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April 14, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 14, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Well, this is just too rich.
And it just all makes sense.
Frankly, I don't blame the Norks.
I don't blame the Nor.
How can you not blame the Norks?
Nobody's doing anything to make them stop, so what the hell?
Folks, the latest news out of North Korea is that uh Kim Jong il.
Well, I'm sorry, communist dictator, he may not know about this.
Kim Jong il may be totally unaware of this, but other elements of the North Korean government have ordered the UN's International Atomic Agency uh IAE, the thing that that idiot, Mohammed Al Baradai heads up, they just ordered him out of country.
We don't know yet whether Kim Jong il is aware that this is happening under his name.
Uh most dictators obviously things happen in their countries they don't know about.
But the North Koreans have told the International Atomic Agency uh uh uh whatever atomic energy agent to get the hell out of country, just like Saddam Hussein did.
Just get out of here.
Screw you buds at the UA, get out of here.
It's because the UN issued one of the most limp wristed reactions to um the Norx missile launch last week.
Hey, we strongly disapprove it.
That made the Norks mad.
So the Norks said, screw you, get out of here.
The White House, and in the meantime, the White House is out there urging the Norks to not do any of this.
Can you blame the Norks with that kind of response?
And you look at the Norks two times the Clinton administration at least once, maybe twice, secured nuclear weapons material through a deal made with America to send them nuclear energy ingredients and converted it.
And now the Norks are announcing that they're gonna start converting all this to nuclear weapons, just like Iran.
So the UN's got their IAEA over there, and the Norks just a scram, we don't need to do with you.
You can't blame them.
They've been allowed to get away with everything else.
Who's stopping them?
And they know that their buds in arms are the ChICOMs, and we can't we cannot anger the Chicoms because the ChICAMs, uh Chiccoms hold our debt.
Greetings and welcome back.
It's uh Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Great to have you with us today, folks.
Uh telephone number 800 282-2882, the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Mr. Snerdley, uh the official program observer and screener of calls, is asking me if this constitutes a test of our young courageous brave president coming off a brilliant high seas maneuver of wiping out three teenagers on board a life raft.
Uh the uh vice president Joe Biden said before they were immaculately inaugurated that they're gonna be tested in the first six months, and that the people aren't going to disagree with their response to it.
Uh obviously the three black teenagers, the Muslims gunned down on Sunday at the orders of President Obama.
That's that that it wasn't a test.
I mean it that because well, I mean, what were the what were the stakes there?
I mean plus four more ships are hijacked today anyway, except a Chicom ship.
A ChICOM ship was not hijacked because somehow a giant school of dolphins surfaced right there in the pathway between a pirate ship on their way to hijack the ChICOM ship.
Uh I don't think this I don't know that this is the test.
Um, you know, getting the Norx launching their missile and kicking the IAEA out.
But it could be.
We'll uh we'll just have to uh wait and see.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program again, 800-282-288-2.
The email address is L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Uh Reuters has a uh as a story today, as a deep recession, strips Americans of their jobs, their homes, and investments.
The 2009 U.S. tax season promises to see a large uptick in first-time delinquent income taxpayers.
Richard Boggs, founder and chief executive of the LA-based nationwide tax relief, which is a firm that helps delinquent taxpayers, uh taxpayers resolve their issues, said that the calls they're receiving are up 280%.
Yeah, we've seen a huge rise in what we call the rookie delinquent taxpayer.
They are scared.
They have no idea what's going to happen to them because God bless them, they've never owed before.
Now, you people need you people that if you are a uh rookie delinquent taxpayer, don't sweat it.
Because I saw on the Drudge Report earlier today that the IRS.
Maybe I can see it up here.
Uh IRS uh was uh IRS.
Well, it's gone.
Uh maybe the IRS changed their mind.
Hang on here.
Let's see if I can scroll down and uh find this.
Uh Bedimini.
Stick with me on this, folks.
I don't want to report misinformation here to you.
Uh, this is not good.
And I had heard earlier that the IRS was going to be very understanding about this and and and uh very lenient and and sympathetic to tax collections this year.
And but a story has vanished.
Let's see.
Let me let me give it one more uh uh uh surge in national.
Ah, Washington Vow Sympathy.
It's still up there.
The reason I missed it, it's because it's under a smiling picture of President Obama.
Uh but it's um, yep, Washington, Washington Vows Sympathy.
So if you are a rookie delinquent taxpayer, I will not be delinquent, sadly.
Well, not sadly, but I can't tell you how ticked I am.
I'm not gonna get into detail.
I I cannot tell you.
Nobody would have any sympathy anyway, and I wouldn't be looking for any from anywhere, but this is just out of hand.
All right.
Uh I I we'll see how many people believe the story that Washington's gonna be sympathetic.
Uh let's see.
Uh oh yeah.
Typical story.
AP Obama.
They're great with gasoline, but micro car crash test results show that the microcars don't fare too well in collisions with larger vehicles.
The crash tests were conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
The test found that drivers of the 2009 versions of the Smart 42, uh, the Honda Fit and a Toyota Yarris.
Have you seen any of these things tooling around?
I have a friend that's got one of smart cars.
The test found that uh drivers could face significant leg and head injuries in severe front-end crashes with mid-sized vehicles.
Not even SUV, SUV could pretty prior to wipe you out.
In the two collision, the institute said the smart car, which weighs about 1,800 pounds, went airborne and turned around 450 degrees after striking the C class, which weighs nearly twice as much.
Auto and the C class is not that big a car.
Automakers who manufacture the small car say the test simulated a high-speed crash that rarely happens on the road.
Rarely?
They also said the test rehashed past insurance industry arguments against tougher fuel efficiency standards.
In a related story, gasoline expected to remain cheap this summer.
Despite the dismal economy, motorists may want to take to the road this summer.
The federal government says gasoline prices are expected to stay relatively low.
So But they're never right.
However, you know, gasoline prices, we even when they do spar a spike in the springtime, they always do come down a little bit from where they were for the uh summertime.
So let's see.
Ah, quick commercial timeout here, folks.
We'll do that.
We'll come back lots more straight ahead.
Plus, let me see if I printed it out.
Didn't print it out.
We haven't seen one of these stories in a long time.
Our favorite local rag here, the Palm Beach Post, has got one of these stories we used to see all over the place two years ago.
Runaway SUV wiping out innocent people with no mention of the driver.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
I'm just sitting here reading an AP story out of Nairobi, which is in Kenya.
I swear reading this story, you would think that the Somali merchant marine organizers actually have a spokesman.
I don't know where AP gets this information about them.
Let me give you an example.
U.S. and French naval attacks on Somali pirates raised fears Monday for the safety of scores of foreign sailors still held hostage as sparked a debate on safeguarding shipping.
The most likely outcome, though, is business as usual for the merchant marine organizers.
Pirate leaders in Somalia have vown to retaliate for the killing of three young teenage pirates by the Obama administration sharpshooters.
In the daring rescue of American Captain Richard, no, it doesn't really say that.
I'm just I put it in there myself.
The International Maritime Bureau said that it supported the U.S. and French action, but also cautioned it may spark retaliation by pirates, which it has, I mean, if four more ships were hijacked today.
Umilma de Guzman, the wife of Filipino seafarer Ruel de Guzman, who's been held since November 10th, said those released are lucky, but what about those who remain captive?
Now, without any quote, without any attribution to anybody in the pirate community, comes this next sentence.
The pirates' primary concerns, however, are economic, and they have no interest in escalating violence.
Who wrote this piece of uh Tom Muliti of the Associated Press.
I guess the Associated Press is the spokesman for the pirate community.
Because this is a PR job for the pirates.
But there's no qu how does this guy know the pirates' primary concerns are economic?
They have no interest in escalating violence.
No, they just hijacked four more ships today.
Pirates armed with assault rifles and rocket propelled grenades typically speed toward a ship in skiffs.
They use ropes and hooks to get aboard without shooting.
Within days, a ransom of a million to two million dollars is delivered by sea or air, and the ship and crew are released.
No big deal.
No shot is fired, no one's harmed.
Hostages have even told of being fed sumptuously with pirates billing the shipping companies for the food.
The pirates are billing the shipping comp there's got to be a return address.
If you're billing the ship if you are the pirates and you're billing the shipping companies for the food, the shipping companies have to have some address to send the money back if they're stupid enough to absurd.
It is an AP story that's a puff piece PR piece press release for the pirates.
Gets even better.
That and the ransom are paid by insurance companies.
The food's paid for by the shipping fleet.
The ransoms paid by insurance companies.
Big deal.
Nobody's hurt here.
No, there's no harm.
Last year, premiums for passage all along the East African coast shot up and premiums.
Premiums for passage.
It's like the fee you pay to go through the Panama Canal.
Yes.
Premiums for passage.
Uh paid by insurance companies, and they uh uh the passage uh all along the East Africa sh coast shot up in August September when there was an increase in hijackings, and then fell in January when bad weather saw little pirate activity.
President Obama vowed on Monday to uh resolve to halt the rise of piracy.
That could herald a new chapter in the piracy saga, said Crispian Cuss of London's risk mitigation olive group.
The pirates had a really good year last year.
They took a lot of ships.
They made a lot of money.
Almost all hijackings are resolved peacefully.
And a great year.
That's right.
They have a great business model.
This is being this is being written about as though it's a tourist attraction.
For those of you with Giant yachts go out there and watch all this.
Watch the hijackings.
Watch the brilliant business model in action.
Watch the captain and the crew be taken hostage.
Watch the ransom airdropped, watch the crew released, imagine because you won't see it, the crew eating sumptuous meals paid for by the shipping companies who are billed for this by the pirate community.
Can you I think the cruise lines ought to start selling crews over to here in the this area to the crew Gulf of Aiden just to watch this.
Join us on a five-day hostage cruise, get fed sumptuous food, enjoy high seas adventure.
We too might be hijacked, but don't worry.
The cruise line will feed us well because the pirates will bill them for it.
And the pirates will get a ransom and they will watch this brilliant business model unfold.
Uh Noel Chung of the Piracy Watchdog International Maritime.
Oh, did you know there was a piracy watchdog?
I didn't until just now.
The piracy watchdog International Maritime, another bureaucracy that does nothing but watch.
And here's the quote from Noel Chung of the Piracy Watchdog International Maritime Bureau says, We do not approve or support the crews of vessels be armed.
Once you start arming the crew, then the pirates will start shooting the crew, even an unarmed crew.
Well, no, no, no.
If the crew is armed and they can't be unarmed at the same time.
Oh, well, let me start again.
Once you start arming the crew, said Noel Chung, then the pirates will start shooting the crew, even an unarmed crew.
Once that is done, you will have more problems because the crew will start shooting at other non-pirate ships.
So the International Maritime Bureau theorizes that if you arm the crew of the peaceful cargo ships trying to deliver their mercy mission food to starving Africans and others.
If you arm the crew, they will start shooting other ships.
Meanwhile, the pirates, all they want to do is hijack you, take you there, feed you well, bill a shipping company for it, get the ransom and let you go.
For you animal rights activists and lovers out there, I want you to try this on for size.
This is a story from Seattle.
Uh Spokane, sorry.
Spokane, Washington having a problem with too many ground squirrels.
At uh the Finch uh uh uh I don't know, uh Arbor Eatum or ARB.
I've never seen this word.
A R-B-O-R-E-T-U-M aboratum.
Aberetum what the hell's an aburetum?
Is this the name for a park?
Is that what it is?
The Finch Arboretum.
Okay.
So the parks and recreation department's gonna use a special machine to blow up some of the 100 to 150 rodents that are tearing up the grounds of the French Arboretum.
The machine is called the Rodinator Pro.
It pumps propane and oxygen into the tunnels of the squirrels and then sends an electric spark that causes an explosion.
The shock waves kill the squirrels and collapse their tunnels.
The uh parks department says that the Rodinator 150, the Rotonator Pro.
Uh, the Rotonator Pro uh is a humane way to kill the squirrels, but it warns area residents the explosions do sound like shotguns.
Do not be alarmed by them as they're going to be happening all week.
San Jose, California.
Susan, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Nice to have you with us.
Oh, thank you.
Um I called because um you were reading the report from the Homeland Security, and I wanted to say I think I completely agree with it.
Okay, I'll bite, tell me why.
Well, because you know, we're the people that want to go back to the Constitution that, you know, really love our freedom and understand that it's being taken away, and therefore we pose an enormous threat to the government.
We're the people buying guns and storing ammunition and preparing for the time when we have to fight the government off.
Wait a minute, though.
I understand the point you're trying to make, but that's not extremism.
Well, to them it is.
But it's not.
They don't get to define the terms.
We are not extremists.
Those of us who want to protect the founding of this nation and preserve it as it was when we were born and grew up.
We are not extremists.
They are the extremists.
They're not right about this.
This is an effort to criminalize political dissent, standard ordinary, everyday political dissent.
This is an effort to criminalize it and to categorize it as something people need to be afraid of and perhaps defend themselves against which is a crock.
We'll be back.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limboy and the EIB Network.
Great to have you here, folks.
Uh let's see.
This is uh Rob in North Dakota.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush, how you doing, man?
It's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
I'm talking, I'm giving you a call on this uh thing, this right wing extremism thing that we've apparently come up with, and uh we got uh document uh a while back.
I worked for the government as well, and um something of that nature that came out, and apparently it's public uh knowledge now, but uh I couldn't believe what I was reading.
I've been in the agency for almost twenty years and wait now, well ho, ho ho w which agency?
Customs and border protection.
Customs and border protection.
And you are you referring to this this Department of Home Security thing about right wing extremism?
Yes, sir.
So you how long ago did you get it?
Uh a couple days ago.
Yeah, okay.
Came out yeah.
A couple days ago.
And so okay, now that I know what you're talking about, uh your reaction to it.
You couldn't believe what you were reading.
I couldn't believe what I was reading because the things that we stand for as God fearing Americans and the things that are in our constitution, and I s I'm reading this document and I'm about to fell out of my chair because I apparently if if if you believe in some of these things,
um you're this right wing extremist crazy person, and th there was there was mention to, you know, uh white supremacy and things like that in there, and I and I thought it was all kinds of things like uh the shooter in th there's one incident cited the shooter in Pittsburgh that fired uh shot three cops.
This this report cites him as as being a loony tune that believed that the uh the Jews were trying to control the world with a one world government.
Uh and and uh and that he was he was opposing cops because he was one of these wacko beliefs and and to that to to Janet Napolitano and and Obama, a shooter like that that's what they think a mainstream conservative is.
Right, and that's what just throws me for a loop because it's like if you are a conservative person, um you know, uh you we're back to this right wing conspiracy thing from the Clinton era, and they're using that terminology, and when I read that, that was the first thing that caught my eye was that title up on the page.
I said, What is this?
I and then it had an official seal and all these things on it.
I I couldn't believe what I was reading.
So I don't I don't know what to think of it.
You don't know what to think of it.
Well, I do, but it's just very shocking because it's I can't believe we've gone this far over the bubble that I mean it's like how do we regain our our uh ability to bring it back a little bit.
Which to me, I mean it's it's it's not so far how we've gone over I know you mean America, but I I think it's a very instructive and teachable moment.
I mean, this all these these these poor people that think Obama's about unity and solving all of our problems and bringing us all together.
Uh this this guy's like every other politician.
He's about wiping out his political enemies.
And unfortunately he considers conservatives in the United States to be a bigger threat to his country and him than people that want to blow up our country.
I think it's it's it's helpful in the sense that people can uh get an idea of just who this man is, because it's not Janet Napolitano.
Janet Napolitano wouldn't put something like this out unless it w because this is so extreme itself that this wouldn't go out unless it had Obama's imprimatur.
And I you know, it's just it's it's what we're up against.
It is finally words on paper what the extreme left in this country actually thinks of us.
And for that reason it's you know, it's it's somewhat helpful.
But the danger in it is is that it creates a circumstance where law enforcement officials can now treat people who are engaged in a time honored art of just standard political descent of being right wing extremists, prone to military acts, militia acts, violence, so forth, spied on, uh monitored and this sort of thing.
No accident this comes out a week before the tea parties that are slated to um kick off tomorrow.
Speaking of that, here's Judy in uh I guess it's somewhere in Delaware.
Hi how are you, Jimmy?
Uh Hobos Beach, Delaware, and I'm going to a tea party tomorrow in uh Georgetown, Delaware.
Uh Rush, I'll get to my point.
I'm very concerned with uh somebody trying to attach himself uh to these tea parties.
Uh if we're not careful, we're going to end up with our own green candidate for president the next time.
As you know, Newt uh very early on bought into man made global warming and he bounced on the couch with uh Nancy.
And I'm concerned that uh uh if we're not careful he's going to become a spokesman for the Republican party.
He's calling it.
Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
You are you talking about Newt Gingrich?
I am talking about none other than Newt Gingrich.
And he is positioning himself to run for president the next time.
And he's not the only one.
I mean there's only I know he's not, but he is uh an elitist, big spending, global warming.
Uh and he is doing a lot of things right now of Well, I think it is a little irrational to uh to buy into the left's totally concocted hoax of uh of global warming.
I I do think I think that's a little irrational.
Anybody would say that's not true.
He was very early, though.
He jumped in he jumped on board very early uh and bought into uh global warming.
And he said, you know, the era of Reaganism is over.
Then he runs out and he makes a film on uh Reagan, and uh I just see that he is doing a lot of things, and it really troubled me when you saw that the tea parties were catching on, and then he very quickly attached himself to the tea parties.
Well, again, I think it's a danger.
Wait a sec.
Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
He's not the only one trying to co-opt the tea parties.
Oh, there's a whole bunch of people trying to go out there and say that they are the impetus behind the tea party.
Look at this you have to exp this happens.
This I mean, I'm not I'm I'm not approving it and I'm not condoning it, but I'm just you have to understand it.
Here you have a genuine grassroots bubble up movement.
So you've got all kinds of people who want to claim they had a role in it, or they even if they don't want to claim they had a role in it, they want to they they they want to be seen as they just want to be part of the crowd because there'd be a lot of attention focused on these things tomorrow.
So that that's that's standard operating procedure for uh people who uh see events like this as an opportunity to further a political career or some other kind of career.
It's natural that that would happen.
Well, uh I'm just also concerned, I've been concerned for a while that we're going to end up with a candidate just like last time.
And and I think uh Newt has been positioning himself for a while.
I used to have tremendous res uh respect for Newt Gingrich, and I don't know f at what point he kind of lost his way and got to be one of the inside the belt way elitists, but uh I I just don't want to be in the same position as last time.
I'd like to have a candidate next time that I could truly get behind.
Well, you know, Newt Knut is um he's a fabulous idea guy.
He's got ideas that grow out of his head like weeds grow in your garden.
They're just constant, and some of them are good and some of them are uh are brilliant, and he never stops uh, you know, trying to put them into uh into action.
Newt's Newt's uh you know, I you you you say that he's what would you say he uh used to have tremendous respect, but he's lost his way.
Well, uh yeah, uh And I I just think he thinks there's a new way.
Well, uh I think he thinks uh that as well, And uh I couldn't understand uh why he said the era of Reaganism was over, and then he turns around and he makes this film.
Now I I have uh a suggestion, you know, I hate uh uh seeing you so upset.
You need to take an afternoon off and go spend uh an afternoon at the Reagan Library.
What do you mean?
What do you mean you hate seeing me so upset?
Well, you've just been uh in a tremendously bad mood today, and I would like to see you uh how do you know?
I mean I'm listening to your show.
I've said I'm in one, but it hasn't sounded that way.
No, but uh you're c you're clearly clearly uh concerned and and about uh what's happening, and I just spent an afternoon at the Reagan Library a couple weeks uh ago, and it does wonders for your spirit rush.
If you go go take a day off and go uh renew yourself.
Oh, renew myself.
I I say that and uh I'm free to renew.
I feel like plugging myself into something.
No, it's to renew myself.
He no, he uh uh Reagan uh was up against tremendous uh opposition and and obstacles and and look, I you I understand all that.
I I I have admitted I'm fed up, but I haven't told you why.
You're just assuming so.
Well, uh when you're gonna let us know why.
Well, I can't I'm not gonna bleed on you.
I'm not gonna tell you why.
It's enough to say I'm fed up, but I'm not gonna sit here and whine and moan about it.
Well other people would do that.
I'm not gonna No, it's it's it's I'm just fed up.
I'm just I'm just in a I'm just a foul rotten humor.
That's all.
Well, we're these things happen.
You know, even I am human.
I know you are.
And uh we appreciate all that you do for all of us out there every day.
Well, I appreciate that.
You're you're most kind.
You really are.
And I you know, I renew myself a lot.
Well every time I go out to renew myself, I'm greeted by a bunch of emails.
Screw you!
Cancel my subscription.
You're never there.
Well, so cancel your own subscription, like we'll billium buck William Buckley said one day.
So um Well, I I just don't want to uh have someone get out front too quickly and become uh the spokesman for the party, and I I don't know.
I don't think I think Newt's trying to be uh all things to all people, and I I'm not sure that uh th that's good for the conserv uh conservative movement right now.
I don't think you have anything to worry about.
There are so many on our side who already think they're the spokesman for either the Republican Party or the Conservative Movement or the Conservative Intelligentsia movement.
Don't sweat it, because Newt's got a lot of competition out there uh from people who think they're gonna be or should be or are already the spokesman for the party.
But leadership has a way of surfacing uh and it surfaces in its own time.
It's just a little soon right now for it to uh for it to to manifest itself.
But it'll it'll happen.
Uh and it it's I don't know who, and I don't know that you're gonna dig it, but there will be somebody surface.
If it doesn't, if we end up like last year's primaries.
Yeah, yeah.
All right.
That's that's true.
And it could it very well it very easily could happen.
Well, I'm gonna wear my uh Operation Chaos hat to the tea party tomorrow until uh you come up with us a better.
Congratulations.
You g I hope you have a great time out there.
Okay.
We'll be thinking about you.
Okay.
That's a right wing extremist from uh from Delaware.
That's Judy.
We'll be back.
Well, according to the Department of Homeland Security, that woman's a she's going to tea parties as a right wing extremist.
We'll be back.
Recently, folks, Kenny Curick was awarded the Walter Cronkite Journalism Award, I think from USC, based on her interview with Sarah Palin.
A former talk show host of KFI Los Angeles, John Ziegler has produced a uh a documentary film entitled Media Malpractice, How Obama Got Elected and Palin uh was targeted.
And it's uh it's a it's a brilliant contradiction of Katie Courick's previous reports about Sarah Palin.
And it's w there's a website here for you.
It's uh you can see it, and we'll put the website link at Rushlimbaugh.com so click on it rather than have to write this down.
It's how Obamagotelected.com.
And it's also going to be screened in theaters uh nationwide, I think.
Let's see.
In Louisville in New York this week, St. Louis and Birmingham next week, how Obama Gotelected.com.
And it's uh it's a it's a great refutation of this whole notion that Katie Couric, well, it's not just Katie Couric, but she's the latest link to this.
It's just the whole treatment payla got, the media malpractice involved in destroying her trying to and uh and elevating Obama.
And Ziggler talked to Sarah Palin about this too, so it's uh it's it's quite instructive.
We'll put the website link uh up at Rush Limbaugh.com and we update the site later this afternoon.
Uh in Pittsburgh, this is Rob.
Great to have you, uh sir.
Nice to have you.
How are you?
Thank you, Rush.
It's uh it's certainly an honor and a privilege to talk to you.
Thank you.
Um uh getting right to the point as both suggested, I you know it's I guess I'm a right-wing uh activist as well.
And I listen to the tea parties, I listen to all the things that that are the grassroots efforts that are going on right now.
And I certainly applaud those efforts.
I think it's great that we are starting to get conservatives that are willing to step forward, but at the same time, I feel like we're a minor league baseball team taking on the majors.
Uh we don't, we simply you you are a machine.
You have knowledge, you have insight, you have the ability to help this woman that you spoke to earlier from Florida to understand a broader sense of what's actually happening.
These tea parties and things, I think, I think are going to be a uh a success and a failure.
I think that the left has an incredible machine.
I think that they are going to infiltrate these tea parties, they're gonna have racist signs, they're gonna have all sorts of different things out there.
They're gonna turn this positive energy that we have against it and against us and use it against us.
And unfortunately, while we're motivated, we don't have the structure, we don't have the 20 years of training to actually understand how the left machine works, and we don't want to emulate it because it goes against our core.
And I'm greatly concerned of our ability to actually make a positive change.
I think we're gonna actually get slaughtered in this process.
Yeah, so you think it's just feel good, basically.
It's not going to accomplish anything.
No, I I think I think it is.
I I've I've tried to involve myself in a couple of things.
I've talked to a number of my friends and others that are involved in this, and they do feel good about getting together.
They feel good about the concept of you know, throw in some tea bags, but when it comes to the ro rolling up your sleeves and doing the hard work that has to happen to actually impact change, that that that goes a little bit too far for them.
Well, uh throughout you know the 20 years, it's actually been longer than that, that you're talking about we don't have the training.
Every time the left gins up a protest, large or small, I get calls from people saying, why don't we ever do it anyway?
We never because we're working.
Well, now we're doing it.
And it just it it as your call indicates, even now that we're doing it, some people are still not happy about it.
We still assume that the left is going to co-opt and take over and so forth.
I think I think the Tea Parties have a lot of value because they have they've genuinely bubbled up from real people.
This is not something that some media figure or politician started.
This is something that's bubbling up.
Uh you can say Rick Santelli, CNBC gave the idea, but he's not allowed to participate in these things from what I know.
But I think it's uh let the left try to co-opt it.
Let the the the the let them let them try.
We've everybody knows they're going to try, and uh and we'll see what happens.
The organizers of these events think that they're gonna be so big the left is not gonna be able to to uh to disrupt them.
As to whether or not it's gonna make any difference, you've got to start somewhere, and this is just an indication that there's no leadership out there that these people can rally around, so they're taking it to themselves.
And I don't blame them.
Fastest three hours in media and they're gone.
Show in the can.
But fear not, folks, we'll be back and start all over again in twenty one hours.
See you tomorrow.
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