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Dec. 8, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 8, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 Podcast.
It is a crying shame, uh, ladies and gentlemen, that that economic speech at Brookings that President Hoax and Change just gave was not in prime time.
Hoax and change.
It's a shame it was not in prime time so all of America could have the choice of listening to his latest version of I Inherited and I am great.
That is the theme of his speeches.
I inherited and I'm great.
He dumped all over the Bush administration.
TARP was flawed.
His Treasury Secretary designed it.
His tax cheat secretary designed it.
It was flawed.
It was God it's unbelievable what an immature little kid this guy is bumping and blaming everything on prior administrations.
I mean, I I I tell you, folks, it is it is breathtaking to watch this.
Now, when the when the speech began, the Dow Jones industrial average was uh down eighty.
When it uh ended, it was down 72.
And I think I'm checking for the latest number.
I just checked five minutes ago that it was down uh down eighty.
By the way, greetings, Rush Limboy, you know that it's down 84.
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Now, if if these proposals that he announced today were going to excite the private sector, investors will vote with their capital, and they're not voting with their capital.
Hoax and change does not sell in the universe of reality.
And we got a universe of lies speech today at Brookings on the economy that's breathtaking.
It was so sweeping a series of lies that uh it's it's it's hard to start with the which one first.
His his words, his ideas are what have resulted in the loss of millions of jobs, and yet we've uh we've had a turnaround.
We are growing.
We are out of the recovery now.
We've had the best job report news we've had in three years.
I mean, you uh i i it was it was as though we are now into a new era of prosperity, the the likes of which this country has never seen before.
There's no credibility.
He can give speeches all day long, but but this isn't a campaign.
He's not running against anybody anymore.
He's running against his own lousy record.
And the blame game does not wash.
Obama voted for everything that caused these deficits when he was in the Senate.
And he sits there like a like a spoiled rotten school kid blaming it on somebody else.
I I can't wait till Carl Rove next shows up on Fox to respond to this because I I these guys ought to be livid.
This ought to bring George Bush out of the woodwork and start defending some of this stuff because this is getting out of hand.
And then, and then he says he's reading children's letters every night.
Uh it's it's but it's pathetic.
The total silence.
There was there was no applause during this speech.
Now I know that was up there in an academic think tank, and these people probably think they're above uh applauding, but there were no columns, no screaming crowds, and without that, uh President Obama is uh is nothing.
I I just the University of Lies is has met the universe of reality.
The reality is we got 17% of the working population unemployed.
The reality is that Obama has created deficits that cannot be paid, and it's silly.
He've got 200 billion dollars of unspent TARP money.
He talks about, well, banks are gonna be so well we're repaying this stuff for the profits of the taxpayers, and then that profit's gonna be what?
Recycled and spent back on more stimulus, creating jobs that have not been created by stimulus.
This economy, if it is fighting back, this economy, if it is showing some sort of a uh a trend to the positive, is happening in spite of him, not because of him.
Obama is by the way, his his approval number down to 47%.
As I told you yesterday, 47% in the Gallup poll.
And they react to this at the White House.
They don't like this.
Gibbs is, yeah, well, any kid with a crayon can do that.
Uh This is uh this is not a a bunch of happy campers.
Let's let's go to the audio sound bites, listen to this is this is uh this is the president summing it all up here, blaming George W. Bush.
One of the central goals of this administration is restoring fiscal responsibility.
The deficit had been building dramatically over the previous eight years.
Stop this, right?
Stop.
In one year, Barack Obama has added more to the deficit than George Bush did in eight years.
Requeue that to the top.
I mean, this is this is an example of I don't know where to begin.
If I could start stop this whole speech, I could it would take me three hours to do it.
And by the time I finished, I'd need blood pressure medicine.
I could do a start stop on every sentence of this abomination today.
All right, here.
Uh uh try it again.
One of the central goals of this administration is restoring fiscal responsibility.
Stop the tape.
I'm sorry, I can't rest.
You have destroyed it.
There is no fiscal responsibility.
This is this is he's back to the old.
Don't listen to what I say.
Listen to how I say it.
Uh cue it back to top again.
I'm on promise I'm gonna try to get through this.
Uh without too many stops.
One of the central goals of this administration is restoring fiscal responsibility.
The deficit had been building dramatically over the previous eight years.
Folks passed tax cuts and expansive entitlement programs without paying for any of it.
Even as health care costs kept rising year after year.
These budget busting tax cuts and spending programs were approved by many of the same people who are now waxing political about fiscal responsibility, while opposing our efforts to reduce deficits by getting health care costs under control.
Do you see what I mean?
Uh he voted for all of it.
Well, he didn't vote for the tax cuts because he wasn't there.
He was community organizing.
Uh, I didn't vote for the tax.
He voted for all of this stuff that he's decrying.
He supported all of it, and he is the single biggest spender in the history of American presidents.
Out of control spent the uh I'll tell you something else, uh, ladies and gentlemen, the uh Reverend Daxon, uh not happy about this.
Last night on PBS on the Tavis Smiley show.
Uh Tavis Smiley talked to the monochrome coalition uh chairman and uh and and uh whatever else he is uh the uh Reverend O'Zacson and uh the question some think the blame Bush rhetoric no longer applies, and Obama used so sex successfully in a campaign.
He essentially owns more when Bush left office third thousand troops in Afghanistan.
We'll now go into a hundred thousand.
So we kind of own the Afghanistan mission.
We bail out the banks.
We kind of own a plan now where you have more foreclosures than you do have modifications.
We're losing jobs by the droves.
Unemployment levels are disastrously high.
We are the canary and the man.
We are on the front side of its pain, and the backside of its prosperity.
Urban America is black, but abolition based at the white.
We must not be seen as marginal American.
Now, I'll tell you what's going on here with this.
The Reverend Dax, and I got two more stories in the stack today about how black unemployment is through the roof.
Black unemployment is terrible.
Uh uh, the black frame of mind is terrible.
They're depressed, they're down.
Obama not doing anything for them.
How is that hoax and change working for you?
They're all they're all livid.
I mean, they they thought they were gonna be an exact 180 degree economic reversal, and it's done nothing but get banned for everybody, but they're especially upset about it because they look at him as one of them, and now they feel abandoned.
And uh I'm sure Tiger Woods uh choice of uh females not helping them out uh with their uh with their attitudes there either.
Well, boy, folks, about that, I got a great piece to share with you from Lisa Schiffin at the American Thinker.com on the parallels between Tiger Woods and Barack Obama.
The theme is that both are the result of lies, Falsely crafted images that are in no way representative of who they really are.
I'll get to that in a in a mere moment.
One more uh soundbite here from the uh Reverend Jackson.
Oh, and there's total disarray over in Copenhagen.
Something called the Dutch texts.
Poor nations have found out they're gonna get screwed.
Uh if it with the uh with the with the climate talks over there.
Oh, yeah.
I mean it's it's it's it's big, and then dingy Harry out there with his uh with his slavery comment.
The uh I don't know, folks.
I I know I I have faith in all things good, and this this stuff just cannot triumph.
At the end of the day, it just won't.
It just can't.
This is utter disaster.
Anyway, back to the Reverend Jackson, uh, Tavis Smiley says, well, how do black leaders, how do black folk, how do black people make that case to the president?
In other words, how do you push back on him respectfully when you know that black folk in the 90th percentile love this president?
I also love to keep the houses and they also love jobs.
So the issue is about policy.
It's not about our appreciation of the impact of his president.
We found uh through the attorney generals that these major banks profile blacks and Latinos, they circumventary investment laws, as opposed to getting a bailout, they should be facing the courts by breaking the law.
On the black and brown side, is where the water came in the boat.
But the one that didn't stop that kept on coming.
The water kept coming across.
Raz and Tad would not lift those boats stuck at the bottom, they have holes in them.
So the um there's I mean, is there trouble in paradise out there?
Uh the um Reverend Zaxon is I mean, his anger is pretty muted here, but he's he's he's pretty mad.
Uh what is it, Snerdley?
What is it?
Well he said yes no, he he he he he it did he sorry he he said it's about skin color thing, but but look, the bottom line is all of this was supposed to have vanished.
We were supposed to be have a post-racial country.
Look at the divisions that have sprung up.
Look at the partisanship, look at the divide has gotten wider.
The Reverend Jackson uh not happy uh at all.
Uh and and uh all of it was so predictable.
Look, I'm a little long, I gotta take a quick break, and uh we'll come back.
We have more samples of Obama's uh hoax and change speech at Brookings today, plus a damn good stack of stuff to get through.
So sit tight, we'll be right back.
Let's not forget, also, my friends, as I have just recently been reminded, that the Democrats have been in charge of everything on Capitol Hill since 2006.
Everything since 2006.
And remember, George W. Bush was going along with him for much of it.
So Obama trying to blame all this.
It's just I don't know what it is.
It's it's it's but it's certain it's unbecoming.
Somebody who holds this office.
I don't know what else it is.
It's childish, it's immature, it's arrogant, it's conceited.
I'll tell you something else.
You know, Harry Reid yesterday refers to Republicans who are blocking health care in the Senate as uh reminiscent of slave owners, and Republicans who fought civil rights legislation and fought to maintain slavery.
And of course, he's entirely wrong historically.
It was the slavery was a civil war.
It was all that they gave birth to the Republican Party.
It was the Democrat Party which stood in the way of civil rights legislation, all Southern Democrats.
But here's what I'm thinking.
On Sunday, Obama visits Harry Reid, goes up there, turns off his NFL games on Sunday, heads up to Senate to quote unquote save health care negotiations, gives Harry Reed a pep talk.
On Monday, Harry Reed plays a race card.
Now a question.
Does dingy Harry, the incredibly shrinking senator, have the spine to say something so disgusting on his own, or was he just following orders?
Because I guarantee you, at Obama said something like that, I would not have been surprised.
I think Obama believes stuff like that.
I think it's what animates him, but Harry Reed just does and says stupid things.
Is this a sign of confidence or is it a sign of desperation with Harry Reed coming out, whether he's following Obama's marching orders on that or not?
Uh I I seem to recall, uh, ladies and gentlemen, somebody warning the American people before the election that racism and uh related things would only increase in intensity, not decrease because of this.
And I got an idea, too.
Global warming is calling causing all these uh weird weather, the climate change, right?
Climate change is causing all these weird weather things like this unusually early snowfall in place like Houston and uh and now we've got this this uh winter storm tearing up uh the Midwest and heading east.
And it was been suggested to me that we ought to start naming these storms just like we name hurricanes.
Global warming snowstorm Algore could be this first one, and we'll eventually get the global warming snowstorm Obama.
That's a great idea to start naming these storms after these guys.
They're the ones that claim these storms are happening because of climate change.
We'll work on that.
Here's more from the uh Brookings Institute address, President Obama this morning.
Our economy is growing for the first time in a year, and the swing from contraction to expansion since the beginning of the year is the largest in nearly three decades.
You stop it.
Do you believe what you just heard?
The economy, the swing from contraction to expansion since the beginning of the year is the largest in nearly three decades.
The problem is there is no expansion.
Zip zero nada.
I mean, I the the uh audacity of this is breathtaking.
Finally, we're no longer seeing the severe deterioration in the job market that we once were.
In fact, we learned on Friday that the unemployment rate fell slightly last month.
Stop the tape.
That's because the figures were taken over two days of the Thanksgiving week where people were not working, we're not looking for work, we're not filing claims, and so like this.
Wait till that number is revised.
Wait till the number ends up being revised, it's gonna go up.
Anybody thinks that there is an expansion underway?
Uh I it's not possible.
Business cannot and will not expand till they know what the games, the rules of the game are going to be and are not going to know that until health care is uh disposed of one way or the other.
And the same thing on cap and trade.
I mean, this is just mythmaking.
This is welcome news.
And news made possible in part by the up to 1.6 million jobs that the Recovery Act has already created and saved, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Uh, we have lost seven million plus jobs.
There are almost a million people, according to statistics, who have stopped looking for work.
The real unemployment number in the country is about 15%.
There is no way to calculate a saved job or even a created job in the recovery program, and the CBO also said that in the same report.
There's not one word of truth in that soundbite you just heard.
Not one.
Let's try another one.
We held a jobs forum at the White House that brought together small business owners, CEOs, union members, economists, folks from nonprofits, and state and local officials to talk about job creation.
And I've asked people to lead forums in their own communities, sending the results to me.
So we are hearing as many voices as possible as we refine our proposals.
We've already heard a number of good ideas, and I know we'll learn of many more.
Lead forums in their own communities, sending the results to him.
are any of you in this audience participating in a jobs summit in your local community?
And if so, with who?
With whom are you conducting talks about jobs, and then you are going to send these reports to Obama.
My God, I feel like on a social studies class here.
One of the attendees at the job summit was Fred Smith.
The chairman of CEO FedEx, here's what he said.
I urge the president to accelerate the expensing of capital investment, reduce the corporate income tax rate, and champion free trade.
As detailed by former Treasury officials Ernie Christian and Gary Robbins, every dollar at tax cuts for expensing adds about nine dollars of GDP growth.
Allowing companies to expense more of their capital outlay is an inexpensive way to create jobs because the only cost of the government is the time value of money.
Now here's a guy in the pro none of what he suggested will be implemented.
None of what he suggested was even listened to.
Mark has dynty-five points, uh, ladies and gentlemen, in response to President Obama's second attempt to destroy prosperity.
Here's a story.
We we just simply we've gone from the largest contraction to expansion in three decades, he said today.
And yet Reuters state-controlled media has this.
Hunger is spreading while the number of homeless families is increasing as a result of the recession and other factors, according to a report on Tuesday.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors said that cities reported a 26% jump in demand for hunger assistance over the past year.
Um and there's a court food uh insecurity out there.
We've heard that term being bandied about.
Uh so there's more homelessness out there, and it's getting colder out there, and we somehow re hearing fewer reports of people dying from exposure.
But anyway, it the news just does not jive with the rhetoric that the president uttered today.
Here is um this this is the TARP comment that that nearly sent me through the roof when I watched it live.
Launched hastily under the last administration.
The TARP program was flawed, and we have worked hard to correct those flaws and manage it properly.
TARP is expected to cost the taxpayers at least 200 billion dollars less than what was anticipated just this past summer.
And the assistance to banks, once thought to cost taxpayers untold billions, is on track to actually reap billions in profits for the taxpaying public.
This gives us a chance to pay down the deficit faster than we thought possible.
This is unfortunate.
And shift funds that would have gone to help the banks on Wall Street to help create jobs on Main Street.
Launched hastily under the last administration.
He demanded it.
He urged the president to do it.
It was to save the financial system of the entire world.
We had to vote on it in 24 hours.
This is what they were telling.
Launched hastily, and then it ended up being flawed.
Let me tell you something.
The whole thing is nothing but a slush fund.
It was nothing but a slush fund from the get-go.
Let me explain this, folks.
If you are an incoming president, and if you uh uh if you if you if you want some money to pass around for whatever reasons, you got this financial crisis comes up, you can't go in and say, pass me a slush fund, but you say, pass me a TARP plan, a troubled asset program so that we can save the financial system.
And we got to do it in 24 hours.
Bam, baby, bam, then you do it.
And now, after a year of this massive, massive emergency, 200 billion of it remains unspent.
And we're gonna now take that 200 billion and do a second stimulus with it.
Which is against the law, by the way.
The TARP law is very specific about what that money can be spent on.
And remember, even that was changed.
It was originally to buy up toxic assets.
And then they chin in Henry Paulson changed that uh to uh, well, we're gonna we're gonna have the banks to uh get a little bit more uh free uh lending uh credit activity or expand and what was predicted happened.
The banks simply they they they invested the money rather than putting it in circulation.
And now we've got two hundred billion dollars of it unspent.
We have about six hundred billion dollars unspent of the porculus bill, folks.
And he says, well, this has already been allocated, so it's not a it's not a deficit buster to uh not pay the money back, and then he talks about profits to the taxpayers.
There are any profits to the taxpayers.
He has spent three and a half trillion dollars this year.
I I really do not know where to stop talking about this.
I could I could analyze this till the end of the day about what chocked full of lies this is and how childish and immature launched hastily under the last administration.
His treasury secretary, the tax cheat, the guy we were told was the only person capable of dealing with this problem, so we had to overlook his tax cheating.
Timothy Geithner designed it.
We have worked hard to correct those flaws and manage it properly.
Here, uh got two more.
Even before this particular crisis, much of our growth had been fueled by unsustainable consumer debt and reckless financial speculation.
While we ignored the fundamental challenges that hold the key to our economic prosperity.
We cannot simply go back to the way things used to be.
We can't go back to an economy that yielded cycle after cycle of speculative booms and painful busts.
So that's the official proclamation that capitalism is finished in this country.
We're going to end capitalism.
We're going to have no more risk taking.
We're not going to have any up and down cycles.
We're going to have a straight line of mediocrity, managed by me, praising myself while blaming my predecessor.
Much of our growth had been fueled by unsustainable consumer debt, reckless financial speculation.
Why was that?
You know what that's a primarily in reference to is the subprime mortgage crisis, again brought to us by people like Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, forcing banks to make loans to people who couldn't pay them back.
The Reverend Jackson, in the soundbite we played to him, basically accused the banks of redlining blacks, browns, and minorities.
But if they were redlining them, they wouldn't have got loans.
And they did get loans.
And now the Reverend Jackson's upset the loans they got, they're in foreclosure.
So they could not have been redlined.
They were lent money.
People were lent money.
They had no business being lent money borrowed.
Sorry, folks.
One of these days my brain can't keep up with my mouth.
Or vice versa.
We had people who had no business borrowing money, they were throwing it at them, and on the guise of uh affordable housing, and ending the inequities of the American dream.
And the banks were forced to do this.
They were forced to make loans that were worthless.
The paper was worthless.
They knew they were never going to get the money back, so they came up.
They tried to come up with the way did to create uh new investment products to give themselves insurance and it's bad paper, and they started buying and selling that.
No money down, derivatives, all this sort of stuff.
The government is at the forefront of all of these problems.
The government created all of these problems.
The government create, and I'm not saying that Wall Street's blameless.
There are plenty of risk takers up there and and uh and so forth.
Everybody plays games.
But my gosh, when you're when you're forced to make investments that are worthless by government policy, uh, you know, when the door's closed, you're gonna try to come up with a way to insure yourself you don't lose the money.
You'll pass a loss on to some other sucker.
People are always gonna find a way around oppression and tyranny in a country like this where we have never experienced it.
We're getting our first taste of it, and you're gonna see people not react to it the way Obama thinks.
But I mean, this is just a death of capitalism.
No more uh reckless financial speculation.
You could define that as small businesses saying, okay, I'm I'm I'm not, it's it's good, it's a risk to uh borrow money to grow my business.
I'm gonna do it.
It might not work.
I can't do it anymore.
Well, President says we're gonna get rid of these cycles.
See, these business cycles, that's the free market at work, that's capitalism, and Obama thinks that's a sin.
He wants to end all that.
Manage it, control it, command and control economy, and wherever you look in the world where this has been tried, it has never resulted in prosperity for anybody.
Here's the final Obama bite.
This is the one with the kids' letters.
Every night, I read letters and emails sent to me from people across America.
The toughest letters are in children's handwriting.
Kids who can't just be kids because they're worried about moms having their hours cut or dad losing her job or a family without health insurance.
These folks aren't looking for a handout.
They're not looking for a bailout.
All they're looking for is a chance to make their own way.
To work, to succeed, using their talents and skills.
And they're looking for folks in Washington to have a seriousness of purpose that matches the reality of their struggle.
And this is pure Alinsky.
He doesn't believe any of this.
He's simply speaking in the language his audience understands and believes to convince us, to try to convince us that he's one of us.
But he doesn't believe in people succeeding, making their own way, using their talents and skills, because the people who do are people he ends up resenting.
And Mr. President, the people writing you letters, I'd venture to say the vast majority of them just want some money from your stash.
I'll bet you most of the letters he gets are from people asking him for money.
I'll bet most of the letters he I don't bet he is not getting a whole lot of letters from people saying, Would you please get out of my way so that I can go back to work?
It's Obama's stash that these people are seeking in their letters.
But anyway, he tells us he's reading these letters from these kids and he's making economic policy out of it.
Or wants people to think so.
Anyway, brief time out, we'll be back and continue right after this on the EIB network.
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I want to I want to get to this Lisa Schiffrin piece in The American Thinker.
It's entitled Tiger Barack and the Law of Transitivity.
As a rule, the revelation that a married athlete or actor, rock star, politician has conducted extramarital affairs with a bevy of party girls may titillate, but it rarely has the power to shock.
Which was Snerdley's point when this whole thing started.
What's the big deal?
This happens to everybody.
In athlete athletes, everybody knows they do this.
That's what his point was.
In those realms, these things happen.
Entitled men, willing women, deceived wives.
What's new about it?
So what is it about Tiger Woods that makes his cheating so different from the usual that ten days on the nation is still discussing revelations of conquests, twists, payoffs, physical injuries, perhaps inflicted by a golf club?
Why, after ten days are people still fixated on this?
Sure, there's normal prurients at work here, but mostly we're interested because Tiger Woods, who may legitimately be the best golfer ever, had been turned into an all-purpose icon, a man of personal rectitude, a lovely smile, apparent openness, a family man with a lovely wife and two adorable babies.
And of course, he was our first living embodiment of the collective hope for racial reconciliation.
Who knew that the early reports of his betrayed wife Ellen swinging at him with a golf club constituted a literal icon smashing.
We are staring at this because we've been had.
We've been betrayed.
We see now that the image was all a fraud.
The talent was real.
But the things that made the public like Tiger personally, the low-key demeanor, the manners, the sweet smile of countless sports page photos, magazine covers, political analogies, and most important, product endorsements, was an act.
It was all an act.
That would be betrayal enough, but it wasn't just his act.
The larger lesson here is about how much artifice, sustained, deliberate deception, goes into the construction of a public persona when there is profit to be made or power to be had.
Jack Schaefer, the Slate media columnist, spells out how that's transpired.
In the beginning, Schaefer notes, Woods was your normal young single Randy Skirt chasing heterosexual athlete.
Then almost overnight.
He became a golf phenom, and for business reasons, Buick, Nike, Gatorade, Gillette, E. A. Sports, and Accenture being among them, Woods decided to exfoliate from his public image, all things base, carnal, and even personal.
The Tiger Woods that was constructed for corporate consumption was spotless and smooth, an edgeless brand easily peddled to shakes and shakers.
Given how desperately we want to believe in a human god, it didn't take much peddling from Team Tiger for us to accept Woods as a modern deity.
You see where this is going.
You see where this is ultimately headed.
It's a really good piece.
Tiger's marketers made him a symbol of tolerance and brotherhood, and his father, Earl Woods, spoke gibberish about his son being a creature of destiny.
Claimed he was going to be the next Nelson Mandela, by the way.
Getting married, and you gotta go to jail first for that.
Getting married and having children only added to Woods' marketability.
I'm divine and monogamous and the center of a happy nuclear family, and we ate it up.
So now that the real Woods has been revealed, we're embarrassed by the gap between who we believed Woods to be and who he really is.
The unusually sleazy reality, however, true to our darker knowledge of human nature is especially disappointing because of the wholesome image we've been sold for so long.
Modern deity isn't much of an overstatement.
Even now the same huge corporate effort that went into creating the billion-dollar nice guy persona is hard at work trying to keep it alive.
Because if it dies, too many people stand to lose too much money.
Think about the heroic efforts to save his marriage.
In addition to her prenup, which only vests after a certain amount of time, apparently the much wronged wife will receive a huge payment, $55 million, according to some reports, to stay with him for another two years.
She's leasing herself out to him.
Which is why she hasn't exited stage right, although we're hearing that she has.
There are reports she's moved out.
And this morning, and again, you know, nothing good ever happens at 2.30 in the morning, but that's especially true for Tiger Woods.
Because this morning between two and three, ambulances were called to his house again, and a blonde middle-aged woman was spirited away to the hospital.
They get pictures of her on a stretcher being wheeled in there.
Turns out it's his mother-in-law.
Mother-in-law, now, what's she doing at his house if Ellen has moved out?
You know, so some of this reporting, you have to question some of it, but nevertheless, it was revealed that she has a non-life-threatening stomach ailment that they had to rush her to the hospital for at 2.30 in the morning.
Uh anyway.
Well, I mean, it's all coming unraveling now.
It's it's the whole thing's unraveling now.
I mean, people are starting to ask, will he ever play golf again?
Nor was this behavior of Woods unknown.
See, this is also fascinating, too.
This behavior was known by everybody that knows Tiger except the public.
The media knew it.
My friends, I knew it.
Well, for two years, I mean, it anybody who knows anybody high up in the in the in the golf world, this there's all this and more stories that have gone around about Tiger.
I've heard this all this and more.
I've I've heard these these stories for two years.
But the point is the public.
I'm not gonna tell you what the more is, because that's just rumor.
This stuff was not rumor.
I'll wait for the more to be confirmed by somebody else.
Anyway, uh because of the continual interruptions of the official program observer, I have to now take a time out before I conclude this piece.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
All right, the industry-wide cover-up of Woods cheating and uh apparently personal nastiness, arrogance, so forth, not a small secret plot.
It is a set of interlocking self-interests manifested in sustaining the pristine image of this one sports icon to keep cash coming in.
If I were watching the public discussed with the newly revealed Tiger Woods from an office in the West Wing, I'd be concerned because Barack Obama is about as completely manufactured a political character as Woods was a sports character.
There's even more to this.
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