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April 13, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 13, 2009, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You may think the big news is the brilliant Obama administration rescue of the captain over the merchant marine organizers.
But the big news is that a victim of Katrina in Louisiana wants another flood, so they get rid of all the Chicom Drywall that they are using to rebuild.
Good grief.
Greetings, folks.
Great to have you back.
Hope you had a wonderful weekend.
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I want to single out today Jonah Goldberg at National Review Online for being the first that I saw to have the proper reaction to the rescue of Captain Phillips from the merchant marine organizers, and that was to congratulate President Obama for a job well done.
And I think we all must agree, folks, is that we when Obama does something right, we got to go out there, and we've got to acknowledge it.
We gotta say did a great job.
And we uh we we've got to be open-minded to the fact that Obama's gonna do some good things.
And uh and so Jonah Goldberg leading the way here in in showing us how this is done.
Uh there have been others jump on this bandwagon.
I would like to, I would like to not only jump on the bang bandwagon of praising President Obama for a brilliant rescue, not only a plan, but its execution.
I don't think the Navy had that much to do with it.
Were Obama not in the White House, who knows?
This might still be going on.
We might have had some unfortunate American deaths, but we are blessed uh with President Obama and his administration, their cool hand uh handling.
In fact, let's go back.
Let's go back to this program last Friday.
This is what I predicted on this program.
This is eventually gonna get solved.
One way or the other, the standoff between the United States and the merchant marine organizers from Somalia will get solved.
I want to predict to you the headline.
Well, maybe not the headline, but the first words in the story will be something like this.
Thanks to the cool hand of President Obama.
I was first.
I um I I predicted congratulations for President Obama, because I, as an American, was confident this was going to get settled.
It was going to be resolved one way or the other, and regardless how, President Obama was going to be given credit for it.
And so Jonah Goldberg was the first that I saw at National Review Online, but there have been others uh who have jumped on the bandwidth, but I was first.
I was because I predicted on Friday that that this would happen and that President Obama would be seen as uh the great uh the great rescuer.
In fact, I have seen uh uh ladies and gentlemen, the uh uh George Stephanopoulos was told by a senior administration official, as was USA Today, that this would make a great movie.
This would make a fabulous movie, which is of course what when an Obama administration official tells us the Stephanopoulos on ABC, and when um and when the uh official Obama administration who is this Obama administration official leaking all this?
Deep Parrot, maybe.
They tell the teledrive by the way this is gonna get played, say, oh, yeah, this would be a great movie.
Well, you know, Hollywood's gonna pick up on this and make a great movie.
I have an idea, the preliminary idea here on the movie that will be made by Hollywood that will immortalize this brilliant episode in American foreign policy led by uh President Obama.
I don't we don't have a working title uh of this movie.
I'm thinking about um President Obama turns on Somali counterparts.
The merchant marine organizers, the Somali version of Acorn, and yet President Obama rose to the occasion and saw to it that uh the Somali merchant marine organizers would not get away with the same tactics that uh domestic American organizers get away with.
You realize the Somali pirates.
Well, one way to look at this, the Somali pirates try to hold us up for two million dollars ransom for the captain, Mr. Phillips.
The Beltway Pirates are looking for ten trillion dollars from the United States and her people, and even if we pony up the ten trillion dollar ransom demanded by the Beltway Pirates, they still wouldn't release us.
We would still be held captive.
And so the Somali pirates, the merchant marine organizers, sort of, I know three of them are dead, but that's a small price to pay for advancing the notion that the Obama administration is quick and decisive and cool and can handle foreign policy emergencies like that.
So who would play President Obama in this movie?
Only one actor comes to mind at the top of my head, and that would be Will Smith.
I thought about maybe Danny Glover.
I wonder about Danny Glover, and I thought about Morgan Freeman, a little bit too old, Will Smith, would be ideal to portray Obama.
Who would portray the leader of the Navy SEALs that got the orders from Obama's sharpshooter czar to take out the merchant marine organ?
Well, again, Will Smith as Barack Obama portraying the SEAL leader that shot the three Somali pirates.
So that and by the way, the captain is the one who made this possible.
Captain jumped overboard, thereby exposing his naked targets, the the uh four Somali merchant marine organizers.
So you have President Obama portrayed by Will Smith, the SEAL leader in this movie that Hollywood will make will also be portrayed by Will Smith as Obama, the captain, Mr. Phillips also portrayed by Will Smith as President Obama for jumping overboard and risking his own life so that President Obama could get the credit for ordering his rescue czar after consulting with the sharpshooter czar to take out the three merchant marine organizers and
then capturing the one remaining and bring him to trial as a criminal.
The pirates, somebody has to play the pirates, and we're gonna put more than four on this ship in our Hollywood movie, because ladies and gentlemen, this was dramatic, and this could only be done by someone with the resolve and the cool hand of President Obama.
So we're gonna put five or six, maybe seven pirates on this lifeboat.
The pirates will be portrayed by Sarah Palin, Eric Cantor, Mitt Romney, Bobby Gendal, me and Mike Pence.
All of us will be portrayed as the we will we will portray the Somali pirates.
We will also have been found.
Those of us who are portraying the pilots, after President Obama acting as the SEAL leader, portrayed by Will Smith, finally boards lifeboat where the captain, President Obama has jumped off the boat so that the sharpshooter Zor could give orders to the naval sea leader uh President Obama to fire the shots.
The bounty on board the uh the pirate lifeboat will be discovered to be none other than T. Good old-fashioned T, ladies and gentlemen.
And President Obama with the foresight recognizing as the SEAL leader after boarding the lifeboat, realizes they're carrying uh uh a cargo load of tea, instructs everybody not to toss it overboard because there are cameras there.
So the T confiscated, as are pirates played by me, Sarah Palin, Eric Cantor, Mitt Romney, Bobby Gendal, and uh uh Mike Pence.
Uh so there, there you have it.
That's that's just the start of our movie.
Again, we're working on a uh on a working title for this, but you we're gonna have to cast the rescue czar.
I think maybe the rescue czar could be uh Harry Reed.
And the sharpshooter czar, Nancy Pelosi.
Now, these not the sharpshooter.
The the sh the rescue czar is the one who ordered President Obama to do the rescue.
The sharpshooter czar is the one that's Pelosi who ordered the Navy SEAL leader, which would be President Obama, Will Smith portraying President Obama, to actually start firing the shots.
Once they realized that a peaceful solution to this was not at hand.
Uh, and then of course you have Deep Parrot as opposed to Deep Throat, Deep Parrot in the White House, leaking all of this to the drive-by media so that reports of this successful, once in a lifetime, only Obama could have done it, for which he deserves our congratulations, rescue, would produce reports like this last night on CNN with Will uh Bill uh Will Will Smith, Bill Snyder.
They handled it very well.
This president has faced his first test, and I think from now on, he is likely to be treated with a lot of respect in the world.
The president was involved at every stage along the way.
This was the first test for President Obama.
The question has been hanging over his administration ever since he took office.
Is he tough enough for the job?
You heard that a lot from people around the world, from foreign leaders and diplomats.
I kept hearing that question.
When has he really been tested?
Americans always thought he was a tough guy.
He's cool under pressure, and he faced down two of the most formidable political operations in America, namely the Clinton machine and the Republican political machine.
But that's not enough for the diplomatic community.
Now I think he's met this first test quite well, and he will derive great respect from it.
This is the magic of Deep Parrot, the leaker in the White House.
This could be anywhere from Rahm Emanuel to uh David Axelrod, uh, leaking this uh administration effort uh to the stenographers in the drive-by media producing reports such as that.
Notice my prediction last Friday, he'll be portrayed as cool and calm.
And right there, uh, right there it was from Bill Snyder at CNN.
Also, reports like this uh have been produced this morning on the Today Show.
The news anchor Amy Roebach was talking to uh NBC stenographer Chuck Todd about the rescue, and she asked him this question.
As you said earlier, as you heard earlier, President Obama gave the Navy the go-ahead to uh take that necessary action.
Absolutely, and for this, folks, we must.
Well, I mean, when he does the right thing, we've got to congratulate him and we've we've got to acknowledge him.
We gotta pick our spots here.
So uh President Obama gave the Navy the go-ahead to take the necessary action.
Chuck, uh this was an unexpected challenge for the president.
You know, it was, Amy, and the White House is very pleased because this wasn't just a success for the Navy.
The one thing this does highlight on a negative side for the administration is the fact that Somalia, which was a country that caused President Clinton his first negative story in the foreign policy world, is still sitting there as a problem uh at problem state, which is where these pirates came from.
Uh wait a second here.
Uh there's a highly the negative side for the administration, the fact that Somalia, which was a country that caused Clinton as first.
Did anybody?
What?
Somalia was a country that caused Clinton his first negative story in the four.
What where were the negative stories?
It took a book.
Blackhawk Down.
Where were the negative stories?
What is Chuck Todd talking about here?
I don't remember the negative stories in the drive-by media about Clinton's actions in Somalia.
But anyway, it doesn't matter, uh, ladies and gentlemen, because White House very pleased here.
Uh this wasn't, it wasn't just a success for the Navy.
You know, I I had a friend of mine who uh is in Hawaii over the well been there last week, it was there last night, text messaging me last night, uh, wanting him to just this person I know has the greatest respect for the SEALs.
And said, Boy, what a great, great rescue by the sisters.
No, no, no, no, no, you're missing the point.
This is President Obama.
President Obama did this, and we must be we must be honest with ourselves and give credit where it's credit due.
We just can't be constant critics.
Uh as Jonah Goldberg has pointed out in National Review today, we must, when we see brilliance in action, decisiveness.
Um the SEALs, come on.
Paid staff.
SEALs couldn't have done Diddley's squat were it not for the decisive, cool under pressure, first test passed.
President Obama.
Look at the captain, the captain dived overboard, exposing the merchant marine organizers.
Great heroics?
No.
Not whatsoever, folks.
The heroics came from the White House.
Look at it this way.
Captain Sully Sullenberger, who flew and piloted that uh that the seven, whatever it was, 5737 landed safely in the Hudson River.
Great hero, right?
And everybody agreed.
What a hero, what a great guy.
Captain, he will be portrayed as a hero, there's no question.
But this time, President Obama was the co-pilot.
In a sense.
Here, there's even more.
When is the last time?
What a great day for America, folks, all because of the decisive action of President Obama.
It happened on his watch.
We gotta give him credit.
A White House dishing it out, telling us how it went down, we'd be fools.
We would be fools to deny this.
We need to buy our tickets for the movie in advance.
When's the last time you have heard the drive-by media or anybody on the American left actually praise the U.S. military?
Here's Harry Smith on CBS this morning.
A lot of people around the world got good news yesterday when we found out Captain Richard Phillips was safe and on board the USS Bainbridge.
We'll have a lot more on that in just a couple of seconds.
Yeah, Sunday was a good day for the good guys.
Oh, yeah, good day for the good guys.
We haven't had good guys in eight years, but the U.S. military, oh man, we love them now.
This is absolutely fabulous and wonderful.
It's kind of like Ron Silver before he um uh became a conservative.
Remember at the week-long festivities prior to Bill Clinton's inauguration, they were practicing flybys with U.S. military jets, and it got Ron Silver got mad.
What the hell are those Jets doing here at our inauguration?
Somebody jabbed him and said, Ron, those are our jets now.
Well, uh, as Harry Smith and Julie Chen point out, those are our Navy SEALs.
Now it's a great day, folks.
Thank you, President Obama, for a brilliant act of decisiveness and military leadership.
We are grateful.
And we'll be back.
Stay with us.
Kicking off a brand new week of broadcast excellence, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
800-282-2882, great to have you here.
Ladies and gentlemen, I realize there are some who are still obstinate and stubborn here, unwilling to openly admit what happened, and that is that this crisis was solved brilliantly, single-handedly by the Obama, well, by Obama, not even the administration.
I sure he had help from the rescue czar and the sharpshooters, and I'm told by the way the sharpshooters are, uh, was told by President Obama he could go ahead and pick his ammunition and pick his weapons.
I mean, so President Obama had pure confidence in the sharpshooters are, in this case, uh portrayed in the movie by uh by Nancy Pelosi.
Now, even though this is it, I mean, it ridiculous here to try to cast this in any other light other than the heroic actions of our brave new president, President Obama.
There are still naysayers.
And it's very sad to me to see this.
We need to come together as a nation.
For example, the crew of the Maersk, the crew of the ship is actually saying, in a most unappreciative manner, I must add, uh, that they were saying that the SEALs didn't arrive soon enough, that they were under attack for over a week.
And they were hoping and praying the SEALs and the Navy would show up soon, but they didn't show up for over a week, and the crew on the mayor with audacity unparalleled, uh, is now claiming that that the they're trying to throw cold water here on the rescue event.
I frankly, I'm I'm wondering, should we, in this era of economic crisis, look at all of the money and look at the manpower that this brilliant rescue cost.
Should the company, should Maersk, have to pay for the costs of this rescue?
Because you know, we've got an economic revival going on.
We we got an economic revival to start.
We have an infrastructure to rebuild.
We have people who don't have jobs and they're losing jobs left and right, 600,000 jobs a month.
Uh we we've got debt piling upon debt, piling upon debt.
And I think it'd be a patriotic thing to do for the crew or for the company, Mayersk, uh, to uh to to pay for this rescue.
Uh uh either that or the Obama administration has take over the company and uh then get new roots so that uh the ships in the fleet do not face uh threats anymore from the Somali merchant marine organizers, and then more problems for the Obama administration in a rogue piece from the Associated Press, stunned that this one got.
I'm I'm saddened at the Associated Press over this.
A brilliant rescue that the world is coming together to support, including all Americans, and then we get this drivel from the Associated Press.
The killing of three merchant marine organizers from Somalia sparked concern for other hostages and fear that the stakes have been raised for future hijackings.
So yes, this is the same operative theory that the left and the drive-by's used in Iraq, that by actually going to Iraq, we created more terrorists, that we created more hatred for the United States.
And here's Obama, or AP, I should say, in the midst of uh of brilliant action by our young and brave president, suggesting that taking action to save the lives of the life of the captain is now gonna create more pirates, more merchant marine organizers.
It's gonna increase anger against the United States.
Sunday's rescue of Captain Richard Phillips followed a shootout at sea on Friday by French Navy Com.
See, can't even give our own guys credit.
AP can't even give our own guys to the French Navy commandos who stormed the pirate sailboat, killed a couple pirates, freed four French hostages.
We'll be back.
This is a disgrace the way AP's handling this.
Here's more from the AP story, uh, ladies and gentlemen, which is throwing cold water on the brilliant heroics of President Obama.
And by the way, this uh this story from AP is from Malaysia.
It's not written here in the United States, which means that the uh deep parrot, the uh leaker in the White House was not able to get to all branches of the drive-by media.
The U.S. rescue operation might be dangerous for the remaining hostages, and there are remaining hostages from Vilma de Guzman, who is the wife of Filipino seafarer Ruel de Guzman, who's been held by the pirates since the November 10th.
She worried that uh pirates might vent their anger on her husband and his compatriots.
So far, uh Somali pirates have never harmed captive American crewers except for a Taiwanese crew member who was killed under unclear circumstances.
In fact, many former hostages say that they were treated well and that they were given sumptuous food.
And so the AP is trying to create the impression there was no need for this drastic action.
That we could have just boarded the uh the bo water boarded the pirates.
We could have done any number of things uh to find out the truth and so forth.
But we had to shoot them dead now that we're just we just created more problems because the pirates are gonna go recruit more pirates, and the pirates that are recruited and the pirates that are still there gonna be angry as they can be.
We've just made them matter.
That's to take the Associated Press.
No matter what this brilliant brave president does, it just seems there are elements of the American population and media establishment that will never be happy, will never be satisfied, will never be able to recognize the brilliance of this young man in his first well, less than first hundred days in office.
Here is President Obama himself uh on the uh on the merchant marine organizer crisis uh this afternoon at the Department of Transportation.
I want to take a moment to say how pleased I am about the rescue of Captain Phillips and his safe return to the U.S. officer this weekend.
Uh his safety has been our principal concern concern.
Uh, and I know this came as a welcome relief to his family and and his crew.
I had a chance to talk to his wife yesterday, and as she put it, uh she couldn't imagine uh a better Easter uh than seeing uh his uh his safe return.
And I'm very proud of the efforts of the U.S. military and many other departments and agencies that work tirelessly to resolve this situation.
Uh I share our nation's admiration for Captain Phillips' uh courage and leadership and selfless concern for his crew.
See, you hear that uh this is this is uh great humility on the part of our young president.
He knows these people had nothing to do with it.
This was all his operation.
This is all his leadership.
This is all him giving the order.
This is after the result of an of a week of careful and cool calm deliberation on this.
But he's willing to share the credit with others.
We gotta give Obama credit when he is deserved credit.
Uh he had a warning, though, uh uh for other pirates.
I want to be very clear uh that we are resolved to halt the rise of privacy uh in that region.
And to achieve that goal, we're gonna have to continue to work with our partners to prevent future attacks.
We have to continue to be prepared to confront them when they arise, and we have to ensure that those who commit acts of piracy are held accountable for their crimes.
Well who can argue with that?
Hold them accountable.
Now see, if they're caught in the battlefield in Iraq or Afghanistan, it's a different manner.
We're not gonna hold them accountable, we're gonna release them and so forth, because that was an unjust war.
But uh here we've got these pirates, these merchant marine organisms.
We're gonna hold them accountable even if we have to shoot them.
Now I want you to play this again because I think he misspoke here in a humorous way.
This is the first sentence.
Replay.
I want to be very clear uh that we are resolved to halt the rise of privacy.
Yeah, privacy.
We're gonna halt the rise of privacy.
He had a mydle, you know, he had he had he had a brain blip, uh, folks.
Uh or was it uh a faux pas.
Very clear we're resolved to halt the rise of privacy in that region, and to achieve the goal that we're going to have to continue to work with our partners to prevent future attack.
Fact is we didn't work with partners on this.
President Obama did it all by himself.
To the phones.
People want to weigh in on this.
We'll go to Timberlake, North Carolina, start there.
This is John.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Long time listener since the very, very first day you went on the air.
And uh and uh and a past advertiser when my wife and I had a business as well.
Thank you, sir.
And I I I told the your call screener when the show started, I I thought that the the approach that you were taking, although um I'd have to I'd have to agree in the and especially in the in the last segment, is is uh an opportunity to say that Barack Obama did the right thing in letting the people who knew how to do this, not him.
And you may that may be what you're trying to come up with, and and I'm missing it, but I don't I don't think that I don't think that he by saying he didn't do anything that's gonna convince anybody, even though the drive-by is is saying that uh um he he might be causing a problem.
He might very well be causing a problem, but didn't all the all the the Democrat presidents cause a problem by their inaction over time?
That's exactly my point.
Here we have a Democrat who didn't wait.
Here we had a Democrat did the right thing.
He coolly and calmly uh predicted this or or or or studied this and and and then ordered action uh to be taken.
I mean, I'm I'm sure the SEALs could have moved in sooner.
I'm sure the SEALs could have done what they but they had to wait for the order from their leader, their commander in chief, and he gave that order.
I don't know how you could possibly disagree with me on this.
I I'm I'm I'm not disagreeing with you.
I said that in in the beginning I I I may have missed the direction you were going.
And uh and in the last segment I agreed with you totally.
But I thought Lord.
That the uh good Lord.
Huh?
Nothing, nothing, nothing.
I didn't mean to interrupt.
I agree with you what you're saying, and I think that by giving him a continued...
Um jab.
Um make in fact make it uh uh uh uh just the the the lightest thing that he did was to say, yeah, he really doesn't know much about it to begin with, and he and he gave it I didn't say that.
No, I know that.
I know.
And I uh I said I I I disagreed in the beginning, and then as as it went to the water.
What was that?
Damn it.
What was at the beginning that you disagreed with?
Well, I I suspect I missed the the point of um uh giving him credit for any of it.
I don't know.
Uh I don't you didn't miss it.
You heard it.
But you wanted to Take issue with me with how much credit he should get.
That's that's the uh that that's the point.
All right.
Uh John, I appreciate I'm glad you called.
Um how do you pronounce this?
I never what is Suggus Saugus.
Then why is there no A in it?
Saugus, Massachusetts.
David, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes, Rush.
Uh today's Boston Globe.
The headlines Navy kills three pirates to save U.S. captain.
I just thought it was terrible.
I mean, you know, if the Navy the Navy saved the U.S. captain, I don't think they have to say that it kills people, three pirates.
It it just seems, you know, uh to me it seems you gotta understand the Boston Globe has been threatened to be shut down by the New York Times unless they all make salary concessions so forth up to twenty million dollars.
Maybe it's billion.
I guess it's twenty million, whatever the number is.
Whatever the number is the Boston Globe is trying to do something here to save itself.
And you can't blame them if they want to go a little extra w by the way, what's extreme saying the Navy shot three community organizers?
The only thing wrong with that is they leave Obama out of the headline.
I'm just saying it it kills three uh pirates.
That is it the the Navy took a stand and did something.
It didn't kill those people had choice.
Are the pirates dead?
We believe them to be.
Well, if they're dead, they were killed.
Yeah.
Because they didn't jump overboard.
Well, we don't know that for sure either.
Well, President Obama reported that they're dead, and then under his order this all happened.
See, people still can't come to grips with this.
Uh Mike, San Antonio, Texas.
You're next with Rush Limbaugh.
Hello.
Hey, mega retired Air Force Nettos, Rush.
Thank you.
Hey, I'm just wondering how long do you think it'll be before some Democratic subcommittee hauls these three seals up to explain their actions.
Well, I mean, if uh water boarding a terrorist is so terrible, wouldn't executing a pirate be even worse.
No, there's less torture and killing because it happens instantly and there's hardly any pain.
So as far as the Obama administration, look killing them is an is an act of kindness uh because there's no torture involved.
Now, one thing you say that isn't isn't isn't this is gonna make people angrier.
You know, in Mogadishu, uh U.S. Congressman Donald Payne, who's a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, is on some kind of fact-finding tour.
And today it was reported that land-based Somali pirates launched mortar fire at his location.
He was unhurt.
This sort of puzzled me.
I don't know why community organizers in Somalia would fire on a fellow community organizer from the United States, like uh Congressman Payne, for all for all they know, they could they they could like the guy if they just had a sit down with him.
Now, as you all know, on on uh on Sunday the U.S. military ended the pirate hostage crisis very much alone on the brilliant orders of command and execution by President Obama, and yet on Saturday on the White House's YouTube channel, President Obama gave his weekly address.
Here's a portion of what he said.
This idea that we're all bound up, as Martin Luther King once said, in a single garment of destiny, is a lesson of all the world's great religions.
And it never has been more important for us to reaffirm that lesson than it is today.
Yeah.
At a time when we face tests and trials unlike any that we've seen in our unlike anything.
These are challenges that no single nation, no matter how powerful, can confront alone.
Except you.
Our best chance to solve these unprecedented problems comes from acting in concert with other nations.
Right.
It's only by working together that we will finally defeat 21st century security threats like Al Qaeda.
And yet, when push came to shove, when the pedal hit the metal, when the rubber hit the road, to hell with the UN, to hell with the French, to hell with working with anybody else, President Obama single-handedly solved the pirate situation over there in the Horn of Africa.
What are we to make of this?
That the Saturday speech meant nothing.
It was just PR, because when it got comes down to nutcrack in time, you do it yourself, as President Obama did.
And he deserves praise.
Jonah Goldberg in National Review was first to point out, it does the right thing.
We got to say so.
Let's go back.
Let's go back.
Last Thursday CNN, Anderson Cooper's 360.
Anderson Cooper speaking with former Clinton White House advisor David Rodham Gurgan.
Uh Cooker said, uh uh pressure like this extraordinary on our young president.
Uh We got word the president's also talking about tackling immigration this year.
We've asked this before, but it seems more important now than ever.
Is our young president trying to do too much?
I don't think he's trying to do too much on the international front.
I question whether they need to get him up in the middle of the night to tell him things when that you know we knew the Iranian, I mean the North Korean test was coming, for example.
I don't think you have to get him off first pirates or something like that.
I think those things can be handled in the morning.
And the pirate question, Anderson, using Hillary Clinton out front and not Barack Obama.
He didn't want to take questions.
Yeah, I thought that was very smart.
He doesn't want to get in the middle of this.
It's messy.
You know, the man's life is at stake, and it's extremely important how we handle that, but he doesn't want to micromanage that situation.
That's what he's got a government for.
Showing you that David Rodham Gergen still doesn't get it, even though he's on the White House leak list.
Because Obama did single-handedly deal with this.
We've learned this from the drive-by media since yesterday afternoon.
Uh and and I uh Robin Roggan Robin uh Rodham Gurgen said he shouldn't get his hands dirty with him didn't want to get involved in this.
It didn't approach the level of uh presidential importance.
Hillary Clinton be out on front of this.
Uh haven't heard where the Secretary of State was on is thank God for President Obama not listening to David Rodham Gurgen to Westchester, New York.
This is Deborah.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi.
Um I just wanted to let you know this is a call of encouragement to not be discouraged that most of us out here do understand sarcasm.
We do understand what you're saying.
Who's discouraged?
What do you mean don't be discouraged?
Who's discovering sometimes when people don't get what you're doing?
For example, the very nice gentleman that called before that has been listening to you from day one, who doesn't seem to quite get what you're doing.
I think he was just confused.
I I was able to straighten him out toward the end of the call.
Do you think so?
Well, I gave it my best.
Which is all anybody can ask for in our self-esteem society.
But sometimes that's when you say the effort you praise the effort, not the result, and I gave it everything I had.
All right.
But uh most of us understand uh, you know, what's going on.
Well, I wink wink.
I appreciate it.
Okay.
If you saw my email, you would you would not be comforted.
Any Deborah, thanks for the call.
Uh appreciate it very much.
Let me tell you what bothers me about this.
Since I have been open in my praise, since I have agreed with Jonah Goldberg that we need to bite the bullet.
Praise President Obama when he does the right thing.
What really bothers me with the way this brilliant rescue performed by the Navy SEALs.
Really bothers me with the way this is being reported.
I love that captain.
I love the Navy Seatles.
I love the U.S. military.
This is a spectacular success, and a timing on Easter Sunday could not have been better.
It was a great day yesterday.
This was a an event that everybody was very proud of.
That being said, I have a low-grade depression that underlies all this as I expose myself to this puking reporting by the drive-by media.
Politico, New York Times, Washington Post have chosen the headline, Obama saves day, Obama, but whatever.
The the the giving Obama all the credit for this.
And I know I know why Obama's being tied to this as if he is the lead and the man who made it all happen and not the heroes who were directly involved.
This result, this wonderful result, folks, is going to um result in raising Obama's approval ratings.
That's what all of this is about.
It'll result in a series of stories about bravery and military success with Obama as the key player.
And these approval numbers that'll result from this reporting will be used as proof, or as Landy Davis would say, that Americans are totally on board for Obama's liberty depleting domestic power grabs.
While we're all celebrating the end of the day for the Somali pirates, we still have to deal with the Beltway pirates, who are looking to take 10 trillion dollars from us over the next few generations.
And that's going to be done with high approval ratings generated by this kind of puking reporting.
Of course we'll have socialized medicine.
Look at Obama's approval numbers.
Of course we'll have a card check and cap and trade down the road.
Look at Obama's approval.
You haven't seen his approval ratings.
The American people want everything they can get from this guy.
If critical thinking were in play, I don't care.
They can report that Obama took out all three criminals on his own.
They can say whatever they want, but this incredible demonstration of bravery and skill by the military is going to be used to advance a domestic agenda, including the gutting of the military.
While all the military is being praised to heaven here, guess what's happening in Washington?
The military budget is being cut.
These heroes are being and will be used to advance a domestic agenda of hard leftism.
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