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March 26, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 26, 2009, Thursday, Hour #3
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I just saw the funniest thing.
I have to admit, it was funny.
It was not even offensive because it happened on MSNBC.
And I have to say, as a qualifier, I'm reacting mostly to what I saw.
I was trying to follow along the closed captioning.
So I have to give myself some breathing room here to say that I might have misunderstood this.
Greetings.
Welcome back, by the way.
Rush Limbaugh here behind the Golden EIB microphone, broadcast excellence, another hour.
And we've got a lot of great calls lined up.
We're going to get to them as quickly as we can.
800-282-2882.
So I'm watching MSNBC in Snerdley's office in there.
And MSNBC is doing a report on the Republicans ginning up their budget proposal as an alternative.
In fact, Politico's got a story here that the GOP gloves off for budget brawl.
House Republicans have begun unveiling detailed alternatives to Obama's policies, a concerted effort to push back against Democrat efforts and label them the party of no.
Eric Cantor is quoting this piece as saying, we're here today to say, yes, we do.
This is one in a series.
It'll not be the last.
We are committed to trying to pull the agenda back to the mainstream and to respond to the problems facing American families today.
And then they had a soundbite of Cantor.
And I know I saw this right.
Closed captioning quoted Cantor as saying he expects Pelosi and the Democrat leadership to work with them on their budget, the Republicans.
And they cut to the NBC MSNBC reporter who's laughing himself silly after listening to this.
And I think the closed captioning says they expect that to happen.
The reporter's actually laughing at him, demanding that Pelosi listen to their budget.
And then the two infobabe anchor, the two anchors, the two women went into a rant, started waving it around.
You've got to show us something.
You've got to do the math.
I know math's hard, but you've got to show us the specifics, the specifics, the specifics.
I think it was Contessa Brewer.
She's going nuts.
And the reporter starts laughing again.
Says everything okay out there.
But what I saw, they're laughing at Eric Cantor.
They're laughing at the Republicans' notion that Pelosi is going to give them the time of day.
What it looked like to me, I did not have the sound up.
So just to keep that in mind.
We've known this since high school, ladies and gentlemen.
We guys, we've known it since high school.
We've suspected it all of our lives.
And now it's been established.
Psychologists have proved what car dealers have boasted for generations.
The car one drives is key when it comes to turning a woman's head.
Some university team, I don't know what university.
I do.
It's the University of Wales Institute at Cardiff.
Psychologists proved it.
University team showed women pictures of the same man sitting in two cars.
One car was a 70,000-pound silver Bentley Continental.
The other car was a battered Ford Fiesta.
Same guy.
A battered Ford Fiesta.
Ford Fiesta is a huge car in Europe.
It's small.
The same guy in a Bentley and then seated in a battered Ford Fiesta.
The women who were between 21 and 40 picked the guy in the Bentley ahead of the same guy in the battered Ford Fiesta.
Dr. Michael Dunn said it shows women rate a man higher if he's behind the wheels of a fancy motor rather than an old banger, quote unquote.
His research in the latest edition of the British Journal of Psychology also shows that men are more interested in a woman's looks and not her motor.
It doesn't matter what kind of car I assume it means car.
They spent money to find.
We've known it since high school.
You know something?
I'll bet you this too.
If you show a woman a picture of a guy getting in a cab and then the same guy getting on a subway and ask them which guy is more appealed.
Oh, it's the guy getting in the cab.
But men are more interested in a woman's looks instead of her motor.
We assume this means car.
So you could put a woman in a Bentley and a same woman battered Ford Fiesta and it wouldn't matter to the guys.
Researchers say the men tested in the same way are not impressed by whatever car a woman drives because they judge purely on her face and her figure.
It's dangerous.
I shouldn't say this here.
I'm trying.
You know, I've done my women's summit and I'm trying to change my ways on this, but just how do you know what a woman's figure is when she's sitting in a car?
How can you possibly know?
Face?
Yeah.
I guess when she gets out to put gas in it.
Yeah, no, you can't, snurdly.
You can't, snerdly.
You can't, you can't tell me.
Trust me, you can't.
No, I'm not going to tell you what he just said because it would violate my new policy after I did the women's summit.
But I'm just telling you, can't, that will tell you nothing about a woman's figure.
It just, nothing.
And if you think it does, well, I mean, it takes all kinds.
What, a woman's looks?
Doesn't matter to me.
No, it never has.
Brain.
Brain.
Confidence.
Security.
I kid you not.
I kid you're not pandering at all.
I mean, I can't deny.
I can't deny that looks are a factor, but they're not the determining factor.
Not at my age, not anymore.
You got to have.
Well, I'm not going to tell you what happened.
I'd have to give my whole life experience.
I'm just telling you, I need confidence, security, own life, willingness to mix it up with any circumstance.
No wallflowers.
Pure and simple.
And that's.
Mr. Snerdley, Mr. Snerdley, Mr. Snerdley, Mr. Snerdley, is yelling at me.
So if an ugly woman had all of that, you're telling me, Mr. Snerdley, there are no ugly women.
There are no ugly women.
See, this is where you have gone wrong your entire life.
And it's outrageous that you look at women that way.
Unattractive, maybe.
Ugly?
That's going a bit far.
They're no ugly women.
Let's move on, shall we?
I'm embarrassed that you are portraying yourself.
somebody on my staff, I mean, openly objecting to my truthful assertions and then claiming that there are ugly women out there.
There aren't ugly women.
Now, let's just get that straight.
Not on this show.
You might find them in your neighborhood, but there are no ugly women on this show.
The FBI, as we move on, ladies and gentlemen, FBI bracing for a wave of fraud and corruption cases stemming from the government's multi-trillion dollar effort to get the economy moving again.
The expected surge in economic crimes will place further strain on the FBI's already stretched thin as it investigates mortgage fraud, terrorism, and corrupt Democrat politicians.
Well, I added Democrat in there, but FBI Director Robert Mueller.
The headline here: stimulus bailout will lead to more fraud.
Obama is causing massive fraud.
Well, it's his stimulus and his bailout.
And this is Mueller from the FBI.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, there's serious things that our country faces.
Each and every day, we get more bad.
The president just today told people that outsourced jobs will never come back, that we are going to lose more jobs this year.
Unemployment will rise this year.
The president told us this today.
On Capitol Hill, the Treasury Secretary testifies before Barney Frank's committee on how he intends to destroy our capitalist system, with Barney Frank banging the gabble in support.
In the House, arguments over the federal budget are taking place, as well as in the Senate.
And yet we have this story from the Associated Press.
The Senate is reviewing how college football picks its number one team, the Bull Championship Series.
Everyone from President Obama on down to fans has criticized the BCS.
The current system leads nearly half of all teams in college football at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to qualifying for the millions of dollars paid out every year, said a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust.
Under the BCS plan, some conferences get automatic bids to participate in the series, while others do not.
Obama and some members of Congress favor a playoff type system to determine the national champion.
The BCS features a championship game between the two top teams in their computer ratings, which, well, the standings are based on two polls and six computer ratings.
So we have job losses at an all-time high.
We have banks tanking.
Solar Armageddon is imminent as a first story of the day today.
North Korea is preparing to launch a missile that might have a nuclear tip on it.
The Iranians say they have nukes.
Mexico has a violence issue that is our fault.
Our IRAs are disappearing.
Members of Congress are signing bills or voting for bills that they have not read.
The president of the United States is throwing a party every Wednesday night, taking trips to California, telling jokes with Jay Leno, drawing his basketball picks on ESPN.
His wife's out there savvy of a garden.
He goes off for weekends at Camp David.
And a Senate subcommittee will now conduct hearings on the Bowl Championship Series and how we pick the number one college football team every year.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Back to the phones we go.
Rush Limbaugh with half my brain tied behind my back just to be fair about everything.
Vancouver, Washington.
Greg, great to have you here.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
Thank you, Rush, a longtime listener, first time caller.
I was closing on my house yesterday, refinancing it, I should say, and my banker told me that he was really upset because their bank, 126 years old, no financial problems, everything was going smooth, was just purchased by a bank that received TARP funds.
Yeah, we have heard about this happening.
Banks are out there investing in themselves and buying other banks, which, by the way, don't forget, the original allocation of TARP money was to get rid of toxic assets and start lending.
And then Paulson changed it and gave permission for banks to be using money this way, which then led to Barney Frank saying, what's going on?
What's going on?
It's supposed to be a lot of new credit.
And so that's what got all this started because the original TARP money has not been used for its original purposes.
So your news does not surprise me.
Well, I'm sorry.
I'm not surprised it doesn't surprise you, Rush.
You're on top of everything, so it seems.
One last little thought.
What's going to happen if Obama goes to California?
Is he going to drive a white car?
They're going to build a brand new one for him.
See, there will be exemptions.
This is the way liberals work.
The state officials and their official cars, limousines, SUVs will, of course, remain black.
Obama's the president.
His motorcade will remain black.
The new rules on the color of cars will only apply to the bourgeois, the hoy polloi, the average people, special people, the elites, of course, will be exempt from all of this.
It's the way it works.
This is Michelle in Oxbridge, Massachusetts.
Great to have you here.
Oh, thank you so much for taking my call.
Yes, ma'am.
I listen to you as often as I can, and I heard you talking about something about putting something in our homes to monitor.
I didn't say it.
I want you to listen to grab audio soundbite number 25.
I want you to listen to this.
This is your president.
This is President Barack Obama at his town meeting today that he held on the internet, the virtual town meeting.
And he was describing, after telling a woman that outsourced jobs are gone and we're never going to get them back, how we're going to create new jobs.
We could set up systems so that everybody in each house have their own smart meters that will tell you when to turn off the lights, when the peak hours are, can help you sell back energy that you've generated in your home through a solar panel or through other mechanisms.
All this can be done, but it also creates jobs right now.
Our biggest problem, we don't have enough electricians to lay all these lines out there.
That's what you heard me discussing.
Okay.
Well, it makes me so angry to hear some of these things that I keep hearing more and more on a daily basis.
I am absolutely livid.
And I tell you, I want to see the day somebody tries to come into my home and tell me what I can and can't use.
What's coming?
They won't get into my house, that's for sure.
They'll have to take me away screaming and yelling in handcuffs.
I mean, we have to wake up.
You know, we have to wake up.
It's time to say no.
No.
It won't be an official government worker, Michelle, that comes in.
Be a utility worker, somebody from an electrician from your friendly utility company that will come in.
And you will be mandated to get a new thermostat, mandated to get one of these new meters.
Just like you had to get a digital TV.
So just like you have to upgrade certain things technologically, you will have to upgrade to one of these.
And your utility company at no charge, by the way, a government will be so wonderful about this.
They will not charge you for your new meter.
If this actually comes to pass, that's how it'll happen.
Well, I think people really need to wake up and start understanding what they're doing.
Tell me.
Tell me.
I know, I know.
I'm preaching to the choir here.
I know.
It's just awful.
And it's you've got to understand that far many more millions of Americans love this kind of thing than you would believe.
We've got a bipolar country.
There are people who want to control you via their government officials.
There are people who want to tell you how you should live via and by way of their government officials.
There are more people who are going to support this, save the planet, all this sort of garbage, conserve energy, go green, all this stuff.
I mean, this is the culmination here of decades of propaganda on how prosperity is destroying the planet.
Chris in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Hi.
I just wanted to say that I'm a little nervous.
The reason I'm calling is I moved from El Dorado Hills, California to Bucks County three years ago with my family.
And people need to understand that.
It is very important.
As important as it is to take back the presidency, it's almost more important to take back Congress and the Senate.
I voted for immigration reform in California, which passed.
I also voted for insurance rollbacks years ago, which passed overwhelmingly.
Those were both overturned by the Democratic leaders in the state of California.
And as much as Governor Arnold has tried to change a lot of the things that are going on in California, he's really been ineffective.
He's given up now.
He's given up.
He's joined them.
Well, you know, he has to.
He tried to cut the prison guards' pay, and he was, you know, overwhelmed.
And if people don't wake up all across the nation, I mean, I don't think that California is what we want to model our country after.
And, you know, people should be driving tour buses by Pelosi and Chris Dodds' house and Barney Frank's house, not these guys at AIG.
It's misguided.
Tell me.
20 years ago would have happened.
30 years ago, all these protests would be going by the White House and Pelosi's house and Congress.
Exactly.
Now these protests are aimed at people like you and me who oppose this.
It's scary.
I mean, we moved at our state income tax in California was 10%.
It's 3% in Pennsylvania.
Our utilities, I paid $1,200 for one month of PGA.
I understand.
And Bucks County is a beautiful place, but it's still Pennsylvania.
I'm just kidding.
I'm sorry.
I couldn't resist.
I apologize.
Okay, we got some audio soundbites I want to get to.
But before that, one more phone call for a minute here for a while.
We'll get back to the phones after a couple of soundbites.
This is Darlene, who is calling from the 20th district in New York, where the Democrat candidate Scott Murphy is trying to make it appear he's running against me.
It is my picture in all of his literature.
And he's telling people that I want Obama to fail and that I don't want people to show up and vote in the special election on March 31st.
He is not telling anybody what he stands for, what he's going to do.
He's running against me, trying to tie his opponent, Jim Tedesco, to me.
And Darlene is on the ground up there in New York 20.
Hi.
Hi, thank you for taking my call.
Yes, ma'am.
I guess what I wanted to say was that I am a Republican, although I'm far more conservative than I am Republican.
I will be voting for Jim Todisco.
I have received far more literature from Jim Todisco, far more commercials.
Jim Todisco is linking Nancy Pelosi to Scott Murphy and the stimulus and a lot of Obama's different liberal agenda to him.
And I think he's doing a very good job.
Where Scott Murphy, he can't, he doesn't seem to be able to run on any of his own merits and has not been able to pin anything on Jim Tadisco.
And until yesterday, there hadn't been any national attention to this race.
But when I was on the internet last night, you know, going through different news media, I finally saw that I guess Joe Biden had run an ad in the state and different, you know, Obama was going to say.
No, What made this a national campaign was Murphy using me.
That's what got the drive-bys all talking about it, is the fact that I'm all over his flyer and mailer with a so-called picture when I'm mean and angry.
And it was, this is from a personal appearance I made for our buddies in Detroit at WJR some years ago.
It's actually not a bad picture, but they characterize the pictures.
I'm being emotive as I speak and make a speech.
He's angry.
He's our temporal angry rice limbo.
But they're trying to make it look like they're running against me.
What they're actually trying to do up there, Darlene, they believe that I am so hated and reviled that the Democrat voting base in the 20th district will be so outraged that I am even involved in this race that they'll show up just to vote against me.
You're right.
Murphy is giving no voter one reason to vote for him.
Now, that's odd when you consider the Democrats run this country.
I know it's a conservative district, but he could be associating himself with Obama.
He could be associating himself with Biden.
He could be associating himself with David Patterson, Andrew Cuomo.
He could be doing, except it's a conservative district, I know.
But he's a Democrat.
He's a Democrat.
He could be doing all of these wonderful things.
Say, I want to join President Obama in destroying your liberty.
I want to join President Obama in creating new jobs.
I want to join President Obama as he turns us back into a third.
I want to join President Obama as his half-brother still lives in a hut and his other half-brother now has cholera.
I want to join with President Obama as we are about to deport good old Ann Satuti back to the third world after he got his $500,000 book advance five days before being inaugurated.
I want to support President Obama in the notion he does not have to redistribute his own wealth to his own family.
Vote for me, Scott Murphy.
But he doesn't do that.
He's running literature as Rush Limbaugh's Satan and the Devil vote for me.
He's right.
Well, at least in our town, all I see is Jim Todisco signed out all over.
And Scott Murphy just doesn't seem to be making any ground or headway.
Oh, he is.
According to drive-by media polls, Todisco had like a double-digit lead like a couple weeks ago.
Now the drive-by polls say it's a dead heat.
And that's when they pulled me out.
And they're claiming that Todesco lost his lead because of his own campaign.
I don't know what he did other than he said that I was irrelevant to him.
And then he backtracked on that.
So that's not, he was constantly peppered by the press.
Who are you, Rush Limbaugh?
What do you get Rush Limbaugh?
He doesn't care.
He's running free.
He's got a local race up there in New York 20.
And Rush Limbaugh is irrelevant to this race is what he meant.
But they ran, oh, and so then he did backtrack, did apology.
They ran another story.
Another gutless wimp Republican who had come apologizing to me, which is not, he didn't apologize to me.
I don't care.
It didn't matter to me at all.
But he's supposedly, this is what we read here.
We're not there in the 20th, as you are with the great, I'm sure, local media that you have.
Yes, well, I'll be out on Tuesday voting for Jim Todisco because I think your last caller is right.
You know, we need to get back the Senate and the House, and we've just got to do this.
Canea.
Yeah, I will be out.
So thank you very much for taking my call.
Darlene, it's a pleasure to have you on the EIB network.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Very much.
All right, audio soundbites.
Ladies and gentlemen, this morning on Joe Scarborough's show on MSNBC, he was talking to their White House correspondent, Savannah Guthrie.
Speaking of White House correspondent, I've had a lot of people, excuse me, had a lot of people email me.
Why didn't Obama call on any real drive-bys at the press conference on Tuesday?
Why didn't he call on anybody from the Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post?
Why should he?
He's already got them.
He owns them.
He wanted to focus on some other people and spread the wealth.
Anyway, the White House correspondent for NBC, or MSNBC, is Savannah Guthrie.
And Scarborough said to her, Do they start to explain why they've decided to attack Rush Limbaugh?
This is the race up there in New York 20.
When you attack Rush, you only help Rush.
What do they think they're getting out of attacking Rush?
Have you heard their strategy rate?
I think I'm pretty familiar with the thinking here.
I think that we've heard less about Rush Limbaugh recently because people here recognize that argument only goes so far.
So notice the last few weeks we haven't heard too much about Rush Limbaugh.
Savannah, I have been brought back to life in the race for the New York 20th District.
But folks, you know, I very seldom talk about this because there are ethical questions involved here.
Not so much ethical, but we in radio have always had proscriptions against discussing ratings during rating periods because it is felt that that would unfairly influence things.
We're allowed to talk about results of the past, but we're not allowed to involve ourselves in ongoing ratings.
And I have pretty much stayed away from the whole topic.
However, I'm going to report to you some news that I got from the statistical analyst that I have at the EIB network that analyzes ratings.
And I told you the other day that Arbitron, which is the official rating company for radio, has been upgrading and modernizing the system.
Used to use diaries where people in the markets were given books.
They were required to fill out what they listen to or who they listen to at what particular times of the day.
And they'd have to send those things back in.
They get tabulated.
What they're doing now is a thing called a personal people meter, portable people meter.
And it's actually a thing like a pager that you carry around with you.
And radio signals are encoded.
And so all the participant has to do is turn the thing on.
And whether he's in his or her car or at home or wherever, as long as that signal is being received over the air, the PPM will know what that person is listening to.
So they'd have to write it down and so forth.
So it's even a little more accurate than Nielsen numbers with the boxes on the TVs.
It's close to approximate, but it's portable because it goes with the person who's using it.
And this is within the past, what, just year or so, has the PPM been used in the large markets from New York down to, well, it's 15 markets, I think, are using an hour, 10.
And we got the report yesterday for February for the markets of New York, Chicago, Houston, and Dallas.
I also happen to have Los Angeles, but the statistical analyst at EIB has not broken that down.
But here is what he sent.
And we have posted this at rushlimbaugh.com.
It's up there now.
Let me just read to you what he sent.
I got the email late yesterday afternoon.
Our read on the Arbitron PPM monthlies would give you absolute confirmation on what the audience growth has been like.
Here's your color commentary on New York City, Chicago, Houston, and Dallas, the first four cities where the data is now released.
I'll soon be able to get you the specific Monday after your address to the nation at CPAC, which he has since gotten to me.
And I'll just, we normally in New York have anywhere from a five and a half to six and a half share.
On Monday on WABC in New York, the first Monday after the CPAC speech, we had a 10.
We can now do this with the PPM.
We weren't able to do this with diaries.
We can now do this.
And it's important to note that the numbers I'm going to give you end in February.
So we're going to do January, February, December, January, and February here in this report.
Most of these numbers come in before the White House launched its full-fledged Rahm Emanuel attack.
So here is the color commentary.
Try the Rush Limbaugh Show, number one, total audience, New York, Chicago, and Houston in the hours it's on.
Over the last three months, WABC goes 4659 to 6-7 to be number one from noon to 3 with total audience 12 plus.
The cumb is up to almost 700,000 people.
And then they give a demographic breakdown, which I'll let you read on the website.
Don't need to get too many numbers here.
In the land of Obama, Rush number one on WLS, going 526969, a cumb of nearly 400,000.
Rush is so huge in Houston, he scores in every demo.
12 Plus has gone 6.0 to 8.7 to 9.8 to be number one by a Texas mile in Houston.
And in every demographic.
In Dallas, the show has grown 4.85964 and is...
Anyway, the reason I'm telling you this is Samantha Guthrie...
So they've stopped using Limbaugh.
They only got so much mileage out of that.
It only goes so far.
Remember now, these ratings came in before the big hit on I Want Obama to Fail.
It was out there, but it wasn't until the CPAC speech that Rob Emanuel went on Slay the Nation and the whole drive-bys picked up on it.
And there was the Carville, Bagala, Stan Greenberg, Emmanuel assault.
So that's going to be March.
We'll get that pretty soon.
But I wanted to pass this on to you because these are important because there's 62 million people that voted against Barack Obama.
The drive-by media tries to portray this nation as 100% united behind him, and he's not.
And what is happening?
These audience growth rates are phenomenal.
And this program is even before this.
You know, depending on the rating period, it's been number one in New York a bunch of times, sometimes number two.
The vagaries here are many.
But this, some of these numbers are huge, and it indicates that we're growing.
Our ranks are swelling.
And the reason the ranks are swelling is precisely because people are scared and they're upset.
So I wanted to share this with you because not just because it's good news for me, but it's good news for all of us.
It is healthy.
It shows that there is an appetite and a hunger for some opposition to what is happening.
And don't feel alone.
Don't feel like you're isolated because you're not.
There are millions of Americans with you.
Many of them just afraid to say so because they see what happens to people who do voice criticism.
And most of the people who voice criticism don't have a microphone three hours a day to fight back.
I, of course, do.
Kennae, back after this.
Stay with us.
I just happened to receive moments ago Mir Moore ratings from the statistical analysis staff at the EIB network.
WJR Detroit.
Number one, total audience, 12 plus with a 9.6 rating in February.
And let's see, with men, 3564, we've gone from a 6-0 to an 11-6 in Atlanta.
Total audience, 4 to 5-2 to 6-2.
We are fifth in total audience in Atlanta.
Stations ahead of us are music.
The weekly cum is huge in Atlanta, as it is in Washington.
In fact, the weekly cume in Detroit is off the charts.
You'd have to say this program is number one with both the employed and unemployed in Detroit.
I mean, it's huge.
In Washington, WMAL, third in total audience.
But here, in, let's see, what is the number one men 3564 double the audience, 6'4 to 13.4.
And in 2554 numbers in all these stations, Detroit doubled to 2554.
So this is before the White House attack began.
Remember, I did say I want Obama to fail on January 16th.
January 6th, February.
So it's all good out there.
Scarborough and these other people are right.
These people are elevating me.
The Democrats are all, by the way, you understand the White House, they're fine with this.
You need to, they are fine with my numbers going up right now.
They think that the more people that hear me, the more hatred for Republicans there will be because they think they have successfully identified me as leader of the Republican Party, which of course isn't true.
This is backfired on them, and that's why they are now using Karl Rove instead of me, because it backfired big time.
And it's going to backfire on them on New York 20 with Scott Murphy running ads and sending out leaflets and email newsletters using pictures of me as though I'm his opponent.
He hadn't got the guts, the character, the courage to tell anybody what the hell he stands for in this election, trying to make Democrats think that I am essentially on the ticket out there.
Brief time out.
We'll come back and wrap up today's excursion into broadcast excellence right after this.
Jumping Jack Flash, the Stones.
There's a couple conservatives in this group, but I will protect their identity and thus their careers.
Rasmussen reports, 66% in the latest poll say that President Obama is likely to raise taxes on those people earning less than $250,000 a year.
Two-thirds think that a figure includes 47% who say he's very likely to raise taxes on people who make less than $250,000 a year.
Yet, his approval numbers anywhere from 57 to 65, depending on where you look.
What are we to conclude?
They know he's lying through his teeth, and they still support it.
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