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May 13, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 13, 2011, Friday, Hour #2
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It is an especially fun day in the email.
I'll share with you a couple of examples.
As we kick off the second hour of Open Line Friday, live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And it is the largest career risk ever taken by any major media figure.
Turning over the content of the program to rank amateurs.
Lovable rank amateurs.
But nevertheless, rank amateurs.
When we go to the telephones, which we do frequently on Open Line Friday.
Here's the number, 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushball at EIBNet.com.
So the uh a number of people in the email think that the media are paying me back for operation payback.
The media, here's the theory.
Here's the the media really is scared to death of Mitch Daniels.
Uh that he is a genuine true Reagan conservative.
But by having Salisa and Ruth Marcus and all these other libs come out and say they're for him, is totally meant to fool me.
Because the theory goes that I will make or break any Republican nominee.
And if I, if they can't convince me to be critical and ultimately oppose Mitch Daniels, uh, then they will have succeeded.
So I am the target of a reverse operation chaos payback.
This is one theory, and I'm seeing it multiple times here in my email.
And you better perk up, Rush.
You better, you better be, you better really be prepared for what they're what they're doing to you, because they're aiming all of this at you because they know.
If they can convince you to dislike somebody, that person's finished.
What?
What?
Now, number two.
Get your facts straight.
Mitch Daniels never got divorced.
This is from a financial guy in Carmel, Indiana.
Rush, I think you might want to go back and fact-check your story just aired on Mitch Daniels.
Sherry, which he misspells here.
Sherry and Mitch reconciled.
She never married.
A high school sweetheart.
That's total BS.
I enjoy your show at times, and please fact-check your story before you discuss it on the air.
I am sure Mitch's press secretary will enjoy correcting your misstep.
In addition, a person who looks like an accountant of a mid-sized manufacturing plant might be a nice change from a socialist that wants to spread the wealth around.
Hey, I didn't categorize Mitch Daniels as this looks like an accountant of a mid-sized manufacturing plant.
That's somebody in the media.
But all I can do, where is it?
Where's the CBS story?
Here it is.
Jan Crawford is the uh is the writer, and it's a CBS news story today.
Um actually, uh I think it last night they ran the story.
Mitch Daniels closer to deciding.
What's more, the couple has a personal relationship that can only be described as complicated.
They divorced in 1994.
Now, the guy from Carmel, Indiana, or maybe they I don't know, is it Carmel?
I'm not sure that they're California.
Carmel India is they never got divorced.
Well.
Okay.
It is CBS.
He may have a point.
Said uh here's the story.
They divorced in 1994.
Sherry Daniels married an old boyfriend only to divorce him and remarry Mitch Daniels in 1997.
Neither of them discuss that time in their lives publicly.
Daniels told the Indianapolis Star in 2004.
If you like happy endings, you'll love our story.
Love and the love of children overcame any problems.
Okay.
So uh we'll fact-check it.
We've got an assertion here that Mitch Daniels never got divorced.
We've fact-checked it.
Here's what we found.
Daniels and his wife Sherry divorced in 1994.
She moved to California, leaving Daniels with the four daughters, ages eight to fourteen, and married a doctor.
She divorced again and moved back to Indiana.
She and Mitch remarried in 1997.
So that's two sources that we've got to fact-check.
Okay, so this this guy's can tell in his email, he's fit to be tied here.
And he thinks I'm gonna be hearing from Mitch's press people.
Um, yeah, we should.
We demand to see the certificates.
Marriage license, divorce uh papers, and uh and all that.
But here's the you know this theory going around that I'm the victim of a reverse operation chaos.
Let me tell you something you you people who have that theory.
We here at the EIB network are the ones who game the other side.
We don't get played here.
You might think we're being played.
We don't get played here.
We game the other side.
That's what we do.
Then there's this.
And this this email is in response to um uh my explaining why Sherry Daniels does not want to be first lady.
She doesn't want the publicity, she doesn't want to be part of the job.
And then I again my my source for this are is other Republican presidential hopefuls.
I never knew this until they told me, and then I've everything I've read about it since has of course confirmed what they told me.
But she just has had no interest in politics, just doesn't like it.
So there's this.
Rush.
This is from Katrina, by the way, with it with a C. You truly are a moron.
I'll tell you what it means, you vapid chucklehead.
It means that she's tired of the retarded brain-dead, meaningless monosyllabic, girdles-like newspeak, party line propaganda, right think of wax philosophic methane and the mouth flatulence you personally help to dumb down the population and the national dialogue with,
consisting of entirely demonizing the other party instead of having a real conversation, an intellectually driven debate in which both parties treat one another with respect and thus are capable of working together to solve our problems.
But you, you don't want such a debate, sans rhetoric or cooperation above and beyond party lines, because keeping people arguing about non-issues that you arrogantly claim to have the rights to, like morality somehow serves your interests.
You, my friend, are truly a despicable and evil person.
So I'm the reason that Sherry Daniels doesn't want any part of being first lady.
That's this is fun.
All of this, look at this passion, this emotion here that's getting ramped up out here.
This is what makes all of this great is passion, folks.
It's overflowing on this.
Now, I I want to go back to our caller in the last hour who asked me, Sturdle, it's open line Friday.
Do you think that was a setup call?
You think that was a call attempting to entrap me, the host?
You remember the question.
What should the Republicans do about the Hispanic demographic?
You don't think so.
Okay.
He's worried that the Republicans are going to blow the Hispanic demographic.
Okay.
Well, he might he might be like a lot of people then who think the Republicans.
So this caller thinks that if we don't get the Hispanic vote that we don't win anything.
And if we don't get the Hispanic vote, that we're never going to win.
So how would I advise the GOP to get the Hispanic vote?
And you heard you heard my answer.
Now that again, you talk about being gamed and being set up.
Unfortunately, this is what the media, the media is setting that premise.
The media is saying, hey, if you guys uh and we've got people on our side that just fall right for it, are willing to accept the premise and go into a 100% defensive mode.
But I'll just say again, I'm not the one to answer that question because I don't look at it that way.
And I guess this is one of the reasons why I could never do politics.
I just don't have the ability to categorize people.
I don't have the ability to tailor a message for a finite group of people, and then another message for somebody over here of that group or what I just I it I'm not made that way.
I couldn't I couldn't do it with a free conscience.
And I don't think I would be genuine at all.
So I couldn't do it.
So the why I look, I think.
No, I know.
Hispanics do not vote in lockstep.
In Texas, they vote Republican.
They vote in droves for Republicans in Texas.
Now, if I recall correctly, Democrats uh got sixty percent of the Hispanic vote at 2010 midterms.
We have to double check that.
But that's only 60%.
The premise of the caller was that we get none of it.
Okay, so we got 40% of the Hispanic vote in the midterms.
And we weren't even campaigning.
We didn't even message.
That vote was purely anti-Obama.
That vote was purely anti-Democrat.
So 40% of the Hispanics on their own voted against Democrats.
See, I believe, and you may call me naive, but I believe Hispanics want jobs too.
And I pretty sure Hispanics have to buy gasoline.
And I know that they have to buy hamburger.
I have just been asked if I understand the fear that if we're not careful, the Democrats could coalesce the Hispanic Hispanic population as they have the black population and end up getting 90% of the Hispanic vote every election.
And if we don't do something, the Republicans don't do something as a party, then the Democrats are going to succeed at that.
I no, I don't concede that.
I don't concede anything.
I do not concede anything.
I don't concede any segment of the audience doing this program.
I I don't I'm sorry, folks, I don't think this way.
I know that they buy hamburger.
I know they buy gasoline.
I know that they need health care.
I know we've got some stereotypes dealing with that that uh Democrats are trying to turn as many of them into dependence.
I know that's going on.
There's no question that that's the battle.
But I you know the the thing is I don't I don't think we have to convince Hispanics or any other group to become conservative because reality will do that.
Ultimately that'll happen.
That's one of the many advantages of being on the right side of the truth.
It's racists like Harry Reid who say that people of Hispanic heritage will never vote Republican.
We don't say that.
Dingy Harry is not saying things like that.
We are a party of converts.
You know, once upon a time, uh, ladies and gentlemen, it was an indisputable truth that Southerners would never vote Republican.
It was also an indisputable truth that Catholics would never vote Republican.
Now, the the bad news for the Democrats regarding Hispanics and blacks and any other minority that they pander to is that eventually people get tired of being forever doomed to being helpless and poor and downtrodden.
At some point, everybody ultimately wants to take their fate in their own hands.
And I know what you're shouting at me.
Wait a minute, this hasn't happened in the black population.
Yeah, it hasn't.
I think that's a special consideration, and I do not see I do not see the same set of circumstances existing with the Hispanic population here that existed with the black population.
We've never had Hispanic slavery, for example.
Uh we do not have institutionalized hatred of this country being taught in Hispanic households.
We don't have to give up on this.
There's no reason to cede this.
The Democrat Party does not like independent thinkers, and they don't like people who want to take fate in their own hands and run their own lives.
I might remind you it was a conservative Hispanic who beat Harry Reed's son for governor of Nevada.
So I I just I don't fall for all of this conventional wisdom business.
I and I'm just I'm just telling you, I I believe that I could go where Obama went.
I believe I could go to El Paso.
And I could I believe I could do a standard rush to excellence appearance.
And I'll bet you I would have no problems being appreciated, being applauded, being understood, without having to pander one time to them.
Just talk about America as founded.
The freedom, the prosperity, the opportunities, how it's accessed, how it's happened.
Give examples.
They may have not heard it before.
They may not be accustomed to it.
Thank you.
Well, anywhere.
Los Angeles.
I just El Paso because that's where Obama went.
I know well, yeah.
I've routinely done it in Los Angeles.
Well, not routinely, but in the early days when I was doing the Rush to Excellence tour.
My my point with this is that I believe that the message of conservatism is a universal pro-human message.
It is the essence of what this country is all about.
And I believe that there Hispanics, there are enough of them that want to be genuine Americans that they can be reached.
I don't believe this notion that every damn one of them wants to be a member of the welfare state.
I just don't accept it.
I know that's the battle.
The Democrats trying to create as many dependent people as possible.
So I may not be the guy to give you the answer you want on how to politically deal with various demographics, how to get the Hispanic vote, because I don't think that way.
Which is why I'm not in politics.
I gotta take a brief time out here.
We'll continue.
More calls coming up.
It's Open Line Friday.
Don't go away.
Back to the open line Friday.
Carrie, North Carolina says, Helen, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
The Democrats just can't see your genius.
We do.
Don't worry about it.
Well, thanks very much.
I uh I count on the fact they don't see it.
That's why we're so easily able to game them.
Exactly.
And I'm a volunteer caller for the Tea Party, and you are dead on.
Elmer Fudd could beat this guy.
I take down all of the repetitious comments that I hear.
And the big one is they fear a wolf in sheep's clothing who is governing against the will of the people.
I've heard it hundreds of times.
I've heard B O Rich.
If you are B-O-R-I, you are a B O target.
And I love that one.
He can't be elected because they don't trust him.
They don't trust the un-American attitude, the anti-Israel, and ignoring the people, giving our money away while he's trying to take our money away.
I mean, this is just a small amount.
I have hundreds here in and Mr. Snurley told me to keep it short, so I will.
But no, he can't win on anything.
Yeah, I it snurkly is always trying to shortchange people on the show.
I'm gonna we deal with it once you uh once you get on the air.
But he can win now.
Now don't don't don't get overconfident.
He can win.
My point is he's beatable.
The conventional wisdom is, oh my gosh.
Oh, no, don't waste the A team on this one, Rush.
We can't win this.
It's B.S. Mark in Memphis.
Great to have you, sir on Open Line Friday.
Let Dennison Burbank, Mark, not there.
Dennison Burbank, hello, sir.
Hello.
Hi.
How are you?
I'm fine, thank you.
Great.
It's great to get on your show.
I've never been able to get on before, but I wanted to talk to you about Mitt Romney.
Yeah.
I I really think uh I'm a little surprised at how much criticism he's getting for what he did in Massachusetts with the health care, uh, especially from people that supported him back two or two or three years ago when he had already done it, and nobody complained about it then.
I think we need to understand that Mitt was a governor of a largely democratic state, one of the most democratic states in the country.
A small state, and the people wanted health care.
So Mitt the big thing about Mitt is he's a solution oriented guy.
He's a leader and he gets things done.
And he had a state of people that wanted health care, and he helped put together a package that I think in his mind was the most free free market oriented type of system they're.
Well, I will say this.
I I do recall when that health care bill was passed.
I think I think there were some conservative publications who sang its praises.
I thought, ah, this is great.
Of course, it it turned out to not be so good.
But as to as to the point that, hey, governor, liberal state, he gave the people what they wanted.
That does not cut it with me.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh on the open line Friday.
Mitch Daniels.
Sorry, Mitt Romney.
I sometimes get him confused.
Mitt Romney and uh and and Massachusetts care, uh the reason why I think he's vulnerable on it, and why a lot of other people do too, is it's a dead ringer for Obamacare, and the country wants Obamacare repealed.
And Mitch, sorry, Mitt is saying he wants Obamacare repealed.
Now, I understand Romney does not want to admit a mistake because he doesn't want to fuel the fire that he's a flip flopper, and he thinks that there is uh something to be gained by staying committed to something that he did.
But the argument that the people of Massachusetts in a liberal state wanted this, and therefore Mitt, as the governor of a liberal state, had to give them what they want.
Why?
What's leadership?
That's what it comes down to to me.
Now, I if see, this is again why I would never succeed in politics.
Because the first order of business is get re-elected.
And that means either giving people what they want or creating the illusion that you're giving people what they want.
I would I wouldn't have passed, I wouldn't have conceived this version of health care, I don't care who wanted it or where I was.
That's just me.
I and I I know this is going to be interpreted as criticism of Romney.
It's not.
I'm answering a question I got here from somebody on the phone.
If the people of a state want something that I know is wrong and not good, I'm not gonna do it.
That's just me.
If the people of the state want a health care plan that they foolishly believe is gonna end up costing them less, and expanding their coverage when I know it won't do either.
I'm not gonna do it.
And then hope I can live with the fallout.
But if that's what Mitt did, why doesn't he just say that?
Thank you.
Why didn't he say, Look, I was a governor of a liberal state.
The people at state were clamoring for health care reform.
I believe in the states being laboratories, trying different things, and after all these various experiments, we come up with the best way to do it for the country.
You know, he he that's what he's saying that he would do as president, he'd open it up.
States, do your do what you want to do here, and we'll come up with the best system uh we can.
But I don't know how to politically I don't know how he defends the substance of Romney care and rips the substance of Obamacare at the same time because there's not that big a difference between them.
And in fact, Obama is, we're told, happy to point out, hey, you know, Romney care is a mirror image of Obamacare.
Which is not good for Obama, is bankrupting the state.
It's not delivering on any of its promises.
But I do remember, folks, when Romney care was passed and signed into law, the Wall Street Journal praised it.
I there were some other conservative publications, I can't remember off the top of my head which ones, but they praised it.
They praised Romney.
This was the model, this was going to be the blueprint.
This is how uh we do this going forward, but it's not.
I remember there were some um uh praise.
There, I think the reason, if my memory serves now, the the reason for the original praise for Romney care is because it shifted some costs to the patients.
They had to go out and pay for it.
Well, turns out they couldn't.
The prices never became reachable.
Just like they're not.
We had yesterday.
Um the health care that people get now, they're only spending 12 cents for every dollar that's spent.
Well, that means it's unaffordable.
Pure and simple.
So we'll see how this uh how how it how it shakes out.
I mean, I it's too soon to tell.
I think all the analysts say, well, this kills Romney.
I don't think that's true yet.
Too much to happen here.
Too many other factors.
We don't know if this is going to be the end of Romney's campaign, speak chess.
But there are a lot of pundits out there telling you that it is.
And it's just it's just way, way too soon for this.
The founders don't go constitutional on this.
The founders believe the states should be free to experiment with various solutions to uh problems, and that was part of the reason that they wanted states so that different things could be tried.
See what worked, see what didn't work.
This worked, this didn't work, but it was not against a crime, or it wasn't a crime against humanity to try it on a on a state level.
Now, if the people of Massachusetts really hated it, they could move, they could leave, they could go to another state.
It's it's it's hard for people to move out of a state.
Some people don't like having to do that.
But you can't move out of the United States if you do something here.
That's why federalism is important.
If the Feds screw something up and you don't like it, you're kind of caught.
If Massachusetts or Missouri or somebody else does something you don't like, you can split the scene, you go somewhere else.
But you can't leave as easily.
You can't escape it of the United States.
So what is this business?
Just to show you about about the conventional wisdom.
Romney is worried he couldn't survive being a flip-flopper.
Oh, really?
Obama's never flip-flopped.
Yeah, except on almost every part of his foreign policy and national security policy.
In one way, in one way, I would even give Romney some credit.
He got the liberals of Massachusetts to hate government-run health care.
There's a lot of ways it's true, there's a lot of ways Romney could go with this if he if he wanted to.
But again, I'm not in politics.
I mean, that probably would be a horror death knell for a politician to say.
Hey, vote for me.
I finally got the liberals in Massachusetts to hate government-run health care.
And they do.
They they don't like it at all.
Who's next?
Uh Mark in Memphis came back.
Great to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
I would like to know how you picked your theme song.
Oh, okay.
I'd be happy to tell you, but I need to ask you a question first.
Why are you interested in that?
Well, I just left work a few minutes ago and turned the program on, and it was right as the song was coming on, and I recognized it, I always have.
I've listened to you for several years.
And it just occurred to me, I wonder how he decided on that particular song, and does he own the rights to it.
Well, we pay.
We pay a license fee every year for it uh to uh EMI, which is uh license, it's uh Chrissy Hind of the Pretenders song, and there's an interesting story, backstory about that.
But the way I chose the tune, I gotta go back to Sacramento in 1984, October 1984, when I started what became the EIB network at KFBK Sacramento.
I was told that because of programming requirements, I had to open each hour with a theme song.
Now, I I had been a disc jockey, I had I had worked at news stations, I had never ever used a theme song.
The last person had ever used a theme song on radio was Arthur Godfrey.
I mean, going back to the five, that it just didn't exist.
There was no such thing as a theme song.
But I learned that it was a staple of talk radio.
It was just it was just something that the uh the programming gurus uh won.
Oh, yeah, I liked Arthur Godfrey.
In fact, when I was younger, I couldn't say Arthur.
I I called him Odfrey Godfrey.
Uh but no, it was my brother, it was David who called him Odfrey Godfrey.
I could always pronounce Arthur.
My brother called him Oddfree Godfrey.
At any rate, um they told me the theme song, so okay, so I tried a bunch of different things.
I tried some songs by Men at Work.
Um didn't didn't quite do it for me.
And by chance, I happened to be listening to music radio one day driving around, and I heard my city was gone by the pretenders.
Now, at the time, now this is this is October of 1984.
Back then, it was the height of controversy to say the word condom on the air.
You may not believe that, but as recently as 1984, saying the word condom was controversial.
It didn't take much to row people up.
My audience in Sacramento was a very devoted, conservative sophisticated bunch.
And I was told you might want to pick a classical theme as an opening like William Buckley used on Firing Line.
I said, No, that's not me.
I I don't I'm not gonna phony this up.
So what I decided I would do would pick something that if people were to learn the lyrics would be the antithesis of what they thought I was.
My City Was Gone is a song by Chrissy Hind and the Pretenders, in which she bashes real estate developers.
Well now, you know, I'm big-time conservative.
I support real estate development.
Here I'm choosing as a theme song a song that rips them to shreds.
But I didn't really pick it for the lyrics, because we don't play the lyrics.
I picked it simply because it had an unmistakable, totally recognizable baseline, and it was so unexpected.
It was the last thing that this highly sophisticated conservative audience in Sacramento would ever associate with a conservative program.
So it was part of being unpredictable, uh part of doing the unexpected, and the fact that I just happened to like it.
All those three went into the decision.
Now, when I came to New York and started the program nationally, that changed a lot of things.
Like EMI and Chrissy Hind had never heard of me in Sacramento, and they had no idea I was using it.
But when it shows up on 500, 600 radio stations uh and I'm playing more than 10 or 15 seconds of it, which more than fair usage, then they want a piece.
But in my case, they didn't want a piece, they didn't want me to use it.
So EMI got hold of us and said, you can't use anymore.
We are we will accept no amount of money.
There's nothing you can pay us.
You you you just gotta cease and desist.
And regular listeners of this program will remember that we went through a two or three-week period here with different theme songs.
We had to dump it.
Then one day, Chrissy Hind appeared with Scott Shannon on the morning show at WPLJ, which was our FM counterpart to WABC in New York.
She appeared there as a guest, and Scott Shannon told her what had happened.
And she she she was, and she's no fan of mine.
She's, you know, Chrissy, big feminist and uh animal rights uh uh wacko and all that, but she had no clue that the song had been denied usage.
And she's telling Scott Shannon that her parents love my show.
So in the end, we played tape of that because the EMI people had told us that Chrissy wanted no part of me using the song.
Well, here she is saying she didn't care.
She told Scott Shannon P. LJ she didn't care.
And her parents were fans.
So we got that tape at audio.
We played it for the EMI people, and the song came back to the program.
We pay an annual fee, which is fair, proper for usage.
And it's been that way for gosh, this has to be 15 years ago when all this uh happened.
But It's it's I it's like everything else to do with this program.
There's that there was not part of a grand strategy.
It wasn't part of a long uh well-conceived marketing plan that had various steps that had to be implemented at various times.
It was all just spontaneously put together based on the fact I was able for the first time in my broadcaster career to do a radio program the way I wanted to do it, the way I thought would work, uh, without being told I can't do that or shouldn't do that or whatever.
So it was it's just it's it's all worked.
So I'm just one who has followed my instinct at every step of the way.
No research has ever put together one minute of this program.
Oh, there's research in the program.
They tell me what it is, and I laugh at it, accept it, reject it, what hey, but I'm never guided by it.
There's all kinds of research we do.
Well, we don't do it, others do, and they share it with us.
I mean, we're a test tube for a whole lot of stuff that's gone on in the uh in the uh in the broadcast business.
Buckley Buckley used the uh Brandenburn concerto by by Bach.
Buckley loved Bach.
Well, that wasn't me.
I like Bach.
I like classical music, but it wasn't me.
And I sometimes uh during this period of time, I think we did try classical music.
We tried various themed songs.
We made a joke out of playing a certain kind of music to reach a certain segment of the audience.
So we may turned it into a into a bit.
Anyway, that's the answer to the question.
And now a brief obscene profit timeout is called for.
Yeah, this is true.
Um Obama is going to meet for the first time.
Is that right?
With the Congressional Black Caucus for the first time.
Holy smokes.
That's true.
For the first time, Obama's gonna meet with a congressional black caucus.
They're not happy about the job situation for uh African American men, and nobody should be.
It's like 54%.
Hope and change.
Cornelia in Dallas, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Thanks, Rush.
Uh, I want to take you back to the State of the Union address where the Democrats were bloody and disillusioned and their tongues are hanging out.
And that speech was supposed to be a rousing call to arms.
Give me a Democrat Senate so I can get my program through in 22.
Which speech now, which year?
This year.
This year.
Yeah.
And so he just hung them out to try.
It was all about he had some grand plans.
It was all about Obama again.
And I think the fracturing of the Democratic Party has not been discussed properly.
And have you seen him out uh campaigning for anything but himself?
No.
No, he doesn't care about anything but himself.
I mean, he told he's told uh blue dog democrats in the House essentially that.
No, but the State of the Union, and I'm the reason I'm confused here, State of the Union is in uh January, February, it's after the elections.
He said, give me a no, that's when they were bloody and unbow and bowed, and he should have been saying, I can't get my program through if I don't have Democrats here.
He should have started then.
He didn't.
Did you notice how infrequently there was clapping?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I did I did make note of that.
It was awful, of course they were there were fewer cla clack.
It was a dud clapping.
There's no question about it.
It was a dud speech.
That's right.
There wasn't much energy in there at all.
I I think the fracturing of the Democrats all the way down the line is an undiscussed thing.
I don't have any facts.
I just have a feeling.
Well, I know.
Even the Shrivers are breaking up.
Did you see that?
I don't think it relates to Obama, though.
Well, but you know, Arnold and Maria are are are breaking up.
She moved out a long time ago.
So yeah, it's just an illustration of how deep the fracture is.
Well, Gore, you know, the Gore's prayer, bro.
But they're never going to report that.
You know that.
I mean, they're never going to report the uh the fracturing.
I look, they're not repr this this defeat in the House.
That uh major.
I can't even now tell you how profound a victory for the Republicans or defeat for Obama the Democrats that was.
And it extends way down to the states.
It's huge.
But of course they're not going to talk about it.
The conventional wisdom is the people have changed their minds since then.
And Obama's now unbeatable.
It's all BS.
Okay, the Congressional Black Caucus met with Obama back in March, and the purpose of this story here is to say how they're unhappy with the outcome, the meeting.
It basically they talked, Obama listened, and then forgot about him.
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