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March 17, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 17, 2011, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Hiya folks, greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, and uh conversationalists all across the uh the wonderful fruited plane, L Rushbull here already Thursday, fastest week in media.
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I see Obama.
Obama.
It's uh St. Patrick's Day.
Obama says he's gonna visit uh just announced he's gonna visit Ireland in May.
He's got to cut back in this rigorous schedule.
The president's pushing himself too hard.
Working too much.
After a weekend in Rio, he's gonna go to Ireland in May.
We have, ladies and gentlemen, another suspension of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Washington Post, this time for plagiarism.
Washington Post suspended one of its most seasoned reporters after editors determined that substantial parts of two recent news articles were taken without attribution from another newspaper.
Sorry Horwitz, a longtime post investigative reporter, suspended for three months for plagiarizing sections of stories that first appeared in the Arizona Republic.
Stories concern the investigation of and legal proceedings for Jared Lochner, the Arizona man accused of shooting Representative Gabriel Gifford's.
Some news organizations, including the Post have fired reporters for plagiarism.
Nowadays, editors try to look at the full context of what happened and why it happened.
Well, the full context means do we really value this reporterette?
Obviously, previous reporters caught plagiarizing weren't that valuable the first place.
They were just canned.
But for some reason, sorry, Horwitz is considered valuable in the Washington Post.
So that's the context that editors are looking at now.
Uh the full context of what happened and why it happened.
She basically stole.
That's what plagiarism is for those of you in uh in Rio.
Linda Horwitz joined the post in 1984.
There could be a reason why they are only suspending her.
84.
I mean, he's been there a lot of years.
That's quite a healthy payout.
She's one of the uh newspaper's most decorated plagiarists.
She was awarded a uh Pulitzer Prize with her colleague Scott Hyam in 2002 for a series about the deaths of foster children under the care of DC's child welfare agency.
Isn't everything she's done now suspect, though?
You know, in their in their original report, the Washington Post didn't even mention her name.
They just said they had suspended a reporter for uh for plagiarism.
Plagiarism, Mrs. Clinton is in the news.
Remember, I ended the program yesterday with a series of questions and answers that she engaged in with Wolf Blitzer at CNN.
We have the audio of that coming up.
But there's a story here from The Daily, which is the new iPad newspaper produced jointly by uh by uh the News Corp and uh and uh Apple.
It's by Joshua Hirsch.
Oh, Hill, no.
Obama's indecision on Libya has pushed Clinton over the edge.
Fed up with a president who can't make up his mind on a Libyan rebels, or as Libyan rebels are on the brink of defeat.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looking to the exits at the tail end of her mission to bolster the Libyan opposition, which we had the news yesterday that they dissed her.
They had that the Libyan opposition wanted nothing to do with her.
She shows up and tries to make it out like the regime and Obama have been supporting them.
At the tail end of her mission, which has suffered days of losses due to Qaddafi's forces.
Clinton announced that she's done with Obama after 2012.
Even if he wins again.
A Clinton insider told the daily, obviously she's not Happy with dealing with a president who can't decide if today's Tuesday or Wednesday, who can't make up his mind.
She's exhausted and she's tired.
Yep, you can tell.
You seen the pictures, folks.
It's not pretty.
Well, it is what it is.
You can frown at me all you want, Dawn, but the facts are the facts.
I mean you look at the picture, you know something's uh well, we're not looking at Nirvana there.
That is for sure.
The um that's right, staff wanting to get me in trouble within the first ten minutes of the program.
I got some staffer whispering to me, imagine what the picture would look like if she were president.
See, they want me to say this stuff.
They would love to say it themselves, but they can't.
They don't have microphones.
So they whispered in my ear, secretly hoping that I will say it.
I know, I know.
It was an astute observation.
I was the groundbreaker on that.
Do yeah, we don't need to rehash it.
I did take all the arrows.
Well, I always do take all the arrows.
Guess who's joined the birther movement?
Trump.
The Donald.
Not officially joined the birther movement, but he's saying, you know, I we don't know anything about this guy.
If I run for president, you're gonna you're gonna be hearing from everybody I went to kindergarten with.
Media hadn't found one person that knows this guy from anywhere outside of Harvard.
We got the audio sound bites coming up.
Here's Mrs. Clinton.
This is situation of Wolf Blitzer last night.
He said, Let's talk about Libya.
Looks like Qaddafi has won.
No, I would not accept that promise.
He's moving ahead and he's beginning to go directly towards the rebels in Benghazi.
Yes, that is true.
He is uh moving ahead, and so is the international community.
Sounds like it's gonna be too little too late.
Well, I'm not prepared to accept that.
She's not happy, folks.
She doesn't dig it.
She's been sent on a mission to nowhere.
She doesn't really know what the regime's opinion of all this is.
All she knows is she's working for a guy who won't make a decision about it.
For whatever reason, who's gallivanting all over the place.
So Blitzer then says if the president is re-elected, do you want to serve a second term as Secretary of State?
No.
Would you like to serve a Secretary of Defense?
No.
Would you like to be vice president of the United States?
No.
Would you like to be president of the United States?
No.
No.
I mean no pauses, no equivocations, nothing.
No, no, no, no.
Also, also, uh no, she'd been there done that.
She did if you mean if he asked her, would you stay married?
Oh, she's yeah, that would be a yes.
Been there done that, snurtly.
No, you gotta get out of dreamland on that.
Oh, speaking of that, did you see Clinton is moving the orifice?
Here's the Clinton's office is up in Harlem at 155th Street and something or other.
And he's moving the Clinton Foundation offices down to Wall Street, Water Street, I think is where he's going.
He's gonna maintain his presidential, his ex-presidential office in Harlem, but the big stuff is leaving.
Now the original story on this is you know presidents, ex-presidents are given a budget to set up their post-presidential office.
And Clinton chose prime real estate 6th Avenue, Fifth Avenue, somewhere in Midtown Manhattan, and it was rejected because it was too pricey.
So Clinton then said, Well, you know, I'm I'm gonna take my office up in Harlem.
Well, what better way to continue the illusion here?
I've the first black president, so I'll open my office up in Harlem.
And all these guys up in Harlem, oh, they couldn't have been happier.
Now they look across the street and they're boarded up shops, empty stores, and Clinton is leaving.
Heading down to uh where the action is.
Down on uh down Wall Street.
We ought audio sound bites on this.
Coming yep, it's gonna cost less.
It's going to save money.
It's gonna cut down on expenses.
I don't know.
Does anybody think Clinton's paying his own expenses on anything anyway?
Uh but I I don't um I know if you couple this, Clinton leaving Harlem going down to Wall Street, Hillary, who is famous.
She went to Selma when Obama was in Solomon, everybody was in Selma and uh uh a couple years ago.
I ain't no way ti.
She is no ways tired now.
You can hear it, you can see it.
She making no bones about it.
But apparently the rent is cheaper in the financial district than Harlem.
Everybody knows that.
Well, that's the story, Snerdley.
That's that's what I'm hearing.
The rent down there is cheaper than it is in Harlem.
Uh well, 125th, is it 125th or 150th?
I thought it was 155th.
Well, whatever.
From the Associated Press, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged it today to help Tunisia create jobs and undertake reforms to keep the momentum behind a revolution overthrew its president two months ago.
The new government officials and other Tunisians understand, quote, we need a plan for economic development for jobs, Clinton told reporters during a tour of the Tunisian Red Crescent offices.
Yeah.
There's going to be a donors' conference that'll be held in some months.
I'm going to be sending a delegation from the United States.
Hey, we have a lot of unemployed people here who could go there.
Somebody in this regime's actually setting up a jobs program somewhere.
It's in Tunisia, though.
Mrs. Clinton as an emissary for Obama, setting up a jobs program in Tunisia.
Where's the jobs program here?
Mrs. Clinton said we want to know what Tunisia wants.
We don't want to come in here and say, here's what the United States believes.
No, no, we can't possibly go anywhere and say this is what we believe.
That woman from the Washington Post, uh, sorry, Horwitz, she's out of work.
She could go.
Maybe work for Al Jazeera.
You know, all you gotta do, all you gotta do is plant the CNN icon on the Al Jazeera newsfeed.
There's not much difference.
Welcome back.
All week long we have been discussing Sarah Palin, why the conservative intelligentsia doesn't like her, why they don't think she has the smarts, the heft, or what have you.
And I've been checking my emails all week long, and I have to be honest with you.
I am getting a tremendous amount of email from women who despise Sarah Palin.
I mean, and the reasons run the gamut.
Uh it's like Dawn, she's got so many kids she ought to be staying at home, has no business doing that.
Working running for president.
Be a mother first.
Others say that she's embarrassing for women.
I mean, it's just the I mean, folks, I've always known.
I've always known that.
Here's the best way to express this.
You're walking down the street, and you look across the street, and there's this woman you find attractive.
She goes, whoa, wow.
What you don't see is other women walking down the street, also noticing the beautiful woman shooting her daggers.
How dare she wear a skirt that short?
Who does she think she is?
I mean, we don't see it because we're too occupied ourselves.
But I'm telling you, the long knives are out here.
And it's from uh women emailing me, identifying themselves as conservatives.
And as I say, the reasons are on the gamut.
Now, it's it's it's really getting ridiculous.
They're pulling out all of stops public policy polling, which is a liberal polling group out of North Carolina, has polled Sarah Palin with independence against Charlie Sheen.
And they claim that the independence.
You people who are independents, uh, you may not like this, but you prefer Charlie Sheen to Sarah Palin.
In a presidential contest.
The headline is Palin trails Sheen with independence.
We found a lot of brutal poll numbers for Sarah Palin so far in 2011, down in South Dakota, down in South Carolina, down in Arizona, only up by one point in Texas, only up by one point in Nebraska to name a few, but this has to be the worst.
Independent voters say they would support Charlie Sheen over Palin for president by a 41 to 36 margin.
Seriously.
Now, who would even conjure a poll question like this?
Charlie Sheen preferred by independence.
What is this news gonna do to all these political consultants who think that every presidential election is won by whoever can win the majority of independent voters?
If Charlie Sheen beats Sarah Palin, what does that say about independent voters?
Despite her deficit with independence versus Sheen, Palin does lead Charlie Sheen 49-29 overall.
Only the independents prefer Sheen.
Who, of course, doesn't know where he is, and certainly isn't running for president.
Public policy polling says that Charlie Sheen is this is ridiculous.
Charlie Sheen, one of the most unpopular figures we have ever polled on.
10% of Americans rate him favorably.
The only people we've ever found with worst numbers are Rod Blagoyovich in Illinois, Jesse Jackson Jr. in Illinois, Levi Johnston in Alaska.
Sheen's minus 57 spread ties what they found for John Edwards in North Carolina.
Now, as they say, obviously Charlie Sheen's not going to run for the White House, but the Palin numbers are one of the more interesting benchmarks yet, pointing to just how minuscule her chance at the presidency would be, even if she did decide to get into the race.
Man, oh man, is this is this look at the stops that uh that they are pulling out.
Now, bear in mind, uh, ladies and gentlemen, that the latest polls here on Palin are designed with a single purpose.
The single purpose of all these polls is to convince Palin that she has no chance of winning.
The whole purpose is to convince her that she has insufficient support to run.
Uh so it's really ratcheting up, and it's getting now to the point of being ridiculous.
There you start polling Sarah Paling as Charlie Sheen.
You there's some genuine real fear of this woman in a lot of places.
And I I still have to tell you, a lot of it mystifies me.
You know, I live in Realville.
I live in Literalville.
I'm a conservative.
I believe in conservatism.
I think we got a guy running the country who's destroying it.
I Against that, I don't see what the problem is.
I know people say she can't win, but see, that's that's what I don't I I I think I think well articulated solid conservatism can mop the floor with this guy in the 2012 election.
That's what I have no doubt about.
I don't think we need to pussy foot around here and uh and and and beat around the margins.
Very clear what will win.
It wins every time it's tried.
Forceful, confident, well articulated conservatism.
I don't care out of whose mouth it comes.
All things being equal.
Now the nuclear situation in Japan.
I have you noticed whenever the whenever the media gets stuck covering a single subject for a long time, like the Japan nuclear problem, they really start saying crazy things.
During the news last night, I think it was on CNN, they had on a guy who went on and on and on about how this is all uncharted territory, said nobody's even thought that the fuel rods could catch fire.
They've never even thought about something like that.
And I look at that and I went, where do the networks find these people?
What do you mean nobody has ever thought about what would happen if the fuel rods catch fire?
People who design and build nuclear power plants, that's all they think about, especially since Chernobyl.
But even long before that, since nuclear power began, this is what people think about.
To say you'll get an expert and say that nobody's ever pondered this, that we're in uncharted territory.
It's pure fear-mongering hype.
And I've I've noticed how CNN other supposed news channels are constantly putting on the anti-nuclear advocates as nuclear experts.
There's one glaring example of A guy out there named Arnold Gunderson, who is uh he's not an unbiased expert by any stretch.
Google his name, Arnold Gunderson.
He is a longtime anti-nuclear activist, but CNN does not identify him as such or any of their other experts as having access to grind.
And I haven't seen anyone in the media apologize to the TEP co-workers after they falsely accused them of walking off the job a couple of days ago.
Nor have I heard him apologize to their viewers for ratcheting up the hysteria unnecessarily.
No such things will be forthcoming.
The hysteria continues to ratchet up.
The fear mongering, the crisis mongering continues.
People wondering about when will the plume arrive?
How long do we have to live?
Where should I go to avoid the plume?
There's more radiation in a banana that's going to be in that plume that hits Southern California.
All right, the fearmongering, the hysteria continues to be effective.
Angela Merkel in Germany is not pledged to shut down nuclear plants there.
Andrew Kumo, the governor of New York says he wants to shut down a nuclear plant in New York.
No, no, I'm no, is it Indian Point or some such thing?
Indian Point says he wants to shut down Indian points.
It's very you've been worried about Indian Point for a long time.
So the Germans are going to shut it down.
We got various people in our country want to shut it down.
You know, I I hate to be the one to have to offer all this perspective because the impression is that I am missing the boat about how serious this is.
And nothing could be further from the truth.
I just, folks, I'm a student of media.
I I I cringe daily at how they specifically attempt to influence the this Charlie Sheen, Sarah Palin, Paul, for credit out loud now.
What what if there is ever anything in discredit the real purpose of a poll?
Anyone ever believe Charlie Sheen's going to run for president?
No.
So what's the purpose of the poll?
The purpose of the poll is to tell Palin she's got no chance at a stay out of it.
The purpose is something totally other than telling us what public opinion is.
They are trying to make and shape public opinion, and they have an agenda.
They're not disinterested bystanders objectively telling us and reporting what's going on.
So now we've got all this hysteria about the plume.
The plume.
There are aerosols in this plume, but the time they travel the thousands of miles is going to take to get here, they will dilute.
Many will plummet into the oceans where they will be eaten just like the oil was in the Gulf of Mexico.
The stuff that survives will have less radiation than a banana.
What do you mean?
Easy.
They radiate bananas to delay ripening so that when you buy one at the store, it still looks yellow.
Bananas have been known to set off radiation detectors at airports.
Yeah.
Look at Dawn's in there.
I didn't know that.
That's true.
It's not your fault you didn't know it.
They don't tell you this stuff.
Oh, the sun for crying out loud.
You want to talk about radiation?
Precious solar power relies on radiation.
Obama's high speed trains.
You don't think those things are going to produce radiation?
You got another thing coming.
Wind turbines.
There's radiation virtually everything in sunshine.
I mean, folks, even over-the-air television and radio broadcasts emit radiation.
Right air off of the broadcast towers.
There's radiation all around us.
It's as though the tiniest amount will be infectious and could be deadly.
When in fact, um people say little radiation's good for humans in that it prevents some cancers, but like everything else, you can get too much of it and cause yourselves serious problems.
Here's an example of the kind of thing I've a little harmless little story here, but to me, it just it just it just grates.
I had a picture here, the New York Times story.
I got a picture here of a dog.
Everybody loves dogs.
Dogs running on the side of a road with a bunch of joggers following behind.
The joggers look to be, it's if the perspective here of this lens is critical jud joggers, maybe ten feet behind the dogs.
The dog is leading the joggers on the morning run.
Dirt road, blue skies, some clouds pock mark the sky, some mountains in the beautiful picture.
Headline, forget the treadmill, get a dog.
You know what the buzz the the thrust of the story is animal among dog owners who went for regular walks, sixty percent met the federal criteria for regular, moderate or vigorous exercise, the new study says.
Just last week, researchers from Michigan State reported that among dog owners who took their pets for regular walks, 60% met federal criteria for regular, moderate or vigorous exercise.
Nearly half of all dog walkers exercise an average of 30 minutes a day, at least five days a week.
Fine and dandy.
If you want to go chasing a dog around Japan, what is this federal guidelines garbage?
And I don't have an animal gene, so I'm not I'm not into running around chasing dogs or walking dogs and this kind of stuff.
But we got people figuring out what it is walking your dog that meets some federal standard.
As though that's what makes it okay.
Yeah, it's met some federal standard.
Sorry, I see this kind of stuff and just it just grates.
Here's more crisis.
Fox News.com, supermoon on the rise next week.
Actually, it's this week as this story's five days old.
According to the internet buzz, it'll bring a scary surge in natural disasters around the globe.
March 19th, in other words, two days from now is a supermoon.
You ever heard of a supermoon?
You know what it is?
Supermoon is uh when the moon is closest to the earth that it's almost ever been.
In this case, closest in 60 years.
Oh, yeah, the tides are gonna flood marinas.
Uh might get earthquakes, moon quakes.
Who knows?
It's uh it's March 19th.
Earth's moon will be at its closest point.
Oh, at 18 years here.
Uh, and the event was dubbed a supermoon by astrologer Richard Nolbeck in the in the 1970s.
And uh all possible, all kinds of things, tidal surges, magnitude five or other higher earthquakes, even volcanic activity uh is possible because of the supermoon.
Well, we survived it 18 years ago, and I dare say most people never even knew what was going on 18 years ago, but this guy Richard Knoll is out there warning everybody now that it could be it could be disastrous out there.
If it were hurricane season, I don't know, we might not survive.
That's how they do it.
Everything's crisis.
From what you eat to where you go to where you drive to what you wear when you drive, it doesn't matter what it is.
Here's Donald Trump.
It was on Good Morning America today, talked to Ashley Banfield.
Uh she interviewed him aboard his 727.
He's a jet.
She said uh you'd put up 600 million dollars for this.
Absolutely, assuming I'm doing well.
Do you have 600 million spare?
Much more than that.
Part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich.
So if I need 600 million, I can put up 600 million myself.
That's a huge advantage.
Part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich.
Then she said, Well, uh, let's let's ask you a little controversial question here, Mr. Trump.
Do you believe the president was born in the USA?
The reason I have a little doubt, just a little, it's because he grew up and nobody knew him.
When you interview people, if I ever got the nomination, if I ever decide to run, you may go back and interview people from my kindergarten.
They'll remember me.
Nobody ever comes forward.
Nobody knows who he is until later in his life.
It's very strange.
The whole thing is very strange.
Donald, I would remind you that from the time of his birth until the age of 30, nothing is known about Jesus Christ either.
And a brief timeout as we return after.
Minor, minor correction.
Dr. Roy Spencer, our official climatologist from the University of Alabama at Huntsville says that uh uh bananas are naturally radioactive.
Even before they are irradiated, uh uh for whatever per the radioactive levels in bananas are quite natural.
They're born that way, so to speak.
And it it's it's just an example of some things which are natural here being hyped into a uh circumstance or a uh well, yes, circumstance where people are panicking or being led to panic over a number of things that are quite natural and harmless.
To the phones, start a little early today.
Santo in Carl Springs, Florida.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hello.
Oh, the pleasure's all mine, Rush.
It's uh really glad to finally be able to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
Uh thank you.
And I wanted to get to my point.
Uh you know, I ponder and I and I view and I see how what a what an awful job Barack Obama's doing, and really what an empty suit he is.
Uh well, are you saying empty what?
Empty suit.
Thank goodness.
Okay.
Um you look around the world, you see all these uh different issues going on in the world, and if you individualize them and look at them separately, I know how George Bush would have handled most of these issues, but I go back even to Bill Clinton and I say, well, you know, we we as much as I disliked and disagreed with most of what he did, you'd have to think we'd be in a much better place if we had someone even like Bill Clinton around the country.
Why this comparison?
Why why are you comparing Obama to Clinton?
Why are none there's no wrong answer here?
This is just the host being uh uh uh curious, why not compare uh Obama to uh one of the Republican presidential nominees?
Well, there'd be no comparison.
Um most the uh the Republican nominees that I'm aware of are pretty concise and uh they would have to be.
Okay, so your point is that even a Democrat, even a socialist democrat like Hillary would be better off than this guy when it comes to foreign policy because she's more serious about it.
It's foreign policy, domestic policy, I see the mood.
I'm a middle class American, and I see the mood in the country, and the the folks I meet with on a daily basis, I'm in sales, yeah, uh are down.
And they we feel like we're be we're defeated, and I know there's light at the end of the tunnel.
I believe in the American dream if you keep pushing forward, but this guy seems at every corner to pull that from us.
Well, um not only that, I I think I think really it isn't complicated.
It's just tough to believe.
I don't think, and the reason you and everybody else are having trouble, even the Clintons, Mrs. Clinton are having trouble understanding the lack of decision, say on Libya or anything else.
The root of it is the view of this country that Obama holds.
How if if if he is a guy who does not believe in American exceptionalism, if he is a guy who thinks it's been his duty to run around the world and apologize for the United States.
If he believes that the United States has achieved its superpower position illegitimately, then where's the logical connection?
Why would we expect him to think at all in terms of the United States as the solution to the world's problems?
We got a guy who thinks the United States has been the problem.
Okay, so here's Libya.
He doesn't even seem to care, much less do anything about it.
And people chalk it up to traditional explanations.
Well, he's uh looking at polling data, can't go in there because he criticized Bush, would look bad, all the standard conventional wisdom stuff for people trying to come up with the explanation, that's not it.
It's very simple.
He doesn't look at America as the solution.
We're the problem.
He doesn't think the United States has any moral authority in places like Libya.
In fact, I would I would venture to say that if you get Obama to be honest, he'd tell you that there have been times in our history when we have been Libya.
We're no different.
Probably thinks, who are we?
Telling Qaddafi what to do.
Who are we to stand up for people around the world who want freedom?
Hell, the way Obama looks at it, we've been denying freedom to our own citizens for who knows how long.
I'm serious.
I think the explanations for Obama's inaction indecision are quite simple.
He just doesn't have the view of America as an exceptional place, as a solution to the world problem.
World's problems.
He just doesn't.
I I think I'm like most people.
I think I'm like you.
When I lie awake in bed at night, or when I'm daydreaming in the afternoon, I get home from work and I'm reviewing the day, whatever.
I I occupy my mind with my job and how could I get better at it?
How can I do a better job?
I well, I do do this.
At the end of every program, I review it and say, what could I have done better?
How could I have stayed more energetic in a third hour?
Whatever it is.
I don't get the impression Barack Obama does this at all.
I I don't think Barack Obama is introspective about the job he's doing at all.
I don't see him I I think his ego is such that the whole concept of not doing a good job is foreign to him.
His his ego is such that his presence equals greatness.
Not his actions.
His aura.
So Libya, you name it.
The BP oils for all of these things, if they are, if they don't present a political opportunity to advance his agenda, then they're nagging problems.
They're just distractions, like Afghanistan.
I I you look at how long it took to figure out what to do there.
I have no doubt in my mind that as far as Obama's concerned that Afghanistan's just a whole distraction.
He really rather not have to deal with it at all.
His mindset is all he's got to do is show up.
And sometimes not even that.
You know, he's really not even voting present on Libya.
It's just and look and look at look at Gitmo.
You know, I yeah, he's executive order.
Yeah, he's gonna close it, yeah, it's gonna satisfy the base, but look, it's still open.
And he doesn't, which I by the way knew would be the case, as uh as you well know.
But I he seems to be detached to me as in a bubble.
Here, I wasn't gonna play up at Grab Soundbite Five.
This is last night.
He did, he went to another party last night, a fundraiser for the Democrats.
And this is about as far as he'll go.
This is about as far as he'll commit to anything in this Japan business.
We're at a moment in time where obviously all of us are heartbroken by the images of what's happening in Japan, and we're reminded of how American leadership is critical to our closest allies, even if those allies are themselves economically advanced and powerful.
There are moments where uh they need our help and we're bound together by a common humanity.
He's uttering the words, there's no there's no backup here.
What is this?
Even if those allies are themselves economically advanced and powerful.
What he's really saying is let them help themselves to hell with them.
In fact, Jay Carney, do I have this, or did I heard this last night, or did we play it on the air yesterday?
Jay Carney, the press secretary, was I think we had it yesterday.
Some reporter asked him a question about Japan.
And Carney said, go talk to your own news agency.
You got reporters over there.
He had the White House press secretary telling reporters the daily press briefing.
Don't ask me.
Don't ask your government, don't ask the regime about what's going on in Japan.
Ask your own reporters.
You got Reporters over there.
Your reporters know more about what's going on than we do.
You know, you you he didn't say it, but you guys care more than we do.
And I just remember how they called Reagan lazy.
Went to sleep all the time, fell asleep in cabinet meetings, old daughtering fool.
Look at all that Reagan accomplished.
And he never voted president.
And he was never a wall.
Situations like we face today.
I just got an email from somebody a realinda.
Thanking me for thanking me for telling them what a supermoon is.
They thought this person of Real Linda thought a supermoon was when a fad guy dropped trowel.
And they've often wondered what it had to do.
They've been hearing about the supermoon in two days, and they wanted to know where the guy was going to be.
So they feel properly informed now.
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