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Oct. 2, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 2, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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Can you say it with me, folks?
Can you say it with me?
Barack Hussein Obama.
Mmm.
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We want to go back to our archives, ladies and gentlemen, this afternoon, live on CNN, as the vote was being announced that Chicago was first, the first city to be rejected and eliminated.
This is how it happened with the anchor Tony Harris on CNN.
Let's take you to Copenhagen right now, where we're about to get an announcement of the first city outs.
Let's have a listen.
Let's have a listen.
Books given 95.
Participants, 94.
Bond villain type guy.
Abstention nil.
Void nil.
Fallit Ballots 94.
The city of Chicago, having obtained the least number of votes, will not participate in the next round.
Chicago is out.
Chicago is out.
Madrid is still in.
Tokyo is still in.
Wait a minute.
Chicago is out.
I want to hear the sound in the room.
Let's let's listen to the sound in the room.
Take us back to Copenhagen.
That was the anchor Tony Harris, who ran out of things to say.
So he had to go back to the sound in the room after Chicago was the first city eliminated by the Olympic committee today in the Olympic voting.
Chicago is out?
Chicago's out?
Madrid's still in.
Together's still wait a minute.
Oh, just love it.
And don't forget CNN's Ed Henry today, right before the vote.
They posted a story on their website.
Michelle Obama takes Copenhagen by storm.
All right.
Now in the last hour, I was telling all of you, keep a sharp eye on the New York Times for talking points for the rest of the state-controlled media.
And here it is.
Rio wins bid for 2016 Olympics.
The Obamas were flying back to Washington at the time of the vote.
One of his spokesmen said Mr. Obama still believed it had been worth the effort.
The appearance by the Obamas was hoped to overcome some of those problems, but former IOC member Kai Holm told the AP that the brevity of his appearance may have hurt.
Holm called it too businesslike.
It can be that some IOC members see it as a lack of respect.
The 10-person Chicago bid team led by Mr. and Mrs. Obama put on a presentation heavy on emotion and visual images without getting too deep into the details of the bid.
Well, naturally, the details of the bid couldn't be made public.
Nobody who attempts to fleece somebody tells them up front that's what happens.
I mean, the Obamas couldn't go over there and say, look, my chief aide, Valerie Jarrett, owns a bunch of slums here, and she's gonna take the opportunity of your giving us the Olympics to sell them at a huge profit.
It doesn't matter that the residents will be thrown out in the wind in the cold with the rest of the homeless.
And you know, I've I got some property myself here, I'm hoping to capitalize on, and Mayor Daly has sent me over here because this is how our city is run, full of corruption and craft and patronage, and that's why we want the Olympics.
So instead, I gotta sit here and tell you how I can't wait for the Olympics to come to Chicago so I can open the door, take my two little girls out, and see the world in our backyard.
And my lovely wife, Michelle here, is gonna tell you about how her father had multiple sclerosis and how that relates to Olympic athletes overcoming all odds.
You're gonna love it.
So it's uh it's just happening out there, ladies and gentlemen.
Lickety split.
The reaction coming in.
The drive by is doing everything they can to try to to try to cover this.
Uh, and and to uh uh make it look like it's something other than what it is.
Make no mistake about it.
Now there are other things going on in the news out there.
Uh and let me see, there's one more here it is.
Here the the article in the New York Times on the Chicago blowout.
I want you to try to square these two passages.
Because see the the bottom line is the bottom line is they are reeling.
Do you know what it's like?
If you ever thought something was in the bag in your personal life, something was it was in the bag.
I mean, you you bought the car before you got the raise.
You bought the car before you got the job.
You did something, and then it didn't happen.
And you were left reeling.
How could I have misjudged this?
Well, multiply that times a hundred thousand, because that's what you'd have to do to account for the egos of the Obamas.
And that's how they're feeling today.
So, passage number one.
I don't view this as a repudiation of the president and the first lady, Mr. Axelrod said it was worth the effort.
He'd do it again if he had the opportunity.
Then later in the story, for months, Mr. Obama and his crew have approached this competition with all the intensity of the Iowa caucuses.
Mr. Obama taped five video messages pitching Chicago's bid.
He created an Olympic office within the White House.
He hosted Olympic athletes in the South Lawn.
For the past couple of weeks, he worked the phones, calling some heads of state.
He lobbied others at the UN opening session in New York and the group of 20 economic summit in Pittsburgh.
He put Joe Biden to work making calls.
He sent Mrs. Obama to Copenhagen a couple of days early to buttonhole committee members on Air Force One with him on Friday.
Obama brought a couple cabinet officers from Illinois.
Ray Lahood, the transport secretary, and the education secretary Arnie Duncan, as well as Senator Dick Turbin.
Before leaving Washington, Mrs. Obama made clear how seriously the first couple took the matter.
Take no prisoners, she vowed.
Remember the first statement.
I don't view this as a repudiation of the president and the first lady Axelrod said it was worth the effort.
He'd do it again if he had the opportunity.
Trust me on this, my friends.
They are reeling out there.
And they know full well this is an utter disaster.
The ego has landed.
Whatever bloom was still on the rose is gone.
The myth has been shattered.
The myth has been exploded.
The reality of the truth has landed like a sledgehammer dropped from the International Space Station on the International Olympic Committee hearing at the podium where the Obamas gave their me, me, me, I, mmm, mmm, Barack Hussein Obama presentation to get the Olympics into Chicago.
But don't worry.
He met with the general from Afghanistan on the plan for 25 minutes.
Coming up with new strategies out there to not win the war.
Like I say, I wonder why Obama has a new understanding of victory now that he has lost.
Big time.
And don't forget the BBC.
Oh no, BBC.
Obama didn't fatal Chicago.
Chicago's bid fated Obama.
That's actually a BBC.
F. Chuck Todd says, daily, mess this up, and it's going to be a long time before anybody in Chicago gets any favors from this White House.
Andrea Mitchell says, well, at least he had a big victory there in the talks with Iran.
CNN.
Michelle Obama took Copenhagen by storm.
If there is any truth to that, it was the shock and awe at her wardrobe that took them by storm.
We'll be back in a second.
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Does the name Steve Schmidt ring a bell to anybody out there?
Steve Schmidt was the campaign manager for John McCray McCain.
Uh in a presidential campaign in 2008.
Steve Schmidt has uh told the Huffington Post that Sarah Palin in twenty twelve would be a catastrophe for the GOP.
This is one of the things that I was uh asked to comment on by a major of the uh a member of the state controlled media today.
And here's what I wrote back.
I think it's time for the McCain crowd to acknowledge that they're losers and pack it in.
They've done enough damage to the Republican Party already.
Move aside, let a brighter, more principled, and more competent generation of people clean up the mess that the McCain people helped create.
And that is exactly where we are right now.
Now McCain, it is uh reported today that he is trying to work behind the scenes to find candidates like himself to remake the Republican Party in a moderate center sort of way.
And it's I I guess Schmidt talking to the Huffing and Puffington Post is part of that mix, saying that Palin in twenty twelve would be a catastrophe for the GO.
Why why would why would anybody listen it to be like the Democrats taking advice from Dukakis?
What what what in the world?
This is is it just more and more of the left uh trying to pick our candidates like they picked McCain, and it's time to stop that garbage.
So there, that's my answer to it.
Here is uh Daniel in Greencastle, Indiana.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, sir.
How are you doing today?
Very well, thank you very much.
Well, first of all, I'd like to say I've been a listener, listener of yours for many years, and uh I want to salute you, sir, for standing up and making a stand and telling the truth.
In spite of the media that's controlled by the state and its propaganda.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate that.
I really do.
Uh well, I appreciate you, sir.
Uh I am a twenty-year retired Navy veteran, and I am proud to be an American.
I have two young boys, and I teach them to be proud Americans, despite what they hear in the media and despite what Obama is going around and telling the world.
God bless you, sir.
It's a risk I believe I believe in the American people, and I believe in the our Republic and the morals and values and ethics on which that was built.
And I believe as an American people we will survive this administration.
I'm just wondering how much damage that is going to do in the meantime.
We're all wondering about that, but imagine look at what you just said.
The American people will survive.
This administration normally it's said about we'll survive during this conflict.
We'll survive despite Hurricane Katrina.
We'll survive despite the 9-11 attacks.
Now we're out there saying we'll survive Barack Obama.
Well, sir, I took a pledge to uh to make a stand against any enemies, domestic and republic, and right now I believe that we have enemies that are domestic.
The first thing that I'd like to talk about is this Letterman affair.
Now which one?
Apparently there were many staffers with whom uh he did the down low and the nasty.
Well, you know, um I'm I I'd like to comment on his rebuttal against uh the him admitting that he did it.
Um first of all, he is not remorseful, and uh it's obvious that he will continue to do it, and it's also obvious that he is a tyrant among his staff.
Now, in any big corporation and the military, we have a word for this.
It's called fraternization.
And sex with subordinates definitely falls under that.
In fact, that's the word Yeah, we've heard about the tail hook stuff.
Yeah, the tail, you know, that's when it all started.
That's when the military really got on board and started cracking down and and uh training us that this will not be tolerated.
Um it promotes contempt, distrust, jealousy, and undermines the overall predictive productivity of his whole staff.
Right.
And it leads to extortion attempts.
Exactly.
And uh in the military, especially if it was an officer or any supervisor, and also in any big corporation today, they ch they teach this.
Uh that person, if they were found to have done this, would be forced to resign.
Uh uh uh uh no.
Used to be maybe, but not in the White House.
This no, sir, not in the White House.
In the White House as well.
If it weren't for the success of me and my buddies in the vast right wing conspiracy, successfully getting hold of some of Quentin's semen, and then getting hold of Monica Lewinsky's blue dress, and then putting that semen on the blue dress, waiting for it to be discovered.
Do you realize where we'd be today if I hadn't pulled that off?
Well, sir, you exposed that and I take my hat off to you.
Thank you very much.
That was an excellent job, and I was listening to you way before that happened.
Well, anyway, what I was saying was uh an officer uh that is found guilty of that, or any big supervisor or CEO, would uh first of all, he'd never make none another promotion.
And uh he would be forced to resign because he would never make another promotion that that's one of the great things about the military.
It's one institution that has not been corrupted by uh the collapse of societal uh mores.
Uh as I mentioned earlier today, the uh AP has a review.
This is Letterman's greatest show ever.
Uh it is only rivaled in greatness by the Tonight Show episode where Hugh Grant came on and admitted and explained why he had picked up a slut in a prostitute on some back alley neighborhood in Los Angeles.
Great television.
The corruption and fraud of the United States media breathtaking, happening now in real time.
Daniel, thanks much.
An honor to have you in the audience, sir.
I'm glad you called.
This is Valerie in New Orleans.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Uh it's a pleasure to speak with you.
Thank you.
Uh my boyfriend thinks I'm crazy for waiting two hours to talk to a man I've never met.
Um is Valerie one the name that you like a lot.
Boyfriend is jealous.
Well, in any case, um I am calling because you it's this whole concept of equalizing everything.
I started thinking the other night about what about people who are happier than other people.
Uh is there a a pleasure tax coming our way?
Uh a way of uh people who have you know better lives with their families, their loved ones, uh intimacy.
Well, you know, what do you think an attack a tax on achievement is?
And and uh attacks on achievements attack on a better life is an i a tax on a better life.
It is a tax on uh happiness, pleasure, and so and the pursuit of it.
You are we are going to be pr taxed in our pursuit of happiness.
Well, it's because some of us pursue pleasure and happiness better than others.
David Letterman's case, the tax rates can be sky high.
Well, what a rude man.
Um well, I just thought I'd float that idea.
It's just a bit Orwellian, but uh it's you know, you could see uh uh wellian, it's very persuaptive, very very shrewd on your part, and yes, Valerie is uh one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.
Really?
Are you kidding me?
No, I know one of them is Rachel.
Right?
Yeah.
I've been keeping track of what you say about those names.
Yeah.
Rachel.
And you really like Valerie.
All right, fat rush.
Uh one of my favorite all-time tunes is by the monkeys, Valerie.
Hey, why did your show today revert briefly to an earlier segment?
Uh what do you mean?
What do you mean what it should revert briefly to an earlier segment?
What happened?
About thirty minutes ago, um, on your show, it replayed a part that was from about an hour earlier.
Is that right?
Yes.
Well, we didn't do that.
I just was curious, I thought they'd yanked you.
I thought they'd just taken you away, Rush.
No, they wouldn't have they w if they'd taken me away, they wouldn't have played anything.
Well, th that's that is what happened.
Um, and it was very odd, and I know because I've been listening with the thing for two years.
Really was it a really really good portion of the show they replayed?
Uh you uh replayed what w what you didn't, but what was replayed was the part where the man was speaking about the Olympics.
The one with the accent.
And uh the votes.
And you hear the noise in the room that was all replayed.
Wait, wait a second.
I have played that sound bite twice.
You yeah, I think that's on purpose.
Yeah.
But but you it was also all your commentary was Yeah, well, because there's some people.
See, I'm a highly trained broadcast specialist, and I know that there's some people listening in the third hour that might not have heard the first, and the first hour today could not be contained.
But you're the all the things you said were the same, Rush.
It was the exact same stuff.
It was weird.
No, it wasn't the exact same stuff.
All right.
I'll let that go then.
Just tell me real quick, you like New Orleans?
Yeah.
I I I've I uh I've always loved New Orleans.
Really?
No, I just made it up.
Yeah.
There's there's not much in way of golfing here, and our football team ain't all that.
Well, there's the not bad golfing there, and uh football team's kick buck team this year.
Dude, you could go see Pittsburgh this weekend.
I'm going to Pittsburgh.
I'll be uh flying to Pittsburgh tomorrow afternoon.
They're playing.
Playing the San Diego Chargers.
The Chargers.
Um, I know there's other people anxiously waiting to talk to you.
It's such a pleasure, and uh I've been listening to you for about a year, and uh I've learned an awful lot from you.
Um I've learned how to uh look at the information that is floating around, information and disinformation.
Um, and you you really provide a great service.
Well, thank you very much.
Go get them rush.
I shall.
Thanks very much, Valerie.
All right.
Now we've got to look into this.
She is insistent that a segment was replayed.
Now we've got to find out if somebody's monkeying with our satellite feed out there, or if uh somebody in our New Orleans affiliate is playing games.
We have to look into this.
Call the affiliate relations people right now and get an answer on this.
Folks, I I'm sitting, I just had a sudden thought.
My mind's exploding today.
The neurons are firing at a record rate today.
With Roman Polanski out there uh being defended for not rape rape with a 13-year-old girl and with Letterman being applauded and getting laughter admitting affairs with members of his staff.
Could there be a better time for all Republicans to come out and admit every affair they've ever had or every date rape that they have ever engaged in?
If they've got that skeleton in the closet, this would be a great time.
They might get a hero's welcome from everybody for doing it here today.
I mean, if the Republicans worried about can you imagine if Mark Foley could have just waited till now for this to come out.
Uh I mean, for credit, look at all the things that are defended now by the left.
Letterman having a fair yay, Dave, way to go, buddy.
Ha ha ha.
Roman Polanski, hey, come on.
It's a long time ago.
So he raped a 13-year-old.
Give the guy a break.
He's been through a lot.
If you are a Republican with a skeleton in your closet, today is the day to announce it.
Get it out of the way.
Nobody can say a word to you.
All right.
Here it is.
Wait for it.
Newsweek magazine.
Katie Connolly.
Losing the Olympic bid is good for Obama.
Just posted.
Chicago's been eliminated in the first round of voting.
Wow, I did not see that coming.
The way I figured it, this White House is far too protective of the president's strategically crafted image to allow him to travel all those miles only to fail on the world stage.
That's right, Katie.
That's why we're being led by an imbecile.
I thought it was a done deal, says Katie Connolly.
Who's better at vote counting than the Obama people?
Who's better at vote stuffing than the Obama?
I add.
She doesn't write that.
I would have bet money that Rom and Axelrod knew they had the numbers in the bag before they let him step on Air Force One.
I was so very wrong.
Not only did they fail, they failed in the first round.
It's a bad look for the president, especially coming on the heels of this morning's depressing unemployment numbers.
This is pretty embarrassing for the White House, especially letting Obama having to fail in front of his wife.
Ouch.
Hey, Katie, she was part of the tag team.
She's part of the failure too.
What do you mean fail in front of his wife?
She was over there for two days with the Oprah.
Uh back to Katie Connelly of Newsweek.
But ultimately, it's a good thing for Obama.
As I wrote on Monday, the Olympics are notorious for running massively over budget.
The organizing committees are always rife with infighting and power games, as all manner of colorful cronies badger members to get their paws on some of those coveted Olympic dollars.
Hey, Katie, that was the whole point.
So Valerie Jarrett could sell her slum and get big money for it and kick the residents out with the cockroaches.
And now back to Katie Connolly Newsweek.
Public support for the Olympics in Chicago itself was already lukewarm.
Residents would have been facing seven years of disruptive construction and road work as their city raced to prepare itself.
It's a recipe for serious disgruntlement.
Obama would have been extricably tied to all of this.
The budget overruns, the construction hiccups, the predictable corruption.
By going to Copenhagen, he became the public face of the effort.
Already some of his closest supporters and friends were on the bid committee.
His campaign's national finance chair Penny Pritzker and a co-chair of his inaugural committee, Patrick Ryan, both had key roles.
Senior advisor Axelrod's communications firm was one of the contractors for the committee, and Obama confidant Valerie Jarrett had been involved in supporting the bid.
Again, because she wanted to unload slums that she owns for big time Olympic dollars, when problems would start to arise in the planning of this mammoth event, and they invariably would have, Obama would be implicated regardless of his actual involvement.
Now get this.
This is...
a big wig at Newsweek, Katie Connolly, saying losing the Olympic bid is good for Obama because Chicago's a cesspool of fraud, deceit, and corruption that he now will not be tied to.
Because the fraud, deceit, and corruption will not happen.
Because the Olympics aren't coming.
Don't ever doubt me, snurdly, when I start predicting what the media is going to say and how they're going to spend something to make their guy look good.
Don't ever, ever doubt me.
And on any of you either.
Olympics-related screw-ups may have no concrete bearing on Obama's capacity to govern, but they do make easy campaign ads.
It's not hard to imagine attack ads tying whatever planning andeptitude that was making news back to the White House.
And while most voters outside of Chicago wouldn't care all that much, such issues provide an unwanted distraction for the White House.
They can dominate news cycles and pull advisors and possibly even the president into debates that divert attention from more critical.
What do you think they just did?
They just diverted themselves, Katie.
They just went over there and diverted themselves from the economy from unemployment from Afghanistan for practically everything that's important.
Think about how Acorn sidetracked political debates on health care reform.
Think about how Acorn sidetracked political debates.
I don't remember Obama getting tied to that.
People tried, but this is a tad humiliating for the president, writes Katie Connolly of Newsweek.
But his embarrassment will be short-lived, especially if he demonstrates some good humor about it.
Republicans will probably criticize him for skipping the country for a day instead of focusing on Iran or Afghanistan, but those attacks won't stick.
He wasn't even gone 24 hours, and General McChrystal joined him on Air Force One.
That will be fodder for late-night comedians and talkback radio for a day or two, but winning the Olympics could have bogged down his entire presidency.
And this way, next time he goes to Tokyo, he'll have something in common with Prime Minister Hatoyama.
There you have it, my friends.
The latest wisdom from Newsweek magazine, state-controlled.
Losing the Olympic bid is good for Obama because Chicago is a shining cesspool on a hill, corruption, fraud, thuggery, Rico investigations, RICO crimes, deceit.
Intricate webs of deceit woven throughout the city that would invariably harm Obama's image.
So it's good that we lost the Olympics.
It'll just be a couple days where people will laugh at it, and then they'll be back to saving the world.
Who's next?
Eric in Jacksonville, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Nice to have you here, sir.
Hey, it's an honor to speak with you, Russ.
Thank you.
Um, yeah, I have a question.
Uh if Obamacare um goes through.
Why do I keep hearing that it would be impossible to go back even if the conservatives take over in 2012?
You know, I mean like Prohibition was was overturned.
Uh yeah, Prohibition was overturned, but but has any social that has gotten started with its tentacles dug deep into the fabric of society.
Has it ever been rolled back?
Has it ever been fixed?
Has it done anything but get worse?
No.
All right.
Now with healthcare, the thing about healthcare is that it will not be implemented until 2013, four years after it is signed by Obama.
Now that means that if Obama could be defeated in 2012, then there could be an effort made uh to not implement it.
Uh Congress can go back and do it.
But once it starts, look, it can be rolled back, but it's gonna take a long time.
Once and depends on how long uh it is entrenched, I mean has Medicare been rolled back.
I mean it's it's done nothing but get worse and worse and worse.
Yeah so I mean is is is that the future of our country every time the Democrats pass something uh you know we can't roll anything back or are we just going down that road of socialism eventually one of the sad realities is uh that both political parties these days have have gotten accustomed to the Washington culture just trade you know sharing power now and then and and but everybody in Washington believes that you gotta get the bill.
You gotta get a bill.
You got to get a bill you gotta get a bill.
You can't not get a bill.
Yeah.
A bill can't fail because if a bill fails a lobbyist will get paid off.
So um but look at it kind of depresses me.
No no no because we're in a conservative ascendancy now and conservatism is what's going to roll this back.
Conservative before you roll it back it's gotta be stopped.
You know that's that's a a hard cold reality.
It's it's like we're on this giant cruise ship and uh okay pull the engines just go to a dead stop.
You're still gonna coast for a while out there because of momentum.
So same thing here.
Look at we we did we did succeed in the nineties.
I'll give you an ex example of this.
We succeeded in welfare reform.
And it worked and guess what?
It is a target now for reform to get rid of all the reforms that made welfare reform work.
So there's a the there's a the Democrat Party wants as many people in dependency and need as possible get them to vote for the people who are making it possible for them to live and so it's a it's a mighty task in this case rather than even think about rolling it back to deal with that when it happens the thing now to do is stop it.
And believe me there are people working their butts off trying to stop it all over the place.
I gotta run I appreciate the call out there Eric we'll be right back stay with us Senator Thomas Carper uh Democrat Delaware member of the Senate Finance Committee told the Cybercast News Service that uh he does not expect to read the actual legislative language of the Senate Finance Committee's health care bill because it's confusing and anybody who claims that they're gonna read it and understand it is fooling people.
I don't expect to actually read the legislative language because reading the legislative language is among the more confusing things I've ever done in my life he said a Democrat member of the committee says he won't read the text of the bill says anybody who claims they'll understand it is trying to pull the wool over our eyes Stephanie in Charlotte North Carolina nice to have you with us on the EIB network.
Hello Thanks Rush I have a call today to ask you why you're not on Twitter.
I'm too famous to be on Twitter.
If I if I started a Twitter page that's all I'd have time people would be demanding Twitter this a tweet this and tweet that and and uh I'm I'm you know I'm I'm busy enough I I I really've looked at people who who tweet I've I've looked I've gone there look some and and I I don't have the urge to tell you okay I'm going to bathroom I'll be back in ten minutes.
Although I understand that but when you when you uh dip the president during your program and you add your commentary it's one of my favorite things that you do and when I think about when he's giving prime time speeches which is all the time now it would be nice have your thoughts and your humor it would take so easy to listen to it, to be honest with you.
Well, see, and I've now you you are very shrewd, and I I am flattered that you uh are excited about the possibility that I would tweet.
You know, the tweet, Facebook, all this stuff.
I I've never been a joiner.
And if if the if the whatever the conventional wisdom is, I'm out.
And if the hordes are doing it, I don't.
Yeah, I just it's it's just uh I I'm not a sheep, and so forth.
Besides, there is a strategic reason.
If I start tweeting every night when I think of what Obama said, why shouldn't I listen to me the next day?
Oh, I doubt that you would run out of thought and commentary.
I mean, it's a hundred and forty characters, quick.
Yeah, but you're not just talking about one in your head.
Sweet, you're t you you want a whole series of tweets during an Obama speech.
Really honestly, I'd be I'd settle for a good laugh.
Um, you're so good at providing that.
Uh I'm not giving up on you here.
That's not a bad idea, because I do sometimes with friends, and I'll be uh I'm eye chatting or instant messaging with people while I'm watching one of these speeches, and those things are pretty funny back and forth.
I don't doubt it.
I'd I'd like to read them.
Well, um think about it.
I will don't say yes right now.
Just think about it.
All right, I'll put it in the put it in the hopper and ponder it.
Yeah, I'd prefer that.
First question I've ever had about tweeting.
Well, there's so many twits out there tweeting.
It'd be nice to have you know good commentary from time to time on there.
I know.
I mean, it's it's a vast wasteland, isn't it?
Yeah, and then you know, a fresh perspective.
Speaking to the I'm I'm 26 years old.
I've been listening to you since before I cannot remember a time when you were not on the radio between noon and three.
It's been a part of my education, so to speak.
So to have you enter into another medium that I um am a part of would just it would be great.
I appreciate that.
I uh that that's that I appreciate I really do.
Well, thank you.
Yeah, I my my dad that had me listen to you all through summer break.
Actually, when I was in elementary school in the mid-90s, I requested for my social studies teacher to be able to call you to ask your opinion as a part of a project.
He sent me to the principal's office.
The principal heard my question, sat me down at his desk, and for five days let me call you between noon and three for a whole week.
I never did once get through to you.
But what was the question?
What was the question?
You remember?
Oh, I don't think that was as important as the fact that I was trying to call you.
Um I think it was about the conflict in Bosnia.
I think that's what it was.
Yeah.
But uh, but you I mean, I was shocked that I didn't get suspended or something.
If I tried that today, I'd be suspended, expelled, you know.
I'd get sent to the principal's office for a totally different reason.
But he let me sit in your office for five whole days, try to do three hours a day, five days.
Amazing.
Yeah, I learned more in that week than I probably did in the rest of my public education.
By the way, do you uh do you have a cold?
No.
Must be your phone.
You sound like you've got a cold.
Ah, sorry, I'm on a cell phone.
Yeah, that's what it is.
It's not it's not even your phone, it's the way my cochlear implant hears cell phones.
It's sometimes they're not uh I mistake things.
Like it's not all stuffed.
I was gonna suggest you go out and get some Zycam.
Nope, got it in the house already.
We love it.
Use it all the time.
Oh, roll, great.
It works, right?
Yes, it does.
It does.
My husband gets colds all the time.
Terrific.
All right.
Well, hey, uh, Stephanie, I'm gonna seriously consider this twit stuff, uh, tweet stuff.
Uh you know, there are there are a bunch of fake uh Rush Limballs out there already tweeting.
I know, but you can tell they're not you.
It's I mean, there's only one Russian.
Well, you can.
But some of the sponges that are out there tweeting all day may not know the difference until the real one showed up.
You might be right about that.
Right, right.
Think about it.
We appreciate you so much.
You've had such a positive impact on me and my family and my life.
So I'm I'm looking forward to having you around until everybody agrees with you.
Uh well, that's not uh gonna I'm I'm not leaving till that happens, so that'll be a long, long time.
Thanks, Stephanie, very much.
I appreciate a brief time out.
We'll be back.
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