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July 25, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 25, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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Before getting started with things here, we are here at our EIB Southern Command being overrun with Gardenia scented candles.
This goes back.
It's got to be six weeks ago, now maybe a month ago, that uh I was expressing frustration that I could not find a large gardenia-scented flower made by Joe Malone.
That complaint has resulted, we we have a candle farm here.
I think these things are multiplying.
All sizes, all shapes.
They're all Gardenia scented and they don't all smell the same.
It's gotten to the point I can't thank everybody personally that sent these in.
It's it's it's too massive.
So I wanted to make sure I took time at the outset of the program today to thank all of you who have because some of the nicest letters have accompanied these candles.
Uh and the candles themselves are fabulous.
I've taken some of them home, but you know, it's it's they've taken up a whole room back there now.
Uh our EIB prize closet, where the extra iPhones are stored and the EIB shirts and uh and all the other golf gear and so forth.
It's it's a it's a it's a it's a candle farm in there.
So thank you very much, the bottom of my heart to all of those of you who have uh taken the time to send in your products.
These are all from the manufacturers, by the way.
And the uh and the nice and the nice notes.
All right.
It's fascinating.
Fascinating out there, ladies and gentlemen, to watch the drive-by media continue to run the risk of dying from anal poisoning.
They continue to salivate as disciples over Obama, and they are continuing, and by the way, what one more thing.
If you've if you've checked your newspaper today, I guarantee you there's that there's a probably a large picture of Obama taken from behind him, showing the massive throng in front of the victory tower.
This is what will be remembered.
Nobody's gonna remember this speech, the words of this speech, probably don't remember it now, other than the line that he out apparently stole this from Bono.
Mayor, this is our moment, this is our time.
This is Bono made that statement some years ago.
This is uh uh not Obama's at all.
He didn't he didn't steal it from himself.
Uh he lifted it from uh you know a concert appearance, I think, or a TV appearance by Bono.
But the picture is whatever that that's the op that they wanted.
Then they got the photo, and people are gonna remember that picture.
They're not gonna remember his words because they weren't memorable.
I mean, even most in the audience couldn't tell you what he said.
That's not why they were there.
But while all this is going on, and the drive-bys are proclaiming that it just a huge win.
I mean, it's over the park, it's out of the park, it's over the wall.
It's the greatest thing that's ever happened in politics for Obama.
Something strange has happened.
McCain's caught him in the polls.
The Daily Gallup tracking poll.
It's a dead heat for all intents and purposes.
Fox News opinion dynamics.
A couple of other polls, McCain's caught up, and in swing states to boot.
McCain has caught up, and it's been a horrible week for McCain.
Say the drive-bys.
There's a backlash going on out there, a backlash that I, ladies and gentlemen, predicted to you Earlier in this busy broadcast week.
There is a backlash against the drive-by media.
There's a backlash going on against the presumptuousness of Obama and his campaign.
So this great week for Obama and lousy week for McCain, according to the media narrative, has led to a tide race.
Can there be a greater disconnect?
Something else interesting about polling data, Wall Street Journal.
Find out that the thing that's most on people's minds is not Baghdad.
It's not Iraq.
It isn't Afghanistan.
It isn't Germany.
It's not the victory tower.
It's not Obama.
It's the economy.
Congress will likely break for the summer without passing legislation to curb high gasoline prices, but Americans are fashioning their own energy policy founded on conservation and support for more production.
Once again, huge opportunity for all Republicans.
The American people in great numbers want us to drill.
They don't want to hear drivel from Democrats.
It's drill versus drivel, and the Democrats are the ones that are standing in the way of it, and everybody knows it.
In addition to that, remember back when uh the president had his press conference when he announced he's lifting the executive order on domestic drilling.
And some, you know, new castrati in a drive-by press corps.
Mr. President, Mr. President, are you going to tell the American people to conserve?
Are you here to tell the people to turn off their thermo that turn off their power Thorforth and drive less, Mr. President?
Remember that question?
It turns out, and what was Bush's answer?
Bush is, I don't need to tell them that.
They're grown up saying they know what to do, know to conserve.
They're doing it.
Americans are fashioning their own energy policy founded on conservation and support for more production.
A new NBC Wall Street Journal news poll finds that energy, including gasoline and utility costs, ranks as the number one economic issue that voters say affect them the most personally.
While all this dog and pony show's going on over in Europe, domestic issues, as I point out here, gasoline price, gasoline price, gasoline price, drill drill, drill Democrats in opposition, this is the Republican issue.
And the Wall Street Journal NBC poll confirms it.
Didn't need the poll to confirm this.
The drive-bys could have listened to this program and saved themselves the money it cost them to conduct the poll.
New data indicate Americans are conserving energy with fervor.
I'm reminded again of the reporter's question to Bush last week, wanted to know why Bush wasn't going to tell stupid Americans how to conserve energy, and Bush to his credit did not condescend.
So the American people are adults, they can figure it out.
Democrats who are elitists expected Bush to talk to voters as if they were school children.
The energy information administration reported Wednesday, gasoline stocks posted a 2.8 million barrel bill in the weekend of July 18th.
This is why we don't need any release from the strategic reserve that Pelosi wants.
Now, by the way, if if if drilling doesn't make a make a difference, if we can't drill our way out of this, then how can 700 million barrels from the strategic reserve help our way out of this as Pelosi wants?
There's not a shortage.
Have you seen the oil price?
The oil price was down to 123 earlier this morning, as I as I checked.
And it's been fly and it's been plummeting, and jet fuel costs are coming down.
All those airplanes have been parked.
Less fuel is being used.
Gastoline and jet fuel and diesel, what's happening to the supply?
It's going up.
What's happening to the price?
It's coming down.
But that strategic reserve oil.
A question, ladies and gentlemen, how do we get it?
Maybe somebody should call the speaker of the House, send a note to her office.
Miss Pelosi, you want to release 700 million barrels from the strategic reserve.
How did it get there?
We had a drill for it, didn't we?
I mean, if she wants the 700 million barrels released in order to help with the price, which is not going to do that much.
It's not that much oil.
It's a one-time thing you can do.
The oil had to be drilled, so drilling will lead to relief.
We can drill our way out of this.
We drilled our way into the strategic reserve.
Before we go to the break, ladies and gentlemen, brand new.
From white comedian Paul Shanklin.
Slowly but surely, ladies and gentlemen, it is dawning on many of the disciples, slowly but surely, dawning on many of the disciples following around the Messiah, the Lord Barack Obama, that they are just common people to him, that they are not special to him like they want to be.
He has, well, I'm assuming Adam Nagurney of the New York Times was treated like an opposing candidate by the Obama campaign.
Remember the story in the New York Times last week.
I remember heralding this story, calling it to your attention.
Obama not closing the racial divide.
And I look my eyes got wide open on that because this was not typical.
Here you had an Obama House organ, the New York Times House organ for the Obama campaign in the Democrat Party.
And they wrote a piece, and it was a long piece about how Obama's not bridging any racial divide.
89-90% of the black vote's going to go for him.
There's no unification going on.
The Obama campaign did not like that.
They uh uh they I think they called just very briefly, uh Gurney to talk about it, but when he woke up the next day, they had released a huge long talking point memo refuting everything in N'Gurney's story, which made him livid.
Because he was being treated just like an opposing candidate.
And he got mad that Obama would not, the Obama campaign would not call him personally to discuss all of this.
And so even liberal reporters, even the disciples must learn not to mess with the uh Messiah.
This is going to be fascinating to watch all this stuff fall out.
I mentioned earlier, you know, the best thing Obama could do I'm sensing a lot of Obama fatigue, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Unfortunately, uh unfortunately, there are some things here that I am compelled to comment upon today as the program unfolds about Obama, but there's I think there's some severe Obama fatigue happening.
The best thing he could do is go away for a couple months.
Uh it's just he's gonna wear everybody out.
I mean, we haven't even gotten to the conventions yet.
We're we're two months away, well, a month, month away from the convention.
Uh and this is this all of this overkill is uh is I think it's gonna start wearing people out.
People's emotional reservoirs are only so large, can only hold so much, and after a while you can't keep that emotional fervor up.
That speech yesterday in Germany wasn't any fainting.
There wasn't any euphoria.
And in fact, you want to talk to some of the people on the uh on the street.
That was that didn't meet their expectations.
They were expecting this big rock star, this is the greatest speech maker they've ever heard, and it was a it was sort of a dullard and dry speech.
It was very short by Obama standards.
But that's not what they care about at the Obama campaign.
They got the pictures.
That's what people will remember.
Obama's the one phrase they might remember from his speech is this is our moment.
This is our time.
This is our chance to do whatever.
These words were uttered by the frontman for YouTube, Bono, in the July 2005 Live Eight concert.
So Obama's speech writer, and by the way, we we don't expect Obama to write all these speeches.
These guys don't write all their speeches, but we expect the speechwriter to understand some various things.
And we've got some examples in the stack today of uh some things he said in his speech yesterday that were totally factually wrong about Belfast, for example.
The walls are still up in Belfast, in fact, they've gotten longer and bigger.
He said they've come down.
It's ignorance.
He's he's he doesn't know, he doesn't think he whatever puts in is put in front of him is what he says, what he believes, and what he uh what he writes.
Go to the audio soundbites just to give you a taste here.
Jake Tapper last night on ABC's World News Tonight with Charles Gibson.
Here is a portion of the exchange that Tapper was talking to people in the crowd.
And as for the people who came here today, many of them gushed about his speech.
I think uh the new president for America.
And as if that weren't glowing enough.
I thought it was brilliant.
My new Messiah.
There you go.
I thought he was brilliant, my new Messiah.
So the term coined here on the EIB network has made it across the pond of the National Barack Channel last night, right after Obama delivered the speech.
Brian Williams walking off the stage with him.
When an American politician comes to Berlin, we've had some iconic utterances in the past.
We've had Ish Benine, we've had Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.
Well, I don't I don't rate uh I don't rate that high.
Is the phraseology that you would like remembered is people of Berlin, people of the world, this is our moment, this is our time.
You know, I think that that captures uh what I was trying to communicate.
Yeah.
Well, that's they're not your words, Barry.
This is our moment, this is our time.
Those words were first uttered in this kind of context, anyway, by uh by Bono of you two back in July of 2005.
Um I've got bites here how Obama's been using this phrase.
Well, we go back here to um June 3rd, uh all over the uh place.
He's just plagiarizing himself here.
Uh and the I guess one of the let's just move to soundbite number eight, as I saw this last night and I asked Cookie, I said, get me this soundbite.
This is on the situation room with Wolf Blitz, and he was speaking with Christiana Manpoor.
And uh and blitzer said, Do you get a sense, Christian, that he actually delivered with his presentation with his speech, his appearance in Berlin?
Did people walk away seemingly satisfied or disappointed?
I'm not sure that they were thoroughly satisfied.
I did ask some people as they were leaving what they thought.
Everybody said good, good, but I was surprised that there wasn't this sort of euphoria afterwards, given how many people had come to listen and how much it had been anticipated.
See, that's another thing.
How many people showed up actually with great and high expectations?
Or was this just a party?
I mean, these are young Germans on a Sunday night or on a summer night.
The beer is flowing, the Bratwursts and whatever else is being served out there.
Uh this is uh this they had a rock concert, had two concerts before this that the media is not reporting.
Free concerts to help uh draw the crowd.
I mean, this this was just this is the latest celebrity showing up with a bunch of people showing up to say they were there.
The uh remarks were not memorable, and nobody is going to remember them as be because they're not memorable.
Nobody's gonna be able to recall them.
This is a strict photo op.
And so the drive-by media, Christiana Munpoor letting the cat out of the bag.
I didn't see any euphoria.
Well, there's nothing to be euphoric about about.
In um in these remarks, Candy Crowley uh on CNN's election center with Campbell Brown last night.
This a quick bite, it runs three seconds.
Campbell Brown says, give us a sense of the reaction there to Obama's speech.
I wouldn't say it was wild.
I I I I don't know how pained she was of saying that.
I I wouldn't say it was wild.
Oh, slap me.
Did I say it wasn't what it was not the reaction everybody thought they were gonna get, but that doesn't matter because they can make it up and say there was that reaction.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh serving humanity simply by uh showing up.
All right, I just took a listen, ladies and gentlemen.
Obama's doing a joint press conference now with Nicolas Sarkozy, the uh president of France, and here's pretty much what Obama's saying.
I also want to thank uh uh uh the uh this uh uh uh uh uh uh uh is it was it's so bad that the camera did a close-up on his right hand gesturing as he's speaking, so nobody would see his mouth open.
Uh uh uh I called uh uh and I'm uh uh with uh uh as uh that uh and our uh uh uh uh and we have to do this uh uh as well as uh uh uh I all right that's enough fade it down.
We're gonna let it keep folks this is it's seven and a half, seven minutes, thirty-four seconds.
Uh not one of these uh's was duplicated from his Amon Jordan press conference earlier in the week.
Not one uh, not one that we just took all those that we could find in that 40 minute press conference and banged them together.
The drive-by media trying to persuade us that Obama's presidency is inevitable now, despite the polls showing him in a relatively poor position given the uh electoral environment.
He got no bump.
In fact, McCain's getting a bump.
If anybody's getting a bump, it's McCain out of this.
Obama is losing ground during this week in this trip.
And despite despite that, despite the polls showing uh Obama in a relatively poor position, they act the drive-by is the the disciples act like he's uh the president.
They like the fact that he's acting like the president, traveling the world like a president, putting together a transition team and so forth.
So he's the presumptive inevitable president, uh, and they want us to get used to it.
McCain to them now is an annoyance.
Back to the audio.
Oh, and there is a piece.
I've I've debated all day whether to read this.
There is a fabulous piece.
I found this last night at the UK Times online by Gerard Baker.
And it is a review of Obama to this point.
Well, because it's very long.
That's one of these things I wish I read this and I said, damn, I wish I had written it.
You want the headline?
He ventured forth to bring light to the world.
The anointed one's pilgrimage to the holy land is a miracle in action and a blessing to all his faithful followers.
You heard, by the way, that he stopped in Bethlehem to check the place he was born.
Didn't take any press there.
Didn't want to disturb the animals.
By the way, he canceled that two appearances yesterday with the troops in Germany, and you know what the excuse now is.
Now, this see, this is the kind of thing to me this matters.
This, well, yeah, they blamed on the Pentagon, but the see this is the kind of stuff that matters to me.
See, I think I think character, whether somebody's telling you the truth about things matters.
That way you you if if if you size up somebody as a as a BS artist or as a liar, and you elect them, then you get what you deserve, and you should never express surprise.
Like, I, for one, am not surprised Edwards may have done what he did because I think Edwards has been a charlatan and a phony baloney con man since the beginning got into politics after he left the law.
So none of the Edwards story surprises me.
None of no what Bill Clinton does surprises me.
It did surprise Clinton after the fact that people who ignored who he was who had supported him, but uh, you know, even the drive-by started dumping on Clinton during the uh Obama Hillary campaign.
No, what what the Obama camp is saying is that they out of respect for the military, canceled because they thought it would be improper for a paid-for campaign event to go visit the troops, and it would be demeaning to the troops to appear as a campaign event.
The Pentagon said you can come, but you can't bring the media circus and you can't bring the cameras.
When the Pentagon said you can't bring the cameras, that's when the Obama people said they're not going.
Then they try to lay this off on the Pentagon.
And but the the bottom line is they were not allowed to bring cameras, and that's why they canceled it.
But here's the thing.
Obama started his speech yesterday saying he was not a candidate.
Remember?
He was just a guy walking through the woods there, and he sees a hundred thousand people or more, a microphone and a podium says, hey, I think I'll go give a speech.
He stands up as I am not a candidate.
I'm a citizen of the world or whatever, cancels the trip to the troops because he's a campaign.
Or it would be a campaign event.
Now, how can a non candidate be engaging in a campaign event?
See, these are little things, folks, to most people.
Ah, they matter.
He could still go, he could go.
In fact, the wise thing would to have done would have been to go see them with nobody knowing he had done it, and then announced that he had done it after he was gone, and then go to the Ritz Carlton to work out.
That would have been the smart thing to do.
But he it makes it look what's obvious.
He didn't care about seeing the troops.
He wanted a photo up.
And when they told him he couldn't take any photographers, and the reason you can't take photographers, the Pentagon has a rule that the military can't get involved in campaigns.
And so that's why you couldn't, you couldn't take photographers.
Well, Obama could have gone in there as a private citizen without, you know, he could they they said he could take couple three aides, no media, and no um no pictures, but he could have gone in, and he didn't.
Now, a lot of people hearing this, ah, that's not a big deal, Rush.
I mean, it's busy scared.
This stuff, this is the little stuff that I notice that sends up huge red flags about somebody's character.
I was telling Snerdley when we walked out of here yesterday, when he made this remark, the thing that I will never forget.
I'm gonna remember a lot about that speech yesterday when he trashed his own country.
When he when he focused on our imperfections, and he said, we have a lot of explaining to do, and we're torturers.
Where the real torturers are ignored and not condemned, China, Cuba, Africa, Russia, Middle East, and we get called out for torture.
I mean, I'm not going to forget that.
I'm so I'm not going to be, I'm not going to be cowed, but Rush, he cares about people.
No, I don't care.
The guy is ideologically wrong, and he is insincere, and you can't trust the fact that he cares.
Because there are too many things that come out of his mouth that are contradictory that I would say are obfuscations, prevarications for those of you in Rio Linda.
He's lying.
And this trip visits, troop visit in Germany is a classic illustration.
Same thing with trashing his own country.
I won't forget that.
Now, why is that important?
Some people, it's not Rush, you know, he's just he's just trying to appeal to his base.
This is why associations matter.
Who does he know that thinks the same way about America as he spoke it yesterday?
Well, Jeremia Wright, his wife Michelle, my Belle Obama, Jeremiah Wright's replacement, this Otis Moss guy, uh William Ayres.
Many of his college professors, Acorn, the community activism or organizing work that he did.
My point is that his experience has been around, and he's a learner, not a thinker, has been around people who have the same view of America that he articulated yesterday to the Germans.
He had, he had, he threw out one little paragraph at how positive he was, or how much he loved his country, but that was just a same little face after he'd gotten through throwing America overboard to a bunch of German kids.
He even got the Berlin airlift wrong.
He said the weather was so bad a bunch of pilots turned back.
He insulted the Air Force.
I don't know if he intended to, but there weren't that many planes that turned back.
The Air Force doesn't launch people, airplanes into inclement weather that can't land.
He got so many factual things wrong at the Belfast.
The walls are not down in Belfast.
They're still there.
Sure.
Uh these things matter to me.
We're talking here about the presidency of the United States.
I don't care what his image is.
I don't, I don't care that he sounds smart, because I know he's not.
He may have the ability to learn things, but it's what he's learned that's scary.
But I don't think he's I don't think he's a thinker.
When he's doing these press conferences, when he's doing these joint photo ops like now with Sarkozy, the Uz and the uh, he's he's wandering in vain for coherent thought because he's not a thinker.
Contrast this, if you will, ladies and gentlemen.
Take your any any typical Obama speech.
Speech that he gave yesterday in Germany, speech he gave after securing the nomination when he was up in Minnesota, soaring, uplifting, they say.
Do you hear any of the language in his speeches when he is making appearances before the press or like this with Sarkozy?
Do you hear even the same tone of voice, do you hear the same energy?
You don't.
Those speeches are written for him, and we know they are, David Axelrod and some others.
He just absorbs it.
And they give him talking points before the press conferences.
He goes out and stays Consistent with them, like how he was explaining that he wouldn't change his opinion on the surge even now after he knows it's worked.
So these these little things, they all add up, and they give you a great view into the character of somebody.
You add to that, he is apparently very willing and very much enjoys soaking up this image as the Messiah.
He likes it.
He likes being portrayed this way.
He cultivates it.
That's a character flaw.
That's that's that's you know that's a personality thing that is dangerous, folks.
No humility, or very little.
Humility and short supply.
Anyway, gotta take a brief break, but this piece that this guy in the UK Times wrote, and it came to pass in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger, the ignorant, when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a child appeared in the wilderness.
The child was blessed in looks and intellect.
Skyon of a simple family, offspring of miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person, and an African peasant.
And yeah, as he grew, the child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.
When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the city of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organization with the prophet Jeremiah and the elders.
And the elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves, verily, who is this child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope.
In the great battles of Caucus in primary, he smote the conniving Hillary, wife of the deposed King Bill Priepic, and their barbarian hordes of working class whites.
And so it was in the fullness of time, before the harvest month of the appointed year, the child ventured forth for the first time to bring light onto all the world.
He traveled fleet of foot in light of camel with a small retinue that consisted only of his loyal disciples from the tribe of the media.
He ventured first to the land of the Hindu Kush, where the Taliban had harbored the viper of Al Qaeda in their bosom, reigning terror on all the world.
And the child spake, and the tribes of NATO immediately loosed the caveats that had previously bound them.
And in the great battle that ensued, the forces of the light were triumphant for as long as the child stood with his arms raised aloft, the enemy suffered great blows, and the threat of terror was no more.
From there he went forth to Mesopotamia, where he was received by the great ruler Al Maliki, and Al Maliki spoke unto him and blessed his sixteen-month troop withdrawal plan, even as the imperial warrior Petraeus tried to destroy it.
And lo, in Mesopotamia, a miracle occurred.
Even though the great surge of armor that the evil Bush had ordered had been a terrible mistake, a waste of vital military resources and doomed to end in disaster, the child's very presence suddenly brought forth a great victory for the forces of the light.
And the Persians, who saw all this and were greatly fearful, longed to speak with the child, and saw that the child was the bringer of peace.
At the mention of his name, they quickly laid aside their intrigues and beat their uranium swords into civil nuclear energy plowshares.
From there, the child went up to the city of Jerusalem and entered to the gate, seated on an ass.
The crowds of network anchors who had followed him from afar cheered, Hosanna, and waved great palm fronds, strewed them at his feet.
It goes on.
I'm just halfway through it.
It's an excellent piece.
Gerard Baker, Times Online UK, back after this.
It is true that uh my friends, I just I tuned in again during the break to this press conference with Sarkozy and Obama, and it's worse than I've ever heard.
Uh uh RC.
It's like that press conference or that town hall meeting where he was really tired and just lost his total train of thought.
This it's it's embarrassing over there.
If I were in his shoes, uh and so uh a exactly what it sounds like.
I fade it down.
Cookie Gleason Traus is amazing.
She is literally amazing.
July 8th, 2005, live eight, Bono.
This is our moment.
This is our time.
This is our chance.
Stand up for what's right.
We're not looking for charity.
We're looking for justice.
This is Barack Obama yesterday in Berlin.
People of Berlin.
People of the world.
This is our moment.
This is our time.
And this is our moment.
This is our time.
This is our chance.
Stand up for what's right.
We're not looking for charity.
We're looking for justice.
People of Berlin.
People of the world.
This is our moment.
This is our time.
There you have it, ladies and gentlemen.
Obama plagiarizing Bono.
He also plagiarizes Daval Patrick, the uh governor of Massachusetts.
By the way, stocks are set to rise on durable goods news.
The stock futures jumped up after reports of a surprise strength in June.
Durable goods.
Home sales report looms as a major factor in the week's final trading day.
But this is CNN Money.com stocks.
Set to open higher Friday, despite concerns over the housing market, is orders for durable goods unexpectedly rose in June.
Unexpectedly rose.
Every AP or CNN economic report features the qualifier unexpected or surprising or some such thing.
Durable goods is one of the best economic indicators that you have out there.
And the oil prices have been fluctuating here today between 123 and 124 dollars.
A uh a barrel.
Washington Post today editorializing against the House of Representatives and Pelosi.
They're demanding a vote on drilling, offshore drilling.
And they don't understand why not have one.
I understand why not have one because Pelosi might lose it.
Because they are having defections on the Democrat side, both in the House and the Senate on the whole concept of increasing our supply of oil and uh and natural gas.
Brief time out, my friends.
The first hour of our program practically in the can.
Sit tight.
Wait till you hear the snarky remark that uh Obama made about French fries in the opening of the press conference with Sarkozy.
We have that plus I promise.
Look, I I I've had diarrhea of the mouth, and I apologize.
Look, get to your phone calls early in the next hour.
I promise you can count on it.
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