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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	I know, I know it's time to start, and here I am, ready to go at the appointed time to make my daily rounds.
	Rush Limboy and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
	We come to you live from the famous, the Distinguished Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	And we do so proudly and happily.
	Here's the telephone number if you want to be on the program today, folks.
	It is 800-282-2882.
	The email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com.
	A programming note.
	Tomorrow, this is Tuesday, right?
	So tomorrow, Sean Hannity from Fox News is coming to the EIB Southern Command to videotape yet another interview.
	Now, the last time this happened, it created the media firestorm of the year where I repeated and explained my comment.
	Yes, I want Obama to fail.
	So Hannity's coming back tomorrow, and I guess it's going to be a two-parter again like it was last time.
	I don't really know all the details, but I do want to make this observation.
	All of those Republicans, all of you Republicans who admonish me for saying I want Obama to fail, all of you Republicans say, no, no, no, we want our president to succeed.
	Well, I assume you Republicans are endorsing Sonia Sovermayer.
	I assume you are supporting Obama nationalizing Chrysler and General Motors.
	I assume that you are endorsing $12 trillion in new budget deficits.
	I assume that you are endorsing the coming massive tax increases to help defray some of those budget deficits.
	And I suppose that you Republicans who were hoping and saying, no, we don't want our president to fail.
	We want our president to succeed.
	I guess you Republicans are thus endorsing the coming nationalizing of health care.
	Because that's Obama's agenda.
	It's what he's doing.
	He's getting it done.
	He's getting what he wants.
	So if you wanted Obama to succeed, you got it.
	Three cheers for Obama's success, right?
	Now, this is exactly what I meant when I made that original comment.
	I hope he fails.
	I didn't, I don't, this is, this is destructive.
	His agenda is destructive.
	We don't want him to succeed with his agenda.
	America succeeds when Obama fails, but he's not failing.
	Because the Republicans are all saying, oh, we hope our president succeeds.
	So I really, down the road, I don't want to hear a word of complaint from Republicans who say they want Obama to succeed.
	I don't want to hear them complain about the problems I create for them by saying, I hope he fails, because Obama is succeeding in installing his leftist agenda, which is exactly what I was saying.
	I did not want to happen.
	Everybody knew what I meant when I said it.
	But nobody had the guts, very few had the guts to back it up because they didn't want the criticism.
	Ladies and gentlemen, before we get into the meat and potatoes of today's program, I have to tell you about a new video game, an Xbox video game.
	Xbox 360 is Microsoft, as you know.
	And we have already linked to a trailer for this game.
	There is a weekly standard story by Tom Jocelyn explaining this new game, video game.
	We've linked to it at rushlimbaugh.com.
	But apparently, a former detainee at Guantanamo, Mozam Begg, B-E-G-G, has developed a game for the Xbox 360 in which a Guantanamo detainee will kill American soldiers to break out of Guantanamo.
	It is disgusting.
	Now, the manufacturer of the game says, no, no, no, no, nobody gets killed or anything.
	But if you watch the trailer, it's an open question.
	You can see a trailer at rushlimbaugh.com.
	This is something that Bill and Melinda Gates, they have their big, their Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and so forth.
	They should be made aware and held accountable if this is something they allow to go forward.
	Military families all over the country are just going to be outraged by this.
	I mean, they have risked their lives to capture these terrorists, and the game dishonors the sacrifice that they've made for our country.
	The game is obviously political.
	I want to describe the trailer.
	It takes 60 seconds to watch it.
	So you can see it at rushlimbaugh.com.
	We have both the website for the game and the YouTube video.
	They're both the same thing.
	And you will see it's a game played from the standpoint of a detainee and how unfair he's treated and how hopeless his life is, and all is lost unless he can escape.
	So you'll see it.
	And there's already a firestorm of conversation about this that's percolating out there now.
	Also, speaking of Guantanamo Bay, Americans, this is a USA Today Gallup poll.
	Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to closing Guantanamo Bay and moving some of the detainees to prison in the United States by more than two to one.
	Those surveyed say that Guantanamo should not be closed by more than three to one.
	They oppose moving some of the accused terrorists that are housed there to prisons in their own states.
	As USA Today says, this is Susan Page, the findings underscore the difficult task President Obama faces in convincing those at home that he should follow through on his campaign promise to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, especially in the absence of a plan of where the prisoners would go.
	In many parts of the world, Gitmo has become a symbol of U.S. arrogance and abuse.
	Obama has cited its closure as a way to lay the foundation for better relations.
	And I guarantee you he's going to be talking about it once he gets over to the Middle East.
	The next apology tour is underway.
	He's also saying, by the way, that, hey, Iran is entitled to nukes.
	They're entitled to nuclear power as long as they promise they won't weaponize any of it.
	We'll have more on that as the program unfolds before your very eyes.
	But this poll from USA Today and Gallup on closing Guantanamo Bay is interesting because it's part of a pattern.
	You know, if you look at the polls of where the American people stand on approving or disapproving of various Obama policy initiatives, you find something very interesting.
	On practically every issue, a clear majority of Americans oppose Obama's policies.
	And yet, his approval numbers remain 63 to 64 percent.
	Yet they oppose or do not agree with his policy prescriptions for things.
	Now, what does this mean for the future?
	What does it mean?
	Well, it's interesting to discuss because we have the state-run media who refuses to highlight any negatives about Obama.
	They carry the water for him.
	So you have these people who disagree with his policies.
	A lot of his voters disagree and disapprove of his policies, but in the same poll, his approval remains over 63%.
	This could mean, and it's a wild guess, but it could mean that at some point, the bottom will drop out of the guy's approval ratings.
	Don't know when, and I'm not sure that'll happen.
	But this is the kind of thing that is interesting because it illustrates a point that I have made over the course of many moons, and that is Obama's popularity is not related to his policies, not related to his issues.
	Contrary to Reagan's popularity, Ronald Reagan's popularity was directly correlated to his policy prescriptions, beating the Soviets, building up the U.S. military, cutting taxes, reviving the U.S. economy.
	And plus, Reagan was a likable guy like Obama is.
	But there is no correlation between Obama and his policies.
	Now, at some point, something has to give on this.
	And that is a light of optimism at the end of the tunnel down there that I think is going to get brighter and brighter and brighter.
	Last week, we discussed, had a call to the program.
	Mr. Limbaugh, do you really think these Democrats that voted for Obama really wanted all that he's giving?
	And I said, that's the great unknown.
	The answer to that question is crucial.
	And we won't know this until some of these policies have been implemented long enough for their effect, for their impact to affect people.
	So in light of that, see, the state-run media knows very well, I mean, because they're the ones doing the polls, they know very well that this is quite tenuous.
	When the majority of Americans oppose Obama or disagree with him on practically every issue, and here at Gitmo, closing Gitmo's two to one, the American people apparently don't care about the image we have around the world.
	They don't want these SOB terrorists in their neighborhoods, even in prison.
	They don't want them here.
	Keep the place open.
	It is a great prison.
	It's a great functioning prison.
	It has worked exactly as it was designed.
	So that's just one issue.
	There are other issues.
	The American people, they love Obama, but they don't like his policies.
	The state-run media is well aware that this is tenuous, that this has a breaking point.
	So what is the state-run media going to do to try to ameliorate or obliterate or blur this conundrum?
	Well, I discussed this on this program back in January on the 9th.
	This is 11 days before the BAMSTR was inaugurated.
	This is what I said.
	We're going to start seeing stories that will not be true that feature man on the street interviews with people whose lives are starting to get a little bit better.
	They see the light at the end of the tunnel now.
	They get on more job interviews and they're doing a little bit better.
	Drive-bys will start setting the stage to create the impression in the minds of people that we're coming back when we're not.
	Just as they try to set up this mood that we're going to hell in a handbasket when we're not, notice how that works.
	That convinces people, the old saw about, well, I'm doing fine, but I'm hearing on the news.
	My neighbor's about to lose his job.
	We're in trouble here.
	So how does it play when you're out of work, but you hear that other people are getting jobs?
	If you are an Obama voter, you think your time is just around the corner.
	You've got to be patient because he's already working.
	His plan is already working.
	If you think a demagogic, flowery-spoken candidate or president with an accomplice media can't convince people things are great when they're bad, you've got another thing coming.
	If they can convince them things are horrible when they're good, the opposite's also possible.
	To this day, people who are alive have voted for Roosevelt think he's the greatest president we ever had.
	And not because of World War II, because of Social Security.
	Because of Medicare, because of the new discipline.
	Don't doubt me.
	Don't doubt me.
	So the state-run media, the state-run drive-bys, will start doing stories on, hey, guess what?
	The economy's coming back.
	This will blunt the reality of a sinking economy made worse by Obama policies on people.
	And lo and behold, two examples already.
	MSNBC Morning Joe.
	Yesterday morning, the guest, Donny Deutsch.
	If you've never heard of him, it's because he's on MSNBC.
	The American public is getting tired of negative and angry.
	And to show people of character, you know, people want to see those stories now.
	And I think you're going to see across all media now that positivity is the new black, in a sense.
	Reality television is going to change now and be a lot more inspirational.
	Do I know these people or do I know these people?
	I tell you, I know these people like every square inch of my even more glorious now naked buddy.
	They're less of my glorious naked buddy, but it's even more glorious.
	Now, there's another example from our old buddies here at the Associated Press, official state-run media of the Obama administration.
	Fresh signs emerged Monday.
	The recession is letting up in the United States.
	Manufacturing slide is slowing.
	Builders are boosting spending on construction projects, including homes.
	And consumers aren't cutting back as much as some had feared.
	A trio of reports gave Wall Street a big lift on the same day that industrial icon GM filed for bankruptcy protection.
	The federal government is taking a majority ownership stake in the company, which announced new plant closings.
	Investors and economists focused instead on the encouraging news about the economy.
	DJI, Dow Jones, jumped 221 points, 2.6%.
	Businesses' inventories shrank, suggesting supplies will soon need to be replenished.
	That would boost factory production.
	The data add to mounting evidence of an abatement in the deep factory sector recession, said Cliff Waldman, economist at Manufacturers Alliance.
	The worst is clearly past for U.S. factories.
	Nonetheless, a real recovery might be months away.
	The global economic picture remains difficult.
	So exactly as I predicted on January 9th, it is now starting.
	Hey, we may have turned the corner.
	Obama himself last week, the economy, what did he say?
	We're coming back from backs against the wall or it's bottomed out or some such thing.
	We're back from the brink.
	We're back from the brink.
	Then yesterday, announcing 14 GM factories shut down, three parts suppliers closed, 2,200 GM dealerships are going to close.
	Unemployment numbers are still heading up.
	The first quarter GDP, 5.1% negative growth.
	And yet here we have the stories coming on.
	You know, we've got to be optimistic now.
	The economy's coming back.
	So Wall Street goes up a couple hundred points, and all of a sudden, it's due to Obama, and it's related to what happens on Main Street.
	When the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets under Obama, that doesn't mean the economy's bad.
	The Dow Jones Industrial Average, Wall Street has nothing to do with Main Street when talking about economic trends, blah, blah, blah.
	So I'm warning you.
	Be on the lookout for positive news.
	And if, again, In the midst of all of this economic shrinkage and realignment into a socialist fascist type economy,
	if they can convince you during times of plenty that we are in a recession or just around the corner from one, then believe me, they think they can convince people who are unemployed and can't find a job that things are booming and that hope and change are right around the corner from the unemployment office.
	That takes us back to the polls.
	Vast majority of Americans on issues disagree with Obama's approach, but they love him personally.
	There's a tipping point in there somewhere where the bottom falls out.
	The state-run media knows it, and so it's time now to get the people's minds right.
	The economy's coming back.
	Everything's great.
	We'll be back after this.
	Stay with us.
	As you people know, I am an aviation buff.
	I'm fascinated by it.
	I'm also very distressed that Barack Obama is destroying private aviation.
	I mean, here is a guy who tells CEOs and others, the days of getting on your private plane and going to Las Vegas for a good time, those days are over.
	But his days of getting on three private planes and two helicopters to New York for a date are fine and dandy.
	I just, I think the guy's a raging hypocrite, and I think he's got some anger issues he's dealing with about this country and success.
	But about aviation, this crash, the disappearance of this Air France flight that was flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, you know, the drive-bys, the state-run media are all practically in agreement that this plane was brought down by a lightning strike.
	And I have had so many questions about this.
	I've spent a lot of time on websites where a very careful and thoughtful meteorological analysis of the conditions has been done with various causes for the accident being discussed.
	Nobody's going to know until they get the black box, the flight recorder, and they found some wreckage where they thought they would find some, so they might be able to get the black box.
	But there's some things about this that don't make any sense to me.
	For one, lightning strike is not guaranteed to destroy an airplane.
	It happens frequently.
	The FAA tracks it.
	There's a website.
	They study it.
	Turbulence is probably a greater factor here.
	You've got a tropical storm or two tropical storms with an inversion from what I understand.
	You could be dealing here with 100 mile an hour updrafts or downdrafts, which can destroy lift.
	You could have a hail problem, although that's doubtful at the altitude of 35,000 feet where it was flying.
	You could have ingestion of water or ice in the engines, although the temperature outside the airplane at 35,000 is minus 43 centigrade.
	So you're not going to really have a water problem, although they could have ice.
	Hail doesn't form.
	But there's something strange about this that lightning doesn't explain.
	I got to go.
	Be back in just a second.
	And welcome back.
	Great to have you here.
	Rush Limbaugh meeting and surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis.
	CNBC has just reported that General Motors has sold its Hummer division to the ChiComs.
	So the Hummer will continue to be made.
	It just won't be made in the United States.
	The ChiComs are going to make it.
	The question is, will General Motors, will Obama allow Hummers to be imported?
	Seriously, General Motors is going to be forced to make these little rat-trapped tinfoil cars, lawnmowers with seats.
	The guy who's not running the company, he says, has mandated this.
	GM already makes these kinds of worthless little eco-cars, but they're not going to be allowed to import them.
	They make them overseas.
	This is protectionism.
	It never has worked.
	It won't work in this case.
	So they sold off the Hummer, and they're taking it over to the Chi-Coms.
	Well, the Hummer, the Army version of Humvee is a different car.
	Really, the Hummer is just a different body on a suburban chassis.
	They just put a different body on a suburban chassis and make it the Hummer.
	And it's related to the looks of the Army Humvee vary ever so slightly in appearance.
	But the Army doesn't drive these Hummers around.
	Well, I'll have to opt it.
	I've been asked who makes the Army's Hummers.
	Somebody Google it for me.
	Google Hummer, and you'll get...
	Hummer is an acronym for what the car is.
	And it's a weird, it's a typical government acronym, and you'll find out who manufactures it.
	I can't recall it off the top of my head.
	But the point is, here is a car, the Hummer, and it's been vilified.
	People despise the Hummer.
	It's just a rotten SUV.
	They're going to build them in China.
	Chi-Coms are going to make them, and don't know if we'll be able to import them or buy them in the United States.
	I want to grab a phone call real quickly.
	We have a pilot, Airbus A330 pilot.
	That was the aircraft that was Air France Flight 447.
	Mike, welcome to the program, sir.
	You say you have a theory on the crash.
	Yes, I do.
	Megha Dittos from Central Arkansas Airline Pilot.
	Thank you, sir.
	It's a pleasure to talk to you, sir.
	Same here.
	Well, the airplane itself is just about smarter than any human being can possibly be.
	It does everything in the world for you.
	It gives position reports for you.
	It's the mandatory, the compulsory reporting points as you're going across the world.
	Right, you got weather radar in the cockpit, right?
	Weather radar in the cockpit.
	And the airplane will send.
	I'm sorry for interrupting.
	You hear our phone system is horrible, which means that half the time when I speak to you, you can't hear me, but I'm so interested in this.
	The airplane has systems where if there is a failure, mechanical or electrical, the airplane sends a notification to the airline and the manufacturer, correct?
	Well, I don't know about the manufacturer, but they can certainly become involved immediately.
	It has a data link system through a satellite radio, the SATCOM system on the airplane, and it sends it automatically to the maintenance personnel at the respective airlines.
	Yeah, exactly.
	They know that the airplane was having problems with its electrical system, be it a lightning strike or whatever unrelated circumstance may have happened.
	And then that could have certainly affected the radar.
	And if they were in the teeth of these thunderstorms trying to pick their way through them, as we call it, just picking your way through the soup and trying to avoid the most intense rain showers and most intense echoes, they could very well have flown straight into the teeth of one of these 50,000-foot monsters.
	All right, you have answered my question.
	Because I was going to posit the question or pose the following question.
	Why in the world?
	Everybody knew on the ground and in the air, this squall line of thunderstorms.
	They knew the tops for 51,000 feet or 50,000.
	Everybody knew they were there.
	Why fly straight into it?
	This is the one thing I couldn't get my arms around.
	And this airplane was flying at 35,000 feet, so it couldn't go over them.
	It was a wide band.
	It would have been a huge detour to go around them, and you can't go under them.
	So why not turn back?
	Well, it's hard to, you know, to armchair quarterback in the forensics of any aviation disaster like that.
	But that's just what I posit, that they more than likely had failure of their radar systems.
	And then their only way of knowing where weather may have been was observing flashes of lightning and say, well, you know, I know there's weather that way or that way or that way.
	And it's a very dire situation.
	Well, if you're in the 50,000-foot storms out there, and if you're at 35,000 feet, you're in the heart of the tiger right there.
	If you are in the midst of the thunderstorm with tops at 50,000 feet, you're at 35.
	You're basically looking at gray.
	You're looking at gray.
	Yeah, I mean, it's got to be difficult.
	Now, that explains it, though.
	If they had an electrical failure, the weather radar went out, then they couldn't cherry-pick their way through the storm and avoid the big cells.
	They might have to be.
	Well, that's it.
	Let me give you a website.
	I'm sure, Mike, you'll be fascinated with this because one of the places I went today to get an understanding of this is a website called weathergraphics.com.
	In fact, we'll link to this at rushlimbo.com.
	I'm probably going to melt this poor guy's server.
	It's weathergraphics.com/slash Tim slash AF447, Air France 447.
	The guy that does this is Tim Vasquez.
	This is an amazing meteorological analysis of the conditions at the time and place.
	The Air France Airbus 330 was last known to be.
	And it has a list of conclusions here that are just ⁇ it's one of the most comprehensive meteorological analysis I have ever seen.
	And it's fascinating.
	And it goes through all the possibilities.
	Turbulence, icing, lightning, precipitation, hail, and it gives the reasons why each could or could not be a factor.
	Now, none of what the captain here from Little Rock mentioned is mentioned.
	Maybe.
	It's 10 pages when you print it all out.
	I didn't have time to read it all this morning before the program started.
	But if indeed they lost the electrical and take their weather radar out, then they would not know where they were going.
	At that point, they're just sitting ducks in a thunderstorm, and you don't fly into them.
	This is the thing that, you know, the one question I had, no pilot that knows where a thunderstorm is goes into one.
	I mean, we have them all the time here in South Florida late in the afternoon in the summertime, and you can see the tops.
	You can sometimes see the tops at 55,000 feet.
	You're coming in.
	You do have to wave your way through them or else you detour away around them.
	But you never fly right into one.
	You just don't do it.
	So this crew obviously didn't know.
	Well, not obviously, but apparently didn't know where they were headed.
	And that would explain why if they lost the electric and weather radar then went out.
	So the question would be what caused them to lose electric.
	And that's why people, I guess, are speculating and focusing on lightning.
	Here's another pilot, Craig, in Boston.
	Hi, Craig.
	Nice to have you on the EIB network.
	Hello, sir.
	Hi, Rush.
	How are you today?
	Good, thank you.
	Hey, I've been a longtime listener, been listening to you for probably 20 years, off and on.
	And I want to thank you very much for the service you've done to our country.
	Thank you, sir.
	I've been an airline pilot for 27 years, and almost 25 years my current employer.
	I currently fly the Canadian regional jet, and I have been struck by lightning three different times, twice in two different propeller airplanes, and then once in the RJ.
	And the worst thing that happened to me in those was loss of my electronics.
	And once we recovered, we were able to reset the electrics and continue on.
	There was some.
	Let me ask you a question on your regional jet.
	When you got struck by lightning, were you knowingly in the thunderstorm?
	No, no, we were actually several miles away.
	That's the thing about lightning.
	What altitude were you?
	We were descending into Cleveland, so we were probably around 15, somewhere between 10 and 15,000 feet.
	All right.
	Now, in that circumstance, did you go ahead and turn on the engine ignition to avoid a gully washer flame out of the engines, or were you not in random?
	You did, yes.
	Yes, that's actually one of our procedures that if we are in the vicinity of thunderstorms, that we do have the continuous ignition on because a lightning strike can, with the airplane that I fly, it can disrupt the airflow to the point that it causes the engine to flame out.
	Now, whether that's true with the Airbus or not, I don't know.
	Nobody does.
	I don't know if it does or not.
	But in every case that I've been struck by lightning, once we recovered from the initial shock of the lightning strike, we were able to reset all the electrics that went out.
	But it didn't destroy your ability to fly the airplane.
	No, no, not by any means.
	What did it sound like?
	You got struck by lightning.
	What did it sound like?
	It sounded like a gunshot.
	I don't think I've ever been in a plane struck by lightning.
	Well, you don't want to be.
	It did.
	It sounded like a gunshot.
	And the damage that was caused was all pretty much superficial.
	There was scoring down the side of the airplane.
	There was damage to the paint.
	There were several rivets that were scored with burn marks.
	But there was nothing substantial done to the airplane.
	Yeah, but it didn't take you out of the sky.
	So this is, well, the people who are fascinated by this, it's just interesting, and it's fun to speculate about it until it's known.
	The exact reason is known.
	But again, if you have the slightest interest in things like this, this website, again, I'm sure Coco is going to link to it because he follows orders.
	And I've already asked him to link to it.
	It's www.weathergraphics.com slash Tim slash AF447 slash Tim Vasquez is the guy who put this all together.
	It's fascinating.
	I got to go.
	Thanks very much, Craig, for the call.
	We'll be back and continue after this.
	All right, at the website that I gave you, weathergraphics.com slash Tim slash AF447 slash Tim Vasquez has updated the site now to include the possibility that loss of electrical took out the weather radar, which means the pilots aboard the Airbus A330 would have had no way of tracking or tacking through the thunderstorm to avoid the bad sells.
	So that has been updated.
	The Hummer, the military Hummer is made by AMG.
	It is the AM American General Corporation.
	And I haven't had time.
	I've been doing things between the commercial break here.
	I want to find the acronym.
	Hummer stands for something, and it's on the tip of my tongue.
	Got a three of who knows?
	Okay.
	Tell him we'll get to him here in just a second.
	But I have more state-run news.
	The state-run media is reporting here great state news on the economy.
	Again, to buttress my prediction of January 9th, a number of U.S. homebuyers who agreed to purchase a previously occupied home in April posted the largest monthly jump in nearly eight years.
	This is a sign that sales are finally coming to life after a long and painful slump.
	Hip hip hooray.
	The state-run media reporting great state news on the economy pending home sales up 6.7% in April.
	And now, Jim in Douglasville, California.
	Hi, Jim.
	Great to have you here.
	Hello, Rush.
	Always a pleasure.
	Thank you, sir.
	You're welcome.
	Yes, I just wanted to let you know that the Humvee, that stood for Highly Mobile Multi-Wheeled Vehicle.
	That's what it was.
	Say that again.
	Highly mobile multi-wheeled vehicle.
	And it's officially the Humvee.
	Yeah, the Humvee, that's the military version.
	And then the civilian version of that was just the Hummer.
	And that stands really for nothing in particular.
	It was just coined.
	You're right.
	Exactly right.
	Hummer became a retail word for Humvee, but the official Army Humvee is a Humvee, and it does have that acronym.
	It's weird.
	It's typical.
	And the average military Humvee, just the four-seat Humvee that we see tooling around Baghdad.
	I mean, the thing's, what, $250,000 or something?
	It's exorbitantly expensive.
	Yeah, well, they certainly did get up that high, especially when you install armaments, the armor that was needed later on.
	The Hummer, the civilian version, I used to own an H1.
	It was the model was H1.
	That was made by American General also, because they all came down the same assembly line, Hummers and Hum Vs, up in Indiana.
	And it was interesting.
	Yeah, but eventually General Motors bought it, but the retail version of Humvee.
	General Motors, when they made the Hummer 2s and the Hummer 3s, they had their own assembly plant.
	And you were right about, yeah, it was just put on a suburban-like chassis.
	Right, exactly.
	I usually am right.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	But yeah, the Hummer, fortunately, what was so attractive about that truck was the fact that it was on a super heavy frame, just like the military Humvee.
	Yeah.
	Well, I'll tell you what I did.
	I traded in.
	I had a Z71 Suburban, one of the two SUVs we have with the staff to drive.
	And I traded it in last night for a 2009 Suburban.
	I wanted to get the latest model SUV I could get before Obama makes them illegal to have.
	I did.
	I got $11,000 on the Z71.
	It was a 2003.
	Thanks to the call out there.
	Jim, appreciate it.
	This is David in Oakdale, Minnesota.
	Nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
	Hello.
	Hi, Rush.
	How are you doing?
	Good.
	I'm caller, longtime listener.
	Thank you, sir.
	With the sale of the Hummer division to the ChiComs, what are the chances that GM is going to hold true with their promise of saving more than 3,000 jobs in manufacturing here in the States?
	Well, the hell with that.
	If they're going to close 12 factories, 18 to 20,000 GM jobs are lost.
	Obama said yesterday, it's going to get worse.
	More plants are going to close and more parts distribution centers are going to close.
	Dealerships are going to close.
	And he left the dirty details of that to the CEO of General Motors, Fritz Henderson, to announce yesterday.
	I'm going to have to, before I answer questions here about the Hummer, I've got the name of the ChiCom company that has bought Hummer, but I don't know if manufacturing is going to move to China.
	And after it does, I don't know if we're going to be allowed to import them.
	You know, that's the thing.
	Remember what I said yesterday?
	The ChiComs, despite Timmy Geithner, and Timmy Geithner, I don't think he's leveling with us today about what the ChiComs told him about, oh, we love your economic strategy.
	We love, we're not worried.
	I don't think that's true.
	I think Timmy, just as he lied about his taxes, is lying to us.
	And I think one of the real dangers here, they own so much of our debt.
	They might finally say, you know what, we're going to stop buying your debt and we're just going to start manufacturing products for our own population.
	And we're going to build up our own economy so our own population can buy the stuff we make.
	And we're going to stop relying so much on exports to you.
	So whether or not they're going to export the Hummer back to us or still make it here depends on whether or not, and I'm serious, by 2016, any of us are allowed to own one.
	Off to a rousing start, and we've got an interesting soundbite for you when we come back.
	Senator Patrick Leahy says, essentially, that the hearings on Sonia Sotomayor will be about me.

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