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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.
Um 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.
The telephone number, you want to be in the program, 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushball at EIB net.com.
Uh the uh is Whiteclef Jaune is he a rap star or is he just a uh uh reggae kind of uh kind of music?
Do you know you?
Well, Whitecleft Jean is is is running a relief mission in Haiti.
Uh I I don't I think he's Haitian, but I'm not sure.
Okay, he's Haitian.
Well, he's being ripped apart uh by people for suggesting that he that people donate to his charity.
Uh some in the media are suggesting that uh that the administrative costs of charity gone through Whitecleff Jean's uh uh uh company or outfit, it may be a little bit high, and the net sum that'll end up getting to the recipients is uh not what it should be.
And I'm I'm stunned at this.
The what about the administrative costs of donating through uh White House.gov for crying out loud.
Do you know that one of the reasons the welfare budget is as high as is, is that uh, and these numbers are I guess ten years old, but uh it too in 1999, maybe earlier than that, um, for every dollar that was uh budgeted for uh 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 the the the high uh administrative costs are actually through uh when you when you donate to 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 uh Lynn Sweet at the Chicago Sun-Times.
I printed it out.
It's uh 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 on on the on the money here and paying attention, Obama is as contrasted to President Bush in Katrina.
Now, this disaster in Haiti is is worse than anything that ever happened uh in uh in New Orleans.
We it's 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.
It is it is uh I don't even want to describe to you the things that I have read uh with the vermin, uh the rats thing.
I don't I don't even want to go there.
This is this is just uh unbelievable.
It's it's uh 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 it people like me rather than debate us on issues.
Nobody here ever said don't donate.
We just pointed out you'll 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 uh over the weekend.
Rush, the press is the press is castigating you unfairly.
You know what you want 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 twenty bucks.
Uh that was the that was the funniest one I've uh I've seen.
Now we move on to uh uh Massachusetts in the special election tomorrow.
The weather forecast uh does not auger a large turnout.
There's snow and freezing rain sleep today, sixty percent chance of the same tomorrow.
Uh and uh the uh people on the ground that I've spoken to, uh the 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.
As like the teleprompter did not offer guidance or direction on what to do if he got heckled.
They put this thing together and uh 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 2500 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 is 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 uh so forth.
Uh, and they did uh fill the arena.
But not public policy polling, which is his lib bunch down in North Carolina.
Uh this goes together with a Washington Post poll in Sunday that they undersold.
The Washington Post at a at 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 how about Patrick Kennedy going in there and calling her Marcia Coakley?
Marsha Coakley all on he didn't know her name.
He doesn't even know her name.
Yeah, he went up there and he said calling her Marsha Coakley.
And they talked to some people coming out of the Obama event yesterday afternoon.
Some woman said, Oh, it's so s it's just so sad, it's just said poor Obama is working 36 hours a day to try to fix the mess.
George Bush left in and left this in, and so the people walking out of that thing are blaming Bush.
One year later for all the problems that were having Bush's problem that Coakley isn't a problem.
Uh is in trouble.
Marcia Coakley, according to Patrick Kennedy.
Don't even know her name.
Chris Matthews threw the religion card recently.
Uh very Catholic state.
Chris Matthews pointed out that Brown is Protestant.
And he said this is going this is surprised here that the tribals uh have uh have not uh have not arisen here.
He was he's trying to alert the the Catholics that this guy is not a Catholic, he's a Protestant.
Oh I kid you, JF 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 there was no hope of saving it, Virginia, and he did it in in in New Jersey, and it was a toss-up going in.
So I don't know what to make of this.
I I I really am gonna come down on the side that uh uh Obama, if the ship's gonna go down, he's gonna go down swinging to try to show Democrats he'll he'll he'll run in for them and and try to protect them.
I think that's what's happening here.
I I've still having trouble, folks.
I'm not trying to infuse any negative, I'm just being true 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 I'm 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 Cochley'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 96-3 lead with the people who disapprove of Obama.
And Tom Jensen here at Public Policy Polling says Cochley'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 policing uh public uh policy polling uh 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.
Fifty-three percent say Congressional Democrats are too liberal.
Fourteen percent say they are too conservative, and 33% say uh that uh they are about right.
So Scott Brown, here's if you want to know what's really going on.
Um the the Democrat narrative is to is to throw uh uh Marcia Coakley, I'm gonna call her that out of respect for Pat Kennedy.
Um the the narrative is to throw Marsha Coakley under the bus uh that that she blew it.
And she's she has she has.
I mean, if it weren't for her varicose vein, 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.
Uh 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.
Uh, 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 um 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 I've 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 is another factor in this election in Massachusetts tomorrow, and that is 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 uh that is a major factor.
A micro lesson here, ladies and gentlemen, in self-reliance.
As you know.
Um we last Monday, was it last Monday or two weeks ago, Brian?
How when do 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.
Uh 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 uh uh the audio during commercial breaks, we'd not have the capability to feed that, so people what happened to audio, what am the audio?
So we'd send emails out, we're working on it, it's it's 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 ditto cam, 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 of the 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 uh focused on uh 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 fifty-eight percent 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 asks, generally speaking, would you say you favor smaller government with fewer services or larger government with more services?
Fifty-eight percent 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 pimpley.
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 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 more miracles.
Where uh 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.
I think by the way, that they collected a bunch of letters to the editor to prove the headline.
That's what'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.
This is 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 Haiti.
He's better than Bush.
We're on the case.
Week two, Obama's Haiti.
I understand this is it get get look at you know something.
This is uh this just uh crossed, what is this French news agency?
Thirty Americans, about thirty Americans were hurt today during a massive relief operation in the Haitian Capitol 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 this is starting week two here.
About 30 Americans hurt today during a massive relief operation in the Haitian Capitol in what was described as a mass casualty event.
Before we get to the audio sound bites, uh, 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 Fab Delta in Iraq, which is near El Kut Rush.
Oh, great.
Well, it's great to have you here.
Megadethos 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 uh 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 twelve and a half 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 twelve and a half million uninsured, and you rarely ever hear anybody ask that question of that.
But I think you probably do know the answer, don't you?
Oh, I absolutely I do.
Okay, then answer your own question.
It's not about 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 two thousand pages still leaves twelve and a half 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 heart strings and and and try to say it's it's this terrible thing, so many people uninsured in the richest country in the world.
It's unseemly, it's it's it's it's a sin that we've got it fixed it.
And they get everybody supports this until they see the details, uh, and then realize that this is not about health care.
It's it's uh 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 I, you know, this this is something that 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 they think they hold all three branches now, they have 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 uh the uh mainstream media.
And so uh it is what it is, and it's reassuring fact, I think, Don, that the country has not gone over the cliff.
The country's not socialists.
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 um have come to realize what's going on in this country.
And uh we really appreciate you over here.
I got I can't tell you how many of our men listen to you on the internet.
And um we would appreciate everything that you do.
You know, we're here fighting for you.
We love you and uh 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 you have melted my heart.
Uh it's very few people that can render me speechless, but you have because we here in this country have uh uh a re reverence for what you all are doing above and beyond what you even know.
So it's it's uh very humbling to hear you.
Like you.
Like you, it's my calling.
And it's what I love to do.
It's 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 medic here.
When I'm with my man and I'm treating the soldiers, um it's just it's my calling.
It's what I was designed to do.
But you were born to do.
I understand that totally.
Uh often say that about myself.
How long you've been there.
Um I've only been here about uh five months now.
I got uh I got about eight more to go.
Well, uh God bless you, sir.
Thank you so much.
Uh God bless you, Rush.
Thank you very much.
I I uh Yes, sir.
Truly appreciated.
That's Don from uh calling from Iraq over the Internet.
That's a VoIP call.
Voice over IP.
Sounds superb.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, it is um it is I mean that.
He's got people tearing up here at the uh 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 this one's kind of interesting.
It says, and you never know if uh 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 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 fifty in the workforce.
Pay them one million dollars apiece, severance, for early retirement with the following stipulation.
They must retire.
Forty million job openings will be created, unemployment fixed.
They must buy a new American car.
Forty 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 uh if you're gonna give 40 million people a million dollars each.
I don't know, I don't know what any billions or trillions are looking at.
I'm not good at numbers in my head.
But the point is here, contrast it, we've we've Obama has spent two point three trillion dollars additional added to the national debt this year.
This program that this guy proposed would cost nowhere near that.
And it's uh 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 can insure these 12 million people, the 12 million that want health insurance that can't afford it, for about $30 billion a year.
Which is chump change compared to this two trillion dollars we're talking about spending on Obamacare.
Quick timeout.
We'll get to the audio sound bites 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 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 uh Marcia 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 know you do.
Michael Scake was convicted of killing.
Uh that's Ethel Kennedy's brother.
At any rate, uh, whose father by the name?
First name was Rushton.
Rushton Skakel, yes.
Uh just a little interesting trivia.
So here we have we have Marcia Coakley, uh, we have Senator Kerry, we have Obama, and State Senate candidate uh 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.
Well, I 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 content.
And Scott Brown is just like Sarah Palin in that sense.
Not Ivy League educated, doesn't have the right pedigree, just an average hard-working 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 elitist 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 since 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 Coaxley.
Uh uh Martha Martha uh Cochley slamming Scott Brown on his truck.
So that's that's a great illustration of that.
And I don't think it I don't get you need it any more.
And I guarantee you, this is the kind of stuff that behind the scenes kills him.
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 clients.
These these people who claim to be the holier than thou.
They 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 Democrat Party.
Now, Obama got heckled yesterday at his uh at his Coakley rally uh during the speech, interrupted by a protester.
Here's that portion of it.
You you you you you need some money.
You need some money.
That's all.
That's all right.
No, no, we're doing okay.
Okay.
You're okay.
Okay.
I uh we're going fine.
Now listen.
Now where were we?
All right, let's go, everybody.
Now listen.
Now more than ever.
That'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 uh like he even knew where he was.
This put him on the plane, so we're going to Massachusetts somewhere, and after that we're gonna go somewhere else.
Um appearance at Northeastern University, Obama tries to hold up his uh 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 it's whether we're gonna 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 runs gov.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 a campaign.
They peep people to vote.
And a companion story here.
We also see that there's a YouTube video out via the um Yid with Lid.blogspot.com uh dot 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.
Uh maybe the morale there's not all that high.
Obama asked him to staff the phones, get out there, tell 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 uh in Boston.
Coakley had this exchange with the host.
Probably if it weren't so close, Rudy Giuliani wouldn't 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.
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