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Barney Frank, fit to be tied out there, ladies and gentlemen, trying to put his finger in the dike out there trying to.
What is so funny?
What did I say?
What did I say?
Barney Frank's putting a finger in the dyke.
He's trying to stop all this economic hemorrhaging.
He's trying to stop Rick Warren from showing up and giving the prayer.
He's really upset about that at Obama's inauguration.
The Democrats are now again lowering expectations.
I ain't going to let that happen here.
Not only are they lowering expectations on policy matters, also they have reduced, the headlines say that the inauguration crowd originally projected at 6 million.
They say it'll be cut by about half.
Actually, no, the projections, if you read the article, the Washington Times, 2 million is what they're expecting.
That's a reduction in expectations by two-thirds.
Also, Bush's last inaugural drew $400,000, so you know that the report will be that there were $500,000 or more at the Obama inauguration.
It'll dwarf whatever, just by virtue of the reporting in the drive-by media.
Ladies and gentlemen, the soap opera here continues.
What are we going to call this soap opera?
This soap repair is going to be called liberalism in America.
Let me give you some headlines today from the Drudge Report.
Bitter cold, high winds, chill the Midwest.
Wind chill minus 30 in Chicago, minus 10 in New York City.
All parts of Canada may see their first white Christmas since 1971.
Severe cold wave to hit Europe.
Beijing's coldest December day in 57 years.
Now, if God is writing this sitcom, we'll call it liberals and liberalism in America.
What God is doing is revealing what a con artist.
This guy's got nothing.
Al Gore has nothing on Bernie Madoff.
Do you realize the global warming hoax is larger in scope than Bernie Madoff's scheme?
Al Gore is being displayed here as a liar.
But God is doing it in a kind and compassionate way.
Oil costs next to nothing, which means we can heat ourselves with his creation.
Coal is down too as well this winter while we sort out the global warming lies.
Some people, this cold wave that's going to hit Europe, Joe Bastardi today at his blog at AccuWeather.com says that it is going to be worse than anybody will ever remember.
This cold wave is going to come in.
And he makes the point, and some people could say, well, this is just a sign of how we have been warming when a cold wave comes.
No, that's not the way to look at it.
By the way, he's not a global warming believer.
The way to look at this is very simple.
If we've got global warming going on, then how is it that all of this frigid weather can make a comeback?
If you are vanquishing the enemy, you're vanquishing the enemy.
And if global warming is going to destroy the planet and our climate, where in the world is all this cold coming from?
And don't tell me that it is an illustration of just how fast the earth is warming.
This is what the drive-bys and the environmentalist wackos want us all to believe because they have their agenda.
So anything abnormal weather-wise is said to be the result of climate change.
Ladies and gentlemen, I want to illustrate something.
Many people can go on the radio and just tell you what they think.
Many people can give you their opinions, right, wrong, informed, uninformed, what have you.
One of my most recent suggestions to all of you as a means of helping you to keep your sanity through the next two years, four years, 16 years, 20 years, whatever the reign of Obama ends up being.
You will go crazy, I said, if you listen to what he says.
You will go nuts if you expect the drive-by media to in any way be critical.
He's too big to fail.
What you must do instead to understand why his voters love him is to listen to how he says what he says.
And I want to illustrate this, and I want to do it using Blago.
Blago went out Friday and delivered his defiant denial of having done anything wrong.
We have three sound bites here.
What I did was ask Paul Shanklin to record verbatim in his Obama voice everything that Blago said.
I said, keep the humor out of it.
Do not exaggerate Obama affectations.
Give me as straight an Obama impersonation as possible.
And what we're going to do here, we'll do a side-by-side so that you can see what I'm talking about.
You listen to a punk like Blagojevich deny it, and you listen to Obama deny it, and you tell me which of the two you would believe.
We'll play the three Blagojevich bites first.
Here's number one.
I'm here to tell you right off the bat that I am not guilty of any criminal wrongdoing, that I intend to stay on the job, and I will fight this thing every step of the way.
I will fight.
I will fight.
I will fight until I take my last breath.
I have done nothing wrong.
And I'm not going to quit a job that people hired me to do because of false accusations and a political lynch mob.
Changed my mind.
I want to play that same thing with Obama.
So, Mike, it'll be a start stop here.
Here is Obama saying the same thing that Blagojevich said last Friday.
I'm here to tell you right off the bat that I am not guilty of any criminal wrongdoing, that I intend to stay on the job, and I will fight this thing every step of the way.
I will fight.
I will fight.
I will fight until I take my last breath.
I have done nothing wrong, and I'm not going to quit a job that people hired me to do because of false accusations and a political lynch mob.
All right, now, which of those two do you think sounds the more credible, ladies and gentlemen?
There's no contest, right?
Obviously, the Messiah comes across as deeply sincere, very confident, very self-assured, and non-combative.
Here's more of Blago.
Let me tell you what I'm not going to do.
I'm not going to do what my accusers and political enemies have been doing, and that is talk about this case in 30-second soundbites on Meet the Press or on the TV news.
Now, I'm dying to answer these charges.
I am dying to show you how innocent I am.
Well, do it.
And I want to assure everyone who's here and everyone who's listening that I intend to answer every allegation that comes my way.
However, I intend to answer them in the appropriate forum in a court of law.
And when I do, I am absolutely certain that I will be vindicated.
I think we've got the, in fact, let's go ahead and play the next Blagojevich bite, and then we'll play the Obama version.
Rudyard Kipling wrote, if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you and make allowance for their doubting too, if you can wait and not be tired by waiting or being lied about, don't deal in lies or being hated, don't give way to hating.
All right, so there's Blogojevich reading poetry.
Here is now Barack Obama with the Blago transcript.
Now, that's what I'm going to do.
Let me tell you what I'm not going to do.
I'm not going to do what my accusers and political enemies have been doing, and that is to talk about this case in 30-second soundbites on Meet the Press or on the TV news.
Now, I'm dying to answer these charges, and I'm dying to show you how innocent I am.
And I want to assure everyone who's here and everyone who's listening that I intend to answer every allegation that comes my way.
However, I intend to answer them in the appropriate form in a court of law.
And when I do, I am absolutely certain that I will be vindicated.
Okay, you tell me, ladies and gentlemen, which of these two sounds like somebody you would trust and which of the two sounds like you wouldn't.
Which of the two?
It doesn't matter what he's saying.
Here is one more little, I don't know if this is going to sync up perfectly, but here is one more Barack Obama from the Blago press conference.
Rudyard Kipling wrote, if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you and make allowance for their doubting too, if you can wait and not be tired by waiting or being lied about, don't deal in lies or being hated, don't give way to hating.
And then start talking about creating 3 million jobs or saving 3 million jobs, and everybody swoons.
So remember, it's not what he says.
It is what Blago said.
It's totally what Blago said, not how he said it.
But with Obama, it's not what he says.
It is how he says it.
And you'll go a long way toward maintaining your sanity if you remember that.
By the way, an update, ladies and gentlemen, we had the shocking and frightening news last week that the northern hemisphere is losing two minutes of sunlight every day.
And if this crisis continues, that we will be in total darkness by June or July.
Frightening new information has surfaced from Daylight Change Research.
The data indicates drastic changes to the environment that have already started.
Many species of birds, millions of individual birds have left the northern hemisphere.
The impact of the loss of these birds is unimaginable.
Insect life has been severely affected.
Most can no longer be observed.
Large mammals have been observed lying in a state of near-death torpor in their dens.
Crop production has fallen to dangerously low levels.
And the models of the researcher predict famine in the very near future.
In addition, computer models did not project this, but actual eyewitness observation has shown that most, if not all, leaves have fallen off all trees in the researcher's hometown.
Now, these and other effects of the loss of daylight demand our immediate attention if we are to prevent a climate catastrophe.
Remember, total darkness and everything that would result from it by June or July if we cannot enact policies now that change this leakage back after this.
The crisis, the controversy over the eventual selection of Caroline Schlossberg to replace Hillary Clinton in the United States Senate continues, ladies and gentlemen.
Over the, let's see, over the weekend, we had some sound bites that happened out of this.
Gary Ackerman was up first, actually yesterday, on Slay the Nation.
Gary Ackerman, Congressman Democrat New York, Bob Schieffer.
A lot of the Democrats in New York, elected officials, have said that they think this is a good idea.
But so far, you have not been one of those people.
I don't know if it's a good idea because I'm not sure I know who she is.
I mean, everyone knows who she is, but we're not sure what she is.
You know, they're Kennedys.
They're all boats, but is she a sailboat when we need a battleship?
That remains to be seen.
And the very fact that she's sequestered herself for her whole life, nobody knows what her values are, we can assume.
We don't know the second thing, which is probably as important in New York and in national politics, what kind of fighter she will be.
Does she have the guts and the gumption to do it?
Well, you see, it's not smooth sailing here for Caroline Schlossberg.
Gary Ackerman then followed up.
They basically Sarah palinized her, if I can coin a phrase.
They're answering questions that you have to submit in writing.
She's not talking to reporters as she makes this grand tour.
DNA in this business can take you just so far.
You know, Rembrandt was a great artist.
His brother Murray, on the other hand, Murray Rembrandt, wouldn't paint the house.
Murray Rembrandt?
Rembrandt had a brother named Murray, and he couldn't paint a house.
So you see, DNA only takes you so far, and that's quite a cut to say of Caroline Schlossberg that she has been palinized.
Geraldine Ferraro also is not on board this move.
Bob Schieffer said to her, you've asked the governor in a letter to appoint one of the six female members of Congress that come from New York.
It's not about an individual.
It is about the state and the needs of the state.
I said, in order to get somebody to hit the ground running, I specifically said, I think you should look to members of Congress because they've been dealing with these issues for the last several months.
What they have to do, their biggest concern, is moving from one side of the Capitol to the other side of the Capitol.
They know what's going on.
They know the process.
They can move.
And then I did put in a little bit of a support for the six women members.
I said, I don't know if any one of them wants it, but I think you should reach out to them and ask them.
Yeah, you know, this is something troubling about this, and that is the balkanization of things that the Democrats and the Liberals get into.
Only women can have this seat.
Only a black can have Obama's seat.
Only women can represent women.
Only this or that.
And she's a woman.
Caroline Schlossberg is a woman.
It has been learned, ladies and gentlemen, her big charity, the place that she supposedly devotes most of her time.
Why are you laughing in there, Brian?
I haven't said anything funny yet.
Well, you still have the Barney Frank finger in a dyke business.
I'm telling you, he's trying to stop a whole bunch of bleeding out there.
At any rate, Caroline Schlossberg apparently spends one to two hours a week working at this big thing that is her pet, you know, her most important cause.
The long knives are coming out for this woman, but it seems like this has already been wired.
Remember, last week, I think it was Friday, Caroline Schlossberg trundled up to Harlem, first time beyond 110th Street, no doubt, where she had lunch at Sylvia's soul food restaurant with the Reverend Sharpton.
And I made mention of the fact last week before she did this, when I found out she was going to go up there, that she does look a little thin, which in circles of rich and wealthy people is exactly what you want to be.
You want to be a social x-ray.
You want to be thin.
Thin rich is in rich.
And this is what people like this strife for.
I was stunned when she went up to Sylvia's and she actually ate something.
And it was a major faux pas, ladies and gentlemen, showing her.
This is not lack of anything innate.
It's just lack of political experience.
You never ever eat while a camera is on you.
You might spill something.
You might choke.
You might look bad when you eat.
Some people have the rotten, most rotten eating habits, make noise and this sort of thing.
And if you look at the video, you will see, ladies and gentlemen, that the Reverend Sharpton clasped his hands over his plate so that he would not even be tempted to reach for a fork, a knife, or anything on his plate while the cameras were rolling.
But Caroline was slicing, she was dicing, she was putting food in her mouth, and she would chomp it away.
And the Reverend Sharpton, they may be responsible for this, my friends.
Because everybody agrees that she is social x-ray thin.
So the Reverend Sharpton, you don't go to Sylvia's to sit there and drink water.
You know, for all the talk, ladies and gentlemen, about the Bush administration and George Bush personally trying to manage his legacy with the automobile bailouts and other things, you can see here that the Democrats are already building Obama's legacy before he takes office.
Wall Street Journal today, Democrats try to lower expectations, even as they depict a massive stimulus package as indispensable to turning the economy around.
U.S. Democrat.
Oh, by the way, speaking of that, speaking of that, Obama has added to the number of jobs that he is going to create or save.
Remember, it was 2 million.
It was 2 million jobs he was going to create or save.
Now, all of a sudden, the Obama people are out there saying that he is going to save 3 million jobs.
This comes, ladies and gentlemen, after last Friday when I, audio sombre number one here, Mike, this comes after last Friday after I said this.
Remember, Obama promised to add or save 2 million jobs.
Remember?
First said he was going to add 2 million jobs.
Policies would add 2 million jobs over the course of a couple years or so.
And then he started adding the word save to the figure.
Add and save $2 million.
Well, George W. Bush just saved 2 million jobs for him.
The figure they're throwing around here is that an auto bankruptcy would cost 1 to 3 million jobs.
So you round that off, you get $2 million.
Bush just saved them before Obama saves them again.
So by the time we're finished here, we will have saved 4 million jobs because Obama will claim his $2 million.
And so, do I know these people?
I know these people like every square inch of my glorious naked body.
I know what they're going to do.
So Bush saves all these jobs.
Obama has to up the ante.
Otherwise, Bush gets the credit for it.
So 2 million jobs are already saved.
Obama's now got to save or create just a million in order to make himself appear with drive-by media assistance, of course, of having outperformed even Bush.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, Mark Stein, a brilliant syndicated column from Friday last week.
And it is, it starts out, so we're talking about bailouts of the auto industry.
Listen to some of the numbers that Mark Stein reports in his column.
General Motors now has a market valuation about a third of bed, bath, and beyond.
And no one says that your swash 700 elongated biscuit toilet seat bidet is too big to fail.
GM has a market capitalization of around $2.4 billion for purposes of comparison.
Toyota's market cap is $100 billion and change, the change being bigger than the whole of General Motors.
General Motors, like the others of the big three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing audio subsidiary or auto subsidiary.
What a way to describe the big three automakers.
A vast retirement home.
He says the United Auto Workers is AARP in an Edsel.
The UAW has three times as many retirees and widows as workers.
Did you hear that, ladies and gentlemen?
The United Auto Workers has three times as many retirees and widows as workers.
General Motors has 96,000 employees, but provides health benefits to a million people.
And the UAW, of course, this is one of the things, you know, Barney Frank trying to stick his finger in a dike.
He's trying to save the unions because the bailout is for the unions and the unions, of course, are going nowhere near anything like a concession.
And the nothing in the Bush plan that bailed them out that mandates that anybody do anything.
They just kick this can down the road to March so that Obama can do with what he wants.
GM has 96,000 employees, provides health benefits to a million people.
And I know what some of you were saying.
Yeah, Rush, but GM made the deal.
They might have made the deal, but it can't be sustained.
That's just, if you don't think this is one of the primary problems they're having, then you need to take your head out of the sand.
How do you make that math add up?
You do not, if you've got 96,000 employees and you're providing health benefits to a million people, you're not going to make up the difference by selling cars.
Mark Stein reported that Honda and Nissan make a pre-tax operating profit per car of around $1,600.
Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors make a loss of $500 to $1,500 per car.
That is to say, they lose money on every vehicle they sell.
Like Henry Ford said, you can get it in any color as long as it's red.
This is startling, striking information.
So now with Obama upping the ante, ladies and gentlemen, on his job saving and job creation out of 3 million, the headline in the Washington and the Wall Street Journal, Democrats try to lower expectations, even.
As they depict a massive stimulus package as indispensable to turning the economy around, U.S. Democrat leaders are aggressively lowering expectations that the package will yield dramatic accomplishments quickly.
David Obie, who is playing a key role in assembling the stimulus plan, which is expected to approach $800 billion, said recently that an infusion of federal spending is the only game in town, quote unquote.
He's chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
He also added carefully, the downward momentum appears too strong to end the recession anytime soon.
Democrats are facing an especially precarious version of that dilemma in crafting a package that will sink hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars into the economy.
They're apprehensive about the fallout if the economy merely continues sputtering along for several years.
And then they're going to have Joe Biden.
Joe Biden is going to chair a middle-class task force.
And this is one of his themes during the campaign.
So we're going to have the federal government and a task force run by Joe Biden working on improving the middle class.
I guess with what?
Targeted spending?
There's only two ways that you bolster members of the middle class, ladies and gentlemen.
You either take those who are lower middle class or out of the middle class on the bottom and you elevate them so that they join the middle class.
This is what capitalism does.
The other way to bolster the middle class is take those who are above it and tax the hell out of them and regulate the hell out of them and confiscate as much of what they earn as possible so that their wealth declines and then they end up in the middle class.
This notion that Joe Biden and Obama have a magic formula to help the middle class do something with targeted government spending is absurd.
It's been tried throughout history.
It doesn't work.
Capitalism is the only thing that's going to work.
Unfettered, just get out of the way capitalism, allowing the fruits of one's labors to be realized, reinvested, and so forth.
Even Farid Zakaria writing in the Washington Post yesterday, for Obama to be remembered as a great president, he has to do nothing less than rescue capitalism.
Tell me something.
How in the world, Fareed Zakaria, supposedly by reputation one of the smartest guys ever?
Newsweek, CNN, Washington Post column.
He's got a book or something out there about how it's all over, the end of American dominance because the rest of the world is rising up all around us, something like that.
How in the world do you look at what Obama's stated plans are?
Some of the wacko extremists in his cabinet, that's another thing.
I'm getting a little weary here of the drive-by's pronouncing, and all of his cabinet members are moderates.
This babe that's going to run the labor department, what are her name, Solise or Sola?
What is her first name?
Solis.
This woman.
Well, the reason I ask is because, you know, Patty Doyle Solis, who used to work for Hillary, when I pronounced her name that way, I heard from all over the country.
No, no, no, it's Patty Doyle Solise.
So it's spelled the same way as this babe.
It's Hispanic name.
So that's why in today's morning update, I pronounced it both ways, because I don't know.
I haven't heard it pronounced.
I do not watch the news with the sound up.
It's bad enough watching the news with closed captioning.
I do not watch it with the sound up, so I've never heard her name pronounced.
I'm assuming it's Salise.
But this woman's got ties to communist workers' parties.
She's going to do whatever she can to unionize as much of the country.
There's nothing moderate about any of these people that Obama has appointed on the domestic side, particularly when it comes to labor and a number of other things.
How in the world, if you're one of the smartest guys in the history of journalism in the history of academia, Fareed Zakaria, how can you look at what Obama's doing and saying that his number one charge is to rescue capitalism?
It may be his number one charge to rescue capitalism, but I'll tell you something, folks.
You don't do it with socialism.
Okay.
I just asked the staff here on the other side of the glass if they've seen a movie from 2003 called Love, actually.
They all said no, except for Snerdley, who looked at me incredulously.
Are you kidding?
What does it sound like?
A chick flick?
Well, I happened to watch it recently.
It's been heralded by some liberals as a classic Christmas movie.
It's British.
It has an ensemble cast.
So I watched it on the basing I love Christmas.
And I watched it on the basis that a bunch of libs in the media, of course, have said it's a classic Christmas movie.
And but for 15 or 20 minutes of it, it is.
I mean, it's USA Network is running an edited version of it Wednesday morning at 6.
Why?
It's airing Wednesday morning at 6, I don't know.
But they've edited some of the things.
It's a shame that you cannot show this movie to the children.
Some adults would be offended by it.
In just a few.
It's just a shame.
I'm not, folks, you watch this at your own.
That, by the way, when I mentioned that aspect of it, that piqued Snerdley's interest that you couldn't show some of it to kids.
The theory.
You know how undeniable truth of life, I forget what the number of this truth of life I wrote back in 1987 is, but it goes like this.
Nostalgia only reminds you of the good things in your past.
And that's sort of the theme of this movie that they have all kinds of pictures at Heathrow, the airport, around Christmas time.
And all you see is love.
People greeting each other, family, friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, enemies, haven't seen each other in a while.
All it is, nobody gets off the plane wanting to kill anybody except Al-Qaeda.
And they're not in the movie.
You have one of the graphics in the opening of the movie is: of all the phone calls made from all the three airplanes on 9-11, not one phone call to anybody was one of revenge or anger.
They were all messages of love, and the theory is how Christmas brings that out in everybody.
And it's hilarious.
But it's got these, it's not 20 total minutes.
It's a minute or two here.
It's 30 seconds here.
If you add it all up, there's probably, I'm guessing here, but 10 to 15 minutes of it, that you certainly would not show your kids.
Certainly not as a classic Christmas movie.
But what I found, aside from liking the movie, what I found, here's a movie that's got things in it that you would not dare recommend.
You wouldn't dare, especially with your young children.
Some of you as adults would not find something.
I don't know what the rating is.
I didn't pay any attention to the rating of the movie.
But it's got to be, it's got to, I don't know how it got away without being an R.
I mean, it's got nudity in it or threat.
Well, yeah, it does.
Well, partial nudity.
It's got really questionable language in little spurts.
But would you let me finish the thought here so I can go grab a phone caller?
What amazed me was all of these liberals thinking it's a Christmas classic.
It was quite telling to me.
It was quite, because I would have loved to have been able to come here and tell you you should watch this.
But I just can't.
I know this is going to make you want to watch it more.
If you do, I'm telling you, don't put your kids in front of you.
You're going to get mad at me.
And I have warned you.
You have been warned if you watch this.
Now, it is rated R.
Okay, it is.
We just looked it up.
It is rated R.
That should be.
I don't even think the people who made it intended it to be a Christmas movie.
It just happened to work out that way.
I'm guessing about that.
Rick in Sarasota, Florida.
You are first as we go to the phone today, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Merry Christmas, Didoz Rush.
Thank you, Shab.
I'm happy to tell you that the loss of daylight crisis is over.
Not where I live.
I mean, it got dark yesterday, same time it did last week.
I mean, I didn't check to see if we're losing light in the morning or whatever, but I mean, it's look at there's still no leaves on the trees.
There's still no birds in the northern hemisphere.
We've got record cold up there.
I don't see any signs here that daylight's coming back.
The only question is: who do we thank for this miracle?
You can't thank Obama for not denying that.
I think you're a denier.
You are a denier.
You are a denier of the disaster.
You're trying to say that this is all cyclical and that it's going to come back and that you think it's already started coming back, but you can't prove it.
And you're using this program here as a vehicle here to doubt what our obvious conclusion.
I mean, legions of scientists have done this, have run this on their models, and there's no question that we're losing daylight.
There's a consensus of scientists out there who are very alarmed and very concerned that we are losing daylight in the northern hemisphere, not just in the United States, in Canada, in the U.K., in parts of China.
In North Korea, it's always dark.
I mean, they've got a head start on us.
So you can sit there and try to deny this all you want.
But eventually, you'll find out we get to June and July, and there's no daylight.
It's all down in the southern hemisphere.
You're going to want to move to Rio except for the crime.
All right, folks, back to this business of Democrats trying to lower expectations.
No, no, no.
That's not how it works.
That's not how it works.
You don't campaign on a messiah platform where you're going to lower the sea levels and you're going to fix all these problems.
You don't do that.
You don't run around and make people think the world's going to love us.
And you don't run around and say, oh, war is going to end and we're going to meet our Vinis out and all these problems are going to be solved.
You don't run around and do that.
You don't campaign get elected that basis.
By the way, it's going to be worse than even we thought.
It's going to be a big, big problem.
Democrats have begun speaking in the long term, emphasizing their goal isn't merely to end the downturn, but to change society and strengthen the economy for generations.
This is, they want to lower expectations so that you will go along with every emergency fix they come up with.