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Aug. 7, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 7, 2009, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
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You remember how much abuse I, L. Rushbo took when I was six months ahead of the game and said I want President Obama to fail.
Now do you know what I meant?
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White House to Democrats.
Punch back twice as hard.
Town halls turned violent last night and yesterday afternoon in Tampa and in St. Louis, where a black conservative was roughed up and had to be sent to the emergency room thanks to Union thugs.
Six were arrested at the Russ Russ Carnahan Town Hall after the St. Louis meeting.
And this is the one where the uh the union thugs, the SEIU people beat up a black conservative, 38 years old.
Physicians, finally physicians, doctors are showing up at a town hall meeting in Houston, shouting they don't want socialized medicine.
Tempers flare in Michigan when Congressman John Dingle shows up.
People in Michigan, and I had a story in the snack yesterday.
I didn't get to it.
Do you know that there is a starvation or a hunger problem among the middle class in Detroit?
And the thing that amazed me about that was I didn't know there was a middle class left of Detroit.
The unemployment there is so high and the automobile business such trouble.
But we've got we've got a hunger problem in a major American city.
We have more job losses today with the state-controlled media trying to make it look like we've turned the corner and the recession is over.
Two hundred thirty-five thousand more people lost their jobs.
The real unemployment rate is not 9.4%.
If laid-off workers who have given up looking for new jobs or have settled for part-time work are included in the unemployment rate.
This is the what the what's called U6.
The total unemployment rate nationwide is 16.3%.
If you add the people still looking for work and those who've given up, 16.3% unemployed.
State-run media trying to make this uh out to be some big successful day today.
Not only did tempers flare in Michigan, people shouted at Nancy Pelosi in Denver.
Nancy Pelosi shows up in Denver to dedicate some homeless center, and people in Denver show up and let her have it.
Uh there was an AARP meeting where angry AARP members ask the leader questions about the details of the health care bill, and the leader walks out, ending the meeting.
Barack Obama, standby audio sound by number one.
Barack Obama is in trouble.
Now he was in uh let's see.
He was in McLean, Virginia last night, and he was cocky, he was nasty, he was angry.
He said, I got a mess to clean up, and I don't want the people who made the mess to keep talking.
I'll be glad to clean it up.
He's talking about Bush, Republicans, and whoever else is criticizing him.
Obama needs to learn something.
He's in big trouble, just like Bill Clinton was in trouble with Lewinsky, or any time Bill Clinton got in trouble.
What did Bill Clinton do?
You remember Mr. Sterley, what what did you see?
What did he do?
No, no, no, no, no.
I talk about policy, not talking about policy.
What Clinton did, he consulted with his ministers.
In came the Reverend Dax and a number of others, and they held hands, they were soul-to-soul meetings and getting to the heart of the matter and so forth.
Obama's approval numbers are sinking.
In fact, let's see.
President the Boston Globe president's popularity slips again as Obama hits the 200-day mark in office.
Two new national polls showed a further slide in his job approval numbers.
See an inopinion research, uh, overall job approval of 56.
That's down from 61% in June, 76% in February.
And of course, we remember the Quinnipia Act poll, which has him at 50% approval.
His approval numbers on his health care plan are also plummeting.
It is time for Obama to go back to his roots.
It is time for President Obama, with his approval numbers sinking, to get back to the basics and have a chat with his minister.
Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people.
Hillary ain't never been called the nigger.
Bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky.
He was riding dirty.
In white America, US of KKKA, black men turning on black men.
I am sick of Negroes who just do not get it.
Not God bless America.
God d America that's in the Bible for killing innocent people.
God America.
And now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards.
America's chickens coming home to roost.
It's time for President Obama to return to his preacher and to return to the church where he sat for 20 years and professed to hear none of that.
Oh, hey, uh, Mike, we're being overloaded here with requests for our little skit entitled Martha.
You have that standing by.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Let me share a thought with you folks on these uh these town hall meetings.
I've uh I've I've heard from not very many, but a few people who uh are losing spirit out there, uh, because they are perceiving after watching state-controlled media that we have lost our momentum, that the uh anti-Obama health care town hall participants have lost the momentum because the argument is now shifted to what's in the bill to people having to defend themselves against being an unruly mob and racist and so forth and so on.
It's always been my experience that if you're in an argument with people and they change the argument, they are losing.
Now, the the details of the bill, the questions being asked, they were all shout- I mean, the when these members of Congress at all of these places last day, St. Louis, Houston, over in uh in the Tampa Bay area, Hillsborough County, whenever, and by it was a Democrat official who slapped a Democrat official slapped a guy named Osteen, who had just tried to talk to her her husband about the plan.
I mean, it got violent.
The union thugs from SEIU and the uh AFL C O or call uh CIO were called out here uh to keep the halls only halfway filled with uh with opponents.
But those people are getting in there when these members of Congress stand up and start talking and lying about it, these people are reacting.
We haven't lost the momentum on this.
What's happened is that the president of the United States has marshaled his forces against over half the country.
He gave them a pep talk yesterday and said, we push back twice as hard.
This is the president of the United States, the president of all people.
Now, these town hall meetings, it's becoming clear that the Democrat leadership is advising their people to avoid these meetings or to stack the deck with union membership.
And they're running, it's dangerous.
It's so dangerous.
And our our precious Democrat leaders are having their lives threatened, which I don't believe for a moment.
I think it's all BS because I've seen the pattern.
Now they're supplying union thugs.
Burley, obviously You look at them, you know.
If you know they're showing up, and you see these people, you know that's who they are.
They're showing up to intimidate, and you know who's showing up?
Seasoned citizens, the people that need to show up to show they're opposed to this.
They're being shoved up against the walls by union thugs.
Old one old lady got shoved up against the wall in uh in Tampa last.
One guy had his shirt ripped and his chest cut by a union thug over in Tampa.
Uh and and uh so they're saying, well, you did people are just a big branch of the insurance business and uh uh you opposing voters or Nazis and so forth, but I we need to look at this a different way.
If I was a legislative, if I'm a member of Congress, and I had a really great health care plan.
I had a plan I really believed in.
I had a plan I thought was going to make everybody healthier and safer.
It would solve all of the major problems that people have with health care today.
And a majority of my voters didn't agree.
If I really thought this plan was the end all the plans, but a majority of my voters didn't agree, I would want these meetings.
I would want, I would relish, I would cherish the opportunity for these meetings to explain to them why it's a good idea.
If I really believed it, I'd want to sell it to them.
I would not want to have to go lie to them.
I would want the time.
I would want every question to explain to people why this is a great plan.
I would convince them of its virtues, and I would give reasons.
Reason one, two, three.
That'd be logical, I'd be reasoned, I'd be informed.
But that's not what's happening, is it?
These Democrats are not doing that.
You know why?
They can't.
They haven't read the plans.
And if they have, they know they cannot explain them in a positive way.
They know that their constituents are more informed about the plan than they are.
They are avoiding these meetings because it gives the opposition a way to voice an opposing point of view, and that's why the leadership is trying to avoid these meetings.
They cannot stand to give anybody a venue to oppose them.
But stop and think about it, folks.
If you really you're a member of Congress and you love the plan and your people, your constituents don't uh like it and they misunderstand it, take as many meetings as you can.
Go out and rent a high school gym if you have to to get a couple thousand people in there to explain this.
And tell them why they're wrong.
That's not happening.
They're continuing to show up, they are lying, and that's when people at the meetings are standing up and shouting, uh shouting back.
People see their liberty being taken away, people see their freedom being taken away.
Old people see their health care being taken away.
They see it, they know what's in the bill.
And that's why all this is happening.
And now the president of the United States is leading and promoting an intimidation of average American citizens, many of whom voted from do not think that all of these people showing up at town hall meetings are Republicans.
A lot of these people are Democrats.
Let's go to the audio sound bites last night, McLean, Virginia, the president of the United States, angry, nasty, and cocky.
He was uh at a fundraiser, and he basically told a Republican, just get out of the way.
I expect to be held responsible for these issues because I'm the president.
We know, but I don't want the folks who created the mess.
I don't want the folks created the mess, do a lot of talking.
I want them just to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess.
I don't mind cleaning up after them, but don't do a lot of talking.
Am I wrong, Virginia?
This is not the man people thought they elected.
The people who made the mess once again whining and moaning like a spoiled child that somebody else gave me this mess.
Mr. President, two million people have lost their jobs since your stimulus bill was signed into law.
This economy is foundering ever since you came into office.
You have tr almost doubled the federal deficit this year, and who knows what's going to happen to the national debt.
But he doesn't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking.
He's got a snitch website.
How in the world can he enforce This request or desire that he has for the folks who made the mess to just stop talking.
Here's the next bite from the president at McLean, Virginia, last night.
I need every one of you to knock on doors and make phone calls and get fired up once again so that we can go towards the future.
He's no longer the president.
He's a candidate.
He's got a plan.
This thing is now called health care.
So the community organizer is organizing.
The community agitator is agitating.
The only one sending out organizing memos nationwide is President Barack Obama.
And community agitators can't start bitching when communities agitate.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Rush Limbaugh serving humanity simply by showing up.
Brad Miller is a Democrat congressman from North Carolina.
He's a guy.
Told you yesterday he said he's getting death threats.
Now, Brad Miller claims in hundreds of congressmen have received death threats.
He offers no substantiation.
And I've looked around.
I don't see anywhere on the world wide web where hundreds of congressmen have made charges similar to Miller's.
Have you seen that, Mr. Sturdley?
Hundreds of congressmen.
The President of the United States travels around every day, 24-7.
The more he goes out, the more his poll numbers drop, but he's out there every day pitching health care.
And if he can do it, and certainly our precious little congressman can sure as heck meet with their constituents.
You know, the Democrat Party, Nancy Pelosi yesterday, or maybe the night before, said that people showing up at the town hall meetings wearing swastikas.
Nancy Pelosi calling people showing up to preserve their freedom Nazis.
And this is not the first time the Democrats have done so.
In fact, President Obama himself, back in 2001, he was on an FM radio station interview in Chicago, and he was talking about the courts in America and said this.
Just to take a sort of a realist perspective, this is that there's a lot of change going on outside of the court that you know the judges have to essentially take judicial notice of.
I mean, you've got World War II, you've got uh the doctrines of Nazism that we are fighting against that start looking uncomfortably similar to what's going on back here at home.
So eight years ago, President Obama refers to the American court system as Nazi-like, and let's not forget Dick Durbin, June 14, 2005, on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
If I read this to you and didn't tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have happened by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime, Paul Potter, others that had no concern for human beings.
Sadly, that's not the case.
This was the action of Americans, you know, in treatment of our their own prisoners.
Senator Dick Durbin calling interrogators, members of the U.S. intelligence community, uh armed forces personnel, comparing them to Nazis for what was going on at Guantanamo Bay, Soviets and their gulags, and Paul Pot.
What is it with these Democrats referring to uh their opponents as Nazis?
And then Pelosi's out saying, oh, everybody's showing up with uh with swastikas.
Kit Seeley in the New York Times, a blog post today over the airwaves and on cable TV, health care dominates radio talk shows and cable television outlets, which are dominated by one person, Rush Limbaugh.
I threw that in myself.
It actually says dominated by conservative hosts.
Anyway, radio talk shows led the way last week in ratcheting up the attention that the news media devoted to health care, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.
The point of her story is this.
As the subject of health care rose in airtime on radio and cable, Obama's ability to control the debate appeared to be eroding, at least according to a recent New York Times CBS News poll.
That poll said that 69% of respondents were worried the quality of their own health care coverage.
That's probably very right.
We're the only people that have been telling anybody what's in the bill.
The state-run media hasn't.
Obama won't tell anybody what's in the bill.
So even the New York Times is saying the state-run media is uh being overwhelmed by radio.
Radio's driving state run media and hurting Obama's ability to control the debate.
This is no time for pessimism, folks.
Back in just a sec.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis.
Just by showing up.
Rush Limboy and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, State Controlled Associated Press White House advises Democrats on handling protests, top White House officials, counseled Democrat Senators Thursday on coping with disruptions at public events on health care this summer and promised the party and allies would respond with twice the force if any individual lawmaker is criticized in television advertising.
Is it not amazing?
Here are our elected officials, members of the House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and they have to get instructions from the White House on how to deal with their voters.
They have to get instructions in the White House, and the reason for this is because this whole thing is a lie.
Everything they're selling is a lie.
And they have to get instructions on how to sell the lie.
The dirty little secret is Obama has to lie.
He can't tell the truth.
This country is not what Obama is.
This country is not of the same values.
This country is not oriented in a core value way the way Obama is, and more and more people in the country are seeing this and learning it and living it.
And so when you're a senator, when you're a United States Senator, and you have to get instructions from the White House PR machine how to deal and talk to your voters.
The translation is you got to go out and lie this way.
What this is all about is uh the focus grouping they've done has forced them to change the terms.
It's not health care reform, it's health insurance reform now and bashing the insurance companies.
Uh last week, this is Mark Tapscott at the Washington Examiner.
Last week I wrote in this space the Obamacare could be the death of AARP because it would expose to the rank and file the 40 million member seniors group, most of whom abo oppose Obamacare, how their uh leaders in Washington have been taking them for a ride for many years.
The AARP leadership scoffed at that suggestion, but there is video of a Dallas AARP meeting.
They have it at redstate.com.
So they they wanted to give the members the usual dog and pony show in favor of government-run health care, but the members weren't buying it.
And as soon as the members stood up and said, No, we don't believe what you're saying, the leaders got up and left, and the meeting was over.
You either sit down, shut up, and listen to your leaders, or they abandon you.
It happened in Dallas.
It can happen any other city in the country.
Joe or David Axelrod, uh, who is Obama's words speech writer guru, uh, has also given instructions to uh Democrats via talking points.
Axelrod and Jim Messina, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff met with Semit Democrat caucus to strategize over how to talk about health care during the break.
And this is the famous meeting where they say if they hit you, we're gonna punch back twice as hard.
This is from the White House.
All right, open line Friday, Moty in St. Louis.
Uh understand that you were at the uh Carnahan Fiasco in Melville.
Yes, sir.
Uh thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
I um I'm a member of the St. Louis Tea Party.
Uh unofficially, I just I go to them, and there's a little man that Oh, yeah, you sound like a Nazi in a mob to me.
You do.
Part of the the angry mob, I suppose.
I uh there's a little man that uh comes to the tea parties, and and I don't even know his political affiliation or what he believes, but he's a nice guy.
He's a uh small man, and he sells flags and buttons.
And that's and he's always nice.
And then five of these big thugs from SIUE, the union.
And their purple shirts.
Yeah.
Walked on him so badly, he's gonna be in the hospital for two days.
And he did nothing but try to make a living selling his buttons and flags.
They in Carnahan, they they allowed all the union people in the side door, had reserved seats, would not let the people in.
This was a pure political astroturphy.
And exactly what Carnahan did again.
He snuck out the back door.
So our name for Mr. Carnahan is backdoor Carnahan.
St. Louis Post dispatched today says six people were arrested at this uh Carnahan meeting, including a post-dispatch reporter.
This is the uh meeting.
What's the what's a post-dispatch reporter being arrested for?
How does a reporter get arrested just standing by and watching what's happening and and reporting?
How does that maybe maybe the maybe the post-dispatch reporter had a purple shirt on with the SEIU logo on the front?
What in the world?
How does a reporter get arrested?
Reporters are supposed to be standing there with little notepads and her cameras and whatever and uh telling us later what happened because we weren't there.
This is also the one where the 38-year-old black conservative got roughed up.
Now stop and think of this, folks.
Stop and think of what's for two to three weeks, the town hall meetings happen.
Members of Congress who don't know what's in the bill, do not have the confidence to sell what's in the bill, go up with their their packaged presentation filled with lies.
The people that show up know full well they're lying because they've read the bill, they know what's in it.
And it's starting to look real bad.
Obama's numbers plummet.
What happens?
A bunch of union thugs show up at these things.
From the AFL CIO, from the uh service employees International Union, union, and I've looked at the video last night.
These are big, intimidating, burly people.
They are admitted into these town halls, the one near Tampa, the one in St. Louis, thoughts through side entrances.
A thousand people showed up in Tampa, two fifty got in, half of them were SEIU union people, and still the half that were opposed to the plan were louder.
The people outside that couldn't get in were banging on the door wanting to get in.
And that's when the door opened, a couple of union thugs went out there and actually ripped a guy's shirt off and cut his chest, pushing him up against a wall.
The uh Democrat leader over in in in Hillsborough County slapped a guy in the face.
Now, this is your modern-day Democrat Party.
I I uh I do not think we are losing the argument here.
I think we are showing the unraveling of the White House.
I think we're showing the unraveling of this plan.
I think we're showing the unraveling of the Democrat Party.
This is the exact opposite of what moderate independents, uh Democrats, Republicans alike thought they were getting when they elected Barack Obama, and now marching orders go out from the White House from the community organizer to send thugs.
Now you've seen pictures.
I'm sure you've been on the websites.
You've you haven't seen the pictures on television.
The state controlled media is not talking much about this.
They're talking about me.
But you've seen the pictures of these people.
They are the most harmless, blend into the crowd people, couple of them may be wearing I actually think they're wearing Joseph A. Banks suits, not Brooks brothers, but they're not some they're not even all dressed up.
A lot of them are elderly.
They are non-threatening.
They have made no threatening moves, they have made no threatening remarks, nothing whatsoever.
Obama sends out his army.
You gotta folks, this is this Mussolini type stuff.
This is the president of the United States who cannot deal with opposition.
There will not be any.
He is going to silence it.
Sending his union thugs out to physically assault in some cases and to, in all cases, intimidate average Americans who just want some answers.
And nobody's willing to provide them the answers.
All they're getting is lies.
Jacob in uh Westminster, Colorado.
Great to have you with us open line Friday.
Hi.
Hello, Megan Diddles, Mr. Lumbo.
Thank you, sir.
Taking my call.
You bet.
Listen, I attended the uh Stout Street Clinic protest in Denver yesterday with uh Nancy Pelosi and uh couple of she was she was in there that this is a big some homeless shelter that she was in there uh decorating, commemorating or something?
Correct.
It's it's actually uh a clinic run by the the coalition for the homeless In Denver.
Yeah.
And uh just wanted to tackle on some of the events.
Now let me hang on just a I have an observation about this.
Here you have homeless people.
And you've got the Speaker of the House going in, not trying to fix the problem, not trying to do anything to solve it, but to dedicate some sort of a building to house them.
It's no different than when they gave him shopping carts and said, Here, man, I love you.
Exactly.
She was she was there to to you know tout the uh the stimulus money that's supposedly going to this clinic and and just you know the protesters there that would that were Wait a second.
Wait, wait, no, no, no.
That can't possibly be true.
Stimulus money was to go to people create jobs, building roads and bridges.
You mean stimulus money went to a homeless shelter?
That's what they're saying.
And that's uh that was why she was there.
Really?
Yes.
And the only indecent uh behavior that I saw came from the proponents for health care reform who were using personal attack on on the members of our side and who were trying to actually destroy personal property, the signs made by opponents of health care.
Yeah, I think that I think I think they're unraveling, and I th I think that they're they're they're discombobulated.
I think average people can watch all this and hear about it and understand where the aberrant behavior is.
You know, I the only positive thing about this, it's a very small positive.
We've always known that Democrats are anti-war.
We've always known we can't really count on them, the national defense, but we have finally seen with whom they will go to war.
The American people who disagree with him.
Be right back.
Stay with us.
Scott Rasmussen, Rasmussen reports a polling guy, has a op ed today in the Wall Street Journal.
He says Obama's biggest obstacle is the sixty-eight percent of voters who rate their health coverage as good or excellent.
The most important fundamental sixty-eight percent of American voters have uh health insurance coverage they rate good or excellent.
That number comes from polling conducted this past weekend of one thousand likely voters.
Most of these voters approach the health care reform debate fearing that they have more to lose than to gain.
Adding to Obama's challenge as he sells his health care lie to the public.
I Rasmussen didn't write that, I threw it in, is the fact that most voters are skeptical about the government's ability to do anything well.
Well, that took long enough.
While the president says his plan, and again, what plan does the president has never offered one?
Well, the only plan we have is the House Plan.
There's another reason why the President won't talk about it.
He doesn't have one, and he doesn't know what's in the House plan.
President says his plan will reduce costs 53%.
Their 53% believe it will have the opposite effect.
So we finally, as a group, know the government doesn't accomplish what it says and lies about it.
If this report with Rasmussen is true, it could be a tipping point.
And these poll numbers are fine for what they ask, but I would like to see what happens to the numbers in a health care poll if the questions were more informative.
For example, what if the question in Rasmussen's next poll was worded like this?
Would you be strongly in favor of or strongly opposed to the provision on page 435 of the Democrat health care bill that allows the government to garnish your bank account to pay for medical procedures?
Would you be strongly in favor of or strongly opposed to the provision on page 401 of the Democrat health care bill that mandates end-of-life government counseling every five years for those sixty-five years and older?
Would you be strongly in favor of or strongly opposed to the provision in the health care bill that allows the government computer access to your bank records to transfer money from your account to their account to pay for whatever they think you owe?
In other words, this polling has got to go beyond the vague philosophy.
The overall philosophy of government running the health care and whether or not deficits are going to go.
We all know that the government can't run anything.
They can't even run a one billion dollar trade-in program for old cars.
They can't run anything right.
The post office down 4.2 billion.
They're going to think about closing a hundred post offices.
Um the polling needs to go beyond these these these vague specific philosophical questions about deficits and spending and government competence and get to the specific questions in the bill.
And I guarantee you, if Rasmussen would do this, if he would run around, he does his his polls or uh polls or telephone polls, if he would run around and put in questions like that, and all he's got to do is go to page 16.
Do you strongly are in favor or strongly opposed uh to the provision on page 16 of the bill that would force you out of your private insurance plan?
Ask them that.
And you're gonna find you're not you're you're not gonna find just 63 percent or 68, 58 percent oppose it.
You're gonna find in the 70s and eighties.
And it wouldn't be that hard for a pollster to do it to be totally honest.
All right, Chris in uh in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Hello, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
It's a she.
Hi, Rush.
I'm sorry, and I do that all the time.
No, that's okay.
I'm a first-time caller.
And I love you, and you look really hot, so keep up the good work.
I know, and thank you very much.
I want to say that I'm a mother of three.
Yep.
20, 18, 13 year olds.
Okay.
First time I started going to these tea parties because I'm really disgusted of what is going on.
You really just out on your on your own, out of your own volition.
No, my no, my husband and my 13-year-old, my kids come with.
And no, no, but you decided to go on your own.
Just out of the clear blue because you were set up.
Okay.
Yes, never have done it before, you know.
I made the best signs on the computer.
But if someone come up.
Some community organizer didn't send you an email and say, be here at this time and wear this and ask this.
No, and you showed up on your own.
Yep, never gotten paid.
But I feel like my kids are not gonna have I'm sorry, I'm getting emotional.
The America that I grew up in.
Okay.
So I feel this is really important.
And and my my son, when he was fourteen, he would listen to you, and my dad always played you, and I never listened, you know, I didn't want to do it what my old man was doing.
But my son was listening to you at 14, and I said, Who are you listening to, Rush?
So I started listening.
Now he's 20.
Okay, my son's a bright kid.
So we all listen.
So when you played that clip of Barack Obama telling his supporters to get fired up and to get out there.
I am just so upset that the other side, we cannot do the same for what we believe.
We are all taxpayers.
We we're paying into this system, but what we believe.
Now wait a second.
Hold it, hold on.
And I'm I'm glad you called, I'm glad you said this.
I know what you mean when you say Obama can get up there and say to his supporters, get out there and double down and so forth.
But what you say, but we can't do it as taxpayers.
What you what you're saying, you're reacting to what you're seeing in the media, people like you being criticized as part of a mob or being Nazis or unruly.
The fact of the matter is what you're doing is causing this uh unraveling on their part, is causing the president of the United States to act totally unpresidential.
There is no dignity to the office of the president with what this man is doing and using it this way.
Um don't don't don't ever be afraid of what you see on TV and how they characterize you in such a way that it makes you stop or intimidate.
Understand they're trying to do that to you.
They're trying to besmirch you, in uh they're trying to impugn you.
They're trying to make you feel like you're doing something wrong.
Don't fall for it, don't even watch it.
But see, it gets me fired up.
Good.
And so I'm gonna be in Washington on September twelfth, my own.
Nobody's telling me to go there.
I'm gonna go to Washington, my kids are gonna go with me, and we're gonna go and support our choice.
Okay, we do not want government health care.
We don't want socialized government.
I want less government rush.
Not just exactly.
You don't want Obamaism.
You don't want Obama nomics, you don't want Obama judges, you don't want Obama anything.
Well, God bless you.
Don't be talked out of it.
This is See, this there's a there's a percolating going on out there, folks.
Things are effervescing.
It's boiling over.
And the uh the proof of the success is the reaction of the president, the union thugs.
They're trying to change the argument, which means they know they're losing it.
Back in a sec.
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