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What?
Why didn't you ask me this five minutes ago when you came in the room?
I'm starting the program.
Yes, I have been...
Stop the tape.
Stop the theme.
Yes, I've been watching the Sotomayor stuff.
What do you think I've been doing?
Start the tape.
It's from the beginning.
I'll tell you what, though, I can't.
I had to turn it off.
The woman's scary.
No, no, no.
Not the way she looks.
The stuff she's saying.
She's making it up.
The stuff that she said in her speech, oh, it doesn't matter.
She's exactly who we know she is.
She's a reflection of the BAMST, and they're trying to get past that today.
And Jeff Sessions was great.
But I'll tell you another reason.
Pat Leahy, the chairman of the committee, this guy needs a drain in his throat.
I keep wanting to clear my throat every time I listen to this guy.
It's starting to sound like Larry Flint.
Do you notice that?
So I'm just reading the closed captioning.
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Well, Obama was going to do a town hall meeting out in Michigan, cancel a town hall meeting, and he's just going to do a speech now.
Yes, that's exactly right.
Why?
Why do you figure the teleprompter died yesterday?
There's a big question.
Steve Gilbert at sweetnessandlight.com is not so sure that it was an accident.
Steve Gilbert has explored the possibility that Obama's teleprompter committed suicide.
They need to call in the Los Angeles County coroner here to find out exactly what happened to that teleprompter.
We have the audio of the teleprompter dying or committing suicide, whichever it is.
This is in the OEO, the executive office building over there, the Eisenhower office building.
And he was speaking to the White House Office of Urban Affairs, Urban and Metropolitan Policy Roundtable.
This is the sad incident.
I don't know if a eulogy is in order here or not.
I'm sure they've got baby teleprompters and backups, but I mean, the head honcho just bit the dust yesterday.
We took swift and aggressive action in the first months of my administration to pull our economy.
Oh, goodness.
Sorry about that, guys.
He doesn't even apologize to the teleprompter, doesn't run over to see if it's okay.
Just apologizes to all the people in the room.
I mean, the teleprompter makes him.
The teleprompter is Obama.
Whatever it says is what he says, and it just crashed and burned there.
You know, words cannot convey, ladies and gentlemen, the horror that everybody experienced when we saw the graphic pictures of the teleprompter-in-chief on the floor, shattered into hundreds of pieces.
And there were heroic efforts, best electricians, the best computer experts to save a teleprompter, like kind of like Humpty Dumpty.
The teleprompter-in-chief, there's a vice teleprompter.
But I mean, we never hoped to have to get there, and we're there now.
The teleprompter-in-chief could not be put back together again, Lapsed into perpetual sleep mode and went on to make his maker, a great communicator in the sky.
Who among us is not sad to see the teleprompter of the United States, TOTUS, such immense talent, pass away at such a young age.
I mean, this prompter is not even seven months old.
The president's teleprompter, brilliantly talented, a giant in his field, one of the best teleprompters ever.
At a time like this, many will say he was taken from us too soon, that his best days were still ahead of him.
To that I say, good riddance.
That little wise-ass teleprompter was propping up an authoritarian socialist and helped this president conduct a war on prosperity.
This teleprompter, everybody feeling so sorry for, helped the president destroy the private sector.
This teleprompter was the best friend of a fraudulent anti-free market liberal.
The dearly departed teleprompter was an accessory here to outrageous acts against the United States economy, attempting to take our money and property under false pretenses, lying about global warming, lying about health care, cap and tax.
I don't have any sorrow that the teleprompter is Fini.
None whatsoever.
Well, I know people are going to get mad at me here for having no compassion about this, but this, you know, this teleprompter, the teleprompter has its own website.
Do you know this teleprompter has its own or had now?
I don't know who's going to take over another teleprompter either.
Now, if it committed suicide, maybe we can have some compassion.
And maybe it didn't like what it was having to say.
But if it was just an accident, now here's what happens.
People have been asking me all night, what happens when the teleprompter-in-chief, what happens when the TOTUS, when it dies like this?
What happens?
What happens is that the teleprompter's duties and powers are immediately transferred to Biden's teleprompter.
This happens under the 25th amendment.
I know there were rumors that the teleprompter was somehow taking drugs, Diprivan, which is an anesthetic.
And of course, that has nothing to do with teleprompters, but it obviously had some effect if these rumors are true.
And we're waiting for the official details on all of this from TMZ.com to find out exactly what's at stake here.
Let's go back as not an official eulogy, but let's remember some of the high points from the life of the teleprompter of the United States back to May 27th in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the Air Force Academy, Vice President Biden.
But it also needs a special brand of strategic thinking that are gained only in the thin air of Colorado Springs and the windy air of Colorado Springs.
What am I going to tell the president when I tell him his teleprompter is broken?
What will he do then?
The teleprompter fell.
It tried to kill itself at the Air Force Academy when Biden was doing the commencement speech.
For some reason, Biden's teleprompter was not.
There's Biden's teleprompter that now becomes TOTUS under the 25th Amendment.
And the teleprompter, by the way, things were not well in the White House because the teleprompter really told Obama a story last week.
And of course, Obama repeated the story about how he met his wife.
To the entire class of 2009, congratulations to you.
I don't know if anybody else will meet their future wife or husband in class like I did, but I'm sure that you're all going to have wonderful careers.
Now, Obama did not meet his wife in class.
Obama met his wife at a law firm.
She had been there, I forget the name of the law firm, she'd been working there a year, and he was essentially an intern.
So the teleprompter was sabotaging Obama even as recently as last week.
Now, if you're President Obama and you're up reading a teleprompter and it says something that's not true about your personal life, don't you stop and get it right and then have a little chat with the teleprompter later?
No, he just went ahead and read it, even though he did not meet his wife in class.
The Clintons met in class, but the Obamas did not.
Now, the state-run media decided they had to do some quick cleanup after this faux pas.
Thursday night, the Situation Room on CNN, the CNN international security correspondent Paula Newton said this about Obama.
President Obama was apparently so jetlagged during a speech, he said he met his wife at school.
He met her at work.
Oh, well, never mind.
Any of these things that happened to George W. Bush front page, what an idiot, what a dolt, what a dope.
It's a state-run media covering for Obama.
So as you see, things were not well between Obama and the teleprompter in the first place.
And so the idea that this was all an accident yesterday is something that people are still trying to figure out.
So the teleprompter now is gone and Obama gets Biden's.
We'll be back and continue.
Well, now you raise an interesting question.
Snirdly raises an interesting question.
Was there a secret CIA program that nobody knows about, perhaps hatched by Dick Cheney in his remaining days in office to get this teleprompter?
We'll never know.
I've just learned, ladies and gentlemen, the teleprompter of the United States, TOTUS, it's been reported, was extremely depressed in recent weeks.
President Obama continues to claim his administration is transparent, and yet only the teleprompter is transparent, especially the part that died yesterday.
It's a piece of glass you see-through.
And that was the only transparency in the Obama administration.
It was never discussed.
The teleprompter was never getting the credit that it thought it was due.
Things were not well.
The TOTUS, the teleprompter of the United States, is survived by its wife, a General Electric Toaster Oven, and its four iPod children, which have homes throughout the West Wing in the White House.
And that little ditty here about the teleprompter saying and making Obama say he met his wife in class when he met his wife at work.
Perhaps Obama met his next wife in class, and they're just getting real, you never know.
I mean, because that's a substantive error out there.
And not long after that, bam.
Bamstir.
Teleprompter is FNE.
Yes, I'm going to get to Sodomaior.
Frankly, we can sum this up in five or six seconds.
Everything she's saying today is not true.
She is denying what she said previously in the speeches.
She's saying that she was just trying to inspire Latinos when she said that the wise Latina would have a richer decision or better decision-making process than a white male.
Got into a bit of a disagreement here over the quote from Sandra Day O'Connor.
She's basically making it up.
She's pretending she never said what she said before.
It's obvious she's been coached about how to deal with this.
She is who she is.
Orin Hatch just raked her over the call.
She says, well, Ricci, the Ricci case has decided unprecedented.
There was no precedent.
That was a summary judgment case, and they didn't even publish the opinion.
There was no precedent in the Ricci case that she could cite.
That's her excuse.
Jeff Sessions was just tremendous.
His interrogation, cross-examination from top to bottom was just great.
It exposed all of the hypocrisy and the reality of Sonia Sotomayor.
Now, this is all good, folks.
These things need to happen because exposing her will help the people of this country understand who Obama is.
And I don't think it's a foregone conclusion until the vote happens that she gets on the court.
Looks like it.
But you never know.
There's a long time to go, and there's plenty of opportunity for snafus.
And I guarantee you, I just guarantee you this.
If there were video, good video, indisputable video of Sonia Sotomayor making that statement about wise Latinas being better judges than white men, she wouldn't be sitting there today if there were video of it.
And in that speech, that's practically the least offensive thing that she said.
She's also, you know, Sessions really, really grilled her on this notion that she made a speech again that judges make policy.
Well, she tried to tiptoe around that and did a 180 on it.
She's not the person that you see today that she has been all of her life when she's making speeches.
So odds are that she gets confirmed, but the process here is good because it's helping to inform people who are watching this just who she is because she's Obama.
She's a reflection of Obama.
CBS, New York Times, there's a poll out there.
It isn't good.
His approval number has dropped six points to 57%.
Over at the Gallup poll, more Americans may be getting impatient about the prospects for an economic recovery.
The percentage saying economic conditions are getting better dropped four points from the prior week to 31%, now down seven points from a month ago.
Consumer spending is down 32% from the same week, one year ago.
So let's now go to the audio soundbites.
CBS, the early show, co-host Harry Smith and Bob Schieffer, Face the Nation, have this exchange about Obama's approval numbers in the CBS poll.
A new CBS News poll shows Mr. Obama's approval rating has dropped six points in the last month to 57%.
Approval for his handling of the economy is also down a lot, down to 48%.
Can we blame this all on the economy?
It's the economy and the economy and the economy.
He's a long way from being unpopular, but he's done the stimulus package.
He's embarked on all these different programs to improve the economy.
But so far, apparently, most people do not see the impact on that.
They do not think it's affecting their lives.
Well, are they right or wrong about that, Bob?
I mean, when you say so far, apparently most people don't see the impact.
Now get this next bite.
This next bite can be summarized.
Smith and Schieffer discussing with each other the possibility.
Maybe the CBS poll got it wrong.
Is it too early to say, or is it possible that this administration just didn't get this right?
I kind of agree with Joe Biden in this sense.
I think the economy was worse than they said it was, but maybe they didn't want to say how bad that it really was.
I mean, maybe that's the question here.
What Barack Obama's got to see here, he's launched all these programs, but people need to see that they're having some impact.
Bob, they're not intended to have any impact.
See, this is what drives me nuts, folks.
These are supposedly smart people, but you've got the state-run media, the drive-bys, whatever you want to call them, and they are total slaves.
They are just slaves, and they're liberals.
And they believe this is the kind of thing that will ignite an economy and make everything fair and equitable.
And yet it isn't happening.
And so they want Obama to do something to make this effective.
They want Obama to succeed more than they want this economy to revive.
They want Barack Obama to succeed more than they care about the people of this country succeeding.
And that's why they look at the poll data and they go, oh, no, oh, no, is it the economy?
Is there anything we can do?
Anything we have done?
If it's Tuesday, it must be let's spend some more money day in Washington.
From Jim Rutenberg at the New York Times, Obama plans new funds for colleges.
President Obama plans to head to hard-hit Michigan this afternoon.
Was going to be a town hall now, Sis' speech.
He's going to announce a $12 billion infusion for the community college system.
$12 billion, part of his effort to ease the considerable pain of still sagging economy.
And if it's Tuesday, it must be Spend More Money Day in Washington.
President Obama is mulling new ways to delay foreclosure for jobless homeowners who are unable to keep up with monthly payments.
An administration official said yesterday.
That official told Reuters it was reasonable for policymakers to consider options for loan forbearance.
That is allowing borrowers to delay, defer, or skip payments.
The Obama administration is mulling mortgage aid for the unemployed, all to keep people from thinking that the economy is as bad as it is.
And also to get more and more people dependent and think, well, hell, if they're going to buy my health care, if they're going to spend for my health care, then they ought to, of course, they ought to pay for my house.
And a third story.
ABC News, in a meeting with President Obama today at the White House, yesterday actually it was.
Top labor leaders pushed for a second stimulus to create more jobs.
Why in hell would anyone listen to the unions on economic issues?
They're the biggest failures in the country.
So three brand new spending proposals in one day.
Fight to power.
Eisley Brothers.
Popular here in our bumper rotation.
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Okay, while all this Sotomayor stuff is going on, one of the things that's happening here in much of the pop culture analysis is that all of this minutia and detail is being missed or is being focused on and the big themes here are what's being lost about Ricci.
Ricci is a great example, the firefighter case in New Haven.
Everybody's talking about, well, she did this, she did that, and whatever refers in relation to the wise Latina comment and so forth, and she's trying to explain it away on the basis of precedent.
The fact is, she buried the case.
Remember now, this was a case with three judges.
She was one of three.
They decided it on summary judgment.
Means no trial.
And then buried the case.
There was no published opinion.
She was doing everything she could to make sure that her reasoning on this and her participation in this case would never ever be made public.
And if it hadn't been for Jose Cabranis, it would have worked.
Jose Cabranis was not a member of the three judge panel, I don't believe.
He's a member of the full panel of the Second Circuit, and he looked at it, and he was just, he was shocked.
He had to write himself and say that he was shocked at how she had just totally ignored the Constitution in her ruling.
And all of this back and forth today about Ricci is an attempt for her to retrace her steps, recast what she did, lie about the fact that there was precedent involved when there wasn't.
She is oriented around racial and ethnic matters.
She does believe that minorities have been given the short shrift simply because they're minorities, and it's one of her jobs to change that circumstance so that minorities, whether they're right or wrong under the law, get the break.
That's who she is.
And that's the kind of thing that needs to be brought out.
Now, what I find fascinating about this, and this is one of the things that I have mixed emotions.
On one hand, it heartens me.
On the other, it discourages.
Every one of these liberals that come up there as appointees to one court or another, and even in a lot of cases, some liberals running for office, but especially Soto Mayor, it is clear she does not have the courage of her leftist convictions.
She is a big believer in affirmative action, but she will not dare go public and act as a crusader for it because she knows it's not a winner.
So these people, Sonia Soto Mayor, the whole point, what you should be learning from these hearings if you're watching, is how she's trying to bury who she really is.
That's the whole point of this.
That's the way she was rehearsed.
Bury who she is.
The liberals know that if they are wide open and honest verbally about things that they believe and say and want to do.
This is eventually what's going to trip up Obama, by the way.
And Barney Frank and all these people.
It's going to trip them up.
The only question is, are we going to have too much of this stuff implemented and making it very difficult to roll it back by the time all this awareness takes place?
This woman knows, trust me on this, folks, do not doubt me.
Sonia Sotomayor knows that her views are nowhere near the mainstream.
When Ricci, she couldn't afford to write an opinion based on what she really thinks.
She wouldn't be sitting here today had she done that.
This was all calculated to get here today.
Remember, she was first touted for the Supreme Court thing by Clinton back in 98.
So she's been on the so-called fast track among the elites and the glitterati in the D.C. legal circles.
And so that Ricci decision of hers, She was going to decide it the way her heart and mind told her to, but she wasn't going to be public about why.
Because it would not have helped her whatsoever.
So she's not a crusader in the public sense.
She's not out there standing up for affirmative action.
I really believe in it.
This is what we need to do.
She's trying to hide that fact, which tells everybody affirmative action and the things that she believes are not mainstream.
She is not the middle of the road.
She is a radical on the left like Obama is.
She believes in affirmative action enough that she couldn't write an opinion disavowing it.
I'll tell you something else.
You know what would have been very easy for her to do today?
When the whole wise Latina thing came up, when Sessions brought it up, and when the Ricci case was brought up by Aaron Hatch, all she would have had to say was, you know what?
Well, forget Ricci.
Let's say the wise Latina says, the speech.
She could have said, you know what, I've misspoke.
That really, I misspoke, and I shouldn't have said that.
That doesn't represent.
And everybody would have applauded and go, all right, and it would have been buried.
But she didn't.
She tried to excuse it and reposition it and say that she didn't really say it or that she said it, but this is what she meant by it.
It was taken out of context.
I don't know how you take those things out of context, but she didn't.
She could have very easily just swept this away by saying I misspoke.
And I'm happy for the opportunity here and tell the nation I misspoke.
And what's anybody going to do there?
If you go after her then, then you appear to be mean-spirited and all that.
And she could have shut this down, but she didn't.
Why didn't she shut it down?
Because she believes it.
She believes what she did in Ricci is right.
She probably views being overturned by the Supreme Court in Ricci a huge setback for the country as she views it to be.
So in the end, and very smart legal beagles will tell you this if you don't trust me, she buried the Ricci case in an unpublished opinion that makes sure the affirmative action position wins, but doesn't dare try to defend it publicly.
That's Sonia Sotomayor.
That is why it is imperative that people understand who she is and what these hearings are really all about.
We're not going to get the real Sonia Sotomayor unless these Republicans continue to push and push and push.
Go back to Ricci.
So I'm not satisfied with your answer.
Sounds to me like you really wanted to bury your decision here.
And by the way, that would be totally proper.
We're getting here to judicial philosophy, which is not pubic hair in a Coke can.
We're getting to judicial philosophy.
It'd be entirely proper for every Republican to go back to Ricci, go back to the wise Latina thing, because she is doing, like in that Ricci decision, she buried what she really believes, hoping nobody would ever see it.
Now she's called on it here, and she cites something called precedent, which there wasn't any precedent in the case.
She is hiding who she is.
The left is practiced at this because in their hearts they know they are not the majority of thinking in this country.
See, that doesn't matter to them because the democratic process is largely irrelevant to them.
That's why there are things like Acorn and other ways to gain and hold power outside of elections, using the judiciary, for example, is that.
They don't care that public opinion really doesn't favor them.
They know that it doesn't.
That just makes them have more contempt for the public.
So it's a fascinating thing to watch here.
But it hasn't changed my mind any.
This is a stealth radical who's doing everything possible to keep her radicalness hidden and buried.
And of course, there are many other radicals in this room, starting with Pat Leahy and going on down the line to Chuck Yu Schumer and Dianne Feinstein.
There are a lot of radicals on this committee, just exactly like Soto Mayor.
And they're doing everything they can to help her bury who she really is.
The Republicans can put them on defense.
It's interesting to see how hard they push.
Speaking of pushing hard, all this business, Obama going out to Michigan today, seeks a boost there.
You know, people in Michigan are saying, you know, we are ground zero when it comes to the economic meltdown.
We're looking at 20% unemployment.
It's about time he got here.
That's what Democrats in Michigan are saying.
If I were, if you people in Michigan, the worst thing could possibly happen to you is that Obama's coming and going to announce more policies.
You people in Michigan, I know those of you in this audience listening in Michigan, you know why your state's in trouble, and you know why some of the cities are in trouble.
They've been run by Democrats for way too many years, raising taxes.
Crime is up.
People are out of work.
The auto companies had their problems.
And now here's the guy that's the architect of 9.5% unemployment, the architect of just unimaginable debt, going to Detroit to help.
This is like, you know, when you see Geraldo Rivera on Fox, you know that somebody's died.
They don't put her.
In fact, see, when I was watching Michael Jackson the first day when it was rumored that he had died, but nobody was reporting it, I knew, I knew that when Fox put Geraldo on, Michael Jackson was dead.
Geraldo is a Grim Reaper.
And I don't care who it is.
Somebody dives off a cruise ship.
Somebody gets tossed off a cruise ship.
Somebody is a drug overdose.
When Geraldo shows up, somebody's dead.
And Michigan, you've got the equivalent of the economic grim reaper showing up here.
A guy that believes in everything that's been done in that state that has caused your economic problems is showing up with Biden's teleprompter, backup teleprompter, and no questions.
It was a town hall.
Now it's just the speech.
And here's another question, ladies and gentlemen, about Sonia Soto Mayor and the decision in Ricci.
Obama said we need people with empathy.
And she used empathy, not the law, in deciding against the white firefighters.
Why doesn't she just say, I was empathizing with the minority?
Why not just say it?
Where's the empathy here?
It's a huge qualification, is it not?
Obama says a huge qualification.
Well, I would think then that Soto Mayor could simply say you was empathizing.
She was using empathy as the president has said he wants injustices.
But she didn't, did she?
I'm telling you, a woman is hiding who she is.
Many liberals have to.
This is Mary Ellen in Roholboth, Massachusetts.
Great to have you.
You're up first today on the EIB network.
Oh, man, Rush.
Thank you so much.
Yes, ma'am.
Well, welcome back, first of all.
And you look great.
Boy, you've gotten very handsome lately.
But I have to say.
Wait, wait, wait.
What does that mean?
Are you lately I've gotten very handsome?
I don't know what's going on with you, Rush, but you look very happy and comment about my age.
You know, men get better looking as they get older.
Well, you did anyway.
I can't say that every time I'm talking about the past.
I know you're talking about my weight loss.
You're probably watching the ditto cam, right?
And you've noticed my weight loss.
You have no idea what I do to watch the ditto cam during the day.
I make sure that I'm at least listening.
I'm listening all the time, but watching part of the time.
Thank you very much for being there.
Appreciate that.
By the way, the Ditto Cam is available to subscribers at rushlimbaugh.com.
We televise the program.
I mean, some days I don't want to turn it on because I like my privacy here, but it's on for the most part, every program.
I've distracted you enough, Mary Ellen.
What did you call it?
I have.
Well, you know, you made a statement that it was good that Sodomaiar was being questioned about her beliefs because it's showing Barack Obama for who he is.
And you know what?
I don't think people care who he is.
I think they care what he gives.
I think they care that he's a minority.
I think that they care that he's not George Bush.
But other than that, they don't care what he does in Israel.
Well, I agree with you.
Right now, that's mostly true, but his numbers are starting to come down.
The Rasmussen, I forget, I'm having a mental block on it.
Okay.
But it's the approval.
The approval index.
No, the Rasmussen approval index, where they contrast the strongly approved versus the strongly disapproved Obama.
It's like minus eight, 57 approval down from 62 or 63 in the New York Times.
I agree with you that, but what Obama is going, he has failed.
He's not going to succeed in doing what he's telling people he's going to do.
And at some point, people are going to care who he is.
I know right now there's still the glow of the first black president, and it's not George W. Bush and all that.
But give it time.
I don't think people are going to care until they realize they aren't going to get the gold purse.
And when that hits, and when the upper middle class who voted for a minority president to prove that they were not prejudiced start to get whacked with taxes, that's when people are going to sit up and take notice.
Okay, you and I agree.
There was actually no reason for you to call today because you and I agree.
I'm glad you did, but it was.
You know, I always need to speak to you, Rush.
But, you know, if the Republicans in office don't absolutely grill this woman politely and respectfully, but if they don't absolutely grill her, we are going to, there's nothing we can do about it.
I know.
I just said that.
It's like you and I are married.
Oh, boy.
You know, that would be the best thing to ever happen to you, Rush.
It would have been.
Look.
My husband got to me first.
I'm sorry.
Right.
Mary Ellen.
I am too.
You know, there's certain things you just miss out on life and you can't do anything about.
And I'll regret this for the rest of the show.
Joe, and where is this?
Farmdale, New Jersey.
Hi, Joe.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
I'm in Harmdale, New Jersey.
Obama's going to be in two days.
Now, my question to you, Rush, is this: He's doing a great job.
Why do you keep on attacking him?
The Republican Party is in a Donald Trump.
Do something to elevate your party, attacking a man who's so popular, not just here, but around the world.
The impact he's having with his policies is having a positive effect on people's faces.
Joe, I have to tell you, I disagree with you.
I don't think he's doing a great job.
He's failing in reviving the U.S. economy.
He's succeeding in destroying it.
And I think people are laughing at him around the world.
If you saw a video of the way he was disrespected over in Russia, if that video, if that had happened with George W. Bush, that's all you would be seeing.
Joe, honest to God, I'm going to tell you this.
I feel like I'm watching the movie The Omen.
Have you seen that?
That fly almost flew into Obama's mouth in that speech in Egypt.
And everything that's happened, the omens that are just the teleprompter committing suicide or dying or whatever it did, and massive unemployment, Hillary Clinton getting mad now, wanting to reassert herself over things that it's not smooth as glass out there, my friend.
If you want to continue to believe it is and live in fantasy land, feel free.
I, of course, El Rushbox, can't afford to.
I am holding something here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers that unbelievable.