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Dec. 10, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 10, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I am Rush Limbaugh with talent on loan from God.
Great to have you with us, ladies and gentlemen.
As we roll on.
This is when is this Wednesday?
Is this Wednesday already?
Fastest week in media, folks.
The fastest three hours in media.
Great to have you here.
800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
All right, let's let's go through a little a little timeline here.
Jeremiah Wright.
America's chicken.
Coming on the roost.
God bleep America.
Barack Obama.
Whoa.
I was in a church twenty years.
I never heard that.
Dil Ayers blew up the Pentagon.
Blew up the Capitol.
Blew up some people in their house.
Barack Obama.
He's just a guy in my neighborhood.
Hey, young boy when he was doing those despicable acts.
Governor Rod Blogoevich.
Selling a Senate seat.
Hey, no idea this was going on.
It's amazing.
It is amazing.
All of this stuff swirling around Barack Obama, and he knew nothing.
And now Jesse Jackson Jr. has been identified, ladies and gentlemen, as candidate five, Senate candidate five, who either himself or emissaries were offering Blogo 500 grand to a million dollars for the Senate seat.
And it was Blogojevich who called Obama an MF because he wouldn't pony up any money, wouldn't give him anything for appointing whoever Obama wanted, yet Obama says he had no idea this was going on.
Jesse Jackson, Sr.
The Reverend Zaxon, was caught.
Well, live mic not on air, saying he wanted to cut off Obama's nuts.
And now look whose nuts have been cut off.
The son of Jesse Jackson, the Reverend Jackson's son, has had his nuts cut off here in the Blogoyevitch thing.
This is interesting.
And if Barack Obama had no idea he'll never be senator from Illinois.
He's gonna have to move to Mississippi, run from there or somewhere else.
Can you imagine the conversation between Jesse Jackson Sr. and Jesse Jackson Jr.?
Son.
I get the I did these shakedowns.
I got away with it for 30 years before somebody went public on me.
The first time you try this, and look what happens.
Who's been teaching you this stuff?
Because it sure as hell wasn't me.
Fascinating, fascinating stuff that's uh that by the way, I have a story here just cleared.
This is from uh Newsweek.
New research on why we procrastinate and why we uh what we can do to find I'm not gonna read this till tomorrow.
No.
I don't have time for it right now.
Union official.
This is from the Washington Post today, union official allegedly liaison between Governor Obama team.
Uh the union thug that was an Obama intermediary on one level is surprising.
Among the revelations contained in the complaint brought against Blagoevich yesterday was the description of an official with the service employees International Union acting as an apparent intermediary between Obama's camp and the governor in discussions over Obama's Senate seat.
What?
But the Obama campus said nobody well, no, Obama corrected himself.
We have oh I haven't, he said.
Talk to the governor.
The alleged role of the union official was surprising, says the post, given the union had not figured publicly in the investigation into Blogoevich.
On another level, the Union's apparent involvement is an indication Of the extent to which it has under the leadership of its controversial president Andrew Stern become an omnipresent force in Democrat politics.
With organized labor holding such high expectations for Obama, notably hopes for legislation fiercely opposed by business leaders that would make it easier to form unions.
Officials of other unions were hoping yesterday that SEIU's apparent involvement would not undermine their cause in Washington.
The complaint states that on November 12th, Blago spoke by phone with a union official, S E I U, who was in Washington and with whom Blogo had met a week before on the understanding the official was an emissary to discuss Valerie Jarrett's interest in the Senate seat.
Valerie Jarrett is who Obama wanted.
Valerie Jarrett pulled herself out of the running after Blogoevich said, no, he's an MFer.
I'm not he's not paying anything, he doesn't get the seat.
Apparently undeterred, Blogo allegedly suggested that the SEIU union could assist in the formation of a nonprofit political organization that could uh employ Blago while also assisting Valerie Jarrett, the S uh SEIU official agreed to put that flag up and see where it goes.
This is from the complaint.
So the union is up to its eyeballs in this as well.
The complaint's wording suggests that the SEIU official who allegedly talked with Blogoevich was stern.
Because it quotes the governor's chief of staff as saying the official could make the governor the head of change to win.
But see, we talked about this yesterday in Change to Win, which is an arm of the SEIU, has a spokesman named Denier.
And Denier went out and denied that SEIU had anything to do with this yesterday.
Well, how would you pronounce it?
D-E-N-I-E-R.
I think his first name is Tom.
I don't remember for sure.
He's not mentioned in this story.
But last name was Denier.
Well, yeah, they're probably going to decide to say it's Denier or Denir.
But Denir Denier, I mean, it's still pretty close.
Depending on what else emerges in Illinois, SEIU's role could affect Labor's agenda.
If there turns out to be a connection with SEIU, it's not going to be a great thing for labor.
Come on, we're not a bunch of idiots.
We know damn well nothing's gonna change here.
This is just it's just a sitcom.
All of this is just is just about all it's worth here is laughing at, because nothing's gonna change.
I don't even, you know what?
I'm the way things have shaken, and I was telling Snerdley at the top of the hour, I'm wondering if if by now, in terms of felonies, misdemeanors, if if Fitzgerald even has a case now.
Because he stopped, he stopped the investigation before Blogoevich actually sold the seat.
And these people are running now demanding he be impeached, he can't do this, and he can't what if he beats the rap?
What if he beats the rap room?
This is Chicago.
What if he beats the rap?
Now I know it's unlikely because all of the forces are aligned now against Blogo.
And remember, the um the uh ever alert, Jonathan Alter at Newsweek, even told us to be on the lookout for Blogoevich, start telling lies about Obama to try to bring him down.
See, you do that because you set the table.
So that if Blogoevich starts naming Obama, we've already got the drive-by wizards of smarts of.
Oh, yeah, we expected him to lie like this.
We expected the Republicans.
We can't believe Blogoevich is doing it, but we have we predicted it.
So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen.
That's um pretty much where we stand.
They're talking about a special election to fill this seat.
Do they realize if they do that, they're they're opening it up the possibility Republicans could win it?
What do you mean they don't care?
The Democrats don't care that a Republican might win the seat.
Well, I I think they do care about something like that.
I don't think they think a Republican could possibly win.
Who is it gonna be?
Who's willing to announce his candidacy for the seat of Barack Obama?
Who also wants to hold on to his kneecaps.
We'll be right back, folks.
Stay with us.
Don't go.
Rose Royce.
And I want to get next to you.
Can't get much closer to all of you than we are.
Family that we are here at the EIB network.
Interesting facts.
Unreported statistics about the 2008 election.
These stats are put together from a newsweek poll and uh data that was published in the magazine.
It's been assembled here by Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law in St. Paul.
All right, wait a we what do a quick just do a quick Google search.
Make sure there's a Hemline University School of Law.
Just make sure you see something named Hemline.
As many scams as there are on the internet.
H. E. M., I'd do it myself, but I'd have to turn away from the microphone.
It would be unprofessional.
I would have had the answer by now.
Hemline University Law School.
School of War.
Can't find it.
Then I may not do the story.
H E M I'll I'll set it aside.
Hamline University School of Law St. Paul.
St. Paul, Minnesota, Hamline.
See if they have a professor named Joseph Olson there.
Is it a school of law?
In school of law.
Hamline.
All right.
We're getting closer.
See if there's a professor Joseph Olson at Hamline.
Who would name him?
Well, donor, obviously is named Hamline.
Phone call quickly, Paul in Frankfurt, Illinois.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Nice to have you with us.
Appreciate that.
I have another quick question here for you about a Chicago news topic, and it's not our crazy uh governor.
Uh what's your thoughts on this uh union situation at Republic Windows and Doors?
It's my contention that unions have just unions all over the country have just been emboldened because they've now forced Bank of America to cough up some cash that they previously previously said they wouldn't.
And apparently Chase Bank is also gonna be um giving Republic some money.
Now is this you may be more informed than I. Is this a done deal?
I last I last night, the last I saw in this, this was still not complete.
Uh I don't have any information about whether or not it's a done deal.
I'm not an insider, but uh I did read that they were going to pledge a quote limited amount of money.
Yeah, I did too.
But but see, here's the thing.
They're gonna extend BOA, Bank of America said they're gonna extend a limited loan.
But but here's the thing.
As I looked into this, the employees at the door company, the window and door company, were told it was in their agreement that they would be given X number of days of notice and that they would be given uh limited benefits, uh uh a severance package and sick pay or something like that.
I'm not sure.
But it wasn't, it wasn't interminable salary.
Uh, Chase Bank uh is a uh owner of a subsidiary that uh uh has a stake in Republican to windows and doors, and they've decided they're gonna put four hundred thousand into the bucket for these guys.
So uh my point was just that uh unions all over the country now realize that all they need to do if they want something, just sit out for the hold it a second here, because there's this there's some things here that are relevant.
I understand what you're saying, but apparently these people had an agreement at the window and door company to be paid a limited amount of money, just uh uh a severance of two week severance and maybe whatever and and their unused vacation.
And they were to be given six days' notice when they were the place was ever gonna be shut down.
They were given three days notice and they weren't paid.
And the company said we're not paying them uh We're shutting down.
And Bank of America said, well, what the company said Bank of America won't give us loan.
We won't send a line of credit.
No, whoa, whoa, wait, wait.
So the apparent the company violated terms of an agreement.
So the unions, the the employees there, some of whom I understand speak English, by the way.
Um did their sit-in for stability.
Uh but the point of that is the point.
All they have to do is Bank of America came up with enough money, not enough to reopen the company, but enough to give these workers what their contract said that they were owed.
Now your point is that this is thuggish behavior by the union, forcing the private sector to do things against its own interests and against its and it's gonna it's gonna embolden unions all over the place to act this way, thuggish and so forth, and it's a bad sign.
That's your point, right?
Uh bingo.
Before I let you go, Rush, real quick question.
You were talking the last segment about your first job.
Away from home, yes.
Yes.
Now, was your program director at that first job was uh was it Ronald Blagoevich?
No.
No.
I made a mistake and doesn't matter.
I don't know.
I don't know that the guy's name was even true.
This is the I don't I don't even know that the name he gave me was accurate.
I couldn't tell you who he is.
Well, you said he was a psychopath and a liar, so maybe I'm just confused.
Well, the the Blogevitch does have some problems.
There there's there's no there's no question.
But couldn't look at you're in Frankfurt.
I mean, that's not Chicago.
You're closer to where I grew up than you are in to Chicago.
No, I'm pretty close to I'm right outside of Chicago, only about 35, 40 miles.
But I'm in a conservative pocket of the uh Chicago suburbs.
Frankfurt?
Yes.
Uh then I'm confusing it.
Oh, oh, I'm confusing it with West Frankfurt, which is down there.
Down in Southeast.
Yeah, I'm near uh I'm in the Southwest.
Yeah, okay, okay.
Okay, then you tell me.
You're just 35 miles outside the the danger zone there.
I've been telling the audience of people in Illinois and particularly Chicago, understand that what goes on in that town doesn't go on unless the mayor is involved.
Uh the mayor is uh certainly involved in almost everything.
And this uh this union case is one of them, which does.
Did you happen to know that the Chase Midwest Division's president is uh Mayor Daly's brother?
Wonder why they pitched in 400 grand.
Well, of course.
I mean it all comes back to him.
I look it, it does.
It does.
And don't miss this.
I'm not I'm not saying that Blagoyovich did what he did on orders from from Daly.
I'm saying if if Daly wants Blagoyevich in trouble, Blagoyovich is going to get in trouble.
If Daly wants Obama out of Illinois, Obama's gonna be out of Illinois.
It's just our bad luck that that trip took him to the White House.
Okay, there is a Joseph Olson at Hamline University Law School in St. Paul.
You've confirmed it.
Okay.
Then I've just got a typo here.
Because this says Hemline University.
So this data comes from uh a newsweek poll, and it's interesting, put together by University School of Law, Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, Professor Joseph Olson.
Number of states won in the two this is 2008 election, presidential race.
Number of states won by Democrats, 20.
Number of states won by Republicans, 30.
Square miles of land won by Democrats, 580,000.
Square miles run by Republicans, 2,427,000.
Population of counties won by Democrats, 127 million, Republicans, 143 million.
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by Democrats, 13.2.
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by Republicans, 2.1.
Professor Olson says in aggregate, the map of the territory that Republican won was mostly the land owned by tax-paying citizens.
Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in rented or government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare.
Professor Olson believes the U.S. is now somewhere between the complacency and apathy phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some 40% of the nation's population already having reached the governmental dependency phase.
And we put the map up, the county map when we saw it, and the square mileage, there's no question about it.
And it's just it's incredible statistics.
And again, he put it together here from Newsweek data back after this.
I know I had the bars up because there was somebody in here that didn't want to be seen in the ditto cam.
We still have a little privacy here in the studio.
You still have the bars up.
By the way, I'm getting all kinds of emails from people.
Rush, you sound just like George H.W. Bush when he didn't know about a grocery store scanner talking about the curing coffee maker that makes one cup at a time.
I resent that.
Nobody here had heard of it either when I ordered one for the studio.
And these people out, they go to stores.
I don't.
But come on.
I when it was last time I went to IHOP.
Oh, when I go into IHOP.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
What?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's right.
I did the um go to IHOP.
That's right.
I have it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, you know, we went to the International House of Pancakes because we were doing a the half-hour news hour, taping the half hour news hour.
And we had to go tape, you know, we're we were getting international opinion on one of the subjects we were doing, so we went the parking lot and waited for people to come out at the International House of Pancakes to ask him about things.
And we did go over there and have breakfast.
That's right.
That's right.
And there were there were very they were flavored coffee creamers.
Is that what it was?
Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
All right.
I had forgotten that.
I I resent this business that I'm George H. W. Bush not knowing what a grocery store uh scanner is.
Why is it it's every every every Christmas, every every holiday season when I am full of abulliance and happiness, I get these naysayers saying I'm out of touch.
Here's uh here's Brad in Minneapolis.
Hey, Brad, nice to have you on the uh EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Ross, how's it going?
Make it diddos.
Thank you, sir.
I'd uh like to thank my uh dad for turning me on to this show when I was in uh elementary school and turning me into this wonderful product, Zeitcam.
It's the lifesaver in Minneapolis.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I appreciate that.
The life server everywhere.
It is.
My uh the point I want to make today is uh about this bailout bill with the cars are part.
Uh what nobody's really talking about is how Bush is the one who gets to appoint this.
And I think that with the bridge bailout, this is going to be a way or insurance really for Pelosi to say, well, this is why it didn't work coming into the inauguration, and you know, this was Bush's guy.
We wanted somebody else.
And I think this is more insurance than anything else.
Damn right it is.
The Democrats want all of this laid off on Bush.
Yep.
And he's cooperating, you know, uh for whatever reason.
No, no, you're exactly right.
Uh this carzar business, I think she has said that she wants Paul Volcker.
We here think it should be Hamid Karzai, uh, president of uh of Afghanistan.
Well, he knows as much about making cars as anybody else in Washington does.
Hamid Karzai, Carzar.
Holman Jenkins has a piece in the Wall Street Journal today.
Um it's very good.
It is entitled, Would You Buy a Car from Congress?
It's a good summary.
It hits a lot of points that I have raised.
Congress screwed all of this up with their little cafe standards, and now they're pretending to do something to fix it, but all they're doing is feathering the nests of their unions and others, and they're persisting with policies that are killing the industry.
That is what they're doing.
This bailout is a mandated continuation of failure.
Holman W. Jenkins, Wall Street Journal, leave it To Bob Lutz.
General Motors' voluble vice chairman to puncture the unreality of the auto bailout he himself has been championing.
In an email to Ward's Auto World, Bob Lutz notes an obvious flaw in Congress's rescue plan now taking shape.
The fuel efficient green cars that GM Ford and Chrysler profess to be thrilled to be developing at Congress's behest will be unsellable unless gas prices are much higher than they are today.
And Nancy Pelosi knows this too.
She's invested in T-Boone Pickens deal.
You know, natural gas cars.
T-Bone Pickens, these guys need the gas price back up at four bucks fast.
Fast, fast.
Why do you think everybody's talking about raising the gasoline tax to get the price up to four bucks so as to force you into these podunk puddle jumper putt-putts?
*clicks*
That's exactly right.
We unsellable unless gas prices are much higher than today's.
Lutz says very few people are going to want to change what's been their nationality given right to drive bigger and bigger.
If the price of gas is a buck fifty, two dollars, even two fifty, those prices will put the cafe mandated manufacturers at war with their customers, and no one will win in that battle.
Translation, to become viable, as Congress chooses crazily to understand the term, the Big Three are setting out to squander billions of dollars on products that'll have to be dumped on consumers at a loss.
Because nobody wants them.
None of this was mentioned at four days of congressional mail-out hearings, because Detroit knows better than to suggest Congress has a role in the industry's problem.
Yet its own recently updated corporate average fuel economy regime, CAFE, makes a mockery of the idea that government money will render the companies profitable, even as the same bailout bill demands a big three drop their legal challenge to a California mileage mandate, even more unsustainable than the federal governments.
Forget Chrysler, which has needed a bailout from Washington or Stuttgart in three of the last four recessions.
The tragedy of General Motors and Ford is that inside each of them are perfectly viable businesses, albeit that have been slowly murdered over 30 years by CAFE.
Both have decent global operations at home.
Both have successful profitable businesses selling pickups, selling SUVs, and other larger cars to willing consumers, despite having to pay high UAW wages.
All this is dragged down by federal fuel economy mandates that require them to lose tens of billions making small cars Americans do not want in high cost UAW factories.
Understand something, folks.
Ford and General Motors in Europe successfully sell cars that are small, but they're not cheap.
Europeans are willing to pay top dollar for a refined small car that gets excellent mileage because they face gasoline prices as high as nine bucks.
Americans are not Europeans.
In the United States, except during bouts of high gas prices, or in the grip of a Prius fad, the small cars that American consumers buy aren't bought for high mileage.
They're bought for low sticker prices, and the big three with their high labor costs can't deliver as much value in a cheap car as the transplants can.
Under a law of politics, such truths were unmentionable in last week's televised circus.
Between legislators, because legislators are unwilling to do anything about these things.
They won't repeal CAFE because they fear the environmentalist wackos.
They won't repeal the cafe's two fleets rule, which effectively requires the big three to make small cars in domestic factories, because they fear the United Auto workers.
They will not hike gas prices because they fear voters, and make no mistake.
An even more massive automobile wreck lies ahead when a soon-to-be taxpayer financed and taxpayer-owed auto industry confronts a California rulemaking that in a silly gesture against global warming would render most of its auto designs, its profit centers and tooling unsalvageable.
And by the way, this is by design.
The environmentalist wackos, the American left said this during the campaign.
Nobody cared.
Anti-capitalism.
You got to understand there are people all over this country happy as hell that the auto business is hurting and is going under, and that Congress is going to take it over and mandate.
We build a bunch of these worthless pieces of crap that nobody would buy on their own.
They're liberals.
They deny freedom and opportunity.
They force their own perverted, corrupt view of things on everybody when they will not accept it.
And that's what's happening with this bailout.
Holman Jenkins again.
We hate to admit it, but the only good idea from the bailout debate is the proposal for a new auto czar.
Along with disposing of Chrysler and downsizing Ford and GM, his job ought to be to confront Congress with its own policy cowardice and failure.
Well, fat chance, Mr. Jenkins, that's not going to happen.
Congress is this guy's boss.
Or the president will be.
If saving gasoline and saving Detroit are both worthy goals, then let's ditch cafe.
Let's institute a gas tax to make consumers value the cars government is forcing automakers to build.
If Congress doesn't have the tummy for that, at least ditch the two fleets rule.
So Detroit can import small cars to meet the mandate.
Alas, Barack Obama's vaunted change apparently does not include spending the political capital to make Congress acknowledge the failure of cafe.
If he can't do better than throw taxpayer money at a dismal policy disaster like fuel economy regulations, and so far he seems to be joining Congress in pretending it's all Detroit's fault, we might as well give up on his presidency along with any hope of progress on the nation's other unresolved dilemmas.
Obama's campaign never really answered the question of whether he was a Chance the Gardener or Abraham Lincoln.
We might find out real soon.
Chance the Gardener.
We already...
Those of us in the know know this.
What we know damn well he is not Abraham Lincoln.
And it's about time people stopped insulting our intelligence by trying to draw that comparison and that analogy.
Because frankly, it is putrid and it is sick.
Just like this bailout is.
The thinking behind this bailout.
Nobody has any guts.
Nobody has any guts whatsoever.
The right thing is staring us in the face.
And I want to warn you people.
Everywhere I turn now, the sentiment to fix this is four dollar a gallon gasoline.
That's what's coming.
Mark my word.
I called a Renee Tankless Water people the other day.
By the way, I thought they might have a great marketing opportunity here for all these people that are living in homes that aren't going to be foreclosed on.
In other words, they don't have to pay for it.
I told a Renee people, why don't you give them Renee tankless water heaters, too?
You could move a lot of product and you get pleased and praised by Washington.
They'll love you because people that aren't paying for their houses ought to have the best water heater you can get, which is the Renee Tankless Water Heater.
The Renaid people were not amused.
But I thought it was, I thought it was a great idea, a great way to make a point.
I would have loved to announce the program here that the Renee Tankless Water People, you can see their product at Forever Hotwater.com, by the way, we're going to find everybody in a non-foreclosed home that should have been foreclosed on and give them a Renae tankless water heater so they can save even more money because when you use a Renae costs you much less because you're not heating water you don't use.
Can you imagine the PR benefit of that program?
Can you imagine at Christmas time Renee gives away Renee tankless water heaters to people who can pay for them but won't?
And are modernizing these houses at the same time because they are great citizens.
That's a great idea, but they weren't interested.
They said, no, we want to sell them.
I said, Oh.com.
It's Really genius what this tankless water heater does.
Pete Ocean New York.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Ross, how's it going?
It's actually Goshen, New York.
But it's okay.
Um you actually.
What is it, New York?
It's it's Goshen.
Goshen.
Okay.
Uh, you asked us for a couple segments ago.
Uh, who would want to take over Barack Obama's Senate so you can keep their kneecaps?
Yeah.
Um, I have one name for you.
Mike Ditka.
The coach?
The coach.
Coach Dicker?
He's had political aspirations in the past.
He's uh Yeah, but I thought he I thought he put those, I thought he was he checked those at the door when he went to work for ESPN.
You know, ESPN doesn't allow political people to be there.
Oh, but we all know that.
I think you're wrong, but I don't I think Dicker probably doesn't care a whit about politics anymore.
Well, you know, it's you're going from someone who is, you know, you get Dick, who's an he he's a hero in Illinois.
He's nationally known.
He's one of the toughest guys on TV now.
You put him in a situation where all this stuff, all the corruption is going on around him, people are gonna are gonna think he's gonna clean it up there, just like he did with the 85 Bears.
Yeah, I uh uh Dick has thought about running for political office from Illinois before.
Uh now is the perfect time to do it.
He can just throw his hat in the ring.
Well, they haven't they haven't announced a special election yet.
Uh-huh.
Well, they they they haven't done that.
And of course he'll have to clear that with uh the powers that be at ESPN.
Pete, thanks for the call in Goshen, New York.
Tony in Vineland, New Jersey.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Russ.
Hey.
Hey, I want to ask you one quick question.
Um, what's going on with the pirates getting the the bailout, seeing if they can buy Citibank.
The Somali pirates, they were aced out of their chance to uh to uh buy part of Citibank with their newfound wealth.
The uh Somali Pirates, in fact, uh I saw that uh the other day some uh uh a joint task force made up of several nations in that area uh have put out several ships to try to catch the Somali pirates.
Somali pirates called a press conference and they responded with laughter.
They said, You can't catch us because we strike at night in small little speed boats, and your sonar and radar can't detect us.
So you can put any ship out here you want, we can still hijack it.
This caused there were some people on a cruise ship, either the SS whatever, I forget what it was, and the cruise ship was going to cruise the the Gulf of Aden.
And the people on the cruise ship said, No, we're not.
You can take that boat to the next port of call, and we're gonna charter airplanes, and we will meet you there and get back on the boat.
That's what they did.
400, 500 people chartered jets to fly to Dubai to meet the ship because they didn't want not stop and think, folks.
You know, you may not know this, but back in the days where they were building the French railroad.
Some socialists had a brilliant idea that the railroad tracks would only go to a certain point in a town, then they would break, and that the track would resume a mile or so away.
They thought that this would be a great way to raise money for ground transportation to take people from where the train stopped to where it resumed.
Porters transferring luggage, we get all kinds of money.
And somebody in France said, Well, hey, if that's the best way to run a train, let's not lay any tracks and just call the whole country an interruption.
That I mean, y it was a stupid idea.
Just interrupt the train track.
Which is how socialists think, by the way.
Make work.
So that well, they didn't should have pressed the statement.
They didn't call a press conference.
But think of the cruise ships.
We'll take you everywhere but where the pirates are, unless you want to go with us, we'll go.
And for an additional fee, we will charter you to Dubai so that you don't have to deal with the pirates.
You can watch them from the sky as you fly over while they hijack us.
Gotta go, folks.
We are out of here back in 21 hours for more broadcast excellence.
Thanks so much for being with us today.
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