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Jan. 24, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 24, 2011, Monday, Hour #2
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Greetings and welcome back.
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Senator Ted Kennedy's widow Vicky is out there talking about civility.
Yesterday on Washington Week with Roland Martin on TV one.
Victoria Reggie Kennedy was the guest, and Roland Martin said, Well, whoa, whoa, what would you think that uh your husband would make of the climate today where it seems neither side really wants to even talk to one another about anything?
It would probably be frustrating to him.
Teddy had a way he didn't attribute bad motives to anyone.
He always believed that everyone wanted the same thing, and that's what was good for the country.
And even though people were of a different party, he said we always want to move the country forward, and we may have a different way of getting there, but we want to move the country forward, we want to achieve the same result.
And so he looked for that germ of common ground.
What is it that we can agree on that can help us get there?
Wonder I wonder if Victoria Reggie Kennedy remembers this from her husband in 1987 on the Florida Senate.
Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, and school children could not be taught about evolution.
Writers and artists would be censured at the whim of government.
And the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is and is often the only protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy.
Once again, we get these platitudes.
But the reality just doesn't square with it.
Teddy didn't attribute bad motives to anyone.
He always believed everyone wanted the same thing.
And that's what was good for the country.
And even though people were of a different party, Teddy said, we always want to move the country forward.
We have different way of getting there, maybe, but we want to move the country forward.
Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions.
That's how it works, folks.
That's how it works.
You know, I love, I love when common sense news that I always espouse hits the media.
I must, I must be honest with you people who have listened to me regularly for 23 years know this.
All this gobbledygook about nutrition and exercise and all that, I've always poo-pooed it, and I've always laughed at it.
The Center for Science and the Public Interest and all this healthy Nazi eating style, all that rot gut.
Uh it has it has it's over the course of the years, the SUV is gonna kill us, that kind of stuff.
It just offends my sensibilities.
It's an insult to my intelligence.
It's always amused me.
It doesn't surprise me because I know a lot of people are sheep, but it's always amused me.
Somewhere, somebody in the media will say, if you have five oranges a week and three carrots and two pieces of food, you will not get cancer as readily as if somebody who doesn't.
Or you pick it.
There's always this stuff.
It's either oat brand this, uh oat brand, no, no, no, or coffee, caffeinated, decaffeinated.
You gotta be careful.
You can't eat that, you can't drink that.
You better make sure you have lots of that, but don't have any of it.
And people, they treat this stuff as gospel.
And before it's over, they're swallowing five bottles of vitamins every day.
And they're taking laxatives three times a day.
They're doing all of this stuff.
They're out there doing all this all because they've heard it in the media from some so-called scientific authority.
And once again, we turn to the UK, this time the Daily Mail.
This cynical five-a-day myth, nutrition experts claims we've all been duped.
Here's the summary of the story.
A study of over 300,000 people indicates that eating fruit and vegetables will not keep us alive for much longer than we would have lived if we had eaten what we wanted.
All these years we've been slogging through eating massive amounts of vegetables, trying to smile though our taste buds were breaking, wasted time, wasted effort.
Bamboozled.
This story points out that we need fat.
We need animal food in order to stay healthy.
And that's how we get the vitamins and medicals that we need.
With great fanfare, it was reported last week that the current health advice about eating five portions of fruit and vegetables a day is outdated.
Scientists now believe it eight portions is more beneficial.
And with no more than that, people believe it.
Because it shows up in the media, and scientists wouldn't lie about this, and well, why would they anyway?
Jack Lilane was a vegetarian.
Look what happened to him.
He died.
Jack Willane was a vegetarian exercise freak.
And look what happened to him.
He passed away.
It's amazing, isn't it?
While many people grumbled about how on earth they would manage those extra portions, I allowed myself a wry smile.
This is Zoe Harcom writing.
For more than two years I've known that the five a day mantra we're also familiar with is nothing but a fairy tale.
Of course, veggies are tasty, colorful additions to any meal, but in terms of health and nutrition, fruit and veg have little to offer, and telling us to eat eight portions a day is compounding one of the worst health fallacies in recent memory.
Surprised?
Oh, yeah, many people will be, and no doubt some dietitians and nutritionists will reject the arguments.
But science backs me up, she says.
The latest findings come from a European study into diet and health looking at 300,000 people in eight countries.
It found that people who ate eight or more portions of fresh food a day had a 22% lower chance of dying from heart disease.
Yet just 1,600 participants died during the study from heart disease, which is about half a 1%.
Out of that very small proportion, fewer people died from the group that ate more fruit and veg.
However, the researchers cautioned that these people may have healthier lifestyles generally.
They may be less likely to smoke, they may eat less processed food, they may be more active.
What we should not do is make the usual bad science leap from association to causation and say eating more fruit and veg lowers the risk of dying from heart disease.
But if you want to believe it, nothing's going to talk you out of it.
And that's fine.
If you want to believe it, go right ahead.
Just remember Jack Willane.
But feel free, but just keep it to yourself.
This survey comes not long after another large study, which examined half a million people over eight years, reported that fruit and vegetables offered no protection against breast, prostate, bowel, lung, or any other kind of tumor.
Those eating the most fruit and veg showed no difference in cancer risk compared to those eating the least.
So how have we been duped for so long?
Well, you might assume our five a day fixations based on firm evidence, but you'd be wrong.
It started as a marketing campaign dreamt up by around 20 fruit and vegetable companies and the U.S. National Cancer Institute at a meeting in California in 1991.
And it's been remarkably successful.
People in 25 countries across three My point with all this is just live.
You don't need some government agency, some president, some first lady, or some other authority figure from the government telling you what's good and what's bad.
Because it's all bad, it's all good.
Live.
Eating whatever you do, it has consequences.
And no matter what you do, Jack Lilane is a testament.
You are going to die.
Everybody does.
The only reason this gets it, people have been turned into neurotics over all this kind of stuff.
And the result is there's less people living and more people robotically going about I I just, it's worse than that.
I just hate.
I just it scares me that this this ability That these nameless, faceless, authoritative, uh credible sounding organizations combined with a media report have the ability to essentially affect the behavior of massive millions and millions of numbers of people.
Which of course does not help us in our quest against the whole notion of big government, nanny government and uh and all of that.
Look at I can I don't know how to put a number to this.
When Al Gore's movie came out, Earth in a Lurch, whatever it was called, Earth in the Balance, the movie, Indelible Truth, uh, the number of people who bought that was striking.
I mean, people I know.
People who think like I do.
They bought it.
Well, he's a former vice president.
How can you why would he lie about this?
He only wants to help people who save the planet.
No concept that there might be a political ideology behind this, no concept.
There could be a political ideology behind all this fruit and vegetable stuff.
If not a political ideology exclusively, maybe there is a propaganda campaign involving people who sell these things.
Who knows?
But it all adds up to people unknowingly giving up a little bit of their freedom of choice and happily becoming automatons.
And half the time or more, if well more than half the time.
All this stuff is based on absolute BS.
And they know that every one of these reports is coupled with some causal relationship to terminal diseases, like cancer, stroke, heart attack, and this kind of thing.
Then you end up with self-important people claim to being experts who aren't experts, and then run around up here on television all the time proselytizing about this stuff, and it just sets up liberal Democrat politicians to feed off of and do the same thing.
Here, let me read a little bit more from this story to you.
You might assume that our five-a-day fixation is based on firm and evidence, but you would be wrong.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, association, 20 fruit and vegetable companies combined with the U.S. National Cancer Institute at a meeting in 1991 to suggest vegetables five days a week.
People in 25 countries across three continents have been urged to eat more greens and have done so in their million.
Where does this lead the first lady invades Walmarts and starts telling them what they can sell and at how much of a price?
None of her business.
I just saw this.
Chicago's NBC affiliate is saying that the appellate court in Chicago has banned Rom Emanuel from the ballot.
In the Chicago mayoral election, failed residency is the reason.
Illinois appellate court ruled two to one to overturn a Chicago Board of Elections decision to allow Rahm Emanuel on the mayoral ballot.
Emmanuel's attorney Kevin Ford says it's a surprise.
We thought we had this pata wired.
So they'll have to find some other way now to get Rahm Emanuel back on the ballot.
And the Illinois appellate court carries much more weight than a Chicago Board of Elections.
Surprising, but uh it does.
That's the latest on that.
The fact that our own government has spent, now this is a UK story, but I'll still use their numbers.
The fact that our own government has spent 3.3 million pounds over the past four years on the five-day message, five days a day for vegetables, shows how pervasive this belief is.
People are convinced that fruit and vegetables are a particularly good source of vitamins and minerals.
The message that fruit and vegetables are pretty useless nutritionally, gradually dawned on me for a long time I was too a believer.
I was a vegetarian for 20 years.
It's only after nearly 20 years of my own research, I'm a Cambridge graduate, currently studying for a PhD in nutrition, that I've changed my views.
The facts are these.
There are 13 vitamins, and fruit is good for one of them.
Vitamin C. Vegetables offer some vitamins, Vitamin C and the vegetable form of the fat-soluble vitamins A and K1, but your body will be able to absorb these only if you add some fat, such as butter or olive oil.
The useful forms of A and K, retinol and K2 respectively, are found only in animal foods.
As for minerals, there are 16.
Fruit is good for one of them, potassium, which is not a substance we're often short of, as it's found in water.
Now, vegetables can be okay for iron and calcium, but the vitamins and minerals in animal foods, meat, fish, eggs, and dairy products beat those in fruit and vegetables, hands down.
There is far more and I know some of you are getting mad at me right now.
I know it.
You're getting mad at me, said because I'm reporting what this guy says because I happen to know what he says is true.
You're getting mad at me because you believe this stuff.
That's that's how deeply ingrained you know what not matter.
But I know it, I know you are getting mad at me for daring to challenge and disagree with something that is so ingrained into our culture.
And one of the reasons people are getting mad is because if they can lie about this, which is the end of the day, pretty inconsequential, if they can lie about this, if they can so propagandize what people eat on the false premise of staying healthier and living longer, then what the heck else can they accomplish?
Fruit has a fraction of the antioxidants of I remember meeting a guy once who ate nothing but blueberries.
And he was an evangel on blueberries because of all the antioxidants, committed suicide a month after I met him.
I'm not saying there's a causal relationship, it's a difference in me and them.
If I were like them, I would say blueberries led to the guy's suicide.
That's not what I'm saying at all.
But there are people who could be made to believe that.
If I reported it in a certain way, and I had just one expert with a PhD or an MD behind his name, warning about the overconsumption of blueberries, how many of you would drop them from your diet?
The guy had other problems, and they were exemplified by this weird obsession with, I mean, he thought he was purifying every aspect of his body by OD.
I mean, blueberries on everything.
Blueberries on his fillet of soul.
It just was just, and he thought he was getting healthier.
Yeah, best antioxidants out there.
He committed suicide for things totally unrelated to it.
But if I if I were like them, if I was disingenuous, and if I had an agenda, and if I wanted to exhibit mind control over people, I would try to tell you.
Just go out and find some expert who agreed with me.
Give them a fax machine and a logo.
And better than me, you know, having to show up on ABC or NBC or CBS.
How many people would start cutting back on blueberries?
From the 60s in our bumper rotation, Tommy Tight Pants is not unusual as a title of two.
And here's more on Rahm Emanuel.
An appeals court says that he's not allowed to stay on the Chicago mayoral ballot.
Uh, a blow to the former White House chief of staff has already raised more than 10 million dollars in his bid.
The three judge, Illinois appellate court, which held oral arguments last week in the case, issued a split decision this afternoon saying that Manuel is not eligible to run for mayor.
Two of the three judges reversed a lower court decision that had given him permission to remain on the ballot.
One judge dissented.
Lawyers for Ron Emanuel said last week that they're going to appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court.
The state's high court can decide whether or not to hear the case.
Let me give you another example here.
Now, seriously.
Uh C. Five years ago, how many of you had ever heard of Michelle Obama?
Answer.
Less than one-tenth of one percent of you.
Today, what is she?
According to our meat, no, no, not first lady, she's a nutrition expert.
Really?
I don't remember reading anything about nutrition doctorates or majors.
She didn't even like her country.
And presumably didn't care what people ate.
All of a sudden her husband ran for president.
All of a sudden she became proud of her country.
Now the woman runs all over the place insisting that people not eat what she doesn't want them to eat.
Well, excuse me, but who is she?
What is it about being first lady that conveys expertise upon her?
I'm sorry, it's just the way I look at it.
I don't mean this personally, but I'm just as an as an educated, intelligent human being using experience guided by intelligence.
A woman I never heard of five years ago now is the world's foremost authority on gardening and eating.
And I don't see it.
Meaning I don't see it.
I don't see it, and I don't understand it.
Nor do I accept it or believe it.
I'll tell you something else.
I'm gonna prove it.
I can tell you right now.
I know some of you are gonna blow your lids.
An out and out lie.
You may not like the smell.
Might make you uncomfortable.
And on some rare occasions, it might make some of you sick.
But how many people think otherwise?
Look at how many local weeds are trying to shut down people smoking 150 feet away inside an hermetically sealed room because they claim they're dying.
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Let's check some emails.
Subject line, are you okay today?
Sounding kind of cranky, El Rush Bo.
Two calls in a row, you were kind of rude, not a line.
The guy on the cell phone made a good analogy about save jobs.
No, he didn't.
And the ER nurse tried to explain medical terminology to you.
She was wrong.
You didn't handle yourself in your normal cordial fashion.
Take a pill or a nap or whatever.
I don't think I've ever heard you quite this far off base.
Peace, Papa.
Dear Rush, you're showing your ignorance.
I don't believe that Mr. Lilane had trouble with his hearing or required a transplant to keep himself alive for those 96 years.
Can you say the same?
Your body functioning the way it was designed to.
We listeners all know that you've had invasive surgery to repair your hearing.
I would advise you not to go there anymore, because the more you talk about this issue, the more your listeners are turned off by your denials of this truth.
Signed the wasp.
And then there's this.
You are so right.
Hi, Rush.
You're so right about nutrition, about the nutrition Nazis and their social engineering plans.
I am a doctor, PhD human nutrition, nutritional biology, University of Chicago.
Once I had some people tell me when they heard I was getting a doctorate in nutrition, and after graduating, I should start up a company selling capsules of blue-green algae and claim all sorts of health benefits for it and make a ton of money.
Sounds good to me.
I mean, to me, that would be um that'd be are they already on the market?
Are they?
Capsules of blue-green algae and claim all sorts of health benefits.
It's called Espirina.
Stirulina.
As P. S. spirulina.
I guess it's easier taking an allergy capsule and running down to the swamp and just sucking some off of the top of the water.
Okay.
Just to let you know, I know I knew this is gonna happen.
For some reason, people are irritated out there.
I mean, I I got a little irritated at some guy trying to tell me that there's a way to quantify saving jobs out there.
Uh but that wasn't why I was irritated.
I was irritated because the guy's on a cell phone, and we have a 1920s Alexander Graham Bell phone system here.
People on cell phones cannot hear me when I'm trying to talk to them.
I wasn't irritated at the guy.
Uh who's next?
Grand Junction, Colorado.
Terry, welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Very well, thank you.
Good.
I just had a comment.
Um, you made you made the comment about Jack Lillet, and I was just laughing so hysterically because the man lived to be almost a hundred years old, so he must have been doing something right.
Yeah, but he still died.
Well, honey, we all die.
You're doing something right.
And I you're a smart guy, remember, so you should know this.
I realize um sitting behind the gold mic with all the gold words.
Uh I used to listen to you, and now I'm just like, you're so pompous, and you say the same thing that if I had a dollar for every time I heard the word Obama, I would be rich.
So I just I had to see what you were talking about today and see if I could actually get a word in Edgewise because we shut her buddy up.
So I just wanted to shut you up today, and I'll never listen to you again.
Have a good one.
Fine.
So that's we're three for three on the phones today.
I'd say the guy who's got a problem today is not me, it's Snerdley.
This stuff, folks, doesn't happen by accident.
And I just want to let you know the first thing Snurley stormed in here today, giving me all kinds of grief about the Steelers being in the Super Bowl at his team's stadium.
Now that's that's what's going on here.
Well, this is gonna be an adventure.
Now, this is like uh open line Friday with Snerdley having missed his algae capsules.
Uh Zach in Orlando, Florida, welcome to the EIB network.
What's on your mind?
Sir, it is an honor to talk to you just to start off.
Um Steelers fan and I'm a younger guy, so I was hoping maybe you could help me understand this a little bit.
I mean, I agree with you 99% of the time, and I'm into nutrition and everything myself, but I don't see the CAP is such a big deal for her to go out and say eat fruits and vegetables and take your vitamins.
I mean, I don't see what the big deal is on that why it's gotta be.
See, this is the point.
It's a big deal because you have to look at who she is politically.
This is an attempt to exhibit all kinds of mind control over as many people as possible.
This is a this is a regime that lives off of mind control.
This is a regime that wants to live and have a nanny state.
That's right.
So five years ago, nobody heard of this woman.
Now she's the leading nutrition expert in the country.
I mean, I don't I take her for I don't, you know, like you said, she's not a doctor, she's not this, but if she's gonna go and say eat your vegetables and a couple kids listen to her, I don't see it as being such a bad thing.
I mean, I don't think she's trying to take over and tell everybody what to do because I don't listen to anything, you know, she says anyway, but you don't find anything wrong with it.
Uh you know, I I really on that issue, I really don't.
I think that if a couple I'm a hundred percent against Obama, I don't agree with anything that the guy says, but you know, going out and saying eat your vegetables.
I don't if the kid listens to it and it saves me from paying my taxes to go and want to win this guy's gotta go to the hospital.
I don't see a big deal.
Yeah, but it's not it's not just that she's saying don't uh eat your vegetables.
It's that she's also saying don't eat X. She is she is doing harm to other participants in the food industry.
She is categorizing other foods as bad.
Right.
But more important more importantly than that, Zach, the root of everything I have said today is born in my love of people and my hope for people to be individuals and the best they can be, rather than be robots and to be so easily swayed by mass media and propaganda.
I know it's a failed attempt.
The quest here is is is not going to succeed because mass propaganda has always succeeded.
It just disturbs me.
That's all.
And it's not just Michelle Obama.
We've there there's a group out there called Center for the Science of the Public Interest, and they have banned certain foods from being sold and consumed in public.
It's none of their damn business.
And and then the people that believe this stuff become evangels of it, and they start running around poking their nose in your business with what you're eating and and so forth, then it's uh it's offensive.
And then that to me that leads to people buying hook, line and sinker political lies.
If these people are gonna get credit for compassion and caring and thinking that only people thinking they only want what's good for people, and that's evidenced by her push to kids eat vegetables, then it's gonna make it all that much tougher to defeat these people in the political arena.
And that's how I look at this.
Especially with these people, it's never just about what they say.
Have you have you read the Obama health care bill?
Have you read the latest regulations from the Food and Drug Administration?
You know, once we accept the notion that people in Washington have all the answers, and if we believe the lie that they only do what they do for us, because they love us and care about us, and they only want what's good for us, then we're sunk because all they care about is what's good for them.
The Obama health care bill is way beyond serving suggestions.
We're talking about things legislated and regulated.
Michelle Obama, well-known nutrition expert, now has major input into what your kids are going to eat, what they're going to be fed in school for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
And it's not just an isolated thing over here.
Well, Russia's just vegetables.
I mean, what's wrong with recommending that uh these are the same people that have death panels as part of federal legislation?
These are the same people are going to be determining in many cases who's fit to live and who's fit not to live by virtue of who is worth medical care, based on the cost of it.
All this stuff, if you play it out to where it could end up, it ends up to expansive government, loss of liberty and freedom, and this is how it's all done, starting with these innocent, innocuous things like make sure, little Johnny, you have your five servings of vegetables every day or every week or whatever it is.
Bothers me greatly as an individualist, somebody who loves people, who believes that people have more power and potential to be great than they even know, to all of a sudden just throw all that away in belief that there are others who care more about you than you do,
who know more about you than you do, who have your health more in mind than you do, when in fact their designs on you are something far, far more insidious than what you're eating.
And that's what it that's what it comes down to.
They're liberals.
They're liberals and leftists, and that means they want to control as much of what you do.
And that is facilitated the more they're able to convince you that they're doing it just for you.
I have a hard time believing.
I I could be wrong about this, but I have a hard time believing a Michelle Obama sitting there in a White House wringing her hands in angst and worry over what people are eating in this country.
More likely they focus group to cause.
Every first lady has to have one, you know.
So all of a sudden, one day, Michelle plants a garden in the White House lawn.
It's a beautiful thing.
Here goes Limbo.
Gosh, what's happened to Limbora?
He's attacking the First Lady's garden.
I can't believe what's happened to Limbaugh.
Aren't there more important things to do to attack the first lady's garden?
Oh, it's not just the first lady's garden.
Do you know it happened to be miraculously the fastest growing garden in the history of gardens?
Did you know that Michelle Obama was feeding entire state dinner guests, 200 of them from the Michelle Obama Garden?
Did you know that?
It's never been done since loaves and fishes, folks.
It's an amazing thing.
By the way, did you hear Obama, not Obama, Oprah, Oprah Obama, I get them confused.
Like Letterman got UMA in Obama confused.
Oprah Winfrey has been leading up to the announcement of this giant secret that she's going to reveal.
She's revealed it.
Have you heard what it is?
She has a half-sister.
The half-sister has Obama's birth certificate.
No, I'm not in a bad mood at all.
I'm in a great mood.
The exact outcome I wanted in a football games happened yesterday.
Going to Los Angeles later this week, I got a couple of days of shooting for the Haney Project, episode seven.
We have two more to go, and we have to have them done by February 14th in order to uh make sure that the last two episodes air on time.
We're down to crunch time here.
The uh final episode, February 11th, the weekend after the uh after the Super Bowl.
It's a 22-minute show, and each show requires about 20 hours to get to 22 minutes.
Well, it really doesn't, but that's just television.
That's just that's just the way television is.
Catherine in Jacksonville, Florida.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hello there, Rush.
I have to tell you I enjoyed watching the Hank Haney project with you.
I had no idea that it wasn't going to be just four of you riding around playing golf.
It was so much fun watching you learn the game from him when that's awesome.
The learning hasn't even started.
Wait till you watch the next two episodes.
The next two episodes.
Really?
Oh.
Oh.
Well, tomorrow's episode is is taken from six hours on the range with one club with no brick.
Well, when he had all of those balls, like three hundred of them lined up.
Yeah.
The keys in between them, I thought that was great.
My my fifteen year old son is learning from his brother-in-law, uh right here out on Amelia Island, uh, Ed Bow, and he's just as crazy as Hank Haney.
And um he I can't wait for my son to watch the show with me now.
Well, because he's such a great golfer and he just thinks you're awesome.
So he didn't know you played golf.
Well, it's it's I appreciate that.
You're very kind.
Oh, well, I just had to tell you, and you you're so cool in your shorts, you get out there, just have a good time.
Yeah, it was awesome.
That's another I want you I want young kids to see you now.
Uh not just hear you.
They need to be able to do that.
I appreciate that.
Very cool.
I know it can't hurt.
Well, you got me in shorts tomorrow night or Obama in a suit at the House Chamber.
What would you choose?
Uh I think I'd rather have you in That's my point.
That's exactly my point.
But you know, the Haney congratulations that you married a Catherine.
That's my name, and it's uh um I was very happy to hear that.
Well, uh even better.
Thank you very much.
You're welcome.
Have a great day.
Thanks, Catherine.
You do the same.
You know, the the Haney project for me, it's just like in life.
It's what you learn after you know everything that matters.
And uh one of the reasons that uh that I did this.
By the way, I need to apologize to Eric Cantor.
A Republican Congressman from Eric's from South Carolina, right?
South Carolina.
And I need to apologize to him.
He appeared on um uh the Meet the Depressed yesterday with with David Gregory.
And Eric Cantor was badgered about the Barry Sotero birth certificate.
And I think that the only reason that he was badgered about that was because we happened to um talk about that on this program, and of course, the way we talked about it on the program was to discuss what the Hawaii governor is doing vis-a-vis, the Sotero birth certificate.
That's the frame in which we talked about it.
And I just found it strange this guy goes out there and says, Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna produce it, get rid of the birthers, I'm gonna embarrass them, and then can't produce it.
And I'm not buying that this is real.
This is designed to suck people like me in.
Get it all over talk radio so they can then blow it up for the election camp.
I'm convinced that's what was going on.
So and the proof of it is they got Eric Cantor on there, and and David Gregory says, okay, okay.
Well, you call it what it is, all this burst of good stuff.
Call it what it is.
It's crazy talk.
David, you know, I mean, a lot of that has been an issue sort of uh generated by not only the media but others uh in the country.
Most Americans really are beyond that, and they want us to focus.
Somebody brings that up just engaging in crazy talk.
Well, David, I I don't think it's it's nice to call anyone crazy.
Is it a legitimate or an illegitimate issue?
So I I don't think it's an issue that we need to address at all.
I think we need to focus on the citizenship should never be questioned in your judgment.
Is that what you're saying?
It is not an issue that even needs to be on the policy making table right now.
And they weren't through.
Because it's illegitimate.
I mean, why don't you just call it what it is?
I feel like there's a lot of Republican leaders who don't want to go as far as to criticize those for the I think the president's a citizen of the United States.
Yes, why is it that you want me to go engage in name-calling?
No, I mean I think he's a prisoner.
Because I think a lot of people leader would say that a leader's job is to shut some of this down.
You know as well as I do, there are elements on the right who believe two things about this president.
He actively is trying to undermine the American way and wants to deny individuals their freedom.
Do you reject those beliefs?
As a leader in our Congress.
Let me tell you, David, I believe this president wants what's best for this country.
It's just how he feels we should get there, that there are honest policy differences.
Fair enough.
That's it.
So I Congressman Cantor, that all of that is my fault.
And I seriously apologize for it.
Eric Cantor, Virginia.
I knew that.
It was just a mental block I was having.
So there you have it.
Even though it's Obama's job to clear all this ostensible confusion up on the birth certificate, He's the one guy that could do it.
According to David Gregory, it was up to Eric Cantor to do it.
And Cantor has stated he believes Obama's a citizen.
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