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July 28, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 28, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #2
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My big question is when does Obama have time to read all this fan mail?
He says he's reading all of these letters.
The reason we have to rush and do health care right now is because he's getting all of these letters.
And of course, he never ever got a letter telling him to leave health care alone.
He only gets letters from people demanding government-run health care.
I don't know when he has time to read them all.
Greetings, folks.
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Terry Jeffrey, they just posted this that the uh Cybercast News Service.
If I didn't know Terry Jeffrey, and if I didn't know the people that run this website, I would not believe this.
President Obama's top science advisor said in a book that he co-authored in 1973, that a newborn child, quote, will ultimately develop into a human being, close quote, if he or she is properly fed and socialized.
The fetus, this is a quote, the fetus, given the opportunity to develop properly before birth, and given the essential early socializing experiences and sufficient nourishing food during the crucial early years after birth will ultimately develop into a human being.
A fetus, according to Obama's new science advisor, is not a human being for many years after birth, and only then if properly socialized.
H-O-L-D-R-E-N.
He's director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
He wrote what I just read to you in the book Human Ecology, Problems and Solutions.
He co-authored the book with the Stanford professors Paul Ehrlich and Ann Ehrlich.
It was published by W. H. Freeman and Company.
Now, at the time this book was published, Holdren was a senior research fellow at the California Institute of Technology, Paul Ehrlich, who wrote that that stupid idiotic uh alarmist book, The Population Bomb, in which he was proven wrong about everything yet remains.
One of the godlike spokesmen of the far left.
Ehrlich is still president of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford, also the author of that population biology.
Actually, in 1968 he wrote that.
And the book The Washington Post said launched the popular movement for zero population growth.
So Obama's new science czar, John Holdren, said a born baby will ultimately develop into a human being.
It's a four-page story.
It's at the CyberCast News Service.
It's a story by Terry Jeffrey.
And I think that I think they just posted it.
The more the more we learn about the people in this administration, the people Obama picks, chooses, and finds.
Literally the more frightening that it gets.
Now here's that AP story is unbelievable from state-controlled AP.
The headline, SpinMeter, help wanted counting stimulus jobs.
How much are politicians straining to convince people the government's stimulating the economy?
In Oregon, where lawmakers are spending 176 million dollars to supplement the federal stimulus, Democrats are taking credit for a remarkable feat, creating 3,236 new jobs in the program's first three months.
But the jobs lasted on average only 35 hours.
Not even a full work week.
After that, those workers were effectively back unemployed, according to an AP analysis of state spending and hiring data by the state's accounting, a job's a job, whether it lasts three hours or three days, three months or a lifetime.
That's how that's how difficult a time they are having proving that the stimulus is creating jobs.
But what's amazing to me about this is that it is from state-controlled AP.
Associated Press.
Sometimes uh some work for an individual is better than no work, said Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney, with the economy in tatters.
No, no, no, no.
Recession's over.
CNN said so yesterday.
The economy in tatters, unemployment rising, Oregon's inventive math underscores the urgency for politicians across the country to show that spending programs designed to stimulate the economy are working, even if it means stretching the facts.
At the federal level, President Obama has said the federal stimulus has created 150,000 jobs, a number based on a misused formula, which is so murky it can't be verified.
This story goes on and on and on.
Listen, as the bills for these programs mount, so will the pressure to show results.
But as Oregon illustrates, job estimates can vary wildly.
At best you can say it's ambiguous.
At worst you can say it's intentional deception, said economist Bruce Blanagan, the University of Oregon, you have to normalize it into a benchmark that everybody can understand.
No, no, no, these are Democrats, nobody can understand.
They can't even understand their own bills.
John Conyers said you expect us to be able to read a thousand page health care vice chairman judiciary committee.
And he said Friday in a speech of the National Press Club.
Well, we don't read the bills.
I you need two lawyers in two days to read the bills.
If it's too complicated to understand, it's too complicated a work, it won't work.
Well, you can't understand what they're saying anyway.
Now, the but the the joke in all of this is Democrats in Oregon are out trumpeting the fact that they created 3,236 new jobs, most of them lasting 35 hours, in a job market where five to six hundred thousand people every month are losing their jobs.
The whole notion that we are creating jobs is folly and it's propaganda, and it certainly isn't true.
And that and the you know, people ask me all the time, Rush to the do these people know what they're doing.
I know it's hard to believe that people would purposely take steps like this to limit or to harm economic growth.
They, folks, uh I I mean it from the bottom of my heart.
There's nobody economic liter economically literate who would ever do what we're doing, see the results, and then say, okay, we've got to double down on it.
We have to do it even more.
We're another stimulus, or we need uh we need more foreclosure relief, or what have you.
There are um they're dastardly designs on the great engine of the United States economy, and as I say, we're we're we are borrowing 200 billion dollars more this week.
Annual total now one and a half trillion dollars we borrowed.
When you borrow that money, not to mention the taxes that are gonna be raised to pay it back, when you borrow the money, you take it out of the private sector.
It's not there to create jobs, create new businesses, uh, build new developments, it's not there.
There's only so much goes around, and whatever the government's printing, believe me, they're printing for themselves and their programs.
So it's just a it's it's laughable that Democrats anywhere can run around talking about all these jobs that they're creating.
Oh, did you hear what Biden announced today with Eric Holder?
Uh that had nothing to do with Russia.
The vice president got together with Eric Holder and announced a what one billion dollar grant to the fraternal order of police.
Two days before Obama's gonna have a beer uh with the snob professor and the uh and the Irish cop.
There's a great piece, by the way, uh at the hill.
I think this is another thing I can't, the hill is a is part of state-controlled media.
I can't believe this piece.
It's a blog post, but I still can't believe it.
It's on the hill.
Is Obama a snob?
It's written by a blogger here named Bernie Quigley.
Did Harvard's Professor Gates sink Obama on July 21st, Dick Morris commented in the Hill that superficious uh superficially?
The United States appears to have a presidential system, but in fact, it more and more resembles a parliamentary form of government.
When a president loses the approval of the majority of the voters, and polls reflected his ratings have fallen below 50 percent, he loses his power.
And I shared that Morris Peace with you when it came out.
Now that Cambridge intends to open a dialogue in the elite college neighborhoods where the president has spent most of his adult life, it'll continue to grind him down.
He's gonna be at 45% by September.
This Bernie Quigley says that you've got two Bostons Here.
You've got Fenway Park and you've got Harvard.
You've got the sergeant and you've got Gates.
And who does Obama identify with?
I d Obama identifies with the snob professor who doesn't know half of his own department's expertise.
So the theory, making this uh brief, that Mr. Quigley suggests here, Obama is alienating himself from the vast world of common people he so hopes to save.
And next week's trek to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, storied for late-night drug-addicted burned out Saturday night life types, will bring more fuel for scorn.
Back in 77, long before it caught on in Texas and Alaska, uh the two detached ocean towns, Martha's Vineyard Cape Cod actually tried to secede from the boorish coarse brutes and morlocks of Red Sox Nation to form their own fashionably stoned hippie wonderland.
An overwhelming majority has voted to secede from Massachusetts.
It never happened, obviously.
But now Mr. Quigley theorizes here that at some point people are going to start asking, is Obama a snob?
Does he see himself only as a title in caricature and dress up as snobs do, as John Kerry does, as Barbara Boxer does?
Does he see himself uh uh feel that he doesn't belong where he is, as snobs do?
Is his only talent giving speeches?
Why is he so associated with pretenders?
Why would he seem uncomfortable with plain original solid people?
People like Al Roker, Tony Dungey, people like James Crowley.
I simply can't imagine Obama disappearing alone in a smoke-filled Legion Hall and finding his way to the bar to sit and talk to the old soldiers who are drinking already at 10 o'clock in the morning, as I've seen Wesley Clark do.
And get this last line.
Is that why Jesse Jackson and the regular folk Chicago preachers hate him?
Bernie Quigley, but maybe not for long.
We'll take a brief time.
Oh, 72% of the American people.
This is from Rasmussen, do not want the federal government changing their light bulbs.
It's too late.
The law's already been passed.
What is it?
2012?
2012, we gotta start the compact fluorescence.
You know, uh in my fashionable estate, I don't think I have one outlet that fits one of those things.
You know, I've damn right I'm stacked.
Well, I stockpile anyway.
I have I have redundancy all over the place.
I mean, I've I've got light bulbs to last me ten years.
But I the I don't have fixtures.
How are you gonna put these things in chandeliers?
No what?
Bulbs or chandeliers?
No new fluorescent combat little Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, we'll see.
Now now stop that.
Now, H.R. giving me grief about being a snob simply because I said I have a ten-year supply of light bulbs and chandeliers.
I'm not a snob.
I'm a regular guy.
I don't drink at 10 o'clock in the morning with veterans, but if I walked into where they were, I'd I'd down a shot with them.
I know Obama wouldn't.
That's true.
We'll be back after this.
Snurdley, are you telling things to that reporter that are not true?
Good.
Good.
I'll tell you when it's time to lie.
Um, but I ought to know the questions first.
Just tell one thing she asked me.
What does she want to know?
You were pointing things out in there.
Um, oh.
Mm-hmm.
Wants to know if there's somebody else in the room.
If there is, I'd like to know who.
It's sort of like I got an email from Carson yesterday.
H.R. said, are you still going on vacation August 10th through 14th?
So I looked at the calendar.
And I said, I asked him after show, where do you think I'm going on vacation?
Because if I'm going, I don't know where.
And now there's another person in this room.
Um I'm not looking at the ditto cam.
I I don't like myself on television, period.
I have to, I mean, it's a little monitor here, I'm to make sure it's working, but I got away here, folks.
Democrats have come up with a way here that we might seriously make a dent in the annual budget deficit.
The Senate Finance Committee has discussed imposing 10% excise taxes on cosmetic surgery, deemed unnecessary for medical purposes.
We could, we could we could lop off who knows how much money just off Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi alone.
And John Kerry, the lurch.
Good grief.
This is a we have uh now here's it it's it's 10% excise tax on cosmetic surgery deemed unnecessary for medical purposes.
Well now, wait a minute, unnecessary to whom?
Unnecessary to whom, I'm sure.
Nancy Pelosi thinks it's all been necessary.
And I'm I'm I'm sure plugs Biden thinks it's all been necessary.
The idea was broached in a meeting with the Office of Management and Budget Director, Peter Orzog, in mid-July, after which Senate finance chairman Max Baucus told reporters he had heard some interesting creative and kind of fun ideas.
So the 10% excise tax on facelifts, tummy tucks, hair transplants, and of course, then the resulting surgery you'd you need later in life to make sure you can close your eyes when you sleep.
10% tax.
Now only a Democrat would term any taxes being added or raised as fun.
Now there's a plastic surgeon in this story, a guy named Roth, uh, Malcolm Roth, vice president for health policy and advocacy at the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, said they got one of these taxes in New Jersey, and it's only brought in about 25% of the anticipated revenue since it was enacted in 2004 and just imposes on the bureaucratic layer.
Now, this Roth guy is a plastic surgeon at a medical center in Brooklyn, said it would be a discriminatory tax against women, noting that 86% of patients are female and 91% are working age between 1964.
He also said that the uh well, he disputed the notion that it would be a tax on the wealthy, noting most patients earn less than a hundred thousand dollars a year.
People put money aside for years, sometimes weekly under the mattress deductions to get the plastic surgery they want.
10% excise tax.
Cosmetics and Botox.
Think of the money we could have made just in a 2004 campaign off of Kerry.
All right, to the phone.
Chicago, Robert, nice to have you.
You're up first today on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Russ.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Well, uh, since uh uh Professor Gates is in the news uh this week.
I Googled him and I looked up an interview that he gave uh to uh Bryant Lamb from C-SPAN.
Oh, yeah.
And in that particular interview, he said that his mother hated and despised white people.
And in another part of that interview, he's Well, that's just to balance out Obama saying that his white grandmother was like all white people.
That's why, that's why they're buddies.
I mean, they they look at mothers and grandmothers in the same way.
I I I just can't understand how this uh, you know, how how President Obama could be friends with that has that that has uh that has thoughts like that.
This quiggly he went to Harvard for crying out loud.
This quiggly guy that posted this blog at the Hill.com is on snob is a good word.
It's a good word for elites.
They think they're better than everybody else.
They think they're smarter than everybody else.
They have they have contempt for the people they think are beneath them.
I guarantee you that there wasn't anything racial at all in this Gates incident.
I guarantee you, I know these people, folks, like every square inch of my dramatically shrinking naked body.
And I I know what what caused Gates to blow up, it's very simple.
The sergeant didn't recognize him.
Here you had a cop, the fuzz, a pig.
And he's called into this uh uh rumored break-in, and he gets there, and he should have spotted immediately.
Why, looky here.
It is Henry Lewis Skippy Gates, Jr.
And he should have bowed down.
Oh, Mr. Gates, I wish my parents had had the money to send me to Harvard so I could learn what you teach and be as smart as you.
But it didn't happen.
He ended up getting arrested, and I I the the the the idea that they're they're two peas in a pod.
Again, has nothing to do with race.
They have the same cultural experience.
They have the same attitude about America.
You just told me what you heard Gates say that his mother hated white people.
Well, we ought to go back to the audio soundbite archives and get Obama throwing his own was it grandmother under the bus?
Yeah, threw his grandmother under the bus.
Loved her deeply, and so she's just like every other white person.
Meaning inherently racist.
So there's a there's a lot that these two people would uh would would have in common.
Not to mention the fact that Gates teaches there and Obama was educated there.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, Robert.
Thanks much.
It's amazing.
We get a lot of calls from Chicago from people who do not know who this guy is.
It's amazing.
Right out of Thug City, and they don't know it.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
That's no mean feat, folks.
800-282-2882, if you would like to be on the program back to the phones to uh.
Oakwood, Georgia, and this is Clint.
Clint I I love having guys named Clint.
Well, thank you.
On the show.
Great to have you here.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate you taking my call.
You sound just like a Clint should sound too.
Well, thank you so much.
You bet.
Rush out this morning to call.
I uh I was getting ready to tune in to your program at twelve o'clock, and I was catching the news before that, and heard about the town meeting in Washington that uh President Obama was having with the seniors, and uh also heard uh no, no, no, no.
Everybody misunderstands what ARP is.
They're just retired union people.
Well, I'm a member, I'm an ex-member as of today.
Uh when I heard that they were happy to sponsor this program, I immediately picked up my phone.
I called the organization, and I said I wanted my membership canceled as of this very moment.
And she asked me, well, why?
And I said, because first of all, I uh you're sponsoring the uh town hall meeting to for to let President Obama continue to mislead people.
And I said, uh I don't appreciate that at all.
I've been a member since 2002, but as of right now, when I before I hang up, I want my name taken off the road.
And she says, Well, there's a lot of misinformation that's going around about fans.
The misinformation is Obama and his plan, and that's what you understand, and the AARP is supporting it.
We had a caller about this yesterday, Clint, who would who called the AARP to figure out what was going on because she was also upset about it.
Uh, and ended up asking me why why would the AARP, this is not in their members' best interest.
The Obama plan is going to harm AARP members.
Um because a lot of them are retired union, he's throwing there's all kinds of sops to unions in every piece of legislation, whatever it's called.
Uh but the the first thing you understand that they're they're liberals and they're liberals first.
They're liberals before they're anything else.
And he's their president, and they're going to be unified with him.
It's it's a it's a it's a it's a group that promotes big government under the guise of caring about seniors, it's it's just like the the the NAGS, the National Association of Gals is a group advancing liberalism and uh and big government under the guise of women's rights.
People for the ethical ethical treatment of animals is nothing but a bunch of liberals advocating the loss of liberty on the part of individuals in exchange for this concept of animal rights.
Now I got my cat went outside the other day.
Punk and walk around outside and saw a tiny little lizard, bam, beeline.
I said, there go the lizards rights.
And I love those little things.
You know, there are buddies here because they eat uh insects and so forth and so on.
So I I try to save a lizard every time pumpkin makes a beeline.
Well, what rights of the lizard is Hulk, but we buy into this.
Now I'm I'm all for for uh you know anti-cruelty and so forth.
And you know me, folks, I'm the biggest softy when it comes to animals.
But the idea behind all these liberal groups is that what's destroying the planet is humanity.
If we weren't here, then this would just be an idyllic pristine place.
We have come along and destroyed it.
And we're no different than any other animal.
We've had we've we've adapted to what we found, and we have improved the quality of life for people all over the world.
But there are people in this country trying to tear that down and destroy it in their quest for sameness, equality of outcome, or just giant government with uh with more and more people having less and less freedom.
And the AARP is this is I gotta my mother when she joined the AARP, I said, Well, what are you doing?
You're gonna destroy the family reputation here if people find out about this.
No, son, they do really good things.
She's she bought hook, line and sinker, the whole thing.
And most of their members do, obviously, until this comes up.
But I don't think they're gonna have mass defections.
But clearly, Obama's plan is not in the best interest of the membership of the AARP.
What the AARP knows is that it's in their best interest to support Obama and what he's doing.
Liberalism comes first before any of the you know the basic so-called interests and purposes of the organization.
Clint, thanks again.
I appreciate this is George in Columbus, Ohio.
You're next, sir on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, ditto's rush.
I love your show.
Thank you, sir.
I called because I saw CNN the other day and in the uh debate.
Wait a minute.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
That's a total waste of time.
I am stunned to hear somebody in this other than for research purposes was watching CNN.
It was to see Eric Cantor.
Oh, you wanted to see Eric Cantor.
Yes, he was.
All right, now I understand it.
That that makes more sense, thankfully.
He was debating uh Stenny Hoyer and Wolf Blitzer was the moderator.
They reached the point where they showed the 52 or 53 uh blue dog Democrats and asked uh Eric Canner what he thought, and he said, Well, obviously we now have bipartisan support against the bill, which was uh just glossed over by Stenny Hoyer and Wolf Blitzer.
And I I think we now have an opportunity to use bipartisanship to our advantage.
Well, yeah, I mean I I uh the um the whole the the the uh bipartisanship and so forth.
Do you think it's a magic word for people?
You think if they hear bipartisan it they'll they'll be more inclined to join whatever the bipartisanship is about, in this case opposition to this health care plan?
I think their ears will perk up and they'll start to see that uh bipartisanship might work both ways rather than just simply railing on the conservatives to have to acquiesce to everything liberalism is.
But that see that we did that, talked about this ear in the in the previous hour.
The Democrats are actively seeking a villain.
They cannot get anything done without a villain.
Smokers, now the obese.
Uh it's always been Republicans, Bush.
They need a villain, somebody who is going to destroy your kids' school lunch program, or destroy your social security.
They and right now there aren't any Republican villains because the Democrats don't need a single Republican vote in the House or the Senate to pass anything they want.
The villains here are the blue dog Democrats.
And it's it's uh you know, you call this opposition bipartisan, but um, folks, I'm gonna tell you something.
And I I was telling all last week, I said, don't get giddied, don't start getting even celebratory.
We're dealing here with Rom Emanuel and private conversations, private meetings, and at the end of the day, a blue dog Democrat is what?
A Democrat.
They're gonna come to some agreement here.
And the agreement might even be somewhat palatable compared to what we think we know about or what we do know about this bill now.
These people are gonna fight for this every if this if this vote doesn't happen before August 7th, it'll happen when they come back.
If it doesn't happen this year, it will happen next year.
Ron Emmanuel.
Crisis is an opportunity, and they are creating crisis every day in the job market, they're creating crisis in the financial markets, they're creating crisis in the housing markets, all this crisis gets people clamoring for somebody government to come in and fix it to stop it, to make it better.
That's the opportunity.
Government taking over and doing everything or as much as it can.
So they're gonna come for this.
The blue dog Democrats are gonna eventually somehow, some way, be brought around.
They're holding out right now, but there's a way they can be bought.
They're Democrats at the end of the day.
Now, if this can be put off into next year, it's going to be tougher because that's an election year 2010.
The blue dogs are going to have to go home and uh and campaign.
Nobody, I mean, it if you've on a national basis, all of the polling uh is against this plan, the House plan.
The Senate plan is just as bad.
It's just hadn't been as much said about it, but it's just as bad.
Uh and the blue dog's constituents and most constituents, most voters are opposed to this.
And that's why they're struggling to get this vote done now before the recess, because they know when these members of Congress go home, they're gonna are gonna catch hell from voters at town meetings.
And if the votes already happened, fine.
If the vote hasn't happened, this is gonna make it even harder for them to get, but they're not ever going to give this up.
This Obamacare is ball game.
Obamacare is the end of the United States as we know it.
It's not not just the end of health care as you know it.
With government-run health care, every aspect of our lives will be regulated as it relates to the cost of health care.
People out of a certain age with certain diseases will be deemed not worth the investment.
And they will just, as Obama said, they give them some paint pills and let them loop out until they die and they don't even know what's happened.
It will be rationed.
It's it's you know, you're gonna you're not gonna be able to choose your doctor.
Uh probably after a while will not be able to hold on to your private insurance or your current insurance, which is all by design.
But they're gonna be able to uh regulate, you know, call you a risk based on do you smoke, do you not smoke?
How far do you drive to work?
Uh do you wear polyester, it's more flammable, make it get ridiculous.
But that's who these people are, and that's the kind of control they want.
And that's why they're not going to give it up.
That's why they're not ever going to keep striving for this.
Especially this bunch.
This bunch looks at this as the greatest opportunity because they know the Republicans can't stop anything.
It is really wrong to focus on the Republicans in any of this, because they can't stop it.
They can't come close to stopping it.
This is all the Democrats.
That's why the Republicans says get out of the way and not even show up.
Just let the Democrats, especially on this health bill, don't even show up.
Go out and make speeches be on TV, but don't even show up.
Let this be a total 100% Democrat Party show, so that everybody understands just who is behind this debacle.
Now, the blue dogs are upsetting a lot of the radical leftists in the House, chief among them, that great orator, Maxine Waters.
She was on MSNBC live this morning with the anchor Carlos Watson.
That's uh their Barack Obama look alike.
And their audience could probably be fooled into believing it is Obama doing the morning show on MSNBC.
Watson said to Maxine Waters, are are the president and Ron Emmanuel treading too lightly here?
Are they not bringing out the big stick and against some of those blue dog Democrats saying, look at you guys have to get on board?
We have to go forward, make sure everybody has better health care, is covered and hopefully better quality and outcomes.
That may be difficult for Rom Emanuel, because don't forget he recruited most of them.
As when he was over in the Congress in the leadership, Rom Emanuel recruited uh more conservative members, and based on some of the information that I'm getting, they told them that they could vote the way they wanted to vote, that they would not interfere with what was considered their philosophy about some of these things.
So now the chickens have come home to roost.
Oh, she's stealing lines from Reverend Wright.
America's chickens have come home to roof.
And Maxine Waters now plagiarizing the ever-popular uh Reverend Wright.
Now, what this is about, Ram Emanuel, it was his idea to go get these conservative Democrats in various districts uh that were seats held by Republicans in order to give themselves the majority.
And the theory was, okay, we'll get them in here, and then we'll get their minds right.
We'll withhold campaign money, we'll withhold committee assignments, we'll get them, and that hasn't worked.
And so Maxine is kind of saying to Rama May, hey Dad, you do we've got a problem here, it's all your fault because you're the reason these pretenders are in here.
Now, Nancy Pelosi, moving on, uh, Ed, the next sound by Nancy Pelosi.
Yesterday, Capitol Hill, a press conference said this to the state-run uh media that was in attendance.
I have said that I wanted to be able to pass before we left for the artist recess.
In fact, I underquest the president to make that commitment.
But I've also said that our members need the time to say me, not only get the bill written, but to have plenty of time to review it.
We're on schedule either to do it now or to do it whenever.
This is Democrats in disarray.
Rahm Emanuel did not say he wants it whenever.
Nancy, he said he wants it this week.
He wants it now.
If you're just tuning in, by the way, we are speeding up Obama, Pelosi, Barney Frank, and other Democrats to illustrate the hurry that they are in to get this done.
And also, frankly, folks, to make it a little bit more palatable.
Be back after this.
Oh, I came back too soon before the engineer had turned my microphone on, even though it was past a ten second time when that should happen.
So welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh here, uh meeting.
Every audience expectation and then some.
Try this headline.
This is um this is from uh the Michigan Messenger dot com.
It's uh for the reporter Eartha Jane Melzer.
I don't know if this is a um newspaper or a blog post with a headline Hard Times are driving more Michiganders to fish for food.
Despite health department warnings that many Michigan fish are contaminated with mercury, PCBs, di and who's running Michigan.
Despite health warnings that the many Michigan fish are contaminated with mercury, PCBs, dioxin, and other chemicals.
More people are fishing in order to put food on their tables, according to the Deport the Detroit Free Press Story, which quotes a Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman is saying it's a great way to feed a family.
Reporter L. L. Brazier interviews out-of-work electrician Kirk Miller, who is relying on fish from Lake St. Clair for protein, finds it is part of a growing trend.
A number of anglers in Michigan, although the the number of boat registrations has dropped, likely because of the cost of hauling gasoline and boat slips.
More people are throwing a line in the water than ever before.
703,000 six hundred ninety-five fishing licenses in two thousand seven.
It all makes sense that so few people have jobs up there.
They do have more time for fishing, but it's really I mean, I thought the I thought Democrats are gonna make all this pollution and stuff go away.
And their own citizens are up there eating fish contaminated with mercury, PCBs, diaxin.
Other chemicals.
Robert in Sarasota, Florida.
Hello, sir.
Glad you called.
It's great to have you with us.
Hello?
Yeah, hi, Robert.
Um, great, great good to have you with us.
Good afternoon, uh Russ.
How are you, sir?
Never better.
Never better.
We are not better with all this uh healthcare issued by Obama.
It's really gonna hurt us real bad, you know.
It's gonna increase.
It's gonna increase the deficit, it's gonna make make more things more expensive to go to the to the hospital, to the clinics, to be a doctor.
We're gonna pay more.
He doesn't know that.
You know, this guy can lie as well as I do.
Of course he's lying to all of us.
No, no, no.
No, no, no.
Nancy Pelosi said yesterday they're gonna pass the no matter regardless of what they're gonna pass the health issue anyway.
Uh I agree with that.
No, I when I set up fair for all of us.
Yeah.
Go ahead.
Ross.
Actually, no, it's not fair for all.
But uh I uh I want to explain something, because I saw the reporter's eyes light up when I said that Robert Harris is good a liar as I am.
I did a little bit before you arrived.
I told four things that are unquestionably true, but the media accuses me of lying.
I make things up.
So I said, pick your favorite lie.
This guy, everything he said is true for the most part, all of it that I could understand.
So I was making a joke.
He's as good a liar as I am.
Wait till the media hears him.
Robert, I appreciate it.
I gotta run A quick timeout, but we'll be back and continue after this.
Latest opinion audit is in from the opinion auditing firm in Sacramento, the Sullivan Group.
No change.
Documented to be almost always right 99.1% of the time.
It takes a lot of being right, folks, for a long time to move it up.
When you get that close to perfection, you gotta be perfect for almost six months straight to move it up even one tenth of a point.
It'll happen.
It just takes time.
Be patient.
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