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Aug. 10, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 10, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And we opened a program with a bulletin, uh, ladies and gentlemen, the World Health Organization, WHO, it's part of the United Nations.
You need to know this.
Uh the World Health Organization says that the swine flu pandemic is over.
So everybody can relax out there and you can breathe easy.
Because there isn't any swine flu pandemic.
I what I want to know is when did it begin?
And what are we going to do with all of those unused vaccines or vaccinations?
They're starting to throw them away.
Because they probably have a shelf life, right?
They're worthless.
So there was no another manufactured crisis that has now come to an official and official end.
The World Health Organization says the swine flu pandemic is over.
Duh.
Never mind.
Greetings, folks.
Nice to have you back.
I'm good to be back, Rush Limbaugh.
Uh back here after a uh what did Rove say it?
Where did Rove say it was a secret?
Clandestine meeting of the right wing conspiracy.
Not true, folks.
I could I mean, if if if Carl wasn't there, there wasn't a meeting of the vast right wing conspiracy.
So I know a little bit of a diversion.
I want to thank Carl for sitting in uh yesterday, looking at the email uh responses.
You people loved Carl Rove and loved getting to know a personality side of him that nobody's ever seen that he doesn't display.
And I, you know, I knew it would work out, and I I I said yesterday, or on Friday when uh promoing Rove being on the program today, that will the yesterday be the single most powerful day he's had since leaving the White House.
Uh in fact, perhaps maybe since being in the White House, including being in the White House.
Anyway, great to have you here.
Telephone numbers 800-282-288-2, the email address, L Rushbo at EIB net.com.
The feds have announced they're gonna have to burn these swine flu vaccines.
They're gonna burn the vaccines, which sounds like we're gonna have an emissions problem.
All right, uh Barack Obama this morning, as usual, right before the program began with another series of lies about the economy and uh his uh administration's efforts to do something about it.
Productivity, by the way, non-farm U.S. productivity declined for the first time in one and a half years during the second quarter this year, labor costs barely edged up, according to a labor department report today that underlined a slowing pace of economic recovery.
You know, they keep they keep saying that we're in a recovery.
Uh and and they're basing this on the fact that GDP is positive, like one half of one percent here, one percent there.
But there really is no economic recovery.
Consumer confidence is way down.
Uh people are not hiring other people.
They're not expanding their businesses.
Uh people who are working, and unless they work for the government, are not getting raises.
Uh the insecurity that people feel over their jobs is not abating at all.
And now productivity declined by an annual rate of uh 0.9% after rising at a revised, everything's revised.
We can't even believe what they say initially.
3.9% rate in the first quarter.
Uh the weak productivity figure is in line with other broad signs that the economic recovery is losing momentum.
There never was a recovery.
We are a country on life support.
There isn't a recovery.
We need a bunch of pacemakers just to keep going.
And and and of course, Obama's in Texas yesterday blaming Bush.
Goes down to Austin, Texas, and no Democrats greeted Obama when he gets off the airplane.
Not one.
The governor was down there, Rick Perry, republican governor was made sure to show up to illustrate the fact there were no Democrats greeting Obama when he got off the plane.
Uh it's it's it's an interesting thing.
I I uh I had a meeting on on Sunday night, and I told some people, and it was interesting too.
Uh I got a nod of heads when I made this point.
And it's something I make to you each and every day on the program.
This is purposeful.
Nobody in Their right mind would continue these policies if their objective was to grow the economy.
And I said a lot of people still have trouble accepting the fact that we've elected a president who doesn't like the country, who's got a grudge, thinks the country's been immoral and unjust, and it's about time to change it.
And I got some nods, and there were some people I can see on their faces uncomfortable with, and these were quote unquote Republicans.
And it's it's it's uh it's I know it still sounds harsh, but it's the truth.
Uh there's there's they're talking about these tax increases now, necessary.
They got all these former treasury guys, O'Neal, the Federal Reserve guys gonna come out.
Yeah, we gotta have the Geitner, more tax increases.
Uh government will go broke if we uh if we if we cut taxes or extend these these tax cuts.
It's just mind-bogglingly insane.
And says these people are not insane.
Now, well, you might want to say they're idiots, and you might want to say, well, Obama's naive and and and young and inexperienced and uh arrogant to know what he's doing.
I I'm sorry, I refuse to accept that.
I I just I think that there are uh policies in place here that are purposeful damaging the country.
Look at the look at the threats from the Democrats.
If they lose the house, they're gonna come back and do a lame duck session to ram through even more stuff.
They know the country doesn't want it.
They know they're governing against the will of the people, pure and simple.
But we have 40 to 50 percent, 40 to 46 percent of the American people on the dole.
And so it's uh it's a tipping point.
Now, Obama, we got a couple of soundbites here, but let me summarize.
He just he just finished giving remarks where he said that this 26 billion dollar bailout will not add one penny to the deficit.
The bill does not even have a name.
Do you realize the bill does, it's a no-name bill, and it is supposed to be paid for in part by twelve billion dollars taken from taken from the food stamp program in 2014.
Now, does anybody believe that that's actually going to happen?
The food stamp program is not gonna, or nor is any other federal program gonna have 12 billion dollars taken from it to pay for this.
This is nothing more than keeping unions employed.
This is this is not even bailing states out.
This is about state and local union jobs, not private sector jobs.
Uh the shell game that's being played here, that you know you have the long con and you have a short con.
And this is a short con.
The long con is the entire Obama administration.
The long con, as in con game, the long con is the is the uh four years of Obama, and they're made up of a bunch of short cons.
And this is a short con game.
Does anybody but are you gonna pay off your debts with money you earn or don't spend in 2014?
You they always say, they always say in order, well, we gotta we gotta spend this money because if we're getting rid of any, you have to get rid of firemen and police and teachers.
Let me ask you a question.
All of you, household budget question.
When you are facing tough times, do you turn off your electricity?
Do you cancel uh all of the necessities that you have, or do you go to the luxuries?
You maybe not go out to dinner as often, or you maybe don't go to the movies, or you don't buy another television or cell phone or whatever.
You cut back the cable bill you try, but you don't turn off your electricity.
You don't cut off the things that are necessary to live.
The idea that we can only cut firemen and police officers and uh and other such things is a trick that has long been used to get people to go along with budget busting spending when there is no responsibility being exhibited by the spenders in any way, shape, manner, or form.
And by the way, the Hill.com has a has a story from uh August 8th.
Uh liberals vow to back state A. This is the current bill, the no-name bill here, but restore food stamp funding.
Liberal Democrats said they're gonna vote for the $26 billion state aid bill when the House reconvenes today, but are committed to restoring the food stamp program funding is being used to uh pay for it.
Uh it ain't gonna happen.
Here's Obama, first of two sound bites today in Washington in the White House Rose Garden.
We do nothing, these educators won't be returning to the classroom this fall.
And that won't just deprive them of a paycheck.
It will deprive the children and parents who are counting on them to provide a decent education.
It means that students in Illinois and West Virginia who count on Rachel and Shannon are going to be uh not getting the education that they deserve.
It will deprive countless cities and towns of the law enforcement officials and first responders who risk their lives to keep us out of harm's way.
Everything in that statement is a crock.
How much money is unspent from the original porculus bill?
This is nothing more than another slush fund.
And it's a slush fund that is aimed at lake at local and state union workers, keeping them in place.
It's not about your kids or your kids' education.
If it were about your kids and your kids' education, they'd shut down half the public schools in the country.
If it were about your kids and your kids' education, they would not have shut down the voucher program in Washington, D.C. That was letting minority kids and urban kids go to the uh private schools that Obama sends his kids to, and the Clintons sent their kid to, and Al Gores sent their kid to.
It's not about the kids, it's not about education, it's not about anything other than keeping government employees, be they state, local, or federal, employed, plain and simple.
Byron York has a great point today in a piece that he wrote for the D.C. examiner.
Cut the deficit without cutting services, start here.
Whenever a conservative suggests reducing the federal deficit by cutting spending, rather than raising taxes, is always somebody to say, Well, what would you cut?
Americans say, may say they want less government spending, the argument goes, but they don't want anybody to touch their services and their subsidies and their monthly checks.
Fair enough.
But there's a persuasive counter-argument going around in conservative circles these days.
You can start cutting government spending without cutting anyone's services or subsidies or monthly checks.
Just bring the pay of federal workers into line with pay in the private sector.
The Heritage Foundation has done a study, found the, and we've we've told you about this.
The average federal worker, this is excluding the uniform military.
Average federal worker makes $78,901 a year in wages and salary.
The average private sector worker earns $50, $11.
So you could say here that the uh federal worker makes $29,000 a year more average than private sector.
Now, when you count generous health and pension benefits, which, as we know for government workers, are through the roof and sky high, the average total compensation of federal workers comes to $11,000 a year.
The average in the private sector is $60,078.
So essentially, public employees, federal government workers, are making $51,000 in total compensation benefits pensions at all.
$51,000 a year more than people in the private sector.
Now you may say, well, what's wrong with that?
Russia off for people doing well.
Yeah, I am, but nobody in the private public sector is producing anything.
No, but productivity, productivity falls for the first time for two.
They don't measure that in the federal government because there isn't any.
There is no production.
What does the federal government produce besides paper?
Regulations, laws, obstacles, shackles.
But they don't produce anything tangible.
They don't grow anything.
And so it's the people who are earning $60,000 a year who are paying the people who earn the $11,000.
So the point is, just cut federal pay to equal private sector pay on an average basis, and look at the money you could save.
You wouldn't be firing anybody.
You wouldn't be getting rid of teachers, you wouldn't be closing schools, you wouldn't be getting rid of the cops.
All you'd be doing is bringing federal pay in line with private sector pay.
It's an excellent point.
And the fact that it will not happen, and the fact that it would be strikingly opposed is proof positive of the objective of the Democrat Party and this administration.
The three wealthiest counties in America today are the D.C. suburbs in Maryland and Virginia.
Washington, people who live and work in Washington are doing well.
People living and working for the government are doing extremely well.
And meanwhile, Obama's out $26 billion in new slush fund in order to keep firemen working and police working, the first responders, and to keep teachers working.
And it's all a crock.
250,000 federal jobs have been added the last year and a half under the Obama regime.
While we've lost three and a half to four million jobs in the private sector.
And remember the average pay, the average of those 250,000 new jobs is 111,000 a year, paid for by those of you who are out of work or who are working, who are earning an average of $60,000 a year.
Here's the second soundbite from Obama claiming this is a jobs bill.
It will cost us jobs at a time when we need to be creating jobs.
In other words, it will take us backwards at a time when we need to keep this country moving forward.
This proposal is fully paid for, in part by closing tax loopholes that encourage corporations to ship American jobs overseas, or will not add to our deficit.
And the money will only go towards saving the jobs of teachers and other essential professionals.
We've been spending more and more, I don't know what the federal deficit over three trillion, a federal budget over three trillion.
It goes up and up every year.
And if you noticed every year, it has to go up, or else we're going to lose teachers and firemen and uh and and uh cops.
And that's why the analogy do you you you don't cut turn off your electricity and you don't shut down your house.
When you're faced with tough economic times, you get rid of the luxuries and so forth.
By the way, USA Today says the average federal worker makes $123,000 with benching and benefits, not the 111.
All right, quick timeout.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go.
The New York City Transit Agency has approved a bus advertisement that depicts an airplane flying toward the World Trade Center's towers as they burn, along with a rendering of a proposed mosque near ground zero.
The ad was paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative.
That is an organization that opposes radical Islamic influence in the U.S. The group's director says she does not find the ad offensive.
The group sued the MTA, the Metro Transportation Authority to demand that it accept the ad, which has approved, it was approved on Monday.
So one of these bus signs, you'll be driving around New York and you'll see this.
An ad that depicts a plane flying toward the World Trade Center's towers as they burn, along with a rendering of a proposed mosque.
By the way, the uh the head honcho of this proposed mosque has now been sent over to the Middle East as a United States envoy.
Faisal Al Ciz Sahib Skyhook, whatever his name is, is now an official U.S. emissary, part of uh U.S. outreach.
He's going to Saudi Arabia and some other Middle Eastern countries.
Hired by the regime, hired by the Obama administration for outreach.
How about this flight attendant for jet blue?
This guy, this guy has captured the American public's imagination.
This jet blue flight attendant, almost like it had a Howard Beale moment.
He was mad as hell, he wasn't going to take it anymore.
He'd had it up to here with complaining passengers.
So he quit.
He gets on.
You hadn't heard about this, Don?
Plane lands, JFK and a guy, the flight attendance, it's a guy gets on the intercom and starts bashing a couple passengers, tells them to go get effed and so forth and so on, then deploys the escape chute and flees the scene, goes down the escape chute, flees the scene and goes home where the cops went and found it.
Had a couple beers before before he leaves.
He pulled the emergency chute and got out of there.
Ran out of patience yesterday afternoon, cursed a blue streak over the PA system, grabbed a couple beers, pulled the emergency chute, slid down and ran for the plane.
The American people can relate to this.
That jet is Obama's economy.
People want to deploy the escape chute and get out of Obama's economies.
This guy's name is Steven Slater of Bell Harbor, Queens, due to make his first appearance in court today, working flight 1052 from Pittsburgh to JFK, landed around uh noon yesterday when he got it, probably just wanted to get home to hear Rove.
As much as anything, probably had ticked off as well over the uh circumstances.
He had a heated exchange with the passenger, he told off the entire plan on the PA system, deployed to shoot and fled the scene.
And this guy's all over the internet now.
People are fascinated by this.
Rush Limbaugh, making more sense than anyone else in the major media.
Great to have you here.
Uh telephone numbers 800-282-2882.
Here's this USA Today story.
Federal workers earning double their private counterparts.
Now we've heard all of this before.
This is really nothing new.
But the the real news is that despite the worst economy, since the Great Depression, government employees continue to make out like bandits, in fact, exactly like bandits.
Oh, and folks, this is funny.
I have to tell you, by the way, jet blue is non-union.
Did you know this?
Not that it matters.
Snerdley told me during the break that he is being inundated today with angry liberals who are just fuming mad and they're lacing him with obscenities.
Shouting through the phone, he says, Well, do you want to you want to go on the air?
No, they don't want to go in the air.
They just want Snerdley to tell me what a rotten SOB and so forth I am.
Now we're all trying to figure out what happened in the first half hour to tick them off.
Because there's really nothing new in the first half hour.
We I mean the fact that Obama's purposely destroying the economy, we've said that before.
The fact that federal workers earn much more than private sector workers and don't produce anything, and that their pay could be cut, and we wouldn't have to lose a single job.
That might have been the one that to make them.
They're fuming.
Maybe they just missed me.
It could well be.
It could well be.
I mean, if you need a daily dose of hate and you miss the daily dose, uh that could explain it.
Uh anyway, what else was there?
Uh the jet blue story, uh, the fireman cops, private sector.
We haven't even gotten to Michelle My Bell's uh vacation and the media excuses for that.
And by the way, I'm being blamed for the media take or the anti-vacation take of Michelle My Bell's vacation.
I, El Rushbo.
That's coming up.
But here's the USA-to-day story.
At a time when workers' pay and benefits stagnated, federal employees' average compensation has grown to more than double what private sector workers earn.
And this is a USA Today analysis.
Federal workers have been awarded bigger average pay and benefit increases than private employees for nine years in a row now.
The uh compensation gap between the federal and private workers has doubled in the past decade.
The average compensation, 2009, federal civilian is 120, meaning non-uniform military, 123,049.
Of that, 81,000 is salary, 41,000 is benefits, 81,000 salary, 41,000 in benefits or health care, pension, whatever the hell else the benefits are in the private sector.
The uh the amount is uh sixty-one thousand, fifty thousand of it in salary and ten thousand in benefits.
Even state and local government.
State and local government workers average is sixty-nine thousand, basically seventy thousand versus sixty-one in the private sector.
53,000 of the 70 is salary.
17,000 is benefits.
So people working at all levels of government, state and local and federal, are earning much more than the average employee in the private sector.
Both salary and benefits and growing 250,000, uh 250,000 new federal employees since Obama has been emaculated.
Public employee unions say the compensation gap reflects the increasingly high level of skill.
Get this now.
Public employee union leaders.
Yeah, well, of course that we make far more money than these uh the stiffs in the private sector, because we have an increasingly high level of skill and education that's required for most federal jobs, and government contracting out lower paid jobs to the private sector in recent years.
You guys go ask any TSA employee.
You go ask any they want us to believe that the reason for all the high pay in government is because of the skill level and the education necessary.
Now Obama has ordered a freeze on bonuses for 2900 political political employees for the rest of the two million person federal workforce, two million federal employees.
Obama has asked for a 1.4% across the board pay pay increase in 2011.
That's the smallest in more than a decade.
Federal workers also would qualify for seniority pay increases.
Oh, this is very courageous.
Obama taking a stu a tough stand.
Only 1.4% across the board wage increases for the two million plus federal workers.
In the meantime, the Rasmussen Consumer Index, which measures the economic confidence of consumers on a daily basis, fell to its lowest level since December 3rd, 2009.
At 70.0 consumer confidence is down four points from uh from Friday and Saturday and down nine points from its level a week ago.
Only eight percent of adults nationwide rate that the U.S. economy is good or exit.
Now, with all of this news, keep in mind that the Democrats are coming back spending all this money because this is how they're gonna run for reelection.
They're gonna blame Bush.
They're gonna say that all of this misery that you're experiencing because of George W. Bush, and it would be even worse if it had it not been for Obama.
Dick Morris points out that the way the Democrats are going to, they're being told to just ignore their successes.
If you can believe ignore your don't campaign on health care.
Don't campaign on any of your legislative achievements.
Don't brag.
That's the message that's gone out from on high to Democrats.
Don't brag.
Don't brag.
Instead, attack Republicans personally.
Tie them to Bush, that they love tax cuts for the rich, the same old stuff from the same old playbook.
But it's fascinating.
Avoid bragging.
Do not brag about your achievements, which is a testament to the fact that the people issuing the orders understand there aren't any achievements.
They understand that there's nothing worth bragging about.
They understand that most Americans want no part of their agenda.
And so they are being advised to not discuss it.
To not brag.
That's hilarious.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Here's a montage.
We've put this together to illustrate the hypocrisy.
Obama's calls for sacrifice, interspersed with details of his wife's vacation.
A sacrifice you may not have chose to make, but a sacrifice you were nevertheless called to make.
The First Lady's group is to occupy 60 rooms.
A posh hotel, $300 to $6,000 a night.
Making a sacrifice for the next generation.
The First Lady will visit the king and queen on the taxpayer's dime.
A set of sacrifices from all parties.
The Air Force version of a 757, $146,000 for the round trip.
I'm willing to make some sacrifice because there are people who are going through tough times.
Expenses for Mrs. Obama's staff.
That's $95,000 just for secret service.
Everybody's gonna have to give one newspaper called Mrs. Obama, Marie Antoinette.
Everybody's gonna have to have some skin in the game.
A little montage there of Obama telling us we all need to sacrifice, we all need to cut back, interspersed with details provided by Cheryl Atkison of CBS News of the Largesse, the luxury of the expenses of the vacation taken by Michelle My Belle Obama.
You want to hear that again?
Want to hear that?
It does, it does resonate, does it not?
I mean, it does permeate out there.
It cuts through all the fog.
Uh, much like our similarly produced montage with Bob Torresoni.
Okay, play it again.
Sacrifice for you, trips to s oh, and have you heard, have you heard Lynn Sweet, the formerly respectable Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun Times, a Chicago trip, whatever she blogs for, said the real reason for the trip was that one of Michelle's friends was in pain.
One of Michelle's friends was really suffering, and and and Michelle had promised to spend some time with one of her friends.
This is really some emotional, sometimes some emotional uh uh uh disorders, emotional dysfunction, some very upsetting things happen in Michelle's friend's life, and Michelle had had promised to uh to spend some time with her.
That that's what Lynn Sweet, the Chicago Sun Times said, that's the real reason for the uh trip to uh Spain with 40 people and a bunch of Secret Service people and 60 rooms, because he had a friend that's in the dumps, depressed, got the blues down and out.
So while Michelle was ministering to her depressed buddy in Spain, Obama has been demanding and asking of sacrifice from you.
A sacrifice you may not have chose to make, but a sacrifice you were nevertheless called to make.
The first lady's group is to occupy 60 rooms.
A posh hotel, 300 to $6,000 a night.
Making a sacrifice for the next generation.
The first lady will visit the king and queen when the taxpayers dime.
A set of sacrifices from all parties.
The Air Force version of a 757, 146,000 for the round trip.
I'm willing to make some sacrifice because there are people who are going through tough times.
Expenses for Mrs. Obama's staff.
That's $95,000 just for Secret Service.
Everybody's gonna have to give one newspaper called Mrs. Obama Marie Antoinette.
Everybody's gonna have to have some skin in the game.
That's Obama telling you to sacrifice, give it up for America while his wife is in Spain.
Now, um the the woman in question here, uh uh her gynecologist's father had died.
And so she had to spend some time with Michelle.
Her father's gynecologist died.
Now, are are women really that close I wouldn't know, I have to ask.
Are women really that close to their gynecologists that when your gynecologist's father dies, you need a vacation in Spain.
Her friend, who is the wife of the head of Obama's campaign fund and the gynecologist who delivered Michelle's daughter, her father died early in July.
And she was depressed and distressed.
And so she had to go to Spain with sixty other people.
Well, forty other people in sixty rooms, because her father's gynecologist, pastor gynecologist who delivered Michelle's uh daughter.
Now you you compare we'll have a name for Michelle, Muchell.
Mooch, Mooch, Muchell Obama.
That'll tick him off, won't it, Snodley?
Muchelle Obama.
You compare her with the hated Sarah Palin.
Muchel Obama keeps a personal staff at 24.
Now we know why.
To administer to friends whose father's gynecologist pass away.
Her personal staff includes a makeup artist and a hairstylist.
A total annual government salary of more than 1.6 million dollars for the personal staff of Muchell Obama, plus their travel expenses.
Her secret service for security is extra on these trips.
Now you compare and contrast that with the hates and the ridicule that is thrown at Sarah Palin.
Who did what?
She sold the governor's jet.
She dismissed the governor's cook.
She prepared her own meals.
She returned the governor's automobile and drove her own car.
She dismissed the governor's security staff and knows how to use her own gun.
So Michelle's gynecologist, her friend's father died.
Her friend is the gynecologist.
That's her friend is the gynecologist.
And the father of the gynecologist passed away.
That's so that needed to go to Spain to sort it all out.
All right, there you have it.
That's why.
I, as you'll hear when we come back, I, ladies and gentlemen, am being blamed for the worldwide media take on this trip.
Now, by the way, folks, this new explanation from Lynn's sweet Chicago Sun Times that Michelle's friend's father died, uh, the gynecologist's father died, and she needed to spend time with Michelle.
That's coming from one anonymous source.
One anonymous source told Lynn Sweet, and now the rest of the media is running with this, because they know.
They know that this does not look good.
You want to hear the sound bites.
The optics.
That's a word that every one of these media people use.
The optics don't look good.
It's not the optics, it's the substance, you people.
Remember, Bush would go to vacation in Crawford, Texas, to a shack.
Bush's house in Crawford, 1300 square feet.
It's a shack.
And he'd go down there, what would he do?
He'd ride a bike through the woods and he would chop wood.
And the media gave him only hell for taking all these vacations.
Obama's taking more vacations in a year and a half than Bush took in four years, in terms of total days and hours.
And a lot of Bush's vacations were to his house in Crawford Tech.
The media were just bored being out in the sticks of Texas.
Texas a foreign country to them anyway.
Then they had to go down there and cover that.
And when Bush did let them on, he made them ride bikes with him, showing how to shape they are.
But the optics.
The optics, the optics are very, very bad.
We never heard this explanation before for Michelle Obama when the trip was brought up to Robert Gibbs or David Axerod.
All last week, the week before, uh, when at the White House briefing, why is the Michelle doing this?
Why is the family split up on his birthday?
We didn't hear.
Well, Michelle's gynecologist's father died.
In July.
That's another thing.
Michelle's gynecologist's father passed away in July.
And the gynecologist said, gosh, I need to spend time with Michelle.
Okay, guess what?
Let's call Spain.
Let's see if we can get 60 rooms in Marbella.
We'll put this trip together on the fly.
Folks, it just doesn't wash out there.
Here is media mantra on the optics of Michelle's trip being bad.
The optics of this trip are not good.
Democrats are a little worried about the optics.
The optics of this trip.
Democrats just don't like the optics.
The White House should have thought of the optics.
The optics couldn't have been worse.
There's a question of optics.
Worried about optics.
There should be people at the White House who are solely focused on the optics in terms of what the optics mean.
The optics are terrible in the middle of a recession.
The bottom line answer is optics matter.
Is the journalist list still going?
Are these guys still plotting at another location on how to cover this stuff?
I mean, that's from the cross the political spectrum.
You had people on Fox, you have people all over the media using the optics are bad.
Why can't they just say, you know, these pictures don't look good?
The optics, because they're trying to fool people in real Linda.
That's why.
This is a tenth.
No.
Would have been Sunday, right?
August 7th.
Anyway, from the political Floatus' star power in demand.
This is Muchell Obama.
With midterm elections looming, the White House has started debating how to unleash an untapped political weapon, Muchell Obama.
Now, this is they so they can't send Barack out there to help Democrats, but her star power is such that she's got great approval ratings.
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