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January 6, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #2
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You know, folks, I just watched the Senate and the House, the new Senate and the House gets sworn in.
And I said to Snerdley while I was watching this, this is like the bank opening the doors and welcoming in the thieves, opening the vault and saying, have at it.
So Obama is proposing a $350 billion tax cut as part of the stimulus plan.
Have you noticed not one person in the drive-by media or the Democrat Party has said, uh-uh, wait a minute, how are we going to pay for this?
Whenever the George W. Bush tax cuts are proposed, when any Republican tax cut is proposed, the cry erupts immediately, well, how are we going to pay for that?
Not only are we not asking how we're going to pay for Obama's tax cuts, we're not asking how we're going to pay for any of this stuff that they are engaging in.
Greetings, welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, this The Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Great to have you with us.
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So here we have it, ladies and gentlemen.
Such a sad, sad circumstance here.
Wall Street Journal, Democrats' factions could stall grand plans.
Now, I'm not going to read the whole piece.
Grand plans of Obama.
The Bamster is now facing opposition already in his own party, the factions of his own party.
Oh, no, how can it be?
The poor guy, he's just a savior.
He's the one.
He just intends the best for everything and everybody in the world.
And now we're being told that factions in his own party could stall his grand plans.
Now, this is basically a treatment of the fact there is, by the way, there's a smidgen of truth to the possibility.
The Democrat Party is an amalgamation, if you will, of various coalitions.
And these coalitions are very selfish, and they are single interest.
You have the pro-abortion feminists.
You have the big labor people, the teachers' unions and so forth.
You have the animal rights crowd.
You have the global warming crowd, the militant environmentalist wackos.
You have the militant gay crowd.
They all have their demands on the Democrat Party leadership.
And they generally are very selfish.
They are united when there is a Republican in the White House, but when there's a Democrat, sometimes they get a little selfish.
But I think this is smoke and mirrors.
Here, again, this from the French news agency.
In distraction for Obama, chaos stalks new Senate.
This is about poor Burris, who has been treated like a third-rate citizen, ladies, like three-fifths of a human being today by dingy Harry Reid in the United States Senate.
Well, he has been, Sternly.
You can sit there and laugh all you want, but today Roland Burris was no better than three-fifths of an American.
He shows up legitimately nominated, appointed, and they won't let him in.
The U.S. Senate is set to convene in a swirl of allegations of corruption, voter fraud, and dynastic nepotism that threatens to dog the early days of Barack Obama's presidency.
The nepotism, by the way, is Caroline Kennedy and the setup here for Bo Biden to become a senator in 2010, replacing his father, going to put a caretaker in there.
And then this headline here from theage.com.
This is from Australia.
Democrats waiver on Obama plan.
In the United States, this headline would be GOP to block Obama plan.
But in Australia, it is Democrats waver on Obama plan.
What are we to make of this?
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the new mantra.
And I submit to you that everybody will fall for it.
Everybody's going to fall for this notion, oh, poor Bamster.
He's so well-spoken.
He's so nice.
He's so harmless.
And now all of these evil people are standing up trying to block his agenda.
Well, let me tell you something, folks, and you heard it here first.
I am the all-knowing, all-caring, all-seeing Maharashi.
We agree on this, correct?
Obama will get 95% of everything he wants early on.
The same thing with his cabinet.
You know, everybody's talking about, whoa, how moderate they kept.
Forget that they're Clinton Easterns for a second.
Look at the way they're being discussed.
Oh, they're so moderate.
Such a bunch of moderates.
Everybody knows that the real power brokers in the Obama administration are too controversial to be nominated to these cabinet posts.
Bill Ayers is going to be running education behind the scenes.
Everybody knows this.
Look at Leon Panetta over.
You know the dirty little secret of Leon Panetta being appointed?
New York Times even had this story.
New York Times says Obama couldn't find anybody to accept it that he really wanted.
Now, that's one thing, but do you know why he couldn't find anybody to accept it?
Because the people he wanted have intelligence experience.
They have been involved in intelligence gathering in the war on terror.
They are fully aware of the threats we face.
And Obama doesn't want a CIA that's engaged in it.
He wants a CIA.
See, the story is going out that Obama does not want a CIA that will pull the wool over his eyes like they did over Bush's eyes on weapons of mass destruction.
So he wants somebody in there he can trust.
The dirty little secret is he couldn't find anybody involved that he wanted to take the job under his terms.
He basically wants the CIA to sort of abrogate where they've been going.
He wants to control it.
So he's putting his own guy in there to clean the place out, like Porter Goss was supposed to clean the place out.
But the old boys at the CIA got rid of Porter Goss via President Bush.
And Panetta is now considered to be a strong enough figure that the old boys of the CIA will not be able to push him out in the eyes of Obama.
There's so much going on that is not happening the way the drive-bys are reporting it.
And it's the same way with these sob stories.
Democrats' factions could stall Obama grand plans.
Democrats waiver on Obama plan.
There will be these factions, but the big picture is the issue.
The question, will Obama advance his agenda?
And the answer is, you bet he will.
And part of the strategery, intended or otherwise, is to make him appear centrist.
And that's what all the complaining is about.
This is a strategery.
All of these stories are planted, ladies and gentlemen, to make it appear that Obama, he's the harmless, lovable little fuzzball centrist, and it's all these wacko extremists in his party that are standing in his way.
It is to make him look like something he is not.
Obama is driving this hearse, ladies and gentlemen.
Obama's driving it, and he's going to take it where he wants to go.
Whatever funeral home he wants to take this country to is where he's going to take it.
It's making look to me like he's barely in charge now.
He's lost control.
Why all these people are standing in his way?
You know, too many of the people on our side, too many conservatives, too many Republicans, judge events by what is going on with the left.
They judge events on the basis of what the New York Times says about an event or what NBC or ABC, they get caught up in it.
If the unions are upset that they can't get their non-secret voting passed, fine.
And that probably, there's a story in the Wall Street Journal.
A bunch of senators now say, we may not vote for this.
It was easy to vote for it when they knew Bush would veto it.
But reality has set in and the whole notion of getting rid of secret ballots, there's no stomach for this is the story in the journal today.
But see, if you look further behind the scenes, as have I, you will find they may not get their non-secret voting pass.
They may not get card check, but they will get their compelled arbitration passed.
And that will force small businesses to have to prove to federal bureaucrats why their employees don't want to be unionized, and the decision will be left to the arbitrator.
So the unions are going to win through the back door, even as Kardjek is defeated.
Well, our guys are going to say, oh, whoa, what a great victory.
We stopped KardCheck.
We stopped one of Obama's agenda items, and they're going to get it through the back door.
And then they will complain, even after they get what they want.
After KardCheck goes down, they will complain that they have not gotten what they want because that's the nature of liberalism.
As Ann Coulter's new book makes clear, they love portraying themselves as victims.
Now, cap and trade, the bogus, totally bogus.
It's bombed out everywhere it's tried.
But if cap and trade is adopted here, the environmentalists will have won.
But after they've won, they will say they have not won because the cap is not tough enough and the trade part is too helpful to industry.
So whatever they get, it won't be enough.
As I have told you over and over again, you can't satisfy liberals.
And this is where our side has made all kinds of mistakes by trying to make accommodations with them, by compromising with them, by crossing out, we'll give you what you want, a little bit of this.
It's never enough.
They have to be defeated.
Not accommodated.
The way they continue to get what they want is to complain they haven't gotten anything and to blame others for victimizing them.
You know, we're going to be adopting hard left measures down the line like this.
And there will be demands for more and complaints of sellout, all of which will make Obama appear reasonable and centrist.
That's how it's going to be reported.
That's how it'll be repeated even among conservatives.
And he's a centrist.
Our guys are already doing it, are they not?
The best and brightest we have to offer are still talking about, gosh, we hope he succeeds.
We really want him to succeed.
And we will work with him.
And we shouldn't have any criticism of him right now.
Look at his cabinets, very centrist, very moderate.
We can work with these people.
The best and brightest on our side are falling for this, even.
As I explained to you, the trick that is being perpetrated on them right now.
This is how it works, folks.
I know liberals like every square inch of my glorious naked body.
I know how they do things.
And if we don't recognize this, and if we don't recognize how this works, we may not recognize our country in four years.
And I am predicting this as the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-concerned Maharashi.
It's very, very important here, folks, seriously, because I think we have the tendency to delude ourselves and embrace the left's spin even when we denounce it.
And the left's spin right now is, oh, poor Obama, he's so distracted, Bill Richards.
And his factions in his party.
Democrats wavering on his plan, we feel sorry for him because we're too gutless to criticize him.
So we embrace the spin of what's happening even before he becomes president.
We as a nation are going to move hard left.
There's no question about this.
That's why the spin right now is that he's just a moderate, he's just a centrist.
While we are moving hard left, we will be told that we are not moving hard left.
And the Democrat special interest groups will whine all the way as they are delivered victory after victory.
You mark my words.
January 6, 2009, they're going to get all of what they want, 95% of it, and they're going to complain all the way.
The complaining's already started.
Democrat factions could stall grand plans.
Democrats waiver on Obama plan.
Let's take a look at his tax cut plan, right?
Look at how our side is bending over backwards for this.
Wow.
Obama's $350 billion of his stimulus plan is going to be a tax cut.
Whoa, this is incredible.
If you look dig deep, you'll find that his tax cut is going to the bottom 50% who do not pay taxes anyway.
He's going to create a new welfare state out of these people.
And once you have over 50% of the people not paying income taxes, you lose forever the argument to cut taxes for everybody else who pays them.
Because those who don't pay any are never going to vote tax cuts on people who are paying their freight.
And this is a classic, I'll explain this in greater detail in a moment.
This is a classic illustration of how what I just described works.
They are going to cut taxes for business that don't make any money.
They're going to cut taxes for businesses that aren't in business.
They're going to cut taxes for people that don't pay taxes.
They're not going to raise anybody's taxes other than when the Bush tax cuts expire, but they're going to cut taxes for all these people who aren't paying any anyway.
But Rush, but Rush, they're paying Social Security tax.
Okay, they're going to cut their Social Security taxes.
But don't give them a welfare check that's called a tax cut for taxes they are not paying.
And that's what's coming down the pike.
Plus a couple other ditties in my analysis of this, but this is the way it's going to happen.
We're going to go hard left.
The media is going to make it look like Obama's a centrist.
And as the Democrat factions get pretty much everything they want, they're going to be complaining and whining all the way that they haven't gotten it.
We'll be back after this.
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Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
Back to the phones now.
To Chicago.
This is David.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Rush, authentic black conservative dittos to you from ground zero of a lot of political corruption that's going on these days.
How are you?
Fine, sir.
Thank you very much for the phone call.
Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
Listen, before I get to my point, one thing.
To answer your question earlier, you can be too authentically black.
That's what the liberal media said about Jesse Jackson's failed presidential run back in the 80s.
What do you mean he's too black?
He didn't have broad appeal.
He didn't have mass appeal.
Well, that's because the Reverend Zach ran a grievance campaign.
I guess it means the same thing.
He ran on the basis of grievance that the country owed him because of our original sin of slavery.
The Reverend Sharpton tried the same thing.
And the media call that too black.
Yes, they did.
So too black means too narrow.
I guess.
I don't believe in all that stuff, but if you want to listen to them, that's fine.
Rush, listen, my point regarding Miss Don Turner Trice, before I canceled my subscription to the trib, I noticed that most of her columns were vapid at best, and she really didn't have anything to say unless it pertained to race.
What's the difference in Don Turner Trice and Frank Rich?
What's the difference in Don Turner Trice and Bob Herbert of the New York Times?
I mean, neither have anything to say.
They're filled with rage and hatred, stereotypes.
I've read a bunch of Don Turner Trice stuff, and it's all, you're right, it's all about race.
But she's in the trib and she's hit ground zero, and the trib thinks that she's substantive.
They're publishing what she says.
And I was not going to ignore this, David, because just one week after these same people tried to build up a phony controversy about me and racism and Barack the Magic Negro, here they are asking the question again, this time about Roland Burris.
I mean, that's very substantive, if you ask me.
Well, they're going bankrupt as well, so that kind of...
Well, I know the content of these papers is a clear, I think it's one of the many elements that explains their dwindling business.
But the news business is the one business in America where the customer is always wrong.
The news business is the one business in America where you're too stupid to understand what they do.
And if you complain you are wrong, it's breathtaking to behold this.
In fact, I'll tell you something.
If you want to analyze why the drive-bys, be they in print or broadcast, if you want to analyze why they have lost respect, not influence, but if you want to know why they've lost respect, it's because their audience is each other, not their readers.
They make no connection with their television, radio, or print audiences because they're writing and they're reporting for each other in the media.
That's who their audience is.
They want to impress Newsweek wants to impress Time.
Time wants to impress MSNBC.
They just want to impress each other with how on the same page they all are.
How else to explain the phenomena that they'll all end up using the same word to describe an action, such as gravitas, to describe the selection of Dick Cheney by George W. Bush to be his vice president?
Every drive-by person in Washington, as though they were the only ones doing so, uniquely doing so, use the word gravitas.
They're doing it to impress each other.
It's a little club you can't get in.
Hank in Logan, Utah, you're next to the EIB network, sir.
Hi.
Good morning, Rush.
Hi.
I had one question for you.
It seems to me that starting in 2000, before George Bush became president, the Lynch launched a campaign to discredit him on every single point or issue he tried to accomplish.
And if that's the ground rules for the game, then why don't we start doing that as conservatives with Obama now?
Well, which conservatives are you talking about doing?
And if you're talking about most, not all, most elected conservatives or most want to be elected conservatives, forget it, ain't going to happen.
They are too interested in not being thought of negatively.
They are afraid that any criticism of the bamster will have them labeled racist.
And so they will stay silent.
And instead, they'll run around and say, gosh, we hope he succeeds like fools.
Cookie, I hope you're rolling on this Obama video.
He just emerged from a meeting with his economic advisors, and he's explaining it.
He's going to have to spend a lot of money to jumpstart the economy.
That's so wrong.
It is so wrong.
It's not how you revive and jumpstart an economy.
You don't do it that way.
This is what I mean by the hard left.
But I hope she's rolling on it because you cannot hear him.
There are so many photographers in there snapping their shutters and the auto rewinds or auto winds.
It is a din.
I mean, there are probably more photographers in there taking pictures of Obama sitting in a chair, not moving, than you have at your average red carpet Hollywood movie premiere.
And you cannot hear what he's saying half the time.
You can put one person in there, take 10 pictures, and that would be it.
He's not moving.
Sitting down.
You know, last week, last week during the hubbub over the rock of the Magic Negro, when I was away, I had a bunch of people concerned send me emails.
You need to hire a PR firm for when you're gone, Rise.
You're getting beat up.
They're destroying you out there, and you're not out there to defend yourself and so forth.
And I said, you know, I'm not going to hire a PR firm.
All they would do is arrange a meeting with the New York Times editorial board.
But if I were going to hire a PR firm, you know who I would hire?
Hamas.
I, ladies and gentlemen, hire Hamas.
If you want to fool the drive-by media with photoshopped pictures and staged events, false information, out and out lies, you want to manipulate them.
You don't have to go to one of these fancy PR firms.
Just go to Hamas.
These people are PR experts.
I mean, look at these gazookas.
Look at how they know how to do this.
They focused on civilian losses.
Then they followed up with children.
And now almost to mock the new media, the cry is the loss of our daughters.
It's working better than they ever planned.
They put people in their headquarters buildings.
They put people in the houses where their rocket launchers are.
Then the Israelis target the house where the rocket launchers are.
And of course, you have quote-unquote civilian casualties.
Hamas wants civilian casualties.
These people are brilliant at PR.
They want civilian casualties.
They get them.
They parade the dead bodies of their leaders through a team of throngs of people.
And then the sons.
And that goes so well.
They dig up the dead girl kids and say, let's parade them too.
And the drive-bys fall for it every time it's tried.
Be it in Lebanon.
Hire Hezbollah if Hamas is too expensive.
It might be tough to hire Hamas these days.
They are a little busy with their own project.
So you go up and hire Hezbollah.
Hell, you go hire some of these people down at Club Guitmo that are prisoners down there.
It is stunning.
Look at all the money people in this country waste on high-powered PR firms when Hamas can get you coverage any way you want it with the world media, not just the U.S., with the world media.
Here's Bob in Athens, Alabama.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Rush, God bless you, and Ann Coulter.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, listen, I wanted to take umbrage with your analysis today on this Boris or Brius appointment.
Harry Reid and the boys in the Senate can't really seat this guy while he's under this cloud of malfeasance there in Illinois.
They want to flush Lil Goyevich.
And in order to do that, he's clinging to the rim of the toilet right now.
And unless he steps down, they can't seat him.
At least they have to go through the motions anyway.
Well, I understand what you're saying, that they legitimize Blago if they seat Burris.
Yes.
Well, they have been able to delegitimize Blago.
Blago's still acting as governor.
They are on constitutional thin ice here, depending on how far Burris and his lawyers want to take this.
Well, sure, I didn't want to point out while I was waiting to talk to you.
I was looking at Fox News, and they're reporting that the Illinois Secretary of State wouldn't endorse or sign the money.
Yeah, his name is White, by the way.
Jesse White is the Illinois Secretary of State.
Yeah.
I know that there's a whole plan, but this is Blago sticking it to him.
You kind of have to like this.
Well, yeah, he's doing an excellent job, but he would do a lot better if he would have announced simultaneously that he would resign under this cloud of malfeasance.
Well, that's not his game plan.
His game plan is called Get Even.
Were you guys going to try to get rid of me?
Okay, fine.
Take this.
Well, he's up here.
And he's thrown Roland Burris up against the wall, and it has stuck.
Yeah, well, I hate to see this, even on the Democrat side, because they are taking this Illinois sewer pipeline.
See, this is, we are losing so much of our culture.
We're descending here into analyzing all this on the basis of pure politics, in some cases, pop culture.
Blago is legitimate.
And what is it that legitimizes Blago?
It's called the law.
He's the governor.
He's still the governor.
He has not been indicted.
They have postponed until April 7th, the period of time until he must be indicted if he is going to be.
He is determining how Rahm Emanuel's seat is going to be filled with a special election.
He is signing legislation.
He's running around attending rubber chicken dinners, whatever governors do.
He is legitimized by the law.
He's unindicted.
Ladies and gentlemen, add to this, I'm sorry, Harry Reed doesn't get to determine who sits in the United States Senate.
This is about the Constitution.
And as is the case with so much of what is happening to our country with liberals in charge, the Constitution means less and less, and people don't care.
Even I, ladies and gentlemen, we can't help but look at this as a sitcom.
But nevertheless, there are serious concerns here.
Well, the humor that we find in it is the obvious, phony baloney, plastic man, a good time rock and rollerism of Democrats and liberals.
They supposedly are head and shoulders above us all, and they are not ethically challenged, and they're not corrupt, and they are compassionate and feeling, and they love minorities, and they want minorities to excel.
They will do except when the minorities get too uppity.
And then it's time to revert to Bull Connor.
Or, in this case, Lester Maddox.
What's the difference in Dingy Harry and Lester Maddox?
George Wallace.
Remember, all these great segregationists in the past are Democrats.
It's in the blood.
And it's showing up on the steps of the United States Senate.
And we are reduced to discussing, well, I can't really do this.
You know, they would legitimize Blagojevich.
How about the fear that they delegitimize themselves?
They apparently have no fear that they will delegitimize themselves, but they are in the process of so doing.
Quickly to Newark, Delaware.
Bob, glad you called.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program high.
Yes, Russ, I was really glad to hear you bring up the Biden situation about the caretaker for the Senate seat for Bo Biden.
My wife has filed a freedom of information request with the governor's office concerning all documents involving this situation.
Worthless.
Oh, no, no, I absolutely agree with you, but the point is she filed it, which hopefully then Minner won't get some big position down the line because of this situation.
But let me bring this to you, Rush.
This is the second time a caretaker was done for Bo Biden.
I don't know if you're aware of that.
When the former Attorney General moved to the Superior Court, Minner, the governor here, appointed a caretaker for Attorney General who promised not to primary Bo in the Democratic primary the next time around.
And that's obviously a requirement in this situation to not primary Bo Biden.
Well, no, wait, you have to help me with my historical knowledge.
Did Bo Biden then become A.G.?
He then ran.
In other words, he wasn't primaried, and he ran and he became the A.G.
So he's A.G. in Delaware right now.
He is A.G., so Bo Biden's the A.G.?
Bo Biden is the A.G. Wait a minute now.
I'm getting confused.
Which one of the Bidens is in Iraq?
That's Bo Biden.
Bo Biden's the Attorney General while he's in Iraq.
Correct.
Correct.
Oh.
Okay.
But there was a caretaker.
Yeah, I understand.
Okay, I got it.
I got it.
So this is the second time that nepotism has reared its ugly head from the Chia Pet father for the son to get where he wants him to go when the son might not be able to get there on his own.
Absolutely.
And in fact, a very important point, but you see, the Delaware news media doesn't really want to go near this too much because they're thrilled with Joe Biden being vice president.
But, you know, the fact is the Senate seat is Delaware's Senate seat.
It's not Biden's Senate seat.
It doesn't belong to him.
It belongs to the people of Delaware.
And, you know, we're just going to keep having a lot of time.
Just like the Illinois Senate seat does not belong to Harry Reid.
The Senate is not the law.
The Senate can't change the law.
The Senate cannot interpret it any way it wants.
But nobody, the Democrats.
See, the media is not going to report it this way at all because this is just such a poor distraction for poor Bamster.
And they want to sweep it under the rug.
And they want Bo Biden in there.
They want as many Democrat, the media I'm talking about.
No, no, I understand that.
But, you know, we're just going to keep hammering away.
And by the way, when they don't provide my wife with her freedom of information, we'll identify that publicly, you know, that they wouldn't give her the freedom of information.
And in fact, you know, may put a lawsuit.
Who knows?
Well, God bless you.
God bless you.
You're going to be out there.
They're going to portray you as some kind of nutcase wacko if you succeed in this.
So be forewarned and prepared.
Rush, I'm already portrayed like that in Delaware, so that doesn't bother me.
You must have a reputation then.
I absolutely have a reputation.
Well, good.
And you're fearless out there.
Well, that's good.
That's what we need.
I'm glad you called, Bob.
Thanks much.
We'll be right back.
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Here's Phil in Naples, Florida.
Phil, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Great to have you here, sir.
Kittos, Rush.
Thank you.
At the beginning of the program, you mentioned Arctic ice.
It's the same as it has been since it's right now as well as the market.
By the way, I need to correct something about that.
I said that 1979 is when Newsweek ran its, or Time, one of the two magazines ran their cover story on the coming ice age.
It was 1975 that one of the magazines, I forget, did that.
Newsweek was 79, Time was 75, reverse vice.
I'm not sure which.
But anyway, yes.
Well, the thing about Arctic ice, I think there's a misconception in the public about how thick it is and how thick it has been in the past.
It's not particularly thick.
It's always been quite thin, as a matter of fact.
Since the late 1950s and early 60s, the United States Navy has punched holes in the North Pole in order to visit there with their submarines.
And I believe the ice to do that can only be about six feet thick in order for the submarine to be able to accomplish that task.
Well, not just that.
Icebreakers, icebreaker ships have to be able to plow through it.
Well, and the West Wind and the East Wind, two Coast Guard icebreakers, World War II technology, by the way, I believe, visited the North Pole in the 1950s by breaking through the ice along with the Goodwill mission up there with the Soviets.
And I believe also in the late 1950s and early 60s, the Coast Guard also circumnavigated the North American continent by making use of the fabled Northwest Passage.
Exactly, exactly.
But see, this is where we're fighting a losing battle going about it.
You're talking facts.
You're giving historical facts all the way back to 1950.
But right now, this thing is totally emotional, and its appeal has been to totally uninformed people.
The reason people think the ice is melting in the Arctic because of doctored photographs of polar bears.
Pure and simple.
The past doesn't matter.
They're being lied to by Al Gore and everybody else in the militant movement.
The blessing here that we finally have Vaslav Havel running the European Union.
And they have, Vaslav Havel, this whole thing is a hoax.
He believes it's a hoax.
If you stop and think about it, which, of course, asking a lot of Americans to do that is a defeated procedure in the first place.
When you say, folks, stop and think about this.
You've lost the issue.
With way too many Americans.
Stop and think.
Do you really think that driving SUVs and so forth could cause ice in the North Pole to get thinner?
Do you understand what it takes for that kind of ice, what kind of cult?
You've lost them.
Because they're going to say, I've seen it melting.
The polar bears are barely able to survive.
Because they've seen these doctored pictures.
And they're inundated at school every day by stupid, activist, uninformed, gender-oriented, sorry-ass excuses for teachers.
That's why, folks, Andrew Breitbart and his attempt to get conservatism in the pop culture is crucial.
That's how we're going to reverse some of this stuff.
A voter registration worker with the group ACORN has been indicted on two counts, felony counts of voter registration for in St. Louis.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, it was at a nursing home.
They registered nursing home residents to vote without their consent.
44-year-old Deidre Humphrey of East St. Louis indicted.
Acorn, by the way, is the first big job that the BAMST as a community organizer.
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