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Jan. 7, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 7, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 podcast.
I can just hear the chants out there now, ladies and gentlemen.
Free at last.
Lord Almighty.
We are free at last.
Today, Illinois Senate designate Roland Burris was allowed in the front door of the United States Senate and into the inner sanctums of Dingy Harry, where he was told, you know, uncertain terms.
What his side of the deal is for getting him seated into the United States Senate.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's Rush Lindbaugh.
This is the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Dingy Harry is totally caved.
Dick Durbin has totally caved.
Yesterday and the day before, Harry Reid was saying the Senate and only the Senate will determine this, and we are not seating him.
And then something strange happened yesterday.
People began to focus on the racial aspects of this.
The photographs and the pictures of a poor bedraggled black guy surrounded by his black attorneys being barred from the United States Senate and all white men's club.
And this happened, they forced him out in the rain, ladies and gentlemen, to boot with umbrellas and everything else.
And uh the Secretary of State in Illinois, a man named White, Jesse White, said that I'm not signing this.
I'm not I'm not signing the paper necessary to make this happen.
Today, Dingy Harry said, Well, uh, we have nothing to do with this.
Uh, this is all about the Secretary of State of Illinois.
Secretary of State of Illinois has to sign the certification form here.
So Dingy Harry is pretending, and he never ever said anything about letting Burris into the building, and the Secretary of State of Illinois said, What the hell is this?
Is it just a mere formality?
My signature doesn't really mean anything.
I'm not going to take the heat for this, ladies and gentlemen.
It is getting closer for Burris.
No, no, no, no, no, no, yeah.
Almost got a piece of that pie.
Getting closer for Roland Burris.
This is incredible.
I think Diane Feinstein's running the Senate, and she may end up running the CIA.
She says she'll finally accept Panetta if the Bamster names a number two over there that actually knows something about intelligence.
Uh Joe Biden running off at the mouth, saying they made a mistake.
Now, not telling uh Dify about this.
This is just tremendous folks.
Oh, you do realize what's happening here.
They are trying to sweep all of this drama out of the way because they need the immaculate inauguration to proceed as it was designed.
This is just great, folks.
It's just just great.
The Democrats can't blame Bush.
They can't blame Republicans.
They might try to blame me for this, because we and we alone here, I know Bobby Rush had some things to say, but it's either Rush or Rush.
Uh they're going to say played the uh focused on the uh racial aspect of this.
And like I said yesterday, I'm telling you, if my friends, if if if Dingy Harry were a Republican, and all of this were happening, we would have seen documentaries produced by now on the life of Roland Burris.
He would have come from the poorest sharecropper shack you can imagine.
His entire family would be eating mud.
Some days they'd mix it with warm water and pretend it was chocolate cake.
And he would be entitled to this simply because of the ravages of discrimination.
And look at what's happening to a duly appointed by a sitting governor, and these evil Republicans won't even let him in the front door and use the water fountain.
That would never have been said about Dingy Harry, except we said it yesterday.
And today, Dingy Harry and Durbin both went out there and in their opening comments, they said, Well, wait till you hear what Dingy wait till you hear how Dingy Harry described Burris.
I mean, he's going for the Joe Biden award in discussing Burris.
But he said, as Burris told us that uh he knows that race is uh certainly not a factor here.
Durbin went out, so everybody knows that race is not.
They saw the pictures.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Here is Obama, who, by the way, is also a big loser in this because Obama was the one that tried to lay down the law.
So I don't want this guy in there.
Obama always wanted one of his people in this seat.
It's when Blogo started trying to collect money for it that they had to back away, but he wanted Valerie Valerie Jarrett in there.
Uh one of his uh one of his close friends.
This is the last thing they wanted to happen, but it has happened uh against Obama's wishes.
Unidentified reporter this morning at a press conference that Obama held.
What about Roland Burris?
Oh, speaking of that press conference, and details are coming up.
Obama, ladies and gentlemen, this is an economic press conference.
He admitted, and it is only I, your host, El Rushbow, I'm certain who has picked up on this.
The president selects Barack Obama, the most merciful, admitted that his stimulus plan will not work.
He admitted it, not in those words.
He adm well, all right, let me just explain it to you, rather than tease you like most hosts would, so you'd listen for another 20 minutes to hear the answer.
I'll just hit you between the eyes.
Obama goes out there, does the obligatory we're inheriting a 1.2 trillion dollar deficit.
Okay, now that's on the table, and that's true.
And he is inheriting it in terms of jig uh of chronology.
But this is a Democrat piece of legislation.
The TARP, all this.
I know Bush went along with it, but this is a Washingtonian bill, and he's part of Washington.
He can try to say he inherited it, but it's his class.
It is his group of people that have given us this.
He went out there today and said we're going to inherit a 1.2 trillion dollar deficit.
And he said, even with my stimulus plan, we are going to have trillion dollar deficits for years.
Well, that to me is admitting that the stimulus plan isn't gonna work.
The stimulus plan ought to reduce the deficit by causing economic growth and employment.
So he just admitted what the game plan is here.
The game plan is, in fact, New York Times, if somebody has a uh yes, New York Times uh headline today.
Economists warm to government spending but debate its form.
Rampant government spending is now mainstream thinking.
The New York Times providing cover for this.
But this stimulus plan, he is admitting it's not going to work.
That's what his press conference was about today.
More details on that.
But he was asked about Burris.
That is a Senate matter.
Uh but I know Roland Burris.
Obviously, I've uh he's uh from my home state.
Uh I think he's a fine public servant.
If he gets seated, then I'm gonna work with Roland Burris just like I work with all the other senators to make sure that uh the people of Illinois and the people of the country are served.
All right, thank you, guys.
Uh he did that's when he that's when he leaves the stage when Burris came up.
He also answered no questions about the uh Gaza Israeli situation, even though he did get into the Mumbai massacre.
He did talk about that when it happened, but he's taken a powder here on uh Israel and Gaza.
Last night on Democrat National Committee TV with Chris Matthews, Roland Burris attorney Timothy Wright was asked this question.
Do you believe that the only thing stopping the Senate Democrat leader Dingy Harry from seating your client is this lack of a signature, or is there something else?
The smell of blogovich, the whole corruption pay-to-play scandal out in Illinois behind all this.
He said just the very same things.
I mean, from our position is that the SIL and the signature isn't even required.
That's nowhere in the 17th Amendment.
It doesn't exist.
And so Senator Reid has a power and the ability to accept Senator Roland Burris today.
And as has been the case throughout, Burris is right, his lawyers are right.
They are on the side of the law.
Reed is the guy who first tried to assert that the Senate is the law by saying he needed that signature.
He didn't have the signature, the rules committee, so forth and so on.
It's up to us.
Today he punted because right here, the uh lawyer for Burris is absolutely correct.
And uh, we now will hear from the Secretary of State uh uh on Chicago radio this morning.
This is Secretary of State Jesse White.
Uh he's on the uh on the phone here talking about Roland Burris.
Ronald Burris is going to be seated.
There are going to be some negotiations taking place this morning.
And I believe that Roland Burris is going to um be able to sit with his colleagues.
Yeah, he's further said, I the signature business.
I mean, now I'm my signature on this is a mere formality.
So I I'll guarantee you, when you play identity politics, what happened yesterday with the cameras and the pictures and the attention laser-like focused by us here at the EIB network turned this around.
Now, I have I have read today.
Well, I haven't read.
Some people have told me that some conservative bloggers are upset that this has been resolved so quickly.
They were hoping for more drama to uh go on.
And of course, I probably will take the heat for this.
But that's not the point.
The point is they are on defense now.
They're totally on defense of Panetta, they're on defense with uh uh bl the whole blagoy of it.
How about the perspective that Blogo wins?
Rod Blagoevich poked his finger in two eyes and won.
The most corrupt Democrat governor in the country that we know of beats the United States Senate and the president's elect.
This has to have been worth it for old Blogo.
Anyway, uh they're trying to sweep all this stuff uh under the rug as quickly as they can for the immaculate inauguration.
Here is Dingy Harry this morning, a portion of his remarks.
He just completed about a 45 minute meeting with Roland Burris.
Listen.
For me who had never met the man, listen to this.
He was very enlightening.
Listen.
He obviously is a very engaging, extremely nice man.
He presents himself very well.
Stop the tape.
He's clean.
He's articulate.
He's a really nice guy.
I never met him.
Was very enlightening, very engaging.
Presents himself very well, as though Reed's surprised.
He presented himself very well, which probably means he didn't say very much, and instead listened to instructions.
We have a situation here that we've had a rule in effect since 1884 here in the Senate.
That for a person to be appointed by a governor, you have to have the signature of the governor and the secretary of state.
We know that there's been a lot of issues raised as to why we held this up.
Well, it's obvious.
We have a man who is arrested for trying to sell the office.
Roland Burroughs one of the first things he said to us, hey, this is nothing that's racial.
I understand that.
So a lot of people tried to make this a racial issue, but Roland Burris has not and will not.
Yeah, he's been told not to.
I mean, that's that's I'm sure why Harry Reid found him to be uh enlightened, uh nice, and uh presented himself very well.
Reed said, okay, this is gonna happen, but here you are gonna lead the parade and saying it race had nothing to do with this.
He's got a press conference.
Burris does at 130.
You want to roll the dice on how long it takes him to get into hey, it's nothing to do with race here.
And it may not have, but the point is they can't stand the appearance of it anyway.
Who knows if it did or uh or did not?
But the the nobody asked him about this.
He had he made this comment Reed did with with no question about whether there's any racial component here.
He he wanted to get that out of the way first.
Here is Dick Turbin, uh, who says there was nothing uh nothing uh racial about this at all.
At the outset, he said, I want to make it clear that I understand this controversy has nothing to do with my race, and I understand that both of you have excellent records when it comes to racial relations.
So I want to make sure that everyone So we are we are we are to believe here that in this meeting that Dingy Harry and Turban hand with Roland Burris that Roland Burris first thing said, Look, and I know there's no race here, you guys have exemplary records on race.
And of course the drive by is in there feverishly eagerly writing it all down, just lapping it up.
It's exactly what they wanted to hear.
Get this out of the way.
The immaculate inauguration is just around the corner.
We are trying to deal with this in terms of the rules of the Senate, the laws of our land, the laws of the state of Illinois, and our constitutions.
Now, there is a serious question that has to be asked and answered.
And that is whether the Secretary of State, Jesse White, an African American in Illinois, needs to certify the signature of Rod Burgoyevitch for the appointment of Roland Burris.
That decision will be before the Illinois Supreme Court today or tomorrow.
Okay, they've totally punted to use state yesterday.
It was totally the Senate's prerogative.
Today, it's up to the African American Secretary of State how to point that out.
It's up to the Illinois Supreme Court, so it ain't done yet.
What if the court bottles this up?
What if the court doesn't go along here?
I know it's Illinois and that probably has been greased, but what if it hasn't?
And then Dingy Harry came back.
And in my mind, threw a little bit more steam or a cloud on all of this.
First of all, understand we don't have a problem with him as an individual.
There's at this stage, the process is working out, as we've outlined for you.
There's a court case pending now.
He's going to testify tomorrow afternoon, and that is such an important hearing tomorrow afternoon because he will be testifying under oath, as he did with his affidavit that he filed.
It's important the Senate get the full benefit of that.
When you have a governor that is obviously charged with some bad things, we we have to be totally open and above board on this.
So we're gonna move forward as quick as we can as we've outlined it.
So he has not moved on up.
He got to go testify, and he could possibly be set up to commit perjury.
Who knows?
Uh I'm I'm I'm not fully convinced here that this deal is done, that Dingy Harry wants this guy in there.
I still don't think they want him in there at all.
And and and this because the Secretary of State, Illinois, he could be seated today.
But Dingy Harry's going back and forth.
Well, Senate rules here, but we don't have any power.
It's all up Secretary of State.
So, you know, we're not we're not gonna we're not gonna count the chickens here until the eggs hatch.
Uh, and this is an ongoing process.
Uh but uh getting closer.
Obviously, here on the surface of things, but remember now, we're talking liberal democrats.
And if they don't want the guy in there, see this this gives them perfect excuse.
They have relented, they have welcomed him.
He's clean and articulate.
He represents himself well, really nice guy.
He admitted none of this is about race, but then he's got testify.
Damn it.
What if something goes wrong there?
They say, hey, hey, hey, you know, we did everything we could to get him in here, but look at what happened when he testified.
A quick question, ladies and gentlemen, has I wonder if Team Obama has uh has talked to the unelected governor of New York, David Patterson, about the uh the whole Princess Caroline thing for the uh United States Senate there.
I mean, the inquiring minds want to know.
People are not uh asking too much about this.
We're keeping a sharp eye on it.
Uh people asked me during the break, how come Roland Burris didn't speak at Dingy Harry and Dick Durbin's press conference?
Since he presents himself so well.
Uh, they got him out of there, folks, before Dingy Harry went to the microphones.
Burris is gonna have his own press conference at 1 30 this afternoon, about an hour from now, exactly as happened yesterday.
If I were Burris, I'd go out and I would rent a rain machine like they use to make it rain in movies, uh, to replicate the scene from yesterday.
It's not raining in Washington today, but I'd go get a rain machine.
I would replicate the whole thing.
Um, ladies and gentlemen, speaking of the immaculate inauguration of the Bamster, uh, his Kenyan grandmother.
This is so wonderful.
His Kenyan grandmother will be among the millions of people in Washington for the inauguration.
Sarah Obama, the uh uh stepmother of Obama's Kenyan-born father, Barack Obama Sr.
Will join representatives from the Kenyan government.
Now, Sarah Obama lives in a house in the western Kenya village of Kogalo without electricity.
She speaks only the local language and a little Swahili.
She has visited the United States twice before.
She has undoubtedly to be close to her stepgrandson.
But she has returned each time to a home outside Kenya or in Kenya, some little village there, that has no electricity.
Now, this is a very short story, and I want to wish I read the story three times.
I have found no reference to George Obama living in the hut outside Nairobi being in Washington for the whatever.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh here at the prestigious and distinguished Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies.
Just when I thought the environmentalist wackos and the drive-by media, the American left had beat this out of us, comes the following news.
It's from Newport News, Virginia.
Looks like the Highlander is in hybrids are out for now at least.
Trucks and SUVs will outsell cars for the first time since February, according to a December report by Edmonds.com, which tracks industry statistics.
Big is back as pump prices plunge.
SUV sales are surging.
What does this mean?
What this means is that we are being sold a bill of goods on what we have to drive, what Detroit is going to be forced to make as a result of the auto bailout.
We've discussed it on this program countless times.
Americans have a love affair with their cars, and they want big to carry their families safely, to handle all the groceries that they buy to all the stuff they get at Walmart or what they want b Sturdley.
Stop it.
Stop yelling at the call.
I don't.
Whoever is on the phone with Mr. Snerdley now, I apologize on behalf of the EIB network.
You are calling to speak with me.
I understand this.
I'm becoming aware that there's an obstacle that you are facing.
You have to argue with Mr. Sturtley.
You in a bad mood today or something.
You haven't seen yourself since I first saw you.
No, the suspension thing obviously didn't work.
I'm not gonna I'm not thinking that again.
Just stop it in there.
Anyway, the American people, when given the choice, will buy big cars, ladies and gentlemen.
SUV sales are back with gasoline prices plummeting.
And that is reality, not forced authoritarian micromanagement from Washington.
Now we hear that Barack Obama wants to spend gazillions of dollars on the infrastructure of the country, right?
Roads and bridges and ta-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
If you have ever seen, and I'm sure you have, you've been driving along the highway, if you've ever seen a road crew taking a break, no, that's common.
If you've ever seen a road crew working repairing your interstate highway, you know what kind of money is being wasted here in this kind of never-ending expenditure.
How can they say we don't spend any money on rent infrastructure when every highway system is constantly being rebuilt, remodeled, enlarged, expanded, or what have you.
Get this.
Billions of dollars collected from motorists from gasoline taxes and tolls and registration fees are being diverted by state and local governments into uses that have nothing to do with roads and highways, according to the latest figures.
From the Federal Highway Administration, motorists gave state and local governments 40.3 billion dollars in 2005 for the ability to drive and own a car.
Gasoline taxes accounted for 20 and a half billion dollars in revenue, while registration fees and miscellaneous taxes generated $13.5 billion.
State and local toll roads also collected $6.4 billion from motorists.
And after accounting for administration and overhead, $28.5 billion remained for all 50 states to spend in 2005, but of the 28.5 billion, and stop and think of this now.
We just gloss over this.
They raise a gross of 40.3 billion after administration and overhead, 28.5 billion remained for all 50 states to spend in 2005.
Do you know what the administrative cost on a dollar of welfare?
Now I don't even know what the number is now, but I can tell you back in the early 90s, every dollar of welfare 72 cents went to administration and 28 cents went to a welfare recipient.
So 20.
Now this is your government that is going to run this government and run this economy and run this country.
They're going to run your health care.
They collect 40 billion dollars for roads, bridges, and so forth.
They net out of that 28.5 billion, but that's only half the story.
Of the 28.5 billion, only 13 billion was spent on state and local road construction and maintenance.
So the real numbers here, your taxes and fees generate 40.3 billion dollars in 2005, the most recent year for figures.
And of the 40.3 billion, 13 billion gets spent on the intended cause.
That's not even 50%.
$13.5 billion out of $40 billion.
A total of $8.9 billion of motorist money was diverted to unrelated causes.
A total of $1.4 billion went to mass transit.
$7.5 billion was used for social spending.
Your governments, state governments, who are now, by the way, crying the blues, what Arizona says they're going to be broke in February unless they get a bailout.
And you know why?
Income tax revenues are down.
Tax revenues are down.
Yes, I guess it's unemployment.
Uh people maybe not getting raises, but they're not collecting as much tax revenue.
And they're spending more and more on their portion of food stamps and unemployment compensation.
And so they're going broke.
And Tuesday, where does all this money go?
Do you know we're going to have a trillion dollar deficit next year?
Do you know how many years one trillion dollars or one trillion seconds is?
Brian, you're good with numbers in your head.
One trillion seconds.
That's a thousand billion.
A thousand billion seconds equals how many years?
I gave you the number that big because I know your calculator doesn't go up to a trillion.
31 years.
If you start counting seconds, it's going to take you 31 years to get to a trillion of them.
That is our deficit.
What we're spending federally is close to three.
With the charity that goes on in this country, there ought not be one needy person.
There ought not be one project that is unfunded.
There is not shouldn't be anything underfunded.
We've lost sight of just how much money is produced, printed, or what have you by the people who make this country work.
And yet, billions in highway taxes diverted to general spending.
Some of this money, and certainly not enough to account for all of where it goes, but there's too many of these elected officials that show up in poverty, basically, and end up enriched.
After not very many years in Washington or state politics, it's just stunning.
And then after they've enriched themselves, they continue to ask other people to pay, like Bill Richardson did, asked some company to pay for his expenses at the Democrat convention this year.
That just irritates to no end.
That's one of my biggest pet peeves.
People that have money.
What do you have it for?
Why go get other people's money?
Tight wads.
Freebies everywhere.
So anyway, billions in highway taxes diverted to general spending.
Larry Flint has asked for a five billion dollar bailout.
The porn industry is hurting, ladies and why not?
Why not bail them out?
If America's undersexed, we've got to do something about that because that can lead to other problems down the road.
Flint wants five bill.
That's nothing compared to other people were bailing out.
And you people who have been regular listeners, you know.
One of my all-time truths of life.
Exercise has zip zero nada to do with losing weight.
Here you go, shaking your heads out there.
I can see it.
You're thinking that I'm an old fuddy duty stuck in the mud.
I it look, I'm not saying exercise isn't good for you.
I'm not saying exercise isn't uh uh helpful.
Uh I'm I'm not saying uh that exercise is uh uh bad or anything.
I'm just saying it has nothing to do with losing weight.
It has nothing to do with maintaining weight.
Zilt Zironada.
What?
And this is not the first story from scientists who have said this.
This is just the latest.
And this comes from Livescience.com.
Physical activity has many proven benefits, as I just said.
It strengthens bones and muscles.
It improves mental health and mood.
Not mine.
I hate it, so it depresses me, but anyway, lowers blood pressure, improves cholesterol levels, reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, reduces the risk of diabetes, reduces the risk of breast cancer and colon cancer, and exercise is good for your brain.
As I just said, I'm not saying it's not good for you.
But it has nothing to do with losing weight.
We would love to say that physical activity has a positive effect on weight control, but that does not appear to be the case.
Say researchers from Loyola University Health System.
Uh, and the name of the researcher here is uh the well, one of us Amy Luke.
Richard Cooper, uh, who is a co-author of the study, chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology.
We would love to say that physical activity has a positive effect on weight control, but it doesn't appear to be the case.
Though better nutrition coupled with exercise has long been the favorite prescription for losing weight and avoiding obesity.
A new study suggests diet actually plays the key role.
Of course it does.
It's just an old wives' tale.
And by the way, it only stands to reason, as I've mentioned, I don't know how many times before.
What do you go out and eat a um uh how many calories in a Milky Way?
What 250?
I don't know what it takes, it takes you an hour of jogging to burn 250 calories.
It has nothing to do with losing weight.
It doesn't mean it has no health benefits.
I've never said that.
A few callers are saying a billion seconds is uh 31 years, a trillion seconds, 31,000 years.
Oh, okay.
Well, damn it, see somebody on a staff gaming, and I gotta take the hit for being wrong about this.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, talent on loan from God.
Hey, uh folks, have you heard about the latest tape from the number two man in Al-Qaeda?
Amon Al-Zawahiri lashed out at President elect Obama in a message yesterday.
Amon Al-Zawahiri of Al-Qaeda accused Obama of not doing anything to stop Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip.
The recording by Ayman Al-Zawahiri was Al-Qaeda's first comments on the Gaza crisis since Israel launched its offensive against Hamas on uh December 27th.
Zawahiri described Israel's actions in Gaza as a crusade against Islam and Muslims and called it Obama's gift to Israel before he takes office.
Said Zawahiri, this is Obama, whom the American machine of lies tried to portray as the rescuer who will change the policy of America.
He kills your brothers and sisters in Gaza mercilessly and without affection.
That's what Zawahiri said to his troops and his followers about Obama.
Obama kills your brothers and sisters in Gaza.
Now, poor old Barry, a Bamster, has been doing everything he can since commenting on the Mumbai disaster to stay out of foreign policy.
He didn't want to get caught up in the Middle East crossfire before the immaculate inauguration.
Zawahiri blaming Gaza or Obama for this.
Zawahiri himself misunderstanding the need for an immaculate inauguration.
I mean, that that day, I hope it hasn't been forever tarnished already.
That day, the immaculate inauguration was supposed to be sacred.
An unblemished moment.
The problem, though, through his silence on this, Obama has appeared to have chosen sides.
Obama has blessed, obviously he's the Messiah, the Israeli response by not commenting on it.
That's how the militant Islamist Al-Qaeda crowds hearing this.
He hadn't said a word.
He must be blessing Israel in this.
Now he's got conflict when he didn't want to get caught up in all of this.
An NBC truth teller, ladies and gentlemen, the Ann Colder controversy, the NBC truth teller actually had the stupidity to tell Matt Drudge that NBC Today Show viewers were not to be troubled by non-believers in Obama at this point in time.
Bliss was not to be disturbed.
The Immaculate Inauguration was not to be disturbed.
So Richardson was a distraction.
Boago a distraction.
Living quarters for the Obamas, a distraction.
Oh, we now know who's in Blair House, by the way, keeping Obama out.
John Howard.
The former premier minister, whatever they call him down there of Australia.
Hubbahub.
So Dingy Harry saw her a distraction is anything that threatens to dim the glow of the immaculate inauguration of Barack Obama.
This has got to be a blow.
To have Al-Qaeda come out against you a few days before you're inaugurated.
In fact, Obama today was uh asked about uh Israel once again, Chuck Todd, NBC.
Situation in Gaza getting worse out there.
Fighting's resume this morning.
Uh what are you gonna what are you gonna talk about?
What are you gonna do about it?
We can't have two administrations running foreign policy at the same time until I take office.
Uh it would be imprudent of me uh to start uh sending out signals that somehow uh we are running foreign policy when I am not legally authorized to do so.
You were that the Palestinians, though, are interpreting your silence.
Chuck the uh you know the the there are I I can't control how people interpret uh what I'm saying, other than to repeat what I've said and uh hope that they hear what I'm saying uh here the case.
Hold it.
Stop, stop the tape.
Barry.
It's not what you said because you're not saying anything, old buddy Opal.
They're interpreting your silence.
And that's what Chug Todd asked you.
Do you understand that Palestinians are interpreting by virtue of your silence, and Barry interrupted him?
He says, I can only, you know, say what I'm saying.
You're not saying anything about it, Barry, and that's what everybody's curious about here.
The silence is not as a consequence of a lack of concern.
In fact, it's not silence.
It is, I've explained very clearly uh exactly what institutional constraints I'm under uh when it comes to this issue.
Oh, you know.
I guess I guess uh, ladies and gentlemen, we we can have two presidents at one time on the economy.
And we can have two presidents at one time on uh who's gonna be in the Senate.
Uh we can't have two presidents at one time on uh Hamas and the uh and the Israelis.
Uh, he did talk about Mumbai.
Don't forget he had a lot to say about Mumbai.
We'll be back after this.
Hey, here's some more health news, and this is especially timely, I think, for Oprah Winfrey, who has gained 40 pounds and is crying about it.
She's whining about it.
She lost control of her body because she's working too hard.
News out of Australia.
Fat butts have been scientifically proven to be a sign of good health.
When buttock and hip fat from mice was injected into other mice, their bodies easily used.
Insulin and lost weight.
Not all fat is bad, and fat butts may actually make you healthier.
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