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April 2, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 2, 2010, Friday, Hour #3
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I am America's anchor man, America's real anchor man, America's truth detector, the doctor of democracy.
I am the troublesome Vitriolic Rush Limbaugh on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
That means when we go to the phones, the content of the show is up to you.
Whatever you want to talk about's fine, even if I am not interested in it.
800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program, you can send an email to L Rushbaugh EIBNet.com.
Let me ask you a question.
If George W. Bush got on Air Force One and flew over the state of Rhode Island, where they have experienced a flood that they haven't had in 200 years.
Homes almost completely submerged.
People genuinely homeless in the state of Rhode Island.
If George Bush had flown over all that.
At altitude, he couldn't even really see it.
On his way to two fundraisers in Maine.
Do you think we would have heard about it?
Oh, yeah.
Well, that happened yesterday.
Except it was Obama.
Who flew over flood-ravaged Rhode Island.
The FEMA director.
The SFEMA director.
He was nowhere near.
He was at some hot conference in Orlando.
Where I understand they've got a lot of babes that uh play the field, the cocktailing pancake waitresses and so forth.
Never know.
Ever know.
So we have we have the situation where Obama says, Oh well, we'll stop on the way back.
Uh he calls them.
He calls them in Massachusetts.
And then heads on back to the White House.
And not even Fox is pointing this out.
And one of the reasons I think is we didn't see the actual suffering people.
We didn't see people on the roofs of their houses being plucked by helicopters.
No shooting helicopters.
We didn't hear of any rapes and sort of stuff going on inside these homes.
And of course, this wasn't sexy.
Floods are just not sexy to the media when they happen to middle class people.
They're just not sexy.
As Obama doesn't care about white people.
I mean, didn't that's what I said about Bush and come about black people.
I guess Obama just doesn't care the regime doesn't care about white people that get flooded out.
Let's talk a little health care here.
Paul Mirengoff at the PowerlineBlog.com.
Buried in the newly enacted health care reform legislation is a provision that amends the Fair Labor Standards Act to require employers to provide a reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for a nursing child for one year after the child's birth, each time such employee has need to express the milk.
In addition, the employer must provide for this purpose a place other than a bathroom that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from co-workers and the public.
Businesses that employ fewer than 50 employees are exempt from these requirements if they can show that following them would impose an undue hardship.
The burden of proof will be on the employer and may be difficult to meet in most cases.
This is in the health care reform.
On the other hand, things could have been worse for employers yesterday, April 1st, a WAG claim that for but for Republican intervention, the legislation would have required a windowed room with a view of a tree, lace curtains, and a pleasing floral wallpaper.
The mother's retreat must be equipped with diminishable or dimmable lighting, um, the lesh-approved breastfeeding rocker, and be stocked with warm towels.
Uh could have been worse.
At any rate, uh That's in the health care bill.
In Mount Dora, Florida, a doctor who considers the national health care overhaul to be bad medicine for the country posted a sign on his office door telling patients who voted for Obama to seek care elsewhere.
He's a urologist, and he's peed off.
I'm not turning anybody away.
That would be unethical, said Dr. Jack Castle, 56, registered Republican opposed to the health care plan.
But if they read the sign and turn the other way, so be it.
I'm not personally turning him away, but if they read the sign and it'll come in.
Sign says if you voted for Obama, seek urologic care elsewhere.
Changes to your health care begin right now, not in four years.
That's the sign.
I love, I love these people.
I love these people that don't conform.
I love these people that stick in.
By the this reminds me of something.
Somebody said that Obama said, yeah, you know, you really gotta have a thick skin to deal with the victory all like you get from uh from Rush Limbaugh and so forth.
You really gotta have a thick skin to be able to deal with all.
Now I have a serious question about this.
What really can I, or any critic do to the regime?
It's just words.
What really can I do?
I mean, I cannot change his health care.
I cannot raise his taxes.
I cannot seek to destroy the world in which he lives in, because I have some long-held grudge against it.
I can't do one thing to anybody in the regime, but the regime can totally screw us up.
They can change our way of life with the stroke of a pin, and they're doing it.
They can violate the Constitution left and right.
They're doing it.
They can raise taxes, they can send us off to war, they can do any number of things.
Who's not going to...
They're not going to believe it.
I'm not saying I don't have any influence, but why can I do to Obama?
Yeah, in 1994, we led the revolt.
They got rid of that regime.
Uh, but but but and they made me an honorary member of the freshman class that year.
But I still, I'm just an honorary member.
I still could not go to the Florida House.
I couldn't vote.
I couldn't propose legislation.
Uh my only point here, ladies and what thick skin.
He needs thick skin to deal with.
Maybe it's true in the sense that he's been an entitled little kid his whole life.
Nobody has dared criticize him for a host of reasons, and now all of a sudden he's being criticized.
And I think in this case, he's in criticized the criticism he knows is true.
Uh, and that's what offends him.
People daring to tell the truth about him and his regime.
So anyway, this doctor, I love this doctor because his doctor, if you don't like the, you know, if health care uh changes right now, not in four years.
Estelle Chapman, or Estella Chapman, 67, whose daughter snapped a photo of the typewritten sign, sent the picture to U.S. Congressman Alan Grayson, the Orlando Democrat, who's loony to literally uh an order of fries short of a happy meal.
I mean, this guy's just a lunatic.
So it's gonna be fun to see what he does with this.
Castle, it says here may be walking a thin line between his right to free speech and his professional obligation, said William Allen, professor of bioethics, law, and medical professionalism at the University of Florida's College of Medicine.
Wait a minute.
We have a professor of bioethics, law, and medical professionalism.
You can take a course in medical professionalism.
Hmm.
Anyway, Allen said that doctors cannot refuse patients on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or disability, but political preference is not one of the legally protected categories specified in civil rights law.
By insisting he does not quiz his patients about their politics and is not turned away a patient's based on their vote, the doctor's trying to hold on to the nub of his ethical obligation, Alan said.
But he is pushing the limit.
Well, how Art ends up, folks, this is still fabulous.
Health care changes begin right now, not in four years.
If you voted for Obama, get the hell out of here.
Doesn't say that, but that's the message.
Now, Washington Post today.
Those angry about health care generally concerned about the country's direction.
Now the headlines kind of inspiring, isn't it?
Maybe, oh, maybe in a a rare instance where the Washington Post, the state controlled media, actually get it.
But if you read the story, which I'm not going to bother with, I'll just tell you the narrative here, that it's a bunch of old white conservatives who are angry and want to go back to the Leave It to Beaver and Ozzy and Harriet days.
As usual, it's a bunch of old white people here who are angry.
Let's see, where did they f it's Bakersfield, California, uh Kentucky, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, um see, somewhere in uh in New York.
So they didn't go strictly to the South to find this, but nevertheless.
Those angry about health care generally concerned about the country's direction, and that's exactly right.
We're very much concerned what's happening to the country.
Quick time out, folks, be right back after this.
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Kathleen in Endicott or Ellicott City, Maryland.
I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you so much, Rush, for taking my call.
I am a first-time caller.
I'm very nervous here.
You don't sound it.
Well, uh, I'm one of those tea parties that um since last uh April, I've been to our state capital and to DC several times, and there is um verbal attack during the tea parties.
I can tell you, because it happened to my friend and myself.
Um I was at 912, I was at various different ones, but um the tea partiers, those of us who are law-abiding citizens and pay our taxes and work two jobs and are totally screwed by our government, our current government, um got one piece of trash is left on the ground, not one name was called.
Um everybody was very patriotic.
And for their and therefore, you know, against you know, high government this and that.
Anyway, the day that the bill was pushed through by Pelosi and her gang, uh, my girlfriend and I were leaving the rally, heading towards the metro, and out of nowhere, this guy, which was I'm five two, he was about six and a half feet tall, starts saying, Where the hell were you eight years ago?
And I go, What?
He said, Where were you eight years ago?
I said, I don't know, well, you weren't here.
This is war.
This is war.
I said, No, it's not.
It's about government run health care, it's about socialism.
He said, This is not about socialism.
I'm from a socialist country.
And I was okay, just about then some lady came with an Obama hat and started walking with him and started cussing me out and saying, you know, all kinds of things that I won't repeat against me.
So there is attacking, but it's from the other side.
Well, it's even worse than that.
Uh and it's gonna get worse than that.
I I uh uh what's gonna happen here is that uh Obamaites and S E I U people are going to be fake members of the Tea Party.
They're gonna dress up, they're gonna be clean, uh, they're gonna look just like all the other Tea Parties do, and they're gonna start throwing eggs or they're gonna start beating people up or what have you, or they're gonna start shouting the N word whenever they have the chance.
They will do anything they can to discredit the Tea Party.
Those of you in the Tea Party who go to these rallies, I'm sure you're aware of the effort to uh besmirch you by accusing you of shouting the N-word at John Lewis.
That did not happen.
I know it didn't happen.
There's no evidence that it happened.
If they had videotape evidence that it happened, they would have shown it.
They don't have it.
They were trying to create it.
They were being provocative.
They were being contentious.
There's no reason that that group of people from Congress had to walk through the crowd.
They never go to the Capitol that way.
They get there in the underground tunnels.
They want and Pelosi carrying that big gavel with that uh, you know, excrement eating grin on her face.
They were trying to provoke everybody into an incident.
And when it didn't happen, they said it did anyway.
But I tell you, they're there it's as they and out in the the church light nevada at the Harry Reed thing, uh, they started throwing eggs at the Tea Party people and tried to blame it on a Tea Party people.
Uh it's it's it's gonna get it's gonna get even worse.
I mean, this is in the handbook.
Uh remember, they have to discredit their enemies.
They cannot win a debate on ideas in the arena of ideas.
They have to discredit and destroy uh the people that disagree with them.
Anyway, I'm glad you called this is oh Lorraine X. Lorraine X, it's been a long time, happily so, but here she is back from San Diego to the EIB network.
Hello, Lorraine.
Well, hello, Rush.
You know, um, as one of your more famous liberal callers to the show, I want to first say to all the liberals out there, don't you dare try to hang the racist tag on Rush Lemba, because I'm gonna tell you he's not.
He just has a big mouth.
Now, having said that, Rush, uh, I'm going to let you have it here.
Rush, you teabaggers are out of your freaking minds.
Care in and all around the country on buses and holding rallies as if you were some sort of a black civil right now.
I mean, come on.
What what is a teabagger?
No, no, no, that's not what a teabagger is.
A tea party people are tea party people.
Well, let me explain it.
Okay.
Okay.
If you're gonna be if you're gonna be No, Lorraine, if you if you're going to say going to be accurate in defining a tea bagger, I need to have my finger on the bleep button.
Do you know what a tea bagger actually is, Lorraine X?
Well, I'm gonna tell you this.
We don't drink tea in this country.
We drink coffee.
Uh all I'm saying is awful British of you guys, okay?
The the whole idea of the Tea Party thing years ago Was to get rid of the British tea.
Okay?
You guys are extorting the virtues and call and naming, you know, and extorting yourself after the Tea Party.
And it's not the Boston Tea Party was not about that.
It was a it's against Peter.
Why are you using tea party?
You are amazing.
I mean, really, yeah.
It's British, it's socialist.
Uh it's what socialist.
The whole idea of calling themselves tea parties.
That's British.
Call yourself a coffee party.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know what to do with this.
Well, see when a micro carbon like me and California.
How long is it?
How long has it been since you slept?
Well, I can tell you this, Rush.
This whole idea of these tea parties, and by the way, there's nothing wrong with socialism.
Uh, by the way, uh, it's working quite well in countries, other countries that works in France, it works in England, and by the way, it also works in Israel.
Working nowhere, but he's not socialist.
He's fascist or Marxist.
Socialists, it'd be Obama?
If he were socialist, I could almost breathe a sigh of relief, but it's worse than that, Lorraine.
President Obama is the best president this country's ever seen.
And I'm gonna tell you this.
We are not gonna fall for all these people up any so-called Tea Party uh leaders out there trying to tell the world that there's something wrong with this health care that that he's passed.
And also, where were that right?
Where were the Tea Partyers?
Okay, when George Bush was going around taking away his signed on all of our rights years ago, ladies and gentlemen, really sorry.
Where were they?
I'm just so sorry.
I thought I could handle this and deal with it, but not today.
President Obama not happy with the state controlled media.
Late yesterday afternoon in Portland, Maine.
The uh leader of the regime said this.
It just happened last week.
It's only been a week.
Can you imagine if if some of these reporters were working on a farm and planted some seeds and they came out next day and they looked and nothing's happened?
There's no crap.
We're gonna starve.
Oh no.
It's a disaster.
It's been a week, folks.
Uh that's uh President Obama scolding the media for polling on his uh health care plan.
Uh well, unlike planting crops, you pretty much know what you're gonna get.
And when you plant the crops, the only bad thing that can happen is if they don't grow.
But we know because of economics, we know because of past experiences, we know what high taxes cause to people, cause to have we know in fact.
I just saw something.
These new cafe standards that Obama has ordered into effect yesterday are gonna raise the price of a car anywhere from uh $1,100 to $5,000.
It's gonna put 50,000 people out of work because they're gonna be making fewer cars.
People are gonna hold on to their cars longer.
And all of this is on a bogus proposition, global warming, carbon emissions, and all this, to upgrade these power trains to get an average fleet mileage, 35 miles per gallon.
A, we're all gonna be driving around little smart cars, B, they're gonna cost $5,000 more.
Uh light trucks are gonna be hardest hit.
Most consumers now have light trucks and love them, and they won't be able to afford them.
And they may not be able to make them.
The 35 miles per gallon average corporate fleet means you whatever cars you make, the average mile per gallon that they all get gotta be 35 or better.
So you can make a light truck, small truck that gets 18, but you better be making something that gets 60 or 50 or 40 miles to gallon to offset that uh in your fleet or a bunch of others.
But even so, those are still gonna have to be ramped up and modified to meet certain standards, cafe standards, and uh gonna cost you $5,000 more.
I mean, everything this guy's doing is gonna cost Everybody a lot more.
In taxes, in expenses, in health care insurance premiums, you name it.
So we don't, Mr. President, we don't need to wait four years for all of this disaster to happen.
We want to repeal it.
We want to stop it.
And he had a word for those of us who feel that way.
Now that it's passed, they're already promising we're gonna repeal it.
They're gonna run on a platform of repeal in November.
And my attitude is go for it.
You try to repeal it.
Go for it.
You try to repeal it.
That's not vitriolic.
That's not troublesome, is it?
Go for it.
Let's go to Coral in Groton, Connecticut, as we go back to the phones.
Hi, Coral.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Hi, Russ.
Uh, I'm really happy to talk to you.
It's my first time calling, and I love you.
Uh, just you know, a quick thing you had said earlier about the article that they wrote, and they basically named it off as old white men who are upset.
Well, you know what?
I'm a young American Indian woman, and I am pissed off.
I love you.
I think you speak to a bunch of generations.
And I just happened to hear the piece that you did about um breastfeeding, all that stuff that they put in the health care bill about having to provide for breasts and exactly right.
I have two kids.
I breastfed both of them.
I worked and I went to school.
I did it in a nurse's office, I did it in a bathroom, and you know what?
It's your choice.
You make arrangements, you do it yourself.
It should not be in a government law, it should not be any kind of arrangement.
Now don't get me wrong, I believe in breastfeeding.
I think it's great for the children.
I did it for both of mine.
And I know the government will probably use the excuse that this is our way of encouraging mothers to breastfeed.
Well, I'm sorry, if they're gonna put restrictions on employers to encourage people to do the right thing, what are they gonna do next?
Are they gonna encourage employers not to give employees smoke breaks because they want to encourage people not to smoke cigarettes?
I think they shouldn't have a say in that aspect of our lives.
It's a choice.
And I'm sorry, if you're a mother and you have a kid and you want to breastfeed, then you do it on your own terms.
You don't need the government telling your employer where you're gonna do it, how you're gonna do it, when you're gonna do it, and that they need to provide you with flowers and trees and then people are crap.
You probably are pretty unique in that, uh, Coral.
I think I think a lot of breastfeeders uh would love having the government tell their company gotta give them a private room, no windows and so forth, can't be a bathroom.
And and make that room available for a year.
You know, that's uh it's just it's it's not right.
You know, it's a decision that we make, and yes, it's good for your kid, but it it shouldn't impact your job, it shouldn't impact you know what that's the way you're gonna be, and if you really want to think about it like that, then maybe you should think about working somewhere else, working at a different time, or you know if there's a lot of mothers out there who don't work at all now.
I'm not saying that that's the right option for everybody, but you know, you should not have special concessions made to you because you choose to be a breastfeeding mother, just like I don't think specific people should have special concessions made for them because they choose to be able to do that.
This has been a long time.
Coral, coral, this this has been a long time coming.
Don't forget they started with things like this, uh, with uh six months maternity leave paid and then sick leave and then uh personal time off to go visit the veterinarian and you have to get paid.
Uh they start this w what was unpaid at first, and they knew that incrementally they would make the employer pay for all this time off they were mandating.
This is just more of this regime trying to control business.
Now, I need to ask you a question since you are a breastfeeder.
When I read the details of what's in this bill about breastfeeding, I have never heard, because I am not a breastfeeder, I have never heard the term express.
What what is exp what what is ex express milk?
I think I know what that means.
They sell these machines that look like I'm sure everybody's seen them in an informational video that look like the things that they hook up to cow's utter, and it uh it uses a certain amount of ex suction to express the milk.
This way, when you're not with your infant, say your infant is in daycare or with a family member just at home and you have you are away, you have to continue to pump the milk or express the milk so that you'll continue to make it.
If you don't express it, i.e.
back in the day before, you know, women weren't with their infants all day.
If the child wasn't eating as much, your body knew to make less.
So if you're a long away from your child for long periods of time, eight or nine hours at a job, then what ends up happening is your body thinks that the child's not eating, so you're not producing as much milk.
So you do have to pump.
But you know what?
It's like 10, 15 minutes sitting real quick.
It's a machine that takes care of it.
You mean it's like kind of like milking.
It's not intense, it's not difficult.
It's I mean, I went to school and worked with both of my kids.
And you know what?
I may do.
Uh well, I'm uh you I have no doubt you did.
Uh no doubt at all.
I I have no doubt that you master every situation you encounter.
Now, this sounds like just what they do to milk cows.
Is that exactly, yeah?
Who knew you probably get a subsidy for it?
Anyway, Coral, I'm glad you called.
It's great.
You've been great.
I gotta go.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back after this.
Just got a very short message from a very close friend about the discussion of suction and breastfeeding on the radio program.
TMI buy.
Too much information by.
The one thing about this that just now hit me.
What the hell is a woman doing with an infant at work in the first place?
Oh.
Oh, the baby's not there.
That's okay, that's what expressing a milk is.
Oh, okay, so it is like milking a cow.
And then you put the uh the expressed milk in a container, refrigerate it for later usage.
Oh, okay, because I was gonna.
Well, I was gonna say, uh, what what's it does it does the kid have to be your own?
And can it be up to age 27?
Uh, because in the healthcare bill, your kids can be on your insurance policy up to age 27.
You uh you heard the old joke, had a nightmare last night.
I dreamed I was Dolly Parton's baby and she was not breastfeeding me.
Or you could use it uh about Raquel Welch.
That's a very old joke.
Oh, I want to go back to these sound bites.
There's something here that uh uh doesn't quite jive.
Let's first go back to yesterday afternoon in Portland, Maine, and we're gonna stay in Portland, Maine for the second soundbite.
This this is Obama uh making good on my prediction of what he would say after the health care bill was signed.
After I signed the bill, I looked around.
I looked up at the sky to see if asteroids were coming.
I looked at the ground to see if cracks had opened up in the earth.
You know what?
It turned out it was a pretty nice day.
Birds, birds were still chirping, folks were strolling down the street.
Nobody had lost their doctor, nobody had pulled the plug on Granny, and nobody got the bill yet.
Now, uh also, folks, nobody pulled a plug on Granny.
So here he is in Portland, Maine yesterday, pointing out that, hey, look at we signed this thing, and none of these things that these people said would happen would happen.
But when he's talking about the criticism of the bill, he says now that it's passed, they're already promising we're gonna repeal it.
They're gonna run on a platform of repeal in November.
Uh give you the wrong number to I meant to I meant to give you 18.
18's the one I want to use here.
Hit 18.
That's the one.
It just happened last week.
It's only been a week.
Can you imagine if if some of these reporters were working on a farm and planted some seeds and they came out next day and they looked and nothing's happened?
There's no crap.
We're gonna starve.
Oh no!
It's a disaster.
It's been a week, folks.
He was upset at the media for polling, so it's been a week.
It's been only been a week.
Why are you criticizing it?
And yet earlier in the speech, why asteroids aren't dropping out of the sky.
Uh nobody pulled a plug on on Granny, whatever.
He does sound a little bit like a uh a stand-up comic there, uh, as opposed to a president.
But I've I've never thought he sounded much like a president.
That's everybody got got lulled into the thinking he sounded like a president because he was smart, clean our ticket, and all the stuff that Biden said uh about him, and it convinced a lot of pseudo intellectuals that he was smart like they think they're smart.
But this guy's not done enough to be presidential.
Uh certainly not the private sector.
At any rate, back to the phones.
This is Zachary in Greensburg, Kentucky.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Zach, he dropped off.
Well, let's go down to Jacksonville, Florida and pick up John.
John, you're next on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello, how are you today, Russ?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
Good.
I wanted to talk to you a little bit about Obamacare and how it's affecting my business.
It has enhanced uh my business tremendously here in the last uh couple weeks.
We have a uh a German client who uh owns five hospitals in LA and has had all kinds of run-ins with Medicare and Medicare fraud and he supplies uh he supplies medical services to the poor in Los Angeles, uh drug rehab services and so on and so forth.
And um he has decided to fold up shop and uh completely leave the country.
And um in doing so, uh, we're gonna try and uh we're gonna try and sell those hospitals to other entities, but if we can't do that, we're gonna close them all.
Uh so uh you were being facetious when you said that Obamacare was enhancing your business.
Well, no, I'm actually gonna make several million dollars off of this transaction.
If you can't sell them, though, you have to close them, huh?
If you what if you don't sell them?
If we don't sell them, then we close them.
Yeah, but you still you don't make any money if you if you don't sell them, right?
No, we make plenty of money by just closing them.
Here's what happens.
He's got a healthcare corporation that is uh double taxed entity, it's a C Corp.
And so when he wants out of this business, he's got to pay uh taxes on the money that he's got in the corporation.
Now he's got about 125 million dollars worth of properties, and if you take that amount and uh knock 50% off of that, and then he's got his shares, it's 100% owned by him, and then he's got to pay 50% tax on his shares.
He only winds up with about one fourth of what he uh he could sell those properties at.
Now, if we take the uh shares of the C Corporation and buy the C shares of the corporation for a a premium over what he would net after paying taxes, then he gets to walk away with a shareholder's premium, and we have 125 million dollars worth of A!
Aha!
So you're an investment banker, obviously.
That's correct.
You're an investment banker.
You you work can you tell me the firm?
Yeah, I've the name of our firm is IMG Capital Partners.
IMG Capital Partners.
So this guy is gonna have to close up and sell to you in a in a strange way rather than sell the properties himself because he would lose money doing so.
He can't stay open because Obamacare is coming down the pike.
So he you're gonna arrange a deal here where he can net a little bit more than what he would get after his taxes are paid.
You end up with a hundred and twenty-five million dollar asset to sell or own.
That's correct.
And I'm not you know what?
I'd love to keep these hospitals open.
I'd love to sell them to somebody else.
And um it's these hospitals are making, by the way, 120 million dollars in profit per year.
Servicing the poor?
$50 million worth of deferred income sitting in them, too.
Okay.
Wow, and this guy's got to shut him down because of Obama.
Well, that's a story.
First of many such examples, I'm sure we're gonna hear about uh after the first week or two.
Back after this, don't go away.
I know that.
I know we don't have time for it.
I wasn't gonna play it.
I said I judge whether we had the time for I wish I had time.
Ed Koch threw Obama under the bus yesterday on the Fox Business Network with Cavuto.
He said, he said that Obama is trying to blame everything on Israel to please the Muslim world that he was wrong to endorse Obama.
He was wrong to tell Jewish people that Obama would be good for Israel.
He totally divorced himself from Obama yesterday.
Ed Koch, former may of New York.
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