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March 19, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 19, 2009, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
This is just juicy.
Get this headline and story today in the Washington Post, how the Fed failed to tell Obama about the bonuses.
Make no mistake, these are Obama bonuses, ladies and gentlemen.
But here's the Washington Post now running cover.
How the Federal Reserve officials knew for months about bonuses at AIG, but failed to tell the Obama administration.
How in the hell did they get in the bill then?
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This is just amazing.
This uh this whole bonus business just continues.
It does not abate.
Here we have the House of Representatives voting today on a 90% tax clawback on the people who got the bonuses.
Barney Frank and the Democrats insist, and and Andrew Kumol, the attorney general of New York, insist that the names of the recipients of the bonus be made public.
This is it's McCarthy-esque.
It is McCarthy-esque.
What is happening here?
And all the while there's Obama out there doing what when he gets in trouble, what does he do?
He goes to the people.
It's sort of like uh what he has the ability that Reagan had.
He has the ability to go straight to the people with his uh town hall meetings appearance on a leno tonight.
And did you see the crowd last night?
It looked like most of it was 24, 25 years old and under, and they're fawning.
We love you, Barry.
We love you, Barry.
And he has the ability to go straight to them and go over the heads of the drive-by media, which he really doesn't need to do, because the drive-by media is still very much in uh enslavish mode.
We have audio sound bites of Obama's town hall meeting in Costa Mesa, California last night.
If we're gonna tax 90% of the bonuses, why don't we just tax 90% of all bailout money and just get it back?
Just tax 90%.
Why do we tax AIG 90% in general?
Why don't we tax Goldman Sachs 90% in general?
We're going after individuals, and by the folks, it is it is it cannot be said enough.
These AIG bonuses were issued by Obama essentially.
If this is a scandal, and I don't think it is, but if it is, if you look at it as a scandal, this is Obama's scandal.
It would be a mistake for us here to get sidetracked the way they want us to and start dumping on Chris Dodd.
I mean, it would be fun to do, and it's easy to do, and yeah, Dodd lied.
He told CN on Tuesday he had nothing to do with it.
Last night he admitted he did.
Uh he he said that it was the administration and the treasury department that asked him to put that back in there.
There's one thing I'm I'm trying to check on this, and I haven't been able to confirm it.
The amendment on the on the AIG bonuses had to be in there before the conference.
The conference committee, you know, they don't look at the whole bill.
They didn't read the whole bill.
Obama didn't read the whole bill.
Nobody read the whole bill.
Obama wanted it too fast.
And that's where some of the mess is is coming here.
A lot of people didn't know the bonus provision was in there.
Uh, but Dodd was not one of the conferees, I don't believe.
I don't think Dodd was one of the conferees.
In the conference, the Senate and House conference, where the two bills are reconciled, the stimulus bill, we're talking porculus bill now, all of the amendments are looked at.
All of the amendments are examined because they have to agree with each other in the conference.
The House and Senate bills have to be identical.
So if there are differences in the amendments, then they have to be reconciled in the conference.
And this thing had to be put in there before before the amendment because it was not taken out.
It was in there.
The uh then what I'm talking about was the uh the amendment to exempt these bonuses from any limitation from any tax.
In essence, the um the amendment to allow these bonuses was in the porculus bill.
Dodd is saying that he was asked to put it in there by the administration, but he will not name or identify the administration official who requested the AIG bonus allowance.
So what we we need to know who this guy is.
In addition to knowing the names of the recipients of the bonuses, and these people are getting quite scared.
But I I have uh I've I've got I've got obviously two prongs of thought on this.
I'm a big privacy guy.
The invasion of privacy from the government is something that we all ought to oppose.
Uh this is scary stuff, and Barney Frank yesterday saying, I don't care.
I don't care where the death threats are, we're going to get the names, and I can't guarantee they won't be on the front page of the paper, despite the fact CNN's even playing the death threats now.
CNN got tape of the death threats, and they're playing some of these death threats that have been phoned in on their cable network.
Now, these people at AIG do not want their names to be mentioned.
They and they don't want their salaries mentioned.
They don't want they don't want anybody to know anything about this.
And I totally understand, in fact, I agree with it, but the more these kinds of outrages happen, the more it will be that more people see the truth of just who we're dealing with here in the modern Democrat Party led by Barack Obama.
It's like Ed Royce, who was a libertarian member of Congress from uh California.
We've got the audio of this coming up later.
Ed Royce said he's gonna vote for the 90% tax on the recipients of the bonus money in AIG.
And I'm paraphrasing his uh his reasoning here.
In fact, let's not paraphrase it.
Let me find it.
It's gonna be near the end of the stack.
Number 27.
All right, here it is.
Let's play audio sound by number 27.
Ed Royce on the floor of the House of Representatives today.
We should vote aye on this bill.
And the reason we should is because it's going to stop executives from coming here to take TARP funds from Washington.
It's going to stop capitalists from being converted into quasi socialists.
That's the reason we should vote aye.
You've got to put up a firewall between government and the markets.
You don't want these fellows down here with their lobbyists.
You don't want these men and women, these executives down here trying to figure out ways to get the taxpayers to back them so that they can become quasi GSEs.
So his theory is tax them.
Tax them and let everybody know who they are.
Tax them so that they have a disincentive to ask for money the next time around, so they don't get involved with the government.
Now you could take you can take this theory of his, and it's it's sensible.
I mean, it may it make some sense to a certain extent, especially since the Republicans can't stop this in the House.
The Republicans don't have the votes to stop this tax increase in the House.
Uh so here's Ed Roke.
I'm gonna vote for it, and you guys learn something from this.
Don't ask us for any more money.
There's a little bit more that people have to learn, but this lesson would be good.
So you can take this, and you can say, okay, let's apply it to their privacy.
Let's have them lose their privacy.
Let's have these recipients, the bonus recipients, let's put their names on the front page of the paper.
And let's put how much money they earn, and then let everybody know that it was the Obama administration that was behind this happening along with the Democrat Party.
Now, the risk here, and it's a big one, and I would say this to Congressman Royce: the risk is that a whole bunch of Obama voters are finally gonna see this and be outraged and shocked and get upset at Obama.
And I have my doubts about that.
I think most of the people that voted for Obama, or a good percentage of them anyway, would love this.
They would just love these people getting a 90% tax break or cut, a tax increase.
And they would love their privacy being because Obama and the Democrat Party have been ginning up hatred and class envy for corporate executives and the achiever class in this country for years, for decades.
And it's uh it's it's it this is it's all coming home to roost now.
There are a lot of people who just have a full-fledged hatred for these people, regardless of the details.
And Obama loves this.
Make no mistake, he loves this focus on anti-capitalism.
He it is exactly what he wants.
He he may he said something, and folks, look at me, I want you to hear me on this.
There are two things that are happening right now that may well cause civil unrest this summer, if they continue.
We talked about one of them in today's brilliant morning update.
Nancy Pelosi was addressing a uh uh uh a gathering of both legal and illegal immigrants.
Nancy Pelosi said it is un-American to enforce immigration law.
It is un American for the uh ICE people, the immigration enforcement people to uh uh target illegals, identify them, and set them up for deportation or some other way of handling them, said that is un-American.
Obama came in shortly after this.
She said this yesterday, Obama or a couple days ago, Obama yesterday in Costa Mesa starts talking about immigration reform, and he is going to he's gonna try to fast track it, and he made it plain that one of the things he wants to do is get the 12 to 20 million illegals legalized as soon as possible, and he suggested that they join unions.
Now we know that in in large parts of this country and across the political spectrum, illegal immigration is still a huge thing.
And if this administration moves full speed ahead toward amnesty once again, and Pelosi and others continue to say that the enforcement of U.S. law is un-American.
There are going to be some people who aren't gonna take this well.
I don't know if you've noticed the second prong of this.
The barrel price of oil is now flirting at 50 to 52 dollars.
That's what I said.
Thank you, Mr. Snerdley.
Yeah, up to 51 this morning.
Exactly what I said, flirting between 50 and 52 dollars.
Gasoline prices in parts of the country are up eight percent.
Gasoline prices are gonna go.
You know what happens in the spring?
Gasoline prices always go up for a while, then they come down in the summertime.
But prior to Memorial Day, that you can make book on the fact that gasoline prices are going to go up.
If gasoline prices start ticking back up in the midst of this recession, when the midst of all this unemployment, and the administration continues to start fast tracking the amnesty for illegal aliens for the sole purpose of getting them in this country to join unions.
You are going, we are going to have a powder keg situation this summer.
And I will state to you that it is a powder keg situation that President Obama will relish.
Remember, this is an administration whose objectives require chaos.
The more chaos, the more people will demand Obama do something about it.
The more chaos, the more people demand government, fix it.
Whatever it is.
Obama and the Democrats will only be too happy to oblige.
So there's a lot heading straight for us.
Well, we're heading straight for it.
Uh big time down the road, ladies and gentlemen.
And it's uh there's there's no end in sight to this.
This AIG bonus thing, this is so outrageous.
You know, even Shepard Smith, who tends to be liberal.
Shepard Smith blew up yesterday afternoon after the House hearings.
He said, You people can't have it both ways.
You can't create the law that awards these bonuses and then get to sit up there and act like you had nothing to do with it, and then put this poor guy that you hired for a dollar a year on the grill, meaning Ed Liddy, and Ed Liddy ran rings around these people.
Congress and its incompetence, its demagoguery on full display yesterday.
And Shep Smith said, you know what?
I think we need to bill these people for lost advertising now.
We went wall to wall with these hearings.
We had to broom all of our commercial breaks, and we had to sit here and watch this embarrassment.
Our government, he was really fired up.
You don't see this kind of stuff from uh Shep unless he's talking about people like me.
He uh he had it, he got it, he got it fed up yesterday.
They are losing money at the cable networks having to cover this stuff.
Uh, and and it's uh it's a joke.
The whole thing's a show.
The whole thing is a sham.
Now we got Freddie Mack and Fannie Mae, and they're gonna be awarding retention bonuses.
How about a 100% tax on them?
How about a clawback on how much money Franklin Reigns got or Jamie Gorellick?
They helped start all this in the first place.
Are they gonna be included in this bill?
We have their names.
We already know the names of a bunch of Democrats who not only engineered fraud at Fannie Mae, got wealthy in the process.
We know their names.
We know who they are.
We know what they did.
Why not include them on the list of tax confiscation?
And how about this?
As long as we're at it.
How about, ladies and gentlemen, we also include in this bill the denial of the automatic pay increase for members of Congress who voted for the stimulus bill.
The stimulus bill grandfathered in these bonuses.
That would include every Democrat in the Senate, almost every Democrat in the House, and three Senate Republicans.
Why not ding their salary?
Why not cancel their pay raise?
They got their pay raise in the stimulus bill, which is where these AIG bonuses are being paid out.
I gotta take a break, a little long.
Here we got lots to do on the EIB network, and ladies and gentlemen, Barack Obama's teleprompter now has its own website.
Back I'm convinced that the Obama teleprompter listens to this program.
The Obama teleprompter has its own website.
It's called Barack's Teleprompter.com.
No, it's Barack's teleprompter.blogspot.com.
Let me just read to you the most recent post on the Obama teleprompter blog.
I should say up front that Rush Limbaugh is not my kind of guy.
He sometimes speaks from notes, often off the top of his head.
If he really wants to impress the ill the electronics community, he ought to spend some time learning how to use me.
Then maybe folks would take him a bit more seriously.
But I digress.
Rush to his credit has identified me as a key player in the White House.
And while he didn't formally request an interview with me, nor did he submit his questions for approval with Gibbsy as real journalists like John Roberts do.
Rush did pose a number of interesting questions.
I did ask the teleprompter several questions yesterday, and the teleprompter heard those questions.
And the teleprompter said I will begin answering those questions that Rush asked today in a new regular feature, screenshots with Rush.
Screenshots will be intermittent today, though, because I got my West Coast gig.
The big guy has a number of phone calls to make to foreign leaders.
He needs me there in case he needs to appear to pull some hip overseas cultural references off the top of his head.
That and he can watch the first round games on my second screen at the same time.
The Obama teleprompter now has its own blog.
I realize that many females in the audience are going to consider this next comment pompous.
You realize, ladies and gentlemen, there is an entire industry dining off of me?
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Have you heard what the governor of Pennsylvania, Fast Eddie Rendell is doing?
This is this, you can't, you couldn't make this up.
There is nobody who could write this.
Despite his call to drastically slash budgets to deal with a worsening recession, Governor Fast Eddie Rendell is paying 100,000 to a Philadelphia PR firm to help him with publicity.
The administration has hired Ken Snyder on a monthly retainer of $9,000 between now and January 31st for part-time work, minimum 30 hours a week.
Snyder will assist Rendell's communications office in the Capitol with media strategy.
Folks, what this is.
Fast Eddie Rendell has spent a hundred grand to hire public relations experts to help sell the stimulus spending to the public in Pennsylvania.
That's what this is.
He said we need to get our message out there to people who can avail themselves of this stimulus money, whether they need it for weatherization projects, road repair, food stamps, or child care services, said Greg Fett, Rendell's chief of staff.
So they need a PR firm to help advertise the ability of stimulus money to make sure that every downtrodden Pennsylvania resident knows it's there and how to get it.
Listen to how stimulus money is defined by Fast Eddie's chief of staff.
Weatherization projects, road repair, food stamps, child care services.
They need a PR firm at 100 grand to advise them on how to let people in Pennsylvania know that there's free federal cash available.
It's just unbelievable.
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Simply by showing up.
All right, let's go to the Obama Town meeting in Costa Mesa, California.
Here is a portion of what the teleprompter told him to say last night.
During the campaign, uh I was asked repeatedly about this, and I reiterated my belief that we have to have comprehensive immigration reform.
People who have been here for a long time and put down roots here have to have some mechanism over time to get out of the shadows because if they stay in the shadows in the underground economy, then they are oftentimes pitted against American workers since they can't join a union, they can't complain about minimum wages, etc.
They end up being abused, and that depresses the wages of everybody, all Americans.
So the teleprompter told Obama last night in Costa Mesa, California to basically come out for illegal immigration or amnesty.
It's time to get them out of the shadows because their existence in the shadows is depressing all American wages because they can't join unions.
Now it's it I want to take you back two summers ago when the Bush administration with Ted Kennedy and John McCain tried to ram through amnesty, much the way this stimulus bill was rammed through.
Nobody saw it.
Nobody was allowed to debate it.
There were no hearings, but everybody knew what it was in this case.
It was amnesty.
It was amnesty.
It was the total abrogation of U.S. law for 12 million to 20 million illegal citizens.
And of course, the peasants at that time with their pitchforks stormed Washington and got the thing stopped.
Got got the thing shut down.
As I warned you people then, don't think that they heard you.
Don't think that they're going to pay any attention in the future.
They're going to look at this as you stopped them this time, but they're going to go around it another way, go about it another way, piecemeal.
Bit by bit, rather than trying to bite it off all in one big mouthful.
And here it is, it's coming back now, and we all knew that it was coming back.
It's going to be brought back at a period of time when gasoline prices are rising.
This is an issue that crosses party lines.
It irritates and agitates people across party lines.
You throw in two things to this, and you're creating a powder keg.
You throw in the fact that he now is encouraging these people to get amnesty so as to join unions.
And couple that with card check, which they are, I know some Democrats are starting to back away from this, but uh the administration is not.
They are hell bent on getting card check, and again, just to refresh your memory to explain card check, so many things are labeled and titled in ways in Washington that they mean the exact opposite of uh of of what they'll do, and that's what card check is.
Uh it's it's called a freedom of choice, it's a freedom of employment act or something.
It's the exact opposite.
There is no freedom.
This has been an open ballot.
Uh it imagine this.
You're working at your small business, and Tony Soprano walks in and got a lead pipe with him.
And we're going to unionize this place, uh, or at least we're going to vote on unionizing this place, and we're gonna we're gonna vote in public.
Everybody's vote's gonna be known.
And Tony Soprano standing there with his uh with his lead pipe.
Well, how many people are going to oppose Tony Soprano?
How many people are gonna vote no?
Nobody wants their kneecaps busted.
I'm speaking figuratively, of course, but this is the intimidation factor of publicly voting, not the secret ballot, which exists today, and the whole purpose is to unionize as many small businesses as possible in the country.
Then after that's done, here comes amnesty, here comes another round of uh of illegal immigration reform.
You couple that if this keeps happening with rising gas prices, rising unemployment.
Folks, I hate to tell you what what what I mean.
That that's a fuse.
That is a fuse on a powder keg.
And some might say that it's lighting the fuse.
I'm not gonna go so far as to predict that, obviously.
But I'm telling you, I won't be surprised if it happens, and if it does, that kind of chaos that will result, that kind of anger will be see, we we're living in the world where we think that kind of anger will redound to Obama's uh uh well, it would not not posit, it'll hurt him.
Uh will not redound positively to Obama to his benefit, just the exact opposite.
You have to suspend logic and everything you know when talking about what this administration is president wants to do.
Chaos is exactly what they want.
The market was plunging, three trillion dollars vanishing in wealth where there's any concern about it.
No, there wasn't it.
They loved it.
They love they love the fact that Wall Street, where all of your 401ks are, and all of your pension plan, they love the fact that nothing that you thought was safe was safe.
They want you thinking the only thing safe is government.
They love this chaos over AIG.
They created it.
These are the Obama bonuses.
These bonuses were snuck in, kept in by the Obama administration.
And Chris Dodd fell on the sword last night after lying Tuesday, told the truth yesterday.
He says somebody in administration made it stay in there.
He will not identify that person or persons.
In the meanwhile, we're trying to, you know, gang up on Geitner and so forth.
Look, folks, anybody thinks Geitner's gonna get canned needs to remember two words.
Janet Reno.
People like Obama want this kind of guy in charge.
He distracts attention from Obama.
All these things.
I know this is this may be hard to logically get your arms around.
We look at, okay, let's say there's a lot of unrest.
Let's say there's anger in hell to pay over rising gas prices.
Anger in hell to pay over the uh over amnesty if it comes down the pike again.
Hell to pay on these bonuses.
Everybody's mad already, right?
There's already a lot of agitation out there.
What are Obama's approval numbers?
They're still high.
Anywhere from 58 to 60%.
They're still high.
It's not hurting him.
He loves this.
This chaos and his ability to go straight to the people like he did in his town hall meeting with his teleprompter.
This ability to go straight to the people and tell them it's Wall Street's fault.
It's AIG's fault.
And we're getting even with them.
And they're not flying their corporate jets anymore.
And they're not going to Vegas anymore.
And by the way, your investments are not safe with these people.
All of this fits into Master Plan.
Because he's got, you got to remember now, he has the ability, and he's doing it.
I mean, it's not true to say he's not in trouble.
I mean, they are in disarray.
It's clear that this man has no executive experience whatsoever, and nobody in his administration really knows what they're doing, but they have an objective.
They have an ideal and they're aiming for it, and they're doing it.
Whatever chaos is created in the process, they are going to try and use to their benefit.
So when these kind of things happen, when the uh when the Geitner stuff blows up, the AIG bonus stuff blows up.
Uh-oh, time to get out of the White House and head back to my 24-year-old fawning audience.
It's going to sit there and say, I love you, Barack.
I love you, Barack.
And that's going to be the pictures everybody sees.
And they're going to be teeming crowds.
And he's going to do it where in Orange County.
Why?
Orange County used to be a hotbed of Reaganism.
Didn't choose this by accident, by the way.
Orange County, Costa Mesa.
I love you, Barack.
I know you.
Tears streaming down their cheeks.
Now, in that framework, here, let's let's listen to what Obama, number 28 again, Mike.
Let's listen to what Obama's prompter told him to say about immigration.
During the campaign, uh, I was asked repeatedly about this, and I reiterated my belief that we have to have comprehensive immigration reform.
People who have been here for a long time and put down roots here have to have some mechanism over time to get out of the shadows because if they stay in the shadows, yes, in the underground economy, then they are oftentimes pitted against American workers since they can't join a union, they can't complain about minimum wages, etc.
They end up being abused, and that depresses the wages of everybody.
Oh, and that's right, Barack cares about people.
So uh he wants amnesty, he wants the illegals in unions.
While everybody's all worked up into a tizzy about the AIG bonus BS.
He's out there already moving on to the next agenda item.
Let's now move on to audio sound by 15.
Here, the Obama teleprompter told him to take responsibility for the mess he inherited.
Washington's all in a tizzy and everybody's pointing fingers at each other and saying it's their fault, the Democrats' fault, the Republicans' fault.
Listen, I'll take responsibility.
I'm the president.
We didn't draft these contracts, and we've got a lot on our plate.
So for everybody in Washington who's busy scrambling trying to figure out how to blame somebody else, just go ahead and talk to me.
Because it's my job to make sure that we fix these messes even if I don't make them.
Oh, how magnetic.
Oh man, look, I didn't do it.
I didn't do it.
I didn't make the mess, but I'm more than happy to clean up the mess, even if I didn't do it.
Why this is Charlie Brown?
This is what's a kid, what's a kid in the Simpsons?
What's the young Simpson kids?
Bart Simpson.
The teleprompter had Obama sounding like Bart Simpson last night.
Nobody's nobody saw me do it.
You can't make me tell.
Nobody told me to do it.
You can't prove anything.
What do you mean when he says here we didn't draft these contracts?
Mr. President Buddy, these are your bonuses.
You, your in your insistence kept these bonuses in the stimulus bill.
I got to take a quick time out.
L. Rushball with an obscene profit timeout.
Back to Obama's teleprompter after this.
All right.
You may not have heard about this.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, all the hubbub over the AIG bonuses and everything, but the State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling in New Jersey is drawing the line when it comes to bikini waxing.
That's exactly right.
They're uh moving toward a ban on genital waxing altogether after two women reported being injured in their quest for a smooth bikini line.
This is an AP story.
And I'll tell you what, there's a picture here that you wouldn't see in Playboy.
No, I'm not showing it to you, Sterling.
All right, there it is.
It's very soon.
You can't see again.
Both women were hospitalized for infections following the so-called Brazilian bikini waxes.
One of the women has filed a lawsuit, according to Jeff Lamb, who is a spokesman for the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs oversees the cosmetology board.
He said that look, we can't we can't do these as part of bikini waxes because the genital area is not part of the abdomen or legs, as some might assume.
You know, I understand that there's probably a lot of sympathy here for the women involved in the but I wish the government would simply stay out of women's crotches.
The government has no business in women's crotches.
I don't care if it's the New Jersey government or fast Eddie Rindell's government, I don't care whose government of federal government, they got no business in women's crotches.
I have you're asking me what a Brazilian bikini wax is.
I haven't the slightest clue.
All I know is that if a woman wants to get a Brazilian bikini wax, and there's a company out there willing to do it, it's none of New Jersey's business what goes on in her crotch behind the closed doors of a firm that does bikini waxes.
It's not the state's business.
Stay out of women's crotches.
And now back, ladies and gentlemen, to Obama's teleprompter.
I want to replay the soundbite here because this has almost biblical overtones of President Obama's teleprompter telling him to say that he he he take responsibility for a mess that he didn't create.
Washington's all in a tizzy and everybody's pointing fingers at each other and saying it's their fault, the Democrats' fault, the Republicans' fault.
Listen, I'll take responsibility.
I'm the president.
We didn't draft these contracts, and we've got a lot on our plate.
So for everybody in Washington who's busy scrambling trying to figure out how to blame somebody else, just go ahead and talk to me.
Because it's my job to make sure that we fix these messes even if I don't make them.
Well, he did make this one.
This is totally his.
This is bailout.
This is totally his doing.
His administration wanted the bonuses in there, but that's beside the point.
This is a diversion.
This sounds awfully familiar, I'm sure, to a lot of you people who are people of faith.
What was Obama's teleprompter telling him to say here?
The teleprompter essentially told Obama to say, I'll pay for your sins even though I'm innocent.
That's what the prompter told Obama to say.
And he said it.
I'll pay for your sins, even though I'm innocent.
However, ladies and gentlemen, you and I both know that President Obama is not a savior.
He can't even make a cabinet.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Rush Limbaugh from the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies Coach K, Mike Sheshewski, the basketball coach at Duke, found out that Obama did not pick his team to win the NC2A Final Four.
Somebody said we're not in President Obama's final four.
And as much as I respect what he's doing, really, the economy is something he should focus on, probably more than the brackets.
Mike Sheshewski told a reporter from the AP on Wednesday.
Do you notice how everybody has to throw in from Warren Buffett, I don't care who they have to throw in here, I really respect what he's doing, but why is that?
Fear, ladies and gentlemen.
Fear.
We have a courage shortage in this country, not on this program and not behind the golden EIB microphone, but we have a courage shortage to deal with things head on here.
But Shushevsky's point's right now.
What are you doing?
We got an economy in a mess, and you're picking brackets with ESPN.
Get focused, buddy.
Get focused on what's important here.
If this were George Bush and Shoshevsky had done this, that's all you'd be hearing about.
And if gotta tell you, if it'd been Bush and the Irish Prime Minister, and the teleprompter had told Obama to thank himself or told Bush to thank him, you'd be all over the place.
We can't find a video.
That video, we know there's video, there's video everywhere.
All the time at the president of the White House at parties like this, especially with foreign dignitaries.
There is no video, there is no audio of Obama's teleprompter telling Obama to thank himself for throwing a great party.
He read the damn thing.
He read what the teleprompter told him to say.
I wish to thank um President Obama.
Oh ninth party.
Oh St. Patrick's Day.
Oh!
Well ho ho!
Well, that was wrong.
So the teleprompter got a little dig in at President Obama, but there's no video of it to be found.
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