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Jan. 13, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 13, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hi, how are you?
Welcome back, Rush Limboy and the EIB network, where we um I take folks, I say more in in in five seconds than most hosts say an entire week.
I and I still don't get through everything here.
Like this.
From an outraged Associated Press, Obama wants a record $708 billion for wars next year.
President Obama will ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on top of a record $708 billion for the Defense Department next year.
The AP has learned a request that could be an especially hard sell to some of the administration's Democrat allies.
Oh, the AP not happy about this.
Because they are some of the administration's Democrat allies.
Throw that in there.
Now how how I want to know how's the war in Afghanistan unpopular since that was the right war?
When we were in Iraq, we were supposed to be in Afghanistan.
We've been told ever since the invasion of Iraq war that the Afghanistan's the right war.
The war that really needed to be fought.
Obama said it.
I mean, even the bloated bigot Michael Moore said it.
Moreover, we're now fighting the war in Afghanistan with an international coalition.
I mean, it's a token one, but we're still doing it, which is exactly what they said they wanted.
So how can it ever be unpopular, even with state-controlled associated press?
The extra 33 billion in 2010 would mostly go toward the expansion of the war in Afghanistan.
Obama ordered uh an extra 30,000 troops for that war as part of an overhaul of the war strategic relate last year.
Notice once again here, Obama's a slave to his own numbers.
He claimed back during his torture deliberations about sending more troops to Afghanistan that would cost an additional billion dollars for each thousand cent.
And now he's demanding 30 billion more dollars.
Uh just like his fixation about having a health care package that he can claim costs less than the Iraq war.
So um they're not happy about this, uh, ladies and gentlemen, at all.
Not in the slightest are they happy about it.
Here is the exchange between uh I want you to hear this, Andrea Mitchell, NBC News in Washington, and uh Mark Halpern of Time Magazine, the co-author of uh of uh Game Change.
Here's the first two bites that we have.
I've talked to people to whom Teddy Kennedy spoke about this, and because of the Harry Reid racial issue, a lot of people are interpreting, inferring from what you wrote that Kennedy was fuming over Bill Clinton, that this was like the issue in South Carolina where Kennedy was taking offense and others were taking offense, Jim Fibern of some of the things that Bill Clinton said and attaching a racial motive to it.
What did you think was the impact of that in reporting on this?
Was it just that that Obama was new, he was jumping rank, he was too inexperienced, would have been getting coffee like an intern, let's say, or was it a racial motivation, as has been suggested in some of the reporting on your book.
Okay, so here's Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Washington, giving Mark Howpert a chance to establish here for the record that Bill Clinton didn't have a racist bone on his body.
Of course, Andrea, it wasn't a racist comedy.
You simply talked about a guy, yeah, you're right, he was jumping rank.
He had no business running yet, he was too young.
Instead, this is what Andrea heard.
Bill Clinton confronted him and said, let's be honest about this.
The only reason you're picking Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton, someone you've known longer who's done more for you, is because of race.
And that again inflamed Kennedy a little bit, and it made him more certain that the Clintons were too focused on race and not enough interested in trying to find the strongest nominee for the party.
Well, they thought Hillary was the strongest nominee, and that Kennedy was being blinded by race.
Oh, so uh Halpert had a chance here.
Well, it would have been tough to deny this because he did report that Clinton did accuse Kennedy of only choosing Obama because of race.
Yeah, but she's basically please tell me if it's not true.
And we're in the C and Washington.
Please tell us it's not true.
Uh contrary, uh Andrea Pell, take this, Andrea.
Oh, sorry.
I was depicting an assault.
I take that back.
All right.
Last night, Greta Van Susterin's show, it's Fox News Channel.
The correspondent Griff Jenkins interviewed Martha Coakley.
And Jenkins said he was, by the way, he was with John McCormick of the Weekly Standard, the guy who got shoved down by by this mee hand clown.
And McCormick asked her a question again about Afghanistan.
He's the one that said, What why are you you stand by your statement that there are no terrorists left in Afghanistan?
And she said, does anybody else have a question?
And Griff Jenkins said, yeah.
I have a question.
Why are you in Washington tonight?
We planned an event after the primary that would be a unity event in Washington.
We're also in the middle of a very intense campaign, and we are facing a candidate from Massachusetts who's being supported by extreme right groups, including um many Republican groups that are pouring money into Massachusetts, attacking my record and distorting my record.
And there's a new ad here.
They uh they put me in their first uh attack ad, and now they have added uh Sarah Palin.
Here's the audio.
Before you vote for Senate, here's a few things you should know about Scott Brown.
He calls himself independent, but voted with Republican leadership 96% of the time.
Brown has repeatedly opposed a woman's right to choose.
And now the globe says Brown expresses skepticism that climate change is being caused by humans.
No wonder Brown's campaign is being supported by the same extremist group that backs Sarah Paylon.
The same extremist group is that.
And you notice here these guys haven't caught on that global warming, man-made is a hoax.
By the way, since when does AP, you know, in that story on um Clinton and his $33 billion more for war at $708 billion total for the defense partner?
Uh where do they ever use the word unpopular?
They've never done that.
Did they ever say unpopular health care plan?
Because it clearly is.
I mean, a health care plan's clearly more unpopular than the war on terror.
They're crying out loud.
Anyway, negative attack ads, uh not that they they they're going after Sarah Palin, extreme right-wing groups.
Listen to this.
This is a portion of a new ad for Martha Coakley, paid for by the Democrat National Committee.
He drives around in a pickup truck.
But you gotta look under the hood to find the real Scott Brown.
On health care, Brown wants to be the deciding vote to kill Ted Kennedy's legislation.
Oh, T wants to kill Ted Kennedy's legislation.
He wants to kill Ted Kennedy's legislation.
And Doug Flutie, a New England football hero, is working for Scott Brown and endorsed him.
I definitely support Scott Brown.
He would be an independent voice down in Washington.
He's a great family man, a friend, a guy I trust 100%.
They love Flutie up there.
Uh and so Flutie's uh Floothie's on board with uh that'll probably attack Flutie uh for never winning a Super Bowl or or some such thing, or being too short to ever really succeed as a as a quarterback in the NFL.
Whatever.
I mean, they're attacking anybody that um yeah, he played in Canada.
What does he know about Boston?
Uh he played Miami.
He played played for Buffalo.
What does he know about us?
Uh, let's see.
Barney Frank denies that the uh Democrats will delay the swearing in of Scott Brown if he wins.
Uh last night in Washington, the reporter said, What about the assertion that if Mr. Brown were to win, the Massachusetts Democrats would find a way to not certify him?
That's the stupidest thing I've been asked in a long time.
Who you work for?
I'm not surprised.
That is insane.
The suggestion.
It could only come from uh Demented right wing short.
That is conspiracy theory and its most contemptible.
Well, now I gotta find out who mentioned it, because I always thought that the Democrats were the ones talking about doing this, the Democrats and Mass.
Marty, look at they threw out a law on special elections and nominated or just chose Paul Kirk to sit in for Ted Kennedy once he passed away, and the law was for a special election, and they they switched out on a dime.
So, anyway, I think it's what do you work for?
Washington Times.
I'm not surprised.
This is insane to suggestion can only come from a demented right-wing source.
Oh, I love these guys.
I do.
I love to laugh at them.
I know they're dangerous, but sometimes, folks, all you can do is uh is laugh at them.
Now, if in order for the American people to turn their economy over to Obama, car manufacturers, banks, health care, the environment.
Now, by the way, there's a picture of Nancy Pelosi at the Detroit Auto Show, plugging in a Chevrolet vault to a charger, with uh some some one of her employees, General Motors uh president, vice president, looking on.
And I just think it's this is hilarious.
These Democrats going up to observe what their companies are doing.
And Ford reported uh gangbuster business while GM and Chrysler haven't.
Anyway, for people to turn the economy over to Obama, car manufacturers, banks, healthcare, the environment.
It was necessary to position young Barack Obama as a once-in-a-lifetime genius, a phenom, a man who was so brilliant he didn't require experience of any kind.
He had a gift, and we simply weren't capable of understanding the munificence, the magnificence of Barack H. Obama, a man of brilliance, unflappable, oozing with good judgment and a cool demeanor.
He was simply the one.
Well, in one year, we have progressed from women fainting at the sight of the most merciful Barack Obama to where people now faint when they get their pink slip from their construction firm that never received any of those shovel-ready jobs.
You see, what's happened out there, folks, is that Barack H. Obama has met reality, and his perceived IQ has fallen precipitously as a result.
This man is so much less than special.
He is inexperienced, he's cold, he's detached.
He has, as I frequently say, a chip on his shoulder about this country.
He is resentful of the private sector.
Poorly educated in free markets.
He has exhibited no interest in admitting to or learning from his mistakes, and is either not particularly bright or has spectacularly bad judgment.
Everywhere we look, folks, it's a mess.
Obama has all the votes he needs in Congress to do anything and everything he wants.
His party has control Congress since 2006.
07 when they were inaugurated.
The deficit is an economic black hole.
There are no new permanent jobs save created or funded.
We've had two terrorist attacks.
The president barely acknowledges.
He's appointing czars like he's living in the Soviet Union.
The country has seen one failure after another and identified it as such, out of sheer tolerance and politeness.
The country has chosen not to dislike this phony as much as they hate his policies.
We don't like Obama's America.
And we know that it's bad.
His party, the Democrat Party is imploding.
A Senate seat in Massachusetts, once held by the swimmer Ted Kennedy, is actually in play.
He's down two governors now, and the blue dogs are retiring and headed back to the pound.
Some are even switching parties.
If results mean anything, and we look at results on this program, we don't judge intentions.
And if results mean anything, Barack Obama is closer to a dunce than a genius.
He doesn't know what he's doing any more than Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid.
I mean, these people are raging ideological incompetence.
And we're we're we're way past pretending otherwise.
I mean, I I know that he believes all this stuff, and it's dangerous as hell.
But it it's he's been educated so improperly, the stuff that he believes is just dangerous.
Uh Barack Obama was overpromised.
And he is underdelivered.
I thought that it would have been the end of the day.
When he said, and we're going to lower the sea levels.
No, come on.
People aren't going to fall for that.
But at the time, most of them believe that New York is going to be underwater in 20 years.
He is spectacularly underdelivered.
And yet he wants more power over us as if he's earned it.
As if his collectivist status agenda has made a positive difference in people's lives.
A quick timeout.
Oh, five years.
Five years.
After a budget busting three billion dollars was allocated to embryonic stem cell research.
There have been no cures, no therapies, and little progress.
So supporters are embracing research they once opposed.
California's Prop 71 was intended to create a $3 billion West Coast counterpart to the National Institutes of Health, empowered to go where the NIH could not, either because of federal policy or funding restraints on biomedical research centered on human embryonic stem cells.
Supporters of the California Stem Cell Research and Cures initiative passed in 2004 held out hopes of imminent medical miracles that were being held up only by Bush and his policy of not allowing federal funding embryonic stem cell research beyond existing stem cell lines, and which involved the destruction of embryos created for that purpose.
Five years later, embryonic stem cell research has failed to deliver, and the backers of Prop 71 are admitting failure.
This is from an investor's business daily editorial.
And I remember I remember how intent I worked hard.
I do admit this whole campaign in Missouri with Michael J. Fox was out there for Claire McCaskill and uh Michael J. Fox out there running uh ads against Michael Steele when he was seeking a Senate seat in Maryland.
The Brett Girl was wrong.
Christopher Reeve would not have walked if John Kerry had won in 2004 because of embryonic stem cell research.
This is what happens when you make science a political issue.
You end up with fraudulent, fake, politically oriented causes that have nothing to do with science, and everything about it ends up being a lie.
Nothing.
Three billion dollars, no cures, no therapies, no progress.
Adult stem cells, a different matter entirely.
We have been doing a little deep digging here, ladies and gentlemen, because Barney Frank said that uh it was stupidest digging us in a long time.
Who do you work for?
Washington Times.
I'm not surprised.
This is insane.
The suggestion can only come from a diminished red wing source.
Well, it turns out that it's the media.
And Paul Kirk, the current occupant of the seat.
From the Boston Herald, January 9th, Scott Brown swearing in would be stalled to pass health care reform.
Looks like the fix is in on national health care reform, and all may unfold on Beacon Hill at a business forum in Boston today.
Interim Senator Paul Kirk predicted that Congress would pass a health care reform bill this month.
We want to get this resolved before Obama's State of the Union address in early to mid-February.
A longtime aide and confidant of the late Senator Kennedy vowed to vote for the bill even if Scott Brown wins.
Absolutely, Kirk said.
It would be my responsibility as United States Senator representing the people and understanding Senator Kennedy's agenda.
I think you're asking me a hypothetical question, but I'd be pleased to vote for the bill.
Yes, and there's a numerous stories here.
Um is Brown tied with Cochley in Massachusetts in the story.
If they lose the seat, it would cost them their 60-seat supermajority and possibly complicate their plans to pass health care, depending on when Brown would be sworn in.
Politico.
Massachusetts election has Democrats on edge.
Democrats could drag out seating Brown thanks to a 15-day waiting period to send results to the sexitarian state.
And then no deadline for state officials to formally declare a winner.
Massachusetts Senate race unnerves Democrats state-controlled Reuters with health care reform in the balance.
Harry Reid is staying mum on whether he would seat Brown immediately should an upset occur or delay certification until the Democrats continue to vote.
can pass their bill.
So you got Paul Kirk and you've got dingy Harry and you've got media members, Mr. Frank, speculating on this.
This crazy thing of the world is not possible.
That's the slimmest possibility of having a way of doing it.
It's a conspiracy theory.
*thud*
By the way, this next story for this is an absolute hoot.
But there's two stories, but the food network.
Do you watch the food network?
Apparently there's a there's a there's a competition show on the food network, and that the people that watch this network, this show is their Super Bowl.
And one of the chefs was three chefs, Bobby Flay, Emerald Lagasse, and uh uh forget I forget who the other one was.
Yeah, Mario Batali or something.
Yeah, one of the chefs used vegetables, supposedly used vegetables from Michelle My Bell's garden.
They went in there and they and they filmed or taped Michelle My Bell said, Oh, here's here's the garden, and take whatever you want, and the chef took whatever they want, and then a week later, they taped the episode cooking all these dishes.
Well, her her produce could no no longer be fresh a week later.
They had to have stand-in vegetables.
And now we learn that her organic garden has been perverted with sludge left over from the Clinton years.
Michelle's organic dream has been dashed by a nasty toxic legacy lurking in the soil.
It turns out that a previous presidential gardening team had used sewage sludge for fertilizer, and so her garden has is it's it's sludged up.
And it was the Clinton team that did it.
Ladies and gentlemen, they perpetually shocked A.P. is shocked yet again.
Now the oil price has been spiking up, and I got an email from a guy in New Jersey who said it went up a buck overnight.
Uh three bucks, a little over three dollars of parts of New Jersey.
You know, in New Jersey, you cannot pump your own gas.
You're not allowed to.
It's against the law.
You gotta drive in there and some uninterested yokel has to do it for you.
So you can't, you know, there's no there was no price cut on on self-serve.
So the the price there is I don't know if it's up three bucks, but this guy sent me a note saying it is.
The oil price is you know it was heading up above eighty bucks, but then some news came out yesterday that shocked the associated press.
The news has caused the oil price to now dip below eighty dollars a barrel.
Uh, oil prices slid below eighty dollars a barrel Wednesday after China moved to curb bank lending, and a report showed an unexpected jump in U.S. inventories of distillates and distillates and gasoline.
Oil prices rose to a 15-month high near eighty-four dollars a barrel earlier this week amid expectations a spell of bitter cold in parts of the U.S. and Europe and Asia would boost demand for oil uh such as heating oil.
But data released late Tuesday by the American Petroleum Institute showed that uh dissillate inventories increased 3.6 million barrels last week, while analysts had expected a drop of 1.7 million barrels, according to a survey by Platts.
The Energy Information Arm and McGraw Hill Company's gasoline supplies jumped 6.8 million barrels.
Now, what is so surprising about this?
It it seems to me that if the overall economy is down, then there's less need for oil.
Like all the truckers that are calling here with no work.
Big rigs parked on the side of the road, less people driving to jobs they don't have, for example.
Wouldn't it make sense that our inventories would rise?
But yet they're perpetually shocked about this.
Here is Joni in Byrne, Texas.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Rush Hudson Limbaugh.
Thank God you're healthy, man.
And happy belated birthday.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
You know, talking to you almost takes my anger away, but I'm just so incensed that the Democrats think we're all stupid.
You know, they live in opposite world, and they think the rest of the country followed suit.
They keep telling us lies and they expect us to believe whatever they say just because they say it.
That's all they do.
Everything they do is a lie.
Everything.
Like the two million jobs they created in the last half of last year.
That's the news today.
Two million jobs created.
Yeah.
You know, they they assume that they've succeeded in mesmerizing all of us and removing all sense of decency, ethics, and common sense.
No, their arrogance is just astounding.
It's beyond astounding.
And of course, if you look at the latest polling data on health care, Obama's at a mid-thirties on approval.
His his job approval is at 45 and 46% in uh in major polls.
There's n they they they have to be clearly aware of this, and their technique is just a lie even bigger.
Do they care?
And lie even more.
Do they even care?
Uh about what?
Do they even care that their poll numbers are so low?
I don't think they care.
And that that's just really frightening to me.
Well, you'd have to conclude they don't care in one in one sense because they're governing against the will of the people.
I I look at I this this is why Levin wrote his book, you know, Liberty and Tyranny.
It's why he calls them statists.
This these people are not interested in democracy.
They really are not interested in it.
You can't trust the electorate to do the right thing as defined by Democrats.
Voting is a problematic thing.
Uh, and even though they have clear majorities in the House and the Senate, supermajority in the Senate.
Uh they st they they still are governing against the will of the people.
And buyer's remorse is settling in on uh on Obama.
So at this point, you know, I uh really not interested in their motivations.
I'm interested in stopping them.
Uh it's fun to try to figure them out.
Uh I've done as good a job psychologically as anybody ever has or will, as I know these people.
And basically what I would tell you is that they they care in an ego sense, they want to be loved, but they are more committed to their agenda than they are to being loved.
And they've never been this close to getting health care in bad That's ball game.
Single payer, socialized, national health care is ball game.
That's total control of the country.
Pure and simple.
And they are committed to that.
And that's why, and there's they think they're so close to it.
It doesn't matter.
Ted Kennedy could send them all a vision in in their sleep.
Don't do it.
It's gonna ruin the country can talk them out of it.
Glad you called Joni.
Thanks very much.
Well, looky here, the Boston Herald.
Breaking news.
Bay State Attorney General Martha Coakley blamed Republican stalkers today for triggering tensions outside of Washington fundraiser last night, where a weekly standard reporter said he was roughed up by a coakley campaign worker.
Coakley.
Uh uh uh worthless paragraph.
Coakley said she's not privy to the fact she saw it.
Coakley says she's not privy to the facts surrounding the incident involving John McCormick last night, who wrote about the episode outside the Sonoma restaurant in an online dispatch called We Report We Get Pushed.
McCormick wrote he was pushed to the ground by a man he says is linked to Coakley's campaign while he was asking her questions.
I know there were people following, including two from the Brown campaign who've been very aggressive in their stalking.
Coakley told reporters during an appearance at Kit Clark Senior services in Dorchester.
I'm not sure what happened.
I know something occurred, but I'm not the picture, there is a still-shot picture.
It may have been taken from the video that shows her looking at the reporter on the sidewalk after he's been pushed down.
So you know what?
These people in the Boston media are monitoring this program and adjusting their coverage.
According I don't this is three versions of this now in one show.
Now we got Republican stalkers.
The original Boston Globe story was the guy slipped and was helped up by the campaign worker.
Uh then they ditched that and ran the story that well, as a reporter says he was pushed.
But hey, just says it.
Now normally if a reporter says he was pushed, then the reporter community circles the wagons that gets mad at whoever pushed.
Well, this guy works for the weekly standard and can't have that.
They're not really reporters, they're stalkers At a conservative magazine.
Robert Mitchell's job is to provide counseling to people facing foreclosure.
He often urges them to check their credit card reports as they try to get their finances in order.
The importance of that advice took on new relevance for him in December when he learned he had been the victim of identity theft.
He said he was unable to get a loan with a reasonable interest rate because somebody had used his social security number to set up utility services for their apartment in Georgia and didn't pay the bills.
He now says he wants people to know what happened to him in the hope that it'll prompt people to check their own credit reports.
Well I I hear stories like this, and I somewhat take it a little personally.
Because there's a way.
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Bill in Chicago.
Thanks for calling, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Rush, it's great to be here.
To my point here.
Coakley said that there are no terrorists in Afghanistan.
Well, you know, she should know because it's obvious the terrorists are working for her.
This guy that pushed down this weekly standard gentleman yesterday.
He's a terrorist because what he did, he pushed this guy down to give warning to all other reporters, stay away from us and don't ask bad questions.
That's terrorism.
It's no different than when the SEIU thug beat up the black conservative conservative man selling buttons on the street.
It's no different than the man who got his finger bit off at a rally.
These people are terrorists and they need to be called out on it.
It's actually a passionately made good point.
Thank you.
And this guy, Meehan, uh is he's um he's been appointed by the Obama administration to some agency that oversees radio used to be free America and some other uh thing.
And he's worked for the Democrat uh congressional campaign committee.
He's a Democrat operative, and he's been sent up there this week to help get her back on message, because she doesn't have a message other than I'm a Democrat.
It's Ted Kennedy's seat, and I'm gonna vote for health care.
I'm a sock puppet.
And uh they're in trouble up there.
This race is uh is much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much closer than they ever dreamed or imagined that it would be.
And she witnessed it, act of terrorism.
It's a taught tactic, though, folks.
It's a it's a taught technique.
You shove somebody down to the ground and you immediately be the one to help them up.
Oh my God, what happened?
Here, let me help you up.
And then when you get them up, you keep jostling them to keep them away from whoever you it's a it's it's a tact tactic that security people use uh against somebody who's a genuine threat.
This guy was just a reporter asking questions.
A quick timeout.
We'll be back right after this.
Don't go away.
This may be pretty big.
This may be pretty g pretty big.
Uh against a backdrop of several chilly city police officers at police headquarters, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Scott Brown today accepted the endorsement of the WUSTA department's two major unions, local 9-11 New England Police Benevolent Association, and local 504, the International Brotherhood of Police Officers, handed their endorsements to Mr. Brown one day after debate.
These are the WUSTA, Massachusetts police unions.
For those of you in Rio Lind, it's Worcester, uh pronounced WUSTA up there.
Now, this WUSTA's a pretty liberal place, as most places in Massachusetts are.
This is not gonna sit well.
Not gonna sit well whatsoever.
Couldn't somebody ask Martha Cochley to at least comment on on the reporter that was chubbed down.
She's standing right there, claims I knew there was a ruckus or being stalked.
This is right.
Hey, I thought in this year Obama was gonna focus on bringing everybody together.
But I guess what Obama's doing is Cochley is is is implementing is uh Obama's technique, you hit us, and we hit back twice as hard.
Jack Cafferty, not happy with Nancy Pelosi.
CBS News has a stunning report on the all-expense paid trip of at least twenty members of Congress to the Copenhagen Climate Summit last month.
The bipartisan delegation led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was so large they needed three military jets, two 737s and a Gulf Stream 5.
This nation's hurting.
But Nancy Pelosi can use three military jets for a December trip to Copenhagen and then refuse to answer any questions about it.
Here's the question.
How much do members of Congress feel the pain of the American people during this recession?
What a horrible woman she is.
Jack, you got to tell us how you really feel about Nancy.
I just did.
I heard you say that.
A horrible woman, Jack Cafferty on CNN.
Doug in San Angelo, Texas.
You gotta be going there to get there.
You'll never accidentally run into it.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
How's it going?
Very well, sir.
I had uh a couple of points on the uh on the fact that Americans aren't getting any larger.
I think it has more to do with the fact that there's uh uh a more widespread use of newer procedures like gastric bypass and gastric ban procedures that uh would would skew the data towards uh towards more toward the average.
Uh how so?
Don't follow you.
Gastric bypress is uh how does that relate to people?
You mean people not getting any fatter because more and more people are getting them?
Well, yes, and the and the and specifically the fatter people, skinny people don't get a bi gastric bypass, so the the averages would come down to normal, at least at least uh possibly not uh grow.
How do those things work?
I mean, what are you not able to physically you just can't eat as much without getting a little sick?
There's a there's a lot of different ones.
In some cases, they'll they'll they'll uh they'll cut out pieces of the stomach and then they'll and then they'll uh tie it back in so it's a smaller stomach.
And in other cases, you'll have a ban that's just it's basically uh a in concept like a rubber band that goes around your stomach that doesn't allow it to expand.
Yeah.
It could be.
Um, but the they're still disappointed out there.
The obesity rate has not increased.
He's calling about a stat we had.
The obesity rate has not increased.
It's from MSNBC in ten years.
Despite all this panic that we keep hearing about it.
The obesity rate has not gone up in ten years, and the theory from the scientists is that we're already so fat we can't get any fatter.
That's what they say.
Scientific research, Chicago and Bob.
Nice to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Uh, I just got a quick uh explanation needed from you.
You you claim that Bill Clinton made a racist comment by saying that Kennedy was voting for Obama because he was black, but you said the exact same words about Colin Powell voting for Obama because he was black.
That's right.
So is your comment racist too?
Well, I didn't follow it up by saying the only reason that uh uh people are supporting Obama's Well, no, I did say that, but I didn't say that that Obama's somebody that would get us coffee first.
Right, but you but you specifically pointed out that second comment as being racist, and you said the same thing.
Well, but I was I was saying it about a black guy.
A white-skinned black guy, uh, without a Negro uh dialect, nevertheless, but I'm still saying it about a black guy.
You know, Clinton was talking about Ted Kennedy.
Right.
So isn't it the motivation of a racist, you know, if he's doing it just because of skin color, it doesn't matter if you're saying it to a white guy or a black guy, right?
Uh look when I say that Colin Powell is voting for him for his black, because I was talking about black unity.
I was talking about Colin Powell, he had to.
You know, the the the the if I wasn't saying Colin Powell is a racist.
I was saying that Colin Powell is loyal to somebody, the first black presidential candidate, almost as though he had no choice.
But the way he did it strategically was designed to hurt McCain.
That Clinton telling Ted Kennedy, hey man, you're endorsing this guy simply because he's black.
Come on, we all know that.
Let's be truthful here.
That's a whole different thing because Clinton is accusing Kennedy.
In the process, Clinton is exhibiting his own racism, which has been documented many times.
Friends, I know it's going to happen.
This is just out now for the National Journalism's Congress Daily.
Unions tentatively struck a deal today to exempt collectively bargained health care plans from a tax on high cost plans expected to be used to help raise.
I knew this was going to happen.
The only people, the only people who are going to be exempted from paying the Cadillac tax are people who make Cadillacs.
The union workers.
I knew this was going to happen.
Little peace in Nebraska as well.
We'll see you tomorrow, folks.
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