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Feb. 4, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 4, 2010, Thursday, Hour #3
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No, I'm just trying to make Mitch McConnell smile.
I'm just trying to, a little telepathy here.
I'm laughing here, folks.
Trying to get Mitch to smile.
He's on Fox over there.
No, I'm laughing.
The Daily Cause did this stupid, idiotic poll about Republicans.
Questions, just silly.
And now the media is picking up on it.
And that's what's funny about it.
I'll explain it here in just a second.
Welcome back, folks.
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We have really had an amazing couple of weeks.
When you stop and think about it, we have had the unraveling of the global warming hoax.
The fake science from front to back.
The reduction of temperature monitors, the misuse of data, the hiding the decline data, the accepting of anecdotal opinions from environmentalist blackos as scientific papers that included in the IPCC report in which they won a Nobel Prize.
We have the study done on the MME vaccine pulled as misleading after 20 years.
And all the previous studies on abstinence education is success.
And look at so many pillars of liberalism are crumbling right before our very eyes, including all of liberalism itself.
It's on full display under the guidance, if you will, of President Obama and his Looney Tune buddies over in Congress.
It's now there plain as day for everybody to see what liberalism gets them.
But you know, this MME thing, this is big.
I have not gone through the vaccination process because I do not have children, but I know that people who do it's a big decision to make, it's a big one.
And of course, there are all these celebrities out there, all of these Hollywood types, who've gotten this notion started that vaccines cause autism.
And it's been found that that does not happen.
This has been a 20-year lie that has now been recanted in the magazine Lancet, which is a highly respected medical journal, peer review, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And we find out it's worth as much as any of these global warming things.
And Greg Gutfeld, writing on Big Hollywood.
So the Lancet, British medical journal named after a really sharp object, retracted a horrible study attempting to link the measles vaccine to autism.
Now, this would be really great news if the study had not come out all 12 years ago.
It's really scary.
It took a medical journal over a decade to admit what nearly everybody else with a working brain knew.
The study had more gaping holes in it than Tom Sizemore's septum.
This is Greg Gutfeld.
He's a red-eye host on Fox at 3 a.m.
You know who Tom Sizemore is, Dawn.
He's a comedian, actor.
Well, he's an actor.
He's had bouts in and out drug addiction.
The septum is the nose.
You can put it together.
Okay.
Sadly, although the study author has also been discredited for this harmful crud, it doesn't matter.
People who believe in junk science will continue to believe in junk science because their egos won't allow any other option.
And so they will continue preaching to parents a dangerous and false belief.
It ends up killing kids.
I speak of Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, and all the saps at the Huffington Post who by their own earnest idiocy misled the public into skipping vaccinations because they thought it would lead to autism.
The potential result?
Measles outbreaks all over the country, all over the world, and ultimately dead kids.
It's hard to make jokes about that, so Gutfeld writes he won't.
But I will make jokes about gas bags like Carrie and McCarthy, two Cretans who can't be content simply making us sick to our stomachs with their work.
They also got to make our kids sick with ego-driven medical advice.
Now, I'm not a celebrity, but here's my medical advice for this sort of behavior.
Whenever a star offers an opinion on important health matters, citing flawed studies that they know a nearly comatose Larry King won't bother checking, they should be given a vaccination of their own.
It should be full of lead and shot straight up their rear end.
Greg Gutfeld.
And if you disagree with me, you're probably Arianna Huffington.
Pulling no punches.
You know what this reminds me of?
Remember, see if you remember this snarling.
It was on 60 Minutes, and this was probably in the late 80s or early 90s.
The guest being profiled in 60 Minutes said, veritably shouted, what are we doing to our children?
What are we doing to our children?
Right, that was Meryl Streep, and she was in the process of destroying LR.
LR is put on apples to make them red, to make them more saleable, to make them look juicier and more delicious.
And somebody put out a study, LR was deadly.
And here's another Hollywood actress that came along.
Just because she went there, where did she go?
She went to Vassar.
And by the way, I'm told that at Harvard, everybody pronounces it corpsemen, folks.
They have a different way of doing things in the Ivy League.
I'm told at Harvard, Obama was taught to refer to military corpsmen as corpsmen.
But you know, he never refers to the press corpse like I do.
But he calls these people corpsemen.
They do that at Harvard, I'm told.
So here's Meryl Streep coming along.
What are we doing to our children?
And we had apple growers from the state of Washington call here.
They were in the process of having their businesses destroyed.
And it was not true.
It was all a hoax.
And I'll never forget this was either late 80s or shortly thereafter, early 90s.
But Jane Fonda and Jessica, Jessica, ah, Metal Block.
No, no, Jessica.
These two women had portrayed Jessica Lang.
That's right.
I keep on saying Jessica Lynch, and that was the young military babe that rescued literally.
Yeah, Jane Fonda, Jericho Lang, whatever, had played farm wives in a movie about how tough it was to be in agriculture these days.
And they were called up to a Senate committee to testify.
And they're doing the same things to plastic now.
And this is liberalism on parade, folks.
This is exact, they just set out to destroy things based on nannyism.
You're too stupid to know what's good for you.
So stop and think about this.
I mean, Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy, really, I mean, now Jenny McCarthy has a kid, not Carrie.
They live together now.
But I mean, you know, going on television and urging people, do not get the measles vaccine because it could give your child autism.
And 12 years it took them to retract this at the Lancet.
Now, this is what I was laughing at when the program theme was playing.
The Daily Cause recently released an odd poll of Republican voters.
And now the Politico and other liberal organizations are trying to use the results to churn waters that are actually relatively calm.
And the GOP had better not bite.
Fresh off the liberals getting thumped in Virginia, New Jersey, and most recently Massachusetts, the left is now in full-fledged panic.
And they're doing all they can to quickly blur the obvious teachable moment, and that is that the GOP can win by boldly going way to the right of the Democrats.
Don't go moderate.
Don't go McCain.
Go conservative.
That's what wins.
This is actually something that liberals inherently know and they fear it.
And they have known and feared it since at least 1980.
Reagan proved it.
They have run scared of the Republicans ever since figuring this out.
That's why they're constantly lying about Reagan and tax cuts and what happened to the budget.
You want to talk about Reagan's budget deficits today?
You want to talk about, oh yeah, you would have thought that we were going to die with Reagan's deficits.
Listen to Democrats in the media back then.
Reagan never came close to even dream.
Reagan never had a budget that was a trillion dollars.
I don't think Reagan, he might have had a budget that hit a trillion dollars, but it's going to be close.
But Obama's budget deficits are a trillion and a half every year.
So they're panicked.
And they're doing everything they can to scare Republicans into not doing what's going to win.
It explains their never-ending, disingenuous PR campaign to keep Republicans in mortal fear of upsetting moderates by doing something rash.
I mean, these would be the very same independents that rejected the honorable campaign of John McCain by 21 points.
Let's not forget that.
These same independents that are running in droves to any Republican candidate they can now came roaring back for Scott Brown, forever known as 41.
By the way, I'm told he gets Ted Kennedy's office.
You know that's got to be some pretty palatial stuff.
And you know how these guys fight over office space?
I mean, the liberal lion probably had, you know, well, how many bars are there in that office?
I mean, you got, that's got to be plum real estate.
So anyway, the questions that the Politico asked were just transparently infantile.
Remember now, the results of the poll online were then picked up by Politico and others.
Here's an example.
Do you believe Barack Obama wants the terrorists to win?
Do you believe Acorn stole the 2008 election?
Do you believe Barack Obama is a racist who hates white people?
Now, see, this is what you have to understand about polling.
It's all in the framing of the question, how in the hell can anybody answer these and not sound foolish?
Which is the point, to make conservatives look foolish regardless of what they say.
These kind of questions make it impossible to register displeasure with Obama's terror policies or Acorn or the impact of Jeremiah Wright on the president without sounding like a juvenile.
Mommy, mommy, Buak stole you, what can he want the terrorists to win over the Whiteys?
I can only wonder if the erudite David Brooks will have the mental dexterity to see through this brilliantly diabolical plot.
I rather doubt it.
In fact, Brooksey will look at this and probably buy it, hook, line, and sinker.
It'll validate his elitist, snobbish disregard for the conservative base.
But he and his ilk are the foolish ones.
Here's three more questions.
Should the public school students be taught that the book of Genesis, blah, blah, blah, blah, should women work outside the home?
Are marriages equal partnership?
If Republicans want to leverage Scott Brown's Massachusetts victory into a November electoral avalanche, they'll need to keep their base riled up, but not too riled up.
So it was 2,000 Republicans.
It paints a picture of a base that's angry, disaffected, acutely hostile to President Obama.
So that's fine and then what they then did, and this is why this is a teachable moment, the Republicans better ignore this.
After they picked this up at the Politico, the Politico went out and interviewed John McCain and Susan Collins and asked them what they thought of the poll, which of course gives the poll credibility.
No Republican should have had a thing to say about this.
It's about what we have said for years, this teachable moment.
The drive-by media is desperate to push the Republicans into being moderate because they lose when they go that route.
Just ask McCain.
The liberals know, sometimes I think better than we do, that conservatism, well articulated, wins elections.
It wins every damn time it's tried.
They know it better than our own party does.
The Daily Cost, the Politico, the Democrats in general are scared to death, and that's what's behind this ridiculous poll of Republican voters.
Just hogwash.
But, I don't know, with McCrazy, McCain and Collins out there answering the questions about this, it lends it credence.
No other Republicans better fall for this.
I did not mean McCrae, I misspoke.
I apologize.
I retract it.
It's like using the R word.
I didn't mean to say that.
Wait a minute.
Let's do 2829 before we go to the phones.
I just got a note from a friend who said, Rush, it's not just the R word which needs to be banned or dropped.
There's a T word associated with this too, tarred.
It's slang, and it's in the urban dictionary.
I'm just going to read the definition of tarred to you in the urban dictionary.
Adjective used to describe ones so retarded they do not deserve the RE.
That's so if Obama, if Emmanuel is going to start pulling the word from legislation, that's what it says, snerdly.
It's in the urban dictionary.
So I'm just, I'm trying to be helpful to the administration here because they want to pull the word and drop it from as much of the charted language that we have.
Okay, part of my letter to Obama last week said this while in Las Vegas, and I told him, man up.
Let me be the father that you never had or never really knew, because I think you need some guidance.
It's time to man up.
It's time to grow up.
All right.
Jake Tapper today, actually, February 1st, four days ago, during the White House press briefing with Robert Gibbs, they had this exchange.
Isn't the whole point of being president and controlling the House and Senate to man up and make these tough decisions, whether or not it costs you at the ballot box in November?
We're not going to do it unless we have sign-off from the Republicans.
No, no, no.
We're not going to make progress unless we have sign-offs from Republicans.
Again, Jake, there's not unanimity in one party on either way forward.
No, Gibbs doesn't like that either.
Jake Tapper said, man up.
So I said that on January 28th.
And Jake Tapper said it on February 1st.
Okay, back to the phones.
This is AJ in Houston.
AJ, I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh, mega big time diddles, and happy belated birthday.
I remember the last time I talked to you on that birthday album was, I think it was 07 when Obama was running.
And come to think of it, Rush.
Educators, wasn't it Jesse Jackson or somebody that said they were going to drop the N-word and something, something, something, some man, he wound up using it or something?
I'm going to have to say that.
That's right.
That's exactly right.
They buried it.
They buried it when Jesse Jackson used the N-word.
They buried it.
But, Rush, I'm going to be nice.
Since if you say something, you'll be prejudiced.
But I'm going to say it for the Obama fellers, for the black folks.
Remember, I told you he set us back 50 years, and now he got blacks divided.
The working blacks understand what he's doing to the economy.
Now, the blacks with their hands out, I'm going to tell them they need to wake up and smell the coffee because this man don't mean them no good.
And the only thing you got to do is look at his, what has he done for you since he's been in the White House?
He hasn't been in your neighborhood.
I asked that question, AJ.
I asked that question recently.
What has he done for you?
What has he done for the country?
Name one thing that he's done for you.
Rush, I got a question for everybody.
Every black, because I be polling myself for him, and I go after him.
I say, name me five things that he's done.
They can't name anything.
My uncle, I asked him.
He said, well, he won the White House.
I said, but what is he doing?
I said, let me tell you something.
As a black man, I'm in my 50s, and it would be nice to know that a black man won.
But now, I feel bad because now he goes to race the game again.
They said, oh, black folks stupid, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I'm going to be nice about it.
But now you get a chance to show what you can do, and you go and run the country in the ground like he's doing.
So what do that make them seem like?
And I know they're going to get mad, and I don't care.
It makes it seem like we're stupid, Rush.
But AJ, let me see if I understand what you're saying.
You're saying since Obama is running the country into the ground as the first black president, that it's going to make it tougher for the country to elect the second black president.
You got it, Rush.
You got it.
And the thing of it is, it would have been nice if he came in there and did the right things about the country.
And you know what I mean?
Get jobs, make the economy move.
Blame George Bush.
AJ, he's creative.
Saved 600,000 jobs down from 2 million, but he said the stimulus package, AJ.
I mean, he said we would be in even worse shape if he hadn't done that.
But, Rush, only thing he has to do is go to Detroit.
Go to Detroit.
My mom, them there, it's a nightmare.
I just not too long left.
It's a nightmare.
If he saved jobs, where are they at?
I mean, Rush, I'm trying to figure out where all the jobs this man saved.
And come on, go and ask them laid-off employees that General Moore was in Christville in Detroit that had jobs when George Bush left the office that don't have jobs now.
And I'm sick of every time you ask black folk what, what, what, oh, George Bush.
Oh, damn, we was going to mess with George Bush.
I'm like, hold on, wait a minute.
I got numbers.
I got, hey, our economy was booming even after 911.
My brother, you're fighting a losing battle.
Rush, I'm not.
It's not just the black people you're talking to.
I mean, one of the things I think is still propping up Obama up on the likability side is that they so succeeded for eight years in demonizing George W. Bush.
But this isn't going to last forever.
At some point, the likability is going to start plunging along with the policy stuff as it already has.
Great to hear from you, AJ.
And we are back, Rush Limbo, and the cutting edge of societal evolution.
By the way, I forgot there is another use of the word tarred other than what the definition given in the urban dictionary, as in I'm tarred and I need to go to bed.
That's the southern that's Hillary Clinton used it that way when she channeled great to black spiritual leader in the past.
I ain't no way tarred.
So you got to be careful when you use the word tarred out there.
You just make sure your audience knows which definition you mean.
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All right, back to the phones we go.
This is Mary Ann in Trumbull, Connecticut.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Nice to talk to you.
Thank you.
I was just calling in, and it's funny because I actually got in the first time I called about the Toyota situation.
My husband works for Toyota, Connecticut.
And yesterday, I didn't hear the news yesterday.
I came home and was kind of calling him to see how things were going because with the recall, it's insanely crazy.
And basically, he tells me this is how my day went.
And it was like a shot in my head.
I was like, immediately, I knew what was up.
I was like, Obama, I was like, send his henchmen out to just, you know, try and cut Toyota off at the knees.
And I didn't know what you had said earlier about the whole protest.
I just thought he was trying to drum up coffee for GM.
And, you know, also, they had a recall a couple of months ago for extended recall on their vans that catch on fire.
So it's funny how the media doesn't like rail about that, though.
So, yeah, I just was totally taken aback and really angry.
Yeah, I can imagine.
I can imagine.
I mean, you look at all these Toyotas are made in this country.
Americans make Toyotas.
I think there are five Toyota factories in the country.
Well, that's, look, if you've, I know it's hard to hear.
I know it is really difficult to hear this on the radio.
Snurdley told me this the other day.
He hears me say this frequently on the other side of the glass.
But when I was in Las Vegas, he heard it on the radio.
He said, it's just reach out of the radio and grabs you.
You can't believe it.
I don't know how much more evidence people need to begin to believe that this is not an accident here, that all of this economic destruction is not an accident.
There's nobody who has the basic minimal economic understanding who would do this under the premise of growing an economy and secondly, would consider sticking with it after this year of abject failure and even talk about doubling down on it.
Wouldn't happen.
At some point, people are going to have to accept that Obama has told the truth when he said his objective is to remake the country, when his objective is to redistribute the wealth.
This is happening right before our very eyes.
In fact, it won't take much longer, I think, for people to believe this.
Public policy polling, 42% of the American people say their economic situation is worse over the last year.
42% of Americans say their personal economic situation has worsened over the last year compared to just 11% who think it's gotten better.
My guess is this 42% is low because people think they're criticizing Obama when they answer this question, yes, my situation's worsened.
And, you know, people don't like pollsters to think of them as bigots.
A look inside those numbers gives a good indication as to why Republicans are primed for such a good election year.
The Republicans lead 57-27 on the generic congressional ballot with people who say the economy has hurt them more at the personal level since Obama took office.
That is huge.
The generic ballot, 57-27 among people who say the economy has hurt them more at the personal level since Obama took office.
Among those whose situations have stayed the same or improved, Democrats lead 49 to 33.
Now, it's not going to do Democrats any good for economists to say that things are back on the right track either.
Voters make decisions emotionally rather than intellectually.
And that 11-42 gap on whether people's personal situations are improving is going to have to close before Democrats start looking better for the fall.
Overall, just 11% of voters rate the current state of the economy as excellent or good.
34% calling it fair.
53%, a majority, label it poor.
There's an interesting contrast in who voters hold responsible for the current state of the economy according to public policy polling.
By a 47-42 margin, they say it falls on Bush rather than Obama, but asked specifically which party they feel is more culpable.
They pick the Democrats 46 to 39.
Which, let's give these results, let's assign them accuracy.
Bush ain't on the ballot in November, but that big D is going to be on everybody's ballot.
And so if the party considered more culpable for the economic disaster is Democrats by 4639, all it shows is that Obama's personal brand is still better than that of his party, and it helps to explain why his campaign appearances or Democrat candidates have not done much, much. to push them over the top.
Interesting stuff.
Cherie in Valparaiso, Indiana.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I'm thrilled.
Thank you.
I heard what you said about 8 million jobs lost, and I wondered if you knew that over 8.3 million illegal immigrants are currently working in the United States.
Well, I don't know what the numbers of illegals working are.
I know the number of illegals in the country is between 12 and 20 million.
Well, this was according to the Pew Hispanic Research study on undocumented immigrants from back in April.
You can find it on their website.
And it just seems to me that if that is true, that the fairest, most efficient way to, quote-unquote, create jobs would be to send the illegals home.
But remember something, Cherie.
What?
Quote-unquote, these are jobs the American people don't want.
These are jobs the American people refuse to do.
Well, when you're desperate, I think you might be more inclined to take fast food jobs.
I'm just saying, I'm just saying what the pro-amnesty crowd says, what the open borders people say.
Yeah, well, there's an easy way to do it.
It's non-discriminatory.
It's federally approved.
It's called e-Verify.
And all a business needs is a personal computer, and they can check the workers' legal status through the Department of Homeland Security and Social Security databases.
And that way, legal workers, legal immigrants, and citizens of the United States get those jobs first.
I appreciate your calling on that.
Thanks, Rush.
I really do.
Thank you, Cherie.
We've got to go, folks.
A brief timeout here.
We'll be back and wrap up.
Fastest three hours in media.
I have been following the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummet today.
It's down over 200, 206 right now, just barely above 10,000, 10,064.
It was very recent that we were up at 11,000 or approaching 11,000.
And clearly, there's some domestic politics involved here with the budget and the attack on the banks and the new bank tax.
The tax banks are paying money back they've already paid back with interest.
But an economist buddy of mine sent me this short little note because I had read earlier today that financial experts are blaming today's plunge on Europe.
So I sent out an all-points bulletin of what the hell is going on in Europe that would cause this.
This is what I got back.
Hey, Rush, you could literally see the beginning of the breakup of the European Union now, especially the end of the Euro common currency.
It's a fundamentally flawed system.
It is a failed experiment over there.
This could get really, really ugly, and we haven't seen the worst of it yet.
Then you have Austria.
Austrian banks lent billions to Eastern Europe, and they can't get paid back.
Remember, World War II started with a big Austrian bank failing back then.
That was the beginning.
And you've got to add Ireland to the list here.
They're in trouble.
I mean, you could literally see the monetary payment system shut down over in the EU in some countries.
It's going to get ugly, my friend.
50-50 chance the EU is going to fall apart, the currency, here too.
And Obama has no clue what to do here.
None.
He's a total short sale.
That's for my economic buddy.
Here's Noah, Shreport, Louisiana.
You're next on the program, sir.
Hello.
Major Dittos, Rush.
It's a great pleasure to talk to you.
I wanted to talk to you a little bit about Raw Emmanuel's sad excuse of an apology and the people that accepted that from a father who has a special needs kid.
I just can't imagine that they're not calling for his resignation.
I mean, can you imagine if a Republican made this comment?
Well, I'm told that they did ultimately accept the apology.
At first, they didn't, but there was an update just before the program started that I saw that apparently the apology was accepted.
Well, I doubt any of these people have any skin in the game like I do.
And I'm sorry, but the only way that me and anyone else that has any kid like that can accept the apology is if it comes with his resignation.
That's what they'd be calling for if he was a Republican, and that's what I think we should be calling for from him.
It's worse than using the N-word.
That's what Sarah Palin does.
She called for his resignation.
Yeah, I mean, these people have no one to protect them, unlike, you know, black people, if you call them the N-word.
And you go making remarks like that about these people.
I mean, I have an eight-year-old daughter who had a stroke when she was born.
She does more by noon to get five A's and the B that she gets in the second grade than Raw Emanuel has done in his whole pathetic life.
It's just sorry that he can make comments about people like that.
And I could even matter when they get the talking heads, get it all wrong about you, because you've been nothing but a complete and total support of special needs people always on your program.
And, you know, because of the comments you made yesterday, I'd like to extend an invitation to you to talk for Chassa, which is the Children Heming Plegia and Stroke Association that we belong to.
It's a support group for parents that have kids like this because you've just been nothing but supportive all the time.
Thank you for that.
Thank you for that.
I appreciate that.
I was just highlighting and amplifying what Emmanuel said because the mainstream media was trying to bury it.
And now here they are trying to shuff it off on me today, which I knew they would also do.
That's so true.
God bless you, Noah.
Thank you very much for the call.
Appreciate it.
By the way, you want to know what the hurry is on the Scott Brown swearing-in?
The hurry is that they're going to be nominating a real far-radical leftist to the National Labor Relations Board.
And Obama wants this guy, and his name is Craig Becker.
And apparently, Brown can stop it.
They could have enough votes to prevent the vote from taking place.
Obama really, really wants this.
And that's why they were delaying the swearing-in of Brown, and it's why the Republicans got to Browns that demand to be sworn in here.
I'm also told, now he's supposed to be sworn in just over two hours, but I'm told that they're being pressured.
Dingy Harry's being pressured to not go for this, delay it a couple days so they get Craig Becker approved to run up the NLRB.
We'll just have to see.
I said, Gordon in Roanoke, Virginia.
Let me get to you first.
Hi, Gordon.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hello, Rush.
Hello.
Thanks for taking my call.
I was calling about the story you mentioned earlier.
The media is pushing about the fear of losing our bond ratings.
And I'm in Virginia.
Governor Warner, whenever he was governor of this state, used the same story to cause a lot of fear and actually push through a billion-dollar tax increase.
And I just think that's what they're doing with this story, trying to gin up the fear.
And now that Warner and Kane are out of office, they increased their tax, or not only did they increase our taxes and spending, now they've left us billions of dollars.
Now, wait, let me ask you a question.
It's Moody is here that is threatening to lower the rating.
Can Obama call up and tell Moody's what he wants him to say?
Well, I just think if it's our family and our credit cards get high, what's the first thing you do?
You stop spending.
I don't try to increase my credit limit.
And I think that's what we ought to be doing as a country.
Well, obviously.
I mean, of course, of course, we're not doing it.
We're spending more and more and more.
Now, Obama is saying, time to get our arms around spending.
That's the prelude to tax increases.
Is Obama saying we can't continue this kind of spending as though he's had no role in it?
Look, I got to run here, Gordon, because I am sadly out of precious broadcast minutes.
We'll be back.
We'll wrap it up right after this.
Snurdley, you said it.
You asked me earlier today.
You said every day we cannot get away from this guy.
Do we never get a day off?
Never get a day off.
Obama is going to be interviewed by Katie Couric before the Super Bowl.
Oh, geez.
What about the old adage of keeping politics out of sports?
I think I've heard that a couple of times in my career.
We'll be talking to the Super Bowl tomorrow with a hutch, the Reverend Dr. Ken Hutcherson from Seattle in our third hour, top of the third hour tomorrow.
We'll see you then, folks.
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