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Jan. 18, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 18, 2010, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, it gets very frustrating here sometimes.
As many of you know, I really am uncomfortable talking about myself.
But I am forced into it by a constant drumbeat of erroneous reporting that never ends by the state-controlled media of what I say.
So I'm forced today to deal with it, but I'm not going to start with that.
I'm not going to be derailed.
I'm not going to be taken off track.
Greetings, great to have you here.
We're back for a full week of broadcast excellence here at the EIB Network.
I am Rush Limbaugh, America's truth detector and the doctor of democracy.
A telephone number, you want to be in the program, 800-282-2882, the email address, lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
Is Whiteclef Jean, is he a rap star or is he just a reggae kind of kind of music?
Do you know?
Well, Whiteclef Jean is running a relief mission in Haiti.
I think he's Haitian, but I'm not sure.
Okay, he's Haitian.
Well, he's being ripped apart by people for suggesting that people donate to his charity.
Some in the media are suggesting that the administrative costs of charity gone through Whiteclef Jean's company or outfit, it may be a little bit high, and the net sum that'll end up getting to the recipients is not what it should be.
And I'm stunned at this.
What about the administrative costs of donating through WhiteHouse.gov for crying out loud?
Do you know that one of the reasons the welfare budget is as high as is that, and these numbers are, I guess, 10 years old, but in 1999, maybe earlier than that, for every dollar that was budgeted for welfare or food stamps, AFTC, whatever it is, 28 cents of it was spent on administering it.
So 72 cents on every dollar got there.
I mean, the high administrative costs are actually through when you donate through the government.
I don't know of a president ever who has asked people to donate to a relief effort through a White House website.
It's never happened before.
By definition, everything the President of the United States does is political.
They even put out from the White House over the weekend Lynn Sweet at the Chicago Sun-Times.
I printed it out.
It's three and a half pages.
Obama on the Haiti earthquake crisis.
Behind the scenes, the Obama White House is taking the unusual step of proactively providing a heavy amount of on-the-record details of how the president is handling the aftermath of the horrific earthquake in Haiti.
On Friday, the White House released a minute-by-minute account of events from Tuesday, January 12th, all the way through Friday, January 15th.
It takes two and a half pages in the tiniest font size I've ever seen to go through it.
Tuesday, January 12th, 5.52 p.m.
President informed of the earthquake.
The president asked his staff to make sure that embassy personnel are safe and to begin preparations in the event that humanitarian assistance is needed.
The Department of State, U.S. Aid, and the United States Southern Command begin working to coordinate an assessment and any such assistance.
8.30 p.m.
The president receives another update on the situation.
It goes on and on like this for four days.
Now, and the whole point of this is to show exactly how on the money here and paying attention Obama is as contrasted to President Bush and Katrina.
Now, this disaster in Haiti is worse than anything that ever happened in New Orleans.
It is just an absolute disaster.
The aid finally starting to trickle in now after about six days, but it's still very, very slow.
The situation on the ground is unimaginable.
I don't even want to describe to you the things that I have read with the vermin, the rats thing.
I don't even want to go there.
This is just unbelievable.
It's unimaginable.
And for anybody to report that I said don't donate is absurd.
And these people know it.
The people who are making a big deal out of this are themselves politicizing this for the express purpose of discrediting me, somebody they feel is a top-line conservative spokesman.
They are constantly trying to discredit people like me rather than debate us on issues.
Nobody here ever said don't donate.
We just pointed out you already contribute to the government with your income taxes.
If you want to donate above and beyond that, go through a charity that's constantly on the ground in Haiti or the Red Cross if you want to go that route or whatever.
Nobody said do not donate, which is what is being reported.
I've had so many emails over the weekend.
Rush, the press is castigating you unfairly.
You know what you ought to do, Rush?
You ought to donate a million dollars, make it public, or you ought to ask all the liberal media to ask what they individually have donated and then promise to double it.
And it'd probably cost you 20 bucks.
That was the funniest one I've seen.
Now we move on to Massachusetts and the special election tomorrow.
The weather forecast does not auger a large turnout.
There's snow and freezing rain, sleet today, 60% chance of the same tomorrow.
And the people on the ground that I've spoken to, the Scott Brown people are far more fired up.
He drew larger crowds than Obama did yesterday, far more energetic.
Obama seemed to be not really interested in being there.
He was thrown totally off track by a heckler on abortion.
It's like the teleprompter did not offer guidance or direction on what to do if he got heckled.
They put this thing together at the last minute and they chose a small venue.
Now, normally during the campaign, they'd pick venues of 10 to 15,000.
They chose a venue of 2,500 because they knew they wouldn't be able to fill 10 or 15,000 that late.
And even before it started, Carl Cameron on Fox was reporting that there were seats, galore, that were empty and there was not a line outside.
And finally, they got that together and there was a line outside and so forth.
And they did fill the arena.
Now, public policy polling, which is this lib bunch down in North Carolina, this goes together with a Washington Post poll in Sunday that they undersold.
The Washington Post had an ABC Washington Post poll yesterday that has a really great nugget of information in it that they did their best to ignore.
But first, public policy polling.
If Martha Coakley loses, oh, and how about Patrick Kennedy going in there and calling her Marcia Coakley?
Marcia Coakley, he didn't know her name.
He doesn't even know her name.
Yeah, he went up there and he said, calling her Marcia Coakley.
And they talked to some people coming out of the Obama event yesterday afternoon.
Some woman said, oh, it's just so sad.
It's so sad.
Poor Obama is working 36 hours a day to try to fix the mess George Bush left in, left this in.
And so the people walking out of that thing are blaming Bush one year later for all the problems that we're having.
It's Bush's problem that Coakley isn't a problem.
He's in trouble.
Marcia Coakley, according to Patrick Kennedy.
Don't even know her name.
Chris Matthews threw the religion card recently.
Very Catholic state.
Chris Matthews pointed out that Brown is Protestant.
And he said this is going to be surprised here that the tribals have not arisen here.
He's trying to alert the Catholics that this guy is not a Catholic.
He's a Protestant.
I kid you, J.F. Casey.
I kid you not.
I kid you not.
Look at they're pulling out all the stops.
Obama with a television ad now.
And he did this in Virginia too.
Obama with robocalls all over Massachusetts.
Now, I don't know what he did this in Virginia, and there was no hope of saving it in Virginia, and he did it in New Jersey, and it was a toss-up going in.
So I don't know what to make of this.
I really am going to come down on the side that Obama, if the ship's going to go down, he's going to go down swinging to try to show Democrats he'll run in for them and try to protect them.
I think that's what's happening here.
I'm still having trouble, folks.
I'm not trying to infuse any negative people.
I'm just being truthful here.
I'm having trouble getting my arms around the fact a Republican can win this state, a Senate seat with the voter registration the way it is.
But I'm hearkened by this data from public policy polling.
If Martha Coakley loses tomorrow, it will certainly have a lot to do with her running a poor campaign.
But ultimately, it will be a repudiation of Obama.
Scott Brown is winning 20% of the vote from people who voted for Obama last year.
But these are not people who think he's doing a great job and just think Coakley's a dud candidate.
For the most part, this 20% is people who voted for Obama and are not happy with how he's performed in office.
Among the Obama-Brown voters, just 22% approve of the president's work and only 13% support the health care plan.
That's of the 20% of the vote that went for Obama that's going for Brown.
Coakley is leading Brown 87 to 10 among voters who still approve of Obama.
So it's not as if she's losing a ton of support.
Brown has a 96 to 3 lead with people who disapprove of Obama.
And Tom Jensen here at Public Policy Polling says Coakley's run a bad campaign, no doubt, but the state of the race in Massachusetts is more a function of unhappiness with Obama and congressional Democrats than anything having to do with her.
And the evidence can be found in question 15 of the public policy polling survey.
Here's the question.
It's number 15.
Do you think that congressional Democrats are too liberal, too conservative, or about right?
Too liberal.
53%.
This is in liberal Massachusetts.
53% say congressional Democrats are too liberal.
14% say they are too conservative.
And 33% say that they are about right.
So Scott Brown, if you want to know what's really going on, the Democrat narrative is to throw Marcia Coakley.
I'm going to call her that out of respect for Pat Kennedy.
The narrative is to throw Marcia Coakley under the bus, that she blew it.
And she has, I mean, if it weren't for her varicose veins, she would be totally colorless.
There's no question about that.
But here are the biggest factors.
Scott Brown worked his tail off.
Scott Brown projected the image of a winning candidacy.
That hasn't been done on the Republican side since Romney.
Scott Brown made it clear that he would vote against Obamacare.
No hedging on that under the pressure brought to bear by state-controlled media.
Scott Brown is refusing to accept the traditional Massachusetts Republican Party role as token opposition to the machine.
He is full-fledged opposition to the machine.
He is positioning this as him and us against the machine, and that is resonating.
He's also had some extremely effective advertising.
My spies on the ground up there say it's some of the best TV spots they've ever seen anywhere.
And his supporters are energetic at every stop.
My spies on the ground went to some of his events on Saturday.
He had at least 500 people in Plymouth fired up like you can't imagine.
They needed state police to direct traffic because passing cars kept slowing down to honk.
There are pictures of service employee international union workers brought in by the Democrats carrying brown signs.
A lot of them.
A lot of SEIU people carrying signs for Scott Brown after they've been brought in by the Democrats.
Brown is signing autographs wherever he goes.
And I think the key here, supporting a Republican in Massachusetts may no longer be something to keep quiet about.
The situation has reversed.
It's now the Democrats have to keep a low profile.
And all of this is because, and I've been trying to warn the, as you know, I've been trying to warn the Blue Dog Democrats and any other Democrat up for re-election who'd listen, you do not understand the mood of the people all over this country.
They are totally opposed to the Obama agenda.
They are totally opposed to the Pelosi Politburo way of running Congress.
This is a country steeped in the traditions of liberty and freedom and self-reliance.
They do not want big government.
And that's what the ABC Washington Post poll showed yesterday.
They didn't emphasize it.
They did report it, but didn't highlight it.
We'll do that when we come back.
Sit tight.
And we're back, El Rushbow, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
There's another factor in this election in Massachusetts tomorrow, and that is the Massachusetts health care plan itself is a disaster, is an utter disaster.
Brown voters do not like it.
They know what is ahead for the rest of the country with Obamacare.
So that is a major factor.
A micro lesson here, ladies and gentlemen, in self-reliance.
As you know, we last Monday, was it last Monday or two weeks ago, Brian?
When did we start the HD Ditto Cam?
Time's flying.
So two weeks ago, we began the HD Ditto Cam, and we did so testing it live.
We also, we love to test things live, and I warned everybody that there might be some problems and some dropouts.
At the time, we did not have the audio during commercial breaks.
We didn't have the capability to feed that.
So people, what happened to the audio?
What happened to the audience?
We'd send emails out.
We're working on it.
We're testing it live.
So today is the first day it's up and running as it should have been.
For the past two weeks, whenever I wanted to go dark in here, in other words, turn off the Dittocam, I had to tell Brian or hope that he remembered, and it was a distraction.
Today, I have the switch here.
I just turned it off to show you I can turn it off when I want, and I just turned it back on.
I love being self-reliant.
I love having the control of being able to do it myself.
I love not having to depend on somebody else because when you're depending on somebody else who's also doing three or four other things, you wonder if they'll forget what you need done.
Just a little micro lesson for self-reliance.
When you do it yourself, you can.
When you can't, you delegate it.
All right, Washington Post Sunday on story, focused on primarily on their news poll.
poll shows growing disappointment, polarization over Obama's performance by John Cohen and Jennifer Agiesta is how it's spelled.
It made no mention of the fact that the poll found that 58% of Americans say they favor a smaller government that provides fewer services.
A large majority of Americans say they want a smaller government.
that provides fewer services, according to a new poll from the Washington Post and ABC News, but the Washington Post story about the poll makes no mention of this fact.
And it's huge.
The poll asked, generally speaking, would you say you favor smaller government with fewer services or larger government with more services?
58% said smaller government with fewer services.
Only 36% said they favor a larger government with more services.
They didn't mention the results from this poll question in the news story about the poll.
Here is state-controlled Associated Press.
Headline, President Obama, a year later, hope dissolves into disappointment.
A year ago, on Inauguration Day, like no other, Barack Obama placed his hand upon the Lincoln Bible and then assured a weary nation that with hope and virtue, we could brave once more the icy currents and endure what storms may come.
Across the country in Seattle, Glenn Boyd had only just entered his own economic storm.
A couple of weeks out of work as a direct TV salesman, the Obama supporter nevertheless watched the inauguration on TV with a kind of goose pimply, things are bound to get better anticipation.
He really felt it.
That thing which the poet Alexander Pope said springs eternal.
I felt a tremendous sense of pride.
I felt like he was the right guy.
I felt a sense of optimism.
But now, a year later, Boyd writes this in his blog.
We believed what the man said in all those yes we can speeches.
My one question is, where are all those reassuring speeches now?
Mr. Boyd, the reassuring speeches are there.
The recovery is in full-fledged swing.
The stimulus has worked miracles.
Have you missed them?
Obama's still giving lofty oratorical speeches.
Your better question would be, where's all the change?
And what happened to all the hope?
He concludes by saying, to say I'm disappointed by the Obama presidency thus far would be an understatement.
By the way, they collected a bunch of letters to the editor to prove the headline.
Now, that's nine pages long if you print this story, and it's nothing but letters to the editor all over the country.
A year later, hope dissolves into disappointment.
I can't help but say again what an absolute scam was perpetrated on the people of this country, not just in 2008 during the campaign, but for five years prior.
The mainstream media convinced a majority of people that the country was in worse shape than it had ever been in, that George Bush was a lout, that the country was hated and despised.
They really were convinced to believe that when none of it was true.
Well, here we go, folks.
Week two, Obama's Haiti crisis.
What?
Yeah, I mean to say that.
Of course I mean to say that.
What do you mean?
Why would I call it Obama's Haiti crisis?
Well, the media, the whole, I got this, look at all the nine pages here.
Every minute-by-minute meetings, Obama on Haiti, Obama here, Obama there, Obama's doing this.
It's Obama's haitie.
He's better than Bush.
We're on the case.
Week two, Obama's Haiti.
I understand this is, look at, you know, something.
This is It's just crossed, what is this?
The French news agency, 30 Americans, about 30 Americans were hurt today during a massive relief operation in the Haitian capital in what was described as a mass casualty event, according to U.S. officials.
And that's all there is on this.
So, and that's, this is starting week two here.
About 30 Americans hurt today during a massive relief operation in the Haitian capital in what was described as a mass casualty event.
Before we get to the audio soundbites, which I told the staff about, we got a call from Iraq, and I want to grab that call.
This is Don.
Where are you in Iraq, if you can say, Don?
I am at Fob Delta in Iraq, which is near El Qut, Rush.
Oh, great.
Well, it's great to have you here.
Megadados from here.
Thank you much.
I have a question about the health care bill, sir, and I hope you can hear me okay.
I'm calling over the internet, actually, too.
I actually hear you better than most telephone calls.
Excellent.
The question is, is how have we gotten to the point where we are now in the health care debate?
We went from wanting to insure people that had no insurance.
Now, I realize that we provide most Americans with health care, but we went from going from providing people who didn't have health insurance to this gargantuan bill, and we're still leaving out 12.5 million people without insurance.
I don't understand how we went from trying to get everybody on insurance to this gargantuan monstrosity of a bill, which still leaves 12.5 million uninsured, and you rarely ever hear anybody ask that question of them.
But I think you probably do know the answer, don't you?
Oh, absolutely I do.
Okay, then answer your question.
It's not about providing health care.
That's the answer.
Absolutely right.
It's not about the uninsured.
It can't possibly be if after this gargantuan thing, over 2,000 pages still leaves 12.5 million uninsured.
It can't possibly be about that.
But I thought that's what this is all about.
No, no, that's what they tell us it's all about, so that they can hoodwink people into supporting it.
They grab at people's heartstrings, their heart, and they tug those heartstrings and try to say, it's a terrible thing.
So many people uninsured in the richest country in the world, it's unseemly.
It's a sin that we've got to fix it.
Everybody supports this until they see the details and then realize that this is not about health care.
It's a bill that expands government, that raises taxes, and depletes the private sector of one-sixth of its value.
Put in control of the Democrat Party.
And there's an even better explanation for it.
And this is something that is so simple that it's difficult for people to accept.
And that is, this is a bill advanced by who?
Liberal Democrats.
And the one thing that's inexorably true about them is they lie.
They have to lie.
They cannot be open and honest about what liberalism is.
What happens when they are is what you see happening in Massachusetts.
They have gotten arrogant and they're condescending.
And they're thinking they hold all three branches now.
They don't have to wear the mask anymore.
And they can go out and say whatever they really believe, plan what they really want to do.
And when they do that, people rise up and revolt.
They're going to do that tomorrow in Massachusetts.
They're going to do it big time in November.
And the health care bill, which they intended to get written in secret, has been made public.
No thanks to the mainstream media.
And so it is what it is.
And it's a reassuring fact, I think, Don, that the country has not gone over the cliff.
The country's not socialist.
The people of this country are not wacko-leftist, like we were being led to believe after the election of Obama.
Well, I'm just glad that people have come to realize what's going on in this country.
And we really appreciate you over here.
I can't tell you how many of our men listen to you on the internet.
And we really appreciate everything that you do.
You know, we're here fighting for you.
We love you and we love all the people that are over there supporting us and we appreciate everything you do and people like you are the reason that we're here doing what we're doing.
No, my God, you have melted my heart.
It's very few people that can render me speechless, but you have because we here in this country have a reverence for what you all are doing above and beyond what you even know.
So it's very humbling to hear what you're doing.
Like you, it's my calling, and it's what I love to do.
It's hard for me to leave my family back home and come here and do this.
But when I'm with my men, I'm a flight medicine.
When I'm with my men and I'm treating the soldiers, it's just, it's my calling.
It's what I was designed to do.
What you were born to do.
I understand that totally.
I often say that about myself.
How long have you been there?
I've only been here about five months now.
I got about eight more to go.
Well, God bless you, sir.
Thank you so much.
So God bless you, Rush.
Thank you very much.
Yes, sir.
Truly appreciate it.
That's Don from Calling from Iraq over the Internet.
That's a VoIP call.
Voice over IP.
Sounds superb.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is, I mean, that he's got people tearing up here at the EIB network.
It's not often that I share with you things that I see floating around the internet that are mass spam-mailed.
But this one's kind of interesting.
It says, and you never know if the origin here is ever truthful.
I'll just read you what it says.
There recently was an article in the St. Petersburg Times.
The business section asked readers for ideas on how would you fix the economy.
And this was one of the replies.
Dear Mr. President, please find below my suggestion for fixing America's economy.
Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.
You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan.
There are about 40 million people over 50 in the workforce.
Pay them $1 million apiece, severance, for early retirement with the following stipulation.
They must retire.
40 million job openings will be created, unemployment fixed.
They must buy a new American car.
40 million cars ordered.
Auto industry fixed.
They must either buy a house or pay off their mortgage.
Housing crisis fixed.
It can't get any easier than that.
If more money is needed, have all members in Congress pay their taxes.
Mr. President, while you're at it, make Congress retire on Social Security and Medicare.
I'll bet both programs would be fixed pronto.
Now, if you run the numbers on this, when I haven't done it, but if you're going to give 40 million people $1 million each, I don't know, I don't know how many billions or trillions you're looking at.
I'm not good at numbers in my head.
But the point is here, contrast it.
Obama has spent $2.3 trillion additional added to the national debt this year.
This program that this guy proposed would cost nowhere near that.
And it's the same thing with health insurance.
I mean, all you would have to do, if you really wanted to insure the uninsured, you could do it.
There are 12 million uninsured people that want it.
The rest don't particularly want a health insurance.
They don't want to buy it.
But this health insurance plan is going to require that you buy it or go to jail or pay a fine or both.
But we ran the numbers on this.
You could insure these 12 million people, 12 million that want health insurance that can't afford it, for about $30 billion a year, which is chump change compared to this $2 trillion we're talking about spending on Obamacare.
Quick time out.
We'll get to the audio soundbites after this.
As usual, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Now, many people ask me to illustrate many of the things that I say.
What do you mean, rush arrogant?
What do you mean liberals are arrogant?
What do you mean that they hold average people in contempt?
Well, I have the two sound bites that'll illustrate this as well as anything could.
We have a montage, first off, the elitist party of Barack Obama making fun of people who drive pickup trucks.
Scott Brown happens to drive a pickup truck.
Scott Brown happens to drive a GMC pickup truck.
GMC is General Motors owned, which means Obama owns it.
His truck is a GMC canyon.
Now, maybe Obama forgot yesterday, and maybe John Kerry forgot that the United States and Barack Obama now own General Motors.
You would think that Obama would want people to buy trucks.
Here, first, a montage.
We have Marsha Coakley.
You know, it's a good thing that Ted Kennedy didn't call her Martha Moxley.
You know, that it's a good thing he goofed up on the first name and not the last name.
You remember who Martha Moxley is?
You do?
Michael Scakel was convicted of killing.
That's Ethel Kennedy's brother.
At any rate, whose father, by the name, first name was Rushton.
Rushton Skakel, yes.
Just a little interesting trivia.
So here we have Marsha Coakley.
We have Senator Kerry.
We have Obama and state Senate candidate Scott Brown talking about his truck.
I've never seen an advertisement in a campaign for the United States Senate that begins with, I'm Scott Brown and I drive a truck.
I didn't know it was a qualification for being in the Senate.
Well, I got news for you, Scott.
George Bush drove a truck too, and look where it got us.
And I'll tell you one thing: just because you're driving around in Massachusetts in a truck doesn't mean you're headed in the right direction.
Forget the ads.
Everybody can run slick eggs.
Forget the truck.
Everybody can buy a truck.
I'd think long and hard about getting in that truck with Martha's opponent.
It might not take you where you want to go.
I'm Scott Brown.
I'm from Rentham.
I drive a truck and I'm asking for your vote.
Now, that is arrogance.
That is genuine arrogance and conceit and holding average people in contempt.
And Scott Brown is just like Sarah Palin in that sense.
Not Ivy League educated, doesn't have the right pedigree, just an average, hardworking, real guy.
Drives a truck.
They're making fun of him for driving a truck.
George Bush drove a truck.
And look where that got us.
You can't get any more elitists than this.
By the way, President Obama, because of your economic policies, not everybody can buy a truck.
There are a lot of people who would love to buy a truck who can't afford a truck right now.
So anybody can buy a truck says cash for clunkers expired.
Almost no one can buy a damn truck.
And those who can are scared to, thanks to your economic policies, coming tax increases.
So here we have Scott Brown doing what Obama wants, buying a GM truck.
GM needs it.
BAM's union thug supporters at GM need it.
Americans need it since we're all going to subsidize the union thugs' healthcare now.
And here's Obama and John Kerry and Martha Coaksley, Martha Coakley slamming Scott Brown on his truck.
So that's a great illustration of that.
And I don't think I don't get needed anymore.
And I guarantee you, this is the kind of stuff that behind the scenes kills them.
Making fun of somebody because of what they drive.
And they get on me.
They jump on my case for some of my absurd humor.
All I do is illustrate absurdity by being absurd.
I simply make, I tell the truth about these clubs.
These people who claim to be the holier than thou, who claim to be Mr. and Mrs. Sensitivity, Mr. and Mrs. Compassion, Mr. and Mrs. Tolerance, Mr. and Mrs. Understanding.
These are some of the most hateful people around.
They are all found on the liberal side of the Democrat Party.
Now, Obama got heckled yesterday at his Coakley rally during the speech interrupted by a protester.
Here's that portion of it.
You need somebody.
You need somebody.
That's all right.
That's all right.
doing okay.
We're doing fine.
Now listen.
Now, where were we?
All right, let's go, everybody.
Now listen.
Now, more than ever.
It's all right.
Hold up, everybody.
Hold up.
He was totally taken off his game, lost his place, didn't know where he was.
Did not look as if he wanted to even be there yesterday.
Didn't sound presidential.
Didn't look to me like he even knew where he was.
Let's put him on the plane so we're going to Massachusetts somewhere, and after that, we're going to go somewhere else.
During this appearance at Northeastern University, Obama tries to hold up his fired-up line from 2008.
Understand what's at stake here, Massachusetts.
It's whether we're going forward or going backwards.
It's whether we're going to have a future where everybody gets a shot in this society or just the privileged few.
If you were fired up in the last election, I need you more fired up in this election.
I need you out there working just as hard right now in those final days.
I need you knocking on doors.
I need you making phone calls.
I need you talking to your friends and your neighbors and telling them what's at stake on Tuesday.
Yeah, and what's at stake on Tuesday is none Martha Coakley couldn't care less.
What's at stake is his health care plan and the rest of his agenda.
So he wants people making phone calls and talking to their friends and neighbors, telling them what's at stake.
We have two stories on this.
First, from the plumb line, who runsgov.com, the Brown campaign is hiring scores of paid temporary workers from temporary agencies to help us get out the vote effort, work that is typically handled by unpaid volunteers.
The Brown campaign is hiring temporary workers.
We pay people to help with the campaign.
They pee people to vote.
And a companion story here, we also see that there's a YouTube video out via the yidwithlid.blogspot.com.com blog.
Martha Coakley phone banks are empty as she continues to slip in the polls.
Below is a look at one of Martha Coakley's phone banks today.
Granted a mixture of snow and rain.
It's a holiday, but the office is quite empty.
Maybe the morale there is not all that high.
Obama asked him to staff the phones, get out there, kill people.
Meanwhile, Brown's paying people.
His phone banks are busy and tied up and being used, and hers are empty.
This could be the death knell for Martha Coakley.
Last Friday, on the radio in Boston, Coakley had this exchange with the host.
Probably if it weren't so close, Rudy Giuliani wouldn't have come in either.
And besides, he's a Yankee fan.
I just want people to know.
Yeah, but now Scott Brown is Kurt Schilling, okay?
Another Yankee fan.
Schilling?
Yes.
Kurt Schilling, a Yankee fan?
No.
All right, I'm wrong on my picture of the bloody sock.
Well, he's not there anymore.
My friends, Kurt Schilling responded.
I will cast my vote for Scott Brown.
One more thing.
For the record, I am not a Yankee fan.
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