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June 5, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 5, 2009, Friday, Hour #2
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Today in Vukenval, the concentration camp in Germany, Barack Obama made a usual Barack Obama speech, ripping Germany, ripping it to shreds for things that happened 60, 65 years ago.
This came one day after lauding Islam around the world.
Angela Merkel, the Chancellor, Prime Minister of Germany, President, whatever she's called, sat there j- I mean, the look on her face, if you get a chance to see it, she's steaming.
Last place.
She's not a big Obama fan anyway.
And you'll see what I'm talking about when you watch the video tape.
Let's go to the audio sound bites about this.
Government run NBC obviously got an exclusive with Barack Obama while there.
Tom Brokaw interviewed Obama, and they had this exchange.
What can the Israelis learn from your visit to Buchanwald?
And what should they be thinking about their treatment of Palestinians?
Well, look, there's no equivalency here.
But I do think that given the extraordinary moral traditions of Judaism, the potential uh power of empathy that arises out of having gone through such historic hardships, uh, that will ultimately give the people of Israel the strength and purpose uh to seek a just and lasting peace.
And that I believe will involve uh creating two states side by side with peace and security.
I don't know about you.
This question outrages me.
And the answer outrages me.
Tom Brokaw's question, what can we really learn from your visit to Buchanwall?
And what should they be thinking about their treatment of Palestinians?
Now, to his credit, Obama said there's no equivalency there, Tom.
Then there's always the butt.
But I do think that should have been the end of the answer.
But then he went on to say, but I do think that given the extraordinary moral traditions of Judaism, the potential power of empathy that arises out of having gone through such historic hardships, that that will ultimately give the people of Israel the strength and the purpose to seek a just and lasting peace, and that I believe will involve creating two states, I said peace and security.
Now anybody who's paid attention to this for the past sixty years knows that the Israelis have bent over forwards and backwards to try to come up and do things that the world has asked them to do to forge peace.
They have given up land.
They have been attacked.
When they were attacked, they were victorious and they conquered land.
They gave it back.
Israel is a nine-mile-wide country.
At its narrowest point, Israel can see all of its neighbors from the Golan Heights.
Now, the idea that the Israelis are the ones That have to do something here to seek a just and lasting peace is offensive as possible.
Because you see, the limbaugh doctrine, peace results from one thing, and that's victory.
We have been going through this mess of Middle East peace for I don't know how long.
And back in the 90s, Bill Clinton gave Yasser Arafat everything Arafat was demanding, and he still rejected it.
Because Palestinian leaders do not want a state side by side with Israel.
They want no Israel.
Everybody involved in this knows that.
All of this is such a phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock and roll political game.
That question by Brokaw is an indication of the government run media's impression of the Israeli-Palestinian fight that there may as well be the Israelis engaging in their own reverse Holocaust now.
You know, I just I get really frustrated that the Israelis do not bomb themselves on buses with Palestinian kids aboard.
They don't strap their four-year-olds with bombs and send them into the Palestinian territories and say, blow yourself up, kid.
They don't do these things.
It happens to them.
And then when they fight back, they're accused of atrocities.
They sit there and they'll take a barrage of missiles launched from Lebanon for days and not do a thing.
Then they'll respond, and all of a sudden the world says the Israelis are reacting uh out of proportion.
What they mean is the Israelis should aim their missiles as horribly as the Palestinians aim theirs.
These uh Hamas missiles and Hezbollah missiles from uh Lebanon mostly miss their targets, but they're still harassment and they still pose a great threat.
The Israeli missiles don't miss the target.
The world gets mad.
I don't know how they keep their patience.
I don't know how they keep their decor, but I'll tell you this.
This whole this whole business of uh President Obama saying, well, you know, given the extraordinary moral traditions of Judaism, the potential power of empathy that arises out of having gone through such historic hardships that will ultimately give the people of Israel the strength and per ultimately, ultimately, you mean eventually, as though they're not existing with strength and a sense of purpose now.
You know, you can say what you I don't I don't I don't care what you think of the Israelis, and I don't care what your religious attitudes are toward the Israeli people, but there's one thing that can't be denied, and that is that they have been, as a race of people subjected to Holocaust and genocide throughout much of their existence, and it has not torn them apart.
They have not lost their moral code, they have not lost their sense of decency.
None of what Obama implied about them here is true, that they somehow have to have to summon that.
That's the reason they still exist today is because they have not fallen apart as a result of all that's happened to them.
One day after delivering a speech that talks about all the contributions to the world from Islam and all of it was made up.
I said, you know, I don't know if you saw my the second half, the second installment of my interview with Sean Hannity on Fox last night, but I said as clearly as I could, Barack Obama's got something against Israel.
Now, if you look at who mentored him, Jeremiah Wright, uh, you'll find there's a guy who's got something against Israel.
Louis Farrakhan.
Not only does Louis Farrakhan have something against Israel, he's got something against the Jewish people.
I don't know where Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn come down on that, but I do know that they're radicals and they don't like the country, and all the people Obama hung around with at an impressionable age didn't like the country, and most of the people that probably Taught him in college, had their own view of the uh parts of this country that fall short or don't measure up.
His exposure to both the history and the reality of this country has been negative.
And that's why I think when he's up there today and he's he's just once again harping on how rotten Germany was sixty-five years ago.
We all know this.
Now the world knows this.
One day, after going through the motions of praising the greatness of Islam and the Muslims, Angela Merkel, the look on her face, it did not sit well.
Let's go back, in fact.
You know, I said to his credit, Obama refuted the premise of Brokaw's question.
Broka's question, what should the Israelis be thinking about their treatment of Palestinians?
Obama said, ah, there's no equivalency there, but let's go back.
Here's what he said in Cairo yesterday.
Six million Jews were killed.
More than the entire Jewish population of Israel today.
Denying that fact is baseless.
It is ignorant, and it is hateful.
On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people, Muslims and Christians, has suffered in pursuit of a homeland.
For more than 60 years, they've endured the pain of dislocation.
Now there is the time-honored Obama technique.
Go ahead and say something that's correct.
And then, but on the other hand, which then equates what comes next with what he said first.
So there he is equating whatever problems the Palestinians had in equester homeland for 60 years.
They could have had one at a number of points in the last sixty years.
Their leaders rejected it.
So he did compare in his own way the Holocaust to the 60-year plight of Palestinians.
One more here before we go to the break.
This is Friday, Ris.
It must have been earlier this week.
Obama's gonna quote his uncle in this next bite.
And there are stories, and uh Coco, you're gonna have to find them.
I mean they're out there.
I did I didn't print them out because I just wanted to commit them to memory.
But the uncle he cites says, and it's infinite number of places that Obama's never talked to him.
He's never talked to Obama about Vukenwald.
He's never talked to him about it.
And Obama didn't call him.
They don't talk.
So here, here's the question from Tom Brokow.
Tomorrow the president goes to Normandy to commemorate the 65th anniversary of that invasion.
And when we talked today, he reminded me that he had been raised effectively by his grandparents both in their own way, veterans of World War II, and the lessons that they imparted.
My grandfather used to regale me with stories about his travels and what it meant to be in the army.
It's a humbling experience, and it reminds me uh not to complain.
Because I think as difficult as things are now, and they are tough, uh, especially for individual families.
It's never easy if you lose a job or you lose a home.
As a nation, there's nothing that we're going through that compares to the sheer deprivation that existed during the Great Depression.
And frankly, the dangers that existed during World War II.
Boy, what uh FDR had to deal with uh and how touch and go things were at so many different junctures during that war something that I am mindful of at all times.
Well, this is not the bite I had in mind, but he has said numerous times that uh he's talked to his uncle, not his grandfather, his uncle, about uh Vukenvold, and now the people are sending me the story now.
Let me take a break, I'll find that.
In in this bite, uh his visit, he makes the visit to Vukenvold all about him and his family.
This is just narcissistic, and he compares himself, of course, to uh to FDR.
Brief time out, we'll come back, we'll continue, get your phone calls next on Open Line Friday.
All right, here's the stuff on the uncle.
Now, there's the two stories.
One's in the uh UK Telegraph.
The other is in an interview with Der Spiegel or Der Spiegel in uh in Germany.
Here is what Obama said.
This was on the uh on the campaign trail.
I had an uncle who was one of the part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps.
And the story in our family was that when he came home, he just went up to the attic.
He didn't leave the house for six months.
Now the uh the let's see uh I guess it's UK telegraph says through our own research and Obama's later correction, we eventually discovered he had meant to save Buchanwold rather than Auschwitz.
But then let's go to the Der Spiegel, Der Spiegel interview.
Spiegel says, Mr. Payne, early in June, your great nephew, Barack Obama, will visit the former concentration camp Buchenwald, which you helped liberate at the end of the war.
Will he be traveling in your footsteps?
Charles Payne, the great uncle.
I don't buy that.
I was quite surprised when the whole thing came up, and Barack talked about my war experiences in Nazi Germany.
We've never talked about that before.
This is a trip that he chose, not because of me, I'm sure, but for political reasons.
So today he changes the story to his grandfather, who told him all about World War II.
Because his first effort to say his uncle had told him all about it, the uncle blew up by saying, Ah, we've never talked about it.
So Der Spiegel says, Well, what do you think could be the motive for his trip?
Well, the great uncle says first, I think he already had the trip in mind.
Cairo on the one end, Normandy on the other, time for Germany in between.
Second, perhaps his visit also has something to do with improving his standing with Angela Merkel.
She gave him a hard time during his campaign and also afterwards.
Well, now at first, this is Der Spiegel again.
Uh, Mr. Obama claimed that one of his family members was involved in the liberation of Auschwitz.
How did this misunderstanding come about?
The great uncle.
Well, he couldn't have gotten it from me, since we had never talked about this particular episode in the war.
My sister and her husband were both great storytellers.
Sometimes they made up things to go along with it.
They told him about my deployment with the 89th Infantry Division.
Apparently they mixed up a few details.
Of course it came out immediately he was wrong, since there are enough people in America who knew that Auschwitz is in the East, and that camp was liberated by the Red Army.
Afterwards, Obama called you, Der Spiegel said, What did he want to know?
The great uncle.
Well, he wanted to know where this camp was that I'd help liberate.
I told him it was Oberdurf and that it was a subcamp of Vukenwall concentration cramp, and then I described a little bit of what I had seen.
So he called after.
Anyway, the the uncle never talked to him about it.
So the story yesterday became his grandfather, told him all about it.
World War II and so forth.
Now, my father was in World War II, and a lot of his friends, we couldn't get him to talk about it.
And I I've mentioned this on program before.
We could not get him.
You know, we're kids, and my dad flew P51s in China, Burma.
And we're kids.
Hey, Dad, how how many of the enemy did you shoot down?
Would not talk about it.
And his friend Dr. Kinder spent some time in uh Johnny, he was in the Navy, would not talk about it.
So I I think this is just narcissism.
Obama just has to place himself somehow by uh indirect family presence or friend presence, he has to place himself because of his narcissism at the center of every place he's going.
Well, Clint Clinton used to do the same thing, I know.
It's uh it's it must be in the Democrat Party playbook.
This is how you empathize with people.
All right, to the phones.
Uh, this is uh Karna.
Karna in uh in Washington, our nation's capital.
Hi, Karna, great to have you here.
Well, hi, Rush.
Delighted to be with you today.
Thank you.
Since it's openline Friday, I thought I'd I'd bring up a point about the great amassing of executive power that this new president's been going through that hasn't really gotten a lot of press coverage.
Uh I mean, for example, look, the man is now appointed, I think I'm right on this.
I do a lot of research.
Twenty-one White House czars.
The climate czar.
And today we got word of a PAZAR, the special master for compensation.
Yes.
Uh you know, Rush, that the Russians starting in the year sixteen hundred, up to the last of them, they appointed twenty-two czars.
It took them, you know, four hundred years or so, and they had one at a time.
Obama's got twenty-one of them in five months, and what people don't realize is that these people serve, quote, at the pleasure of the President.
They're not confirmed by the Senate.
Most of these activities are ones that would normally take place in a cabinet office.
Yeah, that's right.
That was a big point.
He has all the way down to the street.
Well, precisely.
You're setting up all kinds of problems there.
That's another issue.
But but all the cabinet people are confirmed by the Senate down to the assistant secretary level.
They are they are good, they go up to the Hill, they give testimony, and so the Hill, of course, has oversight and all that sort of thing.
I mean, even Senator Bobby Bird has been upset about this.
He's tried to put out a couple of press releases uh questioning the uh the way this is threatening the constitutional balance of power.
Can you hold on to the break?
Absolutely.
I want to talk to you more about this, and I'm gonna ask you some questions.
The latest to raise a stink about this is Stanny Hoyer, who's raising a stink about uh Obama's use of executive power by fiat.
Uh so let's take a break.
We'll come back to Karna in uh in Washington in mere moments right after this.
We rejoin Karna now in uh in Washington, D.C. You're still there.
I absolutely am.
Terrific.
Here's the story, and this is uh out of Washington.
House Majority Leader Stenny Horner, uh Hoyer, said yesterday he disagreed with a major proposal that Obama advanced this week to help trim health care costs.
Obama wants to give a little known panel, a Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, more power to come up with recommendations to control costs in the government's Medicare program.
Congress would then be required to vote on these recommendations up or down without revision and without debate, much like the model used for the Federal Base Realignment and Closure Commission.
Hoyer said there's not much support for this idea in Congress.
Uh he said it was okay for the base closure, but for legislation affects literally millions and millions of Americans, that's an entirely different issue from a policy standpoint.
I don't know this this cannot be can it no way it conceivably can be constitutional.
No agency can have the authority to tell Congress it can only vote up or down on what is obviously legislation.
So here is another example of a of a czar-like group exerting total federal control even over Congress.
And Hoyer's standing up and saying no.
Well, I d he's absolutely right.
As I said, Bobby Bird is right too.
Uh and all of these czars that we've been mentioning, the urban affairs czar, the car czar, the cyber czar, the regulatory czar, the climate czar, you know, they're they're all developing these little feastums inside the White House without oversight at all on the part of the Congress.
And i i i it's it's absolutely amazing all of these people.
Um there's one other example that I I could give you, Rush, if I could.
Um I I served i in the Reagan White House uh it for for six years.
You sound very smart.
I was gonna observe that.
You s you sound very intelligent.
Well, uh you know, I I've worked in government, so of course now we have I would call the anti-Reagan president in the White House.
And when I was there, uh just this has not received any publicity at all.
Uh the NSC staff, National Security Council staff in the White House, in the Reagan Day, we had forty professional staff.
Okay, forty professional staff.
And the job was to take the various policies from state commerce, DOD, and so forth, and and uh analyze them, present the policies fairly to the president for a decision.
Today, you know what he's got in there?
Two hundred and eighty.
Two hundred and eighty NSC staffers.
I don't know where they park.
Of course, who has White House mess privileges, that's sort of another issue.
Uh it's incredible.
No, wait, wait, that's interesting.
I mean, you you gloss over that, but I've been there enough times to know that that's a great question.
Where do two hundred and eighty National Security Council staffers park?
And is there room for all of these additional people in the White House mess?
Absolutely not.
It it's it's amazing.
They're gonna I don't know what they're gonna do about that.
But uh but they've got all these people.
And as I said before, they're serving at the pleasure of the president, not uh you know, not anywhere else uh in in in the government.
And I don't know where they're gonna put them.
They're gonna have to have annexes all over town someplace, I have no clue.
But uh but this amassing of of executive power.
I mean, it makes anything that the Bush Cheney White House uh did look like third grade recess.
Well, you know the uh the th you've had two people, Hoyer and Robert Byrd pop up about specific things.
I'll tell you a little story.
I I was invited by the president on um the day after my birthday, January 13th to go to the White House for a for a you know the lunch, goodbye lunch.
And in the in his dining room off the Oval Office, and he told me he was he was aghast.
He says, You won't believe the number of czars this guy's gonna appoint.
He had talked to Obama, Obama had laid out some of his plans and they'd talked, and he said he's gonna have all of all these czars and they're not gonna be answerable to anybody.
Exactly right.
And it's happening.
Exactly right.
I mean, we always had a few.
You maybe had a drug czar, you had a faith-based person, uh, you know, looking at things like that.
But twenty-one?
Okay, so tell me the purpose of it.
I mean, you you you can enlighten people here.
Why is he doing this?
Executive power.
The man's into executive power.
I mean, look at everything that he's been doing in terms of he he has been gaining and grabbing as much power as he possibly can.
This is his one chance.
Ex Yes, yes.
Well, maybe.
Maybe.
Well, I'm not quite sure how how how how you can how you can stop it.
The man does have the right to appoint his staff of uh you know, it's just that it's getting worse.
Well, let's play this out.
Now you you say in answer to my question, why is he doing this?
Executive power.
That's a term you inside the beltway types use.
And it's not incorrect, but I think there's a better answer.
Okay.
He's a statist, he's an authoritarian.
He wants to rule.
He doesn't want to govern.
Well, you did call him Lord Obama, I think, on a previous segment.
And uh I think I think the most merciful.
I think you're getting it right.
The most I think you're getting it right.
I it uh I'll tell you something.
I something else in my research, uh I write books now, Rush, and and and I there was something from the campaign, here's a great line.
He said, quote, my friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world.
I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it.
Yeah.
Barack Obama.
Which he's he is doing it.
It's scary.
He is doing it, and he's got blanket support from government controlled media.
He doesn't have anybody in his party standing up and opposing it.
No matter you look at all of these so-called Democrat strategists who show up on cable TV, they're all supportive of this.
They don't dare disagree with any of it.
Uh it's it is it it's just it's shocking.
People don't think this kind of thing could happen here.
Well, the real question, Rush, is uh and and I'm sure you have an answer here, but the real question is once you put so many of these things in place, how do we turn it around?
Well, see, that's the danger.
Not just the czars, not just all the NSC staff you're talking about, but let's let's say that he succeeds.
What how do how do we get General Motors back?
Oh, good luck.
You know, for for for example, I mean, you l let's say that in 2012, just play this out.
Let's say in 2012 we elect a conservative president.
This is this conservative president may or may not have a Congress that goes along with him.
He's gonna have to unravel if he's true to his uh ideology, he's gonna have to unravel and and dismember so much of this growth of the Federal Government.
And you know how hard that is to be uh to do.
I mean, Reagan really was serious about closing the Department of Education.
Well, he he he tried I mean when Ray i if we look back, Rush, now the excuse they're using is we have this incredible economic problem worse than the depression and so forth.
If that's our excuse for for all of their moves.
But when you look back, and and you you've talked about this before.
President Reagan came in, we had some pretty tough times, twelve percent inflation, twenty-one and a half percent interest rates, double digit unemployment.
But what was his answer?
Exactly the opposite of every single thing this administration is doing.
Lower tax rates.
When when Reagan came in, the highest rate was seventy-eight percent when he left, it was twenty eight percent.
Two ups and downs here and there.
All of this is true, but I say I don't think it's just enough to say Reagan did it this way and it worked.
So we know that it worked.
Obama, everybody on his side saw what happened, they know it worked, and yet they throw it out.
In fact, Carney, even the Republican Party wants to throw it out.
That's the frustrating damn thing.
The Republican Party wants to get rid of that kind of So I have to ask this question, which I've been doing.
We we all know that w however wrong he is about things that are traditionally American, Barack Obama's not stupid.
Now he may have been educated in a uh perverted and polluted way, but intellectually he's not stupid, nor are people that work with him.
Yet they are doing the exact opposite of what everybody knows will work.
Everybody knows this will not work, but from whose standpoint will it not work?
Ours.
From Obama's standpoint, it's working like a charm.
He is getting more control over everything.
He is creating more dependency on the part of the general population for the government.
The story came out yesterday that one of every six dollars the American people earn is from the government.
Well, you know, Rush, you you remember I I'm sure you've talked about this before, that during the campaign, uh Obama was asked, I think it was by Charlie Gibson.
It was an amazing question.
He said, Well, looking back in history, every time taxes were cut across the board, you had the Kennedy tax cuts, the Steiger tax cuts, the Reagan tax cuts, revenues into the government actually increased.
And with the Reagan tax, I'd say doubled as a matter of fact.
So then there would be more money for your programs if you agreed to those programs.
And Obama's answer was incredible.
His answer was, well, that's not my concern.
My concern is fairness.
Right.
It's exactly his concern is returning the nation's wealth to its rightful owners.
In his view, unions and the poor are only poor or only middle class because evil rich people have stolen it from them.
This is what he's been taught, and I'm sure he believes it anyway, and this is what his policy is are all about.
Look at with all of this unemployment and the recession, look at the drastic reduction in tax revenue to the government.
So their projections, deficit projections and and and uh uh government revenue are already way off, and it doesn't matter a heel of beans.
The worse it gets is my point, the better for him.
Exactly.
And for his designs.
But you can't make people believe that because most Americans don't want to believe that their president intends to benefit from the country being harmed.
It just it won't work.
People will not be able to put their arms around that.
Average Americans who are not political junkies like we are will not be able to grasp that.
Well, the one the only thing we can do is is keep up with shows like yours, of course.
And uh, you know, I write about it, I write political thrillers, and uh I point out all of these things.
Okay, now you've mentioned that twice.
I've got it.
Yeah, I know.
I've got it.
We shouldn't do that.
Do you do you write under your real name?
Yeah, Karna Smallbodman, and uh I've got three the last one, Final Finesse, just came out recently, so it's it's it just came out.
And final finesse by uh Karna Smallbodman?
Right.
And uh it just came out.
Spell small bodman for me.
Well, it's Karna, K-A-R-N-A, and then small, S M-A-L-L, and then Bodman, B-O-D-M-A-N.
Okay, I just wanted to double check with my hearing constraints.
I wanted to make sure it was here.
I appreciate that.
There's a lot of people.
And I wanted to make sure that there was no L on Karna.
No, no, no, no.
No.
Well, that's it.
Actually, that's uh sometimes been mentioned, but no, as a joke.
In fact, in the White House mess, uh, we used to come down to lunch and Larry Cudlow was on the staff there, and I'd walk in, he'd say, Oh, Colonel, you know, and we'd joke around about that.
But no, it's Karna.
Uh so I I I write about each book is about a different national security threat, uh, but sort of seen through the prism of experiences with Reagan.
And I I do a lot of this research, and I and then I watch what's going on in this in this new administration, and I every time I pick up shocking.
I'm telling you.
Well just amazing.
speaking of that, I've got a piece here I uh from uh Dan Henninger yesterday of the Wall Street Journal, and he has a great he has a let me just read you the first two paragraphs.
Studebaker, Nash Calvinator, Packard Hudson Stutz, Pierce Arrow, Stanley Checker, American Motors were once household names.
U.S. auto industry, unlike General Motors in our time, they were not too big to fail.
Despite mergers and rescue efforts by their owners, each one was shut down.
Their legacy lives on as classic cars restored with erotic affection by collectors.
Second paragraph.
General Motors and is different.
In the spirit of the new age, General Motors, like Citigroup and AIG will be kept alive in an industrial coma.
One has to ask, is this where the entire country is headed?
Since January, it looks like it.
An industrial coma is a great descriptive way, or a descriptive phrase applied to what Obama's doing.
It is just an industrial coma.
And they all know it.
They all they see unemployment getting worse.
They see more jobs being lost, they see wages going down.
They're not doing a thing about it.
Well, the and and the question is, when are the voters gonna wake up?
Well, that is the question, and that's just talking to you about it earlier, and I I don't know.
I do hi his voters have a cult like attachment, emotional attachment to him, and you even wonder if devastating personal economic circumstances will wake him up.
This is the big question.
Karna, I gotta run.
I've enjoyed talking to you very much.
I'm a little long in this segment, so the next one's gonna be short.
Best of luck with the new book, too.
We'll be back.
We'll continue right after this.
Okay, uh, we do have I was wrong, folks, and I will admit that I'm wrong when it happens.
It's not very often, so it's not a uh problem.
Obama did mention his uncle, his great uncle, who told their Spiegel and the UK telegraph he has never talked to Obama about his experiences liberating concentration camps.
This morning in Germany, after visiting Buchenwald, Obama said this.
I've known about this place since I was a boy, hearing stories uh about my great uncle, who was a very young man uh serving in World War II.
He was part of the eighty-ninth infantry division, the first Americans to reach a concentration camp.
Uh they liberated Ordruff, one of Bugenwald's subcamps.
And I told this story.
He returned from his service in a state of shock, uh, saying little and isolating himself for months on end from family and friends, uh, alone with the painful memories that would not leave his head.
His uncle has told the UK telegraph and their spiegel, I don't know how he knows this.
I've never talked to him about it.
I said he talked about his grandmother, his grandfather.
And and he did when he was talking to Brokaw.
I said he had changed from his uncle to his grandfather because of the stories that came, but I was wrong.
He did mention his grand uh his uncle today in the speech.
Matthew in Fresno, California.
You're on open line Friday.
Hi, sir.
Hello, sir.
Uh Megan Dettdo's.
I just wanted to call the to let you know that I just graduated from Fresno State uh political science major.
Congratulations.
Thank you, sir.
I've uh grown up ever since second grade.
I remember coming home and and watching the Rush Limbaugh show with my dad.
Um I've had uh Rush Limbaugh around me my whole life.
My wife bought me my first uh Rush 24-7 subscription when we got married, and I've used uh information from the Limbaughs and from the essential stack for at least ninety percent of all papers written during my college career.
I just want to thank you for everything that you've done and uh much appreciated.
I tell you you're making me blush here.
Is my face getting red?
Uh can you see the That is so nice of you to say.
I I you have you have uh made my day.
Forever, forever grateful for all that you do for the conservative movement, sir.
Um my my children right now are listening to you.
They they love dancing when the music comes on.
Uh I've got uh a two-year-old, two and a half, and a one year old, and they just love listening to you.
Well, thank you very much.
That is that is just in these times to learn that people your age and your kids are somehow missing the exposure to that which would pervert their thinking is just great.
You are doing a great job.
And you, I'm sure I'm I'm I'm sure it's not easy for you out there bucking the trends of popular sentiment yourself.
Oh no, it I mean, some of my classes, you know, I was probably one of one of three conservatives, and probably the only one actually speaking up in uh a lot of my classes, but you know, armed with uh a lot of the information that you put out there, I've been able to defeat a lot of uh liberal permanent.
Well, what we need it that that is that is just great.
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Thanks, Matthew.
Congratulations.
I appreciate it more than you know.
My friends, the plot thickens.
One of Sonia's Sotomayor's best friends says that Sonia's Sotomayor is open on the question of abortion and would follow the law.
Hmm.
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