All Episodes
Previous Next
Sept. 21, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
37:22
September 21, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #2
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Greetings to you.
Great to have you back, folks.
Uh El Rushbo.
Documented to be almost always right now, 90 almost 99.6.
Percent of the time, it's as close to perfection as anybody else ever gotten.
Anybody on earth has ever gotten.
Happy to have you along, 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program email address, El Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Mahmoud Achmadini Zad, during his speech at the UN, which for the first time in recent memory, the U.S. delegation did not walk out of.
The U.S. delegation sat through Achmedizad's remarks.
He blamed capitalism for the ills and evils of the world, and he also threatened a war without borders.
He threatened a war without borders in his speech at the UN.
Now maybe Obama's looking at this, we got an advanced text, hey.
Achmandini's odds reaching out to me.
I don't believe in borders either.
Maybe that's why we sat through the um speech without walking out.
Also, a programming note.
Ladies and gentlemen, tomorrow, tomorrow night I have a rush to excellence appearance in Philadelphia.
Now, normally, in order to make sure I am there, we would have a guest host in tomorrow, and I would leave in the morning to uh allow for any possible weather delays, mechanicals on the airplane, or anything unforeseen.
I mean, if you're going to be in Philadelphia at 7:30, you've got to be there.
And it's just a little risky, uh, leaving at 4 o'clock in the afternoon for a 6.30 curtain call.
Well, 7:30 curtain call, 6.30 backstage stuff.
It's a two-hour flight.
But it's election season.
And what we decided to do here is I'm gonna I'm gonna do the two hours of the program tomorrow and leave at 2 o'clock, and uh still allow time for any potential delays to be overcome.
Mark Davis will do the last hour of the program tomorrow.
And normally, these things you you go in the night before, just to make sure you're there.
People have uh paid tickets, paid money for the tickets, money goes to charity.
Uh certainly not to me.
And you gotta be there.
It's like the NFL, a teams are required to get there the night before.
Gain a kick off at one o'clock, the team's gotta be there.
You can't fly in that day.
Pregame meal and all that, yeah, five hours for the games.
You gotta have you gotta be there.
And uh we've I've always treated these things that way, have to be there.
So we're gonna be cutting it close anyway.
If there's any kind of weather delay tomorrow, or a um, or a uh mechanical, you just never know.
Um if um well, any look, anything can happen.
Anything can happen.
Have you ever I've I've I've been circling New York City for three hours in an air traffic control delay on a perfectly clear day.
Because of weather someplace else is a system gets jammed up.
So normally, to eliminate all these possibilities, you get in there 24 hours in advance.
But tomorrow we're gonna we're gonna roll the dice.
Now, Snerdley's in there going, no, no, no.
I think you ought to follow established procedure.
And Snurley obviously has something he would rather do tomorrow than screen the program for two, right.
I know you're screening for all we oh, you'd screen for all three, even if I were um not here tomorrow.
Oh, is that right?
Okay.
Here are these emails.
Um chance to get a one there the probably I tell you what's gonna happen.
There will be probably some Philly steaks backstage, and Nick's roast beef always comes.
If you well, you don't eat beef.
There's nothing better.
The cheesesteaks are great, but there's nothing better in South Philly than Nick's roast beef.
Yes.
They even took McNabb's picture down in there and put my picture up.
Two years ago at Nick's Roast Beef.
I think McNabb's picture's back up now, but yeah, oh, it's it's it's fabulous.
And it's it's best if you eat it there.
You can take it with you.
Which will probably put a bunch of it on the airplane for the trip home.
But they always bring some stuff backstage, too.
So and the cheesesteaks, of course.
With cheese whiz, not Swiss.
As the aristocratic John F. Carey, who once served in Vietnam once ordered it.
I think he ordered a cheesesteak with grey coupon and and and Swiss cheese.
On the campaign trail.
They did.
They just they looked at it and didn't know what to do.
I mean, the cameras are all around and okay, hear these emails.
People think I have been taken in by what was a total setup yesterday, the Obama Town Hall on CNBC.
Dear Rush, you are wrong.
The town hall meeting was a setup.
The questions were arranged in advance.
Obama knew the questions in advance.
They did it to tweak you.
It was to yank your chain and have a pity party for the left.
He's still blaming more on the Republicans.
Sign Jim.
I mean, I got a ton of these.
Here's the next one.
Rush.
I am stunned that you have fallen for the Obama CNBC show.
The woman was a plant.
As were the other questioners.
Nothing Obama does is unscripted.
This was designed to evoke sympathy among the voters for our precious little president.
Rush, please rethink this.
They're making you look like a fool.
Because you're falling for this.
Another one.
Maha L. Rushbo.
Could the black woman questioning Obama have been a plant on Fox News this morning, Kiki, a Democrat, said this question was good for the White House because it brought out the question in a way that now Obama can deal with it openly.
I think I think she was a plant because CNBC did it.
Your loyal fans, Mark and Sue in Albertville, Minnesota.
There's another one.
Dear Rush, I think the lady and the man that asked the questions to Obama were staged.
I have heard two liberal strategists on TV say this is exactly what the public needed to see for Obama to start getting his popularity back.
Is any of this persuading you that the town hall was a setup.
Not persuading you, HR, here's um Yeah, I I I don't I don't understand it being a setup either.
I mean, maybe they're planning to cut campaign commercials out of audience comments, but what?
It makes no sense.
I can't think of any other reason for those questions.
Uh the image was of agony-prone people.
This Obama did not look good.
Now, I I know what Judith Miller said.
I know what the the objective was to come out and say Obama succeeded.
Here, grab grab Judith Miller, whatever soundbite it is.
I forget the number I would have it in front of me.
But but this is if it was staged, and I have no doubt that the reaction to it staged, make no mistake, uh that the White House felt it necessary if it wasn't staged to spin the result.
Uh and the result, oh, this is Obama was great.
He finally had a chance to perfectly explain why we're in the economic straights that we're in, it's Bush's fault, to unpaid wars to unpaid tax cuts.
Do you have that uh Judith Miller?
Stanley.
Yeah, here it is.
This is this is uh what what many in the media wanted to say or did say.
I think he just doesn't want to get in the way of the Republican Party as it commits suicide.
I think that if you have a line, and the line is it's been a decade that it took us to get into this mess, two unfunded wars, two unfunded tax cuts.
I have started to move things, turn them around.
I thought today especially was very, very effective because even though he was on the defensive, he was relaxed, and he also made excellent points about the need to invest in infrastructure.
He talked about the middle class, he said I'm not anti-Wall Street, which he needed to do because coming from New York, up there, we think he's anti-Wall Street.
All right, now we played that sound right earlier.
I heard it last night live watching Fox.
I thought, what an what what what sophistry?
I mean, that's genuine stupidity or ignorance.
That That take on this.
I mean, if if that whole thing was staged to generate that media reaction, nobody's buying this.
Nobody's buying Obama was great.
Nobody's buying.
Oh, wow.
You hear those questions finally now.
Obama's got a chance to blame Bush.
Obama can openly explain what's going on with the economy.
Folks, those of you who think this is set up.
I I don't see it.
It has it how how does making Obama look weak and impotent help him?
Do you think anybody watching that really believed at the end of it it's the Republicans' fault?
Nobody on the panel blamed the Republicans.
Obama did, but nobody on the panel did.
It's universally accepted.
Obama was on the defensive yesterday.
And he was defending his plan to remake America to lay a new foundation.
He was defensive about it.
His supporters are depressed about their future and their heroes' failure.
I mean I if that's staged, I don't know for what purpose.
Campaign commercials down the road.
What campaign commercials?
Obama?
Is something in that make the GOP look bad yesterday?
Did something in that make it really, really tough to vote for Christine O'Donnell or Sarah Payla?
What what?
I mean, I really don't see this.
If you think it's a setup, I mean this thing yesterday helps Obama.
Well, why?
Because we're supposed to feel sorry for him.
When millions of Americans are out of work, the country's running trillion dollar deficits, and there's no future, and this woman asks, is this it?
Is this my new reality?
The only way you can say this is set up is if Obama wanted to convey, hey, America, this is it.
Get used to it.
Our salad days are behind.
This is it.
Yes, this is your new reality.
He didn't even come back and say all the good things that he's done.
He told this woman, well, we do have your you're the person we've got in mind.
Why, you're the one you're you're who?
You need to be rewarded.
You're the one we put things in place for.
But he didn't detail what they are.
Now, if this if this is set up, if if this is White House brilliance, then go for it.
Give us more of it.
I want to see how far this takes, our little man-child president.
Supposed to sit here and suck our thumbs for him?
We're supposed to feel his pain?
We're supposed to feel, oh yeah, his job's so hard.
Why he was saddled with two unpaid wars and two unpaid tax cuts.
We didn't realize how bad it was.
We're supposed to feel sorry for him.
I don't know if if this if this was a setup, if this was staged, somebody's gonna have to explain to me the benefit to Obama from this thing that happened yesterday.
I just don't see it yet.
And we are back.
I got a lot of questions.
Uh a rush.
Uh why don't you uh fly into Philadelphia tonight and do your show from Philadelphia tomorrow?
It's a good question.
Folks, it's just it's tough.
You know, remoting a radio show is the easiest thing in the world to do today.
You literally can do it from anywhere, except me.
Because of my cochlear implant hearing problems, it takes more than me.
If I if I it takes more than me in a phone line, it takes a whole bunch of people and stuff.
It's it's um it's why we don't do more of it, frankly, it's because it it's uh we have to take our own equipment with this.
You know, what exists in uh radio stations doesn't work.
Um takes a village to do this, and it's it's my problem.
It's because of my uh hearing and the limitations of a cochlear implant with uh with modern uh broadcast technology.
So what?
It's the truth.
I have I want to explain it because I uh uh uh People uh gonna have the the less I say the more questions they're gonna have.
So it's a legitimate question.
Why don't you do your show from Philadelphia?
Noon to three.
And it's it's if I could, I would.
If it was it was simple to do it.
If it brings five people with me, uh I can't afford to take them all to Nick's Roast Beef, and I don't want to go to Nick's roast beef with all five of them.
I mean, there's all kinds of reasons.
They all demand the same kind of hotel suite.
I have it just now.
It's it's it's a hassle, folks.
It's a genuine hassle.
You know what I was thinking of?
I saw a picture of that Time magazine cover they did on me back in the 90s.
Is Rush Limbaugh good for America?
The subhead on on that headline talk radio is only the beginning.
Electronic populism threatens to short circuit representative democracy.
And I'm thinking, look, this this was um what's the date of this thing?
I think it was 1995.
So here we are, 15 years later.
And how prophetic were these fear mongers at time.
The same question asked about me in 1995 is being asked about the Tea Parties today, and it was asked about the internet two years ago.
And it's because interactive engagement in politics by people who make the country work, who love their country, scares the hell out of the ruling class.
I scared the hell out of the ruling class back in 1995.
Sadly, I didn't understand why.
I knew they didn't like me, but I didn't understand why I was I wasn't thinking ruling class um, I wasn't thinking high school clicks.
I was thinking professional jealousy.
And there might have been some of that, but that's really not what it was.
Oh my what it was, what they were afraid of was the inmates running the asylum in their lingo.
To the ruling class, this is an asylum, and we are the inmates, and the people who run it are in Washington.
They're the wardens.
Or what have you.
And now there's a revolution, they're a rebellion, and we the inmates, we're the inmates gonna run the asylum.
That's what they looked at me as in 1995.
That's how they see Palin.
That's how they see Beck, Levin, any of us, how they see uh the Tea Party.
It is how they see conservative bloggers, some of them, some conservative bloggers they love because they're actually statists themselves, but regardless.
So you could have a time could do a new cover here now.
Are the Tea Parties good for America?
I'm sure they're thinking the same thing.
Here's Jennifer, one of my all-time favorite top ten female names, Bellingham, Washington.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Um, regarding the woman who stood up at the town hall meeting, uh, people are focusing a lot on her because she was articulate and honest.
But what stuck out most to me was when she said that she was tired of defending him and his policies, he laughed at her.
And there was something about it that just really bothered me.
She's one of the things.
What was it?
I've had a lot of.
Now, in reading the emails to me, that people are responding who don't think that it was staged because of that.
That that was a very classless response.
If if this were staged event, he would have backed very concerned and sympathetic, but still he laughed at her.
So how how did you interpret that uh laughing at her?
Well, I don't know.
He may have been nervous to have one of his supporters stand up like that.
I'll tell you how he took it.
I'm gonna tell you how he took it.
You're not gonna believe me, but I implore you to.
He took it as probably well.
He took it as a compliment.
He heard her say, I'm defending you.
He took it as a compliment.
I guarantee you.
You have to understand the narcissist.
The narcissist is incapable of self-criticism, and he is incapable of dealing with criticism.
Will lie to himself about criticism.
It's praise.
So he's sitting there and walks in the room expecting universal love and adoration.
And a woman goes into her routine and says she's tired Of defending you.
He hears that as this woman has been defending him and defending him and defending him, he's thankful.
He takes that as a compliment.
He laughed at her a little nervously, but I don't.
I think it was almost the laughter of somebody who's embarrassed to get a compliment.
Don't, don't, don't doubt me on this.
Don't doubt me.
A lot of people think he was laughing at her, and that she should have been insulted, and that he was acting uh uh above her, arrogant in this sort of thing.
Well, she kept right on going, and he straightened his face right out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't think he he uh he he did not take that as as criticism.
That one comment, tired of defending you have been defending.
He heard it as a compliment.
He heard it as a continued opportunity.
Okay, this woman, I still have her.
She's still in my camp.
Bill Clinton would have done the same.
Bill Clinton would have taken that as a compliment.
There's silence from Bellingham, Washington.
I bet a lot of people in this audience think I'm all wet on this.
But don't doubt me.
Do not, it was a nervous laughter.
I I've I've seen it.
I've seen that.
This is the reason I know that he took it as a compliment.
Is I have seen people like Obama react to similar things.
Taking as a compliment.
Saw Peter Jennings do it once.
Back after this.
All right, now, let me offer you a different opinion.
That woman who asked that question, is this my new reality?
For those of you who think this is a setup, if that woman had been white, and if that woman were not working for Amvet, something related to the government, she'd have gotten a Joe the Plumber treatment yesterday afternoon, last night, and today.
They would have done a scorched earth investigation to find out who is this woman.
How dare she embarrass the president this way?
Look what they did to Joe the plumber.
You don't think they would have, certainly.
Damn right they would have.
They certainly would have.
If this if this woman were not black, and if she were if she didn't have a job at Amvet's and a related to the government somehow, bam.
They would be all over this woman like white on a clansman, trying to find out who she is, destroy her reputation.
No, I guarantee them to you.
Let's go, let's listen to this montage again.
It's a great montage, putting all of this in perspective from yes we can to beans and franks.
I was really inspired by you and by your campaign and the message that you brought.
And that inspiration's dying away.
I really want to know.
Is the American dream dead for me?
This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.
I'm one of your middle class Americans, and quite frankly, I'm exhausted.
Exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for.
I've been told that I voted for a man who said he was going to change things in a meaningful way for the middle class.
I'm one of those people, and I'm waiting, sir.
I'm waiting.
I don't feel it yet.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
We are the change that we seek.
You're losing the war of sound bites.
You're losing the media cycles.
Yes, we can!
Yes, we can!
Yes, we can.
So I don't know, folks.
To me, Velma Hart.
Look, I'm one of your middle class Americans.
Quite frankly, I'm exhausted, exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for.
That sounds like an angry wife.
That sounds like a woman mad at her husband.
He's out there catting around, he's drinking too much.
I'm tired of standing up for you.
I'm tired of sticking up for you.
I'm tired of it.
This is personal.
I am exhausted.
I've given you the best years Of my life, and what have you done for me?
Sounds like an angry wife.
And they still might go after the woman, depending on the polling.
You know, but I doubt it.
I doubt it.
If she were, if if if she were not African American, I mean, they'd already be doing it.
No doubt about it.
Last night on Hardball, MSNBC, uh Ariana Huffing and Puffington and Howard Feynman, who Howard Feynman's leaving Newsweek.
Did you know that's after 30 years?
Howard Feynman's leaving Newsweek and going to the Huffington Puffington Post.
Well, they still don't know.
Somebody bought him for a dollar and the debt.
Jane Harman's husband, Sidney Harmon, 92 years old.
There's an optimist.
92 years old, you buy Newsweek.
And Feynman's leaving.
He's he's going to Huffing and Puffington Post.
And he was, he was, he appeared with Ariana Huffing and Puffington last night.
And the uh they had they had this exchange about the town hall meeting yesterday.
I mean, your heart went out to her because you could feel what she was going through.
And questions like the one who said, Mr. President, I need you to answer this honestly.
Is this my new reality?
And she was talking about her life, what her life was like.
I mean, that was for me really powerful, and he didn't have compelling answers, and that's really the problem.
There are no compelling answers.
I hate to say it.
He's still a professor some of the time.
He's trying.
You see him trying.
You want him to get over the hump with these people and really say, as Bill Clinton would tell him to do, okay, here are the three things we've done for you now.
Your kids are going to get the health care through the age of 26.
You're going to get that as student loan.
You're going to get the help with unemployment benefits.
Isn't that interesting?
That's that's the ruling class version of what's been done for you.
The ruling class version.
You're gonna get health care, you're gonna get student loan, you're gonna oh, by speaking of health care, Howard, you may not have seen this.
It's in the Hill.com health insurers drop coverage for children ahead of new rules.
Health plans in at least four states have announced that they are dropping children's coverage just days ahead of new rules created by Obamacare, according to Healthcare for America now.
The new health care law forbids insurers from turning down children with pre-existing conditions starting Thursday.
So they're gonna drop coverage today.
Child only policy, a job for a child-only policies.
They're gonna so insurance companies, contrary to what Obama thought, are gonna they're gonna try to stay in business.
But they're going to try and survive rather than roll over and give up.
And I how insensitive of these insurance, how dare they try to survive?
They're supposed to be charities.
They're supposed to give it all away.
So the announcement could lead to higher costs for some parents who are buying separate coverage for themselves and their children at lower cost than family coverage is available to them.
If it leads to higher cost for the business, then it will lead to higher costs for the consumer.
So they're just dropping it.
So Howard Obama can't say he got to health care for the kids for your 26.
Or the student alone.
Imagine, but what a still limited smorgasbord menu of things he can point to to say, see, I'm helping you.
Health care, student alone, and unemployment benefits.
That's that's I mean, you talk about shooting low.
You know, low expectations.
This is what Obama's supposed to say he's done.
Howard Feynman's supposed to, this is what he's supposed to say he's done for these people.
Health care till you're 26, student loan, and help with unemployment benefits.
What a great country.
And I think they're realizing, hey, we want more than that.
News media, the marketing arm of the Democrat Party in the regime.
And they're they're trying to make helpful suggestions at every turn.
You're heard Ariana Huffing and Puffington.
But listen to their advice.
It's deadly.
It it is deadly.
And finally, Howard Feynman, the ultimate insult, he's not even as good as Bill Clinton was.
Obama's not.
And yet we were told that Obama's better than anything.
It's ever come down the pike.
Why we've never seen anything like this before.
And now he's not even as good as Bill Clinton.
Hey, there's a new carbonite for you Windows users, uh Carbonite 4.0 for windows with carbonite 4.0, easier than ever now to back up your computer files online and uh keep them protected in a safe off site location.
Don't forget the new restore function that makes getting your files back even easier too.
And you can even get them without needing to restore.
If you just need to find a file, and you're not at your computer, you can get an app for your BlackBerry or iPhone, and voila.
Find it.
Unlimited backup for your PC or Mac, still just $55 a year, even with new 4.0 for Windows.
That works out to about 15 cents a day.
And then if you use the magic word, the offer code Rush, that'll start your free 15-day trial.
Genuine free 15-day trial.
You don't have to give a credit card, and the 15 days don't apply to something that you buy later.
If you don't want it after 15 days, you don't buy it.
It's that simple, you're out nothing.
But if you do buy it after 15 days, which you will, then you get two months free.
So it won't cost you the 55.
Carbonite, brand new 4.0 for windows, back it up and get it back, Carbonite.com and the offer code Rush.
Here's Vinny in Queens.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey, oh, Rushboat Dittoes.
Listen, uh I've I've been a student of advanced conservative philosophy, one of your students for many years, and I'm having a lot of trouble wrapping my arms around what you said during your first uh hour monologue regarding people really expecting free things from Barack Obama.
I mean, this woman that stood up yesterday was obviously educated, well spoken, to the point, and you can't tell me that she really expected the earth, the moon, the stars, and the sun for nothing, for nothing, from Barack Obama.
I'm having real trouble believing that.
I mean, and I've yet I've heard people and soundbite, the Obama stash, the housing, the uh where's my kitchen, my home, my car.
I'm having so much trouble understanding what I'm hearing.
Well, no way, but you you admit you've heard that.
You've heard I've heard it, but you can't tell me people really, really believed that that they're gonna wake up on the morning of January 21st, 2009, and and it was gonna be Christmas in America every day.
Well, with this president?
Vinny, I think one of the reasons you're having trouble getting your arms around it is because you can't believe that Americans would be this gullible or stupid.
Well, that's the problem saying that.
I didn't want to say stupid.
Well, I'll let you say it because you're used to taking the heat, but I didn't want to say it, but I I I I don't know what to think about this.
I don't know if this woman was a plant either.
I'm not so sure she wasn't.
How could they allow a woman like this to stand up and say what she said?
You know, it it's sometimes like a soccer player's had numerous concussions and and doesn't realize he's sick.
It is sometimes the victim is the last to know.
In in your case.
In your case, you don't want to believe it is your problem.
You you really don't want to believe, even even among the least educated segments of our society, you don't want to believe that people actually voted that way, with that as their primary motivation.
You just because it it it it if that's true, you tell yourself it means the country is more far gone and a greater challenge to save it than even you believed.
And I don't know about this woman, I I think this woman yesterday did believe.
I think people who invest in government, I people have been told for fifty years government's the answer to everything.
And Even in spite of daily government failure, I think people continue to believe that there is a magic wand out there that's going to fix their life.
And it's some guy like Obama messianically can come along and get it done.
Okay, man, I can't wait because after the election there's gonna be you shining my shoes.
I had people telling me that.
And I just I looked at them and I want to say, you really think this?
They were animated.
I mean, they were really serious about it.
They made me think they were serious about it.
I'm here to tell you this woman particularly, I don't think she expected a magic wand.
The one that was in the town hall meeting yesterday.
But I do think that she is shocked that after a year and a half of this guy, it's gotten worse.
I don't think any of the people who voted for him expected this.
And I don't think any of them are buying it's Bush's fault.
At least not enough of them.
I do believe, then he that I don't know what percentage it is.
I've had a struggle like you to get my arms around this.
But I do believe that there are more people than you would care to believe, who really thought, because they had been told this.
Remember they had been told by the marketing arm of the Democrat Party, the media, they had been told it.
And they've been told it by him.
Obama himself had told them the sea levels were going to freaking decline.
I mean Yes, they believed it.
Short answer to your question.
Yes.
Sadly, some of them still do.
They're still holding out hope.
Thanks, Vinny.
Always love hearing from Vinny.
But Vinny, I know you're in you're you're in Queens.
If you can't get your arms around this, there's lots of other things in Queens you can.
Get your arms around.
Have fun.
All right, Velma Hart was a guest on CNN this morning.
She was uh quarried by the co-hostette, Kieran Chetry.
Question, Velma, when you said you were getting tired of defending the president, it's exhausting.
Have you lost faith in the president?
Or do you think it's simply the circumstances we're in that he doesn't necessarily have control of?
It is absolutely the latter, but I don't know that he doesn't have control of it.
I still have great faith in this president.
I think that he is an amazing leader.
I think he is inspirational.
And quite frankly, I thought that my question was set the platform for a response that would almost be, oh, I don't know, whimsical, magical, very powerful, on the fact that he does believe uh that he's made progress.
I know he's made progress.
The issue for me is that I'm not certain that it's the progress is being felt deeply enough.
And that's where I'm looking for the bang for the buck.
There's no denying that this president and his administration has made progress in these two years.
No denying that at all.
I just think that for middle class America, we thought we'd reap the benefits to that a lot faster.
All right.
Now, folks, that I'm sorry, is all over the ballpark.
Every sentence contradicts the previous sentence.
Her family called her.
I'll tell you what's happened.
Somebody, somebody got hold of her after this.
Uh Vel Velma sounds like she thought she was giving him a softball question that he was gonna knock it out of the park with some inspiration.
And he's he's not a leader, and he does not inspire people.
That's that's the big myth about this guy.
But then she got home yesterday.
I guarantee you, I guarantee you her phone was ringing.
She picks it up.
Velma, what the hell did you do?
So now she's in damage control out there.
Every sentence.
Okay, do you think it's simply The circumstances we're in that he doesn't necessarily have control of.
Yeah.
But I don't know he doesn't have control of it.
So she says, yeah, I think he doesn't have control of it, but I don't know that he doesn't have control of it.
I still have faith in the president.
He's an amazing leader.
He's inspirational.
And then she says, I thought my question would set the platform for response that would be whimsical, magical.
So he wasn't inspirational.
He uh Well, I wouldn't go so far to say battered wife.
I wouldn't go so far as say I still love my husband, don't arrest him.
I don't think it's that.
I understand you might think that.
I I know he's made progress.
Uh the issue for me is the progress isn't being felt deeply enough.
Well, if there's progress every she's no this woman, this woman's exhausted.
She's trying to cover every base because somebody really gave her a lot of it when she finished that show yesterday.
I don't think Colin Powell called her.
I think it was her family.
That uh that called her.
I mean, that answer, that that CNN, really every she contradicts herself practically every other sentence.
Okay, fast as three hours and media, two of morning in the can.
We got one more to go, and we'll get to it.
▲
Export Selection