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March 4, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 4, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host on this program.
We have a new opinion audit.
I have an official opinion auditing firm, the Sullivan Group in uh in Sacramento.
They've just last week released an update on my uh an audit of my opinion since the um election.
If you know I went into the election, documented to be almost always right, 98.9%.
I have jumped at full tenth of a point.
I have not been wrong since the election, according to the Sullivan Group, the opinion audit now documented to be almost always right 99% of the time.
I don't think people take the time to understand what that means.
Do you realize over what a long period of time I have to be 100% right in my opinions to even move it a tenth of a point?
Just stunning.
I'm very proud of it.
Greetings, my friends.
I am Rush Limboy, your friend here at the EIB Network 800-282-2882.
If you'd like to be on the program, the email address L Rushball at EIB net.com.
I made an offer in the previous hour based on what Obama's flunkies are leaking to the media and writing in op-eds.
I have offered the President of the United States to fly him down here to my studio on my airplane to feed him with my food to pick up his lodging at a five-star resort, all at no charge to the taxpayers, for a friendly debate and discussion, his ideas and philosophies versus mine.
Leader to leader.
By the way, the full details of that offer have now posted at www.rushlimbaud.com.
Since I made that offer in the previous hour, our official screener of calls, Mr. Bo Snerdly.
We've put two of these calls on there, has reported that many more of our friends, the Liberals are calling.
We haven't heard from very many liberal callers in the past couple of months, six weeks, but today we're being overwhelmed with calls from our friends, the liberals, after I have extended this challenge offer opportunity.
And of course they are trying to get me to change the terms of the debate.
Uh and they are doing what liberals do.
But just to be firm and just to be clear here, I want President Obama.
I do not want a flunky.
I do not want an ex-president.
I don't want Bill Clinton.
I don't want Joe Biden.
I don't want Carbagala.
I want the president.
I want this to be a debate leader to leader.
They say that I'm the leader of the Republican Party.
President Obama says he is about bipartisanship.
If they could groom me out of the way, they could have clear sailing.
The dirty little secret here is that they don't need one Republican vote in the House to get whatever he wants.
He doesn't need Republicans to go along with him.
But he seems to want to be bipartisan.
He wants to have Republican support for this.
I'd like to talk to him about that.
They've made me the leader of the Republican Party.
Here, grab audio soundbite number three.
This is a Democrat support group, some union group, and they're running an ad on TV starting today in Washington, D.C. Who was the leader?
Republicans held as a hero last weekend.
Was it Sarah Palin?
No, no, no.
Bobby Gindle.
No, no, no.
Michael Steele.
No, no, no.
Mitch McConnell?
No, no, no.
In who?
Not Rush Limbaugh.
Yes.
Yes.
Call the Republican leadership.
Tell them to just say no to the politics of Rush Limbaugh.
I hope he fails.
Paid for by Americans United for Change.
I'd be glad to explain that I hope he fails comments face to face to uh to our president.
So they're they've they've made me the de facto head of the Republican Party.
Now, the two liberal phone calls that we had in the previous hour illustrate something I want you to all understand.
Obama's people are scared.
They said that I am the leader of the opposition.
They are raising my profile as a leader of the party.
And I'm saying, okay, fine.
Let's debate here.
And now we have callers trying to help the Messiah.
He's afraid for the Messiah.
These callers know the Messiah wouldn't do very well debating me on the issues and philosophy on the radio.
See, this is the way of our friends, the liberals.
I make an offer based on what Obama's flunkies are leaking to the media, and what his flunkies in the media are writing in op-eds, and they want to control the process.
No, just come to this forum.
Just come to this forum and let's debate.
I'm not negotiating terms.
Just come out of hiding, Mr. President.
Stop hiding behind your flunkies.
Debate me right here on my radio program.
Said you need diversity on the radio.
You said you want diversity on the radio, that there's too much conservatism on the radio.
I'm offering you the biggest radio show in the country to come on and get your ideas out there.
Call it my offer of the fairness doctrine.
Extended to you, Mr. President, but not a flunky.
And not a former president.
And not a secretary of state.
You, not Rahman Manuel.
He's got important work back in the White House advancing your agenda.
And continuing his off-the-record phone calls with media people.
One of the purposes apparently is to demonize me.
That's important work, but you can come here and defend your administration.
And you can kill two birds with one stone.
Diversity in the media and bipartisanship.
You're the leader of your party.
You're the president.
I'm the leader of your opposition, according to your flunkies.
Nothing complicated here.
See, this frightens our friends on the left.
They don't want Obama on a one-on-one debate or even discussion on the radio.
Certainly not without a teleprompter.
They're scared to death of that.
I mean, President Obama wouldn't even appear on Fox for a long time.
Now, you liberals who are frightened and scared here.
You're gonna have to understand something here.
You made me the leader.
You got what you wanted.
Now stop whining.
You people won.
You people should finally be happy sitting on top of the world.
I want Obama to debate me on the radio.
That's my offer.
It's not a negotiation.
I mean, you ought to lap this up.
You ought to think that Obama could wipe the floor with me.
He's so good.
He's so authentic.
He is the best communicator we've ever had.
I don't know what you libs are afraid of.
And by the way, this is a perfect example of an open public debate without the government mandating it.
You liberals want that kind of debate on radio.
You say you can't get your point of view heard on radio because conservatives dominate.
Look at my magnificence here.
Munificence.
Look at my grace.
I am offering the leader of your party and of this country a chance to get on radio where liberals simply can't seem to make it work.
You liberals want this kind of debate on radio.
You do.
You advocate for the fairness doctrine.
You want a liberal debating me on radio.
You have claimed I'm the leader of the opposition.
I will not lower myself to debate the flunkies.
I have made a public offer to debate the president on these airwaves.
I do so without the government mandating it.
You see how fair I am.
I myself, Rush Limbaugh, the leader, offering the largest radio audience in the country to a Democrat who happens to be the president of the United States.
And this is happening without any legislation on minority ownership rules or local content or even the fairness doctrine.
You see, to my good friends, the liberals, I am a cinging to all of your desires in this.
Everything you want to see happen to radio, I'm offering it here.
On the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Now, Snerdley, look at me.
I've made this very clear.
I don't know how much of this you've heard because you're screening calls.
Well, look at me.
I am not negotiating with panicked liberal callers.
The offer has been made.
It contains Every element of what they think needs to change about radio.
There's already a camera in here, and this program's televised on my website each and every day.
I understand the liberals are concerned.
I understand our good friends are a little panicked over this, but you shouldn't be.
You asked for this, and it's apparently what you didn't want.
You wanted me to be the leader.
Well, here I am.
I lead.
I don't listen to advisors, especially on the left.
Back after this.
Stay with us.
Sadly, ladies and gentlemen, the victims of President Obama's war on capitalism are adding up.
Private sector jobs fell, 697,000 in America in February.
This according to a national employment report published today by the payroll giant ADP.
That's higher than the 630,000 loss forecast in a Dow Jones Newswire survey and would be the largest number of jobs lost in one month during this recession.
The figure for January was revised to show 614,000 victims in President Obama's war on capitalism.
The ADP survey tallies only private sector jobs, while other data include government workers.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 598,000 non-farm jobs lost in January.
All victims in the Obama war on capitalism.
And they are adding up.
All right, audio soundbite time, Robert Gibbs.
This morning, White House press briefing, unidentified reporter.
Now get this quest a butt boy question.
The Republicans are criticizing the White House for engaging in the Rush Limbaugh issue.
You and the president have used the term cable chatter a lot.
You guys have kind of derided decided that you've also said, I mean, I've heard administration officials deride sort of superficial food fight political reporting, but you've repeatedly engaged in the podium with CNBC reporters as well as Rush Limbaugh.
Seems to feed that process that you're criticizing.
It seems actually it's not a butt boy question.
I take it back.
I misread it when I read so hurriedly.
Uh it seems that you guys are a little hypocritical, Mr. Gibbs.
You decry what you are encouraging.
It may be counterproductive.
I'll give you that.
Look, are there days in which I just turned my television off?
Yes.
I wish I had a radio.
I don't maybe I should just hook my iPod up.
Look, there are days in which, yeah, you you you your head throbs from listening to arguments that aren't necessarily centered on delving into some important issue, but finding two people at completely opposite ends of the spectrum to yell loudest in a seven-minute segment before we go on to something else.
Uh what?
What I gathers from that is that Mr. Gibbs doesn't have a radio.
We can do something about that.
We ought to buy Mr. Gibbs a radio and send it up there, again, not using taxpayer money.
I'm sure my Washington affiliate, the giant AM 630 WMAL would be happy to assist me in getting a radio to the uh White House press secretary, perhaps at the next press briefing.
Uh somebody at MAL could arrange for one of the reporters in the press briefing to actually present the radio to um to Robert Gibbs so he would have one.
Uh, by the way, folks, I need to ask a question real quick.
We just did the story here on the victims in the Obama war on capitalism.
Uh private sector jobs fell 697,000.
What we're not being told is how many jobs were saved.
Uh the president, the promise to create or save uh three and a half to four million jobs, but I haven't seen the saved job figures.
Has anybody seen the saved job figures?
I've not seen that report, and I I uh if somebody has that data, uh maybe they're still working on that bureaucracy at the labor department.
I'd I'd like to see the data on uh saved jobs.
The unidentified reporter, by the way, answered Gibbs with this shouldn't the White House lead the Way in elevating the discourse.
I won't kick the cable people out of the briefing room.
I'm certainly opposed to doing something as radical as an idea as that.
Look, it's out there.
We deal with it.
I don't I certainly criticize it, and I even occasionally watch it.
Now they're asking Cable TV when in fact Rom Emanuel and his merry band are targeting with an inside the White House operation, a plumber's operation, targeting me.
An average citizen, a yes, a public figure, but not an elected figure, targeting me and making me the leader of their opposition.
And Gibbs says, eh, I can't kick the cable guys out of here, taking no blame for any of the partisanship that exists within our culture.
All right, back to the phones.
We're going to go to uh Hartford, Connecticut.
This is Ferris.
I'm glad you waited.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Well, we are certainly all Joe the Plumber, but no one more than yourself.
I'm sitting here hammering away at my computer with your noise in the background, trying to make a dollar out of 99 cents, as are many people who are still productively working.
And oh, by the way, I do have the save job figures.
It's a percentage.
It's a hundred and ten percent of all public government sector jobs have been saved.
Just to You know that's it.
I hadn't thought about that, but there aren't any layoffs, and nobody's getting fired in the government.
You're absolutely right.
I hadn't I should have thought of that myself.
All these government jobs are indeed being saved.
Well, we who are about to die salute you.
No moratori Salatamas is what the gladiators used to say, but we say it for a different reason.
And uh I'm sitting here working away and thinking somebody has to express gratitude for for what you've done.
And when I say for what you've done, nobody can understand the the breadth of that uh, comparatively speaking.
Very few people uh would know what it takes to for a man to bring himself to the point you've brought yourself.
And and to to rise to the level to be able to be our the leading voice.
Yes for the for the opposition.
Yes.
Uh that that's coming from the far, far, far left.
And uh I'm sure I speak for all my brothers, including my friend Cameron.
And don't forget sisters.
Well, I think we must forget the sisters because I'm going back to the days before we had women in combat.
And the kind of combat that that we're facing now, uh I have more respect for for the ladies than to ask them to step up and and follow people who who lead like you do.
But they want to, and many of them are.
You can't leave them out of there.
There is I just did, though.
Yeah, I know, but you can't.
I'm I'm I'm begging you.
I'm asking you not to leave the ladies out here.
They they they fully understand what's going on here just as you do.
Look at I really appreciate what you're saying.
I I don't quite know how to respond to it, but I other than to say thank you.
But I I really I know you've thought about it, and I do understand what you mean, and I appreciate it.
Well, I'd like to say thank you very much.
You're welcome.
I um I appreciate it.
I d uh I'd love to expand further, but this isn't really about me.
Thanks very much.
I appreciate it.
Ferris, John in Wilmington, North Carolina.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Good afternoon, Russ.
It's a pleasure to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
Um what I discussed with uh Mr. Snerdley uh when I when I called was that uh the Democrats are giving you um a great opportunity here in the fact that they have so much mainstream view in the media, and um I can cite my wife as an example.
She's probably one of the most outrageous liberals that uh walk face of the earth.
How we're how we get along is strange, but anyway we do.
Um The point being is that now she's actually paying attention to what you say, and for years she used to criticize me for even paying attention to you at all.
So uh I think the Democrats have jumped the shark a bit here because I think they've run out of options and they're afraid of you.
If they weren't afraid of you, they would just totally not even mention you.
Well, here's the thing.
If you read the political story, you find out that all This is being done on the basis of polls.
That they went out.
Greenberg, who was also part of the flunky team of Carville and Bigala, went out and did a poll of Republican uh Republicans.
And they found I had the highest negatives, even though I'm not in politics.
So they said, aha, Limbaugh is the guy.
Now Carville tried to caution Bill Clinton not to do this back in the 90s.
Which is why it's Emmanuel running the show.
This actually goes against James Carville's instincts.
So they're putting me up there.
They're totally focused on polling data.
I don't deal in polls.
I deal in principle.
And they have expanded my reach and given me a bigger shot, changing people's minds.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution, Rush Limbaugh, talent on loan from God.
Despite a sore throat, despite medical advice to stay silent, and his promise that his TV and radio program, hello president would be shorter than the previous ones.
Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez spoke on Sunday for five hours when restarting his weekly program he had suspended on January 11th.
Venezuela's president ordered his governors and mayors to draw the map of the media war to determine which media are owned by oligarchs.
After saying that there are not five million rich people in Venezuela, were it not for the attacks delies the manipulation and exaggeration of the mistakes of the government by the private media.
The popularity of his government would be 80% instead of 60%.
Hugo Chavez has ordered his Rahm Emanuel.
His James Carville, his Paul Bagala, his George Stephanopoulos, to go out and find out who these oligarchs are that own private media outlets that are criticizing his government.
Find out who they are, identify them and target them.
Because his approval rating is only 60 to 70%.
It will be 80% without that.
Now, interestingly, the Obama administration announced the appointment to the B commissioner of the FCC yesterday, Julius.
I don't have the name right in front of me, so I don't want to make a mistake mispronouncing it.
But this man is highly touted as a brilliant manipulator and well, not manipulator, a brilliant master at uh designing and managing all of the new media taking place.
Did a little research on Mr. Julius last night, and it turns out that Mr. Julius is very devoted to localism.
Local content rules.
He's very devoted to the concept of minority ownership.
It sounds very similar to what Jules Gennikowski is his name.
That's a jewel Julius Gennikowski or Jenikowski.
I'm not so hard G or Soft Chi, but nevertheless.
This man's resume sounds like he would fit perfectly with Hugo Chavez in identifying some of this media critical of the government and devising strategeries what to do about it.
Now these are the contrives, there will not be a fairness doctrine, as we have assured you.
They'll go with localism, local content rules, or they will go with um diversity and ownership.
Now some of you might say, well, how would that change any things?
Well, let's say you've got a large owner of radio stations.
Clear channel happens to own what is it, 1,700 radio stations, not all of them are, yeah, somebody they're not all talk.
They have a lot of music stations.
They own uh stations that format, they even have Chinese opera format radio stations.
But somebody like Obama and his new FCC chairman might look at that, that's they're not enough diversity there.
One big company owning that many radio.
No, no, no, no, no, no, we need to break some of that up.
We need minorities owning some of those radio stations.
And CBS, they they have too many.
Citadel, they they've got too many radio stations, and uh, Emis and Cumulus and um they got way too many stations.
We we need to bust up some of these conglomerate guys and open up uh radio to minority ownership.
So you do that, and if a bunch of minorities end up owning a bunch of stations, the minorities of the owner can do what he wants.
You know, I'm getting rid of all the syndicated stuff.
I don't care if I take a bath because I'm being subsidized by the government as a minority owner.
As a minority owner, I don't have the money to buy these stations.
Uh as an American, I don't have the money to buy these stations.
Americans are being wiped out at the moment in Obama's war on capitalism.
So these new minority owners will be subsidized.
So they won't have to worry about removing profitable programming.
And if some of them don't like me, get rid of me, put on Al Sharpton.
Get rid of me, find some local program.
You know how to.
I don't know, whatever.
This is the way they envision it happening.
So that they can then say, well, the market did this.
We had we had nothing to do with this.
The market, that is where they're angling.
And I saw this story about Hugo Chavez ordered his minions to identify media owned by oligarchs, and to get rid of them so his approval rating could get up to 80%, and I just had to smile.
Look at who we are emulating is Hugo Chavez.
All right, people have been waiting patiently.
Oh, before we go to the phones, you've got to hear this.
Because it dovetails it away with the political story today about how Obama's minions, uh, well, his capo de capo de consigliari, uh, Ram Emanuel, uh, and the minions, uh, Paul Bagala,
James Carville, made it a project to elevate me to the leadership of the Republican Party last fall, and then to begin targeting me from the White House using leaks to butt boy media like Politico and columnists.
And it's working like a charm as far as they're concerned.
So this morning on uh Morning Joe, the show hosted by Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski on PMS, NBC.
They talked to Leslie Stahl of CBS 60 Minutes, and here was Mika's question.
I I want to ask you what your takeaway is of this whole Rush Limbaugh thing, and also the White House getting in on the conversation and then engaging TV hosts.
Uh that would be Santelli and Jim Kramer.
Certainly a departure from the White House we've covered in the past that you've covered in the White House.
I mean, I I wonder what you think in terms of your historical perspective, but also tactically.
What we're looking at is a little bit of a cross between Reagan and how that White House operated, the the good Reagan first term, uh, which was successful, and Clinton, because they're taking from Clinton, I think, the war room approach, the suniness aspect of Reagan.
He never really attacked with anger.
And there's a lot of humor in what the White House is doing.
Yes.
It's kind of velvety and molasses, really, then the hard hit, and they're letting the Republicans hit back hard.
We talk about the no-drama, Obama.
I really do think that the watchword there is no anger.
Right.
And Reagan's personality was so appealing for that reason.
All right, so what we have here is White House Velvet and Molasses in their takedowns of Santelli, Rick Santelli CNBC, Jim Kramer at CNBC, and of course he was truly Yellow Rushbow, the new leader anointed by them.
Uh and you know we have it's uh we have sort of a um it's it's like Clinton, like I take from Clinton the war room.
They're not taking from Clinton, it is Clinton's war room.
It's Ram Emanuel, James Carville, and Paul Bagala.
It is the Cl and Stephanopoulos over at ABC.
It is the Clinton war room.
Now, contrast there, I don't remember, by the way, uh her references here to uh to Reagan and uh how the White House operated.
I I distinctly remember both terms of Reagan, he was despised.
The media was as disrespectful of him in press conferences as they were of George W. Bush.
And they thought the same thing of Reagan.
They thought he was a dunce.
They thought he was an idiot, and they were always trying to trip him up.
But he did remain sunny.
He did smile all the while, and I guess that is why Leslie Stahl thinks that he won because he was he was really he was really vicious.
He was vicious and Reagan was mean, but he did it with a smile.
It was the other way around.
But now contrast this not to Reagan but Nixon.
If this were Richard Nixon doing this, that Mika, if you ever get Leslie Stahl back, what you need to do is ask her the same question, but ask her to go back beyond Reagan and ask her how this measures up with Richard Nixon and say his enemies list.
And then ask her what she thinks of going after private citizens like this.
As this is this is a Mika, this is a huge, huge evolution in the drive-by media.
In the 70s, when you had an administration, now admittedly it was already the enemy, it was a Republican administration.
But when you, when that enemy's list was discovered, it was outrage.
And it was part and parcel of the media support for impeachment once the uh Watergate stuff hit.
I mean, it was and there was some jealousy among those not on the list.
But still it was thought to be horrible.
It was rotten.
It was just terrible.
Why this is unbecoming the president.
Well, you is it called it un-American.
It's exactly right.
They called it un-American, or it was not in America's best interest, or whatever.
So what you need to do is get her back on there and ask her to compare what this administration's doing with what Nixon did.
That would be the more interesting answer from Leslie Stahl.
I can't have her on, Mika.
I have to keep this show open for if Obama accepts my offer to debate.
Is this squeeze box?
Yes, Mama got a squeeze box.
It's by the who.
Now, a lot of people squeeze box.
What the hell is it?
Squeeze box a musical instrument.
What do you call those things?
The uh it's an a well, it's no, it's it's not an accident.
You call it a or you can play the bellows, you know, the fireplace bellows and squeeze box too.
It makes a noise if you plug the hole up with some stuff.
So you can call it a squeeze box, uh, but it's it's uh it is an accordion.
Mama's gonna squeeze box.
That's a who.
That's uh from our uh that's from our what the song or the squeeze box.
What genera the bell is a squeeze box?
Oh, well, that goes that that goes that goes back to the days that they want to return us to when there were no uh furnaces uh and air conditioners, and you had to you had to squeeze the bellows to keep the fire going, and it made a noise.
And mom has got the squeeze box, you didn't want to get in the way.
My grandfather told me all about this.
He's born in the late 1800s.
Frank in Old Forge, Pennsylvania, nice to have you with us, sir on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush megadididdles, sir.
You are a national treasure.
You have frustrated the drive-by media so much that they have now become the kamikaze media.
Rush, they're throwing everything at you.
They don't care about the integrity, the credentials.
They're just they're just trying to hit you with anything and everything.
Rush, you, sir, are one of the best entertainers, a radio talk show host extraordinaire.
You are not the elected leader of the free world.
They are annoying you as such.
Uh uh, Russ, I am very happy for your success, and I'm happy that they are so frustrated that they have picked you as the target and not the socialist agenda of Obama, or the fact that I'm a school director here in Pennsylvania.
Obama says he's going to get additional funds for school teachers, rush and Pennsylvania.
The taxpayer could be dead on the side of the road.
They would never laugh a teacher.
There's no problem with funding teachers in Pennsylvania.
The media has to point this out.
It can't be carte blanche, Rush Slimbaugh's no good, Obama bad.
I'm just very happy for you, sir.
Well, thank you very much.
I uh I appreciate I folks, let me be serious about this.
I don't know how to address these compliments other than to say thank you.
I I really I really don't.
I've I've got so many people who are worried about me.
And I hear from them when I get home at night.
And they, are you okay?
How are you bearing up under all this?
Understand they may be using your name, but it's not just you there going after, or we're going to be there for you and so forth.
I I appreciate all that.
I really do.
But you know, when I've talked about work over the course of the years I've hosted this program, and I've talked about how lucky I was to learn at age eight, if not earlier, what I wanted to do.
That's so important, I think, to success is actually finding out what you love.
And then being able to do it, do it the best you can.
That's success.
And so I've been doing this all of my life, and I have, ever since I started hosting talk shows, I have been subject to criticism and attack, and I've got the people call me and say, can't you sue them for what they're saying about?
No, you can't.
It's the territory.
It come it comes with it.
What I try to do is slap it right back at them and have fun with it.
I Frank, folks, I don't want you to worry.
I'm enjoying this.
I I am I'm enjoying, and I'm I'm I was made for this.
I was built for this.
It has taken let me expand on this work business.
Now I admit, if this were happening my first year behind this microphone, I would probably be a little panicked, and I'd be backing off, and I'm sure my broadcast partners would say, maybe you gotta back away here just a little bit a little bit too out front there, blah blah blah.
But I am at a point where destiny has taken me, and the experiences that I've had leading up to it, it prepared me for this.
I'm made for this.
I was built for this.
I'm doing what I was born to do.
And don't worry without my enunciating it, because you know, magicians don't give away the tricks.
But I have now lost focus of who I am and what I do.
And that is my folk.
What, Snerdley is so itching to say something, and you're distracting me.
What?
All right.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Uh Snerdley says, this is different than anything that you have been.
This is the full force of the government coming at you.
This is the full force of the president coming at you.
In the open, wide out in the open, with the media proudly leaking the story of the operation.
Um it's not really the first time.
This is my point.
Don't forget Clinton telling a racist joke about me in front of 1,200 media people in Washington.
Don't forget Bill Clinton tried to blame me for the Oklahoma City bombing.
Don't forget that Clinton tried to get our radio station in St. Louis to button down on me when he called them from Air Force One when he's going in and dedicate some train station or something in St. Louis.
Um and and of course, there have if you watch cable TV, I'm I'm I'm mentioned and attacked and mischaracter all the time.
I'm just to me, it's not that big a step up from what I've been going through.
So I don't, I don't, it's not impacting me the way it is people who are close to me.
They think it's far more serious and I think it's serious, but I think it's a teachable moment.
I think it's a learning opportunity for a lot of it.
This is the Obama government in action.
And also, here's the bottom line.
That CPAC speech, when I accepted that, I said, okay, I'll come and do it.
I did it only because they've asked me for 10 years and I haven't gone.
Okay, okay, I'll do it.
That CPAC speech has had more far-reached deep impact than anybody will ever admit.
That CPAC speech is largely why they're ramping up all this stuff at the White House.
I know that.
The White House is presenting me an opportunity to branch out beyond the confines of my normal format radio, and at least get to the minds and hearts of Americans who normally aren't here.
So to me, it's an opportunity.
I thank all of you for your support and kind.
I really do.
I just don't know what more to say than that, and I feel like I should, so this was the attempt at it.
One other thing I need to add to my explanation prior to the break, and that is I don't watch much television where I'm being criticized.
I get email Oh, Russia talking about you.
I never watch it, folks.
I have a life to live.
And I'm out doing that.
Join myself.
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