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Jan. 14, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 14, 2010, Thursday, Hour #3
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Try this headline.
It is from uh Mother Jones.
How Bush Cheney policy screwed Haiti.
The subhead, before the 2004 coup, Haiti descended into chaos, and the Bush administration made sure it stayed that way.
That's the leftist take out there.
It's Bush's fault.
Mark my words, it'll be mere moments before we get the first story in the state-controlled media, extolling the virtues of Obama and his government's rapid response to the disaster compared to Bush's non-response to Hurricane Katrina.
The Obama administration, in addition to taxing the profits of Wall Street firms today and bonuses and everything else, is now prepared to criminalize capitalism.
This is a story from uh from today.
It's by Daniel Wagner at the state-controlled associated press.
Attorney General Eric Holder told a bipartisan panel exploring the roots of the financial crisis, that the Justice Department is using every tool at its disposal to fight the financial crimes that contributed to the meltdown and could cause another.
The Attorney General said fighting financial crime will foster confidence in the system.
He's appearing before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in its second day of hearings.
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Shapiro will tell the panel that her agency has been reviewing its operations in light of crimes exposed by the crisis.
Holder highlighted the work of a new interagency financial fraud enforcement task force created by Obama to coordinate efforts between the Justice Department and other agencies.
The regulators and officials are expecting to discuss investigations into crimes that became known during the crisis, including mortgage fraud and the large financial crimes like the landmark Ponzi scheme perpetrated by Bernard Madoff.
Now, this is this is part and parcel of going after the banks, right out of the uh Linsky rules for radicals.
You now criminalize all of capitalism, and when they start talking about uh mortgage fraud, you know, I I just I I swell up to the point of bursting when I hear mortgage fraud.
This whole mortgage fraud was forced by a federal government program called the Community Redevelopment Act, which was authored in part by Acorn.
And the whole point was to make mortgages that were worthless, to make loans that were worthless.
Where is the fraud?
The fraud exists in people not being able to pay the mortgage back or to make monthly payments on the loans.
And then and then giving them the fraud's giving them one in the first place.
But the banks were forced to do this.
They were under pre- Janet Reno was threatening these banks with all kinds of things if they didn't start making these kinds of loans.
So if only the Obama administration would go after terrorists with the same zeal that they are pursuing evil capitalists.
What they're doing, uh, my friends, Obama, the Democrats are criminalizing the making of money.
Capitalism itself.
And you can see it in the bank tax.
They're persecuting the very people who do so much to help create investment and wealth in our country and around the world, the very people whose industriousness creates the wealth that is on display now in bailing out people in Haiti.
The government can't do this.
It is capitalism that made this country the greatest country on the face of the earth.
But speaking of terrorists, speaking of terrorists, will these bank CEOs and other financial criminals be afforded the same presumption of innocence and other rights that we are now extending to those confused innocents who have been captured red-handed on the battlefield?
Will the CEOs and the bankers be able to retract any and all statements they have made or might have appeared to be in admission of guilt?
Will they be provided a dramatic forum where they can present their side of the story to the world without any fear of future retribution?
Probably not.
They will not be given the same presumption of innocence that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has given.
After all, these banks and mortgage lenders were following the mandates of previous Congresses and presidents.
They should be shown no mercy.
This is exactly what is going on.
Eric Cantor, who is the majority whip, minority whip, Republican whip in the House...
Said yesterday morning after meeting with his conference that this health care bill can be defeated.
Second ranking House Republican uttered those words as key Democrat leaders met with Obama at the White House in order to salvage what remains of House Senate negotiations on a final health care bill.
Cantor explained that he had spent an hour Wednesday huddling behind closed doors with members of his own conference, strategizing how to defeat the president's landmark domestic initiative.
And Cantor said we're looking at 37 Democrats who are in districts that are particularly upset and vulnerable to the provisions in this bill.
Are they going to be with the people?
Are they going to be with Pelosi?
According to aides that participated in Wednesday's GOP conference, John Boehner told the rank and file, the bottom line is, I believe we can beat this bill.
The American people are with us.
Remains to be seen.
I don't know what's being cobbled together.
I don't know what to believe either when I when I hear how upset some Democrats in the House are.
I don't know whether to believe this or not.
But we do get stories from uh from Democrats in the House that they're tired of hanging having to accept and cave in on whatever it is the Senate wants and whatever the Senate comes up with.
So I I I some of these stories can lead you to believe that they're having real trouble in these closed door meetings reconciling the two bills.
But at the end of the day, they're all liberal Democrats.
I I I I can't imagine this falling apart.
I I just I can't.
I I maybe it will.
I hope it does.
Don't misunderstand.
I just don't know whether to believe any of these stories that really portray this as as hanging by a thread, like Chris Dodd said.
I hope they're right.
But I don't know.
All right.
Now, yesterday, turning now to uh the Massachusetts special election on Tuesday.
Yesterday we told you the story of how uh Mike Meehan pushed down John McCormick to the sidewalk and a metal metal uh railing uh in full view of the candidate and attorney general, Martha Coakley, and how it was reported that he slipped down and so forth, and then uh Meehan went in there to help him out.
It turns out now that uh Michael Meehan has publicly acknowledged that he acted too aggressively during that incident with a reporter.
He said last evening I was a little too aggressive and trying to help the attorney general get to her car and and and catch a flight.
He said he had called the reporter John McCormick of the Weekly Standard this afternoon to apologize.
However, the apology and acknowledgement runs contrary to Martha Coakley's own statement earlier yesterday in which she blamed the incident on Republican stalkers.
Bay State Attorney General Martha Coakley blamed GOP stalkers today for triggering tensions outside of Washington fundraiser, where a weekly standard reporter said he was roughed up by a Cochley campaign volunteer.
I know there were people following, she said, including two from the uh from the Brown campaign who've been very aggressive in their stalking.
She said this to reporters at an appearance at Kit Clark Senior services in in Dorchester.
I am not sure what happened.
I know something occurred, but I'm not privy to the facts.
I'm sure it'll come out, but I'm I I'm not aware of that.
She watched it, and the pictures show her looking exactly at the reporter as he's on the sidewalk.
She is the state's number one law enforcement officer.
She stood by.
She did nothing.
She let it happen.
Claims now to be stalking.
So will she retract her statement?
Will Martha Coakley retract her statement, blaming Republican stalkers now that her goon, Michael Meehan, has uh has fessed up.
Somebody needs to fax this down to Barney Frank.
This is from the Associated Press.
Massachusetts top election official says that it could take weeks to certify the results of the upcoming U.S. Senate special election, which could delay uh uh uh well, it would allow uh Obama to preserve the key, his 60th vote for his health care overhaul, and Barney Frank said, this is this is insane.
This is this couldn't possibly happen.
It could possibly happen.
And everybody has been writing about how it's going to happen.
The Secretary of State, William F. Galvin, citing state law, says that city and town clerks have to wait at least 10 days for absentee ballots to arrive before they certify the results of the January 19th election.
Okay, that's January 29th.
Then they have five more days to file the returns with his office.
29, 30, 31, it's February 2nd, which happens to be the day Obama wants to do his speech.
Galvin uh bypassed the provision in 2007, so his fellow Democrats could gain a House vote they needed to override a vote or a veto of George W. Bush, but the secretary says that U.S. Senate rules would preclude a similar hurry today.
Now, this is public policy polling.
This is Tom Jensen.
This is a liberal bunch of North Carolina that we follow here.
And they had a post yesterday, Obama and Cochley.
He says, I'm sure the main reason Obama's not going to campaign for Cochley is that either A, the White House isn't that worried about her, or B, they want to minimize the extent to which Obama gets blamed if she does somehow manage to lose her only wins by a small margin.
Obama did do a commercial.
I don't know if it's a phone commercial or if he's producing a TV commercial or whatever, but I just saw it moments ago he is going to do a commercial.
This is good news, folks.
He's good news.
He's going to be part of the campaign.
This is excellent news.
What's interesting to note, says public policy polling in the poll that we did in the race is that Coakley is actually more popular than Obama.
She has a 50% favorable rating.
He has a 44% approval rating in Massachusetts.
Whoa.
Now, certainly you can make the argument that the reason for that is the conservative lien of likely voters at this point.
And if Obama showed up and changed the electorate, he would have better approval numbers among those planning to go and vote.
But his visits in Virginia and New Jersey never did put any dent in the poll numbers.
In fact, Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell saw the polls move slightly in their direction after Obama's visits to their state.
And let's not forget that in the state of Virginia, they threw Craig Deeds under the dust under the bus before the election.
They blamed him for not following Obama's campaign tactics.
They blamed him for not using Obama enough.
So PPP says there's an argument to be made that Obama visit could actually have had more of a negative effect on Cochley than a positive one.
But at this point it uh it's academic.
No, it's not.
Not if he's going to show up in a commercial.
And uh here's a headline from the investors' business daily Bay State jobs threatened by a Cokley win.
One tax increase that's causing heartburn for bill supporters is a new levy on medical device manufacturers.
The scuttlebutt on the hill is that next to the Cadillac plan excise tax, this new tax on medical device makers is causing the most consternation among vulnerable Democrats.
What hasn't been fully explored yet in the Massachusetts Senate race is how much this new tax impacts the base state.
If elected to the Senate, it's no secret that Martha Coakley would become the deciding 60th vote in favor of Reed Obama Pelosi government-run health care.
To pay for this expansion of state power, the bill relies on 18 new tax increases.
Massachusetts relies heavily on the medical device manufacturing industry, which makes everything from wheelchairs to pacemakers.
According to 2007 study by AdvaMed, which is an industry trade association, 22,000 Massachusetts workers punch a clock every day at a medical device plant.
That's one out of every 150 people who work in the state.
Their annual paychecks amount to about $51,000, which is far higher than the average Massachusetts wage of $42,000.
And so if these people who work in substantial numbers at medical device manufacturers, understand that huge tax increases are coming on their companies.
And that's going to have a uh definite effect on their eventual employment, certainly on raises, compensation, that it could redact uh or redound in a in a very negative way to them.
Polls tightening in this race, but still people don't know what to make of it.
And the reason they don't know what to make of it is they just most people cannot get their arms around the fact that in a state with a million more Democrats than Republicans, and the Ted Kennedy seat, people just can't get their arms around the concept a Republican could win this.
So polling data is within the margin of error in a number of polls.
Other polls show you know a nine to fifteen point landslide for for Martha Coakley.
So and the pollsters, they're not even confident.
Uh because of the the the variance uh from one poll to the other.
The the the one thing that we can draw from this conclusively is that Democrats scared to death.
They are in panic mode.
The Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee, the House campaign committee, is sending money to Martha Coakley in a Senate race.
Now, technically that's not allowed.
So they had to change their wording here.
They're saying we're making an expenditure for her rather than a campaign contribution.
Don't know what the expenditure is going to be.
But the reason they're concerned about it in Pelosi's office is because for that agenda that I mean the House is more out of touch with the American body politic than the Senate is.
I mean, they are so far out of touch it's laughable.
They know they need sixty votes in the Senate to get Pelosi's agenda done.
Forget Obama's.
Pelosi's got her own, and they need sixty votes in the Senate to get it done.
If they don't have sixty votes in the Senate, then they've got huge, huge problems.
That's why the House is getting involved in this as well.
Back to the phone so we go to Paducah, Kentucky.
This is April.
That's one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.
Uh April, thank you for calling.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
I'm glad that you chose to have me on today.
Yes.
Um, this is kind of belated, but I just have a question for you.
Yes, ma'am.
Where in your right mind do you get the cajones to just completely I don't know, I guess dismiss a tragedy of possibly a hundred thousand people dead in Haiti.
You're you're going around discouraging people to send donations because we already donated to Haiti, and it's called the U.S. income tax.
And Obama, the president of our United States, your president as well, whether you like it or not.
Where did you say where did you hear that I discouraged donations to uh uh Haiti?
Um I read it in a news thing called the Huffington Post.
But that's not the point.
I was going to finish my sentence if that's okay with you.
Well, but what you just said is a lie.
What you they they reported a lie.
I did not discourage donations to actually the point I was getting to, whether or not you said that, which actually I'm not sure.
No, that's it's not whether or not that matters.
I mean, you call here, and you where do I get off suggesting that we don't donate to Haiti because we do in the income tax, and I tell you I said that, but I also said private donations are going to be much better than a government donation.
They're all go to go to the Red Cross, do other things.
Don't go through the government, it's just gonna go through hands and bureaucracies and uh a dollar's gonna end up being thirty cents for the time they get through with it.
I did not say don't make donations.
That's not a whether or not thing.
That's why you called.
Calm down.
Finish your sentence.
I I planned on it, but um actually I like keep denying that.
But I what is this you were saying about our president of the United States trying to just basically establish credibility in the black community among light and dark-skinned African Americans?
And why do you like after saying that, why would you call yourself a patriot?
All right.
Now, this is funny.
I ha I know, I know that this is this was our media tweak of the day yesterday, April.
You know, what I do here on this program is purposely, I I play the media like a violin, like a stratavarius, and I love tweaking them.
I love irritating them, and I love upsetting them.
And all I do is take words uttered by liberals and apply them to current events.
It was Harry Reed who looked at Obama and said he's a light-skinned uh guy that doesn't speak.
I'm not talking about Harry Reid.
I'm talking about you.
I was.
You see, this is the point.
You didn't Listen to the program.
You're reading people who take what I say out of context precisely to create this sense of outrage that you have.
Okay.
In fact, I want you to listen to something with me.
Before I said all of this, I made a prediction, because this was my media tweak of the day.
I said this, and it's getting too easy.
I mean, you're illustrating how easy it is to outrage these people.
I enjoy it.
This is a great success.
When people start squealing like pigs, is when I know I've hit a home run.
This is what I said yesterday.
Before this week is out, I will be the one who uttered the words light skinned and doesn't speak the Negro dialect when he doesn't.
I'll be the one that said it.
Before the week is out, I'll be the one who said it, not Harry Reed.
And it'll be asking, why have you not condemned Rush Limbaugh for what he said in repeating what Harry Reed said?
And Harry Reed will condemn me from the Senate floor.
And then I proceeded to suggest that uh Obama's going to be giving aid to both light-skinned and dark-skinned Negroes in Haiti.
And I and it just designed to get the reaction I got.
And it worked.
I don't m the people that listen to this program laugh and chuckle every day at this stuff because we're just needling the uh needling the media.
And they talk about me all the time, and I can create it any time I want.
And it's made you mad, and you believe things they take out of context or don't completely say what I fully said.
Okay, so you're basically evading the second part of my question.
You're not gonna tell me why you decided to go around saying something bringing like a tragedy that's happened to hundreds of thousands of people where people are suffering.
No, no, I'm not evading it at all.
I say ever what if I said it, I meant to say it.
And I do believe that everything is political to this president.
Everything that this president sees is a political opportunity, including Haiti, and uh he will use it to burnish his credentials with the with minorities in this country and around the world and to accuse Republicans of having no compassion.
And I went further than that, Giban.
I'll have I'll tell you what else I said after the break, if you want to hold on.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh serving humanity simply by showing up, and we go back now to April in Paducah, and I had to interrupt you because we had a hard break and I couldn't miss it.
What was it you were going to say?
Well, if I remember correctly, I was about to go say, like I've been trying to get you to explain to me at least, if not the entire country listening to your show right now.
What like what why it doesn't sound like the president is making this Haiti donation business a political thing.
It sounds like you are.
You're uh you're just you brought up a completely inane baseless point about establishing credibility in the light and dark skinned black communities, and like there was no reason for that.
Now, April, I must ask a serious question.
Do you ever listen to my program?
Or do you hear about it in places like the Huffington Post?
Um I I when I'm upstairs in the bedroom, I'll have the radio on, and I like to listen to some local stations, so yes, I have heard your show.
All right.
And I've heard dozens of clips and and quotes that you've said, and most of the time I'm absolutely disgusted with you.
I'll be presenting.
I see, I see.
Okay.
Well, now that we've established that you listen sometimes and you're absolutely disgusted, let me ask you a question.
Um have you ever heard of the Democrat Party and President Obama politicizing a national natural disaster?
Have I ever heard of them politically?
Yep, you're hurt you have you has that ever happened.
Has the Barack Obama and the Democrat Party ever politicized a natural disaster.
Um, well, this is the at least if you're speaking specifically about President Obama, this is the first natural disaster that we've had on uh on his own.
Well, we we've had we had a natural disaster when he was a senator.
It doesn't matter whether he's president or not.
I said the Democrat Party and and President Obama as a senator certainly politicized Hurricane Katrina.
You see, the difference, April, is that I know these people.
I know who they are, and I love to tweak them.
I love to tweak the media.
I predicted yesterday, you know, how come how come there's no outrage, by the way, at Bill Clinton suggesting that Obama's nothing more than a slave when he's trying to get Ted Kennedy to endorse him, endorse Hillary, and he says, Come on, come on, Ted, you know this guy five few years ago, this guy be fetching us our coffee.
You're not outraged about that because the Huffington Post isn't outraged about it.
They probably don't write about it.
But I talk about Actually, you are are you implying that the Huffington Post is the one and only resource that I that I want to know?
No, no, no, no.
I'm not I'm not implying it.
What I'm what I'm right.
What I'm illustrating here is that you're a blockhead.
What I'm illustrating here is that you're a close-minded bigot who is ill informed.
I am being patient and tolerant, and I'm trying to explain this to you, and you're totally close to it.
I'm hitting you with piercing penetrating logic, and it escapes you.
And it is irritating people like you that I revel in.
I absolutely revel in it.
I've got 19 sound bites here today, April, of media people going bat manure yesterday over what they think I said.
They didn't hear me say it either.
They got it from the Huffing Post, or they got it from Media Matters, or they got it from someplace else.
I did not say don't donate.
I did say this Obama will use this to help burnish his credentials, because there's no question he will.
He got out.
I'll tell you something else I said, April, took him three days to go out and talk about the Christmas Day underwear bomber.
Took him less than 18 hours to get out there and start rallying people about hurricane or about this earthquake.
And I'll tell you something else, April.
I'm gonna make a prediction to you, and I'm gonna be right about this.
Before the week is out, we're gonna have stories in the Huffington Post and other places that you read, uh pointing out how fast Obama moved into action versus Bush during Hurricane Katrina.
To accuse me of politicizing everything is to be ignorant about what I do on this program.
I simply react to the left.
They're the ones that politicize virtually everything that's happening, from health care to terrorism.
And I love illustrating absurdity by being absurd.
And if you had listened to this program for a modicum of time, you would know it.
But instead, you're blockhead.
Your mind is totally closed.
You got tampons in your ears.
Nothing's getting through other than the biased crap that you read.
And so I've had enjoyment here talking to you and illustrating it's impossible to deal in the truth with you.
I appreciate your calling and I appreciate your holding on.
I grew up not far from Purdue.
Uh if I'd known you were there, I might have stayed.
Jim in Chicago, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Yeah, hi.
Hello.
Hey.
Hey, I agree with you that the media is going to be um comparing Obama's.
Are you there?
Yeah, I'm here.
Okay.
I agree with you that the media is going to be comparing Obama's um reaction to Bush's reaction to their disasters.
And but I bet you nobody talks about how much opposition Bush had with so many local, clever Democratic politicians down there in Louisiana.
Oh, I know.
Oh, I know.
You had you had school bus Nagan and you had uh Kathleen Blanco keeping officials out of there.
Kathleen Blanco was really the culprit down there.
She was so disorganized, incompetent, didn't know what she was doing.
School bus Nagan didn't move the school buses out, didn't use the buses to evacuate anybody.
Uh they they totally politicize that.
Uh and they're gonna do it with they politicize everything.
This is a golden opportunity.
By the way, it's not that Obama has to burnish his credentials with the black community, but he's gonna do it anyway.
Uh and and uh if if he gets the chance to say Republicans don't care about this, I'm the one that had to move in, but he'll do it.
He'll do it.
Anyway, I I'm glad you called out there, Jim.
Thanks.
Uh thanks very much.
Heritage Foundation members know this already, but let me share a little known fact with all of you discovered by the researchers at the Heritage Foundation.
Right now, federal employees enjoy a federal program of employee benefits with a menu of health care choices to choose from for their health care.
The Office of Personal Management, the OPM, oversees the program as a neutral umpire to oversee fair hiring practices and provide consumer practices.
Now, the health bill, if the health bill being proposed passes as is today.
The Office of Personnel Management would move from being a neutral umpire to one that would sponsor health care.
The OPM would sponsor health plans to compete with private health plans in every state of the union.
So a government agency would have the power to set the rules for its own sponsored health care plans and the ability to use such sums as necessary.
This sounds an awful lot like a public option to me.
What we're talking about here are the exchanges.
They say the public option is gone, that the Senate took it out, but it's not gone.
It's there.
And it's right there in what the Heritage Foundation's dug up here.
The OPM, the Office of Personnel Management would sponsor health plans to compete with private health plans in every state of the Union, which is exactly what the public option was designed to do, and to use such sums as necessary.
Meaning offer coverage, uh at lower than market prices, thereby freezing out the private insurers.
So let this be a l a lesson here, folks.
A Senate bill this big and so tremendous in scope, chock full of government goodies.
I mean, you don't have the time to read it and make sense of it all.
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As I twiddle my phone, 95 Debbie in the Florida Panhandle.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi, don't hang up on me.
I've got something, two three things to say.
First of all, when I found out you were in the hospital, I cried.
I was so nervous.
Because I didn't want anything to happen to you.
And thank you for taking my call.
And are you going to be at CPAC?
I'm not going to be at CPAC this year.
Oh God.
I'm going to see PAC.
I have a scheduling conflict.
Oh, darn you.
Well, I'm going to see Glenn anyway.
I heard that he's speaking this year.
Yeah, he's keynoting this year.
That's good.
That's good.
But I'm going to miss you.
I thought I was going to finally meet you.
Okay.
Now I'll talk about Haiti.
Tell him I'll be right down.
My husband's screaming for me.
I'm really, really upset about this because we have poured so much money into Haiti.
But nobody ever watches the phone.
Oh, oh, oh, hold on just a second.
For everybody at Media Matters for America and the Huffington Post, uh get your transcribers going because here comes some more lack of compassion.
Okay, fire away.
Okay, well, it's not lack of compassion.
It's not a good thing.
No, no, no, no, no.
They'll think it is.
I know what you're going to say.
We've poured millions into there.
We've and we've it's it's it's pouring it down a drain.
What the the amount of money that the world has given Haiti and it still can't revive itself.
The problem is not lack of money.
The problem's not lack of resources.
There's something else down there that's not right.
Well, then they can write this down too.
My name is Debbie Pick Apoy, and that's an acronym, and it stands for politically incorrect and proud of it.
Good.
I like it.
I like it.
Pick-a-poy.
It's a new word.
I just made it up the other day.
And that's who I am, because I am sick of PC, because PCA is a personal computer, and I am tired of having to live by those regulations because people just take advantage.
I mean, there is such fraud and such waste.
When I looked at the president's house in Haiti, I knew he had a big house, but I didn't know it was like three times the size of the White House.
I can't understand how come those people haven't gone through those gates and like pulled him out of there by his head hair if he has any.
I don't know.
I I don't remember what he looks like.
Because eighty per eighty percent of them are in poverty and they've got nothing to go in there with but clumps of dirt.
I know, but they could climb over the fence and throw rocks in the windows that do something.
I don't know either.
Well, they've done that.
They've done that.
They get gunned down.
I mean, this is these this that's this place has been led by dictators or communists, which one and the same.
Yes.
Since the 30s.
I mean, it's it's it's it's a disaster.
There's the the problem with Haiti is there's no capitalism there.
That's right.
You know what?
You're absolutely right.
And the problem with our systems here is we just keep giving money away to every Tom, Dick, and Harry across the water, everywhere, and we should stop doing that.
It's just about time that everybody learned how to how to stand up on their own two feet.
And I have something else.
I agree.
It's not going to happen here.
You've got you've got half a million people maybe dead.
Uh you've got the the pictures coming out of there.
Remember, we went to Somalia over one picture of a starving young kid with insects flying around his head.
We went to Somalia over one picture on the front page of the New York Times.
This, that means we got C 130s flying in there, but you know, uh practically all the houses have collapsed.
People are in the streets, and dead bodies are in this.
There's no way to get this aid anywhere.
I mean, it's it's absolutely chaos down there.
They don't.
It's impossible to set up an orderly system.
That's that's how much uh destruction that there is.
But immediate tweet number two.
Here we go.
The pictures of those C-130s flying in.
Boy, that looks good.
That looks good.
Now look.
I checked the email here during the break, and uh it happens every day.
Every time I mention Zycam, I got people right, Rush Rush Rush.
Don't you know that Zycam has been banned?
The FDA has taken it off the sound because they destroys people think it's snow.
You're irresponsible, don't you know?
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, Zycam has not been banned.
One type of its delivery system was.
And it was a mistake to ban it in the first place.
I don't want to get into that.
The the gel swabs, the nasal gel swabs are banned, uh, because you've you got a bunch of charlatans out there who claim their sense of smell was destroyed and uh get class action suits and so forth.
They never won one of them, but the FDA decided to ban it away.
But there are all kinds of Zycam treatments, a bunch of different ways you can take it now, a bunch of different flavors.
It doesn't matter, it works.
In fact, um people are still hoarding some of the gel swabs.
You can buy them on eBay because Zycam works.
Whatever form in which you take it.
Liqu lozenges, different flavors.
What you do is very simple.
The first instant, the first moment you think you're coming down with a cold.
You take Zycam as directed.
It comes in an orange box, an orange and white box, and you can't miss it.
Uh it you find this stuff at any drugstore, similar type store, and uh you take it every four hours as directed, and it will shorten the duration of the cold.
You got to catch it early, though, for this to work.
And it will limit the symptoms.
Some people say it it it does, but uh you can't claim that.
But it does shorten the symptoms and it works.
Zycam, Z-I-C-A-M.
Let me tell you, by way of Tony Blankley, a soundbite we played yesterday, what all of this is reacting to what I did not say yesterday on this program.
The lesson that we learned from this is not that the Senator said anything particularly remarkable, but that the w when conservatives say something equally unremarkable that the feigned uh outrage drives them out of office.
Whether it's Rush Limbaugh saying that a black quarterback uh got better pressed than if he'd been white, or whether it was Senator Allen who who used the word macaca, whatever that means.
That got six stories on the front page of the Washington Post.
The point is they're not sincere when they're outraged, they're just trying to drive out a political opponent.
Exactly.
And so all of this outrage that you saw in television last night is feigned.
It is fake.
I'm not the one that ever used light skinned, dark skinned.
That was Harry Reed.
We're laughing at him, we're making fun of him, and they fake all this outrage that I would say this.
Not even understanding, and they do understand I was making a joke.
They're just feigning outrage to try to take me out, which is the and that's why I do the media tweak every day, because they're gonna bomb out every time they try.
I mean, it's just it's just fun.
Here's the latest ad, the Chamber of Commerce ad for Scott Brown in Massachusetts.
The Washington politicians continue to fail us.
More spending and fewer jobs.
But it's not too late to get our economy back on track.
Scott Brown believes in fiscal responsibility.
Scott Brown supports measures that hold spending, cut taxes, and help businesses invest in new jobs.
Scott Brown's plan empowers businesses, not politicians.
Call Scott Brown.
Thank him for supporting the plan to fix our economy.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is responsible for this advertising.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, that's the ad, uh, their first ad on uh behalf of Scott Brown in Massachusetts.
As that race continues to tighten, a brief timeout will come back and wrap it up right after this.
Did I call it or did I call it the White House already doing all they can To uh make the parallels with Hurricane Katrina.
White House press relief.
Vice President Biden, Dr. Jill Biden to travel to Louisiana and South Florida.
On Friday, the Vice President will highlight new recovery and rebuilding efforts in New Orleans and Grand Lake, Louisiana.
Dr. Biden to visit Delgado Community College in New Orleans.
On Saturday, they travel to South Florida to meet with members of the Haitian American community and responders who are mobilizing relief efforts for Haiti.
So that's a White House press relief.
A release.
Biden and his wife going to New Orleans tomorrow, South Florida on Saturday.
The first news story on this, probably before 6 p.m. today.
Proving again.
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