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March 18, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 18, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So Snerdley walks into my uh my my palatial broadcast studio this morning and says, Tell how long is this AIG stuff gonna go on?
I said, as long as they need it to go on to distract us from all the other things they're doing.
And also, and the big point about this AIG business, as I mentioned to you people yesterday, the big point here is to poison as many minds in this country as possible to capitalism and to corporate America.
This is exactly the kind of thing Barack Obama and his team love.
Everybody hating corporate America, hating Wall Street, hating CEOs, hating executives.
Over 165 million dollars.
Do you people realize?
Uh let me get the uh here.
This is from an AP story today.
The uh Merrill Lynch, Merrill Lynch paid 3.6 billion dollars in bonuses to its executives while it sailed a Bank of America corporation, was pending B of A, also a big recipient of bailout money.
Greetings, folks, great to have you here.
L Rushbow behind the uh golden EIV microphone, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
So everybody, oh, Geitner is a dead man.
Geitner's finish maybe it's all a distraction.
But let's listen to Jonathan Alter.
You know, I I the conventional wisdom in Washington, the wizards of smart, the elitists, the Ivy Leaguers, be they in government or media, are brain-dead idiots.
Here is Jonathan Alter, who basically takes dictation from Ram Emanuel.
Alder's uh, he's got Chicago roots.
And Jonathan, I'm sorry, I know I've met you a couple times, uh, but you're just you're just a stenographer, my friend.
Uh it is more and more obvious to those of us who study the behavioral practices of the drive-by media on a daily basis.
Jonathan Alter, January 13th, was on MSNBC.
The question he got, is this another Zoe Baird situation?
Is Geitner not paying his taxes?
Is this another Zoe Baird situation?
Somebody, somebody just gonna be tossed out, or uh do they seem to have been honest mistakes?
And and and maybe more importantly, is there is there sort of a bipartisan feeling that this guy Geitner is just too valuable to even let ordinary rules apply to him.
It would really be a shame if something like this sunk the nomination.
We are in very serious times.
They're quite different than 1993 when Zoe Baird's nomination was sunk for attorney general over this kind of nanny problem.
Geitner is by all accounts the only person in Washington who fully understands TARP.
Uh-oh.
700 billion dollars.
We cannot afford at this point unless there's gross malfeasance to take him out of the picture.
There you have it, and that was the conventional wisdom.
He's the only guy.
Geithner is the only guy that understands TARP.
Geitner's the only guy that can fix this.
Geitner knew about the bonuses, despite what they're saying.
Geithner was involved in the first bailout of AIG.
Geitner is, and he's in co all these eggheads are incompetent.
They're just, they're not up to the job of running the private sector.
But what they're doing for I look at this is all a giant distraction.
And as I I just want to say again, this is, and it's working too.
It is, it is designed to get as many Americans as possible with pitchforks storming the gates of American corporations and CEOs.
This, this is this is a godsend for the Obama administration.
I know your reading where, oh, this backlash, Obama risking a backlash.
Hey, he's not even been president 60 days yet, folks.
He's not going anywhere.
And there's nothing Republicans can do to stop him.
But Rush, but Rush, there are stories about how the Democrats are upset at what he's doing.
Maybe they are.
But uh, but but he's he's he's moving ahead at lightning speed while everybody's talking about AIG.
Obama's already on to other things.
I'm gonna give you a little rundown of some of these things as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears.
So $3.6 billion in bonuses to Merrill Lynch, and nobody, nobody's a word, nobody said a word.
Because the the cut the captains of outrage did not manufacture it at the time.
This whole thing is a manufactured bunch of BS.
Yep.
Call I know it's uh I I called it yesterday about them knowing, and now everybody, by the way, Chris Dodd saying, hey, I did not put that in there.
I I didn't, I didn't exempt these bonuses.
Somebody else didn't, and he's dumping on Geithner.
Well, the I don't care who put it in and who didn't.
The fact is nobody knew it was there.
Because nobody read this.
This was in the stimulus bill.
Only after the fact did they discover that it's in there.
But now everybody, all these Democrats are passing the buck.
And we've got Barney Frank and Chris Dodd saying they now want to run AIG.
And we have clear evidence.
These clowns are the ones that got us into this mess in the first place.
They don't know how to run any of these things.
Government's not supposed to do this.
This is bad, folks.
This is uh we can sit here and laugh about it.
Uh but but it's but it's bad.
I ran into a guy.
This is this is what this was sad to me, and it made me a little mad.
Uh I ran into a guy, strong conservative, just whining and moaning about these bonuses.
And I said to him, I don't care about the bonuses.
What are you mad about the bonuses for?
Why aren't you mad about the mortgage bailout 75 billion?
Why aren't you mad about cap and trade, which may end up costing two trillion that we are told today?
Why aren't you mad about all these other bailouts that are going on?
What's happened here is that Obama and the media have successfully distracted people and channeled their outrage away from his outrageous expansionist pro uh uh uh uh ideas and on to corporate fat cats.
He's got everybody revved up.
Everybody, I mean, there were I saw a picture of uh people, average ordinary Americans lined up outside the hearing room today, where Barney Frank's committee is uh looking into this, uh investigating these bonuses, figuring out what to do.
Maybe he uh tax these people.
Barney Frank wants names now.
Your congressman wants names of the people who received the bonus.
It was in the law that they get the bonuses.
And there's average American.
Well, I wait a minute now.
Those could have been Obama robots, come to think of it.
He's got this well, it could have been.
He's got these giant community groups out there like Acorn, Code Pink, and others, which would probably storm it.
That's you know, we don't really know how much national outrage there is over this.
We just assume that there's a lot of it.
I'm gonna accept the fact that there is, because it just, you know, it it it fits the bill.
But with the the my problem here is that people keep keep saying these things are distractions.
They're way more than that.
Uh these things are not just distracting people, they are rechanneling.
These things are rechanneling people's rage to things that don't or shouldn't matter.
And while all that's happening, Obama gets to march on uh and keep doing what he's doing with impunity.
Not not because they're distracted, but because they're mad about the wrong things.
So let me give you this is a uh what is this uh AP Obama?
AP Obama story by Adam Geller, taxpayers vent against AIG bonuses.
And if you read far enough, you'll find this.
This is a quote from George Iub of Toronto, Canada, who is an American who was visiting Los Angeles when the drive-by media caught up to him.
Here's his quote.
We have created this mess.
Everyone's responsible for allowing executives to receive these bonuses.
Probably every company needs to be nationalized, and the government will own the corporations instead of the corporations owning the government.
That's the point.
That is what the objective here is.
Take this AIG business, which they knew about, they knew about the bonuses, rechannel everybody's anger to corporate America and CEOs away from government.
Once again, the people, the architects of this, get to sit around as uh as though they were innocent bystanders and Spectators who are now the white knights being called in to save the day.
Obama, by the way, the teleprompter really uh teleprompter pulled a mean trick on our president last night at the White House during the uh St. Patrick.
Did you hear about this?
I just I can't believe that this uh this uh the the embarrassed the president it was such an embarrassment.
The teleprompter embarrassed the president so much that the drive-by media has not released the video of what happened.
We know what happened, we'll pass it on.
Plus, in Missouri, my home state, the police, the state police, have been issued warnings.
A new document.
Wait till you hear this.
In Missouri, a new document meant to help Missouri law enforcement agencies identify militia members or domestic terrorists has drawn criticism.
The February 20 report called the Modern Militia Movement mentions such red flags as political bumper stickers for third-party candidates such as Ron Paul who ran for president, talk of conspiracy theories such as the plan for a superhighway linking Canada to Mexico, and possession of subversive literature.
So the state police of Missouri have been told that if you see a car with a bumper sticker that opposes the so-called creation of North American Union, the Silver Superhighway, that you are probably following a militia member, that you are following an anti-government radical, and you need to take precautions.
If you cease, I'm not making this up, it's right here in the AP.
If you see, if you see a car with a bumper sticker that says Ron Paul for president, you might be dealing with a violent radical exercise extreme caution.
I am not making it up.
This is the associated press.
There are no byline on this.
Said Roger Webb, the president of the University of Missouri campus libertarians.
There are a lot of third parties out there.
None of them express any violence.
In fact, if you join a Libertarian Party, which is Ron Paul's party, one of the things you signed in your membership application is you don't support violence as a as a means to any end.
The Lieutenant John Holtz of the Missouri State Highway Patrol said the report comes from publicly available trend data on militias.
It was compiled by the Missouri Information Analysis Center, a fusion center in Jefferson City that combines resources from the Federal Department of Homeland Security and other agencies.
It's just an educational thing, said the captain.
Troopers have been shot by members of groups, so it's our job to let law enforcement officers know what the trends are in the modern militia movement.
Third-party bumper stickers indicate a militia member, man prone to violence, be extremely cautious when following such a car.
In the state of Missouri.
Now let's also, let's not forget something that happened in Missouri during the campaign.
Remember there was a lawyer there and maybe a couple lawyers who announced that they were going to prosecute anybody who criticized Obama.
Remember that?
And Obama's got this now mad marching army out there that he's mobilizing to pass his budget bill, the omnibus budget bill, some of the other things.
All this kind of stuff.
Advancing cap and trade, $2 trillion more.
There's a story here today that really now to fix the banks may take another $750 billion.
All this happening under the radar and everybody focusing on this goon Geithner who is just a nerd.
He's a total dweeb.
Everybody in the White House in over their heads in this respect.
They're in over their heads in fixing this.
They are perfect to destroy this.
They are perfect, perfectly timed, perfectly programmed, perfectly educated to destroy capitalism, and that's their expertise, and they're in the process of doing it.
And while they're doing it, they're making you think it's a good thing because you now hate the CEOs and you hate the executives and you hate these bonuses.
While all this other rigmarole is going on, that is really damaging.
Quick timeout.
Much more straight ahead after this on the EIB network.
As I am wont to do, I checked the email during this uh first obscene profit timeout.
A lot of people.
Rush, rush, come on.
What do you mean?
What is all this anger at AIG and corporations?
What about all the tea parties out there angry at Obama?
Oh, I know the tea parties are out there and they're swelling and they're growing.
That's my point.
The objective is to get you people at the Tea Parties having tea parties against AIG and against corporations and against capitalism.
Now, while you people are out at the tea parties, and God bless you.
Understand that there are a whole lot of other people who are being worked into a frenzy.
You know how easy it is to gin up this kind of ad this this mob mentality.
You know how easy it is, especially in a recession.
And it's uh it's it's it's working.
They're trying to distract from a lot of things, such as this.
The Rasmussen poll is out.
Uh uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh Rasmussen poll is uh is out, and it has some chilling news for Barack Obama.
He's been president for only two months roughly, and already the words hope and change are the prayer of Republicans.
They're tied to generic ballot, Congressional Generic Ballot 42 to 42.
42 to 42 in the midst of all this.
By the way, this is hilarious, too.
CBS News last night with the perky dangling Katie Curick.
CBS News and on their website published a poll.
They went on, took a poll, and it was an approval rating poll.
And they published my approval rating at 19% versus Obama's at 56 or 57%.
They just continue with this.
It just shows that Limbaugh and the Republicans are not popular at all.
Limbaugh's hated by everyone.
Limbaugh's the most unpopular, blah, blah, blah.
But if you look closely, you find that Nancy Pelosi's at 18%.
I am more popular than the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives.
But that generic ballot, 4242, I guarantee you it uh it bothers them.
And that's why Obama's taking the offensive, urging passage of his $3.6 trillion budget.
Uh, you know, this is uh this AIG distraction is is is it's a major thing, and it's gonna go on as long as it works.
They're gonna keep it up as long as it takes.
Uh everybody's talking about getting these bonuses back.
Get this though, Mr. Snerdley.
Charlie Wrangle is opposed to using the tax code to get the bonus money back.
He says, I don't think the tax code should be used to target people.
Really?
We got to give him a couple kudos because, but he doesn't like this use of, and it may be illegal for the federal government, unconstitutional to target private citizens like this with legislation.
This is uh it's it's it is uh it is it's unconstitutional.
Well, I know it's Democrat blasphemy, but let me let me tell you why Wrangell said it.
See, everybody thinks Charlie is the chairman of Ways and Means Committee.
Well, uh, he is chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and as such, everybody thinks Charlie Wrangle's right in tax law.
Uh-uh.
Tax law is being written by Nancy Pelosi's staff out of her office.
Make no mistake about it.
That's what I guarantee you, you think she's letting uh Wrangle write all this uh upcoming tax laws.
No, Pelosi's running the show on the Democrat side.
Speaking of give backs, how about all these contributions AIG gave to Obama and Chris Dodd?
They came from AIG employees.
You think they should give that money back?
Campaign contributions over a hundred thousand dollars to Chris Dodd and Obama.
Should they give the money back?
Ed Morrissey at the blog Hot Air dot com.
While everybody assails AIG for using less than one-tenth of one percent of the taxpayer bailout money.
Another recipient of government large S has its own bonus program in operation, according to their annual report, Freddie Mac.
Now, Freddie Mac is another GSE, government-sponsored entity or enterprise.
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, basically the same thing.
Fannie Mae was first.
These are private sector businesses owned by the government, which of course is an oxymoron.
It's not possible.
And we all know the controversy about Fannie Mae.
Franklin Reigns, all these guys taking $90 million.
When are they going to give their bonuses back, by the way?
Jim Johnson and uh and Mud, Daniel Mud and uh uh Franklin Reigns, when are they gonna give their bonuses back?
They were they were kicked out of there for fraud at Fannie Mae.
There's a story today that Freddie Mack is gonna need maybe 150 billion dollars in bailout money to stay solvent.
Freddie Mack.
They do they do mortgage business too, just like Fannie Mae.
They just it's uh they mirror each other, and they're gonna need 150 billion dollars, because it just it is not working over at Freddie Mack either.
But Morrissey points out that in the annual report, Freddie Mack has a generous retention bonus plan built into its operation for the next year.
Eligibility includes all of the senior and executive VPs.
It comes in four payouts, and only the last has any connection to company performance.
It's exhibit 104 on pages 414 and 15.
Uh well, it's page 414 5, uh lays out the program.
Retention bonuses scheduled next year at Freddie Mac, and they are sizable bonuses to be paid out four times to execs.
I'll tell you, folks, you're being worked up into a frenzy here, and you are being hoodwinked like I've not seen before.
Welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, phony ginned up outrage, and even the good times here at the Distinguished and Prestigious.
Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies Associated Press today, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, cue the Washington outrage.
It is so obvious that not even AP Obama can ignore this.
For months, the administration and members of Congress have known that insurance giant AIG was getting ready to pay huge bonuses while living off government bailouts.
It wasn't until the money was flowing and news was trickling out to the public that official Washington rose up in anger and vowed to yank the money back.
And I still maintain to you that this is not the true AIG outrage.
The true AIG outrage is how AIG was used by Geitner and Henry Paulson to send money to foreign banks, Goldman Sachs, and a couple of other domestic banks, in addition to what they got in the TARP bailout, the first phase.
Yesterday the number was 93 billion.
It's over a hundred billion now that went to places like Deutsche Bank, a French bank, uh, a couple of other banks in Europe, Goldman Sachs, which is where Paulson came from.
They got $13 billion.
Now, this is the real, real outrage of what has happened.
And all of this other stuff is simply a uh a distraction.
And we'll get uh look, I I'm not gonna be totally distracted by this.
We this is this is Wednesday, and we've spent a lot of time talking about this, except on this program where I, your host, uh am not uh uh ladies and gentlemen, uh subjected to the tug of popular sentiment.
I resist it.
Uh always have.
So I am not spun here into a phony outrage over what everybody else is uh is mad about.
Um let's see.
I'm watching Obama here.
What's he talking about?
Um I'm sorry, the teleprompter.
What let's jip.
No, never mind.
Never mind.
Our microphones are not turned on at this particular press conference.
He's just getting ready to leave for California to appear on Jay Leno.
This is historic in itself.
You know, a sitting president has never before lowered himself to sit on a late night comedy show.
And that's the way to look at this.
A president of the United States has never lowered himself like this to sit in on a late night comedy show with the chin, not even with Johnny Carson.
Certainly not Letterman.
Obama's going to go out there, and my question is, whose teleprompter is he going to use?
Is he taking his teleprompter?
Is he going to use Leno's teleprompter?
What's a teleprompter going to tell him to say?
You know the Brits, ladies and gentlemen, British journalists are doing such a far better job of covering events in this country than our media because they're not personally invested in Obama's success.
As I mentioned at top of the program, uh the teleprompter embarrassed President Obama last night during his uh White House.
There are a bunch of White House parties last night for uh St. Patrick's Day.
Oh.
There's a new name for St. Patrick's Day.
Some people upset that it's called St. Patrick's Day.
They want to change it to, because it's religious overtones.
They want to change it to Shamrock Day.
Oh, I kid you not.
I kid you not.
So anyway, the uh big big bashes, big parties in the middle of bonuses and a recession and an economic downturn, big parties at the White House last night, and the and the teleprompter totally embarrassed the president of the United States.
I've read accounts of this in the U.S. drive-by media, and they pretty much present Obama as a guy who saved the day with his cool, his a plum, his calm demeanor.
The British newspapers skewer Obama on this incident.
Here is what happened.
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowan was just a few paragraphs into his speech in Washington when he realized that it all sounded a bit too familiar.
And it was.
He was repeating the speech that the teleprompter had told Obama to say mere moments ago.
The teleprompter forgot to change speeches from Obama's to Cowan's.
So Cowan stopped.
He turned to the president and said, that's your speech.
I'm surprised it took him 20 seconds to figure out it wasn't his.
So Obama started laughing and Obama went back to the podium to take over.
But when Obama got there, this is hilarious.
When Obama got there, the teleprompter had then switched back to the Cowan speech.
The teleprompter switched back to the Cowan speech while Obama was laughing and heading to the podium.
So when Obama then reached the podium to try to coolly, calmly save the day, he ended up thanking himself for throwing a huge party.
Because he ended up reading the speech the teleprompter wrote for the Irish prime minister.
The script had been switched.
He ended up giving himself for inviting everybody to the party.
Now stop and think of this.
It's a party.
It's a party.
You have to assume that the adult beverages are flowing.
I don't know about the president.
And don't misunderstand.
I'm not suggesting anything here.
But it's a party.
It's a St. Patrick's Day, Shamrock Day party.
And you've got to assume this.
So here come the Irish guy, goes up to make a speech after Obama, and the teleprompter playing a little game on everybody doesn't switch the speeches.
So the Irish guy gives the same speech for 20 seconds Obama gave him and suddenly realizes, wait a minute, I just heard this.
So he turns to Obama and says, that's your speech.
Obama's, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Comes back to the podium.
While Obama's on the way to the podium, the teleprompter very craftily, very shiftily put in the right text for the Irish guy.
And Obama starts reading that.
And he continues to read it until he thanks himself.
Because the bright British or the Irish guy's message in the prompter was, I want to thank President Obama, but so Obama thanked himself.
At some point, do you not realize that that you just stop before you get to the point where you thank yourself?
And of course, the British papers talk about what is this guy's dependency on the teleprompter here?
The U.S. media is talking about his uh his quick wittedness and his apol I do not use a teleprompter at my.
That's another a party.
It's a party, folks, a freaking party, and there's a teleprompter at a party.
I don't use a teleprompter, period.
So five, folks, I'll tell you what we I have some questions for the teleprompter.
You know, this is this is uh this is this is getting out of hand.
Wait a minute.
Our microphones just arrived at the Rose Guard.
Can we jip?
Who's there?
Oh, Geithner standing there still looking.
Now they're taking questions.
Kathleen is rolling on this.
If there's anything interesting from this, we'll have the audio sound bites coming up.
I have I have some questions to the teleprompter since it engaged in behavior last night that embarrassed both the Irish Prime Minister and the President of the United States.
I mean, when a teleprompter, somebody who's as great an orator as the president to thank himself for throwing a party.
You gotta love this prompter.
So teleprompter, do you have a name?
Teleprompter, in your opinion, how is President Obama doing so far?
Did he convey the level of anger you hoped for regarding what you told him to say about AIG?
Teleprompter is uh is the president ever argumentative with you, or is he compliant with your instructions?
Teleprompter, have you ever thought about helping Secretary Geitner?
Or do you work for just one person?
Teleprompter, how are you and the first lady getting along?
Are you dating anybody, teleprompter?
Mac or PC?
There's a rumor teleprompter that uh you send out a small shock to the president when he mispronounces words or mangled phrases you tell him to say, or that you can even make him cough.
Is that true?
Teleprompter in private, is Joe Biden as buffoonish as he is in public?
Tell us.
We want to know.
How does it feel, teleprompter, to be the first teleprompter for an American president?
You're the first teleprompter.
Capital F, first teleprompter.
Teleprompter, as a as a consumer of electricity, how do you feel about cap and trade?
Are you you feel threatened and endangered?
Teleprompter, do you listen to talk radio?
Would you consider yourself a ditto head?
When did you first meet Barack Obama teleprompter?
And are you paid with taxpayer money?
And if so, did you have to fill out Obama's questionnaire before you were hired as first teleprompter?
And teleprompter, what are your plans post-presidency?
Will you retire to Silicon Valley?
Or will you tell Obama what to say when he's giving speeches at a million dollars per year after his presidency?
And finally, teleprompter, are you nervous about President Obama appearing with the chin on the Tonight Show without you?
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity simply by showing up here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, Charles Chuck Yu Schumer.
He says one thing but does another.
Get this.
Chuck Schumer, who's out trying to roast virtually any CEO he can, opposed to any bonus, talking about nailing these people to the wall.
Chuck Schumer, according to the New York Post, has compiled a powerhouse list of more than 200 fat cat supporters for his reelection, including some of President Bush's top fundraisers.
The New York Post has learned that the list, which the Democrats campaign will make public today, includes a dozen of George Bush's top contributors.
The so-called Rangers and Pioneers who have pledged to raise up to 200 grand.
Other Bush pioneers and rangers, those raising 200,000 or more, supporting Chuck Schumer include Bear Stearns chairman James Kane.
Former AIG chairman Hank Greenberg, who is a huge Republican and raised a lot of money for George W. Bush.
Both Bushes.
Woody Johnson owns the New York Jets.
Johnson and Johnson Air.
Henry Kravis of Colbert Kravis and Roberts.
John Mack, CEO of Credit Suisse First Boston.
Merrill Lynch Chairman Stan O'Neill and Goldman Sachs, former CEO, Hank Paulson, who's a Democrat.
All of the a lot of these people are Republicans.
Big, big money Republicans, pledging themselves to raise money for Chuck Hugh Schumer.
And Schumer's, of course, he's gonna take it.
So he's out there ripping these very it's what I said the other day.
In public, these people are to be skewered, they are to be savaged.
At the end of the day, when it's adult beverage time, they all get together and laugh because the money just travels in circuitous roots.
Makes me sick.
Let's grab a couple phone calls.
Where are we gonna start snurdling?
New polts in New York.
This is Ruth.
Ruth, great to have you on the EIV network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Hi.
Uh I promised Nerdly I would stay on point.
So uh without my teleprompter, here it goes.
One statement.
You were brilliant at CPAC during your first national address to our nation.
And one question.
Why doesn't this new head of AIG who's getting quote unquote grilled by the guilty?
Just say, I inherited this.
Don't blame me.
These were the bonus rules.
What can I say?
Well, it's worse than that, even.
I understand your point.
This guy, Ed Liddy, was handpicked by the government.
AIG didn't hire the guy.
The government handpicked Ed Liddy and put him in there.
He's their agent.
So he's being brought up.
This is all a folks.
I'm telling you, it's a show.
It is manufactured.
It is manufactured outrage.
They're bringing Liddy up there.
He may be a fall guy, but it's still a show.
And the purpose of bringing Liddy up there is to save the bacon of Chris Dodd.
Chris Dodd in the stimulus bill inserted an amendment okaying these bonuses and exempting them.
Now Chris Dodd's out there saying, I didn't do it.
I didn't do it.
Geithner did it.
Or somebody, I mean, this is the blind leaving the blind.
This is romper room.
We have a bunch of children.
The problem is they are in control of trillions of dollars.
They're now in control of several U.S. corporations, and they have no experience whatsoever in running anything that has ever worked, much less made a profit.
And yet we sit here and we lionize these people as the great saviors, why they, the protectors.
They're going to make sure we don't get ripped off by these private sector guys.
Ed Liddy appointed by the government.
He can't say he inherited the mess.
Besides, President Obama already pardoned him.
It happened earlier this week.
But uh they're gonna make a show of throwing the guy to the wolves.
It's all a show, folks.
If Geitner goes, it's all a show.
I don't know if it's a possibility.
I'm not gonna get caught up in whether Geitner goes or not.
I think that's the I think that's to get sucked in.
Okay, let's let's spend two hours talking to whether guy.
You know what I think about you could put what I care about Tim Geitner in a thimble.
All you need to know is the guy's incompetent.
The guy's a tax cheat.
The guy running the treasury could not fill out his own taxes, and he has purview over the IRS.
And we're supposed to sit here.
Oh God, oh God, will Geitner go?
Will Geitner's- You know what this reminds me of?
Early on in the Clinton administration, remember how we all got sidetracked?
The FBI, William Sessions, we had to get rid of Bill Session.
Must fire Bill Session, must fire Bill.
I don't even remember what it was about.
This is all a show.
It's all choreographed and staged.
And if they get rid of Geitner, they're just gonna put some other goofy egghead nerd ivy leaguer in there to run the whole thing again.
Ain't gonna change anything.
Wake up, folks.
I couldn't care less.
It doesn't make any difference.
By the way, the Chuck Schumer list of people he recruited was it was it was in 2004 for his re-election in 2004.
And that I forgot to mention that, but he was using Republicans all the way back then raising money for him, big time Republicans who had raised money for Bush.
Now they're all New Yorkers, and it makes sense that New Yorkers would grease the skids of a New York senator, so they'll he'll grease your skids, or grease other things of yours, whatever the hell.
But it was, I just wanted to say it was 2004.
Um what what what oh can we all can we all agree, folks?
I called another one.
Geitner has failed.
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