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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Yeah, Brad, come here, take a look at this.
	I mean, it's all pastels in blue and green or whatever.
	You know what, folks?
	CNN needs to leave the reporting to us professionals.
	I am America's real anchor man, Rush Limbaugh, and it's Friday.
	Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
	It's Open Line Friday.
	And we are here at 800-282-2882.
	If you want to call the email address, lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
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	And whenever you want to talk about okay, Monday through Thursday, it's not okay.
	You have to talk about what I care about.
	But on Friday, I throw that all to the wind and I engage in the largest career risk taken by anybody in major media.
	Turning over the content portion of the program to you, rank amateurs.
	Lovable, adorable rank amateurs, but amateurs nevertheless.
	Again, the telephone number 800-282-2882.
	President Obama was in New York earlier this week to memorialize Walter Cronkite.
	But just a few days later, President Obama did not come to New York to memorialize what happened at the Twin Towers eight years ago today.
	Nor did he send Biden to New York to memorialize Cronkite, but he did send Biden to memorialize 9-11, but he himself did not.
	Now, there's a lot to get to today, and I'm going to get to the Acorn stuff.
	Those two people allegedly fired.
	CNN says, allegedly, allegedly engaged in alleged illegal acts.
	They've been fired.
	I want to see proof of this.
	CNN also caused a national panic today to the two or three people watching their network claiming that there was a terrorist incident near the Pentagon when Obama was there when it was just a Coast Guard exercise.
	It's an absolute joke.
	That's why I say CNN needs to leave the reporting to us professionals.
	Like me, I am America's real anchor man.
	They're just a bunch of doofuses.
	But I do want to start with my own remembrance of 9-11, eight years ago today.
	I often think of Todd Beamer when I think of 9-11.
	Todd Beamer, his impromptu band of brothers, they were on Flight 93 eight years ago today.
	Small group of private citizens, remarkable patriots, American heroes, didn't wait for a government official to tell them what to do.
	They were every bit as heroic and necessary for the survival of America as any of our military fighting forces have been through the years, and that's not to diminish anybody, but to elevate both groups of people.
	Todd Beamer and his band of brothers on Flight 93 loved their country.
	They fought bravely for it.
	They saw evil.
	They fearlessly dealt with it.
	On that day, without notice or training, they gave the full measure of devotion.
	Now, the manner in which President Obama has chosen to commemorate 9-11, the day the country was attacked, and our first retaliation was launched from onboard Flight 93, is an outrage.
	It is an insult to the memory of innocent Americans who were attacked and who died eight years ago today.
	The manner in which Obama has chosen to commemorate 9-11 is an insult to the citizen warriors aboard Flight 93.
	When brave Americans sacrifice their lives so the rest of us can live and live free, I think of the Gettysburg Address.
	I think of the history of the Gettysburg Address, what went into Abraham Lincoln writing it and how, at the time, underappreciated it was, and how he was a little insecure about it himself after he had written it.
	Before I go further, I want you to hear how President Obama is commemorating 9-11.
	This could be the most outrageous moment yet of the Obama presidency, twisting 9-11 into a nationalist day of service to the state.
	On this first National Day of Service and remembrance, we can summon once more that ordinary goodness of America to serve our communities, to strengthen our country, and to better our world.
	Let us renew our common purpose.
	Let us remember how we came together as one nation, as one people, as Americans, united not only in our grief, but in our resolve to stand with one another, to stand up for the country we all love.
	This is an outrage to take this day and twist it into a nationalist day of service to the state and to our communities is insulting.
	It's insensitive.
	It is beyond the pale, but it's typical of who Obama is.
	This happened this morning in Arlington at the Pentagon, the 9-11 Memorial Service.
	Here's another portion of his remarks.
	This may be the greatest lesson of this day, the strongest rebuke to those who attacked us, the highest tribute to those taken from us.
	But such sense of purpose need not be a fleeting moment.
	It can be a lasting virtue.
	For through their own lives and through you, the loved ones that they left behind, the men and women who lost their lives eight years ago today leave a legacy that still shines brightly in the darkness.
	And it calls on all of us to be strong and firm and united.
	That is our calling today and in all the Septembers still to come.
	Remember how he started these remarks.
	On this first National Day of Service and Remembrance, we can summon once more that ordinary goodness of America to serve our communities, to strengthen our country and to better our world.
	A National Day of Service.
	When brave Americans sacrifice their lives so the rest of us can live and live free, I don't think of a National Day of Service to the state.
	And I don't care about empathizing with the enemy, which Obama asked us to do when he was in Illinois.
	It's a little-known set of remarks.
	It was just Illinois State Senator in 2001, but he issued a statement that I have here somewhere in the stack that we need to empathize.
	We need to understand why these people are doing what they're doing, meaning our enemy.
	Well, when I come across my memories of 9-11, I think of the Gettysburg Address.
	It's one of the few times that words matter far more than a contrived day of community service.
	The president's call for community service demeans what happened on 9-11.
	It is a distraction from what was and is important.
	So I want to do two things to try to distract from the insulting, demeaning remarks of the President of the United States today calling on us to all serve our state and our community.
	I'm going to read you the Gettysburg Address, and then I'm going to read you Todd Beamer's story.
	And then I'm going to play soundbite number seven again.
	Here's the Gettysburg Addresses.
	Very short.
	Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
	Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
	We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
	We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
	It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
	But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate.
	We cannot consecrate.
	We cannot hallow this ground.
	The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far more above our power to add or detract.
	The world is little note, nor long remember what we say here.
	But it can never forget what they did here.
	It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
	It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead, we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
	That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from this earth.
	Lincoln thought his words would never ever be remembered.
	He wanted the dead and their sacrifice to be remembered.
	That's November 1863, the Gettysburg Address.
	Here's the Todd Beamer story from UnitedHeroes.com.
	Todd Beamer, who resided in Cranberry, New Jersey, was an account manager for the Oracle Corporation.
	He died at age 32 in the September 11, 2001 attacks on board United Airlines Flight 93.
	He is survived by his wife, Lisa Beamer, two sons, David and Drew, and a daughter, Morgan Kay, who was born on January 9th, 2002, nearly four months after her father's death.
	Todd and other passengers had been in communication with people via in-plane and cell phones and learned the World Trade Center had been attacked using hijacked airplanes.
	Beamer tried to place a credit card call through a phone located on the back of a seat, but was rooted to a customer service representative instead who passed him on to supervisor Lisa Jefferson.
	Beamer reported that one passenger was killed and later that a flight attendant had told him the pilot and co-pilot had been forced from the cockpit and may have been wounded.
	He was also on the phone when the plane made its turn in a southeasterly direction, a move that had him briefly in shock.
	Later, he told the operator, quote, a few of us are going to jump the guy with the bomb, end quotes.
	According to Lisa Jefferson, Beamer's last audible words were, are you ready, guys?
	Let's roll.
	They burst into the cockpit.
	They fought with the terrorists over the controls for the airplane, and it went down in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, depriving the terrorists of hitting the third target on September 11th.
	Abraham Lincoln, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground, the battlefield at Gettysburg.
	You can say the same thing about World Trade Center, which remains a shovel-ready project eight years later in New York.
	The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
	world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
	This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
	Abraham Lincoln, 1863, here's Barack Obama this morning.
	On this first National Day of Service and remembrance, we can summon once more that ordinary goodness of America to serve our communities, to strengthen our country, and to better our world.
	Let us renew our common purpose.
	Let us remember how we came together as one nation, as one people, as Americans, united not only in our grief, but in our resolve to stand with one another, to stand up for the country we all love.
	Yeah, for about two weeks.
	For about two weeks, you stood together, and then the Democrat Party decided it was time to go strategic politics and dump all over George W. Bush for not doing anything, for not responding soon enough.
	The same night the Democrat Party decided to disband from its unified stance with America.
	Bush launched the attack on Tora Bora in Afghanistan, which should have made fools of the Democrat Party.
	Instead, a year later, we got the Wellstone Memorial.
	We got the Bush lied and people died.
	We had the Democrat Party ensuring victory and taking it into defeat, doing everything they could to demoralize the United States military and its mission in Iraq and Afghanistan, doing everything they could except defund it, doing everything they could to achieve defeat for their own country.
	The unity lasted two weeks.
	And they today tell us that the hatred and vitriol resides now in the voice of a lawyer congressman from South Carolina, Joe Wilson, who simply could not stand being lied to by the President of the United States.
	In a fraudulent, demeaning, disgusting address, he has now compounded the fraud, the disgust, and the indignity of his remarks on Wednesday night with the proclamation on the 8th anniversary of 9-11 that this is the first National Day of Service to the state.
	I'm simply appalled.
	We'll be back.
	The mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, is certainly no Rudy Giuliani.
	He has followed Obama's orders issued earlier this morning.
	President Obama has designated 9-11 as an annually recognized National Day of Service and Remembrance.
	And appropriately, the city of New York has been the first to take up that call.
	From this day forward, we will safeguard the memories of those who died by rekindling the spirit of service that lit our city with hope and helped keep us strong.
	So what is this?
	What is this spirit of service that needs to be reached?
	What are we going to go pick up the trash?
	Recycle cans, rake leaves, collect returnable bottles?
	What are we going to do?
	Plant a flower?
	Why don't you rebuild the World Trade Center for crying out like, you had a shovel-ready project there for eight years, and it's all tied up.
	You still got a hole in the ground with a crane.
	Rekindling of this, the spirit of service that lit the city with hope?
	Sorry, folks.
	This simply doesn't pass muster with me.
	That's not what 9-11 is about.
	We didn't have a breakdown in community spirit on 9-11.
	We were attacked by enemies.
	That was not a crime.
	And the president's out there saying, these heinous crimes, the perpetrators must be brought to.
	There were no crimes.
	9-11 was an act of war.
	Uh, I, I, uh, what in the world?
	The spirit of service that lit our city with hope?
	From this day forward, we're going to safeguard.
	What have you been doing the last eight years, Mr. Mayor?
	From this day forward, we're going to safeguard the memories of those who died by rekindling the spirit of service?
	Is that what Lincoln said at Gettysburg?
	We're going to keep the spirit of those who died by rekindling our spirit of service?
	There's a disconnect in this country like I haven't seen my whole life.
	This is, it may not even be just two countries anymore.
	It may be two or three different countries.
	Finding a common American culture today is a difficult thing to do.
	We are so multicultured and fractured here.
	And none of the cultures seem to understand one another.
	This spirit of service?
	National Day of Service?
	We can summon once more that ordinary goodness of America to serve our communities?
	You mean to tell me that we were attacked on 9-11 because we weren't serving our communities well enough?
	We didn't have the spirit of community service flowing through our veins and arteries sufficiently enough to ward off the attacks?
	And to prevent further attacks, we need to rekindle this spirit of service.
	Community service?
	What?
	We all have to become Acorn people now?
	We all have to start advising people how to set up brothels for underage prostitutes and teach them how to avoid paying taxes?
	That's what Obama's community service organization's doing.
	And by the way, the same two people who ran that scam in Baltimore have done the same thing in Washington, and the same thing happened.
	They got the identical set of advice from the people at Acorn.
	Yeah, here's how you can get illegals into the country.
	Here's how underage women can be turned into prostitutes.
	Here's how you can avoid paying taxes.
	This Acorn has the name community service in its name.
	Community organizers in its name for reform now.
	I want to know.
	I want somebody to tell me.
	I want somebody out there who thinks Obama made a great speech today.
	I want you to tell me, and Bloomberg echoing it.
	I want you to call me today, and I want you to tell me how it is that our fractured sense of community service led to the crimes committed against us in New York and Washington and in Pennsylvania on 9-11.
	And I want to know from you how it is that rekindling this spirit of community service, whatever the hell that means, is going to prevent the next attack on this country.
	Somebody, please.
	Welcome back.
	It's El Rushbo here on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
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	I should have mentioned this at the top of the program.
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	I, as host and proprietor, somehow was able to get in, but nobody else was.
	And the DittoCam, I've been told now everything's up and running.
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	Also, we've discovered another problem and we're working on a fix for it.
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	Of course, if you're not listening on the radio, you don't hear me say this.
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	Now, I mentioned in the opening remarks here that Obama wanted to return on this day of service to the unity that we all had after 9-11,
	which lasted for two weeks until the Democrats decided to turn the whole thing into a political event and did so for the next— and they're still doing it regarding the military, regarding the—I mean, how do you do—how in the world do you do a 9-11 memorial service at the Pentagon and not talk about the U.S. military for crying out loud?
	How in the world do you do that?
	You're president of the United States and you declare it a community service day to make sure that days like this don't ever happen again.
	ThePolitico.com today, they've got a story, and it's an absolute, it's an embarrassing story about the lack of civility in the Republican Party these days because of Joe Wilson.
	And their point in this story is the Republican Party is a total bunch of kooks now.
	Just a total bunch of cranks.
	And what's Joe Wilson supposed to do?
	He's sitting there being lied to.
	Every sentence out of the president's mouth is a lie.
	And what's he supposed to do?
	We also have learned from no less than Dana Milbank at the Washington Post that there were some Democrats sitting on the Republican side of the aisle the night of Obama's address, and they were taunting Republicans.
	They were giving Obama the fascist fist salute, one of them was, according to Milbank, and laughing and taunting the Republicans there on their side of the aisle.
	So there's a lot going on that hasn't until now been reported.
	But Roger Pylin, who's the vice president for legal affairs at the Cato Institute, has a great response to this silly politico story today.
	And it's this.
	On the eighth anniversary of 9-11, the most brutal single attack on the nation in our history, we are debating whether the Republican Party has a civility problem.
	This because one Republican congressman said, you lie when the president spoke about a provision he himself had just removed from the bill Congress had last seen?
	Have we failed to notice that the president himself had just called the words of prominent politicians a lie, plain and simple?
	Have we failed to notice that his entire something-for-nothing scheme simply doesn't add up financially, which makes it one grand lie?
	Have we forgotten that Senator Harry Reid said President Bush is a liar and never apologized for it?
	Have we forgotten the vicious, unrelenting Democrat attacks on Bush throughout his presidency or on Sarah Palin, extending even to her family and her children?
	Or the gratuitous attacks on Republican judicial nominees starting with Robert Bork and running through Sam Alito to a point at which Mrs. Alito had to leave the hearing room in tears?
	Have we lost all perspective?
	Or is the question before us and this debate just one more example of politics as usual here in Washington?
	And the Politico says, well, yeah, you got a civility problem on the Republican side.
	There are two countries.
	There may be three.
	It's just astounding.
	There's no recognition at all of the kook extremism found on the left by people in that media.
	In the meantime, CNN just looks silly today.
	They need to turn over reporting to professional journalists like me, America's real anchorman, CNN.
	U.S. Coast Guard tried Friday to prevent a boat from entering a security zone on the Potomac River, not far from the Pentagon, where the one was at an event commemorating the 9-11 attacks.
	There were reports on police scanners that the Coast Guard fired 10 rounds of ammo, but those reports couldn't be confirmed.
	Let's go to the soundbites.
	And I want to ask Tom Friedman and Tom Broca, who were on Meet the Press this past Sunday, saying, the internet's a sewer.
	And there's no filter out there.
	And you've got to, you've got to, you just, you can't believe anything you read or hear unless you hear it from us, the professional journalists, in the mold of Walter Klondike.
	So here's Heidi Collins in our first series of sound bites illustrating CNN erroneously reporting shots fired on the Potomac near Obama.
	The Coast Guard has apparently fired some type of shots.
	We quite frankly do not know if those were warning shots.
	Ten rounds were fired on a boat that came into this restricted space that is very well known in the area of the Potomac that you are looking at right now.
	Now, CNN next up play the tape.
	Audio of the Coast Guard apparently speaking to a suspicious boat.
	The Coast Guard speaker is heard saying, slow down or you will be fired on.
	All right.
	Once again, that's some of the communications that we heard the Coast Guard.
	To me, Fran, if you were able to hear that, and if you are still with us, it sounded to me like that was actually the communication with the suspicious boat.
	Now we go back to Heidi Collins here.
	Major concern, we have a montage here.
	Major concern during the exercise was the president's safety.
	It turns out the whole thing was a training exercise.
	Now, remember, President Bush was criticized for taking evasive actions during the actual 9-11.
	Obama got the hell out of there when this exercise started.
	But here's the montage of CNN concerned and fretting over Obama's safety during the training exercise.
	What happens to the president during something like this?
	Does the motorcade go this way to get him back to the White House?
	We are learning, too, just to make sure that we're as accurate as we could possibly be in the middle of all of this.
	The president is back at the White House.
	So would this be a normal route?
	Or, I mean, I guess there is no normal route because you always have to change it up.
	Nobody wants to know exactly where he is at all times.
	He is at the White House.
	He is secure in that building.
	It is interesting to talk about these routes.
	Obviously, constantly changing so that there is no pattern for which mode of travel the president would be taking.
	No, not mode, route.
	Anyway, they then later on learned that it was all a training exercise.
	And there were no shots fired.
	As part of the training exercise, the guy on the radio talking to this so-called suspicious boat shouts bang, bang, bang.
	And somebody at CNN hears that bang, bang, bang, ooh, shots have been fired.
	So on CNN's newsroom later on, after all this had been cleared up and understood, Heidi Collins spoke with the former Bush Homeland Security Advisor Fran Townsend about a Coast Guard safety training exercise on the Potomac River.
	Will they run a training exercise on 9-11?
	Why would they do that?
	As I once said about the buzz over in Lower Manhattan, it would be felony stupidity if they decided to run a training exercise on September the 11th at the same time that the president was at the Pentagon.
	It is inconceivable that any person in the government would have approved a training exercise on this day.
	The government has made these sorts of mistakes in the past, as we've seen.
	It really would be a tragic, horrible mistake for which people should be held accountable, by the way, if there is a training exercise like this in this area on this day.
	I'm sorry, but to me, this all ends up back on the desk of Barack Obama.
	I guarantee you, folks, Air Force One does not take off without him knowing it's going.
	It's his airplane.
	Moving Air Force One is an official decision.
	Nobody takes it out for a joyride.
	And they flew that thing over lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty, and they had people scared to death because it was at an altitude people couldn't tell it was Air Force One.
	There was no pre-announcement that it was Air Force One.
	It just looked like a jumbo jet doing a flyover.
	Turns out we still don't know who was on that airplane and why.
	They told us they were out getting new pictures of Air Force One next to the statue.
	I have heard, I can't confirm it, that a bunch of campaign contributors were on that flight, that it was just a little bit of a payback, but who knows?
	So I guarantee you, Obama knew that was going to happen.
	There's no way, and they fired some little schlub in the military office for that, but there's no way that he is, because he's got to be told, look, you can't make a sudden decision to go anywhere because this plane's going to be up there taking pictures over the Statue of Liberty.
	He has to know.
	So they have a training exercise here on 9-11 when he's at the Pentagon, the training exercise with the Coast Guard on the Potomac.
	Look, it's the Keystone Cops up there.
	It's the same bunch of people.
	It was just a community service exercise.
	That's all the Coast Guard was doing, exercising community service, renewing our service and our commitment to service and to keep our community strong, so forth.
	Now, let's go back and listen to Tom Brokaw and Tom Friedman from Sunday on Meet the Press on the new media sewer of misinformation.
	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 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.
	Yeah, well, what would you say about CNN today, Tom, my boy?
	What would you CNN just going nuts here, reporting something that wasn't true?
	Is CNN a sewer?
	Let's listen to Tom Friedman.
	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.
	That you have 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.
	As if that solves the bar bed, you know, and I'm afraid not.
	Yeah, it's a sewer.
	I'll tell you what.
	I have a joke I play on people.
	I'll tell people a false story, make up something.
	Where'd you hear that?
	NBC.
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	Open Line Friday.
	We're going to start on the phone, San Diego, with Mark.
	Thank you, sir, for calling.
	Nice to have you here with us.
	Thanks, Rush.
	I'm wondering what you and your establishment friends are going to do now that over one-third of Americans from both political parties believe that the attacks of 9-11 were an inside job and your propaganda and your gatekeeping is not having the effect that you and your puppet masters thought it would.
	Well, you know something, Mark?
	What that tells me is that we are losing one-third of the country to a bunch of insane lunatics.
	That 9-11 was an inside job.
	I saw an interview, Mark, with Charlie Sheen.
	Charlie Sheen got 20 minutes with Barack Obama.
	I read the transcript.
	And Charlie Sheen said, Hey, presidents of president, don't you realize 9-11 was an inside job?
	And Obama didn't want to go there.
	If you can't get the leader of your kooks to go along with what you kooks believe, then I would say that you've got a kook cause.
	9-11, an inside job.
	I fear for the country because of such insanity.
	And I've talked about the fact that we're two or three countries today.
	And I have no illusion that I have any ability to reach the insane.
	I have no ability that I have any sway over lunatics.
	And frankly, I don't even try.
	What I'm trying to do is make sure that the number of lunatics, the numbers of the genuinely politically insane, remain as small as one-third, so that you will forever remain the stupid idiot minority that you are.
	You know something, folks?
	If George Bush were president today, let's say it's 2007, and it's the sixth anniversary of 9-11.
	And if George Bush were president, remember now the Iraq war is still going on coming up on the surge, and this training exercise had happened.
	Do you think, and Bush was, let's say, everything's the same, except Bush is president.
	He's at the Pentagon.
	He's doing a memorial at the Pentagon.
	And the Coast Guard runs this training exercise.
	Do you know what the drive-bys would report?
	That Bush faked and staged and purposely did this exercise to scare everybody to death to realize we have real problems and everybody's trying to support Iraq.
	They would say that Bush was behind it.
	Your lunatic friends, Mark, your kook insaniacs, that would be your take on it.
	What do we get today?
	Oh, no.
	Oh, no.
	CNN.
	Oh, no.
	The infomation city is Obama's safe.
	It's Obama's name.
	Led them to the most embarrassing hour or two of reporting probably this week for CNN.
	I mean, you have to categorize CNN's embarrassments by the week, not even by the month or by the year.
	Joe in Nanuit, New York.
	Open line Friday.
	You're next.
	Hello, sir.
	Yeah.
	Hi, Rush.
	You are a juggernaut.
	An unstoppable 1,000-ton freight train, but sometimes you get off the track.
	My question is this to you.
	Before I ask my question, I have a request.
	Can I?
	You may have a request, yes.
	It's Openline Friday.
	We extend all kinds of courtesies.
	But we've got a minute, Max, so go get to it.
	Okay, I have a meeting coming up with President Obama because my wife is a physician and she has good ideas about healthcare reform.
	Is it okay for now to call a truce?
	Can you meet President Obama if I make that request in the White House?
	Well, I've already had, I've had, let's see, I've had somebody who knows Joe Axel, David Axelrod, ask me if I would meet with President Obama.
	And I said, sure.
	I mean, it'll never happen, but I'll be glad to meet with President Obama.
	Great.
	I'll congratulate you.
	But Obama's going to be listening to your wife on healthcare ideas?
	Good grief.
	What just happened?
	Ladies and gentlemen, just so you know, the first two callers to this program have lied, totally lied, to a call screener today about that which they wish to speak to me.
	They have lied through their teeth, both of them have, in order to get on this program.
	And the call screener said, hey, is there a trend out there you want me to?
	No, I said, let them in, let them in.
	I can handle them.
	I'm the host.
	They can't trick me.
	But it just tells me they're worried out there, folks.
	Maybe of a mounted campaign here of seminar callers.

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