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Jan. 26, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 26, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yeah, it was painful.
It was just painful.
I just Yeah, I'm sitting there.
I'm I'm Catherine and I were watching this thing last night.
We're frankly appalled and surprised at how bad it was.
There was no life in that speech.
There was no energy.
I know why.
He just couldn't fake it.
He didn't believe half the stuff he said.
All that soaring America great stuff.
It sounded like it.
He didn't believe it.
So you'd say the teleprompter said it.
He just couldn't bring in.
Everybody in the room knew it, and then none of the Democrats believed it.
Hiya, folks, I mean there were more plants in that audience than a campaign stop.
I mean, how about practically look at the media coordination that took after every other line, you know, clucked to somebody uh in the audience, some average citizen who's um you know overcome the obstacles of dealing with Republicans every day and the name and ID and so forth, and go back to Obama up there.
Uh glad Boehner didn't cry.
Uh uh Biden looked maybe the best thing about it is they didn't have to look at Pelosi all night.
Uh anyway, folks, great to have you here.
It's the EIB Network, Rush Limbaugh, the uh Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, our telephone number 800-282-2882, the email address El Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
It really was flat.
It was surprisingly so.
We're sitting there watching this and occasionally stealing glances at one another.
And this is you know how how how they're gonna deal with this.
I mean, the media's built this up, they've built this guy up.
This is gonna be the second coming of Obama himself, and man, it wasn't there.
I don't even remember the stupid joke about the salmon.
I I don't remember, in fact, you know what I've done.
We went out, I had an idea for the cookster.
I said, go grab, just give me three or four sound bites from any Obama speech in the last two years.
I don't care.
Pick one.
Save yourself some time, just whatever the least amount of time you can spend on it.
Now play these bites and say, when did he say this?
Last night, two years ago, doesn't matter, it's all the same.
How in the world do you stand there last night and talk about all the problems we've got with infrastructure and shovel ready jobs and forget to point out that you spent a trillion dollars to eliminate the problem two years ago?
Well, you do that because you figure people are stupid, and you know that your sycophants in the media are not gonna call you on it.
It was um it was breathtaking, you know, and the and the slobber crowd, I mean, half of them, half of them couldn't even fake that last night.
They couldn't even couldn't even say, yeah, well, he's a great order.
I mean, it's got so bad that the guy got John Meachum, former Newsweek guy not working at PBS, uh, saying a lack of applause.
Here, listen to it.
Audio sound by number 18.
There was no applause.
You know, by the way, uh, ladies and gentlemen, I'm prepared to retract just a tiny bit.
My criticism of these people sitting together.
One thing I didn't count, I thought the House and Senate were gonna sit next to each other, but they didn't.
So it was Senate prom night, House prom night, but they were still on their sides of the House chamber.
But even when there was a standing oh, it was clearly obvious that there weren't many standing up.
It was clearly obvious the Democrats didn't have a whole lot of people in that room.
There were a couple of times um Biden tried to get some applause started, and it didn't happen.
He two claps, and nobody followed him, and so he sits back down and tries to look around, like blaming somebody else for clapping.
He couldn't get it started himself.
But the the the more people hear from Obama, I think the more they're turned off by him.
And the reason is the media's built him up into something he can't be.
The media's built him up into something that he is he is not.
It took him one hour.
And basically all he said was mush.
This Sputnik business, I can't.
I'm why everybody's focusing on the Sputnik business.
I mean, Sputnik Schmutnik.
I mean, there isn't any comparison.
You know, the Soviets put Sputnik up there as a defensive thing.
Their people didn't even know about it.
The point about Sputnik is that we used to be a leader and an innovator in the private sector.
And here's Obama trying to use Sputnik as an example how we need to get our government back on track when he's been in charge of it for two years.
It was almost like last night he hasn't yet begun to serve in office.
And he's recounting all these problems that he's going to fix and all these solutions he's got as though he hasn't been there for two years.
But I'm on I'm listening to all this Sputnik business, and I'm thinking, wait a minute, pal, aren't you the guy that wanted to shut down NASA?
And then aren't you the guy that wanted to turn NASA into a Muslim outreach arm of the federal government?
And then aren't you the guy that wanted to turn NASA into some global warming research apparatus?
And he sits there and starts talking about Sputnik, talking about how we've lost track and lost ground, and he's the architect of it.
Every area we have lost ground.
Look at how many times education, education.
That should have been the drinking game.
All my life I've been hearing we haven't been spending enough on education.
We need to invest more in education.
It was all it was just, it was it was remarkably bad for and and especially folks considering what this was.
This was the opening salvo of his 2012 re-election bid.
This wasn't a State of the Union speech, the campaign speech.
And it was flat as it could be.
And even with the Republicans helping to create a supportive atmosphere in the chamber.
Even that couldn't save him.
And I by that I mean, you know, the ribbons and then sitting together side by side.
I mean, that was designed into this unity stuff.
But I even when there was a standing O by the Democrats that it didn't show.
There was no enthusiasm in the room.
There was no life in the room, and even when there were standing O's, there were just two or three that really had any energy whatsoever.
Now, the lesson here for the Republicans is stop reacting to the liberals and their media.
Start leading, showing the way.
Stop the same old lament that we have here on this program, and that is they set the premise and we're always reacting to it.
They're sitting together stuff, talking about that endlessly was just it was stupid.
Here, let's go to the audio sound bites as I said, John Meakin.
I mean, it's so bad.
Dad Meekham has to say the fact that there was no applause was a good sign for Obama because that's how seriously people are taking all of this.
It's lack of applause was a good thing.
I think people are not interested in that level of showmanship at this point.
They want results.
They want jobs.
They want to know the kids are going to get education.
And that the president has received the message that he has to be as engaged as possible with their concerns and not some sort of larger uh vision that seems less important to them.
When he said, let's fix what needs fixing and let's move forward.
I think that's the headline tonight.
Meekham sounds as dead as that audience felt last night.
Meekham sounds as lifeless as the uh as the whole mood in that room last night.
Yeah, it's like he was covering this.
You know what last night was?
Last night had the tone that the Gifford's memorial should have had.
You realize the Gifford's memorial had much more energy in it than this thing last night.
Last night's the State of the Union.
And I kept listening.
Well, where's the state of the union?
What do you?
Uh the the Gifford's Memorial had three times the energy this thing had last night.
This thing was like a memorial service.
For us.
For the country, this guy trying to invoke Reagan and sound soaring and all that, and the reason, as I say, he just doesn't have the ability to fake it.
He just he's such a committed leftist that trying to fake all this new moving to the center stuff and all this pro-America rah-rah, you could tell he just doesn't believe it.
You could just tell it's not in his heart.
It's not in his heart.
Had he it's just not there.
I know a little bit about this, folks.
I am a highly trained broadcast and performance specialist.
And I know that as a performance last night, it he didn't pull it off.
Now it's gotten so bad that we've got ridiculous polls already to show that uh at CBS 92% of the American people approved of the speech.
This is Katie Korick and the CBS business correspondent Anthony Mason about the CBS poll of voters after the State of the Union.
CBS News and Knowledge Networks assembled a scientific sample of Americans to watch the speech, then respond to our poll questions online.
Anthony Mason has the results.
Anthony, what are people saying tonight?
Katie, the response of the more than 500 viewers uh we polled immediately after the speech was overwhelmingly positive tonight.
92% of those viewers said they approve of the proposals the president made in his speech tonight.
All right, and then over here, well we have here this is uh the politico.
And the Americans responded with overwhelming positivity to Obama's State of the Union speech, two polls conducted after the speech found uh M.S. Epstein Americans uh uh no no in a CNN opinion research corporation poll of people who watched the speech, 52% of respondents said they had a very positive reaction.
Another 32% said the reaction was somewhat positive, so 84.
84%.
Over on CNN CBS it was 92%.
Now what is this?
I I I don't care.
Go ahead and Jimmy the poll, but don't try to tell me that 92 and 500 in the sample and internet scientific, but regardless, don't try and tell me that 92 percent rah-rah over this.
I mean Sputnik, I guess, is a very powerful image out there of 92 percent.
But you know, what what we have here, more attempts to uh make people think that the November 2010 term midterms didn't happen.
Uh that Tucson happened, suddenly two years of a failed president's eighteen months of the Tea Party are gone due to a game changer, and then we had this flat, boring speech, and all of a sudden Obama's approval numbers double.
Don't think so.
This is not even close to people's reaction here.
Frank Lunce, in one of his famous focus groups, where was this?
This was on uh on Hannity last night on Fox, had a bunch of people in Atlanta.
Here's a couple soundbites from it.
Barack Obama said the worst of the recession is over.
How many of you believe the recession is over?
Raise your hands.
Three of you.
Obviously, that must have undercut the credibility when he said it.
I think with inflation kind of out at risk still and unemployment the highest it's been, I think it's worrisome for us.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
Is he talking about cutting spending?
Are you kidding me?
I mean, this all this guy's done is spend spend spin.
You're a small business owner.
Do you feel like the economy is starting to turn around for people like you?
No, I'm afraid of the economy for people like me.
I don't feel like that at all.
There were, I mean, I forget the number of people in the Lund's poll, but I mean, three of them.
Three of them, four of them thought the speech was great.
They were African American.
The rest of it, there wasn't anywhere near 92% approval.
And you hear the passion in these people's reaction is toward the negative.
Lunch uh then said this finally to the panel after the speech.
One other question for you all.
He does say that he wants to cut spending.
How many of you by show of hands believe him?
Thirteen of you voted for him.
All the questions I'm asking, only five of them feel comfortable with the things that he said or how he said them.
But on CBS, 92% loved it.
84% over at CNN thought it was just hunky dory.
It's a giant disconnect.
Look, I I don't want to spend too much on this, and I know I'm gonna get questions from don't you think you're being petty?
Can't you find one thing good to say?
Frankly, folks, I Opened with this because I felt duty bound.
To be quite honest with you, I resent that an hour of my wife is gone having had to watch this thing last night.
But it's the gig, you know, it's the job.
It's uh it was it was remarkable to me how just dry and dead and this it wasn't real.
And then a corporate tax cut, the corporate, well, corporate tax cut.
Well, we give, yeah, but corporate tax cut with a bunch of ifs.
And then the very item that allowed them to claim victory in the lame duck.
Ah, by the way, this uh Reagan tax of Bush tax cuts, it ain't gonna last two more years after that, they're gone.
Uh well, then why did you go along with extending them now if they're so rotten?
This I don't think even he believed to cut the corporate tax rate business.
That's that's just look at this is part of the reelection bid.
This is this is the one of the his opening salvos for it.
And I didn't, I wasn't standing up and whooping and hollering snurdily because I just didn't get the impression he believed any of it.
I I didn't hear passion.
Even when trying to do this imitation of Reagan and all the soaring rhetoric.
Anyway, we have uh interesting sound bites to describe this, other people weighing in on it.
We got Ryan, we got Paul Ramsgood, we've got uh Michelle Bachman and other media reaction to this.
Plus, of course, I'm sure you will want to weigh in on it.
There are other items out there.
Do you believe, folks?
Would you believe I have been taken over the coals, raked over the coals?
Remember this story we had yesterday toward the end of the program that uh uh indoor hating has led to a bunch of overweight obese people.
So I report the story, and then I suggest wait till Michelle Obama hears about this, she's gonna show up and try to take away our furnaces.
I have been raked over the coals by some outfit called Politics USA.
They think that's one of the meanest things that I've ever said.
They they they believe that.
How can I be so stupid?
I wait till you hear this.
It's it's hilarious.
Now, even though we've got Obama's speech to talk about, there's still plenty of stuff that can save this show despite that uh today.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
And welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network already Wednesday is the fastest uh week in media as well as the fastest three hours.
Now, I uh let's let me stay focused on Sputnik here for just a second.
Uh somebody needs to set the president straight about NASA.
Now remember what he's done with NASA.
He wanted to wipe it out, then turn it into Muslim outreach, and then turn it converted into some agency that studies global warming.
I love NASA.
And I I've made it plain on this program over the course of many, many moons.
As much as I love NASA, they have never built a space rocket.
They have never built a computer.
They've paid for them.
They've supervised all that.
But those things were all built by private industry, which submitted bids, and they were chosen.
But we need to remember this.
Obama needs to finally learn it.
NASA didn't send one rocket anywhere.
Well, they didn't build it.
The government had nothing to do with manufacturing any of the hardware or the software that handles the space program.
See, you have to wonder, does Obama really think the federal government's involvement in education since the time of Sputnik has done one thing to improve education in this country?
This I have I've grown so weary of hearing this complaint, this lament that we're not spending enough on education.
Education's the answer, education's the cure.
Well, we have been spending more on education.
Even Obama last night made mention of the fact that we're starting to lag behind other nations in certain areas, science and math and this kind of thing.
And yet, I mean, education never gets turned down.
It never gets defunded.
Somebody comes along and says we need to spend more money on education.
Damn right, let's do it.
We do it.
And we always have.
We're not underfunded when it comes to education.
It's who's in charge of the curricula.
It's what people are being taught.
The purpose of schools to liberals' minds is not to educate, it's to indoctrinate.
And we see the uh we see the results of this.
Sputnik hasn't done one thing ever since to improve the education in this country.
Does anybody think our education system has improved significantly in math and science since 1957?
It there were so many what do you call it?
Disconnects in this in this speech, West, so much apparent ignorance of what government does, even.
As opposed to what he wants government to do.
All right.
We've only begun here, folks, as you know.
The pace quickens with each passing moment on the EIB note.
So Obama's on the road, uh leading and well, following the campaign speech last night is in Manadawak, Wisconsin.
And I just tuned in a little bit here during the break at the bottom of the hour.
And he's talking about the need to rebuild our crumbling roads and bridges.
Which is one of the primary reasons we spent trillion dollars in the stimulus bill two years ago.
To rebuild our crumbling roads and bridges.
How'd that work out?
Obviously, it didn't work out.
The roads and bridges are still crumbling.
Now he hasn't cited any.
He didn't point out any crumbling roads and bridges.
We're just supposed to accept the fact that there are crumbling roads and bridges.
And we need to get serious now about repairing them.
And we need to get serious now about our deficit.
Now he knows this is this is um uh he he knows exactly what he's doing here.
And he's counting on ignorance, a lack of memory, or total idolatrous support from people to forgive him.
I mean, he he if let me just put it this way this is the best way if I'm president, and I've done everything Obama's done up until the State of the Union.
I went out there and I delivered that speech for the state that for the uh for the stimulus bill, and I predicated it on shovel-ready jobs, and we're gonna have eight million or eight percent unemployment when I get through.
That's how great this is gonna be.
And we're gonna rebuild our roads and bridges and schools.
We're gonna get going on that, we're gonna get a trillion dollars.
It's time we got we're gonna all this gonna create jobs.
Yes, two years later, and I gotta go do the State of the Union show after my party gets shellacked, and my speech writers come to me and say, uh, Rush, we we need to really talk about the need to rebuild a crumbling roads and bridges.
I'm gonna say, look, pal, I live in Littoreville.
We tried that two years ago, and we didn't rebuild the roads and bridges.
We allocated the money for it.
We can't talk about what we failed doing.
That would be me.
My speech writers came to me and said, two years after stimulus, we've got to keep harping on this crumbling roads and bridges.
I would say come back with something else.
Or let me write it.
You guys don't know what you're talking about.
No, they're rerunning this as though he hasn't yet served a day in office.
Now they've obviously got this uh tested somehow with focus groups and polls.
Obviously, this plays to somebody.
This is this is showing up as as a positive message with some group of people that they're testing out there.
And whoever that group of people is, we need to be very afraid of because they are blithering idiots.
We spent a trillion forget the stimulus.
We have a highway bill that has funds collected each and every day to make sure roads and bridges are kept in a decent state of repair.
We know that in certain places where Democrats and liberals have run cities for years and years and years with no opposition, much of that money has ended up in people's back pockets, and the roads and bridges have not been repaired, not because the money hasn't been allocated, simply it's been diverted to um other more pressing items.
Now we have here uh, ladies and gentlemen, look and I the the science and math score.
In light of all that, we've spent gazillions of dollars on education.
And by the president's own admission last night, we don't have anything to show for it.
Here's what he said maintaining our leadership in research and technology is crucial to America's success.
But if we want to win the future, if we want innovation to produce jobs in America, not overseas, then we also have to win the race to educate our kids.
At that point, I was saying, no, we have to get rid of you.
You'd be amazed how often that phrase worked last night.
No, the fix for this is getting rid of you.
No, the fix is defeating you.
Maintaining our leadership in research and technology, crucial to America's success.
No, getting rid of you is.
But if we want to win the future, if we want innovation to produce jobs in America and not overseas, we have to win the race to educate our kids.
How long has this race been going on?
Think about it, he said.
Over the years, over the next ten years, nearly half of all new jobs will require the education that goes beyond a high school degree.
Who is it that just built a plant in Mexico and a whole bunch of jobs are going down there to build Obama cars?
And yet as many as a quarter of our students aren't even finishing high school after years of liberal control on all aspects of education.
Check the dropout rates in cities where liberals have run the school system for who knows how long.
Check them.
The quality of our math and science education lags behind many other nations.
We've got a story here that chronicles the horrible results of science education.
Thank you.
America's fallen to ninth in the proportion of young people with a college degree.
Yeah, how's that?
How's that with all the focus we have?
We got all the student loan programs, all the tuition assistance programs, all the societal pressure.
Go to college.
You can't get anywhere unless you go to college.
How is this happening?
How are we falling to ninth in the proportion of young people with college degree?
Obviously, people are quitting college once they get there.
There has to be some explanation for this because we are, I mean, it's almost American right of passage that you have to go to college.
You have to.
There's a so much societal pressure on this, so much peer pressure on this.
So if people are going to car, why are they quitting?
And I would maintain that one of the reasons that men are quitting is that universities are being turned into chickenfication factories.
They just don't, there's nothing there for them.
This has been chronicled.
And so the question Obama says is whether all of us as citizens, oh, and in light of all of this, earlier in the speech, he talks about the need to make sure that all of the illegals in school are allowed to stay there.
That they could be working on the next cure for cancer or whatever.
I mean, it was it was ping-pong all over the place last night.
So hypocritical and contradictory in spots.
So the question is whether all of us as citizens and as parents are willing to do what's necessary to give every child a chance to succeed.
Well, how would you do that?
Tell me, what is government's role in that?
Specifically, I want to know what is government's role in giving every child a chance to succeed.
Somebody you somebody on the left out there, call me, educate me.
Tell me.
He said, uh, we what we can do, what America does better than anybody is spark the creativity and imagination of our people.
We are the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices.
No.
We are the nation that put computers in homes, offices already had them.
We are the ones that revelized, revolutionized computers so that they were commonplace in people's homes and now in their hands.
And we didn't have to subsidize anybody to make it happen.
We're the nation of Edison.
Yeah, we're the nation of Edison, and you're trying to wipe out one of his greatest inventions, claiming it's a thing that destroys the planet, the incandescent light bulb.
We're the nation of the Wright brothers of Google.
And Facebook.
Facebook?
Really?
That's up there with Edison.
Anyway, it it's just it was just, folks, it was tough to stomach.
It's tough to swallow.
after telling us how behind we are in education and innovations and infrastructure and trade.
He spent the whole speech ripping this country, folks.
At the end, he tells us we're strong.
Last line, the idea of America endures.
Our destiny remains our choice.
And tonight, more than two centuries later, it is because of our people that our future is hopeful, our journey goes forward, and the state of our union is strong.
Normally, presidents say that at the beginning.
He saved this when he knew 90% of the audience had gone.
He's hoping a lot of his base was gone.
The base doesn't want to hear how great America is.
So he saved all that stuff for the end.
When he thought the base was either toked up, gone to the bar, or in bed with each other.
Before getting to what he uh really believed.
I got all kinds of stuff here from the media.
The way they analyze this is always fun.
You know, we have our view of this, and then we expose ourselves to what those people thought of it.
And it's it's a challenge to your sanity.
It really is.
You must have a stable confident personality to deal with, for example, from the politico in bipartisan tones, Obama challenges GOP.
After all the surface civility, Obama wants to pick a fight, or at least draw a stark contrast between his jobs-centric philosophy and the Republicans' determination to cut government first and ask questions later.
Now, here's some people that they really, this is Glenn Thrush.
They actually, I'm sure they think they're very good at what they do.
I mean, after all, they work at the politico.
They're very good at what they do.
And yet they wrote here, apparently honestly believing that Obama has a job-centric philosophy.
The guy who has destroyed American jobs, the guy with his policies, who has led to double-digit unemployment.
No end in sight.
They actually write that he has a jobs-centric philosophy.
What is the job-centric philosophy?
Where are all the jobs?
Where's the focus on the jobs?
What kind of I mean it's it's a total disconnect.
And this Republican determination to cut government first and ask questions later.
That's again not what's going on.
The president believes, this is a former advisor near it tandem.
The president believes the American people care more about creating jobs and the investment it takes to prepare us to compete and win in the global economy.
The Republicans basically think the election was a mandate just to slash, even in areas like education that are tied to jobs.
He's betting the Republicans are wrong.
So this is the strategy.
This the the strategy is that the regime is trying to put it out there that they are about jobs and the Republicans are about slashing.
And they think they can sell that with the help of people like the politico.
The only thing job-centric about Obama's philosophy is his job.
He's going to do anything, say anything to get re-elected and hold on to his job.
That's the job-centric he cares about, and we're back in a moment.
Folks, I I am I need to share with you what I just shared with my staff.
I I asked the staff, am I sounding mean, too critical, bored by all this?
No, no, no.
That's because frankly, I'm really worried you all are gonna think I'm phoning this in.
I was I I don't I don't care about this last.
It was so insulting to me to sit there and watch this.
It was it was uh I I feel like I've got to talk about this.
And I told you people, don't watch it because I'll watch it for you, and I know a lot of you didn't watch it, and you want to know what happened.
It pains me to have to talk about it.
I'm endeavoring here to pursue this, though, nevertheless.
Uh but here you have this the State of the Union for the people in the politics business is the one of the other than an inaugural night.
This is one of this is the biggest night of the year.
And this guy blew it for everybody.
Everybody.
I mean, all the grandiose plans sitting together and uh hunky dory and uh getting along who noticed.
And even if they did, and it was just there was no energy, there was it was lifeless in there, and it was the the content was just an insult, frankly, to um to my intelligence.
So I just I just I just want to assure you and promise you I'm not phoning it in.
This was just n it was nothing but political grandstanding, and it wasn't even good political grandstanding.
I don't think he wanted to be there, to tell you the truth.
He didn't look like he wanted to be there.
And and Michelle looked like she'd rather be over at people's houses turning off their furnaces than be there.
They didn't even introduce the people sitting next to Michelle, did they?
I mean, I leave it was great back in the old days when Clinton, after the Lewinsky stuff was discovered, looks up there at Hillary and she's got the nurse Ratchet look on her face, and Clinton says, uh, honor you, and everybody knows, oh my God, what's gonna happen when they get home?
Uh honor you.
And there wasn't.
You know, the the and didn't bl Biden um i i is Biden is his head rejecting the plugs?
It looks like that there's less hair there.
They had that camera from the rear, uh, and it looked like his head is rejecting the hair plugs.
I mean, it's the kind of stuff I was thinking about watching this because there was so little substance happening.
Anyway, let's go to the phones.
I need a breakfast.
Omaha, Nebraska.
Bill, I'm glad you called you are on the EIB network.
Hello.
Ditto's Rush from KFA B in Huskerland.
Thank you, sir.
Rush, you I I love you, man, but you are a horrible student.
I've been teaching tennis lessons for 32 years, and I'm and I'm uh a golfer about as good as you are.
But I've been teaching tennis, and my friend, I gotta tell you.
I tell you too, it's like telling my best friend, you are impatient, you won't practice, and you don't and you don't want to change.
And those combinations uh are bad combinations, Rash.
But uh I I just I watched the Haney uh project last night, and uh I was cringing because Haney was I could tell in the in his in his face and and and some of the things he was saying is he's looking at you going, Rash, you gotta change these things.
These are things that I'm gonna tell you to do, and you don't want to do them.
And I've I've had those kind of tennis lessons, Rush, and I sit there and say, Oh my gosh, what am I doing?
Well, here's one thing I must caution you.
I cannot blame you for this mistake in perception.
Remember now, you are seeing last night about ten minutes of at that time a total of 70 hours of video that's been shown.
You are seeing ten minutes out of seventy hours of video.
They there was so much yesterday that was left out.
You you my gosh, it's it's it's it's kind of painful for me to have to tell you this, but what was left out of last night's show, uh, you would not possibly I can't blame you, but you could not possibly have the conclusion that you've drawn.
No, I don't I I think I do have an idea, Rush, because uh I've been around athletics my whole life, and like I said, I've taught tennis lessons for thirty-two years.
But I I I can I I want to ask you a question.
Did he videotape you at all and put you right next to, say, Freddie couples or someone like that and and go through slow motion as to what you're doing on your backswing and for about five hours.
This is what I'm trying to tell you.
Oh, okay.
But I'm trying I've had more people say I've got more emails today.
Rush, I've watched three episodes and they still haven't told me what's wrong with your swing and what they're trying to fix.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, that's because it's on the cutting room floor.
I'm trying to tell you now, I like I say I do not blame you for this.
But I would just suggest uh uh watch the next episode is Hank and his wife in China.
Uh-huh.
Uh and me playing golf for five or six minutes.
And the next episode, that's what you've got to watch because that and now it's going to appear miraculous, Bill.
Mm-hmm.
It all comes together.
And you're gonna you're gonna throw all this talk about me being a lousy student out the window, but you're not have gonna see any of the teaching.
But that's not, I have no control over the editing of this.
So I don't blame you.
But trust me, my man, I have been a uh six hours, no break, uh three different times, while the unionized camera crew took two breaks.
But I can't blame you.
I really I'll forgive you.
You'll see in future episodes.
Rush Limbaugh insanely claims Michelle Obama coming to get your furnace.
And the people who wrote that believe it.
They mean it.
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