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May 22, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 22, 2009, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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Now, this is a holiday weekend, and the holiday weekend's coming a little earlier in the month than this holiday weekend usually does.
Little pop quiz.
What holiday are we celebrating this weekend, Mr. Sterdley?
Okay, gold star for Snurdley.
Well, you think everybody knows this, but I'm not so sure.
This is the Memorial Day weekend.
But are we actually going to be celebrating, how many people know even what that is?
You know, this is backyard barbecue holiday number one to them of the summer, 4th of July, Independence Day for those of you in Port St. Lucie's number two.
And Labor Day is the last where you wrap up the outdoor barbecues officially.
Memorial Day, of course, we all know what it is, but there will be some people celebrating something else on Monday.
I looked it up.
Monday is 40 days from Obama's birthday.
That is exactly right, my friends.
40 days and 40 nights until we celebrate the birth of the Messiah, Barack Obama.
That is Monday, and that is what a lot of people are looking forward to as the weekend progresses.
President Obama was delivering the commencement speech at the Naval Academy today, McCain's son graduating there, and he did his usual hit piece on capitalism, individual liberty, individual achievement and accomplishment.
Did a hit piece on it, which has become a staple of his commencement addresses.
But he also said this.
For the second day in a row, he said, as commander-in-chief, I will do whatever it takes to protect the American people.
He's actually at a White House signing ceremony.
It was not at the Naval Academy.
Now, this is the second day in a row.
He's assuring us that he will do whatever it takes to protect the American people.
If you have to say it, there must be some doubt.
I think Vice President Cheney has put Barack Obama on total defense.
I think the whole White House is on defense about this.
You know, yesterday Obama said, hey, we got Supermax prison.
Nobody's ever escaped from one of our Supermax prisons.
Well, I went, there's no room in the one out in Colorado.
They're going to have to move some people out of there if we're going to move some terrorists in there because the Supermax prison is overflowing.
You know, I'm beginning to think here after listening to Obama and his speech yesterday and a lot of public speeches that he's made, comments, there's something running true, and it's beginning to irritate me and I think a lot of people.
And that is he blaming everything on the previous administration.
Yesterday, and Jay Nordlinger at National Review Online even pointed this out.
He said, I can't recall in my lifetime a president berating Supreme Court based on the party of the president who nominated the justices in question.
But he held up some Supreme Court decisions.
And even though majority of the justices were nominated by Republicans.
And Nordlinger said, it got me to thinking, yeah, you don't hear that kind of partisanship extended all the way to the Supreme Court.
This guy is a 100% total partisan.
And you know what his secret is?
I listened to that speech again yesterday that he gave at the National Archives.
You know what really is?
You know why people think he's so smart?
Because he doesn't say anything that we don't already know.
That whole speech on terrorism was how bad terrorists are.
And that whole speech on terrorism was on how we need to keep these people in jail.
Well, everybody agrees with that.
I'll have a little bit more detailed explanation of this because I want to focus later on because I want to focus.
Oh, we have some excellent soundbites today.
Liz Cheney continues as a guest on any cable network to show how it is done.
If you are a Republican going on any of these networks, how it is done.
Every question in the soundbites we have today, every question that she was asked, she says, there's so many errors in your question, I don't know where to start.
Laura Anderson, the premise of your question is something I just don't accept.
It's just, it's a lesson.
It is, and you know, it's close to my heart because my whole premise when I go on these programs is, even if I don't go on a program, just dealing with liberalism in general, don't accept the premise that's advanced and go on defense that way.
If the premise is wrong, then stay away from it.
Don't even answer the question based on the incorrect premise.
And this is a trick the left and the drive-bys have been using for a lot of time.
And Liz Cheney showing how it's done, and you'll hear it as the program unfolds today.
But I begot to think, you know, I'm a big football fan, and the organized team activities are taking place now in the National Football League.
The owners' meetings were this week, the spring owners' meetings, and we're getting close here to training camp.
You get into June, you start thinking training camp in July, preseason games in August.
And I always like to relate things happening in politics to sports as a way of making an ever larger number of people understand it.
Now, if you look at the economic news today, it is horrible.
Unemployment in Ohio has reached 10%.
There is a, I think it's a Reuters story about how many malls in America are becoming ghost towns.
And it was just yesterday that somebody called and said, when are we going to revive the misery index?
And I, of course, responded very intelligently and cleverly with the question, well, if there's no misery reported, how can there be a misery index?
If nobody thinks there's any misery going on.
And of course, The depth of economic harm, some might say disaster, that is occurring in the country is not being reported.
I dare say that the reporting of the U.S. economy in 2004, 5, 6, and 7 made people think the economy then was worse than it is now.
And it worked.
Even people whose economic circumstances were hunky-dory and fine still thought the economy was in bad shape because the news reports made them think their neighbor was in trouble or somebody across town was in trouble.
But we've got the Treasury Secretary.
We've got the world out there.
The dollar is plummeting.
Our AAA rating is in question here as a good place to invest.
There's no good economic news anywhere.
The Federal Reserve yesterday says that unemployment's going to reach 10%.
Even if the economy starts rebounding in the latter part of this year, unemployment's going to drag.
GDP is going to go down.
There's no good economic news anywhere.
Zilch.
Well, I can't say none.
But I mean, the fundamentals do not look good.
And we've got another story, Geithner today making an even bigger play to determine and define compensation on Wall Street.
Even more involvement in banks and institutions that took TARP money and whether they can pay it back and what happens if they don't and what happens if they do.
To me, in the real world, forgetting how the media is portraying the Obama administration in the old days, a president was inexorably linked to the performance of the economy.
I believe Barack Obama's like an 0-4 NFL head coach.
Brand new head coach, first time, first season, and he's like he started out 0-4.
The economy is going nowhere, despite all these grand promises.
Our allies won't give Obama anything he wants.
Guantanamo Bay is now a mess made so by Obama.
Guantanamo Bay was fine, functioning just as it was designed till Obama brought a political calculation to virtually every national security issue that he can.
That's what that speech was yesterday.
Nothing more than turning national security into an issue of politics, which it's not.
Obama is destroying business after business after business.
So given the mess that Obama has made, what does he do?
He trashes Bush.
He blames the previous administration.
He blasts them all over the place.
He smears them.
He slanders them out there.
He makes everybody think that he's got nothing to do with the 0-4 start.
Even though he picked a team, he calls the plays.
He conducts the practice sessions.
He's the one that talks to the media.
He didn't come in mid-season.
No, no, no, no.
He came in in the offseason.
He put his own team together, got his own coaching staff, did it all, and we're 0-4.
The U.S. is out of the starting gates if we're a National Football League team at 0-4.
Yet, his approval numbers remain sky high.
People love him.
Now, I want to address all of you rookie coaches in the National Football League.
Josh McDaniels in Denver, Jim Schwartz in Detroit, Tom Cable in Oakland, Eric Mangini, new coach in Cleveland, Rex Ryan, new coast coach at the New Jersey Jets.
And I'm having a metal block.
The offensive coordinator from the Cardinals was hired as the head coach for the Kansas City Chiefs.
I'm having a middle block on his name, and I didn't have a chance to look it up before the program.
No offense intended here at forgetting.
Somebody will flash me on it here in just a second.
And there may be some other new head coaches out there first time this year.
Oh, Mike Singletary.
But Singletary took over with four or five games left in the Fortune schedule last year.
I think I've covered it.
So all of you rookie NFL head coaches, Josh McDaniel, Jim Schwartz, Tom Cable, Eric Mangini, Rex Ryan, take notes, especially those of you who have barely coached before.
If your team, if the Broncos, if the Lions, if the Raiders, if the Browns, if the New York Jets instantly implode, if you open the season 0-4 or 1-3, it's very simple what you do.
You blame your predator.
Todd Haley, Todd Haley, head coach, Kansas City Chiefs.
You new coaches, you got it.
Obama showing you how to survive if you come out of the gate 0-4, like he's brought the country out of the gate 0-4.
You just blame ownership.
You blame the previous coach.
You blame the previous coaching staff.
You blame the players.
It's the equivalent of Obama blaming Americans for being greedy.
I mean, the blue, blame Bush.
I mean, of course, yeah, blame Bush in addition to the previous coach.
What do you mean it won't work?
What do you know?
The fans are going with it for they're going for it with Obama.
Why wouldn't they go for it with a new head coach?
Okay, Jim Schwartz, the Detroit Lions.
Let's look at him.
Jim Schwartz, he's coming off a season where the Lions went 0-16.
They did not win a game.
They got the number one draft choice they've got.
That big QB, Matt Stafford.
All right.
Say they come out 0-4.
Jim Schwartz, all you got to do is blame Rod Marinelli, previous coach, and then blame Matt Millen.
Blame Matt Millen, the previous GM.
Blame everybody on his staff for rotten drafts, lousy game plans.
Blame the training facility.
Blame the owner.
And then blame George W. Bush for added measure.
Seeing the Bush administration depressed the whole organization.
Blame the pregame meal.
Blame anything.
Blame the nutritionist.
That's all you have to do.
Get off to a bad start.
Blast away at the prior coaching staff.
It's the team the Hodentown loves.
They still have jerseys from last year's players.
It's bad form, but it might keep the heat off you if you bash everybody.
They'll say, well, it's not my fault.
Make speeches all the time.
Instead of holding team meetings, make speeches out there.
Address the media every day on how rotten the situation was.
You inherited, how none of this is your fault.
And you're doing everything.
Trade away every draft.
Trade away the number one draft choice the next three years.
That's what Obama's done by putting us all in debt.
So the blueprint is there for any of you who get a new job and you flunk right out of the start.
You blame the person who had it before you and George W. Bush.
And you blame the organization.
And hell, blame AIG.
That'll work.
That'll no doubt help you too.
Yeah, let me get this out of the way.
This Pelosi stuff bores me because there's no, none of this is a surprise.
You know, Pelosi had a press conference today, and everybody was expecting more fireworks about the fact that she says the CIA is lying to her.
I had all kinds of people emailing me.
When are we going to get rid of Pelosi?
Never.
There's no mechanism to get rid of Pelosi.
You can have all the letters of opposition.
You can say she should resign.
Nobody's, she's not going to resign.
The Democrats aren't going to do anything about it.
We've got a client media here that's not going to press situation.
She told the press she didn't want any more questions on it today.
Oh, okay.
What do you expect, folks?
I mean, it's a world in which we live.
If George W. Bush had said, I don't want any more questions on that, they would have peppered him with more questions, written editorials for a week, and now he's stiffing the press.
Here, here's the sound bite in question.
After she did the press conference, I did it a QA.
Reporters said, since last week, what you knew, when, and your comments about misleading, being misled to the CIA.
Big, big news, Ms. Speaker.
But Leader Boehner has said, produce evidence that you are misled or apologize.
Panetta has said CIA is not in the practice of misleading Congress.
I have made the statement that I'm going to make on this.
I don't have anything more to say about it.
I stand by my comment.
And what we are doing is staying on our course and not be distracted from it going forward in a bipartisan way for jobs, health care, energy for our country.
And on the subject that you asked, I've made the statement that I'm going to make.
I won't have anything more to say.
I won't have anything more to say about it.
Nothing more to say.
Another subject.
And that was it.
They all backed down and okay.
We don't want any more questions.
We'll obey.
We'll dutifully obey.
That was the only QA on the subject.
Let's go back.
This is May 14, 2009.
This is what she says.
Today is her last words on the subject.
So my statement is clear.
And let me read it again.
Let me read it again.
I'm sorry, I have to find the.
I was informed that the Department of Justice opinions had concluded that the use of enhanced interrogations was legal.
The only mention of waterboarding was that the briefing, in the briefing, was that it was not being employed.
When my staff person, I'm sorry, I have the pages edible here.
Five months later, my staff person told me that there had been a briefing, informed me that there had been a briefing, and that a letter had been sent.
I was not briefed on what was in that briefing.
I was just informed that the briefing was.
It's a waste of busy broadcast time.
Here's all that happened here: this is why she lied repeatedly about what she knew about waterboarding.
She wanted this whole thing as a political issue back when Bush was in office.
And now that it's a political issue, that's boomeranged on her.
So she didn't want to talk about it anymore.
Here, one more bite.
This is a continued worthless bite.
Misleading the Congress of the United States.
Misleading the Congress of the United States.
Yes, I am saying that they are misleading, that the CIA was misleading the Congress.
And at the same time, the administration was misleading the Congress on the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
To which I said, this intelligence does not support the imminent threat, to which the press asks the same question you just did now.
Are you accusing them of a lying instead of just stating a fact?
Getting rid of her is not going to happen.
We don't want her to go anywhere anyway.
This woman's on the best faces of the Democrats we could have.
Do you realize, folks, the time, we're talking about legalizing everything these days, marijuana so forth.
The time may be right to legalize counterfeiting.
I was dead serious.
Welcome back, by the way.
Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB microphone.
Dead serious.
It might be time to legalize counterfeiting.
I'll explain in just a moment.
I want you to hear Liz Cheney.
We have her on, let's see, Good Morning America today.
She's on MSNBC this morning and CNN last night.
The first one is Good Morning America.
The West Wing writer Lawrence O'Donnell, frothing at the mouse yesterday over Cheney speech, and the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Liz Cheney, were discussing torture.
Good morning, America.
Lawrence O'Donnell said, and I talk about waterboarding here, it is torture.
This government's prosecuted people in the past for doing exactly this.
But Dick Cheney believes it's not torture, and that's essential to his position.
It was effective.
Why didn't they use it on the 500 people that Bush Cheney released from Guantanamo, 75 of whom we know, we know now have gone back into the terrorism business.
That was the failure of the Bush-Cheney administration to keep America safe by processing people correctly at Guantanamo.
Is that accurate?
Let me go through all of the inaccuracies in what you just said.
First of all, the question of whether or not enhanced interrogation is torture has been answered, and it's been answered legally.
And it's not that Cheney or President Bush or anybody else believed it to be torture.
The Justice Department of Truth is tortured.
Lawrence, I let you go.
No, waterboarding is not torture.
Waterboarding is not torture.
And you ought to go, I would refer you to Attorney General Holder's.
Why has this country prosecuted people for waterboarding?
Why did we do that?
Because they did a number of other things in addition to waterboarding.
Attorney General Holder had a hard time explaining exactly what the legal definition is of waterboarding that would make it torture.
We've done it to our own people.
Secondly, your argument about why didn't we do it to 500 other people proves our point.
It was used in three cases when we had terrorists who had information about potential attacks on the United States of America.
So the notion that somehow, you know, we should have waterboarded everybody, I'm surprised that that's the position you've taken.
That's Liz Cheney demolishing a popular left-wing liberal, Lawrence O'Donnell.
I mean, I don't even need to translate what she said.
It's just priceless.
It is a blueprint for how all Republicans ought to not be on defense, not be nervous, be confident of the things they believe in and have done policy-wise, and don't accept the B.S. premises put forth by liberals.
I do want to expand on something.
She talked about Attorney General Holder having a hard time explaining exactly what the legal definition is of waterboarding.
This was actually quite good.
It was a hearing this week.
I think it was this week.
It might have been last week.
And Louis Gohmert was questioning him and one other member of Congress on him.
The name escapes me.
Goemert's a former appellate judge.
And they zeroed in on Holder.
Holder was destroyed in a Q ⁇ A about waterboarding and torture in general.
And it boiled down to a position that the administration has taken.
And that is, and that, by the way, is legal doctrine.
It is a legal doctrine that was evolved during the Bush administration.
The Obama administration has adopted it and continues to use it.
And that is it can't be torture if the interrogators do not intend torture.
In fact, if they're waterboarding somebody, for example, and they don't intend permanent harm or physical harm that has any lasting effect, psychological, like if they do it, then there's no torture.
They pointed out to Holder that Navy SEALs go through it as training.
A lot of military people go through it as training for if they are captured and how to resist it.
And so are you saying we're torturing our own people?
And Holder had to know because when we waterboard SEALs, we're not intending to harm them.
Well, we weren't intending to harm Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
We were trying to get information from him.
We weren't trying to, so Holder was totally defeated on the whole notion of torture.
This was not reported and drive by media.
Lawrence O'Donnell has no clue that it happened.
He has no clue that Obama's own attorney general has been defeated demonstrably on the whole concept of waterboarding being torture.
But Liz Cheney knew.
And so she hit O'Donnell with it.
So the whole notion that waterboarding is torture is not even an official legal position of the Obama administration.
It may be a political statement that he makes.
You know, he says one thing does another constantly.
Like yesterday in that speech, he said, I don't want to litigate the past eight years.
And then the rest of the speech was berating the past eight years.
Well, anybody can do that.
I wonder if I could get it.
Folks, you know, I want to spend the show today talking about Barack Obama.
I really want to move forward.
I don't want to mention Obama and then spend the rest of the show talking about Obama.
I wonder if I would be called a hypocrite.
Barack Obama said yesterday, I don't care about the last eight years.
I don't want to litigate whatever happened.
I want to move forward.
And then he went backwards and ripped the Bush administration every opportunity he got.
And nobody calls him on it.
So all of these robot spokesmen like O'Donnell go out there and repeat the political position of waterboarding that Obama repeats with no knowledge, or if they have knowledge, they selectively ignore it, of the legal position this administration has taken on waterboarding, which it is not torture.
Liz Cheney just demolished O'Bonnell on this.
I mean, he started out interrupting her, trying to humiliate her with such questions as, you afraid to call it waterboarding, Liz?
You're afraid?
No, I'm not afraid.
And the last half of the bite, you don't hear him pipe up with anything.
Let's move on to MSNBC, The Scarborough show, today.
And they have a discussion of torture.
This was Liz Cheney with CNBC's Donny Deutsch, who came to broadcasting from the world of advertising.
And Donny Deutsch, in typical, uninformed, ignorant, liberal arrogance, says, either your dad's lying or the president's lying.
Who's lying?
Well, the president could resolve this this morning.
No, no, but he came out and he said, I have looked at those intelligent reports.
Well, I think actually what he said was, I see the intelligence reports, so it's not clear to me he was actually referring to the same things my dad was.
But let me finish.
Don't you think at this point he would have seen this?
This is a critical report.
He would have seen it one way or another.
I'm sure he has at this point.
If you release the memos, then you and I don't have to have this argument about who's telling the truth.
We can all look at it for ourselves.
And that's where I think the administration's got a real problem because they haven't been able to explain to the American people why they're willing to release information that talks about how people were interrogated without putting out the information that shows what we gained from those interrogations.
See, now the point of this is that Deutsch and MSNBC and Obama don't care about ending the debate.
They want to politicize everything so that they can argue and discuss it politically, which means constantly criticize Republicans, Cheney particularly here.
And what Liz Cheney's pointing out, look, Obama can settle this argument.
Obama can settle by releasing the memos my dad says he saw.
And if those memos don't say what my dad says he saw, then guess what?
My dad's going to be perceived as wrong.
But if those memos do say what my dad says, then Obama's going to be the one that's misrepresented.
But Donnie, don't argue with me.
Just have Obama release the memos.
The truth is there.
It's the White House that's preventing us from knowing it.
Now, she's got guts and courage here.
I was her dinner partner one night out in Wyoming at a dinner.
It was a social thing.
It wasn't a political thing.
But as you can expect, political things ended up being discussed.
And she was on fire.
I mean, this woman is committed.
She is informed.
She's a warrior, a warrior et on this stuff.
And it's great that she's out doing this now.
Somebody made a point today, I forget who, that we've had all these presidential children.
And the sons of presidents, you know, dime a dozen, they've come and gone, daughters and so forth.
And they've always held out potential.
But Liz Cheney happens to be the most worthwhile in terms of political asset to her father, vocal, intelligent, and effective.
And this is so breathtaking to watch because it is a seminar on how any Republican appearing on any of these shows with any of these bumblehead liberals can handle them.
Two more.
Last night on Anderson Cooper 180, he said there are techniques which have been around.
The Nazis used them.
The Khmer Rouge used them.
The North Koreans used them.
So it's not as if terrorists were unfamiliar with these techniques.
If they wanted to train for them, and I'm not sure you really can train for torture or enhanced interrogation.
I would question the premise there.
The legal memos are very clear, and this was a very carefully designed program, and it was a program that the CIA designed, that they had the lawyers look at to make sure that the line, the divided sort of rough treatment from torture, wouldn't be crossed.
What the president has done is ensure that no future president can use any of these techniques.
So that's a big step.
And that's a step that I think really does endanger the country.
And frankly, if the president himself in the future is faced with a ticking time bomb scenario, it's not clear to me what exactly he will do, even though he's reserved to himself the right to take action like these.
That's another excellent point.
She points out first that his premise is wrong.
And let me set you straight here, Anderson.
She doesn't say this, but what we all know is, Anderson, you're part of groupthink.
You're part of the liberal conventional wisdom, and that's all you know.
As a modern-day journalist, Anderson, you're a walking cliché.
Let me correct the premise of your question.
And then she says, even though Obama has reserved for himself the right to use these techniques, we still don't know that he will because of the way he's politicized the issue.
By the way, the member of Congress that was questioning Holder in addition to Louis Gomert was Dan Lundgren, the former Attorney General from California.
And it was a tag team, extraordinaire, when Gomert called Holder on the contradictions that he was explaining about intent, what's torture, what's not.
So he was really twisted in knots.
Holder tried to change the legal definition of torture in the middle of the interview or the interrogation.
Yeah, the interrogation.
We'll call it that.
It was a hearing.
But they made mincemeat of him.
It's not hard to make mincemeat of liberals.
All you've got to do is don't cop to an attitude that they're better than everybody or that you don't have a chance against them or they're all going to gang up on you because folks, they're not grounded in any substance whatsoever.
Liberalism is itself in quicksand.
There is no truth behind it.
Liberalism is a series of mirages and images and PR.
And the truth does not need a majority to win.
As Liz Cheney is illustrating, she's going on these programs solo, ganged up on by at least two and maybe more people who oppose her.
And she's wiping them out with something as simple as the truth and often starts by refusing to debate their clichéed, fallacious premises.
Here's another example.
One more before we go to the break.
Anderson Cooper, more than 100 people are known to have died in U.S. custody.
Some that were ruled a homicide.
If these were tightly controlled things, how come so many people are murdered in U.S. custody?
Anderson, I think that your question is highly irresponsible because you are conflating things that aren't conflated.
When somebody dies or is murdered in U.S. custody, then we are a great nation and we take the people who are responsible and we put them on trial, as you've seen happen throughout the last eight years.
That is not the enhanced interrogation program.
And to somehow suggest that those two things are the same, I think, willfully conflates something and ends up in a situation where we aren't able to take a truthful look at the last eight years as we go forward because we're muddying the waters about what really happened.
Anderson Cooper's woke up.
What's my next question?
Yeah, he's trying to probably figure out what conflate means and so forth.
But what she's talking about here, he asked this loaded question.
100 people died in U.S. custody.
And what he's implying is it happened because we waterboarded him or we tortured him.
And she said, no, no, no, your question is fallacious.
The premise is irresponsible.
And whenever these kinds of things happen, we have prosecuted.
All you've got to do, we even prosecute the innocent.
Thanks to Jack Murtha, Marines, and Aditha.
Congratulations, Liz Cheney, showing the way.
And we'll be back.
Hey, Dawn, are you going to go out and buy a hybrid just so you can park close by the Double Tree Hotel that's only 10 miles from your house?
Dawn told us yesterday she knows the hotel 10 miles from where she lives, that they have reserved spaces for handicapped people and people who drive hybrids.
Would you buy a hybrid just to be able to...
People who buy hybrids, I would think, want to get a lot of exercise and do all the, you know, run around crunch on granola bars and that kind of thing.
Why do you have to pay people to drive a hybrid a close space?
I mean, aren't those people that don't want to use their cars anyway?
Park as far away as possible and take the Hoof Express.
Open Line Friday, Adam in Riverdale, New York.
Great to have you, sir, on the EIB Network.
Hello, Rush.
Hi.
How are you doing?
Good.
How are you?
I'm doing okay.
What, are you sure?
Oh, because of being in Riverdale?
Good.
I'm doing, oh, everything's fine.
I think you're a great American, Rush.
You're one of my heroes.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate that.
I think you're a very decent man, too.
The reason why I'm calling is that, you know, I usually agree with you 95 or 96 percent of the time.
And I'm terrified of Obama.
I think he's going to ruin and destroy the country.
I think he's a Marxist socialist who wants to create a Castro-like government.
And what I slightly disagree with you on is I thought Bill, I wasn't a fan of Bill Clinton, not a big fan of Bill Clinton.
But compared to this guy, he's a zillion times better.
And I've been to a lot of Republican parties, and they agree they'd rather have him.
This proves an undeniable truth of life that I have wrote, written back in the mid-80s.
That is nostalgia only reminds us of the good things in the past.
You're looking back at the Clinton years.
Yeah.
And you're thinking, oh, man, they were so much better than this because Clinton wasn't trying to destroy the economy.
I agree.
I thought he was a capitalist.
Wrong.
Wrong.
See, you're using a point of comparison.
Have you forgotten Bill Clinton wanted to do pretty much everything Obama is doing?
He just wanted to go for it first.
He wanted to nationalize health care.
You understand that if they had succeeded in doing that, then all the other dominoes would have fallen.
I'm not saying that Clinton wanted to own the car companies.
I'm not saying that Clinton wanted to have the government own things.
You're right about that.
But Clinton had every bit the intention of growing government and raising taxes and having control over people's lives as he could.
And he was just as adept at blaming Bush 41 as Obama is at blaming Bush 43.
So there are differences on the margins.
We're just going to have to wait and see here.
We were saved.
People forget this, Adam, but we were saved by Monica Lewinsky and the intern pool.
We don't know yet if the intern pool in the Obama White House is going to be as effective in derailing him as Lewinsky was in derailing Clinton.
But you can't count on that much history detail to repeat itself.
But don't think that Bill and Hillary Clinton, I mean, if they could do, if they could have gotten away, liberals are liberals, Adam, if they could have gotten away with what Obama's getting away with, they would have tried.
We'll be back.
No, I have not forgotten.
I'm going to explain in great detail when we come back why it now may be time to legalize counterfeiting.
Legalizing everything else, we may as well legalize counterfeiting.
Do you realize, stop and think about all of the problems legalizing counterfeiting would solve?
Sit tight.
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