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April 16, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 16, 2009, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Anybody out there seen the movie Idiocracy.
Well, if you haven't seen it, it's worth it.
It's unfortunately, even though it's about stupid kids, you really can't watch it with your kids because of the language.
But it is, and it's juvenile.
But it's got an interesting premise, and when I see this story about these two idiots videotaping themselves at Domino's.
You haven't heard about this.
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These kids at work at Domino's putting together pizzas and sandwiches, stuffing cheese up their noses, and waving salami under their rear ends, and they're videotaping this, and they they post it.
They they posted this on YouTube.
These are idiots.
You know, when I and I never did anything like this, but I mean that when I was a kid, the last thing you wanted was anybody didn't know what you'd done.
That was the fun of it.
Would you play a practical joke?
You know, was to be able to go to the scene where it all played out and watch it as though you were as stunned as anybody else that it had happened.
And this it reminded me of this movie Idiocracy, which I'll talk about later.
We've got other things here that I want to get to on the on the program today, specifically the uh the tea parties and the panic, the sheer panic that exists on the American left over this.
Before that, though, I need to ask you another question.
Have you seen Susan Boyle, the clip of Susan Boyle's 16 million YouTube hits?
This woman from Scotland on British Idol.
You can't watch that without getting tears in your eyes.
You really can't.
It is it is just it's the most amazing thing.
This woman has rocked the world with a with a song on Britain's You've Got Talent, British uh British Idol.
And it you know what what moves me about this is she violated society's expectations.
Society's expectations of what we believe success should look like and what we think success should be.
And in doing so, she put a bullet through cynicism.
This woman, her age and her looks have caused her to be overlooked by society.
She's one of society's invisible citizens.
But she had the guts to stand up there on nationwide TV in Great Britain and sing the most beautiful song.
The crowd was going nuts.
The judges had never they said they never seen anything like it.
She was showing off a talent that only God could bestow.
Uh amid all of the horrors and all the drumbeat of rotten news that's out there each and every day.
This this was just cool.
It was cool.
I mean bless her little heart.
Bless her huge heart for uh for doing it.
Was brave.
She she risked going out there being made fun of to uh pursue her dream and show off her talent, clearly God-given.
She was interviewed on Fox and even some not the Fox people, but even some of the media people I've seen talking about this are snarky as they can be about this.
You know, it's just anything that takes attention away from Obama, it just sends these people in the drive-by media into a loop.
Like the Tea Parties yesterday.
From what I've been able to gather, there were 800 tea parties, and I think PJTV, some outfit, has calculated based on the estimates from law enforcement officials and others on all the sites.
Something like 189,000 Americans showed up yesterday, total, for all the tea parties.
Now, do you remember, folks, when inspiring new people to the political process was a grand and glorious thing?
In fact, that's what we were told the Obama campaign was all about.
President Obama was hailed as a candidate because people who had never cared about Politics before were now interested.
They wanted to unify the country.
They wanted to all get along.
They were becoming politically active.
It was a sign of a healthy body politic.
And of course it was wonderful because it was a Democrat president doing it, and he was double wonderful because it was an African American candidate doing it.
Oh, this fits so many templates of the drive-by media in the American left.
Obama was to be praised and admired for getting people involved in politics.
Now the dirty little secret is that these young people showing up to Obama campaigns were not interested in politics.
They had no idea what he was talking about.
It didn't matter what he said.
They were caught up in a cult of personality.
A personality built on quicksand.
A phony rock, you might say.
Barack Obama is the man who sat in Jeremiah Wright's church for twenty years.
He's not the man who claimed to reject it.
Now, these people at the Tea Parties, they're not caught up in personalities because this had nothing to do with personalities yesterday.
I mean, there were some personalities trying to get in there and make it about them, but the uh and I'll tell you there's there there are a couple downsides to what happened yesterday, minor, but I'm I'm going to address those as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears.
The people yesterday at the tea parties not caught up in personalities.
They were there because of issues.
And there were young people there, and there were people from all walks of life, and they are terribly concerned about what they see going on to their country.
This was the result yesterday of tremendous substance, nothing personality-oriented, nothing cult-like.
This was new people being brought into the political process.
But since it wasn't anything to do positively with Obama, it had to be impugned.
The people had to be mischaracterized and uh and and criticized and their reputations destroyed and so forth, their very identities.
The uh, you know, the the big as far as the media is concerned, the Democrat Party, since they're not caught up in personality, since they're not part of a cult, since they're not out there bowing down to Obama, they're extremists.
In the eyes of Janet Napolitano and others at the Department of Homeland Security, they're caught up in adult issues.
These people at the Tea Parties were caught up in adult issues like irresponsible spending, self-defeating bailouts, higher taxes that are going to follow all of this.
See, when when Barack Obama was the centerpiece of adulation, that was good for politics, we were told.
The country is good for the country, good for the world.
By the way, we were told also that Obama was going to renew respect for America around the world.
It hadn't happened with Sarkozy.
Sarkozy's still talking.
Now he's making jokes about Obama walking on water.
Oh, yes, I have the details coming up.
So when Obama's policies are the centerpiece, then the people that showed up at the Tea Parties have to be monitored by Homeland Security.
People who have never been political act politically active showed up at Tea Parties yesterday.
People who have never attended.
I got tons of emails.
This is my first rally rush, my first protest rush.
There are a lot of people who had never attended a political rally in their lives, are now involved because of the tea parties yesterday.
Now, a few months ago, we were told that was the surest sign that the United States was for the first time a country we could be proud of.
But today and yesterday, it was something to fear.
Now, there are two aspects to this.
We've got lots of sound bites coming up, but there are two aspects to this that I do want to share with you.
The one one of the my my greatest concern about this is that there are s I don't want to impune anybody here, but there's there's an i there's a possibility that this is going to lead to a third party movement.
And that's death.
Third party candidates succeed in one thing, and that is electing their alternatives.
John Anderson, 1980.
Uh, you had you have Perot in 1992.
And the temptation here is that uh to go third party because the Republican Party is not responsive.
The real question, my humble opinion, is that this effort and energy needs to be used, as Ronald Reagan did to take over the Republican Party, to uh repopulize it or populate it.
And that's exactly what Reagan did.
He took it away from the Rockefeller blue blood country club types starting in 1976, took him till 1980 to do it.
Uh Goldwater did the same thing.
Uh Goldwater, both both Reagan and Goldwater could have gone third party.
And there's a there's a temptation here to go third party, and a lot of people advocating third party are the personalities who are trying to make this all about them.
And that troubles me, because this is not about personalities.
It's not about it's not about any politician, and it isn't about any media person that organized all of this.
Ron Paul's out there trying to take credit for it by the way.
He issued a big press release.
Um, but th this is grassroots.
This is why this kind of energy from the grassroots needs to be harnessed into uh, you know, the existing political apparatus that can actually win if it is built and structured right.
That's the Republican Party.
A third party can't win.
Third party's not going to have any congressional candidates.
Uh and I that the I just think that the effort here to make this third party, which is bubbling under the surface, it's not something you hear outright, but it's something I sense that is taking place.
I also just want to share this with you.
Not that this really is not going to be a surprise to you, and I don't know how widespread that it is.
But I have a friend who lives in Kansas, near Kansas City, who went to the Tea Party in Kansas City.
And he's got a couple kids in college.
And he sends me a note today saying that his daughter made an interesting point about the coverage of the Tea Parties, which this is not going to surprise anybody, but it's uh this is an on-site reaction.
My friend's daughter said that watching the television coverage was to watch stereotypes of right wing groups.
The stereotypes were what ended up being highlighted.
The picture showed some pro-gun signs with anti-tax signs, country bands were shown playing.
Uh the media made sure to get a bunch of fired up, angry white guys.
Young people generally shown were below the age of five.
This is her recollection.
This is uh this is not me speaking, this is my friend's daughter college age.
Uh as though these young children were being forced to do something they wouldn't do if they were teenagers.
Now, did you see that?
I mean I I d I that this is just one, this is this is uh you know, a potential recruit, open-minded watching this stuff.
She commented that young people watching this are going to be pushed away, and that depressed her.
She understands the message of the events.
She concluded the message was lost in the coverage of the event.
Who was there was more important than why was there, in her opinion.
That's exactly what the media wanted to accomplish.
The who was there and who were they, and who are they, rather than the why.
Even though they took some shots at the why itself, and this feeds right into the DHS report, but my friend tells me that his daughter's not aware of that.
But you've got the DHS report out there defining pro-life, you know, anti-gun control as right-wing extremists.
So, hello, Susan Rosen at CNN and all these other just shameless, irresponsible, agenda-oriented oriented media people who were who catered right to that.
So once again, we have a disconnect, and I have experience with this.
By the way, folks, my most recent example, the CPAC speech.
I went out and made a speech an hour and a half.
There was one line from it that was replayed over and over about wanting Obama to fail.
All of the stuff that really had the crowd cheering and clamping and inspired was left out and ignored.
This is just what happens to people in when they're in the mainstream media when the mainstream media is reporting on them.
So I mentioned this only to say to those of you that were there who are watching the media coverage and maybe a little bit disappointed.
Don't know how many of you are, but I do know that a lot of people still Make the mistake of measuring our success against how honestly and uh positively actions we take are reported on the mainstream media.
That's never going to happen.
So my my admonition to you is ignore the coverage and do not let it affect how you are going to be involved and what you're going to think.
This coverage is designed not only to dispirit you, but anybody else who watched it.
It was disingenuous, it was dishonest, it was an embarrassment.
I mean, it really I you know, I I watched the drive-by media for the first time I'm 58 years old, and I watched the drive-by media, and I for the first time, you know, I'm I'm I'm really not recognizing my country here.
I don't recognize the country they talk about.
I don't I don't recognize the country they support.
I it's got me scared.
And I've been frightened about this Obama stuff for a long time, but this is it's clearly us versus them.
It really is.
It boils it's us versus them.
And it uh it it's just it makes look I I have decided.
I have decided there might be exceptions to this because there always are.
But I've decided it makes and will make no sense for me to ever agree to be interviewed by anybody in the mainstream media, especially if they're gonna tape it and edit it themselves and air it later.
What's the point?
Don't need them.
We know that it's not going to be fair.
We we know that it's it's it's gonna be altered and misreported and so forth.
It really is, it's a it's an us versus them, and it's now us versus them includes the them now includes the media.
Without question, without any doubt about this whatsoever.
So the media covers this stuff yesterday, and of course it's much easier for them to cover the who than the why, especially when they can create the false notion of a prejudice bias on the part of the uh participants.
Pictures speak to groups and stereotypes.
I, for example, speak to individuals.
And the uh the reason this program is uh uh as effective as it is, uh, is largely due to you uh listening to the program and admitting it.
But you know, we you radio's great because you can create your own pictures.
The pictures aren't provided.
And so you're not distracted by a false picture.
And I'm able to zero in and uh speak to you with words, with one voice.
Television you see groups that can be maligned, mischaracterized as they were yesterday.
So I'm not saying don't do it again.
Uh and I don't think anybody can stop it.
I think there's going to be more of them.
I'm hearing talk that July 4th is going to see a new rebirth of these things.
And I keep on, folks, don't misunderstand.
I just uh uh want to be honest here and share with you some of the perceptions that people who were not uh emotionally involved in this thing or politically involved in this thing had been watching it.
All right, a quick time out.
Some of them, not all of them, probably most of the bastard coverage was CNN and MSNBC.
But uh uh on long here, got to take a brief time out.
We'll do that and come right back after this.
So much of what the drive-by media does today is just template.
It's just navel gazing.
And it's gonna be the death of them.
His CNN chick at one of these rallies screaming, I aren't any African Americans here, there aren't any African Americans here.
Straight out of the template handbook.
I mean, she could have been talking about the CNN newsroom for crying out loud.
There aren't any African Americans here.
There aren't any African Americans here, and there aren't any immigrants here, there are any white people.
It wasn't.
But again, remember now all of this newfangled political involvement with Obama, which was cult-oriented, personality oriented, well, that was magic.
That's just what America needs.
All these people being involved yesterday, somehow a threat.
Make no mistake, folks.
The Democrat Party, the White House, the drive-by media, frightened, worried about what went on yesterday.
Nancy Pelosi, yesterday in Oakland, California, KTVU Channel 2.
What they want is a continuation of the failed economic policies of President George Bush.
This initiative is funded by the high end.
We call it AstroTurf.
It's not really a grassroots movement.
It's astro turf by some of the wealthiest people of America to keep the focus on tax cuts for the rich instead of for the great middle class.
So uh if the money doesn't come from George Soros, then it's disqualified.
If the money doesn't come from Acorn or Steve Bing or Harvey Weinstein or some of the other giantly filthy rich Democrat donors, then somehow it is illegitimate.
Plus Pelosi lies.
The initiative was not funded by the high end.
AstroTurf, Bill Clinton owns AstroTurf.
Bill Clinton had AstroTurf in the back of his El Camino and told the nation about it.
She said this is they want a continuation of the failed economic policies.
No.
Madam Speaker, they want a cease and desist to what are guaranteed failed economic policies brought forth by you and President Obama.
These people see their future being mortgaged.
These people do not want a bankrupt United States of America.
And that's what you're bringing them.
And you're chipping away at their liberty and their freedom, and you want to you want to conduct circumstances, create circumstances that will make more people than ever before dependent on the government.
I mean, the outrageous insults aimed at American citizens by people like Nancy Pelosi and the Obama administration are in and of themselves outrageous and unbecoming elected officials.
33 pounds, snurtly.
I can't explain it.
Can't explain it.
33.
This is day 36.
And we're back.
And we're going through the audio soundbite roster of drive-by media coverage of the Tea Party's yesterday.
Here's a montage of correspondent Dan Harris report on ABC's Wordle News tonight.
Cheered on by Fox News and Talk Radio.
The hundreds of Tea Parties today were designed to protest the bailouts, the stimulus plan, and President Obama's budget.
But critics on the left say this is not a real grassroots phenomenon at all, that it's actually largely orchestrated by people fronting for corporate interests.
Stop the sound exactly like what Pelosi sees.
People are stenographers.
They're nothing but stenographers for the Democrat Party, fueled by fronting people fronting for corporate interests.
Now get this next point.
This next point, this is also going around.
Well, the Boston Tea Party in 73 was about taxation without representation.
And that's where this starts.
The Boston Tea Party in 1773 was about taxation without representation, Critics point out that today's protesters did get to vote.
They just lost.
What's more, polls show most Americans don't feel overtaxed.
Tea Party organizers say that will soon change.
And that what we're seeing today is the rebel yell that signals a conservative movement rediscovering its voice.
Just about being overtaxed is about the country being ripped apart, the foundation being torn down and rebuilt.
It's about the country going bankrupt.
Now, this point about the Boston Tea Party 1773, taxation without representation.
As you may remember my having said, and I'll say it again, I admire Charles Krauthammer like I admire few people.
If I didn't have my own brain, it would be a toss-up whether I would want Krauthammer's brain or just a scalia's brain.
I'm happy with my brain, but if I if I had to go in there and get a new one, it'd be a toss-up between Scalia and Krauthammer.
Yet I must take a small diversion from comments Krauthammer made last night on the Fox All-Stars on the uh on the special report Brett Bear show on the Fox News channel.
Uh on the Tea Party protest, Krauthammer said, I don't think it's a movement, it's a protest, And it's a reaction to the fairly radical social agenda that Obama's unveiled ever since his inauguration.
And that's key because the radical socialist agenda is something that has been unveiled since the inauguration.
It was not part of the campaign that people voted for.
But I still maintain that most of the people that voted for Obama did so on the basis of cult.
You had your Democrat Party loyalists, people that hate George Bush and hate Republicans and so forth.
People that voted for Obama on substance are very, very few.
But here's what Crowdhammer said next.
He said I would remind the people at the parties that unlike the original Tea Party, this one is taxation with representation.
Obama was elected by the American people.
Against my sage advice, I would add, but no one listens to me, and his program was pretty open.
It was not him.
Obama was elected by the American people.
They elected a Democrat majority, says Crowdhammer.
Large Democrat majorities in the House and Senate.
And what they have as a result is a government that's ready to use the tax code to confiscate as much of your earnings as it can.
Okay, I want to address that.
It is said, two points about that.
It is said that Obama is doing what he said he would do, which is not quite right, folks.
Obama's massive deficit spending is the opposite of what he campaigned on.
In fact, Obama has said numerous times that he every dollar would be accounted for.
He was going to go through the budget line by line, and wherever there was fraud and waste, it was gone.
And during the campaign, he attacked the deficit spending of George W. Bush, which, while nothing to write home about, still far less, far less spending by Bush than what Obama is doing now.
And the public is extremely concerned about what this is going to do to the country and their children's future.
What happened yesterday to Tea Parties is totally rational.
It's a legitimate reaction.
And I might add the protests were civil and they were lawful.
Now there's also, and I, again, uh uh I guess you could say I'm taking issue with Mr. Krauthammer here, uh, but I don't intend that to be the case.
My own thought here is that, okay, Obama won, he's got big majorities, can do what he wants to do.
No, folks, there is a limit.
And it's called the Constitution of the United States.
Winning big majorities doesn't give you the right in this country to ignore the Constitution, to rip it apart, to pretend it doesn't exist, to rewrite it.
There's a basic misunderstanding here about American government, frankly.
No disrespect here intended to anybody, but the Constitution is not a document about majoritarianism.
I mean, it it embraces it, I guess, aspects of it uh, including the establishment of the House of Representatives.
But it's that's that's not the defining aspect of the Constitution.
Majorities do not win.
We are not a democracy.
We are not a pure democracy.
Majorities do not always have limitless power to do what they want to do.
The Constitution is actually a document that rejects pure democracy by virtue of checks and balances and the creation of the House of Representatives.
So to say that Obama won the presidency and that the Democrats took Congress with huge majorities, so therefore all of this is to be expected.
Well, this does not give Obama and the Democrats carte blanc to ignore the Constitution's limits on their power and to make systemic changes in our form of government, which is what is happening.
And this is why so many people are upset.
It's not a pure democracy, and large majorities do not mean you get to ignore the Constitution of the United States.
These protests that happened yesterday and they're going to be ongoing, they are about abusive government.
Abusive government can take on many forms and has under the less than 100-day tutelage of Barack Obama.
Certainly in this administration, they're going after the individual.
This administration is targeting the individual.
This administration is targeting the private sector with a vengeance.
This is not a direct comparison of the Boston Tea Party.
That was a revolt against far less than what's going on right now.
Taxation without representation is one thing.
This is the that that was that was a smidgen of a problem compared to what's happening now.
But attacking, you know, thematic differences like this ABC report did misses the substantive point.
You know, yesterday somebody threw a box of tea bags, a box of tea over the fence of the White House.
Secret Service moved in there, send it a tiny little robot check it out, that they had to do that.
They moved all the protesters, but the Secret Service did a good job cleaning it up, figuring out what it was, let everybody back to their original uh protest positions.
Still to me quite funny when a box of tea thrown over the White House fence can shut down the place for a while.
They sent the press back to the press room.
The drive-by's out there covered.
Oh, oh, something just him over the fence.
You guys better head back to the press room.
Which I just the drive-by's running for cover from a box of tea.
It just I had the greatest thrill with that.
Now more audio sound bites.
Here we have this.
This is uh this is one of the bites everybody in the Tea Party movement just livid about CNN correspondent Susan Rosen.
She was live at the Chicago Tea Party.
Here's a portion of an exchange that she had with unidentified Tea Party protesters, and it'll be followed by uh the anchor Kira Phillips in the studio defending Susan Rosen.
Uh, she starts out by saying to a Tea Party participant, why are you here today, sir?
Because I hear a president say that he believed in what Lincoln stood for.
Lincoln's primary thing was he believed that people had the right to liberty and had the right to.
Sir, what does this have to do with taxes?
What does this have to do with your taxes?
Do you realize that you're eligible for a $400 card?
Lincoln believed that people had the right to share in the fruits of their own labor and that government should not take it.
And we have clearly gotten to that point.
Wait, did you know that the state of Lincoln gets $50 billion out of this stimulus?
That's $50 billion for the state, sir.
I can you stop this, sir?
Hold on.
Okay, well, Kira, we'll move on over here.
I think you get the general tenor of this.
It's anti-government, anti-CNN since this is highly promoted by the right wing conservative network, Fox.
And since I can't really hear much more, and I think this is not really family viewing, toss it back to you, Kira.
Wow, that is the prime example of what we're following across the country there.
CNN people, you have become, even in the media, a laughing stock.
Your ratings are plummeting.
So much so that even other drive-by broadcast publications are reporting on the plummeting ratings of CNN.
Do you not realize there that your state's getting $50 billion in stimulus money?
How much of it he's gonna get?
How much is his pay?
What do you mean he's paying for that, Susan?
Part of that $50 billion, we're either going to have to print or we're gonna have to borrow, and this guy's gonna get taxed to pay for it.
And so are you.
But it's government and government and wonderful and government is death the bad thing.
Obama cares.
What aren't you realize they're gonna get a $400 tax crack?
She was clueless.
This is a reporter.
I am guessing, in addition to showing up with an agenda, she literally has no idea why these people are there.
She has no intellectual understanding of why anybody could possibly be upset today.
None whatsoever.
It anti-government, anti-government, it's anti-TNN.
It's brought on by the right wing network Fox.
Oh, yeah, and it wasn't family viewing.
I'll tell you what's bugging these CNN people is they know nobody watches them.
And yesterday was a clear example of why.
They look at Fox's numbers and they just, you know, in the universe of cable news, CNN's becoming a non factor.
And then it's it's this is just one of the reasons, one of the reasons why.
I mean, for cran outlets, Susan Rosgen.
Do you really expect the American people start prancing around and throwing parties based on how much borrowed printed money their state governments are gonna get in a so-called misname Stimulus program.
When's the last time I saw the American people get happy about that?
I wonder if she could go out to Illinois and find anybody.
Just ask him the opening of the question.
Sir, you care about politics?
Yes, ma'am, I do.
What are you happy about today?
Well, I'm happy.
My state's gonna get 50 billion dollars from the federal government.
There's nobody that thinks this way.
Because most people know that $50 billion in the federal government started with them.
It was taken by the federal government.
In this case, Obama's gonna have to print it or borrow it, because we don't have the money.
Anyway, I gotta take a break.
And we'll be back.
We will continue in mere moments.
Sit tight.
You know, actually, I've been thinking about this during the break.
The CNN reporter, Susan Rosgen, in her own twisted way, she is right.
Is if you would je if you object to government abuse, uh, then you would object to CNN as well.
Since CNN is nothing more than the voice of government.
CNN's nothing more than the voice of Obama.
So if you object to government abuse, then why?
Yeah, of course you would object to CNN.
So if you are anti-blacklisting by Homeland Security, if you are anti-socialism, if you are pro-life, if you are anti-national health care, if you're anti-appeasement of our enemies, then you would be anti-CNN.
Where is Candy Crowley when we need her?
Where is Frank Cesno when we need him?
I mean, he had a thing for Gorbach Trump, but other than that, Frank was pretty good.
Where are all the great names that used to be?
Where's the Bernard Shaw who fled from the uh Al Rashid Hotel in Baghdad?
Where are all the greats?
But Susan Rosedon is a good reporter in this.
She's got great eye makeup.
Fabulous eye makeup, did you notice?
That counts on televisions.
Speak of CNN, let's go to this.
Larry King alive last night had Trump on.
And uh King challenged my patriotism because I've ceased doing business in New York and I'm gonna refuse to pay taxes there.
So King says, Roj Limbo doesn't live in New York.
Got out all of whatever you had in a song.
There's no reason for Rush Limbo to live in New York.
And he they raised the taxes and he said, Well, now it's time for me to leave.
So they brought it up to the breaking point, and he announced that he's leaving New York, and he's gonna save a lot of money by living in Florida.
Why don't patriots want to pay taxes?
Well, I don't know that that's necessarily unpatriotic.
I think they want to pay taxes.
Um obviously you have to pay taxes, but they want to pay a reasonable tax, and they don't want to see the money squandered.
Exactly right.
If you get something for it, if there's some meaning, but this is a leftist trick here to define paying high taxes as patriotic.
Isn't Biden, I think, uh said it, patriotic duty to pay higher taxes.
When in fact, Larry King himself, I'm sure has accountants and tax lawyers who do everything they can to limit what he has to pay.
And everybody that makes a lot of money, anybody that makes money, period, tries to pay as little as they can within the confines of tax law.
By the way, I played golf with Trump on uh on Sunday at his golf course now.
This guy, he is a great golfer.
I and I'd seen him out at the ATT national program.
I'd never played with him out there, and I'd heard he was a five or six-handed guy.
This guy was three under.
He hits the ball almost as far as I do.
He kept saying, You didn't know Trump was such a great golfer, did you didn't know Trump was so good?
I knew you were good, but I had no idea that you were three under.
And this is uh, you know, this is 6800, 7,000 yard course, as uh as we played it on Sunday afternoon.
Um, probably one of the most noteworthy things to come out of the uh tea parties was in uh Austin, Texas yesterday, Governor Rick Perry spoke with reporters, unidentified reporters, uh, unidentified reporters said the idea of secession or sovereignty for your state.
Texas is a unique place.
When we came in the Union in 1845, uh one of the uh issues was that we would be able to leave if uh we decided to do that.
My hope is that America and Washington in particular pays attention.
Uh we got a great union.
Um there's absolutely no reason to dissolve it.
But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that.
Now, this is not in this is not insignificant.
When the when the governor of Texas talks about we could secede, I don't think it's gonna happen.
I hope it doesn't, but we could.
When the governor of Texas starts talking about this because of the abuse of government on his citizens and on his state, and forcing his state to take federal money when he doesn't want it.
Uh and I also think, you know, there's still, I run into them, there's still some conservatives who still drive-by media's gospel to them.
I say they're conservatives, they're not active, they're not liberals, they're just and I'm wondering at some point how much of the excesses of the media are going to finally start causing other people to have lights go on in their heads.
Hey, something's not quite right here when you have the governor of Texas start talking about the possibility of getting out of all this because of the abuse from government.
That's gonna cause because this guy's not a French cook.
This guy's nowhere near a cook in any way, shape, manner, or form.
First hour of broadcast excellence is in the can.
And there is still lots more to go.
We have barely scratched the surface.
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