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Aug. 25, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 25, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host of this program now documented to be almost always right, 99.1% of the time, I am Rush Limbaugh, America's truth detector, the doctor of democracy, and a general all-around good guy emitting vocal vibrations.
Coast to coast telephone number, if you want to join us, 800-282-2882, the email address, lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
I checked email as I do during the top of the hour break, and I got Mr. Sturdley a tremendous amount of emails.
What a great hour.
What a great opening.
Folks, I can't tell you how that hour, you might think it was good, and I appreciate it, but I can't tell you.
It upsets me.
I can't tell you how disconcerting it is to have to say these things.
I don't show up behind this microphone every day and make things up.
And I have to tell you that thinking the things I'm thinking, believing the things I'm believing, I don't like it.
I don't like having a president about whom I say, I don't think this guy likes America.
But the evidence is overpowering.
I mean, this investigation of the CIA, this is designed to weaken us.
The reason we had no idea what was going on with 9-11 was because of the church committee and previous Democrat actions, Jamie Gorellic and the wall.
The Democrat Party, the American left, has had as one of its mission the weakening of our intelligence services, even the dismantling of them.
And we paid the price on 9-11.
We had no human intelligence.
We weren't allowed to do a number of things, share information from one agency to the next, and we got hit.
So we did what we could to build it back up, and the people who prevented another attack are now under investigation.
And the president is such a coward, he's hiding behind the notion it's the attorney general doing it all, that the attorney general is responsible for enforcing the laws of the land.
He works for Obama, the Attorney General does.
And this is so classic.
Obama can say, well, I said we don't want to look backward.
We want to look forward.
And here's Holder coming along looking backwards on purpose.
And it's all because, well, it's not all.
There are many elements here.
The public option in healthcare is in huge trouble.
You got Feingold out there now saying we're no health care bill by Christmas, maybe not ever.
Democrat Senator Russ Feingold joining Democrat Congressman Jack Murthy saying the same thing a couple weeks ago.
Obama's losing his base.
He's losing independence.
He's losing the Republicans that voted for him.
So it's time now during the no news week of vacation to come out and make news as often as possible.
And that is in a way that rallies his base.
And it's just sickening to me.
It is disheartening that the way this Democrat president has to rally his base is to take steps that weaken the security of the United States of America.
I do not like reading Fawada Jami's piece, even though it's brilliant and right on the money.
It's one of those things I wish I'd written myself that you say once you read it.
And I don't like concluding from it the obvious that Barack Obama's not an American in the sense that he doesn't understand American exceptionalism.
He understands America transgression.
He believes in American guilt around the world and domestically.
And he's out to change the guilt.
He doesn't understand American exceptionalism.
was swept into office during a moment of huge self-doubt among the electorate, a lack of confidence in the country, partly created by Democrats and elite politicians telling us if we didn't do something to bail out the financial services sector, there might not be any money tomorrow.
You remember all that.
It was just almost a year ago.
And I remind you again that nothing's better since then.
Since we've taken steps to fix all these crises, what has improved?
Nothing.
And who benefits from that?
A few people got new cars.
Yip, yip, yep, yip, yahoo.
I mean, in a national sense, there's nothing better off here.
And not with all these people losing their jobs and no prospects for finding jobs.
These are real people.
These are real Americans that are experiencing this kind of thing totally unnecessarily.
This is not the way you stimulate the U.S. economy.
So, folks, I'm telling you, it's painful.
It is disconcerting to say all this stuff.
It's disconcerting to think it.
My stomach was in knots after that first.
The stomach was in knots during the first hour saying this stuff.
God, I hope I'm wrong.
But I just don't think I am.
And then to see that Obama's projecting the deficit to be $9 trillion greater in some stupid media black comes along and says Obama going to cut deficits further.
Just because that's what the White House says, so they dutifully report it as though they're stenographers.
And you look at this interrogation stuff.
We heard reports that interrogators threatened the detainees' families.
The abuses by the interrogators reported in the press, I think there's a little test we want to perform here.
What I think we have here is a staged mock shooting.
You know, we had that in another room, and that was used to get the attention of a terrorist.
We wanted to make the terrorists think, oh, we've shot one of your buddies in the other room.
So we fire off a gun, nobody gets hurt.
We had another terrorist threatened with a power drill and a gun, and we have heard about waterboarding, and we're told this is dangerously damaging to a prisoner's psyche.
And in the meantime, we're talking to people who killed 3,000 people in cold blood and vowed to do more and were treated as heroes that we think we're going to be upsetting their psychology by threatening them with a frigging power drill.
If this is true, I think they're pretty clever techniques.
I think they're pretty clever techniques, and they're not harmful.
They're not harmful to me.
But I have a test.
I have a test for evaluating what some people call torture and other people call enhanced interrogations.
And here's the test.
Assume for a moment that your child or sibling or spouse or parent is kidnapped by two kidnappers and somehow one of the kidnappers is captured and the captured kidnapper confesses that this person close to you that's been kidnapped will be killed in two hours in that case what interrogation techniques are appropriate to use
Well, this is a pretty good analogy to what was going on.
We had terrorists going to kill more Americans.
They're promising to do so.
We want to find out how and where.
We don't exactly know when, but we've got the mastermind for crying out loud what the hell is inappropriate.
A power drill is inappropriate.
Faking a shooting in another room is inappropriate.
I don't even think this stuff is a close call, and now we're investigating it for the intention of prosecuting it, all the while distracting from Obama's failures as a president, rallying his base, and at the same time weakening the nation's national security.
By the way, these are people who, after all this harsh treatment, don't even damage their psychology.
When they're let loose, they go back on the battlefield, swearing to kill more Americans.
From the UK Telegraph, CIA interrogator threatened to kill children of September 11th mastermind.
A CIA interrogator threatened to kill the children of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed if al-Qaeda attacked the U.S. again.
And this is a problem.
Would somebody explain to me what the problem here is?
The guy has just killed 3,000 Americans.
He's swearing and has sworn his life to killing as many Americans as possible.
We say, you do it again, you don't tell us what's coming next, we'll kill some of your kids.
What's the problem here?
Don't tell me that violates some tenet of torture according to the Geneva Conventions.
This is what happens, folks, when you put Democrats in charge.
This is what happens when you put radical leftists in charge.
Someday this country is going to learn.
It may well be now.
This country is learning because this is the most radical leftist agenda advanced by a radical leftist party in the course of my lifetime.
And I am all of 58 years old.
And I think people, Fwada Jami is right, people are finally figuring out this is not what we thought we were getting.
We thought we were getting a post-racial, post-partisan, hunky-dory, put the economy back together kind of guy who was also by the same token, because of his skin color, going to erase the original sin of slavery.
And yet every bit of criticism of Obama is now labeled racism.
I want to play a couple of audio sound bites from me on this program from this year, just to illustrate why it is that you should not ever doubt me.
First up, from July 14th this year.
Obama is pushing health care, and he wants this done by August.
He's got to get this done by August.
He wants to get this done by the recess because the economy is tanking.
I'm going to tell you why he wants it fast.
The economy is tanking.
Obama knows better than anyone else that it's tanking.
And he also knows that by the end of the year, he cannot pass health care because the state of the economy is going to be so bad that everybody will know it.
So the tactic here is speed and deception.
The public is not going to be in any mood for a massive new spending program of any kind when the depth of the current spending and its disastrous consequences are known and they will be known.
And the circumstances are going to get worse.
And today we know the circumstances and we know the debt and the extent of it.
And this is going to make it tougher and tougher and tougher for Obama to come up with new programs that feature more spending.
The only thing he can try to do to save his health care bill is to tell people, see, see, we've got to get my health care bill done to reduce costs.
But he's got to make people believe that it's going to be the first government program in the history of government programs that reduced the cost of anything.
And he cannot tell you how anything is going to improve in this plan.
He does not tell us how medical research, treatment, or any similar advancement is going to happen.
He does not tell us how things are going to get better because he's not an optimist.
He is joyless.
He's humorless.
He does not believe in American exceptionalism.
We are minimalists now.
We have to do and learn to do with less, except for him.
He will do with more, paid for by us.
May 6th, 2009, I warned you of this.
He loves crisis because when people are focused on a crisis he's got juggling in his right hand, they forget what he's doing with the left hand.
They need a crisis and a calamity, and someone's going to kill everybody every day.
So don't get comfortable with this.
Don't get comfortable.
It's turning out to be a much milder virus than we thought.
But, but if it mutates and comes back in the fall, when the kids go back to school, oh, it could be horrible.
So they're going to keep people on the edge of their seats throughout the whole summer with this.
There's something else like it.
But it'll be back in the fall.
And all it's going to take is a couple cases.
Just like this is nothing and it became a pandemic.
I was warning you in May, swine flu.
They'll bring it back in the fall.
They need a crisis.
Don't doubt me.
And we're back getting your phone calls here in just a second, but first, President Obama during the no news week of vacation up at Marxist Vineyard this morning.
I apologize for interrupting the relaxing that I told all of you to do.
Oh, really?
But I have an important announcement to make concerning the Federal Reserve.
Good.
As an expert on the causes of the Great Depression, I'm sure Ben never imagined that he would be part of a team responsible for preventing another.
Right.
But because of his background, his temperament, his courage, and his creativity, that's exactly what he has helped to achieve.
And that is why I am reappointing him to another term as chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Just had to go out there and face the camera.
Something got him off the golf course.
Something got him out of the house.
Something got him off of the walks on the beach.
When he said he wasn't going to be doing and making any news, that's mockery, by the way, of the press and everybody else.
Here's the next statement he made.
Taken together, this bold, persistent experimentation has brought our economy back from the brink.
There's steps that are working.
Our recovery plan has put tax cuts in people's pockets.
This is unbelievable.
Extended health care and unemployment insurance to those who have borne the brunt of this recession and is continuing to save and create jobs that otherwise would have been lost.
I don't know what to say here, folks.
I just don't know what to say.
Brought the economy back from the brink on the very day he announces deficits of $9 trillion over the next 10 years.
Good Lord.
How about your job?
How's that hope and change working for you?
What jobs saved?
The only jobs being saved or added to are government jobs.
What jobs saved?
What tax cuts?
This is Twilight Zone.
This is so detached from reality, but it's on purpose.
It's a purposeful detachment from reality.
They still believe that you are in crisis mode, lacking the confidence in your own country, and you are placing total faith in him.
And whatever he says is irrelevant, it's that he's saying it and that you'll believe it.
That's what they're banking on.
And that's what he's lost.
And that's why this detachment from reality is breathtaking to behold.
Let's go back to April 20th, 2009.
This is Obama at the CIA addressing people who work there.
Don't be discouraged that we have to acknowledge potentially we've made some mistakes.
That's how we learn.
But the fact that we are willing to acknowledge them and then move forward, that is precisely why I am proud to be President of the United States, and that's why you should be proud to be members of the CIA.
After this speech, Leon Panetta, or whoever was running the joint then, had to write a memo to people to keep their morale up because the president of the United States had just come over and told them that they stink and that they've done nothing but make mistakes.
but this is how we learn, and we're going to go forward.
So everywhere he goes, he sees what's wrong with this country, and he tells the people in these institutions how badly they've performed.
But now that he's president, we're going to fix it.
And so how are we fixing the CIA?
We are investigating heroes who saved people's lives.
Now, that was April 20th this year.
The next day at the White House, after meeting with King Abdullah of Jordan, President Obama said this about investigating the CIA.
I think that we should be looking forward and not backwards.
I do worry about this getting so politicized that we cannot function effectively, and it hampers our ability to carry out critical national security operations.
April 21.
Then yesterday, August 24th, Eric Holder, the Attorney General, says we're going to do precisely that.
We're going to look backwards and we are going to prosecute.
We're going to investigate with the intention of prosecuting people who engaged in torture, which gives rise to the question, who the hell is running this show?
A question many people have asked.
Let's go to Glenn Beck.
Fox News yesterday spoke to Democrat pollster Pat Cadell.
First question, do you believe that it makes sense they're trying to collapse the system?
I was with an administration.
President comes in, a new president who had not been experienced in Washington.
But six months in, people were still trying to find where the bathrooms were.
They've got a lot of people still not appointed.
Where did all of these pieces of programs come in this kind of detail?
Where do you get 1,000 pages or 1,300 pages, one after the other, in such a short amount of time?
Those are questions that somebody ought to ask because it's the dog that's not barking here.
Pat Cadell from the White House, Jimmy Carter, for six months.
No way they could have put together 1,000 or 1,300 page piece of legislation.
And he's saying to me, this bunch has come up with how many of these?
Cap and trade?
Where did this all come from?
I can tell you the health care bill in the House has been in Henry Waxman's drawer.
It has been a Democrat wet dream for 20 years.
It's been in his drawer.
And he and Pelosi put the finishing touches on this with some of the others, but it's been a wet dream of theirs for I don't know how long, nationalizing health care.
They didn't have to sit down and write it.
It's already written.
So Pat Cadell, next question from Glenn Beck.
People think Obama's using the unions, but is it possible that it's the other way around?
I mean, not just the unions, but the vast organizations.
He's not necessarily the grand architect that somebody else has sketched out the Obama agenda.
When the Attorney General, Eric Holder, who I'm not been publicly very fond of ever since he decided to, you know, go in the bag on China on the treasons and trying to buy our election during the Clinton administration that gave us Mark Rich a pardon, one of the most evil men to ever walk the face of the earth, and was covering up and now decides that Black Panthers can't, you know, who carry guns into precincts, should not be prosecuted.
But despite the president saying we're going to move on on interrogation policy, announces he's going to have a special prosecutor today and appoints one.
And I'm going, wait a minute, who's running the show here?
For the first time, I've had to ask myself, is Barack Obama really in control?
And either he's disingenuous, which I wish not to believe, about the president of the United States, or maybe the question is, who's really in control here?
Here's Pat Cadela.
This guy worked for Jimmy Carter.
He's still a Democrat pollster.
And he's uncomfortable thinking the things he's thinking.
He doesn't like thinking.
He's got a president lies through his teeth like this.
He doesn't like thinking.
He's got a disingenuous president.
So the president says back in April, we're going to look backward.
We're not going to look backward.
I don't want to go to political random cases here and compromise our national security.
We're going to look forward when it comes to interrogations.
And then yesterday we're looking backward and Cadillac, is he lying to me or is somebody else calling the shots here?
Yeah, admitted, it's a question many of you have.
Who's calling me?
Because this guy's got a career of 150 days in the Senate and community agitation in Chicago.
At any rate, what a troubling day.
Okay, let's get some phone calls in here.
People have been patiently waiting, and I appreciate it.
We'll go to Houston and start with Emily.
Thank you, Emily.
Hi, and how are you?
Fine.
How are you, Rush?
Very well.
Thanks very much.
Listen, while I was holding for you, I took my husband to the airport to catch a plane out of the country to work since he lost his job here as a petroleum engineer, no less.
Doesn't that make you ill?
There's a lot of things making me ill today, and that's not helping.
That's right.
Well, I have two comments I want to make, and then I'm going to tell you my new saying for the acronym.
First of all, I believe, it's my belief, that this CIA situation, taking the interrogations and investigations from the CIA and putting them with the FBI, has to do with Obama's major dislike for the Bushes and the fact that George H.W. used to be in charge of that facility.
And the other comment that I wanted to make is that I find it amazing that we worry about waterboarding a guy 183 times when he was planning on killing him freaking self in the first place.
We didn't waterboard anybody 183 times.
We used the waterboard three times.
Well, didn't they claim that 183 years ago?
Yeah, just like they claim 500,000 civilians in Iraq died, too.
There are a bunch of lies about this kind of stuff.
We used the waterboard three times.
We used it on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed once, and it worked in 45 seconds.
We feel sorry for the guy, but he was planning on killing himself on a plane if he'd gotten on.
Yeah, well, that's what's unbelievable about this.
We're worried about these guys' psycheists.
Somehow we're violating American ideals.
It's all ridiculous.
Julio, Miami, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
I just wanted to talk to you about the interrogations issue that you've been dealing with today.
I was a Marine Reserve, and after 2002, I got activated, and I was one of the first Marines that got to Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo.
And I can tell you from my own experience serving there for seven months doing interrogations of those guys that it was a joke.
It was basically 8 to 5 p.m.
And whenever these guys wanted to pray, which they get to pray five times a day, they would call timeout, and you would have to stop the interrogation and give them an opportunity to pray.
All this issue about interrogations and all that other stuff, it's BS.
I mean, we've been bending over backwards since the time that those first 300 got to Camp X-Ray to basically give them everything that they wanted.
Even the guards, the JTF-160 guards that were guarding these guys, were sleeping in tents right next to Camp X-Ray from the beginning.
The conditions, the living conditions for those guards were worse than for the detainees.
And unfortunately, a lot of the brass, a lot of the colonels and generals that were there, they were protecting their own careers and their careers, basically, instead of doing the right thing for the country.
And they know what's going on, but they keep their mouths shut because for many reasons.
Among one of them is basically protecting their own careers instead of doing the right thing for the country.
How long were you down at Club Guetmall, Camp X-Ray?
I was there from March of 2002 to October.
I was there six months.
I was the Marine Reservist, and I got activated for 2003.
Did you see any torture take place?
There was no torture, Rush.
I mean, these guys would basically come in and they would say in the middle of an interrogation, right before they were getting ready to give you Osama bin Laden.
Obviously, I'm being sarcastic here.
They would go, timeout, I need to pray.
And you would have to stop the interrogation and give them an opportunity to pray.
It was a joke.
We can't win a war against terrorism if we're bending over backwards with the enemy the way we're doing it during the interrogations.
Or the other thing they would do is they would basically say to you, you say you would tell them, hey, listen, you're going to be here the rest of your life.
And their argument is inshallah, which in Arabic means God, that's God's will.
You can't, that's all they think about.
It's God's will.
No, that's right.
These people view dying in the cause's route to martyrdom and so forth.
I know this is the details of the torture, non-torture, the interrogation techniques.
Right now, that's irrelevant.
Now, I'm not saying, Julio, that what you said wasn't valuable, but that's not what this is about.
This is not about coming up with smarter ways to interrogate.
That's not what's going on here.
This is banana republic-type stuff.
This is going after your predecessors.
This is about weakening our intelligence-gathering operation in general.
It's about distracting people from Obama's failures on the domestic front.
It is an attempt to rally his base to the thing they care most about, and that is the U.S. being portrayed as the world's villain.
Right now, the details of whatever happened with interrogations, they're not even relevant to what the purpose here is.
Here's Ken in Ada, Michigan.
You're next in the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, great to talk to you.
We love you here in Michigan.
Thank you, sir.
We're going to the Wolverine state, but I think we should be called the propaganda state, the way things have been going here.
Granholm wants a high-speed rail system here now.
I heard on break when I was on hold.
I guess we're going to go from one desolate anemic town to get it out.
Who's going to ride it?
Who's the high-speed rail now?
Who's going to ride it?
I don't know.
And where are they going to go?
If they build a high-speed rail system, where are they going to go when they get on it?
And what are they going to pay for their ticket with?
The last I looked, unemployment in Michigan's around 19%.
They're going to take them to job centers.
Where are they going to go?
I don't know.
We're all going to be building green batteries or something.
I don't know.
But my point of my call, Rush, is I own a small business here in Michigan, and we do pressure washing.
Every business in Michigan is small these days.
What's that?
I said, every business in Michigan is small these days.
We're feeling it, believe me.
But anyway, before I get a job, I need to test and do some sampling and everything before we do the job.
And I don't understand why the American people don't insist on if Obamacare is going to be so great, why don't we test, sample, market it somewhere, preferably maybe on the left?
Wait a second, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a second.
The American people are standing up in greater numbers every day in opposition to this.
They've seen it tested.
It's called Medicare.
They've seen it tested.
It's called the VA.
They have seen it tested.
It's called the DMV.
They have seen it tested.
It's called Social Security.
They have seen it tested.
It's called Medicare Part B.
They have seen it tested.
It's called a war on poverty.
They have seen it tested.
It's called a great society.
They have seen it tested and they see it's failing.
What do you mean?
The American people need to, the American people are rising up in opposition to this.
If the polls were showing 75% approval for Obama's plan, the town hall meetings were not happening the way they are.
American people are on, they're on, they're on board here in ever greater numbers.
I mean, Obama's totally off the track here.
It's not over.
Don't misunderstand, but I'm telling you, this is not where they thought they would be.
They thought they were going to have a health care bill that had passed the House and Senate by the recess.
And that soon after, when they got back, they go to conference.
He'd be signing this thing in September.
And it isn't going to happen.
Here's Eric in Naperville, Illinois.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Mega Dittos.
Thank you very much, sir.
All right, I'll get right to it.
Last night I was watching moderate Bill O'Reilly, and his guy was out interviewing the vacationing Hoi Paloi in Martha's Vineyard.
And one of King John Obama's couples was very happy about the proposed health care bill.
And this is what they said.
They said as they were holding their ankles, by the way, it's about time we all joined the rest of the civilized industrial nations in providing health care.
Rush, what's wrong with that comment?
It's about time we joined the rest of the industrialized nations in providing health care.
Yes, sir.
You're asking what's wrong with that comment?
Yes.
Well, I don't know the way you're thinking, but we've got the best health care in the world already.
Absolutely.
And everybody who needs it gets it, one way or the other.
They may not all have insurance, but anybody who needs health care in this country gets it.
Exactly.
At a decent price, too, I would say.
Not what they're text in like Sweden or England.
All I know is I don't see anybody leaving this country to go anywhere else for major life-saving surgery or other things.
I see, well, I do see some Arab sheikhs getting doctors from here to fly over to them, but I don't see a whole lot of people fleeing this country to go get health care.
In fact, I see just the opposite.
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Jim in Alexandria, Virginia.
Hello, sir.
Great to have you with us.
How are you, Rush?
I'm fine and dandy, sir, except for my angst and disconcertedness.
Well, I wanted to talk about that.
I'm feeling actually quite positive.
I'm not feeling angst-ridden at all because I'm starting to think that with the Democratic Party, whether it's the media or the legislative or the union arm of the Democratic Party, starting to wake up, if you read some of the articles, starting to wake up to the absolute disaster that Obama portends to them, you know, or for them.
I'm just wondering how long it is because the party's ascendance is the only thing, is the main imperative.
I'm starting to wonder how long it's going to be before they throw this guy over the side.
And when they do, what form is that throwing him over the side going on?
Now, see, that's the thing.
I mean, parties don't throw their, the only party that's thrown their president away in our lifetime is the Republicans throwing Nixon overboard.
Look, let me stipulate something here.
I'm like you, I'm optimistic the American people are rising up.
That was largely what the first part of the hour is all about.
What I'm disconcerted about is I just, you know, I'm an American.
I love this country.
I believe in American exceptionalism, and I do not like thinking and saying the things I believe and am saying about the president of the United States.
I just don't like it.
It bothers me to know we've got somebody in office who doesn't like this country or doesn't understand what is American exceptionalism, is running around apologizing, finding fault, wants to fix all the things he thinks are wrong with this country that are not wrong with it, wants to structurally change it.
This was always the plan of the Democratic Party.
This was always their mission was to do this.
Well, now, as you said, the mask is off.
Now Americans are beginning to see, if they haven't seen already, what the true objective of the Democratic Party is.
And I don't think that portends anything but disaster for the party as a whole.
Well, that's crucial.
Yeah, I myself have offered the possibility that Barack Obama may be destroying the Democratic Party.
We don't know now.
We'll have to wait a while to see.
I think it's entirely possible.
As far as health care is concerned, it's going to come down to these blue dogs when they vote on it.
210, 2010 is going to be an important reelection year.
It's just, I know sometimes you have to go through these cathartic things, but look at my pessimism is not about the country.
And my pessimism is not about the American people waking up and seeing it for what it is.
I'm not even pessimistic.
I'm just, you don't understand.
Maybe I'm not able to articulate it, but my first hour today, everybody said, what a great hour it was.
It was painful to have to say these things.
I mean, it's painful.
Somebody has to say them, Rush.
And the fact is, I think if you see it in the vocalizations of the people at the town halls, the people are realizing that what you said in the first hour is true.
And it's frightening to all of them.
Those people didn't leave their jobs and leave their homes and show up at those town halls just to visit.
They're there because they understand how important it is that they be there and be heard.
And suddenly they've realized that there are millions of other people out there that want to be heard too.
I understand.
And all that's good.
But see, I don't forget who we're dealing with here.
We're dealing with a guy who likes this.
We're dealing with an authoritarian who likes this chaos.
Now, I know there are people doing polls out there today and asking, can the Obama presidency be saved?
This is a guy who took over the automobile companies unconstitutionally.
The Constitution does not stand in this guy's way.
This is this is do I think the American no, I don't, in fact, Snerdley just asked me: Do you think the American idol crowd is paying attention?
I've got two stories today about the young population, you know, big, big voters and supporters of Obama.
They don't care about the health care debate.
It doesn't affect them.
They're immortal.
They're not thinking about getting sick.
They're not thinking about dying.
They're not even involved.
They're not even out trying to get him to help pass it.
They just don't care.
It's something that doesn't relate to them, which is true of every person in their 20s and so forth.
But so, no, I don't know that the American Idol crowd's up to speed on this yet.
American Idol is not on the air, so it's possible that the American Idol crowd is doing something else.
But what would they be doing when American Idol is not on?
We got a lot of people checked out.
But look, there are enough people who are engaged and checked in that they've put a stop on this agenda.
Don't misunderstand me.
All this is positive.
You asked the question: are the Democrats going to abandon this guy and throw him overboard?
We're not even eight months into this guy's presidency here, folks.
This guy has still got three years and four months to go.
That's a hell of a long time.
Anything can happen in politics.
We just, it's not time to get giddy yet.
I will tell you when it's time to get giddy.
And it's not time.
It's time to feel optimistic and to realize that what you're doing is working.
But it's not time to quit.
We'll be back.
Former Secretary Madeline Albright, MSNBC this afternoon, asked her opinion of Dick Cheney's statement on the interrogations of the investigation of Eric.
Eric Holder.
No, I agree with the administration.
And I also, former Vice President Cheney's behavior in the last years has been so unpredictable.
And I think in many ways his statements in these days are kind of pathetic.
You are pathetic.
What you did when you were Secretary of State is pathetic.
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