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Sept. 7, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 7, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
How much is that doggy in the window?
And the lights go on all over the world.
Once again, I, L. Rushbow back behind the golden EIB microphone here at the distinguished prestigious and loved Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to have you here, folks.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program at A800 28282.
The email address L Rushball at EIBNet.com.
Not a good day for the civil rights coalition out there.
The uh Reverend Jackson's car stripped in Detroit.
Love this story.
I mean, he's he's driving his caddy.
What was it?
An escalade?
And the uh Reverend Jackson's he's in town for green jobs.
He's driving an escalating the thing gets stripped.
In Detroit, and then uh an internal audit on the shakedown business isn't what it used to be.
Internal audit at the uh at the uh National Action Network, this Reverend Sharpton's group found that the civil rights group is in such financial disarray that it flunked its record keeping may not even survive.
This is in the New York Post today.
Yeah, it's um it's bad out there.
The scathing critique was spelled out in a hard-hitting internal audit of the National Action Network's books, a copy of which was obtained by the New York Post.
The organization suffered recurring decreases in net assets, has been dependent upon advances from related parties, and the non-payment of payroll tax obligations to maintain continuity.
The non-payment of payroll tax obligations, this according to the firm KBL, and they concluded this in an April the second audit of the Reverend Sharpton's financial records at the National Action Network.
The audit which was submitted to Sharpton's board of directors warned, quote, these circumstances create substantial doubt about the organization's ability to continue.
Um not good out there.
This is not supposed to happen.
And then of course, Obama, what is this Obama out there?
Listen to this.
This is uh this is yesterday in Milwaukee at the uh AFL CIO Milwaukee labor fest.
Over the last two years, that's meant taking on some powerful interests, some powerful interests who have been dominating the agenda in Washington for a very long time, and they're not always happy with me.
They talk about me like a dog.
That's not in my prepared remarks.
It's just but it's true.
Yeah, I uh I don't understand this.
Uh folks, and I I I really don't understand.
I talk about my dog.
I got two of them.
I talk about my dogs like they're my kids.
I don't what I don't I really don't understand this.
Now I know in the Muslim world they don't like dogs.
I mean, dogs are you know one thing or another, but I I don't know about you.
We we treat our dogs like their kids.
I take care of the dog.
Well, we have to run the dog to the emergency room on Sunday.
Dog swallowed a sock.
Yeah, the Abby, Abby swallowed a sock, playing tug of war with Wellesley.
And I'm looking out of the corner of my eye, and uh and and Abby to cement the victory in tug of war, swallow the damn socks.
Oh no.
So we had to call the vet up there, the emergency clinic, and they said you better get up here, we got to induce vomiting, or else you're gonna have surgery tomorrow.
So Catherine drove a dog.
But I mean, we love the dog.
What is this what it was what is this talking about Obama like a dog?
Yeah, the dog's fine.
Dog's fine when we we dropped everything.
Well, Catherine dropped everything.
I I can't walk into a you know clinic.
Emergency vet clinic, but Catherine ran up there in record time.
Uh and yeah, dogs, dog's fine.
This is midnight.
This was midnight, dropped everything.
So I don't understand what it is about um you know the what what is he saying?
A Bow Wow presidency or something?
Bow Boy presidency or something?
I don't I do not understand what this is all about and he goes off script and he even uh he even admits it out there um did I No, I'll take that back about Muslims not lacking dogs.
I'll take it back.
Did I say that?
I did say that.
Too late to bleep that, right?
Well, it is what it is.
I'll take it back.
I'll take it back.
Sandy Posey, 1966, daughter of Jim Posey.
Um, you know, here's the thing about he was up there with uh with uh uh another barking lunatic that's Richard Trumke, uh, the union guy.
I mean, imagine, imagine being on the same podium with that barking lunatic, Richard Trumke, and you're the guy who makes news with a bonehead remark that people treat you like a dog.
Isn't it great to be back here, folks?
Yeah, just wonderful to be back.
Had a wonderful time uh out in out in Hawaii, did a lot of video taping, a lot of shooting of the Haney project.
Boy, did I learn some things about this?
Uh, this is I I I folks, we uh we've got about 30 hours, 24, 30 hours of tape already in the can.
That's probably two episodes, but each episode's 22 and a half minutes.
And there's eight of them.
They uh premiere is in January, and they've got I mean, they've already got on a video tape for a whole season.
Now, the first day I'm with Haney in Hawaii is last Tuesday, a week ago today.
And we're in a course, the lower course, the four seasons on the big island.
And I thought things are going well.
First whole par, second whole birdie, third whole par.
I think, wow, this is cool.
Haney's in the cart saying, Wow, I mean, you're good.
You're good.
We're both wired for sound.
I'm man, it was gonna be a great show.
Then on a fourth hole, second shot, club face wide open, hit the second shot out of bounds, and the golf channel crew jumps into gear.
And I finally figured out they're not gonna play, they're not gonna use any video of me hitting good shots.
This is all about me stinking.
This is drive-by golf coverage.
So here I am the three three great holes to start with, and then all of a sudden I hit one bad shot on a fourth hole, and the crew goes into action, and they dial up and they get their carts, and the cameras are two inches away from me, it's Hank Haney is giving me instructions how to fix it.
And I hit another couple of bad shots, and we finish the hole, and the producer says, Great TV, Hank.
And I finally figured out great TV equals me looking bad.
Great TV equals me stinking up the golf course.
And so then I said, Well, how long is this gonna go on?
Because at some point during the course of the show, I gotta show some improvement here.
So I said, maybe those first three holes will show up in episode seven.
Uh par, birdie, par.
Uh, no, it's a lot of fun.
I'm just, I'm um uh the producer.
There's you know, you these um, it's a reality show, which means it's scripted all tell you all we we're doing three and four different takes of things.
Yeah, yeah.
Reality show, three and four different takes of things.
Uh we just need another uh another episode of that, another shot of that in the can.
Um, they say.
So, well, you keep going till you screw up.
And Haney Haney gets into gear.
Haney comes alive when I screw up.
The whole show comes alive when I screw up.
It's it's it's it's uh it's hilarious.
And after the um, after each day's shooting, then there is the sit-down interview with me and the producer off camera.
And the producer says to me, in one of these, this is a Tuesday or Wednesday of last week.
Did you ever think?
Did you ever dream That you would be on the golf channel getting lessons from Hank Haney.
And I said, geez.
I said, well, um, uh, I think a real question is did Hank Haney.
The real question is, Hank Haney gets rid of Tiger Woods for six months with Rush Limbaugh on TV.
I'd take that deal.
I'd do that any day of the week.
Let me tell you, a reality show just means there's no union writers.
I mean, that's how reality shows got started when the writers went on strike.
Remember that?
But reality shows are uh just as scripted as uh well, not just as.
But you know, in movies, the ratio is they shoot 20 feet of film for every foot used.
Now, high-end TV, they shoot uh something like I think the ratio's 15 to 1.
15 feet of tape for every one foot used.
I don't know what uh this is gonna be.
The real question, though, you know, they asked me, do you ever do you really do you ever think that you'd uh be on a golf channel getting lessons from Hank Haney?
The real question is did Tiger Woods ever dream that someday his former coach would be giving lessons to me.
I mean, Tiger must be bragging about that to every woman he meets.
Can you imagine what a talking point Tiger's got?
Yeah, my old coach, you know what he's doing?
He's teaching Rush Limbaugh on the golf channel.
Tiger made the writer cup today.
Tiger with Josen by Corey Pavan being the writer cup.
Uh Henry Payne, the Michigan View, the irony of the uh Reverend Jackson's stripped SUV.
Following the embarrassing news that Mayor Dave Bing's GMC Yukon was hijacked by criminals last.
It's not funny.
But we're laughing anyway.
The mayor's Yukon hijacked by criminals.
Detroit's Channel 7 reports the Reverend Jackson's Cadillac Escalade stolen and stripped of its wheels while he was in town last weekend with the UAW's militant president Bob King leading the jobs, justice and peace march, promoting government-funded green jobs.
Oh, and we got another stimulus.
Another stimulus to what we're doing, build roads.
That was the first stimulus approaching a trillion dollars was to build roads, infrastructure, scrolls, and so forth.
And now we got another $50 billion to do the same thing.
And it's just another SOP to the unions.
It's just another union buyout, it's just another slush fund.
And even the Democrats are starting to.
What is this guy doing to us?
And of course, the um the state-controlled media, the partisan political operative media's all worried about the Democrats, and it's fine for them to be worried about him, but Obama's not.
This is what they don't get.
Obama doesn't care what happens to the Democrats.
He cares about what happens to him.
What Obama knows is things are going to get worse before they get better because that's what he's engineered.
And he can't blame the Democrats for it after the elections in November.
He needs the Republicans to blame.
And he knows he's going to have the media chiming, oh, yeah, it's all it's all Boehner's fault.
It's all Bush's fault.
Oh, Eric Canders, it's all Limbaugh's fault.
It's all Beck's fault.
It's all Palin's fault.
That's what the um the uh modus operandi is gonna be, but he needs he needs a Democrats to lose out there.
That's and you know, uh this is a six-hour time difference out in uh out in Hawaii.
So we played uh we played golf every day, and we left the house for the golf course every day around 11, between 10.30 and 11.30.
So when we're watching television, it's it's well, we're gonna have 9 o'clock, it's three in the afternoon here.
And one day I get up and it's kind of groggy, and I'm I'm I'm padding into the kitchen here, and there's about six of us there, and I'm looking at this um story that some guy has taken hostages at the Discovery Channel building in Maryland.
And they've got the the sound is on, but there's no close captioning on it.
My friends don't take into account that I can't hear, so the closed captioning's not on.
There's all kinds of ruckus, so I really can't hear what's being said on the TV, so I'm having to read the graphics that the in this case it was Fox, and all of a sudden I see a picture of this guy, James Lee, and then he's holding hostages because he's ticked off that the Discovery Channel's not running more save the planet programming.
And then I see that this guy was inspired by Al Gore.
And before I saw that, you know, saying I just know the media's just hoping to indicate this guy was a Rush Limbaugh listener.
Turns out he's a nutcase, now deceased.
Uh environmentalist wacko nutcase inspired by Gore.
Who was the first nutcase inspired by Gore?
The unibomber.
The unibomber had Gore's book in his one room shack, wherever it was, and uh this guy, James Lee's, and they got the they had this guy's brother-in-law on the phone.
Well, what are you thinking?
Well, he's a little uh weird.
You know, I'd say so.
Hostages, Discovery Channel not doing enough to save the planet.
And this guy was actually of the belief, and he's not see the the big problem people make here, he's not a wacko.
He is mainstream environmentalist belief.
Human beings are the problem with the planet.
This is we all here for all my 22 years, all I've had to deal with, I've had to deal with the media worried about all of the nutcases that I and others on talk radio and Fox News are inspiring.
And yet, none of the people listen to this program do anything extreme or weird like this.
It's always these leftists that do.
And here's here's Gore Saul.
The Nobel Prize winner for all this.
And he's done this poor guy, watches Gore's movie, reads Gore's book, and goes nuts, and actually believes we're destroying the planet.
Look what happens.
He takes hostages, thinks about killing people, ends up getting killed himself, blames the television network, and we still, we still haven't, and maybe we have, I haven't seen it, we still haven't seen a whole lot of stories.
What kind of behavior is Al Gore inspiring here?
What kind of lunatic behavior is Al Gore in his movie and his book inspiring?
These people are portrayed as, you know, fringe wackos and so forth when they're not.
They are mainstream environmentalist wackos.
I use the term wackos simply to say that they're they're uh they're nutcased.
I mean, this guy, no more babies.
No more babies, babies are pestilence.
Uh by by the oh, I'm told, ladies and gentlemen, I was wrong, uh, that it was not the Reverend Jackson's car.
Uh, it was borrowed.
I should have known.
Reverend doesn't pay for his own cars.
Uh it was a borrowed escalade that got stripped.
It wasn't, he just happened to be using it that day.
So, I mean, theoretically, you could say it was his car, but I don't think the um I don't think the Reverend owned it.
Now, from the AP report on September 1st on this Discovery guy at the trial, the Gazette of Montgomery County reported he said he began working to save the planet after being laid off from his job in San Diego.
He said he was inspired by Ishmael, a novel by environmentalist wacko Daniel Quinn and former vice president Al Gore's documentary, an inconvenient truth.
And they got hold of this um this this Ishmael author, Daniel Quinn.
Well, I certainly didn't inspire this kind of behavior.
Well, what the hell do you think is going to happen when you get hold of people who are fragilely balanced in the first place, who are desperately seeking any reason whatsoever to tell themselves they matter?
I mean, this is the trick to much of modern liberalism, extreme leftism, the environmental movement, take a bunch of people who think that they're irrelevant, a bunch of people who only want to, we all want to matter.
We all want our lives to have purpose.
You target a bunch of people whose lives don't matter in their own minds, and you turn them into eco warriors.
Well, I mean, What could be more important than saving the planet?
So these guys get all caught as James Lee types, get all caught up in it, uh, and and and run around uh and and do the things that they do, believe the things that they do.
I mean, literally Al Gore and these environmentalist nutcases, and it's all a hoax.
It's all a lie.
Story last week from the environment the uh the IPCC, the UN panel on the on climate change.
Even more lies.
Even more mistakes.
Totally politically oriented.
And look at the kind of people that they are inspiring with all of this.
Well, it is this it's a the whole environmental movement, the whole global warming thing is nothing but a pack of lies.
And yet they've inspired all these nutcases to believe it.
A lengthy posting, which could be seen Wednesday on a website, registered delay expressed anger against the Discovery Channel, said it promoted overpopulation.
He said it and its affiliates should stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants.
Instead, he said the Discovery Channel should air programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility.
This is extreme to the max.
This is insane extremism to the max.
And yet, where does it come from?
It comes from what is considered to be mainstream liberalism.
Global warming is an accepted mainstream leftist thought.
And look what it inspires people to.
Look where it takes them.
Um he railed against programs promoting war, said solutions should be found for global warming and automotive and factory pollution.
No quotes from Gore.
Said to be on vacation still since September 1st.
They don't even go to Gore asking.
What do you think about this?
Uh, this guy was inspired by uh by you.
Um they can't find El Gore.
He has no comment on this.
You think anybody on the right would get away with being on vacation and no comment?
All right, uh standby audio sound by number uh number 34.
Look at here is uh Al Gore.
This is Reuters' story from September 24th, 2008.
And the headline of the story, Gore urges civil disobedience to stop coal plants.
Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist crusader wacko Al Gore urged young people on Wednesday to engage in civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal plants without the ability to store carbon.
Al Gore said, I believe we have reached the stage where it's time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction.
So the guys out there, Gore is encouraging this kind of stuff that this nutcase James Lee engaged in.
And I just I just know if if there were something comparable to this on the right, we'd still be hearing about it, and they would be doing everything they could to discredit anybody who would inspire this kind of hate-filled behavior and this violent behavior.
But we can't find Al Gore.
There's no real urgency trying to find Al Gore and get his thoughts on this, and yet here's a second nut case inspired by the first guy was the uh was the unibomber.
Discovery gunman was a global warmer.
A global eco-warrior.
Here's uh President Obama.
This is yesterday Milwaukee, AFL CIO, Milwaukee Labor Fest, a portion of what President Obama said.
Anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's gonna trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up.
You'll never see it.
If that's what you're waiting for, you should stop waiting.
Because it's never happened in our history.
That's not how America was built.
It wasn't built with a bunch of folks at the top doing well and everybody else scrambling.
We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness.
So the real Obama surfaces now.
This is an angry guy, somebody we've always said he's got a chip on his shoulder, he's ticked off, he's mad, he's angry, he does not understand American history, and of course, his entire economic program depends on trickle down.
This guy is proposing what's the latest now, some big tax cut for small business?
Why?
And small business isn't gonna go for this.
This is it's another, it's it's another mirage, another come on.
One of the big problems with the economy is that for 19 months.
We've had no tax policy.
Nobody knows what the tax policy is going to be.
We've had Obama convening a deficit reduction panel, and we're waiting for their sterling report in December.
Where's the tax cut panel?
Where's the tax policy panel?
What in the hell does he think hopes, what does he hope happens with this small business tax cut?
Does he not hope that small business?
Which in Obama's world is made up of a bunch of rich people.
Make no mistake about it.
Anybody in business is a is a is a Cretan to him.
Small business, large business, corporate, anybody in business is a suspect, as far as Obama's concerned, but he hopes to give them a tax cut so that they do what?
So that they will hire, so that they will expand their business so that they'll be trickled down and people will benefit from it.
I mean, this is childish.
This is everybody talks about how smart Obama is, how brilliant he is.
This is embarrassingly shallow, this comment.
Anybody think so we can move this economy forward, just a few folks stop doing.
This is this is 150 years old rhetoric.
Would somebody tell me who is advocating only the rich do well?
Would somebody tell me where that policy is?
Would somebody tell me who's put that policy or that piece of legislation on the table that only the rich are going to do well, that we need our valiant president fighting against.
Who are these people proposing only the rich do?
It seems to me that under Obama only the rich are getting richer, including his union buddies, including his Wall Street buddies.
He sits up here mouthing this this class envy rhetoric that is embarrassing.
People are waiting for trickle down.
How the hell does he think jobs are going to be created?
People are waiting for trickle down.
They are waiting for economic expansion.
And by the way, interesting story here.
This is uh.
Who wrote this?
It's the Wall Street Journal.
It's a blogger, but I don't have the name.
It just is in July, I blogged about a study that revealed subtle links between money and happiness.
Anyway, here's the bottom line of this.
The perfect salary for happiness is $75,000 a year.
Yep, as people earn more money, their day-to-day happiness rises until you hit $75,000.
After that, it's just more stuff with no gain in happiness.
This is recording to a study which analyzed Gallup surveys of 450,000 Americans in 2008-2009, suggested that there were two forms of happiness.
Day-to-day contentment, which is emotional well-being, and overall life assessment, which means broader satisfaction with one's place in the world.
While a higher income did not have much impact on day-to-day contentment, it did boost people's life assessment.
And now we have more details from the study conducted by the Princeton economist Angus Deaton and fame psychologist Daniel Kaineman.
It turns out there is a specific dollar number or income plateau after which more money has no measurable effect on day-to-day contentment.
Imagine income number 75G, 75 large.
As people earn more money, their day-to-day happiness rises until you hit 75 large.
After that, it's just more stuff with no gain in happiness.
Now that doesn't mean that wealthy and ultra-wealthy are equally happy.
More money does boost people's life assessment all the way up the income ladder.
People who earn $160,000 a year, for instance, reported more overall satisfaction than people earning $120.
What the point of this is.
What?
So I guess for those of you who resent the rich, just keep in mind they're not happy.
The Wall Street Journal of all places for this to appear.
Yeah, after they earn $75,000, they're not happy anymore.
They're no happier after seven.
So if you hate the rich, stop hating them.
Be happy.
Because as they earn more than 75 grand, they get miserable.
Exactly what you want.
The left wants us to hate the rich.
The left wants us to despise them, but we shouldn't.
Because they're miserable.
After 75 grand.
Who believes this?
Nobody.
Not a single person will believe this.
And here it comes this is just today, so it comes a day after Obama's mindless meandering, wandering, incessantly stupid comments to these union idiots.
In Milwaukee, America wasn't built with a bunch of folks at the top doing well and everybody else scrambling.
We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world by just rewarding greed and recklessness.
So, well, what the hell are you, sir?
You're flying on vacations in Martha's Vineyard paid for by somebody else.
Air Force One paid for by us.
I mean, the the uh to me, ladies and gentlemen, the greed in this society is to be found in Washington, DC by people who are using other people's money to increase their own lifestyles.
This is not who we were supposed to have.
It's supposed to be post-racist, post-partisan, post this, post that.
Anyway, I got a report uh this morning, folks.
Heritage Foundation now has 696,000 members.
If um if all that you've heard today is not enough proof that the political tide's turning, listen to this just two years ago.
Heritage Foundation membership was about 300,000.
Today they're on the brink of a number that starts with a seven.
Heritage is the largest think tank in Washington.
They drive liberals nuts.
How long have they been associated with this program?
It's uh two years.
Heritage has been associated with this program two years, and they've gone from 300,000 members to almost 700,000 members.
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So 700,000.
It's gonna happen this week, and we're at 696,000 now, 700,000 this week.
Guaranteed.
Something else Obama says he said he can't run around with his birth certificate plastered on his forehead or something like that, right?
Is that what he said?
Something like that?
Well now, okay, he might not have been born in Kenya.
But he certainly is one of the best Keynesian economist believers that we have ever seen.
Can you imagine going up and talking about greed to a bunch of union members?
Can you be criticizing greed with a union audience?
How do you do that?
How do you criticize greed when you got Richard Trumpka standing there right next to you?
Well, what?
How are they gonna be able to choose a tweak?
Oh, how the media gonna be able to choose a tweak?
We haven't even scratched the surface on tweaks yet.
I mean, this business of talking about greed in front of an audience of union people.
And how about this number 75 grand?
Anything over that?
You're miserable?
Well, we know that union members, particularly government workers, make twice as much as people in the private sector.
And the average, when you take all the compensation and the uh compensation in the benefits package, the average government worker makes twice over a hundred grand what the average private sector worker makes.
A hundred grand larger than seventy-five, we can therefore conclude that a lot of these union members and government workers are not happy.
They make more than 75 grand.
We have a perfect excuse to save a lot of money, cut budgets just by cutting every government salary down to 75,000 a year now.
And make them all happier.
There's no increase in happiness or contentment beyond $75,000 a year.
Quick phone call.
Matt in Suffolk, Virginia.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Welcome back, sir.
Good to be here.
I just wanted to make the point that the only person that I've heard talking about or comparing him to a dog would be himself.
Uh talking about in that interview where he compared him or said he's basically a mongrel, which is a mixed breed mutt.
You know, you have a point.
He called himself a mongrel, which is a mixed greed dog, a mixed breed dog, or mutt.
You are exactly right.
He's the only one comparing himself to a dog.
And that's an outright comparison.
Uh yeah, there's no blame the GOP.
No gray area there.
This is uh pure black and white.
Another tweak.
Uh Dallas, Texas, Steve, welcome.
Welcome to the EIV network, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Over Bardetto's rush.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, you know, the president's talking about these uh exemptions for corporations now, the extending these tax cuts to allow RD to be fully written off uh $50 billion, some sort of uh tax exemption.
Yeah.
Anybody really think that's gonna last after the election if we don't get uh Republican House and Senate?
I you can see in in March, Nancy trotting up and saying, we just can't afford these tax cuts.
We we just we can't afford to not get this 200 billion or whatever it's supposed to cost uh in these tax cuts.
It's just it's nuts.
We can't we can't afford to let them go the direction of the.
Wait a minute.
Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
You're saying that this what Pelosi is gonna say if the Republicans win the House and Senate?
No, I'm saying if they if the Republicans don't win the House and Republicans.
Let me tell you something.
If the Republicans don't win the House, then if they don't win the House of Representatives, something uh really, really major out of whack uh going on.
And even if they do.
Now this we're not I'm not gonna talk about what the Republicans are gonna be and what they're gonna do if they win, but the idea that they might not win the House, where where are you getting that?
Oh, I uh like you said, like was said last week on your program, they're setting us up now with oh, we're gonna win the Republicans might win 90 seats or 80 seats, and that way if they only win fifty or forty, it looks like a loss.
Uh I I believe we'll take the House.
I hope we'll take the Senate, but uh we've got to take one.
Yeah.
If we don't get one, there's gonna be a lot of pain for everybody involved for the next two years.
Well, now this is the first I've heard that they're setting us up.
Uh that we're gonna get 90 seats, hundred seats, even if we win the house, it's a loss.
Right, because we didn't get as many as they as the pundits and the drive-bys are saying we should get.
Oh.
Well, the spin is the spin.
I think it's always gonna be spun incorrectly.
Yeah, here's here's the uh the real story, and I can't you know, actually in the New York Times, Democrats plan political triage to retain house.
Political triage.
Now, you you know what when when when triage is is set up after an accident, you know.
That's no, it's not the appearance.
That's where you that's where you have to let some people die.
You have to decide who is worth treating and who isn't.
Who Who is who's I mean, you're in an emergency situation, you do not have at that moment full medical capability available.
So you have to treat those with the most likelihood to survive.
That's what triage is.
So the Democrats plan political triage, which means they're already calculating which of their people are guaranteed losers, and they're gonna take money away from them.
They're gonna spend any money on the people they think guaranteed lose, and uh and take that money on people they think have a chance to win, so that their losses are not quite as severe as uh as are forecast.
Here's a quote from the story.
Ultimately, these races come down to a choice, said a freshman who represents the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where McCain beat Obama by 18 points two years ago.
The national part of it has uh some impact, but I think the bigger part of it is voters looking at people and deciding who is best going to represent them.
Uh I I yeah, but like nobody wanted Obamacare, but we have it.
Is that these people are so far off the path, I don't know what they're talking about.
Now this folks disadjust too rich.
Our old buddy Roger Simon in the politico.
Polls lie about Obama.
It's not really as bad for Obama out there as the polls indicate.
And you know why?
Because polls lie all the time, and that's because people lie to pollsters.
This is the first time a mainstream media guy has ever questioned a poll when it is anti-Obama, when it looks bad for Obama.
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