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March 6, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 6, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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Hey, folks, and welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
So we'll start at Audio Sunbike number seven, Mr. Broadcast Engineer, when we get back to him.
Great to have you with us, folks.
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The program is all yours.
You can talk about whatever you want to talk about.
One thing about this Twitter business.
We found out that there were four people impersonating me on Twitter.
There was a primary and three pretenders out there.
All four were pretenders.
Grabbed control of those back, and we now control the Rush Limbaugh Twitter account, although I don't Twitter.
I haven't put any tweets out there.
But we did uh we did get control of it.
Now the the co-founder and the CEO of Twitter, a guy named Ev Williams, at the White House today, the uh administration invited him to join a young business leader's summit to discuss the economic crises.
Now, Twitter doesn't make any money.
Twitter is not showing a profit.
They got six million members.
They have had a growth rate of 700%, but they make no money in the U.S. So why is the guy there?
There is a reason.
You've heard about Obama's Internet Army.
They tweet.
Obama's entire operation is based on instant messaging to hundreds of thousands via Twitter to destroy Joe the Plumber, Rick Santelli, Jim Kramer, and their failed attempt to uh to uh destroy me.
Well, now I'm told that uh they've still not shut down.
I'm gonna get confusing, Dana, because my IT people told me we had gained control of the phony Rush Limbaugh on Twitter.
And now my computer geek says no, they still haven't shut them down.
Well, I don't know I think is they said.
You know, these instant messages during the show are a distraction, I'm beginning to think here.
So is email during the show.
I don't know if they're still being used enough.
I will check it out.
But anyway, that's not the point.
I don't care.
For any of you tweet, it ain't me if somebody says they're me tweeting.
I'm not tweeting.
I can't, I don't care.
But the point is, Obama is using tweets.
He uses Twitter.
His army does to destroy with these little one-line character assassination thoughts to go to these millions of people who use this.
And that's where the Democrats are way ahead of the uh Republicans on uh on all of this.
Now it's open line Friday.
I said a couple things here.
Uh I said I'm coming down with something.
I have been using Zycam for two days.
I don't whatever I'm coming now with, if anything, is not a cold.
It's something different.
Don't know what it is.
I don't, I don't, it could be just fatigue.
As I have mentioned uh previously in the busy broadcast today, I am fighting fatigue.
Uh but but Brian brought in about Zycam.
I'm what should I demonstrate Zycam?
I don't know.
If I see if if if I demonstrate it, guess what will show up on all the cable networks?
I'm not gonna demonstrate it, but if you think you're coming down with a call, the first sign, it works.
Just it's a Q tip with uh a zinc gel, a clear gel.
You swab the inside of both nostrils, you hold both nostrils for five or six seconds.
Do it every four hours, and it will retard uh your cold.
And if you get it early enough, it actually could stop it.
It has in my case a uh a number of times.
And the the great great thing about Zycam, Z-I-C-A-M, is it works.
I mean the best sales thing you can say about it is it works.
It's available at every drugstore in Walmart, Sam's Club, it's all over the place out there.
Well, that's a good thing.
I will demonstrate how easy it is to open because they've in the past I've had people say they'll like as I can, but it's tough to open.
Uh and it was, but now they've got they've got a new tube here that just snaps open like this.
Just snap it right there, pull it out, and voila.
And then after you swab your nose with that and you put it back in here, soak it again, the other nostril just pops right open, works like a charm.
Snurdly, if you will indulge me, is in a mild state of depression over the fact that the Dallas Cowboys have cut Terrell Owens, number 81 wide receiver, 35 years old, said to be a first ballot hall of famer when his time comes, five years after he retires.
During the break of the top of the hour, Snerdley was saying, Who in the hell's going to pick the guy up?
He's getting older.
He's probably going to have to take a pay cut.
He said, You think Singletary, the new coach of the Forturners, would pick up Terrace.
I don't know.
He's been he's been to San Francisco.
I don't think he looks at San Francisco's guy having a quarterback that can throw to him.
And plus Singletary has made it clear they're going to go for a smash mouth offensive ground game.
Uh not not so much emphasized pass, which is not what T. All wants to play.
He doesn't want to play in that kind of an offense.
But then again, they did bring Kurt Warner out there trying to sign him, which would make it appeal because Warner runs the West Coast offense, which is uh short mediate range passes with a lot of guards have to catch.
So Singletary kind of sent mixed signals, ground game, and then you try to sign Warner, but Warner went back to the uh Super Bowl losing Arizona Cardinals.
Now, I have a different take.
Everybody in the sports drive-by media is saying there's no way.
This guy's burned his bridges.
He's gonna have to take a low number contract and make his money with all kinds of incentives.
Because he's just a bad actor.
He's destroyed teams, chemistry everywhere he's gone.
San Francisco, Philadelphia, and now Dallas.
And I have a different take on this, as I usually do from the conventional wisdom, either in the sports drive-by media or the news drive-by media.
But we are in the midst of an economic catastrophe.
And it's getting worse because of the policies of President Obama.
In normal times, sports is a distraction.
It's an escape from the humdrum of your everyday life.
Sports is uh you can dream about it.
You go to the ballpark, you watch it on TV, and you you forget about your trials and your tribulations and your travails.
You forget about your failures, the president's failures, you forget about all of these things.
Because sports has always been that.
In many cities, the professional sports franchisees, uh franchises, if they have a championship, can actually elevate a city's self-esteem, depending on the size of the city.
I think, given that, I actually think I think TO is uh potentially sitting on one more big contract gold mine here.
Owners in the National Football League, just like any other owner of any other business, are facing challenges.
Their tickets are not cheap.
They're having trouble selling out all their luxury boxes at these new stadiums, the Jets and the Giants.
Uh personal seat license.
It's going to cost a lot more to go to a football game next season than it did this.
And look at all the unemployed.
Look at all of the people who are losing their jobs.
Where are these tickets going to be sold?
Who's going to buy them?
If you if you put a genuine whacked-out soap opera character on your team.
All right, forget whacked out.
But if you put a soap, you make your team soap opera, maybe even two, but if you if you can, if you can turn your team, your franchise into a something that people will not ignore, uh, then people might be more prone to pay to see your circus every Sunday afternoon in the National Football League and on television.
Now, this is a crapshoot because we see that having T.O. as your ringmaster eventually causes you to lose.
Uh Philadelphia, Dallas, And what Snerdley, let me tell you something.
I hate to tell you this, but you cowboys fans down in Dallas, you understand this.
Next season, when Tony Romo back uh drops back to pass, he's gonna be the most liberated quarterback in the NFL.
He's not gonna have running through his mind, oh God, I better throw it to 81 or I'm gonna have hell to pay at halftime, hell to pay all next week.
He's not gonna be concerned about that.
And that is psychologically, mentally, that's that's that's a big thing.
There's, you know, Randy Moss was a s was a sort of TO.
Yeah, he wasn't as disruptive.
He just took some plays off now and then.
If he wasn't happy, he leave the field earlier, what have you.
Now, one guy in the National Football League, two people, two people brought Randy Moss back.
That would be Bill Belichick.
Well, three.
Bob Kraft, you gotta include Robert Kraft in here, the owner of the Patriots, but Tom Brady and Bill Belichick brought Randy Mass Randy Moss back.
I'll never forget after uh two seasons ago, first couple games, the Patriots are just lighting it up.
This is in their 16-0 season or 17 of one season or whatever it was, and they're just they're just lighting it up.
Randy Moss is just having a career year.
And there's Brady in the post-game press conference talking about how it great it is to have Randy Moss there.
What a leader.
What a difference he has made in the Patriots locker room.
And I said, there is a politician, Tom Brady.
Is this holding your interest on?
Now, I it'll never happen, but can you imagine Randy Moss split wide on one side, Terrell Owens in the slot on the other side with Tom Brady throwing to him and Bill Belichick in charge that will never happen because of Cap Room and a number of things.
They get the Patriots I don't I don't think it'll ever happen.
But I do think I I think I think Terrell Owens has a chance.
There's always, you're always gonna have some wacko owners in the NFL, and they're gonna have to do something to sell tickets in this down economic time.
Why not bring in a circus act?
Why you know he's a great player when he wants to play.
He's a great player when he runs.
He's not that great a root runner, Mr. Snerdley.
If he's not motivated, if he doesn't care if he's getting all bent out of shape because he's not getting the ball, he runs half-assed roots.
You got to run precise, good roots if you're gonna juke people.
You've got to fake them out.
I but but look, he's got a chance here, Snurley.
You just you you you should relax on this.
Uh his agent Drew Rosenhaus says, Oh, yeah, we'll find a spot for TO.
I have no idea where it would be, but uh there they're gonna be some teams that are gonna value making some money this year more than they do winning.
Uh because it's gonna be that b, it's bad for it's a that bad for everybody.
Create the buzz.
You know, may even give him a bonus for every time there's a controversy in the clubhouse.
Who knows?
Make sure that the team is in the news each and every day because of Terrell Owen.
Maybe another fake overdose, accidental overdose, did any number of things here that some owner could do.
I can't wait till the sports drive by to hear this and comment on it.
Half of the fun of I have the perfect place.
Mr. Snerdley for Terrell Owens.
On the theory, yes, bring in a circus act.
Terrell Owens will sign with the Oakland Rays.
The quarterback will be Michael Vick.
Michael Vick throwing to Terrell Owens.
Owens back in the Bay Area, but not in San Francisco.
He can go there anytime.
It's close enough.
Michael Vick throwing to Terrell Owens at the Oakland Raiders.
Make book.
This is mildly funny.
Mrs. Clinton a gaff presenting a gift to the Russians today.
She's over there in Brussels.
And uh she's uh she uh gave the Russian foreign minister a red button that was supposed to read reset in Russian.
Uh they they wanted they they wanted to reset our relations.
They gave a red button.
When I first saw this, it was my gosh, red button is what you launch the nukes with.
They were scared of Reagan.
Here's Hillary giving the Russians a red button to launch nukes, but no, it's a red button that was sp it was supposed to read reset in Russian, but they got the word wrong.
They didn't translate it right.
Here's how it sounded.
I wanted to uh present you, which represents what President Obama and Vice President Biden and I have been saying.
That is we want to reset our relationship.
And so we will do it together.
Thank you very much.
We worked hard to get the right Russian word.
Do you think we got it?
You get this wrong.
I got it wrong.
It should be Bedazuska.
And this says uh, which means over charge.
Well, we won't let you do that to us.
I promise.
Okay.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, sir.
Damn shudders that too many, too many cameras in there.
Were you able to hear what what Okay?
Okay, what happened was Hillary goes in there and says, uh, we want to reset our relationship, so we'll do it together.
She laughs, that nervous cackle.
Lavrov says, Thank you very much.
Hillary says, You're very welcome.
We worked hard to get the right Russian word.
Do you think we got it?
Lavrov says, You got it wrong.
Hillary said, I got it wrong.
And Lavrov said it should be Ted Zagoruska.
And Hillary goes, Oh.
And Lavrov said, your sign.
This says Tedruska, which means overcharge.
And Hillary with the witch cackle.
Ha ha ha ha.
Well, we won't let you do that to us, I promise.
Lavrov says, okay, thank you very much.
Hillary, thank you so much.
Uh Lavrov says it'll be on my desk.
They gave the red button that meant to say reset, and it said overcharge.
You know those 25 DVDs that the president gave the Prime Minister of the UK, Gordon Brown.
I wonder if he thought to make those region too.
DVDs.
And I wonder what those 25 are.
What do you think Michelle and Barack Obama's favorite 25 American movies are?
Don't say it.
I'm just this is the think piece.
I'm I'm just wondering what those 25 great American classics are.
Well, no, these are movies, not sermons from Reverend Wright.
These are the these are Hollywood movies.
I'm just saying, what would be the top 25 as chosen by Michelle my Bell Obama and um President Barack Obama.
I guess it's a think piece.
I don't want you to go out there and give me any ideas.
Bruce in Ventura, California.
Hi, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I go back to the days of Sacramento, so uh it's a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you very much, sir.
I haven't heard uh a whole lot of people talking about since uh the Great Society.
We've spent trillions of dollars trying to level the playing field.
The rich have gotten richer, the poor have gotten uh more numerous and poorer, and we're trying to do the same thing all over again.
Uh rich people get rich because they don't roll over and play dead for the government.
They're smarter than the government.
Yeah.
The actual number that we've transferred, 11 trillion dollars for the the the war on poverty is the longest war in American history.
Uh you may not have heard too many people talk about this.
I mentioned in my uh in my great CPAC speech on Saturday and uh again earlier this week, but uh War on Poverty actually started its roots in the 30s, it's a 60, 65.
Uh Lyndon Johnson actually gave it a name.
The longest war in American history, it cannot be won.
We lose it each and every day.
Eleven trillion dollars since the 60s has been transferred from the call, the producer and redistributed from the producers to the non-producers.
In fact, there's a there's a great picture out there.
Michelle my Bell Obama, once again sleeveless.
Was it Time magazine or newsweek did a story this week, maybe the New York Times, on how you too can have highly toned arms like Michelle Obama.
After the uh State of the Union show, a bunch of stories now you too can have highly toned arms and get rid of the whatever they call these flab things under there.
Wings, whatever.
Uh there's a picture of Michelle Obama at a homeless shelter in Washington.
She's on the other side of the glass, we know where the server would be serving McNuggets at McDonald's, and she's serving food to the homeless and the homeless and the poor are showing up taking pictures of her with their cell phones.
Yeah, I've just saw the picture.
We'll put it at Rush Limbaugh.com.
This is the poor the war on poverty.
We are back, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
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All right.
Thanks for reminding me on this.
I have been meaning all week to share with you something that Michael Ladine posted at his pajamas log, a blog called Faster Please.
Michael Ledeen is a genuinely brilliant conservative, and he doesn't go in for dividing the movement.
And he's uh used to write a lot at National Review Online, now has his own blog.
And he's been reading De Tocqueville, Alexis de Tocqueville, who came to the United States in our early years, is trying to figure out what made us work.
And he did.
And in the process, he prophesied, prophesied, what would be our downfall.
How would a nation this great actually cease to be?
And Ledeen posted it's a long, long story, but my buddy Andy McCarthy at National Review Online has chosen an excerpt for his post, and I wanted to share this with you.
The tyranny that Alexis de Tocqueville foresees for us in America does not have much in common with the vicious dictatorships of the last century or with contemporary North Korea, Iran, or Saudi Arabia.
De Tocqueville apologizes for lapping uh lacking the proper words with which to define it.
He hesitates to call it either tyranny or despotism, because it does not rule by terror or oppression.
There are no secret police, there are no concentration camps, there's no gulags, there's no torture.
The nature of despotic power in democratic ages is not to be fierce or cruel, but rather minute and meddling.
The vision and even the language anticipate Orwell's 1984 or Huxley's Brave New World.
De Tocqueville describes the new tyranny as an immense and tutelary power.
And its task is to watch over us all and regulate every aspect of our lives.
It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate to rise above the crowd.
We will not be bludgeoned into submission, we will be seduced.
He foresees the collapse, de Tocqueville does, of American democracy as the end result of two parallel development that ultimately render us meekly subservient to an enlarged bureaucratic power.
One is the corruption of our character and the emergence of a vast welfare state that manages all the details of our lives.
And that uh that is what De Tocqueville envisioned for the eventual end of America, that we'd basically give ourselves away.
That we would allow ourselves to be seduced by promises of uh eternal prosperity, fairness, equality, and in the process, there's so many regulations and such a blanket of restrictions on people that not even the smartest can penetrate it.
Not even the best and brightest can penetrate and stand out.
So to make this happen, we have to get rid of our character, and we need a vast welfare state that manages all the details of our lives.
I must say that I have been among The most prescient in suggesting that the real motivation for Obama's economic policy, and there are policies, destroy the market, create massive unemployment, return the wealth of the nation to its rightful owners.
We don't have enough wealth to make everybody millionaires.
We don't have enough wealth to make everybody earn two hundred and fifty grand a year in perpetuity.
What we have, ladies and gentlemen, is a giant welfare state that's in the process of being manufactured.
That the Democrat Party will preside over forever.
Because everybody or enough people are gonna need the goodwill of Democrats in power in order to get by.
Like you're gonna have to see the first lady behind the counter at McDonald's when you go in there as your poverty stricken day, grog drags on to take a picture of her with your cell phone while you go in there and get your McNuggets.
Or whatever's being handed out that day.
Wayne in the Central Valley of uh California.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Hey.
Glad to uh be here, and I hope that uh this don't hurt you too bad, but I think that uh you should take Terrell Owens to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
He taught them how to throw flags, and they are the ones that run the field with 14 men on an offense and defense.
Oh no, yeah.
Give me this.
What do you mean it started the beginning here?
Terrell Owens taught him to throw flags.
What does that mean?
Right.
He fight every time he gets bumped, he throws his arm like he needs a flag and he gets it.
That's what the Pittsburgh Steelers did.
How about the worst officiated game in in the football history at the Super Bowl?
Which one?
This last one.
This last one?
Yeah.
And I thought you'd say the Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl against the Steelers.
Well, you know How could they get a touchdown when they were balking and holding for the whole time that they had that man run down the sideline and got a touchdown for it?
There wasn't any holding on that play.
That what makes that play so remarkable.
Oh, remarkable.
That guy that ran that ball back, James Harrison, number 92.
This guy got indigenous.
Wait a minute.
The conservative movement wants civility.
Will you calm down?
We're gonna have a conversation.
One of us has to listen when one speaks.
Okay, Rush.
Uh James Harris, a number 92 defensive in for the Steelers.
In fact, the the Steelers defense did not have an offensive holding call called against it in six consecutive games toward the end of the season.
This flag business, it all it all evens out.
I mean, for crying out loud, the the the um officiating's what it is.
Steelers don't get any breaks, and we certainly don't want Terrell Owens.
I mean the Steelers, that's the last place.
No, that the U send I gotta say something.
I mean, I've I've had an interesting week.
And of all the things that have wounded me more to the heart, you have to call here on Friday and insult my Steelers and and impugn their Super Bowl victory.
I mean, I can take all the rest of this stuff, but you're breaking my heart here.
Well, well, Rush, you know how that is.
I I you know, I'm just one of those that is a very avid football fan.
I played football against Mr. Butkus in my high school years, so I know what football is, and it hurts.
What hurt you mean playing hurts or what what you're seeing now?
Oh, I know it hurts.
Football make you puke.
Yeah.
I mean, the average the average citizen.
I was truly upset with you know the officiating of that game.
It was in the world.
You know it's and even the commentators made the comment at the end of the game or towards the end of the game.
Who commentators?
The commentators who were on the TV, uh, I can't remember their names right off the top, but Al Michaels and John Madden.
Yeah, in regards to one of the worst officiated games they had ever seen.
You lie in regards to the number of people.
I talked I talked to Al Michaels after that game.
Al Michaels never said that to me.
Oh, well, they you know there were more with that many calls against the Cardinals compared to what there was against Pittsburgh.
Yeah, but look at when the Pittsburgh calls started going against them in the fourth quarter, the Steelers had more flags thrown against them in the fourth quarter was that was I can I can't believe that you're seeing you played the game, and you just if the Steelers could have made the the claim that the refs were ganging up against them at the end of the game.
These things all even out.
And a better team won.
That's all that matters.
Well, that's opinions.
No.
But you know something, Wayne.
You're right about it.
The average citizen would not, especially on the offensive line, would not last one play without going to hospital.
People do not know how brutal that game is.
You do.
Yes.
Hey, Rush, I did this for one big reason.
I'm tired of talking about our uh man in the white tent that comes out of the White House that gives us our uh uh lectures and stay on a daily basis.
I understand that.
That's why we have open line Friday.
That's why people can call and talk about whatever they want.
But I would say this to you, Wayne.
Yeah.
The Super Bowl was over a month ago.
It's time to get over it.
Oh, I got over it.
I just figured you got over it.
You're calling here a month later to complain about it.
I don't complain about it.
I just have fun with it, Rush.
All right, that's good.
Well, I had f I had fun with your call too, Wayne.
Thanks much.
All right, thank you, Rush.
But that's Wayne from the Central Valley, California, where there is uh 15% unemployment and a uh water rationing drought emergency.
Oh, yeah, it's bad.
California, the other statewide unemployment.
There's 10%, 10.1% in certain parts of the state.
Unemployment's 15.9.
Agriculture's being really hard hit in um in uh California.
I gotta take a break, though, an EIB obscene profit timeout.
We'll be right back after this.
Okay, folks.
Uh this is really funny.
CNN on the case.
Yesterday afternoon of the plummeting stock market.
For all of you millions of Americans losing everything.
CNN asks, will this hurt Obama?
Rick Sanchez speaking to Wolf Blitzer.
This is breaking news.
The market's down down.
Wolf Blitzer joining us as well.
Wolf.
How big a risk might this be for the president of the United States seeing these markets decline day after day?
It's uh really disappointing, I'm sure, for folks over at the White House.
We may be hearing from the president address this issue.
He's gonna be speaking shortly.
Remember, yesterday and Marcus were down, what, 200 or so when he finished the uh maybe even more when he finished the uh health care summit.
So big crisis markets plummeting.
Rick Sanchez asks the expert Wolf Blitzer, what's a White House thing?
Oh, they can't like this.
Wolf, they love it.
And we probably will expect the president to address this.
He's gonna address this when he comes out of the health care summit.
Here's what Obama said.
I've gotten a readout from some of the breakout groups and breakout sessions.
Uh and I just want to summarize a few things that uh my staff thought were notable uh and that I thought were notable and are worth mentioning before I start taking some questions or some comments.
Senator White House uh said this isn't a Harry and Louise moment, it's a Thelma and Louise moment.
We're in the car headed towards a cliff, and we must act.
Now, I just want to be clear if you actually saw the movie, they did drive over the cliff.
So um just want to be clear.
That's not our intention here.
Wolf, he didn't mention the Wall Street plunge yesterday.
This is about his health care summit.
They did this dog and pony show again with healthcare summit, then they had their breakout groups, and the breakout groups reported back to the professor.
And some senator named White House said this isn't a Harry and Louise moment, it's a Thelma and Louise moment.
This is all gobbledygook.
All of this is designed to make you think he cares about your health care while not talking about it.
Approval numbers go up.
I don't know, Rick.
I don't know.
This market's going down.
They surely can't be happy about this.
Some of the White House says, Wolf.
I'm sure that we may be hearing from the president address this issue.
He's gonna be speaking shortly, didn't say a word about it, and where the hell are we now?
We're down eighty.
No.
We're down ninety-five.
There's a plunge going on here at the end of the day.
And I'll bet if we turn over to CNN, they'll say that the White House is nervous about this, really doesn't like it.
The President will probably address this later this afternoon.
The last time the president addressed this, he urged everybody to buy.
They had long term intentions, the profit to earnings ratio is their ideal now.
Get in there.
But don't get out.
Get in there and stay in there.
And bam.
This is what they want.
There are ways to stop this.
Uh Luann, Larkspur, California.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rocky Mountain High Ditto's Rush.
Thank you.
From the Pink State of Colorado.
Larksburg, Colorado.
I'm sorry.
I've heard of Larks Larksburg, California, but I didn't know there was a Larksburg, Colorado.
Where is it?
It's in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
Well, the foothills.
Great.
It's great to have you here.
Well, I wanted to call and complain about the press secretary Robert Gibbs, who is the worst press press secretary I have ever witnessed.
Wait a minute.
This guy's a lawyer.
He's a MBA.
He's got a director, he's got a doctorate in neurosurgery.
He's got his veterinarian's degree.
This guy's got a landscaping degree from Auburn.
This guy has got a degree in food marketing and packaging from the University of Colorado at Aurora.
What do you mean this guy is the worst you've ever seen?
Well, then his material is bad, which is certainly a possibility.
Well, what do you what is he you don't like about Robert Gibbs?
Well, he just can't answer questions.
He can't uh do it properly, and I really think that B.O. needs to replace him with Al Allison Janney.
Who's the actress that played CJ Craig?
He's actually perfect.
He's a propagandist.
He's not supposed to answer questions.
He is supposed to advance the agenda.
It's like I'm gonna be able to find this in time to play it.
Well, maybe I could.
Yeah.
Uh let's see.
Eight and nine.
Grab audio.
Luann, listen to this.
Grab sound bites eight and nine ten.
Here's number eight, real fast.
This is Obama yesterday afternoon at the White House at the health care summit.
The cost of health care now causes a bankruptcy in America every 30 seconds.
It's not true.
It's a totally made-up number.
Fox did a check.
They can find no evidence.
They went to Christina Roomer, who chairs Obama's Council of Economic Advisors.
Greg Jarrett says there's no evidence.
Where are you getting this information?
I think I we're not going to talk about particular statistics.
We know that rising health care costs are bankrupting the government.
They're causing trouble for American families, and they're causing trouble for American businesses.
And whether it's every six seconds or every 20 seconds, the crucial thing is it is just a fundamental problem.
Well, I'm just wondering.
Well, I'm just wondering why would he say something?
The facts don't matter.
She went on to say this.
I'm gonna have to check the numbers for you.
I think the important thing is the idea is absolutely true.
We know that fundamentally the problem in this country is that health care costs are rising, and that's the thing that ultimately is gonna cause the deficit to get so huge.
The deficit is huge.
She says, okay, if there aren't if there aren't personal bankruptcies every 30 seconds, then it's certainly bankrupting the government.
So the facts don't matter.
It's what he says, folks, and how he says it.
I've got a break back after this.
I want to thank all of you for a fabulous week of broadcast excellence.
I want to thank all of you who have sent such wonderful uh emails, notes of uh congratulation and encouragement after the CPAC speech last Saturday.
The media's still not through exploring all of this.
Uh MSNBC is still devoting most of their broadcast time to the subject of me and the Republican leadership and all that.
In the meantime, let them have at it.
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