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May 27, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 27, 2010, Thursday, Hour #2
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Is that all you get from listening to this?
This is the most rambling, stalling for time answer to a question I have ever heard.
Jennifer Levin asked him, Oh, what about the people down there said that you weren't on the scene?
Oh I can't even imitate it.
I can't make my mind that lazy.
And it took him seven minutes to answer the question.
Now he's up there talking about BP, and we told him to do this, we told him to do that, they're responsible, but we've been on the case here.
Uh greetings, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
Where are the breakout groups of all these Harvard professors and the like?
Who was it that came up with the magical plugged a hole?
Just plugged a hole.
What brilliant mind came up with that?
He said that uh British petroleum went to the Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen and asked them if they could use the topkill method, and the Coast Guard guy said, yeah.
How is that the Coast Guard directing them?
Obama is trying to take this is so predictable, trying to glom on and take credit for what BP has done here that might be working.
Or direct them, they can't make a move.
They can't make a move without him.
Give him them permission.
No mistake about it.
He said that uh 20,000 people, 20,000 people working around the clock.
No, BP has 20,000 people working around the clock.
British Petroleum has spent more than 750 million dollars so far in oil spill uh response initiatives.
Their spokesman John Curry said the company has hired more than 20,000 people as part of the response to the April 20th accident and its aftermath.
Some are contractors, some are subcontractors, some are laborers hired to uh set booms.
But BP hired the 20,000, not Obama, not the federal government.
Obama said that uh Ken Salazar, the Interior Secretary, has cleaned up the uh the MMS.
Okay, he's cleaned them up.
The mineral mines, whatever whatever the hell the name of the agency is.
If if if he's cleaned it up, then somebody tell us how did the accident happen.
If Salazar has the answers to all of this, Obama has shut down drilling.
He has determined that oil is the problem.
He has shut down even the exploration.
He shut down for for a time, I don't know how long, uh the the attempt to even find oil.
What what pray tell is the danger of exploring for offshore oil?
So let's let's unravel this.
Because Obama is such a fool.
British petroleum has been working with the Coast Guard as would be expected, but Obama and his political appointees have done nothing effective to deal with this.
All they've done is tried to politicize it and deflect criticism for their incompetence.
They have contradicted each other, they have stepped all over each other, they've lied to the public, and now that it looks like the latest effort by BP might work, Obama wants the credit for it and is brazenly out there taking it today in his uh in his press conference.
Now the Coast Guard Admiral, Thad Allen is his name.
He made quite clear the other day that BP was making the technical decisions.
Yeah, they were coordinating as they must, both for practical and legal reasons, but BP was taking the lead.
The Coast Guard guy said this himself the other day.
There's far too much on the public record now for Obama to rewrite history to spin and for crying out loud to claim credit, which is what he's doing in this press conference.
That Thad Allen, the Coast Guard guy was not even put in charge of this until May 1st.
The spill happened on April 20th.
If the government was in charge from day one, then these five weeks of failure are Obama's, correct?
Not BP.
He wants the credit for it.
He wants the credit in week six.
From day what?
20,000 people working around the clock.
Nuclear physicist guy.
By the way, Chu is a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
1997.
What did he win for?
Uh the development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.
Well, I can see how that would make him an expert about drilling for oil.
Trapping?
develop of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.
Yeah, I'm sure they're using whatever he's learned about that to uh stop the flow of oil.
So if the gov l the public record now is simply too vast.
Fad Allen did not come online, wasn't put in charge until May 1st.
Obama's out there saying we were in charge of this day one.
Day what?
We were on the case.
Well, these five weeks is failure are then Obama's.
If British petroleum couldn't do anything without their permission, then everything Obama came up with was a failure.
Remember all those domes they were gonna do.
Yeah, that was an Obama idea.
That's what he wants us to believe, and that didn't work because ice crystals formed down there, they couldn't get it down.
Uh uh blew up before they can get it down there.
They tried a miniature version of it.
That didn't work.
Another Obama idea that failed, and now plugged a hole, and they simply run a pipe down there with sludge and mud and all this.
Now, a lot of you people, I'm sure Russia, why the big deal?
What does all this matter?
I don't know, folks.
To me, it's it's it's about honor and integrity.
Uh it's it's about professionalism.
Uh it's about it's about honesty in in our leaders.
And it's it's uh it's to me the audacity here of somebody who has no clue what he's doing, who is clearly exhibited incompetence now at the end of the day, his first press conference of 309 days, coming in and trying to claim credit for it.
See, I I happen to think that the best and brightest minds in our country are in the private sector.
I don't believe they are in the government sector.
I don't believe the best and brightest minds come out of Harvard.
I think we got a lot of smart people at Harvard and Yale and Cornell, and they come out of there, but they have no experience in the real world.
They are theoreticians, they are academics, they sit around the faculty lounge, and they conjure up theories and the way things ought to work, but they've never gotten their fingernails dirty doing anything.
Uh they they've they wouldn't they wouldn't know the first thing about making a payroll, uh making investments, taking a risk in something.
I and to see this man who's not accomplished anything, he means he's the most unqualified guy in any room he walks into.
For him to now be pointing fingers at British Petroleum, you know let Obama and his guys let them, if they're so smart, let them go find the energy that we're all gonna need to grow and sustain our lives.
It's one thing to sit up there and have a computer and start drawing little beanie cars, or start imagining green energy with solar and wind.
Oh, it's wonderful to imagine all this stuff.
Let's see these guys go do it.
If they have these answers, if they have the answer to replacing oil, let's see them go do it.
I mean, they have the ability to manage everything else, social security, health care, financial services industry, the automobile industry, and none of them have any experience at all in this.
Uh yet they deign to sit up there and point fingers of blame at people in the private sector who are making the country work.
There will always be things that go wrong.
There will always be accidents any time that you are forced to go get oil five miles offshore and ten miles deep.
You have to expect that there are going to be accidents.
Therefore, you have a plan in place to deal with it.
Obama's plan is to not do it.
Oh, we can't have these accidents.
Oil is just a big problem.
It's dirty, it's filthy, it's foul.
Uh we're not we're not gonna have it.
We're not gonna drill anymore.
In spite of this spill, no other nation has suspended its drilling for oil.
The Russians haven't.
The Vietnamese haven't.
The Mexicans haven't.
The Chinese haven't.
Uh continuous drilling for oil goes on in the very Gulf of Mexico where this spill took place.
Or the accident took place.
But we're the only country that's gonna shut it down.
We're the only country that's not even going to explore.
And yet these same people tell us we can't keep depending on foreign suppliers.
Well, there's nothing to replace oil right now.
But the reason why this matters to me is we have a a total fake and a fraud serving as president.
We have somebody who has no qualification for the job, who was propelled there because a lot of elitists thought that he was as smart as they are simply because he can speak well.
And that ability to speak well translated to them as superior intelligence and superior competence.
And they looked at his campaign as an example of those managerial skills.
Well, he's become president, and everything he's touched has gone to hell.
The economy's gone to hell, job creation has gone to hell, health care's gone to hell, virtually everything that he sought to fix has gotten worse.
And there's no end in sight to this.
From the uh a shocked associated press.
The economic rebound last quarter turned out to be slower than first thought.
One of the reasons unemployment is likely to stay high this year.
One of the reasons that there are many reasons employment's gonna stay, unemployment's gonna stay high, but the primary reason is Barack Obama.
Barack Obama has instituted policies which make it insane for businesses to start hiring people because businesses are not growing.
The economy grew at a 3% annual rate, and most of it was government growth.
None of it took place in the private sector.
Commerce department said that this was slightly weaker than an initial estimate of the 3.2% estimate a month ago.
The new reading, based on more complete information, also fell short of economist forecasts for stronger growth of 3.4%.
The reason for the small downgrade consumers spent less than first estimated.
Well, now every time these reports come out, we always say, wait, wait for the rewrite, wait for the revisions.
The fact that the economic rebound slowed last quarter, there is no rebound.
The numbers showing a rebound are just a result of government intervention like home buyer credits.
When the government backs away, we see the true numbers.
And the uh the the God love them, the AP here having a hard time admitting it, all the numbers first reported have been revised.
As usual.
Barack Obama doesn't even know how to pronounce the Army Corps of Engineers.
He thinks it's corpse of engineers.
And now he's the best person to run the Army Corps of Engineers.
When he's not.
So yeah, stuff matters to me.
Nitpicking wires and uh you know, parsing the statements that they make, it does matter to me because we're dealing here with somebody who is just outclassed by the job.
He's just not up to it.
And it is infantile.
It is really probably childlike infantile.
She's coming here with the record now as vast as it is to try to claim credit for this.
And he stepped in it because he said we were on the case from day one, and we BP couldn't make a move without permission from us.
Well, by virtue of that, you have to admit the first five weeks you were an utter failure.
But here in week six, when BP comes up with a method today, and now we know ran by the Coast Guard, the Coast Guard Coast Guard said, Yeah, go ahead and try it.
It wasn't Obama's idea.
It wasn't the Coast Guard's idea.
It wasn't some breakout study group from Harvard professors that came up with the uh the topkill method.
It was BP that came up with it, and the Coast Guard signed off on it, and now we have the president of the United States, a man child trying to claim credit for being on the case from day one.
When in truth he'd rather be on vacation here.
We're a little long.
We'll come back and get started with all the rest of the show right after this.
Yeah, this press conference is getting good.
Jake Tapper standing up there and saying, Mr. President, what you're saying isn't true.
Bobby Gendal says you're not being a you haven't been on the case.
Some of the fishermen down there saying the federal government hasn't been on the case.
Jake Tamper throwing it right back at him.
Obama saying he was singularly focused on the leak when it first happened.
We've singularly focused on jobs, singularly focused on the debt.
From day one, he was blaming Bush for this problem.
From day one, he was blaming Bush and Halliburton.
And yet he wants us today to believe that he was on the case from day one.
We have a couple sound bites.
Um this is the Jennifer Loven question uh uh they just babbled and babbled and babbled, and the whole press conference is an example of babbling here.
Jennifer Lovin, who wants Obama to look good from the AP.
Here's the question you just said the federal government's in charge, and officials in your administration have said this repeatedly.
Yet how do you explain that we're more than five weeks into this and the BP is not always doing as you're asking?
For example, with a type of disbursement that's being used.
And if I might add one more to the many people in the Gulf who, as you said, are angry and frustrated and feel somewhat abandoned.
What do you say about whether your personal involvement, your personal engagements has been as much as it should be, either privately or publicly?
The day that the rig collapsed and fell to the bottom of the ocean, I had my team in the Oval Office that first day.
Those who think that we were either slow on our response or lacked urgency, don't know the facts.
This has been our highest priority since this crisis occurred.
We understood from day one the potential enormity of this crisis and acted accordingly.
People are going to be frustrated until it stops.
And I understand that.
If you're living on the coasts and you see this sludge coming at you, you are going to be continually upset.
And from your perspective, the response is going to be continually inadequate until it actually stops.
And that's entirely appropriate and understandable.
But it wasn't finished.
The answer just keeps going.
This notion that somehow the federal government is sitting on the sidelines and for the last three or four or five weeks, we've just been letting BP make a whole bunch of decisions is simply not true.
What is true is that when it comes to stopping the leak down below, the federal government does not possess superior technology to BP.
We had a meeting down in the Situation Room in which I specifically asked Bob Gates and Mike Mullen what assets do we have that could potentially help that BP or other oil companies around the world do not have.
We do not have superior technology when it comes to dealing with this particular crisis.
Now, one of the legitimate questions that I think needs to be asked is should the federal government have such capacity.
Also now it's a big pitch for more power.
The big pitch for more involvement.
Jake Tamper stood up and said, You say everything that can be done is being done, but some people disagree.
Bobby Jindal, the fisherman, uh they're they're they're waiting, training to uh to run the oil cleanup missions.
How can you say everything's being done when all the officials say it's not true?
That's a question that Jake Tapper asked.
So it just continues.
Um so you have basically a little boy.
A little boy here who is trying to glom on and take credit for what appears finally to be having some impact on this.
But he's not going to get away with it based on these questions and the fact that again, I say there's far too much in the public record now for this kind of history to be uh rewritten.
And to claim credit.
When you say for the first five weeks you were in charge and nothing got done.
Back to the phone, Susan in Jackson, Mississippi.
Uh, welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Hi.
Um, I just wanted to uh comment on if you like the way he's running the show in Arizona and Louisiana, then you're gonna have your health care when you're forced into government health care in a few years because it's gonna be the same exact thing.
There's gonna be a doctor somewhere in Mississippi that needs to treat a specific patient for a specific reason, and he's not going to be able to because he's going to have to ask permission from the bureaucracy, and by the time he cut through all the government red tape and gets to it, it's gonna be six feet under.
Yeah, you can don't say the same thing about Arizona.
You know, Arizona's been begging for help to fix their problem down there.
They haven't gotten any response at all, Obama.
And they're sending we got screaming kids on the line down there.
We've got we've got uh twelve hundred troops going down, but guess what?
The twelve hundred troops are not to affect i immigration at all.
They're not and they're not gonna be involved in stopping immigration.
They are there to make sure weapons don't go back and forth across the border.
We may as well not even be sending them down there.
It's simply for show.
They're not going down there.
They're they're not even the front lines.
They're positioned back from border patrol officials and local officials uh when it comes to illegal immigration, it's just a show play.
Nothing more.
But then you this is this this woman is exactly right from uh from Jackson, Mississippi.
I mean, here you Bobby Jindle wants a permit, a simple permit to build some sand berms just to make sure the oil gets soaked up on those first before it gets to the coast.
He can't get a response from the federal government.
Well, your doctor has to go to them to get permission.
Go to whatever policy manual somebody writes, uh some medical board uh populated by government bureaucrats to get permission or not get permission to perform this particular treatment or what have you.
With in in the Jindle case, whatever happened to states' rights.
Well one of the problems here is the federal government owns thirty percent of the landmass on this continent.
Thirty percent they own.
Whatever happened to State, why why can't Jindal just go out there as governor of Louisiana and build his protective berms without having to get permission from the feds?
A man, a legend, a way of life.
Obama has lost in the Gallup poll three points.
Overnight he's at 46% approved, 47% disapprove.
In the Gallup poll, Obama's approval number 46.
He came to divide.
He came to destroy.
He did not come to unify.
Um the government has clarified the role of the 1,200 National Guard troops it's sending to the Mexican border.
They will not be enforcing immigration laws.
U.S. National Guard troops being sent to the Mexican border to be used to stem the flow of guns and drugs across the frontier, not to enforce U.S. immigration law, the State Department said yesterday.
The clarification came after the Mexican government urged Washington not to use the additional troops to go after illegal immigrants.
So uh the illegal immigrants will be able to ignore the National Guard.
So why send them in the first place?
Why bother sending them down there?
It's just for show.
You know, would would Obama defend our airspace?
He's not he's not defending our our our land borders.
The Mexican government called Obama, told him not to use troops to go after illegals, and we are complying.
The fact that another government figured it was okay to call Obama with that request and demand says it all.
Man, oh man, oh man.
I mean, we may as well have sent them down there to make sure that no profiling takes place.
May as well just announce we're sending National Guard troops down there to ensure the civil rights of the illegals.
Because all we're going to do is make sure they don't bring guns and drugs.
So if we catch them with guns and drugs, we confiscate the guns and drugs, we'll let them come on and pass on by.
Why even bother?
It is a charade.
Barack Obama is the world's oldest 13-year-old there is.
That's what we're dealing with.
Here's the Jake Tapper question.
Audio sound by number 27.
Jake Tapper said, you say everything that could be done is being done, but there are those in the region, those industry experts, who say that's not true.
Governor Jindal obviously had this proposal for a barrier.
They say if that had been approved when they first asked for it, they would have 10 miles up already.
How can you say that everything's being done that can be done with all these experts and officials saying that's not true?
Let's take the example of Governor Jindal's barrier islands idea.
when i met with him when i was down there two weeks ago I will make sure that our team immediately reviews this idea, that the Army Corps of Engineers is looking at the feasibility of it.
And if they think, if they tell me that this is the best approach to dealing with this problem, then we're going to move quickly to execute.
If they have a disagreement with Governor Jindal's experts as to whether this would be effective or not, whether it was going to be cost effective given the other things that need to be done.
And that essentially what's happened, which is why today you saw an announcement where, from the Army Corps' perspective, there were some areas where this might work, but there's some areas where it would be counterproductive and not a good use of resources.
No response.
So there's no response.
Jindal does not get an answer.
Well, we're going to compare what our Corps of Engineers said with Gindle's experts, and if they say it can be done with cost of when did cost effective all of a sudden matter.
Somebody tell me when cost effective matters to this president.
Cost of things is spends money left and right when we don't have it.
Here's for a legitimate purpose, we're worried about cost effectiveness.
The Army Corps of Engineers, well, it may work, may not work.
Uh might be counterproductive, might work.
Might not be a good use of resource.
We don't really know.
Right before the press conference, right before the press go, well, we don't know.
What did I tell you yesterday?
We cannot let Gendal get credit for this.
This is what Obama's saying.
Gendal is a Republican, and you doubted me yesterday, snurredly when I brought this up.
I know it sounds so infantile, but it is with we're I'm telling you, we're looking at the world's oldest 13-year-old in Barack Obama.
Of course, Jindel's idea is great.
That's why it can't work.
Gendal's a Republican.
So it has to be Obama's Corps of Engineers that signs off on it.
If a Corps of Engineers is no good, we can't let it work.
Well so Gindle never responds.
It's uh pure and simple.
And that's the answer.
That's why Jindal's not getting an answer, is because Obama's trying to hog and claim credit for all this today with the topkill method.
The last thing that's going to happen is got Bobby Jindal's going to get any credit for it.
Sorry, Governor Jindal.
Notice how he pronounces his name Jindal.
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Sandusky, Ohio.
Here's Tom.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
It's great to be here, Rush.
I love I love your program.
I've been listening to it for quite a while.
Thank you very much.
My question is this.
Uh I have seen a lot of noise and a lot of talk about the cleanup, which is uh, you know, and how we're gonna stop this.
And this is very, very important.
Don't get me wrong.
But I haven't heard one thing or seen one bit of news that tells us why this explosion happened.
And that's got me real concerned because If they don't know what this caused this accident, that means one of two things.
That BP does know what's caused what caused this accident, and uh it is not telling us, or nobody knows the answer, and it might be some other outside influence that may have caused this accident.
When I say outside influence, I don't I don't believe in conspiracy things.
Uh it may be some fluke type thing.
But until we know that answer, we can't prevent this kind of thing from happening in the future.
The second point was that it's my understanding that this is the first type of accident of this nature in offshore oil drilling.
Is that you know that to be true?
Well, uh no, I don't know that that's exact uh it it the specific cause may be a first, but this is not the first leak from an underground well.
Yeah.
Uh the other thing is that I noticed that there is an absence on the part of the media to even talk to any of the members that were on the oil rig itself when this uh accident occurred.
I'll call I'll continue to call it an accident until something else comes up.
What is going on with that?
Why are these are these guys in the Well, now I saw family members there were testifying before Congressional Committee, two family members uh of men lost on the rig were uh were called to testify.
I don't know the details of what they said.
Uh but when you ask where's the media on this, uh remember the media uh up and up until I think uh Obama's really stepped in it today because up until today the media was looking to protect Obama on this.
Yeah.
Uh and and now i i it's brazy going out there claiming credit for this uh when really we just still don't know if the topkill method has worked.
Uh I mean it's it's a a lot of them are just uh uh it it takes a lot to stun them, and a lot of them are stunned.
That question that Jake Tapper asked.
Well, you say everything's being done, but practically everybody else says that there's not enough has been done.
Hardly anything is being done.
The governor, the fishermen down there, what do you mean everything's being done?
Obama did, by the way, folks, admit that he was wrong about one thing.
Obama admitted that he was wrong to think that oil companies were prepared to deal with accidents like this.
So that's another slam at uh at BP.
Uh and in the early days of this, you know, the media was looking to blame Halliburton, Cheney, Bush.
Uh wherever Obama pointed them is where they were going to go in terms of uh of blame.
Uh and and but but now uh it's been six weeks is a vast public record of people saying what needs to be done, seeking permission to try this method or that from the governor to British petroleum to Louisiana, any number of people.
Uh and Obama's denied it all and is now coming in and trying to glom on and take credit here.
So this is uh this is this tough for even the media to swallow.
Thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
We got to take a brief time out here.
We'll do that and be back before you know it.
Don't go away.
All right, Ed 28 and 29 sound bites coming up.
Our last caller has not heard an explanation yet for what happened.
The Wall Street Journal had an article on May 11th containing the following eyewitnesses and Halliburton say that they didn't do the usual procedure right before the thing blew up, and that the MS had approved the different method.
The NMS, the federal bureaucracy here.
From Congressional Testimony a couple weeks ago.
Remember that's the Wall Street Journal on May 11th.
From Congressional Testimony a couple of weeks ago, a worker who was on the drilling rig said in an interview that Halliburton was getting ready to set a final cement plug at 8,000 feet below the rig when workers received other instructions.
Usually we set the cement plug at that point, let it set for six hours, and then we displace the well, said the worker, which means take out the mud.
According to this worker, BP asked permission from the Federal Minerals Management Service, the MMS, to displace the Mud before the final plugging operation had begun, which normally was not what happened.
You normally plug it first, let it set for six hours, and then you displace.
BP asked permission from the feds to displace the mud before the final plugging operation had begun.
And uh so this is this is close as we've gotten to an explanation here for what might have happened, what might have uh what might have gone wrong.
Obama is now taking questions on immigration in Arizona, and as soon as we get those answers rolled off, we'll let them uh we'll play them for you.
Here is uh another question, F. Chuck Todd.
Well, by the way, F. Chuck Todd today was scheduled to interview Zev Chaffitz, the author of Rush Limbaugh, an army of one.
Uh F. Chuck has a show on MSNBC from 9 to 10 a.m.
And uh Zeb sent me a note say he was on the way over there to the studio to do the interview, and they called and canceled.
And I said, Well, why do you think they cancel you?
And he said, Rush, you know these people, you know the media.
They don't fear anything.
They don't fear a foreign attack, they don't fear a terrorist attack, they don't fear any domestic event as much as they fear disapproval from their peers.
Meaning F. Chuck was probably worried that other media people would give him the business for having Zev Chaffitz on to promote the book, and uh probably is already getting indications.
F. Chuck, what are you doing?
You're gonna put this guy on.
This is a great Limbaugh book.
It puts Limbaugh on a good light.
You're gonna put this guy on.
How d and so they canceled Zeb Chaffetz, the author of Rush Limbaugh and Army of One while he was on his way to the interview.
Uh and uh apparently a lot of people have uh have booked Zev and have canceled, or have not followed up on their initial indication or request.
Uh see, it's this it's it's like this.
They assume somebody writing a book on me is writing a hit piece.
And so they can't wait to get the author on.
Then they read the book and they say, wait a minute, this isn't a hit piece.
Why, this guy was nice to Limbaugh.
This guy, we can't put this guy on.
Well, this is not this is not this doesn't fit the template.
Limbaugh good guy?
No.
So they've um they've canceled.
Zev Chaffetz, Rush Limbaugh and Army of One, Zeph Chaffetz, a journalist of one.
Uh he's uh he's out there flying blind, he's on his own out there.
Here's Obama.
F. Chuck Todd, the question can you respond to all the Katrina comparisons people are making about this with you?
I'll leave it to you guys to make those comparisons.
And make judgments on it because what I'm spending my time thinking about is how do we solve the problem.
And when the problem is solved and people look back and do an assessment of all the various decisions that were made, I think people can make a historical judgment.
Part of the purpose of this press conference is to explain to the folks down in the Gulf that ultimately it is our folks down there who are responsible.
But it was BP.
They're not satisfied with something that's happening.
Well then they need to let us know, and we will immediately question BP and ask them why isn't XYZ.
Oh!
Oh, uh-oh.
I thought it was getting confused here.
Uh folks down there, uh uh, it's our folks down there responsible.
If they're not satisfied, uh let us know and we'll uh we'll rip into BP.
Basically, what Obama's saying here, I'm all about process.
Don't ask me about results.
I'm uh I'm I'm all about process here.
He loves the discussions.
He loves the meetings, but he never makes decisions.
Anything goes wrong, he's gonna ask BP about it.
And uh CBS Chip Reed said, Mr. President, first of all, Elizabeth Burnbaum resigned today.
Was she fired?
Was she forced out?
If so, why should other heads roll as we go on here?
With respect to Miss Bernbaum, I found out about her resignation today.
Ken Salazar's been in testimony uh throughout the day.
So I don't know the circumstances in which this occurred.
I thought he was in charge.
I thought Obama was in charge.
And now the MMS chief resigns and he didn't know about it.
And he admits that uh that he didn't know about it.
Here is Vinny in Vinny, it's not fair.
We only have thirty seconds before we go to the break, and Vinny can't.
I doubt he can get his question and answer in in thirty seconds.
Vinny, please hold on.
We'll get to you um a little bit later.
I gotta take a brief time out here, folks.
Sorry, Vinny, I misread the clock.
They're on the fly.
Back right after this, folks.
Don't go away.
Hubbahuba.
Welcome back.
As usual, Rush Limbaugh, talent on loan from God.
Now, in a sane world.
The reviews of this press conference would be that it was a disaster.
A babbling brook of a disaster.
But as we all know, we don't live in a sane world.
We live in a surreal world.
But trust me on this, this was a walking disaster.
You know, we hear about homeowners being underwater in their houses.
Obama was underwater in this press conference today.
And he was gasping for air.
It was it was an amazing sight to be holy.
Never seen an oil spill like this before.
This is not the worst oil spill in our history.
The Mexican spill, Ixotech 1, or Ishtech one.
It was many, many times worse than this.
Went on for nine months.
It was 30 or so years ago.
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