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Jan. 14, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 14, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Snurdley during the top of the hour break insisted that Obama would be wise to reach out to me.
Snerdley even thinks that he will.
Let me tell you seriously why he will not.
In fact, Mr. Snerdley, let me tell you, you think it would be brilliant of him to do it.
It would be stupid of him to do it.
Now follow me on this.
You know, Snerdley's normally a pretty quick guy, but I've had to educate him recently.
He'd been around here 20 years like everybody else has.
I've had to educate him recently on how Obama will not get any media scorn if the economy continues to plummet, that Bush will get all of that.
When Snerdly thought in six months, if things haven't improved, the American people are going to hold Obama accountable.
Ain't going to happen.
He's too big to fail.
I'm surprised you don't see this.
Obama meeting with me...
And it would leak.
Even if it were secret clandestine, it would leak.
He's the president-elect.
He has a schedule.
He has a press corps that follows him around.
There's a pool bunch that follows him around.
It would be known.
Obama meeting with me, ladies and gentlemen, would give me legitimacy.
And he wants no way to be, it would, he wants to give legitimacy to the inside the beltway conservatives who have forsworn conservatism.
He wants to give legitimacy to the people who thought McCain could win.
He wants to give legitimacy to the people who say the era of Reagan is over.
Obama had no desire to have his mind changed about anything last night.
I mean, to say that Obama doesn't understand conservatism, I think is a mistake.
I'm sure he understands everything about conservatism.
He just rejects it.
And to say that he wanted to have a dinner last night with some conservatives to maybe have his mind made right, it's just not realistic.
That's not, I'm sure what was on his agenda last night.
Um never legitimize me if he can help it.
But that's why I've said he we he was trying to choose our leaders last night.
Obama was trying to legitimize the people at his dinner, so in hopes that they will become the quote unquote legitimate conservative opinion leaders.
They're all establishment types, and they're all inside the beltway, and that's what his objective was to legitimize them.
And it isn't look at who wasn't there.
There are plenty of really superb conservatives he could have had dinner with, people from human events, people from the Investors Business Daily, people from the Washington Times.
I'm talking about print and print opinion people.
There are a lot of genuine conservatives he could have had dinner with, but no, he went with the people who are being critical of conservatives, being critical of conservative leaders these days, like me.
The last thing he'll want to do is legitimize me.
And it would that that would that would uh well he'd run the risk of doing that were he to have a meeting with me.
Unless, of course, he asked for the meeting, and if he asked, I'd go, I mean, there's no question I'd go.
Uh if after the meaning of leak it out, and Obama told Limbaugh what for.
And Obama did this, and Obama said, and Obama did, you know, unless they tried to do it that way, but I I don't I don't I don't see that.
I just don't I don't see it happening in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Ladies and gentlemen, according to AP Obama today, do you realize all we needed to do to make sure our economic crisis didn't happen was to become Islamic?
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, big financial institutions, by the way, the date light on this is Detroit.
The two AP Obama writers are Jeff Karoub and Sebastian Abbott.
Big financial institutions have been battered by mortgages gone bad, but a tiny Michigan bank is getting attention in the industry by turning a profit on loans without even charging interest.
Now would somebody explain to me how that happens.
How does a bank turn a profit on loans without even charging interest?
Fees.
No interest, but you pay it this other way of collecting interest.
Just call it a fee.
It's specialty is financial products that comply with Islamic law.
That means no collecting interest, no short selling, no contracts that are considered exceedingly risky.
It also rules out some of the activity that got Western finance in trouble, subprime mortgages, credit default swaps, and the like.
John Sickler, the corporate director for the bank, the University Islamic Financial Corporation in Ann Arbor, said when you look at the economic crisis we're in, if you were to follow Islamic or Sharia financing, you wouldn't have this crisis.
Well, Shazam.
There it is, folks.
Here's the way out.
Islamic and Sharia financial law.
And the AP unabashedly, unashamedly runs the story.
As though it is legitimate.
And it's a it's a long story.
A sharia compliant mortgage is like rent to own.
There's no note, there's no mortgage, but typically part of each month's payment is held toward the ultimate purchase.
The property is titled to an individual trust or limited liability corporation.
That's how it uh that's how it works.
Oh, Shazam.
Very easy.
Audio soundbites.
Let's see.
I guess we're up here to soundbite number two.
This is a continuation of the discussion that took place on MSNBC Monday night, in which uh uh Steve McMahon, a Democrat political strategist, said that I, L. Rushbaugh, is the only thing preventing the Republican Party from moving to the center.
When in fact it already has.
It's already there.
It's already moved big time.
This is a continuation of that discussion.
Uh Matthews said, do you agree with that?
He's talking now, this is Todd Harris, the Republican strategist.
Do you agree with that that they hurt your party by pulling it too far right?
I don't think they pull the party any more to the right than Air America is pulling the Democratic Party.
They have more poll, though.
They do have more poll.
They have more listeners.
Uh, but you know, you've got progressive groups on the left pulling the Democratic Party on the left.
And then Matthew Z wants to know what state that uh, you know, what state could I win if I were to run?
Totally misunderstanding what we do here.
Back to Timothy Geitner.
I can't let this go.
Treasury Secretary didn't pay taxes.
It is said that Timothy Geitner.
And by the way, Obama's stuff.
Oh, oh, oh, I should tell you, Obama has cleared Geithner.
Just like Obama cleared himself.
Did you know this?
Obama has cleared Geitner just like Obama cleared himself and uh and his staff in the uh pay-for-play talks with uh with Blogovich, by the way, Vloggoevich today is swearing in the newly elected Illinois Senate, which will vote to impeach him.
It is said that Timothy Geithner employed a housekeeper whose immigration papers expired while she was working for him.
In addition, he allegedly failed to pay Social Security and self-employment taxes when he worked for the International Monetary Fund.
Now, just like when Ram Emanuel's dealings uh with Bogoyevitch, Obama has thoroughly reviewed uh Treasury Secretary selects Timothy Geitner's situation and given it his blessing.
Everything's okay.
Obama has cleared his nominee again.
So I'm glad that's over.
Having a guy in charge of the IRS with multiple tax issues might have sullied the immaculate inauguration.
But now that Barack Obama has determined it won't be a problem, it won't be a problem.
But it was close.
It was a close one.
Here's my question.
If Hillary Clinton's massive conflicts and political payoffs don't bother Obama or his fellow Washingtonians, why should Timothy Geitner's failure to pay taxes bother anybody?
Ram Emanuel's frequent contacts with Governor Cesspool.
They didn't bother Obama.
I can still still can't figure out why they dumped Richardson.
They threw him under the bus for far less than what's gone on here.
Obama has given his blessing to bailouts.
He's given his blessing to Burris.
He has given his blessing to Ram Emanuel Swim and the Illinois cesspool.
He has given his blessing to the Clinton conflict extravaganza.
And he's giving his blessing to his tax challenge treasury secretary.
Is it really a smooth transition here, has it not been, as we lead into the immacurate transition?
Immaculate inauguration.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is change we can believe in.
Now you may be asking yourself, why are the American people not up in arms about this?
Very simple.
It doesn't matter when Democrats do this.
Democrats can get away with no ethics because they never stand for standards.
They never proclaim the well, now that's not really true.
Nancy Pelosi said they're going to have the highest ethical standards.
Obama has said he would.
Clinton said he would.
Campaign rhetoric.
We know they don't really mean it.
Just like you don't really mean much of what they say during the uh during the campaign.
It's just it's breathtaking to uh to watch this.
Let's listen to audio sound bites here.
Go to audio soundbite.
Uh let's start with number three.
We have a montage here from um a senator, Senator John Kerry, and a bunch of drive-by's on Timothy Geitner.
It is possible to make an innocent mistake.
I think this is an honest mistake.
The transition team put out a lengthy list of reasons why this was just an honest mistake.
I would not describe as a huge mistake.
It is a common mistake.
Maybe an honest mistake.
It does seem to be an honest mistake.
He made a common mistake on his taxes.
Yes, it is a common mistake.
The Obama administration is saying it's a common mistake.
It is being described as an honest mistake.
Geitner's tax problems, honest mistake.
This does look like an honest mistake.
An honest mistake.
This was an honest mistake, fairly common.
Geitner himself is embarrassed by this, and he's sorry.
Well, what about Kimba Wood?
I'm sure she was embarrassed and sorry.
What about Zoe Baird?
They were made to walk the plank.
But guy, this is just that's just so funny.
It's I know it's outrageous and it's maddening here.
The drive-by's lining up, but I you shouldn't be surprised by this because I have predicted this.
The drive-by is going to line up and protect all of these people except Richardson.
And if the Republicans had any gonads, they would be asking if there's racism attached to the Richardson being thrown into the bus because he's Hispanic.
Such that's an if it is such a common mistake, why is there a law against it?
But this common mistake business, folks.
Uh I'm not buying this.
That's a common mistake.
Frequently made uh mistake.
Very sorry for it.
Look, the nanny thing, that's probably a common mistake.
Uh and not knowing whether or not your employee is legal or not.
That that's probably somewhat common.
Uh I'd also say it's pretty common.
You know your employee is not legal, but what the hell?
Uh but this IMF thing, this is different.
When you work at the IMF, they withhold no taxes.
You're self-employed, essentially, which requires you to file quarterly estimates on your income.
And he didn't do it for a number of years.
And I think even after he was notified in an uh in an audit that he had slipped up here, continued to commit the uh mistake.
Now, I this is a guy that's gonna be in charge of the IRS.
This is a guy gonna be in charge of the Treasury Department.
I I this this some of this is just it's they're asking us to believe a little too much that he didn't know this, didn't know he was being paid the gross.
I don't I don't know.
Terms of employment are laid out.
Do you know what you have to do to in order to be paid the gross?
Do you know how do you know the hoops you have to jump through to avoid having taxes withheld?
And it's just not something you can you try folks.
Try this.
Go in today or tomorrow and tell your boss you want to be paid the gross.
Uh you don't want any deductions, you'll you'll handle it yourself.
And your boss will tell you, sorry, it is impossible.
The federal government makes me do this.
You can't be paid.
We pay money to you.
We have to have all of these deductions.
We have to report it, you know, quarterly, weekly, whatever it is to the IRS and various other state author authorities and so on.
No, you can't do it.
Then look in to see what you would have to do, what kind of job you would have to do to be qualified or categorized as self-employed or an independent contractor, in which you pay the gross.
I mean, I know I get audited by New York City and New York State every year since I moved to Florida.
And their assumption is I'm lying to them about where I live.
And they make mistakes every audit.
Every audit they make mistakes based on faulty assumptions.
That's just a common mistake.
Imagine if it were reversed and I was the one making the mistake.
I mean, there would be penalties.
There would be...
I shudder to think.
There would be hearings.
There would be hearings.
And so this, there's something about this.
And I've I heard some some Democrats say, well, you know, it's just too important.
This is such chump change.
He's just too important.
So change we can believe in.
Yes, we can.
And hope.
Timothy Geitner, here.
Jonathan Alter.
Makes that very point last night on MSNBC.
Question, is this another Zoe Baird situation where somebody's just going to go out the window?
Or do they seem to have been honest mistakes?
And maybe more importantly, is there sort of a bipartisan feeling this guy's just too valuable to even let ordinary rules apply to him?
It does seem to be an honest mistake.
It would really be a shame if something like this sunk the nomination.
We are in very serious times.
They're quite different than 1993 when Zoe Baird's nomination was sunk for attorney general over this kind of nanny problem.
Geithner is by all accounts the only person in Washington who fully understands TARP.
You know, 700 billion dollars.
We cannot afford at this point unless there's gross malfeasance to take him out of the picture.
This is the drive-by sentiment summed up by Jonathan Alter.
Geitner is a genius.
He's going to save the economy of the entire world.
So what if he doesn't pay his taxes?
These are serious times we need him, and he is the only guy who understands TARP.
He is the only guy that understands TARP.
So snurdly, do not and the rest of you do not doubt me ever again when I tell you the degree to which the drive-bys are going to be in the tank for Obama.
And now we continue with the audio sound by chairs.
Andrea Mitchell with Mika Brzezinski today on uh Scarborough's show on MSNBC.
Mika Bzinski says, Tim Geithner, is this a big problem?
Some tax issue for the guy?
He is hugely smart.
They need him right away on the job.
I think both senators in the Democrats and Republicans from the Finance Committee say that they need him right away to get confirmed.
He did his own taxes, by the way, which is and then he got an accountant who didn't tell him all the back taxes that he needed to pay.
Now wait a minute, wait a minute, Miss Now I I don't I don't want you people to misunderstand what we're doing here.
This is an exercise.
This really isn't about Geitner.
We're not talking about Geitner here.
We're talking about the media.
The way the drive-by's are covered.
Smartest guy.
The only guy who understands TARP.
So smart he does his own taxes.
If he's so smart doing his own taxes, how does he miss the back taxes and the taxes that he owes and the taxes that he's not paying?
And how does an accountant catch it?
If he's the smartest guy that we've got out there.
Shouldn't the accounting be running TARP?
But this is just this is uh, in fact, I'm gonna I'm gonna give you, you you people have heard about how expensive Obama's inauguration is gonna be.
Bush has essentially had to declare a state of emergency to get the funding to pay for this.
It's over a hundred million dollars.
Bush's was 40 million dollars or so.
The drive-by is the AP back in 2004, ran story after story about how outrageously wasteful, unnecessary, and expensive the Bush inauguration was.
Today there are stories on how magnificent the Obama inauguration will be, and how the cost is irrelevant due to the historical nature and the good vibes that will be extending to the country.
I've got both excerpts.
I will share them with you after the next break.
Here's Dingy Harry, by the way, held a press conference.
Are you worried about this Geithner pick now in light of the back taxes documentation?
Timothy Geithner is a person that is extremely well qualified to be one of the finest secretaries of treasury this country's ever had.
And there's a few little hiccups, but that's basically what they are.
I am not concerned at all.
Okay, now if I were Geitner, I would be a little worried about this.
Dingy Harry's track record on getting people through the process is not all that good.
Dingy Harry stood in the way of Roland Burris.
Dingy Harry said Roland Burris didn't have a prayer of getting in here.
He can't satisfy our rules.
We're not going to accept anybody appointed by Blogoevich.
This week, Burris will be seated.
Dingy Harry says, no problem.
Little hiccup.
Geitner will be in here.
No, now if Dingy Harry's track record holds true, ladies and gentlemen, Timothy Geithner could be in trouble.
By the way, the New York Times is reporting that Timothy Geitner's confirmation hearing, the new Treasury Secretary, has been delayed until January 21st now, uh, after the Republicans objected to holding his confirmation hearing on Friday.
January 21st is the day after the Messiah is uh is sworn in.
Now, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh genuinely, or generally, when um when Democrats run into ethics problems of any kind, the mantra then becomes it's time for reform.
Sort of like campaign finance reform was reform for all the corruption that in was involving lobbyists and money and politicians.
Of course, uh campaign finance reform designed to get the money out of politics to protect these innocent little birds that are elected, when in fact they're the ones that are corrupt and are corrupting the system, it's not uh the system corrupting them.
So when when somebody important to Democrats gets tricked up legally, it's it's it usually spurns a call for reform.
Look at Clinton getting funded by the Chicons.
The Clinton administration so we need to reform this.
Uh we need to really uh because that you pass the buck to the system for getting you in trouble, not you.
Uh, and so the call went out, we need campaign finance reform.
So if the if the complexity of tax law tripped up the only guy who understands TARP, Timothy Geithner, isn't tax reform called for?
I mean, it's so common it ensnares so many worthwhile public servants.
It's a mistake that it's everybody makes it such a common mistake.
Isn't it time to get rid of the mistake, which is the law, not the people.
So don't ask Charlie Wrangle about this.
This this kind of this is one reform that is not going to happen.
But normally that's how the Democrats uh play the game.
Now, Daily Mail, UK Daily Mail Online, Bush declares state of emergency in Washington as cost of Obama's swearing in ceremony soars to a hundred and ten million pounds.
This is over a hundred and fifty million dollars.
Now I was a little early when I was uh on the way to the White House yesterday, so I had a driver take me by the Capitol, uh the side that's set up for the inauguration.
I have never seen in my life.
So many porta potties all over everywhere.
They're surrounding the Washington Monument.
They're all the way down the mall.
They are on the grounds of Capitol Hill.
The seats where the two hundred and some odd thousand who are given official tickets will Sit to witness uh the the swearing in ceremony.
It's just massive.
It is just huge.
And I'm thinking all the stories we've had downplaying expectations of the number of people showing up.
Here is the story from the UK Daily Mail.
Barack Obama's inauguration set to cost $150 million, making it the most expensive swearing-in ceremony in U.S. history.
The president elect will take less than a minute to recite the oath of office in front of an estimated two million people.
Oh, it's down to two million now.
The uh U.S. Capitol next week, but by the time the final dance has been held at one of the many inaugural balls, the costs for the day will be a staggering one hundred and ten million pounds or over a hundred fifty million dollars.
Do you know where this number was revealed?
It was revealed yesterday as Obama scramble to answer questions about the nomination of Timothy Geitner.
Obama's White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs said in a statement that Geithner had committed honest mistakes that he quickly addressed upon upon learning.
And then they went on to discuss this.
Okay, so 150 million dollars.
Obama inauguration.
Got that?
Let's go back to the Associated Press in 2005.
The reporter Will Lester.
This is a January 13th AP dispatch.
President Bush's second inauguration will cost tens of millions of dollars, 40 million dollars alone in private donations for the balls, parade, and other invitation-only parties with that kind of money.
What could you buy?
200 armored Humvees with the best armor for troops in Iraq, vaccinations and preventive health care for 22 million children in regions devastated by the tsunami.
A down payment on the nation's deficit, which hit a record-breaking 412 billion dollars last year.
Speaking of that, without the stimulus.
We got the first three months of the 2009 fiscal year budget.
We're on track to a 1.2 trillion dollar deficit.
And here in 2005, we're spending way too much money on Bush's inauguration where we could we could make a down payment on the nation's deficit.
And finally, all these questions.
What could we better spend the Bush inauguration money on?
Have come from Bush supporters and opponents.
Do we need to spend this money on what seems so extravagant?
That was the lead, Will Lester, AP, January 13th.
Today, or yesterday, January 13, 2009, Laurie Kelman.
So you're attending an inaugural ball saluting the historic election of Barack Obama in the worst economic climate in three generations.
Can you get away with glitzing it up?
Still be appropriate, not to mention comfortable and financially viable?
To quote the man of the hour, Obama, yes, you can.
Veteran ballgoers say you should, and fashionistas insist that you must.
It is time to celebrate.
This is a great moment.
Don't dress down, don't wear the Washington uniform, said Tim Gunn, a native Washingtonian chief creating officer at Liz Claiborne, Inc.
Just because the economy is in a downturn, doesn't mean that style is going to be in a downturn, said Ken Downing, fashion director for Neiman Marcus.
Not one story so far about how many people in Darfur could we feed with this hundred and fifty million?
How many Africans could be vaccinated against AIDS for some of this one hundred and fifty million?
What size home could you buy the brother George Obama still living in the shack in the hut?
With just a meager portion of this one hundred and fifty million.
Anza Tootie?
Anza Tutti, yeah, what might even be able to buy her a green card with a portion of the one hundred and fifty million dollars.
What about all the children without health care?
What about what about all of the middle class people without jobs?
How many people could be aided with a portion of Obama's inauguration budget?
Bush, it was 40 billion, and they were asking how it could be spent.
Better spent.
It's unnecessary.
We weren't in a recession either, by the way.
We weren't in an economic downturn.
Now in the midst of an economic downturn.
Oh yeah.
I mean, go out there and gussy it up all you can.
Dress it up, spend it up at bad economic times.
This is when we need to indulge ourselves.
More.
Change we can believe in.
And here now is Bill in Tampa.
Bill, uh great to have you here.
Thanks for waiting as we head back to the phones on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Happy belated birthday too.
Thank you very much, sir.
I'm a automotive wholesale parts distributor from Tampa, Orlando daily, and uh a major soft drink manufacturer, Pepsi Cola, has changed their logo where it looks fairly similar to Barack Obama's.
They even have slogans like, Are you ready to change the world on these uh Billboards and and signage?
It just amazes me uh how they're backing this just like uh the media has since his two thousand four.
It's it's you know, this is business.
I mean, they uh it with business, you know, don't make the mistake assuming this is ideological.
Uh it's not always sometimes it is, but in this case, this is just about selling Pepsi.
And his logo was already close enough to theirs.
They could have sued him for contract or uh copyright infringement.
Instead, they're getting on board.
Change, you know, they they've all Pepsi's always had a marketing challenge.
Uh how do you how do we go against Coca-Cola?
The the their most famous campaign was the drink of a new generation.
Well, they're back to it.
They're just basically recycling it here.
I saw somebody sent me an email.
Uh Sunkissed is running ads that make it look like our Obama and his family are endorsing the product.
Wow.
I saw a story yesterday.
I was uh even while flying to Washington, I was I was doing a show prep.
And there was a story on all kinds of businesses who are trying to get themselves on television somehow during the inauguration because the people, the ratings might rival the Super Bowl, and yet it won't cost anything if they can find a way to finagle themselves in the TV covered somehow.
Well, they may be successful, but I doubt it because I've drank my last uh Pepsi Cole, that's for sure.
All right.
Well, look, I appreciate the call.
Thank you, sir.
Thanks El Mucho, Mary in Kingsford, Michigan.
You know, it's good to know there's still people in Michigan who can afford a phone call.
Uh Mary, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you here.
Thanks, Rush.
I'm calling to make a comment about our current president and about the president elect.
Yes, ma'am.
Uh uh first of all, let me qualify by saying I am an independent.
Um, since labels seem to be the coin of the realm on your program.
But I voted, I'm 65 years old, so I voted for a lot of presidents, and I voted for uh uh Nixon in sixty-eight because I thought he could get us out of Vietnam.
I voted for McGovern in 72 and to discontinue the pattern.
I did vote for Reagan a couple of times.
Yeah.
I voted for Bush 41.
I voted the first time for our current president and not the second time.
What do you want?
A medal?
No, I'm just making the point that I I do try to think independently, but the point I want to make is about uh our current president is leaving office, uh, and obviously leaving a mess behind, uh leaving us with an unpopular war, and I am basically a fiscal conservative, so he has disappointed me very much on that score.
However, I do not dislike him, I do not hate him.
Actually, I feel a great deal of sympathy for him because I think he is a good man who made some very bad choices, and he meant well, he meant well for our country, and uh so that is my feeling about him.
Uh well we're giving a couple of bad choices of demon.
By the way, the coin of the realm on this program is truth, not labels.
But what what what uh what give me a couple bad choices of demon?
He took us into a war.
He started a war in Iraq, and he had very bad information.
He listened to the wrong advisors.
We were not prepared for what followed the initial entrance into the country, and we're still left with that war right now, and it looks like Afghanistan will continue to plague us, and so also in terms fiscally, you know, I feel need I say that we're in bad shape fiscally, and so these things happened on his watch.
Uh, but yet the point I'm trying to make is that it's not incumbent upon us to hate him, to dislike him.
Uh he I feel he is a good man who tried to do the right thing.
Now, relative to our president elect, I also feel he is a good man who is kind going to try to do the best for our country that he can do.
And it disturbs me, Rush, to have you at this point in time criticizing him.
You're invariably negative toward him, you're sarcastic about him, and yet if we're all Americans, and I'm an American more than anything, I wish him well.
There you go, using labels again.
Oh, that's a good label, American, I guess.
Oh, there are good labels.
You want you want Obama to succeed.
Yes, I do.
I do.
I our country So you want socialism.
You want an ever expanding government in debt larger than we've ever been in debt.
You want tax rates ballooning to even come close to paying for it if we could.
You want national health care.
You want uh soft on foreign policy, uh, national defense.
Uh, you want the CIA politicized.
I want what's best for our country, and that doesn't mean that I'm gonna support everything he does, but I'm going to give him a chance.
And that's what I think everybody should do right now is give the man a chance.
It was fine to criticize him during the campaign.
And maybe a year down the road we can come in with the criticism again.
But right now it's a new.
Have you been following the transition?
How how how could we how could I?
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Exhibit A. Election Returns 2008.
Always correcting my minor errors, ladies and gentlemen, and my recent riff on Obama's inaugural bucks and how they could be better spent.
I mentioned an AIDS vaccine.
There is no AIDS vaccine.
We can hope that there might be someday, but there uh that there isn't.
Uh also, uh, ladies and gentlemen, what was uh um oh, this lovely uh young well woman who called mere moments ago, lied to Mr. Sturdley, typical independent, typical moderate, said to Mr. Sturdley, she just wanted to talk about Bush and how much respect she had for him.
And we got a filibuster on her voting record to prove her independence because she'd voted for all these disparate candidates.
And then we got to the real meat of it when she said we need to give Obama a chance.
How can I stop Obama's chance?
What is this?
You liberals and the you independence liberals what is it?
No criticism ever unless it's George Bush or me or a Republican, no criticism permitted.
Uh that's negative.
That's hate speech.
It's uncalled for.
We must give him a year before we start criticizing why.
There's uh plentiful evidence out there, ladies and gentlemen.
Frankly, I've even had questions.
I will I will not I will not mention who it is because I didn't get permission to private email off the record.
Person said to me, I frankly am stunned, you just don't want to get out of politics here on your show for a couple of three months.
Do you realize how depressed we all are out there?
And I wrote back, I said, depressed.
I am energized.
I am honored.
I am happy to be the last man standing.
I am happy to be the one lone outpost in the entire United States media where you can tune in and enjoy it and laugh and enjoy yourself and also get the truth that you're not getting anywhere else.
I'm honored to hold that position.
And I'm not having to be dishonest or make things up in order to hold it.
Uh Mr. Sturdley just written me, wrote me a questionnaire.
Well, you were in the White House, did you remind President Bush he won't be on Air Force One anymore flying commercial, needs Zycam since he can't use E can use email.
He can't wait to get back to his Blackberry, but he cannot wait or iPhone, whatever he's gonna, he cannot wait uh to get back and use email.
He can't do it because it's all subject to FOIA.
Uh you let some of these wacko groups out there have been trying to destroy and find out that his private emails are up for grabs.
And uh so he's not gonna do it.
And Obama, I guess, is is still holding out here.
He's hell bent on using his BlackBerry, which by the way, this has upset the left that he hasn't purchased an iPhone.
They they think he's using an antique.
Yeah, Limbo's got an iPhone.
Limbo uses iPhones and uh and uh doesn't know.
I did.
I told Bush about Renee Tankless water heaters for his house.
I told him about Zycam.
In fact, about Zycam, did you know that there's a story out there that if you don't get enough sleep, you're more susceptible to the uh to the common cold?
Yeah, it's um it's all over the place.
Uh well, get into all that in the next hour.
I've got to take a brief time out here.
We still have uh the Senate Democrats are trying to make us think they might veto Obama's stimulus plant.
Now, how stupid do they think we are?
I'm gonna explain this to you.
Have you uh, ladies and gentlemen, perhaps remembered who and who alone is in charge of the administration and the doling out of the TARP funds.
It's the Treasury Secretary, and I'll read the legislation to you here in a minute.
So why all this talk from Barney Frank and the others over how it must be spent?
They have no authority.
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