilt.
You mean you're going to take away my fireman?
Am I a police force?
And they, you know, gang up against whoever it is that's cutting budgets.
Well, Arnold's not doing that.
Arnold's cutting the bureaucracy.
He's fine.
They can't cut essential services anymore.
They would anger half the population, which is illegal.
Just kidding.
It's not quite that high.
Just Dawn, uncover your eyes.
It's going to be one of these days.
I was up again late last night.
I should have warned you at the outset of today's excursion into broadcast excellence.
I was up late last night, and so I'm a little giddy here.
But look at our next story.
I love this.
Yes, yes, we're going to get to Obama.
We've been doing Obama all week.
There's other news out there.
We're going to be talking about it once stupid speech starts.
We did some Obama interviews.
Be patient.
You know, I sit here.
We've got our 20th anniversary coming up a week from tomorrow, and still there are people who try to tell me how to do this.
I don't mean you people in the audience.
I'm talking about the trusted and loyal staff.
Well, I know them too, but this boggles the mind.
You know, if I weren't as secure as I am, I'd be basket case.
Anyway, this next story, I absolutely love this is from the BBC.
How many of you people go out there and eat soy stuff, soy products, soy milk, soy tofu, soy, whatever it is.
And you do this for one reason.
Why do you eat soy?
Why does anybody who eats soy, I mean, by okay, high in protein health reasons, right?
To avoid meat.
So, okay, so high in protein to avoid meat.
But it's generally people that engage in the oral consumption of soy.
This is how you consume it, right?
Through the mouth.
All right.
People who do that generally think they're on health kick.
They're doing it for health reasons or perhaps militant vegetarian reasons.
Well, I have a story here from the BBC that says a regular diet of even modest amounts of food containing soy may have sperm concentrations or have, may reduce them in half by half.
In other words, reduce the number of sperm cells by half.
A study published for some of you, I'm sure, is great news.
I mean, you can forget about birth control pills, even condoms.
The risk has been reduced by half.
But for others, this is not going to be good news.
The men were divided into four groups depending on how much soy they ate.
And when the sperm concentration of men eating the most soy was compared with those eating the least, there was a significant difference in the sperm count.
Dr. Alan Pacey, a senior lecturer in andrology from the University of Sheffield, said that if soy genuinely had a detrimental effect on sperm production, fertility might well be affected in those regions.
And there was no evidence that this was the case.
Many men are obviously worried about whether their lifestyle or diet could affect their fertility by lowering their sperm count.
Now, I have a different way, ladies and gentlemen, of looking at this.
As you know, we have a new cultural phenomenon in our country.
The chickification of our culture and society has resulted in a group of people that I have dubbed here the new castrati.
And you know the new castrati forthmithrlimbaugh, you just don't understand how tough.
That's the new castrati.
And they're all over the place.
Are there more issues playing into this self-imposed?
I mean, look, we know that there's a self-imposed demise of the liberal population by virtue of abortion.
They are aborting themselves.
They're aborting themselves into a minority status in a couple, three generations, if that long.
And probably most liberals are the ones that consume most of the soy.
So they are assaulting themselves on both fronts, inside and outside the womb.
I would say that if this is true, then the soy-based members of the new castrati have engaged here in another self-imposed act leading to their ultimate demise.
The news is not good for the Messiah, ladies and gentlemen.
He's getting no bump whatsoever out of his college campus tour, little summer camp trip, none whatsoever.
And this has the drive-bys very, very much concerned.
Joe Klein at his blog at Time magazine, Obama Trip Overload.
Lots of speculation on the web and in whispering circles.
That means the drive-by is whispering to themselves, saying, what are we doing wrong?
About why Obama's foreign trip, a slam-dunk success substantively and in photo-op terms, hasn't resulted in a polling bump.
The emerging conventional wisdom seems to be that the trip is a bit too grand, too presumptuous.
Voters are very wary of that.
And presumption, of course, always comes with the subterranean tinge of racism.
So the drive-bys are saying, America's the racists.
And what Klein is saying here is the reason there's no bump is because the Americans are watching this and they're saying, who does this uppity black guy think he is?
He's not president yet.
Who does he think he is?
That's what they think.
That's what we are going to have to, we're going to have to listen to this kind of crap even after the election's over.
This is it because they're doing their best.
Klein and his buddies are doing their best to get this guy over 60% in the polls and he can't get beyond 47.
They're doing everything they can and they can't get a bump.
He didn't get a bump when he won the nomination.
He didn't get a bump out of this or hasn't yet.
And they're working.
Remember, this trip is about them.
This trip is about them.
The drive-by is making history.
And they're pushing for everything they got.
So, of course, when they fail, they got to turn around and blame it on the American people.
Well, yeah.
Presumption, of course, always comes with the subterranean tinge of racism.
See, American people think that Barack is too presumptuous here by acting presidential when he's not even the president yet.
In fact, he's not even the official Democrat Party nominee yet, if you want to know the truth.
No, they wouldn't think that if he was white.
That's what the drive-bys are.
The driver is saying, no, they wouldn't think that if he's white.
They're thinking that, well, the drive-bys look at, you can understand how they look at their people in this country.
A bunch of rubes, a bunch of unsophisticated rubes, Obama, the first black guy.
That's what they're talking this up to.
They will not chalk it up to their failure.
They will not chalk it up to the fact that people are sick and tired of seeing this.
That people are sick and tired of seeing this kind of out-of-balance, out-of-kilter reporting, not even reporting, cheerleading.
If we want to watch cheerleading, we'll watch a competition on ESPN or wait for college football to start.
The people who watch cheerleading are the drive-by media in a presidential campaign.
Joe Klein says, well, wait a minute.
I don't buy that.
I have another theory.
People may be thinking, what on earth is Obama doing over there when we have so many problems back home?
Why isn't he talking about the economy?
Bingo, my friends, this was my point, too.
When this trip was first announced, when he first left on the trip, this is when I said, McCain, go to the oil well.
Go out to a derrick, go out to a gas pump, do something because it's gasoline, gasoline, gasoline.
It's jobs, jobs, jobs, the economy, the economy, economy, energy, energy, energy.
And nobody cares about Iraq anymore.
It's not that big an election issue.
What's he doing over there?
And Joe Klein swerving in to an EIB prescient prediction.
No doubt the Obama staff figured they needed this week abroad to establish the image of Obama as a potential commander-in-chief, and no doubt he'll turn to the economy, Democrat strength, according to the polls.
But he still goes on to lament the fact there's no bump here.
There's no bump whatsoever.
And it got even worse because last night on the NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams interviewing Chuck Todd reported that this election has suddenly become a referendum on Obama.
Where did you look at?
I'm not bragging.
You understand this.
Where did you first hear this?
On this program.
I try to tell people in this audience, this is not about McCain.
This election is not right now.
But this stage is not going to be an up or down referendum on Obama.
Why is this?
You may think, so what?
So they get it.
They always get it late.
They want this to be a referendum on Bush, folks.
They want the election.
The Democrats and the drive-bys want this election to be a referendum on Bush.
Now, because Obama has inserted himself so prominently in his acting presidential, when he didn't even have the nomination secured, people are beginning to think, well, it's about him.
And there's no way that that's not true.
It is true.
The election will be about him.
But that's not the big news out of this.
In this NBC poll, they reported last night on the nightly news at the National Barack Channel.
55% of those surveyed felt it's Obama.
That's the riskier choice.
Chuck Todd explaining the polling data to Brian Williams.
Yeah, they're trying to figure this out, this guy out.
They're trying to figure out who Obama really is, what these leaders overseas are doing.
And then we're trying to figure out why is Obama doing this trip?
Why don't he feel he had to do it?
Well, when we asked our voters who was a riskier choice for president, McCain or Obama, 55% told us that it's Obama who was the riskier choice.
We asked who would be the safer choice for president, and they picked McCain at 46%.
So we see why Obama is over here doing this.
He's trying to allay those fears that he's risky and not ready to do these things.
Then Chuck Todd said, the good news for McCain, he connects on values.
58% in the NBC survey, the National Barack Channel survey, say that McCain reflects their values.
Only 47% say that Obama does.
A lot of folks will tell you Obama needs to improve that number, Brian, said Chuck Todd to Brian Williams.
Of course he needs to improve that.
A lot of people will tell you Obama needs to.
But striking that they would air these results on the NBC Nightly News.
So not only is there no bump, There doesn't appear to be a whole lot of commonality here on values with these people in this poll.
And McCain's seen as less risky than Obama.
Fascinating stuff.
Can't believe they aired it, but they did.
Have to take a little break here at the top of the hour, ladies and gentlemen, but we'll be back before you know it to resume broadcast excellence.
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