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Dec. 12, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 12, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Good grief.
I didn't even have a television on over the weekend.
And I'm no, for football, I had it.
Well, barely for that.
I was in Dallas, and I went to the Cowboys Giants last night, and I went out to dinner Nick and Sam's on Saturday night.
I didn't watch the debate.
And I watched a little football on Sunday before we went to Cowboy Stadium, but I got the soundbite roster here, and again, I'm all over it.
I'm being blamed for all kinds of stuff again.
I'm being blamed for Newt.
I'm being blamed for the lousy Republican field.
I'm being blamed for everything.
It all happened all over the Sunday shows.
I don't know.
I haven't listened to these.
I just now got the transcript of all the soundbites.
And I'm David from Rush Limbaugh Killed My TV Career is responsible for lousy GOP field.
I haven't read it.
Then says Rush Limbaugh is the reason the GOP field is weak.
See, I told you, so Obama thinks he's above the job, above the country.
So I said that.
We got a couple sound bites here from John Meekum and Mike Barnacle who say that Obama feels America is not commensurate with his gifts.
So I was right about that.
Liberal reporter, Rush Limbaugh, tribal leader, state-run media, spends all weekend talking about Russian Newt.
I mean, I can't escape it.
I wasn't bothering anybody.
I didn't do anything over the weekend.
I was out of sight, out of mind.
I mean, I've met a lot of people over the weekend, but I mean, I wasn't involved in this stuff.
Played golf with Trump on Saturday at Trump International here.
He and I played in the Trump International member guest, or member member, actually.
I'm a member of the place.
It was a member member.
And Trump and I won it.
We won the thing.
I had to skedaddle out of there.
We teed off at 8.30.
The shotgun started at 8.30.
We teed off.
I finished at, I mean, we for a tournament, this was lickety-swift, four-hour round.
But we finished five or ten minutes before everybody else did.
And Trump was convinced that we had won.
So he posed with pictures of the trophy.
And we just went and grabbed the trophy.
We took some pictures holding the trophy, and he gave me the trophy, and I drove away.
I had to go home, get ready, get on the airplane, go to Dallas.
And I wasn't wrong.
I mean, there was a lot of trophies, by the way, because there's a lot of different places you can finish.
So I got an email from a friend yesterday, the day after terms, saying, I understand you won the member member with Trump and that you carried the team.
Well, I don't know about that, but the word had spread.
So indeed, we did win it.
And Trump shot like a 70 or 71.
And I know you're all wondering.
I tried.
I tried to discuss this.
He wasn't interested in talking much politics.
We talked a few minor things, some people, a little bit about Obama, some of the people in Republican Field.
And he did say that he was curious.
He said, all these people are calling wanting my endorsement and they won't show up at this debate.
They said, I got to praise Newt.
I mean, Newt's the first guy shows up.
He's got guts.
He's got courage.
Santorum.
And I don't know.
I tried to engage him a couple times.
And he did.
I mean, all he wanted to talk about was how great his golf course was.
You ever seen a place that's the best?
He said, have you ever seen a hole that's this beautiful?
There's not a golf course in the world that's got a hole that looks like this.
Am I right?
Am I right?
I tried, folks.
But not a whole lot of.
He doesn't know.
He doesn't know.
I asked him, are you still going to, I don't know.
He said he didn't know what he was going to do with the debate.
Really, really, I mean, I expected when I got the invitation to play, I expected that this was going to be a lot of politics discussed.
There wasn't very much at all.
It was strictly about golf, you know, stories about some of the people we were playing with.
It was what it was, and we won.
Now, it's the first time I'd played in like six weeks, maybe longer.
I was actually hitting the ball pretty well now and then.
I would not have scored great if it was just me on my own, but you're the best ball out of the four.
We did play pretty well.
I don't think Trump ever loses these things, though, if he wants to win them when you boil it all down.
Anyway, folks, how are you?
I hope you had a great weekend.
We were in Dallas over the weekend.
We went back to Nick and Sam's.
It's just a great restaurant, steakhouse atmosphere.
It's where we had our Super Bowl party last year when the Steelers played the Packers.
And then we went to the game last night, and we left to fly home mid-third quarter, which is what we always do.
And we watched the rest of the game and what a finish it was.
Snerdley is depressed.
Snerdley thought the game was in the bag.
He's a big cowboy fan.
And he came in today, asked me, did you stay for the whole game?
And I really rubbed it in.
I said, oh, yeah, you had to be so excited.
I mean, what a game for you.
Acting like he won it.
I was.
Anyway, let's get some of these audio soundbites since I've told you about them.
I mean, I've got a lot of stuff in the stacks of stuff here today to get to, but let's start with the audio soundbites.
Let's go to Friday night on the MSNBC.
The guest on the show is political correspondent Steve Kornacki from salon.com, and they're having a discussion about a Republican primary and me.
And the question, do Republican honchos hold sway over Republican voters anymore?
Look at a guy like Rush Limbaugh, who I think has absolute credibility with this exercised Republican base.
And what did he spend this week doing?
He spent this week making this a tribal test for his listeners.
Hey, anybody who's out there trashing Newt Gingrich right now, they're not one of us.
You don't have to listen to anything you say.
If you're part of our tribe, you're going to ignore them.
And with that going on, there's a new establishment, I think.
Well, so I am an I missed it too.
I'm a new tribal leader.
I've once again gone from being a worthless entertainer.
Now I'm a tribal leader again.
Not just a leader, but a tribal leader.
And not only that, I am the leader of the new establishment.
The Republican establishment has been beat back.
It's been beaten down.
And it's now me.
And I'm the leader.
This guy has mischaracterized.
This is you people that heard the programs last week.
You know that Mr. Karnaki here has mischaracterized it probably because he didn't hear it himself.
Even if he did, you have to have a certain degree of open mind to understand what I was talking.
I was not promoting Newt.
I haven't chosen anybody yet.
What I was pointing out was who the Republican establishment doesn't want and why.
And what I was pointing out was how the Republican establishment, both media and elected people, power brokers in the party, have decided to totally redo the formula in selecting a nominee.
Normally, what happens is you have a nominee, all the nominees in the primary try to secure the base, which means in our case, case of conservatives, you move to the right and you're pretty steady about it.
And after you get the nomination, then the presumption is that to win the general, you need more voters than just your base.
So you move back toward the center a little bit.
All this is strategic to pick up undecided independents, moderates, and what have you.
What I pointed out was that what the Republican establishment's trying to do is obviate this whole process and get a moderate chosen from the get-go by splitting the conservative vote in the primaries.
That's all I said.
And no matter where you look, we've had Perry be up.
We've had Bachmann up.
We've had a couple of others up.
Now it's Newt's turn to be the anti-Romney.
And right now, Newt appears to be the most solid anti-Romney.
But I also said last week, I gave some advice to Romney.
I said, Mitt, if you ought to win this, flip full-fledged to the right, get to the right of Newt.
It's possible to do that.
It isn't too late.
Get to the right of Newt and wrap this up.
He's not listening to me.
I don't expect him to.
This is the big thing.
This is the thing these guys don't understand.
I do not do this program with the expectation that these candidates are going to listen to me.
I do not do this program with the hope that they listen to me.
I do not have that kind of ego.
I'm not in their business.
I am a radio guy.
I am happy to give them advice, but I don't expect them to follow it.
Why?
Because I'm not in their business.
I wouldn't let them tell me how to do this radio show, for example.
They don't know the first thing about it.
No, Snerdley, don't.
This is very important.
And I don't want you people that misunderstand me.
I am not just offering all that I say randomly and with no purpose.
I don't want you.
The program is about you.
I'm being honest about what I genuinely think.
I'm talking about them, not me.
I don't expect these people to take my advice.
In fact, just the opposite, especially when you start talking about the Republican establishment.
I'll illustrate it another way.
You probably figure, you in the audience probably think that I am invited to attend a lot of things where there are political professionals in attendance, consultants, pollsters, people of that type, even elected officials.
And you're right.
I am invited.
What you don't know is that I never go because it's a waste of time.
A, I know what they're going to say and do.
And B, I know they're not interested in what I'm going to say.
Pure and simple.
And I don't take this personally.
None of this bothers me in the slightest.
But these guys on the left, like this Carneckie guy and all these others, they think all these people are hinging on every word I say.
And I've become the de facto leader of the new establishment and so forth.
And all these Republicans are doing what they're doing or not doing what they're not doing because of me.
And while that may well be true, don't know, still is not the express purpose of what's going on here.
You know, I, folks, I'm going to tell you something.
If I took personally, whether politicians listen to me or not, I would be in a straitjacket in a very small room with padded walls 10 years ago.
I would have gone nuts.
I learned long ago not to allow my expectations to get away from me, certainly not to have unrealistic ones.
So, you know, I do what I do.
I say what I say.
You and I know that it's right.
But when I say Mitt, you got room to the right of Newt, go there.
I know he's not going to do it.
That's not the strategy.
I know what they're trying to do.
They're trying to wrap up this nomination with a moderate from the beginning to the end.
They don't want to flirt with a conservative, and that's why they're ticked off at Gingrich, and that's why they're afraid of Gingrich.
But last I checked, I haven't endorsed anybody.
But they are assuming now, because they don't know how to listen to this.
They don't know how to take in context what happens.
They're assuming because of last week that I've endorsed Newt, which I haven't done.
Here, let me give you an example.
We have a montage, state-controlled media, all weekend talking about me and Newt.
And Rush Limbaugh believes the more the party regulars attack, the stronger Gingrich gets.
They had a rough patch earlier this year.
It's almost like old times now listening to Rush talk about Newt.
Rush Limbaugh has come out and said, they told us who to vote for last time.
Don't let them tell you who to vote for this time.
Rush Limbaugh suddenly singing Newt's praises.
When Newt Gingrich came out and said that the Paul Ryan plan was right-wing social engineering, Rush Limbaugh all but flayed him alive.
First, I listened to Rush Limbaugh.
I thought he was actually lining up against Newt here.
As I look at it, I think, in fact, he's rolling over Romney here and would prefer to see Newt.
So they're throwing it up against the wall, hoping something will stick without the slightest idea how to interpret what's going on.
Is there anybody more plain spoken than I am?
I don't speak in codes.
It's three hours unscripted every day.
What was your question, Snerdling?
Right.
I don't know.
Well, I can't explain these.
When I think Newt or anybody is wrong, I call them on it.
And when I think they do something right, I praise it.
But look, it is a backhand accomplishment in a way.
I mean, the news media can't believe that the candidates don't listen to me.
They think they do.
I know they don't.
But they think they do.
And even after I'm saying this, won't matter.
They listened.
But look, I'm not.
They're going to listen to a consultant 10 times more than they'll listen to me.
And they'll read polling data far more than they'll listen to me.
Folks, I don't want to get off track here, but all I'm telling you is that that doesn't bother me in the slightest.
These people in the media get all heped up about it.
David Frum, he was on reliable sources Sunday morning with Howard Kurtz, former Bush speechwriter, former conservative, in fact.
And during a discussion of his television career and me, Howard Kurtz and David Frum have this little exchange.
A couple years ago in Newsweek, you said the Republicans would regret ceding so much power to Rush Limbaugh.
What happened to your television career after you wrote that?
Oh, I used to do a lot of Fox TV.
And every once in a while, I would get a call from a Fox booker booking me for a show after that.
And an hour later, I would hear quickly back.
I would always say yes, even if I couldn't do it, just for the game of it.
And I would be told, we're going in another direction.
Yeah.
Then, apparently, wasn't through.
Kurtz said, well, here's what Kurt said.
How was the Republican Party ceding power to Rush Limbaugh?
He has a very popular radio show.
That doesn't mean that he is running the GOP.
How did the field get so weak?
That wasn't an accident.
They chose not to run because in one way or another, they understood that they would be unacceptable.
The talent pool got constricted.
And then even those who do run, who do have the talent, somebody like Mitt Romney, who's good at running things, he has to reinvent himself as something he is not.
All right.
So you see what I'm talking about here.
I'm minding my own business, basically having a football and golf week.
And I get here on Monday and find out I destroyed David Frum's TV career because Fox no longer asks him to come on and comment after he wrote a really irresponsible and wrong piece on me in Newsweek.
And then I'm responsible for gutless Republicans staying out of the nomination race.
They're afraid of me.
I'm the reason for the weak field.
According to From.
Now, and by the way, Kurtz's first question a couple years ago in Newsweek, you said Republicans would regret ceding so much power to Rush Limbaugh.
What happened to your TV career after you wrote?
What kind of question?
How does Kurtz know what happened to his career?
Did From say, hey, I want you to ask me a question.
Look, my TV career really blew up.
I need you to ask me about that so I can answer it.
Or has From written about it somewhere that Kurtz saw?
But what kind of question is that anyway?
What happened to your TV career after you wrote about Rush Limbaugh?
Why would anybody want to admit that?
Why would somebody want to admit that I destroyed their TV career?
He's on CNN.
It is destroyed, but why would you want to admit that I could do that?
As usual, in a story in the mainstream media, I had to check three different places to get the truth about something.
Justice Elena Kagan of the U.S. Supreme Court, in the first story I read, said she recused herself from the decision to take the Arizona immigration case.
Supreme Court has decided they're going to take the Arizona immigration case.
And the story said that she recused herself from the decision to take it.
That's all it says.
Well, what about the actual case?
Is she going to recuse herself from that?
And then somebody says, yeah, she's recused herself all the way.
I said, I can't find that.
All I can find is she recused herself from the decision.
Then I found the L.A. Times.
Justice Elena Kagan, formerly Obama's solicitor general, said she'd sit out the case.
So that makes it sound like she's going to recuse herself from the whole case, which, frankly, I have trouble believing.
Liberals don't do this.
Is she going to recuse herself from the Arizona immigration case?
How can she not recuse herself from the Obamacare case?
And in this case, it takes it down to 4-4.
I don't know how that's going to play out on the Arizona case, but Obamacare, under presumption is it's going to be a 5-4 case either way.
Anthony Kennedy supposes what everybody says, swing vote, but nobody knows which way he's going to go in Obamacare.
Same thing here.
So if you take the ninth justice out, you're at 4-4.
What do you do when you tie?
So we'll see.
Anyway, that's the latest on that.
You know, I got to play this for you.
I've told you countless times how most recent instance being when, what's his name, Cadell and Sean, wrote a piece, Obama, you should quit and turn it over to Hillary.
That's not the way you go about it.
You got to tell him.
You don't tell a narcissist he's failed and to get out of the way.
You got to say, Barack, this job's beneath you.
This jobs, too.
You're destined for bigger.
You need to be running a world, Barack.
Running the United States is not even interesting to you.
We can tell your board silly.
That's how you get rid of him.
Then you tell him something far bigger, far more important out there than just being president of the United States.
Well, get this.
This is this morning on MSNBC on Morning Joe.
This is Mike Barnacle, syndicated columnist, along with John Meekum, former editor of Newsweek and now the Random House executive editor.
He has remarkable gifts.
He's eloquent.
He's convincing.
He's clearly very smart.
He wins the presidency in 2008, overcoming all sorts of doubts and surpassing a field filled with a couple of truly, truly good candidates.
I think he is stunned, given his gifts and his inability to get anything really done in Congress.
I think he's stunned by it.
In a weird way, the country is not commensurate with his gifts.
That's a harsh thing to say, but I have a feeling in the dark night of his soul, that's what he feels.
I think he thinks that this is an 18th century constitutional republic that needs significant updating.
See, this is how you do it.
This is John Meekum.
Yeah, this country's so beneath Obama.
This country's so beneath him.
It's not commensurate with his gift.
That's how you do it.
That's how you get rid of him.
That's how you convince him to move on.
You tell him that this is so, so above this chump country.
That's how you do it, folks.
They listened to me.
They did listen to me.
I want to go back to this soundbite and replay this from Morning Joe today, Mike Barnacle and John Meekum.
I had to cram a lot of analysis into 15 seconds.
I didn't get to say a word about what Barnacle said, only Meekum.
But remember now, the whole point of this is that I said that Sean and Cadell are blowing it.
If they want to get rid of Obama as a Democrat Party nominee, the last way to do it, the wrong way to do it, is to tell him he's failed.
And he's blowing it.
He's going to blow it for the country.
He's going to blow it for the party.
It's a narcissist.
You're not going to get through to him.
But if you tell him, Barack, the world needs you.
This country's so beneath you.
This Constitution doesn't permit somebody as smart as you to fix it.
You're up against obstacles here.
You need to much bigger.
That's how you get rid of him.
That's what I suggested a couple of weeks ago.
And these guys have finally done it.
These are the guys listening to me.
One thing we know, the news media definitely listens to me.
The news media listens to me more closely than the Republican leadership does.
The news media, the Democrats, hang on my every word.
The Republicans don't.
They couldn't care less.
Here's this soundbite.
Let's focus on Barnacle here because Barnacle talks about his remarkable gifts.
And I want to know what those are.
He has remarkable gifts.
He's eloquent.
He's convincing.
He's clearly very smart.
Stop.
Based on what?
See, here's this thing again.
He's very smart.
If there is anything that is hamstringing the Republican nomination process, it's this smart business.
I said on this program two weeks ago, and I sent this note around to some friends to prove it.
I said it on this program.
The thing that worries me, in fact, that's not how I put it.
I said to a couple people and on this program that we are, a lot of voters, a lot of people calling this program, seem to be focusing on one thing, and that's whether or not we have a nominee that sounds smart.
Because our voters are fed up with dumb-sounding Republicans.
You know it, and I know it.
Remember how the left made fun of Bush, thought he was a stupid idiot because he got deer in the headlight eyes when he was on camera?
And then the same thing was said about Rick Perry.
Romney looked smart.
Everybody was happy.
But Gingrich has come along, and I'm convinced that one of the things propelling Gingrich is that he sounds smart.
And our side is longing, yearning for somebody who sounds smart.
And our side is also of the belief, and I've even argued with Snerdley about this, and Snerdley's argued with me on the air about this, that debates are factors in winning elections.
And certainly in presidential elections, I just don't see that.
You can maybe sign a colleague Gerald Ford goofing up what was and what wasn't within the Soviet bloc.
And, you know, Reagan telling Jimmy Carter and another Republican primary, I paid for this microphone.
But in terms of there aren't enough presidential debates, there's probably only going to be one or two with Obama.
There aren't enough of those things to matter.
Organization, money, ideas, ideology, that's the kind of stuff that triumphs.
We've got people who are so fed up with Republicans sounding like idiots that somebody comes along and sounds smart because, why?
Because we've been told how smart Obama is.
And why do we think Obama's?
We haven't seen anybody's grades.
We've got every Republican is getting a media anal exam on his religion, for example.
The media hasn't dared once look into Obama's religion because that would mean looking into Jeremiah Wright.
And Jeremiah Wright's off limits.
Jeremiah Wright was off limits 2008, and we've been told Jeremiah Wright's off-limits this election.
So Rick Perry questions Obama's religion or whatever he did in the debate.
So what does Obama do?
Goes to church yesterday for the first time since Easter.
And the press, rather than talk about the hypocrisy of that, praises Obama as a man of God and as a man of the cloth.
So while our candidates are getting the whole anal exam on their religion, we still don't know anything about Obama's, the closest we can get to knowing anything about Obama's religion is Jeremiah Wright, and it ain't pretty, folks.
If Obama happens to agree with the religion of Jeremiah Wright, it's a problem.
And of course he does.
He's admitted it.
It's black liberation theology, a bunch of other stuff, and they won't go anywhere near it.
So we're also told Obama's smart.
Well, where are his grades?
Where are his grades?
They will not release his grades.
Nothing about law review.
All of this, we're just supposed to accept.
And we accept that he's smart because he sounds it.
And that's what Barnacle's saying.
He's eloquent.
With a prompter, yeah.
He's convincing.
Really?
Have you looked at the percentages of people who support his policies?
What do you mean he's convincing?
He's clearly very smart.
No, he's not very.
It depends on how you define it.
It's like saying somebody's rich.
Depends on how you define it.
There was a fascinating thing.
Get this.
This is a little off the subject, but get this.
I have said for years, Snerdley will back me up on this.
You'll remember this yourselves.
I've said for years, if you want to have a fun game, fun time, the next time you have people over for dinner, if you're in a group of people, run around to ask everybody what is rich to them.
I have been asking this question for 23 years, and you'll be amazed.
You will be amazed at the numbers you get from people, what they think is rich.
It is one of the most relative terms going.
Gallup has just come out with a poll about this.
The median income in America.
I was a little shocked at this.
The median income is $26,000.
In fact, that's so low.
Because the median means there are as many people below that number as there are above it.
It's not the average.
The median is there as many people that make more as there are who make less.
But to a certain group of people, earning $60,000 in this Gallup poll would be rich.
They earn at present less than the median, which is $26,000.
They were asked, what would make you rich?
Certain percentage, not a majority, a certain percentage said $60,000 would make them rich.
Now, Snerdley's nodding his head because for 20 years, this has come up now and then it's a fun thing to ask people.
Now, if you make $250,000 a year, you are in the upper 1%.
If you make $150,000 a year, you're in the top 2.5%.
But do you think if you make $150,000, you're rich?
To somebody making 60, you are.
If you're making 85, do you think 150 is rich?
Maybe.
It depends.
It's all relative.
And it's the same thing here with this intelligence business, this smart.
There isn't any quantifiable empirical evidence that Obama is smart because they won't show us that.
So it's all based on how he speaks.
And I'm telling you, this is going to be a problem because a lot of conservative voters are basing their vote on that.
Whether somebody can give a good speech, whether they think somebody is going to show up well in a debate because whether or not they think they're smart.
At the expense of looking at their policies, at the expense of examining what they believe in.
There are a lot of, for example, great leaders who are not Mensa.
There have been a lot of great leaders who you wouldn't put in the upper tier of intelligence.
By the same token, you could have people 160 IQ who couldn't lead an ant out of a molehill.
Is Obama a leader?
He's a community organizer.
If you give him enough money, he can buy what he wants.
He can buy people's allegiance.
He can buy their loyalty.
He can buy their actions.
But is he a leader?
No.
How many people have been inspired by Obama's program?
How many people have been inspired to give up on capitalism?
How many people have been inspired to give up on economic freedom and go along with Marxism or socialism?
If they had, there wouldn't be any reason to run a Republican opponent.
Obama would be so far ahead.
If this guy were a leader, well over half the country would be willing to give up their economic freedom and turn it all over to government and let him run it.
That's not the case.
I don't see all that.
But these guys are liberals and they're media types and therefore they are sycophants and they are going to die of anal poisoning if they keep this up.
He's convincing.
He's very smart, clearly very smart.
And he wins the presidency overcoming all sorts of doubts and surpassing a field filled with a couple true.
What doubts?
There weren't it.
Nobody had any doubts about the only people had doubts about him were liberal racist types who feared he wasn't authentically black.
Those were the only doubts about Barack Obama.
The media was doing puff pieces, building up as a messiah.
What doubts?
And then, here, resume the bite from right at that point.
He wins the presidency in 2008, overcoming all sorts of doubts and surpassing a field filled with a couple of truly, truly good candidates.
I think he is stunned, given his gifts and his inability to get anything really done in Congress.
I think he's stunned.
Stop it.
He's stunned.
He's so smart.
He is stunned he can't get these plebes to go along.
He is so stunned.
He is with his gifts, with his superior talent and intelligence.
He is shocked that he can't get these Neanderthals in Congress to go along with him.
So this whole business of Obama being smart is a total con job.
And mark my words, It's not going to redound well to our benefit if the sole characteristic we look at in our nominee is whether or not we think they sound smart.
I understand how you feel.
You're sick and tired of the Republican president or local congressman or senator sounding like an absolute hick, an idiot or what have you.
I know.
I know you're really sick and tired of people saying that candidates dumb and stupid.
You want somebody you think is shellac Obama in the debate by sounding good, but boy, that's tempting, I know.
I think it's wrong criteria.
And let's listen to Meekum again, former editor of Newsweek, now at, where the hell is he?
He's at the Random House executive editor.
What do you executive edit at Random House?
Books.
Anyway, here's what he says.
In a weird way, the country is not commensurate with his gifts.
That's a harsh thing to say, but I'm a feeling in the dark night of the soul, that's what he feels.
I think he thinks that this is an 18th century constitutional republic that needs significant updating.
Right.
So we're just not good enough for him.
He feels it.
He knows it.
We're just not good enough for him.
That's how you get rid of him.
That's, see, Mecham, listen to me.
This is how you convince Obama to give it up.
It's beneath you, Barack.
So many things out there.
Far more suitable for you.
This is so, this is like running a kindergarten.
It's just nowhere near your league.
This is how you get rid of him.
Oh, by the way, something else that I did over the weekend, I tasted, even though I had approved and selected the two new flavors of Two of By T, I tasted the final product in the bottles.
Folks, we're not going to be able to keep them in stock.
These two foot.
Well, I brought a bunch home.
I got it back late.
Look, I didn't even unpack.
I just trudged up there.
I had to do some quick things before I went to bed.
I'll bring some in.
But I'm telling you, this taste when I am given clearance, I'm not the marketing director.
I'm just the CEO.
And that's right.
Catherine is CEO.
I'm hired help, actually.
But when they're available for sale is when I'm going to announce it.
That's going to be pretty quick.
I'm just telling you.
I hope we've got a bottle.
We've got to get a significant quantity bottle that's still going on out there.
Look at it.
We're not like Apple.
We don't put things on sale that we don't have any of.
Okay.
Let me go to the phones.
People have been patiently waiting.
Chuck in Noonan, Georgia.
You're up.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Well, greetings.
I was thinking that Mick Romney's problem, both when he ran before and now, is that he fails to excite the base.
And I was intrigued that when he had his famous $10,000 bet, I thought he was having an almost a Reagan, this is my microphone moment when he was calling out Rick Perry and saying, listen, in so many words, put up or shut up.
You've been saying this and it's wrong.
And that was, I thought, rather dramatic.
Lo and behold, the response immediately and thereafter has been, wait a minute, the guy's making $10,000 bets.
He's totally out of touch.
He's this, he's that.
I'm thinking we all knew he was rich, so I don't get it.
It looks to me like he can't win.
Well, here's the take on the bet.
Mitt Romney has, what, millions of dollars.
A $10,000 bet is not exactly putting anything on the line for him.
That's number, he should have bet his house.
If he really wanted to make an impact, if he's serious, you've got to bet something commensurate with what you've got to lose.
And Mitt Romney losing $10,000, you know, even though he doesn't drink wine, you could do that at lunch if you invite enough people and go to the right place.
Also, I think he meant it as hyperbole.
I really don't even think he meant to do the bet, but it was not taken that way because it was – I think what's happening here is that nothing used to rattle Romney, and now it looks like little things here and little things there are.
They're being able to rattle him a little bit.
And the media interest is getting on him because the bet was so big.
Come on, who can bet 10 grand, Romney?
You're so out of touch.
10 grand?
People's homes are you offering a throwaway till you're really showing him how out of touch you are.
10 grand?
You should have bet him 100 bucks.
Other average people could relate to that.
My theory is he should have bet one of his houses if he really wanted to have this.
It's not, yeah, or yeah, you know, shave his head or something like that.
So it would really be a loss.
Okay, so the fastest three hours in media as evidenced by the fact that the first hour is over.
In the can, total la completa.
It's fini.
And I haven't even gotten the first item in the stack of stuff.
I went sound by route first.
We'll do that when we come back.
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