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	The views expressed by the host on this program make more sense than anything anybody else happens to be saying because the views expressed by the host on this program are the result of a daily intense, unstoppable and relentless pursuit of the truth.
	And we find it.
	And we proclaim it, and people go bonkers.
	You need courage.
	If you're going to listen to this program, if you can't handle the truth, you're gonna go bonkers and nuts, and it happens, and we love it when it does.
	I think uh even when I'm in a bad mood, when I know that I have sent a liberal into Looneyville, even more so.
	It makes my day.
	I'm L. Rushbow, 800-282-2882 is a number.
	If you want to be on the program, we will get to your calls soon in this hour.
	All right, now this is I mean, it's it's hilarious.
	We got the ant crawling on Jesus video at the Smithsonian.
	People got upset about it.
	The Smithsonian pulled it.
	Real question for me is how does it get posted in the first place?
	I already know the answer, which I've explained.
	The Washington Post Arts critic is not happy, ladies and gentlemen.
	His name is Blake Gopnick, which I think is a perfect name for somebody who would like a video of ants crawling all over Jesus.
	Blake Gopnick.
	The headline to Mr. Gopnick's piece in the Washington Post is National Portrait Gallery bows to censors, withdraws video on gay love.
	Now I have to admit that I didn't know until just now that ants crawling on Jesus was gay love.
	Did you?
	You knew it was it was about AIDS, but you couldn't figure the connection.
	Well, I got a still shot here of the video.
	It's it's actually of uh Jesus on the cross and the ants are going bonkers here crawling all over it.
	Of course, the ants don't know where they are or what they're doing.
	And this somehow is an is is about AIDS.
	Against all odds, the stodgy old National Portrait Gallery has recently become one of the most interesting, daring institutions in Washington.
	It's 2009 show on Marcel Ducamp's self-portrayal was important, strange, and brave.
	You know I love this word, important.
	Remember once I found myself uh in an antique store, and the uh the sales clerk was trying to impress upon me why I should have that particular piece or that it's important.
	The first time she said I was in one ear and out the other.
	And then she kept describing other pieces as important.
	I finally said, Well, what's important about it?
	Well, she said it's a very important piece.
	Yeah, but why?
	What what what's important about it?
	Well, it was it was for its day and age, I mean, it was big, it was very, very loved and adored.
	It was very classic.
	Well, why does that why does it make it important?
	She had no answer.
	So here's this guy now describing the Marcel Ducamp self-portrayal was important, strange, and brave.
	This is a term that the artsy croissant crowd uses to uh it's kind of like the way financial people have their own vocabulary, and you're not supposed to know what they're talking about.
	Same thing with these artsy croissant crowd.
	So anyway, let me read to you an excerpt from Mr. Blake Gopnick's piece here on the National Portrait Gallery Bowing the Censors and Withdrawing the Video and Gay Love.
	He says, by the way, it's a long rant.
	I mean, I printed it out here, and it's four pages.
	Four printed pages.
	But this little excerpt here captures the spirit of it.
	If every piece of art that offended some person or some group was removed from a museum, our museums might start looking empty Or would contain nothing more than Pebblum.
	Norman Rockwell would get the boot too if I believed in pulling everything I'm offended by.
	I can't stand the view of America that he represents, that he presents, which I feel insults a huge number of us non-mainstream people.
	So here's a guy ripping Norman Rockwell.
	If he had his druthers, there wouldn't be any Norman Rockwell art anywhere.
	Much less in a museum.
	But Mr. Gopnick says, I didn't call for the Smithsonian American Art Museum to pull the Rockwell show that runs through January 2nd, just down the hall from hide and seek.
	Rockwell and his admirers got to have their say.
	And his detractors, including me, got to rant about how much how much they hated his art.
	Now, what is there to hate about Norman Rockwell?
	Very simply answered question.
	Pro America, classic Americana.
	If you hate Norman Rockwell, you hate the flag.
	If you hate Norman Rockwell, you hate biscuits and gravy.
	If you hate Norman Rockwell, you hate breakfast.
	If you hate Norman Rockwell, you hate farms.
	If you hate Norman Rockwell, you hate grandmother.
	If you hate Norman Rockwell, you hate the fan.
	What in the world is there to hate about Norman Rockwell?
	But Mr. Gopnick expresses his hate for Norman Rockwell as a justification for his support of this uh this uh ant video on gay love.
	Hey, look, I'm open-minded.
	You know, I hate Rockwell, but I don't try to get him banned.
	You people that hate ants crawling all over Jesus, you need to have a little more tolerance among is what he's saying here.
	Now, Blake Gopnick might have his job because he's the son of Adam Gopnick, who is a writer for the New Yorker, which means he's an automatic member of the ruling class in the arts.
	So, I mean, that's who we're dealing with.
	I still can't figure out the gay love aspect of this.
	Or the AIDS aspect of it.
	At any rate, at any rate, the video has been pulled, it's gone, it's out of there.
	I want to revisit this program yesterday.
	Um I mentioned to you that I had recently had dinner more than once with uh with some Republicans, um, and I I I would call them uh ruling class type Republicans, who asked me if uh if if I thought Sarah Palin was uh presidential material.
	And I've you know adapted a new strategy here, just to yeah, no, of course not.
	If that's what they think, I just agree with them because they're not gonna hear what I say anyway.
	And their point is to be heard.
	Uh so they were a little bit surprised I agreed.
	And I, even though they I didn't think they would be, they weren't.
	I said, yeah, yeah.
	I mean, I'd, you know, give me four more years of Obama any day over Sarah Palin.
	I don't know.
	To me, there's no question, is there to you?
	They kind of cock their heads and look at me and start nodding, but it's clear they don't quite had an opportunity to put it into practice last night.
	It worked again.
	Uh you can always tell the people who laugh at it get it, the people who don't, wait a minute, what am I missing?
	I know he's saying something here, but can't say this is this is how I pointed it out yesterday on this program.
	It's Audio Sound Night Number Three, Ed.
	I have a new tactic.
	You people might want to try this.
	Whenever I go to dinner with Republicans, which when I go to dinner, it generally is.
	With Republicans.
	And invariably the subject of Sarah Palin comes up.
	And invariably, with Republicans, not conservatives.
	Republicans, you know, I like her, I really do.
	In fact, I met her the other day.
	I just don't think she's presidential.
	Do you?
	It used to be I'd get into an argument with them.
	But I figured it doesn't make any sense because they're really not even going to hear what I say.
	They already have their minds made up.
	So I said, you know, I totally agree with you.
	Especially.
	I mean, can you imagine I mean, my gosh, I you give me Obama any day.
	And they kind of stop and they look at me, they try to process what I just and the first they say, ah, there's old Rush making a joke.
	And then they cock their heads and they still look like this.
	Well, what did you say?
	I said, Oh, I totally agree with you.
	Sarah Palin, there's no way.
	There's simply no way.
	I Give me Obama.
	Give me four more years of Obama any day.
	And some of them, it registers immediately, and others are still trying to figure it out.
	So it takes us to Morning Joe today.
	Joe Scarborough at his show on PMS NBC.
	Andrew Ross Sorkin, a New York Times reporter, and Nicole Wallace were the guests.
	And during a discussion about Palin possibly running for president, Sorkin said, doesn't it become harder?
	The more runway room you give her now, I mean, if the plan is to cut her off at the legs later, why let her go now?
	By the way, her television show, I haven't seen it, but people who are watching it, tell me how much they like it.
	Her I the what is it, the learning channel that it's on?
	Rave reviews, great ratings, people tell me they really like the show.
	And the ratings continue to increase for this thing, which surprises people.
	And so this has the left discombobulated, because everywhere they look, her popularity is on display.
	Everywhere they look, you know, this this none of this was supposed to have she was supposed to be finished by now.
	They were supposed to have killed her off, and they were supposed to have succeeded in getting a whole bunch of ruling class Republicans to kill her off, but it hasn't happened.
	And that's what this Sorkin guy is saying.
	Well, doesn't it become harder the more runaway room you give her?
	Now he's talking to Nicole Wallace, who is a Republican doesn't it become harder to cut her off at the legs the longer you let her go?
	No, I mean, if the plan is to cut her off at the legs later, why not do it now?
	Why wait?
	Because the longer she's out there and gaining popularity, the tough the tougher it's gonna be to get rid of her.
	And here's what Nicole Wallace said.
	No one's gonna cut her off at the legs.
	Only Sarah Palin can beat Sarah Palin.
	And let me tell you why no one I'll take her on.
	Her defenders and supporters, the likes of Rush Limbaugh and people I admire, are so powerful on the right that nobody wants to anger any of those people.
	Nobody wants to end up in the crosshairs, and nobody wants to look like they are unwilling to let her do her thing.
	I don't think people should be, you know, uptight and angsting about Sarah Palin.
	I think she'll reveal herself and people love her hate.
	I really believe that if it looked like she were about to become the nominee, or heaven forbid, the leader of the free world, a whole lot of people would would stand up and say a whole lot of things.
	So that's the the the apparently uh the roll of the dice is at some point, everybody's gonna see what a disaster she would be, and we'll be okay.
	At some point this is gonna happen.
	Uh well, this is Nicole Wallace, but she's she's articulating uh a view that many people hold that the more Sarah Palin there is, that the worse it gets for her.
	Which it kind of appears to be just the opposite to me.
	The more Sarah Palin there is, the better for her.
	Get her daughter out there on Dancing with the Stars.
	Uh either Bristol herself or Sarah's voters kept her on that show long beyond what she should have been.
	Her television shows going through the roof uh on the learning channel.
	But apparently the prevailing opinion is just just don't worry about it.
	Uh, you Democrats, don't sweat it.
	Um longer she's out there, and the more it looks like she might get the nomination.
	Well, then a whole lot of people are gonna say the heck with Rush Limbaugh and whoever they're gonna stand up and they're gonna say a whole lot of things about her.
	To which I'm just gonna say what I've what I've been saying.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it looks like she's gonna get the nomination.
	We gotta stop that.
	Give me four more years of Obama.
	And I want to see what their reaction to that is.
	Yep, Sarah Palin or four more years of Obama, no question.
	Four more years of Obama, right?
	Make them say it.
	By the way, uh a question for Blake Gopnick.
	Mr. Gopnick, if uh if the Smithsonian approved a video, or even worse, a live demonstration of a bunch of cockroaches or ants, or pick your insect, were crawling all over Mohammed.
	Or Allah.
	Would an artist support that?
	Would the Smithsonian ever put it up?
	Mr. Gopnick, why don't you go to it?
	You know, I'm sure you know some artists out there.
	Go go go to an artist and say, look, let's deal with it this way.
	Okay, they they pull our exhibit here with the ants crawling all over Jesus.
	Fine.
	Let's redo it and replace Jesus with Allah or Mohammed.
	And let's submit that to this, Miss Sony and see what they say.
	And I'll bet you that Mr. Gopnick couldn't even find an artist to do it.
	It's really true, folks.
	Blake Gopnick recently trashed a Norman Rockwell show in Washington because of what he said was Norman Rockwell's lack of courage.
	Norman Rockwell's lack of courage.
	Okay, so Mr. Gopnick, where is your courage?
	Let's see some courage.
	Why don't you promote more Mohammed artwork?
	Any Mohammed artw would do.
	Ants crawling on Mohammed, somebody kissing Mohammed, and their guy kissing Mohammed, whatever.
	Any image of Mohammed's considered a desecration.
	So let's see your man parts, Mr. Gopnik.
	Let's see your courage.
	To the phones we go now.
	We're going to start in Fort Pierce, Florida with Shirley.
	It's right up the road here.
	Great to have you on the program.
	Welcome.
	Oh, thank you.
	It's an honor to talk with you.
	I appreciate that.
	Thank you very much.
	Um, thanks to a teething eight month old yesterday, I was not able to listen to the show.
	And my husband who is dedicated, uh, told me that you were saying that um people with uh pre-existing conditions having uh insurance is kind of like welfare, if I'm getting that right.
	Uh well um half right.
	What I said was that forcing an insurance company to insure people with preexisting conditions is not insurance, it's welfare, essentially.
	You're asking an entity, an insurance company.
	What does an insurance company do?
	An insurance company sells you a policy to guard against risk and to and uh to help you deal with the calamity when it happens, not after it happens.
	You you could not get an insurance company to sell you uh fire insurance on your home after the fire had started, when half of your house was already gone and the flames are still raging, there's no insurance company that is going to insure you for the loss of your house.
	They're just not.
	Nobody would even force them to.
	Nobody would even think of it.
	If somebody was gonna pay for your house after it got burned down and you didn't have insurance, that would be welfare.
	Somebody paying you for your house.
	I'm just drawing the analogy that if somebody is healthy and don't have insurance, and then all of a sudden they're told that they've got three months to live with some dread disease, then they're requiring an insurance company to provide medical care for them that that's not insurance.
	Well, what about a child, say born with type one diabetes once they're off their parents' insurance?
	Well, that's that's it's the thing, the same thing still holds.
	Oh, wait, wait a minute.
	What about a child born with type one diabetes once they're born?
	Um now wait, wait, wait a s uh uh at some point, you know, I left my parents' home too.
	Now, I didn't have type one diabetes, but I did have this affliction known as needing to eat.
	And there was nothing written at the government was requiring my parents to feed me after I left home.
	That was something I had to take care of myself.
	In other words, so if I if if I did have if I did have type one diabetes when I was born, and when I left home, uh I would then have to go get my own insurance.
	And I understand that, but that's a preexisting condition.
	Yes, it is a pre well no, it's it's it in in a in a sense it is, but how easy is it to get what kind of insurance are you able to get for type one diabetes after you've done it?
	I I I wouldn't know.
	My question is we're canceling our insurance because we pay $800 a month and we can't pay our bills.
	So we're choosing to eat over our insurance.
	And just out of curiosity, I've called different insurance.
	Well, wait, but but do you have somebody in your family with type one diabetes?
	Is that the No, I'm type two diabetic.
	But it's under control with through diet and exercise and things like that.
	Yeah.
	And so I'm not able to get insurance.
	I've called several different insurance companies and they said they have nothing to offer me.
	Okay, you're not able to get insurance for your type 2 diabetes.
	Right.
	We're we're gonna have we're gonna do a uh way this is this is this is my point.
	It's it's what do you want?
	Do you want what do you want somebody to pay for with your type 2 diabetes?
	Well, I was just curious your views on it because we do respect your views on things.
	And my question is for those people who do have children with type one diabetes, that when those children do grow up and they have to find their own insurance with the pre-existing condition.
	My own my own situation got me thinking about that.
	Oh, you oh, this is just this is a a hypothetical that you're thinking about.
	Yeah, because I mean if it goes through and I'm able to get insurance, great.
	If not, I understand my lifestyle brought that on, and I'm now changing my lifestyle to the.
	I understand the uh I understand the the difficulty here.
	I'm again I I live in Littoralville, and insurance is risk management.
	There is no risk management if you already have a disease.
	It's whatever we're not talking about insurance.
	Uh if if you want insurance, or if you if you if you want help with your medical bills for type one diabetes after you leave home, insurance is not what we're talking to to make an insurance company pay for that is you're you you're gonna put the insurance company out of business.
	They can't stay in that's not what insurance companies do.
	They they insure against risk.
	It's the management of it.
	Chip Davis, Mannheim Steamroller.
	You know, when we started this program back in 1988, uh started uh playing Mannheim Streamroller Christmas tunes during the Christmas season during the book rotation, and at the time, and I had not met Chip at uh at that point, uh I think it was a couple years uh after we started that I finally met Chip and and uh all the gang at Mannheim Steamroller.
	And they had uh two Christmas CDs at the time.
	Now they've gone way I forget how many they've got, I meant five or six.
	Back then they used to tour from November through uh through December, and they would have twelve or thirteen stops, and they'd always end up in Omaha where Chip is, and they'd do their their big uh finale tours a couple days over Christmas.
	Now there are two Mannheim steamroller groups, one on the left coast and one on the right coast to handle the demand.
	They have 75 tour appearances now, Christmas concerts, uh from November through December.
	And Chip has gotten so big and so busy he can't make them all.
	There's uh uh they've had the the some original members of Manheim are on the left coast now handling that version of Manheim steamroller, and the others are on the East Coast, and then they mix it up.
	They've just they've grown by by leaps and bounds.
	And if you've never if you if if a Manheim steamroller Christmas concert is uh is coming soon, uh to your re you gotta go gotta go to it.
	It's just there, it's it's uh it's just wonderful.
	There's no other way to describe it.
	Now, many people have called here want to know in the course of years where what is your heritage, Limbo?
	You always talk about illegal immigrants.
	I came from Germany.
	My my family actually is a town in Germany, Limbach.
	L-I-M-B-A-C-H, Limbok.
	You can find Limbach, Germany on Google Maps.
	It is just 20 miles east of Mannheim in Germany.
	Yes, right.
	Mannheim, Mannheim Steamroller, the Limbach, Mannheim, 20 miles apart in Germany.
	Yeah, it's cool.
	It's uh it's it's it's really cool.
	And Chip's got a house over there and once offered me the uh use of it, and I never had an opportunity to uh take him up on it.
	But if you do have a chance to see one of their Christmas concerts, don't miss it.
	I once took the whole staff here when the whole staff was much smaller, but we uh we chartered a plane and took from New York to Chicago.
	It was it was fabulous.
	We all stayed in the hotel, we went to the concert, and uh out of the blue, I'm I'm I'm sitting next to Diana Schneider in the audience, the editrix here of the Limbaugh Letter, and uh Chip starts talking on stage about uh uh wanted to take time out to thank uh a good friend of theirs on the radio who has been incredibly supportive, and I'm listening to all the people around me whisper who they think it is.
	And I'm hearing all kinds of Chicago people, uh radio personalities.
	Some people said he's always talking about how it's doing and stuff like that.
	And he got to me and he mentioned my name and uh stood up and walked up to the stage.
	It was great.
	Gave me a official Mannheim steamroller letter jacket.
	You remember that, Snerdley?
	You snurdly was on it.
	We chartered uh chartered a bus to put up, we chartered a giant bus with 55 people, uh, 55 seats had about 14 people on it from here.
	Yeah, it was a perfect it was snowing, wasn't it?
	Little snowflakes in Chicago.
	It was, it was a uh it was a perfect winter night.
	We are gonna find a way to do that again.
	But now I mean they got 75 concerts all over the uh all over the country now.
	They used to, it used to be just small, ten or twelve a year.
	They go to play like Tampa or uh or Orlando.
	Once went on.
	It's a Norman Rockwell kind of experience.
	They have uh you know giant electric train set up on the audience.
	Uh the last concert I was able to go to was uh out on Long Island.
	Uh I forget the venue for the Islanders play.
	I'm just having a mental block on the name of the um on the name of the venue.
	But again, if they're ever anywhere near you, uh bop in and uh and check them out.
	We're gonna have to get to this uh unemployment business, because Pelosi's back now saying that unemployment uh benefits grow the economy.
	She's back repeating this.
	And there were some other people saying this yesterday that we spent a lot of time on dissecting.
	And and that was based there was this most idiotic AP story yesterday on how if unemployment benefits weren't extending, Christmas should be over, the country would end.
	It was all about how unemployment compensation benefits grow the economy.
	And it was the most idiotic piece I have uh uh read, written by a leading wire service.
	There's such silly things as uh tax cuts actually hurt the economy because those are just gifts from the government to people.
	And I went through this long, we're gonna, in fact, uh in the next issue of the Limbaugh Letter, we are going to illustrate my little monologue on this yesterday with with how all of this works, unemployment benefits, how they don't grow the economy.
	Uh it was it was just I was I was stunned reading this yesterday.
	And now Pelosi's back, and we've got a whole audio segment on this with other sound bites, people weighing in on it.
	Uh and we'll get to that in just a second, but I want to get some people who've been waiting patiently on the phone before we get there.
	Back to the Oh, one more thing to this nice young woman who had called previously and we ran out of time.
	She had the example of uh child uh type one diabetes leaves home.
	Uh what then uh it's pre-existing condition.
	Many states, this is how this is being dealt with.
	And I imagine Florida, she was from Fort Pierce.
	I imagine Florida's one of them.
	Many states require, already require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions.
	And they but the states allow them to charge much higher premiums.
	And that would be the case for diabetes.
	You're gonna pay for it one way or the other.
	My my point is if you think of of insurance for a pre-existing condition as somebody else paying for your health care, that's welfare.
	There's no other way around it.
	If if if anybody is paying for anything of yours, it's welfare.
	Sorry.
	It's not insurance.
	Now you probably, if you have type one diabetes and you leave home, you can probably get insurance coverage, but you're gonna pay for the no, you're gonna pay a higher premium.
	And you're probably gonna have a very, very high deductible.
	That's what it's going to cost.
	Everything does have its cost.
	If it doesn't, if these companies cannot at least break, well, they've got to do more than break even, or they're not gonna stay in business.
	Which, by the way, is the objective of Obamacare is to drive them out of business.
	The perfect Scenario, as far as Obama's concerned, is if private sector insurance, health insurance industry is shut down because it can't even break even.
	And if you all you do is break even, why stay in business in the uh in the first place?
	All right, back to the phones.
	Lou in Kentucky.
	Greg, great to have you on the program, sir.
	Hi.
	Hey, Russ, enjoy your show.
	Thank you very much, sir.
	And maybe if we all quit our jobs and go on unemployment, the economy can really give him that's the thing I pointed out yesterday.
	Why work?
	If unemployment benefits grow the economy, what are we all doing here?
	Right.
	Well, I had a little different take on the WikiLeaks issue.
	Um I think that the WikiLeaks release actually is a benefit to the country as opposed to the government.
	It's a benefit to the American people because it illustrates what conservatives know.
	That government lie governments lie, governments are hypocritical.
	You know, we find out that our friends are bankrolling Al Qaeda.
	Uh we find out that Qaddafi likes voluptuous Ukrainian nurses.
	Uh, you know, so I I think it's actually a benefit.
	And um uh I wish the Federal Reserve would have some money, so we could find it if they're uh they're bailing out Ireland.
	That would be nice.
	Uh now I wasn't prepared to get into detail about that today because right before the program started, I got this big long story without enough time to digest it.
	But there are a couple blogs that are asserting that we are going to bail out Europe, that we are via the IMF, that we are going to participate, bailing out Ireland, bailing out some of these other EU companies.
	Exactly.
	And I think the real danger is with the Federal Reserve because they're not required to reveal what they do.
	No, that's that's why leaks could be beneficial.
	This kind of leak could be really beneficial to our democracy.
	Back in 2008, you'll recall during the economic crisis that we've been learned that the Fed had lent two trillion dollars, but nobody knew to who.
	Exactly.
	We we still don't know who got that money.
	So maybe we could get WikiLeaks on that on that case.
	Well, I hear you.
	I in fact, you know, you make a great point.
	He makes a great, great point.
	One of the things that we did learn in the WikiLeaks document dump is that the Saudis and the Egyptians and practically every other Middle Eastern Arab country.
	They don't hate the Palestinians.
	That's not number one on their list is Iran.
	Number one on their list is getting rid of Iran.
	Obama goes over to talk to King Abdullah.
	King Abdullah doesn't want to talk about the Palestinians.
	Obama's going on and on and on about how he's going to bring peace and the king's board.
	The king is based what are you going to do about Iran?
	To which I would say we have we've given you you've got sixty billion dollars worth of armors.
	What are you going to do about Iran?
	But we learn through this through the WikiLeaks uh uh uh download, if you want to call it that, we learn that American foreign policy, as articulated by conservatives, is shared by our so-called allies.
	You know, it is it is the American right that's all concerned about Iran, what to do about it.
	We learn in this WikiLeaks dump that the Arab countries do not consider Israel their biggest problem by any stretch of the imagination.
	It's Iran that they're all worried about.
	We also learn they won't dare say this in public.
	They won't dare say it in public, but in private, I mean, what is revealed about Hazni Mubarak and what he has said to American diplomats about the Middle Eastern situation, he wouldn't dare say one word in public that he is on record saying in private to our diplomats.
	And that is Israel's not their big concern.
	Everybody knows Israel's not their big concern.
	The American left, however, thinks Israel's the bogeyman, Israel's a big problem.
	We on the right know that the problem in that region is Iran.
	I mean, Mubarak goes goes as far as saying that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism.
	We get details in these uh in these WikiLeaks dump of I think it's Mubarak or some other Middle Eastern Arab nation leader pointing out how Iran smuggled weapons into the Hezbows during the Hezbollah Israeli war, which we all knew was happening, but the media, worldwide media was denying it and portraying it all as an Israeli problem.
	But ambulances that were being driven in to various parts of Lebanon to help the injured, supposedly injured by Israeli rockets, were actually ferreting in missiles and weapons from Iran to the Hezmos.
	And our source for this is Middle Eastern Arab leaders.
	Now they wouldn't dare announce any of this in public, but what we're learning from this dump is that the allies that we have in the Middle East are far more attuned with the American right in terms of the uh geopolitic of American foreign policy than the left.
	So in that sense, Greg here from Louisville is exactly right.
	It is beneficial.
	I if when the first thing, one of the first things I said when these things came out were revealed was more of this.
	This is the truth.
	Because people don't lie to their cables.
	You know, this is this is uh it's like reading People Magazine for the diplomatic corps.
	It was some of this stuff is fascinating reading what these Middle Eastern guys are admitting about the role Iran's playing in the Hezbollah war.
	When our left and American media trying to blame it all on Israel.
	The Middle Eastern guys knew it wasn't Israel.
	It was Iran.
	That was Iran behind all of it.
	Iran giving the Hezbollahs the missiles, getting the missiles in there in ambulances.
	And those missiles that were being launched at random, most of them in Israel missing their targets.
	Of course, the Israelis were responding, and the Israelis, we're learning, we're hitting military targets, but everybody's saying they were civilian targets.
	The Middle Eastern leaders knew that everything that was being said in the national press, the worldwide press was total lies.
	That's a total Iranian aggressive moment.
	The Hezbollahs and the Iranians are the bad guys.
	They all know it.
	Never say it in public.
	Wouldn't dare say it in public.
	They might get shot.
	So and in that sense, it has been uh uh valuable and worthwhile.
	And there's all kinds of stuff like that that's being revealed.
	And that's why you're not seeing a whole lot of people go bananas over it.
	And Obama clearly is not acting upset about it because the perception is it hurts America.
	And you've got enough diplomats saying it's very devastating to American foreign policy, which is the Obama idea.
	So in that sense, he even likes it.
	You got Eric Holder out there, this incompetent guy threatening to bring him up on charges, big deal.
	We know that'll never happen.
	Holder's too busy still trying to secure a trial for um for the uh the grand sheik mastermind of 9-11.
	Look at that.
	Experts question if NASA has found extraterrestrial life.
	What's the question?
	Go to New Orleans.
	Look up James Carville.
	Question answered.
	Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
	Here it is from CNBC.
	The United States would be ready to support the extension of the European Financial Stability Facility via an extra commitment of money from the International Monetary Fund, the U.S. official told Reuters today.
	Essentially, we are going to bail out the EU.
	There it is.
	I got this.
	I got a big long blog post right before the program started, did not have anywhere near enough time to get into it.
	And it turns out it was true.
	A U.S. official commenting anonymously said there are a lot of people talking about it.
	I think the European Commission's talked about that.
	It's up to the Europeans.
	We'll certainly support using the IMF in these circumstances.
	Obviously, some severe market problems.
	In May it was Greece, this is Ireland and Portugal.
	If there's a contagion, that's a huge problem for the global economy.
	We'll be in there that we don't have the money.
	But is anybody surprised?
	I for I'm not shocked that we're bailing out the EU.
	This was only a matter of time.
	After waiting 24 years for her worthless husband to do it, how did Mary Ann of Stanford, Connecticut, finally get her last will and testament done?
	She writes, I'm married to a lawyer.
	He certainly could have prepared our wills, but being married to an attorney is like being married to a contractor.
	Everybody else's house gets built while the contractor's wife waits.
	So she took action herself.
	Didn't rely on her worthless lawyer husband.
	She visited legalzoom.com.
	She answered some simple questions, and it was done.
	And she had peace of mind.
	Her will was carefully prepared and in her hands the very next day.
	Friendly staff person even followed up to make sure she was 100% satisfied.
	Same thing can happen to you.
	Make sure you tune into a new series on investigation discovery called The Will.
	It premieres Wednesdays at 9, 8 p.m.
	Central.
	LegalZoom.com.
	LegalZoom, not a fur law firm, but they do provide self-help services at your specific direction, legalzoom.com.
	I find this hilarious woman married to a lawyer, waits 24 years for her will.
	Lawyer says I'll get to it when I get to it.
	What she realized was she could not be charged for billable hours.
	So she goes to LegalZoom and she's got her will.
	I have a little trick question for you here on insurance and pre-existing conditions.
	how do life and joy how How does life insurance work with a pre existing condition?
	Because after all, life is a pre existing condition when talking about life insurance.

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