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July 24, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 24, 2009, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Do not panic, my friends, and do not worry.
I am not going to be distracted from the health care mess by this Gates thing.
We're going to do both things.
I'm not, we're not going to get uh railroaded here or taken off the tracks.
Everything's under control.
Sit back, relax.
Great to have you with us.
Rush Limbaugh on.
Oh.
And did I tell you, Rom Emanuel says there will be a vote in the House before the August recess.
It's Friday.
Let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
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So here's the number.com.
Yes, Rom Emanuel is up twisting the arms.
We know what the problem is now.
With uh with health care in the House, it's not the Republicans.
Look, you gotta understand something.
The Republicans can't stop this.
I heard it said today, even if every member and their parents voted against it, they can't stop this.
The Democrats have the votes in both chambers, the House and the Senate.
The problem is the so-called blue dog Democrats.
But don't think that these are a bunch of conservatives, these blue dogs.
The one thing that really bothers them is Obama's desire to take away from them the power to um charge and set Medicare reimbursement fees.
That's something that Congress has long done since Medicare began.
And Obama said, no, I want that.
So Rahmanuel's been up there trying to twist some arms and break some bones and stab some stakes and uh throw around some dead fish.
Pelosi came out yesterday, and and of course, there won't be a vote before the recess.
I'm not afraid of a month.
I'm not afraid of August.
However, Pelosi has now set the legislative throttle at full speed ahead, according to Fox, as she plans to bring health care reform to a floor vote by the August recess.
That's August the 7th.
A move that could inflame tensions in the party and imperil the bill's passage.
Since fiscally conservative Democrats say they're still not satisfied, dingy Harry on Thursday announced the Senate would wait until after the recess, and the president said it was okay to miss his deadline so long as lawmakers are working in earnest to reach compromise.
Dingy Harry's announcement led some members of the House to wonder why Pelosi feels it's necessary to hold a deadline that's already been broken.
Uh blue dog source said, we don't have a deal yet.
Negotiations continue.
Um third blue dog said no details of a pact have been worked out, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So they uh they want this done.
They want this, they want the House to vote on this because there's 435 of those people, and most of them are Democrats, and they want this voted on before these clowns go home.
I know what's going on.
These clowns are gonna go home, and they're going to get hell from their constituents, Republicans and Democrats alike.
And Rom wants them to get hell after they've already voted.
If they get hell before they vote, they're less inclined to vote for it.
And that's what's really going on.
The Senate, they don't care about.
They'll get that done.
They got the magic of Ted Kennedy to get that done.
The House is the big deal.
Now, the Henry Lewis Gates situation uh in in in Massachusetts at Harvard.
The more that is learned about this, the more stellar a policeman we learn that Mr. Crowley is, Sergeant Crowley, the white police sergeant, criticized by President Obama, who said, I'm not I'm not had it, I'm not talking about this anymore.
I think they've got some overnight polling data that is not good.
And in a Rasmussen poll, Obama is at 49%.
Rasmussen poll was the most accurate poll predicting the 2008 election results.
And today Obama slipped below.
50% in the Rasmussen poll.
It's a three-day downward trend uh that is happening.
And Democrats around the country.
Chris Dodd in big trouble in Connecticut.
He's only up four points over whoever.
Oh, wait a minute.
No, it's uh it's it's Barbara Boxer only up four over Carly Fiorina in California.
Dodd's way down, I don't know, and Corzine's down 15 points in New Jersey.
And of course, the culture of corruption, 44, mostly Democrats, I don't know about the rabbis, but 44 Democrats have been charged by the United States attorney's office in uh in a corruption sweep.
And there's also there's also uh some news that another governor has been has been tagged as uh as a client of the same hooker that Elliott Spitzer used.
Well, I know who it is, I know who it's being reported, but I I I don't have a source that's firm enough.
Uh yes, it's a blue state.
A lot of eagles in this state.
A lot of eagles in this state.
Not an ordin inordinate amount of eagles.
But but what do you think?
Who what do you?
Well, I'm not gonna mention any names.
I I this is the it's it's uh blue state, lots of eagles.
Um these birds don't fly.
But there's still lots of eagles.
Now the this cop, this cop, then criticized by Obama, is a police academy expert on racial profiling.
Now Obama's pulled back from the racial profiling.
What we got from Obama at his presser on Wednesday night was not a presidential reaction.
We got the reaction of a community agitator.
We got the reaction of a community organizer.
We we got the reaction of an acorn leader.
And everybody was the president going to apologize.
Acorn members don't apologize for what they do.
Acorn doesn't apologize, and the president was acorn answering this question.
He was not presidential.
Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley has taught a class on racial profiling for five years at the Lowell Police Academy.
Academy Director Thomas Fleming says that Sergeant James Crowley is a good role model who was handpicked for the job by former police commissioner Ronnie Watson, who is black to run the profiling training program.
In the class, Crowley teaches officers not to single people out based on their ethnic backgrounds.
Obama has said the Cambridge officers acted stupidly.
He has backed that up, even though Gibbs said he didn't say it.
Obama is defending what he said in arresting Gates to call him acted stupidly after a woman reported a suspected break in at his home.
A lot more has been learned about this.
Uh and one of the things to learn here is that which happens right before your eyes, rather than that which is spun by sharp political operatives and cooperating journalists.
Take Obama's reaction to the Gates incident, his instinctive reaction.
One event, three learning experiences.
Lesson one, Obama's instincts are those of a community organizer, not a president.
Don't bother me with the facts.
I have to play to the crowd here.
Lesson two.
Obama can sound as if he knows what he's talking about, even when, by his own admission, he doesn't know what he's talking about.
It's not what he says, it's how he says it.
Lesson three.
When Obama is faced with a political setback, even one of his own makings, he plays the race card.
This is something I have figured out watching ever since the campaign began.
Anyone who wonders what Obama accomplished with that statement had better realize it reduced the focus on his failed before the August recess demand.
Now, I I don't know that that he was purposely trying to do that.
I think he's genuinely revved up about race.
You know me.
I think he is genuinely angry in his heart and has been his whole life.
Uh And if any of you have learned that Obama cannot, will not ever acknowledge his mistakes, shame on you.
In his world, he doesn't make mistakes.
Cap and trade's not a mistake, stimulus wasn't a mistake, uh the health care is uh is is not a mistake.
And I want to take you back.
No, Bill Clinton said Obama played a race card on him during the campaign in South Carolina, and Bill Clinton was right.
Bill Clinton said, Yeah, I played the race card on me.
I mean, I'm I'm here I am the first black president, and that guy, son of a gun's out there, and he said he called played a race card on me.
They don't like it.
You know, Boxer doesn't like it when blacks get uppity and don't uh follow along, and uh Clinton didn't like it when he was uh had the race card played against him.
This is Obama's secret weapon.
I want to take you back.
I want to go back to this program and me, February 22, 2008.
This is months before the election.
If Obama gets elected president, wouldn't it be good to just get this done, Russia?
We can end the civil rights squabbles that were having it wouldn't do that.
Folks, it wouldn't do that.
It might even exacerbate them.
Let me explain how.
It takes somebody like me who can read the stitches on the fastball.
Let us fast forward to January of 2009.
Obama has been inaugurated president.
And he proposes his first bit of legislation.
And let's say that it's I don't know, some civil rights-oriented thing, and a bunch of people start howling.
You know that the race industry can't wait for this.
Any criticism of Obama, the first black president, is going to be met with charges of racism by the likes of the Reverend Jackson and Sharpton.
It will make their race business all that much more prominent.
It will operate on the premise that half of this country is seething, can't believe this is happened, and they're gonna fix this somehow.
Cannot believe there's a black man in the White House and a black woman in the residence.
That'll be the theme that the race business operates on.
It'll be full of presumptuousness and projection, but it'll propel it.
So I was wrong about the incident.
I was wrong about the incident, but I was right that the race problem is not going to go away simply because we've elected the first black president.
It's been exacerbated.
Uh Obama is still smoking cigarettes, and he's just thrown a lighted cigarette on a can of gasoline.
And he and he did that at his press conference the other night, and he's got this thing now.
Here's here's the important political significance of the event.
And at this point, I will talk about the precious moderates who vote and the precious independents who vote.
Trust me when I tell you that all during the campaign, these precious moderates and independents believed that we were genuinely getting over the racial hump.
Post-racial, so many, so many guilty people voted for Obama just to get that legacy of sin due to slavery out of our system to be done with it.
And they thought the election of a black president would accomplish this.
All of a sudden, this guy that they elected, who they thought was all of these wonderful perfect things, is now behaving as a community organizer, and is fanning the flames of race and is calling the police stupid, and I guarantee you those people we've all been waiting and asked the question when are these Obama voters going to wake up?
Well, this incident might be, I don't know yet, a little early to say, this incident might be the wake-up call for some of these moderates, because you folks don't doubt me.
You know that there were a lot of people that voted for Obama out of pure guilt, hoping that that election, his election, would just wipe the sway, sleep clean, at least make them feel better about It and this just destroys that.
Here you have a black president trying to destroy a white policeman when he doesn't know the facts of the case, admits he doesn't know the facts of the case.
The police, there's a big police coalition press conference going on right now.
The police union is just they're they're fed up with that.
Police officers, fraternal order of police all over the country.
They recognize the damage and the danger this puts them in when the president of the United States runs around and calls them stupid for just doing their jobs.
It's bad enough for the cops in this country as it is.
This just exacerbates it.
So I got to take a brief time out.
Anne Althouse on her blog asks a couple interesting questions about this, which I'll share with you.
Of course, your phone calls early today since it's open line Friday.
Sit tight, we'll come back and get started with all the rest.
Uh I I've got some bites from the Greta show last night.
Yeah, you know, they I always put them at the I always put them at the uh at the bottom of the stack because uh, you know, I don't like and I'm like, unlike the president, I I I when I this isn't about me.
Who who was?
Greta Greta was.
Is that what she looked like?
You she looked, she looked Greta looked incredulous to the look.
She couldn't believe some of the things I was saying.
Till I explained, yeah, yeah.
By the way, we've put together grab audio soundbite number one, uh, Mike.
We we've put together a loop here, folks, that we're gonna be using at random when necessary.
This is not about me.
I'm the president of the United States.
This is not about me.
I'm the president of the United States.
This is not about me.
I'm the president of the United States.
This is not about me.
I'm the president of the United States.
This is not about me.
I'm the president of the United States.
I mean, we can loop it from now until the House votes on health care, but we won't.
Back after this.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Ann Althouse has a very interesting blog post on this whole situation with uh Sergeant Crowley and Henry Lewis Gates.
She says the article, she's talking about the New York Times article about all this.
She said the article starts out uh with genuinely sympathetic stories about another black man who was arrested twice, and then ties it to the Gates story.
Blacks and others said that what happened to Professor Gates was a common if unacknowledged reality for many people of color.
End quote.
Now, that quote bothers me, she writes, because it assumes that, quote, what happened to Professor Gates is the same as the common if unacknowledged reality for many people of color, but that's not really my question about the article.
Here's what I have a question about, she says.
The police and Professor Gates offered differing accounts of what happened after the officers arrived.
The police said Professor Gates initially refused to show ID.
And repeatedly shouted at officers.
Professor Gates said that he had shown photo identification to Sergeant Crowley, but that the sergeant had not appeared to believe that he lived there.
Now there's a crucial missing fact that the journalists here, Susan Salney and Robbie Brown don't seem to have any interest in.
What Anne Althouse writes that she'd like to know is this is whether Gates' photo ID had the address of the House on it.
Was it his university ID?
My university ID does not have my home address on it.
I've I've read elsewhere, not in this article, that Gates rented that house.
Perhaps he had a driver's license with a different address on it.
If the ID did not show the address of the house that had been broken into, then Crowley's continuing investigation into whether Gates really lived there was perfectly reasonable.
Or do you, did Gates think that affiliation with Harvard should end the matter?
Moreover, Gates' belligerence and presentation of himself as a person too important to be questioned should have heightened Crowley's suspicion that Gates didn't live there.
And this is she the this next point, this is I I try to put myself in the in this situation here.
If if if I get caught, quote unquote, breaking into my own house because somebody down the streets called it in and a cop shows up.
I am going to be it's my house.
I'm gonna do everything I can right there to prove it.
I am not gonna I I it's not You know, I know everybody has a different temperament and personality.
But I remember being with my father when I'm ten years old, and uh my brother and parents were all in a car, we're driving back home from someplace in Arkansas, and it was a night and we got pulled over.
And the by state trooper.
And I remember the way my dad dealt with the guy, and I've I've he just served the trooper out.
Yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, didn't argue, was not belligerent, was totally cooperative.
Uh, and I've when whenever I've had any encounters like that, uh, and there have been few, but you know, I just I don't start yelling.
It it just is it it just doesn't, it's not in my makeup.
Especially if I if if everything's okay, I'm gonna do what I can to prove everything's okay and end the situation.
Let the cops get on their way, let me get back in my house.
This this business of Gates continuing to yell as though he was a you know had some special privilege because maybe he's the teacher at Harvard or or whatever, this this whole thing is just especially when you learn that the cop is trained in racial profiling.
None of this makes a whole lot of sense.
Look, look, I I know that that the way I look at something like this, and the reason some of this might not make sense to me uh is not a universal mindset in the country.
I know that there are people in this country who think that uh just because of the skin color that the cops are out to get them.
I can't I'm not I'm not denying that.
I'm just talking about the way it's dealt with.
Uh this kind of belligerence, and Ann Althouse makes a great point.
Did this guy actually prove that the journalists haven't figured it out?
And I also told that uh when all the Bruhaha began, the cop keyed his microphone, and they have recordings of the incident.
The cop turned on his microphone so everybody can hear what was going on, and they're debating whether or not to release this.
No information about what what the words that were said.
I'm I'm just talking about the mindset.
If somebody comes into your your house thinking you've broken into it, uh you find ways to prove it and thank them for coming and and and get on the way.
Now, I understand I uh d does does Mr. Gates have a uh a personal life history of the cops harassing him?
Does he have an arrest record?
Has he been falsely accused of things before?
I don't know.
Is his life experience something that would uh well explain his belligerence?
Has he been falsely accused a number of times and he and he and he and he just uh broke and wigged out?
I don't know.
But I I all I know is that the the way this kind of thing has been dealt with, the way Gates dealt with this uh is it it's typical in uh in many ways, and the aftermath is typical now.
Call the cop a racist, call police racist, call the cops stupid, uh threatened to sue the cop, the cops now threatening to counter sue for defamation and so forth.
Uh all the talk on TV now about race, and I guarantee you, guarantee you folks, that the moderates and independents have voted for Obama, thought this is all over, that that's what his election would mean.
And he's the guy that started this.
You realize this would not be nearly the story it is had he not taken that question, had he not answered it the way he did.
This is his story, and he wants it.
He could end this story.
But acorn doesn't apologize.
Community agitators don't apologize.
I told you yesterday this this incident, this is this is lighting a flame.
It's not really throwing it on a gasoline yet, but the flame's been lit, and it's a dangerous situation.
And it's most unfortunate.
By the way, uh Connie Hare at Human Events reports that House Republicans get this.
House Republicans are now barred by Democrats on the Franking Commission, that's George of Mail, from saying government run health care in their official communications with their constituents.
They have to pay for the postage themselves if they want to be able to say government-run health care.
The Democrats on the Franking Commission have refused the franking privilege, free mail to constituents, if they use the term government-run health care.
This perfect illustration of the authoritarian, or as Mark Levin calls him, the statist.
And this is funny, too.
This is um this is uh from a blog in Dallas.
Local moveon.org members had penciled in on, let's see, yesterday's schedule, a protest in front of Senator John Corning's uh office on Spring Valley Road, during which they had hoped to pressure Corny to support Obama's health care bill.
But when uh Paula Anderson, a move on.org member and spokeswoman showed up at 11:30 a.m. eleven thirty a.m. she found another contingent had beat her to the proverbial punch.
A large number of Dallas Tea Party members were already set up, voicing their opposition to the proposal.
And this move on.org babe was thought.
She said, We really did not expect him to show up.
She said the crowd was about 130 people.
Tea Party Hardies also showed up to health care legislation rallies in Austin, San Antonio.
And the uh the the move on people said, Well, the mass vast majority of the people didn't hear, they didn't want this.
Uh they didn't want us here, but we beat him there 10 to 1.
This isn't, I mean, this is the Tea Party people speaking.
And the move on.org babe said, I'm just amazed they're so strong in what their beliefs are.
With people being without health care, it's just hard to imagine people could be so against the plan Obama's trying to put in place.
Move on, stunned that there is so much hardened opinion against the plan.
These move on people are idiots.
They don't understand.
This is not about insuring people that don't have health insurance.
It's not about that at all.
It's not even about health care.
I'm blue in the face describing this.
Let's go back to the uh the Henry Gates story because we've got some sound bites on this before we get to your phone calls.
This is Obama last night on nightline with Terry Moran.
Moran says, now you were um you were tough on the Cambridge police department.
You regret saying that they acted stupidly.
I'm surprised by the controversy surrounding my statement because I think it was uh pretty straightforward commentary that you probably don't need to handcuff a guy, a middle-aged man who uses a cane who's in his own home.
Now, what I do know is, as I said last night, I don't know all the details to the case.
My suspicion is is that words were exchanged between a police officer and Mr. Gates, and that everybody should have just settled down and coolerheads should have prevailed.
That's my suspicion.
But I was asked, well, did it make sense for it to escalate to the levels that it did?
And I said, probably not.
And that uh it would have been more sensible for everybody to just once it was established that Mr. Gates was in his own home, that uh we should just settle this thing down.
Was he asked?
He we wasn't asked if it made sense for it to escalate.
Lynn Sweet didn't ask him that.
You know, you know there's a character in recent news history that we could compare President Obama to.
Does the name Naiphong ring a bell?
Mike Knife, the prosecutor in the Duke rape case.
This is the same kind of situation, prejudging without the facts, based on stereotypes, based on race, based on bias.
You may we we've got the president of the United States may as well be Mike Knife, folks.
That's the best way to understand the way this whole thing's shaping out.
So Moran then says, Well, you you uh you you think the Cambridge police acted stupidly?
Terry, I think this is a classic example at a time when we're struggling about health care energy.
We got two wars going on, uh, that um issues like this get elevated in ways that probably don't make much sense.
I I think that it doesn't make sense with all the problems that we have out there, uh, to arrest a guy in his own home if he's not causing a serious disturbance.
It would have been better if Gore hasn't prevailed.
Well, yeah, you know what?
If all of a sudden now all those things matter.
You know, he did a big fundraiser in Chicago last night with a bunch of athletes.
And at the fundraiser, there were 150 people there, and he started whining and moaning about people who oppose his health care plan, says he's uh having a lot of trouble dealing with people lying about his plan.
And he doesn't even know what it is, and he doesn't even care about it.
By the way, a pitcher for the Chicago White Sox whose name I don't know how to pronounce.
Burl Burley, I'm not sure, threw a perfect game.
Obama called the guy after the game.
Obama said, you know what?
I think some of the credit, now remember, nothing's about him.
Burley, okay, Burley pitches the the perfect game for the White Sox, one of the rarest things to happen in professional sports.
Obama calls the guy and says, Essentially, you know what?
I think the fact I wore a white socks jacket, throwing the first pitch out at the All-Star game may be a factor here, and you're throwing a perfect.
He actually said something like that to the guy.
It's not about him.
He did.
He took credit, partial credit for the perfect game because he wore a white socks jacket, throwing out the first at Gurley pitch.
Uh ceremonial first pitch at the All-Star Game.
Here's Sergeant Crowley on Channel 7 in Boston telling his side of the story.
I asked him if he could step outside and speak with me, and he said, No, I will not.
And again, where's the effect of what's this all about?
And I said, I'm Sergeant Crowley from the Cambridge Police Department.
I'm investigating a break in progress.
And he responded, why?
Because I'm a black man in America in a very agitated tone.
And again, I thought that was a little strange.
My reason for asking that is twofold.
First of all, there was a report that there was two individuals.
I see one, and it could be him.
So where's the second person?
Or there's two people in the residence that he doesn't know are there.
Either way, I wasn't expecting his response, which was that's none of your business.
To me, that's a strange response for somebody that has nothing to hide, is trying to cooperate with the police.
And uh Crowley even continued, he explained the details of the arrest.
I was leaving.
As I reached the porch, I was aware that now he was falling me because he was still yelling about racism and black men in America, and that he wasn't somebody to be messing with.
He was the one that was being provocative.
Um this wasn't a back and forth exchange of banter or arguing.
This was one-sided.
That's how far Professor Gates pushed it and provoked and just wouldn't stop.
I was a little surprised and disappointed that the president who didn't have all the facts by his own admission, then weighed in on on the events of that night and made a comment that uh, you know, really offended not just officers in the Cambridge Police Department, but officers around the country.
I'm not a monster or the the bigot or racist that he has portrayed me to be.
This is me.
Exactly right.
But not only that, not only that, folks, what happened here, you know, Obama's sitting there should not have escalated to the level that it did.
It shouldn't.
Well, what what what happened here?
Gates didn't get shot.
He didn't get hit.
He didn't get kicked.
Gates didn't have hate speech hurled at him.
Escalate to well, who did the escalating?
Gates did the escalating.
Obama said it should have been it.
The police acted stupidly.
But nothing happened to Gates.
He got arrested, but he wasn't treated in an abusive fashion.
The cop was.
He didn't get kicked, he didn't get hit, he didn't get shot, he didn't have any physical harm happen to him whatsoever.
And he was not cooperative, it sounds like, when you listen to all this.
One more Crowley bite before we go to the break.
Uh, and this is um well, let's see.
This I guess is this is uh yesterday on the radio.
What I did was right.
Uh I have nothing to apologize for.
That somebody of his level of intelligence could stoop to such a level and berate me, accused me of being a racist or racial profiling, and then speaking about my mother.
It's just uh beyond words.
I treat everybody the same.
I think, you know, that's what I try to do.
That that's what I have a track record of doing for the past sixteen and a half years as a police officer.
Uh again, I think it's just regrettable that uh the situation has gotten to this point.
Yeah, it's been elevated by two people.
Gates and Barack Nyforg.
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There's also, I left something out of the pattern that I have learned watching and studying Obama.
And we will know when the heat gets too much to take.
We will know when their internal polling on this is disastrous, because at that point, he will throw Henry Lewis Gates overboard.
Just as he threw his grandmother overboard, just as he threw Reverend Wright Overboard, just as he did a Judas on Bill Ayers.
I don't know the guy.
He lives in the neighborhood.
Whenever the heat gets so hot, he'll throw these clowns overboard.
He'll call Gates.
Look, I gotta throw you overboard, buddy.
Uh you know, make it up to you somehow, but I gotta throw you overboard.
And Gates will go out to understand the president has to be a politician.
Just like Reverend Wright said.
Reverend Wright said, Well, he looked at it, he's gotta do these guys.
He had to throw me overboard.
He's a politician, he's got to do that.
He can't be who he really is.
That's exactly right, except he is being who he is.
You just need somebody to translate it for you.
So look for some time next week, Gates, Henry Lewis Gates, distinguished professor, African American American studies at Harvard, to be thrown overboard by the um White House, my Obama.
All right to the phones.
Tom in Waynesboro, Virginia.
Great to have you with us.
You're up first on open line Friday.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Rush, when Obama spoke to the CIA a while ago, he pretty much told them explicitly that their job was gonna become harder.
Now, what he did last night, or what he did uh a few nights ago with the police officers in Cambridge was he made their job much harder.
So why does he continue to make our intelligence and law enforcement jobs harder?
Why do you think million oh why do I think?
Well, it's open line Friday.
You are you you pee, I'm tired of being an answer man.
You tell me.
Okay, here we go.
Basically, I think that you have foundations in society that in order to upend it or overturn it, they have to be chopped out.
And that's what I see happening.
I see this as an opportunity for him to chop out the foundations and to create more wedges between people and groups.
Because, you know, Rush, he didn't just mention blacks.
He mentioned blacks and Latinos in that press conference.
No, no.
Blacks and Latinos.
Latinos.
Let's get our pronunciation.
So I think you're on something.
I I think this guy, I think liberals in general have to destroy the institutions and traditions that made the country great and rebuild them.
Um look at No, he is the establishment tried to he he he he resents what he's inherited.
This is my whole point to Grand Evans last night.
He doesn't have admiration for this country.
Can we just put it on the table again?
He doesn't like do you ever hear him talk about the greatness of anything in this country.
I guarantee you, if you can think of him talking about the greatness of anything, it's something government's done.
He doesn't talk about the greatness of our health care, he doesn't talk about the greatness of our military, he doesn't talk about he's apologizing for us all over the world.
He doesn't talk about the greatness of anything.
He doesn't talk about American exceptionalism at all.
Uh and I I think you know, chaos is his friend.
Chaos and uncertainty are exactly what a guy like Obama wants, getting the masses demanding more and more government action to stop the chaos.
Whatever it takes.
So I think I think old Tom here from Waynesboro, Virginia, you've you got to put yourself in his shoes.
Here he is, calling the world's foremost authority, me.
He's got this theory, he wants to know what I think.
And what did I do?
I turned it back on him.
You tell me what you think.
I'm tired of being the answer.
And he stepped up.
He was there.
He had the answer.
I love it.
Way to go, Tom.
Here's uh Heia.
Haya in Brooklyn.
Hi, Haya.
Nice to have you on the program.
Thank you so much.
And I will say that greatness is an adjective that belongs to you and chaos to Obama.
And I grew up in Boston, one of four fourth generation going to Harvard, and I watched the decline of a great university whose symbol was truth and integrity.
Bring in people like Arthur Schlesinger, and I took his course in modern American history in the 1950s when he was extolling this uh socialist communes in the Berkshire and degrading everything that was great about America.
And this is why you now have a type of professor at Harvard who uh socialist elites who consider themselves above the law.
Yes.
You know, I'm glad you said that.
Because that's essentially the point she made without using those words and althouse on her blog.
This is somebody acts like he's above the law.
I'm Evan Harvard.
I'm at Harvard, I'm a black guy at Harvard.
A black from Who the hell are you to challenge me?
It's all understandable.
I appreciate uh the call, Haya.
Thanks much.
A brief timeout here, my friends.
Fastest three hours and media.
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Back in a sec.
By the way, uh, ladies and gentlemen, if you saw the interview I did with Greta Van Susrin on Fox last night, part two is tonight.
And it's it's just as on fire as the first part was.
But I just want to remind everybody I did that interview, and it went on for a full hour.
I did that interview without a teleprompter.
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