ABC Radio News, top of the hour, talking about all of what the positive job outlook.
Told you, positive job.
The numbers are minuscule.
Something like, oh, I've got them here.
16,000 fewer applications or something.
They're going to massage these numbers.
The next two days, folks, are going to wear you out.
And I'm just telling you now, don't get dispirited by this stuff.
It isn't going to matter next week and the week after that.
Media and the pro-Obama forces doing whatever they can here because they've got a disaster of a convention going.
Quite, quite the opposite of what they want you and everybody else to think.
Great to have you back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
All right.
We have it.
Chris Matthews, while wearing an athletic supporter to hide the bulge behind a desk on the anchor, chair the seat there at MSNBC, just having a verbal orgasm over Bill Clinton's speech.
I always figured that Bill Clinton landed on Mars.
He would know how to do it with F.
He would know how to reproduce.
He would know everything.
He'd just instinctively know how to talk to people.
That was after, he said, years from now, we may look back at tonight.
Remember Bill Clinton's speech is one of the greatest in convention history.
Nobody, including Obama himself, has made a better case for Obama than Bill Clinton did tonight.
Clinton didn't do that.
Now, Clinton wanted everybody to think that Clinton made a case for Clinton last night.
Now, no, here it is again, audio soundbite number 31.
I always figured if Bill Clinton landed on Mars, he would know how to do it with it.
He would know how to reproduce.
He would know everything.
He'd just instinctively know how to talk to people.
Now, you have to ask yourself a question.
Chris Matthews, you're looking at Bill Clinton.
What in the world are you thinking?
What must be on your mind if you're thinking about doing it with Martians?
No, I know Clinton wanted to do it with a mummy.
I'm not talking about Clinton Matthews.
You're sitting there, and of all the things, Bill Clinton says, done a great speech in your mind.
And, God, this guy could do it with Martians.
This guy would know how to reproduce with Martians.
He could pull it off of five minutes.
What must you be thinking?
What must be going on in your head?
Let me just ask you, when is the last time you fantasized about doing it with Martians?
Better than that, when's the last time you fantasized about Bill Clinton doing it with Martians?
When's the last time you got excited about Bill Clinton doing it with anybody?
When was the last time you got all jazzed about that?
And this guy is doing convention coverage at PMSNBC.
It's just another illustration out there that the irrational, irrational attachment they have to this guy.
And I think that this over-the-top, oh, it's over now, Clinton.
It's election's over.
That's the greatest speech ever.
They know they're in trouble.
What do you mean the election's over?
You mean it wasn't in the bag going into this convention?
You mean Obama doesn't have this in the bag?
It took Obama being spoken for by Bill Clinton?
Took Bill Clinton to put Obama over the top?
And that makes you so excited you start fantasizing about Clinton doing it with Martians inside of five minutes.
Well, you're wearing an athletic supporter on the MSNBC set to hide the bulge.
Man, oh man, no wonder Broko had to go to the hospital this morning.
You hear about that?
Brokaw was getting all woozy on Morning Joe.
So, because he's a dean of something, they took him to hospital.
And he tweeted from the hospital he took an ambient when he got up.
And mistakenly, he took a hat, took a Kennedy driving excuse, but he woke up and took half an ambient.
Okay, folks, it's back now to Elizabeth Warren making the case for voting against Obama.
She is ripping the conditions in this country.
She's ripping the economy.
She's ripping the way things are going.
Everybody's got the deck rigged against them.
It's as though the Republicans are in power, if you listen to this woman.
It's as though George Bush or some Republican is still president.
It's as though this is 2008 and they do not have power and they're running to claim it.
It's amazing.
Two more soundbites from this woman.
Republicans say they don't believe in government.
Sure, they do.
They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends.
After all, Nick Romney's the guy who said corporations are people.
No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.
People have hearts.
They have kids.
They get jobs.
They get sick.
They cry.
They dance.
They live.
They love.
And they die.
And that matters.
That matters because we don't run this country for corporations.
We run it for people.
And that's why we need Barack Obama.
Maybe corporations are Indians.
If they're not people, what are they?
I was smiling so big when this happened.
I was smiling, and I was hoping a lot of people were seeing this.
Corporations aren't people.
You say the word corporation to a liberal, it is like showing Dracula the cross.
You heard it.
You heard it here.
No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.
It's the most amazing thing.
Let's go to Soundbite 32.
Let me take a little detour here.
This is yesterday on Euro Pacific Capital, CEO Peter Schiff.
He's, again, the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, and he's got a website where he does a quote-unquote radio show, SchiffRadio.com.
He released a video showing him interviewing unidentified Democrats in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the convention.
And here is a portion of it.
You'll hear this guy, Peter Schiff, three unidentified women, four men.
Do we need corporate profits?
Maybe we should have corporate losses.
You actually want to force corporations to lose money?
Yeah, I think so.
I want to ban those profits so that the workers can have higher wages and that the consumers can get lower prices.
That is obviously something I would be in favor.
Would you be in favor of a law that banned corporate profits?
Corporate profits?
Profits.
Yeah, corporate profits.
Yes, yes.
What do you think happens with corporate profits?
They keep it and they get bigger and bigger.
I know.
Would you support President Obama if he came out in favor of a law to ban corporate profits?
Yes.
If you're talking just pure profit?
Yeah, the stuff that's left over for the greedy capitalists.
I can actually support that that's who they are.
Jay Leno has smarter men on the street in his show.
No, no, that's not a made-up skit.
That's not a made-up.
I have been warning you people for 24 years.
This is who these people are.
It is not made up.
It's actual democracy.
Some of these people are delegates to the convention.
This is not made up.
This is who they are.
Well, you just heard the cheers for Elizabeth Warren saying that corporations aren't people.
They hate corporations and they hate profit.
I've been blue in the face.
They don't think anybody should make any money doing or selling anything, particularly health care.
I'm telling you, that's going to be the next attack is on doctors.
Why should there be any profit in healing the sick?
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if that's already being said by certain political people in certain parts of the country.
It's who these people are.
That is why they are a minority of the population.
And they're not smarter than everybody else, folks.
They're actually quite ignorant.
They're governed entirely by their emotions.
They fall for branding.
You know, I'm watching some of the convention last night, some of the absolutely irrational stuff said by some of the women last night that spoke.
That was just, you would think that this was Saudi Arabia, the way they were talking about this country.
It was astounding.
And at the moment, I said, I got to get on the phone to some liberals I know.
I said, what?
What do you think this, you think these people are smarter than George Bush?
You think these people?
And what they would tell me, I know, they care.
They care.
Republicans don't care about people.
But I'm telling you, these people are a collection of genuine ignoramuses.
They are morons.
You give them half a chance.
They would ban profits.
You heard, I guarantee this one answer.
Well, all they do is just keep them and get bigger and bigger.
That's all they keep it get bigger and bigger.
They don't have the slightest understanding that without profits, there's no business.
It doesn't stay open.
There aren't any jobs without profit.
There aren't any taxes without profits.
There's nothing without profits.
What about the nonprofits, Mr. Limbaugh?
How in the world do you do?
Dude, silly, what you're saying.
Nonprofits exist and feed off people who earn profits.
Who the hell pays for the nonprofits?
Nonprofits are a bunch of crap anyway.
Not all of them, but I'm just telling the hold the whole premise here that there's some virtue in this stuff and there's no virtue in profit.
It's just vile and ugly.
But that's who they are.
That's not a skit.
Mr. Snerdley.
Back to Elizabeth Warren.
Here's our final Elizabeth Warren soundbite from her speech last night.
President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads, and bridges, in science, and in the future, so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid after that and the kid after that.
That's what President Obama believes.
And that's how we build the economy of the future.
An economy with more jobs and less debt.
We root it in fairness.
Where?
We grow it with opportunity and we build it together.
Where are the jobs and where is the less debt?
Everything the woman's railing against has been happening for the past three and a half years by her party.
Her party is the architect of everything she's railing against.
We root in fairness.
We grow it with opportunity and we build it together.
We have one of the favorite things these people are saying at this convention is that we share the prosperity or we create the prosperity together.
They don't know what they're talking about.
I got to take a break here.
We'll come back, get some of your phone calls, and then no, I'm not going to hold it any longer.
After the break, Alex Castellanos and Carol Costello at CNN, and then your phone calls.
Don't go away.
Okay, HR, I want you to be ready.
We're going to play a couple of soundbites here from Alex Castellanos.
Alex Castellanos, a well-known, famous, one of the best, never anybody better, in fact, Republican consultants and now analysts.
Every time, who did he get elected?
I don't know.
He's just one of the best.
And that's why he's on CNN.
And every time we mention him or talk about him, he always has a problem with it.
He always emails HR, my trusty, valued aide-de-camp, chief of staff, so forth, demanding something or other.
So I just want to warn you, HR, it's going to happen again.
There you go.
Alex Castellanos.
This is last night, CNN's coverage of Democrat National Convention after Clinton's speech.
Republican strategerist Alex Castellanos.
You don't have to come back tomorrow.
This convention is done.
This will be the moment that probably re-elected Barack Obama.
Bill Clinton saved the Democratic Party once.
Heck was going too far left.
He did it again tonight.
So Clinton saved Obama from going too far left.
No matter what Obama does tonight, people are going to remember Clinton.
Clinton, great centrist, great.
You know, the last thing this convention really wanted to hear about was bipartisanship.
They don't want to hear that.
And Clinton trumpeted and talked about bipartisanship and how he was able.
He was slamming Obama on this, by the way, very subtly.
You have to know Clinton.
You have to know how he operates.
I do.
He was vaulting himself way above Obama here.
And don't forget, these are not his exact words, but he made it very clear to this crowd last night.
Now, look, I know my first four years, I mean, they're great compared to this.
It'd be very unfair you compare these four years to mine.
I wouldn't want you doing that, even though I'm doing it right here for you.
I wouldn't want you in your own mind making that comparison, how good I was compared to this, because that wouldn't be fair.
Yeah, so here we have a man who is so far left in Barack Obama, he enjoys the prospect of tyranny.
And Bill Clinton makes a speech last night and somehow convinces everybody that Obama's not who he really is.
Yes, it's a centrist party now.
I'm telling you, those delegates didn't want to hear about bipartisanship.
They don't want to hear about getting along with Boehner or getting along with McConnell or getting along with Republicans.
They want to cream us.
Anyway, that was last night.
Alex Castellanos.
You don't even have to come back tomorrow.
Obama doesn't even have to speak.
This convention is done.
This will be the moment that they re-elected Obama.
This morning, after whatever he did last night, Costellano still thinks the election is over because women voters want to sleep with Bill Clinton.
He was talking with Carol Costello on CNN who said, you had a whole night to sleep on it, Alex.
You had a whole night to sleep on it.
You still feel the same way today that you felt last night.
Yes, I do.
I think it's a powerful moment.
Campaign stories and campaigns are told in moments, and this was one that I think will travel.
Guys are talking about this on sports radio.
Did you see Bubba last night?
I got a text from a woman I know who said, I want to sleep with him and vote for him.
So I think it's a pretty powerful moment.
That's our leading Republican strategerist analyst, Alex Castellano.
Guys are talking about this on sports radio.
Did you see Bubba last night?
Well, they are a bunch of libs on sports media anyway.
So Carol Costello, she takes that, she digests that, and then she tells Alex that she worried.
She worried that Obama can't outshine Clinton.
Clinton was so good that there's just no way poor little Mary can outshine Clinton, and she worries that may not be good.
So she talks about that with Alex.
He was going to give his speech in that big football arena, which is perfect for Barack Obama.
Now he's moved indoors where he's not quite as effective.
Because Bill Clinton showed so much charisma last night, is it possible that Barack Obama can make people kind of forget last night happened?
We know Barack Obama.
We know he gives great speeches.
That's not what we need from him tonight.
If he just does the same thing he always does, people stay where they already are.
Alex Castellanos, thank you so much for being with us because I know you had a long night last night.
And there was a pregnant pause there of about five seconds before they went to, yeah, there was a pregnant pause of about five seconds before they went to the commercial break when she said, thanks for being with us.
I know you had a long night last night.
Pregnant pause, pregnant, pause, pregnant pause.
He never said a word.
They went to commercial break.
How does she know he had such a long night last night?
Hmm.
Anyway, so the sum total here is she's worried.
Did you, by the way, did you know that Obama is not quite as effective indoors as he is?
We give the same speech over and over.
But I've never heard that.
I've never heard that he was not effective indoors.
They're giving speeches.
I've never heard that.
And Carol Costellanos is terribly worried that moving indoors, he's not quite as effective.
Bill Clinton, so much charisma.
Is it possible, Alex, that Obama can make people kind of forget Clinton last night?
And old Alex is right there.
We're a Republican strategist, a Republican strategist.
We know Obama.
We know he gives great speeches.
That's not what we need from him tonight.
If he just does the same thing he always does, people stay where they already are.
And there you have it.
Analysis you can't get anywhere else but CNN, which is why so few people get their analysis there.
And your phone calls are coming, Rick, after this.
Don't go anywhere.
You know, the whole point, may I be blunt?
May I be honest?
The whole point of having Bill Clinton speak at the Democrat convention last night was to make people forget Obama.
I mean, if you want to get down to brass tax, that's what Clinton's job was, to make people forget Obama and to forget these four years.
This was an attempt to get the nostalgic juices flowing and have people think that Obama and the Democrat Party the next four years are going to be what was 20 years ago with Bill Clinton.
That's what last night was all about.
But it ain't going to work.
A, nobody saw Clinton.
I've got the TV numbers here.
0.9 on the three broadcast networks.
The vast majority of the American people didn't hear Clinton's speech.
I'm not going to play any of it on this program.
People were watching other things, including the football game.
Folks, the ratings mean something.
When you have a 0.9, it not only means that people didn't watch, it means they didn't care to watch.
And yet, you listen to Matthews or Carol Costello or you'll hear Coki Roberts coming up.
Their whole world starts and ends with Bill Clinton.
And they think that everybody else is as jazzed and juiced and as into Clinton as they are.
And it's why they're irrational and it's why they're out of touch with this country.
It's why they're always shocked in most cases after elections.
Bill Clinton's from the last century.
This convention's theme is forward.
War on women, Bill Clinton.
I'm telling you, they have no clue how this is really seen, but nobody saw Clinton's speech.
And I'm going to go even further.
We talk about these conventions and these speeches.
And the way I do it is for the fun of it, in the moment.
The fact is, on Election Day, do you think Clinton's going to matter?
On election day, do you think Bill Clinton or anything he said last night is going to matter?
Obama's speech tonight will not matter.
The public is already familiar with both of these guys.
The public knows Clinton in more ways than they can count and wish to.
And they're tired of him.
And I believe the country's tired of Obama.
In fact, the Politico has a story today, the not-so-great communicator.
It's not just Carol Costello who's worried about Obama's speech tonight because he doesn't do as well indoors.
The Politico has a story here that they actually say Obama hasn't given a good speech since he was elected.
They spend too much time figuring out what to put on the teleprompter instead of how to govern make decisions.
They're all for show.
When they get into a troubled spot, it's let's go make a speech.
Which is why I say on this program, speeches don't create jobs.
Speeches don't feed a hungry child or whatever.
But their solution to everything is a speech.
As this convention illustrates, everything.
The solution to everything is a speech.
It ain't going to matter on election day or the day before.
People aren't going to remember.
People know Obama.
They're tired of him.
Politico says speeches are tired and worn out.
They haven't had a good one in four years.
People aren't going to vote based on what Clinton thinks or what Clinton told him to do last night, did Obama.
People are going to vote on what they think about what's going on in the nation and what they think the future holds.
And they're going to decide who they believe is best to help the nation and their future.
And it ain't going to be based on a speech.
These consultants and these media types are stuck in a circle of social and professional ignorance of their own making, their own little clique, their own little universe where they've got, well, call it a playbook, and there's a formula, and everybody plays by it.
Everybody in the media plays by it.
You can predict what's going to happen.
You can predict when they're going to go to analysis.
You can predict when they're going to go to the speech.
You can predict what the analysis after the speech is going to be.
We on this program go way beyond the conventions.
And I don't mean the convention.
I'm talking about conventional boundaries.
We go way beyond the formula.
And we don't get caught up in all of the sideshow stuff here that the media hopes you get caught up on.
They know, by the way, in addition to all this, that if they can't convince you that what's happened the last four years hasn't happened, they're sunk.
And the only way they can convince you it hadn't happened is to blame it on Republicans or whatever.
But they can't go anywhere near Obama's record.
They can't touch it.
They can't talk about what he's going to do the next four years.
They don't dare go there.
They don't dare touch that.
So what are they going to do?
They're going to give speeches.
And they're going to do analysis after the speeches.
With all due respect, Alex Castellanos, this election did not end last night.
The election hasn't happened.
The campaign is not over.
I'm sorry to put you in this position, H.R. You're going to get the phone call now demanding equal time.
You tell Alex, I am equal time.
He had his time on CNN.
He said what he said.
He meant to say it.
You know, if there's so much excitement for Clinton, maybe we could sponsor a write-in, you know, Operation Chaos 4, a write-in for Bill Clinton.
Well, I know he can't serve again, but it still would be fun to mess with it.
Now, the New York Times, in addition to the Politico here, the not-so-great communicator, all of a sudden, Obama can't give a speech.
Been amazing.
Hadn't given a good speech since he was elected.
And the New York Times had a story by Peter Baker.
Basically, they call Obama bloodless.
You know what that means?
If you're bloodless, you don't even mean blood.
What are you?
Aside from dead, you're cold.
And they cite examples.
There's Obama out there on the trail, and he's making speeches and campaign appearances, and people want his autograph and the rope line and so forth.
And he's perfunctory with them.
He's not warm.
He's not engaging.
He doesn't really like mixing with the Hoy Polloy, which is why they send Muchel out there.
And by the way, I have to tell you, people talk about her wardrobe.
I must confess, I was dazzled by it.
I have never seen a swimsuit dress in my life.
Had you ever seen one of those?
That was, I mean, I would swimsuit dress.
I was taken by it.
I have never seen a swimsuit dress, swimsuit top and a dress on the bottom.
And I'm told that that thing only cost $900.
And they, well, no, that Mrs. Romney's was 2,100 from Oscar de la Renta or Cuando Caglientel Sol who, I don't know.
But we got to give them props whenever we give them props.
Okay, I promise we're going to go to the phones, and we are.
And we're going to start Manhattan with Mike.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Thank you for your patience.
Hello.
Mr. Limbaugh, I'm thrilled to talk to you, and thank you for everything you do.
Thank you, sir.
I really do appreciate your patience.
I know you've been waiting a long time.
No problem.
So here's what I have to say.
I got tired of hearing at the convention the other night that President Obama has created 4.5 million jobs.
Yeah, I know.
So I went to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and I pulled every single month for the years of 2010, 2011, and 2012.
Okay.
In 2010, there were 850,000 net new jobs created, of which 411,000 of them were from the census workers, the temp jobs.
In 2011, 1,152,000.
And in 2012 so far, 1,017,000.
I didn't include 2009 because those were all losses for every month.
And I give Mr. Obama the benefit of the doubt for the first year of his term.
It's very compassionate.
You mean there were no jobs created at all in 2009?
None.
It was a negative.
It was a negative.
But that's when the recovery started.
June of 2009 is when the recovery starts.
What the regime told us.
Well, that's what they claim.
But my point is, why can we continue to say that 4.5 million jobs were created when it cannot be validated anywhere?
Because it's their job to lie.
But how long can they continue before somebody challenges them?
Hey, look at Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz is being challenged every day now by the media, and she doesn't care.
She's continuing to lie.
In fact, Anderson Cooper finally threw up his hand and said, you know what?
You live in an alternate universe.
He told her you are in an alternate universe.
I can't keep, you're just, and she just keeps lying.
It's her job.
This notion of 4.5 million jobs, it's a crock anyway, even with your math or without your math.
It's a crock.
The truth is we are losing jobs.
There is no recovery.
We are not growing the economy.
This is nothing more than a distraction on a smokescreen.
Nobody is creating a career right now.
When we think of economic growth and jobs, these people think workers and hamburger flippers or whatever they can count where somebody's being paid no matter what.
That's not the way we look at.
We look at people investing in themselves in careers following their passions, being entrepreneurial.
It's a whole different picture, but I'm glad you ran the numbers on it because it's something I'm tired of hearing too.
Four and a half million jobs.
And it isn't true.
Look at, I was just watching CNN, and the mayor of L.A., Antonio Villaragosa, was on.
He's the guy that ran this vote yesterday on admitting God back.
And he just lied to what's her face, Suzanne Malvo.
Is that who it was?
Doesn't matter, some CNN babes.
He just lied.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
The vote was what it was.
I just did it three times just to make sure.
But oh, no, that was not preordained.
No, no.
Nobody protested.
I don't know what you think you saw, but nobody protested what we did.
They actually said that.
God got booed.
The vote got booed.
And Villa Ragosa is out there on CNN five minutes ago saying that didn't happen.
When are people going to call up?
And the CNN, babe, I was reading the closed casting, so I don't know, but I just saw her nodding her head.
So I don't know that she challenged him or not.
Look, that's supposed to be a two-thirds vote, and I don't care.
We heard it.
You heard it.
We saw it.
Whatever, it wasn't two-thirds.
It wasn't close to two-thirds.
The Democratic process didn't matter.
Barack Obama told him to put God back in there, and that's what was going to happen.
He's the guy that took it out.
The reference to God.
It was never near two-thirds of a vote on anything there.
Okay, brief time out here, folks.
We'll come back and more of your phone calls will take place.
I'll tell you what really irritates me more than anything about the repetitive 4.6 or 4.5 million jobs created.
You know what the real number is?
And by the way, we have none other than CNN as the fact check source.
CNN fact check.
I got the link right here.
About those 4.5 million jobs.
There has been, and look at me, the real number is a net gain of 300,000 jobs over the course of the Obama administration to date.
They talk about 4.5 million jobs, but some of those are existing, repetitive.
The net gain, literal new jobs that didn't exist, is 300,000.
CNN also grudgingly admits, and I'm going to quote from CNN: overall, there are still fewer people working now than when Obama took office at the height of the recession, which is the whole point of this discussion.
There are fewer people working now than when Obama took office.
That's all anybody needs to know, and that's what we all do know.
There are 23 million people not working.
In fact, the number could be close to 80 when you count those that have given up, gone way beyond their 99 weeks.
It's atrocious, this number of people not working.
And for them to run around and talk about 4.5 million jobs created, they know they are lying through their teeth.
They don't have but 300,000 jobs they can hang their hat on if you even want to acknowledge that government creates private sector jobs.
And I would maintain, gee, the government doesn't create private sector jobs.
They either get in the way of jobs, they get out of the way, but they don't create them.
Government policy retards job growth or encourages it, but Obama's not creating any private sector jobs.
No president does.
By definition, it's not possible.
The fact of the matter is there are fewer people working now than when Obama took office at the height of the recession, despite the net gain of 300,000 new jobs.
Even despite have a story from July 8th, 2008, Denver Business Journal.
Democrats rain will not move Big Obama's speech indoors.
Planners at a Democrat National Convention meeting with hundreds of media representatives on Tuesday, this July 8th, four years ago, said that candidate Barack Hussein Obama will deliver his nomination acceptance speech at Invesco Field at Mile High, come rain or shine.
An August evening rainstorm will not move the convention's climactic moment back to the Pepsi Center.
And there was a 29% chance of at least some rain on August 28th.
A 29% chance.
And they went on with it.
There is now, latest forecast, 0% chance of rain in Charlotte, North Carolina.
By the way, some journalists are not happy with their accommodations in Charlotte.
There's one of the gawker guys has written a piece.
Do I have his name here?
Don't have his name, so it doesn't matter.
I hate the Democrat Convention.
Let me start with a hotel.
It is a crap hole.
A $250 a night mildewy rat hole for truckers and prostitutes on a decimated strip mall.
Charlotte is the armpit of the South, a glorified, half-dead exurb, some tall buildings planted in the middle.
There are skeezy-looking tattoo shops everywhere, and none of the stores are open past midnight.
This convention, what a waste.
My fellow journalists are appalled at the accommodations that Charlotte has to offer.
I can't believe a Democrat Party would put us here.
That's a journalist from Gawker.com.
Not happy.
Obviously, with a hotel accommodation in Charlotte.
So I checked the email in the break.
Rush, Rush, I don't understand.
Why are all these media people talking about Obama not giving a good speech in four years at a New York Times calling him bloodless?
Why is this happening?
My friends, I've already told you why this is happening.