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	And greetings, welcome back.
	Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, fighting fatigue.
	Just a little bit under the weather today, but nevertheless here.
	At full speed at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	Telephone numbers 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushbaugh at EIBNet.com.
	There's some tweets out there claiming that Obama has accepted Stanley McCristol's resignation.
	But nothing official yet, ladies and gentlemen.
	So we'll keep a sharp eye on that.
	Some audio soundbites coming up set all this up before Obama makes his remarks from the Rose Garden.
	It may be easier to get the godlike reverb outside than it is in the press room or in the Oval Office.
	I mean, you'd have speakers set up out there for the assembled acolytes and uh uh brown nosers in the media.
	A federal judge in New Orleans halted Obama's deep water drilling moratorium yesterday, saying the government never justified the ban and appeared to mislead the public in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
	Judge Martin L. C. Feldman issued an injunction saying the moratorium will hurt drilling rig operators and suppliers, and that the government's not proved an outright ban is needed rather than a more limited moratorium.
	Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says he will issue a new order imposing a moratorium on deep water drilling after the judge struck down the existing one.
	Salazar said in a statement uh last night that the new order will contain additional information, making clear why the six-month moratorium was necessary in the wake of the Gulf oil spill.
	The judge in New Orleans, who struck down the moratorium earlier in the day, complained there wasn't enough justification for it.
	Michelle Morkin today, National Review Online, for all of his John Wayne rhetoric on the BP oil spill.
	Obama has failed to administer a swift kick to the deserving rear end of Salazar.
	No matter Federal Judge Feldman has now done the job the White House won't do.
	In a scathing ruling.
	New Orleans-based Feldman overturned the administration's radical six-month moratorium, and he singled out Salazar's central role in jury rigging a federal panel's scientific report to bolster flagrantly politicized conclusions.
	In a sane world, Salazar's head would roll.
	In Obama's world, he gets immunity.
	The uh the suit challenging Obama's desperately political ban filed by Louisiana rig company Hornbeck Offshore Services, which sued on behalf of all the small people in the industry whose economic survival is at stake.
	Scientists who served on a committee expressed outrage upon discovering earlier this month that Salazar had unilaterally and without warning inserted a blanket drilling ban recommendation into their report after they had signed it.
	Here's what Feldman said in his ruling.
	The judge.
	In the executive summary to the report, Salazar recommends a six-month moratorium on permits for new wells being drilled using floating rigs.
	He also recommends an immediate halt to drilling operations in the 33 permitted wells, not including relief wells currently being drilled by BP.
	Much to the government's discomfort and this court's uneasiness.
	The summary also states that the recommendations contained in this report have been peer-reviewed by seven experts identified by the National Academy of Engineering, as the plaintiffs and the experts themselves pointedly observed this statement was misleading.
	The experts charge it was a misrepresentation.
	It was factually incorrect.
	That's the judge, basically saying that Salazar lied.
	Salazar committed fraud.
	He pulled in selling the reputation to the experts involved and abused his authority.
	And of what purpose?
	Michelle Morkin says to exploit the Gulf crisis, appease the eco-extremists, stymie the economic recovery, which the Obama White House pays only lip service.
	It's exactly right.
	I mean, there's no.
	Can there be any doubt?
	Now, meantime, the judge who struck down the moratorium has reported extensive investments in the oil and gas industry according to financial reports.
	This is from Obama's tireless opposition researchers at the Associated Press.
	He's also a fr a new member of the secret National Security Court.
	And he's also a friend of Scalia.
	And so this judge is public enemy number one.
	So much for judicial independence here, folks.
	This is the playbook.
	As we say, reward liberal activists punish conservative constitutionalists.
	Maybe state-run media, drive-by media needs a name change.
	Maybe we need to call him the Hugo Chavez Media.
	When's the last time the media rose up against this president en masse over his abuses of power?
	When?
	When will the media talk about this president abusing his office, grabbing too much power, as they do with every single Republican president?
	And when will this wonderful media ask why Congress holds no oversight hearings into the things this president and his regime do?
	Why?
	Because they fear the public might get upset with this kind of one-party rule, this kind of authoritarianism, which they in the media support and eagerly accept being part of.
	My friends, we're living now where there are no checks and balances on the president's power.
	Not Congress, not the media, and barely the courts.
	One federal judge, one judge says, wait a minute.
	You don't have the power to destroy an entire region and thousands of jobs and businesses by presidential fiat, and the media attack the judge.
	The media attack Joe Barton.
	They attack Joe Wilson.
	They attack General McCristology attack Palin.
	They attacked Dement.
	They attack Marco Rubio.
	They attack Sharon Engel.
	They attack J.D. Hayworth.
	On and on and on.
	Meanwhile.
	Where are all the attacks on liberal members of Congress, liberal candidates, labor unions, the environmental groups?
	There aren't any.
	These are all angelic groups, as far as the media is concerned.
	Where are all the stories on this president's obvious incompetence?
	Where are the stories on the effect of his policies?
	Where are the stories with the media out there talking about people who've lost their jobs and can't get their jobs back because of this administration's policies?
	Where are the stories and how he lies about all things all the time?
	About his unkept promises, all that.
	It'll never happen.
	I ask these questions rhetorically.
	You need to get used to the fact the media do not support liberty.
	They do not support the Constitution, nor do they support American exceptionalism.
	They are the water carriers.
	They're the water boys for the left.
	In whatever form the left takes.
	Activist judges, massive bureaucracies, presidential fiats as long as they're liberal.
	The evidence is overwhelming, hits us in the face every day.
	If a general had mocked Bush during the war in Iraq, that general would be treated as a hero by the media.
	And the liberals in Congress.
	Today, McChrystal, who barely is quoted in this Rolling Stone piece, as a matter of fact, is said to be insubordinate and worse.
	Now the liberals don't care about civilian rule.
	They care about liberal rule.
	These are the ends that justify the means.
	And this is the ends that justifies the means crowd.
	They don't even they don't even care, folks, about constitutional rule or constitutional law.
	They defend every power grab this president makes and unleashes.
	Civilian rule?
	They're all worried about civilian rule here.
	What was the government-run health care vote?
	What was that was civilian rule?
	No, that was an act of defiance against the people.
	It was Washington rule.
	The American people didn't want this massive health care bill.
	They still don't.
	So McChrystal and everybody else get smeared with whispers and leaks.
	And now we're moving into the intimidation of the judiciary phase.
	FDR did it.
	Hugo Chavez did it.
	All the left does it, so much for the independent judiciary.
	As I say, I wonder how long it's going to be before this poor judge is summoned to the Oval Office to explain himself.
	Brief timeout.
	Quick timeout, back right after this.
	Don't go away, folks.
	Hey, we're back.
	Rushlin bought the Excellence and Broadcasting Network.
	Audio soundbite number 13.
	We have a uh a montage.
	Uh, ladies and gentlemen of state-controlled media comparing Obama to Harry Truman.
	They can't compare Obama to Obama.
	They have to compare Obama to other great presidents.
	Lincoln, you name it.
	The last time this happened, President Harry Truman relieved Douglas MacArthur of Truman dumping Douglas MacArthur moment here.
	Echoing back to 1951.
	President Harry Truman and General Douglas McArthur.
	Since Truman fired MacArthur, the biggest showdown between a president and a wartime commander since Harry Truman stripped General MacArthur.
	After Truman fired MacArthur, MacArthur became even more publicly popular.
	Harry Truman didn't need Douglas MacArthur.
	And I think this is that situation.
	I had to go back to Truman and MacArthur for such an example.
	There's a lot of comparisons here that people are trying to make to Harry Truman and Douglas MacArthur.
	What happened with MacArthur was that he made public statements that actually threatened the mission.
	So they're just doing everything they can to elevate the status of our young boy wonder president like Lincoln, uh like uh Truman, uh McClellan McLincoln and uh MacArthur, yeah, it's really it's inept.
	Nobody to compare this guy to other than Jimmy Carter.
	That's a closest comparison there is.
	By the way, the Denver Post today, president should let drilling moratorium die.
	Here's a reason for everything, folks.
	It's puzzling.
	Why would a a militantly pro-union president shut down oil rigs that have mostly non-union jobs?
	Did you know that?
	Most of the rigs are non-union.
	This president doesn't have the oil companies under his union loving thumb yet.
	That may be an issue with him.
	Who knows?
	Denver Post reports President Obama has been given a chance to avert a second and possibly larger disaster in the Gulf.
	They ought to take.
	Tuesday, the federal judge rightly rejected this ill-advised moratorium on the Obama administration, and uh all these jobs are gonna be lost, drilling interests with the support of the state of Louisiana had sought the injunction.
	Regrettably, the White House has said it will immediately appeal.
	Why is the president so bent on sending those jobs elsewhere?
	The Denver Post, this is uh an editorial.
	Why is the president so bent on sending these Gulf jobs elsewhere?
	Some 38,000 jobs are related to drilling projects in the Gulf.
	Why is he so bent on sending them elsewhere?
	NBC News reporting that McChrystal has been relieved of his command.
	Um we were told yesterday he had tendered his resignation.
	So I've I'm you know, frankly surprised.
	I thought Obama wouldn't do it.
	I I I thought that um I made a mistake.
	I should have realized immediately that he would can this guy.
	This is the only thing that arise out of this guy.
	All these people losing jobs.
	Uh the oil spill took him 50 days to give a rat's rear end about that.
	Let this Rolling Stone article come out, and by the way, read it.
	You will not find one critical quote of Obama from McChrystal.
	You will not read one.
	You might find one snarky little comment about Biden.
	But even that is more of an I'm not going there.
	I got in trouble once by talking about these guys.
	I'm not gonna do it.
	Uh This the Rolling Stone piece is a hit job on the U.S. military.
	It's a hit job on the war.
	And now, as a result of this, the media is going to be able to claim they have altered the course of a war and the war strategy.
	What's at stake?
	Back to the phones.
	Klamath Falls, Oregon.
	Vincent, I'm glad you called.
	Welcome to the EIB network.
	Good day, Mr. Limbaugh.
	I was listening to your earlier about the chick children dumpster diving.
	And uh we're, I guess, one of the poorest counties here in Oregon, and that's one of the poorest states around, and uh so we're not exactly top of the food chain.
	We have a wonderful place here called Intercalled Youth Services, and they help out at risk youth.
	But during the summer, they go around all the schools and the parks, and even like our county libraries here, and they provide lunches for those that are 18 and younger.
	So this comment about dumpster diving youth, if our poor little county and our poor little town here can do it, so can rich fat cats, and they need to.
	Well, you know, the uh uh the fact of the matter is by the way, we have posted the video, it's up there now at Rush Limbaugh.com.
	You see the original dumpster diving video, uh portions of which we aired on my television show back in uh in in the 90s.
	Uh I just one glaring thing here.
	I I can't get it was like the budget battle of 1995 with school lunch cuts when there weren't any, but the accompanying criticism was that children were gonna starve.
	And now, school's out, where are kids going to eat?
	Uh it's called parents.
	I I I I'm I am flabbergasted.
	That this rises to the level of crisis.
	Are we really to believe that parents are so uncaring or so incompetent that their own children will go hungry without schools open providing meals?
	And some places schools are open throughout the summer for that express purpose.
	We know what the purpose of all this is to create the notion that you don't get anything you need without government.
	That you can't count on yourself, and you can't count on your parents, your family, your church, your village, your community.
	You've got to have the government.
	And the idea that people fall for this, the kids are gonna starve if the school's close for the summer.
	Look at folks, that is patently absurd.
	It's insulting, it's egregious.
	And yet, people accept the premise and start debating the merits of it.
	Sources told ABC News by the Associated Press, rather, that um Obama will name Petraeus, David Petraeus to succeed Stanley McChrystal as the top war commander in Afghanistan.
	Debbie, Restover, Maryland, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
	Hi.
	Hi, Rosh, I love you.
	I'm so happy to talk to you today.
	Thank you very much.
	I wanted to comment on the dumpster diving as well.
	And I'll tell you, that is way better than the actual school lunch that I got to eat one day when I ate lunch with my son.
	It does it really needed to be in the dumpster.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
	When was this?
	Um it was when my son was in grade school when was it?
	When was that?
	Oh, well, he's 17 now, so it was years ago, but let me tell you, the state-run lunch program is awful.
	It is county, state, whoever runs it, it was awful.
	I paid a dollar more for my parent lunch, and it was the worst thing I ever ate.
	I packed my son's lunch, and you know, trust me, I can feed my child, and I'm sure there are many other parents out there that can.
	And if they're getting reduced lunches, they're probably on a food stamps anyway.
	What were you should be able to feed their children?
	Of course.
	That that I mean, that should go unsaid.
	If we have to say parents can feed their own kids, where the hell are we now?
	If uh now, why were you going to school to eat with your kid?
	Oh, just to spend the afternoon with theme.
	It was like a parent day, and uh, we used to have those.
	And I got a grilled cheese sandwich that wasn't even cooked.
	It had a hard piece of fake cheese on it.
	I got three little tiny celery sticks, and uh uh fruit cup that was the size of a condiment cup that you would get at McDonald's.
	And that's what my two dollars and fifty cents got me that day for lunch.
	Yeah.
	Well.
	It was awful.
	And I don't understand how these what I don't understand.
	I don't know where the obesity problem is.
	Kids don't know where to go to find food when the schools are not open.
	The schools are serving rotgut food according to your testimony, and yet we got this massive child obese, and we're told that kids don't know where to go to eat with his massive obesity problem.
	What do you mean they don't know where to go to eat?
	You know, I've I always said I'm not going to become an old fuddy duty.
	But I hear stuff like this.
	I I have to hearken back.
	You know, 25 cents bought lunch a day in when I was in grade school.
	It was good.
	Juicy burgers, uh, all that stuff.
	It was good.
	And you can s you can smell it throughout the school all day.
	Couldn't wait for lunch.
	It was good stuff.
	Sometimes uh mother packed a box lunch if I told her I didn't like what was on the menu that day, but uh the school wasn't.
	I mean, my parents were responsible for it, whatever it was, giving me the quarter or the lunch box.
	And I was I don't this We're cooked!
	Do you understand this, folks?
	We're cooked.
	Hi, we're still waiting on um I don't know, the president.
	I said waiting on the president to show up in a Rose Garden with a godlike echo in the speeches to announce that McChrystal has been relieved of command and General David Petraeus are gonna take over.
	Now, uh, don't the Democrats and and the Liberals consider Petraeus a liar?
	Uh or has that in the General Betrayus ads that they've been forgotten now.
	Remember, Petraeus was going to show up on Capitol Hill, did show up talking about the surge in Iraq, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reed, all these people, before he said a word, called him a liar.
	This war has lost, said Harry Reid.
	Now all of a sudden, the guy they call a liar.
	Obama did not have any good words for Petraeus.
	When he was a senator, now all of a sudden this guy who was so horrible and rotten that was a liar we couldn't trust him.
	His plan in Iraq wouldn't work.
	Now all of a sudden he's the guy to take over Petraeus.
	I got this note from a high-ranking military guy.
	Since when can some slime bag from Rolling Stone magazine rewrite our wartime strategy?
	There's no way to compare this to General MacArthur's firing by President Truman.
	No way.
	Is this today's version of Han Oi Jane Fonda?
	When General McCristol's firing, the media wins this round.
	So does Al Qaeda.
	I think they're both dancing in the streets.
	As a military guy, I just don't get it.
	A high-ranking man who served with great honor in Iraq, by the way, and continues to go back wherever he's needed.
	Various tours of duty.
	For those of you who doubt that this oil spill is a political opportunity for Obama.
	We have video, well, audio from uh from video at organizing for America's website, Barack Obama.com.
	Obama posted a video in which he spoke about the Gulf Oil spill.
	Here's a portion of what he said.
	If we refuse to heed the warnings of this disaster, we will have missed our best chance to help build the clean energy future America needs.
	But if we seize this moment, we can rebuild our economy on a new foundation.
	So there's Obama to his supporters.
	Seize the moment.
	Don't let the oil spill go to waste.
	We can build the clean energy future America needs, like Spain tried, and is now bankrupt as a result.
	That if we seize the moment, we can rebuild our economy on a new foundation.
	I thought that was already done.
	I thought that was what the stimulus was for.
	I thought it was TARP was for.
	There is no rebuilding of the economy taking place.
	There is still economic destruction going on.
	In a sh is what is this uh Daily Caller's Chatsworth Osborne Jr.'s website.
	In a shot across the bow to the insurance industry yesterday, President Obama warned companies facing higher costs in part because of his health care law not to raise their prices, saying we're going to be watching you very closely.
	Backing up his rhetoric behind the scenes, the Department of Health and Human Services is quietly working on a new regulation to determine when insurance price increases are unreasonable and potentially prohibited by law.
	The move may provide political cover heading into November's elections as the president tries to keep the public from linking recent premium hikes to his health care bill.
	So he's talking about price controls.
	He's just going to tell the insurance company, no, you can't raise your prices.
	You're not going to do that.
	Well, you're going to make me look bad.
	I told everybody our premiums are coming down.
	And you're going to raise them?
	No, no, no.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Before November.
	After November, all bets are off, by the way.
	Price controls.
	President Obama, in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has requested $600 million to be spent to support efforts to secure the Southwest border and enhance federal border protection, law enforcement counter-narcotics activities, including the deployment of 1,200 National Guardsmen.
	What I want to know.
	Where are we going to get the money for this when Congress has said we're not going to do a budget?
	Stenley Hoyer and the boys, we're not going to do a budget this year.
	We're just not going to do it.
	We're going to wait.
	We're going to wait for the budget deficit commission before we do it, but it's their job to come up with a budget.
	Because the Alan Simpson and uh and uh Irkson Bowles Commission, they're the ones who are going to come up with ways to reduce the deficit.
	And until they come up with their ideas, we're going to let them do the budget.
	We're not going to do it.
	So where are they going to get this money?
	Where are they going to get the $600 million?
	I mean, you know we don't have it.
	From Fortune Magazine, President Obama wants to slow Europe's headlong rush to austerity, but right now he looks like little more than a speed bump for the cutback crowd.
	I love that.
	Obama as a speed bump.
	Obama has sought to use the upcoming meeting of the group of 20 global finance ministers in Canada this weekend as a rallying cry for more fiscal stimulus, more spending.
	He argues that cutting government spending now risks undermining a fragile recovery in debt-soaked Western economies.
	But the G twenty's unity of purpose isn't what it was last year when the global financial crisis galvanized the group to prop up the world's financial system.
	Since Obama issued his call to focus on growth, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called budget cuts urgently necessary.
	The European central bank president, Jean-Claude Trichet, said stronger public finances are part of a policy which we would call confidence building.
	In the most striking contrast, the UK yesterday unveiled a budget that will slash real spending in many government departments by 25% over four years.
	It must be out of control spending if Europe and not just Germany is saying no to Obama.
	Damn doesn't like to be told no.
	He doesn't like to be told to cut spending.
	I mean, it's got to be bad when these Western European socialist countries are admitting they're out of control and are basically saying you to Obama when he demands they spend more.
	See, he doesn't want to be an island of destruction.
	He doesn't want to be the only country that goes down the tubes.
	He wants all of Western Europe all because that's part of Western civilization.
	He doesn't like Western civilization.
	He wants uh he wants some company going down the tubes.
	And these leaders, we don't want to go down the tubes.
	We want economic growth.
	They want to cut taxes.
	They want to reduce government spending.
	Stuart Patrick, senior fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Washington said, Obama has been having difficulty selling that story domestically, meaning keep spending.
	And here from Bloomberg News, Merkel tells Obama spending cuts to boost economy, not put the break on growth.
	Merkel championed German export strength as the right thing for her country, spurning Obama's call to boost private spending as both leaders prepare for the group of 20 talks.
	You know, it's a sad day when the Germans are giving us lessons in economics.
	And nothing against the Germans.
	But I mean they're a full-fledged socialist democracy.
	And they're giving us lessons?
	Sorry, the Chi-Coms, but I mean, we expect the Chi-Coms to laud it over us.
	They have a lot of our debt.
	But here Obama just wants everybody to keep spending like he is, and they're saying we're not gonna do it.
	We're more interested in our economies growing, which is a tantamount admission that Obama's policies do not lead to growth.
	They lead to contraction.
	Now working on getting some uh audio of Joe Biden ripping Betraeus and saying his surge plan was stupid and idiotic.
	Vanity Fair magazine, when Obama's turn came to question Petraeus, Obama lectured Petraeus on the futility of his mission, meaning the surge in Iraq, using up the full seven minutes allotted to him, and giving the general no chance to respond.
	Obama said we have now set the bar so low that modest improvement in what was a completely chaotic situation is considered success, and it's not.
	This continues to be a disastrous foreign policy mistake.
	That's what Obama said to Petraeus when he was up being dissed by Hillary and Harry Reid as a liar.
	And now he's hired Petraeus to take over from a crystal's making the announcement right now.
	This guy through praising McCristol and asking us all to give him a couple of attaboys, but he is history now.
	Now, you got Hillary over there at state, and now you've got Petraeus.
	I don't know if you've heard Petraeus has been mentioned, it's kind of underneath the radar.
	Petraeus has been mentioned a potential Republican presidential candidate 2012.
	There's some people who Republican Party think that we need somebody like a Petraeus, military hero's successful general.
	Well, I don't know how that works now since Obama, after ripping this guy a new one to his face for seven minutes, when he was a senator during the Petraeus hearings, has now hired him.
	And one thing about the the uh European Union business, look at this story.
	Strasbourg, France, the president of the European Union today, slammed Obama's plans to spend its way out of recession as a road to hell.
	Czech Prime Minister, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency, told the European Parliament that Obama's massive stimulus package and banking bailout will undermine the liquidity of the global financial market.
	A day after his government collapsed because of a parliamentary vote of no confidence, the Czech Prime Minister took the EU presidency on a collision course with Washington over how to deal with global economic recessions.
	The blunt comments pushed other European politicians into damage control mode, with some reproaching the Czech leader for his language and others reaffirming their good diplomatic ties with the U.S. But they all know.
	Now, this story back in March 29th, 2009.
	March 29th of 2009.
	At that time, the Czech Prime Minister was running the European Parliament.
	March 29th, 2009, U.S. economic plans a road to hell.
	And he's right.
	Czech Prime Minister was dead on.
	The difference between Obama and these Europeans today, like Merkel and Sarkozy and others who are saying, we gotta stop this spending.
	We have got to reduce our debt.
	The difference is they've had re-elections since the last G twenty meeting, or G, whatever, 12 months of G twenty, and Obama has not, but they've all had to face re-election.
	They know what their people want.
	So March 29th of 2009.
	And Road to Hell.
	Dead on right.
	Matt in Atlanta.
	I'm glad you waited.
	You're next on the EIB network.
	Hello, sir.
	Hi, Rush.
	Hi.
	Balph MacArthur.
	Uh I don't think there's really a good cast in here at all because MacArthur was fired.
	He wanted to take on the Chinese in China.
	He wanted to defeat the North Koreans.
	And he disagreed with the policy of the president.
	And the reason why he was fired, he even talked to Republican leadership in the house to get that job done.
	So there's really no comparison.
	I mean, uh, you got McChristo handing a resignation versus MacArthur actively trying to forward the the real I know.
	Look at this is there's w what what what's going on here is real simple.
	We have a man child incompetent in the White House.
	The media who helped put him there are fully aware of it.
	So he's got to be propped up to be compared favorably to all these great presidents of the past, something they always they did it to Clinton too.
	They're always trying to give these guys credibility by saying they are walking in the footsteps in this case of Harry Truman.
	Yeah, well, let's see how quickly they like it when people remind Obama in the media Harry Truman dropped a couple nuclear weapons on Japan.
	Is that is that Obama-esque, Brian, Lincoln, Nebraska, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
	Hi, Rush.
	I was uh calling about Jim McDermott's petulant use of your weight when he had this little argument there in the Hey.
	I appreciate it, but they've been doing that ever since 21 years.
	Yeah, I know, but I think it opens up a can of worms for them that they're not willing to handle, and that is are we gonna now be able to look at every welfare recipient's weight to determine if they get uh food stamps for that?
	Well, you know, there's some qu there's some people now proposing that the welfare recipients take drug tests.
	I would think so with the weight, too.
	If that's the can of worms they want to open by petulantly going after you, that's something we should be looking at as well.
	Well, of course.
	But you understand I I am a target because I am a in their minds a very powerful, influential member of the media.
	Uh welfare recipients are powerless.
	And they're only overweight because of rotten policies by our food companies who are producing processed foods with nothing but sugar and fat, and they make it cheap, and that's what these poor people can afford, and it's just it's it's these companies doing it to these people.
	They're victims.
	They're victims of America.
	They're victims of capitalism.
	They're victims of Wall Street, they're victims of Walmart.
	They're victims.
	And I, of course, am not a victim.
	I am a victimizer.
	And plus I have a new iPhone, and McDermott probably doesn't.
	And you can't take that out of the equation either.
	Brian, in Lincoln, Nebraska.
	Welcome to the EIB network.
	We talked them fine.
	Here's way to keep up.
	Larry in Winchester, Kentucky.
	Great to have you here.
	Hey, Rush.
	Hey, Mega Diddles on everything you talk about.
	Uh full common sense, and I can't understand why these politicians don't understand it.
	But I wanted to tell you about how uh oh, I wanted to also congratulate you on your marriage and uh all the happiness to you.
	Thank you very much.
	Um, was that my little five-year-old just got out of kindergarten, I'll tell you, she got fat from that school food.
	She was a little bit obese from the school's food.
	Little kindergartner.
	Yeah.
	And uh well, what was she was she a little obese when you sent her away to kindergarten?
	No.
	Okay, so she kindergarten how long did it take for them to make her fat?
	Oh, I'd say uh uh probably six months.
	What did they how do they do it?
	Uh the the the food that they feed her, you know, that uh junk food.
	Like what?
	Uh chicken nuggets, uh uh cheese sandwiches, mac and cheese.
	You know, uh I I really didn't uh pay attention.
	But uh when she you know, when as school went on, you know, she started getting fatter and fatter, and I told I w the wife and I, we had a little talk about that, you know, and it's like, you know, but she's getting down to uh uh Really, you you and you and your wife, your daughter would come home from kindergarten every day.
	You don't notice waiting every day, but like every week.
	You know, our daughter's getting fatter and fatter here.
	Yeah.
	And so you uh you you you and your wife are not to blame for what you were feeding her.
	This is going on at kindergarten.
	No, she d actually, my daughter didn't really eat when she came home.
	She really did not want to eat when she came home.
	When she got home, she she didn't she didn't have an appetite.
	Wow.
	Well, you know, it sounds like uh that kindergarten you sent her to just constantly fed the kids all day to keep them busy so they wouldn't be disciplinary problems.
	Except maybe throwing the mac and cheese at each other, but hell, other than that, not a problem.
	I know, I know what you're all thinking.
	The guy and his wife send a little girl to kindergarten, and they notice that she's coming home fatter and fatter and fatter, and you're saying, Well, what did you do about it?
	I ran out of time.
	I uh I really didn't get a chance to uh ask that question.
	I I I will admit I was I was kind of stuck here just listening to the facts of the story.
	Kid comes home from kindergarten fatter and fatter.
	I've just haven't heard a parent talk that way before.

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