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Dec. 29, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 29, 2011, Thursday, Hour #3
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Rush Returns Live to bring you up to date on all the excitement out of the Hawkeye State as we get to the first real votes that pick real delegates for the presidential candidates this November with the Iowa caucuses.
25% Romney, 22% Ron Paul, and 16% for Rick Santorum.
The Santorum surge is underway.
That's the breaking news out of Iowa.
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Michelle Bachman has lost her Iowa chair, a fellow called Kent Sorenson, who switched his support to Ron Paul.
Michelle Bachman has accused Kent Sorensen of being bribed.
Quote, Kent Sorenson personally told me he was offered a large sum of money to go to work for the Ron Paul campaign.
Bachman said to reporters last night, according to Agence France-Presse, Kent said to me yesterday that everyone sells out in Iowa.
Why shouldn't I?
Then he told me he would stay with our campaign.
Three hours after appearing at a Bachman rally, he announced he was switching his support to Ron Paul.
And I think, insofar, I don't think he's going to, Michelle Bachman, if this has an impact on Michelle Bachman's support, I don't think that's going to go to, I don't think that's going to go to Ron Paul.
Ron Paul is basically going for the libertarian vote.
Well, Mr. Snerdley is like, he said, Horry, he's reacting.
He said, what snakes these people are.
Who would do such a beastly and dishonorable thing?
Greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for his friends, but to do it for the offer of a prominent position in the Ron Paul campaign.
How pathetic is that?
It's, no, come on, you know what these, Michelle Backman, Mr. Snerdley, has this reputation.
I love Michelle Bachman, by the way.
I think she's a terrific candidate.
She's been very good to my book.
She's been quoting my book all over Iowa, which is one reason why her numbers may be nosediving.
But I don't care.
She's been great.
She's quoted me on television and all the rest of it.
And I love her for it.
But she has this reputation that she's kind of tough to work with.
And she's lost a lot of chiefs of staff in Congress.
And her New Hampshire campaign staff quit.
And now her Iowa guy has quit.
I don't even care about any of that, you know.
I'm not that bothered about that.
Michelle Bachman has performed terrifically in the debates.
I love the way she's great at sticking it to Romney, sticking it to Newt, sticking it to Ron Paul.
And it hasn't, and for whatever reason, it doesn't seem to have paid off for her.
But I hope she survives Iowa.
I'm disappointed she hasn't campaigned in New Hampshire.
Well, Mr. Serdley is now suggesting that she might be the Hillary Clinton of this campaign cycle, that in fact this grotesquely sexist society of ours will not give a woman a chance.
She has said that America needs, as Britain did in 1979, that America needs an Iron Lady.
And if you're looking for an Iron Lady, she's there.
Ron Paul cannot be an Iron Lady because he has male genitalia.
So if you're looking for an Iron Lady, Michelle no, John now, Mr. Serdley is suggesting that John Edwards could have been the Iron Lady.
John Edwards.
John Edwards would be the Taffeta lady.
He would not be the Iron Lady.
Anyway, so America doesn't need a Taffeta lady like John Edwards at the helm at this critical time, Mr. Serdley.
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I don't disagree with...
Michelle Backman has run a terrific campaign.
She gets the urgency of this stuff, by the way.
As I said right at the beginning of the show, this election is critical in several ways.
It's critical because China is on course, according to the IMF, to become the dominant economic power by 2016.
If you don't want a world, this is unprecedented, by the way, this is a half-millennium shift.
If you don't want a world in which the leading economic power is a communist dictatorship with no freedom of speech, no genuine market, no genuine property rights, if you think that doesn't have consequences for the world, as Ron Paul doesn't, you're in cloud cuckoo land.
It matters, and if you don't want it to happen, you're going to have to elect a president who's pledged to reverse it.
If you think Obamacare is wrong, not just because it's unaffordable, but because it redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in malign ways, you're going to have to elect a candidate specifically pledged to kill it.
Because if we get a second Obama term, the likelihood of America surviving in any form that would be recognizable to the founding fathers grows very dim.
And I'm not like Newt, by the way.
Newt said he couldn't support Ron Paul.
I'm anti-Ron Paul.
I don't make any bones about it.
And the Ron Paul guys call me up and complain about it.
But if it was a choice between Barack Obama and Ron Paul, I'd rather see Ron Paul as president.
I'll tell you why, because they've got the same foreign policy anyway.
Both Obama and Ron Paul are anti-Israeli.
They're relaxed about Iranian nukes.
They're committed to the post-American world.
The only difference is that Ron Paul, at least on the domestic issues, is prepared to cut a trillion and whatever out of the federal budget immediately.
And he only wants the United States government to do domestically what it is constitutional to do.
And he's opposed to the Federal Reserve.
So on foreign policy, when it's Obama versus Ron Paul, it's a wash.
And on domestic policy, Ron Paul is committed to less insanity than Obama is.
And in the state of, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, by the way, the Virginia loyalty oath, the Virginia Republican Party, I asked who was Newt going to, because there's only going to be two candidates on the ballot, Romney and Paul, in the Republican primary.
And Newt has said he won't vote for Ron Paul.
So I assume Newt as a Virginia resident will be voting for Mitt Romney in the Virginia primary.
But the Virginia Republican Party has now said they're asking for a loyalty oath for Republican voters.
The Richmond Times Dispatch says that anyone who wants to vote must sign a form at the polling place pledging to support the eventual Republican nominee for president.
And anyone who refuses to sign the pledge will be barred from voting.
So Newt Gingrich, who is a resident of Virginia and has already said that he won't vote for Ron Paul, may in fact not even be allowed to vote in the Republican primary in Virginia.
Well, Mr. Surdley wants to know how they're going to enforce that.
And according to them, they say it's section 24 to hyphen 545 of the Code of Virginia.
You know that, Mr. Snerdley.
You can probably quote it back at me.
It says it allows the political party holding a primary to determine requirements for voting in the primary.
So, Newt, having gone on TV and said that he will not vote for Rod Paul if Ron Paul is the nominee, has just it's not only that he's ineligible to be on the ballot in Virginia, he's apparently ineligible to vote in Virginia.
This is what the Republican party's come to.
I don't have these problems.
If it's Ron Paul versus Obama, as I said, on foreign policy, one is as crazy as the other.
So, you might as well go with all the fiscal conservatism and the anti-Fed stuff on Rod Paul.
And if it's the others, I've got no problem with any of them.
But I do know this: what we were talking about with Congressman Gomez, where we now have the thing where Republicans spend in the House, spend ages, ages.
You know, they're locked in discussions, negotiations, trying to get a situation whereby they can roll back the provision that allows people who own a million dollars worth of property to be on food stamps.
And the Democrats, Harry Reid goes, you know, Harry Reid says, oh, no, you know, if we end the federal subsidy for the Cowboy Poetry Festival in Elko, Nevada, the streets will be full.
Cowboy poetry, it'll be like the bad old days when the cowboy poets will have to go and hold a cowboy poetry festival in an unregulated back alley.
They'll have to hang their 10-gallon hats on rusty coat hangers.
It'll be like the bad old days when there were just illegal cowboy poetry festivals, unregulated by the federal government, unfunded by the federal government.
And then they said, well, now the millionaire property owners, people who own a million dollars worth of property, if you say they're not eligible for food stamp, the streets are going to be full.
Park Avenue, Rodeo Drive, they'll be full of penniless people begging in hand-tailored suits for handouts so they can go and get a poor crust of bread to take back to their eight-bedroom mansion with them.
This is what we'll not do in the next presidential term.
If we're just trying to roll back the food stamps for millionaires, if we're just trying to roll back the federal subsidies for the Cowboy Poetry Festival in Elko Nevada, by the way, you don't need a federal subsidy for a cowboy poetry festival.
For a cowboy poetry festival, you need a cowboy, you need a piece of paper, and you need a pen for him to write the poem on it.
And that doesn't require, what exactly are we subsidizing there?
And is it even an efficient way to subsidize it for the guy in Elko, Nevada to have to put in for a grant from the Federal Department of Cowboy Poetry Festival grant application somewhere in Washington, D.C.?
No, it's not.
The minute you have this kind of national bureaucracy, it becomes vastly more expensive than it would in any other conceivable scenario.
And by the way, that's what you're going to have if you don't nail Obamacare in this term, because by then the bureaucracy will be in place.
And there will be hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats from Maine to Hawaii whose job is to administer the various provisions of Obamacare.
And so you will have a huge lobby group for not rolling back Obamacare, for expanding it, in fact, massively and unaffordably.
So this November, they always say this every time: that each election is the most consequential election of our lifetimes.
But this is it.
This is it.
Because this is the final victory of big government statism.
If you look at FDR and Social Security in the 30s, if you look at LBJ and Great Society in the 60s, and we now have the third wave, and the job will be done.
And you can walk around carrying your Constitution and talking about your First Amendment and your Second Amendment, and they'll all and the Statue of Liberty will still exist, still be there standing in the harbor and all the rest of it.
But in practical terms, we will be a big government status swamp, and digging ourselves out from that will prove as impossible as it is in Greece.
So this is consequential.
And I'm not like Newt.
I can live with Ron Paul as president if it comes to that.
I'd rather almost anybody else on that ballot one, but anybody else in the Republic field would be better than Republican field would be better than Obama.
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Let's go to Jim in Chester, West Virginia.
Jim, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hey, Mark, how are you doing?
Thanks for taking my call.
My pleasure.
Hey, anybody but Obama?
You just pretty much answered the question I was going to ask you.
Four years ago, back when they were gearing up for the nominees, it seemed that the Democratic Party was split right down in the middle between Obama and Hillary.
And, you know, you kind of wonder which way, you know, everybody was going to vote once they determined who their nominee was going to be.
You know, myself, I thought John McCain would just sail on in there, but unfortunately he didn't.
But now we seem to be faced with a similar situation.
We've got all these Republican guys wanting to be a nominee.
And, you know, it seems like everybody's worried that this is going to be a straight shot for Obama to be re-elected.
Well, there's a different dynamic.
The Democrats are kind of novelty junkies.
And so when Hillary, it was exciting when Hillary said she was going to be the first female candidate for president.
And then Obama came along and trumped her on that and made Hillary just seem like this tired old retread from the 1990s.
And the Republicans have the opposite problem in that they have a tendency to fall in line behind the guy whose turn it is, whether it's Bob Dole in 96 or John McCain in 2008.
But the thing here, Jim, is what will determine the election is whether all these kind of moderate independent types seriously understand what's happened in the last three years.
That huge sums of money have been wasted, just multi-trillion dollar waste on a scale unknown to man.
And if they think they can afford another four years of that and they get scared, I don't mean Ron Paul scared.
I don't mean Michelle Bachman scared.
I don't mean Rick Perry scared.
But by the time the media are through with Mitt Romney, he's going to be made to sound way as cookie as Ron Paul at his cookiest.
Because they're just going to do that to their guy.
They're going to drag Obama across the, they're going to do what it takes to drag Obama across the finish line.
What determines the election is whether all these so-called independent, moderate centrist types in a handful of so-called swing states understand the reality of the situation facing America.
I don't know what it's like in West Virginia, Jim, but do you have confidence in that so-called independent, moderate centrist, swing-aroonie type guys who determined the election?
You got confidence in them because last time round they took a wild flyer on Obama and the question is whether they know that didn't work out for them.
Oh, you know, I'm still looking for our Republican nominee to see who pops up there.
And like you said, I mean, there's some that are my favorite, you know, that I prefer more than others.
Who are you leaning towards at the moment?
You know, there's a lot of pros and cons on all of them, and I really hate to put a finger on any one of them, you know.
And I mean, you know, the reasons why.
Yeah, but let's say, look, the thing about Mitt Romney, they say, is there's no enthusiasm for him.
There's no passion there for him.
He's got like 25% of the vote, but the people don't feel he's a fighter and they're not kind of passionate about him.
Would you be happy with the Mitt Romney candidate, Jim?
Well, they're saying that the Obamacare was patterned after Romney care.
So if that's how he's thinking, you know, that's, you know, that's not really appealing there.
Well, he has a rather convoluted explanation for that, which is that he's pledged to reverse Obamacare because he thinks he makes a state's rights arguments that Massachusetts has the right to have a wacky health care plan.
But if New Hampshire wants to have a different health care plan and if West Virginia wants to have a different health care plan, he's in favor.
In other words, he says, let a thousand healthcare systems bloom.
And he makes a state's rights objection to Obamacare, Jim.
So presumably, if you trust him on that, he'll repeal Obamacare and cure that.
But how about if it was, say, Newt, your neighbor next door in Virginia?
You know, I kind of like Newt Gingrich.
My father's leaning towards him, and he's kind of pushing me that way myself.
I listen a little bit and try to pick out some of the finer points.
But, you know, you look back at some of his days, you know, a lot of the stuff with Nancy Pelosi and that.
And that's just something that, you know, I'm not the most political person in the world, but there's a snag on just about everybody, and it's really hard to.
Yeah, but in the end, you know, it's a two-party system, and that's more so in this country than in other Western.
I mean, up north of the border, they basically got four national parties at the moment.
One of them is a secessionist party, but basically in English-speaking Canada, they've got three parties, a three-party system.
And in Quebec, they've got a four-party system, and they've got multi-party systems.
Here, we've only got two.
So it's very simple.
It's A and B.
And if A is better than B and B is better than A, you've got to vote on that basis.
They don't have to be perfect.
But we're facing the same situation that the United States faced in 1980.
If there'd been a second Jimmy Carter term, the Soviet Union would have won the Cold War.
And the Soviet Union was kaput, but they would still have contrived to win the Cold War.
And a second Obama term will be a disaster for the United States of America.
And that means the guy doesn't have to be perfect.
As I said, we're looking for a 70%, you're looking for a 70% candidate.
And if he's right on the correct 70%, that's more than good enough.
More straight ahead.
Yes, Mark Stein for Rush.
Walter Williams here tomorrow.
But, but if you are fed up being discombobulated by sinister foreign guest hosts, Rush will be live.
Well, not live, actually.
He will be non-live.
He will be on tape, if they still have tape.
I should go back and start this all over again.
I've no idea.
Rush will be on Greta Van Susterman's show on the record on Fox News tonight, 10 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Pacific.
If you saw him a few days ago, this is like the second part of that interview, and it should be great stuff.
That's Rush with Greta, 10 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Pacific on Fox News tonight.
Breaking news.
You may have heard a couple of days ago that Cheetah, the chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies, had died at the age of 80.
But they're now calling into question this.
By the way, some of you conspiracy types who think that 9-11 was an inside job and the grassy knoll with JFK or whatever, this could be bigger than anyone.
They're now claiming that the real cheetah died back in 1938.
And this octogenarian chimp, who they now was not in fact the real cheetah, cheetah starred with Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane and Johnny Weismuller as Tarzan in the movies in the 1930s.
And then he retired.
He really didn't really make the transition to the new Hollywood, like the kind of angry young men, the Marlon Brandon types in the, you know, Marlon Brando got, I gather he was up for the Rebel Without a Cause, but they gave it to James Dean instead.
Then the 60s, the new Hollywood Bonnie and Clyde, he was going in, he was up for the role of Clyde, but Faye Dunaway said no, she wanted Warren Beatty for it.
Then they got into the Jaws thing, and Cheetah, Steven Spielberg era, and Cheetah was up for the role of the shark, but he just looked ridiculous swimming up and down the pool with the fin on his back.
So his career really nosedived after the end of the Tarzan movies.
And he was supposedly in retirement.
He was in a retirement for motion picture actors, and he supposedly died this week.
But they're now saying that Cheetah the chimp, in fact, this is a big, phony fraud, and that the real cheetah died in 938.
By the way, Maureen O'Sullivan, who played Jane in those movies, I saw her on TV a couple of years ago, and she claimed that the reason, if you look at the stills of Tarzan, Cheetah, and Jane, there's Johnny Weissmuller in the loincloth.
And if you look carefully at the stills, Cheetah always has his leg chained, and that's because apparently he had a thing for Johnny Weissmuller.
And he would always like, he would always basically just leap up and rip off Johnny Weissmuller's loincloth and have a go at him.
He was basically, if you think of Johnny Weismuller as Paula Jones, the whole scenario will become vividly, spring vividly to mind.
Cheetah.
Maybe that's what, maybe the real cheat.
No, no, he wasn't.
Maybe that's the real story, that Cheetah dropped out of the movie business and became governor of Arkansas.
Who knows?
Anyway, there is apparently some doubt as to whether cheetah is dead or not dead.
I'm not going to go there, Mr. Surley, by the way, before we went on air today, was mocking Mitt Robney's disparaging remark about Newt Gigwich.
You remember that Newt very modestly compared his setback in Virginia to FDR after Pearl Harbor, which is a modest comparison for Newt.
Normally, he's comparing himself with Emperor Napoleon and Alexander the Great, but he very modestly compared himself with FDR, and he compared the requirements of the Virginia ballot to Pearl Harbor.
I don't think, by the way, I don't agree with this.
If you've ever seen, you know, what was it, Admiral Yamamoto's line that he supposedly didn't say after Pearl Harbor, I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant.
In Newt's case, the sleeping giant never woke up in time to get the signatures to go on the Virginia ballot.
And he then said, We're going to organize a write-in campaign, which is apparently illegal in Virginia.
So the sleeping giant fell straight back to sleep again.
Admiral Yababoto would have had an easy time of it with this sleeping giant.
Anyway, so and so, and now it turns out that because of the loyalty of having got on TV and said he's not going to vote for Rod Paul, Newt Gigrich is unable even to get into the polling booth to leave an illegal write-in vote for himself in Virginia.
Anyway, Mitt comes out.
Mitt says, I gather he's comparing himself to FDR and Pearl Harbor.
I think it's more like Lucille Ball of the Chocolate Factory.
And by the way, this is the cutting-edge kind of pop cultural references that I think the Republican Party really needs to cement itself with young voters.
Because you know, the Democrats always have all the big celebrity endorsements.
And if you've ever seen the, I believe it's, you can get it at Barnes and Noble, the Encyclopedia of Republican celebrities.
It's a handsome leather-bound single sheet of paper with writing only on one side.
There's who are the Republican celebrities?
There's one of the Oak Ridge boys voted for George W. Bush, I heard.
I don't know which one it is, but Chuck Norris is on there.
And Pat Boone.
Pat Boone, you recall, had a top, I think he got to number 37 in 1961 with a song called Moody River.
So that really brings in the youth vote.
And now Mitt has cemented that by making this cutting-edge pop culture reference to Lucille Ball of the Chocolate Factory.
And if you get one of those old East chapters, do they still show Lucy on Nick at night anymore?
I don't.
Anyway, I love Lucy.
This was a famous 1954 episode.
I think it's great for Mitt.
Mitt looks like Fred McMurray and My Three Sons before they went into colour.
He looks like, what's his name?
But Father Knows Bess.
He looks like the guy who lives next door in the Donner Reed show.
This is terrific.
Mitt has found his pop culture comfort zone.
And Newt was mad about this.
Newt said when he was told on TV that Mitt had compared him to Lucille Ball of the Chocolate Factory, he didn't like that.
He said, I like to hear Newt say that to my face because real men get into bar fights over the Lucille Ball jokes.
You know this.
You can be out at some scuzzy roadhouse eight miles out of town on Route 173, and they've got the girl, the all-girl mud wrestling night is over, and the guys are just sitting there, throwing back a few beers, sitting there at the bar.
And there's always some guy who says, Hey, you remind me a bit of Lucille Ball in that chocolate factory episode.
And then it's the smash bottles on the bar counter.
And they're all, you know, the whole thing goes.
So Newt is, Newt has basically said to Mitt, You want to step outside and say that?
So Newton Mitt in the parking lot of the Virginia polling place where Newt is ineligible to vote or ineligible to be on the ballot.
He and Mitt are going to be Mardo Amano over the Lucille ball cracks.
Because that's, you know, you let a guy get away with that, and the next thing you know, he's going to be comparing you to B. Arthur.
So you've got to draw a line, you know, otherwise it's going to escalate.
Anyway, that is the state of play.
Newt promised he wasn't going to go negative.
And he stuck to that until the Lucille Ball crack.
And that was just a stage too far.
That's a stage too.
Because next thing you know, it's going to be Carol Channing.
Okay?
So just pack off.
Okay?
Okay.
So that's Newton Mitt.
Let's go to Mary in Elkhart, Indiana.
Mary, it's great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh show.
My pleasure.
And thank you for waiting.
I'm a small business owner.
I'm also a single parent.
I've been a landlord, too.
When I worked in, I bought a few houses and stuff.
Right.
I lost my truck driving dad in a week.
Hey, Mary, we're going to try and get back to you because Whoever's responsible for your telephone service in Elkhart, Indiana, has sabotaged the line.
Either that or the Department of Homeland Security is listening in.
Let's go to Anthony in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Anthony.
Mark, Merry Christmas.
Happy New Year to you.
And the same to you.
Happy Christmas Bank Holiday Thursday, as they say in Europe on this day.
I love listening to you at the Rush, and welcome.
Hey, I'm from Philly, so I'm an anomaly being that I'm a card-carrying conservative.
But here's my point.
First of all, no disrespect to Barack Obama as a person, but being a son of an immigrant, it really is bothersome to me where we've gone under his leadership.
But I will tell you, I'm edified, and I'm very high hopes.
A lot of my circle, family, friends, acquaintances, business associates that voted for Obama have definitely changed their minds.
And here's where I'm going with this.
If you can take this as a microcosm for things to come next November, I believe Pennsylvania is not only in play, but I think we're going to beat Obama.
I'm looking at maybe a five to ten point differential, whoever the Republican nominee is.
Now, my person, my man, would be Santorum, but I will tell you, Mark, Pennsylvania is definitely in play.
And a lot of people look at Ohio, but I'll tell you what, if we can, if we, if the Republicans take this state, then Obama will become a one-term president.
And if I may add, if we want to take this country back and see what it means to be enterprising people again, just look into and dial up the jobface.com, and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Okay, and Anthony, just to stick with that point about Pennsylvania, you're right.
We do not have a national election here.
We have basically 50 different constituencies, which means that it boils down to a handful of critical swing states.
And right now, as things stand, Obama is way behind in states that he won in 2008.
That includes your state.
That includes my state in New Hampshire, which he took in 2008.
And what this means is that he is going to be defending.
He's playing defense.
He's going to have to be defending Democrat turf that is no longer Democrat.
And you're right.
If Pennsylvania goes Republican, that's it.
It's over.
If he can't hold Pennsylvania, he isn't going to be president in 2013.
Now, you mentioned Rick Santorum, and what people say is, well, you know, Rick Santorum lost his own state by, I think it's the biggest margin of sitting senators ever lost by.
Are you confident that Pennsylvania has changed its mind about its own son in Rick Santorum, Anthony?
Yeah, I'm very confident because of what's happened, Mark, in these last three years.
So I think it's water under the bridge at this point because you see what happened during the midterms.
I think there was a lot of forgiveness relative to other Pennsylvania politicians, wasn't there?
Or at least the Democrats or the moderates were not in sympathy the way they were for liberal politicians.
You see what I'm saying?
Yeah, yeah, and I know.
And Rick Santorum, it's a different climate.
And Pennsylvania is one of those states that is hurting.
It's stuck with this flatline economy, with the unemployment, the unemployment rates in Philadelphia.
The official unemployment rates in Philadelphia are staggering, but the real unemployment rates are terrifying.
Thanks for your call, Anthony.
We've got to take an EIB Profit Center.
be back with more of your calls in just a moment.
Montgomery County in Maryland is about to implement a five-cent bag tax on both paper and plastic bags.
that will take effect on New Year's Day.
It's all to do with saving the planet.
Basically, Montgomery County in Maryland is like an honorary corner of California.
What was the thing, Mr. Surley, a couple of years ago?
They wanted to turn all the lights off at night.
It was going to be curfew.
So it would look, from the satellite picture, it would look like that famous picture of South Korea and North Korea, except that you wouldn't be thinking, whoa, what is that?
That satellite picture of North Korea in total darkness.
No, that's actually not North Korea.
It's Montgomery County in Maryland.
It's hard to tell the difference.
The Obamas, by the way, enjoyed a leisurely three-hour dinner at Alan Wong's restaurant.
It's an upscale eatery.
They ate off a special tasting menu.
Their hors d'oeuvres consisted of three different types of butter, apparently.
Let them eat butter.
It's an amazing thing.
I don't know.
I didn't know there were three different types of butter.
What an extraordinary.
But it was only a beer, you know, $173 per entree.
And then he's already played golf for the third time.
He's played golf three times since he arrived at the islands on Friday.
It has one of the worlds at the Koalau.
I'm always terrible with my Hawaiian pronunciation.
Ever since the first Christmas where he went to Hawaii and I was singing Barrack Hussain Obama is the thing to say on a bright Hawaiian.
So that's the only phrase I know in Hawaiian, Barrack Hussain Obama.
But he was dining at the Koalau Golf Club, which is considered to be one of the world's most challenging courses from the back tease.
That's a golf expression, is it, Mr. Snerdley?
Back tease.
Because when the first time he heard the expression back tease, I thought it was what Bill Clinton was doing to Carly Simons' shoulder blades when he landed for his vacation at Martha's Vineyard.
So I got all kind of confused.
I got all confused.
Was Obama fleet-footed?
Yeah, Ron Paul says...
What is it?
Ron Paul said in his newsletter that the Negro person is noted for his fleet-footedness?
Oh, yeah, especially the criminal fraternity.
But don't worry.
Mr. Snerdley, you're getting ridiculed.
Ron Paul didn't write that stuff.
Just because it appears with his name on it is no reason to hold him responsible for it.
He simply published it.
He simply published it under his name.
There's no reason to think he should somehow be accountable for that.
Anyway, he's been, President Obama has apparently been incredibly flat-footed on the back tease.
I don't know what that means, but it sounds disgusting.
So I certainly hope it is.
On Ko-Alau Golf Club, he's played at least three times.
This is the third time since Friday, and he enjoyed a leisurely three-hour dinner.
You know, I bet Kim, what's he called?
Kim Jong-un is kicking himself by thinking, why the hell did I get stuck with being supreme leader in Pyongyang when I could be out there in Hawaii?
We'll have more in just a moment.
That about does it for the cheap foreign outsourcing.
Don't forget, the great Walter Williams will be here tomorrow live.
Rush back on Tuesday for Iowa Caucus Day.
And do not forget that if you tune into Fox News tonight at 10 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Pacific, you can catch Rush with Greta Van Sustran.
Don't miss that.
Rush with Greta tonight, 10 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Pacific on the Fox News Network.
This has been Mark Stein, and this has been saying Happy New Year.
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