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June 9, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 9, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #2
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It's hour number two.
Thank you, Johnny.
Thanks everybody for being here during the Rush Honeymoon week.
He'll be out this week and Monday of next and back on Tuesday of next week.
Mark Belling here tomorrow and the next day.
So for the remaining two hours, uh, we are together.
Mark Davis out of WBAP Dallas Fort Worth, Texas.
All right.
In view of a couple of calls that I'm looking at, let us proceed into the second hour and take a look at something that was about half of the show yesterday.
Other reactions to electoral matters are absolutely fine.
We got some uh some oil spill update we've got to do.
USA Today article, Hispanics Flee Arizona ahead of immigration law.
Hmm.
All right.
So we got all kinds of things.
It's very multi-topic environment.
But uh when I finished doing the first my own show that precedes Rush here on WBAP, and then the joy and honor of doing this show yesterday, uh I was just looking through emails and various things yesterday, and um one of the things that was chronicled was the references that were made to the president's decision to drop some low to mid-level profanity uh
with Matt Lauer on the Today Show.
Now, just to not just for the joy of killing these 26 seconds again, but just so you can know exactly what we're talking about.
And with his inflection, you can sort of tell that it's been hinted at from Matt Lauer's question.
So uh Matt was in the process of asking the president uh about the the sense of detachment, about the degree to which she had been considered to be a little too removed, a little too cool, and he essentially told the president there's some people who sort of wish that you were uh that you were kicking butt here on this, uh to which the president said, and it was about 23 seconds of his answer, but it's the last couple of seconds that got everybody all uh put every gave everybody the vapors yesterday, so here we go.
I was down there a month ago, before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the gulf.
A month ago I was meeting with fishermen down there standing in the rain talking about what a potential crisis this could be.
And I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college uh seminar.
We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know who's asked to kick.
Uh-oh.
So uh president drops the A word.
Uh not in because he's too close to an open mic like the Joe Biden big blanking deal, or not because it's something that he's saying to someone uh not expecting to be heard by a bunch of people like what Dick Cheney dropped on Pat Leahy some years ago, but uh cameras and microphones right in front of his face.
So uh there are two ways to go at this.
Let's do both.
One is is uh ideologically for this president.
Is this just an attempt to uh uh to seem tougher through the use of of profanity and to seem more authoritative, more large and in charge, you know, whatever.
The second is a more objective approach, and that is do you ever, even if it's a president you voted for, do you need your president uh going profane on you during uh a morning show?
My answer to that one is no.
I mean, if uh if if I get the dream nominee, don't ask me who that is, because I don't even know yet.
If I get the dream candidate in 2012 to return this president to a two private life, and there's some issues, some crisis, something going on in 2013 or 2014, and this president whom I admire greatly wants to be particularly emphatic about something.
Uh do I need him uh going a little salty in the language department?
My answer is no.
So when I tell you that I wasn't real thrilled about this from President Obama, part of it is because I wouldn't be thrilled of it with any president.
But then secondly, if you go to do I believe that this was kind of I don't know if you want to say calculated, but it is is this just uh more of the of the charade of toughness and authoritativeness.
Uh yeah, it is.
So they're they're the two answers that I would give, and maybe yours would be different.
Give me a shot, let me know.
1-800-282-2882.
But I'm I'm reading and the blogosphere is a fascinating thing.
Uh we we truly are a nation with a lot of time on our hands.
people have, you know, 500 words to devote, not just to the president's uh A-word, but but to how it was characterized.
For example, uh on on the Drudge Report, uh, there is a reference that Matt made to uh Obama goes street looking for Obama goes street, seeking to kick.
All right, goes street.
This is kind of interesting.
Now, there are two references.
Uh well, okay, before I go to the references that I made, which also for some reason got some attention.
You'd think I was guest hosting the Limbaugh show or something.
Uh on MSNBC's Morning Joe, they had a panel on this about whether that was racist.
I know, I know, huh?
So one of the folks commenting on this was uh a Time Magazine senior political analyst Mark Alpert.
Quote, one of the problems Barack Obama faces in public life is he cannot get angry and be an effective communicator as an African American.
What?
I've talked to Mark Alpert a lot, and uh I it's a good guy in many ways.
But what?
He can't get angry and be an effective communicator as an African American.
Nobody is suggesting that he needs to go into some type of Fred Sanford meltdown.
Of course he can get angry.
I mean, he's been, oh, please, we've had it chronicled ad nauseum.
Oh, the president got angry today.
The the presidential jaw officially clenched at 9 34, man, he is steamed.
You know, to which I've said, great, you know, we are judged by what makes us angry.
Listen, I'm not real thrilled about the oil spill either.
You know what angers me?
Uh my kids' uh futures being uh sent uh into the the uh into the precipice by into the into the abyss over the precipice by profligate spending.
Our porous borders uh failing to be tough enough on the war on terror, that's what that's what uh gets me a little upset.
So, you know, different, I guess different things anger different people.
But please, we we've had full chronicling of the president's anger scale on a nearly hourly basis.
So, Mark, please, you're a good dude, but don't say goofy things like that, that somehow President Obama's blackness makes it uh tricky for him to show anger.
Now, that having been said, if this president uh drops the A-word, is it spun differently than if a white president had spun dropped the A-word?
Well, apparently so.
All right.
Because Matt's reference, the drudge reference to Obama goes street, probably wouldn't have been said if McCain had won and McCain had dropped some dropped profanity, which which he apparently does with some regularity.
But not on live, uh not on live or taped television.
Now, so the question to ask is if if if Matt Drudge makes an observation in view of a black president using profanity and refers to it as going street, is that somehow racist?
Uh the short answer is no.
Is it racially tinged?
Does it involve an observation about race?
Of course it does.
President's black, hello.
Now, here's a parallel, though.
If President Bush when President Bush uh engaged in uh a certain amount of aggressive talk in the midst of some moments in the war on terror, when he was particularly assertive in word or deed, what was it characterized as?
Uh-huh, uh-huh.
He was being a what?
He was being a cowboy.
I'm guessing that aggressiveness in a war on terror probably would not be characterized as cowboy-like if the president were from Vermont.
But he's from Texas.
So the cowboy stereotype, cowboy imagery, cowboy, uh, you know, that that fits with a Texas president.
Well, if you got the black president dropping profanity, the street reference, excuse me, it works.
It's It's an observation that follows.
And look what I did on this show yesterday.
And I had a lot of company.
People just just filled in the blanks differently.
For this president to be seeming tough by using profanity struck me as Urkel channeling Jay-Z.
You could either like that or not like that.
You know, uh and you know, and uh Urkel and Jay-Z, you know, Jaleel White and Jay-Z are black guys.
At least I know, at least Jay-Z is.
I don't know.
Teasing kidding.
And boy, you gotta laugh sometimes.
But but in all seriousness, to talk about this, I suppose that in looking at the imagery of a uh of let's say someone of the Obama character type of the Obama demeanor, all of a sudden adopting a disquieting and jarring uh moment of vulgarity.
I suppose I could have called that Gilligan channeling kid rock.
But what the heck sense would that have made?
So golly the things people focus on.
Good grief.
I will tell you that, you know, in formulating this, if if you ever get a show and you're looking to make some wry observation, and you're thinking, okay, I need a uh I basically need a nerdy black guy with which to start the observation and then go to the rap star of your choice.
You know, uh what you know, Jay Z just got lucky.
You know, what can I tell you?
Uh I did not choose the best one.
I think the one that I used was probably a little more culturally familiar, but if there I have to give props, and I don't know who did it or who did it first, but the observation made by others was Carlton Banks.
The uh from Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
So wow.
So there's there that is.
All right.
Now let's let's back away from that.
Well, here, let's take the break and back away from this surreal portion of it.
And take a look at some uh among those who say to the president, hey, quit cursing and level with the American people.
How about Jesse Jackson Jr.
Tell you about that next and welcome your calls on any plea.
Can you tell virtually anything is welcome at this point?
So bring it and let's go.
1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282882.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in and be right with you on the phones next.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in from WBAP, Dallas Fort Worth, Texas.
And to your calls here in a second.
Uh Politico has a story of uh of Jesse Jackson Jr. weighing in, not just on the presidential profanity issue, which is please just a tiny little nugget, but one on which many can obsess, apparently.
Uh, but about uh the overall response.
Jesse Jr.'s quote, no more cursing.
A reference to uh the Obama remark to Matt Lauer about finding out who's you know what to kick.
And an earlier demand also, you might recall the the the there was the plug the damn hole quote as well.
Instead, Jesse Jr. said the president needs to address the nation and focus it.
Level with the American people, he said.
Turn this crisis into a cleanup and job creation opportunity.
Turn crisis into opportunity and stop the blame game.
Good for you, Jesse Jr., and I don't often say that.
Now I know.
As soon as you hear anyone referring to turning crisis into opportunity, uh oh.
You know, Rahm Emanuel alert, Ram Emanuel alert.
Well, uh no, no, no.
This is a crisis you can turn into an opportunity.
This is an opportunity for government to actually help people.
This is an opportunity uh for competent government at every level uh to really uh address a crisis in uh in progress.
So I'm uh when Rahm Emanuel was talking about the uh uh the economic crisis, that was taking uh the national freak out that was in progress over the economy and using as a chance to jam all kinds of socialist spending down our throats that we would not otherwise have tolerated in a hundred years.
No, this uh th it is true that you could turn crisis into opportunity.
But the the bad way to do that is to uh somehow uh bamboozle people into liking something that they would not otherwise like by needlessly uh trumping up a crisis.
Now the economy was bad.
You didn't need to trump that up to make it seem bad to a lot of people.
But when people were told that we were just that an act that an economic asteroid was going to hit the earth if we didn't do uh bailouts and that there would be no way out of this economic uh slump if we didn't do uh the the stimulus package.
I just I think that was a crock then and I think it's a crock now.
As for this crisis though, is this an opportunity for government to get in there and and help the Gulf?
Absolutely.
Is it an opportunity for government to properly hold BP accountable?
Absolutely.
So in that vein, you know, I'm good with it.
All right uh let's go to calls and this is a lady who's been here for just a few minutes and I wanted her to make the first point.
Because many of you are going to sneeze at this and go, oh come on please in today's world but I think she has a magnificent point.
And this is why I would say this even if it were a president that that I admired about dropping profanity on the Today Show for for whatever.
And I'm talking in Tampa Rose, it's you and I want you to make your point because I think you're absolutely dead solid perfect.
How are you doing?
I'm doing great.
My only thing with this whole profanity thing is I certainly would not want my grandkids or my kids to say well the president said it's hard enough.
There's a world out there.
It's a largely vulgar world.
And it's hard enough to have some standards for your kids.
And it's harder to argue that they should keep a clean mouth when the president doesn't.
Absolutely.
I mean, I don't care which president said it.
No, absolutely true.
And of course, this takes us back to the Clinton years where, I mean, I guess ostensibly, you know, the Clinton sexual escapades.
I remember the talk shows we were doing at the time.
the time uh I I wasn't guest hosting for Rush yet at this point but but Rush did these shows and I did them locally here in Texas and in my uh prior stops in life whenever there was a uh a political sex scandal it's like well you know what what does this teach our kids?
I said our kids our kids shouldn't be having sex anyway but it it everything they do is uh everything visible people do is an example that kids can use as part of their own personal barometer on what is and is not okay.
Absolutely and how many times is a kid said well so and so did it well that doesn't make it right no it doesn't but when the president does it it's harder for a parent to deflect so Rose thank you and I I wanted to have you on to make that point and I'm glad I'm very very glad you did.
Now boy boy do we seem like babes in the woods a at this level when what we're really worrying about in a whole lot of our cities are you know kids stabbing each other and smoking crack and you know how uh how upset can you get about whether uh you know whether your kid talks about kicking somebody's ass.
I I I'm once again I'm greedy.
I want it all I don't want the kids smoking the crack.
I don't want the kids having the premarital sex.
And I don't want kids with a vulgar mouth in their heads.
I mean, listen, as grownups, you know, I'm not saying, well, then, hey, you know, whatever, anything goes.
But there is a difference.
And your standards during your adult life are guided mightily by the standards that have been placed before you when you're a kid.
And if you're thinking the profanity thing means almost nothing, I'm never going to sit here and tell you that's one of the top three or top seven worst problems in America.
but you know what it is it's a symptom of something.
It's not just the words because I'm kind of in the George Carlin school of you know that we we get way too obsessive about words.
They're just words but they're not just words in the following vein.
What you say, especially with an easy earshot of other people, you know what it reveals about you?
It reveals how much you care about what they think.
You ever gone into a a a grocery store and seen someone wearing a a some big t-shirt with with uh uh um some massive large letter F bomb on it in some context that makes me insane do I care that much nah because if I stub my toe at three o'clock in the morning, I'm probably saying that word too.
But that's three o'clock in the morning in my house.
Someone choosing to take that and put it in front.
And if I'm with my seven-year-old son, you know, oh, Dad, what's that mean?
I God, the just the rank obnoxiousness of taking uh your little word choice or t-shirt choice of the moment and foisting that on other people.
That's what it is.
That's what it says.
That's the personality trait that is at play here.
I mean, if I'm, you know, if I'm watching Eddie Murphy's Delirious with a bunch of other grown-ups, I don't care.
But if it if you're out in the world and out where kids are watching the TV or kids are doing that, or kid uh it becomes a different thing.
It involves how much do you care about what other people are thinking, what other people are hearing?
And I think listen, I can say a lot about the president.
I think his barometer on that is usually pretty good, but this was a lapse that gave us a chance to cover it.
Be right back.
Yes, you are, and thanks very much for that, too.
I appreciate it.
1800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882.
Back to your calls here in just a moment.
Hey, here's a little game.
You ready?
Ready.
Who's the photograph?
Who is in a large photograph on the front page of today's Washington Post?
Goat.
All right.
Many of you might think, hey, you know, the big Tea Party thing, Harry Reath.
Maybe Sharon Angle.
Oh, come on, right.
Come on.
Probably more like Blanche Lincoln, right?
After all, I mean, she's the Democrat.
It is the Washington Post, and she managed to survive by the skin of her teeth.
Probably Blanche Lincoln, right?
No.
Nope, nope, nope, nope.
In fact, on a very uh very momentous uh multi-state primary night, uh there is uh no politician to be found in a large above the fold photograph on the Washington Post.
That would be because there's a baseball player there.
And apparently not just any baseball player.
I was watching um World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer last night, and at the end of that, they had a little feature on this guy.
And I've, you know, keep track of these things, some like baseball.
And uh, and there's this Steven Strasberg kid, 21.
He's been working his way up, Washington Nationals used to live in DC.
I was uh they they yanked the senators out from under me when I was 12, and in one of these sweet ironies, uh they moved them to Texas where I am now.
So it's it's all worked out just fine.
Although football season, football season is a schizo nightmare for me.
Anyway, though, uh so here's the Steven Strasberg guy.
And I knew that he was capable of the occasional hundred mile an hour fastball.
He had some minor league games in Syracuse that were just sold out to the rafters.
The guy is big.
It's a big deal, it's a lot of hype.
But you know what usually happens with hype is these guys get into the majors.
It's often true of guys in football, basketball, all sports.
You can be really, really great in college, really, really great in the minors.
And then you get to the big dance, the the the pinnacle of the where the game is played, and that's where you learn how truly not ordinary, but that's how you learn that there are a lot of people who are just as good as you are, if not better.
Well, uh maybe not in this case.
So Steven Strasberg rolls out for his major league debut for the Washington Nationals against Pittsburgh last night.
Would you like to know the line score on this kid?
Seven innings pitched, ninety-four pitches thrown, two runs, zero walks, zero walks, fourteen strikeouts.
Strikeouts.
And the Washington Post headline says, on an electric night, the hype becomes reality.
So congratulations, Era.
Big Steve.
Nice, nice debut.
And to the uh limbaugh listeners in Boston, Los Angeles, quick basketball note.
Oh, how I mean, in a one game can change everything.
Uh Lakers win game one.
Celtics win game two.
Those are in Los Angeles.
Then it's back to Boston for three in a row.
Three in a row.
But voof last night, uh, you know, Ray Allen, I I I think went on vacation at some point, uh, might have actually left the arena.
I don't know.
And the uh and the Lakers win 9184.
So for uh for about five minutes there, I thought, God, the Cel maybe the Celtics can actually win this thing.
Uh no.
Not a lot of Boston, but nah, no, that that ain't that ain't happening.
All right, let's see what is happening, telephonically speaking.
Uh, phone numbers 1 800 282-2882.
And let us head to Blacksburg, Virginia.
Heather, hey, Mark Davis, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hello.
Hello, Mark.
Thank you for taking my call.
My pleasure.
I just had two points uh regarding Obama using the A-word.
First, I just found it embarrassingly juvenile.
I mean, teenagers use profanity to act tough.
We don't need a president to do that.
And secondly, um, what got me really the most is that he complained of his sacrifice standing in the rain.
Well, you know, there were eleven employees who lost their lives, and we've got an environmental issue, and he's such a narcissist.
I mean, he's complaining of his sacrifice standing in the rain.
Heather, let me this is this is I think a moment of genius on your part because while we all sit around and dork out like twelve-year-olds about the A word, which, you know, please, that's part of our national psyche.
You've identified the the one thing, and just stay with me here for a second because I'm gonna play it again.
It'll only take us about sixteen seconds to get there.
But you've identified the one thing that maybe deserves a little more of our attention as the president was not only seeking to sound tough uh or go street, if you wish, if you simply must go there, uh, but was also seeking to garner sympathy for his plight because of what he had to do to go down and rub elbows with those people.
Heather, sit tight, just hang on, we're gonna do this for you here.
Hang on.
I was down there a month ago.
Before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the Gulf.
A month ago I was meeting with fishermen down there standing in the rain talking about what a potential crisis this could be.
Standing in the rain, poor baby.
Exactly.
He just disgusts me.
Well, you know, I tug on it.
I I yearn for I hope the next Democrat president, I hope it's a big old long wait for that.
I'll say this all the time, and I do say this all the time.
I'm I want to get back to a time and the worst thing I would ever say about a Democrat president is I think he's mistaken on the issues.
You know, these these people are I was gonna say these people are wearing me down, but no, they're not.
These people are energizing me like nothing I've ever known.
Apparently I have some company from last night's election results.
So Heather, thank you very, very much.
Appreciate it.
Uh great to be with uh with you there in Blacksburg VA.
And with that, let us head uh let's head to New York City, a little WABC action.
Paul, Mark Davis, in for rush, how are you?
Hello, Mark.
Hey.
Thanks for taking the call.
I was just wondering with uh I'm guessing 500 to let's say 700,000 college graduates coming on the hopeful to be employment rolls.
Yep.
How many of them when they don't get jobs actually go on the unemployment role?
Do you have to have a job first and lose it before you unemployed?
What a great question.
And I wonder if the let me do um let me do a little commercial break research or use the enormous human Wikipedia that is the the that is this audience.
I um thankfully don't have a lot of experience on this.
But in radio, one would think uh we'd have a lot, but there was a station that that changed ownership uh in Memphis, and I went moved across the street from one Memphis radio station to another uh in late 1988.
And uh and I went on unemployment.
That's like, okay, that's what it's there for.
I knew I was gonna have another job in, you know, like four to six weeks, and you know, it's not like there were other talk show gigs that I could pick up.
So uh so I did it.
And obviously, unemployment is insurance that is sort of a function of where you have been working.
Um I've known what I'd like to know is these individuals, college graduates that have masters and everything else.
Yep.
Lawyers that are going to be entering the workforce that aren't going to be unemployed.
Does the unemployment statistic go up or will they find a way to do that?
Exactly that needs to go up what is it.
Do you become unemployed when you have a job and lose it, or are you instantly unemployed if you come out of college and can't find one?
That may there's either a definite, concrete definition to that, or it's oddly fluid based on whose stats you're looking at and what state you live in.
I will uh you know what?
And and and look, look what's been provided for us.
A delicious commercial break during which I can uh crunch a couple of uh websites and see what I can do for you on that.
I live to serve.
There's work doing this show.
It's Mark Davis in for rush.
Stick around 1-800-282-2882.
Be right back.
It's the Rush Limbaugh show for this Wednesday, the 9th of June, 2010.
I'm Mark Davis filling in and getting the job done for this last caller who asked a question that that when he asked it, it occurred to me, wow, I'll bet the answer to this is complex.
And my uh befuddlement was apparently appropriate.
Here's the deal.
Uh i his question was it is this is golden.
If you get out of you graduate from college and you're looking for a job in your chosen field, but there aren't any.
Are you unemployed?
Well, the short answer, I mean, yeah.
Uh, because the definition of unemployed is you're available for work, but can't find a job.
Well, that's kind of interesting.
I know, don't get ahead of me.
I guess sitting on the couch and watching uh TV all day and uh and refusing to look, you're still technically unemployed as well.
Unemployed means not working.
But then when we get slightly more technical about this, uh, yeah, you you would indeed be unemployed in the definition that most people would use conversationally.
But how we measure unemployment is people who sign up for for jobless benefits, and that's in most states.
I found a Washington Post uh article uh about how just a while a lot of people are just living not a lot, I don't want to stereotype in this, but there are some people for whom the unemployment benefit is sufficient that they are just not prodded off the couch uh to go get a real job.
And um th those unemployment benefits are uh the amount of of earnings uh the the amount of benefits that you get are usually based on reported covered quarterly earnings.
The majority of Americans out of work, first of all, understand that the if you find me a hundred people who are out of work, most of them do not qualify for unemployment.
Uh part-time, forget it.
Temporary, forget it.
Self-employed, forget it.
Generally speaking, uh to get unemployment benefits, you have to be unemployed through no fault of your own, generally through something like a layoff.
And then they go looking at uh at what you were making and through various complex formulas that I was right about this.
I mean, they're there are general federal guidelines, I knew, but when it came down to it, I remember, you know, then when I had my you know flirtation with that there in the uh final weeks of nineteen eighty-eight.
That it was very much a Tennessee thing, man.
It was a stay was state people I was talking to, and a state check that I received for low those uh those few weeks.
And it was weird, even though I knew that the uh that employers pay insurance on this, and it wasn't, you know, like like being on the public dole, it still felt really weird.
Um I felt like I shouldn't I be mowing lawns or something?
And the really weird thing was here I am, a talk show guy, missed the 1988 elections.
And this was this was uh 1988, pretty big year for the Limbaugh show, too, like the year of its launch.
And and so radio was huge and things were were were wacky, and so but in January of uh of eighty-nine, when I started up for uh with with another Memphis radio station.
It was uh hit the ground running there and and uh and took off and uh eventually to Washington and then back here to uh uh to the state of my birth in Texas, uh spending as much time as possible on stations carrying the Rush Limbaugh show.
So whatever affiliate you're listening to, thanks.
So there is the the uh sort of uh uh very fluid and uh um complex answer.
How you're counted in terms of unemployment and what kind of unemployment benefits you get uh are going to vary widely according to state and uh circumstance.
Okay?
Okay.
All righty.
Uh well, I'd say why do we stay in the uh let's stay in the New York Metro area.
Let's hop across the bridge to Brooklyn.
If it's Brooklyn, of course it's Vinny.
Hey, Vinny Mark Davison for Rush, how you doing?
Hey, Mark, forget about it.
Oh heavens to Betsy.
I guess they uh they don't say that too much in Dallas, but um You'd be surprised.
All right.
Um I did not uh particularly hear conservatives clamoring for an emotional investment regarding the president and the oil spill.
We leave the emotional investing to the liberals.
That uh rather inarticulate use of the English language by the president was strictly for liberal consumption, because it is his base that is running around with their hair on fire regarding what's going on in the Gulf.
And uh that's how I view what he did yesterday.
I do not believe I can name you know any prominent conservatives that were running around saying, gee, why isn't you know, why isn't he crying on the world state?
Exactly right.
We don't want to see uh, you know, uh uh uh acting or or or emotions on his sleeve.
And and this came all right on the heels of of Spike Lee sugg and shouldn't all presidents take their cues from Spike Lee.
Fra uh comes with Spike saying that the president is so cool, so calm, so collected, so detached, what he really ought to do is go off.
Spike wanted the president to, you know, to go off.
Well, Spike, you know, with all due respect, what people really want is for the president to get competent, get competent in a hurry, learn how to do something and do it and respond better.
And if while responding better, he remains cool, calm, collected, and detached.
That's fine if he's actually getting something done.
But but the occasional profanity or the occasional uh uh emotional outburst is no substitute for actual effective leadership.
That's it in a nutshell.
Alrighty.
Thank you, man.
Appreciate it very, very much.
All right, uh, let's take uh I'm trying to avoid breaking into the brogue.
That's it's very infectious.
1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882 on the Rush Limbaugh show.
And we'll uh come back, take some more calls for finishing off this hour.
And then in our last hour, I've got some things uh just uh to provide a little topical variety, some things that maybe are being uh discussed in um other realms of the uh the talk show universe today, so get ready for some of that from me.
It's Mark Davis in for Rush on the EIB network.
Rush Limbaugh Show, nearly the end of the second hour, but one more one more big hour lies ahead, a uh a fresh field uh to plow, topically speaking.
So let's wrap up this hour in Oakland, California.
Robert Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you, sir?
Hi, good morning, Mark.
Thanks for taking my call.
My pleasure.
I'm wondering to we have on the Obama issue about his addiction.
Um Saint Obama is a black president.
Uh I can remember the liberals jumping on Charles Barclay about how he should be an example to black youth.
And now our black youth is if the org or the horror of Ebonics wasn't enough and rap lyric.
Now they look up to our president who uses this kind of language.
And especially as a black American, especially a black Republican.
I just find it reprehensible.
He's a public speaker.
People look up to him.
I mean, uh the liberal media hasn't anything about his smoking.
Children know he smokes.
Now children know they can use any kind of language they want.
Yeah.
Now here's the I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna apply something real quick, and you and you just check as I think the answer is yes, because I think we've all talked about this, because I agree with you.
You'd you'd say the exact same thing and be just as annoyed if this had come out of the mouth of a president whom you admired, right?
Absolutely.
Bush has said it or conduits or ice, it would be the same thing.
It's not the kind of thing that everyone is looking up you to do.
Yeah, it is.
And uh all right, I've uh very, very much appreciated.
Okay, and with that, pardon me, I think we can um effectively tie a bow around the presidential potty mouth round table.
Conclusions to be reached are most of us don't want our presidents talking like this, even if we voted for them.
Um I guess it probably depends on your politics, whether you thought it was a uh uh Golden moment that revealed a president genuinely peeved by a crisis underway, or just a goofy moment of uh of preconceived posturing.
That'll be that'll that'll leave that to the uh to the individual uh observer.
And with that, let us hop into a couple of things that might be learned from the elections yesterday.
We also have our uh an observation being made that Arizona's tough immigration law is fueling an exodus of Hispanics from the state.
Now, one might be asking, okay, legals or illegals?
Well, I'll tell you about that.
Uh, we do need to do some some oil spill talk.
BP says virtually all the oil will be captured soon.
Okay.
And uh a couple other things I haven't even told you about yet.
Mark Davis in for Rush.
One more hour.
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