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Feb. 13, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 13, 2009, Friday, Hour #2
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Those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day, because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.
President Barack Obama in his inaugural address on January 20th.
Greetings, my friends.
It's last chance Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Those of us who manage the public's knowledge will be held to account to spend wisely.
Reform bad habits, do our business in the light of day.
Everything that he said in his inaugural address is being done in just the opposite way.
But it doesn't matter what he says, it matters how he says it.
Greetings.
And welcome, ladies and gentlemen, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Nice to have you here.
Telephone number.
If you ought to be on the program on open line Friday, 800-282-2882, the uh email address, L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Roger Kimball has a post today at National Review.
No, it's at Pajamas Meeting on the Pajamas Media.com.
I'm sorry.
And it it contains uh a couple of Ronald Reagan quotes.
Ronald Reagan on the campaign trail.
And this, by the way, is the Ronald Reagan that so many conservatives in the media tell us we should forget.
This era of Ronald Reagan is over.
We need to adapt conservatism so that we too, as conservatives, can use government to attract that group and that group and that group of middle class voters so that we win back power.
It's time for us to acknowledge that government is a central focus of everybody's life.
And that the era of Reagan is over, said Ronald Reagan on the campaign trail.
This is the issue of this election.
Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves.
Contrast that to President Obama, who said on the campaign trail, generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick, good jobs to the jobless.
This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.
Shows you just how far we've come.
Here's Reagan.
Back in 1927, an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said that the American people would never vote for socialism.
But he said under the name of liberalism, the American people would adopt every fragment of the socialist program.
It appears to be happening.
At the end of October, President Obama said we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.
And of course, we could add to that Ron Emanuel saying you just don't let a crisis go to waste.
I mean, this is too important, it's too big.
We um we don't we just can't let this crisis go to waste as a chance to do all the things that you wanted to do.
And so they were in the process of uh of getting it done.
Audio sound by time.
Yesterday on a progressive talk station in Los Angeles, uh Hispanic host, a guy named Mario talking to Bill Clinton on the phone.
And the host says, Is it time for some type of enforced media accountability?
Is it time for some enforced media accountability?
You either ought to have the fairness doctrine or we ought to have More balance on the other side.
Because essentially, there's always been a lot of big money to support the right-wing talk shows.
And let's face it, you know, Rush Limbaugh is fairly entertaining, even when he's saying things that I think are ridiculous.
I never minded having somebody be heard who disagreed with me.
But if you only have one side like this, this blatant drum beat against the stimulus program.
This doesn't reflect the economic reality we're facing.
All right.
Now, this is not accidental.
I mean, this appears to be coincidental.
Go on a leftist host show, and here comes the question about do we need some type of enforced media accountability?
Has has this nerd never heard of the First Amendment that's constitutionally not permitted.
Enforced media accountability is not permitted by the U.S. Constitution.
But it's not just coincidental that Clinton shows up and has this question asked and has this answer.
Here's a former president now in favor of the fairness doctrine.
We've had members of Congress from Dick Durbin to Tom Harkin, uh Maurice Henshee.
They're getting ready to do something.
Then they won't call it fairness doctrine.
They'll go at it in a in a much more stealth way, but they're only going to go after a certain element of media, and that's conservatives on talk radio.
They will not go after any other media platform.
They won't go after blogs.
Well, they may go after they may have they may, but that that's going to be more problematic for them.
But they're not going to go after television.
They won't go after newspapers because they are considered the press.
And the press is mentioned in the First Amendment.
We are, of course, not considered to be part of media.
Uh but it's dead serious.
They want to wipe out all dissent.
They want to clear the playing field.
They don't want any dissent as far on the stimulus.
We get we gotta we gotta get rid of this guy Limbaugh.
We gotta get rid of people.
I mean he's entertaining, yeah, but I mean, line up against stimulus packages like this.
I mean, we can't have that.
We can't have that, huh?
Let's go back and listen to his wife, April 28, 2003.
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say we are America that we have a right to debate and disagree with that administration.
Okay, aside from the the, you know, first and maybe second wife similarities there in speech pattern.
Here is Mrs. Clinton defining patriotism as dissent against a sitting administration, in this case the Bush administration.
Now her husband and no doubt Mrs. Clinton want to silence all dissent.
They want to shut everybody up.
And they're making it look like that's just some coincidental.
That's right, Limbaugh.
I was asked that question.
What am I gonna say?
I gotta be honest about it.
But you sit out there thinking it's some sort of conspiracy.
Well, well, I mean, I think you need to have your head exam.
Mr. President, we know full well what's happened.
You guys have telegraphed it.
You've you've made it plain what your intentions are.
Uh I have I have a plan on this, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.
I, L. Rushbow, I'm not prepared today to divulge the plan other than to say I'm going to confront President Obama directly on this, and I'm going to ask him for an answer up or down on what his intentions are regarding enforced media accountability.
He's got every one of his big minion supporters out there advocating for it.
He publicly has said during last year's campaign that he's not focused on it, doesn't really care about it, is not that interested.
But of course, he provides the leadership here, and I and I'm not going to ask it on my behalf.
I'm going to ask it on behalf of my industry.
When I started my program in August of 1988, there were 15 125 radio stations doing talk radio.
Today there are 2010, 2020 radio stations doing talk radio.
It's to our credit.
We've done so in the free market.
Clinton talks about the big money that accrues, and it's not fair.
Big money accrues to the Super Bowl, Mr. President.
Big money accrues to American idol.
Big money accrued to the West Wing.
Programs with large audiences that succeed are going to attract quote unquote big money.
It's called business.
It's the whole point.
This is a business.
There are a lot of radio stations.
There are a lot of employees at these radio stations.
Radio is a business that is highly regulated by the federal government.
I think it's time for those of us in radio to be told flat out what the intentions of this administration are.
There are a lot of jobs that will hinge on this.
There is a lot of revenue that will hinge on this.
These radio stations are owned by people.
They have employees.
They have made investments in any number of things in order to have these radio stations on the air.
And I don't think radio business is going to just sit back and let this happen.
But there's a lot of fear out there.
Well, who was it?
JP Morgan Chase and Citibank, did you say?
JP Morgan Chase and Citibank announced today they're going to suspend temporarily all home foreclosures until Obama and Geithner come up with their plan.
Now what that means is that they are scared to death.
They are literally scared to death of this administration and what they might do and how much they need more federal money.
And so they go up and they get grilled on Capitol Hill about having to show more compassion to people.
So they have suspended temporarily all home foreclosures.
In uh in lieu of Obama coming up with uh with a plan.
I have to think this is what it was like living in the Soviet Union.
Remember in the Soviet Union, we heard stories of people in their homes that go to their bathrooms and whisper when they wanted to tell each other what they really thought and warn them of what was coming.
They were afraid they would be bugged if they were in public rooms in their house.
How many have you noticed as you travel around and congregate with people?
Have you noticed some people want to whisper more and more to you what they what they want you to know that they think?
They're afraid of being overheard by somebody, and maybe not it's an authority that's going to overhear them.
They just they just don't want maybe another average citizen to overhear them and start browbeating and berating them.
I notice this wherever I go, more and more people are whispering or talking very quietly about what they want.
And it's really tough for me because I have trouble hearing when people are speaking normally, but when they start whispering like this, it just frustrates me because I can't hear what they're saying, but I've noticed it happening more and more.
People are just they're more and more afraid to say what they really think.
In a number of places.
So we've got the bank CEOs scared to death.
We've got one CEO that's standing up, Jim Pelton at Cessna with a full play jet.
By the way, I need to correct something.
I uh it was not my fault.
I erroneous, I read an erroneous report yesterday.
Cessna does not own hawker.
Hawker Beach Craft.
Get this!
By the way, Hawker Beechcraft Corporation.
HBC, guess who owns them?
They make private jets.
Hawkers are a great mid-sized jet.
The beach jets are even smaller.
Guess who owns Hawker Beechcraft?
Hint, their CEO was being grilled by Congress on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Over usage of private jets.
Quick, who owns Hawker Beechcraft?
Answer is Goldman Sachs.
Goldman Sachs does not just fly corporate jets.
They own a company that manufactures them.
Goldman Sachs owns Hawker Beechcraft.
The report that I read yesterday said that Cessna, and it's Textron based that owns Cessna.
But I did not know until last night that Goldman Sachs owns Hawker Beechcraft manufacturers of corporate jets.
I got so many nice emails yesterday from people throughout the aviation industry thanking me for informing people as to the all of the tentacles that spread out from a corporate jet, even from its manufacturer to service completion and uh and so forth.
And I want to thank all of you for those nice emails.
It was a subject close to my heart.
I've I've been fascinated with aviation all my life.
My father was a lawyer, but if he had his if he if he really would have fulfilled his dream, he would have run a major airport somewhere.
My father flew P-51s in the China Burma Theater of World War II.
He also was an instructor on B-25s.
I think I've seen a picture of him outside one.
I think it was in Alabama in World War II.
I'm not totally sure about that.
And he had a little Cessna 182 for a while when we were growing up.
And I was there.
My mother took uh flight school lessons as she went to her ground school and uh did her solo and so forth and got her instrument rating with the hood.
That's all this as I was I was growing up.
And I was just I've been fascinated with aviation all my life.
My dad got every flight magazine there was aviation, flight, whatever.
And he was reading them, and he, you know, one of my, if I if I may get personal here for a brief moment before we go to the break.
One of one of the my father and mother would not believe my life.
Uh my the the one of the saddest things, one of the most regretful things I have is that my father died before uh we acquired EIB one.
He would have dot believed it.
I would not have been able to get him out of the cockpit jump seat.
He would have tried to go get his jet rating.
He wouldn't have been interested in sitting back in the passenger cabin with the flight attendant servicing adult beverages and food, and that he would want to be up there in the cockpit flying that he'd want to do acrobatics in it, which of course you can't do.
He'd want to do aerobatics, he would he'd want to do the stalls.
Uh he'd he'd want to try the single engine procedure, he'd want to be involved in all of this.
And it's just uh that's that's that's one of the major regrets.
And that he never even knew.
It's not that he was sick and wasn't able to do it.
He just he never even knew that um we had acquired uh an EIB one.
But no, I've I've had a lifelong uh fascination.
What?
No, you can't no by regulation you can't do a barrel rolling.
No, not a corporate jet.
It's that's not that kind of an airplane.
You got no, no, no, no, no.
I mean, this thing, these things, most of them will not even fly upside down.
The the the fuel pumps.
Well, that's not true.
Safety regulations today, but they're not designed for it.
Those are emergency procedures that work for a while, but they're not they're not designed for uh for that kind of torque and uh uh stress that you would put on it.
And look at I'm way long here.
I've got to take a brief time out.
We'll do that.
We'll come back right after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, Bill Clinton has said we gotta have enforced media accountability.
All the big money has gone to support right-wing talk shows.
Mr. President, if I may, all the big money is not in talk radio, it's at your library and massage parlor.
What I wouldn't give for the amount of money that's been donated to Bill Clinton and his library and massage parlor.
That's where the big money is in this country.
Now, how how unhappy can these Democrats be?
They've got 60 votes in the Senate.
They own the House of Representatives.
They occupy the White House.
They control the media.
Just what do they want?
Carl Marx said it.
You know what peace is?
In Karl Marx definition, the absence of opposition to socialism.
That is peace.
The absence of opposition to a leftist to a socialist, and that's what they're aiming for.
This is a major transformation of the United States, as Obama promised.
Let's let's not forget Clinton in uh 1994 June, flying in a dedicated some train station in St. Louis.
And he called the morning show at our Blowtorch affiliate there, KMOX.
After I get off the radio today with you, Rush Lemba, I'll have three hours to say whatever he wants.
Would you like to leave a message?
I won't have any opportunity to respond.
And there's no truth detector.
You won't get on afterwards and say what was true and what wasn't.
Isn't this amazing?
That sounds like exactly what I'm saying about the drive-by media today.
And he had the drive-by media totally in his tank, too.
They were said 1994, they're writing stories about the power crackling in his tight-fitting jeans as he strolled Catalina Island off San Diego.
We had Nina Burley promising a Lewinsky, promising a BJ just to thank Clinton for keeping abortion legal.
I mean, the press was totally the tank.
It's not really a new concept for them with Obama.
It's just now total.
It's a hundred percent gone is any curiosity.
Gone is any attempt to keep people in power honest.
They have aligned themselves with the Democrat Party and the leftist machinery of Obama.
Sololinski's rules for radicals.
Number 13, isolate the target.
Polarize it.
Paralyze it.
Make sure you pick an individual, not a group or a company.
It has to be an individual.
That's exactly what they did to Bush.
Bush didn't respond.
I do.
But nevertheless, this is their attempt going forward.
Oh m.
I have to change the channel.
I cannot take a look at MSNBC.
I can't.
I'm gonna get distracted if I'm back, Rush Limbaugh here on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
One more thing.
And look, Bill Clinton knows this.
Bill Clinton, all the big money is in talk radio.
What big money?
Where does this money come from?
All the money in talk radio comes.
Do you know where the money in talk radio comes from, Snertly?
Where does a second, wait a second, wait a second.
Well, you're getting closer as you keep taking these wild guesses.
I asked Snurdly, where does all this big money in talk radio come from?
In any radio.
He said, from from advertisers.
From from from from from from big business, from from commerce.
Yeah.
Uh where does that come from?
Where does that money come from?
From the audience, exactly right, the people about the the big ms. Mr. President, the big money in radio, or the big money in Super Bowl, or the big money in American Idol, or wherever you want to go there, there's big money.
In the private sector, the big money comes from our audiences.
The big money comes from listeners.
Without them, there wouldn't be any money.
We don't run around fundraising.
We don't run around asking for donations.
Listeners, loyal, lovable, totally appreciated listeners who purchase products and services advertised on radio.
There is no big money.
There's no George Soros here, as there is in Air America.
There's no party behind talk radio, as with Air America and the Democrat Party.
There's certainly not any big money like you got, Mr. President, from the ChICOMs, and your illegal campaign donations.
We in talk radio don't engage in crooked real estate deals.
We didn't bring in people to our studios for coffee and shake them down, promising not to criticize them on the radio if they'll just pay us off.
We don't bring in interns here and start using cigars in nefarious ways.
We don't have massage parties here in our broadcast.
Well, I can't speak for some of the long-haired maggot-infested FM types of what they're doing in their studios.
But I haven't had one visit from a ChICOM advertiser.
I haven't had a guy that owns a Chinese restaurant in Little Rock walk into some office with 200 million dollars in unsigned money orders for me for big money.
I haven't had people from Dubai, from the United Arab Emirates, from Saudi Arabia pay me 150 to 400,000 for a speech, ripping my own country while I'm in theirs.
I don't do things like this, Mr. President.
My money, our money comes just as governments does from the American people.
And our money is puny compared to yours.
Clinton Global Initiative.
We don't have anything like that.
What big money, Mr. President?
Here's uh here's uh Joe in West Palm Beach.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Honor and a pleasure.
Thank you.
Uh with all the stingless talk.
My question is whatever happens to the tax cut for a people earning under $250,000.
You hear nothing about that any longer.
Uh see.
Well, I I uh I have to think you're right about that.
We haven't heard about there never were tax cuts in this stimulus deal anyway.
There were tax credits, but there aren't any tax cuts per se.
And we learned yesterday that the maximum that anybody who does get a little reduction in their in their payroll taxes is gonna net $13 a week up until January, at which time it'll be eight dollars a week, and that's the extent of it.
But you're right, there are no tax cuts.
Well, that was one of the uh things that uh Obama was running on during his campaign.
You heard it over and over again.
Doesn't matter what he says.
This is the thing, uh, Joe.
It's it's about how he says it.
It doesn't matter what he's saying.
I guarantee he goes out and makes these appearances, and all people hear him say is that he's gonna put gasoline in her tank and get them a home, get them a kitchen, get them a car, get him a job.
That's what they hear him say.
Right, right.
Well, another uh another unkept uh campaign promise.
Well, yeah, but you know, that's standard for a lot of politicians.
This is far worse than that.
This this is a genuine transformation of the country as devoted to its founding.
The founding and the and the concepts, you know, the Constitution is the enemy of Barack Obama.
Constitution and the and facts, the facts of any story, are Obama's two biggest enemies.
The Constitution was written by founders who feared precisely what's happening.
They feared an expanding never-ending growing government.
With more and more power, they fit.
The Constitution was written to limit the power of the government.
The Constitution has to be set aside.
The Constitution has to be ignored, or it has to be rewritten by liberal judges, who, when cases come before them, can rewrite their own law, claim that it's constitutional, and there's nothing anybody can do about it.
And this has been going on for a while, as you well know.
But this is a it's total transformation of the U.S. government, the U.S. uh system, and it is being done on purpose.
Yeah, how else when you have some dork radio host on some liberal station ask a former president, do we need enforced media accountability?
I guarantee you, if anybody is for enforced media accountability, meaning from the government, they don't care a whit about the Constitution.
And my guess is they probably don't even know what's in it.
Here is uh Mike, Staten Island in New York.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Well, that's a pleasure to speak with the kindred spirit.
Thank you, sir.
Um there was a plane accident in Buffalo, and one of the victims of that accident's husband was killed by the terrorists at the World Trade Center.
She visited with Obama and Obama the other day.
The audacity of these liberals gets me gets me in the gut.
Clinton could have stopped Obama.
We could have saved 3,000 lives at the World Trade.
No, no, no, no, no.
Clinton could have stopped Osama.
Oh, s uh Osama.
He could have we could have saved that woman's husband.
She wouldn't be in off uh a widow now.
Instead, he he passed it by in nineteen ninety three, he passed up all those opportunities.
And Obama had the audacity to say today that that woman moved him and inspires him.
Inspires him to what?
Close Gitmo and free the people who killed her husband.
It's just it's it's just unbelievable the hypocrisy.
The utter the disgust I have for these people is it's just incredible.
Join the club.
I can't tell you what Ms. Snerdley is telling me he has never since the uh amnesty debate.
He has never encountered such anger from people on the phones.
The angers at the plan because they don't know what's in it, but they're afraid they know that it angers at we know what's in it.
Yeah, we know what's in it.
I went to school with Holder.
I know his thinking.
I graduated high school with him.
I know him like you know them.
I know him, I know the way he thinks.
Who?
Holder.
Eric Holder.
Eric Holder.
I went to Styverson High School.
They graduated in 65.
See, that's the frustrating thing.
We all know who liberals are.
We know what they are.
We this is this when I hear people say we need to give him a chance.
Why?
You need to get up to speed.
We don't need to give liberals a chance to destroy the country or change it to me.
We need you need to get up to speed and learn what it is that we're facing here.
Right on, Rush.
Now, if if this plane crash in Buffalo has you upset because of Obama's audacity, I want you to listen to this story out there, Mike.
Okay.
This story is uh, let's see, what is the well I don't have a I think it's the New York Post.
Uh I think I recognize the writer.
President Obama is caught smack in the middle of a family feud among 9-11 relatives of a financier killed at ground zero.
The brothers of Adam Arias went ballistic when they learned that their aunt was among the 9-11 relatives invited to last week's White House meeting with Obama.
They, the brothers, were not invited.
Adam Arius was a vice president of operations at Eurobrokers.
He worked on the 84th floor of the World Trend Uh Trade Center South Tower.
He was the eighth victim identified following the attacks.
His brothers, Andy and Donald Arias, attended the hearings of five suspected plotters of the 9-11 attacks at Guantanamo Bay last month, and they support keeping the facility open and prosecuting the detainees immediately.
Their aunt has complained about torture of detainees at Club Gitmo and favors closing it.
Their aunt was invited.
She has no direct relation to the family.
Obama invited her, did not invite the brothers.
So you could say now that Obama is breaking up families.
Obama's busting up families.
Because he finds some some distantly related person who agrees with him on what to do about Gitmo to falsely represent the views of the family regarding what to do with the detainees at Gitmo.
And ignores the two brothers of the deceased who oppose what Obama wants to do.
So this I have no problem saying Obama busting up families now, creating strife wherever he goes.
This guy's dividing this country like the great unifier.
All this transparency, new era of responsibility.
Again, uh well, I gotta take a break.
I'm looking at the clock here, and time is uh is vanishing rapidly.
Mike, thank you for the call.
Be right back, folks, and continue with much more.
I'm just listening to something fascinating at the White House press briefing.
It's why I'm a little late getting back to programming.
Jake Tapper of ABC, who I think is aiming to be the next Sam Donaldson, and I would support it.
You by the way, you drive by Steve.
Do you remember if if I may make a brief departure?
Do you remember back during the Reagan administration when and Nixon when you had Dan Rather standing up?
But you guys, Sam Donaldson, I mean, your whole reason for being was to challenge power.
Now, those of us who watched you back then thought that you were a little rude and that uh and that you were nitpicking and that you were trying to destroy presidencies, but at least you were poking at people in power.
Contrast yourselves today.
Go out and watch some of the real giants, quote unquote, of your business.
As they worked 20 and 30 years ago, they'll watch a press conference today with Robert Gibbs and look at the tongues on the floor and look at the the butt kissing that's going on in the form of questions.
And you tell me your business hasn't changed and hasn't gotten worse.
Nevertheless, Jake Tapper.
You know, Jake Tapper is the guy who broke the story at ABC that the Caterpillar CEO never said that he would rehire laid off people if the stimulus bill passed.
And so the New York Times has a blog out today in which they call the CEO a liar.
They kick, oh yeah, the CEO is the liar.
The Caterpillar CEO is the guy who flip-flopped.
Not Obama.
Here's that's the goal at the heart of this plan to create jobs.
But oops, after the president left, Mr. Owens not only did a turnabout on rehiring, he also suggested there may be even more layoffs.
The truth is we're gonna have to have more layoffs before we start hiring again.
So they totally believe what Obama said yesterday that the caterpillar CEO told me he's gonna rehire some people at the stimulus passes.
They go out to see uh the the caterpillar guy yesterday, and Jake Tapper asks him, is this true?
No, I'm we we there's not enough money in this thing.
There's not enough money for heavy construction.
There's 46 billion dollars.
That's not gonna do much.
I mean, in terms of road building and bridges and so forth, the kind of things we sell equipment to help do.
So we're gonna be no, we're we're not hiring people back.
And so New York Times dumps on the caterpillar CEO as the flip flopper, never even questioning whether Obama just made it up and was trying to put pressure on the caterpillar CEO guy to go along with him.
Which I have no doubt that that is what happened.
Obama going public before the guy had spoken, trying to bring him along.
So Jake Tapper is asking about this today, just now, and and Robert Gibbs, the most competent, brilliant press spokesman we've ever had, ladies and gentlemen, according to the drive-by's, just answers with gobbledygook, and Jake Tapper says, I'm not gonna belabor the point.
He thinks he's made his point with his question that's been unanswered.
And then he asks another question you know.
We found out that that Caterpillar left somebody on site for 30 minutes yesterday or somewhere.
I I caught just to tail into this before I had to come back and join you in programming content.
And they let the employees have a say in okay, did the stimulus is passed, should we start hiring people back?
And Jake Tapper said that Caterpillar announced that 1,400 employees said no.
Do not start hiring people back yet.
This stimulus 14 now I heard him say that.
1,400 caterpillar employees want no part of the stimulus.
And yet the New York Times blog says that uh it's the caterpillar CEO who is the flip-flop.
Cookie, get me that exchange, because I want to make sure I heard this lickety split, and I had to leave it to come back to program.
Just in the last seven to eight minutes this happened.
Jake Tapper with Robert Gibbs, and I know we're rolling tape on it.
Here's how this went.
Yesterday afternoon in Peoria, Obama visiting the caterpillar plant to drum up support for his stimulus bill.
Jim, the head of caterpillar said that if Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off.
And that's a story I'm confident will be repeated at companies across the country.
Okay, now right after Obama says this.
Now, Obama says this, he gets an Air Force One, he heads back.
But the uh unidentified reporter says to Jim Owens, Caterpillar CEO, will the stimulus package stop any of the 22,000 layoffs?
I think realistically, no.
I mean, the honest reality is we'll probably have to have more layoffs before we start hiring.
Yes.
Well, it doesn't matter what he says, it's how he says it.
And once again, we have this climate established now where the CEOs are the bad guys, so obviously this CEO is sabotaging our great president.
A great big hearted, compassionate president.
He doesn't deserve this kind of treatment.
He doesn't deserve to be sabotaged like this by the CEO of Caterpillar.
And that's the framework, and that's the well the way the story is uh is framed.
And this is great.
If you want to know how Obama defines bipartisanship, here it is.
I want to thank uh Peoria's own Ray Lahood, who is doing outstanding work as my transportation secretary.
You know, Ray comes from a long line of uh Republicans I love.
Uh starting with uh Bob Michael and uh you know they're just I I think there's a common sense Midwestern can-do bipartisan attitude that Ray represents, and I am so pleased that he's in my cabinet.
Okay.
I think you know what I think Obama, when he said he loved Bob Michael, then he got all confused.
His speech started uh okay, I've lost my place of God.
I shouldn't have said that.
Oh, God.
So let's go back to Lahood and don't agree.
Bob Michael.
I gotta take a break, but I uh Bob Michael.
Oh.
Bob Michael.
One of his most famous quotes to New House freshmen.
I wake up every morning, I look in the mirror, and I know I feel like a loser.
You'll get used to it.
That's why Obama loves him.
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