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Feb. 9, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 9, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Wow, look at poor old F. Chuck Todd up there on TV.
Guys in mourning over Jim Webb saying you're not going to run anymore.
It's amazing.
It's amazing to watch these drive-by media people report the latest Democrat to announce he's not going to run.
Oh, what will it mean?
I will never forget.
I will never, this was, I think I was in Sacramento, maybe just moved to New York, late 80s.
Whenever it was that California Congressman Tony Coelho announced that he was no longer going to seek all, he got involved in some kind of corruption scandal of some kind.
I don't remember what it was.
Barbara Walters was hosting Nightline that night.
Ted Koppel was out.
And Barbara Walters was literally asking all of her guests, can the nation survive?
Can we go on?
Will the Congress survive?
And of course, these people were answering it in that context.
I think so, Barbara.
I certainly hope so.
I said, now here, Jim Webb, he's getting out.
F. Chuck Todd in mourning.
And now they're happily talking about, hey, maybe we get the eye back in there, Tim Kaine.
Maybe he'd come back and seek this office.
Our money is on George Allen here at the EIB Network.
Great to have you back, folks.
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I want to play this Andrea Mitchell, Diane Feinstein soundbite again this afternoon, yesterday afternoon on MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell reports.
Dianne Feinstein was asked, well, what can we do about this Mubarak guy?
Can we have to wait weeks?
Do you have to wait till September?
I mean, when can we get rid of this guy?
Let me say one more thing, and that is concern that we have over fundamentalist Islamic sex taking over.
And I think it's very real that we do not understand the ebb and flow of the currents in the Middle East.
I remember in 2006 when it was being discussed whether Hamas should be permitted to run in Gaza.
I think perhaps we don't understand this.
And one thing that needs to be looked at is that border with the tunnels between Gaza and Egypt and whether the military is still able to keep weapons from flowing both ways.
So as Dianne Feinstein is saying, I don't think we understand, I don't know who we is, I clearly, all of us see what's going on in Egypt, and we clearly are open to the possibility that we have an attempted Islamist takeover there, just like Iran.
1979.
Did we not understand that?
Jimmy Carter, who is this we?
Did we not understand the ebb and flow of Islamist fundamentalism in Iran?
Who is this?
We don't understand it.
You know, those of us who have been raising flags about the possibility of an Islamist takeover have been ridiculed.
Everybody out there in the learned elements of our culture are taking pot shots at those of us who raise the possibility, hey, you know what?
This might not be all that democracy-oriented.
This might be the latest Islamist takeover.
There is evidence to suggest that this is who they are and what they want.
The Muslim Brotherhood members had plotted to, well, they failed, but they've tried to take over Egypt for 82 years since 1928.
And now we're told, well, they're just not like that anymore.
They're really a moderate bunch.
I love hearing, oh, yeah, the Muslim Brotherhood is a moderate bunch.
And then they say that the Muslim Brotherhood represents only 20, 30% of the population.
They're really nothing to worry about, Rush.
There's nothing going on here, nothing to see here.
They're just 20, 30% of the population.
But the same people do not tell us that the other 70% of the population will not dare stand up to the Muslim Brotherhood.
So what the hell is the difference?
And I am holding here, ladies and gentlemen, my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, a story that essentially is a translation of a book entitled Jihad is the Way, the book written by Mustafa Mashur, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from 1996 to 2002.
The Muslim Brotherhood, in its own words, in a book here, in this book, which entitled Jihad is the Way.
Jihad means holy war.
The author Mustafa Mashur explains the fundamental concepts of the Muslim Brotherhood ideology.
His teachings encompass subjects such as the Muslim Brotherhood's goal of establishing an Islamic State, world domination under Islam, the public and personal religious duty of military jihad, and the warnings not to rush to jihad until it's prepared and timed for maximum benefit.
The national goal of the Muslim Brotherhood is Islamic world domination, according to Mustafa Mashur, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, 1996-2002.
Okay, so there it is.
I mean, it's there.
We've got Mahmoud Ahmedine Zad saying, we're going to take Israel out.
We're going to destroy.
There was no Holocaust.
The 12th Imam is going to pop out of the well here, and we're going to own you.
He's saying it.
He doesn't really mean it, right?
He doesn't really mean it.
What are we supposed to believe then?
People who tell us he doesn't really mean it, what would be the wisest course here?
So here's the Muslim Brotherhood.
They really rushed.
They changed now.
They're really a democracy.
These are not really militant Islamists.
They really can't categorize them.
This is truly, truly a democracy movement.
We as conservatives must all go out and support the fine.
Okay, fine.
Well, here's their book.
It's Diane Feinstein.
We don't understand Islamists can take over Egypt.
I don't know who she's talking about because I certainly do.
All my friends know.
A bunch of football coaches I know know.
I mean, the people I know cross-section the population full well understand a militant Islamist takeover could be brewing there.
Who is she speaking for?
We don't understand.
Herself and the regime.
So liberals, folks, let me put this in perspective for you.
Here in our own country, liberals are only 30% of the population.
And look at the damage they cause every day.
The rush, but rush, the Muslim Brotherhood.
And barely 20 to 30% of the protesting group.
Yeah, the other 70% afraid to stand up to them.
Moving on down the line, ladies and gentlemen, this is from the USA Today, Richard Wolf.
Headline, White House more satisfied with progress in Egypt.
After voicing a sense of urgency and dissatisfaction during the first week of Egypt's response to democracy protesters, the regime is sounding much more positive these days.
Hillary Clinton to Vice President Biden, the administration says the transition to a new government appears to be on track.
Goody.
And then we go to the AP Associated Press.
Egypt's protesters were defiant Wednesday, this is today, after a warning from Vice President Omar Suleiman that if protesters don't enter negotiations, a coup could take place, causing even greater chaos, raising the alarm of crackdown.
Organizers of the mass demonstrations, now on their 16th day, sought to widen their uprising.
Suleiman, a military man who was intelligence chief before being elevated to VP in the middle of those crisis, has reportedly said that Egypt is not ready for democracy.
So one of the prime players here says Egypt isn't ready.
He says the culture of democracy is still far away.
He said that in a meeting last night with newspaper editors.
Democracy.
Ha!
Don't make me laugh.
He said, democracy, the culture of democracy.
Egypt's not ready for that.
Meanwhile, in the Washington Post, fair, free elections, still distant prospect for Egypt.
Remember, we've got stories today saying the regime's totally happy with the progress.
The regime's totally happy with the direction things are taking here.
As Egypt comes under pressure to hold free and fair elections, democracy activists are expressing growing doubts about whether a ballot slated for September is feasible, fearing that it could set the country's reform movement back even further.
While millions of Egyptians have taken to the streets to clamor for freedom and a removal of Mubarak, are they clamoring for freedom?
I know they want to get this.
I don't know either.
I know they want to get rid of Mubarak.
I haven't heard definitively that they're clamoring for freedom.
Not in the sense you and I mean freedom.
The country's pro-democracy forces have been so battered and marginalized by decades of repression that advocates say it would take many months, if not years, to lay the groundwork for open and credible elections.
Now, how can this be?
Because Obama said last week, we want your transformation now.
Your transformation starts now.
And Gibbs said that means yesterday.
That's when we said it.
We want it.
Now this week, they're saying, eh, eh.
Don't know we can get it done that fast.
Now the news coming out of there is, hey, democracy, yeah, not ready for it, might take years to even prepare the ballot.
Many of those urging a speedier exit for Mubarak acknowledge the country's not prepared for quick elections.
No guarantee that such a process would go smoothly anyway in a country without democratic institutions.
United States has advocated on behalf of Omar Suleiman, Egypt's longtime spy chief, who Mubarak elevated to vice president last month.
Okay, so we have now officially climbed into bed with Suleiman, who says, democracy, ha, we're not ready for democracy.
New York Times editorial, Mr. Suleiman's empty promises.
We're a long way from knowing how Egypt will turn out.
The government's using all of its power, including a promised 15% raise for federal workers try to hang on.
The opposition courageously pushing back, and on Tuesday drew thousands of supporters to Liberation Square.
The United States European Union may not have been able to wheedle or push Mubarak from power.
Still, they badly miscalculated when they endorsed Egypt's vice president, Omar Suleiman.
Oh, so the Times doesn't like the fact that we've gotten bed with Suleiman.
The Times is part of the state control media apparatus.
President Obama said the right things last week when he demanded that democratic change in Egypt start now.
Secretary of State Hillary Radam Radham's recent statements that change would take some time have taken the pressure off.
Obama needs to regain his voice and press Suleiman to either begin a serious process of reform or get out of the way.
Next, San Francisco Chronicle, AP story, U.S. tries to end conflicting messages on Egypt.
After comments by some State Department officials widely interpreted as diverging from the White House position, the White House sought to dispel any notion that it's either loosening pressure on Mubarak or backing off from supporting the protesters flooding Cairo.
This is a story about Weisner, Wisner.
He stunned everybody, go over to get rid of Mubarak.
He said, hey, the guy can't go yet.
He's too important.
White House officials frustrated with some of the news reporting on events.
The overall concern was the narrative was getting cloudy and certainly not focused on the events in Egypt.
So it's a second story about how the regime has just lost control over every facet of this story.
And don't forget Dianne Feinstein.
I don't think we understand.
This could be an Islamist takeover.
I don't think we understand.
By the way, an update from Fort Wayne, Indiana.
As you know, we told you in the first hour they wanted to rename a new government center there, the Harry Balls Center.
Then they decided not to because of the name.
A guy named Harry Balls was the four-time mayor of Fort Wayne, the 30s and the 50s.
B-A-A-L-S.
They said, we can't, we're not, we're just not going to do that.
But nevertheless, the guy was elected four times.
It's not stopping.
In the 30s and 50s, it didn't matter that a candidate was named Harry Balls.
In 2011, it matters that some government building might be named after Harry Balls.
And I got an email.
This is the update.
There is a Harry Balls drive.
In other words, they named a street after Harry Balls in Fort Wayne.
So why not a building?
Your guiding light, Rush Lindbaugh, the EIB network, I thought Obama, in part, was elected to fix the Middle East.
Don't you?
I mean, I distinctly remember that's what the Cairo speech was all about.
In fact, his strong suit was that the world was going to love us.
Because, as you know, the world hated us because of George W. Bush, because of the pictures from Abu Ghraib, from Club Gitmo, from all the torture, all the cowboy stuff.
Bush running around the world pulling a trigger, firing bullets at anybody.
If you're not with us, you're against us.
All that kind of talk.
Obama is going to restore our place in the world.
Little did we know that meant cutting America down to size.
No, America was going to be loved once again.
America was going to be respected.
The Middle East was going to end terrorism against America because Obama was president.
He bragged that his time living in Indonesia as a kid and his father's Muslim roots made him an expert in foreign policies, especially in the Middle East.
We got the Cairo speech, and we were told Obama was the architect of smart power and pushing the proper reset buttons.
Hayna had smart foreign policy.
Obama was sold to us as an expert who knew best how to handle a Middle East, especially compared to that idiot, George W. Bush and Darth Cheney.
Does it appear, ladies and gentlemen, that that happens to be in the slightest way accurate?
Seems we're in a bigger mess with a more confused message and policy than anyone can remember.
In fact, in the New York Times, allies press America to go slow on Egypt.
This story is all about how our allies don't like tossing Mubarak overboard.
And so we're not going to do it now.
Yesterday, last week, Gibbs says that transformation starts now, and now meant yesterday.
No, now we're going to have an orderly transition out there because our allies are not keen.
The idea of Saul, Obama runs out there, makes a speech, takes ownership of that mob, believes what they say.
They want to get rid of Mubarak, goes out and demands a transformation start now, then all hell breaks loose.
No, no, no.
Mr. President, we don't want to get rid of this guy right now.
He's too crucial here.
One of Obama's own State Department guys goes over there with the charge to get rid of Mubarak.
And when he gets over, you know what?
I'll bet you what this is.
This Weisner guy, however, you pronounce his name, Wisner or Weisner, this is probably one of the last few remaining adults.
And what happened was this guy knows full well what's going on over there and probably is an act of patriotism over there.
And under the guise of getting rid of Mubarak, makes a public speech saying we can't afford to get rid of him right now.
Somebody understanding that we've got a total novice running this show and that some adult's going to have to step in here at whatever cost and put the truth on the table.
To the phones we go.
People have been patiently waiting.
Andrew in Charleston, South Carolina.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Thank you so much, Rush.
I just wanted to comment on after two years of reported 10% unemployment and sort of unreported 20% unemployment, and in my workplace as a physician, we're basically at bare bones.
And I'm just curious why at this point no one is commenting on the fact that there are just no more jobs left to be lost in America.
I mean, these numbers that exist are skewed because they're just everyone I know is at bare bones.
Now, wait a minute.
What exactly do you mean when you say that there aren't any more jobs left to be lost?
In the big picture, I mean that they keep reporting these fewer numbers of people being laid off and things like that.
And I'm telling you that in my position, if we start firing people at this point, we can't run our business anymore.
And so when people report that you're going to sadly disagree with you.
And not in an argumentative way.
No, no, no.
There is an option ahead, and that is shutting down your business.
That's what people have been forced to do.
That is why we are in this position.
We have maybe, if you're right, we've reached a point where businesses are running bare bones.
They can't survive if they fire any more people.
But the option still remains to shut down.
Well, I think my patients wouldn't care for that very much.
I'm just saying the Obama administration uses that to give these optimistic numbers that they're declining layoffs when, in fact, people aren't laying anybody else off because they just maybe can't afford to.
And I also wanted to say, great shot out of the sand trap in the Bahamas, man.
That was beautiful.
Yeah, thank you for having me.
You saw that, huh?
You know, I wish what had happened on that show.
I wish what they would have shown.
That shot, that sand shot is one of the hardest in golf.
A long sand shot like that, deep in the bunker.
And there's a 35-mile-an-hour wind going from my left to right.
And immediately after I hit the shot, Haney ran into the bunker and grabbed a camera crew and explained what happened, how it happened, what was necessary to make that shot.
It would have been very instructive for people watching, but they just didn't have the time to put that in.
But I'm glad you noticed it, sir.
I appreciate that.
And we will be back.
We'll continue right after this.
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I just learned, ladies and gentlemen, the now infamous Harry Balls of Fort Wayne, Indiana had a relative.
It's a well-known lion tamer named Claude Balls.
And he does not receive, hasn't received, I'm sure you've never heard of him.
Not really a distinguished career in lion taming, but his name's now starting to surface in connection with his relative Harry Balls being denied the honor of his name being on a government building in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
All right, Jerry in Glendale, West Virginia.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
It's an honor to speak with you, Mr. Lembaugh.
Thank you, sir.
Greetings from Steeler Country.
Thank you.
I've got a question, and I don't know the answer to this, and I hope you can help me.
Yeah.
With the numbers out last week of only 36,000 jobs created, the unemployment fell from 9.4 down to 9.0.
Right.
We've got a thing going on in this country where, according to government figures, the baby boomers are retiring at an average of $10,000 a day.
At a 25-day work week or work month, that's a quarter of a million people being put off of work at their own will.
Why aren't these jobs being created?
Is that why the unemployment rate's falling, or is this being hid?
Now, wait a second here.
I want to understand your point here.
Let's run the numbers here.
You say that baby boomers are retiring an average of 10,000 a day.
That's according to government figures.
Right.
Well.
10,000 a day are taking unemployment or taking retirement.
Right.
Doesn't matter.
They're still checking out.
Yeah.
Right.
So at a 25-day work month, is that what you're saying?
That's a quarter.
So you're saying a quarter of a million people a month are leaving their jobs.
Yes.
You think those are jobs that could be filled?
Well, I'm wondering, don't get me wrong on this.
I'm just curious as to why these figures aren't in the government's numbers.
Well, I don't know.
I don't know that they would actually relate to the unemployment.
I'm not aware that there's a specific category for people who retire and how that relates to the overall job market.
The unemployment rate is calculated by the number of people looking for work up against a number that the government says is the total number of jobs available at one time in the country, which has been reduced in the last reporting period by 2.2 million.
That may be what you're talking about.
Well, then from now on, we should be looking at that same amount every month, am I right?
So your theory is we should be at full employment by the end of the year because all these baby boomers are quitting.
All these people looking for a job, their jobs are open.
I'll bet you Mr. Obama's looking for that.
Well, we'll keep a sharp eye on that.
I frankly, I didn't know the baby boomer retirement rate was 10,000 a day.
I believe that's what the government's saying.
I'm surprised there are 10,000 baby boomers actually working.
But I don't know.
It's an interesting perspective.
Jerry, and we'll look into this.
Now, that's a whole new wrinkle on this that I hadn't even calculated.
But if it's true, and if they are jobs that could be filled, people are simply quitting, you'd have to say, okay, why are they retiring?
Maybe not every job is fillable.
Maybe the jobs are being eliminated.
That's why they're retiring.
Who knows?
Attrition, there's a lot of variables in this, too.
But I wouldn't look for a rapid rise in the employment rate because of this.
No, no, no government official.
Well, don't tell me Bernanke said this or Bernanke said that.
I'm not above being sandbagged by anybody.
You got Bernanke going out there.
Everybody in the regime is saying, we're not going to get back to employment where we were 2014, 2015.
Hell, maybe 2016.
Now, what happens if there's a huge spike between now and 2012?
Makes Obama look even better.
Way ahead of expectations on employment.
What could happen to cause the spike is the numbers we're getting now aren't true.
Who knows?
We're dealing with manipulators of information.
We're dealing with people that totally control a bureaucracy.
We're dealing with people whose primary objective is getting this regime re-elected.
So, I don't know.
That just another wrinkle into this that I hadn't really even considered, only because I, ladies and gentlemen, was not aware that the baby boom retirement rate was anywhere near that high.
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Gary in Minneapolis.
Hello, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yeah, hello, Rush.
Good to talk to you again here.
Thank you very much, Harry.
It's Gary.
Gary, sorry about it.
Yes, I'm thinking of Fort Wayne.
Yeah, I know.
His parents had a great sense of humor.
Say, I'd like to comment about that pop commercial.
I'm not going to mention the name.
They don't deserve the plug.
But where the woman gets hit in the head with the can of pop at the end.
Yeah.
Okay, well, first of all, I think you're a little off on the racist.
I think there's a black on white racism there.
I think it's racism's racism.
I think it was sexist, but the thing that was really bad, in my opinion, was at the end, the black-on-white violence where the pop can hits her in the head, concussion possibly.
She falls on the ground, hits her head, maybe, concussion, possibly.
These two people sneak off.
They leave her laying there.
I just thought it was totally unacceptable.
I emailed Pepsi.
They've already got back to me.
They apologized to me.
Whatever.
You know how that goes.
They're going to tell me they're sorry no matter what.
Anyhow, I just thought you were a little wrong on that rush because it was totally unacceptable in my opinion.
All right.
But I think real people get hurt in real life from things like that.
Yeah, but you agree that it's, I mean, Sheila Jackson Lee says it's anti-black racism.
No, see, that's what I told Bo is that we both see it as race.
I see it totally different than her.
I see the white out of it.
But that's all I said was.
I do not think the way Sheila Jackson Lee, the last thing I would see in that ad is white on black racism.
No, I see black and white racism.
What racism is racism, Rush?
You've went over that enough times, and everybody agrees with that.
But the violent thing is what I didn't understand.
And Pepsi just has no, I shouldn't even mention their name.
They have no right to show that type of thing and leave her laying there.
I mean, it was just unacceptable.
I just thought that.
It probably disturbed you that a lot of people were laughing about it.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And then I go online and I see where they show these different ones, and oh, 80% of the people thought it was funny.
And I mean, it's disgusting.
It actually has no place in our society.
I don't care what this pop company thinks.
Okay, well, so let me ask you, you think there would have been outrage or laughter if a white woman threw the can at a gorgeous black woman and decked her and then left her in the park in pain, perhaps with a concussion?
You'd think there would have been.
I love you, Rush.
I expect that.
I mean, you got a sense of humor like me.
You keep me laughing.
How about I still think that that stupid polar bear commercial from Nissan this guy?
No, it's not a Super Bowl ad.
It started running during the playoffs of the NFL, but this guy is walking out of his house to get in his car.
Happens to be a new electronic Nissan Leaf.
Elsewhere in the world, a polar bear is migrating and ends up at this guy's house to give him a hug for driving this car, thereby ostensibly saving the polar bear's environment and habitat.
Now, the danger there is that if a polar bear comes up to you, don't hug the, you're going to die.
To me, it's silly.
It's based on a false premise.
And this guy hugs this polar bear.
The polar bear's all excited.
This guy's driving a little electronic car.
And that's actually dangerous.
A polar bear is nothing to mess with.
Yeah, to say the least.
You think grizzlies are bad?
Look out for the polar bears.
Because they're stupid.
They haven't the slightest idea what people are driving.
They don't even know what a car is.
They don't even know what an ice flow is.
Don't know what a glacier is.
Hell, they don't even know they're polar bears for Christ.
They don't even know that they're in water when they're in water.
Views expressed by the host on this program are the result of a daily, relentless, unstoppable pursuit of the truth.
And in that vein, let me explain to you, having now discussed this for a portion of the nearly two hours of this program today, let me explain to you the Pepsi Super Bowl commercial that we have been discussing today.
The real point of that ad, the thing to take away from that ad was that as far as Pepsi is concerned, it was brilliant.
That Pepsi ad hit the bullseye.
And what's fascinating is that Sheila Jackson Lee, a black woman, is clueless.
Now, what, if you don't know this, you have to understand that one of Pepsi's largest demographics in buying the product is black females.
Black women buy Pepsi over Coke in big numbers.
Also, one of the biggest pet peeves black women have in recent decades is black men marrying or pairing up with white women.
Just bugs them.
Particularly if they happen to be blonde.
I mean, that's lighting the fuse.
It's already a bomb there, but the white woman happens to be blonde.
Black women, that just because they're taken off the market.
That's another black guy gone from the marketplace of available men.
So the Pepsi ad has a white woman getting decked by a can of Pepsi.
Thrown by a black woman.
Home run.
If you understand the demographics here.
So that was an ad that scored big with one of Pepsi's demographics.
Now they can't come out and say this, and they have to weather all of the criticism when it's over with a smile and with clenched teeth because they know that what they did from a marketing and advertising perspective was probably a home run.
But they can't say it.
I. L. Rushbow, of course, can.
And you wait.
You just wait the outrage to this explanation of the ad that there will be.
But of course, what's new?
Also, I took advantage of the time during the break to look up this whole business of baby boomer unemployment.
And lo and behold, there's a story about it today, actually a couple days ago, February 7th, from Bloomberg.
Aging baby boomers reduce jobless rate.
Unemployment in the U.S. may fall faster than expected as baby boomers enter retirement, reducing the portion of people in the workforce.
This according to Drew Mattis, the senior U.S. economist at UBS Securities LLC, labor force participation has fallen to the lowest level since 1984, largely because older people are leaving the worker ranks.
If participation remains this low, employers need to create fewer jobs to reduce the unemployment rate currently at 9%.
There's a cyclical downturn in the labor force participation rate, but there's also a structural one related to the baby boomers that a lot of Wall Street economists are missing, Mattis said.
When you add the two up, you see this very dramatic drop in the participation rate.
It might not bounce this time around, so the unemployment rate could come down, as we were just speculating, snurdy, redounding positively to Obama simply because the number of jobs serviceable is falling as well.
No new jobs being created.
There are just fewer jobs, period.
So when the number of jobs in the universe is reduced or declines, then of course the percentage of people unemployed will also decline.
Ergo, the employment number, will appear to be going up.
Ergo, a picture of a booming economy, will thus present itself.
Right?
If we all quit our jobs, Obama's re-elected, I mean, tomorrow.
If we all just quit, look at what, I mean, look at what happens to the unemployment rate.
It'll just, it'll shrink.
That's the theory.
Now, obviously, this is kind of concocted, but you can see where this is headed.
You can see where certain analysts want this to go.
And this is Bloomberg state-controlled media.
Very simple to see.
So I'm glad this guy called.
I had not, I, well, I don't know how I missed this in the first place.
Well, a couple of days.
I know how I missed it.
I was still trying to figure out what was happening on the field of the Super Bowl.
That's why I missed it.
But better late than never.
Thanks to Gary.
Yeah, no, no.
Whoever the guy called was.
That was a good catch.
Okay, a quick timeout here.
Sit tight, my friends.
Much more broadcast excellence returns before you know it.
Every time I see a story on Obamacare, I still marvel at the fact we're talking about something that has been voided.
It's unconstitutional.
Republicans in the House are likely to vote to block funding for Obama's unconstitutional health care overhaul when they take up the budget plan next week.
This is from the Republican leader Eric Cantor.
He said, I expect to see one way or other, the product coming out of the House to speak to that and to preclude any funding to be used for Obamacare.
Well, that's fine.
Go for it.
Defund it, just like the Vietnam War.
That's cool.
But let's not forget we're talking about something that has just been said to be unconstitutional.
It's been voided.
It is not the law of the land.
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