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Nov. 7, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 7, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
Man, it's it's unbelievable.
Eight of them.
Eight.
Count them.
Eight sound bites, or whatever.
What's the total that we have today here?
We got 26.
One third of the soundbite roster today is about me.
Over the weekend, a bunch of absolute blithering idiots beside themselves with rage over the fact that I have successfully co-opted the race card and its playing or its application from them, and they're just they're livid, they're fit to be tied, and they make no sense.
I've spent five minutes, ten minutes reading these eight sound bites.
I don't know what these people are saying.
I've put them off to the side here.
I don't even, I'm not going to lead the program with this is absolute pureb junk garbage.
We'll get to it at some point, but uh anyway, folks, how are you?
Rush Limbaugh depressed, wishing I wasn't here today, was in Pittsburgh last night, and that's all you need to know.
Eight eight seconds, try the whole game.
Try the whole game.
You know, I was I was uh I was watching the game without benefit of a TV monitor and without benefit of sound.
And so a lot of that game was a mystery to me until I saw some post-game coverage.
There were there were two.
Brown, I'm almost ashamed to admit this.
There were two replay reviews that I didn't know were going on.
I think I I turned to Kat and said, what the hell is this?
Another timeout?
For crying out, yeah, they're reviewing a play.
Reviewing a play?
What play?
I never saw a flag.
I never saw the red.
Anyway, it's a whole different game when you're there in person and you don't have any guidance.
Uh couldn't see the scoreboard.
I had the best seat in the house, couldn't see the scotch.
That doesn't make sense, but don't doubt me.
Uh so anyway, 90 92 yards, a little over two minutes, Steelers defense, four-point lead.
Figure it's in the can.
Wasn't in the can.
Uh anyway, well, I'm here, folks.
Uh, we're we're we had a great fun weekend, nevertheless, aside from the uh the outcome of the game last night.
I'm sure the Patriots fans feel the same way about what happened to them with the Giants.
Uh almost identical endings.
Two great games, no question about it.
And I show up here and I got these first eight stupid sound bites.
Cookie, don't misunderstand here.
I'm not ripping you.
Uh it's her duty, her responsibility to show me how I was once again the subject.
The focal point.
Me and Herman.
Sexual harassment.
By the way, Gloria Allred, I don't know if you know this or not, Gloria Allred, fresh off her dismantling of Meg Whitman at 1.30 this afternoon, about an hour and 20 minutes from now, a fourth woman who will show up.
They're gonna do this at the Friars Club in New York.
The source for this is Radar Online, and apparently there's a fourth woman out there accusing Herman Cain of sexual harassment and has hired Gloria Allred, which means all the other lawyers were busy.
Or didn't think there was much of a case.
A new woman alleging sexual harassment by presidential hopeful Herman Cain will break her silence at a news conference with her powerhouse.
Attorney Gloria Allred, Monday afternoon, 1.30 today.
I think it's pretty safe to conclude this is not one of the Politico women.
Thank you.
And we still don't know what Herman Kane did, according to political.
I mean, Jonathan Martin was on with Howard Kurtz yesterday, reliable sources, and he still doesn't know what Herman Cain did.
He still can't tell us what he did.
And now people have started keeping score, running tallies of the number of stories that uh political has done on Herman Cain, say, versus the number of stories about uh Obama and Bill Ayers, or Obama and Jeremiah Wright.
And it is it really is incredible.
A number of stories that the uh politico has done on this on this Herman Cain thing.
Of course, yeah, folks, the the way this story is shaking out is only a matter of time before Gloria Allred showed up to make this circus complete.
Where's the NAA L C P on this?
I mean a black guy here under a so Oh, what am I say the NAA ill sets?
That's why we call him the NAALCP.
The National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People, because I mean if they were genuinely interested in the abuse of racism and so forth against black guys, they'd be right in there defending Herman Cain.
But of course, the uh Reverend Dax has his own past in areas like this.
Provable, demonstrable, no questions about it.
So no reason to suspect that so we'll just wait and see what happens here at 130 with Glory Allred and the new.
But get this.
Now, where is this from?
This is some woman named Robin Given, G-I-V-H-A-N.
And I don't know what publication.
Oh, Daily Beast.
This is a story saying that Herman Cain's double breasted suits ooze abuse.
I mean, it is it's hilarious on multiple levels.
Herman Cain's power suit, the frontrunners' double-breasted suits, are sending the wrong message as he goes on the offensive against uh allegations of sexual harassment.
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has been trying to shut down the unsavory storyline that he sexually harassed at least two female co-workers while heading the National Restaurant Association, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Suggesting he's the victim of a witch hunt, uh liberal maybe Republican conspiracy, some other kind of evil voodoo.
What he has not done is make any evident attempt to consistently telegraph trustworthy, innocent presidential or future well-paid pundit as cameras scrutinizes every glance into whatever the hell is this?
This story is not even written.
This is a mishmash.
Throw this piece of garbage away.
The point she makes, she if it's 14,000 pages, and she basically goes on to say that the fact that Herman Cain wears double-breasted suits uh does not bode well, that that itself exudes uh power and abuse.
Double-breasted suits, says they have an in-your-face sartorium.
I'm this a quote.
Cain's double-breasted suits have an in-your-face sartorial swagger that reads in damning ways.
Especially in views of the accusations of sexual harassment.
She says that double-breasted suits are even tied to religion.
She claims, quote, through his wardrobe, Cain has positioned himself as the flamboyant boss man and the irreproachable believer.
I that that is how absurd this has become.
Herman Cain's double-breasted suits, exude an in-your face swagger and convey abuse and the message that I or he has power over you.
That is how ridiculous that it has gotten.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Jonathan Martin, who is one of the three original writers.
No, in fact, let's do number eight first, because this is set it up.
Jonathan Martin, one of the one of the three original writers of the first uh 90 Herman Cain stories on politico.
There have been a total here now of uh let's see, how many total and some odd um eight days.
Anyway, Jonathan Martin, the first 90 stories have his name on there.
Uh and that that's the first week.
He was on reliable sources yesterday with uh with uh Howard Kurtz.
And during a panel discussion about allegations of sexual harassment.
No, no, I'm not gonna say harassment.
I'm not gonna go political correct.
Look it up.
The original pronunciation is her rasmont.
And that's that's why it's pronounced that harassment.
I'm gonna continue to pronounce it harassment, not harassment.
Leave me alone.
During a panel discussion about allegations of sexual harassment against Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.
After one guest says it's ironic for me to be playing the race card.
Kurtz said, of course, liberal commentators have fired back at people like Russia.
I would suggest the media secretly love this.
I mean, the story itself is more probably compelling to a lot of journalists than writing about New Romney's latest economic plan.
So here Kurtz is admitting the truth.
This titillates them.
This titillates them.
Maybe they ought to go apply for a job as a defensive coordinator at Penn State University.
Well, it does.
Snerdley, it titillates them.
There's some openings at Penn State.
Go for it.
Kurtz.
You guys titillated by this.
Romney Borgia Cain excites you.
Double breasted suits, hundred-plus stories on sexual harassment.
Gloria all red.
My God, I'll bet your underwear barely fit now.
Anyway, I would suggest the media secretly love this.
Now a full-blown racially charged culture war.
And that fills a lot of airtime and columns.
Kurtz says to Jonathan Martin of Politico.
I think the older conservatives who are more uh oriented around provocation, Limbaugh Coulter, I think focused on that angle.
Some of the younger conservatives who have roots in reporting, I think, tend to say, let's see where the facts leave us here before we jump to two conclusions.
Let me tell you what this means.
Because I happen to know what the older conservatives mean, the ones who have not caved.
Older conservatives like me, and he means it's colder, me, and you know who the older conservatives are.
This is not an age thing.
We are the conservatives who have unbuckled.
We're the conservatives who don't give a rat's rear end what the left was media thinks about us.
The young conservatives, that's who he says he likes.
And when he says um uh younger conservatives uh who have roots in reporting, I think tend to say, let's let's see where the facts lead us here before we jump.
Rich Lowry at National Review ripped in one of the first stories about this.
Uh I think there was I forget who it might have been Michael Walsh writing at National Review Online in the corner.
Walsh or some writer ripped into Martin for a horrible story, and and Lowry ripped into Walsh, his own guy.
He said, No, Martin's a great guy.
Martin's a friend of mine's a good reporter.
So younger conservative means the conservatives who are concerned with uh being accepted by the liberal media.
The younger guys, that's that's the code.
The older conservatives, people like me are not cowed by it.
Not to pick on Lowry, but but that we talk about this a lot.
There are members of the conservative media in Washington who live there, and we know what happens when you live there.
It's a town run by the left socially, politically, you name it.
Uh, and the elected Republicans.
I mean, they're hellbent on making sure they get their message out to the mainstream media.
They're hellbent on making sure that the Washington Post, the Times might like them.
We older dinosaurs.
Yeah, we cannot be bent and shaped and flaked and formed and moved and watered down.
We can't be diluted.
That's what he means by that.
Now, one more.
Well, maybe I get time for two more.
So the next question.
Kurtz says to Jonathan Martiner Politico, why publish the story about Cain?
When you couldn't answer the central question, what did he do?
When you can't answer the central question, what precisely is Herman Cain alleged to have done with these women, why run it?
I think any journalist would find uh the a report of two women who got uh a five-figure each cash payout after alleging sexual harassment against the CEO of a trade group who is now a major contender for president newsworthy.
And that's the story we had, And that's what we published.
As for the detail of it, we were dealing with sensitive, you know, sources, sensitive information here.
Um, and so obviously we we tread delicately when it came to that.
Yeah, we trade delicately, but not with Herman Kane.
We will destroy Herman Kane.
We will stomp on Herman Kane.
We're gonna tread delicately on these anonymous sources and these anonymous details.
And um, we're not gonna we're not gonna go after him.
So after after Martin said they tread delicately because of the sexual harassment allegations, then this exchange followed.
I think in a lot of news organizations, an editor would have said, You have done some terrific reporting here.
You've got some great leads here, but you don't have it.
You don't have the details of the sexually suggested behavior that made him angry and uncomfortable.
Go back and get more.
You could have waited.
There was nothing forcing you to publish last Sunday.
Well, uh, we had the fact that one of these women was brought upon by Keen in a hotel room and was made to feel very uncomfortable.
But you can't tell me what the overture is.
With these kinds of stories, obviously, the first story might not have all the information that you want.
That that that right, that's that's why we're where we are.
That is why we are where we are.
The sources are sensitive.
Why should these sources be sensitive unless it was the women who were under the confidentiality agreements?
Who was sensitive here?
Well, what is this about?
Well, these kinds of stories, obviously, the first story might not have all the information that you want.
Well, we one of the No, I can't tell you what it is.
In fact, the first story said, I'll never forget this, that uh the gestures were not overtly sexual.
Jeez, folks, just cheat.
You know, as a member of the older conservatives, more oriented uh toward uh provocation.
Uh, I have a question.
And this is this, I think this is fundamental.
Is it this soundbite that we just played with Jonathan Martin where he said as justification for doing the original political story on Herman Cain?
Well, we had the fact that one of these women was brought upon by Kane in a hotel room and was made to feel very uncomfortable.
You folks, I get uncomfortable when room service shows up when I'm in a hotel.
What is this?
That's not a fact of anything.
It is an accusation.
And more than that, it's a touchy feely accusation.
How many people are made to feel uncomfortable every day by other people?
What kind of wusses run the world now?
What kind of panty wastes run the world?
Who is it?
Yet hang with made you feel very uncomfortable.
I think it's when 50,000.
Every day, we all are made to feel uncomfortable by something.
I would be afraid to complain how many times I'm uncomfortable.
For crying out, well, that's the whole point.
A nation of whiners and complainers who want to be paid for it for being offended or being made to feel uncomfortable, but so what?
By what?
Mr. Martin, what the hell is the problem here is that that is not a fact.
Not yet.
That's an accusation.
Yes, I was made to feel very uncomfortable.
I've brought up brought upon by Kane in a hotel room.
What does that mean brought upon?
Brought to the hotel room.
You know, we older, crusty conservatives, we name our victims, Kathleen Willie, Juanita Broderick, Monica Lewinsky, we name them.
And they say we don't do reporting.
We find out the names, we find out where the Siemens stain blue dress is.
And then we tell everybody about it.
We don't deal, and then you went, we crusty old, hardened conservatives who only care about provocation, and our younger brethren who are more interested in reporting are still in diapers.
F. Chuck Todd, worried that Herman Cain's strategy is working this morning on MSNBC's Daily Rundown.
It's soundbite number 11 as we stay in order.
One of the women who've accused him have gone public.
And without an aggrieved party disputing his version of events, Kane has avoided the he said she said situation.
So while wildly criticized by the media and some establishment Republicans, Kane's response strategy seems to be working for now.
Anybody else getting flashbacks to Bill Clinton?
Remember, all of those charges were supposed to take him down.
In 91-92, it eventually made him stronger.
Oh, really?
So now this is going to make Cain strong.
What made Clinton stronger was you guys.
That's what made Clinton stronger.
Clinton lied about it at first.
He denied it.
None of it ever happened till Jennifer Flowers had the tapes, and Monica Lewinsky had the dress.
They marveled at his lies.
They marveled at how clever he was able to lie to them.
They were impressed.
They were dazzled.
They begged him to lie even more to them.
They were so impressed by it.
And I thought Herman Kane didn't have a strategy.
I know David Gregory told us on Friday, that was a big thing that really shocked the media, ticked them off.
Cain didn't have a strategy.
So F. Chuck Todd.
Remember Bill Clinton, all those charges supposed to take him down in 91 and 92 and eventually made him stronger.
What made Clinton stronger is the media lied for him.
The media lied about it.
The media lied and said that it never happened.
Now, somebody correct my memory if I'm wrong on this.
Didn't Gloria Allred a few months ago in an interview with Kennedy.
Didn't Gloria Allred say she liked it when she was groped by TSA guys.
That it was the closest thing to physical intimacy she had had in a while.
Didn't she say that?
No, hey, wait a minute.
No, no, no, no.
Even if it was a joke, that's a serious thing to joke about.
We're not allowed to joke about that's no, no, no.
That's like being brought upon in a hotel room and being made to feel very uncomfortable.
As a viewer, that made me very uncomfortable.
I said, Oh my gosh, what's going on at Penn State?
Here's Gloria Allred joking about being groped.
We can't have that in our culture today.
That's too serious a thing to be groped for real.
And here is a lawyer joking about we can't have that, my friend.
What a horrible image for our weak, mindless population.
Speaking of that, let's move on.
This I love.
In the middle of an Occupy Chicago teach-in this week, traders at the Chicago Board of Trade dumped several sheets of paper on top of the heads of protesters below.
You know what it was?
Applications for employment at McDonald's.
I love it.
Demonstrators were angered to find out that they were showered with employment applications for McDonald's.
Occupy Chicago tweeted real class acts, the Chicago Board of Trade.
This week, it's McDonald's job applications.
They litter from the windows.
What a soulless place this place happens to be.
I think it's great.
And Rudy Giuliani, how about occupying a job?
And of course, there is an answer to that.
There aren't any because of Obama.
But they are not blaming Obama for the plight that they are in.
You could say...
You could say that Gloria Allred, even though she was joking, even though she was joking about.
And by the way, folks, how do we know she was joking?
It could very well be true that being groped by a TSA person is the most recent physical intimacy she's had.
I mean, there is a grain of believability about that.
But even if she's joking about it, wasn't she encouraging groping?
Isn't that how the left treats this kind of stuff?
She's encouraging groping.
She was out there and she said it was physical intimacy, and she didn't mind it.
She's really asking for it, too.
I mean, she's she what about the next time she went to the TSA checkpoint?
Did they really grope her because she said she liked it?
I wonder if political would be really offended by this.
A lot of people are being made to feel very uncomfortable by what Gloria Allred said.
So we gotta stop the presses and find somebody that we can proclaim guilty of making somebody feel uncomfortable.
Zuccati protesters have put up women-only tent to prevent sexual assaults.
Oh yeah.
It's in a New York Post.
Politico was right about something.
Sexual assaults are a problem.
It's just they're not taking place at Herman Cain or taking place with Occupy Wall Street.
The degenerates that make up that bunch of people, a mistake anybody could make, I guess.
If you're the political work, so we're going to be watching now for the next 100 stories of sexual abuse at Occupy Wall Street.
100 stories in the next five days from Politico about this.
It's a safe house from the sex fiends.
But there are no safe houses or safe tents in the middle of a mob run by community organizers.
That's the big myth.
Zuccati Park has become so overrun by sexual predators attacking women in the night that organizers were looking for Herman Cain.
just made that up.
And organizers felt compelled to set up a female-only sleeping tent yesterday to keep the sickos away.
The large metal framed safety tent, which will be guarded by an all-female patrol, can accommodate as many as 18 people and will be used during the day for women-only meetings, said Occupy Wall Street organizers.
This is all about safety and numbers, said Becky Wartel, 24 protester from Portland, Oregon, or Maine.
By the way, in Portland, Oregon, folks, a head lice outbreak at Occupy Portland.
Ah, it's a terrible thing, but I'm not making it up.
Yeah, it's somewhere up there.
Let me see.
Just a second.
Let me find it.
Head and body lice outbreak.
Announced in Occupy Portland Encampment.
Yeah, the future, the backbone of America, folks.
Occupy Portland, occupy Wall Street, occupy whatever.
And now women-only tent at uh Occupy Wall Street.
Occupy Vancouver protester dies at drug overdose.
A woman at Occupy Vancouver found dead on Saturday.
She apparently died of a drug overvos overdose.
She's in her twenties.
On Monday, a protester found dead in his tent at Occupy Oklahoma City.
The organizers referred to the man as street poet.
A homeless guy.
This is from Gateway Pundit.
Camp organizers provided him with food, clothing, and shelter at the camp where he died, but probably not paper and pencil to write his poetry, so he got depressed.
Canadian banks did escape a lot of the financial fallout, yes.
Yes.
So now, folks, if we with the head lice outbreak up in Portland, even the parasites have parasites.
I hope that comment made you uncomfortable.
Back in just a second.
We are back, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, the Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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And we're going to get to your phone calls, uh, El Quico here.
A little Spanish lingo is 800 282-2882.
Ohio voters told you about this a couple of weeks ago.
We've been keeping this in the outer edges.
Big election tomorrow, uh issue two, issue three in Ohio.
We got a health care ballot initiative.
I think it's issue three.
That's a biggie, by the way.
Issue three is the people of Ohio are going to vote tomorrow on exempting themselves from the mandate to buy health insurance.
And if they don't exempt themselves, that ain't going to help at the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court, these judges, you know, they follow the elections and they follow public opinion polls.
They'd never admit it, but they do.
And if the uh swing state people of Ohio say, hey, bring the mandate on, we'll be glad to be forced to buy insurance by the feds.
Then the Supreme Court can say, hey, you know what?
Could pay out the least resistance here, just say Obamacare's cool as is.
But if the people of Ohio say the hell with that mandate, we don't want any part of it.
We don't want to be forced to buy health insurance and vote it down, that's preferable.
But there's another issue.
Issue two.
And listen to how the LA Times reports this.
An aggressive Republican drive to weakened the labor rights of government workers appears to have crested, at least in Ohio, where voters are expected to throw out a far-reaching anti-union law this week.
The referendum over collective bargaining for public employees, potentially the most important contest in off-year elections around the nation, being closely watched for clues about shifting voter trends in a state expected to play its usual outsized role in next year's presidential contest,
barely seven months ago, newly elected Governor John Kasich joined other Republican governors, including Scott Walker of Wisconsin, in defying angry street demonstrations to push through a measure designed to curb the power of public employee unions.
Kasich, the focus of both sides in the referendum fight, touts his blue-collar roots as a son of a postman, but he warns that a victory by organized labor would undercut his efforts to hold the line on government spending and rebuild the state's economy.
This is Wisconsin redone.
And what it boils down to, folks, is uh uh people in Ohio are going to be voting whether or not to give away the store to public employees.
It's a vote to keep public sector workers better paid than the taxpayer who pay pay taxpayers who pay them.
Just like it was in Wisconsin.
And it's a giant money laundering scheme.
The more public sector workers there or there are, the more public sector dues there are.
Those dues are what fund Democrat Party campaigns.
And the more those state workers earn, the higher the dues, i.e.
the greater the amount that ends up back at the Democrat Party.
Now, Wisconsin, it was voted down, and you remember members of the state legislature fled the state uh trying to avoid voting on it.
Governor Walker prevailed there.
Kasich trying to duplicate it.
There's a polling outfit called public policy polling, and they say that it's it's over, that big union and its money is going to win handily, that there's no way.
And I don't believe that for a second.
Because I know that polling is used to shape public opinion, not reflect it.
The arguments by Kasich, whose uh popularity has fallen sharply since his election a year ago appear to have swayed few voters.
Public and private polling indicates that Ohioans, by a substantial margin, want to overturn the new law, which means, if this is true, that people in Ohio want to rape themselves.
People in Ohio want to pay higher taxes, to pay higher salaries to state workers, state workers who will earn twice what their private sector counterparts are.
This is what the polling is telling us.
Pensions, too.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
You're gonna be you private sector workers in Ohio.
The polling data says that you want to pay state workers twice what you earn and pay their lifetime pensions.
That's what the polling is telling us.
That big labor has won the day.
This is hardly even a contest.
Kasich, everybody hates him, this issue going down the tubes, there's no prayer.
That's what we're being led to believe.
Those of us that don't live in Ohio are being told that you who do, let me put it another way.
You live in Ohio and you make 45,000 a year, you are in favor of paying Taxes sufficiently high enough to pay a public sector worker $90,000 a year plus a lifetime pension.
That's what the polling says you want to do.
Does that sound right?
I mean, does that no?
Does it sound like it makes sense?
I mean, if you if if you if you put it, if you put the proposition to the residents of Ohio that way.
Dear Mr. Ohioan.
Now let me look at pick a number here.
You earn $40,050,000.
I don't care what.
If you earn $50,000 a year, you're going to vote tomorrow to pay the union workers in your state $100,000 a year.
And you're going to pay the lifetime pension, which means you are signing on to your own taxes being raised, however much is necessary to make all that happen.
That's what you want.
And not only are you voting for your taxes to go up, you're voting for your kids who may not even be beyond sperm stage yet.
The same thing.
That you in Ohio want yourself or your unborn kids to face never-ending tax increases to pay state public employees twice what you earn plus pensions after they retire.
And they can retire, what, after 20 years?
Not sure exactly how quickly they can retire, but that's what was on the ballot in Wisconsin.
It went down tubes.
And that's what public policy polling is telling us is going on in Ohio.
Now the Los Angeles Times article doesn't doesn't cite any specific poll.
They just say polling.
There is another story out there that cites public policy polling.
They're in there.
And from uh from from uh what is this uh Gallup?
Really the headline here says it all.
Democrats more liberal and less white than in 2008.
Party generated look generally looks demographically similar to 2008.
Well, then what how can it look similar if it's more liberal and less white?
In many respects, a demographic profile of Democrats nationwide is similar to what it was in 2008, although Democrats have become somewhat less white.
How did that happen?
Well, no, but I mean, if you become less white, does somebody paint you?
What what what happens?
Not spending as much time outside in the sun?
Democrats have become somewhat less white.
How does that happen?
I know Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson became less black.
He did it with Bleach, right?
Okay, so how do you must be spending more time in the sun to become less white?
All right.
Um anyway, the Democrats have become somewhat less white and more liberal than the party that nominated Barack Hussein Obama, mm-mm-mm, uh, as its presidential candidate to that year.
As a group, Democrats are more likely than average to be women and non-white, less likely to be religious or married, much less likely to be conservative, and much more likely to be liberal than the U.S. population.
In other words, they're totally outside the norm.
The nation's Democrats are totally outside the norm.
But you see, I'm I'm sort of saddened, but I thought Obama was gonna make all this race stuff go away.
It's uh not happened, has it?
So Ohio is gonna vote tomorrow uh whether or not they want to become Greece.
And here's Gloria Allred with Hannity.
This is from November of 2010.
Yeah, they did.
It was the first time anybody touched them in a long time, and frankly, I liked it.
Question was Did the TSA people touch your body parts?
Yeah, first time anybody touched them in a long time, and frankly, I liked it.
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