The Detroit Lions have just stopped giving away tickets to tonight's game between the Giants and the Minnesota Vikings because I guess they're out of tickets.
If you went to the Packers Lions game yesterday in Detroit, that ticket's going to be honored for tonight.
You're a stub.
And anybody making the trip from Minnesota who had tickets gets in.
I guess the response has been pretty good because they've stopped giving away free general admission tickets to people that didn't have a ticket to their game yesterday.
So you might have a full house in Detroit tonight and not good for the Vikings because the Lions are in the same division as the Vikings and they'll be pulling for the Giants.
Yeah, it's so it's a big plus for the Giants because then I get to face that massive noise from the home crowd at the Metrodome.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh here at Christmastime on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
We just love Christmas here.
We love everything about it except the cold snap that's going on here.
Snerdley, do you realize the wind chill in New York is only five degrees colder than the wind chill here?
It's a wind chill in New York is 39.
It's 44 here.
Snerdley, I didn't see Snerdley arrive for work.
I don't know if he's got a park.
You don't even have your park anymore, do you?
No, he showed up in shorts, as we all do each and every day.
I mean, once you get out of the car, what is it?
Two seconds inside and then climate control comfort.
So no, it's just depressing.
I mean, you're here so you can be smug during cold weather in the north, but now we have to, you know, take our share of it.
You can't be smug.
Well, that's where you live.
It'll be in the 20s.
On the ocean, about 32 to 35.
It's going to be the 20s in Orlando for sure.
Yeah.
Real.
Yeah, I know.
I did used to love cold weather.
And I do where the weather is supposed to be cold.
I still do.
Phone number, if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, and the email address, lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
Finally, the weather, global warming, finally giving the Midwest a bunch of shovel-ready jobs.
Finally, look at what it costs.
How much have we spent on global warming?
How much have we spent developing the Volt?
How much have we spent on the Prius?
How much have we spent on the Hoax going to Copenhagen or wherever?
Cancun?
You realize if the best way, if global warming ever does really happen, the best way to cool things off is to hold a worldwide global warming summit wherever they do it.
Record lows.
Same thing with Al Gore.
When he goes in and make a speech in global warming, record lows take place.
Sometimes bad weather goes along with it.
They had four or five record low temperature days in a row in Cancun during the global warming summit of last week.
All right.
No labels.
I first heard of this from some friends last week or the week before.
And it is a bunch of people who just can't seem to find a home either on the left or on the right.
That's who it really is.
And, well, but there's another aspect to this too, because here are the founders.
No labels.
And it is what it sounds like.
It's a bunch of people who don't want to be called conservative, who don't want to be called liberal.
It's basically a bunch of gutless wonders among the true believers.
Not the founders.
The founders have a different game going here.
But among the true believers are going, yeah, yeah, yeah, count me in, count me in.
It's a bunch of wusses that, like on our side, the froms et al. who just they just can't find a home on the conservative right.
They've been drummed out of it or they've drummed themselves out of it.
You know, the people who said the era of Reagan is over.
The people that said conservatism is going to have to recognize here that people want a welfare state.
Conservatism is going to have to realize that people want a big government.
They want an active executive.
They just want it done smarter.
People who are advising the Republican Party to go that way, to come back from the shellacking they got in 2008.
Right.
And you can see how right they were.
What was it that propelled the Republicans to victory in 2008?
It wasn't the Republicans.
It wasn't one position they took.
What propelled them was they weren't Democrats.
What was it about what Democrats were doing that propelled the Republicans to victory?
Spending, indebtedness, growing government, active executive.
All of the stuff that the brains and the intelligentsia on our side said the American people wanted got shellacked.
Now, of course, they're rewriting history.
No, we weren't talking about that kind of stuff.
And on the left, you have really not hardcore leftists.
You have people all who want to be perceived as moderates.
And the no labels crowd is made up of a bunch of people who think they're the smartest people around, smartest people in the room, that they're too intelligent and diverse, too erudite and sophisticated to be categorized by something as confining and insulting as a label, like conservative or right-wing,
liberal or left-wing.
Now, these people are far, far more intelligent, far, far more open-minded, far, far more sophisticated.
These are the people who told us on our side the era of Reagan is over, that we need a new kind of conservatism, that it must adapt.
Adapt to a world where the people want higher taxes.
If it means a smarter government, an active, engaged executive.
The American people want essentially a form of a welfare state.
It's not these people, it's not that we do.
It's just that we recognize what the people want by virtue of the way they voted.
We see what the people want.
And if the Republicans have any hope of winning, they've got to forget this Reagan fixation they've got, right?
So we have the election of 2008.
And who was it essentially that independence, the precious independence, and everybody else said they wanted more of Reagan?
What was it they said they wanted less of?
Bigger government, welfare state, active, engaged, smart executive, i.e. president.
So, as far as I'm concerned, they have been totally discredited, and they know it.
And they have their counterparts on the left.
So, miraculously, this group called no labels has sprung up.
Guys like Joe Scarborough are all for it.
Joey is an MSNBC.
It doesn't help him to be thought of as a Reagan conservative.
And you've got all these other people on the people like Bloomberg love the idea of no labels.
But here are the founders.
And as always, folks, as usual, if you follow the money, not the true believers, if you follow the money, you will find the answers to most of your questions.
No Labels, founded by Nancy Jacobson, who is a Democrat activist, married to Mark Penn, Democrat pollster.
The Republican in charge of No Labels is Mark McKinnon, a Democrat.
He's the guy who dropped out of the McCain campaign because he couldn't bring himself to be critical of the first black presidential candidate, Obama.
McKinnon was George W. Bush's ad guy.
He was McCain's ad guy until they started criticizing Obama.
Then McKinnon quit.
Before Bush, McKinnon never worked for the Republicans.
But he had worked alongside the forehead, Paul Bagala, for a lot of Democrats.
So you had Mark McKinnon, Nancy Jacobson, oh, and I left Kiki McClain.
I think her maiden name was Kiki Moore.
I'm not sure, but they're all Democrats.
The founders of No Labels is all Democrats.
And our guys on the right are making tracks to join up.
No labels.
Now, what is this?
Well, let's take a look at who these people are.
Mark McKinnon, Kiki Moore, Kiki McClain, Nancy Jacobson.
I'll tell you what this is about.
It is about money.
These are political consultants.
They need candidates.
They need candidates running for office for whom they can take whatever the consultant gets, paid 5%, 10%, what have you.
All three founders of No Labels are Democrats.
They would love for Bloomberg to run for president.
Why?
Because he is a billionaire.
Get him to run as an independent, maybe even third party.
You know, sucker him into an independent run where they get the money, win or lose.
Whether he wins or loses, doesn't matter.
They get the money.
And he would lose.
But there are always, as a friend of mine says, there are always political operatives who will tell a billionaire what he wants to hear.
And we know that Bloomberg wants to run.
He just says he's not.
He says he doesn't want to, but we know he does want to.
Now, a who's who of centrist and independent politicians, including Mayor Bloomberg, Senator Joe Lieberman, Governor Charlie Christ, Representatives Mike Castle and Bob Inglis, gather in New York this morning for the launch of No Labels, a new nonprofit group aimed at promoting cooperation across party lines.
In a four-minute video prepared for today's launch, a collection of the group's founding leaders call for politicians to be moving beyond partisanship and focus on solutions.
Notice how this comes on the heels of a Democrat shellacking.
Notice how three Democrat campaign consultants form a group called No Labels to forget politics, to find solutions, and move beyond partisanship.
Well, it's natural that a bunch of losing Democrats would want to get rid of the loser moniker and sucker a bunch of smarter than they think they are Republican conservatives to join them under the same auspices.
If we take away the labels, I think we'll realize the folks who are in the center of the Democrat Party, the folks who are at the center of the Republican Party, probably agree with each other more than they do with the extremes of their party.
Said John Evlon, the former Rudy Giuliani advisor and centrist political strategist, says in the video, Lisa Borders, the Atlanta politician who heads the Grady Health Foundation, argues we need to find a new space where people can feel comfortable to actually just get the work done.
Now, as I say, you're going to find a number of so-called Republican, former conservatives joining the group here.
Snurdly just said, what work are they talking about getting done?
All the...
The end of partisanship, the end of bickering.
These are people who are convinced that's what the American people ultimately want is an end.
If they did, Republicans would not have gotten one vote.
We already had the Democrats in total power.
I mean, the Democrats owned everything.
If these people at No Labels were right and want to end the bickering, and they love the Democrats and love what they stand for, then keep them in power.
Keep me in the House, give me more seats in the Senate, more seats in the House, make sure Obama's there in perpetuity.
But it just didn't work out that way.
But the bottom line is, you have now a bunch of out-of-work Democrat consultants who may not be, in truth, high up on the list of consultants that Democrats want to hire.
I mean, when's the last one I've never won a race?
Last time McKinnon did, he was working for a Republican.
Kiki Moore is on Fox.
Nancy Jacobson, I don't know when I last saw her.
And these are the three founders.
Folks, it's like everything else.
As far as the founders are concerned, no labels is about money.
Finding rich billionaires to run as third-party candidates and separate the rich billionaire from his money as consultants.
And win or lose, you get paid.
And it doesn't matter if he wins or loses.
The money is what counts.
So Bloomberg wants to run, wants to run his own campaign.
I'll go, yep, great idea, Mr. Mayor.
Implement it, make sure he loses, take your money.
The people that are signing on to this, what I call the dupes, making up the rank and file of the group, not the elected officials.
I'm not talking about the Liebermans.
Well, I might throw Chris and Cass.
Yeah, these are the dupes.
But they're truly liberals.
Republicans who want to be known as centrists and they're truly liberals.
So it's a liberal group.
A liberal group that a bunch of wayward conservative media intelligentsia people are joining because they are drinking the Kool-Aid.
They really think it's about ending partisanship and rewarding smart people.
To answer your question, Sterdley, they really believe that this organization is where the truly brilliant in public policy and politics will go.
It's all about hanging around with like-minded eggheads, like-minded, smartest people in the room.
Port and cigars in the club library.
Except, can't smoke now.
It's bad for you.
So, port in the club room.
Yeah, you know, the wine and croissants crowd, basically.
But they think it's all about the smartest people getting together, rising to power, and owning everything.
The three founders, it's about getting back in the game and earning some money.
That's all it is.
Mannheim Steamroller, you know what I found out today?
The roller, as they're now known, the roller.
Mannheim Steamroller has sold more Christmas records, albums, CDs than anyone.
The all-time leader in the sale of Christmas music, Mannheim Steamroller and Chip Davis.
You know who they supplanted?
You know who they replaced?
Nope, that's a close good guess.
It's neither Bing Crosby nor is it Nat King Cole.
It's Elvis.
Elvis was the number one seller of Christmas music.
Elvis.
Exactly right.
Elvis is on number two.
Mannheim Steamroller is number one.
Now, I just checked the email.
A lot of people, Rush, Rush, you need to hear what Chris Matthews said on Friday.
You need to play it for your audience.
I was like, I just did.
But it was at the end of the hour.
And it's only 10 seconds.
People obviously didn't hear it in my own audience.
What does that say for me?
But here it is again.
Ladies and gentlemen, Friday night, Hardball Matthews was, I mean, it was orgasm time, ladies and gentlemen, after Clinton took over the White House podium.
This is the alliance made by God and the Democratic Party.
You're laughing because there's Bill Clinton back.
He grabbed that podium so fast he didn't want to leave go of it.
He didn't want to let go of it.
Leave go of it?
They talk like that in the South, Chris.
You better be careful.
Leave go of it?
The alliance made by God and the Democrat Party, Bill Clinton and Obama.
Yeah, it wasn't Bing Crosby white Christmas.
The stuff I wrote, I'm going to have to find it.
I'll have to find it, but it's a story on Chip Davis, and Mannheim Steamroller said they're number one.
Let's see, Rooney in Rockville, Connecticut.
Rooney, you're next on the EIB.
Great to have you here.
Obama from Alabama, not a one-term president, Ditto's.
Thank you, sir.
Greetings.
Thank you.
Hello.
Hello.
Now that I've proclaimed the obvious, I want to just revel for a minute in the glow of this ruling from a southern judge.
And the timing couldn't have been better.
I just got off the airwaves shellacking Richard M. Blumenthal from Connecticut, or whatever his name is, for what he's done in the past and what he's going to do in the future when he gets to Washington as a junior senator from Connecticut.
And how the senior senator has single-handedly tried to put the final nail in the coffin of our country when he had the ability to stop this Obamacare from going forward.
And right after I got off with Blumenthal, on came this whatever, Fox News alert that out of Virginia from the South may be the salvation of our nation.
And I've always said that if this country is to be saved, it's going to be saved by the South and by the Southerners.
And that's why Chris Matthews is starting to talk Southern, because he wants to be part of the salvation.
Well, you might have a point.
Qualler here is referring to the federal judge, Judge Hudson in Virginia, who has found Obamacare unconstitutional because of the Commerce Clause.
Said that it's unconstitutional for the regime to mandate that any American buy anything, particularly health insurance, or pay a penalty.
And here's more Mannheim Steamroller.
Merry Christmas from all of us here at the EIB Network.
And for all of you saying, what?
You can't be even more than being Crosby White Christmas.
Who's Source?
Well, here it is.
It's Bloomberg Business Week magazine.
John Perelis of the New York Times once dismissed Mannheim Steamroller as music with pretensions.
Yet over the past quarter century, over the last 25 years, Mannheim Steamroller has sold 38 million records, mostly Christmas collections.
It is the music industry's number one seller, even in the lucrative holiday category.
Number two is Elvis Presley.
Derbingle, not mentioned in there.
The top two.
So it's Mannheim Steamroller and Elvis.
Tony in Tampa, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, how you doing?
Very well, thank you.
I watched Army Navy over the weekend.
They might have thrown three flags the entire game.
Uninterrupted football from beginning to end.
I want to talk about the NFLPA, Rush.
This guy who's the head of the NFLPA, you know yourself, he's a stone-cold, straight-up Obamatron.
They're talking about strikes striking next year to, so there won't be a season next year.
Now, I want to ask you about this.
You're talking about DeMaris Smith, or actually DeMaurice, to be proper, DeMaurice Smith.
Where are you getting this strike business?
Isn't that the scuttlebutt that's going down?
That they're going through negotiations.
They might strike.
Well, the reason I ask you this is very interesting.
Not too many people have picked up on this.
That's why everybody's talking lockout, as in the players being locked out by the owners.
But the players on every team have voted, if necessary, to decertify the union.
If that holds up, there won't be anybody to lock out.
The owners won't be able to lock out anybody if they follow through and decertify.
In other words, in the union, then there's nobody to lock out.
Therefore, the only way there'd be a work stoppage is indeed if the players strike.
Now, is that what you meant?
Or did you just mean lockout and got the terms reversed?
No, that's exactly what I meant.
All right, well, then you are on the cutting edge.
You are keeping up with this because very few people are aware that at the end of the day, the only way this can happen is if there is a strike, if they decertify, there won't be anything for the owners to lock out.
That's right, Rush.
The Obamatron, in the midst of 10% unemployment, and his president giving us a Cuban-style economy, wants to strike.
Here's where I differ with you.
I think, no, I don't think.
I know, in part because of my own episode.
I know that the owners were supposed to have shown the signs of caving by now.
The reason they were supposed to have shown the signs of caving by now is precisely what you said at the beginning of your call.
This guy is an Obama guy.
And this guy, DeMaris Smith, has been threatening to get the Congressional Black Caucus involved.
65% of the players in the league are black.
He has been threatening to get the White House involved.
In other words, get government power at the highest levels involved on behalf of the players.
This was supposed to have put a little pressure and some fear into the owners, and it hasn't worked.
Right, right.
What you're saying, Rush, basically is force the owners to back down.
That's what they were hoping we're going to force without anybody actually doing anything.
They wanted the fear of Obama, the Congressional Black caucus, the government at large being aligned with the players to force the owners.
In other words, all the usual stuff about racism, diversity, all of this stuff.
Rich, white guy, owners.
None of this was said, but it was hoped that DeMorris Smith being a player's guy and with him throwing out going to the House of Representatives, going to Congressional Black Caucus, this was supposed to scare the owners.
And as of now, it hasn't.
The owners have not given an inch.
So I think, I think, well, it's my wild guess now.
I'm beyond what I know.
I'm just guessing now.
But I think the Players Association finds itself in a position they didn't think they'd be in.
The usual game is being played, Rush.
Racial politics, class warfare.
And I think in a sense, yes.
I think this Obamatron is going to go to the mat on this.
And I think he's going to force the owners' hand with the backing of the black caucus and Obama, and he's going to try and shove it down their throats by way of class warfare, racial politics.
Well, it's entirely possible.
I mean, Congress can decide if college football rankings, the BCS, people have asked the Congress to get involved determining whether or not the Bull Championship Series is fair.
I'm not so sure here, Tony, because Obama's not really occupying the strongest of positions these days.
Obama's really not putting a fear into too many.
I know he still can, but this was supposed to have borne some fruit by now, and it hasn't.
And the only way, the only way, see, the players, if they're locked out, have sympathy.
Fans, easy to get mad at 33 rich guy owners.
But if the players strike in the midst of an economy like this where they are earning millions, there goes the sympathy.
Hey, Rush, one thing I just want to say before I leave.
No, two things, if you don't mind, please.
First off, the best football the country's played in the Southeastern Conference is old-style Dick Butkus, mean Joe Green, Deacon Jones type football, man.
Old school is beautiful.
No flags.
They hardly throw any flags.
It's hard-hitting football.
Number two, and with all due respect, because you are the leading voice for freedom in this country, it was the coaching staff of the Pittsburgh Steelers that gave Obama in 2009 when they beat the Ravens in the AFC Championship game the game ball.
It was the coaches.
Yeah.
Yeah, and it was also the head coach who thanked Jesse Jackson because he's a supporter of the Steelers and so forth.
I know all that.
The Steelers are the regime's team, Rush, and you're the leading voice for freedom.
Wouldn't be.
Check it out, Rush.
Wouldn't be me, man.
Would not be me under no circumstances would it be me?
Tony, I thought you're on my side on all this.
Not on that.
Not on that, man.
I had nothing to do with that.
I didn't say you did.
I didn't say you did, Rush.
But look at that.
You could make a conscious choice.
It was the coaching.
Wait a second.
I made my conscious choice long before the regime.
I understand that.
But circumstances have changed dramatically.
What am I supposed to do?
Abandon?
What you're supposed to do, Riz?
Pick another team.
Stuff them under the bus.
Hope they choke.
That's what you're supposed to do.
They're the regime's team.
They're the Pittsburgh Obamas.
Pittsburgh.
Well, you know, I can't, I really can't dispute this, although I want to exempt the coaching staff here.
This was.
The Roonies didn't give them the game ball, Rush.
Owners don't give out game balls.
Coaches do.
Yeah, but who's the owner, and who did the owner raise funds for and support?
He raised funds.
He campaigned those two Judes, the Roonies, campaigned for Obama in Pennsylvania.
And then, when they won the AFC championship game against the Ravens, Mike Tomlin and the coaching staff gave them the game ball.
I was there.
I am aware.
Check it out, Rush.
That even makes it work.
I don't know what you're doing, and you are still pulling for these characters.
I was there.
You got me.
There's some things I can't discuss here on this program, but I. You were on the premises, Rush.
I was on the premises.
I got two BDI balls.
That should be enough, man.
The end of them.
I'll pick somebody else.
I won't watch football.
I'll be dead.
Who is it?
So I'm going to pull for this stuff.
Tony, Tony, dial it down just a degree here.
Who is it that plays the game?
The players.
But the heart and soul of any football team is the coaching staff.
Vince Lombardi, Chuck Noll.
You understand?
Let me see.
Arapasijan when he was coaching Notre Dame.
Lou Holtz when he's coaching Notre Dame.
Paul Bear Bryant when he's coaching Alabama.
The heart and soul of any football team is the coaching staff.
And it was the coaches that gave Obama the game ball.
The regime's team.
The leading voice team in this country pulls for the regime.
And when the Steelers visited the regime's headquarters, Obama gave, or the team gave Obama a jersey.
Yeah.
Obama.
I even gave Obama a jersey during the campaign.
I cringed.
Hey, that's it.
I said so.
Like I told you, I'm a die-hard Jets fan, Giant fan.
If they had done one-tenth of what the Steelers did, I would hope they choked every game they played.
Oh, now you don't want to go there.
Oh, I do want to go there.
That's exactly where I want to go.
That's why I said it, man.
Are you trying to tell me you are unaware of some of the very odd left-wing things the Jets owner has done, even though he's a big Republican?
Are you unaware of some of the stuff the Jets owners?
Rush, Rush.
The coaching staff of the New York never gave coaching.
That's your only out.
The coaching staff doesn't own the team.
I didn't say they did.
You said they're the heart and soul of the team.
Rush, the owners are.
When the coach gets fired, he says to the owner, I'm the heart and soul of the team.
You can't fire me.
The owners are.
No, no, they can't say that.
The owners control the cash flow.
So you can't.
Obviously, you can't say that.
The coaches on the Jets or the Giants never gave Obama spit.
But the coaching staff of the Pittsburgh Steelers gave Obama the game ball in 09 after the AFC championship game against the Ravens.
That would do it for me, man.
Case closed over with.
End of discussion.
And so now you think I'm to throw the team under the bus, my team since the 70s.
I'm to throw them under the bus because Obama's going to go away someday.
I mean, there's going to be a new president.
I'm just supposed to throw the team overboard and select a new team.
Yeah, that's exactly what you do.
Is it a matter of exactly?
If I don't do this, I don't have any credibility with you when it comes to freedom.
No, no, it has nothing to do with freedom.
It has everything to do with this miserable, greasy, low-rent regime.
That's what it's got to do with.
And anybody that supports it, even in a small way.
It has nothing to do with it.
Look, I have to tell you, and I don't really, you know, look at, Tony, you're forcing me into this.
I didn't want to do this, but you know that your quarterback went to Obama's state dinner for the president of Mexico.
We're not talking about game balls here.
I don't know.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
Your quarterback.
We're talking about your quarterback accepted an invitation from the regime to go to the White House for a state dinner and ate the regime's food and drank the regime's adult beverages.
The Pittsburgh Steelers invited the head of the regime.
I don't care.
They didn't eat there.
They were in a locker room, right?
They didn't eat there.
They've never been invited to a state dinner there.
That's my case closed.
Ha.
And welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
This is the EIB Network.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am under constraints here.
I can't, I can't.
This is what I mean when I say that back in the early days of this program, I would come back from a weekend away and I would basically spend the first segment, maybe two segments, talking about the weekend.
What all happened?
Everybody loved it.
And nobody said, stick to the issues.
Stick to the issues.
I stopped doing that as I became more and more famous and thus started to encounter more and more security problems.
And now I do not, as a matter of security, tell anybody in advance where I'm going specifically.
Very rarely do I tell anybody where I have been when I get back from webinars, certainly not specifically.
It is, it's a disappointing thing.
It's been a very, very limiting thing.
It's one of the, you know, that's, I, no, I'm not to say anything like that, Snirdly.
I'm saying, if you let me get there, I'll tell you where I'm going.
It is a very disappointing thing.
I hear all these people talk about how neat they think fame is.
And I see all of these people who crave it, who want all of this media attention.
And I say to them, you really don't, not for the sake of it.
I mean, if what you do takes you there, there's nothing you can do about it.
But you seek it.
I guarantee you, once it happens, you're not going to like the end result.
It's life-changing.
It is life-altering.
And your friends won't understand it.
They're going to think you're a stuck-up snob.
They're going to know.
It's just a different thing.
So here's old Tony, good old Tony.
There are things about what he was talking about that I could say that would calm him to no end, but I can't tell him.
Simply because it would be violating, what's some having a middle block of the word, confidences.
It would be violating confidences of friends, people I know.
So I basically have to sit here and eat that call.
And the best I can do is remind him that his quarterback goes to the White House under a regime invite as a state dinner.
I know the truth behind all of this, what he was talking about, but it's not something for me to divulge.
It just isn't.
But it isn't the way he thinks it is, is all I can say.
we all work for somebody.
That's it.
As far as I'm going to go, if you can figure part of it out, you can.
And even then, you won't know from me.
Come for you.
You're going to have to wait for the rest of this from WikiLeaks.
Just that simple.
Who else?
Well, we don't have time for anybody else.
Oh, you like that?
Snirdly, you like that.
So satisfied here the Steelers called the regime's team.
The regime's team is the Chicago Bears.
That's another thing.
Obama's team is the Bears.
Obama's sitting around minding his own business, and all of a sudden Dan Rooney says, you're my man.
You're my guy.
I'm supporting you in Pennsylvania.
What's Obama supposed to do?
Oh, no, I don't want a fundraiser in Western Pennsylvania.
So Obama has to go along with the fact that I don't think the Bears haven't won anything worthy of a game ball yet to give him.
Goodness gracious.
No, the Bears haven't given him a game ball, but nobody on the Bears has gotten a game ball for anything that really matters yet, especially after that debacle yesterday.
Did he show up?
Now, I'm getting some emails.
People found that a fascinating conversation, but you know why?
Because there was a guy who put his football loyalties, put his political preferences above sports loyalty.
And that's kind of unheard of.
It's generally your sports loyalty overrides everything else.
But Tony was willing to subordinate, or thinks I should have, subordinated my fandom for political realities.
But once again, there's just, folks, you have to trust me here.
There's things I know that if I didn't know, I could tell you and guess, but I do know, so I can't.