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Oct. 17, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 17, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 Podcast.
And the hits just keep on coming in 24 hours.
In 24 hours, the drive-by media can totally give an average American citizen, Joe the Plumber, a full-fledged anal exam.
Turn his life inside out and upside down in 24 hours.
And yet, in two years, the same media still cannot tell us who is Barack Obama and where are the same questions and the interviews of Bill Ayers.
Greetings, my friends, Rush Limbaugh on Friday.
Let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Now we know why Barack Obama did not want to do, ladies and gentlemen, 10 town hall meetings.
Don't forget, it was Barack Obama who knocked on Joe the Plumber's door.
It's not as though Carl Rolfe planted Joe the Plumber there a couple months ago, knowing full well that Obama was going to knock on his door.
It was Obama who knocked on it.
And everybody's missing the point.
It's not what Joe the Plumber said.
It's what Obama said.
We want to spread the wealth around.
So what we have to do is destroy Joe the Plumber.
The drive-by's have to go out and try to destroy and discredit an average citizen.
No wonder Obama didn't want 10 house town hall meetings.
Because look at how many questions like this he might have gotten and how many other Americans he and his campaign staff, the drive-by media, would have to go out there and try to destroy.
Great to have you with us here, folks, as we launch open line Friday.
Telephone number 800-282-2882, and the email address is L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Great to have you with us.
We go to the phones today, as you know, as opposed to Monday through Thursday.
You can talk about whatever you want to talk about.
The content of the program is all yours.
Tremendous, tremendous career risk, uh hazarded by me each and every Friday that I am here behind the golden EIB microphone.
The Supreme Court today is siding with Democrats in this case involving Ohio's Secretary of State, Jennifer Bruner.
As you know, their 200,000 voters registration that don't match uh their DMV records and social securities and so uh security numbers and so forth.
And the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals told the Secretary of State of Ohio, with whom we had numerous run-ins during Operation Chaos, by the way.
Uh she was uh she was saying, I don't have time to implement this by Friday.
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals says, You've got to straighten this out.
You gotta figure out which of these people are legit and which aren't.
You got to do it by Friday.
So she ran to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court did I think it's the full court.
I don't think it was just Justice Stevens.
I think she asked for the full court.
Uh, and that they they they said that um uh the the setup in Ohio is sufficient as it is to weed out all these fraudulent voters, Republicans were contending the information for counties that they wanted uh Brunner to give would help prevent fraud.
And Jennifer Bruner said the Republicans are trying to disenfranchise voters.
These are already known to be fraudulent registrations.
So uh basically Jennifer Bruner, the Secretary of State for Ohio, went to the Supreme Court and said, Let my people cheat, and the United States Supreme Court said, so ordered.
Your people can cheat.
What a great country.
By the way, folks, the Associated Press.
Now, you know all these polling uh polls are tightening up now, exactly as I told you they would.
Exactly they are a wait a second, that's the story, snerdly.
He says, I'm the only one reporting it.
AP 4442.
There's another poll.
What is it?
AP Yahoo 4442.
There's another one that's 4846.
Forget what it is.
There are some polls with the with a if we go to state polls like Obama's supposedly up 10 points in Virginia and so forth.
But on this AP poll, what what's amazing about oh, oh, before I give you the details, let me let me get do you remember when we had the bailout for the banks?
And I said, you know what, he just tried this in Europe.
The Europeans bailed out the banks over there 150, 200 billion pounds.
Maybe that was dollars with a pound equivalent.
But the the uh banks over there did not put it into the credit markets.
They saved it, they deposited it for later.
And I said, What?
How do we know that's not gonna happen here?
Well, it has happened here.
Banks are likely to hold tight to bailout money, says the New York Times today.
We asked the question right here.
What if they don't lend?
What if they hold on to the money?
The Merrill Lynch CEO, John Thane, said on Thursday the banks were unlikely to act swiftly.
Executives and other banks privately expressed a similar view.
We will have the opportunity to redeploy that, but at least for the next quarter, it's going to be a cushion.
They are not, they're not going to put this bailout money in the circulation.
They're going to sit on it for the fourth quarter and maybe into the first part of next year.
Exactly as predicted on this program.
Thank you.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
This is why the latest opinion audit shows that I am documented to be almost always right, 98.8% of the time.
The Associated Press poll shows McCain down to Obama 442.
Now, there's an interesting sidelight.
In the last four weeks, Obama has not moved.
He's gone down in some polls.
He's not over 50.
He can't get over 48.
If you take the uh the average of all these polls, he's at 48 and he has not moved in a month.
But this AP poll, this is near journalistic malpractice, because I have the story.
The poll, don't forget now, 4442, Obama.
Here's the headline of their own story talking about their own poll.
Voters souring on McCain, Obama stays steady.
It's 4442.
I read the whole story.
I read the entire story.
Nowhere in the story is their poll mentioned.
Their story focuses totally on how voters are souring on McCain.
In a poll that they report being 4442 Obama.
Two-point poll statistically tied.
Now they released a PDF of their poll, and you have to go through page by page, and finally when you get to page six, when you get to page six, why right here it is.
If the 2008 general election for president were being held today, and these are the candidates would you vote for and right there it is.
Obama 44, McCain 42.
On page six.
I know it's margin of error.
I just said that.
Statistically tied.
But it's not in their story is the point.
Their story deals entirely with how people are souring on McCain.
Now you have to ask a question.
Why would the AP be this uh uh deceptive?
Why would the AP be this deceptive?
Could it be because the AP is scared?
Could it be because you know I I I I would we've got the audio sound bites coming up of the uh the jokes, both appearances of both candidates, the Alfred E. Smith dinner last night.
Do you happen to see it, Snarly?
McCain killed.
McCain killed Obama didn't.
I learned something else about Obama last night.
This guy is harboring a lot of bitterness.
I don't know who wrote his material, but whoever wrote his material is damn mad.
And he's mad.
And he's me, and he's mad, or he's mad about the way the media is treating him.
And he's mad about a whole bunch.
I learned something else.
He does not have a sense of humor.
I said yesterday that Obama, everybody talks about him being cold.
It's not cold or cool, rather.
They talk about him.
He's cold.
He is so cold he can stand by and let innocent babies who survive abortions be killed.
He can sign legislation supporting that's cold, folks.
Last night his collar was way too big.
He looked very scrawny up there.
And he just, I mean, McCain got all the laughs.
It was just it was hilarious.
And Obama.
McCain's worst lines got a better reaction in Obama's best lines.
He has no sense of humor whatsoever out there.
So 4442, AP hides it, and then puts a disingenuous spin on voters souring on McCain, Obama stays steady.
How could Obama be said to be saying steady when he's been at 48 in all these polls?
He's at 44 in the AP poll.
Alan Fram and Trevor Thompson are the Obama campaign staffers who wrote the story for AP Obama.
But he can't find it in the story.
And also, I went back because I remembered something.
This past summer.
Gallup put out a poll.
McCain needs to hammer this.
Here's the headline.
Where was this?
This was uh it was in the in July sometime.
Headline June, on June 27th.
Americans oppose income redistribution to fix economy.
By 84 to 13%.
Hello, Joe the Plumber.
When given a choice about how government should address the numerous economic difficulties facing today's consumer, Americans overwhelmingly 84 to 13 prefer that government focus on improving overall economic conditions and the job situation in the country as opposed to taking steps to distribute wealth more evenly among Americans.
84 to 13.
This is back in June.
Now, granted, gas prices were stri were very high in June.
The economy and the Wall Street mess had not yet come to the uh to the fore.
I mean, it was it was it was effervescent out there.
Well we hadn't gotten to the point where we're panicking and talking about um uh about bailouts, and in another portion of the same plus gallop now, half of Americans think government's doing too much, not too little.
This is the Joe the Plumber lesson.
And the Joe the Plumber lesson is not who he is and not what he said.
The lesson is what Obama said.
But now the drive-bys have to go out and destroy Joe the Plumber.
As I asked yesterday, how many Joe the Plumbers, Joe Six Pax, and Josephine the Plumbers are there?
They are doing everything they can.
The Obama campaign staff, the drive-by media to destroy Joe the plumber.
And he's having some hard economic times right now, like a lot of people are.
They're even saying he's got this fantasy of owning a business.
He's got a fantasy.
As though that's not possible.
Who is this guy thinking he's gonna own a plumbing on a plumbers union, as we told you yesterday, dumping all over Joe the Plumber about the fact he didn't have a license or or what have you.
The fact of the matter is he is a plumber and he can work.
They're doing everything they can to describe the guy, but what about this fantasy business?
He has a fantasy.
Like fantasies are unrealistic, are they not?
That's why they're called fantasies.
Dreams is what he has.
That's right, he has a dream, and they're calling his dream a fantasy.
I hope, I hope people are noticing what this Obama campaign is willing to do in order to win.
And it's it's a page right out of the Clinton book.
You destroy anybody, including average Americans, you claim to have formulated your economic plans to help.
Remember all the women in the Clinton administration, trailer park trash, they were set out, they've got a whole bimbo eruptions unit to destroy them.
Obama's got the same thing here.
Twenty-four hours.
The drive-by media can unearth everything there is about Joe the plumber.
In two years, we can't even get them interested in finding out who the real Obama is.
In all these years, they have no interest with all this controversy about Bill Ayers.
They have no desire to talk to him.
They're not camping out Bill Ayers' store and demanding he conduct a press conference and answer uh inquisitive, threatening, intimidating questions.
So it's the die is cast.
Ladies and one of the things that Obama said last night, I don't know if you did to give you an example at the Alfred E. Smith dinner.
No.
Well, he did say it at the But he said this at the debate.
He started whining about Fox News.
Remember that?
If there weren't any Fox News, he'd be up three or four points higher.
Not the way to look at it.
If there were no CBS, NBC, MSNBC, ABC C and then New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters, AP Obama, LA Times, there would be no Obama.
How many damn points is the drive-by media giving Obama?
You got one cable network he says is holding him back three to four points.
He took a shot at Rupert Murdoch last night.
You'll hear it coming up.
Oh, by the way.
Um, headline, this is uh AP Obama, Hawaii ending universal health care after seven months.
Do you want to hear why?
People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free, said Dr. Kenny Fink, the administrator of MedQuest at the Department of Human Services.
I don't believe that was the intent of the program.
Exactly.
All these unintended consequences.
Every time the Libs come up with an idea, it's the unintended consequences that sink it.
So in Obama's home state, where he was born, ladies and gentlemen.
Hawaii dropping the only state universal child health care program in the country seven months after it launched.
Linda Lingle, the governor, cited budget shortfalls and other available health care options for eliminating funding for the program.
State officials said that families were dropping private coverage so that their children would be eligible for the subsidized plan.
You come along and you offer it for free, and people who are paying for it chuck it.
Why, my God, it's gonna be free.
Hell's Bills, I'm gonna get rid of what I'm paying for.
And bottom line, this is socialist state.
Hawaii is as far left as you can get and still be American.
Both geographically and everything else.
And this is if there's ever a state that would go for this kind of universal everything, after seven months, they can't afford it.
A single state can't afford it.
Hello, Obama.
Obama's promising this for the United States of America as in the whole.
And it's an interesting piece from U.S. News and World Report.
They got a blogger there named James Pethocukis, or Pathocus.
I don't know how to pronounce these Greek names.
I only know Ariana Staphanopoulos Cabus and George Stanopoulos.
Those the only two gre Well, I know some other Greek names.
I know Nula, and I know I know some other Greek names, but I got the these this this was anyway.
Did Barack spread the wealth?
Obama just blow the election.
This is in U.S. News.
Worried that Obama has blown the election with his spread the wealth comment.
We'll have all this, your phone calls, audio sound bites, McCain and Obama at the Alfred E. Smith dinner at the Waldorf Hysteria last night, where at four o'clock in the afternoon.
It is said in page six of the New York Times that Michelle Obama got hungry, ordered some caviar, ordered some lobster uh Crostini toast points and two grilled lobsters and some champagne.
Paid for, no doubt by campaign.
We'll be back after this.
Drive-by media, uh trashing Joe the plumber.
What do we know about this plumber named Joe?
It doesn't actually appear he's a licensed plumber, and it does appear there are some issues about past taxes.
There are records of a tax lien filed against Joe.
The man whose personal story steered a presidential debate over taxes, owe some twelve hundred dollars in back taxes.
When we found out he was Sam the non-plumber, it changed a little bit.
Why the McCain team didn't vet the guy.
Joe, you know, the fake plumber.
Joe's not actually a licensed plumber.
He admits he's not making anywhere close to a quarter million.
His name is actually not Joe, or at least that's not his first name.
His name is Sam Samuel Joseph Wertfelbacker.
There's this tremendous gap between the mythical creature of Joe the Plumber and the actual real life guy.
And we see this time and time again.
Sarah Palin's a perfect example.
These people just can't stand it because Joe the Plumber caused Obama to screw up.
Joe the plumber caused Obama to actually Give it up on what his campaign is really all about.
You want to talk about past taxes and liens?
Charlie Wrangle, does that name come to mind?
Does it ring a bell?
The chairman of House Ways and Means Committee had to pay back taxes, was trying to cheat the government out of some money on some property owns down in the Dominican Republic.
There's also a guy named Martin Nesbitt, the treasurer of Obama's campaign has tax liens.
His name isn't Joe.
Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher.
His name not Joe.
Who is this guy?
We have to find out who is this guy, this mythical creature.
He's a far more real human being than any of the elitists in New York and Washington.
Here is Joy Behar from The View this morning.
Joe DeProma doesn't have a business yet.
He's fantasizing about a business he's going to have.
Fantasizing?
Well, he's thinking of the man who's trying to realize his hard work.
This man is reality.
Wait a second.
Fantasizing is a very legitimate term to describe somebody who's predicting the future for the disfantasizing when you fantasize.
Fantasizing is a dangerous thing to say because it assumes that it is not attainable.
They're just doing everything they can to destroy the poor guy.
Kathleen Hole Jameson, do we have time?
Barely on the news hour last night on PBS.
Jill the Plumber also set up a very concrete example that both campaigns could now play through in the following days.
Senator Obama hasn't specified when people are going to be paying a fine.
How many people have to be in a business to call it a small business?
How much dollar amount does the business have to have to be classified small business?
So when Senator Obama says, well, small businesses are exempted, Joe, don't worry.
The fact checkers and news people are now saying, but Senator Obama, you haven't specified what constitutes a small business.
That may actually advance this dialogue.
So Joe has made concrete, very abstract proposals.
And as a result, I think he's advanced this process very importantly.
And we'll take a brief time out here, folks, come right back.
Stay with us.
Keep focused here, folks.
Stay focused on this whole business of Joe the Plumber.
It's not about Joe the Plumber.
I don't care if Joe the Plumber landed from Mars and was impersonating a human being.
And if Carl Rove did set it up six months ago that Obama was going to go to this house and a Republican.
This is what the left is saying, by the way.
The left is saying that Joe the Plumber's a plant.
And that they're uncovering a fraud.
Because Joe's that they are.
This is what there's that.
Joe the plumber was a plant.
Somebody, Carl Rowe brilliantly arranged all this, including the house that Obama was going to knock on in the town where Obama was going to be.
On the specific date and time, Rove knew it months ago where Obama was going to be and arranged all this.
Joe the plumber could be a squirrel.
It's what Obama said.
Let's go back.
This is Sunday in Toledo, and let's listen to the original exchange.
I'm getting ready to buy a company.
That makes 2500.
250, 270, 80,000 a year.
Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, doesn't it?
You get a 50% tax credit.
So you get a cut on taxes for your health care.
So you would actually get a tax cut on that.
If your revenue is above 250, then from 250 down, your taxes are going to stay the same.
95% of small businesses make less than 250.
Folks who make more than 250.
That marginal amount above 250, they're going to be taxed.
And a 39 instead of 36% right now.
I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.
I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.
Now the Democrats are very worried about this despite their public uh protestations that otherwise they wouldn't be out trying to destroy Joe.
And they're even going, I just heard Roger Simon on television during the breaks.
His name's not even Joe, it's Sam.
No, it's Samuel Joseph.
A lot of people go by their middle name.
It's just, it's it's it's petty.
And it's striking.
They're out to destroy one of you, one of us, average Americans, who happen to expose the truth about little Barry, the man child known as the Messiah.
He's filled with lies here.
95% of small businesses make less than 250.
Somebody needs to demand that he prove that.
We got we got we we got the figures from the Small Business Association and the Census Bureau.
We shared them with you last week.
There's no way.
I mean, this is he's not even defining revenue.
We don't know if it's gross, we don't know if it's net.
Is he including inventories in this?
He doesn't know what he's talking about.
That 250 figure is just his magic figure.
Now they have to say that well, Joe didn't own the business, and even if he bought the business, the business would not be where it would be in the 250 or above range.
He wants it to be.
We're talking about somebody's dream here.
Well, he's got tax liens.
So's Charlie Wrangle.
So does one of the chief treasurers of Obama.
A lot of people have tax liens.
A lot of people are in debt.
You want to punish all of them?
You want to say they're all discredited from having any opinion about a political contest because they're in debt?
How many of us are going to be disqualified if they allow that?
Now listen to this.
This next is important to me.
This is Obama yesterday in New Hampshire.
Now, everybody talks about why is McCain in this state and that state, that state's lost.
Why didn't he go down to Florida?
Why'd he go back to Ohio?
What is Obama doing in New Hampshire?
Why the hell is Obama in New Hampshire?
That ought to be in the bag.
He was in Londonderry yesterday speaking at an apple orchard, and he he brought up the plumber himself.
Listen to this.
He's trying to suggest that a plumber is the guy he's fighting for.
How many plumbers you know making a quarter million dollars a year?
Do you understand the multi-leveled condescension in this short soundbite?
Mike, play this again.
This is Obama speaking at an apple orchard in New Hampshire yesterday.
He's trying to suggest that that a plumber is the guy he's fighting for.
How many plumbers do you know making a quarter million dollars a year?
In the first place, McCain's fighting for everybody, Obama.
You're the one that's divvying up people who you want to fight for.
You want to punish certain Americans.
McCain doesn't want to punish any.
Of course he's fighting for plumbers.
He's fighting for everybody.
He has fought for everybody, Obama.
Name one time you fought for anybody other than a bunch of leftist radicals who want to overthrow the country as it exists.
You're fighting for Warren Buffett's ideas.
Now, here's another thing, Obama and the rest of you.
He's copying his uh vice president here, Joe uh Joe Biden.
How many plumbers you know making quarter of a million dollars a year?
What a condescending thing to say.
Do you realize how he is insulting you plumbers?
Trying to discredit a voter?
This guy is trying to discredit a voter by saying, How many plumbers you know make 250 grand a year?
As though plumbers are just dirt.
Plumbers are just, I don't, I'll bet that there are plenty of plumbing businesses.
I know damn well try to get one when you need one.
There are plenty of plumbing businesses that do very well in this country.
But that is, to me, this is just striking.
How many plumbers you know making a quarter of a million dollars a year?
Obama, this is not about Joe.
It's not about Sam.
It's not about anybody but you.
And your obvious condescending view of the people you claim you want to help.
Would somebody explain to me how it is that you make poor people rich by making rich people poor?
So I mean, how do how does that happen?
Now, you know, usually, uh, ladies and gentlemen, it's the Democrats who parade people like Joe the Plumber all over the Senate and all over the House, all over these hearing rooms, and they portray them as sob stories, and they try to blame the Republicans for the circumstances these old people are in, or these welfare recipients are in, or these pregnant women are in, or what have you.
Now, somehow this guy, Joe the Plumber, is a fraud because he's in debt.
He's a fraud because he doesn't really earn 200, and he never said he did.
He said he thought the business did, but he wants to buy it and grow it.
Here's a guy who's to the best of his ability articulating the American dream, and the Democrat Party is trying to squash this guy like he's a cockroach.
Now, to this U.S. news and world blog post by James Pathacus or Pethacucus or Pithacoucus.
And I'm really not, I don't, I just don't know how to pronounce his name, so I'm just giving all the variables because I don't Want to be accused of mispronouncing his name.
And the headline of his post here.
Did Barack spread the wealth Obama just blow the election?
No, really, you're kidding me.
Barack Obama actually told a Joe the Plumber guy that he wants to spread the wealth around.
What?
Did Obama just get done reading the Wikipedia entry on Huey Share the Wealth Long or something?
Was he somehow channeling that left wing populace from the depression?
Talk about playing into the most extreme stereotype of your party that it's infested with socialists.
Except Mr. Pathukalus, what if it's not a stereotype anymore?
The Democrat Party as a socialist party is not a stereotype.
He then did get this.
Now, this is a reporter for U.S. News and World Report.
A while back, I chatted with a University of Chicago professor who was a frequent lunch companion of Obama's.
This professor said that Obama was as close to a full-out Marxist as anybody who has ever run for president.
Now I tend to quickly dismiss that kind of talk as way over the top.
My working assumption is that Obama's firmly within the mainstream of Democrat politics.
He is.
They are a radical extremist socialists.
Anyway.
But if Obama is as free with the sort of redistributive philosophy in private as he has been on the campaign trail this week, I have no doubt that you of Chicago professor really does figuring him as a radical.
And after last night's debate, a few more Americans might think that way too.
McCain's best line.
Now, of all times in America, we need to cut people's taxes.
We need to encourage business, create jobs, not spread the wealth around.
And by the way, I just noticed that IBD tip poll, the most accurate in 2004.
Has McCain down by just three points?
If the contest is perceived by the voters as a contest between a wealth redistributor and a wealth creator, and it could be a long night come November 4th.
This is still a center-right country gang.
Note this gallop poll from June, and then he cites the 84 to 13% figure who do not want redistributive policies in the federal government.
McCain has to hammer this.
Palin does.
Palin hammers this constantly in her appearances.
But that's what this is all about.
A University of Chicago professor close to a full-out Marxist as anybody who's ever run for president.
Of course, this drive-by say disregard that kind of talk.
I think he's in the mainstream of Democrat, but these guys don't even know who he is.
Half these, half these journalists don't even really know who he is, and they're not curious to find out because they're too busy trying to destroy Joe the plumber.
Well, he's talking to you about McCain.
He says, he's trying to suggest that a plumber's the guy he's fighting for?
How many plumbers you know making a quarter of a million dollars a year?
You know, Obama, you're the guy with class envy.
You're the guy that looks in disgust with certain groups of people in elements.
McCain's fighting for everybody, buddy.
But I just can't get over this condescension that Obama has for everybody.
I mean, this that's the plumber, I mean, that's supposedly his his demographic.
Normally, people like Obama love people in debt like Joe, because it's not their fault like these people with their mortgages that they should have never been given in the first place.
We gotta bail them out.
Why isn't why didn't Obama ask him to bail out Joe?
Why didn't Obama say, oh, you got liens, how can we help?
Why the hell is he not doing that?
Doing it for everybody else.
Some wom what some high school student, a college student complained to him the other day, we've had the soundbite that she is having to pay for her education.
I'm having to pay for the whole well, well, we can't have that, Obama said.
Well, we'll do what we can to help out.
That's what we're gonna do.
Now he's making fun of a guy who's in debt and making fun of a guy who doesn't make $250,000 a year.
And I'm gonna tell you something, folks.
It's not just plumbers.
It's not just plumbers, it's about electricians.
The guys who installed your lumber liquidator floors.
The guy who comes to your house, sprays for bugs, maybe does your yard mowing your landscaping, the people that cut your hair, and if you happen to be vain if you get manicures and pedicures, people that do that.
It's about people at mail and deliver your packages, about all these people fix your cars.
It's about all the great plumbers that install these Renee tankless water heaters.
It's about all the people that build fences.
It's about all the people that put on roofs.
It's about all the people that serve food, about all the people that cook food.
Obama may as well have been insulting every working person in this country when he asks, how many plumbers you know make $250,000 a year.
Oh, how many you know?
The truth of this guy is coming out, and Joe the plumber did it.
He condescends as leadists to there's nothing elegant about this.
There's nothing mountainish about this.
There is nothing eloquent about this.
We are witnessing a thug who has no sense of humor, which you shall hear in moments coming up.
We get to it in the uh in the next hour.
And Sarah Palin, by the way, is hammering this this this morning.
Westchester, Ohio, at a campaign rally.
The drive by as I've seen him this morning are ridiculing her for bringing this up.
We've really got to hand it to Joe.
Somehow, he got Barack Obama to finally state his intentions in plain language.
Senator Obama said that he wants to spread the wealth.
And he wants government to take your money and decide how to best redistribute it according to his priorities.
And Joe suggested that that sounded a little bit like socialism.
Whatever you call it, I call it bad medicine for an alien economy.
Bad medicine for an ailing economy.
And they're all over for continuing to bring this because they know that the Senator government, I think that ought to be the permanent name for this guy.
Senator government has really exposed himself.
All right, to the phones.
It's open line Friday.
We're going to start with Wren.
This is uh short for Catherine, I'm told, in Atlanta.
Hello, Catherine.
Uh, Ren.
Sorry.
Hello, Ren.
Hey, how are you, sir?
Fine, thank you.
Okay, talk.
Um, my mom actually made me call.
Actually, no, she gave me the phone and told me to talk to you, so that's how it works.
But I have a bit of a problem with Palin.
I'm totally for McCain because he's the most liberal Republican that we're gonna get, but Palin, on the other hand, I just I'm not digging it, I'm not doing what she's putting down.
Now wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
Um could you could you hold your the phone a little further away from your mouth because it you sound a little bit destroyed at what I've uh distorted.
What I picked up, you're you're you're you're you're for McCain because he's the most liberal Republican we're gonna get, but Palin, you're not you're not digging here, you're not digging what she putting out.
Correct.
Um you like liberal Republicans.
Yes, yes, sir.
I also like my I also like my Obama, but I could vote for McKay, and I'm kind of undecided.
Okay, so Palin seems to be your stumbling block.
What's what's what is your problem with uh Governor Palin?
Well, I have a few stumbling, I have a few problems with them.
My first one is the fact that she's killing all these wolves, but I have an uh an environmental science major friend at college, and she says that this is destroying the ecosystem.
Now, Wren, uh, do you in your own heart and mind, do you actually believe that?
I believe that animals it's like a web, right?
If you cut off one link, then the rest of it's gonna fall apart.
The first place, the reports of her killing wolves and animals has been exaggerated.
She's a hunter.
There are millions of hunters in this country and around the world.
You know, animals have babies.
I understand.
They grow up to become big animals.
I understand that.
But the idea that we're going to destroy the environment by killing animals, the next thing we know we're going to destroy the environment by killing vegetables.
No, no, Ren.
Now, Ren, Ren, seriously, you you're you're being indoctrinated here by a college professor whose intentions I have no doubt she she probably believes in their honest, but it's it's it really is foolish and it's ridiculous.
Do you eat beef?
Yes.
Uh do you realize that the animal husband that the cattle industry kills more steers in a day that Sarah Palin has in her life?
And do when you went outside last time, was the sun shining?
No, actually it was raining outside.
But it was light when it was supposed to be light.
Yes, correct.
Uh and of course rain is good for plants and animals.
They drink it and they grow and they replenish themselves.
What's the temperature in Atlanta today?
I I couldn't tell you.
Well, is it hot or is it warm?
Is it cold?
It's warm.
It's warm.
I mean, I've been in Boone for the last three months.
Okay, okay, so killing killing the the animals that Sarah Palin's killing is not caused temperatures to plunge where you live.
You're getting needed rain.
Because Georgia's Georgia's been in a drought, so getting needed rain in Atlanta.
You admit that you eat beef.
Do you eat vegetables, which are just plants?
Yes.
Yeah.
But but my but my point is I'm not I'm not concerned.
I mean, uh the you mentioned the polar ice caps.
Uh uh uh the polar ice caps are growing.
Uh we got a report yesterday that two glaciers in Alaska are larger than they've been in years, uh, and the meteorologists say it's the coldest winter.
But you're being sold a bill of goods on a on a political agenda, Ren.
Start thinking for yourself.
Use common sense.
The bottom line is you and I could not destroy nor could Sarah Palin the ecosystem or the planet if we tried.
We'll be back.
Okay, extended sound by some last night's speeches by McCain and Obama at the Alfred E. Smith dinner in New York in the Waldorf Hysteria.
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