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Sept. 22, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 22, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #3
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And we're back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, this, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
We are in Los Angeles, but uh as long as I'm here, it doesn't really matter where here is.
Looking forward to talking to you the fastest three hours in the media.
I can't believe we're already into the third hour here.
I mean, it's just it's it's going by lickety split.
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Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harry gave Republicans his most direct warning to date that he is prepared to use a procedural maneuver to pass health care reform with a simple majority.
This is the old reconciliation route.
And he's going to, if if if if Republicans don't come on board and join him on this and get him to 60 votes, they're going to say, hell with you Republicans, we're going to go reconciliation, do it.
The Republicans need get nowhere near any of this.
As we've been saying for months, the Republic let the Democrats own this.
The American people don't want it.
And like I said, Harry Reid, Obama, Pelosi, they don't give a damn.
The thoughts of the American people, they just want to ram something through to say they did.
They're building monuments to themselves.
Here's Obama last night, by the way, he was on Letterman.
And now there's a story he's out playing basketball in New York this afternoon.
Playing hoops with his uh with his best guy friend, a guy named Reggie Love.
Out there playing basketball.
I thought he was formulating a new strategy on Afghanistan.
I thought he was the trooper question.
What are we going to do?
We need some more time here.
Out shooting hoops.
After warning the world that we're about dead because of climate change.
He's out shooting hoops and playing golf, going on a Letterman.
Here he is last night.
Letterman says, the stimulus.
Uh you're satisfied the level and degree that the stimulus has worked.
If it hadn't been for the stimulus, you'd probably would have seen an additional, say, million and a half jobs to two million jobs lost.
Or possibly even worse.
So it's definitely.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, whoa, whoa.
Stop.
We've had almost three million jobs lost.
We're up to 9.7%.
Req this to the we're up to 9.7% unemployment.
Uh with the stimulus.
He promised it wouldn't be any higher than 8%.
He's talking to a genuine idiot.
David Letterman, trying to disguise himself as an informed American who happens to tell jokes.
So are you satisfied with the level to degree the stimulus worked?
And here comes the oft-repeated lie number 4,442 is said for the one gazillionth time.
Well, if we hadn't done it, why, I don't know how bad it would be.
If it hadn't been for the stimulus, you'd probably would have seen an additional, say, million and a half jobs to two million jobs lost.
Or possibly even worse.
So it's definitely worked as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding.
The one thing that uh that I uh try to make sure the American people understand is that it took us years to get into the hole that we're in.
We took a bad hit.
Uh we lost five trillion dollars worth of wealth because of this crisis.
We're not gonna recover overnight.
Unemployment is still gonna be a big problem for at least another year.
Where do you go with this?
Where do you go with this?
I think we've got.
What is it?
Four percent of the stimulus has been spent.
It kicks in in earnest next year.
Happens to be an election year.
That's where a lot of the money is going to go.
Yet we've applied a tourniquet.
The bleeding has stopped.
Yeah, I guess that's why we're going to extend unemployment benefits again.
I guess that's why last month 42 states reported net job losses, up from 29 in July.
Then we got that tourniquet on there.
Now we've reduced our carbon munitions more uh emissions more in the first eight months of this year than at any time in our history.
And we put a tourniquet on that economy, and we're gonna have all kinds of competition in our health care plan.
I I'm this can't this this the American people are not gonna accept this.
This they're gonna keep on, they're gonna keep on doing this, this this media, the message business, he's gonna show up on television all the time too much.
Uh there is going to be a backlash against this man and his policies and this administration.
The only question is when and if it will happen in time.
Uh Here, Letterman then says, Well, whenever you invoke uh like Great Britain or Canada, people start to shudder because, oh my God, it's socialized medicine, oh my God, it's socialized medicine.
And I'm not a socialist.
But it doesn't sound that bad to me, says Letterman, in full 100% doofus mode.
Letterman asked the question, and here's Obama's answer.
It doesn't sound bad to Canadians.
They're perfectly happy with their system.
You've got every other advanced nation provides coverage for all of its folks.
When I talk to other world leaders who are paying attention to this argument, and they hear some of this stuff, and these are uh in some cases conservative leaders.
They're heads of center-right governments.
And they don't understand why it is that Americans would not want to set up a system that would save them money over time, would work better, would make people healthier.
Uh where do we start?
It doesn't sound bad to Canadians and his doofus audience starts applauding to go along with a doofus host.
They're perfectly happy with their system.
They're not perfectly happy with it, nor are they happy with it in Great Britain.
And here comes the old Clinton argument.
Clinton used to I go over there and I talk to these world leaders, and they simply for the laugh of them, they cannot understand why we haven't done what they've done.
And I keep trying to tell them well, we're working hard, it takes a lot of work, change things in America, big countries so forth, but they can't believe, and here that is here's here's Obama doing the same thing.
They can't believe Americans wouldn't want to set up a system that would save them money.
Americans do want a system that would save them money.
Americans do want a system that would work better.
It just isn't Obama's.
Do you be d he's out there telling this doofus audience the American people do not want an improved health care system.
They do not want a cheaper health care system.
Because that's what he wants everybody to believe his is.
I'm gonna ask this question that I asked yesterday.
I want you to stop and think about something.
Name for me a major government program in the modern era.
Say, let's go to the uh let's including a 20th century, start with FDR.
Name one that has not exceeded cost projections, that is not in bankruptcy or near bankruptcy.
Name one that has saved money, name a government program that actually reduced taxes in order to make the program happen.
Name for me one instance where any major government program has accomplished its objective.
Name for me one government program which in fact has destroyed many of the people that is trying to help.
And I can answer that, that's almost all of them.
Name for me a government program that has not wreaked havoc on the people that wanted to help.
You can start with the war on poverty, you can start with Social Security, you can start with Medicare Medicaid, you can start with um uh the Great Society.
You can start Cash for Cluckers program, you can start the uh what if we the um midnight basketball, a cops for the whatever well.
I don't care what the program is.
It doesn't work as advertised.
It costs much more than ever projected.
Taxes have always gone up to pay for them.
Why in the world, where is the sanity in believing that this magical plan is for the first time in modern American history gonna lower taxes, going to lower costs, going to insure more people, gonna squeeze the doctors and the insurance companies, and health coverage is gonna get better.
What where is it is insane to believe this.
Yet people have an endless faith in their government to uh make this happen.
When I talk to other world leaders, Oh, you've got every other advanced nation providing coverage for all its folks.
Well, you know what?
We provide treatment for all of our folks.
You have coverage all you want, but people in emergency medical situations get treated.
So I uh this just lying through his teeth with a putz as a pawn and a puppet to facilitate it.
Is just breathtaking.
And then there was this.
A couple of days ago, Jimmy Carter started talking about this behavior of speculating perhaps this unease or poor decorum was rooted in racism.
Is he on to something there, or is it just something to talk about?
Well, first of all, I think it's important to uh to realize that uh I was actually black before the election.
So the uh really this is proof.
How long have you been a black man?
And so the American people uh uh I think uh gave me this extraordinary honor.
Uh and and that tells you uh, I think a lot about where the country's at.
Now he needs to do more of this, uh telling a joke about it, but uh he's he's soft peddling the notion that's not about race, the criminal elected me.
I mean, how can they elect me if the country was uh had these arguments based on race and so forth, and Bill Clinton came out and said, hey, hey, you know what?
Uh at least Jimmy Carter, I don't know what he's talking about.
Uh I mean, these say people that oppose Obama oppose me, you know, and uh I'm not black.
And that's what I know of, and I don't know any black blood in my lineage, but I'm not black, I don't I don't look black.
Uh, and they still oppose me, so I don't think it has anything to do with race.
Well that's that's uh let's see.
That's Obama in a in a small way.
That's um Clinton in a major way have now undercut state-controlled media trying to make this and the Democrat Party all about race.
New York Times has reported that a sophisticated identity theft ring often sent a woman wearing wigs into bank branches to drain accounts.
The authorities said they were holding the woman at a federal detention center on a charge of conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
Now, this theft ring had hundreds of victims in D.C., Maryland, Virginia, Illinois, and elsewhere.
Ten people accused of belonging to the theft ring have been charged, other fugitives are being sought, according to authorities.
I don't know if it's the same ring, but don't forget the Federal Reserve Chairman had his identity theft stolen.
He was ripped off, he was swindled.
The Fed chairman.
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Rush Limboy emitting vocal vibrations coast to coast and having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have at the same time this afternoon in New York City at the UN Fox News reporter Eric Sean interviewed the uh Bolivian president Evo Morales.
He asked him, what do you think of President Obama?
President Obama, I expect, like any other president who is part of the UN, regardless of this debate about climate change.
He has good observations, but no solutions.
We are convinced if we are to save humanity, it is important to save the planet Earth.
What is it is capitalism.
Well, there you have it.
And uh this is one of Obama's buddies.
What hurts this planet is capitalism.
What hurts this planet is the unequal distribution of capitalism.
Not enough nations have capitalism.
That's what hurts the world.
But for this guy, Evo Morales, why, Obama's not socialist enough for this guy.
Now, here's Clinton on Carter, Obama, and race.
Last night, Larry King Alive, CNN.
King says, President Carter says racism is at the bottom of all this uproar.
What do you feel?
I believe that some of the right wing extremists which oppose President Obama are also racially prejudiced.
And would prefer not to have an African American president.
But I don't believe that all the people that oppose him on health care and all the conservatives are racist.
And I believe if he were white, every single person who opposes him now would be opposing him then.
Therefore, while I have devoted my life to getting rid of racism, I think this is a fight that my president and our party, this is when we need to win on the merits.
I'll tell you, I am I'm ready to throw up here.
I mean, this soundbite roster today has been I can't handle this.
I walked in here feeling really good.
Now overslept.
I was up late last now.
Always come out here, and I I have a lot of friends and you know what I got to do last year.
I got I go to a Monday night football uh party at William Shatner's house uh up in Studio City.
Great, great, great view up.
He's got this giant screen he's got a he's got a bigger screen than I've got.
Now it doesn't uh no screen envy, but it doesn't look as good as mine, but it's good, it looks good.
But it's I mean the thing's huge.
He's got his own screening room of course he's in pictures.
Uh and I met John Voigt last night.
And these guys are all Indianapolis fans, so I decided to pull for the Dolphins just to make it a fun night.
Um I I left uh shortly before the the uh Colts went ahead with their final score, because my intention was to go back to the hotel and stay on East Coast time and and get to bed, and I got back to the hotel and I fired up the iPhone and all kinds of email stuff to deal with, distracting stuff, so had to deal with that.
Uh and before I knew it, it was it was 1 30 or 2 o'clock in the morning here.
So, you know, and I can't set an alarm.
Because my I've taken my cochlear implant off, so and the sun doesn't come up early enough this time of year to wake me up.
So I just normally go to bed and I I wake up every hour out of fear I'm gonna oversleep.
But for some reason, I woke up and uh I intended to leave the hotel at 5 30.
I woke up at 5 55.
Now I've left instructions with the concierge.
If you don't see me in the lobby and the driver, you don't see me by six, get up there to wake me up.
So it's 5 55.
I got out of bed, and of course, I'm not dressed.
I'm thinking, well, the first thing I gotta do is find a phone and fire it up and send a text message to tell everybody I'm up.
So I did.
Then I went about, you know, the uh preparatory routine in the bathroom.
Then I find that the text message didn't go because of a weak ATT signal.
So I said, oh no.
I'm sitting here in the bathroom and somebody's gonna walk in here and I'm not drinking and it happened.
And I said, Oh, geez.
So I hustle and bustle, I get down, we s hit every red light possible coming in here.
But I was feeling really good because it was a great night, had a great plane trip out, everything hunky-dory, fine and dandy.
And then I get to this audio soundbite roster today, and I want to throw up everything I've heard is just destructive as it can be.
It's destructive to the American people, it's insulting to the American people.
It is representative of a dramatic decline in the way we're being uh told to think, the way the way our culture uh is is going, the way we're being raised.
I mean, that newsweek story yesterday, the case for pulling the plug on Granny, with the previous newsweek cover being your kid is a racist by the time he's six months old.
And now we got Bill Clinton.
Did you hear this?
Uh let me let me tell you something, Larry.
I believe I believe some of those right-wing extremists which oppose President Obama are also racially prejudiced and would prefer not to have an African American president.
He says that.
Then he says, uh, I believe if he were white, every single person who opposed him now would be opposing him.
So what's this business of right wing extremists out there who oppose him because of racial prejudice?
If everybody who opposes him now Would be opposing him then.
Therefore, well, I've devoted my life to get rid of racist.
Right, you've devoted your life to getting rid of racism.
Your party has promoted racism.
Your party has done everything it can to divide people in this country.
I don't care if it's by race, by gender, by sex, by age.
That's how the Democrat Party survives.
This is a fight to my president.
Our party, uh, we need to win on America.
These guys are doing everything they can to destroy every institution and tradition to define this country's greatness.
I'm sitting here, and I know it's my job, but I'm earning it today.
I want to throw up every sound bite I've played.
Is nothing.
The only difference between a soundbite and a bag of manure is the bag.
You know, I the the the human characteristic that rubs me the rawest is lying.
And then arrogant condescension.
And Obama is all three of those, and Bill Clinton is too.
And then you took this Afghanistan on it where the general that he appointed says it's 40,000 troops, or we lose this in a year.
And Hillary Clinton comes out and says the general doesn't know what he's talking about.
Hillary Clinton, who we are led to believe once wanted to join the Marines or some branch in Chicago, but they wouldn't let her because she was a girl.
And that wasn't the reason.
The Army, the Marines do not have uniforms that have fit that big an ass.
And they don't have well, never mind.
They don't have boots that are the right size either.
And now we get to listen to Clinton say, right-wing extremist.
This is the guy who tried to blame me.
The Oklahoma City bombing.
All right, I vented.
I can't wait to hit the golf ball of Saturday.
That ball's gonna be Obama and Clinton combined.
I have a couple sound bites here I want to play for you.
Bill Clinton playing the race card on both sides.
Well, first to go back to January 26 of 2008.
It's in Columbia, South Carolina, outside a polling station, voting station.
Uh Clinton is speaking with reporters, and a reporter says to him, what does it say about Obama that it takes two of you to beat him?
Now, I'll guarantee you, Clinton hears that question and he starts seething inside.
You little pipsqueak.
You're nothing but a nothing but a reporter here in South Carolina.
You're asking me takes how come it takes two of us to beat that kid.
But that's not what he says.
Here's here's here's you will remember this.
Maybe here's a uh Clinton's answer.
Jesse Jackson won South Carolina twice in 84 and 88.
And he ran a good campaign.
And Senator Obama's won a good campaign.
Now I guarantee you, they got the name and address of that reporter after this.
That question, but he says Jesse Jackson won South Carolina twice, 84 and 88.
That's Clinton playing the race card.
Well, of course he's winning here.
Hell!
Jesse Jackson won the Democrat primary hill.
It's no big deal for a black guy to win the primary in South Carolina.
That's what he's saying.
And then he knew he'd said so.
So he had to start covering it up here with these faint praise of what a great campaign he's running.
Then Obama came back after that and said, and Clinton played the race card on me.
And so then Clinton said, I didn't play the race cards.
These the arguments about race, do you remember during the Democrat primary?
The sole place where arguments about race were taking place was in the Democrat Party in the primaries.
It was the LA Times that gave us that uh column, The Magic Negro.
Now, here's Clinton playing a race card on the other side.
May of 1993 White House correspondence dinner.
Clinton talks about me, and I had just defended Janet Reno, who was being really treated rudely by John Conyers during a committee hearing on the Waco invasion.
She liked the way Rush took up for Janet Reno the other night on his program.
He only did it because she was attacked by a black guy.
There's Bill Clinton out there saying his party has done everything it can to rid this country of its racial problems.
And it's just the exact opposite.
Tony blank, Tony Blankly had an absolutely great rant.
It was on a program called Left Right and Center.
And uh he was asked by the host about the coarsening of our culture.
And I'm gonna summarize what Tony Blankly said.
Because the host says, Well, I mean, look at look at all the coarseness of the culture that's going on with all these people making pictures of Obama as Hitler and blah blah blah.
You know, you heard all this stuff.
And blankly said, Well, the Democrats called people showing up at town halls an unruly mob.
Then Harry Reed called them evil, and Stanley Hoyer called them unameric, and then Pelosi called them Nazis, then Obama called them liars.
And then Pelosi suggested that they're assassins.
Waiting and lurking out there.
And the left guy on this program then cites three or four outrageous signs people are carrying at the at a town hall meeting.
And blankly said, you know, you're showing me people at a town hall meeting, you're showing me people at a congressman's office or outside some government building holding a sign.
I'm talking about the highest officers in our government calling over half the American people a mob, evil on American Nazis, liars, and assassins.
And that's exactly right.
Now, gotta hear Calypso Louie, Calypso Louie, all happy that Moamer Qaddafi is in town.
He's on the Al Sharpton show.
This is another show that has no listeners.
And so if I don't play this, you would never hear it, but you gotta hear it.
Calypso Louie on the Al Sharpton show, talking about the arrival of Moamer Qaddafi.
Brother Leader Muhammad Gaddafi, along with many, many other African, European and Asian and Latin American and Caribbean heads of state are going to be visiting the UN and the United States.
We have had a very long and fruitful friendship almost for the whole 40 years of his leadership of the Libyan Arab Jamaia.
We wanted to come into New York and say to our brother, welcome to the United States of America, and welcome to New York City.
Well, there you have it.
Calypso Louie, who voted for Barack Obama, who voted for Bill Clinton, who votes for every Democrat, can't wait to welcome Brother Moamer Qaddafi into town on the Al Sharpton show.
Al Sharpton then says, Understand, uh Minister uh Farrakhan that Colonel Qaddafi will be addressing United Nations, and I saw in the interview in the Amsterdam newspaper that you don't know exactly what he's gonna say, but you think it'll be historic.
Well, you know, Brother Gaddafi has been on the uh terrorist watch list for the United States for a long, long time, and this country and others have put sanctions.
We speed this up.
I don't want to have to listen to this as long as it goes out.
Poor Kadavan.
And his country were.
No, I mean to be being heard.
I don't care what it's brother Kadafi.
That's all you need to hear.
And this year, uh Libya is a part of the Security Council.
Oh, yeah.
And it will be a Libyan diplomat that will head up the General Assembly, and so Brother Muhammad Gaddafi is coming to America to deliver a message.
Thank you for speeding it up so it would end sooner.
Back to the phones.
This this this show today has been work.
This show has been a challenge to my normal ebullions.
My normal great festive, cheery good mood.
This has been a direct challenge.
And Cookie, who does the puts the roster together, she's profusely apologized.
Not your fault, Cookie, it's what's out there.
I mean, it is what it is.
Gary in Findlay, Ohio.
Thank you for waving your next on the EIB network.
Hi.
What a bunch of jackasses dittoes, Rush.
Dem for five professor.
That's right.
Obama's a jackass.
I I tell you, Rush, but my main point, the reason I called was uh I wanted your opinion, slash what you thought the founders would think of.
Now, we're gonna have national health care and we're gonna have Captain Tax.
That's anywhere from the rough estimate from three to ten grand out of my pocket again, because any raise I got in the last five years or for the next projected anything, because my Union Knucklehead, a little collectivist, it's gone.
I lost 17 grand in the market.
And I'm just kind of trying to wait it out.
But I just wanted your opinion, sir.
I respect you, and I live feed from the beginning, brother.
I'm a real ending from us.
Well, I uh I appreciate that uh uh very much.
I I can only answer this honestly if you think that all it's gonna get swallowed up is your raise.
Is your raises?
You are short-sighted.
Your future will be swallowed up.
The opportunity for prosperity of your children is being swallowed up.
Money they haven't even earned is being spent.
Not even taxed, just spent.
So it's much more than just your raises, but the numbers you gave, yeah.
You gotta have a health care parent.
If you don't, you're gonna get fined.
A cap and tax is gonna raise your electricity bill, all of these things, the cost of living, and there will be middle class tax increases all across the board in a number of ways.
Health care is gonna be more expensive despite what they say.
So yeah, it's gonna eat up the numbers that you gave me.
But it's also gonna prevent you from getting ahead or even getting even.
Because more of what you earn is gonna be taken from you.
And which, by the way, is the uh is the plan.
Let me take a quick break here.
We'll do that and be back and continue in just a moment.
Don't go away.
You know, I sit here and I am I'm literally stunned at all of the lives we have uh improved over the course of 21 years on this program, and all the money that we have saved people.
Genuinely, we talk about saving money and reducing your costs, and it happens.
Unlike the Obama administration.
Now, Barney Frank was on the Jay Leno show last night.
I am going to be on the Jay Leno show Thursday night.
After I appear on the couch, I'm gonna drive their little electric car around the track and run over as many pop-ups of Al Gore and five-second penalty for each hit that I can.
So last night, Leno asked Barney Frank, the banking queen, if you had to have dinner with one of the following political conservatives, which one would you choose?
Rush Limbaugh Glenn Beck or Ann Coulter.
He would come with the painkillers, which you let's start it from the top so people are gonna actually hear the answer.
I'll read the question again.
If you had to have dinner with one of the following political conservatives, which one would you choose?
Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, or Anne Coulter.
I guess of the three, I would take Rush Limbaugh because it would be very painful and he would come with the painkillers, which he always had.
So I'd have to go with him.
Yeah.
My first thought was to ignore this and turn the other cheek, but maybe that's what Barney wants.
So I decided to go ahead and use the bite.
And then it got it got even better.
Leno said the last time you went skinny dipping, when was that?
But now let's conjure that image.
Here's Barney Frank who who who gave us the subprime housing crisis.
Here's his answer.
I was in Palm Springs in a very private pool.
My boyfriend and I were out there, I was doing a fundraiser, and uh it was a very secluded spot, and uh we didn't see any helicopters, so we went into the pool.
And hopefully there are no photos.
Well, no, I hope there aren't.
Maybe of him it wouldn't be so bad.
And they they want to tell me that I am engaging in the coarsening of the culture, and yet here is NBC the Leno show presenting an image of Barney Frank skippy dimming, skinny dipping in a pool in Palm Springs, and I guarantee everybody in Palm Springs trying to find out which pool so they can avoid it.
Shit.
Shit.
All right, this next story I absolutely love.
It's from CNN.
Headline report shows that state gaming revenue fell as the economy slumped, raising concerns for states betting big on casino and lottery income.
So lotteries, casinos, uh remember, oh yeah, that's how we're gonna pay for education.
We're gonna solve all of our state's money problems.
All we're gonna do is have casino gambling and lotteries.
Lib's answer now That that's bombing out.
The decline in gambling revenue is a red flag for states planning to expand gambling activities to help pay for social services.
The decline comes as the economy struggles to recover from one of our longest recessions on record.
Oh, woe is us, everybody wringing their hands over declining revenue.
So what are the libs going to come up with next?
They're going to tax sodas and sweet beverages and so forth.
Hot dogs.
If people have no jobs and no money, there's no revenue that people can tax.
Why is this so tricky to understand?
Why is it not understood by these people that if you really want to generate revenue, you got to get people working?
I I I just maybe what's troubling me today is I'm just I feel like I'm surrounded by total helpless uncorrectable stupidity.
And it happens to be running the show.
The government, not the show.
Just the exact opposite.
It's running a show.
Joe in Birmingham, Alabama.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
I think you made a good decision not turning the other cheek around Barney Frank.
Well, people said I should ignore it, you know, but it's a that'd be turning the other cheek, which is what he would like.
Hey, I know you've had a tough time with a soundbite roster today, but I heard something on there that might make you grin a little bit.
Told the screener Obama might have stumbled into something where he was right and probably doesn't know it.
You know, he he talked about uh on the Letterman show about uh the stimulus being a tourniquet.
If I remember from my Boy Scout first aid training, you put a tourniquet on to stop the bleeding, yes, but you also know when you put it on, you're probably gonna lose the appendage that's attached to it.
Well, that's it.
A tourniquet exactly right.
A the tourniquet equals death of something.
And so if we have to apply a tourniquet to uh to our economy, if that's what Obama says.
And I've had some people email me that point.
Uh and uh I guess I I can uh I can agree with it.
All right, do we have time?
Let's see.
Yeah, Jeff in Buffalo.
I got about a mm less than a minute, but I wanted to get you on here.
It's not her, Mr. Limbaugh.
Hello.
Oh, hi, how are you?
Yes.
Good, good, Rush.
It's not her.
I wanted to comment on uh the lack of class shown by President Obama on uh asking Governor Patterson here in New York to basically withdraw from the uh the next election.
I thought it was really, really poor taste.
So the lack of class.
I mean, uh there's no doubt that uh he's a complete failure.
Um, but I I think it really President Obama always.
I know, you know, a lot of a lot of Democrats, a lot of Democrats in New Yorkers, hey, you know, keep your keep your mitts out of our state, Obama.
You're being a bad enough job running the country.
Uh yeah, it's it's a good point.
It was a diss of Patterson.
Now, folks, look, it I'm I'm getting all kinds of grief for playing this Barney Frank soundbite.
It doesn't bother me, folks.
It really doesn't it goes in one ear and out another orifice.
Don't worry about it.
Well, if this doesn't just put the uh cherry on the top of whatever uh morning update I have to do next, right after the program ends, and it's about the national hemorrhoid, Jimmy Carter.
So even when the program expires, I don't get away from this.
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