Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Well, well, here we are, folks.
Hang on just a second.
I don't.
I don't know how you feel, but I I just spent four absolutely wonderful, fabulous days in what I call pre-Obama America.
From Wednesday night until, oh, I guess about nine o'clock last night, I thought not one thought of Barack Obama.
I paid not one bit of attention to any Barack Obama-related news, which meant I had to keep the news networks turned off.
And it was bliss.
And to realize this was only just two years ago, I was able to relive pre-Obama America for four days.
I would recommend this to anybody.
I hope you all did the same thing.
It had a profound effect and an amazing change on my overall outlook.
But of course, now we're back, Obama's front and center, and everything sucks again.
So we have to um we have a major psychological challenge here to deal with each and every day, but who better than I, it'll rush bow to deal with it and to lead you through it.
Great to have you here as always.
The telephone number is 800 282-2882, the email address, Ilrushbow at EIB net.com.
All right, everybody freaking out over this WikiLeaks stuff.
And frankly, the WikiLeaks guy bugs me because he looks like a looks like a wave.
Looks like he ought to be in a Peter Pan stage play rather than on the world stage affecting.
It's a little wuss.
Julian Assange.
Need to find this guy and string him up.
But not because frankly, I find what's in this stuff interesting.
I think I think it's more interesting than the news the networks come up with each and every day.
Give me more of this stuff.
For example, for example, we have learned that the Saudis, our friends the Saudis, they're all ticked off at us because we won't go take out Iran.
We ought to go out there and take on a week and apparently, you know, prior to the big uh Cairo speech, Obama went over there and met with King Abdullah.
And uh Obama's going on and on and on about how important it is to find peace with the Palestinians and the Israelis.
Now he's up for it.
Apparently, King Abdullah couldn't care less about any of that.
He's worried about Iran and its nukes.
And he wants to hear from Obama what we're gonna do about that.
Now, what I would have said if I were Obama, hey, if you're worried about Obama, go hire and pay Al Qaeda to do it since you guys are in charge of Al-Qaeda, because we've learned that too.
Not that it was any big surprise, frankly, but we've learned that the Saudis are behind the funding and all that of Al-Qaeda.
So if you want to take out Iran, go call bin Laden, go call the Eamon Al-Zawahiri and have them do it.
You know, do something yourself once.
I mean, you gotta know Obama isn't gonna do it.
Obama's too worried about people in his office being fat.
Have you heard this is this Kyle?
Oh, middle block reporter, New York Times.
Apparently Obama wandering around the White House one day, and they came across some super fat aide or employee in there, and Obama's as a as a gesture of humanity gave the guy a salad.
He said, here, eat this.
And the aide said, look it, I'm gonna eat what I want to eat.
And I'll frankly, I know where the salad bar is, but I'd rather go to Wendy's.
Obama said shove the just shove the salad at him.
Now, here we are, we've got all this stuff going on in the world.
Obama's worried about whether not his aides eating a salad.
If you don't think Michelle's running this show, folks, haha.
I got another thing coming from then there's the way of the New York Times.
What's what's worse?
The New York Times leak of all this stuff, or this hopelessly banal, introspective blather, 850 words about why they released the stuff and the justification for it.
Now, if the New York Times really wanted to be as thoughtful as they claimed, if they really wanted us to think that they agonize over all this kind of thing, that they are as ethical, as responsible, driven by the people's right to know, then they would do this.
They would release all the emails between their editors and reporters, between their management and their circulation department, between their publisher and the financial people, between their feuding family factions, the people's right to know is not a slogan, it's an ethical standard, or it was when the times were the times.
If they're really worried about what's in the WikiLeaks stuff, they're going to tell us about the internal debate they had.
It's okay for us to learn about every detail of everybody else's private affairs, but the Times won't tell us what they went through to go through all this and get to all this.
So, folks, I mean it's to me, it's I mean, it's it's it's um oh, oh, oh.
Before I go any further, I want to thank myself.
I want to thank myself for hosting this show on tape on Thanksgiving Day, and I want to thank myself for hosting this show last Friday.
I got a complaint last week.
Uh I read this complaint to you in uh email that I was not thanking the guest hosts on uh on this program enough.
It was rude, and then I wasn't being kind enough, and I read something into that.
I mean, some of this criticism I'll accept if it's uh if it's worthwhile, and I haven't been thanking myself enough.
So I want to thank Rush Limbaugh for appearing on tape uh on two best of shows last Thursday and last Friday.
Everybody on the back to the WikiLeaks stuff.
I just remembered that, and I wanted to get that in there before I forgot it again.
Everybody's worried about this WikiLeaks stuff.
I'm reading the WikiLeaks is gonna damage U.S. credibility.
Isn't that the idea?
Isn't that the point of this administration?
Isn't this the exact kind of thing Obama's been looking to do?
Isn't this the exact kind of thing this administration, this guy has hoped for?
Uh less respect for the United States.
Uh great respect for him, but less respect for us.
Uh, and what?
Well, it's hurting Britain too, but damn the Brits need to be hurt because they, you know, they hurt Obama's grandfather.
You know, don't forget now, uh, Obama took the Churchill bust out.
Brits deserve to get hurt.
They're colonialists out there.
Uh taking over, colonializing all these different peoples of color, the Maw Maw revolution, Obama's grandfather or father, whatever, you know, got got his butt kicked by the uh by the Brits.
So look at, I mean, it doesn't all this kind of make sense.
You know, Obama playing basketball.
I heard about all this starting last night.
I I um I really did not know about all this stuff until that Obama busted his lip out there playing basketball.
Did his teleprompter say, ouch?
What did he say when this happened?
Does he play basketball with a teleprompter?
What happened out there?
The news didn't tell us about that.
Sarah Palin, if you've forgotten Sarah Palin back in her high school days, played in a championship basketball game on either a sprained ankle, a broken knee or something.
And uh, and poor Obama gets elbowed by somebody who won't apologize for it.
I've heard that too.
Isn't that not fascinating?
Whoever elbowed Obama won't apologize for it.
That's uh pretty interesting.
But I'm not even sure he got elbowed, folks.
I, you know, so much of this stuff.
All this is design.
Here's Obama, he's giving up golf now.
Apparently not playing golf.
He's out doing a manly thing, you're not playing basketball, pick-up basketball game day after Thanksgiving, gets a big elbow out there, yeah, real tough guy.
I want to know if that's really what it was, or was Bill Clinton giving Obama lessons in how to bite your lower lip.
And Obama actually did it rather than just faked it.
You know, as as Clinton was an expert in um in doing.
And Obama, I see I'm sorry, folks.
Um maybe it's just me.
I'm gonna come on and get four wonderful days in pre-Obama America, and I kind of resent having to come back to all this stuff, but I I'm looking at every one of these news stories with a little cynicism.
I can't help it.
So Obama now is supposed to be uh gonna ask for a federal pay freeze for two whole years.
It's gonna save sort of two billion dollars.
I mean big whoop.
After 28 billion over a bunch of, yeah, if it lasts that long, that's my point.
If it's 28 billion, big big whoop.
28 billion, and he's got a deficit run up of one and a half trillion, twenty-eight billion.
We're supposed to be impressed by this.
Not sorry, not me.
Especially he's locking in pay pay raises for people, essentially pay raises for all these new hires.
This is no big deal.
If I were one of these new hires, and there's all this attention being paid to how bloated the workforce is getting, and all of a sudden the president just announces, in effect, not a pay freeze, but a guaranteed salary for whoever knows how many years I'd be celebrating.
Obama's just hired all these new people and locked them in.
And now he's out there presenting this as some kind of great economic savings day with uh a two-year pay freeze.
Dear Windsey Graham.
Well, what do you think I'm gonna say?
What do you think I'm gonna do?
I said Well, I don't where was Wednesday?
I only know one thing that Lindsey Graham said, and I'm having me laughing myself silly.
I don't he did.
Lindsey Graham, I wrote it down.
Over the weekend, he called him Wilkie Leaks.
Wilkie leaks, and he is on the Senate Arms Forces or Armed Services Committee.
And until last year he was on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
He's out there, he don't even know who we're dealing with.
Wilkie leaks.
It's WikiLeaks, and that's another thing.
Folks, you have to deal with me today.
I mean, if if if you had four blissful days like I did to come back to this rot gut, you should have done what I'm doing.
You'd be in as cynical a mood as I am.
I hate the word wiki.
What is this wit?
I know what it means.
Wiki is a website where anybody can add to it.
I just, you know, wiki leaks, wiki pedia, wiki wiki.
It just sounds it does not sound like a manly word.
Wiki.
And I think a candles.
Wiki.
Wiki.
And then you look, you look at this waif.
Julian Afonge.
Or it's a wiki leaks, and it just all kind of goes together.
It just does.
Let's see.
Oh, ho-ho!
The Christmas tree bomber.
The Christmas tree bomber in Oregon.
Ha ha ha!
Folks, there's so much.
Uh well, well.
Well, I'm laughing at what's being reported about the guy.
Wait till you see some of the stories.
He's such such a poor guy.
The poor poor guy, so dis disorganized.
So here.
Confused.
Look at this.
Uh, there's a New York Times Sunspick and Oregon bomb plot is called confused.
He wasn't confused.
He was lying to people as he dropped out of school to focus on his plot.
He even stopped attending mosque.
And that was all a hide what he was doing.
The only thing this guy didn't do is go to any strip joints in Vegas, like the 9-11 guys did.
You know, but that was all part of their supposed cover.
No, they were just trying to get into little living here before the 72 Virgins.
All right, look, a quick timeout here, folks.
L. Rushball behind the golden EIB microphone sit tight, much more straight ahead.
Plus, of course, your phone calls be right back.
I don't know, folks.
It just wouldn't feel like Christmas without an attempted Muslim bombing.
We have one last year.
We got this guy out in Oregon who was just confused.
Suspect in Oregon bomb plot called confused.
Though who?
Those who know him say he changed in recent months.
He dropped out of scroll.
He stopped attending mosque, and perhaps most telling, he began lying about his plans for the future.
He uh seemed to be in a state of confusion, said Yosaf Wanley, the Imam at the Salman Al Farizi Islamic Center in Corvallis, where Mr. Muhammad attended while at college, he would say things that weren't true.
He's I'm gonna get married, for example, but he wasn't going to get married.
He was just confused.
But it's becoming now a standard thing here at Christmas, an attempted Muslim bombing.
You can't have Christmas in America without one of those.
You notice, by the way, the New York Times did not publish the contents of the document covering North Korea supplying missiles to Iran.
Now, as I say, none of this is unknown.
For example, the business that our friends, the Saudis, are paying for Al Qaeda.
They're funding Al Qaeda, that they offer support for Al Qaeda, that they may as well be Al Qaeda in some cases.
It's just nobody has the guts to say it.
Some of this stuff in these cables is actually fascinating.
I want more of it.
You know, this is the stuff that's true.
And, you know, the the the man Michael Michael Ladine has a piece that he used to work some of the State Department.
When he got a job there, he called Henry Kissinger.
And he said, give me the best piece of advice you can in the State Department.
He said, don't write a memo unless you expect it to be leaked.
Which is the point.
All of this stuff comes out of the State Department.
Who's run that for the last two years?
This stuff is only three years old.
This this is all this is coming out of the Clinton State Department.
Is this really accidental?
How is it?
How is it that the WikiLeaks guy remains free?
Now, I'm sure you've seen the story that the United States government has just seized and shut down 75 domestic websites in America, 75 domains, because they're guilty of copyright abuse or infringement or some such thing.
Now, the WikiLeaks websites international law, so we just can't unilaterally shut the guy down.
But you know, back in the old days when men were men in countries were countries, this guy would die of lead poisoning from a bullet in the brain, and nobody would know who put it there.
I mean, if our if if our secrets were really being compromised like this, and if some people were really upset about this, and this is not, I mean, everybody knew this was coming.
And this is not the first leak from Julian Assange of WikiLeaks.
And we've known he's out there doing this stuff.
We've known this stuff is coming, and yet it keeps coming.
I mean, okay, if you don't, if if you think it's too um we say, um, too um too um rough to start talking about dying of lead poisoning from a bullet in the brain, how come he's still in custody?
I mean, it's not just us who he is supposedly and ostensibly damaging.
And now, and now we've got Eric Holder on the case.
I don't know about you, but I feel totally comforted now that Eric Holder is on the case.
Can you imagine if WikiLeaks, if these guys would start offering illegal rap CDs for download, why we would be in the we we'd be jumping into gear so fast to get this guy behind bars?
He couldn't, he wouldn't know what hit him.
If this guy's if this guy was putting illegal music, stolen music, and people would download it free from his site, oh, this guy would be history.
But no, he's out there publishing all these dirty little secrets, these cables that go back from forth from State Department to embassy.
Embassy, we can't find him.
We don't know what a little twerp is.
We we sell, we continue to sell 60 billion dollars of sophisticated armaments to Saudi Arabia.
It's our largest such sale to anybody ever.
And they're funding Al Qaeda.
They're not prepared to go to war with Iran.
We're selling them all his ammo and all these armaments, but they want us to go take Iran out.
What kind of idiots do you really think here's King Abdullah?
I know he's old, he's 86.
And he arrived in the United States last week on three chartered airlines, a hotel room full of baggage.
I mean, a hotel full of baggage, not a hotel room, a hotel full of baggage, three chartered giant jumbo.
Well, one of me owns, the other two probably in the fleet, All these aides, all his family, all this whatever, for surgery for some kind of cancer.
So granted, the old boy, King Abdullah is old, but here he has a meeting with Obama before Obama goes to Cairo to make the big speech.
And he's looking across the table, he's looking at Barack Obama.
My folks, my forearms are larger than Obama's calves.
All right.
The only body part that Obama had larger than mine is his ears.
Alright.
So here's King Abdullah looking across the table at Barack Obama, demanding that we go take out Iran.
Now, would you look across the table at Barack Obama and say, hey, pal, uh, we want you to go do X that involves the projection of power or force.
Is this not delusional on the king's part?
People in the email answer, why do you so uh why do you like these uh these leaked cables so much, Rush?
Because they don't lie in diplomatic cables.
The odds are that what we're getting here is the raw truth.
People don't lie in these cables.
This is you know, these are not trumped-up speeches, they're not written on the teleprompter.
You don't write your cable on a teleprompter before you send it off.
You write it up.
I mean, this stuff is this is better than people magazine.
This people magazine has got the truth in it.
Uh, well, people in the Clinton administration lied to their diaries, but for the most part, people are not gonna lie uh to their to their diplomatic, uh diplomatic cables.
Now back to the um back to the Christmas tree of the Christmas bomber in the Christmas tree bomber in uh Oregon.
Did somebody have to tell me because I didn't start paying attention this last night.
Did Mayor Bloomberg pipe up and say the guy was just upset about he didn't he didn't say the guy just upset about health care or something?
He hasn't yet.
Why why would somebody think a 19-year-old lying about thing named Muhammad Swally Wabba um would be wanting to blow up something at Christmas?
You know, we're not we're not a country, you know, we're not profiling is not identity politics.
It's it's it's criminal intelligence.
But everybody thinks it's it's identity politics.
It's not the political correctness is destroying us.
Profiling is not identity politics.
That's what Democrats and liberals do.
But good law enforcement people, you know, okay, who for example, folks, there have been eight attempted terror attacks on U.S. soil since Obama has been president.
Or well, the eighth attempt that we know about.
Imagine what the number would be if Obama hadn't improved our relations with the Muslim world.
I shudder to think.
I mean, there weren't any of these type attempts when Bush was in the White House, but the but eight of them that we know of since uh since the Bamster was immaculated.
And again, I I shudder to think how many there'd be if Obama hadn't improved our relations with these people all around the uh all around the world.
Um, let's see.
I guess, you know, there's Snertley, you're right.
There's only two kinds of Muslims in the world, exploded Muslims and as yet unexploded Muslims, but they all seem to be these terror terrorist Muslims.
They all seem to be headed this direction.
Now, one of the things I did yesterday in reveling in my pre-Obama America was I spent the day watching a National Football League, and I watched, of course, my team's the Steelers, try to literally give a game away against the Buffalo Bills.
And it was luck.
Uh the you know, poor old Steve Johnson, the Buffalo Bills wide receiver, had a bunch of passes dropped yesterday, but the biggie was in overtime.
I mean, a perfectly executed play.
Quarterback did the right thing, he ran the right route, he got open to beat a safety in a cornerback, he's wide open on the end zone for the victory, drops the pass.
Steelers go on, despite themselves, to matriculate the ball down the field in the opposite direction, to kick a field goal to win the game.
Now, there's this story in the New York Daily News today about the Buffalo Bills wide receiver Steve Johnson, who apparently got on Twitter after the game and blamed God.
I praise this is what they got is this this wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills went to Twitter and said, I praise you 24-7.
And this is how you do me.
You expect me to learn from this?
How?
I'll never forget this ever.
Thanks, though.
He actually got ticked off at God on Twitter.
And I don't know.
God probably doesn't have to tweet to know what this guy's thinking or saying.
Can you imagine this?
Guy drops what is it, four or five passes, goes to Twitter, and says, I praise your 24-7.
You let me down like this.
And this is how you do me.
You expect me to learn from this?
How?
I'll never forget this ever.
Thanks, though.
And then he got all humble, and he uh he blamed everything on himself after a while, but I'm an iPhone.
Well, this takes some to go blame God.
Who's he think he is?
Terrell Owens.
The guy is what is this, uh second year in the league?
Some such thing.
Try this.
This is what's this from?
Um news democrat, I don't know where this story's from.
Um, but anyway, the Internal Revenue Service has launched a multi-year plan to regulate the tax return preparation industry for the first time.
So once again, it's government regulating private business.
In the first step, the IRS wants tax preparers to renew their tax identification numbers before January 1st.
Anyone who prepares a tax return in exchange for a fee must obtain a preparer ID number.
Those numbers must be used on each return prepared by the tax preparer.
Those preparers who use their social security numbers as their ID number will no longer be allowed to use those.
They must use the new number assigned to them by the IRS return preparer office, according to David Williams, head of the office.
According to a study conducted by the IRS, 30% of taxpayers use tax software to complete their annual return.
60% pay somebody else to prepare their return.
In the future, tax preparers will be required to take an exam for a fee and take continuing education for a fee annually to stay up to date on the tax laws because we all know those changes come fast and furious.
And why is that?
Because they have to manage health care now, too.
Williams said.
Again, this is David R. Williams, head of the IRS return preparer office.
The IRS will take additional steps in the coming years to be sure payers can be comfortable with the people they choose to prepare their taxes.
Oh, that's sweet.
The goal is to make us comfortable while we fork over our money at gun.
Well, we fork over our money to a preparer.
Wait till they get to the body cavity searches for income tax preparers.
Wait till they get the body cavity searchers for tax payers.
So let's see.
The government gives us a tax code so convoluted that no mere working person without an advanced degree in mathematics can understand it.
That we're forced to pay additional money to experts to do our taxes.
Now they want to regulate the experts.
This is a power and a money grab.
Now this story, again, I saw everything last night.
Folks, you have to understand me on this.
I started working diligently last night about what was it?
Um 9.30, 10 o'clock, when I finally figured out that the charges and colts is going to be a boring game.
And I still had the charges and colts on.
I'm sitting there working.
I'm at the sofa.
I don't even go to the desk.
I got my iPad and my iPhone, and I've I've got printer software I can print from my iPad.
Not Apple.
You can't, Apple's, they didn't, they didn't get that feature ready to go.
But I got a good third-party workaround where I can do it.
So I'm sitting here on the sofa.
I'm uh I'm returning some email.
I didn't return email for four days.
I think I didn't even turn the computer on for four days.
I didn't look at the computer for four days.
I got all my email and stuff on the iPad.
I read a couple novels, went out there to play golf in a bunch, but I did not even go to the computer.
I mean, it was bliss.
It was bliss.
So I figured the charges and Colts game's a bomb.
So I start looking at stuff and I found this.
This is on a New York Post on Friday.
Black market cigarettes costing New York 20 million dollars a month.
And I said, Well, I know what this is about.
And then some of some of the details in this story you realize that people in charge of all this are just absolutely lame brain stupid.
Here you go.
The underground tobacco market is spreading like a fast growing cancer in the wake of tax increases that make New York cigarettes the most expensive in the nation.
And it's costing the state tens of millions of dollars a month in lost tax revenue.
So what?
My heart bleeds.
So New York is being cost a bunch of money.
Good.
I hope it would cost them a lot more money.
Illegal cigarettes are pouring into neighborhood bodegas by the truckload from neighboring Indian reservations.
See, it always comes back to bite you.
When you kick people off their land, they're eventually going to figure out a way to flood your state with illegal products and shaft your state of needed revenue.
Finally, the Indians are getting their revenge against the state of New York.
While at the same time servicing the people who smoke in New York, who deserve medals of honor, because it is their taxes that are paying for many children's health care programs.
But we'll never see a smoker given a medal for anything, even though they deserve them.
Well, I know that may sound convoluted, but here, okay, we got a problem.
We got children.
Another problem with children is health.
Right?
We got another problem, we don't have any money.
But children's health is bad.
Everybody's child gets sick.
Every parent gets worried when the child gets sick, got to do something about it.
But because of Obama and the economy, nobody has any money to spend on anything, much less health, because they've all been led to expect everybody else is going to be paying for their health care and their kids' health care.
So the average New Yorker doesn't think anything's going to cost him anything.
Then all of a sudden, he finds out his kid gets sick, and then he learns that there's a program for it.
And guess who's paying for it?
Smokers.
The most ill-treated, hated, despised people in the state and the city are paying for irresponsible parents to get health care for their kids.
And what's the reaction smokers get?
They're hated, they're reviled, they're kicked out of everywhere, they're made fun of, they're laughed at, they're stomped on, they're accused.
Oh, and then there's another story.
That's even better.
You know now, the latest lie in fraud, 600,000 deaths a year to secondhand smoke.
600,000 a year.
It's not possible.
It's simply it's not provable that there are 600,000 deaths a year due to smoking, period.
It's not provable.
If it were provable, they'd ban the product.
It's not provable.
And now secondhand smoke, 600,000 a year.
Ha.
At uh at any rate, getting ahead of myself.
Government data show that New York State's being smoked out of as much as 20 million dollars a month from all these illegal cigarette purchases, an estimated 7.3 million packs a month sold off the state tax radar.
Most of it coming from Indian casinos.
Which, you know, more power to everybody involved here.
Indians get their revenge.
Uh people get their cigarettes at a more affordable price, state gets screwed.
I mean, what more could you want?
It's an unfortunate uh side effect of the taxes creating this black market, said Ron Turk, special agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms New York field office, as opposed to the New York office office.
Sales of taxed cigarettes have plummeted 27% since July.
We all told everybody this is going to happen.
Sales of taxed cigarettes have plummeted 27%.
Nobody's quitting.
They're just finding other sources.
And they're willing to break the law to get them.
It's an addiction.
State lawmakers raised the excise tax to $4.35 a pack on top of the city's dollar and a half, making the average price of Marlborough's $11.60, with some shops charging as much as $14.
We're talking, we're talking a pack.
About 30 million packs are being sold illegal.
So sorry, sold legally every month, down from 41 million packs a month before July.
So from 41 million packs down to 30, it's 11 million packs, legally not being sold, or not illegally being sold.
They plunge far exceeds, and this is predictable too.
They plunge far exceeds tobacco control experts' predictions that sales would fall 8 to 10%.
Indicating that smokers are smarter than the experts thought they're figuring out other means to get their fix.
Really?
The average American's always going to be smarter than the state official trying to outsmart him.
Anyway, the New York Association of Convenience Storners estimates that as many as half of all cigarettes consumed in the state lack proper tax stamps.
And law enforcement's also worried that the easy cash will spark rivalries among criminal gangs, just as drugs, it was all predictable.
We see lots of ripoffs and violence with drug trafficking, and you see a rise of that in tobacco too, said Turk.
As volume and money go up, the stakes get higher.
Certainly a concern of ours is violence will spill out of this.
No, it's not.
You want smokers dead.
Does it matter how they kill themselves?
It matter how they die.
I'm sorry, my friends.
I was so absorbed in another news story here, and it's this.
The Palm Beach County Health Department, that's us, that's where we live, says two more people have been bitten by an aggressive and possibly rabid otter trolling the Boca Raton area.
Did you know about this?
Yes.
William Gibbons was bitten by the otter as he videotaped it floating in a canal behind his home.
He's received six rabies shots.
Is scheduled to receive four more.
Two other people were bitten by an aggressive otter in the area yesterday.
Authorities are continuing to search for it, but they all look alike, so how are you gonna know which one's which when you get it?
No, it says aggressive.
Now, this did not confuse the otter was not confused, it was aggressive.
It's the it's the Oregon Christmas tree bomber that was confused.
Now, this is gonna come as a shock to people.
I see little otters and they're on their back waving at us with their paws.
Oh, how cute.
Little things apparently are jumping out of the water here to bite people.
You ever known an otter to do that?
Well, I haven't known any otters.
So I I can't I can't stop thinking about this poor guy to Buffalo Bill, Steve Johnson.
We have an audio soundbite that we'll grab uh we have time to play this.
We grab soundbite uh number 26.
Steve Johnson.
Um at a press conference yesterday, after the uh after the game.
It was a great call.
Um we knew we can beat them all.
You know, we ran in the last game, and I'm pretty sure they thought I was gonna run the over, and uh came to the back of the end zone and had the game in my hands and then dropped it.
You go through that whole game.
Knowing you got a big team like the Pittsburgh Steelers.
And then you got this kid coming up in the NFL, you know, making plays, and all of a sudden, when the biggest play that needs to be made, you don't make it, you know.
You feel bad, you're devastated right now.
I never get over it.
I'll never get over it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And uh you said here that uh he had a big game in my hands, and then dropped it to go through the whole game knowing you got a big team like the Pitburg Steelers.
And you got this kid coming up in the NFL, you know.
And then he was so devastated a guy goes to Twitter and blames God.
He goes, uh how you do this to me?
How you do this to me?
How am I supposed to learn from this?
I wonder what Obama thought when this guy started ripping him for this.
One more little note here for Steve Johnson, uh Buffalo Bills wide receiver, a little personal notes.
Steve, I love you, man.
You're no big football fan, but you don't go blaming God when you fail at a Hail Mary pass.
That's just not good politics.
You remember how mad people got at me last week, Brian, for saying that the um Indians are killing us with tobacco?
Remember that during the Thanksgiving start, they're killing us with tobacco?
And then look at they're still doing it.
They're still doing it.
All these illegal packs coming in from the reservations.
Brilliantly and hilariously, very pleasingly uh denying the state of New York 20 million dollars in tax revenue every month.