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May 13, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 13, 2010, Thursday, Hour #3
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And greetings to you, my friends, and welcome back.
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Well, uh, ladies and gentlemen, the uh media is uh continuing uh today to be a little fascinated with the page six revelation yesterday that from the forthcoming book uh on me, which I have not read fully, but a number of people have and have told me it's good.
Zev Chaffetz, Rush Limbaugh and Army of One due out on May 25th.
Now, last summer when he's writing the but I decided to participate with him because he was going to write the book anyway.
And he said, Would you play golf with Obama?
Well, I said, sure, I never never happened, but any president calls me and asks me to meet or play golf, I would out of respect would do it.
He said, Well, I know Axelrod a little bit.
I'm gonna call Axelrod and see you.
So he called Axelrod and he told me Axelrod didn't return his calls, and that was the end of it as far as I knew.
Then page six runs the excerpt from the book yesterday, in which a Democrat strategist was next up.
Chaffetz went to him and said, Hey, um, would uh would Obama agree to play golf with Limbaugh?
Limbaugh's up for it.
And two days later the message came back that uh Obama said no, Limbaugh can play with himself.
To which I said, I think they had me confused with Bill Clinton with that comment.
So let's go to the audio sound bites.
This morning, now what I just tell what I just told you was the first thing we discussed yesterday on this program.
That would be 26 hours ago.
26 hours ago, first thing out of the box on this program, I commented on the story.
WFLD Television Eyeball News Chicago, the co-host Jan Jeff Coat, and the so-called report.
Rush Limbaugh is not commenting this morning on a new book that claims the president will not play golf with him.
According to Zev Chavez, the author of a book called Rush Limbaugh, An Army of One.
He tried to set Limbaugh and the President up for a golf day.
This is his claim.
Limbaugh supposedly said he was willing to play, but according to the author, a White House advisor claims the president did not say the same thing.
Now, a spokesman for Limbaugh says he's not seen the book and therefore cannot comment on it.
And we don't really know if this happened, what happened, since there's so much he said that he said that he heard, and the president not talking about it this morning either.
Now, that was this morning.
Did they do any reporting in local television eyeball news anymore?
It was the first thing on my program yesterday.
I reacted to it, just as I did today.
This morning, Limbaugh says he's not seeing the book and therefore can't comment on it.
And it wasn't just WFLD TV Eyeball News Chicago, Roland Martin, CNN Campbell Brown last night.
Golf is a game where you don't have to play with somebody else.
And you know what?
Also, golf is a game where you don't want to play with somebody who yaps, yaps, yep, yaps.
That probably be Rush playing golf.
So yeah, go play with yourself so we can enjoy a nice walk.
That's Roland Martin on CNN.
Uh Mary Madeline was also on CNN and had this uh to say in reaction.
Yeah, that's civility.
That's uh that's your president, Mr. Civility.
I I like that a lot.
One of the few days I didn't listen to Rush.
I would have loved to have heard Rush's response, which I'm sure was far more civil than that protestation to the contrary.
Yeah, just I thought they were confusing me with Bill Clinton.
A rather witty response, which paid six publishers today to their credit.
And the people at Chicago still don't think I've commented on it now.
Uh last night, Maud Behar on her show on headline news.
When asked if he would play golf with Rush Limbaugh, the President Obama allegedly replied Limbaugh can play with himself.
Okay, don't feel bad.
Rush can always go back to his original foursome, Dick Cheney, David Duke, and Satan.
Now here is uh she wasn't true.
Maud was not through.
She's really upset that Obama's even talking about me.
Why should he shoot down like that?
He should be above it all.
Come on, Limbaugh is on the radio.
Uh Maud, you know, you can't stop talking about me either.
Here's uh here's Greta Van Sustran on this whole thing.
The only thing weirder than Tiger Woods playing golf with Gloria Allred is President Obama playing with Rush Limbaugh.
Uh no, that would that would be as weird as Tiger Woods leading a campaign for virginity.
Uh Chris Matthews, uh, ladies what?
Yeah, so you now tell you something.
I have to I have to tell you people about this.
Uh two days ago, Chris Matthews on his C uh uh MSNBC NBC show Hardboiled devoted the whole show.
Desperate to be mentioned on this program, Chris Matthews devoted the whole show, begging, challenging any Republican to come on and denounce me.
Any Republican, he gave any Republican, wherever, the opportunity to come on his show to denounce me.
Last night he announced the results.
Yesterday we invited any Republican officeholder who disagrees with Rush Limbaugh to come on hardball and tell us Russia's wrong.
Easy statement, I would think that he's going too far, that Russia's not the leader of the Republican Party.
Well, so far no Republicans called us or asked to come on hardball.
Probably, Chris, because they didn't know you had issued the challenge or uh had had offered the opportunity.
It's it's real simple.
Now, yesterday we had a poll for you, the Wall Street Journal NBC poll, that this massive amount of support, sixty-four percent nationwide support the Arizona law.
F. Chuck Todd, who is uh uh NBC's uh White House correspondent political director, whatever, could not believe it.
How about that new immigration law in Arizona?
Well, a whopping 64% support the law, and we read them the law verbatim, exactly as it's been written.
64% approve of it, 34% oppose it.
See, Chuck, you probably read it for the first time yourself when you read it to the respondent.
Maybe Chuck hadn't even read it.
Uh maybe his pollsters did.
So for a change, they actually read the law.
They didn't spin it, and they didn't spike the question.
They actually read the law to these people.
What do you think it is?
64% said Rado Raddo Raddo Raddo Raddo.
Now we while F. Chuck Todd's out there thinking the law's full of racial profiling and uh Nazi-like stuff, then your papers.
He's stunned.
He is shocked.
And he went even further.
We did, and we asked it specifically on the issue of would you be in favor of racial profiling when it comes to combating terrorism?
And guess what?
A majority said yes.
It's a slim majority, but a majority nonetheless.
51% would approve of it.
43% disapprove of it.
Clearly, this issue of terrorism is something that people they're willing to give up some of their own personal rights, and they're willing to see some racial profiling, Brian.
F. Chuck Todd just can't believe what his own poll showed.
My good.
You know what?
A majority said they would actually support racial profiling to combat terrorism.
And he's stunned.
He literally can't believe it.
Gallup poll today.
Uh actually published uh yesterday, after two months.
Would somebody tell me what that was?
It sounded like an uh an organ from Phantom of the Opera.
What was that?
Okay.
That was a sound notification made by our profit system computer.
We're refreshing the sound bites.
And that was the sound it's done.
Man, I I I thought I was in on Broadway.
For a minute.
Okay, starting in here, after two months as the clear number one perceived problem facing the country, unemployment and jobs drop to number two in May, while the economy in general moved back up to number one.
Now, economy and jobs are kind of related.
Don't you think?
But the big surprise, Americans are grew more likely to name immigration, illegal immigration as the nation's most important problem, moving that issue into fifth place, it skyrocketed from barely one percent to ten percent.
Now, economy and unemployment are between 23 and 26%, 25%.
Illegal immigration skyrocketing as an answer to the question, what do you think is the most important problem facing the country today?
Uh the even steeper increases seen among Republicans and conservatives highlight a major aspect of that concern, the belief that illegal immigration needs to be curtailed.
I guess for to assume than this from this that uh Democrats don't think illegal immigration is to be curtailed.
Which which we know.
UC Berkeley has ended a hunger strike over immigration.
Um this is another the left usually doesn't get this wacky when they're in control.
Though I've always said the left is hilarious when they're out of power.
Uh they're dangerous when they're in power, but but now uh with the blessings of ceremonial dancers, a group of UC Berkeley students ended a 10-day hunger strike uh yesterday while negotiations negoti negotiators met with the chancellor over the status of illegal immigrants and student demonstrators.
A ten-day hunger that's that's peanuts.
Ten day hunger strike.
You don't get any credit from me in a 10-day hunger strike.
Come on.
That's easy.
You know, where where are the great protesters of old?
The kind of people that put themselves up on a tree for two years without a bathroom to save the tree.
Where were the people that would march coast to coast and pour red paint along the way to to depict themselves dying in a nuclear blast.
Anyway, uh nothing seems to be what it used to be.
On.
My friends, if you're looking for all the signs of a repeal to Obamacare, you're gonna want to visit the Heritage Foundation website today.
We read to you the Morning Bell report yesterday.
Uh one of the first online publications to summarize all the recent revelations about the true cost of Obamacare, including the uh CBO's release, that they now see an additional one hundred and fifteen billion dollars in costs, which truly pushes the cost now over uh a trillion dollars.
The Heritage Morning Bail also reported Obama's own centers for Medicare and Medicaid now report something contrary to uh anything the White House will admit to, that the new health care plan will increase national health care spending by 311 billion.
Obama's own Medicare actuary.
There's not a single mainstream media outlet that will share this information with you.
There is not one state-controlled media outlet which will tell you that which the Heritage Foundation researched and discovered.
And I shared it with you yesterday.
No one is really watching this issue anymore other than the states trying to repeal this, uh, other than us and the Heritage Foundation.
They never stop.
Now our repeal is going to take a chain of events.
And the first in this chain of events is the right people being elected this fall.
The second is an awareness of the real facts, the stuff that comes out after Pelosi and Company have moved on to creating mayhem someplace else.
And the Heritage Foundation is not going to stop looking at health care.
They will not be distracted because they have other scholars.
They're going to be laser focused on the other mayhem.
Well, the health care scholars stay focused on health care.
You will not be able to find this kind of focus on information.
Information Obama doesn't want you to have, by the way, anywhere else.
Ask heritage.org is how you access this information.
Twenty-five bucks a year, and you're a member, just like I am, and it is well worth it.
And the membership levels rolls are growing by uh by leaps and bounds.
Ask heritage.org.
Earlier in the program, I mentioned a column today, The American Spectator by Quinn Hillier.
He's the senior editorial writer at the Washington Times and a senior editor of The American Spectator, where Bob Tyrrell, Bob Tyrrell founded that publication.
Bob Tyrell has a great new book.
Would you go on find the title of Tyrrell's book?
It's about uh it's T Y R E L L is how you spell it.
And I uh he's um he's really got some profound insights uh about conservatism visus versus Obama and so forth.
And I'll get you the title because it is well worth it.
It's a great publication, uh, The American Spectator, in this piece by Quinn Hillier.
Who the hell does Barack Obama, this morally preening, arrogant hypocrite, think he is?
His vacuous demagogic shtick about helping the people fight the powerful is getting so old from his lips.
It already was so hackneyed even before he expropriated expropriated it that it's a miracle even he himself can say it anymore without getting nauseated by his own triteness.
Obama spewed the same old effluvia Monday when introducing Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.
Let's count the inanities and the dishonities in his introductory remarks.
Behind law, there are stories.
Stories of people's lives as shaped by the law, stories of people's lives as might be changed by the law, of course.
And here he's quoting Kagan herself, but it's still absurd.
Of course, the law affects people's lives.
That's why we have elections to choose legislators to write the laws.
It's why we give trial judges at least a modicum of discretion in meeting out sentences when laws are violated.
But even that discretion is governed by the laws as laid out by the legislative process.
The appeals court exists to ensure that those laws are applied the same way to every litigant, regardless what their personal stories are.
Not because of their personal stories.
During her time in this office, she's repeatedly defended the rights of shareholders and ordinary citizens against unscrupulous corporations.
What nonsense?
A corporation is a set of shareholders.
When a corporation pays a judgment, its shareholders are the ones who pay.
When the corporation loses money, it's the shareholders who lose the money.
When a lawsuit, supposedly on behalf of shareholders, is successful, the payout gets taken from the corporate accounts, which devalues the stock of yes, the shareholders themselves.
Setting the shareholders against the corporation is asking Peter to fight not Paul, but Peter to fight Peter.
It's like boxing one's own image in a mirror, except then when you throw a punch, both the mirror and the puncher get hurt.
So, two in any match between a corporation and shareholders.
In a democracy, powerful interests must not be allowed to drown out the voices of ordinary citizens.
Well, this is a truism.
Too bad Obama doesn't abide by it.
Barack Obama spent his whole adult life doing the bidding of powerful interests at Harvard.
This bastion of the powerful elite, he kissed up to enough factions to become president of a law review while actually writing next to nothing in Chicago.
He settled into Tony Hyde Park with the help of a highly suspect sweetheart deal on his property.
He got an adjunct gig at the University of Chicago, cultivated leftist elitists like Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn, who sat on wealthy nonprofit boards, and chose the church of the wild and hateful Reverend Jeremiah Wright because it gave him a powerful entree into the poor black community that he otherwise would lack if he spent all his time in Hyde Park.
He himself noted he didn't really join a church until he appreciated the power of the African American religious tradition to spur social change.
This all was of a piece with his training as an acolyte of Solalinsky, who taught that power is its own justification.
In the state legislature, Obama became a creature of powerful party leader and eventual Senate President Emile Jones.
As Senator and President, he has constantly, consistently sided with the most powerful interests in his party, almost never lifting a finger without the approval of the powerful labor bosses.
Or the plaintiff's attorney lobby.
He negotiated in secret with the pharmaceutical lobby, the biggest, second biggest campaign contribution recipient from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac sources.
I mean, this is all beyond obnoxiousness, especially by means of judges whose powers are designed to be limited for denizens of Hyde Park and New York's Upper West Side by way of Harbor's Dean's Office.
He really I don't want to read the whole thing to you because it's more impactful when you read it for yourself.
But he just he really unravels all of this stuff.
All three of these women on the Supreme Court.
They're all liberals.
Ginsburg, Sodomy or Kagan, all from New York City.
All from the Upper West.
Well, so from I or from the Bronxes, but but nevertheless.
Uh he said it would I pointed this out the other day, it would mean that there's not a single Protestant on the court.
Only one Southerner, and only two who attended undergraduate school away from the Northeastern Seaboard.
He says the Kagan would would not make this court more reflective of us as a people than ever before.
Instead, it would make the court more reflective of cloistered, supercilious East Coast academia.
What Quinn Hillier's piece does here so well is expose how these people lie, how they can't possibly represent average people, how pathetically cloistered they are amongst themselves, with no real world experience in anything.
Just a bunch of pseudo-intellectuals who hail mostly from one or two universities, live mostly on the East Coast in urban areas, seldom ventured out of the faculty lounge or their ivory towers, except when it's time to foment hostility against the country.
That's Quinn Hill, you're in it's in the American Spectator today.
We've got a brief time out here coming up after the hangover, The Conservatives Road to Recovery.
That's Bob Tyrrell's book.
Back after this folks, stay with us.
Okay, back to the phones.
Arroyo Grande, California.
This is Shannon.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush, diddos.
Thank you.
I just wanted to comment on what you said a while ago that conservatives are sending their kids to Christian schools, homeschooling them, private schools.
I decided not to do that.
I decided to send my kids to public school and try to make a difference in the school.
And now I'm TTA president, so I just I want to encourage parents to get back involved, you know, try to take back public schools.
Well, that's that's admirable of you.
Now, and it's even given me further strength and helped to build my resume to run for office in city council.
What kind of I like to encourage people out there, conservatives, you know, don't stop listening to Rush.
You gotta have that.
But get out and do something about it.
Uh Amen.
Amen.
Now I want to I want to know a couple things here.
You're uh you're a PTA president.
I am the president elect for 2010-2011 at my kids' public school.
All right.
Now obviously, you are uh you are up against some opposition, not not for the uh the campaign to become president, but just throughout the PTA.
I mean, you obviously how do you deal with uh with parents and others who are not of the same mode that you're in.
Well, I proudly wore my McCain palin sticker to school, you know, um, in 08, and kids would come up to me and go, My parents are gonna vote for Obama.
And I said, That's great.
That's the wonderful thing about this country.
They have the right to do that.
So No, you should have said your parents are stupid, and I'm here in a school to try to make sure you don't end up that way yourself.
I want to actually get elected, Rush.
But you're not elected by the students.
No, true.
But I'm there, I'm volunteering, and so are my kids.
And this is what I think conservatives need to do.
I I this has become a personal mission of mine, and now I'm running for city council, and I'd like to run for state, and I'm in California.
I definitely feel all right, all right, all right, all right, right.
This is excellent.
I I uh proud of you.
Thank you.
That means a lot coming from you.
Well, I'm glad that you called.
I hope I made you feel better.
Oh, you did.
You did.
And and I think you'll win, too.
Thank you, Ralph.
You did win the president of the PTA President elect.
You know, she said something Out there, folks.
I've had it's a minor irritant.
It's a minor irritant.
I normally hear it from liberals.
You know, Rush, Alan Alda said it to me once.
You know what?
I don't agree with a thing you say, but I really do believe you have the right to say what you want to say.
Well, thank you.
Thank you for bestowing upon me the right to think what I want to think.
Well, how big of you.
I don't think it's great that these kids' parents wanted to vote for Obama.
It's been a disaster.
I don't think that's what makes the country great.
Now, I'm not being critical of Shannon.
Don't misunderstand.
But I I'm a big believer in right and wrong.
Obama's wrong.
Obama is we know it now.
Obama has been a disaster.
So, well, that's a great thing about this country.
You can be stupid enough to elect an absolute disaster and make a mess for everybody for 25 years.
That's the great thing about this.
No, it's not a great thing about the country.
Russia, are you are you opposing the freedom of people to vote?
No, no, I'm not doing that at all.
I'm I'm just saying it's the greatness of this country is not rooted in our stupidity.
May I just be blunt.
It's kind of I oh I that's another one.
HR just reminded me.
And I've I've you know, I love bursting balloons.
For some reason, I just do, particularly young people.
I mean in their in their twenties.
And I was um it was recently, well, I judged the Miss America pageant.
You wouldn't believe in the interviews.
The number of contestants that come from I want to make a difference.
And I'm sitting there thinking, well, Hitler made a difference.
You know, what is this I want to make a difference business?
You know, it's become a cliché.
What it means is I want to help people.
I want to improve things.
That which I I I totally understand, but it's also become a way of saying something about yourself when you don't say anything.
Uh well, no, you're missing my sturdy.
Yes, I've made a difference.
The point is, what my I I can be honest with you, from my I'm I'm 59.
Throughout my formative years, when I was a teenager, junior high school, when I was 12, I was eight, knew I wanted to go into radio.
That's why throughout from age eight to now, net no time, never once did I ever say to myself, the reason I want to succeed is because I want to make a difference.
I had other reasons.
Making a difference is naturally going to happen if you are good or the best at uh at what you do.
Now I know sternly, I did not want to be the only guy on radio to say that.
I'm just I'm just saying it's we have we have a lot of cliches, and and when when uh when somebody says, I want to make a difference, oh, that's wonderful, little Johnny.
That's so wonderful.
You keep on with that, little Johnny, and someday you will make a difference.
And little Johnny probably made a difference that day by breaking the window when he threw the baseball through it.
Uh by accident, of course.
Sometimes little Johnny does it on purpose to get noticed.
But I don't know.
I just I this this notion, well, it's a great thing about the country.
Your parents can vote for Obama.
By no measure of logic or intelligence, is that a smart thing or a good thing.
But Rush, it's choice and opportunity.
Yes, I know.
That's all wonderful.
See, I come from the school of thought, or the the hope that the best way to move the country forward and to sustain the greatness is a massively informed public.
And if we had a massively informed public, Obama wouldn't have had a chance.
But we don't have a massively informed public.
We have a massively emotionally shaped public.
And that's what uh led in part to Obama's victory.
Because for every one of you who are informed and enlightened and smart, who can make a difference, remember?
The ignorant can make a difference too.
And when they do, it ain't good.
Ha, how are you?
Rush Limbaugh back in action in the saddle.
The Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies.
Uh highly enlightened friend of mine just sent me a note saying, Rush, this this business of I want to make a difference.
What it means is I want to matter.
I want to matter.
Which I understand.
That's why there's Facebook.
That's why there's my space.
That's why there's my face.
That's why there's my butt.
All these other tweets and these uh social networks.
That's how people go to matter.
I know everybody does want to matter.
That's how they lure them into environmental wackoism.
I am mattering.
I am driving my Prius.
I am saving the planet.
See this ribbon?
I matter.
I care more than you do about breast cancer because you're not wearing the ribbon.
I'm better than you.
I matter.
I know everybody wants to matter.
Then say that.
Don't say I want to make a difference because Hitler made a difference.
As I said, audio sound by time.
This is uh this is Barack Obama.
This is back in 2005, after Bush had nominated Harriet Myers, who had no, I mean, no judicial experience, just like Elena Kagan, who had not written very much of anything, just like Elena Kagan hadn't written much of anything.
Uh and I even compared her to a left-wing uh Harriet Myers.
This is what he said back in October 14th of 2005.
One thing that I do think is important is that the White House recognized that in the absence of any judicial record on her part, in the absence of any significant work that she appears to have done related to constitutional issues, that she's going to need to be more forthcoming, and the White House is going to be more forthcoming than they were during the Roberts nomination.
Ms. Myers is completely a blank slate.
So's Elena Kagan.
But she, of course, cares.
He wants to make a difference.
Um this is the woman who thinks the government ought to determine who can say what based on the effect of the speech.
Now, Obama's at a town meeting, and I'm looking up here at both the networks.
They they periodically jip it, join it in progress, but nobody's covering the town meeting wall to wall.
They used to go wall to wall of these town meetings, up there talking about jobs and stuff.
Uh the economy.
Now they say both these networks, he's in Western New York.
Well, that's a big place.
Where in Western New York, I wanted to find he's in Buffalo.
Buffalo cannot get any respect.
He's in Buffalo, and nobody will say he's there.
He's in Western New York.
And he still can't get me off his mind.
I want to say to all of you, and I want to say to America, we can say beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Today we are headed in the right direction.
We are headed in the right direction.
All those tough steps we took, they're working.
Despite all the naysayers who were predicting failure a year ago, our economy's growing again.
Uh, the president's playing with himself up there in Buffalo.
A potential foster care and adoptive parents are the latest victims in an identity fraud scheme, folks, organized in part by a Texas child protective services worker in Houston.
Now, this is according to prosecutors.
Andrea Ann Daniels, 44-year-old administrative tech, has been charged with stealing adoptive or foster care parents' personal information as uh as part of the scam.
Now, the the Harris County DA, according to that, she she sent personal information about these parents via text message to Philip James Moore uh Jr., who then tried to apply for credit cards at various stores.
The credit card companies noticing irregularities about the in-store applications contacted the Harris County District Attorney's Office.
So Moore was arrested on April 17th.
They traced the text messages, and he received uh the with the parents' IDs to Daniel's cell phone.
She was arrested on on Friday.
And her bail's 100,000.
She has not been lowered.
Now, they're they're charged with fraudulent possession of identifying information.
It's a third-degree felony.
And if they're convicted, they get ten years.
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Pam and Lafayette, Louisiana.
Great to have you.
Thank you for waiting.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor to be talking to you.
Thank you so much.
Yes, I just wanted to make a comment about Dolphin Island and people going to the lower Alabama wanting to volunteer.
No one loves the beach more than the locals.
Okay.
They make their living there.
They love their their surroundings.
Uh I went home to the and went past Dolphin Island this weekend, and they had a bunch of the vacuum trucks.
Everybody's on ready.
Should any oil come to shore?
They're all ready for it.
And I'm not meaning to be ugly to these eighth graders.
But there's very limited roads in Dolphin Island.
If those trucks need to move and stuff, I don't I find that those eighth graders probably would hurt their efforts to help the area as opposed to help it.
Also, in uh Gough Shores and Orange Beach and so forth, and a lot of the hotels along the coast and a lot of the restaurants, they're getting a lot of cancellations due to the media coverage.
Well, there's no oil on the beach.
Business is usual.
It's great down there.
I had lunch with a gentleman from Gough Shores uh Sunday, and he was telling me that they had called on the locals of Gough Shores and Orange Beach to come down and just kind of clean up the beach and make sure any obstructions are out of the way, and so that if anything were to happen, they would be ready to roll.
Now I know I'm gonna get raked over the coals for this.
Snurdley and I were just talking about this at the top of the hour.
How many weeks have we been awaiting Armageddon?
Ah, I'm telling you.
How many weeks have these merchants?
How many weeks have we been waiting for the entire southern coast and the east coast of Florida to be drenched in oil?
We are supposed to by now have seen thousands of dead birds and pelicans, all of it covered in black gold.
And so far, so far, it's not an event.
I know it still could be, and I know the media is hoping it still will be, but it isn't yet.
And I mean, there's one dead dolphin, they found some sea turtles, but they don't know why.
We don't have the dead birds yet.
We don't we don't have any of that.
It's that that that now they're talking about it going to Texas.
Can you believe this?
So I guess everybody's gonna have to cancel Texas.
But please don't don't cancel those reservations.
Talk to the locals, talk to the restaurants, please keep their economy rolling.
Everything is good, it's beautiful down there.
Uh enjoy the beach.
If j let's just say you couldn't go to the beach.
There are so many things you can do in the area.
Please help our fellow merchants stay in business.
Look at this.
So it's it's as usual.
It's average citizens against state control media.
Well, that's right.
And you know what happened to them in Gough Shores after the locals cleaned the beach and everything?
They had some buses from Birmingham that showed up, wanting to clean the beach, and the locals are like, the beach is clean.
What are y'all doing here?
Go home.
They took trash out of the trash cans and put it on the beach and made like they were cleaning.
Now that's sad.
That's no, it's it is sad, but it's also quite typical.
Uh look, I'm glad you called.
I got to run.
I'm way over time here.
Back after this.
There's another thing in an NBC Wall Street Journal poll that F. Chuck Todd was upset about, and it is this 60% of the American people support more offshore drilling.
Sixty percent support more off-shore drilling, despite the all spill in the Guff of Mexico.
It had to kill 'em to report that.
I got it right here from MSNBC.
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