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January 20, 2012, Friday, Hour #2

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	Hiya, folks, how are you?
	Great to have you back.
	Rush Limbaugh wanting to speak faster than even my brain can keep, or is it the other way around?
	Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
	It's open line Friday.
	Oh, it's my brain going faster than my mouth can keep up.
	End of the week, open line Friday.
	What you think takes precedence.
	800 282-2882 email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
	I, America's Anchor Man, the truth detector, Doctor of Democracy, Conservative Bulwark, the last man standing.
	I am suspending my analysis of the debate last night, pending hearing yours.
	I thought I would do that.
	Because when I say something about something, there's nothing left to be said about it.
	Sort of unfair.
	They put people on the phones after I've done my analysis.
	How can anybody possibly look good?
	It's not fair.
	It really isn't.
	And so open line Friday, I turn it over to callers anyway, theoretically, when I really do it today.
	So among whatever else you want to talk about, if you want to call up and talk about the debate last night, what did you think of it?
	Your analysis instead of mine.
	And I might do mine before the end of the program.
	But there are other items in the news, and I want to get to a couple of them.
	The U.S. Supreme Court today threw out, threw out the interim electoral maps that a Texas federal court had adopted for the state's coming election, saying that the lower court failed to pay sufficient attention to the state's legislature's objectives.
	Now the interim maps were drawn up after civil rights groups, i.e.
	a bunch of leftists, challenged congressional district maps adopted by the Republican control Texas legislature, saying that they didn't account for the growth of the state's minority population.
	And so federal court agreed with the leftists, a lower court agreed with the leftists, and the court redrew the districts themselves to be more fair to the minorities.
	And the Supreme Court said, pfft you.
	Essentially.
	This is big news.
	You may not care about this kind of stuff, might be minutiae to you.
	But there are challenges of the electoral maps all over the place here, and the Supreme Court has just thrown out the interim electoral map that the court wrote at the behest of the left.
	And the and the electoral map, the apportionment map, redistricting, as put together by the Republican legislature in Texas stands.
	From Bloomberg News, TransCanada's Corp, Trans Canada Corp.
	May shorten the initial path for its rejected Keystone XL project, the pipeline, bringing all from Montana's Bakken shale to refiners in the Gulf of Mexico and removing the need for federal approval.
	There certainly is a potential opportunity here to connect the Bakken to the Gulf Coast, said Alex Pourbet, TransCanada's president of energy and oil pipelines.
	Said it's obviously something we'll be looking into over the next few weeks.
	TransCanada's $7 billion Keystone XL proposal to bring crude from Canada's oil sands to the Gulf was rejected by the regime.
	The project required U.S. approval because it crossed the border with Canada.
	Company may seek that approval after it builds the segment from Montana to the Gulf.
	There is so much all and natural gas in the Bakkenfield.
	I've got a huge story today about the guy who is responsible for creating the Bakkenfield, a lone entrepreneur who has just...
	Demonstrated Americanism like it hasn't been demonstrated in a while.
	It's huge.
	It is a great, great, it's much too long to share with you here.
	I'll maybe at some point do excerpts from it.
	So you take all from the Bakken field and gas from the Bakkenfield, and you pipeline that down to the guff.
	This is the alternative that TransCanada is uh is thinking of using.
	Uh the Bakken Shale Rock Formation estimated to hold as much as 4.3 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil in North Dakota and Montana.
	Oil production in North Dakota surged forty-two percent to 510,000 barrels a day in November, exceeding the output of Ecuador.
	It is potentially a deposit rivaling that in the Middle East.
	Saudi Arabia.
	And it's one of the best kept secrets in this country.
	There is a boom in the South Dakota economy because of this.
	A huge boom taking place.
	North Dakota, I'm sorry.
	Production in the Bakken field may reach 750,000 barrels a day this year, said Edward Morse, the managing director of commodities research for Citigroup.
	Now, as originally envisioned, Keystone would have carried as much as 830,000 barrels a day from Canada and the Bakken Field along a 1,600 mile path to the Texas refineries.
	The Bakken drilling boom may allow Trans Canada to begin building that portion from Baker, Montana to the Gulf, using much of the original route, bypassing Canada and its share of the oil, and thereby obviating any role that Obama would have in not approving it.
	The company is also mulling whether to build the pipeline from Cushing Oklahoma to the Gulf.
	If customers prefer the Bakken to Texas route, then Trans Canada, which is based in Calgary, would build that first.
	Changing the project would allow Trans Canada to use existing pipe materials in rights of way.
	The uh company would apply later for federal permission to connect the pipeline to Canadian oil sands and complete Keystone XL as originally envisioned after it would be the last portion to be completed.
	I like the thinking.
	Build 80% of it.
	Get it going.
	Have all that all being transported from Montana, North Dakota down to the Gulf, have it show up, have it become part of the U.S. economy, then add the Canadian end of it.
	The question there is will the Canadians wait for us.
	Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
	According to his aides, uh Harper has already put in a call to the SHICOMs over the sell it.
	It was Harper who said to us the other day, looking you might want to treat your country as a national park and off limits.
	We're not looking at Canada that way, and we're not going to let you turn Canada into a national.
	We're not going to let you tell us what we can and can't do with our own oil.
	Bloomberg had the news, Obama's decision yesterday to reject a permit for TransCanada Corp's Keystone Pipeline may prompt Canada to turn to the Tricoms for oil exports.
	I have no doubt.
	TransCanada has already paid $1.9 billion.
	It's 1.8 billion actually U.S. dollars for the Keystone Project, which could still be completed by 2014.
	Now, interesting also today from the Washington Post, one of my favorite economic columnists sometimes.
	A guy by the name of Robert Samuelson, you've heard me mention his name.
	Rejecting the Keystone Pipeline is an act of insanity, he writes.
	President Obama's rejection of Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico is an act of national insanity.
	That's the lead.
	It isn't often that a president makes a decision that has no redeeming virtues beyond the symbolism, won't even advance the goals of the groups that demanded it.
	All it tells us is that Obama's so obsessed with his re-election that though some sort of political calculus he believes that placating his environmentalist wacko supporters will improve his chances.
	Aside from the political and public relations victory, environmentalists won't get much.
	Stopping the pipeline will not halt the development of tar sands, to which the Canadian government is committed.
	Therefore, there will be little effect on global warming emissions, blah, blah.
	In fact, Obama's decision might add to them.
	If Canada builds a pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific for export to the ChICOMs, moving that oil across the ocean by tanker will create extra emissions, far more emissions than pipelining it to the Gulf of Mexico.
	And, by the way, every time you load a tanker and put it on the high seas, you have the chance for spills.
	of course, the environmentalist whackers, well, you also had the pipeline could rupture too, so we shouldn't do it at all.
	T Boone Pickens on CNBC yesterday.
	We are complete fools for canceling the pipeline.
	Everywhere.
	Well, that's Obama's the complete fool.
	That's true.
	It was his wee business.
	Exactly right.
	Now, here's Samuelson.
	Consider how Obama's decision hurts America.
	For starters, it insults and antagonizes a strong ally.
	Canada.
	Getting future Canadian cooperation on other issues will be harder.
	Next, it threatens a large source of relatively secure oil that combined with new discoveries in the U.S. could reduce our dependence on insecure foreign oil.
	And finally, Obama's decision forgoes all the project's jobs.
	As some dispute over the magnitude, project sponsor TransCanada claims 20,000 split between the construction and the manufacturing of everything from pumps to control equipment, a Apparently this refers to job years, meaning one job for one year.
	These are the big winners here at the Chicoms, they got to be celebrating their good fortune and wondering how the crazy Americans could repudiate such a huge supply of nearby energy.
	They've got to be scratching their heads and rubbing their hands together in glee.
	And I wonder how many people understand that union jobs are required.
	A portion of the jobs are required to be union jobs in the Keystone deal.
	Wonder how many union supporters of Obama understand that.
	I would bet not very many.
	So here we have, I mean, you you you can analyze this Republican debate all you want, and I've been trying all week.
	Ladies and gentlemen, keep the focus where it should be focused.
	We have a failed and dangerous president.
	We have an angry, radical left-wing crony capitalist with a huge chip on his shoulder.
	He is so transparent that only died in the wool statists pretend to ignore the facts about Obama.
	He's a terrible senator, he's a terrible president.
	Newt had it right last night.
	The state-controlled media has protected Obama.
	They continue to protect Obama.
	It's gone on for too long.
	But how insane is it?
	How different is it?
	I mean, how bigger, much bigger a boondoggle is this than Obama's stimulus package.
	The trillion dollar slush fund, non-stimulus bill, jamming an unconstitutional Obamacare bill down our throats.
	Then we got all these czars in the White House that are not appointed, or they're not confirmed, they're not accountable.
	He's taken over the automobile companies, bowed down to despots, treats our allies as enemies, unconstitutional recess appointments, really just lawless behavior, ignoring the Constitution altogether.
	A moratorium on Gulf oil drilling.
	90 rounds of golf.
	Parties, vacations.
	We're looking at an abject failure with a chip on his shoulder that the media has coddled and babied and paved the way for.
	And now it's coming from across the spectrum.
	How insane, how stupid.
	How dangerous, how damaging this decision is just on the Keystone Pipeline.
	All right, a brief timeout, my friends, an open line Friday will resume.
	Welcome back.
	Great to have you open line Friday and the excellence in broadcasting network.
	Meanwhile, what's Obama focused on?
	Closing down a bunch of Picky Yoon websites to try to protect his Hollywood buddies and to please Chris Dodd.
	This SOPA PIPA stuff.
	You know, I love this.
	There's no way any conservative can support either of these two bills.
	No way.
	If you're genuinely conservative, you cannot support what they're trying to do in the internet.
	The whole argument is that foreigners are ripping off our intellectual property.
	Well, maybe they are, but you don't penalize Americans for it.
	If foreigners are downloading our movies, hey, more power to corrupt our culture.
	Let it happen.
	Give them all the porn in the world.
	Make it free.
	Make every Hollywood movie free for the most part.
	Let it corrupt the Chinese culture like it is ours.
	That's the way I look at it, but I'm joking.
	Intellectual property sense.
	If our argument is we've got to take steps to stop foreigners from doing it, then come up with software that limits what foreigners.
	You don't uh to tramp to give look at this regime already has the right to detain Americans under whatever terrorist auspices they want.
	Give this regime the opportunity to shut down any internet website it doesn't like on the basis of some intellectual properties being stolen.
	This regime give them that power.
	As usual, it's too broad a brush.
	It's too big a sweep.
	Under the guise of the foreigners are ripping us off.
	Anyway, back to the phones.
	Bob in uh Brandon, Mississippi.
	Great to have you on the program, sir.
	Thank you, thank you.
	Glad to be on.
	Listen, I am so excited about Newt Gingrich and what's going on in the Republican party that I'm almost like uh ready to charge after Moby Dick with Tartasaus in one hand and a fark in the other.
	I tell you, Nuke stands up for what he believes.
	He doesn't cow down anybody.
	He tells it like it is.
	And not only that, he's intelligent enough to tell it like it is.
	And that's what we need in a leader.
	We don't need some man be pammy fellow.
	We need somebody that stands up and and gets the job done and takes up for his country.
	And that's what I'm excited about.
	All right.
	And that's based on the debates uh this week.
	No, it's based on everything I've heard over the last several uh months in all the debates.
	It's not just in this one.
	Uh it's every time he talks, he talks as a man of authority.
	He also talks as a man of compassion, uh, and and he cares about his country.
	I'm telling you, this guy is right on track.
	And you know, and I'm and because he's so intelligent, I know he'll surround himself with good people and good advisors.
	Well, we'll see.
	All right, we're t that's that we're uh getting people's reaction to the debate last night and uh uh uh seeing if what happened might change any votes.
	Bob in in no, that was Bob.
	It's Corey in uh in Logan, Utah.
	Great to have you on the program, sir.
	Hello.
	Good morning, Megadinho's Rash.
	Thank you.
	Uh honored to talk to you.
	I've been a longtime listener since back in the late 80s down in Albuquerque, New Mexico, actually.
	I appreciate that, sir.
	Thank you.
	Hey, the reason I'm calling this I I want you to know that I think it's appropriate that the line of questioning that that Newt is getting.
	Simply because an individual asks for forgiveness from God doesn't erase the consequences for one's actions.
	You know, I I realize that John Kerry was trying or not not John Kerry, sorry, uh John Edwards was given a pass.
	But, you know, still I want my candidate to be high uh to help be held to a big thing.
	Well, now wait a second.
	John Edwards was given a pass, but he's still paying consequences big time.
	Absolutely he is, absolutely is.
	And and you know what?
	I think I think there are consequences for Newt's actions.
	Well, what should they be?
	Well, you know, I I think I think the line of questioning that he's going through and and and him getting ticked off is is all part of it, but uh whether or not it's uh, you know, I I don't know, I don't know what a fitting uh uh punishment is or or a fitting consequence is, but he is reaping what he sold many years ago.
	Well uh if you want to I'd I'd have to say he's turning these consequences into a big win-win.
	He you know, and he is rallying the troops.
	I'll I'll give him credit for that.
	And I don't think he minded that line of questioning at all.
	I don't think he minded Juan Williams calling him a racist.
	I don't think I don't think he might.
	I think it's uh he looks at this stuff as opportunities.
	Well, you may look at these uh questions as uh uh consequent.
	Okay, then what'd you do?
	You have to face these tough questions.
	These are not tough questions, these are opportunities.
	And And he's turning them into opportunities.
	He certainly is.
	That's what you have to do.
	Yeah.
	You know, I I have a I had a friend of mine po make a post on the internet the other day saying that uh perhaps uh the biggest assault to the sanctity of marriage in America is uh is not the uh is not the homosexual movement, but possibly the uh serial adulterers that there are in society.
	And uh I I th I found that kind of interesting.
	Well, some people say the fastest way to end gay marriage is to let them get married and then let them get divorced or let them go through all that, and they won't want to be part of it.
	And they'll just go back to living together, and a lot of other people won't get married either once they find out what it's all about with this kind of thing possible.
	Quick timeout.
	Back after this.
	Back to the audio soundbite's post-debate analysis on CNN, Anderson Cooper 33, had Gloria Barger on last night.
	This is was her take of uh of Newt and his tit with John King.
	Anderson, there is a short-term issue here, which is that I do think that uh Newt Gingrich's answer, attacking John, attacking the media played well in this room and might very well play well in South Carolina.
	But there is a longer term issue, and that's with women voters.
	He said his wife, the story is false.
	Newt Gingrich polls in this state twice as well with men as he does with women.
	And I think in the long term, say if Newt Gingrich wins South Carolina, goes on to do very well and continues, this could become an issue for women voters, obviously.
	Oh, yeah, oh, obviously.
	Hell yeah, you obviously it could become an issue with women voting.
	Newt's out there, by the way, he made news last night, denied this.
	He denied the open marriage stuff.
	So he didn't and guess what?
	There is a uh uh a woman out there, her name is Grandy, Fred Grandy's wife, I'm I'm assuming.
	And she is saying that Mary Ann Gingrich is unstable, and that all the congressional wives thought that from the get-go.
	That she was uh camera hog, that she was uh uh uh loud and uh uh uh outrageous, uh egotistical, uh all these uh all these things.
	And that she was not popular with uh with all the people.
	Uh that's what what I don't know what it sounds like.
	I'm just telling you what she said.
	I don't know what it uh let's see, my uh let's find the exact story here.
	Newt ally calls ex-wife unstable, unhinged.
	Allies have embattled candidate Newt Gingrich are coming to his defense.
	What's more, they're slapping at ABC, set to run the interview last night.
	One former associate of Marianne Gingrich, former congressional wife Catherine Mann Grandy, told Washington Whispers at U.S. News that the speaker's second wife was rude, loud, unreasonable, and she doubted her story about the open marriage, citing a code among congressional wives.
	Catherine Mann Grandy said we pretty much kept our lips closed.
	Marianne emotionally unstable.
	I particularly felt she was obstreperous and rude.
	That is in the U.S. News and World Report, Washington Whispers.
	And I'm assuming it's Fred Grandi's wife.
	Uh while guess, but I can pretty good.
	She says she hopes Americans dismiss Marianne Gingrich as a loose canon.
	What I'm hoping is that the Americans who watch this, the patriots who watch this, a look at this okay, it's a woman who's angry, seems unstable, little unhinged.
	Gloria Borger said, Oh, it's gonna really, if he wins, see in South Carolina, women will tolerate brute sexists.
	But once you get out of South Carolina, women aren't gonna dig this.
	That's what Gloria Borger said, you may go on to win South Carolina, but once you get out of here.
	I guess the women in South Carolina cock fighting, they call this stuff.
	They like boozing it up.
	They run the stills in the backyard.
	Who knows?
	Dog fighting, probably that too.
	I just, I think this is hilarious.
	Oh, yeah, women are going to dig this.
	Women aren't going to dig this.
	But on the other side of it, Jenny Sanford, who is the former wife of the former governor of South Carolina, Mark Snambert says she not going to vote for Newt Gingrich.
	She won't vote for Newt.
	I'm just throwing it out there.
	Just throwing it out there.
	There are some other examples.
	Let's go back.
	This February 23rd, 1980, Nashua, New Hampshire.
	Before debate, this is the uh uh Reagan I paid for this microphone.
	This the the crowd loved this too.
	My point playing, I got two bites coming up.
	The Reagan bite and one with George H. W. Bush with Dan Rather.
	And my point is there are multiple interests of our side taking it to the media.
	Humiliating the media.
	And it's not stop the media.
	It's not change them, which is my only point in the first hour.
	Here's that famous Reagan moment.
	For the song, then please turn Mr. Reagan's mic off and Mr. Green.
	I am paying for this microphone, Mr. Smith.
	That happened in 1980 before debate.
	That's February 23rd, Nashua, New Hampshire.
	Mr. Breen is John Breen, the executive editor of the Nashua Telegraph.
	Mr. Breen, I paid for this microphone.
	The moderator wanted Reagan's mic shut off because he wouldn't shut up.
	I don't know what, you know, it's an interesting question.
	What does Hillary think of Mary Ann Gingrich?
	What does Jennifer Flowers think of Marianne Gingrich?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But particularly Hillary.
	Wonder what Hillary thinks of Marianne Gingrich.
	You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you people.
	Um in the media, you leftists, you Democrats who are sitting there thinking Newt is not being forced to pay greater consequences for this.
	There's one reason why.
	This road has been paved by William Jefferson Clinton.
	The whole notion of having an open marriage with a dis You defended it.
	You said it had no bearing on anything.
	You said it's sex is private stuff.
	It doesn't matter in somebody's job and how they do their job and to leadership and all that.
	Newt and Clinton are linked together again.
	In fact, you could even say that with with uh with Mrs. Grandy out there, uh the bimbo eruptions team on Newt's team, uh, and and Newt's version of the nuts and sluts defense.
	Yeah, she's unstable.
	She's uh I mean, well, Gloria Borger's just steaming, probably call Maureen Dowds.
	Can you believe these hicks in South Carolina?
	Can you believe Newt's still alive?
	They can't believe it.
	What a bunch of dumb broads in this state.
	I can just hear the phone call between Maureen Dowd and Gloria Borger.
	Maybe get Mara Lyerson on there for moral support.
	Now, here is George H. W. Bush, January 25th, 1988, CBS Evening News.
	They're trying to tie George H.W. Bush to Iran Contra.
	I don't want to be argumentated, Mr. Vice President.
	This is not a great night, because I want to talk about why I want to be president.
	Why those 41% of the people are supporting me?
	And Vice President a whole career.
	It's not fair to judge my whole career by a rehash on Iran.
	How would you like it if I judge your career by those seven minutes when you walked off the set in New York?
	Oh, folks, now you may have forgotten that.
	Let me remind you.
	U.S. open tennis had gone long on a Sunday.
	There was some reason that Blather was in going to anchor the weekend news.
	And it might have been a Monday.
	I forget.
	But the tennis ran long, and Blather got ticked off that his news was being preempted by stupid sports event.
	Because sports is for Neanderthals.
	And so he walked off the set.
	At the time the news was to start, the tennis school, he just walked off the set in a in a f uh in a in a mini protest.
	And it made news.
	And they found him and they brought him back to the set, and he finally did the news when the tennis thing ended.
	And Roger Ailes was George H. W. Bush's campaign advisor, and they they cooked up.
	If Radder would not leave H. W. Bush alone about Iran contract.
	They were trying to pin him to Iran contract.
	He knew about it.
	He was he was in charge of orchestrating it, uh, and that disqualified him from being president.
	Remember this, the 88 presidential campaign.
	They came up with the idea, okay.
	Let's just throw it back at him.
	Hey, Dan, how would you like your whole career to be judged by when you walked up, and I am here to tell you, I started my TV show in 1992, and we taped that show right across the street from the CBS broadcast center where the evening news, and they were still tickets.
	Ailes was the executive producer.
	When people CBS found out Ailes was across the street, they thought about bombing the building.
	It was 14 years later, or four years later, they were still burning over this.
	Still I remember when I when I uh when I first time this was my mother loved Dan Rather.
	My mother came to town to visit the TV show, and Dan Rather's assistant came over and took my mother and introduced her and got pictures of her on the CBS evening news set, and Dan Rather spent time with her.
	And she loved Dan Rather.
	And Dan Rather was nice as he could be to my mother.
	Oh, they formed a you know a little friendship.
	I'd go home to visit my mother, and there's Dan Radder pictures on the refrigerator.
	She wouldn't hear, she wouldn't hear of any criticism of Dan Rather.
	She says in new best bud.
	And in the process, you know, I'd meet Dan Retter and I would thank him for this.
	And he said, you know, I just want to tell you I like Roger Eles.
	I have nothing against Roger Eles.
	But that that when that happened, that really it was a defining moment.
	Nobody had ever said anything like that.
	Well, Dan, how do you like to be judge of the time?
	He walked off the set.
	All it does is make them hate you more.
	So Nude Gingrich is going to be in John King's crosshairs for the rest of their careers.
	Even though both benefited from it.
	You might think King didn't, but believe me, don't doubt me, he did.
	Okay, Audio Sunday 12 coming up.
	I want to put this Gloria Borger comment in even more perspective.
	Gloria Borges, the women of South Carolina, they may not have a problem with Newt telling his wife he wants an open marriage, which he denies is not true, but may not have a trouble with all the flandering.
	Women of South Carolina, that's right.
	Women in South Carolina like it when their husbands cheat on them because they're a bunch of hicks.
	Unlike the sophisticated elite women of the Northeast, like Wiener's wife.
	And like Spitzer's wife.
	Yeah.
	And her monogamousness.
	What's her name?
	Silda Silda Silda.
	That's Spitzer's wife.
	Clan number nine.
	Silda, I can't remember her last name.
	And of course, Wiener's wife is Huma.
	Huma did have baby, that's right.
	Wiener's baby.
	Baby Wiener.
	Okay.
	Uh ladies.
	Heraldo, uh, this was Fox and Friends this morning.
	Harolla was a guest.
	Nobody died.
	Nobody died.
	There was not a catastrophe, disaster, earthquake, oil spill, uh nothing.
	And they still had him on.
	Discussing the Marianne Gingrich story.
	I identify more with Gingrich with the same age.
	We have had multiple marriages.
	Uh we have had obviously multiple divorces.
	The difference is you've never with all of my checkered past, you've never heard an ex-wife say anything bad about me.
	Why is that?
	It's because you take care of people, even though your marriage may break down, and even though Rush Limbaugh yesterday had it exactly right.
	We are of a generation that extolled the virtue of sex and openness and infidelity was almost an afterthought in the generation of the 60s that we represent.
	So I definitely get that.
	But when you're running for president, you have to defend your character.
	Yes, he's talking.
	He's talking about the note that I got from my buddy.
	We're soldiers in the sexual revolution that we even need disability from the government.
	But he says I I identify with Newt.
	Multiple marriages, multiple divorces, but unlike Newt, you ever hear any of my ex-wives bedrapping me?
	No.
	Because I take whatever he's done to take care of him.
	I...
	I...
	Oh, shit.
	Oh.
	Uh tell you, who?
	Newt.
	Well, no, three million.
	And did you see how much he paid in tax?
	He got three million, and he paid almost a million.
	He's paying 33%.
	Newt spayed.
	He made 3.1 million.
	He paid 999,000 or something.
	He's almost paid a million dollars.
	Almost paid a full 33%.
	But Snerdley, 3 million ain't rich.
	Don't uh Toby in uh just kidding, folks.
	I couldn't couldn't resist.
	I had to defend myself.
	Joplin, Missouri, Toby, welcome to the EIB Note.
	Hi.
	Hi, Rush.
	This is Toby.
	How are you?
	Good, sir.
	Thank you.
	First of all, I want to say thank you.
	Like my birthday's come six days early.
	Getting to talk to you on the phone.
	I'm very, very excited.
	First time caller.
	Appreciate that.
	Thank you very much.
	Happy birthday, too.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you very much.
	I wanted to secondly thank you for coming to Joplin after the tornado.
	Oh, yeah, we went in there last fourth of July.
	That was fun.
	Yeah, I know that you uh did a lot to help out with the vendors that were there since you brought in all your great teeth.
	And I wanted to thank you on behalf of them.
	I heard about that, and that was a very classy move on your part.
	Thank you, sir.
	Very much.
	I appreciate that.
	Uh second of all, I want to let you know why I support Santorum over, say Romney or Gingrich.
	And uh before you say anything, I think Newt won the debate from what I saw of it last night.
	He seemed more confident than anybody else.
	But his track record and supporting, you know, individual mandate for like twenty years kind of turned me off as far as Gingrich.
	And as far as Romney goes, all I gotta say is Romney care.
	Yeah, well, you know, I thr um in a lot of post-debate analysis and in comments that my friends made to me.
	A lot of people thought Santorum actually was the best on stage last night.
	A lot of people told me they thought Santorum won in a lot of ways, had a much better night.
	It's clearly his best night, clearly his best debate so far.
	You'd agree with that.
	Oh, absolutely.
	And I I just think when you look at him and Romney, they're both blinking a lot, and that makes me think they're nervous.
	I I don't know if you caught up on that or saw that.
	Uh Newt always has his poise about him.
	He's infallible in that.
	Um but I I think that I think Newt probably won the debate just from his confidence and sheer he he look seemed to outclass everyone else on the stage.
	But I I think that uh I think this informs the guy.
	All right.
	Look, I appreciate it, Toby.
	Thanks very much.
	I really appreciate your nice words.
	And uh again, happy birthday to you.
	We'll be right back, folks.
	Boy, what a week this has been.
	And there's still an hour of it to go.
	It's been a long time since we've had a week like this, at least since the salad days of the Clinton administration.
	I mean, this week, folks, we've had everything.
	We had class envy.
	We've had charges of adultery.
	We've had adultery.
	We had people defending adultery.
	It's no wonder the soap operas are going off the air.
	They can't compete with American politics.
	No prayer.
	No hope.

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