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Nov. 14, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 14, 2011, Monday, Hour #2
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Yeah, I really don't mean to harp on Memphis here, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
But you know, there you're you're if you're in Memphis, your local media is not telling you the truth about this uh serve dinner to kids school story.
Is now I'm holding here my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
Men's Health, Memphis is the fifth fattest city in the country.
Uh right here it is.
Fattest cities in America.
Memphis is number five.
Corpus Christi, Texas, number one, Charleston, West Virginia, number two, uh, El Paso number three, Dallas, number four, Memphis, number five, where we are is number sixty-nine.
That's right.
And uh to arrive at our rankings, we calculate a percentage of people who are overweight, the percentage with type two diabetes, the percentage who haven't left the couch in a month, the money spent on junk food from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and finally, the number of people who ate fast food nine or more times in a month from MediaMark research.
So uh Memphis is the fast fifth fattest city in the country, and they're going to start serving the kids dinner at school.
Again, just I'm not mean to harp on this, but your local media is giving you uh less than the complete picture, less than the full story.
It's a union incentive.
Uh more SEIU employees, more dues, which will be collected and then paid, rerouted to the Democrat Party.
Uh, greetings and welcome back, folks.
Rush Limbaugh here, the EIB network, thrilled to be with you as we discuss these momentous issues that face us and our country.
Obama has um put off a decision that would create tens of thousands of American jobs.
Keystone pipeline.
And he's put off a decision in a Keystone Pipeline as a campaign issue for campaign reasons.
His base does not want increased oil or natural gas reserves in this country.
They don't want more fossil fuels.
Therefore, there will be no pipeline built from Canada down to the Gulf to handle delivery.
Yet Obama runs around and he says we've got to break our dependence on foreign oil, meaning particularly Middle Eastern oil.
Canada's an ally, and Canada's our number one source for oil.
I think Mexico's two, Saudi Arabia's three, somewhere in there.
But point is what's good for America is bad for Obama and his re-election.
What's good for America, bad for the Democrat Party.
Obama has to oppose this so his base doesn't have a conniption fit and abandon him on election day.
My guess is that if the pipeline's still there to be authorized, he'll do it if he gets re-elected.
However, it may not be there.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said that he is going to step up efforts to supply energy to Asia now.
After Washington has delayed a decision on whether to approve a new oil pipeline from Canada to the United States.
In a subtle warning to Washington, Harper told Chinese President Hu Xintao that providing energy to Asia was an important priority for Canada.
Nothing subtle about that, folks.
It's about as subtle as oil rigs moving out of the Gulf of Mexico after Obama put on his illegal moratorium.
Harper told reporters on Sunday at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders meeting in Hawaii that now this does underscore the necessity of Canada making sure that we are able to access Asia markets for our energy products.
If the United States isn't interested, we're going to find another market that is.
And Reuters is calling these remarks subtle.
Nothing subtle about this.
It's also clear Harper knows what this delay really means.
It means the pipeline will never happen during an Obama regime.
That's what he knows.
And therefore he's got to find another market for the oil in Canada.
Since the United States Has made it plain that we don't want it.
We don't want the oil, and we don't want the additional 20,000 jobs to start and the potential 400,000 jobs that could come down the road with the construction of this pipeline.
We don't want that.
Obama's not telling us the truth.
He's not about creating jobs.
Not in the private sector.
That's just lip service.
He wants you to think that's his area of interest, but it isn't.
And do I have the, let's see.
Yeah, grab audio soundbite number seven.
This is Barack Obama on Saturday in Honolulu, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Summit.
You got the Boeing chairman, president CEO James McInerney interviewing Obama.
He said, one question, looking at the world from the Chinese side, is what they would characterize as impediments to investment in the United States.
And so that discussion, I'm sure will be part of whatever dialogue you have.
How are you thinking about that?
We've been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades.
We've kind of taken them for granted.
Well, people will want to come here, and we aren't out there hungry selling America and trying to attract new businesses into America.
Who is we?
Once again, the President of the United States insults the people who make this country work.
What has and hasn't happened to make these mystery people lazy?
Who is it that's lazy?
Who is it that's not trying to attract business to America?
Who is it that's just expecting, taking for granted that people are going to come here?
We aren't out there hungry, selling America.
No, we're not.
Because you, sir, are out there apologizing for us at every turn.
We were trying to attract oil.
We were trying to attract the business via the pipeline.
The Keystone Pipeline, sir that you stand in the way of.
But who's Obama talking about here?
Boeing denied setting up a plant in North Carolina because of laziness?
Is that why you're NLRB told Boeing they couldn't set up a plant in South Carolina?
Or was it because you wanted to protect union jobs and Boeing's jobs weren't union?
So is the president talking about American businesses who have something to sell, who are trying to stay in business, trying to stay one step ahead of the EPA, one step ahead of the IRS, one step ahead of Obama's war on prosperity.
I thought America's businesses were too greedy all this time.
I thought, as I listened to President Obama, that our problem was greed and selfishness and American businesses wanted all the money for themselves and they weren't willing to share it and give it to anybody else.
I thought that they were making too much money.
And I I thought we need to tell the world about our corporate tax rate, Mr. President, the second highest in the country.
That might be a reason why.
Maybe the president's talking about his commerce department.
If the president is saying it his regime has failed to attract new business, then fine.
You're not saying that.
Well, then who is he saying is too lazy?
American No, they he can't mean that, uh, Mr. Snergley, because he has said they're greedy.
The American business can be too greedy and too selfish, and they have more than what they need anyway.
So it can't, it can't be American business that he's accusing here of being too lazy.
Maybe he's talking about himself.
That's who's lazy.
I don't know who or what he's talking about.
Say we have gotten too lazy to attract new businesses to America.
We just sit around thinking it's going to happen.
He doesn't understand that businesses become targets in this country.
He doesn't understand that they become suspects.
I'll tell you, uh Rick Perry may lose his train of thought now, but it's obvious to me Barack Obama doesn't know what the hell he's talking about from the get-go.
I tell you, they are hellbent on keeping this Herman Cain story aligned.
I get this.
I do not know the source of this story.
Uh I go first reported by radar online.
A former boyfriend of Sharon Bialick, the Chicago woman who accused Herman Kane of sexual harassment, a former boyfriend will talk to reporters today to provide information supporting Bialick's claims.
The unnamed man whom Bialick said is a pediatrician.
Will hold a news conference with Gloria Allred, Bayalick's attorney at two o'clock Eastern in Louisiana.
The event was first reported by Radar Online of Celebrity News.
I don't know.
Why is he still unnamed?
I don't know, but I guess he'll probably be named when he shows up with uh uh Allred.
Bialik said that uh Kane reached up her skirt in 1997 when he was president of the National Restaurant Association following that alleged incident, Bialik said that she told her boyfriend at the time what happened, Cain denies the allegations, but the old boyfriend, who's um I guess still available now, wants to get in back on the action.
Is going to be dragged forward by Gloria Allred at 2 o'clock this afternoon, which is 40 minutes from now.
In the meantime, Randy in Erie, Pennsylvania, hi.
Welcome to the E.I. Boyfriend saw nothing, by the way.
Boyfriend saw nothing, boyfriend wasn't there.
Boyfriend only know what Bayalick told him.
Okay, uh Randy in uh in Erie, Pennsylvania, hi.
Megadito's Rush and greetings from Northwest Pennsylvania Steeler Country.
Great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Great to be here.
Uh I've been a student at the Limbaugh Institute for about seven or eight years now, and uh I've missed some, maybe some of the fundamental teachings because I'm having a hard time understanding this whole media thing where they will scream and yell about the First Amendment rights, but they are willing to surrender every other right to the whim of big government.
I don't understand that.
And and like I said, I've I've maybe missed some of your earlier speakings on that.
They're if I'm if I I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean.
Uh they are willing to surrender every other right to the what do you mean by that?
Give me an example.
So I guess Well, an example of that would be their trusting government to deal with every other aspect of life.
Well, they consider themselves part of government.
They're the same people.
They're the same, they they those are their friends, those are their buddies, those are the ones they trust.
They're just it's uh the media and governments are revolving door anyway.
The people move back and forth from government.
What happened though?
When did this when did this happen?
It's a fundamental thing.
I realize the media is a very important thing.
Oh, geez, this goes back uh post-World War II.
This goes back to Kennedy days primarily.
But I mean, you you could you can find evidence of this even before that, but uh I I would trace it in our modern era to the uh the Kennedy administration.
I mean, that that's that's pretty much when the media tried at that, I guess they they gave up trying to even make it look like they were nonpartisan.
Well, I appreciate you taking the time to talk to me, and I just will continue to listen from the Limbaugh Institute.
Well, I pr I appreciate that.
You um you are uh uh tell you the media will be the first to surrender the First Amendment to government, too.
They'll they'll gladly allow the government to censor others in media they don't like.
Well, with Fox, you see that happening all the time.
Well, and they try, you know, the fairness doctrine and talk radio.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
So they they consider themselves to be a branch of government.
They're just not elected, but they're their buddies.
They're all the one and the same people.
All have the same agenda, and they scratch each other's backs.
It's it's that's that's why.
No more complicated than that.
It really isn't.
Now, let me ask you, well, of course, we need to hear from a former boyfriend of Bialicks because Bialick hadn't made the case.
Here we have a former boyfriend of Bialick at two o'clock this afternoon.
Gloria Allred already told us this all happened.
That's all we need, right?
And Biolik has told us what happened.
Biolik has told us, Gloria Allred has told us.
Why now do we need the witness, an old boyfriend who didn't see anything?
Is it because for some reason nobody believes all red?
Is it because nobody believes Biolik?
And so we've got to add a third character witness here.
Because nobody believes I mean Gloria Allred has explained Biolik has explained everything Herman Kane did.
No, this is not a rhetorical question.
Well, I guess in a way it's a rhetorical question, but what can this boyfriend add that we don't already know about the allegations of Biolik?
I think it's a very reasonable question.
Biolicks told us everything.
Allred's told us everything, and now an old boyfriend is coming forward at two o'clock, who didn't see anything.
So it must mean biolik and all red are having problems being believed.
I don't know what kind of credibility the old boyfriend's gonna bring to this, but we'll see.
Harold in Boca, Raton, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Yeah, hi, Rush.
I don't know about you, but it seems to me it's demeaning for any of these uh Republican candidates to go on these quiz show style gotcha debates where they have liberal questioners.
I mean, I what if I was running, I wouldn't I wouldn't grow on any of these.
They're not true debates.
They're like quiz shows designed to make Republican candidates look look silly, like they're on a quiz show.
And maybe Sarah Palin had the best uh best strategy of staying out of this thing till later, and not even going getting involved in a silly process.
I kind of like that analogy, uh quiz show.
That's the way Scott Pelley was playing this thing on Saturday night.
He was playing as the Alex Trebek, who didn't know the answers to his own quizzes.
Yeah, why do they even go on it?
It's demeaning.
Uh that's where the Republicans think they have the best opportunity to reach people is through the mainstream media.
I've explained this countless times before.
That's what the Republican Party believes that they, to be successful, have to go through the mainstream media.
The mainstream media has to be the organ that reports what they're doing.
Um that has to be the the organ that believes them, uh, that gives them credibility, what have you.
That's they they do it because they think it's it's gonna be good cover.
I'll tell you this this debate Saturday night, take away the substance of it.
It was a debacle.
It was an absolute debacle.
Pelle ran this debate like a schoolmaster.
Your time is up.
Your time is up.
That's time, Senator.
That's time.
That's time, Congressman.
That's that's time, Mr. Mayor.
That's that's time.
Uh it's time, Mr. Speaker.
Uh and then he said something really weird, you know, he said, while not looking at the audience.
The audience is behind him.
Gosh, I wish I could remember this word for word.
Somebody booed somebody.
And Pelley said, We won't have that.
We'll put up with the applause, but we will not have the booze.
Yeah, we will not have the booze.
It was it was just strange.
And then they only tell it was an hour and a half debate, but they only televised the first hour of it.
So here is, and this is CBS's first debate, and they put it on a Saturday night.
Saturday night is the least watched night of the week for television.
So they put the Republican debate on Saturday night from eight to nine o'clock, but it's an hour and a half.
The last half hour is on the internet.
But they blew it.
Nobody could get the feed in the last half hour.
Or very few could.
So here's CBS's first shot At a debate with the Republican presidential candidates, and they can't even deem to televise the whole thing.
They put the second half of it on their on their website, which did not.
Which did not go well.
Here's Harold and uh no, no.
Adam, Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Megad Dittoes.
You bet, sir.
Longtime listener, first-time caller.
Thank you.
Um, like you, I was just channel surfing Saturday night, and I came across the Republican, you know, the debate, and I'm going, wow.
This is the first time I get a chance to see it, so I'm listening.
And um I was kind of impressed when uh the moderator asked, I think it was Newt, and he said he was asking, what would you change about Romney?
Or he made some comment about what he didn't like about Romney.
And Newt said, I'm not here to question what's wrong with Romney.
I'm against Obama.
And uh he kind of just he said uh and he never answered them.
He didn't answer them.
And I thought that was pretty impressive.
Finally, they're joining together, maybe.
Well, no, that Newt has adopted this uh this position throughout all of these debates.
That's Newt is remaining very consistent in suggesting that everybody in that stage real opponent is Obama.
And then anybody in that stage would beat Obama and anybody in that stage would be preferable to Obama.
And the enemy here is the media.
And that's that's that's been the position that Newt has taken.
He's been very consistent uh with uh with that.
Different politicians have questions different ways.
Some answer the question, some take the question as an opportunity to say something entirely different from the question.
You know, how pathetic, how pathetic is it that you gotta go back to an old boyfriend to back up your assertion.
If you had to go to an old boyfriend to back up your assertion that you'd been sexually harassed, 14-year-old boyfriend or 14-years-ago boyfriend, So let's review.
You got a press conference of Sheriff Bayalick and Glory Alred.
They both detail what Herman Cain did to him.
The poll numbers of Herman Cain are unaffected.
They can't bring Herman Kane's poll numbers down.
They cannot effective fundraising.
His fundraising, in fact, just the opposite.
Poll numbers go up, fundraising numbers go up.
So now here we have to go out and find a 14-year-old former, yeah, I see it, 14-year-old boyfriend.
How pathetic is that.
And the 14-year-old or 14 years ago old boyfriend is still available.
He's an obstetrician who loves children.
He is a pediatrician, obstetrician or pediatrician, which is it.
Whatever.
He loves children.
As he loves children.
And uh fine.
So they can't they can't ding Herman Cain.
Folks, uh, this next two stories.
Brace yourself.
These union stories just get better.
First one here is from Michael Hill at the state-controlled associated press.
Public workers get a boost from sick time cash out.
Danny Johnson, Demi Johnson, received more than a pension and a handshake when he retired from the Washington State corrections system in 2009.
Because he used only a quarter of his sick days over a 30-year-long career.
He was able to convert $15,000 of unused sick time into a tax-free account to pay health care expenses.
While the benefit is extremely rare in the private sector, where use it or lose it policies prevail, state and local government workers around the country can convert unused sick time into straight cash retirement credits or use them to pay for health care when they retire.
And the perk can add up.
In Ohio, 2,164 state retirees eligible to cash out sick time at a 55% rate received an average of $5,600 in the 2011 fiscal year.
More than 4300 departing Florida employees who retired or otherwise left state service last fiscal year averaged about $3,000 in sick time payments.
At least five received ten times that.
Denny Johnson, State of Washington guy.
Yeah, I worked for 30 years.
I worked in what could be a high-pressure type situation from time to time.
I was in the Department of Corrections.
I didn't make as much money as I could have in the private sector, but I did enjoy having things like seniority.
And benefits, at least half the states allow eligible employees to turn unused sick time into cash when they retire or quit.
Now I imagine some of you are saying, what's wrong with that, Mr. Limboard?
That's not only fair and complicated.
Well, you're paying for it.
If you don't find anything wrong with it, then hunky dory.
But you are paying for it.
You are paying for unused six days, sick days.
How many of you can cash in your unused sick days for cash when you leave your place of employment?
And have it be tax-free if you use it for health care.
How many of you can do that?
Brian, can you do that?
Never heard of it, have you?
It doesn't exist.
I can assure you, ladies and gentlemen, EIB employees do not have this option.
Except maybe the unionized ones, and I don't know them.
Well, I know EIB employees don't leave.
That's that's absolutely true.
Okay, so that's story one.
Uh precise counts showing how many employees receive sick time cash outs are difficult because benefits vary among union contracts and uh can even differ by hiring date.
Okay, so public workers get a boost from sick time cash out.
That's story one.
Now we move on to the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
We've got some numbers to work with here.
$100,600.
$79,558.
$63,671.
Lottery jackpots?
Nope.
Sick day payouts for teachers.
In the 43 years that Bill Mesh taught in the Rockwood Scroll District, he rarely took a sick day.
Even so, at the start of a new school year, the district would add more sick leave, 10 days in most recent years.
Those that went unused would accumulate with no limit, and when this guy, 66 retired this year, he had accrued 471 days of sick days at a value of more than 100,000.
It was there, I knew it, but I enjoyed where I was working.
I was healthy, said Mesh, who taught music.
Under district policy, the bulk of his sick pay benefit went to his retirement account.
The rest was paid in a lump sum of $35,000.
His unusually long tenure with Rockwood Scrolls was a major factor in his large payout, although two other teachers had accumulated values of $79,558, $63,671 for unused sick days.
The average takeaway was about $24,000.
In total, Rockwood, the Scrual District, Rockwood spent $1.42 million to pay departing administrators and teachers this benefit during the last screw year.
Now, again, who is paying that?
You, in the case of those of you in St. Louis, and it's not just those of you who live in the Rockwood School District, you're all paying for this.
Your taxes are paying for this.
Now, how many of you in St. Louis or elsewhere around the country are allowed to accrue your sick days?
And whenever you live on top of two months vacation, in this case teachers three, on but what when you leave the employment at the ABC Widget Company, how many of you get a payout of cash for your unused sick days?
Hazelwood, Missouri spent nearly as much as Rockwood on a similar benefit during the 2009-2010 school year before pulling the plug.
Diana Jolotta, a spokeswoman for Hazel, was as expensive.
We couldn't afford it.
Well, how did they get away with that?
Just saying you can't afford it at the government's not good enough.
In fact, it never applies.
You can't afford it, you pay it anyway.
You can't afford it, you spend it anyway.
If you're at the government, but far more districts are sticking with their sick leave policies, and they're doing so at a time when finances are tight, with districts raising tax rates to make up for lost property tax revenue and stagnant state spending.
Sick day payouts are rare in the private sector, said Jeffrey Keefe, a professor at Rutgers, who studied public versus private employee costs for the economic policy institute.
The nasty part of this whole thing, he's far as I'm concerned, is what happens at the end.
You've got these odd situations where the employee never uses a sick day, and it's the equivalent to winning a lottery, Keefe said.
You use them or lose them is basically the policy of the private sector.
That's right.
Use them or lose them.
Not in the public sector.
Use them or don't use them, and you will be paid for them.
Something you in the public sector just do not get.
23A, let me see what 23 is.
Oh.
That's a good one, too.
Here's here's uh Scott Pelley admonishing lecturing the boers Saturday night at the Republican debate.
That's time, Governor.
Uh ladies and gentlemen.
Ladies and gentlemen, the applause are lovely, but we will not have booing.
Thank you very much.
We'll have we'll have courtesy for all of the candidates on the stage.
Have courtesy for we just won't have it.
We won't.
We won't have the booing.
Uh Champaign, St. Louis Park, Minnesota, I guess.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes.
It's an honor talking with you, Mr. Rush.
Uh, you're welcome, Champagne.
What I wanted to bring to your attention is I think we should let the during the debt debate, we should let the kick the cuts kick in, and uh the 1.2 trillion will kick in, which will be $600 billion in the military.
I'm a big military supporter, but that's $50 billion a year for 10 uh $60 billion a year for 10 years, and then we'll get the other $600 billion in domestic cuts, and then we don't have to raise taxes.
Well, you want six hundred billion dollars in defense and and and it's it and six hundred billion dollars in uh in in Medicare.
Those are the two items of the big the big items that would be cut.
Yes, that would that's okay with me because within ten years we're gonna be 25 trillion in debt, and it's gonna happen anyways.
Yeah, it's out of our control.
Well, it may not make get the cut.
It may not happen.
Depends on who's elected.
It uh it may not happen.
Thing is, uh this is another $500 billion on top of the $500 billion we just cut.
We may need the military someday, even with Obama.
And I I just but the whole point of this now, look, I understand what you're saying.
Look, these cuts have got to happen.
Let's bite the bullet and do it, right?
That's your that's your your thinking on this.
Yes, that's my thinking on it, but it doesn't matter how you look at it.
The sentiment in the United States now is we have to bring most of our troops home.
If we bring most of our troops home and redefine our military, we can we can make $50 billion a year cuts and still be just as strong if we if we well, you realize now the strategy here on the part of the Democrats is to let this happen and then blame the Republicans because there will also be health care cuts that will be pretty sizable.
And the strategy is to go ahead and let these cuts happen and uh and blame the Republicans as part of the campaign.
The Democrats are of the opinion people really don't want this stuff cut.
They might be saying so, but when it happens to them, they aren't going to be happy.
And the strategy, as I say, go ahead and let this stuff happen.
The Democrats' strategy is to not come up with a deal.
And then blame all of what happens, whatever it is, the chaos on Republicans.
Well, we have the debt debate going on and we have to negotiate something.
So I don't think we have much of a choice.
Well, the reason we don't have much of a choice is because the Democrats do not want to cut anything.
They don't want to cut anything.
Therefore, they think that if the automatic cuts kick in, they're of the belief that most of the country doesn't want cuts of this size, and that they can turn this into a big electoral advantage for Obama.
As a companion story, th thanks much for the uh for the call out there, Champagne.
Here are uh uh companion story here at the Bidness Insider.
Desperate Obama campaigns secretly asking Bill Clinton how to get re-elected.
One year out from the election, the Obama team apparently worried enough about their chances at re-election that the president's top advisors secretly met with former President Clinton in Harlem last week to seek out his advice.
Joe Connison at the national memo reports that the two hour plus meeting, which included Chief Advisor David Axelrod, resulted in Clinton peppering the Obama operatives with dozens of probing questions, specific suggestions, not only concerning their strategy and message, but how to handle a leading Republican candidates too.
Economic conditions and how to address them dominated the discussion.
You know, I wonder if Clinton's gonna say, I tell you, boys what you need to do.
You need to find Ross Perot or somebody like him and have him run as a third party, because that's what really helped me out was a third party candidate.
That's what you need.
Something out there that's gonna split the Republican vote.
You ain't Clinton told him that.
I don't think so.
I don't think Clinton wants everything his election was due to a split Republican vote.
So he'll chalk it up to great strategy and so I wonder if he's being paid for this for this advice.
And the real question is, is Clinton giving them good advice or bad advice on purpose.
Given that he might not want Obama to win re-election.
You have to I would if I were the regime, I would I would factor that into whatever whatever Clinton tells them.
Who's next?
Danny in Memphis, ooh.
Welcome, uh welcome the EIB network, Danny.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Very good, sir.
Thank you.
I was listening to your story about the free free meals to our kids here in Memphis.
And it's something you don't understand.
Oh, okay.
We're we're we're the second most obese state in the nation.
No, fifth.
Well, Memphis.
Only second to our neighbor down there in Mississippi.
Well, no, wait a minute.
Uh, men's health magazine has Memphis, the fifth fattest city.
You're saying Tennessee is the second fattest state?
Yes, sir.
Okay.
And we're only we're only second to our neighbors in Mississippi.
Wait, so you will not be second.
I get so you are you want to become number one.
Yes, sir.
We're gonna take that honor from Mississippi if we gotta feed these kids six free meals a day.
I got you.
Okay, that makes sense now.
So you're in a competition with with Mississippi, become the fattest state, and that's why you are in support of school dinner.
If we gotta feed them, we're gonna fade them.
Yes, sir.
You know, I hadn't looked at it that way, folks.
That's why it's always important for a local populace to weigh in on these things.
Independent of the media.
There, I didn't who would have thought of this?
Bragging rights.
I would have never thought of that.
I didn't see the state figures.
I only saw the city figure.
So Memphis is the fifth fattest city.
But you gotta be you got a chance to be number one in fattest state.
We we we're working on it.
We're working on it.
Yeah.
We've got to fatten them up.
Flatten them up.
We already giving them everything else for you.
Might as well give them a dinner free, too.
Well, yeah, Benny.
I Danny, I read I feel for you.
I probably wouldn't be so skinny if they had that program when I was in school, but we we had to we had to get out of school and then you're right.
You're right.
You're right.
Things change and we all we all have to evolve.
We'll have to evolve and accept the uh circumstances of the times in which we live.
Much needed perspective.
I I again uh happy for Danny's input here.
I I I wouldn't have uh ever considered that perspective.
That uh at all.
Okay, so what do we have here, folks?
Uh we got assault and rape and the rest of the Occupy Wall Street, other towns going largely unreported.
But Scott Pelley will not tolerate booing and debates.
He he he he he.
Dozens of job cuts at CNN.
Dozens job cuts.
Seeing in New York, Atlanta, Washington, Miami, Los Angeles staffers have been pink slipped.
Layoff notices being handed out across CNN U.S. starting last Friday.
Leave 50 positions are being eliminated.
And uh there's also a story of at the Corzine's place, uh thousands of people laid off.
They're all being laid off.
All the employees at MF, whatever it is, and uh no severance, and they're just they're mad.
They're really mad.
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