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April 27, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 27, 2009, Monday, Hour #2
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Mayor Bloomberg of New York is conducting a press conference right now with the swine flu.
He's saying 45 cases of swine flu confirmed at a Queens prep school.
45 cases at a Queens prep school.
He's telling, he said, people are concerned about this.
It's a single cluster, but people are concerned about this.
But he said, don't worry.
Our tax audits of private citizens will continue during this moment of panic.
Also, poor Mexico.
Now, I mean, you've got the drug wars going on down there.
You've got the poor guy that shook Obama's hand dead from the swine flu.
You've got the swine flu itself.
And now a magnitude 5.8 earthquake has hit Mexico City.
What's changed?
What's different in Mexico City the last two weeks?
Only one thing's different.
Obama went.
Only one thing.
Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.
And it's a thrill and a delight to be with you.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
If you would like to join us, Howard Kurtz today in the Washington Post, a story entitled The Media Elite's Secret Dinners.
Last Tuesday evening, Ram Emmanuel quietly slipped into an eighth-floor orifice at the Watergate as white-jacketed waiters poured red and white wine and served a three-course salmon and risotto dinner.
Emmanuel spent two hours chatting with some of Washington's top journalists.
At least there's some left.
Not unemployed.
He excused himself to take a call from President Obama and another call from Hillary Clinton.
As the journalists threw questions and argued among themselves, Emmanuel said, this feels a lot like a Jewish family dinner.
For more than a year, David Bradley, the Atlantic's soft-spoken owner, has hosted these off-the-record dinners at a specially built table in his glass-enclosed office overlooking the Potomac.
And the guests from Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to Jordan's King Abdullah II are as a list as they come.
It's just a joy for me, said David Bradley.
These are reflective, considered conversations, which is hard to do when you're going after headlines for the next day's publication.
While the guests seem quite open, says the businessman who bought The Atlantic a decade ago, he's new to journalism, and I can tell the difference between genuine candor and deeply rehearsed candor.
Now, here who are the regular attendees here.
Among those in regular attendance are David Brooks and Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, Eugene Robinson and Roof Marcus of the Washington Post, David Gregory at NBC, George Steffi Stephanopoulos from ABC, Gwen Eiffel from PBS, Jane Mayer from The New Yorker, Todd Perdham from Vanity Fair, the former Time magazine managing editor Walter Isaacson,
and staffers from The Atlantic and National Journal, including Ronald Brownstein, Andrew Sullivan, and Jonathan Rausch.
And they happen frequently.
Well, given this makes so much sense now, there are other things now make sense, I should say, given that these little elite secret dinners are taking place with Obama's chief of staff and all these people.
Because last night, or last Thursday, I should say, on Charlie Rose's show on PBS, he had a guest, David Brooks of the New York Times.
We have a little soundbite montage here, our roster, four bites, three bites actually, that will illustrate the seduction of David Brooks that Brooks has even written about himself.
I wasn't going to use these soundbites today.
Cookie put them in there, but when I saw that Brooks is a regular attendee at these media elite secret dinners at the Watergate with White House administration officials, well, let's listen to these and see if these things that Brooks says and the questions that Charlie Rose asks him give us an indication.
Brooks, by the way, for those of you new to the program, is the quasi, the supposed conservative columnist at the New York Times.
So here's the first bite.
David Brooks and Charlie Rose have this exchange about Obama.
He is, like all supreme politicians, you come out of the guy thinking, away from the guy thinking, oh, Mr. President, love you.
I mean, he knew exactly what you pushed your family out.
That's what I'll call Brooks.
I actually once went in there.
David Axelrod walks into a meeting with me carrying the reflections on the revolution in France by Edmund Burke.
They're not without manipulation.
Edmund Burke is one of the founding fathers of modern conservative thought.
And Brooks saying that Axelrod walking around with this book was an attempt to manipulate Brooks, which Brooks later admits worked.
The question then from Charlie Rose was, well, do you think you're going to argue that being a community organizer was very good training for becoming president?
The biggest shock to me, I thought the guy's 47.
The guy's barely been in Washington.
Can he run an effective administration?
Yes.
He has run a tremendously effective, efficient managerial administration.
That is the biggest surprise, and I think the biggest story of the first hundred days.
Because if he didn't do that, if he didn't have the essential level of competence, nothing else would matter.
People would not trust him.
But he is a competent manager.
I don't want to spend a lot of time refuting any of this because it's pointless.
Competent manager is running a marketing campaign rather than being president.
He's running a PR campaign rather than being president.
He's being president, no miser stand, but it's all perception.
It's not reality.
Everything that they're trying to fix is falling apart.
Everything they're trying to fix is getting worse.
And yet, the perception is this guy's brilliant, great, great managerial skills, competent, very, very intelligent, like me, these people all think.
This next, this is, I mean, I hate to do this to you folks, but you got to hear it.
This is Charlie Rose and David Brooks just slobbering, literally slobbering over Barack Obama.
This White House is very much an intellectual hothouse, intellectual power, the self-confidence, and the intelligence.
There are certain intellects which are like fluorescent, and the president is one of them.
He seems to be like Michael Jordan with 30 seconds to go.
He wants the ball.
He seems to be like Joe Montana with two minutes to go.
Emails him, you're like Michael Jordan.
And Obama emails him back, just give me the ball.
I didn't even know that.
Yeah, there you go.
Obama didn't need the crowd.
The crowd needed him.
Is it John F. Kennedy-esque?
McLuhan said there were cool characters and they were hot characters.
Bobby Kennedy was hot.
Jack Taylor was cool.
Well, yeah, I mean, it's certainly true that Obama is cool.
So I would be embarrassed to be caught in a conversation about anybody like that, which reminds us, let's go back to last year before the election, October 30th, 2008.
We have a montage of Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose trying to figure out who Obama is.
I don't know what Barack Obama's worldview is.
No, I don't.
I don't know how he really sees where China is.
We don't know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.
I don't really know.
And do we know anything about the people who are advising them?
You know, it's an interesting question.
He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational speeches.
I don't know what books he's read.
What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?
There's a lot about him we don't know.
Well, they've certainly learned about him, a lot about him.
In the first hundred days, he's hot-smart.
He's cool, smart.
He's fluorescent, smart.
Everybody in his administration is brilliant, very, very smart, and he's one of them.
It's just this is what having people to dinner can do for you.
This is exactly what having people to dinner can do for you.
Make no mistake about it, particularly if the dinners happen regularly.
All right, a brief time out.
It's Rush Lindbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
We'll be right back after this.
Okay, so David Brooks and Charlie Rose think that we've got a very competent manager here, brilliant president, very competent manager.
All right, how many tax cheats are in his cabinet?
Last time I counted, it was five.
How many empty slots are there in top positions?
Like the Center for Disease Colonel, we got some acting director out there talking to us at this moment about what we're going to do to avoid coming down with the swine flu.
The acting director, CDC, says they're taking the situation very, very seriously and they're acting very, very aggressively out there.
They're not doing anything that anybody can see, but it's all this all part of the propaganda allure.
Is Barack Obama a competent spender of America's money?
Hell no.
We are piling up record debt unseen in this nation's history.
Is he a competent president where tax policy is concerned?
No, because we're going to kill the golden goose that lays all the golden eggs by attacking the Andrew Lloyd Weber in the U.K. reacting to the 50% proposed tax increase on the wealthy in that country.
He said the last, they wrote a column, he wrote a piece in the, I think it was the Times, the Sunday Times.
Regardless, the last thing Britain needs is a pirate raid on the wealth creators who still dare navigate our stormy waters.
And don't lynch me as a rich SOB flying a kite for his own cause.
I really fear an exodus of talent from our country.
It makes you wonder where all the producers go in Great Britain.
Where will they go?
But he's worried about them leaving.
He's got a big piece.
So he's not a competent taxer.
Is he competent on national security?
He is putting us at risk with this torture ridiculousness in the memos and all this.
Is he a competent America basher?
Yes, he bashes America very well.
I think Barack Obama is very, very accomplished at bashing America.
But that sickening soundbite we had of Charlie Rose and David Brooks practically choking on insulin.
It is so sweet and syrupy, proves the allure of a demagogue.
It proves how easy it is for.
And you know who the easiest marks for demagogues are?
Elites.
People who are impressed with their own resumes and biographies and people impressed with their own intelligence.
All right, Christine in Westchester in New York.
Great to have you on the program, Christine.
Thank you for waiting.
Thank you, Rosh.
It's an honor to speak with you.
I listen to you every day.
Thank you.
Thank goodness for you and the Heritage Foundation.
Otherwise, I don't know what we would do.
The reason I'm calling you today is that I'm commenting on your comment regarding Saul Walinsky and Barack Obama's being a great student of his.
And I think as a more contemporary person, I would focus on George Soros.
I mean, it just seems to me that the little bit that I know about him, it's not just about the money.
It's just if you look at everything that Obama is doing, it's George Soros' dream.
Well, we can argue about, you know, who is the man behind the curtain, but why do you think there is one?
You know, really, no, I'm serious.
This is not a trick question.
Why do you think there's somebody, whoever it is, behind Obama?
Because I don't think he's good enough to have done all of this all on his own.
You mean at age 47 and as a community organizer, you're not really prepped to be president?
You betcha.
Yes, I do.
And after 100 days working in the Senate, you're not qualified.
You're not qualified enough to be president?
No, absolutely not.
So you think that somebody picked Obama because they knew that the combination of things Obama is, his race, his eloquence, his ability to read the teleprompter would sort of make him immune from any criticism.
Nobody will have the guts to be critical of Obama.
I think so.
I think he's been primed for a lot longer than most of us would ever even imagine.
Now, I may sound a little crazy, and maybe I'm a little bit of a conspiracy.
Okay, so why do you think ⁇ well, this is what happens.
She's reacting, by the way, folks, to a comment I made a little over an hour ago.
I had a bunch of house guests in for the, we had 15 people here, and from Wednesday night through Saturday night, they all left on Sunday and dinner every night, you know, all these topics were discussed.
And one of the things that was discussed, it turned out everybody had a theory explaining Obama, much like yours, Christine.
Just don't think this guy couldn't have arisen himself from his own background.
He had to have a sponsor, had to have somebody orchestrating it, directing it, so forth and so on.
So everybody started talking about names, who might it be?
And of course, Soros is a popular one because his hatred of America is well known.
His hatred of Republicans is well known.
His pocketbook size is also well known.
One of the guests suggested that it was even somebody like the king of Saudi Arabia after Obama's bow because Obama is eager to paralyze our ability to defend ourselves, which is what our enemies want.
One person, just to show you how much fun we have when we get together, Christine, you'll probably love this.
One guy in the group said, everybody's waiting on a second terror attack.
There's not going to be a second terror attack.
There isn't going to be one.
The terrorists, they're entertainers.
They know performance requirements.
They know theatrics.
They know if they do a second terror attack, they're going to have to make it much bigger than 9-11.
Your second act has to be bigger than the first act.
He said, besides, they don't need a second act.
Obama is the second terrorist act.
I mean, I had opinions at my house going all over the, all over the ballpark.
It was fat.
And these are all, in their own right, involved, intelligent people.
But somebody actually thought Obama is terrorist attack number two.
Obama is the follow-up to 9-11.
So I find it interesting that among those who oppose Obama, everybody, a lot of people think he couldn't be doing this on his own.
There's got to be somebody behind him.
Somebody writing the speeches.
We know that's Axelrod.
Somebody putting words in the teleprompter.
We know that that's Axelrod.
Somebody who may have chosen him, prepped him, groomed him, what have you.
Some man behind the curtain.
She thinks it's Soros.
In the discussion in the last hour, I mentioned it's Alinsky.
It's Saul Olinski.
It's Rules for Radicals.
It's the book.
And by the way, this guy is every bit the ideologue any man behind the curtain is.
The thing I don't like about the discussion of who's behind Obama is it sort of gives him a pass.
It makes him just a sponge soaking all this stuff up, and he gets little marching orders and goes out there and pulls them off.
He is every bit the ideologue as this mythical person behind him is.
He's picking his cabinet people.
He's picking who I know you might think that he's being told who to pick.
Some people theorize that Michelle's the real activist in the family.
Maybe all that's true, but do not leave him out of it.
And, you know, you could look at what, I'll give you another passage here from Rules for Life.
I mean, I'm not going to read it exactly.
I'll just give you a paraphrase of Saul Olinski and Rules for Radicals.
You persuade the people, i.e. voters, the American people in this case, that you are defending them from forces hostile to them.
Bankers, automobile companies, oil companies, drug companies, Walmart.
You are defending the people against all these forces that are hostile to them.
And once the people buy into that, they have unwittingly bought into your revolution.
Obama is not charged.
He does not have the charge in the oath of office and the Constitution to do what he's doing.
Presidents are stewards of the U.S. Constitution.
They do not get to automatically rewrite it and change it, which is what he's doing and what he's going to do more of.
And the way he's getting away with it, he's got 92% of the Democrat people supporting him, 66, 62% of the American people supporting him.
These people unwittingly have been conscripted into his revolution because he's protecting them against all these hostile forces.
So, Soros, Selinsky, whoever, if I'll put it to you this way.
Hypothetically speaking, let's say there is somebody behind Obama.
You can find him and you can out him.
You can get rid of him.
It's not going to change anything.
And you can tell the American people, hey, guess what?
You know what?
It's George Soros.
George Soros was in charge of electing Obama.
George Soros and his people.
I'll give you another name that is out there.
You've heard it, but you don't think of it in these terms.
And a guy's name is John Podesta.
John Podesta runs the Center for American Progress, a far-left think tank.
He was Bill Clinton's chief of staff.
This guy is one of the most partisan, hateful.
He wants to impeach Judge Bybe, who wrote some of the torture memos, some of the procedures allowed.
He is carrying the water as though he were a member of the administration.
What you have to understand is whether there's a man behind Obama or a woman or nobody, They all are a bunch of liberals combined, and they all, in their own hearts, believe everything they're doing.
So, outing one person, even if it's accurately done, is not going to stop any of this.
They're just replacing.
Don't panic out there, folks.
Snerdley just asked me, and I imagine many of you think the same.
Are you going to be gone tomorrow?
You were just gone Thursday and Friday.
No, I'm going to be here.
I'm flying out to Los Angeles after the show.
I'm flying out back home later that night.
See, I read that President Obama burned 9,000 gallons of fuel on Air Force One on Earth Day.
And I sent my airplane out to California on Wednesday and back to get some of my friends, but I didn't burn anywhere near 9,000 gallons of fuel, so I'm going to catch up.
So I'm just going to L.A., do work on the airplane, land, you know, pall around for a couple, three hours, come back.
It's just, I'm going to do my part for Earth Day.
I'm not going to be jet lagged.
I love flying.
I'm not going to be crabby either.
I'm not going to be jet lagged.
I'm not going to be crabby.
I'm just doing my part here for Earth Day with Obama, 9,000 gallons of fuel.
I didn't come anywhere near that.
I got to catch up.
If I'd have known that, I'd have said the airplane on two more round trips to L.A. At any rate, we're all obsessed.
Well, that's not the right way to put it.
There are a lot of people obsessed here with the pig flu coming out of Mexico.
But there are, and then we just had this story about these secret media elite dinners that are not secret anymore that occur at the office of the publisher of the Atlantic in the Watergate.
Rah Emanuel shows up.
And these are people like David Brooks and George Stephanopoulos and Maureen Dowd and all these media elite types, Ronald Brownstein.
And there's a story today, newspaper circulation.
Folks, there's only one newspaper that increased its circulation.
It's a Wall Street Journal, and that was by 1%.
The New York Post is down 20%.
The USA Today is still number one, but it's down.
Newspapers are just plummeting.
The New York Times is just, it's becoming a joke in financial circles.
I think getting, and then getting cozy with Obama is bad business, and it's bad for their health.
There are actually two strains of flu that are affecting American business: newspaper suckup disease is currently killing most American newspapers.
The newspapers are sucking up to Obama.
It is just like, unlike anything anybody has ever seen.
And it's not just newspapers, by the way.
CNN, which barely has any viewers anymore, sucking up to Obama.
The people over at MSNBC are losing audience regularly now.
They suck up to Obama.
So you've got that flu, and then you've got TARP flu, which is spread by private businesses taking infusions of cash from the Obama White House.
Newspapers suffering from Obama suck-up disease are so desperate they're looking to be cured by the tarp flu.
They want to be bailed out.
But everywhere Obama is spreading Obamaism, there is a deadly disease taking place, either in the TARP community or in the newspaper business.
Obama goes to Mexico, they have an earthquake.
Obama goes to Mexico, get pig flu.
I mean, the fact is, Barack Obama is bad for business.
He is poison to prosperity.
I mean, this needs to be said.
All of these sycophantic suck-up journalists.
Look at what's happening to the places they work.
Now, you may think I'm trying to be funny.
I'm just trying to say this in a creative way.
But every newspaper out there that has spent the last year and a half sucking up the Barack Obama, the McClatchy company, the Tribune company, look at them, folks.
Advertising revenue down.
The Washington Post reducing pages.
New York Times chronicling their problems.
Nobody's immune to it.
Other little small town papers that don't have people going to Obama dinners and otherwise not sucking up to Obama.
And then all these businesses.
The U.S. automobile, GM, 21,000 more people canned, and they're going to get rid of Pontiac.
And this is after Barack Obama has taken over to bail out the auto business.
Look at AIG.
AIG, once they figure out the myth, AIG is probably going to close its doors or reorganize or something.
But the point is that wherever Obama has spread his spread his magic, you've got the flu.
You've got newspaper suck-up flu, and you've got TARP flu.
Meanwhile, in his 100 days, everybody's talking about all these great accomplishments, all of the competence.
Look at what cash infusions from Obama and Geithner got to car manufacturers.
Look at what TARP flu did to those businesses receiving misnamed bailouts.
Every business that accepts TARP money or help from Obama ends up regretting it.
Newspapers might be the exception.
They're next up on the bailout list.
John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, conducting hearings on his precious Boston Globe about this.
They're so deranged.
The people that have Obama suck up flu, these people are so deranged, they might not know the difference between being sick and being healthy.
Because they're in the midst of a deadly killer disease, and they've probably never been happier.
Drive-by newspapers are on life support.
Drive-by newspapers want bailouts.
There's Podesta right now.
He's on PMSNBC talking about impeaching the judge by on the torture memos.
I mean, if you're looking for somebody behind Obama, there's another guy to put on the list.
See, here's the thing.
Newspaper propaganda does not sell any better than clown cars sell.
The power-greedy, porculous pigs at the White House have infected and are killing American businesses with their own version of the swine flu, which I call tarp flu.
Government ownership, government influence, government interference of the private sector is a killer virus in its own right.
Any business, we're watching this, any business that gets cozy with Obama is going to get infected, seriously ill.
And some of these businesses, they get cozy with Obama, are going to die.
I think, you know, Napolitano, Tanner Reno, whoever's over there at Homeland Security, CDC, Centers for Disease Control, they need to focus on the Obama flu, the Obama infection killing American businesses instead of the potential terror threat of returning war heroes, which is what they're focused on now.
Fred in Cleveland, as we go back to the phones, great to have you with us, Fred.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Rush, the purpose of my call was in response to an earlier call that you had about somebody who had paid $2,700 to get help with his mortgage.
And unfortunately, I'm one of those people who also...
Oh, no, he didn't.
I don't think he paid it.
He didn't pay it.
He went to Obama's government website to find out how to get help with his mortgage, and he was solicited by law firms who wanted to charge him $2,700 to renegotiate his mortgage.
Well, I was one of those that went to the website, was solicited.
I checked out the place that had solicited me with the Better Business Bureau.
It had a good rating and an A rating.
And I called them, and their spiel was I explained to them that my income had gone down, and it was becoming extremely hard for me to make my mortgage payment.
I had never missed a mortgage payment.
I own a small business, and business had been down in the fourth quarter and first quarter.
And as the owner, I didn't want to lay off people, so I took a cut and pay.
And to make a long story short, they told me, well, send us in your materials.
Basically, like when you're buying a new home, your income tax, your income, and the expenses and all that.
They'll look it over, and if they think they can help, then you pay them a fee.
There's one of his law firms, you mean?
One of his law firms or one of the solicitors.
Correct.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right, so I went ahead.
They wanted a fee of $2,000, 50% up front, and then when they complete the deal, the other 50%.
But they wouldn't accept the fee unless they felt that they could do some good.
So we sent them up our papers and everything.
And two days later, they called back and said, yeah, we can help you.
We can work with your mortgage lender and get you taken care of.
And we said, great.
We were extremely excited because when we had called the mortgage lender, they weren't going to budge an inch.
And we took the money that we were going to use towards our house payment, our mortgage payment, I should say, and we sent it to them.
And we sat back and we waited and we waited.
And a week later, we got a call and they said, we're sorry, we can't help you.
After they had already told us they could help you.
All right, did you get your money back?
No, I didn't.
No.
Oh, God.
What a scam here.
So Obama's out there selling people like you defaulted HOMA.
In other words, he's creating a qualified list of people in financial trouble and selling or giving the list to lawyers.
And the lawyers can go mine the list and find people like you and run scams on you.
Well, and the sad thing is, is it's put me in a really desperate situation now because I've never missed a house payment.
And now I'm forced to miss a house payment.
And I'm up against the wall here.
I mean, I've never been in a situation like this.
My wife and I haven't slept.
We're not eating right.
We just have nowhere to turn.
There's no place to go for help.
I don't know what to do.
What did you think you were doing when you contacted this website?
All right.
What they proposed was that they would call our mortgage lender, which was Saxon Mortgage, and that they would discuss my situation with them.
So you thought it was going to be people from the government, from the Obama administration, doing this.
Correct.
Yeah, And the next thing you know, you got solutions from a law firm.
And that they would apply enough pressure that the mortgage lender would reevaluate our mortgage and redo it.
This is how I interpret it, too.
This is what I thought when I watched him sell this on TV to his press cut.
That's exactly what I thought they were proposing.
You called government, and government's going to help you get your mortgage reduced.
Correct.
And they were going to adjust it so that it would be that way we wouldn't go into foreclosure or anything like that.
And it would be better for the bank or better for the mortgage broker because they wouldn't have to deal with a foreclosure.
It would be better for us because we wouldn't be missing our mortgage payment, and everybody would be happy.
And as it is, now I'm up against it, and now I might be facing foreclosure.
And my sons may not be able to finish their college.
No, Wait a minute.
You're not going to get foreclosed on because you miss one payment.
That's what you said you were going to miss.
Well, to be honest with you, listen, I'm one of those people who are trying to do everything the right way.
I know, but why don't you fire some people?
I mean, why don't you reduce your business costs?
If you put yourself out of business, everybody working for you loses their job.
Well, we did.
We did.
We did reduce our costs because I didn't want to lay anybody off.
I cut my pay.
Hang on.
I'm way long.
I got to take a break here, but I got just a couple more questions, and I want to hear your answers.
So can you hang on?
Sure.
Yeah, we'll be right back.
Don't go away.
We're back to Fred in Cleveland.
Fred, are you saying that you might get foreclosed on because with the state your business is in, you might not be able to generate enough income personally for a long time to make a house payment for many months?
No, I just need some help.
I mean, I would have been able to make this month's house payment, but then we'd be scraping the barrel each month as it goes along.
Yeah, but you gave $1,000 to the Charlatans, right?
And you haven't got that back.
Correct.
So what's your house payment every month?
$2,300.
Oh.
Oh, that's big.
$2,300.
And how many people have you laid off at your small business?
I haven't yet.
I haven't.
Listen, they got families too.
And, you know, my responsibility is to provide them with a life as well as my own.
I mean, the reason I'm in business, other than the fact I want to be in business by myself.
But, you know, I have a responsibility to them and their families as well.
Yeah, but your responsibility is to you first.
If you get kicked out of your house, if you're foreclosed on, I mean, you're going to become a wreck.
I'm already a wreck.
Well, then the management of your company is going to suffer and so forth.
You've got to take care of yourself first here because you're taking care of everybody else in the process.
Well, there's got to be some legitimate place out there that will help.
I mean, that's what I thought this was all about, that they didn't want people like me up against the wall and being in this situation that was going to offer help.
Most people to whom this will happen, you know, we were just speculating here.
How many people must this be happening?
If we've had two calls on this today, let's say that there are many more people like you out there, Fred.
The odds are that many of them are not going to blame Obama.
He tried.
He doesn't know this is going on.
The demagogue gets protection from this kind of stuff.
He's insulated from it.
Obama said, Obama said that he and his administration were going to put pressure on all these lenders to work with people.
And when we talked to our lender, believe me, they didn't bend an inch.
Not an inch.
It was like as if, if you can't do it, too bad.
We'll take your house.
And I just, that wasn't the way it was laid out by Obama.
No, of course not.
But I look, this is not going to make you feel any better, Fred.
But this is hard for me to say because it's going to sound like I have no care or compassion for what's happened to you, but I do.
But everybody with any economic sense knows that what they propose is not possible.
They can't keep everybody in a house.
They can't keep everybody employed.
The government cannot make everybody prosperous.
The government cannot protect and ensure against personal disaster economically.
And yet, so many Americans think that that's precisely what Barack Obama can do and will make the government do.
And it just doesn't understand that.
It breaks my heart, Fred.
Breaks my heart to see people get swallowed up by this and believing that there's some sort of magic that is going to fix all of this when there is no such magic.
I wasn't looking for magic.
What I was looking for was I'm the type of an individual who always pays his bills, pays his bills on time.
Yeah, I'm going through a tough spurt right now.
I realize that.
But when I hear people who've missed house payments for six months and they're facing foreclosure and the government steps in and helps them out, and here I am, Fred, Fred.
Those were subprime people who should have never had homes in the first place, and that's why they were kept in their homes.
They're minority voters and so forth.
This is gut-wenching.
It's just gut.
All right, we've got the sound bites from when Obama announced this loan shark website.
We're going to go back and listen to those, and then I'm going to predict to you what's going to happen if word of this crisis spreads.
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