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Oct. 4, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 4, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Well, there it is.
Chris Christie says this is not my time to run for president.
Now we'll wait to see if he says it's his time.
He's already said it's not mine.
Just kidding.
He was referring to himself.
Oh, oh.
Oh, okay.
I guess I let my ego get away with it.
So I'm wondering why would he call a press conference to announce my intentions?
Governor Christie, this is not my time to run for president.
Bill Crystal of the Weekly Standard left standing in the altar yet again.
Greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limboss.
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Zero mistakes.
Let's see.
What is this?
Somebody sends me a note.
Christie's blaming Bush for having to reconsider.
Barbara Bush, maybe I don't know.
He's uh uh I I think yeah, maybe he was rethinking it.
He said no.
Then he started rethinking it because he was uh I guess asked to do so by uh Barbara Bush called his wife.
Say, hey, it's not that bad being first lady.
Don't get the wrong idea by what you see now.
You don't have to dress up weird ways and go to Target.
Being first lady is really cool.
I think that's why Barbara Bush told her.
You don't have to have a vegetable garden in the back that other people run any last thing.
That's really cool.
You can worry about kids reading and kids getting fat.
You can partner with the NFL on exercise.
You don't have to do this stuff that they're doing now.
But apparently that wasn't enough.
This is going to be disappointing to a lot of people.
Uh a lot of people had were hoping it would be uh something else.
We had a story yesterday that uh Christie's donors were being asked to show up in uh in Trenton tomorrow.
Uh Thursday, sorry, Thursday.
And I remember asking, who assembles their donors for an announcement like this?
Uh you do that behind the scenes.
You get your supporters out there.
Anyway, mentioned this at the top of the program.
It's in the Washington Post today.
The jobs bill is dead.
Post writer, it's not much of a surprise, I guess.
The American Jobs Act never had a particularly good chance of passing the House.
But as of yesterday, it's officially dead.
Majority Leader Eric Cantor isn't even pretending the two sides will work something out because he said the 447 billion dollar jobs package as a package is dead.
He said, Yep, that's true.
It never was.
I told you this a month ago, and I'm not doing it, and I told you so here.
It's just paddly obvious.
You probably knew it too.
This there was this was never even intended to pass.
This is always intended to be an effort to make it look like the Republicans don't want to work with the president.
The Republicans want him to fail, Republicans don't care about jobs.
However, Obama wants to frame it.
The purpose was to put something up there that they would no way vote for.
Communist Party USA, uh, to the extent that you might care.
I mean, it's a it's not as big a fringe group as you think, folks.
The Communist Party USA and the Democrat Party and the unions are linked very closely together, and the Communist Party USA is going to riot for Obama's jobs bill.
They say that they intend to riot.
The webpage, I'll print it out here in just a second.
At the break and uh and give you the details on that.
A funny piece.
Ruth Marcus writing in the Washington Post, if Chris Christie were a woman.
On the subject of Chris Christie's weight, she begins.
If he were a woman, we wouldn't be talking about his weight.
Now, you might think that's because it'd be too dangerous to go there mentioning a female politician's weight.
No, although that's true too, that wouldn't be what's going on.
And she has a point.
Well, no, she's got a point here when she says that it would be too dangerous to go there.
Mentioning a female politician's wait.
No win win there.
You ever seen anybody go after Barbara McCulski on that basis?
No.
Have you ever seen uh well, I mean, take your pick.
I mean, it just doesn't uh just doesn't happen out there.
So she's got a point.
But that's not where she's ultimately.
Yeah, but not not not their weight.
She's right about that.
Anyway, Ruth Marcus says we wouldn't be having this discussion about Christie's weight if he were a woman because he wouldn't have been elected governor if he was a fat woman.
That is her point.
Party leaders, wealthy donors certainly wouldn't be beseeching her to run for president.
Appearance matters in politics for male and female candidates, but it's an inescapable fact of political life that for female candidates appearance matters more.
I submit it doesn't.
Successful female politicians need to be modeled thin.
Yeah, where show me one.
Show me one.
Show me a model thin female politician.
Okay, let's see if we can count them, but you can count them on one hand.
Snerdley's looking at me saying, don't go any further.
No, this is this is wrong.
Uh successful female politicians needn't be modeled thin, but cringe at the thought of sitting next to them on an airplane levels of obesity are rare among women in politics.
In a potential presidential candidate, being as fat as Christie would be unimaginable for a woman.
It's no accident, although it is bad political manners to mention it.
The two most prominent women in the Republican Party today, Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman, are trim and attractive.
Christie's weight is no doubt unwanted political baggage.
So what wrong about what?
By the way, she says, this is not a complaint.
Not a complaint, just a simple observation of reality when it comes to politics.
Yeah.
Um, I'm no, no, I mean I didn't make myself clear.
She's saying that Christie could get away with being fat because he's a guy, but a fat woman couldn't get away with it.
Couldn't be elected, wouldn't be respected, all that.
Again, it's it's gender politics.
It's taking an issue that's irrelevant and making a big issue out of it and running around making a grievance out of something that doesn't exist.
There isn't a fat woman running.
The country has not rejected a fat woman because she's fat.
Ruth Marcus is making something out of whole cloth here just to further feminist identity politics.
And by the way, she's wrong.
And you and I can cite the examples if we wanted to spend the time to do so.
I don't.
Doesn't matter to me, but she brought it up.
So I um wanted to mention to you, if you are in St. Louis today, beware.
Obama is headed to town.
Now the Cardinals have a playoff game with the Phillies today.
Obama is in town for a pair of fundraisers, including a reception at the Renaissance Grand Hotel that begins an hour after the baseball game between the Cardinals and Philly starts tonight.
And after that reception, which is downtown near the stadium, Obama will head over to the Lindell Boulevard home of Tom Carnahan.
Twenty-five thousand dollar a person dinner.
Tom Carnahan is the son of the late governor, the uh son of the widow Carnahan, uh, who uh replaced uh Mr. Carnahan.
And but here's something interesting about Tom Carnahan.
And you might be saying, Rush, why are you I know you don't care about traffic in St. Louis because you're not going to be there.
That's right.
25,000 a person dinner at Tom Carnahan's house.
Tom Carnahan received millions of dollars in loan guarantees from Obama for a fake solar energy company.
Think Cylindra.
I don't think it's as much money.
But this is the money laundering operation.
Tom Carnahan gets money from Obama for a fake solar company and then hosts a fundraiser for Obama.
What's so the money?
That's taxpayer money that Tom Carnahan got.
That's your and my money that Obama's giving away loan guarantees to a fake solar firm.
Then he heads into St. Louis for a $25,000 a plate fundraiser, he's getting the money back.
So what Obama has done and numerous times is generate campaign contributions that are taxpayer dollars.
You give the money to a fake business.
The business holds a fundraiser, the fundraiser is for Obama.
The money originally from the Treasury to the fake business, at the end of all this, a portion of it ends up with Obama.
I know it's a circuitous route, but we haven't gotten to the point where Obama can write himself a personal check from the U.S. Treasury.
So this is how he does it.
This is how he does it.
This is money laundering operation, pure and simple.
And you are, I mean, you you remember now Obama was in um Raleigh, North Carolina recently, where all the bridges were about to fall down, and it created a traffic nightmare.
And so the same thing's gonna happen.
He's gonna be out there on Lindell Boulevard after being downtown.
Phillies Cardinals playoff game gonna be a mess, more so than usual.
Be right back.
Don't go away.
Executing assigned host duties flawlessly, Rush Limboy having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Let's uh go to Chicago.
James High.
Great to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Thanks for having me, Russ.
Uh, before I get to my main point, your list of the demands of those guys for the stock market stuff, uh, where was legalized pot on that?
Shock that wasn't in there.
But you were discussing Durbin earlier.
I'm from Chicago.
I I can't stand the guy.
I think he's a total tool.
But in his regards to the guards, his comments about Bank of America.
I have Bank of America.
I didn't originally sign up with them.
I had LaSalle bank, they got bought off by Bank of America.
Now they want to charge you $15 a month if you want to see a tower, and now it's another five dollars a month to use an ATM fee.
It's just getting to the point where it's outrageous.
You should not be charging people to have access to their money, especially since you're making money on every end of it.
Okay.
That's perfectly fine.
You think that?
Fine.
Find another bank.
I'm trusting in the process of looking, but I I don't see I mean I said I don't like the guy.
I honestly have Durban on my like a light on my face okay, just I can comment on his BS comments he makes all the time.
I'm just uh all I am saying is that it is irresponsible and not within the purview of the job for Dick Durbin to cover hit Dick Durbin is the reason you're gonna leave Bank of America because it's something the government did.
You're gonna leave Bank America because something Dick Durbin did, and he wants you to be mad at Bank of America for something he did.
He's a gutless coward trying to steer your anger away from where it ought to be, the Democrat Party, and that's all I'm trying to tell you.
The thing about it is I I understand what they did.
I work in a restaurant.
I understand because how it works, I'm sure you know about it, is they're allowed to charge more money now for credit cards than they are for debit card transactions.
So they're trying to get everyone away from using debit card transactions.
Now, I don't understand why you would only do one or the other if you're the government.
It makes absolutely no sense.
Because they're stupid.
You think a lot of forethought went to this.
I can't seriously result I can come to the city.
They've got staff running numbers on static calculations, pure and simple.
They may have some incentive to want to penalize debit card usage more than credit card usage.
Who knows?
No, no, no.
My my point is this is central planning involving people who haven't the slightest idea what they're doing, they are causing the resulting price increase of doing business at Bank of America and anywhere else and trying to make you not realize that.
So he goes to the floor of the United States Senate.
This could very well be illegal.
You can't do things like this to try to hurt a business, and a United States Senator doing it is beyond the pale.
Congress can pass laws and businesses can react.
And that's what's happened here.
You wouldn't be facing $15 in new charges if the Congress had left everything alone.
If they hadn't messed with this, if Obama hadn't wanted to get his mitts on the whole banking system, if the Democrat Party didn't think they could do it better than anybody else.
But since they had to come up with a financial regulatory reform bill under the false premise, by the way, that every consumer is getting screwed.
And they're going to save you.
It's just like when they get involved in cable TV rates to bring down your monthly cable bill.
Look what the heck happens.
The last thing that happens is that cable bills get cheaper.
And then when it happens, they pass laws, businesses react.
Then what do they do?
They act like innocent bystanders and spectators and outraged over what the bank's doing and what the businesses are doing when they are the reason for it.
It's no different than the levies failing after Katrina.
The federal government authorized the money.
The money ended up in the back pockets of people in New Orleans and Louisiana.
It did not end up in levy repair.
Then Hurricane Katrina comes along, the levies cannot hold the water, they break, the flood happens, and members of Congress stand around as innocent by what the hell happened?
Who's responsible for this?
What did Bush not do when they were responsible because they didn't keep tabs on what was being done with the taxpayer money authorized to shore up those levies?
It's the same thing here.
And again, I want to tell I have no brief for Bank of America.
I don't know a single person who works at Bank of America as a janitor or a CEO.
I do not use Bank of America, and I'm not defending them.
But I'm going to tell you this.
I'm going to defend the private sector against this kind of meddling from incompetent boobs in the Democrat Party every day I'm on the air.
And I'm going to try as best I can to tell you that every time your cost of living goes up or every time expenses go up at places you do business with, odds are it's because the government's got involved and is making it more expensive for these businesses to operate.
They have every right to react.
They have every responsibility to maintain their pursuit of profit.
If the federal government becomes one more obstacle in their way, which is the case, they have every right to employ business decisions to try to maintain and keep their business open.
you Pure and simple.
And it gets harder and harder and harder to do when you got people like Dick Durbin meddling in it.
Who's next?
Kevin Clifton Park, New York.
Great to have you, sir, the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Russia's talk about uh how uh Durbin it's just not his place in the as a senator to uh get involved.
But I've heard Republicans get involved in telling women where they can get health care with planned parenthood.
They said don't buy Dixie Chicks records, they've railed against the New York Times.
And I know of at least one instant pill popping propagandist on the radio that got his start on armed forces talk radio at the behest of Republican interference.
So please don't tell us that it's not the place of a politician to talk out, talk out, speak out about issues that are important to millions and millions of people.
I don't know how to do it.
I don't know what politician told people not to buy the Dixie Chicks records.
I don't know what politician what do you tell it?
Planned parenthood.
All that you know, you again identify yourself and the way you think as another obstacle that all the rest of us face for our freedom.
You're just a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance.
You're an arrogant snob.
An arrogant, full-fledged snob, and you don't know 10% of what you think you know.
Because you've been ill-informed, misinformed by a folly education system or whatever it is.
But people like you.
You're just part of the pack we're gonna have to run over.
You're just part of the pack that we're gonna look at and smile in the rear view mirror November 2012.
Take care, Kevin.
Have a great day.
John Union City, Pennsylvania.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Oh, thanks, Rush.
It's so good to talk to you.
I've been trying to get through for a long time.
I got through a couple weeks ago when you were doing your bit about the I love me uh if you love me comment by the president.
So uh Bo didn't think my comment was worth anything then, so I didn't get a chance to give it.
So I won't misrepresent myself and give it to you now.
I called today to give you megadiddos from Northwest Pennsylvania.
I was born and raised in Tom Ridges neighborhood.
And I could have answered your questions a couple weeks ago, too, if I could have gotten through that.
But you're right, it's a target rich day today with Hank Williams stuff and all that.
And the main thing I told Bo was I just said.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, stop telling me, stop telling me what you told him and talk to me.
You've got one minute.
This is why you didn't get on last time.
You've got one minute to get where you're going.
Well, Joe Biden should be leading the whole group of protesters out there on Occupy Wall Street because 95% of them don't know what they're doing.
They don't know who Van Jones is either, and he is the epidemic of that whole protest, though, is most of the kids that they're interviewing really don't even know what they're there for.
It's just like the gang in Detroit that weren't wanted money from Obama's stash.
You know, that there's just a mind.
Well, I think that's you know what's wild enough.
I think also this is a is a there's a uh an era, uh area commonality with the flash mobs that took place in Great Britain.
When those riots were happening some weeks ago, we got reports that these were poor downtrodden, upset at school tuition fees going up, student loans.
We found out that a good percentage of them were just wealthy, lucky sperm club trust fund kids who were bored, who were just looking to have a good time and raise some hell.
So you may you am, you may have a point that uh some of these Wall Street protesters may not even know why they're there or what they're doing, but they still were able to be marshaled.
And they get down there.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Chris Christie press conference uh is now a half hour old, and he's still not running.
He's still saying he is not running.
Must be getting emails from Bill Crystal.
Great to have you back, folks.
800 two eight two two eight eight two.
If you want to be on the program, the email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
He got a couple stories in his fast and furious business.
Uh one from CBS, and the other is from the Los Angeles Times.
I think I put up in two different stacks.
And probably did, in which case I'm gonna have trouble finding a late Times version of the story.
Uh uh.
Cheryl Atkison, CBS.
New documents obtained by CBS News showed that Attorney General Eric Holder was sent briefings on the controversial Fast and Furious operation as far back as July 2010.
That directly contradicts his statement to Congress.
On May 3rd of this year, Holder told a Judiciary Committee hearing, I'm not sure of the exact date, but I I've probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.
Yet new documents obtained by CBS News show Eric Holder was sent briefings on Fast and Furious as far back as July 2010, a year ago.
Internal Justice Department documents show that at least ten months before the May 3rd Congressional hearing, Holder began receiving frequent memos discussing Fast and Furious.
So this is big, you ask me.
This is potential perjury.
Plain and simple.
Representative Darrell Issa, who is the chair of the committee investigating Fast and Furious, suggested on Fox and Friends this morning that Holder, in fact, may have perjured himself.
The documents came from the head of the National Drug Intelligence Center and the assistant attorney general, Lanny Brewer, Justice Department has publicly tried to distance itself from Fast and Furious, but the new documents, this is the CBS report.
The new documents leave no doubt that high-level justice Officials knew guns were being walked into Mexico.
Two Justice Department officials mulled it over in an email exchange October 8th of 2010.
It's a tricky case given the number of guns that we've uh that we've walked, but it's a significant set of prosecutions, said Jason Weinstein, the deputy assistant attorney general of the criminal division.
Deputy Chief of the National Gang Unit, James Trusty, replied, I'm not sure how much grief we get for guns walking.
Maybe more like finally they're going to go after people who sent the guns down there.
Except it's the ATF for the people who sent the guns down there.
But this, once again, it it shows exactly why they were doing this, folks.
This whole plan was a way to try to fix the blame for the violence in Mexico on American gun dealers.
It was a backdoor way to curtail the Second Amendment.
There is no question in my mind that that's what Fast and Furious is all about.
Get American guns, guns from American gun stores in the hands of Mexican drug cartels who would then use them in marauders and massacres and murders, other acts of violence.
The regime could act outraged and shocked when this was learned.
Oh my God, who are these vicious gun dealers?
How did this happen?
This proves that we have got to have more gun control.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
That's the purpose, but the whole story has been blown now.
And what do you think about CBS?
CBS and the Los Angeles Times both running stories today on Holder.
Apparently not telling the truth.
The LA Times story is more detailed than this.
But I focus on a CBS story here for you because the CBS story actually points out that these emails show that Holder misrepresented the facts in his testimony to Congress.
And also the email that they cite is more telling about the regime's reason for doing fast and furious in the first place.
So the CBS story is not quite as long, it's not as detailed, but it does get to the heart of the matter on two really important points.
I have to think, if if this were George W. Bush and this were planned to uh sabotage some liberal issue, I thought we'd be talking impeachment if everything else had happened if the Bush attorney general had apparently committed perjury about what he knew when.
This would be all over the place.
I'm stunned.
We had two random acts of journalism here on the same day.
This is a third random act of journalism I can recall by the drive-by media in ten days or five days.
We had a random act of journalism last Thursday.
We had two random acts of journalism today by the LA Times and CBS.
Now, why do you think that's happening, ladies and gentlemen?
I'll tell you why it's happening.
Because these people in the media see Obama destroying them.
They're ideology.
They see Obama destroying liberalism.
They're mad.
It's very quite simple.
They are just ticked off.
Obama has done all this great stuff, but he isn't popular.
They had dreams that Obama would be able to implement all of this socialist agenda and beloved and adored, just as he was in 2008.
Instead, majority of Americans don't think he'll be re-elected.
Now 55% don't think he'll be re-elected.
And close to that same number, say that they won't vote for him.
Liberalism in deep doo-doo.
That's uh that's why all of a sudden now some of these stories about fast and furious and other things.
And I've if I'm right, uh, we're gonna be seeing even more here.
Investors.com.
This is a conservative bunch, investors business daily is the former name.
But they um they quote, a very active socialist, very liberal guy's name is Robert Borisage.
Robert Borisage is um co-director of the campaign for America's future.
And that's think progress.
That's uh that's pedestrians.
That's as far left as you can get in the Democrat Party mainstream.
Most of the nation's top liberal groups have convened in Washington this week for the campaign for America's future annual conference.
And this year dubbed Take Back the American Dream.
A major theme of the gathering of these liberals is their disappointment in President Obama.
And President uh uh Robert Boris is quoted, he's co-director of the campaign for America's Future.
He's a key organizer of the event.
And in a speech yesterday, Borosaj said, Everyone in this crowd, I'm certain has had their disappointments and their frustrations with this White House.
From bailing out the big banks without reforming them to failing to stand strong on jobs, on climate and many other issues, extending a war, and now asserting national security prerogatives that simply trample the Constitution.
But our challenges are much greater than the shortcomings of this president.
Remember, when he came into office, Obama put forth reforms in areas that we have to address energy, health care, financial reform to recovery.
And now those reforms were too cautious in my mind.
They were pre-compromised, if you will.
But despite the crisis, despite the popular mandate, despite Democrat majorities in both houses, he got his head handed to him.
And we know why.
Money politics.
The entrenched corporate interests that have been running this place were able to build Republican extruptionism with a sufficient number of Democrats and defend their privileges and self-interest.
Totally delusional, but the left is delusional.
This is the problem.
We face a delusional enemy.
You can't you can't oppose these people rationally.
That's what's wrong with the Republican establishment.
It's what it's what's wrong with our so-called elite conservative media.
You can't deal with these people rationally.
They are delusional.
They really believe this stuff that I just quoted Borisage as saying.
There's only one thing to do, and that's defeat these people.
Borisage's remarks, by the way, at this convention were warmly greeted.
Others at the uh campaign for America's future event expressed similar sentiments.
Van Jones, the event's keynote speaker, who Biden doesn't know, said that this has been a tough couple of years.
We can't get up here and lie and say everything's been cool.
We went from hope to heartbreak in about a minute.
They're not happy with Obama.
For odd, strange reasons, but they're still not happy.
But the primary reason is, folks, poll numbers.
He's not approved of.
He's not liked.
People don't support his policies.
They don't want any part of his policies.
He's accomplished great things for the left, just not fast enough and just not enough.
Yeah.
But he's taking liberalism down with him.
Can't abide that.
Borisage, by the way, ran the Reverend Jackson's presidential campaign.
That's who this guy is.
Give you some idea about him.
Be right back.
Don't go away.
Ed in Milford, Connecticut.
Hello, sir.
Glad you waited.
Welcome to EIB Network.
Good afternoon, Rush.
I'm kind of breaking my own rule here by calling in.
My rule is uh I usually call in if I need to sort something out or if I have a gripe.
But um I I bought your tea last week.
You did?
Yeah.
Thank you, sir.
And I'm and uh I'm a small business owner and times are tough, and I and every time I hear you advertise it, I said, I'm not gonna spend that money for tea to have shipped to my house.
Yeah, yeah.
But I did it, and I did it because of the free shipping, and um and I and and it goes to a good cause.
I guess some of the money goes to a good cause.
That is the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
We sponsor a good group there.
Yeah, and I said, Well, that combined with the shipping and the fact that you have a sh I have a shot of having you come to my little bungalow in Connecticut.
I said, you know what?
I've got to spend the money.
Yeah, that's a great we've got to be announcing that someday here pretty soon.
We uh we're in the process of uh but somebody's gonna win a free delivery of tea by me.
Well, it's not gonna be me now, is I just jinxed myself.
I can't tell you.
Well, we haven't announced it yet.
I'm sure I'm holding this closer to the vest than Apple held details of the iPhone 4S.
Well, anyway, let me just tell you, like I said, I I I'm I'm one of those guys that kind of snicker, you know, when when people sell things on the radio, even yourself.
I know.
And I hear, oh, it's tea, it's tea, and I'm sitting here in my office and I'm thinking, come on, it's tea.
It's tea.
Well, I cracked it open in front of my wife, and I said, you know what?
Uh this smells like the tea that my I used to make with my mom when I was a little boy.
Excellent.
That's exactly what it is.
Yeah, and I always that's exactly what, especially the uh the this is the regular tea, be it uh diet or regularly sweetened.
That's exactly how that flavor is exactly how it tasted when my mother made it.
That's what we were going for.
Yeah, we used to squeeze the bags and everything, and we'd have this uh specific pitcher, you know, for tea, and and and and we'd uh we'd boil up the bags and squeeze it, and I distinctly remember the smell.
And and and when I first tried your tea, I said, uh, I think it's a little weak.
And I said, you know what?
It's not weak.
It's perfect.
We used to make it too strong.
And I tasted it and I said, This tastes like tea.
Actually, it beats my mom's because when we used to make it, we made it too strong because you always, you know, you're a little too tempted to throw more bags.
Yeah.
Yeah, it kind of can cause a bitter aftertaste if you're not careful, which is another uh aspect that we wanted to avoid.
Well, I this is you made my day.
I uh I I appreciate it.
I really do.
Thanks so much for the uh for the call on the endorsement.
See there.
This is he said it.
Normally he would only call if he had a gripe.
Or if he wanted to talk about an issue or something.
But uh he says it's better than his mother's tea.
I mean, that's quite a compliment.
You can't do better than that.
Here's um, let's see, Christy.
Audio sum by twenty-six.
I want to get one of these Christie sound bites in.
We've got three of them here, but I want to get one in before we get up to the break, maybe a couple of them.
Here he is saying he did reconsider running for president.
I guess we don't have the Chris Christie bites.
Uh is the computer belching again here.
Williams is hardly the first public.
No, that's not Chris Christie.
That's a tea commercial.
Not mine either.
No, I don't know what it was.
Do we have Chris Christie?
Uh we have these bites, and is the computer is that gonna be the excuse.
Yeah, okay.
We're still trying to draw it up on the computer.
Computer's being difficult.
Right.
Mm-hmm.
Good.
Now let's try again.
Three, two, one.
When you have serious people from across the spectrum, not to mention from all across the country, passionately calling on you to do something as consequential as running for president of the United States.
I felt an obligation to earnestly consider their advice.
Together with Mary Patton, our children, I believe I had an obligation to seriously consider what people were asking me to do.
So he did reconsider it.
Uh and there were a lot of people.
I the pressure was really on Chris Christie, folks.
I mean, it was don't smirk in there, Sturgley.
It was I happen to know the pressure with I'm not talking about Bill Crystal.
I'm talking there are other kinds of big money people were leaning on him like you can't believe.
Like Home Depot co-founders and so forth.
Got a quick timeout.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
That's an that's an interesting call you have uh waiting from Alabama on line five.
That call about what I said about Hillary running for president, being president.
Okay, uh, my friends, another exciting hour.
Broadcast excellence is in the can, but we have one more to go.
We'll take a brief time out here at the top of the hour.
Got a bunch of sound bites I need to get to today that I haven't had time to squeeze in.
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