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Nov. 10, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 10, 2008, Monday, Hour #3
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Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh behind a golden EIB microphone at the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's great to be with you, folks, kicking off a brand new week of broadcast excellence.
And looking forward to chatting with you.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882, the email address, lrushbo at EIBnet.com.
It was creepy again.
It was creepy.
Now, once again, for those of you in the drive-by media, I am only copying, I'm stealing here from Evan Thomas and John Meekum at Newsweek, just as I stole the Chicago thug comment.
I admit this now, from Bill Clinton, who I saw it reported August 26th of this year in the Politico.com.
Clinton said that Obama has the instincts of a Chicago thug.
Normally, I try to make everything here original, but I admit I stole that.
And it was creepy.
It was creepy when Obama's plane pulled into National Airport.
Now, I guess we'd have to ask Senator McCain about this, but I guess Obama's had to ditch O-Force One, his campaign plane.
I guess now that he's not a candidate, he can't fly that thing around.
So he flew into Chicago on an MD-80, looked like an American Airlines MD-80.
And I can't believe he flew commercial.
So they had to go out and charter that.
He flew into Washington National, and there were limousines there from the White House to meet Obama.
The door of the airplane opened, and damn it, if he didn't show up alone again.
Now, we know Michelle flew in with him, but nobody saw her.
And yet she ended up in a limo when they got to the White House.
She did get out of it, but nobody saw her get off the airplane.
At least when the cameras were trained on the airplane, Obama, the door opens magnificently.
It looked like it opened by itself and effortlessly.
And Obama, singularly again, all by himself, just like Meecum and Thomas were saying, very creepy at that acceptance speech of the night of his election.
It's all by himself out there on that big stage.
Normally you have the cute kid and the wife standing around in the background, but they did come out, but he shooed them backstage with Biden, who they said was locked up in a bar, so he couldn't cause any trouble.
Just creepy.
Once again, Obama all by himself.
Then he bounds down the stairs, gets in the big Cadillac limousine, and then they drove off to the White House.
And when he got to the White House, it looks like Podesta got out first, and then it looked like Podesta, but I don't know who it was, was Podesta.
I thought Podesta wasn't going to take a role in the administration.
I thought that's what he had said.
Anyway, it doesn't matter.
Then Obama gets out.
He helps Michelle out.
And then they greet the president, First Lady, and they head on to the obligatory walk down the colonnade there, which was predicted.
Andrea Mitchell, he used to talk to these drive-bys folks.
They were so orgasmic.
Andrea Mitchell, she was bobbing her head in such excitement.
I thought her wig was going to fall off.
It wasn't stationary there on the top of her head.
They're just going bonkers over this.
They just, they just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just a lot of fun to watch all of this.
But it was creepy.
And now the question is this.
Everybody's wondering what it will be that the president and the president-elect discuss.
My question is, is Obama leaking right now to the Washington Post and Washington Times via voice-activated BlackBerry?
Or will he have Biden phone in the details later?
Won't be long, and we will find out, ladies and gentlemen.
This from the Washington Post.
I don't know how I missed this, but this was on their blog way back on October the 7th.
Ailing Senator Ted Kennedy apparently has rebuffed a bold bid by Senator Hillary Clinton to take over health care policy in the Senate when the new Congress convenes in January.
Sources tell the Washington Post that Clinton had approached Kennedy and Democrat leaders about creating a new special health care subcommittee, one that she would chair.
Her hope was to draft the legislation that would fulfill her presidential campaign promise and Obama's for a sweeping health care overhaul plan.
Sources say that Ted Kennedy's cool to the idea.
So is his top health care aide, Mike Myers, Kennedy's staff director on the Senate Health, Educational, Labor, and Pensions Committee.
Asked if that meant Clinton would not be tapped ahead of new health subcommittee is rumored.
Myers said, yes, that's correct.
She won't be.
Whoa, man, I would have loved to have seen that Ted Kennedy swatting Hillary away.
You know what he's thinking?
Hey, I'm not dead yet, you old battle axe.
Who the hell are you coming in here trying to take over my health care plan?
Don't you know this is going to be named after me?
Besides, don't forget, I just told you, Max Baucus is going to make the official proposal to Obama on nationalizing health care.
Arizona's Supreme Court, Chief Justice, has agreed to enforce the Hispanic Bar Association's demands of banning the terms illegal and aliens in all of the state's courtrooms, claiming that the terms are inflammatory.
The president of Arizona's Hispanic Bar Association has asked the state Supreme Court Chief Justice Ruth McGregor to stop using them at trials or hearings because they create perceptions of judicial bias.
It further points out that no human being is illegal and that a National Hispanic Journalism Association has roundly criticized the reference for dehumanizing a segment of the population.
The letter goes on to criticize the state's high court for using the term illegals in at least two opinions and the term illegal aliens in dozens of others.
The letter concludes with a list of acceptable and unacceptable terms relating to illegal immigration.
Among those that the group wants banned are immigration crisis, immigration epidemic, open borders advocates, anchor babies, and invaders.
Among the acceptable terms are foreign nationals, unauthorized workers, and human rights advocates.
And again, the Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice has agreed to enforce these demands of banning the terms illegal and aliens in all of the state's courtrooms in Arizona.
Illegal cannot be used in court.
And wait, unless you're an American criminal, unless you are an American criminal and you have committed an American crime, if you're a natural citizen and you've committed a crime, then they can say that what you did was illegal.
But if you are, hang on, let me get an approved list here.
I put the approved list on it.
Hang on just a second, certainly.
If you are a human rights advocate, or if you are a foreign national, or if you are an unauthorized worker and you go into court in Arizona, the word illegal and alien cannot be used to describe you and what you've done.
Because the Hispanic bar asked the judge out there to enforce this.
The judge has.
I'm just telling you, you know, we're sitting here, folks.
Illegal is throughout our whole legal process.
The word illegal, I mean, it has a definite meaning, but it can only now be applied to natural born Americans in Arizona court.
I don't know what to do here, folks.
I mean, this is just, you see, I know it's irritating people.
I'm laughing about this stuff.
Because I know there are people genuinely scared about where we're headed.
And they feel like this is a country they do not recognize anymore already.
And I can relate.
I mean, I understand how you feel here, but we had our chance to stop this stuff.
We had it.
The language thugs have won another round.
That's exactly right.
And of course, I don't want to get their title wrong here.
The Arizona Hispanic Bar Association, a bunch of legal thugs, has also seen to it that they prevailed against the chief judge of the Arizona Supreme Court.
So look at these guys.
These guys won the election.
You win some, you lose some.
But this is what we're going to all have to deal with.
By the way, in Wichita, Kansas, this is from Topeka, Kansas.
This is from the Topeka Capital Journal.
Plans are being made to promote a national holiday for Barack Obama, who will become the nation's 44th president when he takes office January 20th.
Yes, we can planning rallies will be at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. every Tuesday at the downtown McDonald's, 1100 Kansas Avenue, until January 13th.
The goals are to secure a national holiday in Obama's honor, to organize celebrations around his inauguration and to celebrate the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln, who was born on February 12th, 1809.
At 7.30 a.m. on Inauguration Day, Obama cake will be served at the downtown McDonald's, and the celebration is scheduled for 8 p.m. to midnight, January 20th, at the Romado Hotel and Convention Center at 420 Southeast 6th Street in Topeka.
And if you want more information, you can contact Sonny Scroggins or BiasBuster of Kansas City at yahoo.com.
They're the ones working on the national holiday for Barack Obama.
The Sonny Scroggins, I'm not going to give out his phone number here.
I don't know who he is.
Sonny Scroggins, or at biasbusters of Kansas City at yahoo.com.
They also give the name of the McDonald's general manager, Lamont Lasseter, or you can call somebody named Rhoda Carr, R-H-O-D-A-Car, C-A-R-R.
They list their phone numbers here in the Wichita Topeka.
Sorry, Topeka Capital Journal.
Official Obama national holiday.
Don't, Mr. Snerdley, don't, don't, don't start asking me questions that are rife with disrespect.
You believe what Snerdley just asked me?
What has he done?
Snerdley's going nuts on the other side of the glass.
What's he done?
Do you not understand the historical nature of what's just transpired here?
What has he done?
You dare, you dare ask me to relate to this audience and what he's done.
You do not have any appreciation, you especially for the historical nature of this fantastic.
I won an election, Snerdley, but it's who he is.
Well, it's the Messiah.
He's the first black president.
Deep meaning.
A lot of people.
Well, we're going to have, but he's, no, no, no.
He's not.
He's separate and apart from President's Day.
That's the point here.
It's very creepy.
I know the whole thing here is very creepy.
And the thugs are everywhere trying to enforce all this stuff.
My gosh, I got thugs in Chicago.
We got thugs out in Arizona.
We've got thugs in Topeka, Kansas.
Thugs everywhere out there just trying to ramrod all this stuff right at us.
From the Financial Times, Obama set to push Big Bang reform package.
Obama intends to push a comprehensive program of social and economic reform beyond an immediate emergency stimulus package, according to Rahm Emmanuel.
Emmanuel brushed aside concerns that an Obama administration would risk taking on too much.
When it takes office in January, he said Obama saw the financial meltdown as an historic opportunity to deliver the large-scale investments that Democrats had promised for years.
Emmanuel said these are crises you can no longer afford to postpone.
You got a crisis.
You got to take advantage of it.
We can't postpone this stuff anymore.
A quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue with your phone calls and other things right after this.
People ask, what's the source for this story of yours on this judge, Supreme Court Chief Justice, agreeing to enforce a ban on the words illegal and aliens?
A judicial watch is the website, judicialwatch.org.
So now we've banned the Ten Commandments.
And now we're going to ban words.
The judge is going to ban words.
How long is it going to be before we're going to ban books or some judges ban books?
Also, during the break here, my friends, I've been rethinking this fruitcake idea that they've launched out there, these wacko activists in Topeka, Kansas.
We might be well served to actually set aside a day and call it Barack Obama Day.
Whatever we're going to call it.
The date should be April the 15th, the date that all taxes are due.
Greg in Morana, Arizona.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Tribal Dittos, Mr. Big.
Thank you for that.
The reason I was calling up is my comment is when I was watching the weekend news shows and they were interviewing the Republicans, they all talked about how Rom Emmanuel had sharpened elbows and they hoped he would keep them tucked in.
Well, why hasn't somebody on our side develop the testicular fortitude to sharpen their elbows and get in there and mix it up with him?
I don't know.
I've been getting this question for 15 years and I don't know why our side doesn't do this stuff.
I'm watching our side disintegrate right in front of our very eyes.
I'm watching a bunch of the smartest people in our room, supposedly, pointy-headed intellectual advocates who got what they wanted in this election, telling us that Reaganism is over, that conservatism is over, all these things.
Why they don't get in there and mix it up, your guess is as good as mine.
I think part of it is they live in Washington and part of it is they want the media approval.
Part of it is they're afraid of being called angry and enraged partisans and this sort of stuff.
Who the hell knows?
Well, I mean, between now and the inauguration, he's probably honing his elbows with a serrated edge just to inflict more damage.
We need to get real.
Here's the things that Republicans would tell you.
See, the difference is that when Tom DeLay has sharp elbows, they call him the hammer, and they try to get him indicted and thrown out of Washington and put in jail.
When they describe Rah Emmanuel as sharp elbows, they do it admiringly.
And they think, what a great guy Rah is.
He's in there fighting for what he believes.
So it's, that means that's what they're afraid of.
None of them want to be categorized and characterized as McCain or as DeLay was.
Karen in Humble, Texas, I'm glad you called.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Well, my question is, what do you think is going to be Biden's role in the coming term?
I think he'll, I have no clue right now, but the first thing they're going to try to do is to make sure he says as little as possible.
It's not written down on a teleprompter.
The second thing is they will probably try to use him as a liaison between the White House and the Senate because he's loved by the Senate Democrats up there.
And I suspect that he's going to get into a battle with McCain over that because people in the Obama campaign have also suggested reaching out to McCain for this role as well.
So there could be an argument there between McCain and Biden over who is the best liaison from the Obama administration to the Senate.
Well, the reason why I asked was because they kept pulling him off the campaign so many times because he kept putting his foot in his mouth.
So I just figured he'd be in the shadows, more or less.
He might even be the court gesture.
I mean, I expect that before this is all said and done, Obama's going to need a jokester to come in the Oval Office and make him laugh now and then because not much else will.
And they'll bring Biden in to sort of do that.
Well, I know you've been taking a lot of slack about the thug sayings, but can you still call him a squirrel?
Oh, yeah.
I'm surprised nobody's caught up on that yet.
The thug business they're focused on.
Look, let me explain something to you.
I got a note that makes a lot of sense here just a moment ago.
You and I, we look at the media, we look at this orgasm, and it's what it is, this unending, multiple orgasm that the media particularly is having with Obama.
And how in the world do they see things differently than we do?
Folks, it's not really complicated.
When you're young, remember the first time you fall in love or even think you fall in love?
You hope as you get older that that happens to you.
You would love to recapture it.
The first time of anything, it just and the media right now is trying to recapture Camelot.
And they think they have.
They're in the midst of recreating Camelot and capturing it.
They're trying to relive their youth.
All these drive-bys are.
And so the thing about love is that you know you can't talk anybody out of it.
If you have a kid who loves somebody who's a reprobate and you're scared, terribly scared about it, and you try to talk them out of it, you know, it just drives them further into the arms of the person that you don't like.
So there's no talking them out of this, and there's no changing their mind about it.
They're going to love Obama for as long as he's around.
What's the title of this tonight?
It's KC and the Sunshine Bank.
Give it up.
I think that's a title of the tune.
Give it up.
Give it up.
And we are back.
Rush Limbaugh, talent on lawn from God.
Do you know a lot of us think that the left is humorless?
But ladies and gentlemen, I found evidence over the weekend that they are hilarious.
They have, at least one of them is.
Guy named Rick Stengel.
This is a CBS Market Watch story.
The headline, How Obama Can Win Over the Media.
They do have a sense of humor.
They're actually making a joke here, aren't they?
Rick Stengel, the managing editor of Time magazine, did not hesitate when he was asked what advice he would have for the nation's next president.
It was around 9 o'clock on Tuesday night.
And Rick Stengel, Time magazine, weaving his way through the throng at the CNN grill.
There has to be a new era of transparency, Stingell said, raising his voice to be heard over the din.
I asked Single what the next president's priority should be.
Communicator in shape, Stingle said.
That's his main job.
Speaking for the media who have been frustrated by outgoing President Bush's infrequent public pronouncements over the eight years, Stingell urged Obama to be a constant presence in our lives.
I'm telling you, they love the, it's a love affair.
And it's not so much with him.
It's a love affair with the past.
They don't even know him.
They're admitting they don't really know who he is.
We do.
They don't.
They're in love with Camelot.
They're in love with unfulfilled promise.
They are in love with an unfulfilled destiny.
And they see Obama completing it.
And that's what they're in love with.
So, of course, the guy from Time magazine says his job, main job is to be communicator in chief.
Man, that's not good.
And then he needs to be a constant presence in our lives.
And if he does that, Stingle says if he does that, Obama can win over the media.
You know, he's got a really, I don't know if you people notice this or not.
Obama has a really hostile media that he deals with.
This election is an amazing triumph.
We haven't discussed this much, but this media that he faced out, I've never seen a more vicious, a more brutal, a more bigoted, a more unprofessional journalistic malpractice campaign aimed at Barack Obama.
I'm just stunned that nobody charged the drive-bys with racism here, the way he was treated.
And so now the drive-bys, I guess you're feeling a little guilty here because they're now putting out a story how Obama can win over the media.
I said, this has to be the onion.
This has to be Scott Utt.
This has to be some satirist writing this.
And I read it, and they are damn serious.
Oh, by the way, Obama's favorite country, China, tells rich polluting nations to change their lifestyle.
I just love it when the Chikoms sound just like our liberals.
This is by Chris Buckley and Emma Graham Harrison.
Chinese Premier Win Jibao said rich nations must abandon their unsustainable lifestyle to fight climate change and expand help to poor nations bearing the brunt of worsening droughts and rising sea levels.
The sea levels are not rising.
I don't know about droughts, but the Chikoms and themselves said, We're not doing anything to reduce carbon emissions.
We're growing the economy.
China tells rich polluting nations to change lifestyle.
And Obama, that's his favorite country, is China.
And I think that he'll listen to them.
This is, in fact, they've pegged, in fact, what one of Obama's ideas happens to be.
Here's Tom in Evansville, Indiana.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
How are you doing today, Rush?
Very well.
Thank you.
I'm just calling up.
You're always ripping on the unions, and I don't understand why.
I'm a rank-and-file union member myself.
I have been for over 29 years now.
And I mean, all we get is a decent wage, we get health insurance, and a pension.
And what is so wrong with that that you're so dead against unions?
Well, I'm not dead set against unions.
All I've ever said is that if you're going to join one, you should know what you're doing.
Oh, exactly.
I understand that.
You know, and that makes sense there.
But I mean, you know, you're always like, you're talking about the union thugs and stuff like that.
I mean, well, we all.
Well, come on now.
Don't make me mention names here.
I got in trouble once with the bricklayers being right about them.
I don't need to go there again.
Well, I don't know.
I'm just looking.
I don't need a cement swimsuit tonight.
Well, I mean, come on, Rush.
You've been watching the Sopranos too much.
It doesn't work that way.
No, no.
Look.
I mean, with the average rank and file member out there that's hardworking and goes out there and we have to build our pensions up.
You have to get at least five years in to get vested.
We build our pensions up, but then we got a governor of our state over here, first day in office, he gets $28,500.
Then they change a law where he gets $38,500.
And if he's a second-term governor, he gets half of his money.
And that's only eight years.
I mean, for eight years, I would love to get $48,000 a year as a pension.
You know, this is my point, then leave the union.
What's that?
Leave the union if you want to.
Okay, and go into a 401k plan.
No, Let me explain.
Well, I'll explain it to you.
Okay.
By the way, I think what you're calling about is we've had a bunch of calls here talking about the auto industry and how there are a lot of people think the unions have bankrupted them.
No, no, could I know?
Okay, go ahead.
And I have been the one to say, well, look, all these auto companies, they are the ones that made the deals.
And people said, yeah, but they were thugged into it.
They were strong-armed into it.
The problem is that retired employees who are no longer producing anything are still getting retirements and pensions.
They're still being paid.
This has all come home to roost.
Those kinds of things just cannot sustain themselves.
And the competitors do not have these stringent union rules, and therefore they're a little bit freer with pricing and manufacturing and so forth.
But I actually think who killed the U.S. auto industry is the U.S. government.
Cafe standards, people like Al Gore putting pressure on auto designers to design cars with mileage factors and so forth that nobody wants and nobody would buy.
The U.S. government, what's happening to the auto industry is, I think, with everything involved in it, is a classic illustration of what will happen to yours if the government takes over it.
If the government gets to regulate it or own it or whatever, you just watch.
Now, I'm going to answer your union question now.
Okay, go ahead.
What kind of job, I'm not asking where, what kind of work do you do in Evansville?
I'm an operating engineer, run heavy equipment.
Okay, you're a heavy equipment guy.
So you drive road graders and bulldozers in this country.
Cranes, yes, sir.
Cranes.
Okay.
Now, when you decided that that's what you wanted to do, and that's great, you had probably no choice.
You had to join a union to get that job, correct?
No, I worked non-union, and then I had an opportunity to get into union doing the same thing I was doing, but basically I got a pension and insurance, which I didn't have before.
Okay, fine.
Now, here's, and I say the same thing to people that go into the teaching profession.
When you join a union, by definition, you are scrubbing your individuality.
Your job performance will matter not a whit to how much money you make.
You could be the best crane operator, and you can be up against if somebody else could be a lackadaisical crane operator and goof up and screw up.
You could show up on time every time.
The only way you're going to make any more money than other guys if you come in and do overtime or maybe get a form and a supervisor position.
So it takes the merit out of things.
Now, if you understand this going in, and if the pension and health care is what's important to you and the union provides that, that's cool.
That's fine.
But then at the end of the day, I don't understand the complaints about what other people make doing what they do and what their pensions are because you went into it knowingly.
You went in knowing what you were going to make.
You know that you can't negotiate for your own raise.
Some representative is going to do that.
You also know that a lot of what you contribute in form of dues is going to be taken and used to elect Democrats.
You know this going in.
And so if you have an individual entrepreneurial ambition, a union is not a place for you.
But if security and the security of a union contract and, like you say, the pension and so forth, if that's what's attracted to you, fine.
You should look at other industries who have made deals years and years and years ago to pay pensions and unemployment or retirement packages to people that no longer work for them.
Eventually, the companies that have made those deals are going to be in huge trouble.
And that's what's happening now to the auto industry and a number of others.
Airlines are trying to offload their pensions to the federal government.
They're trying to offload their health care plans because they can't afford those that stay in business.
And so when you have a business and it makes a deal and it's unionized and it knows what its labor costs are, and as a business, you want to know, you want to get as good as idea as possible of your fixed labor costs.
But if all they're going to do is go up and you reach a deflationary cycle in your business or a down economic time, then something has to give.
And if they're not producing enough revenue and income to pay everybody and still report a profit, then they've got to dig in and write off and lose money for a while.
How long can they continue to do that?
And if there's no flexibility in the workforce held them through periods like that, and the airlines there have been, some places there have been givebacks and so forth.
But it's still pretty tenuous.
And I think one of the things Obama wants to do is have this employer freedom or employee freedom of charge act where he could unionize a shop with an open ballot, which would allow for people to be pressured into accepting the union, even when it is.
Yeah, but Rush, there's also what's known as the management consultants, which is basically union busting companies that spend so a company spends so much more money to keep a union out than you're making it sound like they're just coming in here.
There's a card check here.
I write my name.
We're going to be union.
And, you know, that's just not true, right?
They're not getting the whole story on this thing.
And just like you're talking about with the pension plan, wait, well, on Ford, for example, Ford was under, my union has like $8.6 billion in it in the pension plan.
Ford was underfunded, and they held the cookie jar.
They were the ones that have it.
$12.9 billion.
Underfunded.
Now, if they would have came in, why didn't the government rough shot over the top of them saying, wait, you guys are a billion dollars behind today.
Now, or next year, you're $2 billion behind or whatever it is.
They overlook our union stuff all the time.
I get statements and I read it.
Why was it all right for them?
The question you've got to ask yourself is, why were they behind?
Because they wrote down, they agreed upon the collective bargaining contract, but in the meantime, Mr. Ford still got his bonuses, still got his paycheck, but they weren't basically what they did.
You have fallen prey to the class envy arguing.
Mr. Ford happens to own it.
You do not.
As the owner, Mr. Ford can set up a comp, or his board can set up a compensation structure or whatever.
Now, you might think that Mr. Ford's bonus and payment, I don't know what it is, is way unfair based on what the rank and file are getting, but welcome to the real world.
You chose what you're doing.
And you probably went into this thinking management's unfair and management wants to steal from you.
All I can tell you is that I'm not going to talk you out of this.
I know you love the union and you think that there's this constant battle, which is exactly what Democrats want.
They want you hating the boss.
They want you distrusting the boss.
And they want you thinking the purpose of the company is to provide a job rather than anything else.
But you need to look around.
There are some profitable businesses in this country.
Ask yourself, find out if they're unionized.
Take a look at the businesses that are hurting the most in this country and ask yourself if they are.
And now, granted, I'm not saying management's never to blame.
I'm not saying that these people aren't reprobates.
I'm not saying that.
But there's a reality here.
You know, you go into a courtroom, the judge is the judge, and the judge may live in a mansion, and you don't.
And just because you have a different living experience does not mean the judge has no right to pronounce, get sentence, or conduct a trial.
The owner is the owner.
I can't tell you how many times I had to learn this over the course of my life working for people.
Who you work for is the boss.
And if you don't like the way they run the business, then there's other things to do.
Anyway, I'm glad you called.
I appreciate it.
I've got to run here a little bit long.
I was going to play some Calypso Louie soundbites praising Obama.
I'll play a couple here when we come back.
I'll save the rest of them for tomorrow because they're pretty funny.
And we're back, El Rushbo, on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
What is that?
I've never noticed this before.
Did you put that notice up there at the top of the call screener?
This call is running too long.
Please go to the next caller.
Did you put that up there?
Is that part of the original program?
I've never seen it up there before.
You had to put it.
You don't know how it happened.
You don't know how to.
Did a union guy write the software?
No, that can't be.
Union guy wouldn't write the software.
By the way, unions do set prices and they keep prices high.
That's one of the go to the companies that are not unionized and see if check their profits even now in the recession.
Okay, Calypso Louis soundbites before we have to get out of here, just as a tease for tomorrow.
This was Sunday morning in Chicago at his mosque, and he was decked out, man, had the fez on and the flowing red robes.
This desire for change is a desire that has intensified in America and throughout the world because of the failure of governments to adequately address the needs of the people under their rule.
He may have a point there, but he doesn't know it.
The first question to my knowledge that came close to having this effect on people was Senator Robert Kennedy in his bid to become President of the United States.
Now, I remember that and Kennedy did captivate the country, but not like JFK.
These guys are reliving Camelot here.
They're trying to rebirth Camelot.
That's what's going on.
Here's one more bite from Calypso Louis Sunday at his mosque.
He is a masterful organizer.
And in his acceptance speech that night, he said we got to organize block by block.
I believe President-elect Obama is going to have to get everyone involved because the job of helping him is not just with his cabinet or Congress.
The job of helping this nation out of its condition is a responsibility that everyone has something to do about.
Well, here's a guy who's hearing Obama's message that America's bad.
America, there's something terribly institutionally wrong with America.
We've got to fix it.
But Calypso Louis, I would ask you to go back and look at the tape because when Obama told everybody in that crowd, the hordes, that it was going to take sacrifice on the part of everybody, the people in that crowd got kind of perplexed, looks of puzzlement on their faces, and they said, what is this?
We, bro, didn't think we were going to be doing any of the sacrificing.
You could read that on their faces.
That was Minister Farrakhan.
That was not Maya Angelou.
I know they sound alike, but it was Minister Farrakhan.
We'll have more of that tomorrow, plus whatever else pops.
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