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May 23, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 23, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
No, they're blaming me.
I haven't received any thanks, but I had nothing to do with it anyway.
One way or the other, but they're blaming me for it.
And if you want to blame anybody, I'll tell you this to blame outside of the principles.
But if you want to blame anybody for Mitch Daniels not running, blame the media.
The media, look, Mrs. Daniels, she saw what the media has done to Sarah Palin.
I guarantee you, she doesn't want that for herself.
The media is picking our nominee.
That's what's going on here.
But I mean, I'm getting emails all weekend.
Well, since Polenti.
What a strange time.
Daniels, what a strange time to announce you're not running.
Midnight Saturday.
It led me to believe that the decision was made as part of Pillow Talk.
Midnight Saturday, you send the note out that you're not running, and I've got people, from Indiana, you did it.
You did it.
This is all your fault.
Man, I can't buy a break.
Nothing to do with it.
Anyway, great to have you with us here, folks, as we kick off a brand new week of broadcast excellence.
Happy to have you along.
El Rushball behind the golden EIB microphone.
Telephone number, you want to be on the program 800-282-2882 and the email address LRushbow at EIBnet.com.
How about all that devastation in Joplin, Missouri?
That's the southwestern part of the state.
Folks, it is so bad.
It is so shocking.
The news media hasn't gotten around yet to blaming global warming for it.
That's how bad it is.
That'll come tomorrow once they get over this.
I mean, a whole town, what is it, 75% of the town is gone.
You ever seen a tornado, snerdly?
Have you ever been anywhere?
You know, I was, my mom and dad were married in Kennett, Missouri.
It's in the booty, that's where my mother grew up.
She was born in Searcy, Arkansas, by the way, on the same day that Lady Thatcher was born, same exact day, same year.
And my mom and dad were getting married.
A tornado ripped into our hometown of Cape Girardeau, Missouri on that day or that weekend, whenever they got married.
And of course, I was not even, well, I might have been a thought at that point, but nothing more.
But I've never, I've seen water spouts here, you know, little thin tornadoes out over the ocean, but I've never seen this thing just, you can't help but just be, well, bomb is a whole bunch of bombs.
I mean, all, you know, Hollywood just go in there and start running film, and they've got stock footage for every disaster movie that they ever want to make.
So our, you know, our prayers go out to everybody there.
That's just, I don't know, you wake up and you, you, you, they found, they found, you know, St. John's Hospital was creamed, and they found x-rays from the hospital 70 miles away.
People just don't, the power of these things is just incredible.
At any rate, we have Tim Polenti on the program today, top of the final hour of the program, Top of the Art, 2 o'clock today.
He has announced his candidacy for the presidency.
So Mitch Daniels, Mitch Daniels is out.
Folks, we're going to get to Obama.
We got at APAC.
We've got a lot to do here today.
We're going to squeeze it all in.
Listen to this.
I love when we have outrageous humor to help kick off the program.
This is a montage of State-controlled media discussing Obama and his arrival in Ireland.
President Obama is getting back to his roots.
Mr. Obama's Irish roots.
The president traces his Irish roots back here.
He plans to celebrate his own Irish roots.
President Obama is expecting to explore his family's Irish roots.
The first stop, Ireland, where he will explore his ancestral roots.
The Irish eyes are smiling today.
The people here are overjoyed that Obama has Irish roots and that he's going to visit his ancestral home.
This just doesn't get any better.
He's going to Ireland to visit his ancestral home.
His Irish roots.
The last Kennedy brother.
There you have it, my friends.
The last Kennedy brother.
By the way, speaking of the Kennedys and all that, Irish politicians, I don't know about you, I am getting tired of seeing stories about how Arnold Schwarzenegger's infidelities are proof that he's finally become a Kennedy.
I mean, I mentioned that as a joke last week, but there are people out there actually trying to make this serious.
If Arnold were a real Kennedy, he would have drowned the maid.
The maid is still alive.
Media tweak of the day, number one.
Don't tell anybody.
And now there's a story.
Apparently, where did I see this?
Gee, I don't know, a New York Post or something.
When Arnold was running for governor, his own supporters hired that hotshot PI, Pelicano, to dig deep to find out what there was there so that they would be ready for it, kind of like Arnold's version of the bimbo eruptions.
And they had this Pelicano did the psychological profile of Schwarzenegger, and what they found was that he has a preference for comparatively unattractive women because he wants to be the beautiful one in the relationship.
He wants to be the focus.
He wants to be the one with the great body.
He wants to be the one adored for good looks.
This is what his own team produced.
This is not opposition research.
This is his own team.
There's a story filming True Lives down in Mexico, and he had a woman shipped down there to have weekend trysts with.
And all of the females that were part of the crew, the actors and so forth, were perfectly willing and able to join Arnold in his trailer, but he wasn't interested.
He brought down a woman who, by comparison, according to this story, was Miss Average, and it just ticked him off.
And they said the psychological profile, Arnold said that the kind of women he liked were far more receptive to fawning attention.
They were far more appreciative than gorgeous women were of being tended to in a royal fashion, being treated well.
The gorgeous women expected it.
It wasn't any big deal.
There was no thrill.
And it reminded me of that song back in the 60s.
If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, better make an ugly woman your wife.
Remember that, Snurdy?
So, and now people say, hey, it was Jane Seymour.
The actress Jane Seymour says she knows of other offspring.
But all this talk about Arnold being a Kennedy, look, it was a joke, folks.
These women still live.
So, Obama, the Irish roots, his ancestral home.
The people of Ireland ecstatic, they say, according to the media montage that we have.
Just it just never ends.
Just never ends, which takes us.
No, I did not know I was all over the Sunday shows.
I looked at the audio soundbite roster.
I see that NBC, some people grilled Newt based on his appearance here.
But CBS, but I didn't see it.
Catherine and I were down at Fort Lauderdale attending a wedding.
We had to go to rehearsal dinner on Friday night, and the wedding was Saturday at 4 o'clock.
And the post-wedding after parties Sunday morning and so forth.
So, no, I didn't see any of the Sunday shows.
And it was a late night weekend both nights.
So I kind of just vegged and chilled yesterday afternoon before I got busy doing show prep last night.
And I did not pay any attention to Sunday shows, but I do have the audio soundbite roster.
All right.
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels told supporters in an email Sunday, early Sunday, that he will not run for president in 2012, a decision he said ultimately came down to his family's reticence about a campaign.
The announcement says here, this is the Politico.
And by the way, the tears on my internet page when I went to the Politico, I mean, my screen started crying.
Politico just devastated here.
And of course, the inside the Beltway Republican elite devastated here.
Folks, Daniels not running, I am telling you, has upset a whole lot of apple carts in the Republican elite.
There was a whole, there was an entire political apparatus set up here that was comprised of people wanting back in the White House, and Daniels was their vessel.
And one of the reasons that they wanted Daniels was that they could control him.
And he was their guy.
And this has shaken up a lot of people.
And I tell you, one thing I was pondering, I wouldn't be surprised.
The rest of the field is said to be weak, you know, which, by the way, that's starting to offend me too, as though the Democrat field in 2008, Hillary and Obama and John Edwards was the epitome of a great field.
A pretty weak field, if you ask me.
But anyway, this weak field business.
So now I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the pro-Daniels crowd, they need to come up with somebody who can fit that mold.
And it's not Romney.
They don't like Romney.
And it won't be Christie, which, by the way, the regime has already started negative opposition research into Christie, Governor, New Jersey.
The Obama White House has already started, and they're publicizing it, negative operation research into Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey.
But the moderate wing of the GOP is going to need a substitute now for, and it's not Polenti.
And Polenti is off their reservation in a number of ways.
Huntsman, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if you see a very visible and concerted effort to push Huntsman to the top on the part of the inside the Beltway Republican elite and the media.
And the media, I mean, it would be great for them.
There's another Mormon to take pop shots at.
And remember now, the media is into picking our nominee.
And that's the bad thing here with the Daniels decision.
The announcement by the former Office of Management and Budget Director and favorite of much of the Republican establishment will again roil the unsettled Republican field and likely intensify efforts to convince another major candidate to join the race, such as Jeb Bush or Chris Christie.
Don't forget the name John Huntsman in terms of, I mean, his name's out there already, but don't be surprised if you see a concerted effort by Washington Republican elites in the media to put Huntsman near the top of this list in the field.
The Daniels email, the announcement email obtained by Politico, went out from Indiana Republican Chief Eric Holcomb, a key Daniels advisor, soon after midnight with the word urgent in the subject line.
The following is from Governor Mitch Daniels.
The email began, I hope this reaches you before the public news does.
Daniels wrote, if so, please respect my confidence for the short time until I can make it known to all.
The counsel and encouragement I received from important citizens like you caused me to think very deeply becoming a national candidate.
In the end, I was able to resolve every competing consideration but one, but that the interests and wishes of my family is the most important consideration of all.
If I have disappointed you, I will always be sorry.
Daniel's wife, Sherry, and remember, told you the story last week.
I've been told for six, seven weeks that this is going to be the outcome here.
I've been told by a number of people, don't worry, Daniels is not going to run, Rush.
Don't even give it 10% of the chance.
His wife wants no part of it.
And yet Mitch did the dance, you know, all the way up until Saturday night.
Daniels' wife, Sherry, widely known to be concerned about the impact the campaign would have on their lives, which have followed an unusual path.
Sherry Daniels left her husband and their four daughters in 1993, married a former sweetheart in California, then returned and remarried Daniels.
Set of circumstances that the pair would be unable to avoid talking about in the crucible of a campaign.
But meanwhile, neither Ted Kennedy nor Bill Clinton nor John Edwards ever had any qualms about running for the presidency, and why not?
Well, look at Edwards.
How many news organizations had the story that he had a girlfriend and he had the baby out of wedlock?
And they spiked it.
They didn't run with it.
Edwards was Mr. Chosen.
Ted Kennedy, of course, he was Mr. Chosen 1980 until he blew it.
Roger Mudd said, why do you want to be president?
He didn't have an answer, so he was finished.
Bill Clinton, Bimbo eruptions.
The media does everything they can, either to make those things resume enhancements for Democrats or to cover them up.
But for poor old Mitch Daniels, we're told that his wife's divorcing him and remarrying him.
Nats, that would be fodder for too much dirt.
In a statement to the Indianapolis Star about his decision, he highlighted the role his family played in his decision.
Quote, on matters affecting us all, our family constitution gives a veto to the women's caucus.
There's no override provision.
Simply put, I find myself caught between two duties.
I love my country, but I love my family more.
Now, who can blame her?
In one sense, who can blame Sherry Daniels?
All she has to do, all she's got to do is look at how the media tries to destroy Sarah Palin when she's done nothing wrong.
She's done nothing wrong except run for national office as a conservative.
And Sherry Daniels, in modern American culture, nothing wrong.
Okay, so she divorces, remarries.
Sarah Palin is attacked as if she were a baby killer.
But of course, the fact that she isn't a baby killer is one of the things that drives them crazy about her.
They wanted her to kill her baby, but she didn't.
She had it.
It makes her an enemy.
Now, get this, at this very moment, as of 9:30 this morning, one of Yahoo's top stories is AP exclusive former Palin aid pens tell all.
That is the top story.
Well, it was as of 9:30 this morning at Yahoo News.
The top story was Sarah Palin nomination would be a disaster for the GOP.
So they're still working on payments.
Sherry Daniels looks at this and says, I don't want that.
I don't need any of that.
The fact that Mitch Daniels has decided not to run will probably not stop the news media from doing their opposition research and attacking his family anyway, because he's still a Republican.
And they're going to make sure that he stays out now.
Of course, they actually wanted him in.
Don't forget.
For obvious reasons.
Okay, brief timeout here, ladies and gentlemen.
El Rushbaugh and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, back with much more right after this.
Saying more in five seconds than most hosts say in an entire career.
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For the rest of the media that follows, Jesse Jackson.
The Reverend Jackson never had any qualms about running for office.
Do you know no Democrat ever has qualms about running for office?
They're not worried about what their personal lives might or how their personal lives might end up harming them.
They're not worried about a media anal exam.
But it's a daily reality for Republicans.
I mean, I'm still getting vitriolic email from Mitch Daniels supporters.
One guy just told me to stole my BS.
There's a reason Mitch is popular in Indiana.
Stole your BS.
What have I said today?
In fact, I came out in defense of his wife.
Stole my BS.
I didn't do anything today.
I think it's interesting, folks.
A lot of the inside the Beltway ruling class, including the Republican elite, they got to be a little ticked off this morning because Mitch decided he's not going to run for the presidency and the world didn't come to an end.
And I'm told, I didn't see this, but I'm told that Carl Rowe was on Fox and Friends today and did indeed mention John Huntsman as being in the top tier of Republican candidates.
So there's your replacement for Daniels as far as a segment of the GOP ruling elite is concerned, in terms of who they are going to support, push, or prefer.
Still can't get over Obama's Irish roots.
And we are back.
Rush Limbaugh talent on the lawn from God.
Brand new week of broadcast excellence.
Happy to have you along, folks, as always.
And we start on the phones today in Arlington, Virginia.
This is Joe.
Joe, glad you called.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
Hello.
Joe, I'm sorry.
Rush, I wasn't sure if you were going to take the call because I know it hasn't come up yet, but thank you.
I just wanted to call and, I don't know, kind of cascade.
I couldn't believe you're cackling at the Bibi Netanyahu comments last week.
That country wouldn't exist if it weren't for this country.
We send them billions of dollars every year.
We can't afford unemployment insurance for people in this country, but we're going to send Israel billions of dollars.
And this guy comes over to this country, and I mean, what an ingrate.
And here you are cackling about what this guy's saying.
I mean, seriously, you're like a right-wing Hanoi Jane.
Hanoi Jane?
I, El Rushmoe, came off like Hanoi Jane.
Are you a patriot?
Do you support this country or do you support Israel?
Damn right I do.
And I support Israel.
And I do not appreciate a president of the United States selling Israel out.
I do not appreciate a president of the United States who is actually ill-informed, uninformed, a theoretician, putting into practice some stupid theories he's talked about with professors in the faculty lounge that have no basis in reality whatsoever.
I'm offended by the fact that we got a president who has the slightest idea what he's doing on the international stage or domestic.
I am fed up.
I am frustrated as hell that we got a president who's systematically destroying job creation.
You talk about unemployment.
Don't blame Netanyahu.
Blame Barack Obama.
There's your source for unemployment.
We're not just spending money in Israel.
We're spending money in Egypt, which is falling apart.
We're spending money.
We're giving money to Iran, which is falling apart.
We're giving money to all these places around the world, getting nothing for it.
What do you got against Israel?
I got nothing against Israel.
I got something against people coming to this country, ungrateful and condemning this country, saying on our soil, and then you supporting that condemnation.
Politics is supposed to stop at the water's edge.
When a guy comes over here, I don't know.
It was just wrong to me, Rush.
Let me ask you.
I really don't get the cackling.
Not at all.
Cackling?
I wasn't cackling.
I was ecstatically happy because finally somebody stood up to Obama.
Let me ask you, speaking of politics ending at the water's edge, were you upset at all of the efforts the Democrats made from 2004 to 2008 to secure defeat in Iraq?
And have you ever heard Netanyahu condemn this country?
It's exactly what he was doing.
Netanyahu did not condemn this country.
He was standing up for his.
Listen, no president is ever going to deny Israel.
They've had people spying on this country, but we've convicted spies from Israel, our own allies spying on us, and we're still sending them billions of people.
We spy on them.
They're spying on Tim Palenti right now.
Come on.
We spy on them.
They're spying on Tim Palenti right now.
They spy on me.
This regime spies on me.
Look, I am not going to apologize for my attitude on Friday about Netanyahu.
Netanyahu took Obama to school.
Netanyahu demonstrated to the Republican Party what it's going to take to defeat this guy.
Everybody treats Obama with kid gloves, and I know the reasons why, but it's time to stop that.
It's two and a half years in now.
Reality here is too desperate.
What we face, we can't handle four more years of this guy and hold on and maintain this country as it was founded.
Anyway, Joe, I appreciate the call.
I knew, by the way, I predicted that there would be, maybe not to you people, I don't remember, but I sent a note to some of my friends.
I said, you watch, there's going to be even some Republicans in Washington are going to be upset that Bibi was disrespectful to the United States president, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And there were a couple.
Hey, just don't treat the president of the United States this way.
This is not something that happens.
I guarantee you, Bibi probably said the same stuff in private.
That private meeting before what we saw on Friday went an hour longer than it was scheduled.
I'm sure Obama heard it then.
I just doubt that he expected to hear it again in public.
I'm sure he thought Bibi would play Mr. Diplomat and go ahead there and sit there, eat his excrement sandwich as Obama intends and so forth.
Now, this is to sit there and openly suggest a plan that guarantees the destruction of Israel down the road.
At some point, stand up and say, I don't support this, not in my name, as an American citizen.
I don't endorse that policy.
I also happen to know Netanyahu.
I've had the privilege of meeting him.
But I'll tell you, folks, since this has come up, this whole thing is actually bigger than Netanyahu and Obama.
It's bigger than the United States and Israel.
It's bigger even than the Middle East and the West.
The Netanyahu-Obama face-to-face was a confrontation between reality and fantasy.
And it was Obama engaged in fantasy.
So much of liberalism is a fantasy, theoretical fantasy.
They believe still the Soviet Union would have worked out if the right people had been in charge and if there had just been enough money spent.
People today think FDR goofed by not spending enough.
That socialism is the only way to go.
The right people are in charge, have big enough hearts, and an unlimited bank account.
Socialism, there's still people who believe this.
And they are dangerously engaged in fantasy island.
And those that are not fantasizing, who genuinely believe it, are even worse and more dangerous.
But this conflict between Netanyahu and Obama was a conflict between words that have consequences and words that sound good, but end up being disastrous.
I mean, there we had, there we had President Barack Obama speaking of his commitment to Israeli security with all the passion and clarity and conviction that he used when he promised to close Club Gitmo.
You could say that he assured his quote-unquote friends in Israel that he would stand behind them as absolutely as he stood behind fiscal responsibility.
He would stand behind Israel as much as he was laser-like focused on creating jobs and economic growth.
Just words.
Words, words, words in a fantasy world.
And Obama lands in Ireland today, and what's the news?
He's reaching back to his ancestral home.
It's a photo op.
Does anybody know why he's even there?
And the most unseemly part of this confrontation was that all Obama wanted to do was try to lead from behind to catch up to the so-called Arab Spring to make it Obama's Arab Spring.
It was, I killed Obama and I begat the Arab Spring.
Now, if the Arab Spring were what we're told it is, the Middle East throwing off tyranny in favor of freedom, democracy, and opportunity, it'd be no need to toss Israel into the mix.
Israel would be a model.
If there really is this outpouring of democracy, if there is this throwing off of tyranny, Israel as a democracy would be a model for the rest of the region to emulate, would it not?
If we're being intellectually honest here, Arab Spring equals democracy, Arab Spring equals throwing off tyranny.
There's one democracy in that region.
It's Israel.
And there's one country in that region that's a target for destruction in that region, and that's Israel.
So none of this makes any intellectual sense at all.
I got a couple stories on this, in fact, from the Jerusalem Post, Muhammad AlBaradai, Egypt is disintegrating as tourism drops.
Al-Baradai, quote, people don't feel secure.
They're buying guns.
There's no tourism.
There's no investment.
There's inflation.
Right now, socially, we are disintegrating, AlBaradai said, on CNN's Farid Zakaria GPS.
Economically, we're not in the best state.
Politically, it's like a black hole.
We don't know where we're heading.
Wow, wait a minute.
I thought this was the Arab Spring that Obama bigot.
Remember all buddy Nick Robertson over there talking to Mustafa and Nachmedin about how great a job Obama was doing.
Obama made it all happen.
The Egyptians were simply following his Hope and Change campaign.
And here's ElBaradai, who wanted to inherit the mess.
He's been thrown overboard.
Now he's saying Egypt, hey, it didn't work out as planned.
We got a bigger mess here than what we had.
ElBaradai said that he wasn't sure when a presidential race could begin because there aren't any laws that outline how to run a campaign, how you raise money, or when candidates can become official.
We'll turn to Israel.
They know how.
They're a democracy.
If you want democracy, you don't want to emulate the United States.
Israel is just right across the border, Mr. ElBaradai.
He also expressed concern about the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has had longer to organize than other nascent political contenders.
ElBaradai said the election may slip to next year, given the uncertainty.
Well, there may not be an election then.
Okay, that's story number one from Bloomberg.
Egyptian pro-democracy groups are calling for a second round of so-called rage protests on May 27th because of a lack of political progress and perceived failure to prosecute members of former President Mubarak's regime.
So here's Obama, and he's talking about the Great Arab Spring and his acolytes, the Great Arab Spring, the throwing off of tyranny, the outgrowth and the outbreak of democracy.
Egypt's falling apart.
So on the one hand, you got a fantasy.
On the other hand, you got a reality.
Obama is the fantasy.
Obama believes in fantasies.
Benjamin Netanyahu is in reality.
There's a great picture contrast that went around the internet over the weekend of the two in their youth.
One was Netanyahu as a young man, decked out as a member of the Israeli Defense Forces.
The other was Obama smoking a joint or a cigarette or something, sitting in a cafe looking Mr. Cool Hip with an ashtray in front of him at some beatnik coffee shop.
And it was a great, great contrast of the two in their younger days as young men and where they are today and who's real and who is a fantasy.
So the protests that apparently what came from Facebook, social media, the inspiration for which came from the Obama campaign, Egypt leading the Arab Spring.
And now AlBaradai says it isn't happening and the protest groups themselves say, you know, we got to do this all over again.
There isn't any change.
Nothing's happening.
Be back right after this.
Don't go anywhere.
We do.
Yeah, we've got audio soundbites of Obama doubling down at APAC.
The American Israel Political Action Committee.
He went over there Sunday afternoon and basically reiterated everything he had said that Netanyahu rebuked him for.
Just doubled down on a smattering of booze in there, but it was irresponsible.
I'm going to stick with the phones, however, for now.
Dublin, Ireland.
We got somebody from Ireland on the phone.
Justin, great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Hey, how are you doing, Rosh?
Maggie Dittos from Dublin.
Thank you, sir.
Listen, I just wanted to give you a bit of perspective about what's going on on the ground here.
I live halfway between the American Embassy, halfway between Trinity College, Dublin, which is right adjacent to Collars Green, where the president's going to be.
Let me ask you a quick question out there, Justin.
I just watched a funny video.
This is probably going to tick off people, too.
But Obama's motorcade was leaving the American Embassy and in his tank, and it bottomed out over a speed bump.
Yeah, the beast.
The beast.
The beast.
The beast bottomed out over a speed bump.
It was hilarious.
Well, the American Embassy is next to the British Embassy.
It's one of the most heavily guarded embassies in town.
And the American Embassy kind of dips down below the road and there's these barriers that'll pop up.
So either the beast got stuck on a barrier or the grade was too great.
But either way, yeah, he just sat there.
Yeah, it bottomed.
He was a sitting duck in there.
I mean, the driver gets out.
It's going to be impenetrable to attack as well.
So I don't know what that means.
Well, I mean, it is pretty armored.
The thing only top ends at 60 miles an hour.
It weighs somewhere.
I mean, speaking of the motorcade, my wife this morning is trying to cross the road to get groceries, and all of Northumberland Road that leads to the embassy is blocked off with barricades.
And she said, yeah, honey, the motorcade is going by.
And I said, well, is there many people there?
And she said, the only people on the side of the road are those trying to cross and go to the grocery store.
So that was this morning.
I mean, I'm sure the enthusiasm.
Oh, I'm sure the enthusiasm has picked up as soon as the Irish people understand that the president's there discovering his roots.
Absolutely.
And isn't that the kind of contradiction that it takes so long to find the long-form birth certificate, but you can trace your Irish roots back to Moneygall and County Offaly.
Yes.
And let me tell you, listen, I'm in the archives.
I'm a PhD student of history at Trinity College.
I'm in the archives all the time, and you get many, many Americans coming in looking for records of their Irish roots, convinced that their family left a certain parish at a certain time.
And the archivists simply turn them away and say, listen, you don't have a parish number.
You don't have the date of birth, marriage certificates.
So it's actually, it's quite difficult to find your Irish roots.
Yeah.
Well, apparently he's found them.
And I'm told that Obama says, and Justin, I need, I don't know what this is.
You're going to have to tell me.
Obama says his ancestral home is Moneygall.
Yeah.
He's an Irish home.
What is money?
G-A-L-L.
What is Moneygall?
Moneygall.
Now, my expertise in the Irish language is not bad at all.
But Moneygall would be a small parish village, as I understand it, in the county of Offaly, which is kind of in the middle of Ireland.
I haven't looked into it simply out of disinterest of the story other than that.
But apparently, some genealogists dug up that his family had emigrated from that area and informed him of it, and that's it.
But Air Force, well, Marine One was flying him here, there, and everywhere.
Is it hard to get to?
No, not by helicopter.
I mean, driving might take a little while.
But you've got to remember, Ireland's only physically the size of Michigan, which is where I'm originally from.
But with a helicopter, you can zoom anywhere.
Interesting.
Well, Justin, I appreciate it.
Yeah, thanks for it.
So there we have an on-the-spot witness eyeball account that at one point the crowds were not all that big nor enthusiastic.
And the beast did indeed bottom out over the speed bump.
By the way, I talked to Trump and I asked him if his investigators are still in Hawaii.
And he said they weren't.
They were gone.
But I was going to pay him to see if perhaps we could find a Netanyahu birth certificate registered there.
Even when this guy is on foreign soil, President Obama times his speeches to coincide with this program.
6 p.m., a college address at 6 p.m.
Here's Andrea Mitchell on Meet the Press yesterday describing how Benjamin Netanyahu treated Obama on Friday afternoon in their joint presser.
Netanyahu seized on it even before he got on the plane.
He criticized the president and in such a fashion, he lectured him in the Oval Office.
And if you look at that picture that you have up there right now, it was a stone-faced Barack Obama and Netanyahu basically treating him like a schoolboy.
People, even who work for Netanyahu, some Israeli officials, told him later that he went too far, that it was really rude and that there would be a blowback to this.
Really, really rude.
You knew this was going to be the take in certain quarters, but Obama, or Netanyahu never once criticized this country.
He never once disrespected this country.
Quite the opposite.
Treated Obama like a schoolboy.
That's exactly what I said.
He took him to school.
It was, I still say, folks, pleasure to watch.
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