Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
All right, the terrorists have won, ladies and gentlemen, a nine to zero vote by the landmark commission of New York clearing the way for a mosque to be built at the site of ground zero.
They're hoping to stop it by establishing the site as a landmark area in a New York commission.
Oh no, no, no.
We want the mosque out there.
Uh nine to no no.
Ain't gonna happen.
Rush Limbaugh, great to have you, folks.
And another three hours of broadcast excellence from behind the golden EIB microphone, the telephone number if you want to be on the program.
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Tomorrow is Obama's birthday.
Not that we've seen any proof of that, but tomorrow is Obama's birthday, and they're trying to rally Obama's base by sending out fundraising letters.
What?
What?
What's Northernly what?
We haven't seen any proof of that.
Uh they tell us August 4th is the birthday.
We haven't seen any proof of it.
I mean.
Sorry.
It is what it is.
Maxine Waters.
In a statement released yesterday said, I have not violated any house rules.
Who the hell is she kidding?
She violated the most important house ethics rule of all.
She got caught.
She of course has violated some house rules.
Folks, the news, listen to some of these headlines.
Good afternoon, good morning, Obamaville.
Good morning to all of you living in America.
Woman sprayed with human semen at grocery store.
Disabled veteran band after service dog poops in aisles.
False witness black church stages fight to see how white police officer responds.
The cop is injured.
Shock video, naked man beaten outside bar.
No charges.
Newsweek has been sold for a dollar.
One dollar.
Meanwhile, we here at the EIB network continue to show massive, well, not massive, but we uh our years increase.
They sold it for a dollar and the assumption of all the debt.
One dollar.
One dollar.
I bid 50 cents and I was outbid.
One dollar for Newsweek magazine.
And the uh and the the the partisan political operatives uh known as the as the so-called mainstream media.
Look at how everything around them is crumbling.
They are crumbling.
One dollar for for Newsweek.
Here's another one for you from the Sunday Atlanta Urinal Constipation.
Unhappy robber, gunman calls restaurant to gripe.
This is from Sunday.
He walked into a Wendy's guy stole guy hold up Wendy's.
They only had 586 bucks.
So he called them back and he gave them grief.
He said next time they better have more than 586 bucks when he comes in to hold them up.
Is this not the entitlement mentality?
Run fully amok here.
Guy walks into a Wendy's and expects there to be a big hall, and when there isn't, gets ticked off and calls them back.
Frustrated Swedish man sews up his own leg after long emergency room wait.
Man, there's I mean, a woman sprayed with human semen at grocery store.
What what?
I well, how does how did it happen?
Visualize it.
Doesn't matter who's semen.
The question is, was the guy trying to get her pregnant?
I mean, what kind of level of intelligence are we dealing with here?
All of the body fluids story, and then Americans swap passports.
Desire to avoid tax leads some to renounce citizenship.
This is a serious thing.
There are waiting lines.
There are there are waiting lines in the UK for Americans wanting to get rid of their passports and renounce their citizenship.
I don't know how you save on taxes doing that, but apparently you can.
Apparently you do.
I I'm I'm gonna, but it's it's we'll look into it in uh in in greater detail.
What is the most prized SUV among thieves?
Right on.
The Cadillac Escalade, the 2007-2008-2009 Cadillac Escalade has been stolen more than any other vehicle.
Car thieves are going the extra mile to get one.
The uh the Escalade, average price 62 grand for one of these.
The Escalade has an anti-theft ignition immobilizer that prevents it from being started without a special key.
But thieves just haul it away on a flatbed truck.
One in every 100 escalades is stolen, and one in every four escalade thefts has a claim of 40,000 or more.
Now put this in perspective.
Here you have the Cadillac Escalade fully loaded.
I mean, this is a big mamma jamma.
And it costs 62 grand.
For only 19,000 less.
You can buy a lawnmower with four seats on the top and get 40 miles to a charge.
How about that pricing?
41,000 before the federal government tax rebate for a lawnmower.
62 grand for the most popular theft item in all of motor vehicle dumb.
The Cadillac Esco.
By the way, the Wendy's robber called back twice.
I need to point that out.
He calls you so ticked off.
And look at I mean, this is this is not even Port St. Lucy where they didn't have McNuggets calling 911.
This is a genuine thief.
Ticked off.
They didn't have enough money in the cash register when he ripped them off and promised to come back, and they better have more.
From Lebanon, Ohio, an Ohio woman accused of posing.
Welcome to Obama's America, by the way.
Uh, folks, an Ohio woman accused of posing as a teenage boy to have sexual relations with a 16-year-old girl, has been charged with sexual imposition and other misdemeanors.
You ever heard of that crime?
I never until today have I heard of sexual imposition.
I always thought that was rape.
Uh I'm not making it up.
Ohio woman, accused of posing as a teenage boy to have sexual relations with a 16-year-old girl.
Charged with sexual imposition.
Warren County prosecutor spokesman Matt Nolan said yesterday, 31-year-old Patricia Dye, charged in juvenile court with sexual imposition, attempted sexual imposition, which means she succeeded, uh, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
The grand jury in Lebanon, Ohio, declined to indict the Franklin woman on felony.
Charges she was arrested June 30th, remains in jail under a 100,000 bond.
Telephone message was left at her attorney's office, hasn't been returned.
Now, do you want to know how weird this is?
Here he is a woman posing as a teenage boy to have sexual relations with a 16-year-old girl.
Now, even if she had got lucky, even if she had managed to pull this off, did she not think the 16-year-old girl would figure out that she was not a boy?
Well, I mean, it's just the news, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Just over the top today, 67% of the political class say the U.S. is heading in the right direction.
84% of us disagree.
This is a Rasmussen poll.
Recent polling has shown huge gaps between the political class and mainstream Americans on issues ranging from immigration to health care to the virtues of free markets.
The gap is just as big when it comes to the traditional right direction, wrong track polling question.
In Rasmussen Report's National Telephone Survey, 67% of the political class voters believe the U.S. is generally heading in the right direction.
What?
What is the political class in a poll like this?
People who work for the government, people who support the notion of bigger government, uh basically the ruling class type folks.
67% of them say that we're headed in the right direction.
84% of the rest of us, 84% of all Americans mainstream, uh disagree.
New York City panel, as I said, has denied landmark status to a building near ground zero, freeing organizers to build an Islamic center and a mosque there.
The landmarks preservation commission's decision allows organizers to transform the 152-year-old building into an Islamic community center blocks from ground zero.
National and New York politicians, the anti-defamation league, have come out in recent weeks against plans for the mosque, saying it disrespects the it's not.
You know what this is?
This is everybody's everybody's falling for this notion that there's Muslim outreach going on here.
This is not but Muslim outreach.
They're planting the flag of victory with this mosque.
That's what they're doing.
Opening a mosque at ground zero.
That said, we won.
That's what's going on here.
Anyone who has ever dealt with the New York City Landmark Commission could see this coming 600 feet away.
The ladies of New York City's landmarks commission represent the quintessential liberal busybodies.
Uh, if you if you saw Woody Allen's movie The Sleep of Sleeper, the women, the New York busybodies depicted in that movie are exactly who we're talking about here on the New York City Landmarks Commission.
They are women with the body of a crab and the head of a social worker.
That's the best way to describe it.
And these are the neophytes that sit up there and uh and and vote uh for or denying uh landmark status, which in his essence, as far as these babes are concerned, is uh a vote for the uh the mosque.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
You know, Obama in the Gallup poll has hit 41% approval.
In the Gallup poll, President Obama has hit 41% approval.
Now let's go back to March 13, 2006.
CNN trumpeting Bush, hitting a new low in the Gallup poll.
This is Wolf Blitzer.
It's 4 p.m. here in Washington.
You're getting the first look right now at our brand new poll.
The president's job approval rating has taken a downward turn again, falling to only 36%.
This represents his lowest rating ever in the CNN USA Today Gallup poll.
The president's poll numbers are pretty bad, pretty awful right now.
Rock bottom as far as the CNN USA Today Gallup poll.
The president's a rock problem, and his new low point in the polls is approval and policies now are at new lows.
The president's job approval number in this new CNN USA Today Gallup poll, rock bottom, the lowest it's ever been.
It's 5 p.m. here in Washington, where President Bush takes a beating in our latest poll.
His approval rating at a low ad.
Our latest CNN USA Today Gallup poll just out in the past hour shows the president at an all-time low.
His job approval rating at a new low.
That's rock bottom as far as our poll is concerned.
It's 7 p.m. here in Washington.
The war in Iraq comes home to roost for President Bush.
Our latest poll numbers showing his approval rating and a new low.
Also, President Bush hits a new low in the polls.
Now back to our lead story.
President Bush's approval rating now at an all-time low.
As we noted, a new CNN USA Today Gallup poll shows his job approval rating at a new low.
President Bush's approval rating at a new low, 36%.
Wolf Blitzer, that was from March 13th of 2006.
Not one of those was repeated.
That was a montage of Wolf Blitzer promoting the lead story during his program of Situation Room from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
This morning, same network, CNN, different host, Kieran Chetry reporting a new survey on uh uh American drinking.
There is a new survey from Gallup finding that more Americans are drinking now than at any time in the last quarter century.
Sixty-seven percent of those asked old enough to drink admit to enjoying at least the occasional cocktail.
Yeah, I meant to do this.
There's no mention of Obama at 41% on CNN.
No mention of Obama at 41% in the Gallup poll on CNN now.
We gotta we gotta be fair and point out that CNN no longer partners with Gallup.
Gallup booted them.
Or one way or the other.
Anyway, Obama's hit 41%, and all we get is a poll on drinking.
On CNN, back after this.
Now we get to see a real race.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Now we get to see a real race.
Who will get their project built faster?
The new Freedom Tower?
Will it go up faster?
Or will the new mosque and ground zero go up faster?
My money's on the mosque.
Yours ought to be too if you're gonna place any money on it.
We have news out of Rio Linda today, and uh given the other news, Rio Linda actually comes out as normal.
Uh let's look at some of the other headlines.
Uh woman sprayed with human semen at grocery store, disabled veteran banned after service dog poops in aisles, uh black church stages fight to see how white police officer responds, a cop is injured, naked man beaten outside bar,
no charges, gunman calls restaurant to complain after only 586 bucks in the cash register after holding them up, and a frustrated Swedish man sews up his own leg after a long emergency room wait.
In the meantime, in Rio Linda, a Rio Linda couple treated for non-life-threatening injuries after investigators say a husband pistol whipped his wife before she grabbed a gun and shot him in the neck Monday, according to a Sacramento County uh Sacramento County Sheriff's Spokesman, that's quite normal.
People shooting up each other is quite normal.
So Rio Linda has stepped up here.
Normally, it's in Rio Linda that people spray semen on each other.
But not today.
So, Ria Linda, you can feel good about yourselves.
You're actually superior to some of the other oddball kookiness that's happening elsewhere in Obama's America.
Now let's go to the economic news.
First, the pace of consumer spending stalled in June.
Personal incomes failed to increase further evidence the economic recovery slowed in the spring.
Do you know why they think there's an economic recovery?
They think there's an economic recovery because we've had some some uh quarters here of GDP growth of 1%, 1.5%, 2.4.
So under their loose definition, there's economic growth or recovery going on.
But there's no jobs.
Uh no new homes are going up.
I mean, there's no indicator of economic growth, other than government hiring.
Other than government activity.
So the pace of consumer spending stalled in June.
Meanwhile, Geithner's out saying, you know, the rich, you guys, you need to start spending more.
Bernanke say, the rich people, you need to start spending more money.
And then Geitner comes back, well, we're not going to have tax cuts for the rich.
Those people got money they don't even need.
They don't need they don't need tax cuts.
Why?
Why they've got money they don't even need.
And Geithner's mad at you for not spending it.
Those of you who are rich, economists are worried that the financial troubles weighing on households could cause spending to ebb even more in the second half of this year.
The subpar.
I can't wait till they start making predictions on the Christmas season.
They do that every starting every October or September.
Here's more bad news.
Factory orders fell in June for the second straight month due to lower demand for steel, construction machinery, and aircraft.
The commerce department said today that the factory orders dropped by 1.2% to a seasonally adjusted 406.4 billion analysts expected a much smaller drop.
So once again, the analysts don't know what the hell they're talking about.
Their expectations are way off the map.
Everybody's shocked and surprised except you and me and all of us in the country class.
There's never been 9% unemployment for two years in a row since the 30s.
And they talk about economic recovery being stalled because of all this news today.
We've never had 9% unemployment for two years consecutively since the 1930s.
So Obama wants the wealthy to spend more and then pay 90% of all the taxes, too.
That sounds like a plan.
So factory orders, though, except for the Chicoms.
The Chinese news agency Xinhua is reporting that Foxcon, this is the outfit, the factory that makes the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad.
Foxconn is going to build a new facility in central China that will primarily produce the iPhone, 200,000 iPhones a day.
It will employ nearly 200,000 workers who at present do not have jobs.
What is wrong with this picture?
Well, I know we have 200,000 workers who don't have jobs, but none of them are making iPhones.
It's the Spencer Davis group.
In the bumper rotation of the Excellence and Broadcasting Network I am Rush Limbaugh.
I guess I'm no longer the leader of the Republican Party, Obama to fundraiser in Georgia.
Said the GOP is the party of Bush.
I guess they've made the official decision now, at least for today, to run against Bush.
And by November two years ago, two years old.
They're going to run against Bush.
And in fact, some in the partisan political operative media are debating whether or not this is a wise move.
At some point, does not Obama own all of this?
And according to Erasmus and poll yesterday, 48% of the people believe the economic mess is Obama's 47% believe it's Bush.
The trend line continues its Obama's economy.
I want to go back to this story.
Factory orders in the United States are down as long as well as the pace of consumer spending.
But the factory order story fell in June, second straight month due to lower demand for steel construction machinery and aircraft.
Analysts had expected a much uh smaller drop.
Meanwhile, Foxconn, which makes the iPhone, iPad, iPad, uh, and and uh an iPod in China, Shenzhen, is gonna build a new factory that'll primarily produce the iPhone.
More than 500 employees are already working at a temporary site rented from the Zengzia's city government.
Factory construction is going to start on August 20th.
It's expected to be operational in a full year.
The site will produce a $13 billion worth of products for export.
It'll make about 200,000 iPhones per day.
It'll employ nearly 200,000 workers, most of whom are expected to be from the Henan province.
Now, Foxconn's not without its problems.
They've had to put nets all over the outside of their existing factory because they're suicides committed by their employees.
Employees are overworked in there and they jump out the windows and they kill themselves.
Those they built nets.
I saw a picture of this.
They're nets outside on the side of the building to catch employees who jump over.
Apple had to move in there and promise a 30% raise.
They can't make product fast enough.
You can't.
There's a waiting list for the iPhone, there's a waiting list for the iPad.
Well, the iPhone 4.
Uh, iPod Touch, I mean, you have no problem getting those things, but they can't meet the demand.
Now you read a story, U.S. factory output down.
Uh people aren't manufacturing things, and we know this is happening.
Yet here's Steve Jobs, darling of the left.
Huge Obama supporter, Al Gore, member of the Apple board.
And nobody on the left's upset that jobs is not hiring union workers in America to make the iOF the iPhone and the iPad.
They're being made by Chinese labor.
And the workers that make the things are committing suicide, not in great numbers, but they're still jumping out the windows over there.
At the Foxconn building, and now a new factory.
Five, what is it?
200,000 um.
200,000 new workers.
You know, Biden said we're going to be producing 500,000 jobs a month by this time.
The ChICOMs are doing it for one product.
They I well, two products, iPhone iPad.
$13 billion worth of exports.
Obviously, Apple's not being hampered by any union problems in China.
I don't think they're unionized over there in Shenzhen at Foxconn.
The summer of recovery is working for the ChICOM.
I don't know if there's even even an economic slowdown.
200,000 iPhones a day.
200 will be made per day.
They're not making that many now, but they can't keep up with the demand.
200,000 new employees.
And yet Apple escapes any scrutiny by the state controlled media.
And the in the left.
There are jobs Americans don't want to do.
Americans don't want to make iPads.
Americans don't want to make iPhones.
You know, folks, they even, if you if you go to Apple's website and buy this stuff on the website, it gets shipped from Shenzhen, China.
They don't even ship the stuff here first to the distribution centers.
I mean, maybe at rollouts, they'll send in a bunch of iPhones to Memphis and they'll send them out of there via via FedEx.
But you go try it.
Go buy an iPhone or an iPad, and they'll send you the shipping instructions when it ships, Shenzhen, China.
And then it goes to some place in Hong Kong.
Then it goes to Anchorage.
And finally to Memphis.
At least it's coming over on FedEx.
More bad economic news.
Number of buyers who signed contracts to purchase homes dropped in June, as the weak economy and tight lending standards kept consumers away from the housing market.
And yet they claim there's an economic recovery going on.
What do you mean there goes any chance of EIB getting Apple advertising?
There was never any chance of the EIB network getting any Apple advertising.
We've been knocking on their door for 22 years.
No chance.
I don't know what the carbon footprint of shipping iPhones and iPads all over the world is in China is.
We've got to be huge.
But they gotta get them here somehow, because they're not being made here.
There's something not right about the shape of his egg.
You're not supposed to notice these things, you're not supposed to say these things.
I'm sorry.
Uh something not right.
He said today it would be deeply irresponsible for the Obama administration to support a wholesale extension of Bush-era tax cuts, including breaks for the wealthy.
Geitner said in a nationally broadcast interview that the regime strongly believes tax reduction should be retained for the 95% of taxpayers with individual incomes under a couple hundred grand a year and families before or below 250,000.
He disagreed with accusations that the regime has been hostile to Wall Street and the business community.
And the business community always wants their taxes lowered.
What's new about that?
said little Timmy.
Meanwhile, Obama's mad, Geithner's mad that the rich are not spending, they're not consuming, and they're not paying enough taxes, even though they're paying 90% of the freight.
Are you kidding me?
Geithner was one of People Magazine's 50 most beautiful people last year.
Are you kidding me?
Is this a joke?
That cannot be true.
Tim Gaitner, one of the 50 most beautiful people in.
Ah.
In people magazine.
No matter the shape of his head?
That's somebody's pulling my, I'm got a note here, and somebody's yanking my chair.
This cannot possibly be true.
Um businesses have hired 5.6 million workers under a new program that provides tax breaks for hiring unemployed workers, said the Treasury Department.
The report, however, Does not estimate how many of those jobs would have been added without the tax break.
Does anybody believe this?
Did anybody believe 5.6 million workers have been hired under any new program?
Would somebody explain to me how we have lost 8 million jobs?
We've got unemployment at 9% for two consecutive years, first time since the 30s, and now here comes a story from the organized press saying that we have 5.6 million new workers under a new program that provides tax breaks for hiring the unemployed.
That's a small business tax break.
They've offered this twice.
Small businesses would be stupid to take this deal.
We're just out and out being lied to.
No matter.
Nothing new.
Brief time out, back with much more after this.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh with talent on loan from God.
From the uh what is this New York Times today?
A story by Monica Davy.
I think there's this one paragraph in here I want to share with you.
It's about a story about Paul Ryan, the headline, a young Republican with a sweeping agenda.
Listen to this.
In this highly charged election season, both houses of Congress at stake, not a lot of politicians are lining up publicly behind Mr. Ryan.
He is nonetheless suddenly a rising star in some corners.
And like many other politicians whose ideas were once considered extreme, only later to be mainstream like Ronaldo's Magnus.
Mr. Ryan is seen as on the leading edge of something.
All he has is a brilliant economic plan.
And it's he's trying to get the Republican Party to uh to adopt it.
And here's the New York Times referring to it as you have it.
Conservatism extreme.
All right, Maxine Waters.
An ethics report released Monday found that Maxine Waters probably broke conflict of interest rules in urging federal aid for a bank, where her husband Sidney had served on the board and owned hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock.
Now she said that she has not violated any house ethics rules.
And the fact is she's violated the biggest house ethics rule, and that is don't get caught.
Because once you get caught, we can't help you.
So now there's another black Congress member, black caucus member who's under the gun ethically, and there's a I've got a story coming up in the stack about the rift between the CBC, Congressional Black Caucus, and Obama, and how he's really not one of them.
He's not down for the struggle.
He's not one of them.
It's an amazing, it's an amazing piece.
Uh well, they're they're they're they're they're they're mad that Charlie's being thrown under the bus.
They're mad that Obama is helping to throw Charlie into the bus.
Like, it's time to go with dignity.
The black caucus, if the truth be known, has never been happy with the administration when it comes to the jobs agenda.
Black unemployment skyrocketing.
It's astronomically high.
And they've said two or three times publicly, uh, Mr. President, uh, where's the laser-like focus on uh on black jobs?
Pelosi echoed her stance on the Wrangle matter, offering a muted response that suggested the Maxine Waters case showed that the ethics panel's doing its job of policing the House.
Waters called a meeting for minority banks, but only one was discussed.
And that was her husband's.
Twice in September 2008, Waters approached Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank to discuss one United's pursuit of federal assistance.
According to Barney Frank's testimony, she acknowledged a potential conflict.
Sydney's been on the board, she told Barney.
Barney told the investigators that he did not want Waters involved in the one united issue.
Stay out of it, he said.
Stay out of it, he said, he told her.
But she didn't stay out of it.
She saw to it that her husband's city got his skids greased.
And here's an editorial of the Washington Post, Maxine Waters' questionable ethics.
The minority-focused bank had a mixed record of lending to minorities for all its connections to Ms. Waters.
And Mr. Frank won United was not necessarily the likeliest candidate for a bailout.
She said they get the money anyway, whether it was bailed out or not.
It had a mixed record of lending to minority communities and had runafoul of regulators for buying its executives a Porsche.
So One United, a bank focused on lending minorities, actually wasn't.
Um they were buying their executives Porsches.
And that and that probably ticked off Sydney because I think Sydney owns a Mercedes dealership.
Or didn't.
I think I think Maxine's husband owns a Mercedes dealership.
And in well, no.
No, we owned something.
Maybe it was a Mercedes dealership.
I thought it was in LA, but he owned something in the Caribbean.
Meanwhile, the bank where he's on the board is buying Porsches with federal bailout money.
And Obama and Pelosi are not exactly being supportive.
Who can blame them for being upset?
I mean, they've got, you know, both both Maxine Waters and Charlie Wrangle have got to see this as discrimination.
What have they done that's any different from 99% of all other Democrats have done?
They haven't done Barney Frank, Barney Frank got away with destroying the housing market, and then was allowed to write a piece of legislation to so-called fix it.
Poof.
Same thing with Chris Dodd.
Of course, well, nah, Dodd got caught up in the country wide thing.
He's gonna toast.
But they at least let him have a swan song on the financial regulatory reform bill.
But I mean, it's you got to figure that that Maxine and Barney, or Maxine and and and uh uh uh Charlie Wrangler said, what do we do that 99% of the other Democrats had not been doing all these years?
That's it.
If you want to know, if you want to know, HR got it.
If you want to know, both Maxine and Charlie endorsed Hillary.
I'm not making it up, and I'm not I'm not I'm not giving you uh uh something just to have fun with.
This is how Obama plays the game.
Brother Barack does hold grudges.
Brother Barack does have a long memory.
Charlie Wrangle and Maxine were vocal in their support of Hillary.
Waters is now saying that her uh her husband's bank one united would have gotten a piece of the TARP bailout anyway.
But how does she know?
How does she figure that?
We were told at the time that TARP money was going to go to banks that were too big to fail.
In fact, that's why Obama is at this very moment trying to sneak through a second bank bailout to bail out community banks like one United.
Kid you not.
We have time for a couple audio sound bites.
Maxine Waters flashback.
This is who she is.
2004 in Washington, Capitol Hill Financial Services Committee hearing.
Nearly a dozen hearings where, frankly, we were trying to fix something that wasn't broke.
Mr. Chairman, we do not have a crisis at Freddy Mac, and in particular at Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Mr. Frank Reigns.
And uh she was defending Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack.
Uh, here she does a great job, December 12, 2002, on an NBC show called Knockman.
He's still saying, after all of these years, that if this country had voted, but Throm Sturman would be a lot better off.
We wouldn't have had all of these problems.
That's the same statement he made back in 1948.
Here she was piling on uh uh Trent Lott here for telling the joke at uh at at Throm Sturman's uh birthday party.
You heard it right, Maxine Waters.
If his country had voted for Throm Sturmond, we'd be a lot better off.
That's how she piled on the Trent Lott cake.
Back after this, don't go away.
From Maxine Waters pronouncing it Throm Sturmed, December 12, 2002, earlier in that year, July 8th, 2002, another committee hearing on WorldCom accounting errors.
The analyst, Mr. Jack Grubman from Solomon Brian and Frank with close ties to WorldCom, and by the way, he refers to close ties and conflict of interest as synergy, is the one who recommended WorldCom.
Uh, so there you have it, uh, Maxine Waters, uh Strom Thurmond, and Solomon Barney Frank.