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Jan. 20, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 20, 2011, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Ah, the Democrats in the media, they still want to talk about the health care repeal vote in the House as nothing more than political theater.
Hell, it was bipartisan.
There were three Democrats voted.
Repeal of health care in the House got more votes than Obamacare got in the House.
Did you know that?
To kick it away, got more votes than the original bill got in support.
But yesterday's vote was not political theater, folks.
It was the laying of a minefield.
You wonder why Dingy Harry doesn't want that vote over there in the Senate?
Dingy Harry is saying, I'm not going to allow the vote to happen over here.
McConnell says there will be a vote.
Dingy Harry says, there's not going to be a vote here.
He knows he might lose it.
He doesn't want to force.
There's a bunch of Democrats in the Senate up for reelection in 2012.
And he doesn't want to have to force those guys on the record.
He is afraid of all the Democrats in the Senate who would vote to repeal this thing.
This is by no means anything other than an expression of and a sticking to a principle.
No political theater intended here.
Isn't it interesting how the momentum can shift in just one political day?
Prior to the vote yesterday, people on our side, ah, it's over.
Yeah, we lost the momentum.
Ah, it's stuff in Tucson.
Now everybody's back up and revved up, ready to go.
Great to have you here, folks.
El Rushball and the EIB network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Both of the Clintons went to the state dinner at the White House last night for You Know Who.
Probably the first time the Clintons have had dinner together.
Gosh, probably since their daughter's wedding.
And we don't even know if they had dinner together during their daughter's wedding.
They might have sat at separate tables.
You never know.
We do know that Hillary did not wear her Mao jacket.
And that's a staple of her wardrobe.
But it was nowhere to be seen last night.
Come to think of it, Bill didn't wear his either.
Barbara Streisand, you know, they have a greeting and reception line, kind of like the red carpet at Hollywood events.
And never forget, politics is just showbiz for the ugly.
If there was last night, great illustration of that.
So Barbara Streisand somehow made the guest list.
So did Jackie Chan.
Barbara Streisand made the guest list, and on the red carpet there, the reception line, an unidentified reporter said this audio sound by number five, Mike, reporters said, Ms. Dreisand, what is your connection to China?
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
Barbara Streisand explaining why she thinks she was invited.
She worked in a Chinese restaurant.
She also starred in a movie, What's Up Doc, that she and her co-star Ryan O'Neill got caught up in a Chinese Chinatown parade.
They totally wrecked it, by the way, in the movie.
She could have cited that.
Now, in the spirit of the new tone and in the spirit of civility, shouldn't Harry Reid be only too happy to let the Democrats in the Senate vote on this?
Don't all the polls show that the American people want the Democrats and Republicans to work together?
I mean, we had that poll, so-called poll, USA Today, earlier this week.
Everybody wants the Republicans and Democrats to work together.
A vast majority of the American people want Obamacare repealed, and yet Dingy Harry will not allow a vote in the House.
And therefore, Dingy Harry is standing in the way of Republicans and Democrats working together.
Shouldn't the media, ladies and gentlemen, demand the Senate show this bipartisan bill the respect it deserves?
It got three Democrat votes.
I mean, it's the essence of bipartisanship.
The repeal vote did.
But as I said, he doesn't want to bring the House bill to a vote because he doesn't want to make the senators go on the record against repeal.
That's what he, he can read the tea leaves.
He doesn't want people to go on the record against repeal in the Senate.
He knows that will hurt Democrats.
It'd be used against them in the 2012 campaign.
But ask yourself this.
What the Senate would do if they were facing another election next month?
You know they would vote to repeal Obamacare to save their jobs.
Or they would at least think very seriously about it.
I mean, Obama might even vote to kill a bill to save his job and then come back like Clinton did with welfare reform.
You know, go ahead and let it happen and come back and promise everybody to go back later and fix it.
Because we know at the end of the day, they are going to govern against the will of the American people.
Hey, folks, great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I mentioned yesterday, Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times has often written of the beauty of the CHICOM system.
A one-party autocracy, he has written, is oftentimes preferable to a democracy or a republic if the right people are the dictators, because they can more efficiently get things done.
By the way, I did not see this, but I have to tell you a story.
I didn't see it, but it was relayed to me.
Last Saturday, I went out and played golf at a golf course here.
I walked out of the locker room.
I walked down the steps, said hello to the caddy master, said hello to my caddy, Eli, and I went and grabbed my cart and so forth.
A friend of mine said, you may not know it, but Thomas Friedman is on the putting green over there with a broken neck.
So what are you talking about?
Yeah, Thomas Friedman did a double take when he saw you.
He jerked his neck around so far, couldn't he?
He's on the putting green with a broken neck.
I said, are you kidding me?
I looked over there and I didn't see Thomas L. Friedman.
The story was not relayed to me immediately.
But apparently Friedman playing the same golf course teed off four or five groups ahead of me.
So when I arrived, he's on the putting green, which is the last thing you do before you go tee off.
What is Friedman doing playing for a golf course for the rich?
I don't know.
I'm not a member of this place.
He is.
I do know that.
But yeah, there isn't a golf course in the world that isn't for the rich, right?
Isn't that the rub?
But that's, a good friend of mine said, if you should have seen the double take this guy, when he saw you, his neck jerked around.
I wouldn't be surprised if I had to take him to the hospital.
I missed it.
Wished I'd seen it.
Anyway, Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times has written this Chinese autocracy much, much preferable to our system, if the right people are running it.
He was on a cable network this morning and he was asked, is there any president capable of pulling Congress and the American people together to fix the problems that we have in this country?
We had the president of China here.
There's only one thing worse, in my view, than one-party autocracy, the Chinese systems, and that's one-party democracy.
Okay, see, a one-party autocracy.
Tape and re-cue it.
Now, remember what I told you to set this up.
Thomas L. Friedman believes a one-party autocracy, a dictatorship much preferable to what we have, if the right people are running it, members of the approved ruling class.
Okay, now listen carefully here.
He was asked if there is any president capable of pulling Congress in America together to fix the problems that we have.
Now, listen very carefully to the opening of this bite.
We had the president of China here.
There's only one thing worse, in my view, than one-party autocracy, the Chinese systems.
And that's one-party democracy.
Okay, see, a one-party autocracy, at least if it has some vision of the future.
But when you have one-party democracy, that is, you have one party trying to do things and the other sticking a spoke in its wheels constantly, you can't get anything big done.
And that, to me, seems to be our real dilemma today.
Well, there he is.
He just got there saying the only thing worse than the CHICOM system is ours.
The only thing worse, in my view, than one-party autocracy, the CHICOM system, is one-party democracy.
So I guess now we have one-party democracy.
We got a Democrat running the show in the White House.
We have the Democrats running the Senate.
We have, for the first time in, what, four years, the Republicans running the House.
And all of a sudden, and this is the lead column.
Folks, I have friends here.
I am ashamed to admit this.
I would love to publicly humiliate them by mentioning their names.
I won't do it.
I have friends here who have left the golf course at 11.30 in the morning to go hear Thomas L. Friedman speak at a place they have here where they import usually New York Times liberals and network television liberals to come down and share their view of the world.
This guy was leaving.
Well, acquaintances, I mean, even friends, golf buddies.
And I, I got to go.
He said, where are you going?
Oh, Thomas Friedman speaking.
He said, what?
You're leaving here to go listen to Thomas L. Friedman?
Yeah, what's wrong with that?
Why do you want to dumb yourself down?
He was clueless.
Rush, he writes for the New York Times.
And that's a plus.
So anyway, there's a one-party autocracy.
If it has some vision of the future, that's great.
But when you have one-party democracy, you have one party trying to do things, i.e. Obama, and the other sticking a spoke in its wheels constantly, you can't get anything big done.
Now, to show you that this makes no sense, how can you have one-party democracy when one party can stop the other?
Isn't that two-party democracy?
I'm sorry, it's the way I think.
Now, granted, I didn't break my neck on a putting green at a golf course Saturday, and the blood flow to my brain is not restricted here.
But if you have one-party democracy, they can do whatever they want, right?
But he claims a one-party democracy here, you got one party trying to do things and the other sticking a spoke in its wheels.
That's two-party democracy to me.
So none of this really makes any sense.
But, but that doesn't matter.
To the ruling class types, to the establishment types, that is the essence of unique brilliance.
This is the kind of thing that causes people to pause and be dazzled and say, gosh, I wish I had that kind of brain.
And it's just nonsense.
All of that, absolute nonsense.
Translation mix-ups led to some confusion at Wednesday's White House news conference with President Obama and Chinese President Hu Xintao.
This story sort of confirms one of the problems I said I had yesterday trying to watch that press conference during breaks here.
Obama initially thought his responses were being translated simultaneously for the Chikom leader, Wu, but they weren't.
And so the Chinese language translator had to embark on a lengthy translation following Obama's response to the first question he was asked on human rights.
After he realized what had happened, Obama said, I apologize.
I thought we had simultaneous translation here.
So I would have broken up the answer into smaller bites.
Well, thank you.
That's the same thing I observed.
Normally, when you watch these things, the translation is either simultaneous or else the foreign language spokesman will speak for a while, pause, the translator will translate it, then resume, then the translator will translate, then resume.
And what I noticed was it was the first time ever they just kept going.
Both sides of this.
So I'm saying, well, I have no idea what Hu Zhintao is saying.
I wanted to report to you what he was saying.
But there wasn't any translation.
So all I could do was tell you what he said.
Which I did a remarkable job of doing for someone who doesn't know the language.
And back in the old days, Sid Caesar, for those of you old enough to remember, was called a comic genius for impersonating foreign languages that he couldn't speak.
But today, today, the left is exercised.
I mean, that was racism.
It was bigotry.
It was insulting.
And it wasn't.
It was a service.
I insulted the Chikoms.
I insulted the Chikoms.
I insulted 3,000 years of Chinese history.
I did.
I insulted.
Well, you hear, let me find it here.
There's a state senator in California by the name of Leland Yi.
He's from San Francisco.
And he claims that I owe the Chinese community an apology for mocking the speech.
State Senator Leland Yi, San Francisco, called on conservative radio personality.
That's a new one.
Rush Limbaugh to apologize to the Chikom community today for mocking Chinese President Hu Zhintao's speech.
Limbaugh was complaining today on his show about a Fox News broadcast that omitted translation of Hu's words.
And he spent 18 seconds speaking gibberish Chinese.
Normally they translate every couple of words, but Hu Xintao was just going, jing tong, ting, ting, tong, he said, before continuing to mimic the language.
That's how they quote me.
Yi chairs the State Senate Select Committee on Asian Pacific Islander Affairs and said Limbaugh owes the Chinese community an apology for his pointless and ugly offense.
His classless act is an insult to over 3,000 years of cultural history and is a slap in the face to the millions of Chinese Americans who've struggled in this country and to a people who constitute one quarter of the world's population, Yi said in a statement.
His comments are comments.
Was I saying things I didn't know I was saying?
Did somebody translate me and it ends up being offensive?
My comments?
His comments are sadly indicative of the bigotry that has often plagued Limbo's commentary and lined his pockets.
Oakland Mayor Gene Kwan and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee attended a state dinner tonight at the White House at which who, President Obama and the first lady, were president.
President again, the first lady did not wear her Mao jacket, which she normally does.
So, I don't know, folks.
Those were comments and they were mocking and insulting and 3,000 years of Chinese history blown up yesterday in 18 seconds right here on the EIB network.
I know what we've been channeling.
It's not just the Chinese.
We've been translating the little pot-bellied guy in North Korea.
What's his name?
Kim Jong-yo.
We're translating him.
We've been translating Gorbachev.
We've been translating all the Soviet leaders who were alive.
Well, maybe they didn't get the nuance.
It's not hard to translate these people.
It's, we will bury you.
We will bury you.
I mean, I could have done that, but I wanted to go the extra mile as a service to the audience.
They weren't translating it.
I was just trying to report to you what was being said.
By the way, I wonder what Leland Yee and some of the others in the ranking Chinese community in San Francisco thought when Dingy Harry called Hu Xin Tao a dictator.
Does anybody know, does anybody know if anybody in the Democrat Party, the Chinese community, was upset at that insult?
Dingy Harry called Hu Zhintao a dictator.
You know what that translates to?
Dictator.
Now, another thing about Dingy Harry, Dingy Harry is scared to death to allow this vote on the repeal of Obamacare in the Senate.
Because if they do vote against it, there'll be a record to defeat their rear ends in the next election.
So he can't win.
This ought to show you the real strength of a whole repeal movement.
The vast majority of people don't want it.
Dingy Harry doesn't want to vote in the Senate.
He's worried about two things, losing some Democrats who would vote for the repeal and the Democrats who are opposed to repeal going on the record because that would then make themselves targets in their re-election bids in 2012.
Voted against repeal of Obamacare.
So he's opposed to bipartisanship.
He doesn't want the Republicans and Democrats working together.
He is opposed to civility.
He's out there calling Hu Zhintao a dictator.
Do not think for a moment that there is anywhere near a majority sentiment in love with Obamacare.
There isn't.
The vast majority of people, even in the House and the Senate, know in their hearts it's rotten and ought to be done away with.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and remember, if you are not on the cutting edge, you are taking up too much space.
Obamacare, I can't tell you enough.
Obamacare just got a shellacking, folks.
The vote in the House was 245 to 189.
That's a larger margin than the vote for Obamacare got.
Dingy Harry will not allow a vote in the Senate, though Mitch McConnell says there will be one, because he looks at it as a no-win.
If he loses some Democrats voting for repeal, that's not good.
And other Democrats going on record opposing appeal, not good for their own reelection efforts.
So is what it by the way, I have a question about respect and protocol and so forth.
Last night's state dinner was black tie.
For those of you in Rio Linda, that means tuxedo.
I saw a picture of the Chikom leader, Hu Zhintao.
He was not wearing a tuxedo.
He was wearing a dark suit, a white shirt, and a blue tie.
Now, he's a stickler for protocol.
They've been telling us all week.
Is that offensive?
Should we be offended that the man in whose honor the dinner was last night did not dress according to the requirements?
Or maybe the Chikoms don't have tuxedos in their wardrobes?
Is it not part of what they wear?
I don't know.
Just asking a question.
By the way, the Washington Post Foreign Service, that's, for those of you that don't know, the Washington Post Foreign Service reports on what happens in the United States.
BBC television report airing a clip from Wednesday's Obama Who news conference in the White House got a little touchy on the topic of human rights.
It turns out the bottom line here is that the Chinese public was kept in the dark on Hu Zhintao's human rights admission.
The Chinese public was not allowed to see what Hu Jintao said.
And yet I, a harmless, lovable little fuzzball, El Rochebo, am accused of all sorts of atrocities.
I have blown up Chinese culture 3,000 years of it.
Wait a minute.
Let me do my John King at CNN impersonation.
We're really trying.
We're really trying.
I apologize for the blown up rhetoric.
I'm trying to do better here at the EIB network.
I did not mean blow up Chinese culture 3,000 years of it.
We're really trying here.
It's a slip of the tongue.
I take it back.
And pretty close to John King at CNN.
So the bottom line, the freedom-loving Chinese people were not allowed to hear what Hu Jintao said.
Folks, anger at your host knows no bounds.
Last night, on the syndicated TV show Inside Edition, here's a portion of a report by the anchor Deborah Norville.
Radio talker Rush Limbaugh has a new target, a new mom, specifically Nicole Kidman.
Rush is blasting her, saying that the way she announced her new baby sounds like a disease.
Gestational carrier almost sounds like a disease.
Rush Limbaugh is lashing out at a surprising target, Nicole Kidman, whose secret baby is the talk of Hollywood.
The conservative radio host took aim at the term gestational carrier, which the 43-year-old actress and husband Keith Urban used in revealing that a surrogate had carried their biological child.
Gestational carrier almost sounds like a disease.
And some women pregnancy is a disease.
I mean, the feminazis, of course.
Limbaugh didn't stop there.
I don't know if it was a medical reason for this.
Maybe she doesn't want to bother with getting pregnant again.
I don't know.
Blogger Perez Hilton says, Ugh, Rush Limbaugh, leave Nicole Kidman alone.
Now, when any of you people listening to this yesterday, did any of her alone?
Rush Limeralon.
She's a good actress.
We are blasting Nicole Kidman.
Did any of you listening to me, most of you probably would just stick to the issues?
We don't care about the Hollywood crowd.
Blasting Nicole, new target?
Nicole Kidman is not a target.
I wasn't blasting.
I've never heard the term gestational carrier.
How do you say gestational carrier, Chinese?
I don't know.
I was just kidding, Kidman.
I mean, this is these people.
Well, they got a whole report out of this.
Rush Limbaugh lashing out of a surprising target, Nicole Kidman.
Secret baby that talk of Hollywood took aim at the term gestational carrier.
Limbaugh didn't stop there.
For you people, who did this real unidentified mail announcer, whoever, you people at Inside Edition, you need to get with the program.
The feminazis have said pregnancy is a disease as they have argued for abortion.
It's hopeless.
It just totally hopeless.
Let's move on to something.
Yeah, hey, they just can't take a little jesting.
I was jesting them about their gestational carrier phrase, and they can't take it.
It's amazing how tightly wound all of these people are.
Hollywood types, I suppose, are immune from criticism.
Or more than likely, what this is all about is that inside Hollywood, is that the name of the show again?
Was it Inside Hollywood?
Inside Edition, simply trying to score points with Kidman and Urban here is what this was all about.
All right.
Let's see.
Sheriff Dipstick is not happy still.
Yesterday on WashingtonPost.com's 44 blog, the correspondent Sari Horwitz interviewed Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dipstick.
She said, Are people giving you a hard time for speaking out like you've been doing?
Oh, you bet.
Our computer system almost came to a halt because Rush Limbaugh says, send them an email.
Here's the address tell them how you feel.
We're also getting a lot of the heat seekers about as vile as you can imagine.
One person was saying he was going to be glad when he could come and scrape the cow dung off of me before they put me in the ground.
You know, just vile things, in addition to threats.
Let me ask those of you in this audience: have I ever given you Sheriff Dipstick's email address?
Have I once suggested that you send Sheriff Dipstick an email?
I don't know Sheriff Dipstick's email address.
If Sheriff Dipstick knew what he was talking about, he would know that I do not do this.
That's true.
That's true.
My standard for Sheriff Dipstick is too high.
He doesn't use evidence.
He just speculates.
But just to get it on the record, Sheriff, I did not say to anybody, send you an email and to tell you how they feel.
Somebody else did that.
Then the sheriff continued.
You'll hear the host in here, Sari Horwitz, as well.
It's just wrong for people to be elected to Congress and then have as their agenda.
We don't care what we have to do to get re-elected, to get back in power.
We're going to do it.
No matter what the consequences are for America.
Just like this little game The Wright was playing a few weeks ago with the tax for the rich.
You know the game I'm talking about.
And it was, who's going to blink?
Are you willing, Mr. President, to tear the economy apart?
Or are you going to give us what we want for the rich people?
Isn't that what it was all about?
Am I wrong?
Well, I think people are sick of that.
So now Sheriff Dipstick's attacking the Bush tax cuts in the lame duck session of Congress.
Sheriff Dipstick, do you know who spearheaded extending the Bush tax cuts?
It was President Obama, Sheriff.
Lord, my friends, we are surrounded by genuine institutional ignorance.
Well, I snerdly just asked me if Sheriff Dipstick ever arrests people.
Meaning, does he ever do his job?
He's out there at the Washington Post blog now and somehow bringing the Bush tax cuts into the motivation for violence argument.
And, you know, who's going to blink?
Are you willing, Mr. President, to tear the economy party?
You're going to give us what we want for the rich people.
He spearheaded it.
Sheriff, it was Obama's idea to extend the Bush tax cuts or Bush tax rates.
You know, the sheriff is talking about issues clearly above his pay grade.
I think we can all agree.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh.
This is the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Now everybody wants me to repeat my Chinese translation of Chairman Hu Jintao at the White House yesterday.
Now we played the wrong soundbite.
That was Sid Caesar, well-known comedian on the Drew Carey show.
Whose line is it anyway?
From 2007.
And the skit was called Foreign Film Dub.
Sid Caesar, who was called a comedic genius.
Foreign film dub.
And that was imitating the Japanese language and thus blowing up however many thousands of years of Japanese culture that there are.
Let's see.
Let's go to the phones.
Let's start here in San Francisco.
Robert, I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on the program.
Wow.
I can't believe this.
I can't wait to tell my wife.
She's your biggest fan next to me, I guess.
Tell her I said thanks very much.
Yeah, I just wanted to tell you a little bit about Leland Yee.
I moved back to San Francisco a couple years ago.
From where?
From Charleston, South Carolina.
That's a big move.
That's a big move.
It's a very big move.
But let me tell you something about Leland.
His big legislation last year was he wanted to push, and he got it through, that it's now legal to speak a foreign language in your own business.
So it's just a brilliant piece of legislation.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a second, Robert.
I want to...
His biggest legislation last year was he pushed, he got through it's now legal to speak a foreign language in your own business, right?
Whatever language.
So now business owners didn't know before that they could speak their own language in their own business.
So he spent about $40 million so that business owners now know it's legal for them to speak their own language in their own language.
What am I missing here?
Was it illegal to speak their own language in their business?
It's San Francisco, Rush.
It's San Francisco.
But wait, there's another one.
And now he was on the bill.
Now, this is a classic California thing where they were trying to pass legislation where they would fine you if the air pressure in your tires wasn't appropriate.
Yeah.
So every month you would have to go to the gas station and have them check you to see if your air tire pressure was appropriate.
Lee Win Yi was a big pusher for this one.
Well, I'm sure that was tied with President Obama's number one piece of advice on improving gasoline mileage during the gas price crisis, and that was having a tire gauge and making sure your tires were properly inflated.
And I'm sure that Senator Lee, Yi, Senator Yi, thought that that would be a great tie-in piece of legislation.
Oh, it was great because when they actually figured out, he was talking about how it's going to just save the, it was going to really save the air quality and decrease pollution, and it was going to raise tax revenue.
And they found out that actually the pollution created was 0.001% of all the pollution would be fixed because of this.
Wait a minute.
They were relating tire pressure to pollution?
Yeah.
Oh, because if your tire is not exactly filled up enough, you would be using more gas and you'd be using.
It's all part of the global warming thing here.
It's great.
And that's Senator Leland Yee, and that's his idea.
Exactly right.
So I don't think you have too much to worry about.
This guy is really, he's doing a lot for Chinese culture himself.
I mean, that kind of brilliance is certainly renowned and be remembered for ages.
Well, Robert, I'm glad they have the on-site report.
Leland Yee, by the way, is running for mayor of San Francisco.
I have just been informed that he's running for mayor.
And I guess now because of Senator Leland Yee, you can speak a foreign language in your business.
And it's no longer illegal.
It explains.
I know.
That's right.
It's running for mayor, which explains everything.
It explains all of this.
Oh, that's the laugh that upsets Pat.
By the way, I wonder if she's come out of the tree yet.
Scott in Northern Michigan, welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Rush Megadittals from the Great White North.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you very much, sir.
I was listening to Sheriff Dupnik's comments the last few minutes, and I really honestly think, Rush, that he's riding the gravy train.
And every time we bring him up, I think he just is just enabled to continue to do it.
Well, that's fine with me.
It's not as though we have anything to fear unless you actually live there.
I mean, I wouldn't want to drive through Pima County with a Russia's Ride Bumper sticker on the car.
I would not.
I mean, it's not as though if we're aiding anything, if we're promoting anything, it's institutional ignorance.
I don't see any harm in this.
Absolutely, Rush.
God bless you.
Thank you very much.
There's no question that Sheriff Dupnik does like the limelight.
I see this in people.
You know, the quest, trust me on this, folks, I'm being serious.
The quest for fame is a destructive thing.
I have seen it totally ruin people.
They want to be famous, want to get noticed, get up and see if their name's in the paper every day.
It is a poison.
It is a genuine poison, and it can lead to people making fools of themselves when they don't even know it.
And sometimes they don't care if they make fools of themselves, if that's what it takes to get noticed.
Anyway, Scott, thanks for the phone call.
Quick timeout.
Michelle Obama's Get Moving program.
This is our Washington affiliate, AM630WMAL.
Michelle Obama's Get Moving program linked to pedestrian deaths.
Details coming up.
The Governor's Highway Safety Association says pedestrian deaths increased in the first half of 2010, and Michelle Obama's program to get Americans to be more active could be partly responsible.
Governor's Highway Safety Administration spokesman Jonathan Atkins told WMAL that Michelle Obama is trying to get us to walk to work and exercise a little more, and that's good, but it also increases our exposure to risk.
More of us are getting mowed down out there following her diktats.
And we'll be back.
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