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Oct. 11, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 11, 2010, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yeah, I was at a campaign rally in Philadelphia.
They threw a book at Obama.
Obama's out there and it streaked.
Obama got streaked.
Guy was paid a million dollars to do a Sanford and Son in front of Obama.
Guy streaked him.
Obama didn't notice either the book or the streaker because he couldn't take his eyes off a teleprompter.
Now, Bush, when they threw the shoe at Bush, when he's in Iraq, Bush had the athletic reflex that's necessary to duck and get out of the way.
We still don't know what the book thrown at Obama was.
It would be juicy if it was his own.
Like Audacity of Hope.
Smack.
Anyway, greetings, folks.
Great to have you here.
You know what this is.
You know who I am, and you know how we do it, so we don't waste time telling you.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address lrushbaw at EIBnet.com.
We watched a movie over the weekend, Secretariat.
It's a really, really, I was surprised.
It's a good movie, and I saw a review of this movie.
If there's anything that indicates the cultural divide that we're in, I mean, Secretariat, it's a Disney movie, and it's all about never quitting, never giving up.
I was 22 years old when Secretariat won the Triple Crown, and it was 1973, and I had just left home, and I was starting in my radio career, and I didn't pay a whole lot of attention to the details.
I just knew the horse won the Triple Crown.
I had forgotten how phenomenal the horse was, and I did not know any of the backstory of the horse's ownership or syndicate, which is what the movie is really all about.
A woman who didn't know a thing about the horse business inherits it.
Everybody in her family and outside says, you got to sell it.
She's offered $8 million for the horse, where she owes $6 million to stay afloat.
She turns it down because she's believing that the horse can win the Triple Crown and be worth three times that.
She turns out to be right, but everybody tells her she can't do it.
I mean, the values here are superb.
And there's this review in salon.com of this movie that slammed Secretariat as a tea party fantasy.
I mean, here is a movie about standard, good old-fashioned, you can do it if you put your mind to it, values, and it gets slammed by a guy.
When you first read this review, you think it's a satire.
And as you keep going, you find out that this guy is dead serious.
In its totality, Secretariat is a work of creepy, half-hilarious master race propaganda, almost worthy of Lenny Riefenstahl, which she was Hitler's videographer, and all the more effective because it presents as a family-friendly yarn about a nice lady and her horse.
But nothing in the movie is not true, and this is said to be a half-hilarious master race propaganda, almost worthy of Lenny Riefenstahl.
Secretariat actually goes much further, presenting a honey-dipped fantasy version of the American past as the Tea Party would like to imagine it, loaded with uplift and glory and scrubbed cleaned of multiculturalism and social discord.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
It's 1973.
Her own kids are hippies.
They're going to Woodstock.
They're blowing weed.
They're having doobies.
The woman's out there trying to save her father's horse farm.
Happens to be, she wins a coin toss and gets the fold, produces Secretariat.
And the rest is history.
And this, you know, it really is fascinating.
I tell people that here we are in 2010.
And I say, the media always hated Ronald Reagan.
The media hated Richard Nixon.
We've always had a partisan political divide, but the abject hatred that is aimed at decent, middle-of-the-road Americans by the mainstream cultural left is something like I've never seen before.
There is nothing in this movie to hate.
There's nothing in this movie to dislike.
It's a harmless movie.
In fact, it's uplifted.
Even I, ladies and gentlemen, El Rushbo and Catherine, we're watching it together.
I got a little misty-eyed at the end of this movie.
I wouldn't normally admit that to you people.
I'm supposed to be Mr. Tough and Gruff and so forth.
I got misty-eyed.
I mean, when I start crying, I actually suppress it, try not to.
And so I clear my throat.
I was stunned.
I saw Sea Biscuit.
I've seen horse movies, but I didn't know the backstory to this.
And I mean, I wasn't even going to spend that much time talking about it.
You know me.
I don't talk about movies until I read this review at salon.com.
Again, in its totality, Secretariat's a work of creepy, half-hilarious master race propaganda, almost worthy of Hitler's videographer, and all the more effective because it presents as a family-friendly yarn about a nice lady and her horse.
And Secretariat actually goes much further, presenting a honey-dipped fantasy vision of the American past as the Tea Party would like to imagine it, loaded with uplift and glory and scrubbed clean of multiculturalism and social discord.
I mean, there was all kinds of multiculturalism.
You had the groom is black.
The trainer is French Canadian, portrayed by a Jewish guy.
Diane Lane, no conservative, plays the lead role here.
Penny Tweety.
I mean, her kids, a couple of them, you know, maggot-infested, long-haired rock and roller types, blowing doobies.
And this guy says that there's no multiculturalism in it.
In fact, this woman's husband, I mean, you could reverse the roles.
This woman's husband gets mad because she's never home.
She's off running the family business, 1973.
The feminazis should love this.
The feminazis should go to Penny Chenery was her maiden name, latch onto this, say this is what we were talking about.
Except she didn't have an abortion.
Maybe the feminazis couldn't launch into her for that.
But regardless, to say that this thing is milk toast and pure fantasy and all this hunky-dory little so sweet that you can get an insulin shock from it is ridiculous.
Well, I don't, what's this guy's name?
What is his name?
Andrew Och.
I don't even know how to pronounce this.
O apostrophe, H-E-H-I-R.
O'Hear?
Probably O'Hare.
Probably pronounced O'Hare.
And this is, this, actually, the guy obviously feels threatened by the movie.
I had no idea.
It opened this weekend.
I had no idea how it did.
The year Secretariat won the Triple Crown, this is from the review, was the year the Vietnam War ended and the Watergate hearings began.
You could hardly pick a period in post-Civil War American history more plagued by chaos and division and general insanity.
Okay, well, you could pick right now, maybe.
Wallace references the social context in the most glowing or glancing and dismissive manner possible.
Penny's eldest daughter depicted as a teen anti-war activist.
But our heroine's double life as a Denver housewife and Virginia horse farm owner proceeds pretty much as if the 50s had gone on forever.
The words Vietnam and Nixon are never uttered.
Well, I don't know what Nixon of Vietnam had to do with Secretariat.
I don't know the Secretariat ever knew him.
Secretariat was a horse.
Sports, you have to call horse racing a sport.
Sports has always been an escape from the daily humdrum.
Sports has always been fantasy island for people.
It's what most of us wish we could do.
Wish we had the talent to do.
Wish we had the ability.
That's the beauty of spectator sports.
It's the one thing I always say in which you can totally invest passion without consequence.
You can't do that in any other area of life.
You're always guarded with your team.
You'll give them everything you got.
The only thing you'll do to them, they disappoint you and lose.
Of course, my team did kick me out of the stadium once, but normally that doesn't happen.
It happens to me, but I was able to take it, rebounded well from it, as is evidenced by the fact that I'm still here.
It really is a fun movie.
And for those of you who, this horse won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths.
I had forgotten that.
I don't know that I ever knew it at the time.
And the theory was this horse couldn't last that long in the Belmont start.
And the horse's history was to start last in the pack and then accelerate for the whole race and win.
And the same thing happened at Belmont.
Only five horses in the final.
It never trailed and 31 lengths.
It's never been done since.
Not even close.
And for somebody, there's nothing in this movie to feel threatened by.
There's nothing in this movie to dislike.
The only thing in this movie is to be informed, educated, enlightened, inspired.
Well, what part made me cry?
Just the ending.
Just the whole, when everything came together, the movie, it kind of starts slow.
The one thing for me that saved it is I knew what was going to happen.
I knew the horse won the Triple Crown.
You know, so you sit for that.
Sound like when I watched the stoning of Soria M.
I knew what was going to happen.
Title, Stoning of Soria M.
I knew Soria M is going to get stoned.
So you wait for the movie for that to happen.
This thing starts a little slow, but if you don't know the backstory, it's faster, which I didn't.
I had no clue the backstory.
Look, I was 22.
I was on the pathway to stardom.
I was totally absorbed in me.
I didn't know the backstory here.
So this was a wonderful experience.
It's two hours and two minutes.
And Catherine and I watched, we didn't start watching until 10 o'clock on Friday night.
We had other things to do.
And then watched the movie, did some other things after that.
It's a great way to spend a Friday night.
I tell you, I.
No, we're not going to watch The Bachelorette.
Bachelorette's not on, Snerdley.
The season has ended.
What's on is dancing with the stars.
You are.
No, we're going to be watching the Minnesota Vikings and the New York Jets tonight.
That's what we're going to be doing.
Anyway, I got a brief time out here, folks.
Lots going on.
Oh, before we go to break, before we go to break, audio sound bite.
You know, I've often remarked how similar to when you listen to the Iranian lunatic president Mahmoud Ahmadinezad speak.
He sounds just like any Democrat.
America's rotten.
America lies.
All this sounds just like any Democrat running for office.
I've often remarked that if I were a Democrat, I'd be embarrassed to have somebody like Ahmedine Zad mouthing everything I believe.
So last night on C-SPAN's after words.
You ever heard of this program?
I have not.
After words?
It's two words.
Not afterwards, but after words.
On C-SPAN, what is there after words?
Nothing but a shot of the house chamber.
The guest was Arthur Human Mazda.
His book, The Ayatollah, begs to differ.
This week's interviewer was Columbia University Iranian Studies Professor Hamid Dabashi.
And Hamid Dabashi asks author Human Majid, how about Ahmedine Nizad?
What is your assessment of Ahmedine Nizad?
Listen to this.
He plays to the audience, whoever the audience is.
If he's talking to Iranian Americans, he'll sound like John Kerry.
If he's talking to a hardline audience of Vasijis, he'll sound like Rush Limbaugh.
The Iranian Rush Limbaugh tries to come across a nationalistic Persian hero is fighting for the rights of Iran.
This is a first.
This is a first.
Mahmoud Ahmedine Zad, who is a parrot of the Democrat National Committee, is now said to sound like me, or maybe verse visa.
But I am said to sound like Mahmoud Ahmedine Zad.
And of course, they still haven't gotten over the he's a jackass comment.
Last Friday night's CNN Situation Room, Brian Todd, the correspondent, had a report on me calling Imam Obama a jackass.
This is how it sounded.
Right-wing commentator Rush Limbaugh levels this broadside on President Obama during his radio show.
It's a jackass.
He's an economic illiterate.
It's an economic ignoramus.
Does it reflect a certain mentality on the campaign trail and on the political discourse overall this year?
It reflects a mentality of mean-spiritedness, that people are not focusing on the issues.
They're insulting the opposition.
Don't you love the way the elites sound?
Well, it reflects a mentality of mean-spiritedness from the group of people like here's Obama out there now trashing the Chamber of Commerce as a foreign interest, trashing the Chamber of Commerce, people not focusing on the issues.
That whole jackass comment came after a brilliant erudition of the issues and how Obama is an economic illiterate.
Anyway, just to show you, my friends, your host everywhere from Iran, C-SPAN to CNN, and of course here, the EIB network, where we will continue after this obscene profit timeout.
Don't go away.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh, as always.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
You know, if the horse secretariat, if the owner had married the horse, the end of the movie, perhaps the left and the reviewer at salon.com might have seen fit to enjoy the movie.
And that's, really, folks, that's the last I'm going to say about it, but it's absurd to see anything.
What really strikes me is the, I guess, the struggle and the problem the country has.
There's nothing in secretariat, there's nothing but just wholesome decency.
And for people to be threatened by that, to want to take comfort in the fact that that no longer is what defines America.
That's a problem to me.
That's an indication of where we find ourselves, not just politically, but culturally as well.
And it's made even worse.
You know, Obama last week, he's out there camping.
He's not even on the ballot.
He's out there campaigning for other people.
He tells the audience, which is, by the way, stock, they've put out a casting call for actors at Obama's appearances now.
And he says, no, no, don't, don't make me look bad.
Don't make me look bad out there.
The problem is he's already done that himself.
He solved the problem of his supporters making him look bad.
He beat him to it.
Unemployment, the deficit.
You know, I'll bet you the real unemployment in this country is closer to, they say that the U6 is 17.1 to 17.5%.
I'll bet it's closer to 20% unemployment.
And Obama and the people of the regime are trying to tell everybody that 10%, 9.6 to 10%, is the new norm.
And so now we have a spy, ladies and gentlemen, our staff is everywhere.
We have a spy that gets regular dispatches from Obama's website, organizing for America.
Our spy.
Well, I can't give the spy his name because then the organizer American people will know it.
But dear spy, this is a threat to our democracy.
This is a dispatch on the email on the internet from Organizing for America, which is Obama's website.
This is a threat to our democracy.
And if we just stand by and allow the special interests to silence anybody who's got the gut to stand up to them, our country is going to be a very different place.
That's what the president just said about the Chamber of Commerce, a right-wing group spending $75 million to beat Democrats this fall and reportedly taking money from foreign operations, some even owned by foreign governments.
Are you kidding me?
Obama is the only man on the planet that thinks he still looks good.
And to come out with this, the Chamber of Commerce, you want to smear the Chamber of Commerce as a right-wing foreign group that has been infiltrated?
I don't care what Obama's supporters do to not make him look bad.
They can't overcome himself making himself look bad.
In just two years, this guy has accomplished the impossible.
He's made himself look worse than Jimmy Carter.
And you can only do that by trying.
And he's managed to pull it off.
He did it without the help of Bill Ayers.
He did it without the help of Jeremiah Wright.
I mean, Barack Obama is a self-made failure.
And now to come out with this business, and it got so bad.
Let me a couple soundbites.
This is an ad.
Face the nation.
Bob Schieffer played a DNC ad for David Axelrod yesterday on Slay the Nation.
Carl Rove, Ed Gillespie, their Bush cronies.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, their shills for big business.
And they're stealing our democracy.
What else?
Spending millions from secret donors to elect Republicans to do their bidding in Congress.
It appears they even taken secret foreign money to influence our elections.
It's incredible.
Republicans benefiting from secret foreign money.
Tell the Bush crowd and the Chamber of Commerce, stop stealing our democracy.
The Democratic National Committee is responsible for the content of this advertising.
I mean, even the New York Times has run a piece.
Even the Times has run a piece saying there is no foreign money.
This is a baseless charge.
Bob Schieffer, who's eager to spread the Obama agenda at CBS News, basically said to David Axelrod, is this the best you've got for me this morning?
And Axelrod says, yeah, they got to prove that there isn't foreign money involved.
Well, how do you prove a negative?
Here's Schieffer after that ad to Axelrod.
Do you, I guess I would put it this way.
If the only charge three weeks into the election that the Democrats can make is that there's somehow this may or may not be foreign money coming into the campaign, is that the best you can do?
Now, here's Bob Schieffer.
You know, he's desperate for Obama to come back, the Democrats, to wipe the Republican slate clean.
He's really hoping for big stuff from the Messiah.
And he says to Axel, is this the best you've got for me?
That's how weak it is, that not even the state-controlled media can get on board.
Much more straight ahead.
Do not go away.
And we're back.
El Rushboe having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis.
So here's Obama and Axelrod out there with this charge.
The Chamber of Commerce.
It's like saying the Rotary Club.
It's like saying the Lions Club.
It's like saying the VFW is a bunch of foreign infiltrators.
I mean, this is bottom of the barrel, desperation conspiracy stuff.
And of course, the media, well, not all of them, even Bob Schieffer.
I mean, folks, I think, here, grab number 11 again.
This is hilarious.
Axarod comes on TV, plays this ad, and you have to know, put yourself in Schieffer's position.
This is not looking good for Schieffer, CBS, the whole state control media.
All the polls say it's going to be a Republican sweep in November.
These guys are hoping that Obama, Mr. Brilliant, the Messiah, has got some magic going to pull out of his hat and make sure this Republican sweep doesn't happen.
They got Axelod coming on the show, and they're just busting buttons with so much anticipation.
It's Christmas morning to them.
Axelod coming on to announce the grand strategy to make sure the Republicans win nothing.
They play that ad.
Foreign money that's corrupted the Chamber of Commerce.
And Bob Schieffer says.
Do you.
I guess I would put it this way.
If the only charge three weeks into the election that the Democrats can make is that somehow there may or may not be foreign money coming into the campaign, is that the best you can do?
I mean, Schieffer is almost embarrassed.
Is that all you got for me today?
This from the party of Charlie Tree, let's not forget Charlie Tree, John Huang.
Who was, was it Charlie Tree that owned the Chinese restaurant in Little Rock?
Yeah, Charlie Tree, John Huang.
Tom Brokaw went to find the Huang bunch in China.
And we had all kinds of children.
The People's Liberation Army was sending missiles and rockets into the Long Beach Harbor.
All those money orders, foreign money.
I mean, for they were corrupting the nuns.
Remember, Al Gore said there's no controlling legal authority.
White House coffee's for crying up.
It says that they're selling the Lincoln bedroom.
And of course, the media gloss over Obama in his campaign, when he accepted Allah knows how many credit card donations from under $200.
You know, that's a limit.
No, Allah knows.
Lord knows Allah knows.
It's a little play on Imam Obama.
Anyway, the way that you get around having to identify all your donors is to make them $200 donations or less.
All these credit card donations of $200 million.
Remember, it was revolutionary.
Why, we'd never seen anything like it.
This amount of money raised on the internet.
Well, where did it come from?
Nobody knew.
They didn't have to disclose any of that.
This resulted in the possibility of millions in foreign donations to the Obama campaign.
These were amounts in odd dollars and cents, which indicated donations have been made using a foreign exchange rate.
And of course, lest we forget, Obama's campaign knowingly turned off the automatic address check verification on credit card donations so they wouldn't know where these donations were coming from.
So it's a case projection.
When the left, when the Democrats accuses you of doing something, it's generally something they're doing themselves.
And that's how they know that it's been done.
BP.
BP, big donors to Obama.
You know this.
BP is a foreign company.
BP is over there in the UK.
And BP, for all their effort, they donated all this money.
He still shook them down for a $20 million slush fund.
And still we have the drilling moratorium.
Foreign money?
Here's Axelrod responding to Schieffer and actually calling the Chamber of Commerce a threat to democracy.
The Republican Party and these interest groups who are now the major force in some of these campaigns want to turn the clock back to the very same policies that got us into this mess in the first place, that exploded our deficits, that put the special interests in control to write their own rules, the oil industry, Wall Street insurance industry, that presided over economic policies that punished the middle class.
Why is the oil industry, the Wall Street and others spending this kind of money to defeat candidates and elect others in this sort of secretive way?
And, you know, that is a threat to our democracy.
The oil business contributed to your guy, BP.
We just mentioned it.
Huge donors to Obama.
Hell, folks.
Obama took money from Hamas, the terrorist group in Gaza.
And who knows?
Wherever else.
The Associated Press, this is stunning.
A new Democrat TV ad all but accuses the U.S. Chamber of Commerce using foreign funds to secretly back Republican congressional candidates, igniting a furious round of denials and counteraccusations from Republicans.
Democrats presented no evidence to substantiate the charge.
This is unheard of.
Normally, the way this works is at Sarat, Obama make a charge, the state-run media picks it up and run to the Republicans, demanding that they deny this and show proof that they are not accepting foreign money.
But here, the AP says Democrats presented no evidence.
Normally, you know, it's the seriousness of the charge.
The nature of the evidence is irrelevant.
If the charge is against a conservative or Republican, that's all that matters.
How serious is the charge?
Any evidence?
Nah, it doesn't matter.
Charge is serious.
That's why I've got to look into it.
Well, that template's been thrown upside down here.
A Democrat National Committee ad issued barely three weeks from elections in which their hold on House and Senate majorities appear shaky calls the chamber shills for big business and says it's spending millions from anonymous donors to help Republican candidates.
It appears they're even taking secret foreign money to influence our elections, the ad says.
The commercials allegations echo remarks that Obama made in a speech last week, and they go on to recount the history of it.
But then they claim there's no evidence.
And the New York Times does the same.
No evidence whatsoever.
But the charge is out there and it continues to be made.
And Washington Post today, Obama continues attack on Chamber of Commerce.
This is all coordinated.
Starts last week, goes to the weekend.
Obama picks it up.
And even the Washington Post says it's an allegation based on zero evidence.
And this from the party of John Huang and Charlie Tree and who knows who else.
So it's kind of interesting.
They're also accusing Ed Gillespie and Karl Rove of setting up a group that's taking foreign money to run around and bash Democrat candidates.
Rove and Gillespie, of course, have, I mean, they pale in comparison to the amount of money George Soros has raised for Democrats and how it's spent.
So the Democrats have one rule or set of rules for themselves.
If anybody tries to play by the same set of rules, they're condemned.
And the foreign money stuff, I mean, that's, I tell you, it's a sign of how panicked I think that they are.
I mean, look at it this way.
Special interest money from foreign companies.
And this is here.
Let me put it this way.
Obama's problem is not this.
Obama's problem is double-digit unemployment.
Taxes about to skyrocket.
The deficit is out of control.
Generational theft.
People are worried that their kids' and grandkids' lives will not be as prosperous as their own.
And to deal with that, Obama says special interest money is the big problem.
Did special interest money drive up unemployment?
Did special interest money raise taxes?
Special interest money balloon the deficit?
See, if I were the Republicans, of course, I'm not.
But if I were, I would mock the heck out of this.
But I would do it with big picture facts.
Unemployment remains stuck near 10%, and I'd use the Gallup number, 10.1.
I'd use the U6 number, 17.1%.
The Obama-Democrat deficits dwarf whatever deficits Bush had.
And Obama, he's got a sideshow conspiracy theory that the Chamber of Commerce is really a secret foreign operation designed to corrupt and pollute the United States.
Even the New York Times can't get behind this.
It's made to order if the Republicans want to get in gear on this.
They're still a little tepid.
They're a little frightened that they're going to be called racist if they go after this.
Plus, the theory is when your opponent is making a fool of himself, the theory is just stand aside, get out of the way, and let it continue.
So there's that aspect to it, too.
A brief time out.
We'll get to your phone calls when we come back.
El Rushball serving humanity simply by being here.
Oh, by the way, it's a holiday.
It's Columbus Day.
And a lot of people ask me every Monday holiday, why are you here?
And because nobody ever tells me.
I'm not oriented toward holidays.
I'm not oriented towards sick days or vacation days.
Back in the old days when I interviewed for a job, I did not first ask, how many sick days do I get?
How many vacation days?
What's the didn't ask any of that?
And on these Monday holidays, I always feel like I kind of get screwed because nobody tells me that it's a holiday until I'm already here.
And the way I've adjusted to this is to say, well, it's okay.
Only the necessary actually show up.
Only the relevant.
So it's cool.
Sit tight.
Your phone calls coming up right after this.
Hey, folks.
Cut the music a second here, Mike.
The media tweak of the day is come.
Don't tell anybody.
The immediate dwaker of the day is gone.
Speaking of foreign donations, we don't even know if Obama himself is not a foreign donation.
And welcome back, El Rushball, the EIB network.
It's Columbus Day today.
Folks, there is a story, a column in the Boston Globe today, the mixed legacy of 1492.
And you know what it's about?
It's about how unfair it was when the conquistadores and Columbus and these imperialistic oppressors showed up.
They had immunity somehow against all the viruses that the natives, the Mayans, the Aztecs, the Caribs, the Cubans, all that, they didn't get sick.
But the Caribs, the Mayans, the Aztecs, they were not immune to the diseases that Columbus and the boys brought.
And this guy's column is how unfair was that?
Why, you know, if it had been Columbus and the boys who had gotten sick and died out because of their lack of immunity to the diseases on the motherland here, why, it'd be a whole different story today.
Multiculturalism is absurd anyway, but now this guy's wringing his hands over the fact it's just not fair.
Of course, these are the same people that cite Darwin, survival of the fittest, love evolution.
But now they can't handle it when it works against them.
Their own theory.
The Spaniards.
Well, no, that's the whole thing.
The Spaniards didn't get sick.
Columbus didn't get sick.
Well, I mean, they got sick, but they didn't die out.
The Aztecs did a, well, one of the okay, snerdly, everybody wants to do this show but me.
The statistics are from 25 million, here's the population of Mexico fell from 25 million in 1517 when Europeans first came there to 1.5 million a century later.
So in 100 years, 25 million to 1.5 million in Mexico.
He forgets that all of them came here.
The open borders policy even back then.
But it took 100 years for the disease to wipe everybody out.
That's the theory.
It's remarkably unfair.
And one other population group, the Mayans or the Aztecs, they had 12 million when the conquistadores arrived and one and a half million when it was too late to do anything about it.
And all because the white guys' immune systems were stronger than the natives.
And it's just, damn it, this is not fair.
So he writes lovingly about, my, what a different place this would be if it had been Columbus and the boys wiped out because their immune systems weren't strong enough.
More on this book business.
Again, Obama's in Philadelphia.
They fired a book at him.
Good morning, America.
Juju Chang is the correspondent reporting on this.
There was this unscripted moment in Philadelphia Sunday.
Someone threw a book at the president, but missed him.
It's unclear who tossed it.
Unscripted moment is how this is referred.
Unscripted moment?
Somebody, somebody versus the other ones, which are scripted?
Unscripted?
Everything else is scripted, including this book.
Nobody knows who threw it.
Nobody knows what the book is.
Obama never saw it.
As I said, his eyes were on the teleprompter.
Now, let's do a flashback.
Remember when this Iranian nutcase threw his shoe at Bush over there in Baghdad?
Huge insult in this world.
The sole of a shoe, throwing a shoe.
Throwing a shoe is the greatest insult.
Equivalent to a Westerner raising the middle finger.
This really does show anger.
It is a severe insult to have shoes thrown at you.
It's a gesture of severe contempt.
This was not meant as a gag.
Shoe throwing is considered a deep insult.
In the Muslim world, you throw your shoe at someone.
It is the worst kind of insult.
It's all the news there was when this happened.
And the media was upset that the shoe missed Bush.
Here, we got a book thrown at the president in Philadelphia, not in Baghdad.
And it gets passing mention as an unscripted moment in Philadelphia.
And it's unclear who tossed it.
I guarantee you, if it had been Bush up there and somebody thrown a book at him, the media would have found whoever threw it.
He'd be a guest and a hero on all the morning shows.
Quick phone call before we have to go to Break Cincinnati.
Jason, great to have you on the EIB network.
You are up first.
Hello, sir.
How are you doing?
Thank you very much.
Hey, in regards to the foreign money.
Hang on just a second.
Jason, hang on just a second.
Yes.
Nothing against you.
Just an observation.
Yes.
I want you to notice, folks, every caller asks me how I am and doesn't wait for the answer.
Okay, Jason, what were you going to say?
I'm sorry about that.
I'm just kidding.
I'm just a fun mood today.
Hey, in regards to this foreign money, I guess I'm confused.
Are we now to believe that after how many years of repressive Republican control and Bush, you know, anger and mismanagement, that the foreign money is now saying, we want you guys back in power?
Am I to understand that?
That's an excellent point.
That is an because the foreign money was supposed to love Obama.
America was hated because of Bush.
You're exactly right.
The world hated us.
Bush had embarrassed us.
And now all of a sudden, the foreign money wants Obama gone.
And Obama himself is admitting it.
Obama himself is the source of the story.
That's excellent, Jason.
You've come up with something that I didn't come up with myself.
That never happens.
Well, I'm the first one to do that.
Thank you very much.
You bet.
Thank you.
You bet.
Have a wonderful day.
It really doesn't happen much.
I've got to recover from this.
You know, this foreign money business, I've just been reminded that Obama, during his first State of the Union message, he said that the Citizens United decision would allow foreign governments to influence our elections.
And that's when Associate Justice Sam Alito shook his head and said untrue.
You know, Obama had personally insulted the court when they couldn't say anything back at the State of the Union.
That's how long this has been brewing.
But this is the same party, and this is sort of a takeoff on what Jason just pointed out.
Same party wants us to devise our defense policy based on what foreign countries want us to do at the U.
And the same party wants us to use foreign law to decide Supreme Court cases.
Same party wants to allow foreign workers to sneak over the border, work here, and become registered Democrats.
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