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Oct. 16, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 16, 2009, Friday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host on this program, now documented to be almost always right, 99.3 went up two-tenths of a point yesterday because of my first 15-minute monologue, 99.3% of the time.
By the way, do you know today is the 20th anniversary of George H.W. Bush's Thousand Points of Light program?
And he's invited Obama down there to Texas to participate in it.
I just wanted to remind you all that I am number 773 on the 1000 Points of Lights Friday.
Hello.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And the telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882, the email address, El Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
But when you go to the phones, the program is all yours.
Speakable, whatever you want.
Trickery is not necessary.
Okay, I want to get back to Jack Cashill here because both Jim Ursai, who sees thoughts, watches thoughts, and Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the National Football League, have both said that we can't have divisive people here.
We're going to be, you know, diverse and so forth.
So Jack Cashill at the AmericanThinker.com has broken down some of the problems the NFL has.
No Japanese players, except one adopted by an American family.
We have very few Mexican-American men in the International Football League.
And what, Chinese players are Zilt Zeronada.
Cashiel has not tabulated a number of Jewish players, but that wouldn't trouble Sharpton and Jackson.
Jackson, the author of the term Jaime Town and Jaime's.
I'm sure the relatively few percentage of Jewish players in the NFL is all fine with Sharpton and Jackson.
But here, as it happens, the only white...
Hey, look, they started this, folks.
If they want...
If they want to talk about diversity and having some people aren't divisive and so forth, they're fine.
As it happens, only the white-dominated white-collar positions of kicker and quarterback have rules specifically designed to protect them from rough play.
Interestingly, all six of the kickers and quarterbacks on Ursa's Colts are white.
It's not to say that Ursai is a racist, but rather that he is insensitive to matters of race.
Can't even find one black quarterback anywhere to put on a taxi squad.
The quarterback position presents a variety of troubling issues.
As of this writing, the 10 quarterbacks with the highest official ratings are all white.
Now, this can only indicate a racial bias in the design of the rating system, folks.
Ideally, these ratings should be based on job-related criteria and be predictive of success.
The fact that the top four rated quarterbacks and five of the top 10 play for undefeated teams means little.
What we know from the media and academia is that there are no genetic differences among races.
Knowing this, we can infer that the testing the NFL does to choose its players and assign them to positions is flawed.
Intentionally or not, this selection process has had a disparate impact on certain underrepresented groups, Hispanic Americans most dramatically.
The token hiring of Mark Sanchez by the New York Jets does not begin to address this injustice.
If our fire departments can look like America, why not the NFL?
Where is La Raza when we need them?
Jack Cashill, the American thinker.
By the way, folks, we have at rushlimblock.com an ever-expanding list of links to some of the best stories, observations, reactions to this whole episode.
And we'll be trying to update it throughout the weekend.
But it's a long list and it's great.
You should check every link.
We are updating them constantly.
The address is rushlimbaugh.com.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, the official Obama criticizer, Bo Snerdley, asked me yesterday if he could enter this fray.
His theory is that he is certified black enough to legitimately and without criticism criticize Obama.
And he would like to say some words about this NFL episode.
So without any further delay, here is Mr. Bo Snerdley, the official Obama criticizer here on the EIB network.
This is Bo Snerdley, official Obama criticizer for the EIB network, certified black enough to criticize with 100% organic slave blood.
Today, Obama isn't the issue.
This is a special sports edition.
And I have a statement.
My fellow Americans, this week, a racial spectacle has been played out, which is nothing less than disgraceful.
You know what?
Screw this.
We're going to the translation right now.
Only this time is not a translation for the EIB brothers and sisters in the hood.
It's a translation to the hood.
Yo, my fellow homies, especially those of you who play in the NFL, every single one of you who shouted out against Rush, check yourself, dog.
You got played, okay?
Rush ain't your problem, yo.
He never was your problem.
He never will be your problem.
20 years, man.
20 years, Rush has been telling everybody, you brothers in the NFL deserve to get paid.
The NFL and every other sports league there is got to break it off to you because you the best, right?
The owners, they got to break it off to you, give up your props, give you your props.
Any of you fools know that, yo?
No.
Instead, you get all puffed up behind some Obama flacky, jump on TV, start mouthing off about Rush said this, Rush said that, slavery, this, slavery, that, whatever, whatever.
It was all made up, yo.
Some of these clown reporters on TV who fed all this stuff to you, yo, you know what they're doing now?
They out here trying to apologize quietly so they don't get their asses sued.
Yo, check that out.
Y'all got played.
So here's your question for you, brothers, especially some of y'all in the NFL.
Y'all gonna man up?
Y'all gonna man up and say, hey, we got played, man.
We kind of sorry.
Ooh, we didn't know.
Okay?
Now, let me, while I'm, yo, let me get this off, okay?
McNab.
Can we just do this one more time?
Square up.
Even if Rush said what y'all thought he said, which he didn't say, what's the biggie?
Y'all thought he said that McNabb wasn't all of that.
And was getting props because people wanted a black guy to succeed at quarterback.
So what?
So what?
Don't y'all want to see a black quarterback naked, yo?
I do.
So the sports media guys said, you know, they want him to succeed.
What's the big deal?
Is there a problem here, yo?
And McNab, you a punk, yo.
Now, my NFL brothers, let me ask you a question here.
Who was it that whipped Michael Vick a Newman after he got done in the joint?
Was it Rush?
Nope.
It was a bunch of your white liberal sports writer guys pretending they love their dogs more than they love their wives, okay?
That's who ripped all over Michael Vick.
Who's been ripping Plexico?
Who's been whipping Plaxman?
Every time y'all get with, who was it that ran T.O. up on out of Dallas, yo?
Okay?
Was it Rush?
No.
Okay?
Now, for all you homies, this is outside the NFL.
For all my brothers and sisters, y'all want to get pissed off about somebody insulting black people?
Why don't y'all watch BET, Black Exploitation Television, okay?
You want to know who's calling black women, bitches, hold this, bitches, hold that.
Has it Rush Limbaugh?
No.
Who's telling y'all that all y'all can do is jiggle your butts on TV?
Is it Rush Limbaugh?
No.
Rush ain't your enemy, yo.
You know what the biggest threat to black men is in America, yo?
It ain't Rush Limbaugh.
It's other black men who are killing our brothers like they did that young boy out in Chicago, okay?
Half, a quarter of our brothers don't even make it to be age 25 because they get shot up by other black men.
Rush out there pulling the trigger?
No.
And y'all brothers, y'all got anything to say about it?
Especially y'all in the NFL.
Y'all get paid, y'all leave the hood.
That's that.
Not a word, okay?
Now, for all of y'all who live deep in the hood, I got another question.
Is it Rush Limbaugh stopping your kids from being educated in your one-down schools, in your one-down-ass neighborhoods?
No.
Who is it?
And where's Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson on that instead of flapping their mouth about all this other stuff that they don't know anything else about?
How come Al, Jesse, and y'all are living lodge, and the hood is still the hood?
That concludes my statement.
That's the official Obama criticizer, Bo Snerdley.
It's Open Line Friday, and we will be back.
A couple things about the Wall Street Journal.
Wall Street Journal has a great, great piece today that we link to, one of the many links we have at RushLimbaugh.com today, on the thuggishness of DeMorris Smith, the White House, the NFL, Sharpton and Jackson, and so forth.
Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit has a reaction to it.
If football has become so, football, if football is now so thoroughly politicized under this gang, why expect that liver transplants will be different?
And that is exactly right.
These people are politicizing everything.
And if you think that your health care is not going to be political as well, you need to wake up and understand exactly who this bunch of people are or is.
Let's go to the audio sound by Savannah Guthrie, an NBC infobabe on Scarborough show this morning.
He asked her, so how does the president go to New Orleans to talk about Katrina?
And instead of going over to Mississippi, he gets on a plane and flies to a Democrat fundraiser in San Francisco.
I think that it just kind of was an exclamation point for those who felt that this was an insult, that he didn't spend a lot of time there.
He visited a charter school, talked to some kids, and had this town hall, and he was out of there.
In terms of just communication strategy, he really opened himself up to it with such a short visit and then jetting off to San Francisco to this $3 million DNC fundraiser.
I think it was $34,000 a couple for the day.
How much per couple?
For the couples at the dinner, $34,000 per couple.
$34,000 per couple, San Francisco.
I think it was at the Metal St. Francis Hotel.
It's in Union Square.
And what happened?
A tea party broke out.
A tea party.
At Gateway Pundit, there are pictures of literally hundreds of protesters across the street from the hotel where Obama in San Francisco.
Now, they were leftist protesters.
They were rightist protesters, but there weren't any riots among the protesters.
They were all focusing their anger at Obama.
He's inside at a $34,000 a couple fundraiser for the Democrat National Committee after four hours in New Orleans.
And it was basically a flywar.
And remember, folks, I told you yesterday what that trip to New Orleans was about.
Everybody, you know, Obama said, ooh, ooh, if I could write you a check, I would.
You can.
You have written $1.4 trillion worth of checks for money that you don't have.
What do you mean if you could write a check, you would?
What's going on in New Orleans?
What's going on in Michigan and Detroit?
That's where we're all headed if this guy isn't, if this guy succeeds.
This is where we are headed.
He goes into New Orleans and looks at this and say, ooh, okay, I see what my agenda is going to bring to the rest of the country.
All right, all right.
You think he cares?
Remember San Francisco had a fundraiser where he talked about you, the bitter clingers.
In times like this, you seek solace in your religion, ooh, phew, and your guns.
Ew, yuck.
He's an arrogant elitist, but hell, you know, even in the Atlantic, the Atlanta, no, Harper's, Harper's Magazine, there's a piece in Harper's, I mean, they're way over there on the left, along with everybody else in the media.
Harper's has got a big, long column.
Is this guy really that smart or is he just plain stupid?
The libs are attacking this guy from all over the place.
You don't hear about it in too many places, but I got evidence of it here in the stack.
Let's step back for a moment, shall we, and examine situations where Obama has found success.
And in each of these instances, Obama's success begins and ends with corrupting the voting process.
And not just the November elections.
I'll mention me first, the process where bids are taken for NFL owners to vote on new owners.
The vote process has been totally corrupted.
Votes for the Nobel Peace Prize, packing boards of directors, General Motors and Chrysler, legislation in Congress, card check, the Democrat caucus votes during primaries and the November elections.
Anytime a vote is involved, Barack Obama or his proxies will stop at nothing to delegitimize the voting process, and that's primarily what Acorn is all about.
That is the, you know, corruption in the voting process is the one constant to Obama's success.
He either clears the field of opposition, or if the opposition doesn't go away, then they corrupt the voting process.
Organizing to corrupt votes of all kinds and then embracing democracy.
Honest and informed elections will produce a negative result for Obama, so his focus is fixated on corrupting and disrupting elections.
Look at, folks, more and more pollsters are pointing.
George Will's the latest one.
He's a columnist, but more and more pollsters are pointing out the big problems the Democrats have in the 2010 elections.
The Senate and the House both.
And George Will points out this is why they're running like bats out of hell to get all this stuff done before Obama loses his majorities, and particularly his 60 votes in the Senate.
That's why they are in a race to get all of this corrupt legislation signed into law, this liberty-busting, freedom-busting, and economy-busting legislation passed into law.
They're going to have much more trouble getting it done if they don't have those 60 votes in the Senate.
And in some of these things, they don't have the 60 votes now.
So there's a pattern.
If there is a vote involved, Obama and his associates will find a way to infect the process from the NFL all the way down to the November elections.
The state-controlled media will propagandize information related to the vote, and then it'll look the other way when laws have been broken and the process have been compromised.
And after the fraud and corruption have garnered the desired result, then legitimacy is claimed and a mandate is claimed.
Ooh, goody, goody, goody.
Corrupting the voting process is how Obama wins elections, organizes unions, destroys the private sector, and it is how he governs.
This story, Charlotte, North Carolina, this is just amazing.
Bank of America Corporation said Friday it lost more than $2 billion in the third quarter as loan losses kept rising.
Now, wait a minute.
I thought the economy was back from the brink.
I thought everything was fine.
I thought we'd turned a corner on this.
Now, that's an AP story, the Reuters story.
Bank of America's Lewis gives up 2009 salary and bonus at the urging of the PASAR.
Now, listen to the AP lead on this story.
Bank of America Corporation said Friday it lost more than $2 billion in the third quarter as loan losses kept rising, providing further evidence that consumers are still struggling to pay their bills.
There's a story on one of the networks today that food banks are being overwhelmed by people.
I don't think it is being accurately reported just how bad it is out there.
People cannot find work.
Obama says, oh, I wish I could write you a check, New Orleans.
Why don't you?
You're writing checks for everybody else that matters to you.
And now, AP reporting all these, well, you know, the number of jobless claims much lower than expected.
Experts, shocked and stunned.
Still have 10% unemployment on the way all the way to 2012.
Consumers still struggling to pay their bills.
Here's the thing is, this guy, Ken Lewis, the CEO, was railroaded out of it in BNA.
As I understand it, somebody correct me if I'm wrong here, but as I understand it, Ken Lewis did not want to do the Merrill Lynch deal.
Says in the article that I saw last night that his pay salary is being removed because the Merrill Lynch, he didn't want to do it.
He was strong-armed into absorbing Merrill Lynch by Paulson, by Bernanke, and by Geithner.
His business sense said, No, we got no business absorbing Merrill Lynch, but they made him do it in order to save Merrill.
Who was it they let go?
Lehman Brothers.
They let Lehman Brothers go if that was the only one they were going to let go.
Then Merrill's bonus deals came out in public, deals that Ken Lewis had nothing to do with, I believe, and now he's the goat.
They're making Ken Lewis the goat, and he opposed the policies that have created so much trouble for Bank of America here.
He's the fall guy, or at least the first fall guy.
This bunch, the Obama team, will come up with as many fall guys as they need in order to protect themselves.
I wonder if Bank of America would be doing better if their CEO were getting a salary.
Can you believe this?
They force him to do things he advised against.
They're losing monies.
They're going to punish him.
No bonus or salary for 2009 from the Obama Pesar in the United States of America.
I know I'd feel better if the guy had some incentive to do it.
If I was a customer of Bank of America and my CEO is being punished for something he didn't do and is being railroaded and not being paid, I'm going to think, well, what kind of incentive is there inside the walls of this bank to get anything done?
I know Obama thinks everybody should work for free, but compensation exists for a reason.
Pesar urges bank guy to give up salary.
And if the PAYSR can urge the bank guy to give up his salary, then none of us, ladies and gentlemen, are safe.
And Barney Frank has intimated that he thinks businesses that are not taking federal money should have their compensation regulated by him and the government as well.
You want to hear a fascinating statistic?
Our friends at newsbusters.org have come up with this since the fictional limbaugh quotes were exposed.
The network spent only 47 seconds discussing it.
Only ABC addressed it at all on World News Tonight with Charles Gibson and re-airing David Muir's brief on Good Morning America the next day.
47 seconds has been spent in the media since the fictional limbaugh quotes were exposed.
However, the networks have covered this bogus balloon boy story 100 times more than that.
Drive-by media.
So they drive by, they lob a bomb at me, and they head on down the road waiting for other people to clear up their stupid mess.
And now they've lobbed another bomb into this family's balloon boy story, and they're all over that.
And before this is all over, this family is going to be committing suicide out of public humiliation.
And in the drive-by, as we'll be down the road, and we expect the next target to be Bo Snerdley, the official Obama criticizer.
But as Snerdley is associated with us, Snerdley is ready for them.
Grant in College Station, Texas.
Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Great to have you here.
You rush and mega fighting Texas Aggie Dittos from Texas A ⁇ M University.
Thank you, sir.
Well, as you stated earlier, the great Messiah is gracing us with his presence today here in College Station.
And we have been encouraged to not protest and to be polite to the president as he is coming into town.
Wait a second.
And, you know, I admit, you know, having a president come to the university is a great honor, whoever the president is.
But at no point should we be told to not protest when we get a chance to voice our being into the man who's making it.
Who is it that has issued this dictum?
Well, we received a letter from our student body president saying that.
And we also, there was an open letter from former President George H.W. Bush, who's giving him the award.
George, wait, wait, wait, wait.
The student body president, male or female?
Male.
Okay.
George H.W. Bush actually sent a note asking for civil order and no protests against Obama?
Right.
Well, they don't want things getting out of control because they're scared after the election when our young kids...
I mean, the dirty little cigar.
Texas is ready to recede, secede from the nation because of Obama.
Texas is not Obama country.
Yes, sir.
Well, so what are you going to do?
We're protesting.
That's all it comes down to.
It's all right, and we're going to do it because we finally have the chance to voice the opinions to the man who's screwing us up.
Yeah, I can't believe that.
Well, I can totally believe it, but I just, you know, I wonder if any such order like this went out when Bush was headed anywhere.
No.
We must protect our little Obama.
We must protect his image.
We can't have pictures of protesters.
We just can't have that.
We can't put him in the parking lot.
We can't have this kind of insolence and lack of respect for the dear leader.
They don't do it in Korea.
We shouldn't do it in Texas.
They don't protest Castro in Cuba.
Why shouldn't we do it here in America?
And you'd never get away with this in Moscow.
If you protest Putin, you're going to find yourself in a jail where you're bleeding to death.
No, we're not, certainly can't do that here in Texas.
Thanks for the update.
This is Glenn in Downers Grove, Illinois.
Great to have you on the program.
Yeah, hi, Rush.
First time caller.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, I have a philosophical question that may demonstrate the slippery slope that the liberals are on with this NFL situation.
What would happen if conservative employers would hire only conservatives just because they don't agree with their political views?
Hmm.
If that were discovered, all hell would break loose.
Yeah, but aren't they kind of against their discriminatory laws that they created?
Well, I guess you'd have to ask Jim Ursay because Jim Ursay says we have to watch our thoughts.
And certainly some of our thoughts contain ideas, and some of our thoughts contain political ideas, and some of our thoughts contain ideological ideas.
And if it were found that we are not watching our ideas seriously enough, watching our thoughts seriously enough, and it was resulting in people being hired because of what they thought and not hired because of what they thought.
I imagine the powers that be in political correctness would have a huge problem with that.
But let me ask you a question, Glenn.
Have you ever heard a liberal anywhere be called divisive?
Not really.
I was thinking about it the other day, and I don't think I can recall one being called divisive either.
Oh, it was just a-it wasn't divisive when all these people were doing movies and books on how to assassinate George W. Bush.
Michael Moore is not divisive.
Some of these insane lunatics on the lib cable channel.
They're never called divisive.
Yeah.
Well, it just kind of demonstrates, I just feel conservatives accept the philosophy that there is different opinions and liberals do not accept any other opinions.
Exactly.
They don't accept them, and they try to destroy people who hold them.
Even worse than not accepting them.
All right.
Thanks.
Thanks, Glenn.
I've always loved hearing Downer Grove, Illinois.
That is a great name for a town.
Now, I just checked the email while I was on a call there, and I got a couple naysayers.
Come on, Rush.
See, this is what you always do.
What you always do.
So somebody says we don't want to have a ruckus or any trouble in Texas, and you say, of course not.
We're not allowed to protest a dear leader in North Korea.
We're not allowed to protest a dear leader in Cuba or in Russia.
There you go, Rush, comparing the Obama people and so forth to communists.
Why do you always do this?
This is why Rush people think that you go too far.
Oh, okay.
Well, I have a soundbite here from June of this year in Washington at the Washington National Cathedral during the Potomac, Maryland St. Andrews Episcopal School graduation.
White House community or communications director, Anita Dunn, this past June.
Here is a portion of her remark.
The third lesson and tip actually come from two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Sedung and Mother Teresa.
Not often coupled with each other.
In 1947, when Mao Zedong was being challenged within his own party on his plan to basically take China over, the nationalist Chinese held the cities.
They had the army.
They had the Air Force.
They had everything on their side.
And people said, how can you win?
How can you do this?
How can you do this?
Against all the odds against you.
And Mao Zedong said, You fight your war, and I'll fight mine.
And think about that for a second.
Folks, get ready, Mike, because I'll play this again.
This is White House Communications Director Anita Dunn speaking to a graduating class at the Washington National Cathedral in June.
One of her favorite political philosophers is Mao Zedong.
When Mao Zetong was being challenged within his own party on his plan to take over China, all the other people, he's got the Jedi, look, your enemies have the cities, they got the jets, they got the military, they got the army.
How can you do that?
You fight your world.
She is comparing, she is saying one of her favorite philosophers is a guy who brought communism to his country, took it over.
And she is Obama's communications.
So don't tell me that I'm going too far when I say we can't protest the dear leader in Texas.
Well, they don't do that in North Korea.
They don't do that in Cuba.
Don't do that in Russia.
Who's got the army in the cities today?
Obama doesn't have to take them over.
They're under his control.
I know people don't want us to face this.
I can't believe this, Russ.
This is just...
Here, listen again and believe it.
The third lesson and tip actually come from two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zetong and Mother Teresa.
Not often coupled with each other.
In 1947, when Mao Zedong was being challenged within his own party on his plan to basically take China over, the nationalist Chinese held the cities.
They had the army.
They had the Air Force.
They had everything on their side.
And people said, how can you win?
How can you do this?
How can you do this?
Against all the odds against you.
And Mao Zetong said, you fight your war and I'll fight mine.
And think about that for a second.
Have you seen the weather in the Northeast, ladies?
If you haven't, if you don't live there, you know, they're going to be playing a playoff baseball game tonight in mid-30 degree weather with spinning rain tonight and tomorrow night.
And this is just the first game of a best of seven series.
The World Series is going to go into early November.
If both these championship series go, well, it's going to go into November anyway, the dates are set.
Now, supposed to rain through Monday, but 30 degrees.
I saw pictures of the Yankees working out at the stadium.
In Pennsylvania, they've already had snow.
There's record cold all over the place in the Northeast.
I'm going to tell you what's going to happen, folks.
This is going to happen.
Obama is going to have to pay off millions of Americans who cannot pay their heating bills this winter.
It is going to probably be a bad winter.
And while he's paying off, they're going to have to do it.
They're having to extend unemployment compensation.
They're going to have to do it.
This is all part of the plan.
You have to understand it's all part of the plan.
People can't take care of themselves by design.
Obama's going to do it, and he's going to get the credit for it.
I will see to it that you don't freeze.
We need an emergency hearing bill.
Hey, an energy bill.
Help people pay.
Oh, heating bills.
And the Democrats in Congress will go, yeah, we do.
We've got to see.
We've got to keep people from freezing to death.
Now, what's interesting is all that's going to be going on while Obama's trying to sell a brand new economy-destroying program based on global warming.
They call it climate change now, and they're going to call it tax and cap or cap and trade, it's cap and tax.
And they're going to be arguing while Obama's paying off these people's heating bills in the Northeast.
You'll be arguing that global warming requires the passage of cap and tax.
This is what's going to happen when people can't afford to heat their homes this winter.
I'm talking about the employed and the unemployed.
Heating bills are going to eat up millions of people's household budgets.
Just with Obamacare, taxes kick in, not to mention cap and tax.
Here's Don in Indianapolis.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Great to have you here.
Rush, great to be on with you.
Love the show.
Thank you.
Hey, Ed.
Have you heard any insight on the upcoming season of 24?
Yes.
Please tell.
Well, it's not much.
I know that it is a lot of it, particularly at the opening centers in New York.
And the counterterrorist unit is back.
CTU is back.
I don't know any new cast members or any of that, but I can tell you the people on the series are very excited about it.
And, you know, they're shooting.
They've been shooting since I think July.
I figured they had been.
I figured that you would be in the know.
Well, I, of course, am.
And if I wanted to find out more, I could.
I just, I've been busy.
But I'll tell you what I'm doing.
I'll find out some.
Look, I can't.
I'm not going to destroy this by telling too much.
I mean, you've got to watch it.
I'll be watching it.
All right.
Well, I'll.
Thank you, Rush.
You bet.
Thanks for the call.
That's Don in Indianapolis.
What was I?
What was I going to say about this?
One other thing, it's just slipped my mind.
You know, this never happens.
I'm one of the few people you'll ever know.
Say, gosh, what was I going to say?
What?
What's the question?
Mm-hmm.
Oh, that's what I was going to say.
That's what I'm going to say.
Who was first?
Mitch rapper Jack Brown.
You have got, folks.
Snerdley.
You know, we got the publisher's copy of Vince Flynn's new book.
But Vince sent me my own autograph copy a couple weeks ago.
And he said, Rush, when you get a little, a nice little card was when you get to chapter 50, it's time to stop and open a bottle of wine that you like, maybe some Lafitte, and light up a cigar and read chapter 50.
Well, it makes me want to go to chapter 50 and start.
Snerdley came in today dragging, eyes half open.
I said, what's wrong with you?
He said, I made a mistake of starting Vince Flynn's book last night.
And you finished it?
You read the whole thing.
Vince Flynn's books are huge.
It's the question is: who came first?
Mitch Rapp or Jack Bauer?
And I believe Mitch Rapp did.
We're looking at season eight of 24 with a year off in there.
Vince has been a consultant on the show.
That's where I met Vince.
When I went out for my first studio visit for 24, they had hired him for a consultancy to help with the advisory plots and how things play because of his incredible knowledge of the CIA.
It's just, it's incredible.
So Vince will be here in a couple of weeks.
I'll bring him by to say hi.
I got my annual fall-fling golf trip coming up, and he'll be here.
He wants to meet you, Snerdley.
He loves the Obama criticizer stuff.
Yeah, he does.
Lee in Kingman, Arizona.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you so very much for taking my phone call.
Thank you.
I have a question.
My husband and I are both in our late 60s.
And with this healthcare plan, with everything that's being said, what's going to happen to people like us that cannot and will not be able to afford that?
That will be kicked off the system and then to top it off when they come by and say, Okay, you can't drive your car anymore because it's too old and you can't afford to buy a new car.
What's going to happen to people like us?
Screwed.
You heard Robert B. Reich, we're not going to give you what you need the last couple years of your life just to keep you alive for a couple months.
We're going to let you die.
Now, they're saying this.
Robert Rice said this in 2007.
They are saying this.
They're out trying to deny it's in the, but there's no way that they can't avoid rationing care.
Now, in your case, you will still have access to Medicare.
The questions you ask are valid, but what the real see that the Obama plan, did you say you're in your late 60s?
Yes, yes, sir.
The Obama plan, if it is signed into law at any time soon, it's not going to be implemented to 2013.
So, my God, will you even be older?
I know.
I know.
You are one of millions of senior citizens who are frightened about this and have every right to be.
Well, what about the money?
But it's not, but you know, everybody ought to be afraid of it.
Like, if they're willing to politicize something as innocuous as the NFL, who's to say they won't politicize kidney transplant or any other kind of medical procedure?
No kidding.
What's going to happen when they come and take our car away from us?
We're supposed to walk because it's too old?
Yeah.
And they say you're not allowed to drive it because it pollutes?
Yes.
Well, you'll have to buy a new one.
We can't afford a new one.
Well, they'll come up with a cash for clunkers program.
Obama will buy you a bicycle or something.
We're lucky.
Yeah, you are.
We are all lucky to live in America.
I mean, it's about time we all started realizing that.
Question I have for Anita Dunn, who admires Mao Zedong.
Is Mao, Anita, is Mao Zitong your favorite murderer, too?
How many did he kill?
30 million?
70 million?
The numbers vary here.
It's politically incorrect to call Mao a murderer.
How many did he kill?
30 million people or 70.
I think 70 million might be the Russia, the Soviets.
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