CNNmoney.com with a story on the economy and the stimulus.
They've run the numbers.
CNNmoney.com and they have discovered that the cost to create one stimulus job is $71,500.
The cost to create the job.
For comparison, the real median household income according to the census 2008 was $50,303.
So the cost to create one job in the stimulus is $21,000 higher than the mean real median income in this country.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I hope you heard the last call we had in the previous hour from Ken Hutcherson.
He's a dear friend of mine.
He's a former player of the National Football League.
He played back in the too tall Jones, Harvey, too mean Martin era with the Cowboys and finished his career in Seattle with the Seahawks, which is where he lives now.
And he has been a pastor, the Antioch Bible Church for 25 years.
I met Ken Hutcherson on a fishing trip of all places, Howard Slusher, who worked at Nike at the time and had been a sports agent in Paul Westphal, the former NBA player and coach, and Hutcherson were going to go up there to Vancouver Island and fish for salmon.
Slusher had won this at some charity event rally or auction.
So he called me and asked me if I wanted to go.
You know, I literally no interest in fishing.
But I decided to go to see what it was like, and we had a great time, and the Hutch was my roommate.
We had a two-bedroom cabin at this place, and we swept every three or four days, and the last day we played golf.
I really, really got to know him well, and I didn't catch any fish, but I caught the Hutch as a friend.
I did get close to catching a salmon, but the guy, the tour guide, goofed up turning the boat for us to reel it in, and a stupid sea lion came along, let us do all the work of hooking the salmon.
A sea lion came along, and one bite, the salmon's gone.
I turned to the Hutch and I said, anybody want to talk to me about animal rights here?
At any rate, the Hutch has a practice every year during the NFL playoffs and prior to the Super Bowl.
The Hutch calls here on a Friday and we analyze and talk about those games.
And it's just, it's a fun discussion.
He's still very knowledgeable about the game.
And he's unabashed.
He will say whatever he says.
And he's just become a very, very dear friend.
He just celebrated the 25th anniversary of his church.
And he called to express his shock and outrage over what all has gone on in the story here of the National Football League.
Mike, roll the call off, because people listening this hour may not have heard it at all.
Whenever you have time, I don't need it immediately.
Just a couple minutes.
I wish he could have held on, but he had to go film a commercial of some kind.
But he said he will call back later on in the week.
Telephone number, by the way, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882.
The email address lrushbo at eibnet.com.
I walked out of the studio at the top of the hour.
I went into the control room where the trusted and loyal staff is just outraged.
I no more than got one foot in the door and Dawn starts shouting at me.
We are not satisfied.
We are not.
That first caller was wrong.
We don't feel better.
Sue them!
Sue cut!
You can't, you, you, you, we can't do it!
You get it!
And then Snerdley stood up, started spitting out the same thing in anger.
Brian said, to hell with it, I'm leaving, and went and got a bottle of water.
Well, I become the new owner of the National Astron Network.
There's on the monochrome coalition.
No, no, no, no.
Look at, folks, I understand you think you're enraged by this.
Trust me, I'm right in there with you, leading the pack.
But there is a strategy here that has to play out, that has to take place.
I don't want you to sit around and think that we're not looking into this.
We have been for a while.
It's got to be done right.
Evidence has to be gathered.
It is.
It's one battle in a long war.
In the meantime, the best thing we can do right now is to continue to stay focused on the destruction of the United States of America brought about by the agenda of President Barack Obama.
And looking at that, Byron York here at the Washington Examiner, a new Gallup poll shows that a number of people who have a favorable impression of Barack Obama has fallen to its lowest since he became president.
56% say they have a favorable impression of Obama versus 40% who say they have an unfavorable impression.
4% say they have no opinion.
Historically, a president's personal favorable rating has often been higher than his job approval number.
Right now, Gallup has Obama's job approval at 52%.
Now, Gallup points out that in this latest survey, Hillary Clinton is now more popular than Barack Obama.
Now, do we look at that as good news?
It all depends on your perspective.
Try this.
See if you think this is good news.
You know full well that the Democrats are very scared.
They are worried about the 2010 midterm elections.
They're worried about the governor's race in Virginia next month.
From the Wall Street Journal, Republicans won a pair of special elections for state legislative seats in Tennessee and Oklahoma on Tuesday of this week in seats that have been held by Democrats for decades.
Combined with this month's capture of the Albuquerque mayor's office by a Republican for the first time in 28 years, the upcoming November 3rd off-year elections may feature a Democrat turnout problem that'll boost Republican performance.
In Tennessee, Republican businessman Pat Marsh won 56% of the vote to defeat the Democrat Ty Cobb.
It wasn't as if Mr. Cobb had a name unknown to voters.
His brother Kurt had held the seat before resigning to take another government office.
Turned out in some counties dipped as low as 13%.
Now, Mr. Cobb attributed his defeat to the fact that a lot of people based their opinions on national issues.
Healthcare issue was the main one.
And in that governor's race, Cree deeds, he does not want Obama anywhere near his campaign.
And all these Democrats understand that it's the health care debate that puts them at greatest risk, although there are other things that are endangering their reelection.
Try this in Pennsylvania.
This is from the Pittsburgh Tribune Review.
Only 31% of Pennsylvania voters believe that Arlen Specter should be re-elected.
59% believe it's time to give somebody else a chance, according to a state poll.
Specter's numbers are staggering, said the pollster Jim Lee, president of Susquehanna Polling and Research.
An incumbent typically is vulnerable if fewer than 40% approve of his or her re-election.
Lee said, Now, this was a poll to 700 registered voters conducted between October 7 and 12.
It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.
And he said, when you see a reelect number in the low 30s, that is near fatal.
Arlen Specter polling at 31 percent.
Among Republicans, 16 percent said Specter deserves reelection.
75 percent wants somebody new.
In the Democrat side, 44 percent of voters would re-elect Specter.
45 percent want somebody else.
Now, remember, he changed parties specifically to save the seat.
He became a Democrat strictly to enhance his reelection in Pennsylvania.
And a poll right now has him at 31 percent.
I have to laugh.
Standing at the site of a highway project funded by his economic stimulus plan, President Obama said yesterday he's committed to exploring all avenues to create jobs.
Well, hey, what timing?
After he's gone about and destroyed how many millions of jobs and supposedly come up with a program that's going to get us back to work and unemployment was never going to be higher than 8%.
Now, all of a sudden, he's looking at any way to create jobs.
Let me tell you what.
Don't be fooled.
He'll look at any way but the right way.
Obama said his administration is going to keep going until every single American in this country who's looking for work is going to be able to get the kind of well-paying job that supports their families.
What is he telling us?
I mean, sadly, that means he's never going to leave because this is never going to happen under him.
Let me read this again.
Obama said his administration is going to keep going until every single American in this country who's looking for work, and underline who's looking for work, is going to be able to get the kind of well-paying job that supports their families.
The dirty little secret is that it isn't going to be very long before there aren't very many people looking for work.
2012, the experts are telling us 2012 before positive growth in the job sector happens.
That's three years, my friends.
Two and a half years.
The administration has stopped short of calling for a second economic stimulus package, but with the job picture slow to improve, Obama said his administration's moving forward on different fronts to boost the economy.
So the current phase of the Fairfax Parkway project, the stimulus project, will create new private sector jobs.
His goal, he said, is an economy where our stock market isn't only rising again, but our businesses are hiring again.
Critics question whether the jobs created by the stimulus are worth the price tag and the debt the government has taken on to pay for it.
Way to end the story, A.P. Obama.
Way to end that should be the remember: $71,500 to create a single job with stimulus money.
And the real median household income for 2008, $50,303.
Oh, Obama also knows he's in deep trouble with the seasoned citizens.
And, you know, this is something that the Republicans just have not harped on.
There's no cost of living allowance increase in Social Security next year.
But Obama's paying his czars all kinds of money, and Congress voted itself increased budget expenses and their salaries went up.
But there's not a cost of living increase in Social Security.
And he's also losing seasoned citizens big time in healthcare.
It doesn't help when people dredge up statements from Robert B. Rice, shuh, from 2007, saying, We're going to let you die.
We're not going to give you what you need the last couple of years of your life just to prolong your life a couple months.
That's not worth it.
It's too expensive.
We're just going to let you die.
Senior citizens know full well what they face, the guillotine.
If healthcare bill ever passes in light of that, President Obama called on Congress yesterday to approve $250 payments to more than 50 million seasoned citizens to make up for no increase in the COLA in Social Security.
The White House said it cost $13 billion.
The Social Security Administration schedule to announce Thursday there will be no cost-of-living increase.
What do you mean?
They already did.
We knew this two weeks ago.
By law, increases are pegged to inflation, which has been negative this year.
So let's see.
We're going to give every seasoned citizen $250.
Why not $350?
Why not $1,000?
$250, it's an insult.
$250, why not give them $1,000?
Why not spend $26 billion instead of $13 billion?
We don't have $13 billion either.
Why not spend $50 billion?
Harry Reid has admitted that health care is going to cost $2 trillion.
Harry Reid has admitted it.
So he's out there buying everybody.
This is exactly how they do it.
Buy it off with your money.
It's laughable.
You're going to go out there.
He's going to look at every possible way to create jobs.
Every possible way, but the right one.
Quick time out.
Back after this with you.
Okay, here's the call from Ken Hutcherson, affectionately known here as the Hutch, from about a half hour ago that I talked about at the beginning of this hour that some of you may not have heard.
We got the Hutch on the phone from Seattle.
Ken Hutcherson, former linebacker, Dallas Cowboys, Seattle Seahawks.
Hutch, welcome to the program.
Hey, my man, man, I am so mad.
I am doing backflips up here in Seattle.
What in the world is going on in the United States?
I mean, the whole issue, Rush, whether you like it or not, is they have done you wrong.
And this is intolerance.
It's prejudice.
And if America don't wake up, it's going to happen to them.
I am so mad, man.
I cannot even.
And I'm a man of the cloth, Rush.
I'm not supposed to get this upset.
And it is time for all of us.
You know, why don't they talk to some African Americans that know you?
Oh, that would destroy the narrative.
That would destroy the template.
Oh, forget that.
You know, and talk to some African Americans that know the poverty pimps, Sharpton and Jackson.
They're nothing but slave sliders and pushers to get their way.
And they're going to let them have a voice on all the stuff that they've done.
Jesse Jackson was telling the Bush to stay out of the bushes.
He was the one in the bushes having illegitimate kids.
How in the world can the NFL?
And I'm going to tell you something else, brother, straight from me, who played football.
Those African-American brothers who's talking about they wouldn't play, that is the biggest lie on this side of the universe.
Not only would their wives get on them and make them go and their girlfriends and their moms, they will beat them all the way to the 50-yard line and tell them, you better get out there and get that game checked.
And why don't they talk to the hundreds of African-American players that will be excited about you owning the team?
Well, they want to present the option, the idea that there are none, and that's what they've done.
And that's it.
Ken Hutcherson, and he couldn't hang on for any longer.
He had to go film a commercial 25th anniversary year for his church, Antioch Bible Church, up in Seattle.
All right, Peter in Old Bridge, New Jersey.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Rush, how are you?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
It's great.
I used to listen to you when I was a kid back in the 80s when Bob Grant was on the radio.
And I get to listen to you on my days off because I'm a nurse and I work.
I can't get to hear you.
So I just wanted to, for a lot of us, I thank you for championing this whole thing with this race card.
And a lot of us, a lot of us can't even talk at work.
We're afraid to talk.
We look over our shoulders.
Even by saying the name Obama, we look over our shoulders that we're going to be called racists and things if we disagree with his policies.
And, you know, and this whole NFL thing, it's a can of worms that may bite him in the butt because I know people who had to give up their tickets with this tariff or this fee they had to pay just to have the opportunity to buy their season tickets.
And then now hearing this, this is going to turn their fans away from the NFL, from sports.
And I can't tell you how much I appreciate you championing this cause.
And the more this is exposed, maybe this is a lot of ways it's going to get settled.
This whole race thing in our country.
People are tired of that.
They don't want that.
And I can't tell you how much I appreciate it.
Well, thank you.
It's a challenging time for the NFL because they're having trouble in a lot of markets, lifting blackouts, getting sellouts.
Ticket prices, they're trying to hold steady, but they're going up.
The economy is plunging.
It's dark days.
They've got this potential labor strife that is coming up in the National Football League.
And I don't know what impact all this is going to have on people like you who listen to this show and what their reaction is going to be.
We're going to cancel their Sunday ticket subscription on DirecTV.
They've got to not go to games.
I don't know.
I really can't imagine that happening in large numbers, but I might be surprised.
Well, I think the bigger thing is that this whole how Sharpton and Jackson goes after people, and they're not credible, and they've been caught lying and doing wrong things.
Well, that's a question I've been raising for a long time.
These two people are irrelevant if they are not promoted with credibility by the media.
That's the only thing that gives them power.
They have no power because of their own character.
They have no power because of their own credibility.
They only have power because they are anointed.
Whenever a question of race comes up, you make a beeline, Sharpton and Jackson.
Whenever a feminist issue comes up, you go out and find out who's running the nags.
Look at that, it's all one giant den of thieves on the left.
Whether they're in the media, whether they're in activist groups or in the Democrat Party, they are all radical leftists, and they all work Together to advance their agenda, which is anti-freedom and liberty.
And welcome back, Rush Limbaugh here behind the Golden EIB microphone.
Again, checking email and responding to it.
Folks, I'm in the midst of a dilemma here in the way that I have always chosen to conduct myself professionally.
A lot of you are urging me to get about the National Football League's address and then urging people to write letters to the commissioner.
Now, as you know, over the course of the 21 years of this program, I have never, well, one time I think, twice, twice I have advocated, one the immigration debate, and once as an experiment to show Howard Feynman what would happen if I actually Steve Roberts, Steve Roberts, Steve Roberts of US News, I had to prove what would happen because I was being accused of drumming up a bunch of phony opposition to issues being debated in Congress.
And I said, I don't do it, Steve.
I don't give out the congressional phone number.
If it happens, I want it to happen of its own nature, its own initiative.
I want people to do it on their own.
Because if I do do it, if I give out a phone number, so you call them or you write them, it's going to be discounted as a drummed-up phony support that wouldn't have happened if Limbaugh hadn't played Pied Piper to his mind-numbed robots.
So I've always had a philosophy here.
I don't tell you what to do.
That's not the relationship we have.
I don't look at you as mind-numbed robots that can't make up your own mind.
So that's, you've got to give out the NFL's address so people are, I have a feeling that's happening.
You think it's happening out there, Snerdley?
The more they see the clip of Goodell, me being divisive and all that sort of thing.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, the NFL, I mean, there's a interesting thing about the National Football League is that it has gotten away with being portrayed and seen as apolitical, when in fact it's run by the left.
The sports writer community is radical leftists.
They are pure 100% liberals, vast majority of them.
The Players Association head is an Obamaite, Demorris or Demaurice Smith.
I'm not sure how he pronounces his name.
You have Sharpton and Jackson involved here, dictating.
Now, I mean, I don't know if the NFL realizes it yet, but they've really gone down a slippery slope.
Now, they have now allowed Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and DeMaurice Smith to have a say, if not total say, in who can and cannot own a team based on what that person might think or might say.
And everybody looks, and De Maurice Smith, we want to look at the NFL as something that brings everybody together.
There's no divisiveness in the NFL.
We want to bring everybody together.
And in fact, it's a very exclusionary club, and there are a lot of liberal policies that run the National Football League.
And it's just been shown that if you are conservative, you are not wanted.
If you're publicly conservative and effective, you're not wanted, even as a minority, quote-unquote, owner.
So the idea that sports somehow has escaped our politics is silly.
Sports, particularly football, is reported on from a totally liberal slant.
Have you ever noticed how the players always, I don't care, they're treated like Hollywood celebrities.
Even their shortcomings are written about with sympathy and hope for rehabilitation and redemption.
It is what it is.
And it's now with what's really going on here, the collective bargaining agreement coming up and the Players Association using all this controversy here as sort of an intimidating piece of leveraging as the owners.
Okay, now you see what we can do.
You see what we can do.
You see the political pressure we can bring to this league.
And the Players Association guy has an Obama item.
He's telling the owners, look, if I have to, I'll get Congress involved.
And you might say, well, what's Congress got to do with it?
What is Sheila Jackson Lee, for example, going to the floor of the House of Representatives to berate and criticize incorrectly with false information a private citizen?
Me, the idea that the NFL is not politicized is silly.
Now, I'm going to get a little cliched with you here, folks.
A lot of people say this, and they say it trying to make themselves feel better.
I actually believe it.
I believe things happen for a reason.
And I believe that there is good in everything.
And given what I have learned since in the past 24 hours, not only do I maintain I didn't lose anything, I think I have been spared a whole bunch of future grief down the road.
I would have had a bunch of money tied up that I will now not have tied up.
Who knows what would have happened to the investment?
I would have had to put up with some hostile owners, so forth.
There's good in everything that happens, and I do believe that there's a reason things happen.
And I'm not being clichéd, and I'm not trying to, in an artificial way, make myself feel better about this.
You know, the people that have been most impacted by this are those closest to me.
I can't tell you.
The staff of this radio show is livid.
They are still shouting in my ear over this.
Members of my family.
I mean, it's, and you, I've, I've been through this for 21 years.
I have built up a mechanism for dealing with it.
Plus, I have something that they don't have.
I've got this microphone, and I have three hours every day, and I can go out and respond to it when and how I see fit.
My staff doesn't have the microphone, and you're not getting it, by the way.
Just kidding.
Dawn, she is so tense in there.
It's going to take two hands to force your mouth to smile.
So it's a tough thing for people close to me, for me to see them be so angry, upset, hurt, and so forth.
And I can't say to them, don't worry about it.
I've been through it.
Because that doesn't satisfy anybody.
I understand that.
But let me give you an analogy.
I hope the media is listening to this one.
This is going to be the media tweak of the day.
And Snerdley pointed this out to me.
We have been through this in these 21 years, things like this, the Michael J. Fox misrepresentations, the phony soldier thing, the ESPN situation and so forth.
And each time these things happen, we equate it here to a storm surge.
And the waves are just piling up and they're washing over us.
Oh my gosh, people, how are they ever going to, how are they ever going to survive this?
Oh, no, not again.
But eventually the waves recede and the rock remains.
And it has been that way for 21 years.
And it shall continue to be.
Danbury, Connecticut, Lori, thank you for waiting.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Fine.
Thank you very much.
I just wanted to tell you, I'm a nurse and I own a medical supply company in Danbury.
And it's been very, very tough for me and worried about the health care business.
But the reason that I'm calling you is because I'm just mortified at what they've done to you with the NFL.
And I just want to put this idea past you.
Every time the Democrats or the Libs get in trouble with someone or someone is becoming too strong, what do they do?
They call them racist.
Why don't you take that as a badge of honor and use it against them?
Every time they call you a racist, use it against the Libs.
You know they're scared of you.
You know they know you're powerful.
And I think you could use it for good.
How so?
Just in the way you present yourself with people, the fact that they're calling you a racist, now you know they're afraid of you.
You knew that before.
Well, yes, all of this is because of my effectiveness.
That's exactly right.
I mean, if there was somebody speaking up louder and more prominently than me, if there was an elected Republican saying the things I say, they'd be destroying that person too.
I mean, Sarah Palin, when she pops up, you know, they try to chop her head off.
Michelle Bachman, Michelle Bachman, another of our elected officials showing real guts and real courage, and they're going after her.
This is what the left does.
The left cannot debate us idea for idea.
They would lose.
They have to demonize.
This is a Linskyite.
They demonize and they clear the playing field.
They wipe the playing fields plain clear of their enemies.
That's what they try to do.
And that's why, you know, it's silly for Republicans to willingly go away.
Okay, I'm sorry.
I apologize.
I'll go away.
It's like Tuesday night, I was asked by Mr. Checkitz to please, in order to save his group's bid to back out of this.
And I said, I am not backing out of this.
You said you had this taken care of.
You said that you had all cleared this.
You wouldn't have approached me.
If you want me out, then you publicly fire me because I am not going to accede to these deadly charges of racism.
I am not going to quit and make it look like I'm doing so because they're telling the truth about me.
If you don't want me in the group because you think it's going to harm your effort to get this in the you get rid of me publicly.
And that's what he did.
Well, I think you ought to get even with that gas bag, Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and turn this stuff around and use it against them.
It should be easy.
They're easy targets.
Well, again, yesterday on this program, I know you're talking about doing more than just pointing out the truth about them on the program.
Be patient, my friends.
But again, go to rushlimbaugh.com.
Yesterday, all the truth and many of the truths that you do not know about Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
News stories.
It's all there.
Going as far back to 1987, I believe, with the New York Times.
Anyway, Lori, I appreciate it.
I got to take a quick time out.
We'll do it and be back right after this.
Don't go away.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
El Rushball, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-seeing, all-feeling, all concerned, Maha Rushi.
Behind the golden EIB microphone to Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Kevin, thank you for waiting.
It's your turn, sir.
Hi, Rush.
It's a great honor to be able to speak with you and everything right now.
I've listened to you my whole entire life.
I'm 25 years old, and I have never once heard you be a racist.
I think it is completely fabricated that they have to race bait you because you want to buy a team.
It just drives me nuts.
Well, they did this to you.
It's a tactic.
It's designed to put people on defensive, on the defense, trying to prove a negative.
And in this case, they had to go so far as to report totally fabricated and made up quotes.
I mean, I think journalism is forever gone, as we've known it.
It's been corrupted by people who have no character, who have no integrity, and who have very little, if any, concern for the truth.
It's all about advancing an agenda.
In this case, it's all about protecting Obama for whatever social or political reasons they find themselves attached here.
I don't want to get into a psychological analysis of these people because I could go insane trying to figure out what it is that animates them.
But it's so predictable.
I mean, this is the stock and trade of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
Yeah, I mean, didn't the great Reverend Jesse Jackson back in the day when he was trying to run for president say something very derogatory and then that kind of kicked him out of the race?
I don't remember that.
I do know that he's up in New York, and he said something that people did not like, and he got kicked out of the presidential bid back in the 80s when he was attempting to run.
I don't remember.
Well, I know he called New York Jaime Town.
Yeah, that's it.
And Jew is Jaimes.
And he said much worse stuff.
We've documented all these things he said and more, and it's right there at rushlimbaugh.com.
It's from yesterday's program.
But the thing you have to understand, though, Kevin, and this is a point that I made a moment ago about the NFL and trying to portray itself as an apolitical organization, something that has nothing to do with politics.
It's not partisan in any way.
We want everybody in America to be a fan.
We just don't want any conservatives to be owners, but we want everybody to be a fan because we're not a political organization.
After this, there is no way the NFL can say it is not political.
It is steeped in politics now, partisan politics.
And one of the primary reasons is the sports writers of America, the sports journalists of this country.
Whatever you think of the mainstream news journalist, the sports writer community is more liberal, irrationally liberal, hearts on their sleeves, social conscious liberal than you will ever believe.
Oh, yeah, and I know that.
I'm starting to see it, and it drives me nuts.
And I know it has to be driving you even more nuts, considering, I mean, you have over 20 million listeners and you talk about conservatism 24-7.
Yep, I know.
And do so in an effective way.
This is all right.
I just checked at the computer screen.
You know, I just done a call.
I'll just check.
Sue CNN.
Sue MSF.
I know.
I know.
Folks, I hear you.
Kevin in...
No, that's not...
Where are we going next?
John in Springfield, Pennsylvania.
You're on the EIB network.
Hello.
Mr. Limbaugh, it is such a pleasure and a privilege to speak to you.
Longtime listener, first-time caller.
Thank you.
I just want to tell you, Russian, I know that you don't support boycotts.
I'm a big NFL fan.
I have recently, as of today, canceled my NFL package on my cable provider.
I will throw all of my jerseys out.
I am finished with the NFL altogether.
I know you don't support that, sir, but the way I see it, we have to stick together.
And I just want to tell you, I have your back.
And not only is it me, all my friends feel the same way.
And we get together every week and we watch whatever game is on.
We are finished.
Period.
And I just want to thank you for all that you do for this country.
You are a brave man, and I give you the utmost respect for what you do.
You tell the truth, and you take all the arrows.
Thank you, sir.
I appreciate that.
Thank you.
I'm just overwhelmed by all of this support and sentiment that is coming out now.
I can't thank you all enough.
I'll never, ever really be able to properly repay you for all that you have meant to me and my family.
And this episode is illustrating all that in spades.
It's illustrating all of that in droves.
Right now, by the way, you know, I referred to some local markets being blacked out television-wise.
They're going to hit me on that, I just know.
Lookie here, folks.
We're learning some interesting things today in this stack of stuff.
Three of the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee had objections to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to Obama, according to a Norwegian newspaper.
The paper has spoken to a number of sources who confirmed the impression that a majority of the Nobel Committee at first had not decided to give the peace prize to Obama, but the head honcho, Thorborn Jagland, or however you pronounce it in Norwegian, muscled the vote through.