All Episodes
Previous Next
July 15, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
36:42
July 15, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #1
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I want to get this on and off the table as quickly as possible.
We've got to deal with it because it's its own form of controversy.
Obama's pitch did not make it all the way to the plate.
It did not make it all the way to the plate.
It probably was short hopped.
By the first baseman, very unusual.
I'll explain why.
The first baseman, Albert Pujols, was catching Obama's first pitch.
The guy throws like a girl.
I'm sorry.
He throws like a girl.
He had a girly toss.
They didn't show you the whole arc.
You have to go to the MLB.com website to see the whole thing from the center field camera because Fox only showed Obama from the mound and they didn't show Pooh Holes catching the ball.
So you have to rely on other people and what they've heard.
I just said the president throws like a girl.
He golfs like a girl, admittedly.
He throws like a girl.
George W. Bush is a man.
George W. Bush fired a strike first pitch Yankee Stadium after 9-11.
They made fun of Bush as a clutch.
Gerald Ford was an all-American college football player.
They called him Mr. Potato Head.
Chevy Chase had him stumbling and falling down airplane steps.
Obama's a big athletic klutz in the drive-bys.
The state-run media, the sports media are trying to portray him as the second coming of Michael Jordan.
Greetings, folks.
Welcome, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies and a special sports division.
Yes, it was a girly toss.
Did you see it?
Let me explain this to you.
Let me explain the first pitch.
I want to get this out of the way.
First off, he was booed.
He was booed by half the crowd, but they knew he was going to be booed.
He wore a Chicago White Sox jacket when he went out to the mound.
Now, the reason he did that was so that his handlers could explain that was the reason for the booze because St. Louis and Chicago, huge rivalry.
He would have really been booed had he worn a Cubs jacket because the White Sox never played the Cardinals.
But regardless, he got booed and they set it up.
That's also why Pooh's was the catcher rather than Yadier Molina.
Albert Pujols is the current athlete god in St. Louis.
This whole all-star week has been about Albert Pujols.
And Yadier Molina, who's a great, great catcher and very popular, but nevertheless, he's the catcher.
I've heard people say that they put poo-holes behind the plate because they knew Obama was going to short hop it.
They needed somebody who could scoop.
Catchers can scoop.
This was about, and then they had Obama run out there and shake hands with Stan Musial.
Somebody said today, Satan could shake hands with Stan Musial and be applauded.
That's how big Stan Musial is in St. Louis.
Now, I'm not comparing.
You people relax in there.
I'm not drawing any comparisons.
I'm just illustrating the popularity of Stan the Man Musial.
Number six, St. Louis Cardinals.
So they had Obama.
They knew he's going to get booed.
They know what his numbers are.
They know people aren't digging what's happening here.
And they had the White Sox jacket.
They had him shaking hands out there with Musial and then.
And by the way, you should take a look.
I don't know who it was, but you should take a look at the guy on the golf cart driving where they were parked with the guy in the driver's seat sitting next to Musiel.
As Obama walks over to Shake Musiel, say, I'm telling you, you just look at it.
Find a video on your own.
Make some effort out there, folks.
Find it on your own.
And then Fox, they get this.
They get the video camera.
It's a handheld on the third baseline, tight shut, of the president of the United States throwing a pitch, but you never see the pitch.
All you see is his girly form toss.
But if you go to mlb.com, Brian, if you want to look at it, mlb.com.
Okay.
Now, it's in one of the first clips.
It's not a separate clip.
The first pitch on mlb.com is not a separate clip.
It's in a like a minute and a half highlight summary of the whole game.
You will see that Obama throws a slow pitch softball type pitch, but he threw it overhanded.
That's how girls throw.
And it did.
There's argument about whether or not it short hopped, you know, hit the dirt before it was caught.
But here's the thing to notice, Brian.
Here's the thing.
The guy catching the first pitch, Albert Pujols, is squatting on the plate, not behind it, where the catcher used on the plate.
Obama did not get the pitch to the plate.
He couldn't have, and they probably told Pooh Joles he couldn't do it in the first place.
So you move up a little bit.
You see it now?
Okay, you see now why I'm saying that the commander-in-chief here is going to get a girly toss.
So it is what it is.
But they knew this was all going to happen.
So you got Pooh Holes catching God in St. Louis at the moment.
Stan Musiel, all-time God in St. Louis, Chicago White Sox jacket.
So they tried to limit the booze, and then they tried to set up circumstances where they could explain the booze.
I mean, these handlers are very good.
Now, here's some audio sound bites.
This is Joe Buck, Fox Sports, introducing President Obama.
Here's the introduction.
We got 15 seconds.
There's a smattering of booze.
People who were there have told me that it was about half and half.
But you don't know what they're going to say.
Well, of course they're going to get booed.
He came out wearing a White Sox jacket in St. Louis.
But then the cheers overcame when he goes up to Stan Musiel and they put poo-holes out there to catch the first pitch.
You know, the cheers.
Anyway, here it is.
Please welcome the president of the United States of America.
You hear him?
You hear him?
All right.
Hear the booze in there, right?
All right.
Now, I just explained to you what happened.
You didn't, if you watched the all-star game on Fox last night, you did not see the pathetic arc of the pitch.
You did not see the pitch caught by Albert Pujols.
You didn't see where Pooh Joles was squatting, practically in front of the plate.
You did not see, all you saw was what they want us to believe is a magnificent athletic form of Obama in jeans, by the way, tossing out the first pitch.
And we have a montage here of unidentified ESPN people, CNN people, ABC people.
Hell, we got a politico.
Everybody's on this thing.
State-run media, state-run sports media cannot even be honest about the Obama pitch.
Horrible camera work, but it didn't bounce.
He pulled it off, putting the ball across the plate.
He made it to the glove.
The president still performed a lot better than other big names.
That was a little low, but he did fine.
He did okay.
He warmed up under the stands and then reached the catcher on a fly.
Did not.
Very proud of him.
He's a lefty, too.
The president said he didn't want to bounce it, and he didn't.
It depends on the angle.
It's all about the perspective from which you see that pitch.
Now, if you see it from back there in Pooh Holes angle, it doesn't look so bad.
Made it all the way to the plate.
Oh, it's a matter of debate.
We're going to have to get the video in slow-mo, but I'm telling you, the reason why it matters if it gets over the plate, I have thrown out many ceremonial first pitches.
And in my career, I've also arranged for many ceremonial first pitches when I worked for the Kansas City Royals.
In fact, one of my most infamous moments was the very first first ball ceremony I arranged and orchestrated and emceeded from the field, Olathe night, Olathe, Kansas night, Saturday night, 40,000 people at Royal Stadium.
Microphone at home plate.
Well, it's actually out of the pitcher's mound.
They got 90 people from the Olathe committee who sold all the tickets to the largest group of the year lined up in the infield, third base to first base.
I do the rigging roll.
Welcome all.
He's got a great job.
And I go to the guy throwing the first pitch.
Hey, Tom, let it rip.
He's like, I don't have a ball.
I'd forgotten to get a ball.
So I'm stranded out there, no ball for the guy to throw the first pitch with.
So I had no, I knew if I left that microphone to go to dugout and get one, there would not be a ball there.
So what I did, I went a micro 40,000 people here.
Would somebody in a dugout please throw me a baseball?
Here came every baseball that 50 of them.
Empty bags were thrown out.
The Olathe night committee scattered all over the field chasing down the balls.
I reached down, grabbed one, gave it to the guy who threw the first pitch.
Best first pitch, ceremonial first pitch in Major League Baseball history and most entertaining.
And it was mine.
I know about these things.
And I've thrown my share of ceremonial first pitches.
And I know that the objective is to get the ball without bouncing it.
That's why all these drive-by and state-run people are making the point that he got the pitch to the plate.
But when you look at it from the major league baseball.com centerfield anger, you'll see that Albert Pujols is crouching so low, you can barely see the plate because he's right on top of it.
It could not have gotten to the plate because Pujols had to reach in front of the plate to catch it.
And I do think he short hopped it.
That's my story and I'm sticking with it.
I look down there.
I've seen short hops.
I've caught short hops.
I played baseball all the way up until I was a junior in high school when I got cut.
And, well, I don't know why I got cut.
Nobody else knew why I got cut either.
But I went home and I complained to my dad because my dad knew the coach.
And I said, that doesn't make sense.
Brink coach name and Brink off.
It cut me.
And my dad said, well, life lesson, son.
You must not be good enough.
That's it.
No, he got mad.
He got mad.
He got mad.
But it happened.
He wasn't going to challenge Brink.
Brink was a coach.
Now, if that happened today, the school will be sued.
We'd be digging up dirt on Brink off to find out whatever stuff he had to get him to change his mind and so forth.
So anyway, folks, you compare the Bamsters' first pitch with George W. Bush's first pitch at Yankee Stadium, wearing body armor, by the way, after 9-11.
And it was a fastball strike with a legitimate catcher, not a first baseman acting as catcher because he's the most popular guy in town.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Hey, we're back.
Great to have you with us.
Rush Lindboy, the EIB Network.
Look, I want to back off just a hair here on my criticism of President Obama.
Not everybody can be an athlete.
At least he's an athletic supporter.
And anytime you have a president who is an athletic supporter, that's better than not.
Now, here, let's go back in time.
This is October 30th, 2001.
Bob Shepard, PA announcer, Yankee Stadium, New York.
Please welcome the President of the United States.
President walking out to the mound to thunderous applause, wearing an FDNY blue jacket, waving to the crowd, standing on the mound, winds, kicks, and delivers to Todd Green in a perfect strike as he gets a thunderous ovation here at Yankee Stadium.
What a moment at the stadium.
We edited the length of the applause to bring this bite in under 45 seconds, but that was President Bush and the first pitch on October 30th, 2001 at Yankee Stadium.
I got to get this one out of the way before we get to Soto Mayor and this healthcare thing that the House has presented, folks.
It is an utter disaster.
And the Senate Health Committee has passed their version of it unanimously.
This is an outright disaster.
It will kill the United States of America.
It will destroy this country if it's ever passed.
You remember one of the most noteworthy, famous, respective, one of the things that established me as a great thinker in this country was a commentary I did many years ago, over 20 years ago, entitled, Ban the Ugly from the Streets During Daytime.
People reacted to this in ways that I didn't even expect in explaining and, well, reacted to its brilliance and its poignance.
And just to show you how, when I often say we are on a cutting edge of societal evolution, it's over 20 years ago I suggested banning the ugly from the streets during daytime.
And people said, well, how do we, who would this?
The ugly know who they are.
We all know this, so we make it voluntary.
Now, here is, in fact, we even came up with a term, Uglo Americans.
Sharon Begley.
This is also an illustration of the chickification of the news.
Sharon Begley in a Newsweek web exclusive, Beauty Before Brains, here is the opening paragraph of the story.
If you survived Haskrule or hope to survive Haskruel.
That's funny.
Newsweek thinks they got teenagers reading their website.
That's a triumph of emotion over common sense.
Newsweek thinks teenagers are reading their website.
Well, anyway, here's where Aristotle goes.
If you survived Haskruel or hope to, you probably made your peace with the fact that life is unfair.
Looks can compensate for a lack of brains and conscientiousness.
Baywatch proved that, by the way.
Or to put it more bluntly, teachers give good-looking kids higher grades than homely kids.
For those of you in Riolinda, homely means ugly.
Put it more bluntly, teachers give good-looking kids higher grades than they give homely kids, all other factors being equal, as numerous studies have found.
The phenomenon is so well documented in science, it even has a name, the attractiveness effect.
And the sociologist at the University of Miami and colleagues who studied it, Michael French, the effects of physical attractiveness, personality, and grooming on academic performance in Haskruel.
Being very well groomed is associated with a statistically significant GPA premium, they write.
While grooming has the largest effect on GPA for male students, having a very attractive personality is most important for female students.
They throw personality in there.
At any rate, story goes on.
Talk about we've got to level the playing field somehow.
How do we level the playing field?
We need stimulus money for the ugly.
How do you level the playing field for homely unattractive people in high school?
You ban them.
You set up schools for them.
Then that way, that's the only way you're going to level the play.
If we're going to look at people this way, this is the point of the long-ago commentary.
If we're going to look at people and judge them this way, then there's always going to be this unfairness.
So you just got to ban the ugly from everywhere, at least in daylight.
Nighttime, it's tougher to tell that they're ugly.
That was also part of the commentary.
By the way, the picture accompanying the article of the authorette, well, I'll employ discipline here and not describe the picture other than to say it fits the theme of the story.
Now, audio soundbites.
Do you know, ladies and gentlemen, that I am the reason Republicans are going soft on Sonia Sotomayor?
John King, this morning on CNN Live.
Republicans, though, will tell you, members of the committee will tell you privately that they felt hamstrung by the initial reaction, the Rush Limbaugh and the others saying she's a racist, she's a reverse racist, and they feel that if they get it all aggressive with her, that it will backfire.
So apparently members of the Republican members of the committee are telling state-run media reporters that my initial reaction, calling her a reverse racist and a bigot, is holding them back.
They're afraid if they...
I think they've done a pretty good job going after her, to tell you the truth.
I think they've been laying it out really well.
I think they're illustrating the woman is...
It's not my term, but somebody suggested she's committing...
Oh!
I've got it in the stack here.
There's a liberal...
Ed Whalen posted this at National Review Online in one of their blogs.
A liberal law professor at Georgetown is just livid at Sotomayor for not being honest about her liberalism.
And he says it's possible she's committing perjury up there.
She lying so much about what she has said in the past and what she meant when she said it in the past and how she's translating it today.
It was a, yeah, some lib lawyers and scholars, professors, are angry as hell that she is lying and hiding her true liberalism.
And this is actually good news.
I pointed out yesterday.
What a message for the Republican Party.
The left, like Sotomayor, she knows she can't get confirmed if she tells us who she really is or what she really believes.
Anyway, there's a couple of more sound bites here where I am being blamed for whatever the Republicans are or are not doing in these hearings.
And we'll let you hear those when we come back.
Okay, got an eyewitness report.
My cousin Jim and his son JP were in Bush Stadium last night for the All-Star Game.
The pitch bounced.
They saw it bounce.
Jim reports to me, and he's a credible, he's a banker.
He reports to me that he counts.
The booze and the cheers were 50-50.
So there.
I mean, if you trust me, you got to trust anybody in my family.
Don't doubt me.
800-282-2882.
Back to the audio soundbites.
This is incredible.
This was on Hardball last night.
Chris Matthews talking to Roger Simon of the Politico about the Soto Mayor hearings.
Matthews says, Lindsey Graham loves John McCain, supported him so dutifully and wonderfully, but everybody knows that John can have a hot temper.
A lot of people have hot tempers, but to say that he has a hot temper and yet she needs anger management, sorry.
He was tutoring her today.
That was condescending.
He was telling somebody up for the Supreme Court, now you've got to work on this.
He was doing that because Rush Limbaugh beat him up last night after he was too nice to Sotomayor, really, in his opening comments.
Oh, that's even the worst.
He's saying anything he cares.
You know, Rush Limbaugh is saying, if Lindsey Graham says you're going to make it unless you have a meltdown, he's saying, what's the point of the hearings?
He said, come on, give some guts.
So, Lindsey Graham.
You know, that's the worst condescending thing you've ever said on this show, Roger.
What?
You're saying that Lindsey Graham takes orders from a Republican senator from South Carolina can afford to tick off Linda Books?
I won't stoop so low as they're accused of being a ditto head.
Let's go back and play Cut 13.
I had to put this in perspective.
This is John King and this this morning on CNN Live.
The Republicans, though, will tell you, members of the committee will tell you privately that they felt hamstrung by the initial reaction, the Rush Limbaugh and the others saying she's a racist, she's a reverse racist, and they feel if they get it all aggressive with her, that it will back you.
I, single-handedly, am in charge of the Republicans on the committee and their interrogation techniques.
Now, there's a show on MSNBC named after a horse, the Ed Show, a talking horse.
I think they brought the horse out of retirement to host the show.
And the horse, Mr. Ed, is talking to a former CIA officer, Jack Rice, about the Sotomayor hearings.
And Mr. Ed, the horse, says to the CIA officer, I think you come from a profession where keeping your cool is pretty important.
Did she pass the test today?
It's about scoring political points right now.
And if what they're doing is pandering to Rush Limbaugh, then Sessions may have won.
But if he's trying to actually convince the rest of America that he's actually mainstream, he may have a very serious problem.
He's actually talking about Jeff Sessions there, and Jeff Sessions was pandering to me.
I have not spoken to these guys about any of this.
I've not attempted to call them.
I never do.
So imagine, I don't watch any of this last night.
I actually, I had a fun dinner party last night, and I don't watch any of this stuff.
I don't watch this stuff at night anymore.
I can't handle it.
It just stopped being informative and educational a long time ago.
So, as you know, I pay people to do this so that we can have the, to watch it so we have the audio soundbites.
This is the first I heard of this stuff.
Nobody, I mean, it's getting so routine that I'm responsible for everything the Republicans do.
I don't even get an email from people telling me about it anymore.
So I just hear about it when I have the audio sound bites.
Grab a couple phone calls here on the first pitch because I want to broom that.
We're going to get into healthcare here pretty soon.
This first up, Danielle in Lapierre, Michigan.
Is that right, Lapierre?
Yes.
Right.
Well, welcome to the program.
Hello.
Yeah, hi.
Well, I'm calling because I'm upset about that first pitch comment.
What about it?
Well, I'm a girl and I don't throw like that.
Well, that's not an insult.
Girls don't throw overhanded.
Yes, I do.
Well, okay, some do, but the majority don't.
That's what everybody does.
They don't pitch overhanded, but we throw overhanded.
Well, yeah, vases and stuff like that up against the wall.
But It's oh, come on.
He throws like a girl that doesn't know how to throw it.
There are some girls that throw overhanded and don't look girlish, but there's a term.
I didn't make up the term.
Now, women, these slow pitches.
No, well, you may not look like a girl when you throw, but I'm telling you, most girls do, and Obama looked like one.
It's not insulting girls.
My nine-year-old daughter throws better than that.
Your nine-year-old daughter is a girl.
So you're making my pivot about Obama, see?
I said she throws better than that.
I know.
You're making my point even better.
He's throwing like a girl.
He throws like a girl that doesn't know how to throw.
All right.
Fine.
I'll compromise.
Thank you.
I'll compromise.
I'll accept that.
Thank you, Danielle, very much.
Zach in Atlanta.
Zach, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Great to have you here.
Mr. Limbaugh, best wishes from the South.
Thank you, sir.
Am I the only one who noticed that the camera feed used during the broadcast did not show the location of the pitch?
No.
I mentioned that early on in my analysis.
Fox did this on purpose.
Here's what I think actually happened.
Obama knows he can't throw baseball.
He's a basketball guy, and not very good at golf.
I think these people, you know, handlers of presidents are very, very careful about things.
And I'm sure they got an agreement to keep a close-up in case he did bomb the pitch, in case it wasn't any good.
So, yeah, the Fox, that's why I said to see the actual pitch, from a centerfield camera, you have to go to MLB.com, and there you can see.
I mean, it looked like a slow-pitch softball thrown overhanded.
And I've never, in all the first pitches by celebrities that I've seen, I've never seen that be the case.
That is absolutely true.
You never, ever have a first pitch where they don't show the catcher catching the ball.
Yeah, for the amount of camera that they have.
That's another illustration of how last night was not an accident.
And the pitch itself came from the left, was weak, and fell short.
That's all I have to comment on.
Have a great day, sir.
Thank you very much, Zach.
All right, we're going to see.
Brian in Naples, but I'm going to hold on to you because I want to get into healthcare.
Let's go take a brief commercial timeout here.
We'll do that.
Speaking of Sonia Sopho Mayor, I haven't been paying much attention to hearings this morning because, frankly, the whole thing grates on me.
She's committing.
She's not being honest about who she is or what she thinks.
And that's a personality trait that just drives me baddie.
It drives me nuts.
You know, folks, if I were advising these guys like the press thinks I am, you know what they'd be asking?
Ms. Sotomayor, do you come before the committee with a chip on your shoulder?
Do you think that United States of America is unfair and unjust?
And do you view your role as a judge to level the playing field between the majority and the minority?
If I were running this show, if I were feeding these guys questions, if they're trying to keep me happy, that's what they would ask.
Let's just get to the nub of it here.
Let's get to the nub of who she is.
Are you angry at the current structure of the United States?
Do you think it is unfair when you read the Constitution?
Do you think it needs to be changed anywhere?
You know, instead of focusing all these speeches and cases, get to the nub of who she is.
Now, the presses say, well, they probably would have done that if Limbaugh hadn't piped up.
They make them afraid to go.
They wouldn't.
I don't think they would ask those kind of questions because they would be outside the bounds of propriety.
But there is one question that they haven't asked.
And that is, what videos does she rent?
That's a standard operating question they asked of Clarence Thomas.
Remember that?
Long dong silver or whatever?
And they went out there and they asked all these Republican nominees, or they don't even ask.
They'll just send these liberal activists in there to video shops, blockbuster, and so forth.
Now you search on the internet at Amazon and Barnes Noble, whatever, to find out what videos they're renting.
They haven't done that with Soto Mayor.
Another example of the double standard.
Now, where is it?
I want to see the list of DVDs and movies that she rents.
And until we know that, we can't have the vote.
We'll be back.
We are back, Rush Limbaugh and talent on loan from a god.
All right, if the state-run media is saying that the Republicans on the committee are conducting themselves in order to pander to me, to not anger me, to not be criticized by me, the Republicans are not being as hard-hitting because they don't want to be associated with me, yet they are pandering to me.
If that's happening on the Republican side, I have a question.
Is the nominee herself, Sonia Sotomayor, changing her positions to win my approval too?
Somebody needs to ask the drive-bys and the state-run media this.
If the Republicans are tailoring their approach in order to pander to me and win my approval, is she changing all of her positions, which she's doing, to win my approval too?
Is her testimony influenced by me as well?
I mean, this woman sounds like an originalist.
This woman sounds like Antonin Scalia.
And Clarence Thomas, she is stepping away from her own words and speeches.
Listen to the Washington Post today.
Sotomayor emphasizes objectivity.
Nominee explains wise Latina remark.
And get this one.
On the second day of her confirmation hearing, Soto Mayor stressed the primacy of legal precedence and distanced herself from her most controversial public remark, the wise Latina thing.
How do you get away from yourself?
She distanced herself from herself.
In other words, she's making it up.
She's lying about it.
And let me find this post here.
By the way, I'm going to be praising Lindsay Gramnesty in Mere Moments for something he said yesterday.
Here it is.
Ed Whelan posted at National Review Online's The Corner.
Liberal law professors against Sotomayor.
At least one liberal law professor was completely disgusted by Judge Sotomayor's testimony in an online debate on the Federalist Society's website.
Georgetown law professor Mike Seidman writes, I was completely disgusted by Judge Sotomayor's testimony today.
If she wasn't, by the way, you know what?
How did Colin Powell pronounce my name the other day?
Limbaugh?
Okay, Limbaugh.
So from now on, she's Sodomayor.
See how long it takes her to hit me on that.
Colin Powell called me Limbaugh, and they think Colin Powell is the end of the world.
He's everything great.
So from now on, she's not Sotomayor anymore.
She's Sodomayer.
Here we go.
This is Mike Friedman.
Seedman, online debate, Georgetown Law Professor.
I was completely disgusted by Judge Sotomayor's testimony today.
If she was not perjuring herself, she's intellectually unqualified to be on the court.
If she was perjuring herself, she's morally unqualified.
How could someone who has been on the bench for 17 years possibly believe that judging in hard cases involves no more than applying the law to facts?
Perhaps Justice Sotomayor should be excused because of our official ideology about judging is so degraded that she would sacrifice a position on the Supreme Court if she told the truth.
This guy, this liberal law professor, is upset because she won't be who she is.
And he says, if she's not perjuring herself, she's intellectually unqualified.
And if she is perjuring herself, she's morally unqualified.
Now, let me do what this really means.
Here we have a radical in the mold of Barack Obama, Sonia Sotomayor.
This woman does not have the courage or the bravery to tell the committee and the people of America what she really thinks when answering these questions.
And in doing so, she is hiding her radicalism.
She's hiding her leftist leanings.
And liberals are a little bit upset about this.
What it tells us, if the Republican Party is paying attention, and we could go back and cite also a recent Gallup poll, 40% of Americans, 41 identify themselves as conservatives, 25%, 35% moderate, independent, 21% liberal.
There's no reason we should be losing elections.
The only reason we are is because the Republican Party is dominated by people who think like McCain and Colin Powell.
But this is a conservative country.
If this country were in the image of Obama and Sodomayer, they would have no problem being honest about what they're doing.
But Obama doesn't even have the guts to tell people what he's doing.
He's telling him he's creating jobs, not destroying them.
He's telling them it's going to, well, we've got to go through a little transformation here.
Yes, we're going to move to a green energy, and we're going to lose some jobs.
Like in St. Louis, at Boeing, they might lose 1,000 jobs out of 16,000 employed there in the St. Louis area.
And the answer is going to be, and Boeing is making high-tech defense systems in St. Louis.
And what Obama's, well, yeah, we've got to get rid of that.
We're moving into green technology.
And, of course, we're going to lose jobs here, but we're going to gain two for every one we, let's say the exact opposite.
We're going to lose two jobs for every one we create in the green business.
And the green business is going to be artificially created because there's no market for it.
This is going to be a big loser.
But Obama, he's not telling people that he's destroying the economy.
He's not telling people of the pain that this is all causing, that it's intentional.
He's trying to make people think all this is going to work.
They don't have the guts.
My point is this is wide open for a true, red-blooded conservative Republican to walk in here and start immediately contrasting conservatism and the founders of this country with what's happening now, especially with all they're proposing so fast.
It's a golden opportunity.
This is not a time to be depressed.
It's not a time to be down because we don't have the votes here or the votes there.
This is golden.
We see it every liberals.
They don't even like to be called liberals, of course.
Progressive is the new term.
Quick phone call here, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Dean, you're next, and you're up on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Ditto's Rush.
Thank you.
I was sort of noticing that Obama seemed out of place out there last night.
And I wondered if he was going to throw the ball out from the mound or from the president's box as they usually do.
President Bush threw it out from the mound kind of as a show of strength after 9-11.
I found a photo, an AP photo via Gateway Pundit blog.
Yeah.
The photo shows Obama winding up and holding the ball, and he's sort of holding it like a golf ball.
You know, anyone who's ever picked up a baseball, played ball, you ordinarily know how to configure your fingers on the seams.
And Obama's got his fingers between the seams.
Like, you know, what is this thing and how do I throw it?
So I noticed.
Well, here's the only, was he holding it with two fingers or four?
He had a three-finger grip on it.
Three-finger grip?
Sure.
It's a girl toss.
There's no guy that except not even knuckleballers use three fingers.
That's a girly toss.
That's reasonable.
It's three fingers on a baseball and they know what he's doing.
There's no question about it.
You want to hear some racism?
Dick Durbin, senator from Illinois, talking to the media.
When we asked questions of the white male nominees of a Republican president, we were basically trying to make sure that they would go far enough in understanding the plight of minorities because clearly it's not in their DNA.
So Republicans are genetically racist, genetically inferior.
Dick Durbin said that yesterday.
▲
Export Selection