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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	And greetings to your music lovers and thrill seekers.
	Conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
	A lot of snow ends today, meaning audience levels will probably reach all-time highs here on the EIB network.
	Great to have all of you with us.
	We'll get you through it.
	Telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882.
	And the email address, lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
	Blizzard in Washington, Blizzard in New York City.
	What's happening here, folks?
	I have it on good authority.
	What's causing all of this?
	And this comes from our official climatologist, Dr. Roy Spencer, University of Alabama, Huntsville, UAH.
	All of these storms and the chilly Florida winter is being caused by El Niño.
	You can count on it.
	Whenever you hear there's an El Niño, you're going to get mudslides in California.
	You're going to get colder weather here in the South and Southeast, and you're going to get a lot of rain.
	Now, normally, normally, the rain would be going further north, and the global warming models all predict that the cold weather would be going north.
	And it's just, it's the exact opposite.
	All of this is much southerly, much more southerly than it ought to be.
	It's just another, these two storms are merging here, and they're El Niño storms.
	Mother Nature can't do anything about that.
	And it's just another nail in the coffin of the whole global warming thing.
	And each, you know, every day like this, where is Al Gore?
	Where is the media asking Al Gore what's going on with this?
	I mean, the IPCC has been destroyed, credibility-wise.
	It doesn't mean that the leftist goons are giving up by any stretch.
	But nobody's had any curiosity to go out and try to find Al Gore and ask him to explain this or at least comment on it.
	Find that fascinating.
	Also, this is somewhat rare.
	We have an effective bit of humor from the Republican Party.
	You can go online at the Republican National Committee website.
	Let me hang on.
	I got the wrong website up here.
	Let's see.
	No, it's gopvalentine.com, gopvalentine.com, and you can say it's a fundraising site.
	But it's funny, you can send Valentines to people.
	For example, here's a picture of Obama, and the Valentine is you won't see this Valentine card on C-SPAN.
	Here's a picture of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.
	We crafted this Valentine card behind closed doors.
	Here's Harry Reid.
	We wish you a happy Valentine's Day in any dialect.
	Rob Emmanuel, happy expletive Valentine's Day.
	I mean, they're an acorn.
	We'd like to help you set up a tax-free romance business.
	I mean, they're pretty creative for the Republican Party fundraising-wise, because they effectively make fun of everything from the missteps and all of the things going on with the Democrats.
	Now, we have all of the National Guards out in Washington.
	We have snowplows out all over from Chicago to Washington to New York.
	What is it that's powering these snowplows?
	What is it?
	It's an internal combustion engine.
	And of course, it's either diesel or gasoline powering these snowblowers and the snowplows.
	I think we all need to have a good laugh here at the expense of the environmentalist wacko communists in New York and Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia.
	Every other snowpack town or city whose houses are equipped with Ed Beckley Jr. recommended solar panels.
	You've got people relying on solar panels and windmills and all of these other green energy technologies.
	Imagine how frustrated these people who say they're going to save the planet, and they can't even save themselves.
	Their own technology could not get them to the grocery store during a situation like this.
	Their own technology would not enable them to feed themselves.
	They have to rely on snowplows powered by gas-guzzling combustion engines in order to get out of their driveways, to drive or bike or go over to a global warming protest in the middle of a blizzard.
	I mean, I just find this ironic, and it's ironic, and of course, you know me, my friends, I laugh at it.
	If Congress wasn't shut down due to the weather, today could be declared National Combustion Engine Day, a tribute to one of the truly great inventions in the history of mankind.
	No, no, no.
	Thirdly, I'm serious about this.
	You look at what's happening.
	If we relied on the green people, if we relied on the Nazis, the green Nazi police, if we relied on these people, we wouldn't be able to clear snow.
	What are we going to clear the snow with?
	Segways?
	Segway?
	What are we going to clear the snow with?
	And how about another shout out to the Blizzard first responders?
	Do you know who else is closed?
	If you want to really have a laugh, FEMA.
	The federal government's closed today, and along with it, FEMA.
	The FEMA office in Washington is closed.
	The Federal Emergency Management, whatever it is, association, agency, shut down, totally shut down.
	There are people nevertheless working 24-7 to clear the streets, to fix power lines, to get entire cities back to work.
	These are unsung heroes, and they are using the internal combustion engine and traditional energy sources in order to do their work.
	They never complain.
	Liberals will soon be able to get back to work, making life a little more difficult for every one of us while they impose higher taxes, more regulations, never-ending stream of condescension and scorn on everybody.
	Yet they sit toasty warm inside their homes, not for anything they've done and not for any contribution they've made.
	And you know these guys that drive snowplows?
	They also drive to tea parties.
	These are the guys that love Sarah Palin, probably listening to me at this very moment as we give them a shout out, unsung heroes, the people outside their homes clearing the streets so everybody, including the environmentalist wackos, can get wherever they have to go to feed themselves, to restock their shelves at the grocery store, clearing the path so that the restocking trucks can get to the grocery store.
	Thank God for the internal combustion engine, my friends.
	Thank God for the hardworking Americans who make and drive them.
	Now, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you've seen this or not.
	Ritz-Carlton has a five-diamond Las Vegas hotel.
	It's closing in May.
	The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company will close its five-diamond property in Las Vegas on May the 2nd after the hotel struggled with a slide in demand and revenue.
	The Ritz-Carlton spokesman, Vivian Dushi, said, nothing the hotel did, it's a simple lack of business and a decline in the tourism business.
	Now, how many jobs did Obama creators save with the closing of the Ritz-Carlton in Los Angeles?
	How many jobs created or saved?
	So here you have another rich, profiteering business closed.
	Congratulations, Mr. President.
	That class warfare stuff is really great.
	Now, what of all the employees there?
	What do you have in store for those employees?
	99 weeks of unemployment compensation, benefits, another Vegas hotel shutting down, and Obama has said three or four times, don't go to Vegas.
	So another, I mean, look at now, if we can just shut down the insurance companies, if we can just shut down the oil companies, if we can just shut down the drug companies and send all those investors and employees packing, well, then we'll really have something to celebrate.
	Obama's war on the private sector continues all the while.
	And by the way, it's getting good out there now because the left is all hot to trot over a quote Obama gave to Bloomberg News.
	It's going to run in an interview published on Friday.
	The details of that are coming up very soon, ladies and gentlemen.
	But I want you to listen to a couple soundbites.
	We're going to start here with number one, Mike.
	I changed my mind here on the fly.
	The left is clearly calling these snowstorms in the drive-by media the snowpocalypse to make it sound like it's being caused by global warming.
	Snocopalypse.
	And they've also called it snowmageddon.
	I think Obama came up with that.
	So here's a montage of a bunch of drive-by media types.
	These snowpocalypses that have been going through D.C. and other extreme weather events are precisely what climate scientists have been predicting, fearing, and anticipating because of global warming.
	Some called it the snowpocalypse.
	Snowpocalypse.
	Two storms combining to bring us snowpocalypse.
	Snowpocalypse.
	What's now being called snowpocalypse.
	The snowpocalypse.
	We're looking at snowpopalypse.
	The snowpocalypse.
	The snowpocalypse.
	I mean, is it not amazing?
	Is it not amazing?
	Somebody comes up with the word and they all repeat it.
	That first quote was from Dylan Rattigan, who keeps being shuffled around to different time slots over at MSNBC.
	Extreme weather events, precisely what climate scientists have been predicting, fearing, and anticipating because of global warming.
	Global warming is causing these blizzards and record cold temperatures.
	All right, we have a break.
	We'll take it.
	We'll come back.
	And by the way, a lot of people out there now publicly disagreeing with me on my advice that the Republicans not show up at Obama's meeting on February 25th.
	You'll hear about it coming up after this.
	I spoke too soon out there, ladies and gentlemen, in praising the snowplow operators.
	This just-in, what is the term, breaking news, from Washington, D.C. and neighboring Montgomery County, Maryland, have just lived up to a reputation as wimpy weather warriors.
	Foxnews.com reporting that D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland have suspended snowplow operations as a blizzard bears down on the region.
	Now, remember, 25% of their snowplows were sitting idle anyway because they're in disrepair.
	So the government officials in D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland are failing to take advantage of the internal combustion engine and just giving up.
	They can't keep up with the blizzard.
	They'll deal with it after the blizzard hits.
	From insidehigher Education.com, you will not believe that.
	Well, yeah, you will believe it.
	Everything that used to be unbelievable is not only believable, it is happening.
	Barack Obama has been called a lot of things since he hit the national stage, celebrity, elitist, and even one who pals around with terrorists.
	But as his poll numbers come back down to earth and an emboldened conservative movement sharpens its attacks, the label that seems to be sticking to Obama as much as any lately is that of professor.
	Speaking to Tea Party activists last week, Sarah Palin did her part to keep the professor dig in circulation.
	Republican vice presidential nominee told a frenzied crowd, they know we're at war.
	To win that war, we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law, standing at the lectern.
	The use of professor as a term of derision may have hit its stride in the 50s, but it dates back to scolding characterizations of Socrates, according to Jeffrey Nundberg, a linguistics professor at Berkeley.
	Okay, fine.
	Frankly, I didn't know that professor had become the number one dig, but if it is, fine and dandy.
	Now, get this.
	Charles Ogletree, Harvard law professor, founding and executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, says that he sees the professor label as a thinly veiled attack on Obama's race.
	Yes, my friends, you heard me read that.
	I heard myself read it.
	So now when we call Obama a professor, we are racist.
	Calling Obama the professor walks dangerously close to labeling him uppity, a term with racial overtones that has surfaced in the political arena before, Ogletree said.
	Describing his divisive confirmation hearings as a circus, Justice Thomas called the proceedings a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deigned to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas.
	It's perhaps ironic then that Ogletree, who represented Anita Hill, now sees a bit of the uppity label being placed on Obama.
	This is two different kinds of uppity that are being discussed about here.
	So now is professor the P-word?
	We've got the N-word, we have the R-word, and now we have the P-word.
	We got to speak in code, and only people who know what the P-word is will understand what we're saying.
	The idea that he's not one of us, Ogletree says of the professor label.
	He has these ideas that are left-wing that are socialists that he's palling around with terrorists.
	Those are buzzwords.
	But the reality was they were looking at this president as an African American who was out of place.
	You know, Professor Ogletree, I hate to burst the balloon, but the single most important reason Obama was elected was his race.
	A bunch of white people who thought electing a black president would assuage all of their guilt and erase our racial past voted for Obama.
	They couldn't have cared less what he thought, what he said.
	They didn't think of him as uppity.
	They were being selfish.
	They didn't like feeling guilty over our racist past slavery, and so they thought pulling the lever for Obama would absolve them.
	It wasn't for his policies, as we are now quickly learning.
	What Clarence Thomas meant by uppity, meaning he wasn't a liberal black.
	When Clarence Thomas says uppity black thinks for himself, means he's off the reservation, so to speak.
	He's not following the civil rights speech codes set forth by the Reverend Zach and Al Sharpton, whoever else is in charge of them.
	But no, Obama is a uppity, but not as a black.
	He is an elitist.
	He does think he's smarter and better than everybody else.
	That's what he was taught.
	He's a Harvard man.
	There's no question about that.
	But so now, ladies and gentlemen, and what about this post-racial society Obama was supposed to bring us?
	None of this was supposed to be going on.
	But now calling him professor is racist.
	Thinly veiled racism?
	Wow.
	For me and a lot of other academic types, this is Thomas Haskell, professor emeritus of history at Rice University, agrees, by the way, racial bias may be implicit in the attack on Obama's professorial past.
	For me and a lot of other academic types, we identify with Obama precisely because he is an intellectual.
	But what does that mean to John Q. Public?
	I don't know.
	John Q. Public may be frightened to these people, especially because this particular intellectual is black.
	Let me ask you a question here, Mr. Haskell.
	How many intellectuals pronounce it corpsman?
	And how many intellectuals think that there are 57 states in the United States?
	And how many intellectuals think that a breathalizer is the same thing as an inhaler?
	This notion that Obama is smarter than everybody else, it tricked a whole lot of people, including a bunch of uppity white Republicans who thought they were going to get one of their own in the White House.
	We are not frightened by Obama as a person.
	We are alert to his policies.
	We think they're idiots.
	You know, we need to redefine smart.
	We really need to redefine smart and intellectual and all that.
	Intellectual is a behavior mode anymore.
	Intellectual is how you speak.
	Intellectual is where you come from.
	Intellectual cannot have anything to do with what you know because Obama's dead wrong on virtually everything.
	So how smart is he?
	Whether he's a professor or professorial or whatever, he's just wrong on everything.
	And that's what our objection is.
	He is so wrong, it is ruining the country.
	You don't take, you don't, if you're a small business, you do not go to the bank for a loan to increase payroll.
	As he said yesterday, I mean, that put me on the floor.
	That was the closest I have ever been to speechless, listening to the sheer ignorance and naivete from this intellectual professor that we have as a president.
	So professor is the new racist term.
	By the way, it says here that Obama isn't the only modern Democrat to see his higher education credentials derided as a handicap.
	Campaigning for re-election to represent New York's first congressional district, Democrat Tim Bishop has taken shots for the 29 years he spent as an administrator at Southampton College.
	Bishop said he's faced such criticism periodically throughout his public life, and his Republican opponent revived the anti-academic charge in a press release last month.
	Whoa, you realize what you learn listening to this program.
	Now you just have to be an academic and people who attack you are racist.
	And calling Obama a professor is racist.
	This is the attempt to shut down as much criticism of Obama as possible.
	These people know what Republicans, particularly elected Republicans, are afraid of, and this is just designed to shut them up because the criticism is working.
	The criticism is accurate.
	The criticism is persuasive.
	Back after this.
	15 months ago, Robert Kennedy Jr., the son of Robert Kennedy Sr., by the way, this is the Robert Kennedy Jr. who flies around on private planes telling large numbers of people how they have to live their lives in order to save the planet.
	According to David Fredoso, the Washington, D.C. Examiner, Kennedy Jr. wrote a column last year on the lack of winter weather in Washington.
	In Virginia, the weather also has changed dramatically.
	Recently arrived residents in the northern suburbs accustomed to today's anemic winters might find it astonishing to learn that there were once ski runs on Ballantre Hill in McLean with a rope toe in a local ski club.
	Snow is so scarce today that most Virginia children probably don't even own a sled.
	Anyway, goes on to say that global warming would mean no snow or cold in Washington, D.C. Everywhere you look, these people who had no credibility to begin with in the first place other than having it bestowed on them by a sycophantic media, their credibility is falling apart.
	Now, we're also, Professor Ogletree at Harvard, if you want to be, one of the reasons I don't call Obama professor is because he never was one.
	Calling him a professor is elevating him.
	He was a visiting lecturer.
	It's just like Robert B. Rice.
	He was never a professor.
	He was a guest lecturer, but he was never a professor.
	And this guy that said this is traceable back to Socrates, Socrates could not have been called a professor in his lifetime because professor is a Latin word.
	It would have never happened.
	Socrates was Greek.
	Anyway, audio soundbite time.
	Yesterday and day early, the day before, when I got wind of this invitation from Obama to House Republicans to come up and have a televised six-hour meeting on health care on February 25th, I implored him not to go.
	Be the party of no, be the party of hell no.
	The polling data all shows that 80% of the American people disapprove of the Liberal Democrat Congress.
	There's no majority anywhere among any group that wants Obamacare.
	Obama has said day in and day out that he's not going to start over.
	So I said, you can't lose here by not showing up.
	It seems that many disagree with me, including the panel at Fox and Friends.
	That's true.
	But Steve, as you saw, the Washington Post came out with a poll, 63% of those polled say they want Congress to keep trying to tackle the issue of health care.
	And 6 in 10 say the Republicans are not doing enough to forge a compromise.
	And if the president looked sincere yesterday, and if he continues to look sincere and act sincere, the Republicans could look like somebody's.
	This is what I was saying yesterday.
	I just don't think that it was a win-win for the Republicans to not show up at this thing because if, in fact, it's going to be broadcast live on TV, you as the American viewer will be able to see who's being partisan and who's not.
	Besides, it's the optics.
	If they don't show up, the president will say, well, I invited the Republicans.
	Can you zoom out and you can see?
	Yep.
	It's an empty room.
	The Republicans didn't come.
	And see, Monday night special report with Britt Baer, Bill Crystal, the Weekly Standard Magazine editor, was on and said this.
	Obviously, when the president invites you to the White House, you go, and they should politely go and tell him that he should kill this terrible bill that the House and Senate, or two bills, the House and Senate Democrats have put together and start over.
	Republicans should hold their ground.
	They shouldn't be apologetic.
	They shouldn't snipe at the president, this letter they sent today.
	I think that's silly.
	That was not a silly letter.
	I respectfully disagree here.
	That was not a silly letter.
	It was a letter to.
	What the hell was silly about the letter?
	I guess, do some people still not know what we're up against here?
	You know, apparently so.
	People have this inside-the-beltway life.
	You get caught up in the way things happen there.
	What's the proper and improper way for decorum and so forth?
	There was nothing silly about that.
	That letter was awesome.
	I mean, that letter took it right to Rahm Emanuel.
	It pointed out all the hypocrisy and all of the mistakes and all the errors, and it set up some ground rules for the Republicans to show up.
	What am I missing here, folks?
	Last night on Greta Van Susteren's show on Fox, she talked to John Boehner, the Republican leader.
	She said, you were quoted saying, why are we going to talk about a bill that can't pass in connection with the health care bill?
	Did you say that to the president or the press?
	I made it pretty clear that you've got a health care bill that the president and House and Senate Democrats have been working on that they can't pass.
	And why they would want to start the conversation there is beyond anything I can understand.
	Oh, he understands precisely what's going on.
	They want to start it there because they want their bill.
	Hell, folks, even CBS, even CBS, it's on their webpage, one of their blogs, Mark Knoller.
	I mean, this is remarkable.
	Obama says bipartisanship, but what he wants is GOP surrender.
	And Boehner knows that's what the objective here is.
	Unannounced, President Obama took that electorate in the White House briefing room yesterday to give a personal readout of his meeting earlier with congressional leaders of both parties.
	Despite the political posturing that often paralyzes this town, there are many issues upon which we can and should agree, Obama said.
	It was more a plea than an observation.
	His top legislative priorities are going nowhere.
	He's searching for a way to get them out of lockup.
	It's his 13th month.
	He's anxious to pass a jobs bill.
	He's been addressing an unemployment rate that only last week declined from double digits, but it really didn't.
	And his efforts to enact bills on energy, financial, regulatory reform, and health care are stuck despite the solid majority his party holds in both chambers.
	So he's appealing for a spirit of bipartisanship, urging Democrats and Republicans to put aside matters of party for the good of the country.
	It's a familiar refrain from U.S. presidents who cannot get their way in Congress.
	But what this appeal for bipartisanship means is do it my way.
	When a sitting president calls for bipartisanship by the opposition, he really means surrender.
	And if they block his proposals, it's obstinacy and not political views they hold as strongly as he holds his.
	Exactly right.
	Now, if CBS, Mark Knoller, can put this on a blog.
	Obama wants Republican surrender.
	Boehner knows what's going on.
	These guys know precisely what the purpose of this is.
	Now, here's more of Boehner.
	Van Susteren said, well, February 25th, you intend to go to this meeting that the president's calling and having televised at the White House.
	I want to have a bipartisan conversation with the president about how to fix our health care system.
	But Eric Cantor and I sent a letter to Rahm Emanuel posing a series of questions about really what is this.
	You know, the White House let us know about an hour before the American people saw this in his interview on Sunday afternoon.
	So it is a stunt?
	Well, I don't know.
	That's what we're trying to get to the bottom of.
	What would it take for you to go to that February 25th?
	I want to have this bipartisan conversation, but I want it to be productive, and I want it to be real.
	I don't want to walk into some trap.
	I don't want to walk into some political event.
	Well, that's what it's designed to be.
	It is a political event.
	It is a political trap, and it's designed to make you guys look like the obstacles.
	It's designed to make you guys...
	See, there are two things going on here.
	The Republicans are the hot commodity.
	Obama wants to be seen with them.
	He doesn't want to be seen with a bunch of Democrats right now.
	I mean, their negatives are so sky high, he doesn't want to be seen with them.
	He wants to be seen with the Republicans.
	The Republicans in every poll that's taken are given much higher marks for being able to do this, to cut taxes, to manage the economy at the generic ballot.
	It's all Republican in big leads in practically every poll you look at.
	So Obama wants to surround himself with these guys, but he's not going to give up what he wants and the way he wants it and the details of what he wants.
	He wants to portray these guys as the obstacles to get his party out of the vice.
	His party is in a blazing fire.
	He can't get his party to agree on anything.
	The House Democrats are saying no to the Senate Democrats and vice versa.
	So Obama wants a picture where at the end of the day, his willing accomplices in the media can say, I tried, but these guys don't want to compromise with me.
	He wants pictures that he can show that it's the Republicans obstructing this.
	And how convenient, how convenient he gets a poll from the Washington Post, which is not borne out in any other poll I've seen.
	63% of the American people want the country to work together.
	Those polls say they want Congress to keep trying to forge a compromise.
	That's not what this there's.
	That's the only poll that says that.
	Every other poll on health care says, don't do this.
	Every other poll on health care says we don't want Obamacare.
	Somehow ABC, Washington POST produces a poll.
	63 percent of those polls say that Congress, they want Congress to keep trying to tackle the issue, and six in ten say the Republicans are not doing enough to forge a compromise.
	Frankly, my friends, I'm a little suspicious.
	I haven't seen that in any other poll anywhere.
	I haven't seen a poll blaming the Republicans for anything on this.
	The Republicans, up until Scott Brown, couldn't have stopped it anyway.
	This is.
	This is a big-time trap, and Boehner knows it.
	He said this further with with Greta Van Sustrin.
	I don't want to walk into some setup.
	I don't know who's going to be there, I don't know how big the room's going to be, I don't know how, what the setup is going to be, and so, on behalf of Of the American people, we've asked the White House, just scrap this bill.
	Let's start over.
	I think that's where most Americans are on this bill.
	But I just want to continue to push the White House to do this.
	The President of the United States, you know, when he offers an invitation to go to the White House, you know, naturally you want to go.
	I'm just trying to make sure that this is as productive and honest a conversation as possible.
	Well, right there, I mean, suspicions are aroused that it's not going to be bad if he's trying to confirm it's going to be something he's, and he's very wise to have these doubts.
	But there's a story here from NationalJournal.com, actually from yesterday.
	House Speaker Pelosi's, top healthcare advisor today, outlined a plan that would allow both chambers to make changes to the Senate health care overhaul before it becomes law.
	Wendell Primus said the plan is to have Obama sign the Senate bill before signing the legislation making the changes, even though Congress will approve them in reverse to satisfy skeptical House members who refuse to pass the Senate bill before changes are made.
	The trick in all of this is that the president would have to sign the Senate bill first, then the reconciliation bill second, and the reconciliation bill would trump the Senate bill.
	That's Pelosi's strategy.
	Now, what the hell is this meeting all about then?
	If they've already got a strategy to get the Senate bill enacted as health care reform that Obama can sign, then what the hell is this meeting all about?
	Pelosi said there's a certain skill, there's a trick, but I think we'll get this done.
	So Pelosi's aid has spilled the beans on what their health care endgame is, and it doesn't involve Republicans at all.
	And this came out yesterday, right here in the face of Obama demanding this meeting on February 25th with a bunch of people on our side thinking the Republicans ought to go.
	Back in just a second.
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	Gail, Birmingham, Alabama, I'm glad you called and waited.
	Welcome to the EIB Network.
	Yes, how are you today, Rush?
	I'm fine.
	Thank you.
	Listen, I'm a longtime listener, but I called in to defend professors.
	I was a professor for about 10 years at the University here in Birmingham, and I worked on assignments occasionally with what was then called the Bureau of Education with Handicaps.
	So I have lots of experience with professors.
	So let me defend them to this extent.
	I think what is offensive about Obama's presentation is, let me tell you what happens to professors that go awry.
	Professors get in front of that lectern.
	So Sarah Palin is right.
	They get in front of it and they become arrogant.
	They turn into this elitist little model.
	They surround themselves with similar professors.
	They think the same way.
	They use big words when little ones would do far better.
	They talk too much.
	They intimidate the students, and the students learn pretty quick to agree with them.
	I agree with you.
	There's a bunch of professors out there like that.
	So what we're complaining about when we say, and I agree, he comes off like an arrogant professor.
	He's at the electorn.
	He tries to ridicule anybody, including members of our Congress, be they Senate or Congresspeople.
	You know, you become uncomfortable if you disagree with him because it's either his way or it's no way.
	Right, because there's an arrogance.
	I'm smarter than you.
	You aren't in my league.
	But no way have you ever before today heard that the term professor has racial connotations?
	No, but, you know, they actually stretch for things.
	They have to do that because they can't really get their arms around the fact that Sarah Palin talks more like the average person.
	She can talk and she completes her sentences.
	She may not be right or wrong from the point of view what other people agree with.
	I think that's true, but I don't think that's what's going on here.
	I said it before the election.
	If people said, Matt, Rush, this is going to end race it.
	No, it's not.
	Every single bit of criticism of him is going to be called racism or rooted in race.
	And this is just the latest example of it.
	He's doing such a bad job.
	They're trying to deflect from that and once again discredit the credibility of the people criticizing him who are dead right.
	The left is livid, led by an MIT professor and the Huffington Puffington Post.
	They are livid at Obama for defending the big bonuses at JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs in an interview with Bloomberg that will hit the streets on Friday.
	Stay there.
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