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Sept. 15, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
36:34
September 15, 2008, Monday, Hour #2
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Actually, I take that back.
I want to play the Bidens first.
34-35-36.
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Let me just give you another example.
The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
It was supposed to instill confidence, right?
Supposed to stop the bleeding, right?
How the hell can this be happening with Lehman Brothers today and Merrill Lynch?
How can all this be happening if the bailout of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae was supposed to fix everything?
How come it didn't instill any confidence in anything?
Hmm?
Hmm?
And you think Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have been fixed?
What's the stock?
43 cents?
And the government owns it?
You think it's a good buy?
Don't do it.
This is going to have to be done again once we get a new series of leaders in there in a couple of years.
This did not fix anything, folks.
If it did, why Lehman Brothers would be on Fat City today?
So damned obvious.
Here, if people ever wondered why my brain is so big, you ever wondered why and how I can do this program with half my brain tied behind my back and still outshine them all?
The answer?
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Vitamin B12 deficiency can also cause anemia and inflammation of the nervous system.
Yeast extracts are one of the few vegetarian foods which provide good levels of the vitamin.
So I eat a lot of meat.
I actually eat liver and onions a lot, too.
Brain is huge.
This is why, folks, not only did I suggest that you buy Allen Brothers, it's why I'm one of their biggest customers.
I am one of their big, I just damn, well, normally I'm a skeptic of health news, but when I have me as a testimonial to the accuracy of the story, of course I'm going to believe the story.
A lot of my friends have big heads, and a lot of them eat meat, and you got to have a big head means you got a big brain in there.
Joe Biden's campaign plan, the press section, is empty.
This is from Jim Garrett, hey, reporting at National Review Online's campaign spot.
Since the Delaware senator left Obama's side and ventured out on his own on a Labor Day, he's hardly garnered any national media interest at all except for today.
His plane is a blue chartered 737 crossed the country with about three-quarters of its seats empty.
Rose and Rose with narrowly a warm body to be found.
His supporters maintain he's connecting with voters and garnering positive media entry like he did in Columbia, Missouri last week, introducing that local state senator that everybody has a lot of great love and respect.
You remember how that went.
Chuck Graham, state senators here.
Stand up, Chuck.
Let him see you.
Oh, God love you.
What am I talking about?
I tell you what, you're making everybody else stand up, OPAL.
Stand up for Chuck.
I tell you what, stand up for Chuck.
And then he followed that up with the admission that Obama chose incorrectly.
Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America.
Let's get that straight.
She's a truly close personal friend.
She is qualified to be president of the United States of America.
She's easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America.
And quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me, but she's first rate.
So remember the story we told you at the beginning of the program?
Biden is there in Charlotte, North Carolina, home state of John Edwards, saying that his grandkids had a slumber party with Obama's kids at the Democrat National Convention.
That's what people want.
The American people, what they want here is people to be comfortable at a sleepover with, meaning himself and Obama.
And nobody was on the press plane or in the press section of his airplane on the trip from, where do you go, Wilmington to, yeah, let's see, where is he going to.
Yep, Wilmington to Charlotte on Sunday.
It's the best show on the road.
And nobody's, well, Palin's the best show on the road, but I mean, for pure entertainment, if you're a, and laughs, if you're a drive-by media guy and you're fed up with politics as usual and the same old, you're always looking for something new and exciting, how do you not get on Biden's plane?
Now, Biden, where was he today?
He was in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, trashing Bush for not reaching across the aisle and running down the economy.
Remember the promise to reach across the aisle, to change the tone, to restore honor and dignity to the White House.
We saw how that story ends.
A record number of home foreclosures, home values tumbling, and the disturbing news that the crisis that you've been facing on Main Street is now hitting Wall Street, taking down Lehman Brothers and threatening other large financial institutions.
So Bush did this.
The Bush and McCain economic policies did this.
They run down the country.
Now, I understand this is a campaign and you have to run down the status quo when you're running for office, but these guys ought to learn that people don't want to hear this constant whining and groaming and complaining about this.
They want to hear some solutions other than to say we've got to get rid of the people that are in there.
But remember that promise to reach across the yes, we do, Senator Biden.
We remember it so well because it happened way too much.
Senator Biden, if you've forgotten that Ted Kennedy wrote the education bill, have you forgotten the massive comprehensive amnesty bill, immigration reform?
What do you mean Bush didn't cross the aisle with you guys?
And McCain didn't cross the aisle and so forth.
A record number of home foreclosure, yeah, because people like you made sure that people who couldn't pay the loans back were given mortgages.
Now it's soup line America in this next bite.
We've seen eight straight months of job loss in America.
Nearly 46 million Americans without any health insurance.
Average incomes down while the price of everything from gas to groceries is going up and up.
A military stretched thin from two wars, one of necessity and one of choice.
Multiple deployments of not only regular military, but National Guard as well as reservist.
A nation more polarized than I have seen any time in my career.
Why?
And a culture in Washington where the very few wealthy and powerful have a seat at the table and the rest of us are on the menu.
The rest of us are on the menu.
You are part of the Washington elite.
You've been there longer than McCain has been there, Senator.
And this is a clever line, I think, they wrote for Senator Biden.
We forget this recent history.
We're going to be doomed to repeat it.
We'll get four more years, just like the last eight.
If you're ready for four more years of George Bush, then John McCain's your guy.
You know, just as George Herbert Walker Bush was nicknamed Bush 41 and his son was nicknamed Bush 43, John McCain could easily become known as Bush 44.
Now, isn't it interesting that all of a sudden these guys have got to go now run against George W. Bush?
That's what they're doing.
Why do they have to do that?
What happened to the Hope campaign?
What happened to the change campaign?
What happened to Obama as the Messiah?
What happened to Obama as the anointed one?
What happened to Obama as the one we've been waiting for?
What happened to Obama as the great unifier?
What happened to Obama as the guy who's going to stop all this partisanship?
Ain't working.
They got nothing to say about Obama, so now let's go back.
Let's trash Bush.
Let's run against Bush again.
Oh, by the way, say that McCain is just going to be an extension of Bush.
The mistake they're making on this is that Bush's popularity numbers may be down, but he's not disliked by the great middle of this country.
He's hated and reviled by the kook lunatic fringe on the left, but he's not personally disliked.
And these people, Biden, Obama, are coming off with personal hatred aimed at George W. Bush, and that's not going to fly.
They're still imploding.
We'll be back much more straight ahead right after this.
This is really amazing.
Ladies and gentlemen, I admit to you in many cases, in many instances, that I understand liberals like every square inch of my glorious naked buddy.
I can tell you what they're going to do before they do it.
I can explain to you why they're going to do what they're going to do before they do it.
I can analyze for you after they've done it what they were thinking, what they were hoping.
There is one thing that I have not, I don't quite understand their thinking on.
Not totally.
It's this whole business of Jesus Christ was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor.
The only, I need some help on this, because the only way to analyze that in the current context is Jesus Christ equals Obama, Sarah Palin equals Pilate.
Pilate allowed mob rule to run crazy on the community organizer, and we got a crucifixion.
I do not understand how this is a positive for Obama.
Obama was a community organizer.
Jesus was a community organizer.
I don't understand how that's a positive.
And then you throw the pilot thing in there.
I just, I literally don't understand it.
I know this will appeal to the kook fringe because it was a kook fringer who posted this originally on the Washington Post blog called The Fix.
Some woman named Laura, just some nutcase out there.
And it gets picked up by the drive-bys.
It gets picked up by Dona Brazilian people.
The latest is Tom Brokaw.
Tom Brokaw used this yesterday in an interview on Meet the Depressed with Rudy Giuliani.
It seemed to a lot of people that you were belittling the role of a community organizer, and it led to this button.
It was addressed to Senator Palin because she also talked about it.
Jesus Christ was a community organizer.
Pontius Pilate was a governor.
Now, this just defies.
I thought Tom Brokaw thought that Olberman and Matthews, and I get those two mixed up, were too extreme and were bringing down the reputation, the image of NBC.
Chris Matthews actually chastised on his show one of the congressmen, Steve Cohen, Democrat from Tennessee, for using this.
What are you talking about?
What the hell does this mean?
And this guy apologized for it.
Steve Cohen took it.
Yeah, I was wrong.
I should have said it a different way.
Now, here's Brokaw out there asking, using this phrase and showing the button.
There's now a campaign button made out of this thing, and he shows it to Rudy Giuliani.
Now, this is a great example of what I was talking about last week.
We really screw up when we try to analyze these people within rational terms or ways because this clearly they see this as something that's a huge positive for them.
They see this as something that is going to really rescue Obama from this community organizer thing to compare him to Jesus Christ.
Now, he's already done that.
That's the Messiah business, and that fell flat.
The Messiah is gone.
Obama's not even playing the Messiah card.
Now, one thing I know that Obama's doing: Obama has come up with a new strategy, and his strategy is not to mention Palin.
And the reason he's not mentioning Palin is because he knows these idiots in the drive-bys are doing it for him.
Now, I don't want to make too much of this, but I just want to tell you, there's not much that offends me anymore.
I'm 57.
I have a whole new philosophy about being offended in the first place because I want to give power, that kind of power, to people who offend me.
I hate the offended.
They walk around sulking.
They're always mad.
They're always offended.
And they're demanding that somebody do something about the person that defended them.
But this, this phrase bothers me.
This phrase offends me greatly.
And I don't understand, literally in this one instance, I don't understand how they think this is a big plus for them.
Remember now, this is the same group that could not understand why $175 million or almost $200 million worth of tickets in this country alone were sold to see the movie The Passion of the Christ.
These are people who disdain Christianity.
They are constantly talking about separation of church and state.
These are people who are scared to death of people of faith.
These are people who look down on evangelicals.
These are people who mock them and make fun of them and think of them as a bunch of hayseed hicks.
And now they're out there trying to sound like theologians who are experts in scripture and relating it to the modern day.
Now, not only is Obama not Jesus Christ because nobody is, nor is Sarah Palin Pontius Pilate.
So we're going to play Brokaw again and then Rudy's answer right after it.
It seemed to a lot of people that you were belittling the role of a community organizer and it led to this button.
It was addressed to Senator Palin because she also talked about it.
Jesus Christ was a community organizer.
Pontius Pilate was a governor.
The group that recruited him was a Sololinsky group that has all kinds of questions with regard to their outlook on the economy, their outlook on capitalism.
When Senator Obama was asked about his increase in capital gains tax, his answer was, well, it's only fair, which gets you to a very core Sololinsky kind of almost socialist notion that it should be used for redistribution of wealth.
And the community organizer thing was consistent with that kind of very left-wing approach.
The question is, what kind of work did Barack Obama do and how effective was it long term?
A lot of those housing projects failed.
It wasn't just that.
Education projects, but he didn't even want to talk about them.
But this Pontius Pilot was a governor.
Why don't you say Jesus Christ was a community organizer?
Well, you can't, you have to find somebody who was a governor because you're ripping Palin here.
You know, he says, payback for paling or Palin and Rudy mocking Obama's community organization, as they should.
It's nothing.
He's a giant failure.
It's stuff you don't even want to talk about.
He's lying about it, in fact, too.
Steve Gilbert, sweetnessandlight.com, came up with a whole list of examples.
There's a couple websites out there how Obama has been padding his resume.
And we know this because a guy who used to work for Obama at a newsletter company, which Obama said in his biography was a consultancy on high finance, says Obama is making it up about what he's still going to vote for Obama because he likes Obama.
Imagine that.
But he's making up his resume.
He's totally made up the resume.
He's totally made up the story of his work in New York for this newsletter.
He was a copy editor.
He never met with Japanese investors.
He never told anybody any financial strategy whatsoever.
He never even wore a tie to work.
But he's got this passage in his book where he's leaving his corner office, which he also didn't have.
And he was talking to his secretary, which he also didn't have a secretary.
And this is from somebody who worked there.
He said the only guy had a secretary was the CEO of this little small newsletter company.
And Obama describes walking out of his corner office that he didn't have after saying goodbye to his secretary he didn't have.
And he sees himself in a mirror carrying a briefcase, wearing a suit and tie, looking really spiffy and thinking he's on the cusp of selling out here, betraying his organizational desires.
So this guy says he never wore a tie to work.
None of us did.
We never met anybody.
We were copy editors.
We'd show up at 10 o'clock in the morning in jeans and a t-shirt.
See, making it all up.
And I just, I, you know, again, folks, everybody's overlooking, like, Rudy didn't answer this.
Nobody's talking about the Pontius Pilot line in this.
They're all trying to say Jesus Christ was a community organizer, and they think that they're refuting all the Palin and Rudy jocular criticism of Obama's community organization bill.
But I'm just, I am here to tell you, I am here to tell you that these people that all of a sudden Brokaw and all these other people now think that they're finally hitting home relating to values voters and so forth, this business of throwing Pontius Pilate in there and comparing him or Sarah Palin to him, knowing full well Pontius Pilate's historical role in the Bible, they are bombing on this like they can't believe it.
It's because they don't understand Christianity.
They don't understand the people who are Christians.
They don't understand people of faith.
This is bigger than anybody understands.
Let's review the rest of these people that have said this line.
Donna Brazil on September 7th, a little over a week ago on CNN.
Jesus was a community organizer.
Pontius Pilot was a governor.
And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer to help people in distress.
And then this was Steve Cohen, Democrat Tennessee, last Wednesday on the floor of the House.
I submit to you, Mr. Speaker, that the parties have differences, but if you want change, you want the Democratic Party.
Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus, who our minister prayed about.
Pontius Pilot was a governor.
And then Susan Sarandon.
Jesus was a community organizer, and Pontius Pilot was a governor.
You know, this is, I hope they keep saying it.
I hope it spreads.
I mean, one of the greatest things in the world was Brokaw actually showing the button on Meet the Press yesterday.
They can't possibly understand what they're saying.
They just, no, I know they understand what they're saying.
They can't possibly understand the ramifications of this.
They just don't.
They just, thank goodness for us, they do not get it.
How about Lindsay Lohan, ladies?
Have you heard about this?
Let me tell you, so, well, maybe so, snurdily, but this is the kind of thing we want.
We want more of this.
We want more of these celebrities coming out here and ripping Sarah Palin.
These people, if I'm Obama, let me tell you something.
I know it's getting out of hand, but let it happen.
Let it keep happening.
If I'm Obama, if I'm Obama, I'm sitting there in my bunker and I'm thinking of all this.
I got Biden out there.
He's a gaff machine.
I got Biden out there saying I should have chosen Hillary.
He's asking a guy in a wheelchair to stand up.
I got everybody laughing at me.
I got people laughing at Biden.
Limbo's playing rim shots every time we speak, just making us out to be a couple of comedians here.
And I can't get these, I can't get Matt Damon to shut up.
I can't get this Lindsay Lohan to shut up.
I can't get Paris Hill to shut up.
I can't get all these people on Saturday Night Live to shut up.
I mean, they're all undermining me.
You know, all these people do is watch MSNBC.
You got to stop it.
And they read Mother Jones, and that's where they get their new day.
They're killing me out there.
And if you don't think that's the case, Rasmussen, 63% of voters say McCain is prepared right now to be president.
50% say that Biden is prepared to be president.
44% say Obama is ready.
45% say he isn't.
Among voters not affiliated with either major political party, 71% say McCain's prepared, while just 35% say the same about Obama.
I'm looking here at Palin mentioned it.
52% say, wait a minute now, wait a minute now.
Rasmussen poll taken in September 1st, three days after Palin was chosen.
Voters 48 to 29 say she's not ready to be president.
And then after yesterday's poll, 52% say she's not prepared, but 33% disagree.
Obama is third in line of people who think he's ready to be President McCain way at the top.
Then Biden in there at 50-50 and Obama at 44-45.
Lindsay Lohan says that Palin's a media-obsessed homophobe.
I really can't bite my tongue anymore when it comes to Sarah Palin.
I couldn't be more supportive of a woman in office, but let's face it, it comes down to the person and their beliefs, male or female.
Now, this is safe to say that this woman's brain is at best a fried egg.
Maybe, okay, a scrambled egg.
And she's out there.
This is on her blog.
But of course, the nut roots picked this up.
It's great.
It is absolutely fabulous.
Is our country so divided that the Republicans' best hope is a narrow-minded, media-obsessed homophobe?
I'm afraid that the lipstick on a pig comments will overshadow the issues and the fact that I believe Obama is the best choice in this election for president.
Women have come a long way in the fight to have the choice over what we do with our bodies, and it's frightening to see that a woman in 2008 would negate all of that.
Oh, and hint, hint, Paley pal, don't pose for any more tabloid covers.
You're not a celebrity.
You're running for office to represent our country, your country, my country.
In the words of Pamela Anderson, you can suck it.
Now, I love these kinds of endorsements coming from Obama supporters.
We need for more of this to happen.
Let me go to the phones, people, because I want to go to they're ripping into McCain's age now, and that's going to backfire on him.
But we'll go to the phones.
I want to start in Duran, Michigan.
People have been waiting patiently here for quite a while.
Hi, Bob.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hey, Rush, Super Mega Dittos from the land of the economically lost.
Thank you very much, sir.
Hey, first off, I want to tell you, you know how most people hate being put on hold?
I love it, especially with your show, because those parodies I'm hearing are far more entertaining than the entire Mitch album show.
With that said, let me get on to my point.
Well, you know, during our commercial breaks here, when people are on hold, we feed them the net audio, and when we feed during our advertising holds, when the stations are running local commercials, we feed just a constant rotation of the many, many parodies we've had over the years.
They are funny.
Yeah, I mean, I'm hoping that I could keep my thoughts straight because I was laughing so hard at some of these.
And not only that, when you were on, I was yelling at my radio, going right on.
He's saying exactly everything I've been saying.
This whole thing about community organizer and all that.
Jesus Christ was a teacher first and a carpenter.
You can't apply 21st-century political.
I talked about this for this whole community organizer business.
That's offensive, too.
Yeah.
Because community organizers, John Gotti's community organizer.
Al Sharpton's community organizer.
The American people are not idiots.
To the people.
Here's where these people do not get it.
From Tom Broco to Donna Brazil to whoever, the people that they are offending think Jesus Christ is one thing: truth.
Jesus Christ is the truth.
And the Pope, on his visit here, say was in New York talking in one of his appearances, and he just said, Jesus Christ is truth.
If you have any doubts, Jesus Christ is truth.
This community organizer business is an effort to elevate.
This is another thing that's so offensive.
Here you have this little man-child with no experience worth talking about, lying about his resume, and they dare to criticize him to the work Jesus Christ did.
I mean, this is, folks, you do not know what a gaff this continues to be.
They certainly don't either.
Trust me on this.
Exactly.
Hey, my main point for Colin, so I don't want to upset snerdly, is I was listening to the first hour of your segment, and you were talking about all these Lehman brothers and the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the other government screws.
I'm thinking, and maybe I'm way off on this, I'm thinking this is a calculated event on the Democrats' part.
Look, if they screw everything up, which they can't be that stupid to know they're not screwing anything up, they've got a great scapegoat in George Bush.
I mean, they're so dumb that they even pushed off and get people to believe that Katrina was Bush's.
Wait a second, wait a second, wait a second.
I need to ask you specifics.
What part of this are you talking about the mortgage business?
You're talking about Freddie Mae, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae specifically, Lehman Brothers.
What of this are you saying is a calculated move by the Democrats to create panic in people's minds and blame it on Bush?
Well, I think it's anything with the, and you were talking about Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae in particular, because they knew they were giving out lousy loans.
It was lousy registration.
They knew they were padding their pockets, and they added bonuses.
They got all their sock puppets out there in the media, and they're already ready to pass it off on Bush.
You know, just like Katrina, you know, nobody bothered questioning what happened to the money that Bush allocated for the levies, where it was spent.
Plus, they were asking, Anybody who took civics class knows that the first responders to emergencies are state and local governments.
No, wait a minute.
Civics isn't taught the way you and I.
They don't know anything about first responders.
The feds can't trump the state.
The people of this country, the feds should trump the state.
Look, I understand what you're thinking about this conspiracy.
You've got Franklin Raines, who was forced out of Fannie Mae, who's now an economic advisor to Obama.
You've got Jim Johnson who worked with Fannie Mae.
He's now a Barack Economic Advisor.
You think that they engineered the timing of the mortgage mess so that it would happen toward the end of the Bush administration in the campaign.
Well, I don't know that they specifically got that specific with it, but I've been noticing through the whole eight years of the Bush presidency, I feel sorry for the man because it's damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.
Just like the war on terror.
If nobody attacks us, he exaggerated a threat, a la Al Gore.
If somebody does attack us, he didn't do enough to protect us.
His 9-11 hasn't changed anything.
Our security is still inept.
So I feel sorry for the man.
And this is exactly what they're going to do because I see it in the ads.
McCain, you know, McCain Bush, same of the same, you know.
Right, but I think what you need to do is go back to the first hour and listen again to what I said.
Because this is a genuine problem.
This is not contrived.
This happened because these people, whether they wanted it to hurt Bush or not, they've hurt themselves.
And if it weren't for this bailout, there'd be a lot of them in the gutter.
This is about the government, the Washington political class, saving itself in the guise of saving you.
First and foremost, is to save themselves, not blame it on Bush.
And this is something that's been foretold by events.
You cannot make never-ending loans to people who can't pay them back.
Because when those people can't pay them back, they're not going to pay them back.
And when they don't pay them back, somebody's going to get stuck with worthless paper.
And they're not getting stuck with worthless paper on purpose just so they can harm Bush.
They got into this because liberals run Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae as nothing more than little instruments of their own political advancement and survival.
They dole out campaign contributions to Democrats and candidates and so forth.
I mean, here's two entities that are involved in the mortgage business, and they're giving Jesse Jackson a million and a half dollars in grants.
There's far more involved in this than you know, but the thing to recall here, the thing to never let go of, is that the very cure for this is the problem.
The people who destroyed the home mortgage business are now totally in charge of it while blaming the free market and capitalism.
This is not about blaming Bush.
This is socialists at war with capitalism doing what they can to tar and feather capitalism so that more and more people will accept more and more government in charge of more and more free enterprise because that equals their power.
Plus, they are, they're not idiots.
They know that this can't be sustained forever, just as long as it can be sustained while they're alive, so that they have power while they're alive and that they can enjoy life when they're alive.
But they know the bill is going to come due at some point.
They're just going to make sure it doesn't come due when they're around.
We have a cell call from I-95 in North Carolina.
This is Vincent, and it's great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Jigga Redneck Ditto's worshipful sir.
Thank you, sir.
I got to attend the McCain Palin rally last week in Northern Virginia.
And boy, let me tell you, the women up there are fired up.
It was a sight to behold, sir.
Yeah, you know, what would you say the percentage of the audience of this rally was female?
Definitely.
I'd say at least 70%, and they're not your normal nags either.
There were some cougars out there, some pretty ladies and smart.
I'm not surprised.
I've heard this, other rallies.
Of course, they're smart.
Cougars, yeah, you're going to have a mixture out there.
But, folks, I've got some of the most outrageous stuff written about Sarah Palin by feminists.
It's just delightful.
It is a, it is just, they're just, they're over, they're over the top.
They're imploding.
They can't believe what has happened here.
And as such, they are revealing who they really are.
Some of these women who are writing, and they have newspaper columns in San Francisco, Chicago, and so forth.
It's just fascinating to watch.
It is making my day because they are proving to one and all everything I have ever thought about them.
As feminists, it's not about women.
It's about certain women.
It's about liberal women.
It's about things other than women's rights and women's issues and women cracking the glass ceilings.
Nothing, nothing about that.
It's all about just extreme liberalism.
And I'll share with you some of the quotes, some of these pieces in the next hour.
In the meantime, here's Wayne in Cookville, Tennessee.
Great to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
Hey, Mega Steeler Ditto's Rush.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, last night while you were at Cleveland, I was watching the game on NBC, and Al Michaels did a profile on a player, and they played your theme music in the background.
It was awesome.
Who was the player that did the profile on you?
I don't remember because I was so hung up on the music that I didn't even listen to Al Michaels profile the player.
Was it a Steelers player or Browns player?
I believe it was a Browns player.
Browns player?
That would make sense.
My City Was Gone is written by Chrissy Hind of the Pretenders.
And it's about, she went away to pursue her rock career in Europe.
And she came back and they turned her little town into a shopping mall.
And it's an anti-developer song.
My City Was Gone.
And I forget the name of the city because I haven't listened to the lyrics in a long time.
I was in the NBC booth last night.
I was sitting.
I was sitting four feet to the left of Al Michaels.
And I had headphones on, but during commercial breaks, it's things like, I took the headphones off, and we were all shooting a bull in there.
I didn't hear that, but I got a couple text messages from people.
Hey, they're playing your song.
They're playing your theme song on Sunday Night Football.
Yep.
So I immediately figured out what it was.
It was a welcome and a testimonial to me.
I went down in a truck before the game started.
You know, Fred Godelli, who produced Monday Night Football for ABC, had just moved over to NBC, and I walked in their truck right before, I guess about an hour before the game.
And it was cool, all these high-definition screens in there with all the late games going on.
I was trying to figure out what happened with San Diego and Denver and so forth.
And Fred Godelli says, hey, Mike Mamone still working with you?
Mike Mamon's our broadcast engineer in New York.
Yeah, I haven't haven't seen Mamon in a long time.
So I told Mamon that Fred Godelli said hi to him, and Mamon said, I don't know what happened to him.
And he left ABC.
So for guys that know each other, they haven't stayed in touch.
So once again, I was the unifier, bringing Wake Mamon and Fred Godelli.
But those guys, it was a great time.
I've been up in their booth three or four times watching games, and it's just a hoot.
It always is.
It's amazing to watch how involved a live television is.
I'm a big Raider fan, and I always love John Madden anyway.
So, you know, it's exciting to listen to him.
You would never meet the nicest guy.
He was 87 degrees in the booth, and he had to put makeup on right before the opening.
He walks up to me and says, this is why you like radio better than TV.
All this caked on gunk.
And I gave him a fist pump.
You know, all those Michelle Obama terrorist fist pumps.
I said, Amen, bro.
I know exactly.
Noel Shepard, newsbusters.org, says that NBC was playing My City Was Gone, my theme song, and a profile of Ben Rothlessburger.
Nobody associates that song with Rothless Burger.
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