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Jan. 24, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 24, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
All right, for the stick to the issues crowd, the AFC championship game last night had the highest television ratings for any championship game in 24 years.
The highest, the previous high-rated AFC championship game was the Denver Broncos in a Cleveland Browns.
I think that was the drive.
The L-Way drive.
I know, I don't get it either.
Maybe more people watching TV back then.
Who knows?
Anyway, greetings.
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, Jay Cutler, the quarterback for the Chicago Bears, does have a torn MCL.
The big controversy.
Cutler took him out.
Well, the Bears coaching staff, medical staff took him out of the game.
Sideline attitude made it look like Cutler didn't care.
He's been beaten up all day, all night since he uh left the game.
Players around the league ripping Jay Cutler for no heart, kick him off the team.
This sort of stuff does have an MCL tear.
Now, the relevance of this is that tomorrow night is the State of the Union show by Barack Obama.
And I just, I wouldn't be surprised if Obama warns Cutler to have security in the operating room to make sure doctors don't amputate his leg to line their pockets while fixing the torn MCL in his knee.
That'd be the immediate collateral ligament.
By the way, I have it.
If you want to do a drinking game for the State of the Union show tomorrow, and I got two words, you will be plastered inside the first 20 minutes.
If you take, if you consume a shot of quality adult beverage every time you hear Obama talk about investments or civility, uh ladies and gentlemen, you'll you'll be unable to pay attention to that thing as soon as uh as possible.
You may have heard Jack Lalane, long-time exercise guru.
I met Jack Willane uh some years ago.
Jack Willane passed away at age 96, and it just proves what I've always told you.
Exercise will not keep you from dying.
He passed away at age 96 after a long and uh very successful career as an exercise guru and advisor, but even Lilane Sir Came.
Uh to the uh to the ravages of uh of physical exercise.
Did you have a good uh have a good weekend out there, folks?
Sturdley is livid.
His team's the Cowboys, he can't believe that it's the Steelers in the Pack.
Exactly what I told you.
I thought it'd be the best Super Bowl matchup of the four teams that we had left.
Uh Packers players not happy.
You know, the uh the president picked the Bears.
This, by the way, this I think that this um this ought to uh prove something to uh President Obama, and that is that actions speak louder than words.
He picked the well uh the the Jets lost and they're full of a lot of talk.
Uh Bears didn't say a whole lot, but they still lost.
Obama does a lot of talking, not much action, and you can see what happens with that.
But a whole lot of getting USA Today has a story today.
Obama praising Reagan.
You know, the only time you can praise Reagan and get away with it is when a Democrat does it.
When we cite Reagan as a great president, we get ripped to shreds by our own people.
By our own people.
The era of Reagan is over.
But here's Obama in a USA Today story citing Reagan, great president, great example.
It is Reagan Obama has been studying in order to win his re-election bid uh in uh in 2012.
So, now it was a um uh it was a great great, great, great weekend and a great day of football in the national football.
You had everything.
And everybody's trying to figure out what happened to Jets.
And it's very simple.
They played the Steelers.
I mean, it's all that's all you really need to know.
I mean, it's uh it's just and this that game needn't have ended the way it did.
The Steelers went into a pre-vent offense.
Have you ever heard of that?
No, you haven't.
No, you've heard of the prevent defense.
The pre-vent defense, where you're prepared to give up all Kinds of yards, but not touchdowns.
It never works out that way.
They went into a pre-vent offense until the final two series.
They were playing not to lose up until the final two series in particular at third and six with uh just under two minutes to go.
They line up with five wides, nobody in the backfield.
Rex Ryan says, ah, they gotta run the ball here.
They're not gonna throw an incompletion to stop the clock and kick it.
Back to us.
They're not gonna do they're gonna run the ball, keep the clock running.
Good quarterback draw.
They threw it.
First down game over.
That was one of the few times in the second half the Steelers were playing outside of their prevent offense.
They're playing to win the game, not to lose it.
Or not to the prevent offense is where you you uh you play the game not to lose rather than you play the game to win.
So they had a 24-3 halftime lead, ran out the clock, sat on it.
Uh two totally different games, first half and second half.
At any rate, uh ladies and gentlemen, lots to do on the program today.
Lots of great sound bites coming up and a pre-analysis of the um State of the Union show that is tomorrow night.
A bunch of friends of mine are hectoring me saying they're not gonna watch it because they don't have to, because they know I have to.
You know, I can farm some things out.
You know, I can pay people to watch The View.
And I can pay people to watch The Sludge.
It's on cable channels at night.
But but I have to watch the State of the Union show.
I have to watch it.
And it is routinely.
And I can't do the drinking game along with you people.
All I can do is uh suggest it.
But I'm I'm serious.
Whatever your favorite adult beverage is, have some of it standing by, and every time you hear the word civility or um investments, let fly.
Here is Obama.
Remember who this guy's like Clinton.
Whatever he picks, he loses.
Whatever he endorses doesn't happen.
This is Friday in Schenectady at General Electric.
Obama offering in his opening remarks a prediction.
That uh Governor Andrew Kumo, New York wanted to give him a Jets hat.
Obama said Both the Jets and the Bears, I think, are slight underdogs, so we're gonna be rooting for the underdogs on Sunday.
Root for the underdogs and make them losers.
President Obama didn't sit well with Charles Woodson, cornerback for the Packers last night after the game.
He said, among other things, this President will want to come watch the two Super Bowl.
We're the most in him.
Thank you.
No, I am sure the non-alcoholic one, two, three White House.
I'm I'm sure the non-alcoholic champagne was flowing in the uh in the Packers locker room at Soldier Fair.
Uh Soldier Field, Walmart shooting leaves two dead, two deputies hurt.
This is uh from today.
And it is an associated press story.
A shootout in front of a Walmart in Washington state, left two people dead and two sheriff's deputies wounded Sunday afternoon.
One of the dead was a man who shot it deputies.
Uh Tacoma police said the deputies were both shot in a torso, were in satisfactory condition, being kept overnight at Tacoma General Hospital.
Details were sketchy.
Last night, the sheriff's office received a call about a suspicious person at the store in Port Orchard.
The man ran and started shooting with three deputies, tried to talk to him.
Now, why isn't the heated political rhetoric and the atmosphere of hate that has been whipped up against Walmart by the unions being blamed for these shootings?
I've read the whole story.
You won't find one reference to the incendiary rhetoric we find in American culture.
And you won't find one word about the lack of civility.
And yet, unions, well, there was a we've had marches.
We've had unions marching at homes of Walmart's executives.
We've had flyers, we've had banners.
We've had members of the Democrat Party condemn Walmart.
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, if you listen to the Democrat Party, you are going, and believe what they say, you're going to have a reservoir of hate built up in your soul Each and every day.
They launch into diatribes and they accuse people like Walmart of all sorts of things short of killing people.
Big pharma, big oil.
If you listen to the Democrats, there's no way you could possibly be happy.
They're tearing the country apart.
In fact, uh, from January 20th, here we did Group Pickett's pro-Walmart developers Washington home.
A group of about 25 people protesting Walmart's imminent arrival in D.C. gathered Thursday night in Woodley Park by picketing the Washington home of a developer who is publicly said he wants to open stores for Walmart in the city.
And lo and behold, we have a flyer.
No Walmart on Georgia Avenue, no Walmart in D.C. And guess what?
It's got a crosshairs logo on it.
They put a smiley face in the center, but it still has a crosshairs logo.
March on the developer's house, gives his address, the date and the time, meet at Woodley Park, and we organized, and I saw a video tape.
Why, why is this being given a pass?
Why are the unions not being accused here participating in a climate of incivility?
Because here you have everything the president warned us against.
Happened in this case.
You have supporters of the president ginning up their troops to march on the home of a developer who wants to build Walmart stores.
And then over the weekend, we had a shootout in front of a Walmart in Washington State, leaving two people dead.
Where is the connection?
I know I didn't talk about any of this.
They can't blame me.
I haven't heard Sarah Palin talking about it.
That shooting.
That big shootout at the Moscow Airport.
Have you seen that?
Sorry I wasn't there.
Waiting for me to get blamed on that.
I don't know, Sarah Palin hadn't said anything about it either.
And then there's a there's a word not being used in connection with that shooting, and that's Muslims.
Brief timeout, folks, back after this.
Don't go away.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh here behind the golden EIB microphone, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have maybe the Walmart shooter in Washington State confused Washington, D.C. with Washington State, because these guys in Washington put out a flyer with a big crosshair on it in defiance of their president.
Obama's number one supporters, the unions in defiance of their president, put up this big flyer demanding and inviting people to show up at the developer's home for a protest on his front yard in the street in front of his house.
And shortly thereafter, there's an actual shooting at a Walmart in Washington State.
And I don't even see any media curiosity about this.
I don't see any media condemnation whatsoever.
By the way, I have folks for tomorrow night.
Obama's State of the Union show kicks off a little after 9 o'clock in order to give the media time to tell us what he's going to say.
And then Obama comes in.
I have a way, if you I know a lot of you don't want to watch this.
A lot of you know that we will watch it, and if there's anything salient, that we will pass it on to you.
Unlike you, who wants to sit there and listen to somebody lie for an hour and 15 minutes?
I mean, as an example, let's go back January 27th of last year, 2010.
Here is Obama in the House chamber and the State of the Union show.
It's a brief bite, but here's what he said was his focus.
Jobs must be our number one focus in 2010.
And that's why I'm calling for a new jobs bill tonight.
Well, I don't know if he got his jobs bill, but he got unemployment compensation extension bills, he got stimulus bills, and in the State of the Union, he's going to call for more spending called investments.
Where are all the jobs?
Where are all these platitudes?
Which, by the way, do not mask his actions.
But here's my alternative for you.
Tomorrow night at 9 o'clock in the golf channel is episode three of the Haney Project starring me.
I happen to know I knew that the show was going to debut on January 22nd, or January 11th.
Therefore, I knew that the third episode would come two days after the AFC and NSC championship games.
So, when we taped this episode last fall, I wore my Steelers jersey.
As I figured, I want to make myself look fresh.
I'll wear my Steelers jersey on the Haney show, which will air two days after the Steelers win the championship game and go to the Super Bowl.
And it worked.
It worked.
I also have to tell you Hank Haney was not pleased that I showed up in a Steelers jersey.
Seriously.
He was not happy.
He thought it represented my not taking the game seriously.
It's not because he's a cowboys fan.
It's because he thought he thought I wasn't taking it seriously by showing up in a jersey.
No, we got a TV show here, right?
We're trying to have some fun.
So um at any rate, I think it's tomorrow night's episode where I show up in the Steelers' jersey.
At least uh at least for for part of it.
Now here to give this is this is, I mean, I'm not, although I'm on the cutting edge of societal evolution, and I pretty much know, particularly when it's involving Democrats and Liberals.
I know what they're gonna say before they say it, and I know what they're gonna do before they do it, and here is evidence exactly what I know.
All this talk about investments in the State of the Union show last night.
That's what all the new spending is going to be called, or tomorrow, or Tuesday night, that's what it's the new spending is going to be called.
And here's a media montage from this morning.
Media montage from this morning on the use of the word investment.
Now we know Clinton popularized this back in the early 90s.
They're going back to the playbook and trying it all over again.
Here is the media setting everybody up for what they already know is coming on Tuesday night.
President Obama's speech will call for investments in key areas like education, infrastructure, and technology.
What the White House calls investments investments in things like education, investments in education, in research, investments and things like education infrastructure and science and technology.
The president will also promote investment, a more business friendly way to sell more public investment.
New investments to create jobs, investments that will help us grow in the future.
How many decades have we been investing in all of these things?
And all we've got to show for it is a nation in debt.
We have no winning performances, leading performances in our education system.
In fact, practically everything we've been investing in is falling apart.
Everything we've been spending money on, there's no progress to show.
Which gets me to the point.
Obama's platitudes, which is what he's full of.
Obama's platitudes do not mask his actions.
When he speaks tomorrow night, and he's gonna be using these poll and focus group tested catchphrases like investments, civility and so forth, his branch, while he's speaking, while he's speaking tomorrow night, his branch of the federal government will be shutting down oil rigs.
His branch of the federal government will be shutting down coal mines.
His branch of the federal government be massively expanding regulation over the means of production through CO2 and the centralization of financial activity.
All this, it's already underway, but it's going to be continuing.
It's going to be going on.
While Obama speaks with his platitudes, his administration will be regulating the internet through the FCC while he's speaking tomorrow.
This is all action he's already taking.
It's already underway, but while all that's going on, his speech will not reflect any of it.
The judiciary has said that he does not have the power to regulate the internet via the FCC.
They're doing it anyway.
While he's speaking his platitudes tomorrow night, the price of food and energy will continue to increase due to government policy.
Jobs will be shipped off to Red China, not because of free trade, but because of Obama's policy of smothering domestic capitalism, which in effect subsidizes the Chikon economy.
Now Obama's not a new face on the scene anymore.
He actually has a record.
His record is a disaster.
The Obama record has been and his presidency has been a disaster.
He likes to talk about Saving the nation from the next Great Depression.
And I'll bet he repeat I've got a thing in my throat here, a little swig of the water.
And I'll bet he repeats that lie again tomorrow night.
Saving the nation from the next Great Depression.
There was not going to be another Great Depression.
He used the recession to advance his political and economic agenda.
And since those agendas are destructive of enterprise and opportunity, he has pushed the nation into a deep rut.
And all of this will have happened.
And we will be getting deeper and deeper into that rut while he speaks his platitudes tomorrow night.
Now he says, having saved the nation from disaster, he's ready to focus on jobs.
Gone is the one trillion dollar stimulus.
Gone are shovel-ready jobs.
Gone is no more eight percent unemployment.
Gone are all the green jobs, gone is all that came before.
If you dare to hold him to his word, yet he points to his actions as having saved the nation.
The nation's still in the process of being destroyed.
Of course he doesn't mean this stuff about Reagan.
This is all part of this image, this faux move to the center.
There's no faux move to the center.
It's just verbiage for crying out loud.
Hell's bells, as they say.
I just recited all the societal, cultural, economic damage this guy has inflicted.
And I'll be glad, I'll be glad to run through it again if you want, but none of all this vast improvement that he's talking about is taking place.
Everything is getting worse.
Despite all the spending, and he wants to spend even more.
But this business about Reagan is particularly offensive to me.
If you go back to his book, well, his first book, the autobiography, Dreams from My Father by Barack Sotero, page 54.
In 1983, I decided to become a community organizer.
There wasn't much detail to the idea.
I didn't know anybody making a living that way.
When classmates in college asked me just what it was that a community organizer did, I couldn't answer them.
Instead, I would pronounce on the need for change.
Change in the White House, where Reagan and his minions were carrying out their dirty deeds.
Change in the Congress, compliant and corrupt, change in the mood of the country, manic and self-absorbed.
Change won't come from the top, I would say.
Change will come from a mobilized grassroots.
And that's what I'll do.
I'll organize black folks at the grassroots for change.
Now, Obama was either deceitful in this book about how much he hated Reagan all of his life, or he's being deceitful now.
And I'm gonna play it safe and say that he has been both.
But this USA Today Up at this story about uh Obama loving Reagan, greatness studying Greg, and all that is an admission that these bunch, this bunch on the left knows how popular Ronald Reagan is to this day.
And by embracing Reagan, they seek to make people believe that Obama's not this leftist extremist, but rather a centrist.
And all this is about trying to get these precious independence back that he lost, the Democrats lost in the November elections.
It doesn't mean any of this.
None of his words match the actions.
None of the actions match the deeds, or none of the words match the deeds that have taken place here.
Price of food and energy will continue to increase due to his policy.
Jobs are going to be shipped off to the Chicons.
And look at again, he's not a new face on the scene.
Can't say that he's come from a background that nobody knows, a wonderful orator, a great articulate speaker, a brilliant mind, all that rot.
No, he's got a record now.
And it's one of disaster.
Like this business again and trying to save the nation from uh the next Great Depression.
And he'll he'll repeat that lie again tomorrow.
He'll talk about how we were that close to it, and he's brought us back from the brink with investments, and we need more investments.
So now that now that he saved the nation from disaster, he's ready to finally focus on jobs, even though that was the focus last year, the State of the Union.
But he's gonna focus on jobs, but gone is the one trillion dollar stimulus.
Gone of the shovel ready jobs, gone is no more he promised than eight percent unemployment.
Gone are all the green jobs.
Gone is all that came before, if you dare to hold him to his word.
Yet he points to his actions as saving the nation.
And while he says that, his actions are in the process of destroying the nation by any and every measure.
He's been a disaster.
And not just domestically.
The Chicoms and the Russians are on the move.
Iran proceeds with its nuclear program slowed only by Israeli intelligence and scientists and a computer worm.
Obama doesn't even talk about human rights anymore.
When's the last time he spoke about genocide in Africa?
North Korea.
They're plowing ahead.
You people on the left.
Obama has abandoned his position on Guantanamo at military trials, and he gets praise for it from you people.
Isn't that odd?
It took him becoming president to realize that terrorists need to be held offshore, and that they should be tried outside our cities in civilian courts.
He's now to be praised for finally recognizing the obvious after demagoguing the issue.
Oh, yeah, because praise is all that the left can muster for Obama.
Praise is all that the White House can do, the media, that's all they can do.
You remember what the actual name of Obama's porculus bill is?
It's called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan.
And that investment was supposed to save or create at least three million jobs by the end of last year.
We're supposed to have an unemployment rate down to 8%.
Look how that turned out.
So tomorrow at the State of the Union, he's going to be trying to sell us on re-reinvesting.
Spare yourself the torture.
Spare yourself the tension, spare yourself the angst, and just watch me.
On the Haney Project on the Golf Channel, episode three, tomorrow night at 9 Eastern.
Let me just ask you.
It's been two years now since uh since Obama's been president.
Is America stronger?
Is America freer?
Is America better since the regime took over?
Is the world safer or freer?
What is it?
No, no, no.
We are not stronger, we are not freer, and we are not better since Obama, nor is the world.
What is Obama's vision for the country?
I mean, we know what it is, but I mean, what can he even state with clarity what his vision is?
Even when he's lying about it, can he state what his vision is?
When he cites the Declaration of Independence half the time, he rewrites it to exclude the crucial words about God.
When he talks about the Constitution, which is rare, it's only in the context of what he wants it to say, not what it actually says.
When he talks about free markets, can you think of anything he's done to promote capitalism or private or property rights?
Nope.
And how about last week?
Obama celebrated abortion by heralding the Roe v.
Wade Supreme Court decision.
What else would you call it?
But celebrating abortion.
His is just a bunch of propaganda.
And it is mush, and we're going to get more of it.
And the reason you're going to get frustrated to no end if you watch it, is because the media is going to do no, and I'm sure people on our side too are going to listen to speech and they're going to laud it.
It's going to be slobber city too.
With everybody falling, ah, this is the second best speech of his career.
First being, of course, the Pep rally out in Tucson.
Sorry, the memorial out in Tucson.
Brilliantly Delivered brilliantly written.
Wow.
When Obama's good, there's nobody better.
Listen to that oratorium.
Listen to that articulation.
Listen to the intelligence just overflowing with cranial cavity.
Nobody will pay attention to the substance.
And if they do, even that's going to be a bunch of propaganda.
Because while all of these platitudes are flowing from the oral cavity of the president.
Economic destruction and the loss of individual liberty and freedom via federal executive branch fiat will be taking place right before our very eyes, although under the cover of darkness.
We're going to get to the phones here pretty quickly.
First, one more audio soundbite, and it's from Sunday morning.
ABC's This Week Needs David Brinkley.
This is during the panel discussion.
George Will with Christiana Amon Poor.
I'm on poor set.
You know, we talk about symbolism, what the president needs to do politically, he's moved to the center.
Typical of he hasn't, Christian.
He won't move to the center.
It's all verb.
Anyway, he has heeded the call of the people, so to speak, she says.
But when it comes to real solutions, how do you kickstart and how do you make a dent in that 9.4% unemployment figure?
And this is what George Will said to Christiane Amanpour.
I had lunch this week with Austin Goolsbee, who was your guest a few weeks ago.
And he said, look, people seem to feel that in the basement of the White House somewhere there's an enormous switch.
You get down and throw it and jobs are created.
The fact is the terrible frustration in the White House must be that everything that really matters is beyond their control, which is how to create jobs.
It's not going to happen because of the government.
George Will admitting that Austin Goolsbee frustrated that the White House is powerless to create jobs.
That's good to know after how many trillions of dollars falsely spent on it.
And who is it that believes there's a switch in the White House that creates jobs?
Who is it?
It's Obama.
He's the one who always thought there was a switch down there, that the Republicans would not pull the switch.
Because they like people being in pain.
All right, to the phones, Robbie, North Carolina.
Lucas, nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
I just wanted to address the question of save jobs.
Because I think you've asked rhetorically a number of times what a save job is.
And I was just thinking about emergency room doctors.
Surely you aren't saying that an emergency room doctor or an EMT, you aren't saying they don't save someone's life because the person hasn't been declared legally dead yet.
I mean, emergency room doctors save lives even when the person comes into the emergency room alive.
So surely you can save a job if the business was unable to get alone and couldn't keep someone employed, but they got some federal funding that allowed them to keep another employee.
That's as effective.
No, it's creating a job and preventing one from going to church.
Name for me the emergency room jobs saved by President Obama.
No, I was asking about the lives saved in an emergency room.
It was an analogy, a metaphor.
Uh you said if you can save lives in the emergency room, you can save jobs.
No.
I was saying when an emergency room doctor saved lives, he's saved a life.
The analogy is saving a job.
You don't have to have the job die first to have saved one.
We prevented jobs from going overseas.
Right.
So I'm asking you to Obama made in the economy.
Fine.
So give me a list of the jobs.
I don't care what kind of jobs they are.
Give me the list of the jobs that Obama has saved.
Name one.
Well, uh, teachers' jobs.
People who would have been unemployed if the government had not provided money to the state to employ teachers and police officers.
Uh so how many of those are there?
Uh I believe tens or hundreds of thousands at a minimum.
You see, I don't know the exact numbers.
I'm not an economic.
Now here's the problem.
Would have had to cut.
My North Carolina would have had to cut teachers and police officers, but we did get some federal funding that helps.
I'm going to ban cell phones from the show.
It is impossible to have a conversation with people on a cell phone initial.
Start if you're on a cell phone, don't call because it's pointless.
I can't talk to you.
I understood every word you said.
Rush.
Well, then you're ruined.
You didn't stop.
I apologize.
I thought I left plenty of room for a conversation.
I'm trying to conclude.
No, you didn't.
I was trying to ask you a question while you were speaking, and I don't think you heard me.
Not your problem, it's a technical.
While I was speaking, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I was...
Yeah, you can hear me now.
I'm talking for you.
Right.
My point is, I was trying to tell you that all that vaunted money to save teachers'jobs, teachers never got it.
The states held the money or used it to pay down debt or some such thing.
They didn't get it.
But anyway, my point about saved jobs is that Obama creates a category, a government category of saved jobs, and then starts attaching a number to it.
And we have created a saved 3.2 million jobs.
And without us, we would have been through depression.
And that's the kind of lie I'm talking about.
There is no way to calculate a single saved job, particularly by the federal government, unless they're talking about their own workforce, and only if they can show us where they plan to fire somebody and then didn't.
That's it.
Save jobs around the country.
There is no category.
There's no scientific or any other method for calculating a saved job.
And there haven't been any jobs created.
Otherwise, we had wouldn't have a rising unemployment rate.
So you inadvertently swerves right into the point that we've always tried to be making.
This is smoke in mirrors.
The sad thing is that you're concocting ways for it to be true based on things that didn't happen.
New York Times, August 17th, 2010 by Motoko Rich.
Giving money is schools wait on rehiring teachers.
Remember the story, Mr. Snert.
They didn't use the money to rehire the teachers.
And everybody kind of scratched their heads.
Well, wait a minute.
This is there was a specific bailout for teacher money, and the states didn't use it for that.
What happened?
They used it on other things.
Anyway, save a job now, you're going to lose it down the road anyway, unless there are genuine market forces that are behind the creation of jobs.
That's the whole point.
George Will just said he talked to Goolsby in the White House.
Goolsby can't figure it out.
There's no switch down there to create jobs because they don't.
The government doesn't.
The White House doesn't.
You can't create jobs.
I expected you to say, you know, that guy before me, George Will kind of just took my point away.
But you plowed ahead.
Anyway, thanks for the call.
Appreciate it.
Waynesboro, Virginia.
Helen, welcome.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Uh good afternoon, uh Rush.
Uh thank you.
I love your show.
But uh I just want to uh illustrate something to you.
Give you all the football fans and FYI.
When you said the football player's leg had an MCL type thing, Rush, if it's a uh cruciate ligament air, it's called an anterior cruciate ligamento or a posterior cruciate ligamento air.
If it's a minimistical tear, then it is medial or lateral muniscal tear.
So I'm just trying to educate you on the verbiage, and this is just uh friendly FYI from an OR nurse, okay?
I, as a sports fan, know the difference between an ACL and an MCL, a PO2, PCL, and a D D D. I know what the media called.
But somebody will correct you, and I wanted to just give you a friendly FYI.
That's all.
What did I what did I say it needs to be corrected?
You said MCL.
There the the term uh the proper terminology, Rush, is if you're talking about a the cruciate ligament in a knee, you know, it's right or left knee, of course, but it's anterior cruciate ligament or posterior cruciate ligament.
And if you're talking about a meniscus tear, then you actually uh mention that you should uh call it a medial uh muniscal tear or a lateral miniscal care and depending on right or left leg.
But it's just an FYI because I know people get worried about the football key uh people but again the terminology as an OR nurse needs to uh is important, and uh for example, cruciate ligaments are very much more of an extensive injury than it is a municipal terror, usually.
So it's just FYI.
Cutler has an MCL.
This the Bears quarterback has an MCL.
This is okay, that's what I'm saying.
Usually for the uh the regular medical term is not considered an MCL uh because it's actually only when you're talking about cruciate ligaments, you're always uh title them as anterior posterior, not meteor lateral type.
Because there's no such thing.
The whole ligament is a ligament, and there's an anterior part to it and a posterior part to it.
That's all.
Okay.
Helen's clearing up.
I'm an uh expert owner from all different types of specialties, and it's just an FYI and good luck and God bless.
Right.
Did Jay Cutler fake it or not?
That's all anybody wants to know.
By the way, folks, the microphone here is on a on a collateral boom rather than an interior boom.
Just thought you would want to know.
We'll take a break.
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