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I mentioned this yesterday, folks.
The French president Sarkozy, Nicholas Sarkozy, remember that headline from a UK Telegraph yesterday recalling Obama's dog a mutt, that Chinese water torture, a Portuguese water torture dog that Ted Kennedy gave.
It's not a mutt.
They called Obama's dog a mutt.
I mean, the British press has not swallowed, what's the phrase, the Kool-Aid.
They haven't swallowed a Kool-Aid.
I mean, they're just, the British press is reporting on what a failure Obama's G-20 trip was, that he got nothing, that he dazzled no one, that they made out in public like he did, but behind the scenes, when it came time for substance, Obama came up empty.
And, you know, it's rare.
Thomas Lifson, anti-American thinker, points out that it's rare for a head of state to mock another head of state.
But there's a pro-American French blog, and it highlights this incident for us.
According to the French newspaper L'Express, Sarkozy criticized Obama and his popularity.
Journalists have no memory, Sarkozy said.
In 2000, George W. Bush was so popular that Jacques Chirac had arranged to dine with Bush before he was inaugurated.
The French loved Bush in 2000 before he was inaugurated.
The French president, who will host Obama on the beaches of Normandy on June 6th for the 65th anniversary of the Normandy landing, is ironical about Obamania.
Sarkozy actually said to this blog, I'm going to ask Obama to walk on the channel, and he will.
I'm going to ask Obama to walk on the English channel.
You know, I thought, I have to tell you something, folks.
Human nature is human nature, and heads of states are heads of state.
And if you're head of state, you're an ego nut.
You have to be.
And during that whole G20, to see the fawning press that this rookie president got had to eat these guys alive.
You know, they have to go along with it for the sake of appearances and the photo ops and all that, the public things.
But now that it's over, they're all talking amongst themselves.
What a lightweight.
This guy actually thinks he walks on water.
All right, I'm going to take him to English Channel when we celebrate Normandy invasion, and I'm going to make him walk on the channel.
The French president's saying this to the French media.
You know, and Lifson points out here, I clearly remember the promise that Barack Obama would restore respect for America overseas, but it doesn't seem to be working in France.
But don't hold your breath waiting for the American media to report this.
I've learned something here because I wasn't quite sure.
I thought Obama wasn't going to go to Normandy, the 65th.
I thought I'd read that during the G20 sometime, that Obama had no plans to go back over there for the celebration.
But maybe he's changed his mind.
And no, he's not going to put rocks on the beach in the form of a cross like Clinton.
That's the funny.
That's one of the funniest things.
Clinton's over there for the, I guess, what would it be?
55th?
55th?
No.
The 50th was 94.
Maybe it was the 50th.
Clinton went over there, and there are no rocks.
I have been there.
I was there a week before the 50th anniversary.
And the real, I mean, Omaha Beach is one thing, but Poin de Ho is, or as for those of you in Rio Linda's, you would read it, Point du Hoc.
But it's pronounced Poin du Ho.
This is where the Germans, I mean, were firing straight down on the Army Rangers who were climbing straight up that cliff.
And Reagan's speech at Poandu Ho during his term, the boys of Poin du Ho, brought people to tears.
It wasn't to slight any of the other beaches.
But I was over there and I've got the lay of the land.
And Clinton goes over there and taking this lone stroll on the beach at Normandy.
And all the photographers are positioned way up on the shoreline, away from the, well, not the shoreline, but beyond the beach.
And Clinton had a U.S. destroyer positioned perfectly out there in the English channel so that it would be in the frame of the photo.
And he's strolling along all pensive and filled with emotion of what happened there and so forth.
And out of nowhere, looks stunned.
And he kneels down.
And he starts grabbing stones and rocks on the beach at Normandy.
And he puts them into the shape of a cross.
There are no stones there.
There aren't any stones at my beach.
The White House put the stones there.
Of course, the drive-bys ate it all up.
And there's Clinton.
And here come the bitten lower lip and the fake tears, so forth.
And the same thing happened when they got the Italian cemetery, the Italian version of Arlington Cemetery.
Clinton's walking through there and darn it, if they won American flag and not fallen over.
Darn it.
Isn't it amazing how that happens?
And no, you hate it when that happens.
American flag, it fell over and it was on the ground.
Just happened minutes before Clinton got there.
So he kneeled down and put the American flag back in the ground, the small little flags, the tombstones, and again the fake tears.
So I don't know.
Obama, if he's going to pull something like that off, he's got a major, major accomplishment to do.
I mean, finding stones that don't exist on a beach, putting them in the form of a cross.
If Obama's going to do something like that with some great symbolism, it's like Sarkozy said, well, maybe he'll walk ashore.
Maybe he'll build a glass platform just underneath, just underneath the surface of the water, and Obama will walk ashore on the water.
No, he really can't walk on water, English Channel notwithstanding.
He can't walk on water, Mr. Snurdly.
So they'd have to build a glass platform underneath there, but he'd still have to get out there on it.
They could drop him off from maybe a PT boat.
Bring one of those out of the museums.
PT-110.
You know, John Kerry retook the Boston harbor as he was heading over to the Democrat convention in Boston in 2004.
It could be a swift boat.
It could have John Kerry drive Obama to the platform.
He gets off and it walks across the English Channel, you know, for 10 paces.
That's all it would take, with Sarkozy waiting there to greet him.
But it's interesting, Sarkozy mocking Obama.
Obama's leaving today.
He's going down to Meko.
He's going down to Trinidad and Tobago.
And this is where he's going to be with his buddies.
Now, the teleprompter says, teleprompter has a website, baracksteleprompter.com or Barack Obama's teleprompter.
And I read the teleprompter's website today.
The teleprompter says that Obama is really excited to meet Danielle Ortega, the communist leader of Nicaragua.
And that they're probably going to make a lot of apologies for the United States.
We'll probably apologize to the Mexicans for the guns that are leading to the drug problems down there and the strife on the border.
Well, the teleprompter knows what he's going to say.
The teleprompter tells him what to say.
And this is what the teleprompter's website says.
And we'll probably see quite a relaxation of the travel restrictions at Cuba and so forth and so on.
When we come back, I'm going to grab some phone calls, but do not, I have not forgotten Janet Napolitano.
That's coming up with, I have a couple of interesting points to make about Napolitano.
She's running around trying to defend her report, and she's not taking any of it back.
She's not taking any of it back.
But your phone calls are next when we come back right after this.
Okay, back to the phones where you go.
Again, the telephone number is 800-282-2882.
And this is Paul in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
You're up first today, sir.
Great to have you here.
Rush, over 10,000 Tea Partiers in attendance.
Dittos from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Thank you, sir.
It is an honor to talk to you.
This is awesome.
I called because it's really, as one of the organizers of the Albuquerque Tea Party, it's really burning me up to hear these reports that this is.
I didn't know that you worked for Fox News.
Yeah, well, and I'm kind of mad at you, too, because I haven't received my check from you or Fox yet.
I'm wondering where that was.
You were supposed to call and bolster me on all day yesterday.
What happened there?
But yeah, this was, we had, I want to say about seven or eight people in our core group.
This couldn't have been a more grassroots.
This couldn't have been a more all-volunteer function.
And yeah, we had sponsorship.
We had local businesses come out of the woodwork, mine included.
That's how I originally got involved, to help get this thing off and help get it going.
Yeah, by the way, what the hell's wrong with that?
What the hell is a local business getting involved with this?
What's wrong with that?
For crying out loud, General Electric's joined the damn global warming movement.
You know, screw these people out there, Paul.
Don't let them, you know, you know they're going to lie about you.
You know they're going to try to discredit what you do.
And when you put yourself out there like you did, you've got to expect what's going to come back at you, and you've got to learn to ignore it, particularly when it isn't true.
And you can't let them make your focus change to convincing them.
You don't want to play this, not saying you are, on their field.
Just keep doing what you do and screw them.
I mean, what they want you to do is be all upset the way they report.
They want you responding and pandering to them.
They want you worried that they're misreporting it.
Just be above them, which is not hard because you are.
You're smarter.
You're more involved.
You have a much more open mind.
And you're clearly more informed than half the journalists at CNN combined.
Journalists are not even informed anymore.
They're just activists.
They're just agenda drivers.
They don't bother to inform themselves.
Kim in Chicago.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Rush, I just want to say you are a true gift to the citizens of the United States.
Thank you for your service.
Well, that's very nice of you to say.
Thank you very much.
I want to say, I heard your comment earlier, someone standing out in the drive-by saying, where are the African Americans?
Where were the African Americans?
And I just want to say, my husband and I were in Chicago at the tea party yesterday, and if they would have been in Chicago, they would have seen some.
We were really encouraged to see a great mix of ages and ethnic groups.
We saw Hispanic Americans and African Americans.
There was a man on the street from Russia telling his concerns about what he's seen in his country and what's being paralleled here.
And I think the only thing, the only group that was missing was the media.
Well, the media has its templates.
And the CNN babe shouting, There's no African Americans.
It's just the template.
There are no African Americans because conservatives are racists, and that's why African Americans, they're smart.
They don't show up at these things.
And in fact, you said there's some there.
Yeah, they were in Chicago, and I was encouraged to see, like I said, a mix of ethnic groups, a mix of ages.
And these people were angry, but this was a peaceful crowd, and it was an amazingly polite crowd.
If people bumped into each other, they said, oh, excuse me, sorry.
We were talking to each other.
And I have to say, the thing I thought was the greatest is at the end of this rally, the people that were organizing it asked us all to look down, and if we saw any litter on the street at our feet, would we please pick it up and dispose of it properly on our way out?
And everybody did it.
And it was just, I was proud to be a part of it, and I'm just really sick to see how they've misrepresented this.
But you knew it was going to happen.
Oh, yeah, we knew it.
But it was encouraging to see.
These people are not as smart as you.
Do not think that they're any smarter just because they're on TV.
They're not.
These people are such narrow-minded, so narrow-minded in their focus.
They show up.
They don't even have to see.
They just know it's going to happen because you're you, and they're going to report that it happened whether it did or not.
Well, I hope that the people that were there will be encouraged to come out, even more of us the next time.
They will, because they all had a good time.
Yeah, we do.
They all had a good time, and it was worthwhile, and it was worth the effort, and it had substantive meaning.
You know, this was about substance.
You guys are not following some personality cult out there.
This is not about that.
You were out there on your own.
It was fabulous.
I appreciate your phone call.
Dorothy in Salem, Missouri.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Oh, thank you, Rush.
It's good to talk to you.
You bet.
I tell you what, I want to thank you.
And, you know, you talk about God, your gift from God.
You are.
You are, you are, you are.
Well, thank you.
Talent on the loan from God.
I appreciate it.
You're very kind.
I appreciate that.
You have the guts, the courage, and the boldness to stand up for what you believe in.
I'm from Salem, Missouri, and we had a little gathering in our park.
I didn't get to go because I was working yesterday, but I would like to have been there.
And I watched yesterday as much as I could of Glenn and different wands, and I also saw the reporter.
Disgusting, absolutely disgusting.
But I have to give the man that she was talking to that had the little child in his arms, he had manners, even though she was coming against him.
He had enough manners to let her go on and just make a fool of herself, to be honest.
She did.
Yes.
And I admire Sarah Steelman and Joanne Emerson of Missouri.
I admire those women very much.
The rest of them, as a whole, to me, if I had anything to do with it, would kick them out and we'd start a news.
Well, now this is an interesting reaction that you were having.
I remember now, I don't know if you heard the first half hour of the program, but I'm going to say it again here, but I don't mean to be throwing cold water on things.
But one of the things I sense is effervescing out there on these tea parties is turning this into a third-party movement.
And there are a lot of people who want that to happen because they want to be in charge of it.
They want to get the credit for leading it, creating it, or what have you, or they want to use it to create a niche identity for themselves.
Not going to mention names because it's not the point.
The point is that third parties lose.
A third-party candidate will end up electing the alternative, parole-elected Clinton, for example.
What instead needs to be the focus is largely what happened in 1994.
And that is just get rid of as many incumbents as you can, because that's the problem here.
Incumbents in Congress, incumbents in the Senate, that's the big problem.
And right now, aside from putting little boulders in the road to try to stop Obama, there aren't the votes in Congress to stop anything he's doing.
And no way to stop the Democrats on this.
And there's no way to stop the media.
That's why these tea parties yesterday are important because this is the first step.
This is something that's going to pop up from neighborhoods, from the grassroots.
And this is the kind of thing that leads to the election of enough new members of Congress 2010 that can maybe perhaps have a difference.
Don't forget this, that a lot of, if not most of the stimulus package, the pork spending in the porculus bill doesn't really kick in until 2010 and after.
And if you get significant enough majorities, and it's a long shot, but you might be able to write legislation that cancels some of that spending.
Obama would veto it, and it would depend on the majorities.
The Democrats have enough votes to overwrite it.
But these little movements that started yesterday were actually not little, 800 of them, 189,000 people is what I heard.
So that's hundreds of thousands of Americans.
The Democrats kind of characterize this as something that it wasn't, but they're just, they are frightened of it.
And I'll tell you, a lot of other people look at this, and they're probably a little surprised, too, because the casual observer and someone that pays casual attention to politics probably buys the media notion that Obama is universally popular in this country, that he's just, everybody loves it, loves his policies, loves him.
And this kind of stuff happens.
And people go, what, what, what?
Like the guy that called the 19-year-old that called yesterday from Texas.
Why Obama doing such a good job?
Why is everybody so upset?
Which was a great opportunity for me to try to explain it.
And the more people think, they realize there are a lot of people that are not online with this, the better the opportunity to oppose it.
Hey, folks, a couple of reminders.
Tomorrow is our annual curathon for leukemia and lymphoma, the leukemia lymphoma society.
We do this once a year, every April, where we raise significant amounts of money that go toward the research of cures eventually by expanded lifespans after diagnosis for all of the blood cancers.
A new drug has just come out, which we'll be telling you about tomorrow, too.
But I wanted to give you a heads up that tomorrow on Open Line Friday is our annual cure-a-thon for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Also, I just learned this morning that my buddy Mark Levin's book, Liberty and Tyranny, will remain number one on the New York Times bestseller list.
This will be the third consecutive week, and this week, the third week of sales of Levin's book is higher than the other two.
So the arc is continuing to skyrocket out there.
And the sale of this book in the midst of all that is happening and these tea parties is a great indication of just how much energy there is in this country to oppose what is happening to it via Obama administration policies.
Now, this book, it's just been out three or four weeks.
There's 850,000 of them in print now.
And I would just love it if Levin sells a million copies of this book.
Because I got to tell you, you know, Obama, sorry, sorry, sorry, Oprah is out there pushing all kinds of books, Michael J. Fox's book and other books.
And Levin, you know, he's doing some book signings and he's doing, he has done some radio interviews, but he doesn't have any big names pushing his book, of course, other than me.
And he's outselling all of them.
And I'll tell you why.
It's not because of the publicity.
It's because of the content.
It's because of the substance of the book.
It's called word of mouth.
The best thing that can sell a book is word of mouth.
People read it and say to themselves, my gosh, others need to read this.
And they either buy a copy or two to give away or they tell their friends about it.
And that's what's propelling Liberty and Tyranny.
It's a great book.
And the timing of this book is ideal.
So I couldn't be happier.
I could not be happier.
850,000 copies in print, third week, number one, New York Times bestseller list.
And I sincerely hope the momentum keeps going as this book, if you know, I've said this before, people ask me, what's your reading list, Rush?
Where do I go to learn about the basics and the foundations of conservatism?
There is one now that can actually sum it all up from the ancient conservative philosophers and the application of conservatism to present-day issues.
And I'm not going to give this away, but the end of the book, there are 10 things that Levin says need to be done to move the country forward.
Some of them quite fascinating.
But congratulations to Mark Levin.
Liberty and Tyranny, third week, number one New York Times list.
Sales this week, previous weeks higher than the previous two weeks.
And there's no end in sight.
And now Nathan in Dallas, I'm glad you waited, sir.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
It is a pleasure to speak with you.
Thanks for the call.
And I just want to say, first of all, I acknowledge you and I thank you for being the voice for so many that just really don't have one or they can't find their voice to stand up.
So thank you.
The point I wanted to get to, though, is the reason I think that the liberals are so put back and so upset and defensive about yesterday is I think it's because up until now, they've had the exclusive right to activism.
And now non-liberals, whether it's so-called independents or conservatives, they're stepping up and they're finding a way to use what liberals have used for so long.
Yeah, but even with that, you're right.
But even with that, there's a difference.
Most, not most, but a lot of liberal protests are rented, rent-a-mobs.
Do you remember a couple, three years ago, a million people came out to protest illegal immigration and so forth?
That's all put together by the unions.
The unions get a hold of their members, say, you will show up at X and X location.
Nobody had to be cajoled or prodded.
Nobody had to be threatened to show up at these tea parties yesterday.
There's so many substantive differences.
The public protest, you're right, is the liberal province.
They've owned it and they use it as a tool and they pay people.
That's why the name rent-a-mob exists.
In fact, you know, there's this, Nancy Pelosi in her comments said that this is not a grassroots movement.
This is an astroturf movement.
Now, Steve Gilbert at sweetnessandlight.com informs me, and I didn't know this, that the term astroturfing was invented to describe actions by none other than David Axelrod, who is essentially Barack Obama's teleprompter.
David Axelrod had PR firm and he worked in the private sector.
One of the things that Axelrod did was to create phony grassroots movements in order to pressure business, competitors of his clients, or to push the concerns of his clients.
And astroturfing is pretty much, as Nancy Pelosi described it, is phony.
Astroturf is the creation of the image that there's a big groundswell of grassroots movements when there isn't one behind it.
Sort of like a wag the dog kind of thing.
And astraturfing, from what I understand, is the term described or invented to describe the practices of David Axelrod.
So they're out there, Pelosi and the media trying to diminish what happened, what you people did yesterday by calling it astroturfing, which means fake grassroots, phony grassroots.
When, again, as is the case in so many things, when the Democrats start accusing you, when the liberals start accusing you of something, the odds are they do it themselves and you don't.
Who's next?
Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Mike, nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
I want to, first off, say thank you and prostrate myself at the feet of the master.
Well, that's not necessary.
I am not President Obama.
Get up.
And I want to apologize for being one of those rich Republicans from Bucks County.
But the real reason for my call is...
You don't really mean that.
You said that with a laugh.
You're not apologizing for being rich.
You're darn right I'm not because I work 14 hours a day to be there.
And besides, you won't be for very much longer.
So enjoy it while you can.
Yeah, that's the real point.
But what the media is trying to do is say, hey, this tea party was only how many $100,000, $180,000?
Did you go to one?
No, and that's one of the reasons for my call is because I was actually working as I have to do.
So the point is not how many people showed up, but how many people agree and really back the same kind of sentiment like myself.
And believe me, there's a lot.
Quite a few.
And this was only the first volley, the first shot over the bow.
Because let me tell you, you know better than I do what's going to happen.
The taxes that will follow the cigarette tax, the liquor tax, the price going up for gasoline, socialized medicine, schooling, one thing after the other is going to break the camel's back.
And you talk about the sentiment bubbling up.
Pretty soon it's going to be like a volcano erupting because it's going to pile on and pile on and pile on.
And I believe all of these taxes, all of this money being taken from those who have, is going to actually set a second wave of foreclosures on houses.
What Obama wants?
I think Obama wants the largest welfare state he can get.
I really do.
I think this is about as much federal control as he can secure for himself and the Democrat Party.
Now, Mike, I'm going to end your call right now because you're talking about the first shot over the bow.
Don't forget, Department of Homeland Security is monitoring us now.
And you've identified yourself as coming from Bucks County.
And you've admitted that you are rich.
I mean, you couldn't make yourself a bigger target by having admitting all this on the program today.
In addition to that, We have learned here that the National Security Agency does all the monitoring of phone calls and emails, has been collecting even more information than usual on domestic phone calls made by us, made by Americans.
So I'm going to try to protect you from any more risk that you've put yourself under by being so open about this.
If you're right, if Mike is right, if there are going to be more of this, and I've heard that they're going to try to gin these things up again on July 4th, if that happens, I have a funny little suggestion for you.
Because you know the media will show up again.
The Susan Rosgens of CNN and all the rest will show up.
And when they show up to start asking you questions, as Susan Rosgen did with a guy holding a baby in Chicago yesterday, here's what you need to do.
Promise me you'll do this.
And if you want to answer the questions, that's fine.
I'm going to try.
But what you need to do first is say, where are the journalists?
I don't see any journalists.
Well, there's somebody from CNN with a camera and a microphone in your face, and they ask you some stupid, where are the journalists?
You know, and look around like you're trying to find, where are the journalists?
I don't see any journalists here.
Oh.
That will be fun.
Nobody will ever see it on TV.
They will edit it out.
But you can have a friend of yours videotape it or whatsoever and then post it on YouTube like those two idiots at Domino's.
This is just, you know, our kids, I don't know that they're being born dumb yet.
I don't know that the average IQ is being reduced in this country.
But I'll tell you, they're being dumbed down by somebody.
They're being dumbed down in school or whatever.
Why in the world would anybody go to a party underage, start chugging brewskies, and have it posted on their MyFace page or MySpace so that their parents could see it?
We were never that stupid.
If we got caught, it was legitimate police work by our parents.
It wasn't because we were idiots.
Good grief.
But these clowns at this Domino's, right?
Yes, yes, yes.
At Domino's Pizza in Conover, North Carolina.
A gross video, it says here from the AP, posted on YouTube showing a Domino's pizza worker stuffing cheese up his nostril and waving salami under his rear end as he is making sandwiches that led to charges against him and a coworker who recorded him.
Christy Lynn Hammonds, 31, and Michael Anthony Setzer, 32 of Conover are each charged with distributing prohibited foods.
The police chief Gary Lafone says it's the same North Carolina statute that forbids any tampering with Halloween candy.
A spokesman for Domino's said that the workers were fired.
There is no evidence any of the tampered foods were served to the customers.
He said the company may also pursue a lawsuit against these two idiots.
The CEO Patrick Doyle posted another video in response saying the store had been sanitized.
Sanitized?
Top to bottom?
Jeez.
I said, have any of you seen the movie Idiocracy?
This is right out of the movie idiocracy.
Oh, well, timeout.
We're a little long in the segment here, so let's take it.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Don't go away.
No, I think it's these kids want fame.
And I am troubled by it.
I really am.
MySpace, is that what it is?
And Facebook and all the YouTube stuff.
Look, you can't fight technology.
I'm not fighting it.
I'm all for technology.
But I'm telling you, all of these stupid things these people are doing is just so other people will see them.
If they can't get on Jerry Springer, the next best thing to do is, you know, mess up your work at Domino's and put it on YouTube.
Start chugging beers when you don't think your parents can see it.
Put it on YouTube.
You want it to be seen if you do that.
It may be the new form of rebellion.
Take this, mom.
But regardless, I think the root of it is that everybody wants fame.
The pop culture's caught up.
There's a Jerry Springer show, there's Oprah, and let's say everybody famous is in pictures.
I am probably the most famous non-video person in the country.
That's no mean feat.
I still am.
These people, and they think that this fame is going to get them all this treatment like Britney Spears gets or all the idolatry the entertainment press gives their heroes in movies and music and so forth.
They haven't the slightest understanding of it.
I once saw an actor who's a friend of mine, page six, New York Post, pictured in the China Club, no longer in existence, in New York at 2 o'clock in the morning with a bevy of sweet young things around him.
And next time I ran into him, I said, what?
What?
He's married.
I said, what in the hell are you doing?
Got to do it.
Movie coming up.
That's where you go to get yourself photographed.
That's the audience that's going to go to the movie.
Got to do it.
I'll tell you, if you're a youngster out there and you're obsessed with fame, I'm going to give you a little piece of advice.
The worst thing you can do to yourself is to establish a career or identity or whatever that requires the media to cover you every day in order for you to stay successful.
Because while they may love you one day, at the next day they're going to tear you apart and they're going to try to destroy you.
It's just the nature of the beast.
And it's, you know, all this fame stuff when you're young, because everybody wants to be known, everybody wants to matter and so forth.
It's ask these two lunk, 32-year-olds, I call them kids, 32 years old.
I'm not even going to comment on the fact that 32-year-olds are making pizzas at 1 o'clock in the morning.
You know, that's entry-level stuff.
Nothing against dominoes.
Ashland, Ohio.
Bill, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
Thank you for taking my call, Rush.
It's an honor to speak to you.
Thank you.
I'm an 82-year-old World War II Navy vet, and I'm glad to be part of the shot across the bow.
God bless you, sir.
It's the first protest I've ever attended in Ashland, Ohio.
About 500 gathered there.
It's a small farm community.
And a young lady Marine read your, I think, grandfather's article on the framers of the Constitution.
That would be, I think, my father who on the signers of the declaration.
Right.
Somebody at the tea party read my dad's speech.
It's on my website.
She read my dad's speech and the signers of the declaration at the tea party.
Yes, yes.
And you could have heard a pin drop.
It was a very, very respectful crowd.
And when she finished, there was cheering for quite a while.
Wow, that is cool.
You've made my day out there, Bill.
I tell you what we're going to do.
Coco, I want you to, because that's in our archives, that's in the stack, the essential stack of stuff at rushlimbo.com.
Put the link to that speech, the text of it on the free side of the website tonight so people can put it up as soon as you can put it up there.
In fact, put it up at rushlimbo.com as soon as you can.