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Feb. 2, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 2, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the bountiful, fruited plane, El Rushball, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned, all-everything.
Maha Rushie.
Behind this, the golden EIB microphone at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's great to have you with us.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882, the email address, LRushbaugh at EIBnet.com.
We're going to be talking to Miss America, 2010 Carissa Cameron, at the bottom of the hour.
She just now getting into gear with the unbelievable schedule that Miss Americas have.
She goes to the Super Bowl tomorrow.
And from there on out, it's never more than 48 hours in one place.
So we'll be talking to her, and you'll hear what a remarkable young lady she is.
Also, ladies and gentlemen, we have a great roster of audio soundbites today, and another extensive look at Obama's budget.
It is just amazing how destructive this is for years and years and years.
This is truly a problem.
It is, I'm going to be fascinated to see, I mean, for example, the charitable deduction will be gone in 2011.
The charitable deduction will be gone.
The mortgage interest deduction will be taken away from some people.
The mortgage interest deduction will be taken away and or limited for upper income people of the 250 grand and higher that's on the table.
We'll have to wait and see how much of this Congress actually approves.
But when it comes to the charitable deduction, right now the top payers and the most philanthropic, obviously, get to deduct 39.6% of every dollar they donate.
That'll be taken away in total.
Obama wants the government to be in sole charge of charity.
He wants everybody thanking him for whatever philanthropy goes on in the country.
We'll get to all that stuff in great detail.
And there's a funny thing today.
Reuters.
Reuters actually has a story entitled Backdoor Taxes to Hit Middle Class.
Not just the rich.
The rich tax increases are up front and centered.
The middle class is going to get robbed and they will not know it.
Backdoor taxes hit middle class.
But the White House got hold of Reuters and said that's not true.
It is outrageously false.
And so Reuters has withdrawn the story because the truth is not to be tolerated in the Obama administration.
But I, El Rushball, will not withdraw the story.
I will share with you the details of the story coming up.
You know, the Apple iPad was announced last week, and immediately, and I've got to tell you this, I have no way of proving it.
No way of proving it to you.
But the staff here will confirm this.
When I saw the name iPad, I immediately thought it sounds like a minstrel product.
But I didn't give it a name, and I didn't say that on the radio.
But the staff here will confirm that I was making jokes about it.
And then lo and behold, later that day, a bunch of people named it the iTampon.
And then the jokes began.
But the name iPad now really makes sense.
This is from the New York Daily News.
The Grammy gift bags got a little kinkier this year.
According to ChipChick.com, this year's techie-themed gift bag contained a little something called the Omi Bod, a high-tech vibrator that plugs into an iPod and pulses with music.
They gave this away in the goodie bag at the Grammys.
It's called the Omi Bod, O-H-M-I-B-O-D.
It is a high-tech vibrator that plugs into an iPod, which means you can plug it into an iPad because the iPad will play music.
Actually, any music player, and it vibrates along with your favorite songs.
What do you think of that, Dawn?
I'll tell you, can you just, the 1812 overture never felt so good.
It's just amazing what they are coming up with.
All right, here it is.
Backdoor taxes to hit middle class.
Story was posted last night at 8.07, I think.
Maybe that's when they withdrew it.
Anyway, the Obama White House got hold of state-controlled Reuters and said the truth is not to be tolerated here.
And so Reuters has withdrawn the story and says that a replacement story will run later this week.
So what is this story the White House was so concerned about?
Here it is.
The Obama administration's plan to cut more than $1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade relies heavily on so-called backdoor tax increases that will result in a bigger tax bill for middle-class families.
In the 2010 budget tabled by Obama on Monday, the White House wants to let billions of dollars in tax breaks expire by the end of the year, effectively a tax increase by stealth.
Now, while the administration is focusing its proposal on eliminating tax breaks for individuals who earn $250,000 a year or more, middle-class families will face a slew of these backdoor increases.
And here's why.
If the provisions, the Bush tax cuts, if they are indeed allowed to expire December 31st, the top-tier personal income tax rate will rise 39.6% from the current 35%.
But lower-income families will pay more as well.
The 25% tax bracket will revert back to 28%.
The 28% bracket will increase to 31%.
The 33% bracket will increase to 36%.
This is what they all were before Bush cut them.
The special 10% bracket is eliminated.
This is all true.
Every bit of it is true.
If you're going to let these tax cuts sunset, it means we're going to go back to what they were before Bush cut them.
And those are the rates that I just gave you.
That means that everybody paying income taxes is going to effective get an increase, a tax increase, despite Obama's constant pledges that 95% of the American people will get a tax cut.
And he's calling one-time tax rebates a tax cut.
So obviously, obviously, the White House did not like this story.
It is curious how this story ended up at state-controlled Reuters.
I mean, Reuters goes out of its way to propagandize for the administration.
Something's happened here.
So the administration, probably Gibbs, got on the phone and said, it's outrageously false.
You've got to pull the story.
And Reuters dutifully complied.
And we'll keep a sharp eye to see what the replacement story is later this week.
But this is not all that are on the table, changes on the table.
Investors will pay more on their earnings next year as well.
The tax on dividends jumping to 39.6% from 15%.
That hits the middle class too.
The middle class owns stock.
The middle class sometimes owns stock that pays dividends.
That's one hella, that's more than 100% increase.
15% to 39.6%.
The capital gains tax will increase to 20% from 15%.
The estate tax is eliminated this year.
The estate tax is gone for just this one year, 2010.
So if a member of your family dies, say your mother or father, grandfather or whatever, it's all yours.
Whatever the inheritance is, it's all yours.
But next year, in 2011, there's been talks about reinstating the debt tax, and the Democrats are talking about reinstating it even sooner this year and not waiting for 2011.
Now, this produces all kinds of morbid thoughts.
I can see in Snerdley's mind is turning.
His eyes are just rotating and flashing back and forth in there.
And yes, I am fully aware.
I know, I personally am aware, I'm not going to tell you how many, of people who have done everything they could to sustain family members on life support to 2010.
Because the estate tax is 55%.
I mean, it's pure redistribution of wealth.
Don't forget, Warren Buffett is all for the estate tax.
There are a lot of rich liberals who amazingly are.
Millions of middle-class households already may be facing higher taxes in 2010 because Congress has failed to extend tax cuts that expired on January 1st.
Most notably, get this.
Now, this is something that irritates more and more people every year.
A patch that limited the impact of the AMT, the alternative minimum tax.
The AMT, initially designed to prevent the very rich from avoiding income taxes, was never indexed for inflation.
So now the tax is affecting millions of middle-income households.
Lawmakers have been reluctant to repeal it because it's become a key source of revenue.
Without annual legislation to renew the patch this year, and it hasn't been renewed, the AMT could affect an estimated 25 million taxpayers with incomes as low as $33,750 or $45,000 for joint filers.
Now, even if the patch is extended to last year's levels, the tax will hit American families that can hardly be considered wealthy.
The AMT exemption for 2009 was $46,700 for singles and $70,950 for married couples filing jointly.
Middle-class families also will find fewer tax cuts available to them in 2010 if other popular tax provisions are allowed to expire.
Among them, taxpayers who itemize will lose the option to deduct state sales tax payments instead of state and local income taxes.
The $250 teacher tax credit for classroom supplies is gone.
The tax deduction for up to $4,000 of college tuition and expenses.
Individuals who do not itemize will no longer be able to increase their standard deduction by up to $1,000 for property taxes paid.
And the first $2,400 of unemployment benefits are taxable.
In 2009, that amount was tax-free.
They're taxing the first $2,400 of unemployment benefits starting this year.
This year, and by the way, if you doubt me, go to the people in your company who do payroll and just ask them.
Tell them I told you to ask them if when 2010 rolled around, they had new withholding instructions to withhold additional funds from your paycheck.
Because there are.
So I don't know.
The White House is clearly not happy that this story is out there.
Reuters has dutifully withdrawn it.
But all of this is true.
Every aspect of this is true.
There's nobody in the country who will escape tax increases.
It's impossible with this irresponsible, insane, lunatic budget.
And folks, there are $1 trillion deficits for 10 years.
$1 trillion deficits, annual deficits, for 10 years.
Do you understand that we're going to get to the point here where it's possible that it will not be possible to fund our debt, even with worldwide investors buying it?
There's going to be that much of it.
Obama is just spending and spending and spending.
And by the way, James Clyburn, a head haunch of the Congressional Black Caucus, says we can only spend our way out of the recession.
There's only one way to do it, and that's spend our way out of it.
Now, the Investors Business Daily today in an editorial.
Actually, it's not an editorial.
It's a story by Jed Graham.
Higher taxes for all in Obama budget.
After cutting taxes for 95% of working families in his first year, President Obama has proposed a budget that would raise taxes on 100% of them.
So whereas Reuters, under pressure, has withdrawn its story, Investors Business Daily has not.
We have a brief timeout coming up here.
A reminder, in just about 10 or 12 minutes, Miss America 2010, Carissa Cameron will join us for a few minutes.
Sit tight.
All the rest of the program right around the corner.
You know, in the State of the Union, the State of Obama show, you remember that President Obama shocked everybody and came out for increased funding of nuclear energy, safe and clean nuclear energy.
It's a fake.
It is an absolute fake because the budget shuts down the storage facility for nuclear-spent fuel at Yucca Mountain.
We have spent billions of dollars in 30 years building redundancy for safety to put nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain.
It's one of the most isolated, rotten areas of desert in the country.
It's been closed.
There's nowhere to put nuclear waste.
So even if we, and it took 30 years to get this place up to speed.
So while he's out there saying that we're going to expand nuclear energy, clean, safe nuclear power plants, we can't.
There's no place to store it.
Mona Charon has the details at National Review online today.
I'm thinking about this vibrant.
Oh, by the way, backdoor taxes hit middle class.
Reuters story, still up on the Washington Post website.
Still there.
Reuters may have pulled it, but the Washington Post hasn't.
I'm just giving you people at the White House, it'll help here.
Because you got to Reuters, they pulled it.
It's a headline they don't like.
They couldn't care less about the story.
It's the headline, backdoor taxes to hit middle class.
That's probably what they don't like.
Story won't have many changes, but it'll have a headline change, like rich to get soaked, bankers especially hard hit by Obama tax hikes in new budget.
But I'm thinking about this vibrator, the Omaibod, and how it plugs into an iPod or a music player, and you can have a it did it it synchronizes with whatever music you're playing.
I got something that could, I think, offer more pleasure more frequently than even your music.
We could call it the Obama, and this would plug into your television.
And every time Obama says I or me, bingo, thing goes nuts.
You're talking about 12 to 15 bingos a minute because it's all about him and what he's doing to the country.
Can you imagine this?
Just plug it into the TV.
And every time he says I and me, I know there's a whole line of them, but this was in the gift bag at the Grammys.
That's why I heard it.
Now, listen to this.
This is from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
They have some guy there, Dr. Paul Donahue, people can send questions to.
And he answers them in the newspaper.
It's in the lifestyle section.
The headline, Daughter Blames Mother for Global Warming.
Here's the question.
Dear Dr. Donahue, my daughter complains that I flatulate more often than most individuals.
Furthermore, she claims that the gas an individual passes contributes to global warming.
I don't know if I'm physically able to keep my gas to myself to go green.
Is my daughter really right?
They actually published this in the St. Louis Post to scratch is the answer.
Is your daughter for real?
No human can stop the production of intestinal gas.
Every human passes gas, including your daughter.
People do so from 10 to 20 times a day.
Goes on to explain how it all happens and what happens, which I will spare you.
And then says, if your daughter is truly worried over your contribution to the greenhouse effect, she should realize that her breathing contributes a significant amount of carbon dioxide to it.
She blows out carbon dioxide with each exhalation.
Humans contribute more than 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the yearly production of this greenhouse gas, and nobody suggests we stop breathing.
Now, well, it depends on your age and whether or not we get Obamacare.
But I got to tell you something.
It's a good thing this guy put it.
Does anybody seriously believe?
I mean, I know a lot of you believe in creation.
A lot of you believe in intelligent design.
I happen to.
And I happen to think that we are nothing intellectually compared to the Creator, to God.
I simply cannot accept the fact that we would be created to do things that would destroy our own environment, life-sustaining environment.
The idea that carbon dioxide, which we exhale, and which, by the way, the more of it, the better for trees and plant life.
The more of that, the better for them.
And that, in turn, gives us even more oxygen.
Everybody worried about global warming deforestating the country and the world?
The more CO2, the more the jungle loves it.
The more your yard loves it.
The more your garden loves it.
Yeah, I'm going to get to the IBD piece here on higher taxes for all in Obama's budget because you need to know there's a lot of stuff in this budget you need to know about.
There are a lot of things.
We'll get to it soon, but coming up right after the break here, Carissa Cameron, Miss America 2010 for just a few minutes.
Sit tight, rush limb back right after this.
And that's how it happened last Saturday night, Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, the Planet Hollywood Theater.
And we have with us Miss Virginia Carressa Cameron.
Congratulations.
I will never forget your face when your name was announced.
Thank you for playing that.
That was so sweet.
Have you gotten over it yet?
No, I don't think I will.
Where are you now?
I am inside of my hotel room in Times Square.
And you go to the Super Bowl tomorrow.
I do.
How exciting.
How long are you going to be there?
Until Sunday.
Until the game.
Yeah.
Have you ever been to the Super Bowl before?
No, no.
Are your parents going to get to go with you?
No, they're not, but they're going to watch from home and wait and see if they can see me on TV.
I got to tell you, your parents came down the aisle.
The staff brought them down the aisle right where all the judges were sitting.
Yeah.
And your mother, your mother was crying her eyes out.
Your dad had the biggest beaming smile, and your mother hugged every one of us.
And she just said, thank you, thank you, thank you so much.
She did it again.
We went up on stage to leave.
That was our exit route out, and she did it again.
Your parents are, and I told them, I whispered into their ears because it was the only way they could hear.
I said, you've got to be so proud of her.
She has it all.
They are.
They are.
They've been behind me 100% this entire process.
Tell people what this pageant is like for you, just the week that you're in Las Vegas.
It's a lot of work.
A lot of people, they see the pageant.
It comes on TV, and we all look great, but they have no idea that we have really early mornings, really late nights.
Some of us have been preparing for this thing almost like our whole lives.
It's like we were being bred to do this one event.
But it's absolutely a lot of fun.
It's 53 of the most amazing women, I feel like, in the world, talented, smart, just scholastically ambitious and community-oriented.
And so it was a lot of fun to be around them for that long.
And we were all tired together, but it was for a great cause.
One of the things I want to ask you, and I'm watching this both as a viewer of previous pageants and this time as a judge.
When the eliminations begin on Saturday night and the first 14 semifinalists are announced one by one, all the girls just seem genuinely happy and excited for the girl who happens to be announced as a semifinalist.
Are they really that happy?
They've got to be some disappointment that they're not named at the end of the day.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Of course there is disappointment.
You know, you're standing there and you're just like, please call my name, please call my name, you know.
But you developed such a camaraderie and you developed such a respect for the program and for what this process entails that even though, because I've been on the other side when my name hasn't been called, you know, you are proud of the girls who have made it to the next cut and to the next round.
And so it's kind of like you just go and you go, well, it wasn't me, but one of these girls are capable.
And so I'm going to cheer for my favorite now.
Cool.
Well, there was something that happened for the first time in this pageant, and that is the judges' scoring for the week produced 14 semi-finalists, and then the contestants voted.
They didn't know this was going to happen until it was announced for the 15th semifinal.
And Miss Oregon happened to win that.
Yes.
And what was amazing about that is me and Miss Oregon are sweetheart sisters.
There's a runner-up pageant that they do for the girls who are runner-up in their states.
And we actually competed together a long time ago.
So I was really excited to see her.
Now, be honest, Clarissa, how was your confidence level going into the week?
You start out with the 10-minute interview, and we could tell as judges that we could tell who was nervous when they came in and who was a little uptight and who was confident.
And then from there, you've got the preliminaries, and you're doing rehearsals all day long while you're not interviewing.
What was your confidence level as the week went on?
You know, going into the interview process, you never know what's going to be asked and what's going to happen.
And I even left the interview not knowing how I felt about it.
I thought I did okay, but I knew there's many things that I could have said or wish I said.
But I just went in there knowing that I've done all that I can up until this point and it was the best that I can do.
And if you all liked me, then you did.
And if not, I laid it all on the floor.
So, yeah.
We judges were not allowed to converse at all about how we were scoring.
We just had a meeting on Saturday morning.
It was a production meeting for the TV broadcast that night.
And that's when we were told, based on our scoring for the week, who the 14 semi-finalists were.
And we went around the table.
We were asked to make comments on them.
That's how we knew what other judges felt and what they thought.
I can only describe my reaction to your interview, but it's like I told the Washington Post on Sunday, you are an extraordinarily, and this is what I was looking for, in addition to the beauty and the poise, I was looking for somebody who speaks confidently and with articulation, doesn't seem nervous, doesn't seem to have memorized what she was saying, and really believes what she was saying.
And you were peppered with a lot of questions in there.
I mean, Vivika Fox, she kept, I mean, I had a nickname for her machine gun because she asked firing questions.
That was how they were expecting you to be like that.
You let her take over.
Well, I'm a man of great chivalry.
But, you know, even your on-stage question and answer on Saturday night about what's happening with all of the texting and emailing a little kids was just, you know, I wished I could turn to the judges and say, see what I'm talking about?
That was just, it was just effortless.
I want to ask you one question that I asked in the interview.
Yeah.
And practically every contestant was asked this.
You're going to be on the road now, and you're going to beat all kinds of media people.
And some of them are going to be very snarky, and some of them have a lot of sarcasm about American traditions and institutions.
What are you going to say to the predictable, snarky reporter who says, Carressa, Miss America is passe.
It's irrelevant.
I mean, it's not what American women are oriented towards anymore.
The Miss America pageant is sort of old-fashioned.
What are you going to tell them?
You know, well, what's so great about this organization is that it is the leading scholarship provider for young women in the world.
And so that sets up a platform where young women can go become educated.
They can get great jobs if they want to, enough that they can bring home the bacon.
They can fry it all in a pair of great shoes and a dress.
That's what the Miss America Organization facilitates, young women who can do any and everything.
And so we are very relevant because it's so important that we are prepared for life and what life has to bring us.
And I can tell you firsthand that this organization has given me so many skills that I would not have been able to acquire otherwise.
Obviously.
I don't want to appear to be pandering here.
I mean this as an American.
Yeah.
I really wish, you know, our pop culture today makes heroes out of dubious characters.
Yeah.
Sometimes I really think that women such as you should be the role models for everybody, men and women, in terms of character, professionalism, and so forth.
And I learned this spending a week with all of you.
And I don't think it's old-fashioned at all.
It's just Miss America is one of these great American traditions.
It's 89 years old.
Right, yeah.
And I think you're going to revive it, Carissa.
I hope so.
I think you are going to help put it back on the map.
Yeah, I hope so.
Now tell people about your schedule because it's great.
It's absolutely nothing.
I've been up since about 4:30 this morning.
So I have done, I feel like today, more in this day than sometimes I have done in a week in the past.
So the schedule is very busy, all over the place all the time, always in the air.
So I'm really excited to travel, to meet new people, to do my job not only as the Goodwill Ambassador with Children's Miracle Network, but to promote our wonderful sponsors with Artistry Cosmetic, with ASW Shoes, with Joseph Rifkoff.
So I'm just excited about this year and all of that it has to entail because the schedule is going to be pretty full and it's going to be one of the busiest and most exciting times in my life.
Miss America travels 20,000 miles a month.
A month.
A month.
You don't have a home this year.
You're going to need restaurants and hotels and you're never in a city longer than 48 hours.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Now, I know women are going to want to know the answer to this question, logistics.
You win on Saturday night.
You fly to New York the next day.
Where do you get your clothes to handle for the next month?
Well, luckily, we have a sponsor in Joseph Rifkoff, and it's a rotating wardrobe, and it was actually waiting for me when I got here.
And DSW, the same thing.
So they will provide me my wardrobe throughout the year, so I don't have to worry about that.
Oh, cool.
Yeah.
So you didn't have to pack everything you own with the money.
Oh, no.
No.
I have two regular suitcases and a carry-on, so it's actually pretty light considering that I live in those bags.
Well, congratulations again.
We weren't allowed to get to know any of the contestants because of conflict of interest.
The only contact we were allowed to have with you was when the interview.
And of course, we all got to pose for pictures with Carissa afterwards.
How did your press conference go, by the way?
I didn't get a chance to see it afterwards.
Everybody said it went really well and that they were really impressed.
So I think it went good, and there's still some videos online that you can go and try to look it up if you want to watch it.
I'm sure you're a busy man.
You don't have time to be following me anymore.
But yeah, if you want to go see it, you absolutely can.
Well, you said about the 10-minute interview that when you left, I wish I'd have said this.
I wish I hadn't said you're going to be doing that every TV and radio interview you do.
I know.
And remember, you're the only one that knows what you didn't say.
Right, right.
You're the only one that knows what you wish you had said.
So don't.
It's just kind of like you've prepared.
It's like, I have seven hours of information I can talk about.
Oh, it can overload you with that.
You just be yourself.
Just let your own vibrant personality shine.
Congratulations.
And tell your mom and dad it was great to meet them.
And to see two people so happy because the daughter had accomplished something so rare.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So unique.
You're more likely to have a son play in the Super Bowl than a daughter at Miss America.
Exactly right, because there's only one a year.
Yeah.
Carissa, all the best.
Thank you.
Congratulations again.
Thank you so much for being so supportive of the organization.
Carissa Cameron, Miss America 2010, and we'll be back.
Hi, and we're back, El Rushbo, serving humanity, emitting vocal vibrations, coast to coast.
Everybody's sending me notes.
That was a great interview.
She's a natural.
You can hear the smile in her voice.
It's easy to talk to.
Carissa Cameron, Miss America 2010.
She is Miss Virginia.
Now, as you know, ladies, oh, folks, I forgot to mention to you, there is a Hitler YouTube video with Hitler finding out and mad as hell that I won the dance contest, the judges' dance contest.
I found it last night.
I'll send a link up to Coco at the website so that he can post it.
You can see it.
I have made a Hitler video for having one and the dance contest, the Judges' Dance Contest.
And MSNBC is playing it.
They're looping it.
Everybody is stunned that I had these boss moves.
They couldn't believe it.
You know, to these people, I'm Mr. Square.
I am the farthest thing from hip in these people's minds.
And now they don't know what to do with this.
It's hard to criticize it.
Joy Behart, God lover, the IQ of a pencil eraser, on her show last night tried to say that I was booed by the audience at the Miss America pageant when I was introduced by Gretchen Carlson on Saturday night.
And I can tell you I wasn't.
In fact, I was overwhelmingly accepted each week.
We do have the soundbite.
I'm going to play it for you.
But here first is Joy Behar on her show last night on the Headline News Network.
Some people actually booed Limbaugh when Gretchen Carson introduced him.
From the field of communications and interviewed the outspoken star of the Rush Limbaugh Show, Rush Limbaugh.
Hey, Rosh.
Hey Doo, Gretchen.
Okay, they're booing him.
Has he lost his mojo with these audiences?
She asked that of Candy Crowley of CNN, which you'll hear her answer in just a second.
But let's go back.
Here are the full introductions up to me.
It started with Sean Johnson and then Vivica A. Fox.
There is no booing.
There's just huge applause.
We're fortunate to have an Olympic gold medalist representing the field of fitness, Sean Johnson.
Hi, how are you doing tonight?
I'm great.
What one thing are you looking for?
I'm looking for somebody who's unique, who stands out, and who's a role model to the generation coming up because we need a great role model, and these girls are unbelievable.
You've been an awesome one.
Thank you.
And from the field of beauty, the beautiful producer and star, Vivika A. Fox.
Vivica, what are you looking for?
I'm looking for a girl that has the it factor as Miss America.
I want her to always leave a positive impression.
Thank you very much, Vivika.
From the field of communications and interview the outspoken star of the Rush Limbaugh Show, Rush Limbaugh.
Hey, Rosh.
Hey, you do, Gretchen.
Points, confidence, articulation, and she must like herself.
No doubt.
Thanks, Rush.
They're just upset.
That was overwhelming applause, as loud as anyone got all night.
And Joy just can't handle it.
The left just, he was booed.
He was booed.
So Behar asked this question.
They're booing him.
Has he lost his mojo with these audiences?
Here's Candy Crowley.
No, I don't think so.
He is a very solid.
The key there is outspoken.
You're going to go very few places that is homogenous in terms of the politics of it.
Doesn't totally surprise me, but he chooses to be outspoken.
What I found about people like Rush Limbaugh and others who are very much identified with hardened positions on either the right or the left is they thrive on that.
That doesn't bother them to be booed.
It's kind of a part of their thing.
They expect it in some ways.
Yeah, but I wasn't booed.
Trust me, my friends, I was not booed.
If I were booed, I would have been teased about it out there.
I think Joy needs one of these oh my bods, one of these things that were put in the in the Grammy gift bags that you hook up there to your vibrator, you hook up there to your iPod.
And here's Jaja, Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Puffington Post.
She was also on the Behar show.
And after what you just heard with Candy Crowley, Zhaja jumped in.
I think it's really important to make a distinction between strong positions based on fact and strong positions based on fantasy.
And that's really the problem with Raj Limbo.
It doesn't matter if it's based on reality or not.
That's a distinction we all need to be very conscious of.
It's not just what political perspective you're endorsing, but is what you are saying factual.
Nice try, Zhaja.
I think Zhaja needs one of those Omaibods for her mouth.
But it's a fantasy.
Raj Limbo deals in fantasy.
That is one of the ways the left has tried to destroy my credibility by saying I'm dealing in facts and so forth, or don't deal with.
I make it all up, which is, of course, just the opposite.
It's what Zhaja does.
Zhaja makes it up.
Zsa Zsa, I don't have to make it up, because I talk about the left.
I know them like every square inch of my, no, I would never, I would never need it, oh my bod, what?
What are you asking me if I would use one for?
Ha, welcome back.
Earlier today, Sarah Palin demanded that Ram Emmanuel either apologize or that Obama fire him for referring to people as effing retarded.
Rah Emmanuel today apologized to the head of the Special Olympics after the Wall Street Journal reported that he privately called a group of liberal activists effing retarded.
This was spearheaded by Sarah Palin, who demanded that Obama fire him earlier today.
Rambo has now apologized.
Okay, lots left to do here, folks.
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