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Sept. 24, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 24, 2010, Friday, Hour #3
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Yes, and we're back.
Serving humanity.
Emitting vocal vibrations coast to coast all across the fruited plane.
I am Rush Limbaugh, and this is Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882.
The email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
So I'm checking the email during the breakout there.
And more and more people who were in Philadelphia.
Subscribers, by the way, Rush 24-7 website subscribers.
Are saying that I ought to make the video available to everybody, not just the subscribers.
Subscribers are saying this.
Well, the subscribers, well, subscribers pay money to uh have exclusive content.
And the people that attended uh in Philadelphia, the tickets, I don't know exactly what I don't know what the price rate.
The highest ticket was a dollar and seventy-five cents.
So oh, a hundred and seventy-five dollars.
170.
That was the that was that.
175 dollars top ticket price.
So and then we were um, as we always are, we're sold out out there.
But my point is that subscribers to whom we promise exclusive content are suggesting this thing be made available to everybody on the uh on the free side.
I I I guess I guess the rich uh on the on a limbaugh website are not greedy.
Now, 175 bucks, excuse me, 175 bucks top ticket price.
Obama couldn't fill a room in New York at 50 bucks.
Did you hear about this?
Obama had a fundraiser and he couldn't fill the room at at fifty last night in New York City, $50.
He could not fill the room at $50, including a photo up with Obama.
The word going around was that he couldn't fill it with a hundred dollars per ticket, and that's a fundraiser.
Now, the money in Philadelphia, uh, uh the majority of it is a charitable donation.
I didn't get any of it.
These things are a net expense for us here at the EIB network, and well, well worth it.
Snerdley is suggesting that we we have four.
Well, we could put six seats in there, right?
On your side of the glass.
You want the concession?
Snerdley and Don and Brian want the concession to sell seats to watch the program.
Yeah, you could probably get more than $175 for those.
No question.
But now, anyway, so now I'm I'm I'm in a I'm in a dilemma here as to what to do because I mean subscribers are demanding a bunch of bunch of emails have said.
I read them during the break.
Especially the last 30 minutes.
HR, you tell me if you know what this means.
They said, especially the last 30 minutes or the last part of it, it'll show people how truly genuine you are.
What does that mean?
You were there, HR.
Uh yeah, I don't think I was an ungenuine the rest of it.
I do remember what I talked about in the last half hour.
I talked a little bit about growing up and my dad and um.
Well, I don't want to give it away.
So that was somewhat.
Well, I don't know if it was lighter in the first part and got more serious toward the end.
Anyway, it's it's interesting comment.
It was uh the the uh last 30 minutes of the hour and a half.
Really, really showed yourself a genuine side.
Um I've got to think about this.
The transcript is available to everybody.
The audio is up now.
We're gonna have the video for uh uh available late this afternoon when we update the site.
So we'll think about it.
I'll let I'll let Coco know what I um what I ultimately uh decide.
First five days paid side after that free.
Well, I don't know what you mean.
First five days of what.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, snurdy.
Keep it on the pay side for a couple of days.
Uh so that the existing subscribers have the exclusivity.
And then make it available.
Sort of like pay-per-view.
By the way, Obama, he was in a 650 seat auditorium.
He had 450 people show up.
650.
This is New York City, because he's up there for the UN.
650 seat auditorium, 450 showed up, and they couldn't give away the last 200 seats or tickets at 50 bucks a piece.
Well, I know I do a better show than anybody's a president of the United States.
And you would think that these Democrats would love them.
I mean, this is the Messiah, a chance to spend some time with the Messiah.
At 50 bucks.
Now, this gets to the CNN poll.
President Obama contending with the lowest approval rating of his 20-month presidency, according to a new CNN opinion research corporation poll.
42% approval rating, an all-time low in CNN polling, eight points lower than where Obama was only three weeks ago.
The President's sagging poll numbers could not come at a worse time for Congressional Democrats.
And there's a story here that Pelosi is saying that House members are clamoring to have Obama come campaign for him.
Which is an out and out lie.
House Democrats don't want Obama anywhere near their campaign.
Here is another bit of testimony on the voting rights case involving a new Black Panther case.
Justice Department is ignoring civil rights cases that involve white victims and wrongly abandoned a voter intimidation case against a new Black Panther Party last year, according to a top department official today.
Testified today, called the department conduct a travesty of justice.
This is Christopher Coates, former voting chief for the Justice Department's civil rights division, spoke under oath this morning before U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in a long-awaited appearance that had been stonewalled by the Justice Department for nearly a year.
Coates discussed in depth the DOJ's decision to dismiss intimidation charges against the new Black Panther members who were videotaped outside a Philadelphia polling place in 2008 dressed in military-style uniforms.
Now this backs up testimony by another Justice Department official who quit over this.
But Christopher Coates, the former voting chief for the civil rights division of the Justice Department, voting rights official, calls dismissal of Black Canther case a travesty of justice.
And makes it plain here that what was what's going on in there that the cases against white victims are being dropped.
The artist whose poster of Obama became a rallying image during the Hope and Change election in 2008 says that he understands why so many people have lost faith.
In an exclusive interview with a national journal yesterday, Shepard Ferry expressed his disappointment with the president, a melee that seems representative of many Democrats who had great expectations for Obama.
Mr. Ferry Shepard Ferry explained that when he came up with a poster in 2008, he was trying to find a single image that embodied the issues he cared most about, promoting health care, helping labor, and curtailing lobbyists.
He likened the issues to projectiles.
And there's a picture of him here standing in front of his hope poster.
And it's all about how he, in fact, himself has lost hope.
It's open line Friday.
I am L. Rushball, and we'll take a brief time out.
Come back and resume with your phone calls right after this.
Open line Friday to Evansville, Indiana.
This is Max.
And welcome, sir, to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
How are you, sir?
Happy slash sad end of the summer to you.
Thank you.
Uh let's talk aviation.
I know you might want to talk about football, but I'm kind of part and personal to aviation like yourself.
Um what is your all-time favorite corporate jet that's on the market?
One of my all-time f I my all-time favorite corporate jet on the market.
You realize this is the kind of thing, if I answer it, I make more enemies than friends.
Well, I can I tell you mine.
What's yours?
Well, it's a toss-up.
It's the uh Bombardier Global Express XRS versus the Gulfstream 650 slash or the 550.
Well, oh yeah, because 650 is not out yet.
Six fifty doesn't roll out until twenty twelve.
I know, but it's still a tight plane.
All right, so why do you like the uh why do you like the global express better than the five fifty?
Uh, because the cockpit, I figure people are gonna be tooling me around at that kind of altitude and that kind of speed, uh the cockpit is just you know to die for.
Uh you're gonna have two people that you don't know, and you're they're gonna be there and it's almost perfect.
They got the head up display, they got all of it.
And the five fifty does not have well, I don't know for sure, but if you check out the website, the the the trust me it does.
Okay.
All right.
I believe you.
So anyway, what is your all-time favorite Corbett jet?
Well, um, because you have variables.
You have looks, performance, class, roominess, and ease of maintenance.
Yes, all of those uh are factors.
Uh and there are factors even beyond beyond that.
Look, and if I start answering this, i there there's there's no winning this.
I mean, I but they're both, you know, the you you talk about the global express and the and the and the G 550, they're both fine airplanes.
Um the the the Global Express has a couple things on it that the 550 doesn't have as leading edge that expands.
You can use a short runway.
You can go from um Hilton Head to Hawaii nonstop in a uh from a short runway uh on a global express.
550 it's gonna be nip and tuck, depends on things, but you can do a 550 from a standard runway coast to coast from uh North Carolina to Hawaii too.
So it's just it's it's a toss-up.
Six one the the cabin is about a what a foot wider in uh in a global express, but the windows are tiny.
I mean, you know, you can you can look at these um things any number of ways.
You can look at cabin capacity, uh range, operating expense, which is uh the DOCs are crucial here.
So what are your taste?
What are they?
I mean, do you want like the big high dollar item or what?
I mean, to me, a guy that's just you know barely making it.
You see this stuff online, and a guy like you that has all this stuff, I'd go for the uh bombardier.
Well then that's that's fine.
You're sitting there and you are you are dreaming of a bombardist.
The way I look at it is this.
If I'm gonna go out and if if I'm gonna take a look at at uh the the the top line global express in Bombardier, or a G 550 or 650, I have to look, can I land it in my runway?
Or in my in my driveway.
That's you know, there are all kinds of different factors here.
Well, if you g if you have a 4900 foot driveway, then you can land a bombardier.
The question is what uh would I build one in order to be able to accommodate with either either one of those airplanes?
Uh they're both.
They're they're they're they're they're they're both uh very fine high quality airplanes.
Another thing is the wait list.
You know, you you if you if you it depends on how you want to buy one brand new that's never been owned, uh you're looking at depending on the 550, 650, you're good for four years from the day you place the order until it rolls off.
650 about the same thing.
And I I think the bombardier is even longer.
There they were having problems their completion centers uh some years ago with a backlog.
I I don't know if they've uh able to speed it up or not.
I'm not trying to get anybody in trouble here.
There's a they're just a tremendous number of factors here.
Now EIB one, I'll just tell you, I it's a G five fifty if that answers your question.
Excellent.
And And we've got we've got, you know, if you go to Rush Limbaugh.com to the Limbaugh Museum, just like Air Force One is in the Reagan Library out in California.
We got a mock-up of EIB 1 at the Limbaugh Museum of Broadcasting on my website.
You can see it there.
So what's your next plane going to be?
What's the next plane going to be?
Yes.
650.
Once the miles are done and you got all the wear and tear out of it, what would be on the market for Rush Limbo?
650.
Yes.
Now I got I got a uh I had a question asked of me the other day.
Is there and this is asked of me a lot, surprisingly.
Is there anything you want that you can't have?
And I said, of course.
What kind of question is this?
Of course there is.
There's uh any number of things that I would like to have, but I either can't afford or it doesn't make sense to buy.
You know, I'd I I'd love to have world peace.
I don't think I could buy Obama losing the next election, not single-handedly.
And there's any any number of uh any number of things.
But it's it's all it's all um.
You think they meant material things, not not not world peace or uh material.
Yes, of course there are material things that I would like.
I mean, I'm looking.
I am not yearning for anything.
Is that is that what you mean?
And there's not something man, I'd really there's nothing.
But there's things out there that of course are like that I can't afford.
Well, it's a silly question.
You could blow up my house and just buzz my house, uh, maybe like a hundred feet if that's legal.
That would be really cool.
That would be awesome.
I mean, if if you could do that, just blow up my neighborhood.
Buzz and your 550.
That'd be awesome.
I'd like to take that.
You know the camera out there.
My father, my father.
I know what you're talking about here.
My my father, this is what the one of the um I don't know, saddest, disappointing things.
My father loved aviation.
He flew P51s uh in the China Burma Theater in World War II.
And when I was growing up, uh he had a Cessna 182 Skyline.
Uh the tail number was 2685 George.
And we flew and tooled this thing around and uh up to St. Louis to um to ball games.
He had to set it down in a f in a cornfield or some kind of a field near Columbia, Missouri, during a snowstorm.
And it uh it made the papers because he put it down safely and so forth, and then weather got good and he was able to take it off and and get it out of there.
Uh he my my dad would be berserk.
You know, my my parents would not believe the life that I lived.
They didn't think that it was possible, primarily because I didn't go to college.
Now they they are from that.
The the the formative experiences in their lives, Great Depression, World War II, there were tickets out of misery.
The ticket out of the depression was an education, a college degree.
It really didn't matter if you knew anything, you just had to have the degree.
The degree said you knew something.
Uh the degree said you had done something.
My dad, uh up until the last two years of his life thought he had failed miserably with me because I didn't go to college.
I mean, you've you've seen post-game interviews with the star of the game, and then players always talk about how proud he is.
He's the first guy in his family ever to attend college.
I'm the first in my family not to.
I'm the first in my family not to have a degree.
It's thrown everybody for a loop.
But I uh my dad would go berserk.
He I would not be able to keep him out of the jump seat in the cockpit.
And just he would not believe it.
He he would not.
He just I I I guarantee you, it something like that.
And he had he dreamed of these things all the time.
He had every aviation magazine that was published.
He read them all the time.
Um he would travel to air shows and sort of and he he dreamed of of uh of having a corporate jet.
He dreamed of having a Lear Jetson, just dreamed it.
But that's all it ever was for him was a dream and pictures.
We'd go to St. Louis.
We'd take our little airplane to St. Louis, uh, and they had uh aircraft sales lot up there, and he'd he'd uh he'd take tours Of airplanes that were for sale on the tarmac and take us with him.
Toy around, he was actually dreaming.
This is how much he dreamed of buying a Lockheed Electra, uh, which was a a a four-engine turboprop.
The Los Angeles Dodgers flew on one of those.
They had that was their airplane in 1965.
There was no way my dad was ever going to buy a Lockheed Electra.
There's no way, but he'd take David and I on board, we go walking this, and then I remembered the salesman's name was Doc Zanney.
Uh at some place at Lambert Field in St. Louis.
And Doc Zanney took us on this tour, and we couldn't tour the whole airplane because it wasn't fueled.
It uh it had a nose gear and it won enough fuel if we went too far back, the thing would fall back on its tail.
Uh so I mean the we were talking yesterday about uh American dream and is it still possible?
And was it ever discussed?
And of course, I mean my dad never sat us down and said, son, I don't want to tell you about the American dream.
But you lived it.
You you you it was it was always possible.
It was because you were blessed to be born uh in in America.
So if you're a parent, one of the things that makes you happy, one of the things you you you shoot for is that your kids get to live your American dream.
Well, I'm I am personifying his in one huge area, and he's not around to see it.
Well, humanly around to see it.
I'm confident he's jealous as hell watching.
I'm sure he knows, but he's not humanly around, able to see it.
But his son is living his American dream.
And that's I think what a lot of parents would hope and do hope for uh for their kids.
So that's a long roundabout way of answering your question, sir.
Thanks much.
Open line Friday, Rush Lynn bought talent on loan from God.
Half my brain tied behind my back, as always, just to make it fair.
So I checked the email during the break.
Rush!
I can't believe in all this talk of corporate jets you left out the BBJ, which is the Boeing business jet, which is a Boeing 737.
Now, obviously the Boeing 737, I have a friend who has one.
And they obviously, if you drive around and fly on your own 737, yeah, that would be cool, except for two things.
Like Paul Allen, the Microsoft.
He has two Boeing 757s.
Two of them, plus some 500,000 foot yacht.
Uh the problem.
The the objection I have to a Boeing business jet is you have to take it into a major airport.
Therefore, you have to get into all those traffic delays and so forth and line up.
Uh you can't get into smaller airports.
You can't get into a 4,000, 5,000 foot runway.
Another thing, and I'm not trying to be hypercritical here.
But the last time I checked, you could not get direct TV on a Boeing 737 because a tail rudder is not wide enough to put the gyroscope antenna in there.
Now that may have changed since I last inquired about it.
But you need the tail rudder, has to be wide enough there at the top to get a direct TV antenna in there.
Otherwise, you're just watching DVDs when you fly around, and that's unacceptable.
All right, uh Dave and uh well, when your job is staying informed, and you also have to you have to get you have to get the um the BBML link up there in the in the in the in the tail rudder, too.
That's the wireless internet.
And if it's too narrow in there, you can't.
Yeah, I know you get them in uh what jet blue, American Delta and so forth.
Yeah, but but uh yeah, but though you need a well, I know maybe maybe for wireless internet you don't need that wide a rudder up there, but for the direct TV you do.
No question about it.
Uh Riverton, Utah, this is uh Dave.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here, sir.
Yeah, I was calling about a vastin.
Yeah.
If they ban a vast and due to whatever greed issues they've got, they're not only hurting cancer patients, they're hurting people with macular degeneration.
Let me just one thing, they're only talking, and I'm gonna be very honest about this now.
I don't want to be um misrepresented.
Right now the FDA is only thinking of banning it for breast cancer use, not for brain cancer and some of the others, but only for breast cancer use, uh, partially because of the uh expense.
Macular degeneration, this that sounds like a very expensive drug to use for macular degeneration.
Uh no, it's only two hundred and seventy-five dollars in injection.
Yeah, it's same drug, Evastin.
Same drug, evastin, it's just I think cancer, they have to use massive dosages to treat macular degeneration, they just a single syringe.
Yeah.
Okay, well, that might be.
I don't know anything about it other than what our previous caller said, and that is that administering the drug is an expensive thing.
Blood tests, blood chemistry has to be right four or five people every time you administer it, IV uh for uh for brain cancer or other cancer usage is obviously not that complicated for macular degeneration.
Where do the where do they inject you for macular degeneration?
Right in the eyeball.
Needle in the eye.
Right in the eyeball.
You have no choice but then they have to watch that.
Yeah.
See the bubbles in your eyeball and everything.
Very cool.
But yeah, so every time I hear anything bad about a Bastin or you know how expensive it is, that's stuff the miracle drug.
All right.
Well, then I've not heard a thing about it being banned for anything other than breast cancer, and it hasn't been banned even for that yet.
Well, that's good to hear.
They're just thinking about it.
The FDA is just thinking about it, and that's uh that's based on on cost.
Here's Roger, Alexandria, Louisiana.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Uh Rosh, I have a little concern with this pattern of uh Republicans not accepting what the majority has voted on in the primaries and doing this right in candid uh policy, it it bothers me that it may become a larger problem,
especially if one of them happens to get elected, and it's also causing a rip in our party, for example, uh Demant ripping the Republicans for allowing Murkowski to keep her seat on certain committees.
Yep.
And and I just wonder your thoughts if you think this is just a couple of isolated cases, or could this turn into being a real big problem?
Well, I think it is a big problem.
It's right now it's it's it's both.
It's just a couple of cases, but it illustrates the problem.
It illustrates the ruling class mentality versus the uncool class, the country class.
And and the ruling class exists in all political parties.
Republican Party, Democrat Party.
The Tea Party is persona non grata to a lot of Republicans.
They don't want the Tea Party to win.
They don't want the Tea Party to become dominant.
Um it's it's no different.
You know, I've I've told the story I don't know how many times of being ripped to shreds by Northeast Liberal Republicans about Christians in the Republican Party.
They they they thought it was my job to go talk to the Christians and get them to stop worrying about abortion because it was embarrassing the rest of these Northeastern Republicans.
They didn't like going to conventions with these Southerners.
They didn't like their friends in a liberal Democrat side making fun of them because of who was in their party.
So it this is this is really nothing new.
What's causing it to now be seen by all of us is the success of the Tea Party.
I I agree.
I and you notice the only two people that have decided to do this are people that's held office for a long time and do not want to give it up.
Exactly.
And uh will will do what they have to do to subvert their own party in in in a way to win.
I agree.
Thank you, Roger.
All right, but right now it it's it's it's only it's only these two.
It's it's Murkowski and Castle.
Uh and we're not sure what Castle's gonna do.
He's just toying with the idea of uh third party.
We do know that Obama and Biden called Mike Castle a commiserate with him, but I'll tell you this.
One thing, Roger, keep in mind that if the the polling data out in Alaska right now shows that Murkowski, as a write-in candidate, is not taking any votes from the Republican.
Well, not enough to matter.
The Republican nominee is a Tea Party guy, Joe Miller.
The Democrat out there and the and the independent uh votes, though those are those that's the vote being split.
Murkowski is taking votes essentially away from the Democrat candidate out there in the polling right now.
So if I mean the warning for the Republicans is that if this continues to happen and if it expands, the likelihood is that if there is a third party that results from this, the third party could end up being the current Republican Party.
They could end up being the minority party in all of this.
If this really does it if it's not contained.
Because I don't think the Democrats or the Republicans understand yet the full wave of energy and emotion that is propelling the anti-ruling class anti-Washington sentiment out there, the Tea Party sentiment, if you will.
I think the Democrats have a better idea of it than the Republicans do.
I think the Democrats are they're I mean, they can see these poll numbers.
They they can talk all they want about how they've got polls that show themselves not doing as bad, but they can see Obama at 42% CNN, and they can see their own state, they can local polls, and they're still, it was not that long ago that certain Democrat state organizations were asking this outfit in North Carolina public policy polling not to report results of congressional and Senate races in the states because they were so bad for incumbent Democrats.
Now it's early.
It's still the middle of September here.
The election's not until well, just a little over 40 days.
It's never wise to count something is over, particularly in politics long before it is.
So the conventional wisdom is the Senate is still a long shot.
And about the Senate, let me just again say, yeah, it'd be great to have a majority in the Senate.
But you really need 60.
And even look at the Democrats had 60, and they still couldn't get all of what Obama wanted.
They had a supermajority in the House.
They had 60 seats in the Senate till Scott Brown won.
And they still were having trouble getting things done.
It's not automatic.
And Republicans to get 60.
How many of them are going to be Mike Castle types?
If you have a majority of 51 to 52, but four or five of them are rhinos, then do you really have a voting party majority on issue?
You don't.
You do have enough for chairmanships, which is a big deal.
But at 51 to 52, here's something to think about.
51 to 52 seats.
Let's keep it at 51 because that seems to be the apple of these uh Republican consultants' eyes.
51 seats in the Senate.
Boy, that would be Nirvana.
And let's say we take the House.
Well, you still got Obama.
You don't have enough of a majority anywhere to veto anything and override a veto.
You do you have just enough votes in the Senate to get blamed for whatever happens.
And don't, don't discount Obama is looking forward to a Republican-controlled House.
Obama is running for re-election in two years.
He cannot, he does not want to run against his own party.
He doesn't care how many Democrats get shellacted.
I'm convinced of it.
He cares about him.
And if the Democrats lose the House, that's fine.
He's gonna he can blame the Republicans for whatever does or doesn't get done the next two years.
He'll have the media backing him up.
And we'll be back to the same old thing.
This is why the Republicans are gonna have to put on a different cap and be able to deal with this.
Because we're gonna get the same old gridlock, gridlock, gridlock.
Party and no Republicans standing up, poor old Obama can't get anything done.
That's what's gonna happen.
Gridlock to be the best thing that could happen to this country.
Be the best thing could happen to the stock market.
The stock market, you've seen the stock market, the stock market is skyrocketing.
There are two reasons for it.
One reason is, and this is a dirty little secret.
One reason is the Federal Reserve is out loaning money to people to buy stocks.
That's the simplest way to explain it.
They are Lending money to buy stocks to prop it up, to prop up Obama to counter all the negative news about the Democrats.
Don't think the Federal Reserve and Bernanke would not take steps to help Obama, the sitting leader.
Don't think they would.
What do you think the financial crisis in 2008 was all about?
It was getting rid of Republicans putting Obama in there.
So you got a market all of a sudden, right before the election, what's happening to the market?
It's 400, 500 points.
People are talking about a 13,000, 14,000 market by next year.
You think this is an accident?
You think this crisis necessary TARP bailout was an accident in 2008?
There are no coincidences.
The second thing that's happening on Wall Street is that the people who are not part of this insider bunch that's uh having money lent to buy stocks and prop up value.
And by the way, that's creating a bubble that will burst.
Because if I'm right about this, this is not genuine market forces driving stock price up.
It's the Federal Reserve, and at some point they're gonna stop.
So you got a bubble could burst.
But the second half of this that's causing the stock market to go up is there are a lot of just everyday ordinary people who are excited about the fact that Democrats are gonna lose in November.
So there's two things working bidding up the market.
Uh and and it's all oriented about Obama being propped up or being neutered, so to speak.
In other words, gridlock, the possibility of gridlock and Obama nomics, Obamaism being stopped, the Republicans winning the House.
That's exciting.
A lot of investors.
Brief time out.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away.
And here's another thing to think about here 51 seats, 52 seats with people like Castle and Murkowski, Snow and Collins.
That's enough to give Obama bipartisan support.
That's the last thing we need is Republicans voting for the Obama agenda.
And have the press be able to say, bipartisans of a Republicans help pass whatever abomination Obama comes up with.
These people are being defeated for a reason.
They really are.
By the way, this coates testimony, this Department of Justice guy, this is bombshell.
This is bombshell.
White victims are being ignored.
That's why Colbert's up there today.
Colbert's up there testifying in character as a jokester on farm problems to make sure that nobody hears what what what Christopher Coates said in his testimony before Congress today about Obama and Eric Holder's Justice Department.
Civil Rights Commission.
Well, the civil rights division of the Justice Department.
What did I say?
Well, you Civil Rights Commission, okay, fine and dandy.
Whatever.
Colbert up there keeps everybody from hearing about that.
Now let's revisit the president's speech to the UN General Assembly for just another minute or so.
Because in classic Obama form, he mentioned himself 34 times.
I, me, or my words.
Now the Heritage Foundation points out it's more of a campaign-style speech than one addressing the issues of the U.N. They make the point in their morning bell memo today.
There was no real mention of substantive actions or reforms.
There was no discussion of whether the U.N. should allow human rights abusers to sit on the Human Rights Council or terrorism sponsoring nations blocking the UN from defining an act of terrorism.
Take an informed view of the speech made by Obama and dovetail it side by side with Ahmadini's ad.
It's available online at Askheritage.org, where heritage members have near instant access to their analysis.
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Senate leaders yesterday abandoned plans of Democrats to take up tax cuts, eliminating the Bush tax cuts, or extending them actually.
All this done to blame Republicans for people's taxes going up next year.
They claim they might come back and take it up during the uh lame duck session.
But once again, they're gonna get away with blaming Republicans for your taxes going up.
That's the uh that's the plan.
Hope you have a uh good weekend, folks.
I'm off to Parts Unknown this weekend to videotape even more episodes of the Haney Project for the Golf Channel.
So you have fun doing what you're doing.
I'll have fun doing what I'm doing, more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, and I'll see you back here Monday.
Look forward to it.
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