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Aug. 16, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 16, 2012, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 podcast.
Has Joe Biden said anything stupid yet today?
High noon on the East Coast.
This is my second of a two-day stint sitting in for Rush.
And I actually want to start the program by thanking the Vice President of the United States.
You know, when you come in here to do a show like this, you always kind of hope that there are things that are going on.
You want to have material.
I don't know how Rush does it.
He has to come on every single day of the week.
Some days are slow, some days aren't so slow, but those slow days in which you've got to make some things interesting or come up with topics that might not be on the daily news.
Hard to do on a national program.
So when you're a guest host like me, you want to come on and you want to have a lot of things to talk about.
There it is.
One day before I guest host, the most listened to talk radio program that there is.
Joe Biden comes out with his chains remark, which by the way, they're still trying to explain.
Hadn't said anything stupid yet today.
I think the duct tape is still on his mouth.
But not making this up.
He's at the White House right now having a lunch with Obama.
Obiden Bama to share lunch Thursday after two days of gaffes.
President Barack Obama's Thursday schedule, this is from the Daily Caller, shows him sharing a 1230 PM lunch with Vice President Joe Biden.
That means he hasn't there yet.
Now they probably are going to say that this was scheduled all along.
I don't know.
They want everybody to know that it's going on.
Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall at that lunch?
What's Obama going to say to him?
You know the subject has to come up.
Joe, I see you've been having some sort of problem here with these gaffes.
No.
I find what works for me is to use a teleprompter.
I often make gaffes of my own, but that teleprompter.
Do you think that they're gonna give Biden a teleprompter?
Obama uses one.
What happened the last time Obama was out there on the campaign trail it himself without the teleprompter?
That's when he came up with the you didn't build that comment.
There's a serious point though about this whole Biden thing, and I understand that the White House says that we're jumping all over this stuff and that it's unfair.
The president himself made some comments in which he said that the substance, let me get this here.
President Obama expressed mild frustration with how Vice President Joe Biden's phrasing on the campaign trail can distract from his message, but the president blamed the media for that phenomenon.
So we say, well, Joe was trying to say, and we're worrying about the phrasing.
I'll try to be fair here.
All of us who are on in front of live microphones.
We don't have a chance to go through an editing process.
It comes out and sometimes you do say things you wish you could take back.
I'll relate it to my own situation.
My day job is that I'm a talk show host in Milwaukee.
Every now and then I'm privileged to come on this program.
There are zillions of people listening right now.
My number one priority every time I do Rush's show.
Number one priority is to not make a complete fool of myself.
That's priority number one, and I've been about eighty-five percent successful at that.
I haven't done anything here yet that is so incredibly stupid that I haven't destroyed my career, Russia's career, brought down EIB, haven't done that.
But it's always in the back of your mind.
Don't do something stupid.
Think about everything that you're gonna say.
You can talk as fast as you want, but just make sure that your brain is half a s half a second ahead of your mouth.
You don't want to screw up.
It is different from a writer who's writing something down and then edits their material and has fourteen thousand other people then review it before it goes out.
When you're live when you're talking in front of a live microphone, as I am, as Rush does, and for that matter as Biden and Obama do.
You can say things that you wish in retrospect you didn't say.
But with Biden, It's on and on and on and on, and it seems to be getting worse.
Where was he in North Carolina where he said it's great to be here in Virginia or he was in Virginia and said it was great to be here in North Carolina?
I mean, those are we do they they make commercials making fun of rock bands who do that.
He also made a comment this week saying something along the lines of there's no reason American car companies can't be competitive here in the twentieth century.
He's not been the twentieth century for more than a decade.
There's somewhere buried in here, there's a serious story.
Is it possible Biden is losing it?
Not that he started at any high point to begin with.
Is it possible he's losing it?
I mean, the guy's no spring chicken.
What if that's the case?
Now I know what you're all thinking.
How can you tell if Biden's losing it?
He's always been half crazy.
You know, Sarah Palin made her comment that he ought to be replaced on the ticket.
Giuliani suggested the same thing.
There's still time to do it, and I don't want to give them any ideas because I'll be honest about this.
Joe Biden's presence on this ticket helps the Republicans.
He's going to keep saying stupid things because he evidently can't help himself.
But there's also the reality that the vice president of the United States is first in line to become president if something should happen to the president.
I don't even think most Democrats are comfortable with the notion of Biden having to take over.
Anyway, I'll take the president at his word and say that we ought to talk about the substance of what Biden was talking about.
What he was on was just this whole campaign that they've been on forever of vilifying anyone who is successful.
I want to talk for a minute here about why I think the Obama presidency is a failed presidency.
And why Clinton's wasn't.
There were a lot of things wrong with Bill Clinton's presidency.
It was debauched.
He had no relationship with the truth.
He allowed al Qaeda to grow into what it became by ignoring it.
The only reason that the federal budget didn't become a mess during his presidency is because he had a Republican Congress to restrain him.
But in retrospect, I think most of us would acknowledge that the Clinton presidency wasn't as bad as this one.
There's a difference between Clinton and the Clinton Democrats and Obama and the people who think like he thinks.
Obama is, I believe, if not a socialist.
He's somebody who's socialist minded.
And a lot of liberals are like that.
Just look at the rhetoric that comes from SEIU, the Service Employees International Union, or many of the government workers unions.
There's just a loathing of the free market.
And in particular, they don't like rich people.
Every day that goes by, they come up with some attack on people who are successful.
His whole campaign is premised on we need to tax the rich.
The Republicans are out there trying to cut taxes for their friends, the rich people.
Well the rich, we've got to soak the rich.
Look at the CEO paid.
They're always on this stuff.
It's become their mantra.
Obama himself is one of those guys that not only needs to play the class envy card, he really believes it.
That's where the you didn't build this comment came from.
He said his comments were taken out of context.
Anyone who's read the entire comments understand what the context was.
Obama is implying that people who have achieved something or have something don't really deserve it.
That they were kind of the lucky ones who got it, but everybody else helped them get there and was almost as responsible.
Here's where the problem comes in with that.
When you set up public policy for the sole purpose of stopping people from making money, telling wealthy people that we're just going to take more and more and more of your money, ripping corporations.
Think of the last time that you heard a liberal talk about corporate profits.
They never are happy with them.
Obscene profits, record profits, oil company, profits.
Healthcare company, profits.
They don't even like the word profits.
It gives them the heebie jeebies.
Here's the deal, though.
In order for them to fund all of the things they believe in, in order for them to have the money to run their welfare state, in order for them to have the money to hand out their wind and solar power grants, in order to have the money to hand out their mass transit grants, in order to have the money to fund all of the social welfare programs, and for that matter to have all of the money to fund Medicaid and Medicare and all of the entitlement programs.
They need to have money flowing into the government.
It isn't merely that we're spending too much money.
It's that we're not taking enough money in.
Obama's presidency could have been successful if the money that he was spending was matched by the money that we're taking in.
But the only way we can take in money is not by raising tax rates, it's by letting people get rich and letting corporations make money.
When you tax high income, that money goes to the government.
When the income isn't as high, there's less money that goes to the government.
It kills Obama and his people to believe this, so they can't bring themselves to it.
They ought to be cheerleading for prosperity.
They ought to be cheerleading for wealth.
They ought to be cheerleading for corporate profits.
Because it's the only way that they can get enough money to pay for all the stuff they want to do.
They are all about transferring wealth from higher income people and from businesses over to the people in the programs that they believe in.
But in order for that deal to work, they've got to let people have high incomes.
They've got to encourage it.
They've got to root for prosperity.
They've got to believe in the free market.
They've got to break down the barriers that stop American corporations from making money.
They have to root for the oil companies, they have to root for the drug companies, they have to root for the coal companies.
Instead, they don't.
They hate those people.
Look at the way they talk about the Koch brothers.
Nobody even knew who they were until the liberals got their hands on them.
Charles and David Koch, two private sector guys, who have funded a lot of conservative causes, they have turned these people into evil people.
Why, the Koch brothers, they're out there lobbying for these things just so they can make more money.
Well, let's suppose that was their motivation.
What's wrong with them making more money?
Why does that bother you?
The fact that it bothers them that people are making money explains why we are in a why we have never gotten really out of the recession.
It explains why we have these enormous budget deficits.
Because without prosperity and without businesses and individuals making money, you'll never be able to run a government as big as the one that they want.
It kills them to root for the private sector.
That's the difference between Obama and Clinton.
And I'm talking here about Bill Clinton.
You just don't get the sense that Bill Clinton has the same loathing of the private sector that Obama does.
Look at who Clinton is paling around with.
He's hanging around with Ron Burkle, the investor, the grocery store magnet.
He's always liked to hang around rich guys.
Obama and his people don't have that attitude.
They don't like wealth, they don't like success, they think it's illegitimate.
Is it any surprise that a president whose philosophy is so loathing of the private sector, so distrust and dislike capitalism, has failed to have capitalistic success under his watch.
The thing that is doing him in is the fact that he doesn't believe in the American wealth creating system.
My name is Mark Belling, and I'm sitting in for Rush.
Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
All this talk about CEO pay, Associated Press today, 26 big U.S. companies paid their CEOs more last year than they paid the federal government in tax, according to a study released Thursday by a liberal leaning think tank.
So what?
Why does that bother them so much?
So some of these CEOs are making a lot of money.
That kills them, doesn't it?
Kills liberals.
Paul Ryan, in one of his talks after he was uh selected as vice president, spoke about how Americans celebrate the success of others.
We want people to get ahead.
Because when those people get ahead, when they earn money, they reinvest it in the economy, they spend it.
When businesses are successful, they expand and they hire people.
It's the way we got to where we are in this country.
I think Obama doesn't believe in that.
There are a lot of liberals who don't believe in it.
They rationalize their own envy of others by saying that we need to tax people who are successful way more than we do.
The problem with that is that it doesn't work.
The reason all the economic numbers that Obama's in charge of stink is because most of our numbers are based on a free market capitalism system.
We look at the growth rate.
We look at private sector unemployment.
We look at the housing market, we look at the stock market.
We look at all of these indicators that are out there.
They're all measures of what's going on in the private sector.
Yet you've got a president who doesn't like the private sector.
It's not a coincidence that someone who doesn't believe in free market capitalism is presiding over a country in which the capitalist system isn't doing very well right now.
I mentioned the Koch brothers.
Charles and David Koch.
They fund a lot of conservative causes.
And their names are vilified routinely by the left.
They're coming out of the closet a little bit in terms of their political beliefs.
Instead of just funding things, they're speaking out about why they have the views that they have.
Charles Koch has written a column that I found on Newsmax.com.
Let me read a portion of it.
My experiences in the Soviet Union underscore why economic freedom is so important for all of us.
Nations with the greatest degree of economic freedom tend to have citizens who are much better off in every way.
No centralized government, no matter how big, how smart or how powerful, can effectively and efficiently control much of society in a beneficial way.
On the contrary, big governments are inherently inefficient and harmful.
Citizens who overrely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the government demands.
In the meantime, their initiative and self-respect are destroyed.
Businesses can become dependents too.
If your struggling car company wants a government bailout, you'll probably have to build the government's car, even if it's a car few people want to buy.
Repeatedly asking for government help undermines the foundations of society by destroying initiative and responsibility.
It is also a fatal blow to efficiency and corrupts the political process.
Cronyism enables favored companies to reap huge financial rewards, leaving the rest of us, customers and competitors alike, worse off.
One obvious example of this involves wind farms.
Most cannot turn a profit without the costly subsidies the government provides.
Meanwhile, consumers and taxpayers are forced to pay an average of five times more for wind generated electricity.
Some people worry about the diversity of wealth in a system of economic freedom.
What they don't realize is that the same disparity exists in the least free countries.
The difference is who is better off under economic freedom, it is the people who do the best job of producing products and services that make people's lives better.
On the other hand, in a system without economic freedom, the wealthiest are the tyrants who make people's lives miserable.
I want my legacy to be greater freedom, greater prosperity, and a better way of life for my family, our employees, and all Americans.
And I wish the same for every nation on earth.
Pieces written by Charles Koch, one of the infamous Koch brothers.
They own a lot of companies, including some in my own state, Georgia Pacific, big papermaker.
They've been harshly criticized, condemned, talk to a liberal about the Republican Party, and I'm telling you, the Koch brothers' names come up instantly.
And they talk about them with such hatred.
The Koch brothers fund this, the Koch brothers done that.
They're taking all of their money and they're using this to bankrupt to bankroll conservative causes.
Well, so what?
What is it about the Koch brothers that gets you so upset, you lefties?
If we do not allow Americans to succeed and get wealthy, if we don't allow our corporations to make as much money as they can, we not only will never have a real economic recovery, we will never have any means to pay for all of the stuff, all of the wonderful stuff that liberals so desperately want to do.
Mark Belling in for Rush Limbaugh.
I want to make one more point about this.
For those people who listen to my local show, you know what that means.
I mean three more points about this.
I always like to personalize things.
Put yourself in the other guy's shoes and in the other guy's head.
Obviously, Rush has been more successful in his career than I have been.
Rush lives down in Palm Beach.
I don't.
So do I spend all of my time obsessing over the fact that Russia's a national program and I don't?
Do I complain that I didn't get the break or didn't get the chance to have the kind of program that he has?
If I did, I'd be so miserable, so unhappy.
And the bitterness would be reflected in my show.
But liberals get this.
They obsess over the success of others.
Instead, I understand that a number of radio stations are on the air and thriving solely because of Rush.
Remember what was happening to AM radio back in the late 80s and the early 90s?
It was dying.
The station that didn't have the local baseball team may as well have fallen off the air.
Talk radio barely existed.
Rush proved it could work.
And it not only create gave those stations an opportunity to put on a program that people listened to and brought people back to AM radio, created an opportunity for all sorts of other talk show hosts to have programs on those same stations.
Success breeds success.
Another area that people get envious of is the huge money that is paid to athletes.
Why, I can't believe that basketball player, that baseball player, that football player makes all of that money.
It's not right.
Were it not for that football player, we wouldn't have this entire industry of football You wouldn't have any of the people who work for the football teams.
You wouldn't have any of the scouts or the trainers, the people in the ticket taking, the people in the marketing, you wouldn't have all of those profits generated by the TV networks, you wouldn't have the money for the made off of the advertising.
Look at the amount of money that is generated because people want to watch football.
Success breeds success.
And as long as we have this obsession with not letting people succeed and thinking that we've got to redistribute their income, we'll never move ahead.
America has always been the land.
You know, you've got the story about the illegal immigration and the new Obama policy in the news right now.
But there's a there's a reality about why people want to come here, whether it be legal or illegal.
We've always been the place that people thought that they could come because this would be their chance to make their lives better.
America's the land of opportunity.
And Obama and the Democrats want to make it the land of redistributing income.
Whatever you have, you didn't get, everybody else did it for you.
We've got to take it from you and give to someone else.
And I think that's the root of the failure of his presidency.
Let's go to the uh phone lines.
We've got Gary and Fairfax.
Oh, I didn't give the phone number out.
Rookie mistake.
1800-282-2882 is always the phone number on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Let's go to a Gary in Fairfax, Virginia.
Gary, you must have known that number all along because I didn't give it out.
Yeah, it's always good to stay on top of things.
I'm kind of of the opinion that since these gaps are coming at a pretty regular pace, it doesn't this give the appearance of being an orchestrated um distraction to what is actually taking place.
In other words, they're ordering Biden to make a fool of himself.
Well, I don't know if necessarily ordering, he may be of just coming up with this himself, but I think they're all on the same page.
They don't sit there and give orders, I don't believe.
But I I do think he's willing to bite the bullet for his manager.
Joe Biden is Joe Biden is taking one for the team.
Joe, we need you to go out and distract people from all of the other issues that are out there, we need to say something stupid.
But Obama too.
I I kind of think these guys are not they're not totally foolish people, but they do see that a distraction is paying.
It pays to keep people off balance.
And I'm kind of like, you ask you ask a fast you ask a fascinating question.
Is Joe Biden as stupid as he appears to be, or is Joe Biden playing dumb in order to distract attention from all of the other failures, all of the other failures that are out there?
I don't know the answer to that.
My I do know this.
When people make mistakes with the things that they say, and I've done it, everybody who's involved in speaking in front of an open microphone has done it at one time or another.
There's usually a thought process that leads them to what it is that they have to say.
And I suspect that what Biden said was just the truth coming out.
Furthermore, it's not like this is a new thing with Biden.
He's been talking foolishly forever and ever and ever.
As for President Obama, why do you think they've got that teleprompter that they have to have, you know, follow him around with everywhere?
Because every time he goes off mic, he starts saying things that he actually believes.
Things that generally don't, I think help their cause.
Thanks for the call, Gary.
Let's go to Cook.
I love this name, Cookville, Tennessee.
Jerry, it's your turn on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Hey, Mark, how are you?
I'm great.
Hey, listen, I I caught this on a on another show this morning.
Uh they were talking about um Joe Biden was in Virginia and his entourage, they they went to a like a restaurant Delhi, and uh they wanted to you know to have the the the crew come in there with the vice president, and the owners were outraged and said no.
They said they worked too hard to create that business for what the president and and and uh what they were saying, so he he they refused to have him come in.
Now in Iowa I I I did not hear that, and I don't know if it's true.
If it is true, it is beautiful.
By the way, what is it about Obama and Biden and Virginia?
It seems like every time they go to that state, that's when the stupid remarks come out of their mouths.
You know, that's not a big road trip for them.
Virginia's right next door to DC, but that is where the gaff seem to be coming from.
What happened in Iowa?
Well, in Iowa um the man who owned the restaurant, him and uh his family, they decided to serve the president.
But he had a Romney and Ryan t shirt and it said I created this business.
And he served the president.
I do believe that that whole statement about you didn't build this has touched a real nerve.
There's a reason that it did, and it whenever something whenever a politician makes a gaff or someone makes a mistake and it sticks as opposed to the stuff that rolls off your back, it's when people believe that they're that the gaff was actually the truth really coming out.
When Barack Obama said you didn't build that, we fully understood what his philosophy was, and it's the reason that I spent as much time as I did on the way they vilified the Koch brothers and their policies and not believing in the free market.
When he said you didn't build this, that's the mindset that gives them the justification to call for higher and higher tax rates.
It's the mindset for us having the ho the highest corporate tax rate in the world.
The you didn't build this means, the rest of us helped you make all of this, so therefore the rest of us are entitled to a much bigger chunk of it.
That's the core philosophy.
And when he said it, which was fingernails on the blackboard to so many people who work in the private sector and have actually built something, the reason it's stuck is because you can tell that that is what President Obama truly does believe.
And I think that that is a thing that separates fiscal conservatives from fiscal liberals.
It's something that you either believe in or you don't.
Most people who've built something Have invested more than just their own capital in it.
And I don't care whether you're the Koch brothers or somebody who owns a small restaurant.
If you have a business, particularly one that started smaller or started from nothing, you invest a lot more than your own money.
I mean, in doing my local show in Milwaukee, I've talked to so many people who've given stories about why that comment so offended them.
A guy told me, look, I not only had to take out a second mortgage on the house, 100%, I had to borrow money from my mother's father, from my father-in-law.
If I hadn't made it and had been in debt to him, I wouldn't have felt like a man in my own family.
You know, and in the early stages when you do that, you don't know if it's going to work.
You've invested everything, not just your money, but your pride, usually a whole lot of time.
And it is not easy.
Most businesses don't grow as fast as Facebook.
Most of them start out with a lot of growing pains, and in some cases, you don't make it and you fail.
And as you try to get that business going, you've got the local zoning inspector and the local building inspector coming in on telling you to do this, that, and the other thing.
You've got government breathing down your neck all the time.
You're paying property taxes.
The instant that you start making any money, you're paying income taxes.
Yet you try and you try and you try to turn your business into something.
Then you hire a few people.
They get ahead, one or two of them become your managers.
You up in a second location.
You have a sense of pride about what you did because you knew the risks that you were taking.
And then the president gets up and says, You didn't know that.
No wonder that angered people.
No wonder they've had the reaction they've had.
Nonetheless, most of us don't own our own businesses.
Most of us work for somebody else.
That's what I do.
I work for somebody else.
That's the case with most of us.
But we all know that somewhere, somebody had to start something, or we wouldn't have jobs.
This idea that everybody has contributed equally.
So therefore everyone should receive equal benefit.
It's the antithesis of the American way.
But most of all, it doesn't work.
Because if you don't have the potential of making a lot of money, who's going to take the risk in the first place?
Who's going to put up their entire life savings?
Who's going to take out the second mortgage on the house?
Who's going to borrow the money from the father-in-law?
Who's going to put their name on the business and putting their put their pride on the line, knowing that if they fail, everyone will remember, ah, Charlie opened a restaurant and it flopped.
Who's going to take all of those risks unless you think that there is a pot of gold at the end?
Obama wants to take away that pot of gold.
He wants to take away the reward.
Well, what a surprise that nobody wants to take any risks in this economy.
They're terrified of his second term.
Do you know what a second term for this guy means?
It means all of the things that he couldn't get away with in the first term.
He's going to fire away in the second term.
Is it any wonder that we have right now stagnant investment?
Nobody wants to make a move until after the election.
They are terrified of what's going to happen in this country when you have a president who doesn't believe in people making money and doesn't believe in corporations being able to make profits.
He's a huge wet blanket on our economy, and it all comes from his philosophy.
And his philosophy is what's killing his presidency.
I don't want to praise Clinton, but you at least had the sense during Clinton's administration that he actually wanted businesses to succeed.
You know, we actually had a balanced budget during Clinton.
It wasn't because Clinton didn't spend a lot of money, he did.
For heaven's sakes, he was the first guy who wanted to governmentalize health care.
He spent a lot of money.
But the budget was balanced because the economy was doing well.
So much money was flowing into Washington and income tax payments, corporate tax payments, dividend taxes, and capital gains taxes, so much money was flowing in that it matched the spending.
In the case of Obama, the spending has gone up, but the economy is so bad that the revenues aren't matching it.
He's a walking example of why socialism doesn't work anywhere.
My name is Mark Belling and I'm sitting in for Rush Limbois.
Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
I want to talk about the Family Research Council shooting.
If you didn't hear the story, yesterday, at the lobby of the Family Research Council, a guy with a gun shot and wounded a security guard.
The Family Research Council is a socially conservative organization.
They support things like traditional marriage, their pro-life, and so on.
Pretty big organization.
They also recently have been supportive of Chick-fil-A, the restaurant chain that has been under fire for president of the company's positive comments about traditional marriage and opposition to gay marriage.
Anyway, the early indications are the shooter, who's been identified as Floyd Corkins II from Hearn and Virginia, had been a volunteer at an LGBT center and was carrying material that had something to do with Chick-fil-A.
Now I'm not going to assume what his motive is.
But there are indications that he had an axe to grind with this socially conservative organization, and he may be bothered by some of their views.
Can you imagine if this story was reversed?
Can you imagine if this was a liberal organization?
And some Tea Party member went in and tried to shoot people.
Look at what happened when that terrible person went down and shot people in Arizona, including Congress Congresswoman Giffords.
People were trying to blame Sarah Palin, they were trying to blame Rush.
The first reaction to the Aurora Colorado shooting, you had a guy from ABC checking to see whether or not the shooter was a Tea Party member and mixing him up with someone else.
The instantaneous reaction.
Whenever something bad happens in this country, people want to blame conservatives.
Well, I'm not going to play that game in this story because we don't have all of the details.
And I'm not going to suggest that everybody who disagrees with the Family Research Council and has spoken aggressively in favor of gay marriage has anything to do with this because they don't.
This is one bad person with terrible motivation and maybe other problems, who did something that this security guard fortunately stopped.
He's being called a hero.
He fought to disarm and restrain the man even after being shot.
Thank heavens he did it, or this story would have been far worse.
I just want you to consider how this story would have been played and whether or not it would be buried on page 17 of most newspapers as it is.
Had the situation been reversed, and someone who is on my side, our side, the conservative side of issues, had an axe to grind with a liberal organization and went in and tried to commit mayhem.
They always want to assume that we're motivating the worst in people.
Yet when one of their own, like the unibomber, acts on their lefty beliefs, there's never any responsibility that's assigned to them.
As always, we are all individuals and we're responsible for our own actions, be they good or bad.
I just wonder what would have happened, though, had this story been reversed.
My name is Mark Belling and I'm sitting in for the great one, Rush Limbaugh.
Mark Belling here, let's go to Wayne in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Wayne, you're on EIB.
Is it possible that uh Joe Biden has been encouraged to go out and make these uh questionable in substance yet effective in their presentation remarks that he's making, and that with his knowledge or without his knowledge, he has been deemed expendable, and they would drop him down the road around the convention and bring on somebody else that could energize them for the last sixty days.
You know, I'm detecting here uh a real reluctance on the part of people to accept the notion that Joe Biden might actually be this dumb, but he doesn't know what not to say.
People seem to be thinking that Joe Biden has to be put up to this, that there's no way that somebody could be the vice president of the United States and continue to talk so stupidly.
I I suspect that these are remarks of the heart and remarks of the adult brain.
The question he asks though, is it possible that they could dump Biden?
You know, I don't know.
I mean, every media report that I see indicates that they're standing behind him, that it's too late to remove him from the ticket.
I don't want to give them a lot of ideas, but I do think removing Biden from the ticket and putting someone like Hillary on would enthuse the Democratic base, and they need that.
Biden right now is a drag.
Not only is he completely ineffective in attacking the Republicans, he's becoming a laughing stock.
And there are there are questions raised about his credibility here.
Why don't they do it?
I don't know.
Well, we do know this.
Right now he's in the White House having lunch with the president.
Can you imagine this talk?
They I supposedly this started 25 minutes ago.
I wonder what part of the subject they're on now.
Trains?
What do you mean?
Trains go.
Well, that meeting is going on right now.
Don't give him any ideas, though.
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