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Jan. 19, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 19, 2009, Monday, Hour #2
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So I just got an email.
Just got an email from a friend of mine in Chicago.
If you give me eight points in the Super Bowl, I'll take the Cardinals over the Steelers.
Now the line is five and a half or six.
This guy's asking for two additional points.
It reminds me of the first Democrat convention I attended in San Francisco.
I went to a Richard Gephardt party at some hotel out there, and a family friend of ours from Sykeston, Missouri, who was a big Democrat bigwig, came up and said, if you spot me 50 electoral votes, we can win this election.
Spot him 50 electoral votes.
This is the Mondal campaign.
I'm supposed to give some guy two additional points.
What am I?
Do I look like an idiot today, Snerdley?
Anyway, greetings, folks.
Welcome back.
El Rush Bo, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
President Bush just announced in one of his final acts of clemency, he has commuted the prison sentences of two former U.S. Border Patrol agents whose convictions for shooting a Mexican drug dealer ignited fierce debate about illegal immigration.
His decision to commute the sentences of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compeon, who tried to cover up the shooting, was welcomed by both Republican and Democrat members of Congress.
They had long argued the agents were merely doing their jobs defending the American border against a criminal element.
They also maintained that the more than 10-year prison sentences the pair was given were too harsh.
So the prison sentences have been commuted, not the convictions.
It's the same thing that happened with Scooter Libby.
Bill Ayers was refused admittance to Canada last night.
Bill Ayers, of course, a respectable citizen who bombed the Pentagon, wanted to bomb the Capitol, wanted to bomb the White House, a professor of education, University of Illinois Chicago, was scheduled to speak at the Center for Urban Schooling at the University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies and Education, but he was turned back at the Canadian border last night.
The appearance has now been temporarily canceled until the university can figure out a way to sneak Ayers across the border in order for him to make a speech and then sneak back.
It is one of the first times, ladies and gentlemen, in my I have to admit, I got a great memory.
And it's one of the first times, in my memory, Canada has refused sanctuary to one of our terrorists.
Canada has been well known for offering, even if it's temporary sanctuary to American terrorists, they somehow refused to let Bill Ayers in last night.
A programming note for those of you who are affiliates on the EIB network, just as a reminder, we are going to carry the immaculation tomorrow.
We're going to carry the Immaculate Inauguration, the swearing-in, and the speech, the inaugural address by Barack Obama.
Now, and there will be live commentary, as we are known for here on the EIB network, during the immaculation address itself.
However, ladies and gentlemen, I don't think at this point in time that we are going to stick with coverage of the parade.
I mean, we could do that, and I could describe for you the bands and the circus acts and the clowns and so forth that I see on television coverage.
But I mean, you could turn on the television for that.
We will cover the inaugural address, and we'll play it by ear after that, see where we go.
I just want you to know we'll be carrying it from start to finish and whatever commercial timeouts, commercial breaks that are necessary to skip, we will skip tomorrow in order to bring to you the Immaculation Address by Barack Obama from beginning to end.
On Friday, ladies and gentlemen, I was minding my own business.
It was 6.30 in the evening.
I was in the process of veging, enjoying a Friday night quiet at home to indulge my own desires.
And Catherine, the beautiful, incomparable Catherine Rogers, walked in.
What did you do today?
I didn't have a chance to listen to you today.
I said, what are you talking about?
They can't stop talking about you on CNN.
And I started to think, what did I do today that would have upset people at CNN on last Friday?
By the way, Catherine, the beautiful and incomparable, was with me on the side.
I went with Bridget Rooney Koch.
We're on the sideline of the Steelers game yesterday.
And I was, you know, they started laughing the first four or five rows they were calling a rush row because I was called to sign autographs and posts for pictures at a pregame interview on the CBS affiliate in Pittsburgh.
And while my back was turned, apparently Heinz Ward, number 86 for the Steelers, left the field and walked over very close to Catherine and Bridget, so close they could reach out and touch.
And Catherine told me she was just in awe and was unable to say anything as Heinz Ward went by.
And I said, Catherine's not like you to be in awe of men in tight pants.
But players, it's just players.
They're captivating.
So I came back and I got the whole load on the story.
But anyway, back to Friday night.
I said, what did I, well, just something about McCain.
You said something about McCain and they can't stop talking about you on CNN.
She's just have to laugh no matter what you, even when you're not around, they talk about you.
Well, here is one example from Friday afternoon, Wolf Blitzed on the CNN talking with Paul Bogala, the forehead in the situation room.
Rush Limbaugh today said, you know, he already has 60 because he just assumes John McCain is going to vote with Obama on everything.
What do you think about John McCain's role in this new Senate?
John McCain's probably not losing a lot of sleep worrying about what Rush Limbaugh thinks about him.
The truth is, I think 60 is in many ways an overstated, overanalyzed number.
My party has 59.
Well, the truth is, we have 59 in terms of party, but on issues, things divide very differently.
The president-elect is doing a very smart thing in reaching out to Republicans.
Even if he had 60, even if he had 70, he's going to need bipartisanship.
These guys don't give a rat's rear end about bipartisanship.
John McCain isn't losing any sleep.
That's probably true.
And that's, I think, something you would expect for somebody who lost a presidential election and didn't care about it.
Of course, he's not losing any sleep.
But ladies and gentlemen, let's get to what they were talking about.
I had said on Friday that McCain will be the, Blitzer got a little bit wrong.
I said McCain will be the one to shepherd Republicans in line for Obama's legislation so that he gets the 60 votes and be filibuster-proof.
I said, this is going to be McCain's legacy.
McCain wants to erase that he lost an election.
McCain wants to get back on the good side of the drive-by media.
So he will be leading the pack.
And it's not going to be hard.
In most cases, I think Obama's going to be able to get 60 votes without McCain.
But McCain's still going to get the credit for doing it.
He's got Olympia Snow out there.
He's got Susan Collins out there.
Is a number of Republicans that would eagerly, because they want to show for some strange reason that they are bipartisan.
Well, anyway, here's the point.
New York Times today, Obama reaches out for McCain's counsel.
Boy, look at, don't doubt me.
Don't doubt me.
I know these people.
Not long after Senator McCain returned last month from an original official trip to Iraq and Pakistan, he got a phone call from Obama.
As contenders for the presidency, they had hammered each other.
Somebody's memory of that campaign is different than mine, because I don't remember too much hammering going on, except when Palin got involved.
If there was any hammering going on, it was McCain hammering his own people, telling his own people, the North Carolina Republican Party, to shut up and pull ads, telling Bill Cunningham in Cincinnati to shut up and get off the stage.
The only time, the only time McCain hammered anybody was when he hammered his people on his own side.
It was just one step in a post-election courtship that historians say has few modern parallels.
Obama said he wanted McCain's advice.
People in each camp briefed on the conversation said that Obama wanted to know what McCain saw on the trip.
What did he learn?
On Monday night, Mr. McCain will be the guest of honor at a black tie dinner celebrating Obama's inauguration.
And then Colin Powell will be the guest of honor at another Obama dinner.
They may as well throw Chuck Hagel in there.
And then there'll be another dinner honoring Joe Biden.
And I tell you, this may be the last time you hear from Biden legally.
I don't think they'll be able to shut him up, but I think they're giving him the chops right now.
Okay, Joe, we're doing a dinner for you.
And from now on out, shut up, buddy.
We don't want any more.
Hey, Chuck, stand up, buddy.
Oh, God, what did I do?
Chuck, stand up for Chuck.
As Biden addressed a St. Louis politician in a wheelchair, over the last three months, Obama has quietly consulted McCain about many of the new administration's potential nominees to top national security jobs and about other issues.
So there you have it.
Depending on how much McCain can screw the Republican Party, he'll get his legacy from the drive-by meeting.
That's what this is about.
He wants to erase from his legacy that he lost the election.
He wants his legacy to make the greatest concession speech ever.
That's something I'd love to be known for, by the way, to make the greatest concession speech in American presidential politics.
And then to be the guy that makes sure that bipartisanship works, that Obama gets enough Republican votes to get 60 in there, even when there are some Democrats that go off the reservation.
McCain can cover it by getting Republicans.
And the drive-bys will love him.
The drive-bys will love him again because he's going to be out there ripping his own party once again, which got him in good graces with the drive-bys in the first place.
On page two of this story, Ram Emmanuel, whose only previous contact with Lindsey Gramnesty was negotiating the terms of the presidential debates, began calling Gramnesty more than once a week to follow up.
Constantly, Emmanuel said, there's been a running dialogue.
So Lindsey Gramnesty and Ram Emmanuel, Obama's chief of staff, are now phone buddies.
Doesn't that just make your day?
Anybody surprised?
So a spokesman for McCain did not respond to several messages, but Mr. Gramnesty said that he and Mr. McCain were convinced that Obama was genuinely interested in working together with them on both domestic priorities and foreign policy.
Gramnesty said, not only is it good politics, it gives you an insight into who we are dealing with.
Yes, Lindsey Graham, gaining insights on everyone in this love circle except us here.
I want you to sit down, folks, if you can, while I share with you the details of the latest story from CNN, the headline monumental expectations for Obama's inauguration address.
President-elect Obama's inaugural address is one of the most anticipated speeches in decades, with many expecting his words to be chiseled into marble someday.
This is just comical.
This is to watch what was a once great major institution descend into pure groupyism.
Obama has said he's been studying previous inaugural addresses, including Lincoln's and Roosevelt's during the Great Depression.
Given the nation's current economic crisis, Errol Lewis, a columnist of the New York Daily News, was looking for Obama to echo Roosevelt's famous 1933 inaugural address when the FDR said the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
He's got to calm the nation.
I think he's got to reassure the nation and let people know that we're in it for the long haul.
If you look at that 1933 speech, that's pretty much what FDR did.
That's right.
And we were in it for another seven years with FDR at the helm.
He wants to lift us up, said Lewis, and all the aspirations we have, all the hope.
But at the same time, he has some very practical problems that start at 1201, and he starts to own them at high noon.
There are no easy answers.
CNN contributor David Rodham Gergens said he's got to give that great soaring speech.
I think the pressure is really on because of the historic nature of this presidency and also because of the extraordinary moment at which he finds ourselves with this terrible recession.
Many expecting his words to be chiseled into marble someday.
They have drank de Kool-Aid, folks.
They have dead.
I mean, we're at Jonestown.
Remember Jim Jones and that cult?
We are at Jonestown.
We're near the Hail Bob Comet here.
The drive-by media.
And also, now this is the second such story of this type I've seen.
Parents in Wake County, Colorado, North Carolina, an elementary school there.
Kids will be required to eat in classrooms on Tuesday so they can spend two hours watching the immaculation on TV.
Another school is going to force the kids to eat lunch at 10.30 so that they can watch this uninterrupted.
They're then going to be required to write a paper about the historical significance of this.
These will be displayed on a bulletin board somewhere.
This will make sure the project is carried out.
And some parents are saying that they're going to keep kids home if school doesn't show it.
Some say they won't come if it is shown.
I thought we were all together in this.
This has never before been a requirement in schools I know of, not Reagan, Bush, Clinton, or Bush.
But the oath of office seemed to be the thing.
But no, they're going to watch the whole thing parade and all that.
They must.
And then they're going to write essays about it.
All right.
People have been waiting patiently on the phones.
We'll start in Grass Valley California with Dave.
Great to have you here, sir.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Dave, are you there?
Hey, compared to Dave is gone.
Where are we going to go next?
Fontana, California.
Gail, great to have you.
Welcome.
Hi, Rush.
Nice to speak to you.
Thanks for taking my call.
It's my pleasure.
I want to say to you, I'm so proud you're the last man standing.
Well, one of them, anyway.
Yeah, there's lots of us out here.
We're just not being heard.
One of the comments I wanted to make about all of this endless hoop law that's upon us and that the taxpayer is picking up the tab for.
I find it so abrasive that President Bush is being treated as though he doesn't exist.
I think it really diminishes all that we've done in Iraq to try to bring democracy and to stabilize that area, which in the big picture I felt was very, very necessary and supported our efforts to do that.
But it also really is a slap in the face to all of our people that are there working so diligently and so hard at doing this and sacrificing.
Bush is not being ignored.
Gail, he's being trashed even today.
He's being criticized as being ripped to shreds by the same people who are telling us we need to shut up and to get off.
But we're not going to, are we?
No, not unless he earns it.
Exactly.
I think that the mixture, this, you know, when we really maybe find out who the wizard behind the curtain is in all of this, I don't think we know.
I think right now we're looking at something that we're all sort of overwhelmed with because I didn't think that the racial component would be the only thing that there is to this man.
And at this point, we've not seen anything come forth yet.
We'll see what he does as president.
But my point is...
No, wait a second.
See, this is an interesting point that you've raised.
There are going to be two, at least two assessments of how he has done as president.
One assessment will come from the drive-by media.
You just heard that CNN thinks that his words in his inaugural address tomorrow will be etched in stone or chiseled in garlic marble.
But the point here is that no matter what he says in this speech tomorrow, he's going to be praised.
No matter how he says it, no matter what he says, get ready.
This is going to be a speech that needs to be chiseled in marble, no matter what he says.
And then there will be those who listen to the speech and will hear some of the plans that he's got and will say, this is not good.
This is not what's best for the country.
They will be ignored.
They will be called Obama naysayers.
They'll be accused of being unpatriotic and not getting on board the great celebration.
Seriously, here, folks, Gail from Fontana, California, our previous caller, is exactly right here.
For the past, what, six months, last few months anyway, the Obama people have been treating Bush as if he's not president.
The media has been treating Bush as if he's not president.
The media has been doing it because Obama is doing that.
Obama is saying that he got the bill passed for the extra $350 TARP billion.
Obama is a profoundly arrogant man, folks.
He's actually done nothing but run for office.
I don't know how he can compare himself to Lincoln other than they're both in Illinois.
How can he compare himself to Lincoln?
He can only do so symbolically.
And what is that worth?
Isn't anybody offended by this?
In fact, he's going further than comparing himself to Lincoln.
He's telling us he's trying to create the notion that he is also Lincoln, that he is also FDR.
Look at this barf-inducing story from CNN that the words of his inaugural address will be chiseled in marble and quoting FDR.
The only thing we have to fear, fear itself.
They've got this guy being somebody other than who he is because who he is is, well, who?
He's done nothing but run for office.
He is good at that.
He's already running for his next term, but they're trying to create the impression that whatever is bad, he inherited, and that whatever is good, he already did, even though he is just the president-elect, Norman in Anderson, Texas.
Nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, it's great to be on.
It's great to talk to the last man standing, the Omega Man of the conservative movement.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I had a question.
Where are all the left-wing groups, the Cindy Sheehans, the code pink Tuscaderos of the Democrat Party?
I think they're being silenced by the media.
They don't want them to have any voice in this matter.
Well, frankly, that doesn't bother me.
I had enough of Cindy Sheehan to last me a lifetime.
And she was always a non-factor anyway.
I mean, Cindy Sheehan was, there's a poor woman who's lost her mind.
And then that fact was used by the drive-by media to further drive her crazy into making everybody and her think that she was relevant only because she was willing to accept enough money from a California PR firm to build and occupy a little shack across the road from Bush's house down in Crawford, Texas.
The criticism of Obama, if there is any criticism, believe me, it's going to be aimed at the critics.
They're the ones who are going to be questioned, whether they're on the left or on the right.
They will be the Obama naysayers.
And they'll be positioned as one of the many challenges that Obama has in bringing everybody together.
But they will be institutionally and, well, they're just going to be wrong.
They're not going to have any credibility.
I want to go to audio soundbite number 29.
This is Sally Quinn this afternoon on DNC TV Live, actor Tamron Hall, anchor.
Tamron Hall said, I want to get your thoughts on what you've seen in the last few days here.
How is the Obama emaculation different?
It is different from anything that I have ever seen.
And I was here during the Kennedy inauguration.
And I can't even tell you there's no comparison.
The number of people who've come, the excitement, not only among Democrats, but Republicans.
I don't know a single Republican who's not just thrilled and sort of on fire to see this new president elected.
Well, you know, Sally is elected.
You meant emaculated.
She doesn't know a single Republican who's not excited.
This reminds me of the New York Times or New York theater critic, Pauline Kahl, who after Richard Nixon was elected in 1972, couldn't believe it.
She lived in Manhattan.
She couldn't believe it.
I don't know anybody who voted for him.
Sally Quinn doesn't know any Republican who's not excited.
Now, inside the beltway, she may have a point.
It may be hard to find a Republican willing to speak out.
Back to the phones to Buckeye, Arizona.
And Brett, great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hey.
It is truly an honor, Mr. Limboff.
Welcome to the Arizona Cardinals, our next Super Bowl champs.
Thank you very much for the call.
Don't get so confident yet.
Well, listening to you, sir, has inspired much confidence in me.
So I must ask the freshman in the back of the class this Kool-Aid reference.
Details of what you mean by that, sir.
Well, okay, I'd be happy to tell me.
I need to know your age or your approximate age, if you don't want to be precise about it.
32.
32.
Mr. Snerdley, this stuff happened in the 80s in the 20.
Yeah, you went to the public school system.
I can understand you might not know about it.
A Kool-Aid drinker is a cult follower.
And it has its nomenclature historically tied to a cult leader by the name of Jim Jones.
He was a nutcase, but he was a cult leader who was able to persuade hundreds of people to follow him wherever he went.
He fled the United States with his cult to a lonely outpost in South America called Guyana.
And when the authorities were parents, he'd gotten parents, he'd gotten children to go with him.
Whatever.
I forget now what he was leading them to do, but he had busted up so many families, left the country that the authorities closed in him.
He'd set up a town down in Guyana called Jonestown after himself.
And when the authorities were about to close in and shut down his operation, he gave his cult followers, hundreds of them, poison-laced Kool-Aid and told them to drink it.
And they did.
And they died.
Wow, that really brings some insight to a lot of your points.
Thank you, sir.
You bet.
You didn't know what Kool-Aid Drinkers was.
Yeah, I've heard used it a few times, but I had not.
I must have missed the day you explained that or anything.
No, no, that's the exact root of it.
I mean, that's, I forget what.
Snerdley, do you remember what Jones' cult belief was?
Like, this is not to be confused with this nut in Southern California who convinced a bunch of people that they were going to go on some spaceship to the Halebop comet.
I mean, the point is that there are a lot of people whose lives are so meaningless that they are susceptible to cult-like figures, people of personality and symbolism and no substance.
And I think we got a lot of it going on with Obama here.
What he stands for, who he is, none of it matters to these people.
You know, the, oh, just what Jim Jones did.
He had built a socialist paradise, and they believed that he was the first successful communist, the best of the guy that finally put it together, and everybody was going to be equal.
Everybody was, it was, it was, that's right.
I knew there was a political component to what Jim Jones had done.
And he had convinced people that there would be no suffering, that there would be no pain, that there would be total bliss and contentment.
Everybody would be equal.
Everybody would have the same as everybody else had.
And if there was misery, that would be shared equally too.
And like all communists, in order to survive, they end up having to kill their own people.
Except Jones went down with the ship as well.
He also drank the Kool-Aid.
Yeah, I killed a congressman who was investigating this because there are a lot of children raided from their own homes to join the cult.
And now, Obama's not Jim Jones.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm just so many people in this country with so much emptiness in their lives.
And they are so lonely that they're willing to glom onto something that they think is meaningful and thus they will have meaning and their lives will have meaning.
And they're unable to see what is right in front of them.
There's no such thing in their world as being objective.
There's no reality.
And it's difficult to reason.
Well, you can't reason with cult followers.
You just can't.
They do not want to hear the truth.
They live in a cocoon of safety, and reality is their biggest enemy.
And when you, it's like Snerdley was telling me at the break.
Last night he was talking to some of his best friends from over the years.
And he actually said, you know, I tried one of your lines on him, Limbaugh.
And I said, what was that?
He said, I told him they're all going on and on about Obama.
And I said, well, I hope he fails.
And Snerdley says his friends that were just there were just stunned.
They were shocked.
They were then outraged.
And they said to him, That's a new low, even for you.
That's a new low, even for you.
You want him to fail.
And they couldn't relate.
They don't understand.
Even when you tell them reasonably, look, he's not a cult figure to me.
He's not black.
He's not white.
He's the president.
He's in charge of the direction this country's going to go.
And based on what he said, I don't want to go there.
I hope his policies fail.
You know, when you say, when you're asked, do you want Obama to succeed?
Not to pull up Clinton here, but the word succeed can have multiple definitions in this case.
Now, in one sense, do you want Obama to succeed?
Well, in his policies, yeah, you want him to succeed.
Do you want Obama to succeed?
Yeah, I hope he succeeds by being like Reagan.
Yeah, if he's going to start touting other presidents he wants to be like, I hope he succeeds by doing the right things.
Yeah, if he does the right things, I hope he succeeds.
He's going to do what he says he's going to do.
I hope he fails.
So success can have a varied definition here.
By the way, Brett, here's the down low on Jim Jones.
His commune, there was 900 people, Jonestown.
And it was 1978 that he convinced everybody to drink the Kool-Aid.
So over 900 people died.
And his cult, excuse me, his cult was a socialist type community.
He was a godlike figure.
And most cult leaders, folks, are when you, even if they're not political figures, when you strip away what it is about them that makes them godlike, it is their socialistic approach to people.
Everybody's going to be the same.
Everybody's going to be prosperous.
There will be no pain.
Everybody's going to get what everybody else gets.
Everybody's going to be equal.
There won't be any disparities, the inequality and this sort of thing.
Plus, the cult leader makes you think that he's going to do everything for you.
All you got to do is get up and walk around in your white robe and put your hands together, pretend to be a monk, and pray.
And of course, do what he says at every moment.
A cult leader is essentially a power freak.
And in Jones' case, a mass murderer.
Back after this.
Okay, we're back.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
The Kool-Aid that Jim Jones convinced his cult followers to drink was laced with cyanide, a number of sedatives, including liquid valium, pentagram, and chloral hydrate.
Other victims appear to have been murdered by poison injection, but he got rid of everybody down there.
The Guyanese coroner said that hundreds of bodies showed needle marks indicating foul play.
Still, other victims were shot, although Plexico Burris was not seen in the vicinity.
A very few fled into the jungle and survived.
In all, 914 died, 633 adults and 276 children at Jonestown in Guyana.
Some sources say 911 died.
Their bodies were in a state of extensive decay when the authorities arrived.
There was really not much time to conduct a thorough investigation.
TV station KTVU San Francisco has a collection of photographs of the People's Temple agricultural project.
Some are quite disturbing.
Unfortunately, their website implies that all the dead committed suicide.
So it was the cult leader, and he was a socialist-type personality, 1978.
So when you hear Kool-Aid drinkers, hey, look, we passed out grape Kool-Aid to the Democrats arriving at the 1992 Democrat convention at Madison Square Garden, and they eagerly took it.
Our Kool-Aid was not laced with any Lobianco was out there doing it.
Last seen, Lobianco was eating at Patsy's nine nights a week.
Haven't seen Lobianco in a while, but he was out there passing out the Kool-Aid.
He even found where the C-SPAN cameras were hidden in the bushes and got in front of them, passing out the Kool-Aid to arriving Democrat delegates back to the audio sound bites.
This morning on the BBC World service, the host Gavin Eastler spoke with GlobalWatch.com's Michael Goldfarb about healthcare and the Obama presidency.
And the presenter at the BBC World Service said, healthcare, as you know, it's 15% of the American GDP.
Obama is committed to reforming that.
Obama's presidency isn't going to end the right-wing propaganda that comes over the radio, the Russian Limbaugh stuff.
I mean, this is quite hair-raising, ignorant stuff.
So that when he comes forward with a healthcare plan, there's a built-in attack machine that isn't going away, that is outside of the political party of the Republicans.
The last part's true, except it's the Republicans that have abandoned us.
But this is all the theme of last man standing.
He said, this guy from Britain, where they have a failed national health care system, and this program is on the air in Britain.
When he comes forward, right-wing propaganda, the Rush Limbaugh stuff, see, what did he say here?
The hair-raising, ignorant stuff.
When he comes forward with the healthcare plan, there's a built-in attack machine.
It isn't going away.
This is quite hair-raising, ignorant stuff.
I am considered to be ignorant by, who is this guy again, Gavin?
No.
Globalwatch.com's Michael Goldfarb.
So then Gavin Easler says, well, you can already write what they're going to say.
This will take your health care away from you, blah, blah, blah.
What happened with Hillary Clinton, just going back, and one fears that it'll become a legislative process rather than you and I, Adam, and everyone here said, no, healthcare is a right.
We should be able to get health care and not worry about whether we can pay for it.
Take it out of my tax money and we'll have a healthcare system.
Force me to buy insurance to top it up.
I don't care.
In America, they don't think of it as a right.
They think of it as an option.
And it will allow Rush Limbaugh and the rest of pick up and say, socialism is coming to America and we're not a socialist country.
For that, I'm ignorant.
For that.
For that, the Brits look at me as ignorant back after that.
I'm proud to be ignorant, defined that way.
Now, I'll tell you what, CNN is on a roll today.
They just had a story saying that everybody expects Obama's address tomorrow to be etched, chiseled in marble.
He could read, folks, the manufacturer's warranty to the select comfort sleep number bed, and it would be said to be the most fabulous inaugural address America has ever heard.
It will not matter what he's going to say.
You know, in fact, here's a great, do I want him to succeed or not?
Instead of soaring rhetoric, which is what the CNN story says we should expect, how about declining tax rates?
How about hearing about tax cuts rather than soaring rhetoric?
I don't know what soaring rhetoric is going to get the country.
Here's CNN's latest installments.
Another say, I told you so.
Don't doubt me.
I call this one.
Civil rights veterans fight not over because Obama reaches top.
Oh, no.
Barack Obama's emaculation marks a profound manifestation of Dr. King's dreams, civil rights leaders say, but the movement would be foolish to drop its guard now.
President Obama is just a piece of the puzzle, said Charles Steele, President Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
This tells us that we are at a station, but it's not our destination.
We have got to get back on the train.
Oh, fine then, Damdy.
The way I hear this is we're going to bring back Soul Train.
Soul Train's going to come back.
What was the guy?
Don Cornelius, bring back Soul Train.
Because the train, well, it's just at the station, but that's not the destination.
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