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July 26, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 26, 2010, Monday, Hour #3
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And we're back, Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB microphone here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to have you here.
And I promise we'll get to your phone calls quickly in this hour.
800 282882, the email address L Rushbaugh at EIBNet.com.
In fact, let me grab let me let's grab call on line one right now, as I want to use this to segue into the next audio soundbite from the uh Reverend uh Jack, hmm.
This is uh Larry in Winter Park, Florida.
Larry, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Uh, good afternoon, Mr. Dunbosk.
Uh first time caller case in the listening.
I just have a question for you, not to say it to your show, but basically something I heard a little earlier.
The NAA L C P. I was very curious about that, and I was just wondering if you can fill me in on exactly what does that mean?
Yeah, uh, it's a National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People.
Okay.
Can you be a little bit more specific?
Uh you want more specificity.
Okay.
The national organization or the National Association for the the the advancement of liberal colored people, for example, is is uh terribly opposed to Justice Clarence Thomas, who is uh uh a colored person.
African American.
Okay, go ahead.
Uh African American.
Well, but I I agree, but they call themselves the National Association for Advancement of Colored People, so I was trying to be consistent.
That's all colors rush.
You do know that.
That means all colors.
Well, go ahead.
I'm gonna mean interrupt you.
Go ahead.
Oh, you mean this is you maybe I didn't know this.
The National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People, it's from all peoples of color.
No, no, no, the part of color means all people of color.
Well, you mean when they when they were chartered back in uh 1903, 1912, whatever it was, that they were including Asians and Hispanics, uh, and all peoples of color when they were first chartered.
Well, I wasn't back then.
I wasn't back in the bay, but you know the vast majority of the people that founded the NAA L C P were white.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
They were no, they they're not arguable.
I mean, facts are facts, sometimes they're disappointing things, but uh the vast majority of the founders of the NAA L C P were were were uh white.
They were Caucasian.
Okay.
That's what color.
All right.
Well, Mr. Limbaugh, thank you very much.
Answered my question.
You bet I'm happy.
You have any more?
I'm I mean, I'm on a roll here.
Do you have any more questions?
I love answering questions.
I love it.
You cracked me up, Mr. Limbaugh, but thank you very much.
Have a good day, sir.
Larry, let me ask you let me ask you a question before you go.
All right.
Um, has the NAA LCP ever supported a conservative candidate for office, black or white?
Uh I really wouldn't know that all hand.
Well, I do, and the answer is no.
And that's why I put the L in there.
They'd be specific about who they are, the National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People.
And if you want to say liberal Mexicans and liberal Hispanics and liberal Chinese and Japanese, fine.
You can include them in there too, but they got to be liberal uh for that organization to support them.
You can be African American and conservative, and they will work to defeat you.
Interesting.
So they're not for the advancement of colored people.
They are for the advancement of liberals.
So hence that's where you get the liberals.
Okay, I got you.
Yeah.
That's where I get the liberal.
That's that's why I put the L in NAA L C P. Oh.
Got it.
Well, thank you very much.
You bet.
Happy to help.
See.
Just proves if there's something you don't understand, ask it.
There's no such thing as a dumb question.
He he didn't know what now he does.
He didn't know why I put that in there.
Now he does.
Now, speaking of which, one of the um uh revered and august members, the NAA L C P is the well known uh Reverend Jacks, hmm, who on CNN's newsroom Saturday was uh was interviewed by uh by TJ Holmes.
And TJ Holmes said the title of the song is Lift Every Voice and Sing.
It's been around 1900.
Uh but when you label something a black national anthem, then in fact you're doing something as discriminatory and divisive as some say.
Do you agree with that?
What this is all about is the the Reverend O'Jackson wants a black national anthem.
To me, it does not stand to reason.
I mean, songs rooted in our unique slavery experience, our unique Jim Crue experience, and in the song of as if we shall overcome.
I mean, God of our we were years of our silent tears that brought us safe to spawn the way.
Who are we describing who's been brought safe to spar along the way except the black experience?
I was talking with a group this week of Latino leaders who are concerned that they are trying to remove ethnic studies in Arizona.
The attempt to excerp ethnic studies in school, the attempt to excerpt the tape that drew about the Shirley Sherrod challenge this week.
We should not excerp history.
We should include history.
And then there's the richness, the multiculturalism is the richness and the genius of the American experience.
Well, he misspoke there.
He keeps uh he keeps using excerpt when he meant exclude.
But there you have it.
The uh the Reverend Jackson uh wants uh a black national anthem.
Uh when God of our weary years of our silent tears has brought us safe thus far on the way.
I'm reminded of Mrs. Clinton.
At the ceremony commemorating a Selma.
I ain't no ways tired, she said.
Obama also showed up at that celebration in Negro dialect, said it's Selma that made him who he is, but just today, Maureen Downer yesterday in the New York Times is not black enough, and uh they don't have enough real black people in the administration.
Now, I know all this is funny, but it's it's also ludicrous.
And we're we're supposed to be past all of this with the with the election of uh of Obama.
We're supposed to be unified uh and uh and happy.
Bob Schiefer, uh, by the way, yesterday on Slay the Nation, during his final thoughts comment, said this.
Old media makes its share of mistakes, but not if we can help it.
We still call people involved in a story to get their side.
Editors fact check.
And we never publish or broadcast anything unless we think it's true.
I know the old media can always learn a thing or two from the new media, and I sure don't want to lecture the young folks, even the older ones masquerading as new media.
But hey, if you would just make a call every once in a while to check these things out before you put it on the web, you could save all of us a lot of trouble.
What is he talking about?
This is the guy who never heard of the new Black Panther story.
He's got a staff who never heard of the new Black Panther story.
What's this lecture?
He's on his high horse about what great fact checkers he and his fellow apparatchics are.
Uh and and these are the guys that publish fake documents.
His network about Bush and the National Guard.
Uh we never publish or broadcast anything unless we think it's true.
I know the old media can always learn a thing or two from the new media, and I sure don't want to lecture the young folks, but just make a call.
Just me.
For that, I probably can't disagree.
I just want it known that in the last five years, I have never gotten a call from anybody in the old media asking, did you really say this that Media Matters says you said?
They uh never call who they supposed to call, Bob, unless you think it's true, you're not gonna publish anything unless you think it's true and make a call to who other than your fellow liberals.
Who I mean, I've never been called.
Did you really say this, Limbaugh?
You're gonna report here that you've did you really say that.
We don't we do not get those calls.
We do get calls.
Would you like to come on our show and defend what it says here you said?
Well, we didn't say it.
That doesn't matter.
You want to come on here and defend it anyway?
No, why will we go on and defend it because we didn't say it?
We want you to defend what you said.
We didn't say it.
Doesn't matter.
It gets into the uh into the narrative and it gets a life of its own, such as those supposed quotes that were totally made up.
I never said them when that whole St. Louis Rams NFL fiasco happened.
And even then, even then, not one call, Mr. Schaefer from anybody reporting those quotes, asking me if I actually ever said that stuff.
And in fact, when I openly on the air said I didn't say it, the reaction was, well, maybe not, but we knew you were thinking it.
If you didn't say it, you're probably capable of saying it, because we know who you are.
That's the kind of thinking.
You you guys, you're fossils.
The partisan political operatives of the old media are preen plain and simple fossils.
They never ever call me about any of this misinformation.
They don't even listen to me.
They go to these websites that take what I and others say out of context and run with it.
And then if they do call, you want to defend yourself on this, on what?
Well, what it says here that you said.
What's it say?
And they tell us what it's I didn't say that.
Oh, really?
Uh-huh.
Right.
Well, you want to come on and defend yourself anyway?
I didn't say it.
They don't even go to my website to read my transcripts, Bob.
And you say you never put anything on the air unless you think it's true, and you're advising all these young pups, these young partisan political operatives disguised as journalists to make a call to verify.
Just make a call.
No, if you want it to be true, Bob, is what determines whether it's true.
Nothing more complicated than that.
If you want it to be true, such as the U.S. is evil.
The U.S. is killing innocent people on purpose in Afghanistan.
The U.S. is running secret covert operations.
The U.S. is immoral and unjust.
You want that to be true, so you'll be able to report anything and anybody who says that it is without making a call.
All these people running the WikiLeaks stuff.
Have they called anybody?
Did this is this whoever wrote this report?
Is this true?
There are 91,000 reports.
Is all this true?
Not one call.
We know there hasn't been a call.
It would take three weeks to make 91,000 calls.
Back after this, folks.
Don't go away.
Ha.
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh.
Executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes.
So the um the uh the Reverend uh Dax uh wants uh ladies and gentlemen, the Reverend Daxon wants uh black national anthem.
I've been thinking about this during the commercial break.
And I don't know if this no, this is not a black national anthem.
Certainly not, but we do have a song that might suffice as a national anthem for the Reverend uh Jackson, Diana Ross, and the Supremes.
All right, that makes the point.
The Reverend Jackson National Anthem, Dinah Ross the Supremes and the Love Child Richie, Raleigh, North Carolina, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You've got listeners since the days of the Rush Room.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Hey, Rush, on your first segment today, you played a clip of audio of the president saying about the Lockabi Bama release.
All of us were surprised, disappointed, and angry.
I've got to disagree with him.
One person not surprised was Hillary.
And no one in the media is bringing this up, but let's go back to 1999 when the first lady was going into politics, the U.S. Senate race against Republican Rick Lazio in New York State.
Right.
The Secretary of State's husband, 11 years ago, in August 1999, commuted the sentence, released and released 16 healthy terrorists who set off 120 bombs in New York City and Chicago between 1974 and 1983.
Yeah, that was the FALN, but members of the FAM.
Well, that was that was so that Hillary could get the Puerto Rican vote.
Absolutely.
Right.
So releasing terrorists for political reasons or business reasons seems to be common in the Democratic Party.
And especially if you can nail BP in the process.
All right, thanks, Richie.
I appreciate the call.
This is Kenon Detroit, your next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello, sir.
Yeah, thanks for taking my call, Rush.
You bet.
Yeah, I just wanted to comment that uh when we take a look at the uh last great battle that our country fought, World War II.
It's a fact that you know, if we try to fight that war uh then the way Obama wants to uh fight this war on terror now, uh we would have the uh swastika flying not only over Washington, but over Europe and all around the rest of the world.
I mean, uh, you know, there's no doubt that uh Hitler and his uh allies, the uh Axis power uh would have definitely been the victor.
And another thing, Rush, all of those individuals that call themselves Democrats now, uh I don't think they would even be alive today if uh Hitler had won the war.
Um I think that a lot of people just have to understand when there's a fight, the enemy is going to be bringing the machine gun.
And Barack Obama, he wants to bring a feather.
You know, who's gonna win the fight?
Well, it's not it is it's true.
Um Obama is is part and parcel of the American left, um, which believes the United States military is the focus of evil.
That the U.S. has been the imperialist and colonialist nation uh in the world.
This is one of the reasons I think that uh that Obama clearly believes we need to have a lesson or two talk to us.
Uh we need uh we need to be shown the evils of our way we need to have happen to us.
The kind of things that we have perpetrated against others.
That's why he feels the need to go around apologize.
That's why he's punishing the private sector, the middle class, everybody who works in this country is being punished.
That's why.
It's about time we found out the kind of misery that we have forced on people the uh the world over.
And I asked uh I asked earlier uh imagine if Lincoln had fought the Civil War, the way with rules of engagement we have today.
I got an email somebody who said we did for a while.
His name was McClellan.
That's why that's why Lincoln got rid of him and found Ulysses Grant.
Back to the phones.
Where's who's Shirley in in Shelby, Ohio?
Welcome to the EIB network.
What?
Is this really you?
Yes.
Well, listen, uh, I'm eighty-one years old.
I went to my doctor three weeks ago, and I had to renew a prescription, and they're setting up a new computer program there.
I went into the office uh and they took my blood pressure and all that, and then they start firing a lot of questions at me.
Health and all that.
And finally they get to you own a gun.
I'm eighty-one.
My kids and and then I said, What's that for?
And they said, Oh, it's for the protection of the children.
Well, my four kids are in their fifties and they all can carry their own guns.
Wait a second.
Who was asking you?
The nurse that works in the office there before the doctor comes.
You know, they take your blood pressure and you're I I've yeah, I've been asked this question before, too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I have.
They a gun.
Yeah, I've been asked that question.
Do you own a gun?
Well, what's that got to do with the medical conditions?
It doesn't.
It's it's it's all part of the prying into your personal life.
It sure is.
Of the federal but I I fully expect you do have a gun.
You're eighty-one years old.
I f you do, right?
Well, I'll tell you, I didn't tell her the truth.
And my sister's eighty-five, and I know damn well she's got a gun.
I knew you had a gun.
I can tell.
I can hear it in your voice that you had a you probably got more than one gun, and you're waiting for people like this to rake into your house.
Yeah.
I I expected them to say, do you know uh have you ever made any or do you know of anybody that's made derogatory remarks about our ruler?
Are we expecting that?
Yeah.
I know all this stuff's gonna go to the medical Gestapo there in Washington, and I think it's a bunch of BS.
You are one pistol pack of mama.
I am mad.
Uh and they don't know how mad we are out here.
And I'm talking about us old ladies, too.
Let me ask you this.
What?
Shirley, did they ask you if you are or if you have or if have you ever been a Republican?
No, they didn't, but it's a wonder they didn't.
Well, that's coming.
Okay.
I'm glad you I I couldn't believe they asked me that.
Well, I think it's uh I've been asked this twice.
And I don't remember when I uh uh by by medical people when I went to a doctor's office, had to fill out some uh forms.
I just don't remember where it was, but I've been asked that question twice.
Do you own a gun?
Well, they say it's for the protection of the children.
How are they protecting our children when they're getting their emment that way up to their eyebrows?
They'll never be able to do that.
Now wait a second.
They're they're probably being you gotta remember now who these people are.
Oh, sure.
They probably do think that if you have a gun in your house, it's endangering children.
Oh, yeah.
Well, that's a bunch of bulls.
Of course, your children to be in their fifties.
Yeah, they all carry their own guns.
Yeah.
I know it.
Well, get used to it.
I mean, that's that's the invasive nature of the uh the U.S. health care system, which reminds me the New York Times Britain plans to decentralize national health care.
The plan would shrink the bureaucratic apparatus in keeping with the government's goal to affect 30 billion dollars in efficiency savings.
The aim is clear to shift control of England's 160 billion dollars annual health budget from a centralized bureaucracy to doctors at the local level.
Central planning doesn't work.
And we're headed in that direction.
By the way, in the UK and the um the shifting of these uh bureaucratic jobs to the uh to the private sector, all these jobs that that are that are gonna be uh uh cut and ostensibly transferred to the private sector, they are, and they're tens of thousands of them, are all union jobs.
And that's why we ought to hold our breath on this.
Ah, because I'm not I'm not so sure that they're going to succeed with with this.
A lot of British administrations have talked about getting rid of these administrators.
None of them have been able to do it, uh, because just like the union people here, they'll threaten to go violent strikes and uh and this kind of thing.
But at least what is now known as the UK can't sustain its health care system, and theirs is just a hundred and sixty billion.
They can't sustain it.
Now they want to turn control of it back over to the doctors and uh and people in local communities.
Just it's just amazing.
We're headed.
Germany is is uh Canada's in an economic rebound.
They cut taxes.
Germany is is uh in a bit of an economic rebound.
Not that we want to emulate uh Germany, but we are headed in the directions or the direction that all of these these uh Western European socialist democracies have have trod and are now admitting failure.
And yet here we go, just unimpeded down the same road, totally ignoring what we see right in front of us.
From the uh partisan political operatives at Reuters.
Nicaraguan mother Lorina Aguilar hawks a television set and a few clothes on the baking sidewalk outside her West Phoenix apartment block.
A few paces up the street, her undocumented Mexican neighbor Wendy Villasinor touts a kitchen table, some chairs, and a few dishes, as her family scrambles to get out of Arizona ahead of a looming crackdown on illegal immigrants.
Everyone is selling up the little they have and leaving, said Villa Senor 31, who is headed for Pennsylvania.
We have no alternative.
They have us cornered.
So the illegals are packing up in Arizona and they're leaving to Pennsylvania and to other states.
The two women are among scores of illegal immigrant families across Phoenix, hauling the contents of their homes into the yard this weekend as they rush to sell up and get out before the state law takes effect on Thursday.
It makes the Lou Law makes being an illegal immigrant a state crime, requires state and local cops to investigate the status of anybody they reasonably suspect of being an illegal immigrant.
Now, what is that reasonably suspect of being?
That's not even a correct portrayal of uh of what the law is.
They just refuse to get the story right on purpose.
It doesn't matter what the facts of the law are.
It doesn't matter that the facts of the law mean that it's practically an echo of the federal law.
It doesn't matter.
No, no, no.
We're just we've got we gotta criticize the law.
No matter we have to make up what it says.
Facts are things of the past when it comes to partisan political operatives.
Now our one party media, the partisan political operatives say that we could never deport 12 million or 20 million, whatever the number is.
Illegal aliens.
But Arizona seems to be able to do it.
And they're not even doing it.
People are leaving on their own.
Simply with they're not even trying.
I mean, they're just the the uh the passage, the passage of a law.
Pete and Pensacola Beach, Florida.
You're next in the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush, uh Megadetto.
Thank you.
My question is with uh Newt Gingrich running, might be running for office.
Your take on that when he made a comment last time with that I think New Jersey uh liberal that was running as a conservative saying we need some of them in our party.
When he makes a statement like that.
No, we don't.
We need to get back to conservatives, I think.
I just want to know what you thought.
Um did Newt actually say we need some New Jersey liberals.
If I remember correctly, they're a party to the answer.
I am unfamiliar with Newt having said that we need some New Jersey liberals running as conservatives.
We need we need some of them in our party.
I'm not a word.
I might not be quoting them right, but it it led me to believe and Hampshire was far as T. You might be interpreting something that a lot of DC Republicans are saying, and that is that they're very sad that there are no elected Republicans in the Northeast, and that we cannot become a national party unless we are able to include the Republicans of the Northeast.
Sure, but not with a stamp of Republican and saying they're truly liberal in their beliefs and their voting.
What was the lady that will actually was running?
I forget her name, and then she ended up fouling out and uh backing the Democratic Party.
Uh the New Jersey?
Uh that's New York 23.
I forget the woman's name.
Yeah, Didi DZ Didi Scuza Didi D's it Didi Scuzza.
Skazza Kazi, scusa'cause whatever.
I know who you mean.
Yeah, research it just saying just because I think we talked to Newt.
What I think what Newt's saying is that we need more Colin Powell's.
I don't agree with that, neither.
But that's my day.
Well, the problem is if if if if if if we need more uh Northeastern Republicans uh in our party to win and and and then expand our coalition, the only kind of Northeastern Republicans there are are liberals.
That is true.
But uh they don't believe in smaller government.
They can cut the taxes, but if they don't shrink the government at the same time, uh the small business guys like us are uh destined to here's the here's the I guess you know here's here's the best way to understand this.
And I I'm gonna use Carl Rove as a as a way.
There was a there was a um uh Zev Chaffetz or Chaff is before he wrote the big book on me, uh Rush Limbaugh Army of One, he wrote a profile in the New York Times Sunday magazine about me.
He went and talked to Carl Rove.
And he asked Carl Rove, well, you know, you know, Rush uh sometimes Rush jumps on people in the Republican Party.
I mean, how's Rush reacted?
Carl Rove said, Well, Russia is not a party man.
Russia's a conservative.
And it's right, there's a huge difference.
Newt is a party man.
Newt Newt's a Republican through and through.
The guy sounds like he's in a ditch or underwater here.
Are you okay out there?
Oh, I'm sorry.
There you go.
What happened?
No, I was listening to you, and I I just got I'm driving at the same time and kind of watching the road too.
But I don't know if I was still on or not, but uh I I appreciate everything you do, right?
Thank you very much.
You know, truth is everything, we've got to keep to it, and I appreciate it.
Right.
Well, when you when you cross when you cross a Democrat with a human being, what you get is a rhino.
And the the the best way to explain this is very simple.
You cross a Democrat with a human being.
You breed a Democrat with a human being, and what you get is a Republican in name only.
Pure and simple.
And they are they are party people.
And I think Newt is a party guy.
I mean, well, he has to be.
Newt wants, if he wants to run for president, he's going to have to get the Republican Party nomination.
And if you want the Republican Party nomination, as it's currently structured, there's certain things that you're going to have to do.
And where Newton and I differ, and I guess we do, is that I I think that conservatives ought to take over this party.
I think the Republican Party needs, and there's no greater time to do it than now.
There's no greater opportunity to contrast conservatism with what we've got destroying the country.
And Republicanism is not the answer.
conservatism is.
Because republicanism does include people like Olympia Snow, Susan Collins, Lincoln Chaffee, Chaffee, Yes, uh question from the official program observer.
What is it?
Hmm.
I answered the guy's question.
Newt is a party man.
Newt is a Republican, and he's going to have to do what if he gants to run for president.
He's got to do uh what anybody wants to do to get the Republican Party nomination these days.
Anyway, I've got to take a brief time out here.
I'll be back right after this.
Don't go anywhere, folks.
And thanks very much for the phone call out there, Pete.
Don't try that again, though.
He welcome back.
It's uh Rush Limbaugh.
With half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
You know, it's good to see that President Obama has not completely forgotten about the people in the Gulf.
He has not completely forgotten about the people of the Gulf from the uh politico yesterday.
White House sends 2012 rescue team to Florida.
A 2012 rescue team.
Now you might be saying, what is a 2012 rescue team?
Well, let me share with you the details of the uh partisan political operative politico story.
The White House has quietly launched an effort.
What's quiet about it when everybody knows.
The White House has quietly launched an effort to confront the political black lash on the Gulf Coast over its handling of the BP oil spill, giving special attention to Florida, the only state in the region, Obama won in 2008.
And um he will need again when he runs for re-election in 2012.
The White House dispatched political and communications aids to the Gulf Coast states on July 12th, Alabama, Mississippi receiving one each.
Some age went to Louisiana, Florida received four.
He is sending political operatives to try to save his election in 2012.
This is compassion.
That's concern about jobs, folks.
This is a his job.
So here you have a disaster in the Gulf, and he's saying, I'm gonna focus on Florida because they elected me, they went for me in 2008, and I'm gonna need them in 2012.
The hell with Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama, I'm going to Florida.
And so partisan political operatives have been dispatched from the White House to shore up Obama's political chances in 2012 disguised as compassion and outreach for the Gulf oil disaster.
Interesting.
Inside this vast audience assembled before me today, and that would be you, are some individuals, some of you who are having a constitutional revival of your own.
You've only now become willing to admit the fact that our Constitution's really under assault.
It's been a tough thing to admit.
People don't want to admit it.
People don't want to admit that we've elected and have in place a regime which seeks to undermine the Constitution, the traditions and institutions that have defined and made this country's greatness.
Well, there's a college in America that makes the study of the Constitution mandatory in its curriculum.
Not a Single student complains about it.
I'd go so far as to say that some students attend this particular college because they get to study the Constitution.
The college is named Hillsdale.
And they've been educating students on the Constitution for generations.
Earlier this year, they put together a big crowd of non-students on the web for a live online study of the Constitution.
They call the event a constitutional town hall.
Hillsdale College professors did the teaching.
It attracted nearly 50,000 people.
Since then, so many of you have have seen evidence that the Constitution is truly being disregarded by many in Washington.
Now you have to understand the Constitution to really appreciate what's going on here.
So Hillsdale College is inviting you to spend time in a replay of their original Constitutional Town Hall webinar.
It's free and it's on demand.
You can sign up online at rushforhillsdale.org.
It's the same site where you can sign up to receive Imprimus.
Hillsdale's monthly digest on speeches delivered to your home free as well.
Summertime on campus, but it's anything but that when it comes to readying yourself with a good understanding of the bedrock principles that undergird this country.
This is a really a great thing.org.
You'll be amazed.
Strongly urge.
And it's free.
Not going to cost you anything.
Hanford, California, Donna, you're next on the Rush program.
Great to have you here.
Okay.
Hello, sir.
Do you think the Disney Corporation has suffered financially since the Imagination Capital of the World has moved to Washington, D.C. Yeah, I'm digesting the question here.
Do I think the Disney Corporation has suffered financially since the Imagination Capital of the World has moved to Washington?
Yes.
Well uh Disney stock price is fluctuating.
It's uh it's it's it's up and down.
Um but they've got competition now.
Yeah, in the world of make-believe.
Yep.
Well, see, my problem here is that it really isn't make-believe in Washington.
It's all too damn real.
Yeah.
But we wish we wish it were the world.
I mean, if if if Washington were Disney, if all it were were a TV show on Sunday nights at 7 30, all right.
But it's real, it's every day.
There's nothing magical, there's nothing pretend or imaginative about it.
It's all too real.
But you've got to put a little heavy and everything will go crazy.
Well, you know, a lot of I think uh a lot of people genuinely are losing sleep at night.
Yeah.
There is there is a.
I I talk to a lot of people.
There's a great sense of unease about the country overall.
It just a bunch of people, a lot of people, I'm sure you're among them.
It doesn't feel right.
Regardless, what you think of Obama, whether all this is being done on purpose or not, it just doesn't feel right.
We have never, as Americans, tackled our problems this way before.
We've we've never blamed ourselves for our problems, and we have never implemented policies that make the problems worse.
And we've never had anybody that told us that we have to do this because we need to be punished.
Because we have lived in excess, and we've brought pain and suffering to so many people around the world, and we need to find out what it's like.
We've just even in times where there's great economic prosperity and still some great economic opportunity.
There's still a great sense of unease.
And in that sense, yeah, I wish it were Disney.
It could turn it off.
But you can't turn this off.
I forgot to mention this.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, President Obama feels the need to get his uh approval numbers up out there, and part of the effort to get his approval numbers up.
He is going to appear on the view Thursday morning.
Well, they're gonna tape it on Wednesday.
This is the first time ever an American president has ever appeared on daytime television.
This is worse than going on a soap opera.
He's not going on as an actor, he's going on as himself.
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