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Sept. 9, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 9, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know what happened at Los Angeles yesterday?
One of the schools.
They tuned into the Obama speech, and instead the kids heard me.
Where else did that happen?
That was Green Bay.
It was Shades of Green Bay.
Remember that?
Shades of, yeah, yeah.
Anyway, greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's Rush Lindbaugh, and we have broadcast excellence for the next three hours.
Looking forward to talking to you.
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The email address, lrushbaugh at eibnet.com.
President Obama tonight with a speech not about healthcare.
It's about his political future.
It's about his political fortunes.
And we're going to get into a great bit of analysis of this as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears today.
Just out, an Associated Press GFK, and I don't know who GFK is.
I couldn't care less.
All I know is it's an Associated Press poll says that public disapproval of Obama's handling of health care has jumped to 52%.
52% disapprove, but this is the second or third poll that the number is over 50% of people who disapprove of this, which makes this speech even more remarkable tonight because the president is going to try to convince members of Congress to vote against the will of the American people.
That's what's on tap tonight.
And it's all about him.
It's all about saving his bacon.
Same survey shows that 49% now disapprove of Obama's overall performance as president.
In July, just 42% disapproved of how he's handling the jobs.
The disapproval numbers are rising all over the place, issue by issue and in general.
And there's a story, I think it's AP.
President tries to build momentum for health care.
He's causing the momentum to be lost by showing up on television all the time.
There's a great piece, a great piece at the AmericanThinker.com today from a guy who spent 30 years in the advertising business who analyzes Obama's incredibly inept sell job on this whole program from the context or from the from the standpoint of an advertising executive.
I'll explain that to you in a minute.
But first, you remember, folks, I've always said to you that over the years when you have been very concerned about media attacks on me, your beloved host, I've often consoled you and I said, folks, don't worry, the media didn't make me.
You did.
The media cannot break me.
They didn't make me.
It's why I've never had a PR flak.
It's why I've never relied on press coverage to build anything here.
I've never catered to it.
I have never sought it out.
I don't care what they say.
I mean, you know the drill.
Because if you allow yourself to be made by the press, they can tear you down anytime they want to.
Now, Obama is a different story.
Obama was made by the press.
He gave one speech at the Democrat National Convention in 2004, and he lived off that speech, sort of like Governor Kumo did in New York in his San Francisco speech.
And then the media decided to start propping this guy up out of nowhere when everybody thought Hillary Clinton was going to be the coronated queen of this country.
All of a sudden, a year and a half before the election, here comes all these puff pieces about Obama all over the place.
And the media made this guy.
And that means the media, if they want, can break him.
And I don't know.
There's a story here in the Politico that, I mean, this is obviously state-run media off the tracks here.
And I don't know that they're going to break Obama, certainly not in the old-fashioned way, but I think, you know, a lot of people on his team, a lot of people who support him are getting a little disappointed.
The magic is gone.
The whole reason for having Obama in the White House is gone.
His cult-like personality appeal.
All of that's gone.
The substance never, it was never about substance with Obama.
It was all about change and hope and all these vague platitudes.
And the vague platitudes have not transmitted themselves into any kind of solid substance.
For example, here from a surprised Associated Press.
I don't even understand why this is news.
Taxpayers face losses on a significant portion of the $81 billion in government aid provided to the auto industry, an oversight panel said in a report released today.
The Congressional Oversight Panel, the COP, did not provide an estimate of the projected loss in its latest monthly report on the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, but it said most of the $23 billion initially provided to GM and Chrysler late last year is likely to be not repaid.
That's news.
Anybody with half a brain could tell you the money was down a rat hole.
It was never going to be repaid.
It was a boondoggle.
In fact, the only reason for this bailout was not to save the car companies.
It was to save the unions.
It was to save the unions and their health care plans.
And also, it was so Obama Motors could get rid of the big SUVs that he doesn't like you driving.
The Hummers and Hummers now made in China.
The ChiComs are making Hummers, and we're making these little bubble cars and talking about windmills.
It's all about taking control of people's lives.
And it's a great little microcosm for what healthcare will lead to.
Which, can I boil healthcare down for you?
The essence of it.
Life and decisions have consequences.
Here are the two choices.
The two choices are this.
You can let the government run healthcare and deal with the consequences, or you can have the private sector, as it has been doing, provide health care and deal with the consequences.
The choice is yours.
And people are choosing the private sector in overwhelming numbers.
One of the points this advertising guy makes is that maybe it's not the advertising, it's another story, but there's still, it's a good point, whoever made it.
I'll give a credit when I find the story here in the snack of stuff.
It's basically that you can't create a crisis when people are satisfied with what they have.
And the vast majority of Americans are satisfied and like their health care coverage.
They have disagreements now and then with the insurance companies, but they don't, they're not in a frame of mind here where the whole thing is broken, throw it away and put it back together.
And that's what Obama's trying to sell.
And he's just, he's making it worse every time he goes out and talks about it.
And people are worried about this.
The political story, Obama's media skills face pivotal test.
This summer marked the fifth anniversary of the Democrat Party's swoon for Barack Obama.
It also marked the fifth anniversary of the media's swoon for Barack Obama, but they don't mention themselves in the story.
Yes, the fifth anniversary of the Democrat Party swoon for Obama, who thrilled millions of people hearing the young state senator for the first time with words that set his image as a dazzling unifier in an age of mean and divisive politics.
And they quote some of the words from the speech.
And five years later, they say, President Obama is losing his argument over health care.
Far from taming the forces of accusation and personal malice and ideological fervor, Obama and his signature healthcare agenda this summer became their target and at least partly their victim.
What's more, as he prepares to address Congress in a nationally televised speech tonight, one of the main pillars of his reputation, that his gift for healing words would combine with the power of his biography to transcend the rancor of modern politics, has never looked more wobbly.
What a paragraph.
The paragraph happens to be accurate as hell, but what a paragraph.
His gift for healing words would combine with the power of his biography to transcend the rancor of modern politics.
That's what all of these doofuses thought he represented.
And half the people, if not more than half who voted for him, thought that that's what he represented.
And he's not that at all.
He's a hardcore leftist radical with dangerous designs on the future of this country.
At least state-controlled Politico is now aware that Obama has never looked more wobbly because I'll tell you why, Politico, he wasn't built on subsidies, built on you guys.
You guys are the ones who put off this notion that he had this gift for healing words that would combine with the power of his biography to transcend the rancor of modern politics.
Their rancor of modern politics will never be transcended, and people who have studied it know it.
There are always going to be passionate debates about issues.
There are always going to be multiple sides to an issue.
There's no one person that could come along, no earthly person that can come along and erase all of that.
And you guys in the media are the ones that put that gibberish out there.
So they made him.
They furthered all this.
And now they say he's looking wobbly.
Even some Democrat strategerists say Obama and his vaunted political and communication teams should have seen it coming.
The true impact of congressional or party leadership is declining every day compared to the power of blogs and talk radio, said longtime Democrat pollster Paul Maslin.
Yeah, it was surprising to me that Obama and company were caught unaware by this.
They should have been first to realize you can mobilize people and use forms of communication to get people riled up.
Maslin lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
He said he's seen the power of the right wing even in his liberal college town, where there have been conservative Tea Parties to rail against Obama's plans to increase taxes on the wealthy to pay for his expensive agenda.
They're not the majority, but they're vocal, Maslin says, and they've used guerrilla tactics to dominate the debate.
We are the majority, Mr. Maslin.
That is the whole point here.
But this is a Democrat consultant.
This is an amazing statement.
The true impact of congressional or party leadership is declining every day compared to the power of blogs and talk radio.
Note he doesn't say cable TV in here.
Blogs and talk radio.
Surprising that Obama and company were caught unaware?
They're not unaware.
Barack Obama tried to tell a Republican leadership not to listen to me early on in his, within two weeks of being immaculated.
They knew what they were up against.
They just are so filled with elitist arrogance and ego that they thought this magic gift of healing words, combined with the power of his biography, would transcend the rancor of modern politics and render people like me voiceless and powerless.
They knew what they were up against.
They just, in their arrogant condescension, thought, eh, Obama can handle it.
That's why they're lost.
Because the one tool they had has vanished.
The substance of what Obama stands for and believes in and has done is not working and is not pleasing to people.
And once they've lost the mojo here, what is this going to be?
Speech 112 on healthcare?
And he's seeking to reignite the momentum?
And there was a great question.
Jake Tapper said, look, I've looked at the transcript of the speech.
There's nothing new in it.
There's not one thing new in this speech.
Why give the speech?
Gibbs' answer was typical Gibbs.
There's a lot new in here.
I think it's a great.
I'll give you the quote here in just a second.
In this political story, they quote another veteran Democrat's strategerist, Bill Carrick.
He said, Obama faces a big dilemma in determining whether to take on the likes of Glenn Beck, Matt Drudge, and Rush Limbaugh.
To do that, he has to consider, A, does it diminish me?
And B, does it make it harder to create a bipartisan legislative environment?
He's not about bipartisanship, you idiots.
He has not held a meeting on health care or on anything in the Oval Office where Republicans were included since April.
He can't unite his own party.
They're trying to, you know, fluff all this problem off on recalcitrant Republicans, but that's not even a factor.
So the politico guys, whoa, you know, he's got to really worry here.
Does he take on Limbaugh or does he not?
Does he take on Beck?
Does he take on Drudge?
And if he does that, does it diminish him?
So anyway, here's state-controlled politico, really, really worried, and they all ought to be because the single reason Obama's where he is has been exposed as phony and fraudulent.
Here's that audio soundbite, by the way, audio soundbite number one.
This is a California school mishap.
This is last night, Channel 4 Eyeball News at 5, the NBC ONO, anchor Colleen Williams and the correspondent Ted Chin have a conversation about problems at an LA school trying to hear Obama's speech to the students.
And then we put a montage here together of the reporter, Ted Chin, and his report.
Presentation for the news media at a local school was hit with technical difficulties.
Ted Chan is here with more on their issues.
Not everything went as planned.
At Commonwealth Elementary School, there were bigger problems than the flap over the president's speech packed with media.
The TV wasn't working.
So we tried the radio.
And that worked until the president's voice got drowned out by Rush Limbaugh.
It was the only station I could find a signal for.
Deputy Education Secretary Tony Miller then took matters into his own hands and read the rest of the president's speech.
Ironic, Ted, that you could only get Rush Limbaugh on the radio.
Yeah, it was.
We were fiddling around with that radio dial.
We couldn't find a station that was airing the speech except for, I believe it was KFI that airs Rush Limbaugh's program.
So that was interesting.
They could only get me when the TV didn't work.
Shades of Green Bay.
All right, a quick timeout.
We'll come back and continue.
Your phone calls, as always, part of the program.
Sit tight.
Serving humanity simply by showing up Rush Limbaugh talent on loan from God and the only radio show they could get in an elementary school in Los Angeles yesterday when the TV broke down trying to tune in the Barack Obama speech.
Now, Jake Tapper, ABC News asked Robert Gibbs, the best ever press secretary, a really good question.
Jake Tapper said, well, okay, one other question.
And you talked about all the things the president's going to do in the speech.
And with the exception of the last one, how we move forward from here, none of them are new.
He's been making the argument about security and stability for healthcare reform, what it means to people who have insurance, what it means to people who don't have insurance, what's not in the bill.
With the exception of how we move forward, we've heard all this before.
The American people have heard all this before.
Gibbs said, no, I don't, I don't, I don't know that.
I don't know that they've heard it in as big a forum, clearly directly from the president as they will tomorrow night.
So here we have the guy who, since the end of January, has made 112 speeches and remarks and counting, the man who is the greatest communicator in the world, the man who has this remarkable talent to end rancor with his gift for healing words and the power of his biography to transcend the rancor of modern politics.
The very same guy is finally going to give a speech that will finally and for real, truly, not kidding this time, explain everything to us about healthcare reform.
Really, truly, this is it.
After 112 and counting, tonight's speech is the speech.
This time, you'll understand it, said Gibbs.
We really, really know that you'll understand it.
Tapper says, nothing new in this.
There was some talk that Obama would come out in a speech tonight and mention a possible inclusion of tort reform.
That's not going to happen.
He's going to plug the public option.
He's going to go along with Pelosi on this.
He's going to plug the public option.
And it's, unless they've got a fake release of the text of the speech that Jake Tapper and a lot of people have seen, in which there's nothing new in it,
they're still relying on the power of Obama's personality, his marvelous biography, his communication skills combined with the power of his biography to end the rancor in modern politics.
And yet he hasn't met with Republican leaders on healthcare since April.
And they talk about needing a bipartisan bill.
There's no need.
Oh, and Ben Nelson today was on Fox Snooze around 11 o'clock.
Said, they can't count on me.
He's Democrat in Nebraska.
They can't count on me for 60th vote.
I put my country and state ahead of my party.
And I don't like this public option business.
What we need to be doing is reforming some things in the private sector.
Private sector's working.
Now, this is a pretty damning statement.
Oh, and the press is also putting out misrepresentations about the viewpoint of Olympia Snowins.
Apparently, she's not all caught up in the public options.
So it's a very fluid situation, but it is a wobbly time for President Obama, and it's going to get even worse, I predict, because his poll numbers go down the more he is on television.
There's a story today in the Politico, a new bio, new biography of Barney Frank has lots of interesting little revelations, but none of the revelations is quite so jarring as the image of a young Barney Frank stripping down and covering his upper body with shaving cream.
My question is this.
Are they sure it was shaving cream he covered his upper body with?
He was a Harvard graduate student, a popular resident tutor in Winthrop House, an undergraduate residence around Christmas.
Barney Frank dressed for a skit in which he covered himself from the waist up in shaving cream.
How do they know it was shaving cream?
Here's that story that I quoted earlier or mentioned earlier from theamericanthinker.com by Sammy Benoit.
Having spent much of the past 30 years of my life in the advertising industry, the flaws of Obama's healthcare message are apparent and massive.
Most people outside the ad business will tell you that commercials try to beat you over the head to make you buy what you don't need, don't want.
In truth, advertising that doesn't address the public's needs or wants doesn't work.
On top of that, if a consumer keeps being exposed to a message that does not meet a need, they begin to tune it out quickly.
It's called wear out.
Finally, if the message keeps changing, consumers get suspicious of the product.
Sound familiar?
Well, that's because almost since his inauguration, Obama has been beating us over the head with a health care message that does not address the needs or wants of the majority of American voters.
His health care efforts are designed to make sure everybody has health care.
Pre-existing conditions are covered, and there's a public option to ensure greater competition to keep prices low.
But voters don't have a perceived need for the president's health care plan.
Polls show that between 85 and 90% of voters are satisfied with their coverage.
Covering everybody's a noble effort, but voters are feeling the effects of a deep recession.
They're worried about the federal deficit, just like a commercial for a new Mercedes.
Most say universal coverage is something nice to have, but maybe another time.
This pre-existing condition, can I give you an illustration here of why pre-existing condition coverage in health insurance is that's not, you know, that it would, it's silly.
You're going to pay out the wazoo for pre-existing coverage.
Let's say you do not have fire insurance in your home.
And all of a sudden your house starts burning.
And instead of calling the fire department, you call an insurance company.
Say, hey, I need to buy a policy, homeowner policy that protects me against fire.
Oh, okay.
Well, we'll go.
No, no, no.
I need it right now.
My house is burning down.
You think the insurance company would sell you an insurance policy in the middle of a fire destroying your house?
It's the same thing as when you have a pre-existing medical condition and you want to be insured for it.
You're going to pay out the wazoo for it, folks.
And Obama promising that you're going to be insured for pre-existing conditions is BS.
It isn't going to, or it's going to break the bank making it happen.
It's just, it's ridiculous.
If you really want to save money, two things you can do, toward reform and make health insurance portable from state to state so that you can buy a policy from California if you like it.
A California, right now you can't.
I mean, that would lower costs like so many things we could do here in the private sector.
And if you just want to ensure the uninsured about 12 million people, we talked about that a couple times, most recently yesterday.
America is still a center-right country believing in free enterprise.
The president has not explained to voters what a public option will do to satisfy their needs.
Obama has also not laid out how the public option, his new and improved health insurance, will provide a tangible consumer benefit.
They see a government that can't manage costs and budgets on existing health care plans.
The president's message has not explained how his product is better than what people already have.
And see, it's not about that.
This guy, Sammy Benoit, is exactly right.
Obama can't explain that because it isn't better.
It's not designed to be better.
It's not about health care.
It's about control of people's lives.
It's about the growth and expansion of government.
It's about the usurpation of individual liberty.
Pundits have commented that almost every time Obama goes on TV, voter support for Obamacare slips in advertising.
We call it wear out.
Before it was purchased by Nestle, I worked on the Carnation Pet Food account.
The agency I worked for developed a great commercial for Mighty Dog, a canned dog food product.
The TV spot featured a great testimonial, a dog barking with subtitles.
It was the kind of commercial that broke through the clutter of other ads to generate a lot of attention.
Within a few weeks of the commercial airing, it stopped being effective because the commercial received so much attention, people began to tune it out very quickly.
I can give you an example of this.
Have you noticed it's football season now, and have you noticed all the nothing against Coors here?
I mean, I love private sector companies.
But these Coors Light commercials with these ex-football coaches in the post-game press conference, taking questions from these goons about Coors Light, they're so stupid, they're memorable.
But they wear me out.
I'm just so stupid by design.
The whole concept is, but the coach's answers have nothing to do with the questions being asked.
They're just stupid.
They're supposed to be.
I mean, I like I'm talking about it, but I'll tell you, it wears me out.
Well, the same thing here.
President Obama has overused the bully pulpit of the presidency because every time he makes another speech or has another press conference, he receives a high level of intention, just like the barking dog in the Mighty Dog commercial.
It's losing its effectiveness and people are tuning out.
And by the way, each of his primetime press conference ratings have gone down with each successive one.
It'll be interesting to see the ratings tonight.
Sometimes it seems that the POTUS changes his health care message more often than people change their underwear.
It was healthcare reform, then it was insurance reform, then it was healthcare reform again, then it was insurance reform.
The president's even changed the villains.
First, it was the Republicans, then it was talk radio, then Fox News, then the CBO.
There was one period where the president dropped all the villains and tried to convince rabbis, priests, and ministers to deliver sermons on Obamacare because it's a moral thing to do.
Originally, the famous public option just had to be in the plan, and now, well, maybe it does and maybe it doesn't.
While it's sometimes necessary to refine or change product attributes and messages after the launch of an existing product, changing advertising messages for product during its introduction creates confusion and suspicion.
It should be done with great care.
It seems as if Obama's original message wasn't well thought out, and they keep changing it on the fly.
And this is why there's so much confusion about Obamacare.
There have been so many messages because he can't, he doesn't have a plan.
This is the thing that I have continually observed.
He doesn't have a plan.
He can't point to page 44, say no.
See, right here, it says there aren't any death panels.
He can't do that.
The only bill out there that anybody can read, check up on is the house monstrosity.
Shortly after it was introduced, well, when I worked in the same pet food account, we were about to introduce a new dried dog food called New Breed.
And this is going to be the big star of Carnation, New Breed, the best-tasting dog food.
The product was tested against all major competition.
Dogs preferred New Breed's taste.
It had the biggest ad budget by far of anything in the Carnation stable of products.
Shortly after it was introduced, our claim was challenged by a small regional dog food brand, so we had to change the message to New Breed, the best-tasting national dog food.
Now, that lasted about a week when we got a challenge from a small but national canned food dog product.
The commercial was changed to New Breed, the best-tasting national dog food in a bag.
One month later, Purina launches its high-pro dry dog food, which also tasted better.
Rather than change the message to new breed, dogs think it tastes pretty good sometimes, a totally new campaign was developed and the product was off the market six months after that.
Consumer-centric advertising, crafting your message, addressing the needs and wants of the end user, and doing it in a way that does not turn off consumers is important to make your message work.
In the end, it's the hubris of the POTUS, creating an ever-changing, confusing message that does not address the needs of the voters, along with overusing the power of the presidency as a messenger, combining to keep the public from truly listening to his pitch.
I think they are listening.
I don't think they like what they're hearing at all.
He's just relying on that old magic, the cult of personality that he, and that's what they're going to be relying on tonight, too.
The great gift.
Harry, he said to Dingy Harry once, Harry, I just have a gift.
Well, the gift has vanished.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue after this.
ABC News says that I jumped on the screw speech program on September 2nd.
I wasn't on the air September 2nd.
Even when I'm not on the air, even when I am on vacation, I move the debate.
By September 2nd, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are all over it.
So he goes out and tells these kids, got to take personal responsibility.
He never even does that in his own life.
By September 3rd, school districts all over the country are coming under pressure not to show the speech to students.
The conservative echo chamber is not new, but this White House is operating in a vastly accelerated media environment where you no longer need to be in the presence of reporters to make news.
The damage was done.
The White House was again thrown off message.
Given their success, you probably shouldn't expect the right to relent anytime soon.
In fact, today, Rush Limbaugh urged his listeners to keep at it.
What happened in August is going to be required behavior of all of us for the remainder of this guy's first term.
Oh, man, it's the ABC out there blaming me for the furor over the school speech.
Howard Feynman last night on MSNBC, how foolish was asked this question.
How foolish does this look now that the speech has been delivered?
This Florida GOP chairman who pushed the idea, oh, this is a second speech.
When confronted, what's your evidence there was another speech earlier says, I don't know.
The White House sources I have insist that the speech was not changed.
There's an undertone of fear here among certain parts of the country to object to the idea that the president is calling on kids to work hard in school and be proud of themselves and do the right thing is crazy.
And for Rush Limbaugh to say that it's somehow unpatriotic to say that it's patriotic to stay in school doesn't make sense, especially when back in the Bush administration, they accused everybody of unpatriotic activity if they so much as dared to question the president's conduct of the war, for example.
Howard, you know, this is, I never, who said unpatriotic?
I never uttered the word unpatriotic about this speech.
What I said was he didn't believe a word of it, that he would not give that speech to the American people at large, that he does not practice individual responsibility or encourage it in any of his agenda items.
Crying out loud, Howard, where are you getting your template-filled information here?
You just listened to yesterday's show, you would know that I said Obama purposely gave a mainstream conservative and insincere speech because I don't think he meant a word of it.
If he did, then let's see it.
Let's see everything he told those kids enacted in parts of his agenda.
But they're not.
People aren't competent enough to take care of their own health care.
They're competent enough to buy the right car.
They're not competent enough to use energy properly.
They're not competent enough to buy the right light bulb.
So he goes out and tells his kids personal responsibility.
It doesn't fit, Howard.
But nobody called it unpatriotic.
I called it conservative, down the line conservative.
In fact, Obama's the only guy could have given a speech like this mentioning God twice in a public school.
If a Republican tried that, there'd be a protest today.
To the phones, we start in South Holland, Michigan.
Tom, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
South Holland, Illinois, Rush.
How are you doing?
I'm sorry.
Yeah, welcome to the program, sir.
Rush, listen, for years I've been listening to you, the local broadcasters, and I've been on a few local stations, but I want your listeners to know, attended my first tea party put on by the Tea Party Express that came through here into New Lennox last Saturday.
Yeah.
It was an experience I'll never forget.
It was great entertainers trying to rally patriotism, accountability.
The only time that they ever got a little bit upset was when you mentioned Pelosi, Reed, and the fact that they're trying to take over the country with this health care program.
It was nothing but a bunch of grassroots people walking back and forth all day long with them, talking to them.
They had every veteran from the Iraq War, the Gulf War, the Vietnam War, Korean War, and World War II stand up and be acknowledged for their service and applauded.
They waved flags.
They sang patriotic songs.
Rush, I walked away there feeling more American than I've ever felt in my life.
I turn on the news the next day or that night on ABC, and you got the most distorted view I've ever seen in my life.
The helicopter flying overhead completely diminished the size of the crowd with its views.
Let me ask you a question here, Tom.
Was this a local ABC newscast or was it the ABC narrative?
ABC Channel 7 coming out of Chicago.
Well, okay, ABC is ABC.
ABC is ABC, and I'm telling you, I was so mad at the way they represent.
They called us an angry crowd.
Rush, I'm telling you the truth.
There was not an angry crowd unless you mentioned the healthcare program.
All the people there, and if you want to talk about the fact that they think that they're organized, nobody ever, and I walked that place stem to stern about three or four times, nobody ever approached you, said there was going to be an organizational thing.
Nobody ever even mentioned that you should do one thing or the other.
But when we were doing the Pledge of Allegiance, and it was a completely extemporaneous thing when it came to under God, everybody just in unison brought up the volume about three or four times.
And like I said, it's just, it was the most awful.
I can see what our ancestors did.
They're scared.
Pardon?
The media are scared.
The media.
The media are scared.
Everybody knows that they are carrying Obama's water.
But as I said yesterday, another factor that explains media behavior is they genuinely do hate the people.
Not personally, because they don't know the people.
They hate the people that were at your tea party.
They hate what they stand for.
They don't want those people to win.
And you people are winning.
Obama's losing.
In every poll on health care, he's losing.
And that makes them as mad as anything does because they think they should have the power to shape public opinion like they used to.
And they get furious when every effort they make to shape public opinion doesn't work.
It makes them furious.
And so you add that to the template and the stereotypes that they already have of conservatives and people like this who show up.
And it's not surprising at all that you would see the report that you saw.
Because they're just mad.
And they're scared.
Quick time out.
Don't go away.
Back on August 15th at a town hall on healthcare, Grand Junction, Colorado, President Obama said no one in America should go broke because they get sick.
Well, let me ask, would the president agree with this?
No one should die from rationed medical care because America is broke.
And that's the greater consequence that we face.
No one should die from rationed medical care because America is broke.
Would you borrow money from somebody who's bankrupt?
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