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Feb. 15, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 15, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I'm Rush Limboy, and this the EIB network.
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When was it, Snerdly, that I first incorporated the phrase state-controlled state-run media on this program?
It was shortly after Obama was immaculated, correct?
Is even before uh the regime was immaculated.
All right, so it's it was with Obama.
It's it has to be uh Yeah, it was drive-by media.
It was drive-by media, but we we uh at some point it was either just prior to the immaculation or just after we incorporated the term state-controlled media, which as much of this program is a cutting edge of societal evolution stuff.
Well, guess what?
ABC News.
Devon Dwyer, as the 2012 presidential campaign kicks into gear, Obama's White House media operation is demonstrating an unprecedented ability to broadcast its message through social media and the internet, at times doing an end run around the traditional press.
The headline for ABC's story is Obama Media Machine, State Run Media 2.0.
Once again, ladies and gentlemen.
It was IL Rush.
In fact, um we we have a soundbite from 2009, June the first, uh, just to demonstrate how far ahead of the curve I am and you are, if you listen to this program.
We have to deal with rising health care costs.
Take it back.
I gave it to you the soundbite number.
Grab number 21.
It's hard for people to keep up with me when I don't tell them where I'm going.
This program is improv.
I didn't tell the broadcast engineer where I was going, because I didn't know.
Everybody, I mean, it's it's just it's amazing.
I've been meeting a lot of people lately doing the Haney Project, and they asked me how you do the show.
I said, it's all improv.
I don't even know when the program starts when I'm really gonna start with a start.
And they can't comprehend it.
People who schedule everything they do down to the second can't relate to improv.
And see, here, I didn't even tell the engineer.
I said, okay, stand by sound by three.
That's what he played, except I forgot to tell him I wasn't talking about sound by three.
Here it did Sound by 21.
This is me, January or June 1st of 2009.
Remember now, we're talking with I think all but official state-controlled media.
Call it state-controlled, call it state run.
The media here is no different than the media Hugo Chavez has.
So forget drive-by media.
Forget mainstream media.
It is now state-controlled media.
By their choice.
The media is choosing to be controlled by the state, regardless how it happened.
It's state-run media.
So June 1st, 2009, and here we have ABC News on their political blog, Obama's Media Machine, State Run Media 2.0.
State run media now, and ABC not happy about it.
They don't get the fact that they are the state-run media.
They're upset that Obama has his own social media operation inside the White House, the Facebooks, the My Butts, the Twitters and all that, which really I mean, if it the media thought the internet was a problem for them.
They never saw Facebook, My But uh, Twitter and all this stuff coming.
I mean, newsmakers go tweet now.
They don't even need a reporter to get the message out.
I referenced this in the opening of the program.
How Obama lost the Egyptian people.
In the Washington Post.
Mark Thiessen story appears today.
Does the headline kind of make scratch your head?
What do you mean how Obama lost Egyptian people?
Hasn't the template been Obama?
Obama inspired the Egyptian people.
Obama, he stalked them.
He fired them up.
Obama.
Obama gave them the keys to that revolution.
Porn policy victory for Obama.
The extraordinary scenes in Cairo this past weekend brought back memories of similar scenes on the streets of Warsaw, Prague, and Berlin twenty years ago.
Yet there is one crucial difference between then and now.
Unlike the crowds that brought down Marxist regimes in Central Europe, the crowds that brought down the Mubarak regime in Egypt do not believe America stood with them in their struggle for freedom, and many believe we stood against them.
When the protests first erupted, this puts into perspective even better.
Oh, buddy Nick Robertson from CNN yesterday.
When the protests first erupted, ordinary Egyptians appeared to hope, almost to expect, that once they rose up to demand their freedom, America could not help but stand with them.
Instead, they heard Obama's handpicked envoy Frank Wisner declare that Mubarak must stay in office to oversee the changes he had ordered.
They heard Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declare that the United States backed off the transition process announced by the Egyptian government, which then consisted of Mubarak staying in power till September.
And they waited in vain for Obama himself to speak out clearly and align America with the Democrat revolution they had set in motion.
Soon their hopes gave way to disappointment and eventually anger.
Demonstrators began carrying signs that declared, shame on you, Obama, and showed Mubarak depicted as Obama in his iconic hope image with a caption that read, No, you can't.
Now let me ask you.
We didn't see any of this.
I was just going to ask you if you saw any of this.
Did you see that sign?
Did you CNN show us that sign?
Anybody else?
No, you can't.
Well, it all comes into perspective now.
Remember these great sound bites we had from Nick Robertson yesterday at CNN.
He's out amongst the protesters, the revolutionaries in Egypt.
What do you think of Obama?
What is your message for Obama?
And each answer was Obama, he wasn't with us.
Obama, well, he's been all over the ballpark.
Obama, we got no message for Obama.
And after hearing that, Nick Robertson says, as I can assure your clearly heard the protesters are very supportive of having Obama on their side.
It was, it was, if I hadn't told you it was real, I would not have blamed you had you thought that was a Saturday Night Live skit.
Not only did Obama not speak up for the protesters in 2009, at the very same time he was delivering his Cairo address calling for greater democracy in the Middle East, his administration cut pro-democracy funding for Egypt in half.
Worse, in an effort to appease Mubarak, Obama agreed that the remaining money would be channeled only to groups approved by the government, effectively giving Mubarak a veto over which organizations received American financial support.
This means that Obama cut off U.S. support for the very independent pro-democracy groups that sparked the Egyptian protests, toppled the Mubarak regime, and may end up leading to a new Egyptian government.
On Friday, following Mubarak's resignation, Obama finally gave yet another eloquent speech, celebrating the moral force of the demonstrators who had bent the arc of history toward justice, quote-unquote.
Those beautiful words fell on deaf ears in Cairo.
Indeed, the protesters had anticipated Obama's belated praise.
As one opposition leader put it, before Mubarak's fall, the Americans are just waiting to see which side wins, and then they'll claim to have backed them all along.
Well, well, these people in Egypt have Obama's number better than the drive-bys and the Democrats do.
The protesters in Egypt knew Obama were just sitting around waiting to see what happened, and we told you.
The reason for all those disjointed speeches was so at the end of all this, Obama could go back and say, See, I told you.
I foretold this outcome.
I inspired this outcome.
Mubarak has to stay till September.
Mubarak has to go now.
They asked Gibbs wins now.
Now means yesterday.
Then Gibbs said, but what they do is up to them.
It was clear maneuvering.
And the Egyptian protesters got it.
In fact, Mr. Thiessen says the revisionism has already begun.
A front page story in Sunday's Nueva Ork Times reported, quote, Mr. Obama was furious when he heard the statements by Wisner and Clinton and immediately deployed Senator John Kerry, who once served in Vietnam to counter them on a Sunday talk show.
Though the story later reveals that Obama was not furious about the substance of his visor's comments, only that saying so openly would reveal the United States was not in total sync with the protesters and was indeed putting its strategic interests first.
So what this story is saying is that we we know that Wisner was going out saying Mubarak has to stay.
They sent Wisner over there to nudge him out.
And Wisner gets over there and says Mubarak has to say till September, then Hillary gets in to try to clean up that mess.
Obama doesn't like the fact that there are two or three different messages being sent, so of all people he calls Lurch.
He calls John Kerry, who served in Vietnam to go on the Sunday shows to have Kerry say that Obama was furious about what his advisors were saying.
But he wasn't furious about what they were saying.
He was only furious that having the disparity in comments be public would reveal that the U.S. was not in total sync with the protesters.
So Obama was intent on the people in the street thinking he was with them all the way, that he was inspiring them, he was behind it.
He was in fact nudging things behind the scenes in their interests.
And then his own regime sends a couple people out there to contradict that, so he has to go get Kerry go on Sunday TV to try to clean up the mess, because he didn't care what was said, he cared about the result.
Made it look like he was unable to claim credit for any of this.
Fortunately, uh Obama, Mr. Thiessen says now has a chance to make it up to the Egyptian people.
While Mubarak has fallen, Egypt's democratic revolution is only begun.
The Egyptian military has taken full control of the country.
It's promised to govern only for six months and to guarantee the peaceful transition of power within the framework of a free democratic system that allows an elected civilian power to rule a country, but the military has a vested interest in preserving as much of the status quo as possible, and it'll test Obama in the period ahead to see how much autocracy he's willing to tolerate in the name of stability.
At any rate, the Washington Post reports that it was an absolute debacle for Obama.
Well, Mark Thiessen is a columnist reporting that it was an absolute debacle.
And the Washington Post different story.
As Egypt uprising inspires Middle East, Iran sees biggest protests in a year.
The Iranian protesters are shouting death to the dictator.
Now, where's Biden on this?
Biden's all over the place about Mubarak being a dictator.
Hey Joe, is Mahmoud Ahmadinizad a dictator.
In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton raised the Iranian demonstrators or praised him, saying the White House officials very clearly and directly support.
Oh, they do.
Let's go back.
Hang on, let me find the audio sound right.
Let's go to number 25.
That's Obama this morning.
This is the Washington Post today.
Here's the paragraph.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised the Iranian demonstrators, saying White House officials very clearly and directly support the aspirations of the protesters.
She also accused the Tehran government of hypocrisy for claiming to support pro-democracy demonstrators in Egypt while squelching dissent at home.
Okay.
Clinton's comments appealed to appeared to signal a Shift in tone by a regime that previously refrained from directly endorsing the Iranian opposition.
Okay, so here we the Washington Post Hillary, all four.
The protest in Iran, White House officials very clearly directly support the aspirations of the protesters.
Earlier today, Obama asked about the protesters in Iran.
On Iran.
We were clear then and we are clear now that what has been true in Egypt is should be true in Iran, which is that people should be able to express their opinions and their grievances and seek a more responsive government.
What's been different is the Iranian government's response, which is to shoot people and beat people and arrest people.
America cannot ultimately uh dictate what happens inside of Iran any more than it could inside of Egypt.
Ultimately, these are sovereign countries that are gonna have to make their own decisions.
Okay, so we support the aspirations of the protesters, but if Iran's gonna keep shooting them, that's gonna happen.
Uh it's it's up to them.
They want to shoot and beat their protesters.
Why that's up to them.
We we can't dictate anything, just like we didn't and couldn't inside of Egypt.
Yet they tried to claim credit for everything that happened in Egypt.
Be right back.
I uh want to thank all of you on hold on the phones for your patience.
And we go to your calls now.
Starting in my not, North Dakota.
Hi, Jeff.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
I got to drop you real quick.
Hello?
Yeah, hi.
Hi.
Um let's move on.
I don't know what's going on there, but we're uh Jose in Miami.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Hello, Rush.
It's a privilege to speak to you.
I I just wanted to uh uh mention or just bring up the issue of the uh the moratorium in the Gulf.
Uh as I understand that the court in Louisiana held the uh the administration in contempt of court for I guess uh keeping the uh the moratorium in place.
Uh what's happened with that?
Why are we not drilling?
Uh you you're right, the government has been held in contempt, but they don't care.
It's like the health care law is unconstitutional.
They don't care.
They're still implementing it.
And yet you refer to this regime as lawless, and media analysts go absolutely blankers.
Let's go.
The New York Times uh very happy, by the way, in this story, this December 1st of 2010.
Headline U.S. Halt's plan to drill an eastern Gulf.
The Obama regime announced on Wednesday it had rescinded its decision to expand offshore oil exploration into the eastern Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic coast because of weakness in federal regulation revealed by the BP oil spill.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said that a moratorium on drilling would be in force in those areas for at least seven years until stronger safety and environmental standards were in place.
The move puts off limits millions of acres of the outer continental shelf that hold potentially billions of barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas.
The uh decision essentially reverses the much disputed drilling plan announced in March, which would have initiated environmental studies and exploration activity.
So the uh the the moratorium is uh has been declared what unconstitutional what the the the federal judges found them in contempt, and yet they continue.
Because you see, oil is an energy source of the past.
That's uh I I I don't know what to tell you.
I I don't I don't know.
I don't know what's being done legally to get the regime to fall in line, but they're in contempt.
Unlike the the the health care judge, Judge Vinson said that his law or his ruling was in effect an injunction.
He did not issue a separate injunction because he said he didn't think he had to.
He thought the regime would abide by his ruling, his ruling being the law.
They're not abiding by it.
But in the drilling moratorium, there was actually an injunction against the regime, which they are ignoring, which is why they have been found in contempt.
Uh Randy and Syracuse.
Hello, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello, Rush.
I want to thank you.
You are a daily source of inspiration to myself and my friends here in the frozen area of Central New York.
Thank you very much, sir.
I truly appreciate that.
Um my comment is the following.
Uh, within the past week there's been a push by the local radio and TV stations here to uh keep the Republicans in Congress from defunding NPR and PDF.
I'd like to know how you feel about it.
And I'd also like to know if maybe the EIB network should put in for a grant from the government just in sake of fair for the sake of fairness.
Here's the difference.
I wouldn't want a grant.
The difference is I would not want a grant, and I wouldn't want whatever level of accountability or involvement from the government came with it.
Let's be honest.
PBS, NPR, what have you.
The truth of the matter is that if any of these liberal networks could make it in the free market, they wouldn't need these subsidies.
They wouldn't need to be part of a federal corporation of public broadcasting.
Yet they can't make it in the free market, at least not on the radio side.
So they need these subsidies and they need all the assistance they they they if if they had to get by with market support, i.e.
uh.
support, uh, well, I think even they realize they can't.
They don't want to go that way.
And there is this presumption that they are unique and special and the cut above.
They're elites.
And uh as such, their voices need to be heard.
Uh and that's perfectly natural a government would uh would subsidize them.
The amount of money saved by cutting these people is not that much money, it's a principal thing that the government has no business subsidizing one particular point of view over another, but they are with MPR and the CPB.
Okay, folks, we found that picture.
We found the picture referred to in Mark Thiessen's piece in the Washington Post.
The um the protest signs among the crowd in Egypt mocking Obama, a picture of Hasni Mubarak and the Obama peace uh uh drawing artwork with the phrase, no, you can't, mocking Obama's yes we can, these signs being carried by protesters, and we weren't shown these.
I have the picture.
And uh just sent it up to Coco at the website.
He's gonna post it up there pretty soon.
Well, I have it here for those of you watching on the Ditto Cam.
The reason I haven't turned it on yet is because I've had to focus the demo the ditto can tight uh during the break, so that when I turn it on, you will see the picture.
Are you ready for you ditto cameras?
Here you go.
There it is.
That is the picture of protesters in Egypt.
That is the sign, these signs being referred to by Mark Thiessen, mocking Obama and Mubarak.
No, you can't.
This, of course, taking place during the protest during the revolution during a period of time we were told Obama was inspiring these people.
That Obama was behind this, that Obama was all for these people.
Obama was sending messages that these were the people uh acting in his image, and he wouldn't went out and made a speech that made it sound like this was an extension of his own campaign.
So there you have it.
No, we can't.
If you're not watching on the Ditto Cam uh, ladies and gentlemen, Rush Limbaugh.com will soon have uh that picture posted, and you'll be able, you'll check it out yourself.
I'm not backing off the Zoom on the Ditto Cam, I've done that, turn it back on.
What?
Journalistic malpractice that uh our media didn't show us any of this.
Well, it may be malpractice and nothing new.
Look at as we demonstrated yesterday.
Maybe I ought to go back, cookie, grab me the Nick Robertson bites from yesterday.
I mean, it's silly for me to keep here talking about them and people not knowing what I'm talking about if they didn't hear it yesterday.
Nick Robertson CNN piece yesterday is the greatest illustration of what the role of the media was in the Egyptian revolution.
It was all about Obama.
And so when you see this picture, and apparently there were thousands of people carrying these pictures, and we purposely were not shown these pictures of Obama being mocked, made fun of.
Journalistic malpractice?
No, it was simply this picture didn't fit the narrative.
The narrative was Obama, the great and merciful, inspiring a Democrat revolution by virtue of his Cairo speech and his basic presence, the fact that he's on the scene.
If that Cairo speech was so good, why didn't he go to Tehran and make another one now and inspire those people?
From the Los Angeles Times, new breed of Islamists emerges in Egypt.
They are deeply pious, but they want to work with secularists, and they may or may not be members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
This is Ned Parker of the LA Times.
A whole new breed of Islamists.
Hey, these are good guys.
You know what?
I mean, this is a new Muslim Brotherhood out there.
Meet Mo and Ahmed.
New generation of Islamists.
Mohammed Sharaf Eldin and Ahmed Usama joined the Muslim Brotherhood as young men in the belief the organization's vision of political Islam was the way forward for Egypt.
They believe in working with secular parties.
They both talk of a need for compromise in politics.
Wow.
This is exactly the kind of lingo the American media wants to use for us.
Bipartisanship.
Did you know that, folks?
Did you know?
Did you know that the Muslim Brotherhood was bipartisan?
They believe in bipartisanism.
It's a beautiful thing.
I think it's it's just white doves flying all over Cairo now.
The Muslim Brotherhood believes in bipartisanism.
Oh, it's just it stops my heart.
It shows us what's possible even in the United States if we just work hard enough at it.
Who's n Islamic well they're willing to be bipartisan about the Islamic State?
I that's what the LA Times story is.
They'll align with non-secularists and so forth.
Yeah, they're cool.
Bipartisans.
Makes them better than Republicans, don't you see?
Makes them far more reasonable than Republicans.
Who don't believe in bipartisanship?
Don't you see?
That's the You gotta know how to read these people.
Who's next?
Joe in Fairfax, Virginia.
Hi.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Thanks, Ross.
It's one thing I always like about you.
You're always kind of a nice guy, as wrong as you are.
You started out your show today talking about uh about the failed progressivism and Obama.
And I want to know what you're thinking, man.
I mean, we had eight years of George Bush.
He started out with a balanced budget.
He gave us huge tax cuts.
And over his eight years.
Well, we had the lowest job growth of any eight-year president ever.
In fact, the eight year the job growth over those eight years was uh generally worse than most four-year presidents.
Where are you reading that?
Uh I'm not reading it, it's just a fact.
But it's because no, it's not a fact, which is why I'm wondering where you're reading it.
Over eight years, three million jobs were created on this point.
Oh 3.2 million.
How is it then that the unemployment rate was 4.7%?
You know, we came out of this, we had a double dip though.
We had a recession and we had 9-11, and we had a huge economic rebound coming out of both of those things, and eventually we got the unemployment rate down to 4.7%.
Now, how did that happen?
But I see on your ditto, Cam, you can Google the same things I can Google.
All I know is that he was the worst job creating president ever.
Well, Google is an arm in the government.
Google is an arm of the regime.
I mean, you you put in the word stupidity, the first search results, Bush.
Well, I mean, it's a that the you can you've got to be more open-minded to this.
What you're uh the question I asked was for those of you, what what's Obama done for you?
I mean let's see if we can find anything we can agree on.
Do you agree that Bush's term was bookended by Enron in the financial collapse of Ferris Erns and uh Lehman brothers, that he entered office with a surplus and he left office with the first trillion dollar deficit this country's ever known?
Uh I will I I will stipulate that there was way too much spending in the Bush years, and there had and that but but has been dwarfed by what's happened since the Democrats took over Congress in 2007.
Your book end analogy, and the the Enron business, what we've got going on with the federal government right now dwarfs the corruption with Enron for crying out loud.
But that doesn't I agree.
What's going on on Wall Street now is just inexcusable, and I think Geithner and Obama have really dropped the ball in terms of putting people in jail that need to go to jail for that instead of Why?
Why do people wall street need to go to host defending their bonuses?
Why do people in Wall Street need to go to jail?
Bonuses, did you say?
I I said instead of putting people in jail for the crimes they committed, we've got right-wing talk so hosts defending the bonus.
All right, what you want to be contentious for no reason.
Go ahead.
We're trying to have a bipartisanship conversation here with you, and yet you have to be provocative here with we actually don't.
I'm just asking you a question.
Why should they go to jail?
What did they do that warrants jail time?
All the uh phony uh mortgages they committed, sorting one end of a deal while selling it along to people and not disclosing their own position.
See what we have here is you have we have two entirely different belief systems.
See, I I have a belief system oriented on where the subprime mortgage problem began, whose idea it was, and it's um it's just it's ill-designed purpose.
Yeah, I think.
You think you think Wall Street created the subprime mortgage and the subprime mortgage mess.
I don't.
Well, I can kind of prove you're wrong there, too, Ross.
I I mean the subprime mortgage mess wasn't created by a bunch of black people enjoying the benefits of the commun community reinvestment act.
If you look at where where the foreclosures are, they're in Nevada, Arizona, and Florida.
You don't see large numbers of minority populations buying million dollar homes in those.
You know, you you again, you're you're you're you're selective here in your application of fact and history.
The Community Redevelopment Act is clearly a guilty party, and it was first created by Jimmy Carter.
It was expanded upon by Bill Clinton, and it was defined by no less than Barney Frank as affordable housing.
We have to give people who can't afford to pay back loans loans.
We have to give them money, it's only fair.
The lending institutions don't know what the law actually says is that you can't discriminate against qualified buyers.
Right, well that's black neighborhoods.
That's the sales technique.
The purpose was to put people in houses who couldn't afford them.
And this was done by government coercion.
Janet Reno was threatening banks who would not make these loans with federal investigation and so forth.
The bankers had to go out and make these loans.
They had to bring these people in, and then they had to go about a creative way of trying to make what was worthless paper worth something.
So they started creating all these new products called derivatives and all these insurance packages designed to help them kick the can down the road so that at some point somebody would not go totally bust implementing absolutely impossible business practices forced upon them by a left-wing government and thinking.
And it's the subprime mess is the foundation and the root of the economic malaise that we're in today.
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mack.
Now, you if you want to blame this on Bush, you are more than entitled to try.
But it was the Bush administration that attempted to get regulators in there to stop this, and I could play you audio soundbite of Maxine Waters and Barney Frank threatening these regulators and accusing them of all kinds of political bias and racism and everything else.
This is a this is uh it was it's it's a travesty here, and it was pure liberalism and the liberal kind of thinking that created the mess.
Now uh I don't think Bush did enough to stop this.
The Republicans in Congress tried to stop it, they got they got shouted down because anybody starts calling you a racist, or anybody starts telling you you want to starve kids, or that you want people to l it's like in Australia now, the news is Republicans kicking big bird to the curb.
With the threat of, you know, defunding the CPB, the corporation of public broad big birds of freaking puppet for crying out loud.
But all of a sudden now, the children will lose big bird if Republicans, those mean, dirty, rotten SOBs get their way on budget cuts and so forth.
Uh nobody is blameless in uh in in any of this, but the fault lies in the creation of this very concept uh which has its roots in liberalism, which is unworkable.
Affordable housing, put people in houses that can't afford because it's discriminatory, it's not fair that people uh don't see my problem is I live in Littleville.
I I have a reality-based belief system, and and you you have a fantasy-based relief belief system uh based on whatever I mean you've you called here a lot of animosity, a lot of contentiousness here today.
You know, I ask, what's Obama ever done?
What have you gotten?
And what do you do but start attacking Bush and me rather than trying to answer the question?
Because you can't answer what Obama's done for you.
It's typical.
Okay, we got Nick Robertson here, folks.
If you haven't heard Nick Robertson CNN, you gotta hear this.
It puts everything in perspective.
We just showed you the picture.
No, we can't, or no, he can't, making fun of Obama.
Egyptian revolutionaries making fun of Obama with a Mubarak picture, Obama eyes with the various colors, and so you've seen the famous Obama Hope and Change poster.
It's very clear here that the uh revolutionaries have no real love for Obama.
Don't consider him to be relevant at all in what happened.
But the mission of the state-controlled media here was to position it so that Obama was solely responsible for what happened.
And that the protesters all loved Obama.
So Nick Robertson of CNN heads out amongst the protesters last Friday afternoon on CNN's newsroom to ask them what they think of Obama.
The first protester he approaches is named Ahmed.
Achmed, you've been here down on the square for many days.
United States and international community have just listened to President Obama say that America will support Egypt if it wants help and assistance, and hopes that there'll be a good transition for jobs for the young people.
What would your message be for President Obama?
We don't know actually who he supports.
He uh his own purpose and the people seeks for our freedom and democracy.
Any democracy country should see for the people not to Ahmed there has Obama dialed in.
Any democratic country should see for the people, not for its own purposes, and they clearly see that Obama was trying to use them.
But there's old Nick Robertson out there.
Now these people think they have just won their freedom.
They just got rid in their mind, they just got rid of a 30-year dictator.
And here comes a CNN reporter asking them what they think of wait for it, Obama.
Nick Robertson wasn't finished.
He stuck to it.
He found Mustafa.
Mustafa's joining me now.
We just had President Obama say that he wants to extend support to the Christians to Egypt.
What is your message for President Obama?
Well, my message for Britain Obama is just we started this revolution without any outside help.
And we are going to finish it also without any outside help.
Translation Who?
We didn't need Obama.
We started it without him.
We're going to finish it without him.
What are you asking me about Obama for?
So Nick Robertson still hanging in there with Mustafa, giving it the old college tribe.
Are you pleased that President Obama has come out, however, now and said he supports this change and supports the people who supports the young people and what they've done?
Well, actually, Brendan Obama views were kind of conflicting during the last week.
But now he's saying that he's supporting the change.
Poor old Nick.
He's got his marching orders.
Nick, you gotta go out there and you gotta find people who love Obama.
Now, this is like a lawyer who grants somebody immunity before he knows what they're gonna say.
Nick should have found these guys before putting them on camera.
But he was so convinced that the crowd loved Obama, he just had to grab a couple.
So it didn't go right with Ahmed, but there's Mustafa.
So I'll go ask Mustafa.
Mustafa doesn't play ball at first, but but certainly you can you can you could agree here that uh you just heard Obama say that you just did you pleased and so forth.
He wasn't here, he's not here.
So you just heard it.
Both Achmed and Mustafa basically told Nick Robertson, what are you saying, pal?
Obama had nothing to do with this.
He was all over the ballpark.
Where we don't care about Obama.
Nick Robertson and his wrap-up from amidst the revolution in Egypt.
The view from here is one.
I'm very happy to now to hear that President Obama has swung behind the people.
I mean, how do you do this?
The view here.
The view from here is one of very happy to now hear that Obama has swung behind the people.
I don't know.
Is it just me?
This this is this may be in all my 23 years.
This this may be in the top five.
Uh illustrations of who the media are, how the last thing they do is news.
Uh, how they have an agenda, that they're gonna get it done no matter what.
And even in the face of the audience hearing, that neither Ahmed ou Mustafa said anything Nick Robertson wanted to hear.
He still knows that CNN's audience is stupid enough that despite hearing from Ahmed and Mustafa they don't care about Obama, Nick Roberts can say, see, you just heard him, you just heard him say they're deliriously happy that Obama has swung behind the people.
I love it.
I love it.
Do do do do do do do do do do do do do.
George W. Bush called for reform of the subprime mortgage crisis 17 times in 2008 alone.
Called for reform of these uh government-sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac, 17 times in 2008.
His father, George H. W. Bush, will soon be awarded a medal of freedom by President Obama.
Imagine how tough that's gonna be because Obama's in this mess because his kid, Bush 43, left him all this mess.
He's gotta give his dad the Medal of Freedom award.
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