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Sept. 7, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 7, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Yeah, here it is.
Audio sound by number 49, November 7th.
Uh this is the first time.
First time Obama called himself a dog.
November 7, 2008, Chicago.
Our preference would be to get a shelter dog, but obviously a lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
And then later on, he called himself a mongrel.
Now he's accusing us of talking about him like a dog.
Of course, we love our dogs.
Every time I talk about my dogs, I get hate mail.
But what about pumpkin?
You never talk about pumpkin anymore.
Pumpkin's fine.
Pumpkin's cool.
Pumpkin uh will not leave my side.
I got back from Hawaii's gone eight days.
Pumpkin will not leave my side.
That is that's one loyal cat.
Anyway, greetings, welcome back.
L. Rushbaugh here behind the golden EIB microphone.
Great to be back.
Telephone number 800 282-2882.
And the email address L Rushball at EIB net.com.
The White House Press Secretary Robert Fibbs just announced that uh the courageous Obama is gonna speak at the Pentagon on 9-11 rather than at the World Trade Center.
Because that's uh pretty close to where the mosque is gonna be.
Don't want to go there.
Uh so he's gonna go to the uh the Pentagon.
Uh and Michelle, my bell Muchell is gonna go to the World Trade Center.
Well, that's what it says here.
Uh Michelle Obama is uh is going to appear at the World Trade Center, and uh Obama himself is going to appear at the Pentagon.
During my absence, I was nevertheless mentioned.
The staff has sent me sound bites mentioning my name when I was gone, and I haven't heard these.
We're gonna listen to them together.
Yesterday on uh Meet the Press, David Gregory talking to the former Obama campaign manager David Fluff.
And Gregory said, hey Fluff, who's the leader of the Republican Party right now?
Who would you say?
Right now, and this is a problem for them long term.
I do think that Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, they are the leaders of the party.
And you see, whenever I was struck by Senator Coben from Oklahoma, I think was at a town hall meeting and said, I don't agree with anything the Democrats are doing, and I don't agree with Speaker Pelosi, but she's a nice person and got attacked for that.
There is an intolerance in that party and an extremism that I think is where the real energy is.
And so I think as you see in 11 and 12 at that presidential primary, those are the people that are going to come out to vote.
Bottom line is Fluff can run around and say all day long that he thinks I'm a problem for the Republicans.
No, the Republicans are gonna win.
Uh I am a problem for the White House.
And Palin is a problem for the White House.
A Beck is a problem for the White House.
We are not we're we're I mean, we're winners.
Bernie Sanders, August 29th, Morrisville, Vermont, had a town meeting and a QA.
An audience member said, how do we convince these people that climate change is real and is our greatest judge of the human race?
Was this August 29th?
This was uh was this before or after this nut case took hostages at uh the Discovery Channel.
See, this is my point from the previous hour.
The real insanity is on the pro-global warming side of this.
And here you have a lunatic, Bernie Sanders, certified lunatic with the pro with a uh with a town hall meeting in Vermont, one of his supporters, ha ha we convince these people.
Climate change is real.
Great.
How do we continue the lie?
We everybody knows this is a hoax.
Everybody knows it's a hoax now.
Everybody knows it's totally lied and made up.
How do we convince people that the lie is real?
And here's what Bernie Sanders said.
On one hand, you have virtually every major scientific organization in America and in the world that believes that a global warming is real, and B, in almost all likelihood, it is created by human beings through carbon emissions.
And then on top of that, you have the CIA and the Defense Department recognizing the reality of global warming.
So you got the CIA, the Department of Defense, the Party of Agriculture, the EPA, virtually every government agency and all of our scientists think global warming is real.
That's the one side.
And on the other side, you got Rush Limbaugh.
Let's see.
Got the entire world scientific community here.
You got Rush Limbal.
It's a tough one.
This is two days.
Two to three.
And who's winning the argument, Bernie?
Who's winning the argument?
I, El Rushbo am winning the argument.
The polls clearly show now.
Majority of people think that global warming is not man-made and is not even that big a deal.
It may not even be real.
By the way, the discovery siege, the kidnapping happened on September 1st, so this is August 29th.
So this happened before the Nook case.
Took the hostages into being shot.
James Lee at the Discovery Channel.
Joy Behar just cannot let go of the fact that Elton John performed at my wedding.
She just can't let go of this.
It's like a box of old tampons.
She just can't get rid of it.
She had Cindy Lauper.
This was uh last Friday on headline news, the Joy Behar, the Maud Behar Show.
Listen to this.
Elton John.
You know, he recently performed uh for Rush Limbaugh for a million bucks.
How much would they have to pay you to do that?
Well, he's all about mending bridges.
He's about if I perform for this man who maybe is not really close to someone, and and he feels a kinship with Elton John.
This is Rush Limbaugh.
Yeah.
Feeling a kinship with a gay man.
Right.
Well, instead of slamming the door closed, he went to go widening.
So would you do it?
Me?
I I don't know.
I don't know.
I I have a big mouth.
So, um well, that's if that's right.
If Joy does get married, if she does who who will perform.
By the way, all joy, I uh uh you you people th this this figure of one million dollars.
I don't know how this figure got it, but it's not correct.
The one million dollar payment to Elton John, I don't know where this got started.
Problem.
The Palm Beach rag.
Well, whatever.
It's not it's it's uh it's it's not accurate.
But she just can't let go of this.
She can't let go.
Imagine what she would do if she saw some of the pictures backstage before the concert.
Uh let's skip number 48.
Let's move now last week, August 31st, Tuesday night.
Uh Rachel Maddow, Matto, Mattow show on um on uh she says spoke with Newsweek magazine.
Uh uh uh stenographer Jonathan Alter, who takes dictation from David Axelrod.
About the 20 turn, uh 2010 midterm elections, she said, is there uh less of a downside in a midterm than there is in a presidential election, a latching the party under uh one of these Obamas, a Muslim far-right guy.
They have just become a talk show party.
You know, Obama asked them the Republican leadership point blank in February of 2009 in a private meeting.
Do you want to be the party of Rush Limbaugh?
And they didn't answer the question, but the answer is apparently yes.
They are willing to latch themselves to these extreme folks.
You know, they tried to say I was a problem in 1994, too.
Uh, but we won back in 1994.
We're gonna win again uh this year.
The party of limbaugh is doing great in the polls.
And I look at the polls and the party of limbaugh's doing fan.
By the way, Mr. Alter, that you got it kind of wrong here.
Uh it was uh it was February 2009 in a private meeting with congressional leadership, and Obama did not ask them if they wanted to be the party of Rush Limbaugh.
He told them you can't listen to Rush Limbaugh.
That's not how things get done in Washington.
Now, this was after I had said I hope he fails.
And of course, we all know what happened with that.
Chris Van Holland up next at the National Press Club August 27th, a Friday during the QA.
Somebody and he's the uh Democrat from Maryland who heads a Democrat Senate or Congressional Campaign Committee.
Question uh, you you spoke about the Advantages that you have money being prepared.
You didn't mention an area where you're in real deficit, the power of talk shows.
Unfortunately, apparently, you guys are either not represented or represented in such a fractional way as to be statistically insignificant, especially in these areas.
We have close races.
Talk to us about your concerns in the area of talk radio.
Period of a time ago that Rush Limbaugh famously said that he hoped that the president would fail.
There were a number of Republicans in the Congress who said, No, that doesn't sound right.
You know, I don't think any American would want the president of the United States to fail.
Well, within 24 hours after uh Rush Limbale got on the air denouncing those members, they publicly apologized.
So I don't underestimate the power.
Well, what public apologize who publicly apologized?
What does he say here?
Got on the air denouncing those members.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
I didn't denounce those members.
They denounced me.
And then their constituents got mad at them, and then they apologized to me.
That's what Van Holland is saying.
That's what he's talking about.
So he doesn't understand the power of uh of limbaugh.
And then last Monday night, August 30th on Hardball, Chris Matthews talked to the uh the author Richard Wolfe about the Tea Party movement and the Glenn Beck rally, and Matthew said, um, is that what this revival's really about?
An emulation of the enemy.
I mean, it may be fundamentalists, but we have to resort to our fundamental beliefs as well to counter those fundamental beliefs.
Is this incoherent?
Is an incoherent question on an incoherent show.
I don't even know why I'm playing.
Well, I'm playing the soundbite because my name's mentioned.
Here's what Richard here's what Richard Wolfe said in answer to this incoherent question.
What's curious is why the White House chooses to fight against Rush Limbaugh, saying he's the de facto leader of the party.
They don't do the same with Glenbank.
So they're trying to figure out Beck has this giant rally.
Why don't they continue to talk about Limbaugh, not talking about Beck?
Uh Richard Wolfe is trying to figure this out.
Uh, and they don't have an answer.
They do not have an answer.
And now, you know, of course, we mentioned uh before we left for vacation, they're begging Bush to save Obama on the mosque.
And and now the liberals who hated Bush claim that he was the only thing that saved the Republicans from Islamophobia.
And now that he's gone, and now that I am the leader, the Republican Party is the Islamophobic Party.
This is another segment from MSNBC.
If you look in the immediate aftermath of 9-11, a lot of people tend to focus on what former President George W. Bush said at the time, which was something that was pretty admirable, which he came out and he made a clear distinction between we're going to go wage a war in Afghanistan and then ultimately in Iraq, but we're not fighting Islam.
If you listen to Rush Limbaugh's shows for the last seven or eight years, if you listen to very prominent voices on the right, if you listen to many conservative politicians in this country between now and then, the message that was delivered to listeners to the audience was very clear, and there was not any distinction drawn between that.
The Republican Party and the conservative movement cemented itself, I believe, in response to 9-11 as an Islamophobic movement.
Take Bush out of the equation.
There's nothing left except that rhetoric.
That was Steve Kernakina.
Who is he?
Oh, he's the news editor at uh at Salon.com.
So this is Steve Kernacke talking about the Islamophobic GOP.
To which I'll just repeat what I said before left for Hawaii.
How in the world can we be an Islamophobic country if we elected somebody whose name is Barack Hussein Obama?
You know, I remember the good old days, folks.
When the Democrats and the leftists called us racists.
Those were the good old days.
Now all of a sudden, we are Islamophobes.
Islamophobes has replaced racist as the attack word from the left.
So my question would be: how could any sane person be afraid of a religion that practices sharia law, that kills anybody who won't convert, that holds horrible public executions, cuts off people's heads in revenge killings with rusty knives, and kills their own daughters and wives in honor killings, and hates puppies, doesn't like dogs, invades countries like parasites, and refuses to assimilate, and it's growing by leaps and bounds.
Who can any sane person be afraid of that?
You got me.
I thought racism was the secret word.
For Democrats to end any and all political debate.
Now they've come up with Islamophobe.
We're Islamophobes, folks.
And we need Bush.
The bail Obama out in the mosque business.
Pat in Stevenson, Washington, as we go back to the phones.
Great to have you on the uh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rash.
Uh Megadinhos from the Columbia River Gorge.
Thank you, sir.
The uh if you ever get a chance to get up here, it's it's uh well worth your trip.
Uh got two points I'd like to bring up real quick.
First time uh long time listener, first time caller, so I'm a little nervous.
Uh I bought your brother's book.
I've got to tell all your listeners.
I I brought it home, sat down, started reading it, read till midnight, went to bed, did not go to sleep, woke up at five in the morning and read till I was finished.
In all of my life, I have I've read Sean, I've read uh Levin, I've read I've read them all.
And nothing has ever uh touched me like your brother's book.
What's the title of that book, uh Pat Crimes Against Liberty.
That's right.
Uh who's the author again, Pat?
David Limbaugh.
David Limbaugh, that's right.
Crimes Against Liberty by David Limbaugh.
It is you I mean, it it it is a you can't stop reading it, and everything the extent to which this administration and these people lie is documented.
If every American had uh had this book and read it, it'd be the end of Obama.
It would be the end of the Democrat Party.
If every American read this book.
Right, Pat?
I go ahead.
I I just uh couldn't put it down.
I mean, like I say, I I couldn't sleep.
I had to get back up and finish it, and uh uh like you say, it it is so well documented.
I mean, you know, he he did his homework and uh Well, he listens to me a lot, that's true.
Uh what I'm if every American read this book, that'd be the end of Obama, it would be the end of Obama phobia, it'd be the end of the Democrat Party.
I mean, it's it it documents lie after lie after lie, from fibs to Obama to all these people on.
It's just um it's scary, is what it is.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And the second point I'd like to bring up, uh, I've I've got to tell you this.
Uh I'm I am in your corner a hundred and ten percent.
Sixty percent of all government workers are drones.
They do not need to be there.
But your brother points out in the book that Obama's trying to bring in 16,000 new IRS agents to keep track of our our taxes and stuff.
That's health care.
Yeah.
I've I've got to correct you on one thing.
Uh oh.
There is a branch.
I'm retired from the U.S. government.
There is a branch of the U.S. government that makes money.
And I am here in the Columbia River Gorge.
I'm retired from Bottom Hill Dam, and the year I retired, we made 151 million dollars for the government generating electricity at uh Montreal Dam.
What is it?
As far as I know, that is the only branch of the government, and we had to fight for every penny we wanted for uh maintenance and stuff like that.
I missed 151 million dollars to fight for every penny.
Wait, yeah, but I missed what what is it that made 151 million dollars?
Hydroelectricity generated by the government.
Where?
At Bonneville Dam.
Here in the Columbia River Gorge.
Really?
Who'd they sell who do they sell the electricity to?
Everybody.
The electricity you use in your house, okay.
Uh we sell it to the uh Bonneville Power Administration, and they administer it to uh all of the uh everybody that uses electricity.
Okay.
We are the ones that generate electricity, which is used by everybody.
Yeah, this is like so it's like the TVA, like the Tennessee Valley Authority, all this stuff got started under FDR.
But it's for the federal government.
Federal government.
Yeah.
I work with the Army Corps of Insurance.
Well, yeah, Tennessee Valley Authority's federal government, too.
Um they're the only ones I know that actually make a profit for the government.
Well, yeah, but nobody in the power generating business loses money, so that's no big deal.
Yeah, but it is a government entity.
Like I say, I like it.
All right, all right.
I'll grant you that.
So you're saying somebody other than the people build the vault uh are generating a profit for the government.
Yeah, right.
Yeah.
Yeah, and they've got to have our electricity to charge the dumb thing up in the first place.
And you know what really bugs me is the bunny huggers, that's you know, the environmental wishwhackel, uh, don't consider hydroelectricity a renewable resource.
I mean, that river just keeps blowing and blowing and blowing, and but they will not consider it a renewable resource.
Why not?
That's what I've been trying to figure for years.
Hydroelectric, they don't consider renewable resource.
No, not from hydroelectricity.
They don't consider that a renewable resource.
What is?
What do they consider renewable?
Wind and uh solar and stuff like that, but they don't consider hydro.
Oh, okay.
The stuff that doesn't yet produce any electricity, they consider renewable.
But here's the point is I want to I'm looking, I'm not trying to burst your balloon or bubble here.
What I said was that the government doesn't make anything.
That they what they are doing here is generating electricity, but they're not making anything.
There's not it's a fine point.
It's a fine point.
But as I say, I'm not trying to burst your bubble.
By the way, uh David's book, Crimes Against Liberty, still number one nonfiction Amazon, and it's gonna open number one New York Times list uh on September 4th when it becomes the next one that's public.
Maybe it was yesterday.
That's actually 15.
And according to the uh environmentalist wacos, hydropower is green.
It is renewable, but it's not green because it alters the flow of rivers and thus affects wildlife.
So basically you can say the environmentalists they don't like hydroelectric power because they don't like dams.
Uh and they don't like dams because dams destroy the view.
I mean it's no more complicated than that.
Parker, Colorado, Leslie, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey, Rush.
What a pleasure.
Um I just had a comment about Obama.
I am getting so fed up with hearing him talk about greed this and all these people are bad that run companies and executives and rich people and people at the top.
And I want to know how much more at the top can somebody be than president of the God blessed United States of America.
He how much is he worth now?
Five or six or seven million dollars?
I want to know when he when is he going to give up a piece of his pie so I can have some more?
I can't take fifty thousand dollar night vacation from Martha's vineyard.
That's more than a year's salary for me and most of the other people in this country.
Well, you see, this is your your your point is well taken, but uh as a member of the elite ruling class, that is the n Obama and his people are entitled to their economic positions because they are special people.
They are the ruling they are the ruling class.
They are thus exempt from all of the rules that they make for everybody else, uh and all the criticisms they make of everybody else.
Oh, I understand that, but does he really think people are falling for that?
Well, he thinks people believe you know, don't cut, don't see that he is like the biggest.
The people that he cares about are falling for it, the unions, they are they're they're they're animated by it.
They're they're they they uh the the the class envy and hatred of the rich uh is something that a lot of Democrats have uh have lived off of for a long time.
I it's it's hard to say that Obama's winning anything, though.
I mean he's everything he believes in is trailing in the polls.
Look at the uh millions, how many billions is Clinton work now?
And uh and and then Obama, you know, like he he he's got earning potentials out the wazoo now that he's been president, you know.
So I I don't I don't I just don't get it.
I mean I I I really don't get it.
I I don't get how people in this country um can be so blind to what's right there in front of their face.
We see it over and over and over again with people.
Well, then ask yourself that how did the Kennedy family get away all of those years with being filthy rich, all they had to do was grow up and Harrodit.
They were always exempt from all the talk about the filthy rich, all of the the rich the limousines and the fat cats, how the Kennedys exempt themselves from it.
What What did they do to be exempt from the uh resentment of the hatred for the rich?
They lie.
Well, I don't know.
I guess they they just attract people with their own.
No, they supposedly devote themselves to the causes of the poor.
I know.
I mean, so they therefore they are sent to listen to the rhetoric.
They're said to be compassionate.
They're said to be uh caring and understanding and so that's that's how they exempt themselves.
Look, I want to go back and play the soundbite that uh she's all upset about in case you missed it.
This is yesterday Milwaukee, AFL CIO Milwaukee Labor Fest.
This Obama standing up there with Richard Trumke, and I mean, this is just it's sophomoric.
It is it is it is juvenile.
The president of the United States to speak this way.
Now, 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.
No, America was built by people at the top taking great risk.
They pledged their lives and their sacred fortunes to the founding of the country.
America was built by people at the so-called top, taking great risk, and they brought along with them people at the so-called bottom, who then earned their way to the top.
And the cycle repeats and repeats and repeats.
I I want to go back to um August 1st of this year.
Uh this is uh an AP story.
As spending by wealthy weakens, so does the economy.
Remember this?
Wealthy Americans aren't spending so freely anymore, and the rest of us are feeling the squeeze.
This is Janine Aversa, AP economics writer.
The question is whether the rich will cut back so much as to tip the economy back into recession, or if they will spend at least enough to sustain the recovery.
So here is our Doomkoff little Imam child president.
Barack Obama railing against the rich.
America wasn't built by the green and reckless greed, you know, you're sitting around, and you're waiting for trickle down for the top.
Oh, you're gonna be waiting for it, wait for me to give you some.
Wealthy Americans aren't spending so freely anymore, and the rest of us are feeling the squeeze.
The question is whether the rich will cut back so much as to tip the economy back into it sounds to me like that if the rich stop consuming out there, then the rest of the economy sinks.
We...
we...
we...
Really have to rein myself in here when talking about this man because such sophistry.
He's just a blithering novice.
He's nothing but an academic theoretician who has no practical real experience in the world he is talking about.
Everything he believes and everything he has put his emphasis on is failing left and right.
Every theory that he has subscribed to for job creation and economic revitalization has done just the opposite.
We're looking at a one-man wrecking crew, and he's here in Milwaukee, and he is talking to a bunch of union thugs, and he dares to tell the rest of the people of the country That he and only he can tell them what they need to do to wait around for the economy to revive when everybody in the world knows that the single best thing that could happen for this economy is to get him out of any position of power to run it.
Pure and simple.
So to have to sit here and be lectured to by the wrecking ball as somebody who doesn't have the slightest idea what he's talking.
He's a community organizer.
He's nothing more than an agitator.
He's so henpecked that when he leaves the house for dinner, he goes and gets burgers because his wife is making him eat in watercress.
I better take a break.
I was hoping to come back and ease into all this stuff by maybe Thursday.
But hell.
Who built America?
Love to tell you who built America.
America was built by people who fended for themselves, who expected nothing from the government except protection.
They expected nothing from the government except protection from foreign enemies and a just rule of law.
Other than that, stay the hell out of our lives.
That's who built America.
The very people who founded this country constructed that kind of a government.
The people who built this country revolted against high taxes, a tea tax specifically.
They were built.
America was built by people who believed in individuality, rugged individuals.
I love saying that because it's so ticks off the left, rugged individualism, hard work, minimal government, and freedom, liberty.
You see, America was built by people who reject everything Imam Obama stands for.
Reject everything Imam Obama is doing, and that's why Obama and the suckers in his party who followed him are being rejected by the people.
Obama and his party are being rejected because they are the antithesis of how this country was built and how this country grew.
The rich, the poor, the middle class.
When America was founded, we didn't think this way.
We didn't expect the government to punish other people.
We didn't think the purpose of government was to get even with some people.
We believed in private property rights.
He didn't get caught up in his class warfare clap trap.
Not when this country was built.
Obama's actions, Obama's philosophy, would have been considered tyranny.
Obama would have been an outcast at the founding of this country.
Obama would have been rejected, and so would his preacher.
Reverend Wright, that's what Obama knows about the economy, is what he's been taught by Saulinsky, and what he's been taught by the Harvard faculty, and what he was taught by Reverend Wright.
What is what was Obama's favorite line from Reverend Wright's Audacity to Hope speech?
I know what it is.
The favorite line is white man's ruins a world in need.
The white man runs a world in need.
That's what Obama knows.
Obama looks to the prism of racism at this world.
And he sees that America as founded as unjust and immoral.
White man's greed runs a world in need.
That is what Reverend Wright said.
That's what Obama believes.
Reverend Wright was also out preaching against middle classness.
We've played those sound bites of Reverend Wright saying such a thing.
So Obama's propaganda is the propaganda of failed dead regime, the old Soviet Union, Cuba.
Obama's railing against capitalism.
He's railing against private property, railing against trickle down.
In his audience is a bunch of socialists, a bunch of union people.
Barack Obama is the antithesis of the founding of this country.
He would have been rejected as a as a as a bit player.
Had Obama been around at the founding of this country, and had he been known, he would be a joke in American history books today.
But not now.
Now he's president.
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In Detroit, this Gianna, nice to have you on the uh program.
Welcome.
Hi, Mr. Glenbaugh, nice to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
I'm sorry for mispronouncing it.
I just uh I I pronounced it phonetically.
No problem.
No problem.
I was uh my family and I, we were a Chrysler dealer, the only Chrysler Jeep dealer in the whole city of Detroit here, and we were one of the uh top 33 in the country, and for whatever reason we were.
Wait, wait, what hold hold it a minute?
You just said something hard to believe.
Yes.
Your family.
Yes.
The only Chrysler dealer in the whole city of Detroit?
The only Chrysler Jeep dealer in the whole city of Detroit, yes.
In the whole city of Detroit, there was only one Chrysler Jeep dealership?
Correct.
And then Obama took them over.
Is that what you're going getting at?
Well, he whomever, you know, there's many speculations out there who decided to close us down.
Most of it has been that they've decided that the government was the one who came in and said that there were too many dealers.
Yeah.
Even though, you know, us dealers did not cost the corporation Chrysler any money, and that was proven.
Um, but they still decided to close us down.
We had 28 days to sell all of our cars and all of our parts.
You know, a huge loss.
And yeah, I I think our story has gotten lost amongst all of these.
I mean, my father started that business in 1979 when Chrysler, you know, was the Iacoca, and you know, didn't know what was going to happen.
We built a, you know, an amazing business.
We were thriving.
Like I said, we were number 33 in the country.
And then to be cut off at the means and, you know, be stuck.
I have 10 acres of, you know, property in the city of Detroit, which, you know, clearly.
Okay, well, why do you think why do you think they shut you down?
Uh it was definitely political.
It was definitely political here in Detroit, and based on what Washington.
Based on what politically?
Were you Republicans?
Were you you did not contribute to Democrats?
Is that what it was?
We we were Republicans, and you know, they had their favorites.
And so, you know, all there were 13 of us shut down here in Detroit, and um our franchises were given away to their friends.
Do you still own the property?
Well, maybe you can turn it into a farm like they want to do with the rest of Detroit.
Well, yeah, wouldn't that be nice?
But I was not a mobile dealership, so there's oils and tanks and environmental issues.
Would love to do that, but I still have government coming after me for you know, environmental issues.
Can you make no Chrysler dealerships in Detroit now?
Not even one in Detroit.
Well, they uh I was the only one.
They o they gave it to another guy and he is now there.
And so now he is the Chrysler Jeep in Dodge.
Maybe I got it.
Sell your property to a school to be named after Al Gore.
They just built a school in LA on a toxic waste dump named after Al Gore.
You can sell your property to the Detroit school system and they could build a school there named after Al Gore Jesse Jackson.
You gotta think positive in these circumstances.
Yeah I think I'm still jet lagged in here still yawning on it feel I still have an Yeah feeling a little zapped here but it doesn't matter you'll never know well you know because I told you but otherwise you wouldn't uh you wouldn't know.
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