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April 8, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 8, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Well, this is hilarious.
What a way to start.
The Congressional Black Caucus goes down to La Habana.
And they end up meeting with Fidel Castro.
And we learn that Fidel Castro wants Obama to succeed.
Yes.
The island dictator, Fidel Castro, who basically runs a gigantic sugar and tobacco plantation.
If you want to know what Cuba is, it is it is nothing but a population being held hostage on a sugar and tobacco plantation.
That's what and the Congressional Black Caucus goes down there heaping praise upon Fidel Castro.
Says that we need to bring that business model to America.
We need to bring sugar and tobacco plantations back to the United States as a business model, according to the Congressional Black Caucus.
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So Barack Obama, we'll get back to Fidel Castro wanting Obama to succeed in a moment.
So Barack Obama goes on his world tour, apologizes for America.
I'm ready.
Everybody says, wow, you know it's great to have such a humble guy leading the country.
Humble.
It takes profound arrogance to go around the world, apologize for your country, to say that your country is lacking, but only now.
Is your country worth anything because you happen to be president?
That's not humility.
That's profound conceit and arrogance, which is uh part and parcel of Barack Obama.
So Obama goes around the world, he apologizes, he goes to Turkey, makes all these wonderful flowing statements about Islam.
We're not at war with you guys.
We love you guys.
Islam's had a marvelous, marvelous uh impact on shaping the world, including my own country, he says.
At which point you want to see talking about Kenya or the United States of America.
And so promptly after doing this, then we got some sheikh, some guy named Hussein in Beirut.
Well, I love this guy Obama.
I really think he means it.
I really think he means he loves us.
And then the next thing we know, the Somali pirates hijack a U.S. ship out of Alabama.
After all this love, and then the Chicoms and another country have investigated, have penetrated via computer, our power grid, and so forth.
Why?
Why is all this spying going on on the United States?
The world loves us now.
World's supposed to really dig us.
And we now learn that uh our electric electronics grid, electricity grid's been uh been penetrated by the ChICOMs and others.
And then the Somali pirates, who we haven't heard from in a while.
Hijack, we got American hostages.
Is this 1979 all over?
Less than 100 days in.
American hostages on board a ship taken by the by the hijackers.
So what happens?
Well, the Obama administration says they're working on a response.
They're working on this, they're working harder than they've ever worked on anything in their lives.
They're working diligently on this.
The Obama administration working to respond to the first pirate attack against American citizens in recent memory.
Notice this did not happen during the previous administration when the Somali pirates were attacking everybody, collecting so much money we were speculating that they could bail out Citibank.
They could end up owning Citibank, they were getting so rich.
So Bush leaves office, Obama comes in, runs around the world, apologizing to the country, Somali pirates, move in for the first pirate attack on the United States, holding Americans hostage on board the ship.
Senior Navy, I know just stick with me.
Stick with me, lead that up there.
Senior Navy official in Washington says the Obama administration's talking to the shipping company to learn the who, what, why, where, and when of the incident, in which the U.S. flagged Maersk, Alabama and a crew of some 20 people was taken over by pirates.
Okay, what response were they planning on?
What were the various responses that the um Obama administration could have taken here?
Well, diplomacy.
Could have negotiated with the pirates.
I'm sure they were considering that.
Maybe paying them off.
Just pay them the money, whatever the ransom is, pay them the money.
Another one of these parachute drops, hoping the pirates drown, as happened last time.
The Saudis did this.
Maybe try the new tone.
Remind the Sali pirates that we're not at war with them.
Maybe beg.
Maybe just go on to please stop.
Don't you want to this is making us look bad.
We have no gripe with you pirates.
Go ahead and pirate anybody else, but don't pirate us.
Number four, surrender, pay the ransom, or number five, fight them.
Well, while the administration's planning all of this, while they're biddy busy studying their response, the Americans have taken the ship back.
The uh Pentagon says the American crew of a hijacked ship has regained control of the vessel.
Pentagon sources spoke on condition of anonymity, because information was still preliminary, but sources said today that the hijack crew apparently contacted the private shipping company they work for.
They did not call the government.
They called a company.
The shipping company has scheduled a new one conference, a press conference in Norfolk, but it hasn't started yet.
So it is it is believed now that the crew, the Americans took the ship back from the pirates.
I think this is the first time the Somali pirates have been so humiliated.
In previous instances, the crews have just done nothing but allowed themselves to be treated as prisoners, but apparently the Americans have uh have retaken it.
Uh and I assume that they know this at the White House while they're in the middle of planning a response that uh the Americans took the ship back.
That is that is never thought of self-reliance.
Uh uh or well, that could have been option number six.
Could have been option number six.
White House said, We're too busy here.
You guys handle it.
We'll get around to it in time.
Uh we don't know what their response was going to be.
They don't either, I'm sure.
They don't they have no clue.
They're probably they're probably boy, we dodged a bullet there.
But now we'll hear, did the Americans use excessive force?
And will we apologize for some role that we played in this?
I don't think that we will apologize for taking back the ship.
I don't think anybody in the government would be that stupid.
But I do think it's possible that we might apologize for being there so close to known pirate waters for having tempted them, and to say that this is all going to change uh during the Obama administration, these acts of uh of threatening the innocent uh Somalis of the world by getting so close to where their pirate waters are.
No, no.
I mean, it we just we we only have experience and intelligence to uh to guide us.
But what we do know now is that the uh the crew of the ship apparently this is according to the Pentagon did not wait for any response from Washington.
They've simply retaken the uh the ship.
This did bad PR for the Somali pirates.
Uh this is uh this is gonna make it look like anybody can take the ship back once they've been hijacked.
So um well, that's something that they are gonna have to consider.
By the way, I will be on Neil Covuto this afternoon.
H.R., do we have an exact broadcast time?
Do we know?
Okay, I'm told that we'll be on with Cavuto first out of the break at 4.05 Eastern time this afternoon on Fox.
He did a commentary on Monday regarding the uh situation in New York State between me and the unelected illegitimate governor of New York, David Patterson, who expressed delight and glee that I was fleeing the city, refusing to do any more business there because of these pending tax increases.
Patterson, as you know, said, Well, if I if I'd have known that, why we'd have raised taxes sooner.
Cavuto thinks this is very, very stupid.
Donald Trump says he's considering uh changing locations for some of his business because these tax increases are going to prove really detriment.
It's like the Boston Globe.
I see today the Boston Globe is being run just like public transit.
Boston Globe supposedly lost eighty-five million dollars, and they are going to raise the price of the paper to a dollar and a half.
Did I see that right?
They're gonna raise now.
This this indicates and proves to me the people running this paper, which are the New York Times, do not understand the market.
Why are they having trouble?
Advertising revenues are down.
Why are advertising revenues down in the newspaper industry?
The fewer people are reading newspapers.
The newspaper industry is telling itself, but its biggest problem is the internet.
And they do have a point in the sense that so much news, and I've got a concept for you to consider.
So much news is on the internet for nothing.
And a lot of it's unedited.
And a lot of it you don't have to put up with drive-by bias or prejudice or what have you.
You can get it when you want it.
You have to wait for the thing to be delivered in the morning if it's on time.
And so, and a lot of the newspapers, of course, put their own editions on the web and they started out doing this free.
And they establish the concept that the news is free.
And I want you to think about this.
You know, the Associated Press, they are very upset.
There are a lot of websites that are stealing their content.
You see, the way websites make money is hits.
Websites try to design their pages so that they'll get as many hits and they tell their advertisers this is how many hits we got, and they charge advertising rates per hit.
And in some cases, one of the ways of engendering hits is to strike a deal with Google.
To put your website near the top of any Google search.
It's a very intricate and complicated thing to pull off, but it can be done.
And there's a couple, in fact, there was a Time magazine story, New York Times too recently really just raking the Huffington Post over the coals because apparently the Huffington Post is actually stealing content, not headlines.
You know, headlines are considered fair use, but they're actually stealing contents and putting uh a byline of their own website employee on copy, news copy that's actually written by reporters at other newspapers.
They're not crediting the newspapers.
And so the the AAP and the newspapers, wait, this has got to stop.
Now that I understand.
That totally understand.
The fair usage is fair usage, but pilfering produced product is uh is quite another.
But the overall concept.
What is news?
And how in the world do you charge for it?
I mean, go look out your window.
A car goes by, it doesn't hit anybody, you've just seen news.
Did it cost you anything?
News, how how do you how do you mean the concept is that there can be no charge for news.
The news is just what is.
The news is the comings and goings of people, good people, bad people, pirates, evil people.
Whatever.
It's it's it's the comings and goings of people.
It's the actions of people.
And the whole notion that there somehow is a is a pecking order for who gets to define what it is, and on that basis gets to charge for it, that's the business model.
So you got the New York Times, and they said, according to them every day, this is the news, and you're willing to pay whatever you pay to get their version of the news.
And the same thing with any other news outlet.
But if there were no newspaper, would you have to pay to see the news?
You might have to travel to all these different places to see the news, but the news is happening.
The news is not created.
The news is the result of human beings living and breathing and moving around, making decisions.
So the whole concept of charging for it.
Now I understand if you've got a newspaper and they've got reporters and they're assigned to stories and they go out and put in a lot of time writing the story, they put it on the newspaper website, and some website comes along, steals it as their own, yeah.
That's a different thing.
That's a different thing.
But the whole the whole concept of fair usage in news.
Maybe, maybe I'm not accurately describing This as I see it.
But I think it's it's a very difficult thing to charge for.
As we get into the whole discussion, okay, we we yeah, there was news.
There's news right now.
There's news yesterday.
There's news that's going to happen in five minutes.
But it's some people, it's only news till it's in a certain newspaper or on a certain network.
But we all know that that's BS.
News is news.
It happens.
If you witness a crime when you're at the mall, how much did it cost you?
It happened.
You were there.
You saw it.
You saw news.
Didn't cost you anything to be there unless you know were spending money for some other reason, like to go to the mall to buy whatever people buy at malls, nail polish, cologne, Segway, whatever you at any rate.
Obama looking at climate engineering.
Now we had yesterday the story that cap and trade.
According to administration officials, is this in the tank?
I mean, it can't get it done.
It's too much too soon.
Uh they don't have the votes for cap and trade, which has alarmed Tom Friedman, the New York Times today.
Tom Friedman says, Well, screw it then.
Just get to go out there and call for a carbon tax.
Just be honest.
We're going to raise people's taxes and save the planet.
Just do it.
It helps that Tom Friedman's wife is filthy rich.
If Tom Friedman had to live off what the New York Times pays him, I have to wonder if his attitudes about taxes would be what they are.
The President's news science advisor said today that the global warming is so dire.
The Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool the Earth's air.
John Holdren told EAP in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed.
One such option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays.
Holderman said such an experimental measure would only be used as a last resort.
It's gotta be looked at, he said.
We don't have the luxury of taking any approach off the table.
He outlined several tipping points, including global warming that could be fast approaching.
Once such the world is not warming, it is cooling.
See, global warming is not about global warming.
Global warming is not about saving the planet.
Global warming is just the latest liberal trick.
Hoax designed to get you to feel guilty that your lifestyle is responsible for the destruction of the planet.
And out of your guilt, you will agree to pay more taxes and give up more of your freedom to let central planners and authoritarians tell you how to live.
Why would anybody listen to a bunch of people who have failed to fix everything they have touched?
At any rate, long here, so the next segment is going to be pretty short.
Let me take a brief EIB obscene profit timeout.
We'll be right back after this.
Don't go away.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting today that the Obama team is readying for a confrontation with Benjamin Netanyahu, who is the new prime minister of Israel.
So...
This is representing a sea change in U.S. foreign policy because Obama's now going to insist on a Palestinian state and even more concessions from Netanyahu and uh and the Israelis.
So a friend of mine sent me a note today, and it's true, it's like a bad dream.
The Somalis are hijacking ships.
The Iranians are taking time out from building their nuclear weapons to file death penalty charges against Americans.
The North Koreans are firing off missiles.
Now, what's Barack Obama worried about?
American arrogance, Islamic sensibilities, Israel, these are the problems in the world.
Israel?
America.
By the way, speaking of North Korea, Kim Jong-il has asked for yet more broadcast time here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network regarding Obama's apologies to the world.
And now a most angry message from the dear leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il.
Obama.
Dear President Obama.
Well, on your recent European vacation, you embarrassed the socialist world with your apologies to everyone and their donkey.
Ah, get those.
Do not apologize.
Get some game.
Leadership is no picnic.
How could I introduce progressive reforms for my people if I had to apologize to everyone?
Yeah, you apologize to but me.
Kim Jong-un.
Even when you have greatly offended.
But taking away FaceTime from Kim and media coverage of our most successful military achievement.
Since the ceasefire with North Korea.
A most beautiful rocket that accurately hit its target of the Pacific Ocean.
So now we'll end our Six Nation talks with you, and he will also return the remaining rice crispy treats as a sign of our disgust at your belligerent camera hogging ways.
No apologies accepted Kim.
Kim Jong il still um not happy with Barack Obama is apologizing everybody but Kim, and all of his FaceTime on his European trip took accurate PR time away from Kim Jong il's exciting military success, the launching of a missile into the middle of the Pacific Ocean on target back with much more right after this.
Well, they're not content with the banking industry and the automobile industry.
Barack Obama and Timothy Geithner have now moved on to the life insurance industry.
U.S. Treasury said that Treasury, it's not Geithner.
Geitner said today, Treasury announces it in a release that some life insurers have met requirements for government capital investments under an existing rescue plan, and their applications for funds are now being considered.
So some life insurance companies now qualify for TARP money.
The Treasury spokesman Andrew Williams said there are number of life insurers out there that have met requirements for the capital purchase program because of their bank holding company status.
These are among the hundreds of financial institutions in the CPP, the capital purchase program pipeline that will be reviewed and funded as appropriate on a rolling basis.
The statement was made in response to a Wall Street Journal story published late yesterday saying that the Treasury would extend its $700 billion financial bailout program to certain life insurers and would make an announcement in coming days.
saw the tentacles of the federal government spread even further...
Remember now what AIG is.
AIG is an insurance company.
And it has received 173 billion dollars of bailouts.
So now life insurance companies, some of them are also going to get in on the bailout plan.
And folks, it is so bad out there.
It is so much worse than what anybody knows that they cannot report it.
U.S. to delay bank test results for earnings.
The stress tests that they have been giving banks, apparently the report on the results of the stress test is so bad, they cannot report it.
So what we have here via Reuters is a telling way now to report the bad news.
The U.S. Treasury Department, again, Timothy Geithner.
Come on, just say it.
Not even mention his whole story, but it's Geithner.
Timothy Geithner planning to delay the release of any completed bank stress test results until after the first quarter earnings season to avoid complicating stock market reactions A source familiar with Treasury's discussion said Tuesday.
The Treasury was still talking about how results of the regulatory stress tests on the 19 largest banks will be released, may disclose them as summary results that are not institution-specific.
The government is testing how the largest banks would fare under the more adverse economic conditions that are expected in an attempt to assess the firm's capital needs.
source speaking anonymously because the Treasury has not made a final decision.
Said officials don't want any test results released before the earnings season wraps up for most U.S. banks on April 24th.
That financial crisis is far from over.
And the in addition to all of this, in addition to the stress test on the banks, apparently the report is so bad they can only allude to it and promise they're not going to say anything about it till after April 24th.
Then you add this from ABC News.
The government may spend more than $4 trillion.
dollars.
on the financial system above and beyond what has been spent.
The oversight panel says that the economy faces a prolonged period of weakness with regard to financial firms and lending.
The panel criticized the Treasury Department for failing to identify what measurements it will use to determine whether its rescue programs are working.
The panel criticized the Treasury Department for failing to identify what measurements it will use They're just going to pump money into it.
They're not going to tell us where, and they're not going to tell us how they're measuring if it's working or not.
And another Federal Reserve employee.
Federal Reserve director from some bank somewhere is now predicting 10%, and this is not the first time for this, by the way, 10% unemployment by the end of this year.
While all this is going on, the Congressional Black Caucus set a delegation down to La Habana to meet with Fidel Castro.
They met with Castro.
They met with his brother Raul Castro.
They praised Castro.
He's such a humanitarian.
He's such a good guy.
He understands U.S. politics.
He's fascinating to listen to.
He is a dictator.
His population is nothing but political prisoners.
The population of his country wants out of there.
When some do successfully defect, their family members are harassed and tortured in some cases.
If you want to understand sugar...
Sugar is Cuba is a gigantic sugar and tobacco plantation.
Maybe some coffee and citrus as well, but it's a plantation.
The government owns the plantation.
The slaves work on the plantation for veritably nothing.
Castro got a dose of compassion not long ago, passed out some rice cookers, but not to everybody.
And the and the black caucus wants to bring this business model to the United States of America.
People have asked, they people ask me all the time, Rush, what is it about the black caucus?
What is it about liberal black politicians they admire in Castro?
They relate to Castro on a couple levels.
A Castro is looked at as this tiny little lion, tiny little powerful guy.
He's standing up.
He has stood up his whole life to the evils of oppression.
The evils of the United States of America.
He doesn't take any guff from anybody.
And he has total power, which they envy.
He has dictatorial power, and they envy that.
But to him, or to them, he's just another of many minorities around the world oppressed by the evil white majority of the United States of America.
And as such, they identify with him on that basis.
Let's listen to some sound bites.
Last night during a Capitol Hill press conference, the CBC Congressional Black Caucus held a press conference about their trip to Cuba.
Here is Representative Bobby Rush, Democrat Illinois.
He was a no man who I thought resembled.
Someone who I would say is as close as a neighbor.
He had a very modest home.
And we were mad in front of him by his lovely wife.
So it was almost like visiting an old friend.
When we visited with him.
He wanted to know more not he.
I told President Cass know that.
And my household he uh is known as the ultimate survivor.
What is the ultimate survivor against what?
Us.
That's right, the evil United States.
The evil United States is targeted Fidel Castro.
He is he is why he's an angel.
Why, he has successfully stood up to the bigots and the racists that have led the United States all of these years.
He just lives in a modest home.
His wife answered the door.
Why we felt like we were right at home.
Lives in a modest home.
He probably has some little guest cottage somewhere on the presidential grounds that he moved into for this meeting.
You gotta think Castro just laughs himself silly when these guys show up.
He's got them wrapped around his little finger.
He wanted to know about Dr. King.
Fidel Castro wanted to know more about doctors.
He can play these guys like a Stradivarius.
Up next is uh uh Representative Laura Richardson, who is a Democrat from California.
What really was amazing to me is he leaned in, he looked directly into our eyes, uh, quite aware of what was happening, and said and said to us, how can we help?
How can we help President Obama?
He talked about the fact that he had watched the campaign.
You know, for people who seem to think that in Cuba, people don't have shoes, they don't have jobs, they don't have ice cream.
I mean, these people are living and working and participating as we, as many, in fact, some were even in a better situation than in some portions of my district.
He wants Obama to succeed.
Fidel Castro, noted communist dictator of Cuba, went on record with the CBC saying he wants Obama to succeed.
Well, who doesn't?
The Islamists want Obama to succeed.
Who doesn't want him to succeed?
He talked about the fact that he had watched a campaign.
For some people who seem to think that in Cuba people don't have shoes, they don't have jobs, they don't have ice cream.
I mean, these people are living and working and participating as we, in fact, some were even in a better situation than in some portions of my district.
Well, that folks tells you all you need to know.
That Laura Richardson thinks that people in Cuba have it better off than some people who live in her.
I guarantee she does.
I guarantee she believes every word of it.
Don't snurdly.
You know you're gonna have to back off and say some of these people are just, you know, inst you know, very, very clever trickster.
She believes it.
Barbara Lee believes this is an oppressor nation, and that can't Cuba is not.
We've got a bipolar country.
We have people in this country who genuinely think they are still enslaved, that they are oppressed.
That Cuban people have it better off than some in her own district.
Whose fault is that?
Whose fault is it, Miss Richardson?
You've been representing them.
You got all this money in Washington, supposedly going back to these districts.
How in the hell can this be?
These people in your district have been voting Democrat all of their lives.
How can it be that people in Cuba are better off than some people in your district?
You realize what an insane thing that is to say, even if it were true, how insane it is.
It's her district, she's a Democrat.
All of her voters are Democrat.
They've been voting Democrat for all their lives.
They've been expecting all these goodies to come to their district from Washington to lift them out of this so-called squalor.
And she takes pride in saying that people at Cuba, some of them she saw have it better off than people in her own district.
We got more on this, but I got to take a brief time out.
The real star of this show is Barbara Lee, who is from Oakland.
She's from Oakland.
She's a true, I mean you're looking here at a blithering idiot.
A profound supreme leftist, whatever you want to call them.
Barbara Lee is up next with two sound bites.
Stay with us, folks.
And we're back, Rush Linbaugh with half my brain tied behind my back just to what to make it fair.
Barbara Lee, we've chronicled Barbara Lee, the Congresswoman from uh California from Oakland for quite a long time on this program.
She's she's just nuts.
Uh she's a fervent nut.
Uh she really dislikes this country, believes this country is an oppressor nation, can go to Cuba, meet Castro and think that she's in paradise.
Now she was the replacement for the former member of Congress in that district by the name man by the name of Ron Dellums.
His nickname was Red, because he was a communist, Ron Red Dellums.
Now I remember Red Dellums during our Grenada invasion, Ron Red Dellums was just outraged at Reagan.
Run in fact, it was so bad that the National Review back in the 80s, maybe the early 90s, ran a cover story called Congress's Red Army.
And it was an illustration of every Democrat member of Congress at that time that voted every chance it could with interest for the Soviet Union, be it in Nicaragua or against the United States anywhere.
Congress Red Army, and I said, whoa, man, is this big?
So I called up some people at National Review.
I said, What are you what kind of fallout you expected from this?
They said, None.
Nobody's going to care.
We're just putting it out there so our readers know, but this won't shake up Washington.
knows it.
Isn't any big deal.
You know, to the congressional black caucus.
I mean, you you you just you have to laugh here.
They go down, they talk to Fidel Castro, and he and he tells them, or they say he wants to know more about Dr. King.
I don't doubt that he did.
I mean one thing Castro's not as stupid.
But you see, one of the reasons they that they they admire Castro.
It's not just that Castro was down for the struggle.
He was the struggle.
Castro was the struggle.
He rebelled against an oppressive regime.
He did it with a band of outlaws.
And he succeeded.
And he's turned the country into a plantation.
A slave plantation of tobacco and sugar.
It's essentially what it is.
Everybody knows the place has fallen apart, all the great art deco architecture of a van.
They don't have any money to repair it.
And even even the PBS documentarians will go down there and they'll do stories on this, and they'll cry about, oh, what was a what?
It was so horrible.
They don't blame Castro.
They don't blame Castro of the Cube.
They blame us.
They blame us.
It's not the embargo.
When Castro talks, he calls it the blockade.
And he uses the word on the blockade, as though we got ships out there in the Straits of Florida that are permitting trade from getting to Cuba.
Here's Barbara Lee.
Last night on Wolf Blitzer show on CNN.
He asked her, How did Castro look?
How did he seem to you?
He seemed very energetic.
He was engaging.
We met at his house, which is a house of very modest means.
And it was a very uh moving meeting in a sense because he was uh taking notes.
Uh he was very inquisitive.
He uh asked us to send more information about Dr. King because he reveres uh Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
And we said we would try to get more books and tapes to send down.
How are we gonna get him there?
We've got this embargo.
I guess travel and money is gonna be lifted.
So here we want more about Dr. King.
You know, Dr. King.
Uh I I I have to think Dr. King would just be Fidel Castro's not what Dr. King had in mind.
Fidel Castro and that kind of tyrannical rule is not what Dr. King had in mind.
Dr. King, I would think would be embarrassed as all hell to Know that a communist dictator runs a slave plantation as one of his idols.
Or heroes.
Do you have a message for Fidel Castro and from the Obama administration?
Did you have one for him?
We did not have a message for any uh Cuban official from the Obama administration.
We visited Cuba as members of Congress on an official delegation to look at what possibilities exist to come back to recommend to President Obama and to our speaker Pelosi and to our leadership and to the Secretary of State why we believe normal relations uh between the United States and Cuba uh should move forward.
Uh it's time to talk to Cuba.
Uh, we want to see these discussions take place with no preconditions.
This is, you know, I that's fine and dandy.
I don't care.
You know, the embargo, some say it hadn't worked, some say it does.
It's it's the notion that United States members of Congress hero worship, a totalitarian dictator.
So obviously a totalitarian dictator.
But you shouldn't be surprised because they had the same sort of lionization, not the CBC, but just Democrats in general, for any Soviet leader that uh came down the pike.
All right, we'll be back, folks.
Sit tight.
AP just issued a news alert.
Still waiting details, but I don't know how many details are needed here.
The United States has announced that it will participate in group talks with Iran on Iran's nuclear program.
No word on preconditions.
We'll be back.
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