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Aug. 28, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 28, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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And welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh behind a golden EIB microphone.
Now documented to be almost always right 99.1% of the time.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
When we go to the phones, you can talk about whatever you want.
So the content portion of program when we go to the phones is all yours.
I dare say there is no other major media figure in the world would take this kind of risk.
But I love you people, and that's why I'm willing to do it.
Telephone number 800-282-2882, the email address lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
I'm going to, one more time.
I'm going to do this insurance lesson.
And it's time to move on.
It's 21 years here, folks.
And even I get tired of repeating things.
But before that, I owe Bud in Port St. Lucie a chance for him to finish his phone call because I shortchanged him on time.
Bud, I got a question.
How's the supply of chicken McNuggets up there lately?
I tell you, I got this thing from the RNC, which has made my blood boil.
You know how they send the questionnaires asking for money, which I've contributed to them in the past.
It says, which part of the Obama agenda do you most forcibly oppose?
And they don't mention Obamacare, cap and tax, illegal immigration, the stimulus bill, the bailouts, the cash for clunkers, virtually everything.
What the hell is on the list?
They're opposed to.
Let me tell you what's on the list.
What's on the list?
Massive tax hikes.
Well, that's important, but 40% of people don't even pay any taxes.
I think more people are upset about Obamacare and cap and tax than massive tax hikes.
I could be wrong.
What else is on the list?
Okay.
Left-wing activist judges.
Look how they treated Sodomayor.
Softball questions.
What else is on the list?
Legalized partial birth abortion.
Important, but I don't think as much as important as the things I mentioned.
This is pathetic.
Forcing troops to surrender.
I don't know what they mean by that, except maybe abandoning Iran and Iraq.
I don't know.
No, no, no.
No, no, no.
That means that's the CIA investigation where what really is going on with the CIA investigation, we talked about it yesterday, is the holder's not going to charge anybody.
They're going to do the investigation, and they're going to hope that some transnational court does it.
Indict our guys.
That's what that's all about.
But look, Bud, that's disturbing because they're out there trying to raise money with this list of the most dangerous things Obama's doing, and they don't even list the most dangerous things.
Exactly.
It's making my blood boil.
Do they really think I'm going to send them money now?
Boy, this wise meeting.
I can't believe that Nation Healthcare and cap and tax and illegal immigration.
All right, all right, all right.
Dial it back.
You are a member of the RNC.
Of course they expect you to send money because they sent you the request.
But you understand what I'm saying.
They're missing the boat.
Oh, totally.
You understand it.
Sean Hannity understands it.
Glenn Beck understands.
What's new about the Republican Party these days not getting it?
I know.
It's a little bit for a viable third party or what?
Bud, I want to do something for you.
If you want it, I want to give you a select comfort bed of your choice.
Yes.
Well, if you don't want it, I mean.
Yes, yes, fine.
All right, because you sound tired to me.
I mean, you sound, I know you're worked up, but you sound tired.
Like you're not sleeping well.
I'm not.
I'm not.
Well, this will help.
Well, that's fantastic.
Okay, good.
Now, you hang on, and Mr. Snerdley is going to get all of your vital information, plus the name of your kids and grandkids.
We're just kidding.
And that way we'll be able to be in touch with you and get you in touch with the Select Comfort people so you pick up the bed that you want.
Thank you.
And this is something Ted Kennedy would have loved.
That's true.
Oh, and by the way, I don't know if you're aware of this.
Did you hear, because I used to live in Massachusetts before I got smart and moved to Florida, but a friend of mine there knew the guy who pulled her out of the car, and supposedly there was no water in her lungs.
She died of asphyciation, not drowning.
Yeah, that's right.
There was a little air pocket that she tried to the rear of the car was sticking up.
Right.
She tried to get the last drop of air from the back window.
That's where, yeah, I'd heard that too.
Well, they didn't print it, that's for sure.
Well, I mean, it's a Ted Kennedy, the guy we can all relate to, they say.
And all identify with.
Man, I've been trying so hard, so long, to get through to talk to you.
This is like a real joy for me.
It really is, because it's people like you that are bringing these issues up.
You and Glenn and the other talk show hosts and the American people themselves that are fighting Obamacare.
I'm so mad at these people for sending me this thing.
Hey, Bud, there aren't any other talk show hosts.
You're right.
Just kidding.
You're right.
Just kidding.
I'm in a flippant mood, not very much sleep last night, heading on vacation tomorrow.
So I'm just being fair and balanced.
Now, don't hang up, Bud, because Snerdley's got to get your information here.
And Obama's on vacation this week, and I thought to be fair and balanced, I should go next week.
So I'm going to give Bud the Select Comfort bed of his choice, the Sleep Number Bed by Select Comfort.
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It really is.
You have a sleep number.
You can dial whatever firmness or softness you want on your side.
And the other person can do the same thing on their side.
And it really will improve your sleep.
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This is my bed, folks.
I use it.
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There's some restrictions apply on that, but the number again is 1-800-GETA-BED.
Now, two emails.
And bro, there's more than two.
The two I printed out.
Dear Rush, please don't be an O'Reilly here.
You totally missed Rebecca's point.
It was that HMOs, insurance, have blown the price of coverage out of the park by selling one-size-fits-all policies to employers and having to dramatically increase their bureaucracy to handle a load.
This is why folks don't think they should have to pay anything.
I'm 62 years old.
I can remember what health care was like before HMOs, which we have to have thanks to Mr. Kennedy.
That's from Albuquerque.
Here's the next one.
Rush.
The insurance companies are already doing all the things we are fearful of government control plan doing, controlling payments to providers of what's covered and what's not.
Many of us want to know what specific steps can be taken to take control away from the insurance companies and return it directly to the patients and providers.
Very simple.
Pay for it yourself.
It's very, if you don't like the insurance company, screw it.
Now you're going to say, but the cost is too high.
Well, yeah, it is.
But we're not going to get the cost down until you start dealing with the doctor directly like you deal with a hotel directly or the automobile dealership directly or whatever else you buy.
Insurance companies, folks, are very simple.
Insurance companies are actuaries.
They calculate the odds of risk.
And then they compute the cost of covering that risk if you want to buy insurance from them.
That's what they do.
They calculate the odds of risk and then they compute the cost of covering the risk.
Now, the more, and this is what you're misunderstanding, the more government forces insurance companies to insure, the more the risk goes up.
It's just simple.
You think the insurance companies are operating free and independent?
The government's telling, we've had insurance agents call here, and I know them.
We've had people call here, and other people have told me that working in the insurance business, they can't sell the policies they want to sell.
The government tells them what they have to insure.
Either the federal government or state governments.
There's so many mandates now in healthcare that insurance companies have to insure.
And if they're going to have to insure hangnails, I'm telling you, everybody's going to get a hangnail.
If they're going to have to insure things that everybody's going to get, then by God, folks, it's going to cost everybody a lot of money.
They already pay out 85 to 90% of their claims.
The government doesn't come close to doing this.
So the more government forces insurance companies to insure, the more the risk goes up because they got to pay out all these things that normally they wouldn't.
And then that's just going to drive the cost up.
You're looking at the wrong middleman here when you want to get rid of the insurance companies.
You've got to wake up on this.
And I want you to think about this too.
And this is from my program, July 22nd.
I'm going to repeat this.
What health insurance insures.
A little quick question.
What does health insurance ensure?
Not a trick question.
If you think health insurance ensures your health, you are wrong.
Health insurance does not ensure your health.
So then what's it for?
You see, health insurance cannot possibly ensure your health.
In fact, healthcare insurance, formerly called medical insurance, is merely an instrument of neutralizing risk, financial risk, that is, not health risks.
It was brought about by a need to insure a family's assets against a dread disease requiring care so expensive it will wipe the family out financially.
As a strictly financial planning endeavor, the issue never seemed to be discussed in terms of being a right or in terms of compassion.
But medical insurance, as a component of financial planning, has now morphed into health care as a right for everybody in the new political parlance.
Now, not only is the insurance a right, but the insurance ought to be free, a lot of people think, and it ought to cover everything from hangnails, routine care visits to erectile dysfunction, to ADHD, to addadictomies.
People want health insurance for addictomies, for crime.
If you want to addadictomy, pay for it.
Friends, do not ask your neighbors to turn you into a guy when you're a woman.
If you want an addictomy, pay for it.
But insurance in San Francisco?
They are required to cover things like this.
It's no more practical to have health insurance to pay for prescription drugs and routine doctor visits than it is to expect your auto insurance to pay for your oil changes and your tire rotations.
This is C. Edmund Wright at the AmericanFigure.com, who we also quoted earlier today.
There's a lot of brilliance out there, but everybody, you know, government growth, the encroachment on liberty is a very slow process.
That's why you don't see it all the time.
It's only when something massive like this healthcare business comes up that people go, whoa, that's too much.
This is the famous overreach.
Cap and trade is overreach.
Healthcare is over.
The stimulus was overreach.
All of these things that Obama's overreach.
Now people go, oh my God, what's happening?
But folks, what they're doing now, they've done for the last 50 years.
They just done it incrementally and they've done it under the guise of compassion.
We are in this healthcare mess because of 50 years of slow but steady government intrusion and government growth.
And if you think the insurance companies are free market players out there deciding what they want to do on their own when it comes to health coverage, you've got another thing coming.
They are told what to for crying out loud, the guy got it right.
Ted Kennedy created the HMO.
And now Ted Kennedy, before he died, was out there running them down.
It is people in the government who haven't the slightest idea how to run any business who are creating all these rules and regulations.
And then they create these rules and regulations that gin up hatred in you for the insurance company because you don't understand the government's the guilty party here.
And then Obama very craftily starts demonizing the insurance companies.
And I start getting phone calls from people like Christine and Rebecca who've bought it.
The more you make an insurance company cover, the more their risk goes up.
And all they do is monetize their risk.
They're not ensuring your health.
They can't.
You can't.
What you're ensuring is that you won't be destroyed financially if you get a dread disease, but you're not going to be destroyed financially with a standard checkup.
You're not going to be destroyed financially if you break a leg.
It's just people have these wild expectations.
And the minute the Democrats started talking about health care as a right, I mean, that was the death knell because there is no right to good health.
And I'll tell you something else, something cannot be a right if the government can take it away from you.
And if, and they can take away your health care, that's what the Obama plan is all about, is taking away health care from certain people.
Now, it's time to understand here.
I'm not defending the insurance companies.
I'm sure that there's charlatans in everything.
But you're blaming the wrong people here when you start talking about the high cost of health care in this country.
You get the government out of it and you watch what happens to prices.
You watch how they come down.
It couldn't be done overnight because we didn't get here overnight.
That's why everybody talks about the beauty of health savings accounts.
Letting you have what you're spending on health care already in an account that for the year must be used on health.
You can't spend it on anything else because then you screw it up.
But whatever's left over at the end of the year, then you get to keep that.
And next year, the same amount that you would be taxed to pay for health care, that goes into your account and you buy your health care coverage.
And guess what?
You're going to go shopping for it.
And you're going to try to find the cheapest coverage for the everyday stuff that you need.
And you're not going to go to the doctor every time you do now because you think it's not costing you anything other than your little copay.
And you'll probably start buying your own prescriptions, except they're really expensive stuff.
But we've gotten to the point now where people call here.
I'm working three blanket jobs.
And a friend of mine makes too much money to qualify for free prescription.
Makes too much money to qualify for free prescriptions.
Where the hell does she think she lives?
She makes too much money to qualify for free prescriptions.
She's mad at somebody for this.
I've been thinking, make too much money to qualify.
That's like me saying, I make too much money to qualify for a free airplane.
Damn it, I got to buy it myself.
This is not fair.
I got to take a brief time out.
I don't want to have to repeat this, folks.
I do not want my all-time top 10 favorite tunes, Miguel.
Or no, this is Juan de los Rios and Memphis.
I got a note from the North Carolina mistress.
You know the caller from Port St. Lucie, Bud, and he had this thing from the RNC, fundraising thing asking for people to check off which Obama policy do you find most objectionable?
The RNC sent that out during the presidential campaign of last year.
And it could well be, Bud, if you're listening, it could well be, you are in Port St. Lucie.
It could well be that you just got something mailed last year.
It might not be the current because it is unbelievable that the RNC would send out a fundraiser and not put Obamacare as something you oppose most.
So now look at, we know how much in debt the post office is, and we know that Port St. Lucie may be hard to find even for them.
So that thing might have been mailed last October.
So you should check that.
Kathy in Potomac, Maryland, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Oh, freedom-loving dittos, Professor Limbaugh.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Before I get to what I called about, can I just give you my theory about Hillary and Bill's excellent adventure in Bermuda?
No, I'd love to hear it.
I think they're trying for a second conception, and that's Hillary's run against Obama in 2012.
You got no, no, no.
Conception of what?
Well, you were talking about how they were there for the conception of their daughter early on.
And by the way, a political consultant, I don't remember who, I know it wasn't Morris.
A political consultant advised them to have a baby to get their poll numbers up.
Well, this is going to be their new baby, her run away with Obama.
But you're not talking about the Clintons conceiving another child.
No, figuratively speaking, it will be her campaign against Obama in 2012.
That's an interesting theory.
I know the Clintons are lurking out there.
They never go away.
I mean, they're like the pig flu.
They're just out there.
And they do.
The Clintons, they do cause more damage than minorities.
The minorities just don't know it.
Just like the pig flu.
All right, what was your call about?
Okay, well, this is what I called about.
I recently finished reading Alinsky's book, Rules for Radicals, which seems to really be the playbook for the Obama administration.
It is.
And there are three short quotes I just wanted to highlight.
The first is, he says, the organizer's job is to get people pregnant with hope and a desire for change.
And when people read this book, they'll see hope and change is a theme throughout the book.
Yep.
Second of all, I was struck by how cynical Alinsky was and how he must have been searching for meaning in his own life because he wrote that people are in a desperate search for personal identity to let people know at least you are alive.
And so my guess is that Obama was attracted to this because he must have felt growing up abandoned by his father and often his mother.
And his brother living in a hut and really not knowing where he's from.
Yeah, that's a good point.
Searching for his own identity.
Now, third, this is the last one I wanted to bring up.
Alinsky had an absolute contempt for the middle class while he was attempting to organize them for his own objectives.
He wrote, our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and way of life of the middle class.
So Rush, fundamentally, I don't think Obama, like Alinsky, really understands the middle class.
It's dreams and aspirations.
He's dead on right about that.
He doesn't understand the middle class.
He holds every in contempt.
He's an elitist.
Alinsky was an elitist.
This book is all about how to use those people and manipulate them to get power for yourself while they think you're doing something for them.
That's right.
A man, a legend, a prophet, a beloved figure and way of life.
800-282-2882, if you'd like to be on the program.
There's a column today by Eugene Robinson, who's a columnist at the Washington Post of the Washington Post for those of you in Riolinda.
He also is an MSNBC commentator, and I'm not going to read a whole thing.
The whole thing is absurd.
We'll link to it at rushlimbaugh.com.
But I just want to read this excerpt.
The cause of his life, however, became health care, changing the unacknowledged system of rationing under which we apportion care according to an individual's ability to pay.
There are those who believe that if Kennedy had not been ailing, President Obama's attempt at health care reform might be further along.
I doubt that, given the Republican Party's strategy of intransigence and fear-mongering.
Hey, Eugene, the Republicans can't stop it.
But we sorely miss Kennedy's moral clarity.
He believed our nation has the responsibility to ensure that every American has the right to affordable health care.
Perhaps his life as an eternal prince taught him that happiness and salvation lie in sacrificing self-interest for the greater good.
Good Lord.
Eugene, do you realize what hypocrisy you have written here?
Ted Kennedy sacrificing self-interest for the greater good.
Ted Kennedy got health care for himself that he will not provide in his bill or Obama's bill for anybody else in his circumstances at his age.
Ted Kennedy wanted no part of Obamacare.
Ted Kennedy wouldn't have survived 15 months after his diagnosis with Obamacare, Eugene.
Perhaps his life as an eternal prince taught him that happiness and salvation lie in sacrificing self-interest for the greater good.
No, Eugene, let me tell you what he learned.
He learned to use the government to take money from people that work, to give money to people that don't work, and that got him out of all the dirt that he got in, like the waitress sandwich stuff and all that.
That was his redemption.
These people are over the edge.
It's just hard to keep up with it.
And I've been meaning to do this story all week.
And I keep forgetting it because I keep putting it aside, but I'm going to do it now.
And I mentioned it earlier this week.
I have a letter here which details Senator Kennedy's offer to help the Soviet Union defeat Reagan's efforts to build up the nuclear deterrent in Europe.
It was unearthed by a Times of London reporter in the 1990s after the KGB files were opened.
It didn't get much attention until the publication of a book by Paul Kengler called A Crusader, Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism.
But even the actual text of the letter, which is in the book's appendix, page 317 to 320, has gotten a short shrift.
And I have the KGB letter here on Senator Ted Kennedy.
I got it from sweetnessandlight.com.
They posted this back in December of 2006.
Ted Kennedy offered to meet with Yuri Andropov, who at the time was the Communist Party leader in the Soviet Union, to try to help him sabotage Reagan's efforts to put deterrent missiles in Europe.
Now, we're hearing all week about how Kennedy and Reagan got along so well.
You've heard that.
You've seen them.
Oh, yes.
And we need to learn from Kennedy as conservatives.
We need to learn from Kennedy and the way he behaved during the era of Reagan.
Yeah, he's out sabotaging his own country.
In the spring 1983, during perhaps the tensest moment in the Cold War since the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy sent a message to Yuri Andropov.
This would be the same Yuri Andropov, who had been the director of the KGB and had played central roles in both the crushing of the 56 Hungarian Revolution and the suppression of the 68 Prague Spring.
And Yuri Andropov was one of the Russians that leaders, Soviet leaders that Reagan refused to meet with.
He said, keep dying on me.
It makes no sense to meet these guys.
Gorbachev was the first Soviet leader he met with.
So Kennedy's point was that it was Reagan that threatened world peace, not the Soviets, not Andropov.
And Kennedy offered to help Andropov contain Reagan by manipulating American opinion.
And here's the letter.
On 9-10 May of this year's, and this is the letter to Comrade Y. V. Andropov.
It's a special importance committee on state security of the USSR's KGB.
KGB letter to Andropov, Comrade Y. V. Andropov.
On 9-10 May of this year, Senator Edward Kennedy's close friend and trusted confidant, Jay Tunney, was in Moscow.
The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message through confidential contacts to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov.
Senator Kennedy, like other rational people, is very troubled by the current state of Soviet-American relations.
Events are developing such that this relationship, coupled with the general state of global affairs, will make the situation even more dangerous.
The main reason for this is Reagan's belligerence and his firm commitment to deploy new American middle-range nuclear weapons within Western Europe.
According to Kennedy, this current threat is due to president's refusal to engage any modification on his politics.
He feels his domestic standing has been strengthened because of the well-publicized improvement of the economy.
Inflation's been greatly reduced.
Production levels are increasing, as is overall business activity.
For these reasons, interest rates will continue to decline.
Kennedy's worried about all this.
He said, we got to stop Reagan somehow because he's getting popular here.
So we'll link to it at rushlinbaugh.com.
But a lot of things that people are forgetting here, and a lot of things are being made up about how well Kennedy got along with Reagan.
Oh, Kennedy never got personal.
He never got crying out loud.
Trying to work with the grand pubah of the Soviet Union to sabotage the protection of Western Europe against Soviet nuclear missiles.
And I remember in 1990 when these KGB files were opened.
I remember, I didn't read Kenger's book, but I remember the story.
And I was amazed how little play that had got Ronald in.
Oh, a 15-year-old from Hazelton, Pennsylvania.
Ronald, welcome to the program.
Hello, sir.
Mega Diddles, Rush.
Thank you.
I've been listening to your show for about three years now, and I started listening to you because my grandfather mainly told me about your program, and I loved it the first time I heard it.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah, you're welcome.
It made me love the conservative values because conservatives tell the truth.
I see what values conservatives stand for when they get into office.
They get there by telling the truth.
And that's what makes a real leader, not like these liberal characters like Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and all those liberal people in the government.
You are very wise.
Who tell lies and apologize to our enemies like Obama does.
And I just want to tell you that I'm an active young conservative in my hometown of Hazelton here.
And what I'm doing is, well, about on April 15th, I went to a tea party we had here in Hazleton, Pennsylvania.
And a man spoke.
I don't know if you might have heard of him.
His name is Dr. Alan Keyes.
Of course, I didn't know he spoke at this one, but I've heard of Dr. Keyes, of course.
Yeah, well, I heard him, and he is a true leader.
And I picture him as a true conservative, and he should be in the White House right now because he speaks from his heart, not like a teleprompter like these liberal characters.
Well, anyway, listening to you made me a conservative.
And I had rallies in my hometown of Hazleton about two weeks ago.
All right, now, this is very important, Ronald.
I want to take the occasion of your call to make a point because it's very important.
Conservatism needs action.
And that's what's great about what's happening with the town halls, the tea parties that you're going to.
It's not enough just to tell people, oh, the left is bad.
The Democrats are bad.
Look at what they're doing.
Conservatism is more than just an argument.
It's more than just a debating point.
It is a fundamental way the nation was founded.
And you getting involved like this at your age is absolutely great.
You're joining millions of others who are just fed up and not going to take this anymore because it always happens when the left overreaches like this.
They always do better off if they just go incremental.
But Obama, big crisis in the economy, saw a big opportunity that thought he could get all this stuff in before people knew what was happening.
And he's still going to do it.
Still going to try.
I don't care how they redress Obamacare.
It's still going to be government health care.
And it need not happen.
A quick timeout.
Thank you very much for the phone call.
We'll be back and continue wrapping up.
I got two amazing sound bites from a town hall found at Breitbart TV from Diane Watson, California congressman, last night in Los Angeles coming up.
By the way, folks, you remember when I said way back in January, even before the immaculation, that I hoped Obama failed.
And you remember the excrement storm that erupted from that?
Well, Ted Kennedy not only wanted Ronaldo's Magnus to fail, Ted Kennedy worked with our enemies to make it happen.
That is an important point.
Have you joined the Heritage Foundation yet?
Have you yet gone to look at www.askheritage.org?
You probably have.
But if you haven't, you need to do it.
Every staff member at the Heritage Foundation has a common mantra: big government doesn't work.
And they are posting some of the smartest, most relevant bits of analysis with no ego and nothing else thrown in.
It's just straight facts and figures.
They are self-professed believers in smaller government.
And whereas you may have conservative instincts, the stuff, and I use them for show prep, the stuff that you'll find at askheritage.org will tell you why you think what you think, and it'll help you persuade others.
It'll make you more conversant in the subject.
If you believe in small government, become a member of the Heritage Foundation.
It has 25 bucks, and there are over 500,000 members, and it helps sustain them in the work that they do.
Just go to askheritage.org.
Your liberties, our liberties, too important, especially now just to go about life as normal.
That's getting involved.
Any number of ways to do it.
Askheritage.org.
Diane Watson last night in Los Angeles, a town hall meeting.
And we have two soundbites.
Here's the first.
You might have heard their philosophical leader.
I think his name is Rush Limbaugh.
And he said early on, I hope that he fails.
Do you know what that means?
If the president, your commander-in-chief, fails, America fails.
Wrong.
No.
Wrong.
When a senator says that this will be his Waterloo, and we all know what happened at Waterloo, then we have him and he fails.
Do we want a failed state called the United States?
So remember, they are spreading fear and they're trying to see that the first president who looks like me fails.
And I want you to know people look at the United States as a country that has changed its way and has elected someone from Kenya and Kansas.
I'll put it like that.
What?
Elected somebody?
She's a birther.
She's a birther.
He's elected somebody from Kenya and Kansas.
And finally, we've elected somebody that looks like her.
And she said, I hope Limbaugh fell, that I hope Obama fails.
Yeah, I do, Diane.
Obama failing saves the United States of America.
But there's one more to go.
One more soundbite to go to put this in perspective.
It was just mentioned to be by our esteemed speaker.
Did anyone say anything about the Cuban health system?
And let me tell you, before you say, oh, it's coming, you need to go down there and see what Fidel Castro put in place.
And I want you to know, now, you can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met.
And you know, the Cuban Revolution that kicked out the wealthy, Che Guevara, did that.
And then after they took over, they went out among the population to find someone who could lead this new nation.
And they found, well, just leave it there.
An attorney by the name of Fidel Castro.
Did you know that Trey Che Guevara, Castro's mining his own business smoking cigars, and Che Guevara, after getting rid of the rich people, found Castro to lead the revolution and a health care plant?
This is a member of Congress, Diane Watson.
She's a good friend of Maxine Waters, by the way.
And she's from Los Angeles.
Cuban.
Well, no, snurdly, there was some applause.
I know it wasn't a lot, but there was some applause.
We said, well, Castro one of the brightest leaders.
One guy applauded at my name.
My audience, actually, her audience might actually like me.
There wasn't much of a reaction.
This took place at the Ward African Methodist Episcopal Church last night in Los Angeles.
They're like the Wellstone Memorial.
Do these people sound like they live in the same country we live in?
You know who else wanted to go to Cuba?
Fight with Lee Harvey Oswald.
Lee Harvey Oswald even planned on hijacking a plane and using his wife, A marina who is pregnant to get there.
Lee Harvey asks Diane Watson lionizing all these people.
Che Guevara Fidel Castro.
A lawyer sitting around smoking cojibas.
Che Guevara plucks him from his life of luxury to lead La Revución.
All right, again, a reminder, ladies and gentlemen, time for the annual August guy golf trip to one of the 57 states in this country.
I will not say which one.
And next week, here's the guest lineup.
Mark Davis on Monday and Tuesday.
Mark Stein will be here on Wednesday and Thursday.
Walter Williams.
Walter Williams will be here on Friday.
On Labor Day, Monday, that's it.
I'm getting a new dog, by the way.
We're getting a new dog.
We're going to get another Old English sheepdog to go along with the current Old English sheepdog, which is named Abigail, Abby for short.
We're going to go out and get John Quincy on Labor Day.
Two dogs and pumpkin.
Pumpkin's going to have so much fun.
So we'll be back on Tuesday after Labor Day and enjoy next week.
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