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April 22, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 22, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Mr. Snudley.
We may as well do open line Friday on Wednesday today.
Because I'm not going to be here tomorrow or Friday.
So for those of you who relatively new to the program, we're going to do Open Line Friday on Wednesday today, which means whatever you want to talk about, it pretty much okay.
It doesn't work that way Monday through Thursday, but we'll do that today since I'm not going to be here Friday or Thursday for that matter.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program today, is 800-282-2882, the email address, Lrushbaugh at EIBNet.com.
Great to have you here, folks.
Another three hours of broadcast excellence.
We're coming up on this mythical 100 days of the Obama administration.
I'd like to refer to it, my friends, as Finals Week.
And according to me, and I've I've I've I've put together a list of things that I have noted since the outset of this administration.
Just today.
I think you have to say Obama's failing because Mahmud Ahmadineizad has just ripped him a new one.
And his buddy Fidel Castro just called him superficial.
I mean, now this is this cannot be good.
The next thing you know is Hugo Chavez have come out with some criticism here.
After all of these worldwide tours to get all of these dictators and thugs on our side, they are being highly critical of uh of the BAMster.
Also, ladies and gentlemen, the uh interrogation memos.
It is amazing what is coming out about this.
And we're going to get into that in detail as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears, but I have to tell you something.
I've heard more than one person say, because Obama changed his mind on this.
And originally said he wasn't going to uh we can't we can't we can't keep looking to the past.
We've we've got to look to the future here.
And so, well, I don't think it'd serve any purpose to prosecute or investigate uh former administration officials on these interrogations of the CIA did.
And all of a sudden changes his mind yesterday.
And I'm hearing a lot of people say he must be buckling to pressure from his left wing.
He must be buckling to pressure from people reminding him of a campaign promise.
He's not buckling to anything but his own desires.
If folks, this is this is this is part and parcel of the you know, Obama doesn't know what he's doing.
He doesn't know all this that's happening in his administration.
This is, you know, he's such a wonderful guy, he doesn't know about all of this.
Well, he's in he's orchestrating all of this.
He's as as he's himself said, he's the visionary.
He's setting the tone.
I mean, the Canadians, you know, Janet Napolitano the other day.
Janet Politano, this is a rumor that has been debunked years ago.
Janet Politano said the 9-11 hijackers actually got into our country through Canada.
So now the Canadians are up in arms, and the and the uh the National Post in Canada Day has a piece.
How in the hell did this woman get her job?
Earlier this week, she says it's not a crime to illegally enter the country, cross the border when it is.
It's a ditz.
She's a total hick hack left wing kook that is now a head up of uh uh in charge of homeland security.
And she's there because who chose her?
Obama.
I mean, you you you Obama people, you cannot have it both ways.
You cannot say this guy's something brand new and fresh like we've never had before.
And he's so smart and he's so in control, he's so in touch, and then say he has no clue what's going on in his own administration or that he's being pressured and he's buckling to pressure.
Uh what was funny about about the interrogation memo flip-flop when he talked about allowing Holder to go and if if this happens, we keep talking about overreaching.
If this happens, if Eric Holder, and he could very well do this, if Eric Holder does instigate investigations or let Conyers do it over in the house of somebody, start investigating former Bush administration officials, charging them if they subpoena them.
And if these guys have to go out and get lawyers, and let me tell you something, if this happens, They don't care whether they get a conviction or not.
It won't be about that.
It'll be about destroying these people.
A la scooter Libby.
It will be about destroying and criminalizing policy circumstances with which you disagree.
Here you've got, you mean it's these lawyers who the administration consulted and they consulted by the way the Bush administration did all over the world with various nations on interrogation techniques of uh terrorists, because it's a new kind of prisoner.
And Congress signed off on all of it.
Nancy Pelosi, they all signed off on all of this in 2002.
And in fact, when they were explained waterboarding and all this, nobody in Congress objected.
They said, We got you better, you've got to do more.
So if Holder proceeds with this, he's going to have to send out subpoenas, not just to Bush administration officials, but well, well, uh not just uh uh executive branch, he's gonna send out subpoenas to the lawyers, the White House counsel, uh, and anybody else who had anything to do with this.
And once once once that happens, uh you're gonna see the earth move because nobody's gonna go work for the executive branch ever again.
If this precedent is set where you can go back and criminalize the policy disagreements you have with previous administrations, that could be the uh uh the point where everybody's hoping that is uh gonna happen, overreach.
I frankly think we've had a hundred overreaches.
I'm gonna go through them here in just a second.
But nevertheless, uh this that that could be something that will awaken uh a lot of people who still appear to be dormant.
So it's it's just it's it's stunning to watch this, and it's kind of funny yesterday, because after Obama flip-flopped there in the Oval Office, he had this photo op with the uh King of Jordan, King Abdullah.
And that's where, in answer to a reporter's question, he said, you know what?
Well, I'm gonna let Holder go ahead and do what he wants to do.
If he wants to investigate these people in the Bush administration, fine and nandy.
Well, at the afternoon press briefing yesterday, poor old Gibbs, who on a good day is incompetent.
Poor old Gibbs was just I mean, it's like the White House press office was just blindsided by this.
They sent poor old Gibbs out there, and he didn't really have any uh any intelligent, credible answers to why the flip-flop and so forth, because of course he got to protect Obama.
And what is the uh the director of communications of the White House, not a spokeswoman, but the director of community, the only she quit.
She resigned the White House, they've reassigned her to some other uh agency.
Who?
Yeah, she went over to Commerce Committee, whatever, Commerce Department.
Uh she um she was the only one that was not part of the campaign.
She's the only one who hadn't drunk the Kool-Aid.
And so, and then you've got you've got the suicide today of the CFO over at uh what is it, Freddie Mack.
It's not Fanny, it's uh it's uh it Freddie Mack.
But the homicide detectives are on the scene now.
Uh the wife uh phoned in at 448 this morning, and then cops arrived, so it looked like no foul play, looked like it was a suicide, but they got to investigate the uh Hama Yeah, it was Ellen Ellen Moran was the uh office of the communications, the White House director out of their quit.
Now, I you know, we don't want to assume what's going on here, but she was the only one that hadn't drunk the Kool-Aid.
Uh I I this is just it's just I I sit here and you know, I chronicle all this stuff, and I still I I'm an I'm in 100% disbelief, and then you know what you have this stupid thing that happened with the Miss USA pageant, where guess what?
This judge, this blogger, Paris Hilton, and you ought to see some pictures of this guy, as he wants to be seen, uh, has been asked, well, what way why did you penalize Miss California Carrie Pregene here for telling you the truth?
Look at Miss USA is supposed to be inclusive.
I gave her a question, she's supposed to dance around it.
In other words, you better be politically correct in the entertainment world and the political world today, or we are going to penalize you and chop your head off and do whatever we can to ruin you.
Political correctness running amok.
I mean, it just you the the the the news each and every day here is just breathtaking to behold.
I'm gonna take a brief time out here.
We come back, I'm gonna go through the finals week for Obama here.
The first 100, I don't know when the first 100 days is.
It's uh 90 hundred days after January 20th, but regardless, this is an incredible list of things that I've been thinking about, and I've been taking notes and I've been putting them all down.
And when you when I go through all this, at the end of it, all of this is being spun as productive and historic, and it's nothing but buffoonery.
It's embarrassing incompetence and inexperience.
All that coming up, of course, your phone calls right after this.
By the way, this is Earth Day, ladies and gentlemen.
Well, what am I going to do for Earth Day?
I'm going to have every one of my cars driven as much as possible today.
I've got my airplane flying to Los Angeles and back.
Let's see, what have I got?
Auto lights are going to be on, the air conditioning down to 68 degrees in all, well, four of the five houses.
The property manager likes it at 65.
Let's see.
We're gonna we're gonna have uh well we're all kinds of beef.
I'm fixing Allen Brothers all weekend long.
I personally am gonna see to it that we lose two acres of rainforest.
Actually, the rainforest is coming, the rainforest is replacing itself at a rate rapid more rapid than it's being lost.
Oh, I have some incredible statistics today with uh with Earth Day as well.
Our morning update today, we honored some great people that are always condemned and criticized on Earth Day.
We're going to expand that today.
Uh and but here's just a little taste.
Here's a story.
No kidding, one in three children fear the earth a cop of apocalypse.
One in three children, according to a survey, the age between six and eleven, fears that Mother Earth won't exist when they grow up.
Why do they think that?
Al Gore, their stupid idiot teachers, and the American left.
Fear crisis.
So if kids don't think the earth's gonna be there when they grow up, and then they hear solutions to how it can be there when they grow up, they're gonna go along with it, right?
Like giving up a little freedom, a little prosperity, having their parents' taxes raised, having their parents drive around a bunch of little jalopy cars.
This is exactly the game plan.
Finals week.
Barack Obama approaching a hundred days.
Now, I say this has been a historically productive one hundred days.
I have I have just put a list here together in no particular order, just off the top of my head of the things that did this administration that have stood out to me since it began.
Admiral Blair, this is all over the New York Times today.
Admiral Blair admitting the CIA received high value, life-saving information from terrorists, while President Obama is condemning the same arrogance uh uh uh interrogations as immoral and counterproductive.
President Obama is throwing and has thrown grand White House parties with Kobe beef, a hundred bucks a pound, while telling the nation to cut back in order to survive the greatest economic downturn, supposedly since the Great Depression.
Bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia, listening patiently and respectfully, while a two-bit dictator lectures uh Obama, it was Daniel Ortega, with false charges for 50 minutes about the criminal country he leads.
And Obama doesn't say one word to object, one word in disagreement, does not stand up for his country at one point during the summit of the Americas.
He has run around the world and apologized for the greatest, the most compassionate, the most innovative and freedom-loving country in world history.
Now we've got Fidel Castro setting Obama straight About how Cuba handles political prisoners and its economy.
Fidel Castro, one of Obama's idols, calling him superficial.
We had the nomination of tax cheats to his cabinet, including the man who oversees the IRS, five tax cheats in the Obama administration.
We have Obama's joke of a press spokesman who makes a complete idiot of himself on a daily basis.
He sends back a symbol of freedom, that bust of Sir Winston Churchill to Great Britain just after moving into the White House.
He wants nothing to do with it.
He did it of his own volition.
They said you can keep it, said no, we don't want it here.
They said, put it in a different room of the White.
We don't want it here and sent it back to the British embassy.
It was given to us President Bush after 9-11 by the Brits.
He insulted the Prime Minister of England, the Queen of England, with embarrassing, thoughtless gifts.
We have the French president, Sarkozy, ridiculing Obama's Messianic complex, inviting him to walk on water at Normandy Beach.
We have Iran taking a hostage, an American journalist, as Obama promises better relations.
We have North Korea humiliating Obama with their missile launch.
We have Obama putting the country in debt for generations to come while promising fiscal responsibility, offering up laughable budget cuts, banning lobbyists from his administration, while appointing them left and right, openly lying that caterpillar would hire up with the passage of his stimulus bill, then watching while that company lays off thousands after the stimulus bill passes.
He pledges to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay where I have a thriving merchandise business.
But then he keeps it open with no plan for its future, proclaiming total transparency, while keeping secret who got the TARP funds.
When, where why, being incapable of communicating without a teleprompter, while the press declares him a Reagan-esque great communicator.
He attacks a private citizen broadcaster from the White House as part of an orchestrated plan to distract the country from legislation and policies we don't want, which thus tucked off uh touched off a political fire storm.
All of this while claiming to be a unifier.
He makes a ham-handed attempt to nationalize the banks, preventing financial institutions from paying back TARP money they don't need or want.
We got a column today in the Wall Street Journal by Holman Jenkins that General Motors is a debacle.
It is an absolute debacle and mess.
And soon Wall Street's gonna be the same thing.
He has made bad situations worse with car manufacturers and the worst is yet to come.
He has sparked hundreds of protests involving hundreds of thousands of Americans at tea parties regarding irresponsible government spending, while his homeland security chief labels peacefully demonstrating Americans and veterans as security risks.
Now that's just the things I could think of off the top of my head.
Oh, yeah, moving the uh the census over to the Commerce Department to politicize that.
I mean, this administration has been one part joke, one part unbelievable, one part and many parts scary.
Because while all this has gone on, this man is reported upon and reported to be the best president we've ever had, a shining light a beacon, historical figure.
We have a sycophantic, mainstream media in this country, but the New York Times.
The New York Times has $34 million in cash.
The New York Times is in debt 1.3 billion dollars.
And while that was happening, and by the way, this is this is cool, folks.
The New York Times corporate president and CEO Janet Robinson received a compensation package valued at $5.58 million last year, while the publisher of the New York Times, Arthur Schultzberger, Jr., received a total of 2.4 million while this company is losing its shirt.
Does that not sound a little bit like Wall Street?
Does this not sound like excessive bonuses?
Does this sound like CEOs paying them when the performance of their company is in the sewer?
And haven't we demonized private sector CEOs for this very oh and that is enough?
Making enemies out of people in the private sector and ginning up protests by his acorn buddies at the homes of AIG executives.
Fomenting class hatred.
And rival, the list goes on of the egregious things this administration has done.
That is House organ, the New York Times, $1.3 billion in debt, $34 million in cash on hand.
They borrowed some money from some guy named Slim down in Mexico, and he's charging him 18% interest.
And now Hillary Clinton's out there saying the U.S. is laying groundwork for tough, crippling sanctions on Iran if Iran rejects engagement.
Iran says we'll talk, but we're not doing anything about our nuclear program.
I mean, the the world is making a joke.
The world is making a joke of our country, and the president is being praised for it.
We are back on Earth Day.
2009, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limboy Institute for advanced conservative studies.
Here are details on the uh reprimands.
Uh you m you might say the teachers are trying to educate the student.
Fidel Castro commenting on Barack Obama.
Castro rejects president's uh Obama suggestions that uh Cuba should free political prisoners or cut taxes on remittances uh remittances from the United States.
Fidel Castro, on a blog, no less, said that Obama misinterpreted remarks by his brother and successor Raul and bristled at the suggestion that Cuba should free political prisoners or cut taxes on remittances from abroad is a goodwill gesture to the United States.
All of this enraged Castro, who wrote in an essay posted on a government website that Obama without a doubt misinterpreted Raul's declarations.
Castro appeared to be throwing cold water on expectations for improved bilateral relations, suggesting that Obama had no right to urge Cuba to make even small concessions.
He also seemed to suggest too much was being made of Raul's comments about discussing everything with the U.S., affirming that the this is Castro, affirming that the president of Cuba is ready to discuss any topic with the president of the United States, expresses he's not afraid.
It's a sign of bravery and confidence in the principles of the revolution.
Now there's a hidden little secret here that everybody with a half a brain knows about the Castros.
The last thing they want is an open relationship with the United States.
The last thing they want is the blockade to come down.
That's what Fidel's always called the embargo.
He tells Cuban citizens that they're Navy ships out there for venting goods.
He calls it a blockade.
So here comes our naive young boy president down there.
Well, you know, we're gonna open up, we're gonna have this new dialogue, we're gonna send you some money, we're gonna send uh more people down there.
We you ought to free some political prisoners.
And Castro bristles at the naivete of his student.
Barack Obama.
The last thing they want, you understand that the U.S. embargo is what gives uh the Castro brothers and the Cuban government the ammo to tell their citizens what a rotten economy they have and what a rotten life they all have.
Uh, Even though it's the best damn health care in the freaking world, according to the stupid idiots in the American left.
The last thing they want is the embargo lifted.
The ex-president had previously expressed admiration for his student, Obama, but this time Castro blasted the new U.S. president for showing signs of superficiality.
Whoa!
Well, I mean, here's Castro, the teacher, Castro, the professor, he can see the weaknesses in the student.
Far more than American leftists can see the weakness.
Superficiality.
I mean, Castro's got it, and let's go to another teacher, another professor, Mahmoud Achmadinizad, today criticized Obama's boycott of a United Nations racism conference, dubbing it unhelpful.
On Monday, the International Racism Conference in Geneva, which the U.S. boycotted.
Now, by the way, I think we did the right thing not to go to this thing, so don't misunderstand.
Uh, we did the right thing, but Ahmadinizad is somebody that Obama wants to talk to, and Hillary Clinton says today, we're gonna put really tough sanctions on him, hardy har.
Hillary Clinton said today in Senate testimony, I uh I just don't think Dick Cheney is a reliable source on interrogations.
Oh, as though you are.
As though anybody in this administration, let me ask something the way you need to look at this interrogation stuff, folks.
Imagine that one of these people has a member of your family, and they're threatening to behead them.
But you don't know where they are.
We have a prisoner who knows where they are.
You want to bet on how much you would be willing to support these very techniques, which are said to have worked.
It's even in the New York Times today.
The interrogation techniques that Obama has now banned worked.
So Ahmadini Zad's all upset we didn't go to the racism conference, lecturing his student, Barack Obama.
Obama, the U.S. right not to go to this thing, the whole thing was a fiasco.
But Achmadinizad is considered one of our grave threats and enemies with his nuke program, and Obama says that he's gonna forge a new relationship out there with them, and all we have to do is talk to him, all we have to do is show them we mean them no harm.
Such naivety, the ugliness, the hypocrisy of President Obama's morality plays.
This guy is very cold, folks.
He is a 100% pure leftist extremist political animal.
And I I just I have I have a difficult time putting up with him lecturing us, the United States of America, on matters he identifies as requiring the pushing of a morality reset button with him as the chief protocol director of morality.
According to Obama, our response after being attacked on 9-11 was immoral.
Of all the people, and of all things, Barack Obama should be the last person to lecture anybody standing atop a rock of morality.
His foundation is leftist.
He identifies with anti-American politics, he laughs, he yucks it up with these people who hate our country.
He's been masterful at deceiving a large number of Americans with the help of his friends in the drive-by media.
Look at who Obama has accused of being morally deficient.
Wall Street, all CEOs, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, the CIA, and essentially America itself.
He has declared those five things morally deficient.
And only now will Wall Street and CEOs, Bush and Cheney, CIA, and even America, be straightened out with a new moral rudder, headed by himself, the one the Messiah, Barack Obama, the most merciful.
Yet he supports infanticide.
He attended a racist bigoted church for 20 years.
He had active support of the criminal political bullying enterprise known as Acorn.
His dealings with Tony Rezco, his working relationship with Bill Ayers, embracing and smiling, Hugo Chavez.
Daniel Ortega.
And not defending his country after it was slandered.
This guy tells us he's in charge of our new morality.
Sorry, folks, it's just tough to stomach.
Tough to deal with.
On a uh on a daily basis.
Let's let's grab some phones since it's open line Friday on Wednesday.
We'll start Westchester, New York with uh Deborah.
Thank you for calling.
You're up first today.
Great to have you here.
Thanks very much.
Um here's my question.
Barack Obama has to know that as a result of what he's doing that we're less safe, that he is crippling further intelligence gathering.
He also has to know that an attack on our country during his presidency will utterly finish him.
Not only him, but most likely the Democratic Party for a while.
So my question is, does he really believe that there is no war on terror?
Or the only other option is he's just willing to play Russian roulette with our country's safety.
I don't know.
I'm I'm I uh it'd be tough to speculate as to whether he thinks we're actually not or actually are in a war on terror, but I can tell you what I think is the primary reason or explanation for the answer to all your questions.
Uh let's go through it.
Uh he's crippling further intelligence gathering.
No.
In his mind, he's making us a more moral nation.
He is improving our image around the world.
He is getting rid of these techniques that created, in his worldview, more terrorists.
Um you said that he has to know that uh an attack on our country during his presidency will utterly finish him.
I don't know that you can say that.
An attack on the country, if it happens again, if you if you carefully watch what's being set up here, it's all being set up to be blamed on the Bush administration.
Remember Barack Obama's mindset is that everything that came before him was unjust and immoral, from George Washington all the way to Bush.
And if we're hit again, uh it's going to be not because we have penalized ourselves and tied our hands ourselves.
It's because the Bush administration so mishandled it with the unfair immoral interrogation and torture that he drove these people to it.
And the pressure I don't think the American people will buy that.
Well they will not buy that.
Maybe not, but the press turn against him.
The pressure maybe not, but the press will.
You have to understand that his Amen chorus, the drive-by media will echo every bit of that.
They can spin it all they want, but at some point there's a tipping point.
And if we are attacked, and the whole and George Bush clearly kept us safe for those eight years, um, no, no.
That see, that paradigm is being erased with all that's what all this going on right now is about.
Bush didn't keep us safe.
He in risk he risked us even further.
He put us at even greater, in even greater danger.
That's what this is all about.
That's the underlying reason for doing it.
Why else prosecute Bush administration officials?
Why not go out there and investigate them for violating the law and and being criminals and so forth?
I guarantee this this this administration and this bunch of people and the the American left here is they they are intent not on wiping out militant Islamism.
They are intent on wiping out any opposition to them in this country.
And you have to look uh behind the scenes or between the lines, at that as their primary objective to explain what appears to be the unexplainable when it comes to both domestic and foreign policy.
Got to run.
Thanks, Deborah.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
Here's that audio sound might uh Mrs. Clinton testifying it was actually not the Senate, it was the House.
Excuse me, Foreign Affairs Committee, and she was asked a question by uh Congressman Dana Rorabacher of California.
This is how it went.
Are you in favor of releasing the documents that Dick Cheney has been requesting be released?
Well, it won't surprise you that uh I don't consider him a particularly reliable source of information.
Madam Secretary, I asked you a specific question.
Dick Cheney has asked for specific documents to be unclassified.
We're not asking for your opinion of Dick Cheney about those documents.
You want to maintain your credibility with us.
What is your position on the release of those documents?
Well, Congressman, I believe that we ought to get to the bottom of this entire matter.
I think it's in the best interest of our country, and that is what the President believes.
He does not believe getting to the bottom of the matter is at the best interest of the country.
Getting to the bottom of the matter would prove every one of you is wrong about conducting the entire war on terror, Mrs. Clinton.
Dick Cheney is not lying about documents, Mrs. Clinton.
He has seen them, and the documents that he wants released are simply the memos that show the success above and beyond what's already shown to be successful in the memos that uh Obama has has released.
You gotta love Rora Bacher here.
You just gotta love Rorabacher, because she takes the occasion of his question to start rapping Cheney, and he just hands it right back down her smug throat.
Dick Cheney has asked for specific documents.
We're not asking your opinion of Dick Cheney.
You want to maintain your credibility with us.
What's your position on the release of the documents?
People are petty, partisan, mean-spirited little leftists who have now they have they've ascended every damn one of them's been Peter principal.
Every damn person in this government's Peter principled.
You do good at something, so somebody promotes you to an area you have no clue what the hell you're doing.
Napolitano Geitner.
Hear what Geitner said today.
Geitner testified again today.
Well, the U.S. is largely responsible for the world recession.
More America bashing.
More America bashing from this administration.
Back to the phones.
John Charlotte, North Carolina.
Glad to have you, sir.
Welcome.
Charlotte Ditto's and wax waxaw dittoes in all areas in between, Russia.
Thank you, sir.
Got a question for you real quick.
Yes, sir.
Um your accuracy rating, as you stated yesterday or the day before, 99.1.
No, no.
Uh documented now to be almost always right, 99.
Okay.
When when you started, obviously before you had an opinion, it was a hundred percent.
What were you wrong to drop it?
It's so long ago.
You know, it's it wasn't just one giant thing.
I mean, a bunch of small insignificant things, but they still count.
If they are offered as opinions, uh and they're just small insignificant things that happened over the years.
I mean, this is my opinions have been audited since 1988.
And so if you want to say, okay, I started out 100 percent right, why do you think that?
Why why was it that um uh uh I I didn't start out at zero.
Um, I guess it's all how you look at it from a math point of view.
Well, you're an optimist.
I started out never being wrong because I never expressed an opinion.
Uh some would say you start out never being right.
So I've gone from one hundred and ninety-nine percent.
One one of the primary uh uh penalties that I suffered in my opinion audit was, and it was just in the past two years.
I took the fall for just horrendous mistakes and errors by the staff.
I I forget there were two things I was totally misinformed about.
I trusted the staff, and when I announced those things, I was wrong.
These were factual things.
But but I I then got penalized for expressing my opinion that it was my fault.
When it wasn't, it was the staff's.
And I was I was uh I was yeah, and there's another one.
And I think perhaps these two, that that taking the fall for the staff and then saying it was my fault when it wasn't.
And I predicted Hillary Clinton would not run for the Senate in New York.
Uh those two things are probably the large all yeah, all by myself.
I didn't have any help from the staff.
That's true.
I didn't have any help from the staff.
In fact, the staff argued with me about that.
Everybody else did.
Uh but those two things probably are largely responsible for my uh uh opinion audit being only uh 99 percent.
That's a great question out there, John.
It's a great open line Friday on uh Wednesday question.
A quick timeout.
We'll come back much more after this.
Stay with us.
We have an extended Earth Day update coming up today, ladies and gentlemen, in the next hour of broadcast excellence, honoring all of those who have actually improved life for millions, billions of human beings.
They are the ones who are condemned on this day.
We will honor them.
Also, U.S. banking group Wells Fargo, my bank, by the way, said today that it earned a record profit of $3.05 billion in the first quarter following its acquisition of Wakovia.
The Wells Fargo president and chief executive John Stumpf with the quote of the day the best way to generate capital is to earn it.
Now, in the Obama administration, this could be a hate crime because the Obama administration, the best way to generate capital is to print it and to borrow it, and then to give it away or to tax it.
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