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Sept. 8, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 8, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #3
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And we're back, Rush Limbois.
And having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
800-282-2882 is the number.
If you would like to be on the program, email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Interesting uh audio summit's coming up here.
And then after I want to I want to review some of the things that happened uh while I was gone, soundbite-wise.
August of 2009.
What we have here, first up is uh is a conference call between the editorial page Carrie Pickett, Washington Times, and the spokesman for the National Education Association, Yossi Sierjan.
And the conversation here is about a conference call in which the NEA tried to recruit artists to push the Obama agenda.
And the Washington Times Carrie Pickett says, I understand there was a conference call on August 10th that the NEA invited producers, artists, marketers, et cetera.
DNA didn't invite.
We were a submitted a call that there was a third party that did the invitation.
I was wondering if you could send me, if possible, a copy of the invitation.
Um, it didn't come from us, so I don't I don't have it to dispute, but you would go to the them for that.
Uh-huh.
So who is the third party?
I believe it's Michael Skolnik, the Corporation for National Community Service, Michael Skolnik.
No, he's a he's third party.
But the corporation set up the conference call and who conducted the conference call.
Now there's separate audio which has uh just surfaced.
And this Michael Skalmick guy who works for Ruffle Thimmond, uh, the hip hop rap guy Ruffle Thimmonth.
His skullmick guy says at the White House, and the NEA asked him to set up this call.
This is Michael Skolnick.
I am based in New York, and um I'm filmmaker for the past ten years, but currently serve as the critical director to Russell Simmons.
I've been asked by folks in the White House and folks in the NEA about a month ago, a conversation that was had.
We had the idea to that I would help bring together the artist community, the independent artist community around the country.
Now, what this what this is all about is the Obama administration using the NEA, a bunch of union people, in their community organizing efforts to help propagandize the Obama agenda.
All of it.
And this was this is all brought up now.
This and this is part and parcel of left-wing radicalism.
This is part and parcel of the uh things about the Obama administration that numbers of people have been trying to point out for years that they're not who they say they are.
And that's uh this this this was a propaganda effort today to make this speech at the school.
Uh even though the rhetoric was all conservative, the purpose of this speech today was to set up the health care speech tomorrow night.
Uh and uh to blunt any criticism of that speech.
Well, he made such a great speech today.
Kids, he wants the kids to be so well off and so forth.
So they talked about this Sunday on the round table of ABC's this week, and here's what George Will had to say about it.
Recently there was a conference call arranged by the National Endowment for the Arts with a representative of the White House for potential grantees or actual grantees of the federal government getting subsidies.
The theme of it was how the arts community could help advance the president's agenda.
And I don't know how many laws that breaks, but I'm sure there are some.
Did I say the National Education Association?
So uh clearly there were laws broken in doing in doing things like this.
And all this stuff taking place behind the scenes.
And the interesting thing about it is it's certain it's it's it's no different than the White House organizing the union appearances at town halls.
The the great thing about all that was was that the people showing up to protest health care at the town halls were just average ordinary American individuals.
They were going to websites, finding out where they had to go, what time things were, but they were showing up out of genuine, real passionate opposition to the program.
The Obama people, there was a story before I left that his youthful supporters just aren't anywhere here.
They're not sure where are they?
Where are they out there for the Obama agenda?
It's all having to be organized because there's no real genuine passion for the agenda.
There may still be cult-like passion for Obama.
And they help him get things done, but uh it's all it's all a positive sign because it indicates uh where the country is, and the country is not anywhere near where Obama sees it and wants it to go.
The government from a very approving AP, the government trying to make it easier for Americans to save for retirement.
President Obama said Saturday as he noted that toll the recession is taken on extra income and savings accounts.
One initiative will be to uh allow people to have their federal tax refunds sent as savings bonds.
Others are meant to require workers to take action to stay out of an employer-run savings program rather than having to take action to join it.
We know that automatic enrollments made a big difference in participation rates by making it simpler for workers to save, Obama said.
That's what whatever this personal responsibility theme of the speech today.
You too big an idiot.
We're gonna send your tax refund in the form of savings bonds.
That's that means you're letting the government keep your money.
It's absurd.
The deficit reduction.
You're gonna let the government keep your money, and they're gonna give you an IOU, a savings bond that doesn't mature for what?
Twenty-five years, depending on link to the bond that they send you.
You people are so stupid.
You do not know how to save your own money.
It's too difficult to save your own money.
So Obama has to give a speech saying the government is going to help you do it.
And how we're gonna send your tax refunds to you in savings bonds.
And then we're gonna make you automatically enrolled in these government savings plans.
But uh never mind the fact we've destroyed half of your 401k already with our economic policies.
Obama expands workers' retirement savings.
That whole headline, Obama expands workers'retirement savings options?
I Since when did saving become a government option?
He goes out and gives that speech today that just is uh farce in terms of personal responsibility.
Let's go back and relive.
August 28th, 2009, on this program, I made a prediction about the Ted Kennedy funeral.
Lots of storms in the East Coast.
You got tropical storm Danny moving up there, and you got other storms moving in.
And I'm just waiting.
In fact, I'm going to make a prediction to you that somebody, like Andrea Mitchell, in BC News in Washington, or Chris Matthews, who on Wednesday proclaimed Barack Obama the last remaining Kennedy brother.
I will predict to you that sometime this weekend, somebody in state-controlled media will tell us that these East Coast storms, that tropical storm Danny arriving just in time for the Kennedy funeral, is symbolic of the heavens crying for Ted Kennedy.
And lo and behold, we have two winners.
We have Andrea Mitchell, and we have syndicated radio talk show host Stephanie Miller, commenting on the weather and the death of Senator Kennedy.
This driving rain is perhaps the perfect weather for such a sad day, the tears of heaven coming down.
Perhaps God crying over uh Senator Ted Kennedy.
Don't doubt me, folks.
Do not doubt.
I mean, right there in my prediction, somebody like Andrea Mitchell will say that the tears are that the rain at the Kennedy funeral symbolic of the heavens crying for Ted Kennedy.
Here, listen, listen to me.
I made the prediction.
Play soundbite number two again.
This driving rain is perhaps the perfect weather for such a sad day, the tears of heaven coming down.
Perhaps God crying over uh Senator Ted Kennedy.
I also predicted, uh, ladies and gentlemen, that throughout the Kennedy funeral service, the memorial service, that uh we we'd get constant mentions of health care and do it for Ted.
And lo and behold, here's a montage of a bunch of people from Friday, August 28th and Saturday, August 29th.
When people think of Ted Kennedy, they think about the man who changed the lives of millions by fighting for a battle health care.
By his passion for adequate health care, the needs of the poor, social justice, health care.
If people don't have health insurance, you stay in the race.
Every American, regardless of their economic status, be granted the right to decent health care.
We will have reforms.
Health care.
He labored with all of his might to make health care a right for all Americans, and we will do that in his honor.
A veritable force of nature in support of health care.
For what my grandpa called the cause of his life in every part of this land, that every American will have decent quality health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege.
We pray to the Lord.
Don't doubt me.
Do not doubt me.
And remember, I caught hell for saying this is gonna happen last summer, last April, I caught hell for saying this is gonna happen.
And the reason I caught hell is because they knew I was right, not because they thought what I said was inappropriate.
Now I mentioned that I watched a little bit of Obama yesterday in Cincinnati at the AFL CIO picnic, and it struck me.
I had to sound done.
I'm reading uh close caption.
He looked mad.
He looked angry giving this speech.
We have some sound bites.
Some people have already forgotten how bad it was just seven months ago.
You notice that they've got sort of selective amnesia.
What?
A financial system on the verge of collapse.
About 700,000 workers losing their jobs each month.
The worst recession of our lifetimes, threatening to become another Great Depression.
That's why we passed an unprecedented recovery act.
And we did it without the usual Washington earmarks and pork barrel spending.
And Ohio, it is working.
It's not.
It's not, it's not working, and there were earmarks to go lore in this thing.
This is a total fabrication.
All of that is a 100% laughable lie.
It's working.
They saved the economy.
700,000 workers were losing their jobs.
It's still 600,000.
And then I don't think the 700,000 was accurate either.
It's always been that three million people have lost their jobs since this guy's recovery plan.
It's working.
And uh he followed it up with this.
On Friday, we learned that the economy lost another 216,000 jobs in August.
And whenever Americans are losing jobs, that's simply unacceptable.
But for the second straight month, we lost fewer jobs than the month before.
And it was the fewest jobs that we had lost in a year.
So make no mistake, we're moving in the right direction.
We're on the road to recovery, Ohio.
Don't let anybody tell you otherwise.
Yes, we will.
Yes, we are.
All right.
I have made a decision.
When I go into a powerful monologue someday in the future, I'm gonna do it with a reverb like this guy does.
I'm gonna make I'm gonna make my voice sound godlike, why he manages doing all these speeches.
Yeah, I'll put some fake Greek columns up behind me here so that you can see them in the ditto cam.
Uh what do you mean what did it sound like?
Do you mean the yes we can chant?
What do you mean what I heard it?
What do you mean what did it sound like?
Mm-hmm.
What?
Oh, that sounded like a rally from an earlier time in history.
The whole thing had to be trumped up.
They had to have a director and a choreographer of okay, cue the audience, yes, we can.
I mean, this is this is uh but none of it it's it's this is surreal.
It is surreal because none of this, none of this is true, and the idiots in that audience, half of them without jobs, sitting there applauding all of this.
Yeah, let's see.
Oh, one more before we go to the break.
This is Obama on uh on health care.
I've got a question for all these folks who say, you know, we're gonna pull the plug on grandma, and this is all about illegal immigrants, and you've heard all the all the lies.
I've got a question for all those folks.
What are you gonna do?
What's your answer?
What's your solution?
And you know what?
They don't have one.
Their answer is to do nothing.
Their answer is to do nothing.
Means more Americans dying every day just because they don't have health insurance.
Whoa, ho ho ho!
More America the life expectancy is skyrocketing in this country.
More Americans are dying because they don't have health insurance.
Patently untrue.
And there are all kinds of alternative proposals to health care, and he knows it.
I got to take a break.
We're a little long here, but we'll come back.
More of this, plus uh some of your phone calls continuing as well.
All right, back to the phones.
Uh punta, punta gorda, Florida.
This is Bruce.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
You're up next.
Hello.
Well, hi, Russia.
Over the weekend, I was with three of my neighbors, and and they're all medical doctors, not PhDs.
Their big question seems to be with the 40 million people without health care insurance, regardless of reason, with a potential of maybe 30 or 40 million more individuals that have union health care and corporate health care.
If they all go over to the government run program, choose my friendship, but where the hell are all the medical doctors going to come from?
Well, there's a question everybody's asking.
If you enroll all of these uh new new people with insurance and you and you and you start squeezing the doctors, which is what Obama's plan is, meaning reduce their uh uh uh reimbursements, uh, where are you gonna get the doctors?
Well, they say that right now they're pretty well up to their eyeballs with patients, and to throw these many new patients uh upon them is going to create havoc in the system.
Well, look at this is a see the And that's what the if that's what the program Obama is pushing is not telling you.
Well, but every a lot of people have figured this out.
Uh this is Well, I wish the lay people had, because down here in Punta Gorda, we have a lot of seniors, and they really aren't aware that it might take a heck of a lot longer to see a doctor.
Wait a minute.
Now I'm I'm I'm sorry, but who the hell is showing up at these town hall meetings?
I think more people than you know are aware of all of the unpending disasters that are in this plan.
Whether it be end-of-life counseling or the death panels or shortage of doctors and so forth, this is uh people are well aware that this is not good and they don't like it.
If they don't know the specific business of a doctor shortage, uh they know enough uh to make them oppose it.
I I you know the the the deal about doctor again is it what's frustrating is the market will take care of this if you leave it alone.
Yes, that's true.
But when Medicare and when the government is telling doctors what they're gonna get paid and how often they're gonna get paid, more and more doctors are gonna opt out of Medicare.
Well, I think they'll not only opt out of Medicare, to talk down here with my neighbors, three of them that surround my house, say that they're just gonna get out of the whole medicine business.
Yeah, I've heard some doctors say that too.
You don't believe it?
Well, no, it's just a i i it's possible.
Uh we're in a heated passionate moment, and uh you the you know doctors are are you put that much work into something it's because you love it.
Rush, can they can a doctor then go on and on their own and whatever the government system have, let that doctor just see some patients on his own, or will he be too liable for whatever.
Well, now that's an interesting question.
Uh under the House plan, there would be a severe penalty for this.
Once you once you opt out of uh of any federal plan Medicare or whatever, you can never get back in it.
Uh and and you know, but that's see, that's that's something too that's already happened.
There already are doctors who've opted out.
There are doctors who charge a retainer.
They have a clientele that they can handle, clientele patients, they charge a retainer, and then you pay whatever it costs for whatever you need, and this is how they're opting out of the system.
But now this is this requires, you know, a certain income level to be able to afford to see doctors this way.
But the whole that the messes that exist in the health care system exist precisely because the government being involved and forcing solutions that are not market-based.
And eventually people just say I can't live under this.
I can't, I can't go uh being reimbursed 20% of what it costs me to provide treatment or 50%, and I can't wait three months for it when they decide to pay me.
Uh and I I can't uh can't the patient load here, these people coming in uh for every little nook and cranny that's wrong with them and so forth.
It's just a mess, and it's only going to get worse.
And the doctor shortage aspect is is just, you know, it's uh one problem.
I don't doubt these guys being honest with you that they're that frustrated.
Uh Miami Tico, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Mr. Glimbaugh.
It is an absolute pleasure to speak with you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Uh Mr. Glimbaugh, in reference to the speech um that Obama made to the children, I think there's another angle or a motive here that I haven't heard you talk about.
And unfortunately, to their credit, I think it was quite ingenious.
Um last week the administration announced that Obama was going to be addressing school children.
But they didn't release or disclose what the content of the speech would be.
And this, of course, made a lot of conservatives worry about what he's going to say, and it became the hot topic uh since Friday, I believe, last week, on all the conservative talk radio shows.
Now today Obama comes out and things he says things that appear pretty reasonable.
And it makes all those people that were worried about what he was going to say seem like a bunch of kooks.
Well, there's no there's no question that uh there is an attempt by the White House to uh create that impression, but there was uh some um uh advanced information that they were gonna have the students write letters to themselves and what they can do to uh help Obama.
There's a genuine reason for the outcry.
This is hilarious.
This is meet the press yesterday, or Sunday.
Seems like Monday to me here, but meet the press on Sunday.
Uh during the round table, David Gregory spoke with Thomas Friedman of the New York Times about the resignation of Van Jones.
And Gregory says, in this information age, you can be a target real fast.
David, when everyone has a cell phone, everyone's a photographer.
When everyone has access to YouTube, everyone's a filmmaker.
And when everyone's a blogger, everyone's a newspaper.
When everyone's a photographer, uh uh a newspaper and a filmmaker, everyone else is a public figure.
Tell your kids, okay?
Tell your kids, okay, be careful.
Every move they make is now a digital footprint.
You are on candid camera.
And unfortunately, the real message to young people from all of these incidents, okay, and I'm not here defending anything anyone said, but from all of these incidents is, you know, really keep yourself tight.
Don't say anything controversial, don't think anything that kind of don't put anything in pre- Oh, really.
Van Jones, you can run out and talk about all of these horrible, rotten things that Republicans are, and and so it's the internet's fault.
It's bloggers' fault.
You can't you can't trust what you see out there.
These are the people who purposely destroyed or distorted what Mark Stein said on this program about a cult-like uh uh belief that Obama was setting up with students, they said he was uh employing cult-like uh policies of Saddam Hussein when he said just the exact opposite.
He did not, he said, I'm not saying it's like that.
They purposely misreported there's so much is so much misreported, there's so many errors in mainstream media today, and these guys are worried about the internet.
This all boils down the fact that one of their guys got caught by us, and they don't like that.
They they're they're they have in their minds, they have the sole proprietorship on destroying people's careers and lives.
Ted Kennedy can do it to Robert Bork.
He can try it with Clarence Thomas, but we cannot expose an avowed admitted communist radical like Van Jones.
And then, of course, the dean, the dean of uh network newscasters, Tom Brook all weighed in.
A lot of people will repeat back to me and take it at face value, something that they read on the internet.
And my line to them is you have to vet information.
You have to test it the same way you do when you buy an automobile or when you go and buy a new Flat screen television.
You read the consumer reports, you have an idea of what it's worth and what the lasting value of it is.
You have to do the same thing with information because there is so much disinformation out there that it's frightening, frankly, in a free society that depends on information to make informed decisions.
And this is across the board, by the way.
It's not just one side of the political spectrum or the other.
It is across the board, David.
And it's something that we all have to address, and it requires society and political and cultural leaders to stand up and say this is crazy.
Well, the only problem, Tom, is that everything that was uncovered about this guy happened to be true.
And you guys ignored it all.
Did your best to ignore it, and you only reported on it once he resigned.
And by the way, do you believe this story that Obama had no role in the resignation?
I don't buy it at all.
And then Tom Friedman, he weighed in to uh to finish up, and this I think typifies the thinking of the old media.
The internet is an open sewer of untreated, unfiltered information.
Left, right, center, up, down, and requires that kind of filtering by anyone.
And I always felt, you know, when modems first came out, when that was how we got connected to the internet, that every modem sold in America should actually have come with a warning from the Surgeon General that would have said judgment not included.
Okay.
That you um have to to to upload the old-fashioned way.
Church, synagogue, temple, mosque, teachers, schools, you know, and too often now people say, and we've all heard it, but I read it on the internet.
Is it that solves the barbell?
You know, and I'm afraid not.
So you people are idiots.
You don't have the capacity to understand what you read, uh whether it's true or not.
You need filters.
So you need the professionals, you need the experts like Tom Brokaw and Tom Friedman and so forth.
The internet is an open sewer of untreated, and every damn one of these guys works for some place that has a very vivid internet presence, and every damn one of them has bloggers.
NBC's got bloggers, MSNBC's got bloggers.
The New York Times has a big website where they've got bloggers.
So I guess it's an open sewer for them, too.
They just can't stand it.
Their monopoly is gone.
They just can't stand that they aren't not the ones anymore to get to determine what's new and what isn't.
You're not supposed to have the opportunity to be disinformed.
That's the real problem.
You know too much.
This is threatening democracy in their arrogant, conceited view.
Every modem mo sold in America should come with a warning from the Surgeon General.
Who uses modems anymore for crying out loud?
You use a modem, Brian.
I'm sure some people use modem, but every modem should come with a warning from the Surgeon General that says judgment not included.
That's right, and you're not capable of making your own judgment.
We have to let Tom Friedman and Tom Brokaw make judgments for you.
They're the ones that are qualified.
They're the ones that are highly trained.
They're the professionals.
You're just a rube, an idiot.
All right, to Bloomington, Illinois, David, as we go back to the phones.
Great to have you on the Russian book program, sir.
Hello.
Hello, sir.
Let me let me just give you a second.
I'm actually a truck driver.
Let me shut it down so you can hear me better.
There we go.
Uh, yeah, I was just gonna let you know that uh you've done it finally.
You're uh operators, union, teamsters union.
Not the union itself, but the members are defecting, and you're in the Teamsters trucks.
They're listening to you.
They're listening to you, Hannity.
All of you.
We're we're listening to all of you.
We're getting the union heads have become just like the government, and they're no longer care what the people, what their people want.
They just want what they want.
Yeah, okay.
So you what basically what you're saying to me is that uh you are you you're you're sensing that union rank and file membership is uh starting to turn away from Obama.
Uh yeah.
Yep, yep.
Uh, between the second amendment and the health care issue.
Because I mean, some of us have got really good health care, and it's not because the union gave it to us, it's because the company gave it to us.
Well, but the union is claiming they got it for you from the company.
No.
Well, we had we had uh okay.
Wait a second.
Wait, Wait a second.
You actually are you are you here to tell me that you know members of the Teamsters Union who are saying good things about the company?
Yes.
Oh, that is that is new.
Yeah.
It's because we are sick of the union leadership not doing what we want.
Well, you know, I I I I really I know this is anecdotal.
Uh we don't have any any uh uh scientific data uh to confirm what you're saying, so we can only hope that it's true.
I can tell you that over the course of my starling uh Sterling 21-year career, I've had calls from various groups of people that are devotedly or devoutly devoted to the Democrat Party.
Say, hey, Russia's changing.
It's changing out there.
A lot of people are waking up, and the numbers on election day don't change.
But in your case, uh in the Teamsters Union case, the rank and file is one thing.
But your money is taken from you just like the government takes it from everybody else.
Your dues go to the leaders and the leaders are going to give it to the Democrats.
Uh, and then you, of course, are going to be pressured to vote Democrat one way or the other.
If if they get a sense you're not going to, then they'll go out and you know get acorn guys to show up and do it all.
But uh it's heartening news if it's uh if it's true.
I I um wouldn't be surprised.
I think everybody, I think everybody watching what's going on here ought to be saying, whoa, we made a big mistake last November.
This is not what we intended, and we're putting the brakes on that.
I think everybody ought to be standing up.
Everybody ought to be outraged and scared to death for the future of their country, if not for themselves, for their kids.
But sadly, we're not at that point yet.
But you go to this AFL CIO rally took place in Cincinnati yesterday.
And it sounded like a campaign rally from the campaign of 2008.
It didn't sound anything like presidential, and of course, to get that crowd to get that kind of crowdsounding supportive of Obama, he had to go out and get one of his largest support groups.
This was not a cross section of American voters.
This was the AFL CIO picnic that he chose to attend out there.
And that crowd was put together specifically for the yes we can chance and to make it sound like it was a campaign rally.
And it's all imagery.
It's all imagery because that kind of energy for Obama does not exist anywhere in the country.
It does not exist.
If it were genuine, then there wouldn't be these town halls happening as they are.
All of that stuff, that AFL CIO picnic, you may be onto something out there, David, because the the the if if that sentiment was of its own and genuine, then Obama wouldn't be in trouble.
But he is.
Quick time out, back with more after this.
You know, I'm gonna be real interested to see something.
That speech, and we talked about it in the first hour today, the speech that Obama gave to the screw kids of America today.
That speech was 100% conservatism through and through, start to finish, even even mention the word God in it twice.
Now, if George W. Bush had done that, the left within five minutes of that speech would be outraged.
You dare mention God in the schools?
What about separation of church and state?
And how dare you tell these kids uh personal responsibility.
It's fascinating to me that the that probably the only guy who could go into the public school system today and deliver a 100% conservative message, including God, is Barack Obama.
And I will lay you 10 to 1 that there's not one shred of criticism from the left about that directed toward him.
I'll bet you there's not.
And that just will illustrate that, well, it'll sort a bunch of things.
One of them is that preserving and promoting Obama at whatever price is necessary and called for.
Plus, they also know he didn't mean it.
His own supporters know he didn't mean a word of that speech.
Uh but the third thing that it'll tell us is that the um you know the the conservative message is not so much what offends people on the left as it is the people Who articulate it?
There is a personal animus, those people have.
Now, Tom Brokaw, Tom Brokaw, and Tom Friedman.
Oh, the internet's a sewer out there.
You need to regulate it.
Uh we uh we're the ones to be trusted and so forth.
You know, I have a joke that I play on people.
I'll tell people that I heard a news story.
I'll just make something up.
That's just totally false and wrong.
Where do you hear that?
NBC News.
I make a joke out of the fact that NBC News has any credibility whatsoever.
Broke on his ilk are out there saying you can't trust it, it's on the internet.
The truth of the matter is you can't trust it anymore if it's on NBC.
This is what more and more people are learning.
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Hello, and welcome to the program, sir.
Well, thanks, Rush.
You know, um was addressed to the nation's school children.
Uh was not the first time you told Americans to take more responsibility.
Uh during the camp said black Americans need to take personal responsibility if they want to improve.
Uh not to rely on the government, starting with fathers taking better uh uh more supportive role in their children's lives.
As a result, Jeffy Jackson uh said he wanted to assault his manhood.
Well, I do remember that.
The uh Reverend Jackson did say he would like to neuter uh Barack Obama.
Uh was and it was I you're right, it was somewhat related to that message of personal responsibility, but still, Bill Cosby has delivered that message too, and he's been escor excoriated.
Well, there's a lot of political fallout uh on that side of the aisle when you say stuff like that.
Well, but there hasn't been.
I mean, there's his approval numbers are only as high as they are because he's had no leakage whatsoever in support from the uh from the black community.
Very quickly, Kathy in uh Laporte, Texas.
I got 45 seconds that I wanted to get to you.
Uh, yes, you wanted confirmation.
I'm a United Steel Workers member, and we're listening.
Just wanted to debt to the truck driver.
So the Teamster who told us that more and more rank and file union people are starting to have some doubts about Obama and are listening to this show and others.
Absolutely.
Yes, sir.
And agreeing with what you're hearing, I assume.
Yes, sir.
Definitely.
Well, now this is what what what what is what's what's turned your mind here on Obama Obama was the I mean it was saved you, the guy you voted for.
This is the guy that was going to make it all good again.
What happened?
Well, personally, I did not vote for him.
I voted independent.
But those of us who uh those uh of the union that did vote democratic um became very, very concerned when Bush signed in the what was it, 708 billion stimulus package for Barack Obama's campaign for Barack Obama's presidency.
Uh that's when we started getting really concerned for our children, our grandchildren, and I'm sure that concern and the great, great, great, great, great, you're right.
Absolutely.
Keep it up.
Well, it's great to be back in the saddle here, folks, behind the uh golden EIB microphone.
Looking forward to uh being back in 21 hours.
It's great when you're doing what you were born to do, and I am.
So are you.
I was born to host, you were born to listen.
It's a great combination, and we'll do it again tomorrow.
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