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Jan. 17, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 17, 2013, Thursday, Hour #2
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And we're back on the cutting edge, L. Rushball, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Great to have you on the EIB network of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Okay, very quickly, Man Titeo.
The media consensus is, and I'm I'm saying that because this is what the AP story indicates, and I think the AP probably stands for represents the media consensus.
Comes down on the side of Mantai Teo being hoaxed by somebody.
He was punked for a whole year.
A victim.
Right.
Good word, a victim.
Somebody made fun of him.
Somebody pulled the wool over his eyes.
Somebody took advantage of his nice guy gullibility.
Somebody portrayed a loving woman who was in love with him.
Never met her.
He never met him.
There were no conjugal visits.
Well, you know, they never met each other personally, but who knows what might have actually happened.
I don't know if he used Skype.
I don't know if there were ever any video conferences.
I don't know if his Facebook or Twitter or a combination of the two.
It went on for a year.
And then she died on the eve of big game.
Oh no.
Oh no.
Now the athletic director, Notre Dame's, oh, this is the finest man I've ever been around.
It's one of the most decent human beings, and now we're all worried he's never going to trust anybody ever again.
There's a media consensus he was hoaxed because he's so gullible.
The media's not going to want to stop there.
They're going to have to explain the gullibility.
Why was he so gullible?
Why was he so susceptible?
Somebody had to know this about him before they tried it.
They had to figure.
If we're going to play a practical joke on somebody, let's pick Mantai.
He's the guy that'd fall for it.
Why did they think that?
Such a nice guy.
So gullible.
Trusts everybody.
Let's show him what the world's really like.
So the media will dig deep and find and probably end up blaming concussions.
Various head injury.
In other words, the game of football itself could be held responsible here for what happened to Man Tateo.
So those are the possibilities that he's in on it and created, participated in a massive spin scam to make himself out to be the greatest guy that ever lived, and able to overcome obstacles and pressure and depression like nobody else, able to focus, which's going to make him look really attractive to an NFL team at draft time.
Or he was uh punked and made fun of by a lot of people, or that he's gay.
That's the third theory.
He's gay, and this is an elaborate cover-up.
What better way to dispel that notion and to say he had an ongoing online relationship with his sweetheart for a whole year.
Then she dies.
Now, one of the things, there were at least one NFL player for the Arizona Cardinals, I believe, a running back, who's online all year claiming he knows the woman, describing her physically beautiful and tall and lanky.
Meanwhile, ladies and gentlemen, uh no news uh about Algeria.
TMZ E Entertainment have nothing on, nor does Dead Spin.
No news whatsoever.
I want to go back to an earlier soundbite that I played in this program.
I have received uh more than the usual.
I I get emails from people who complain.
Conservatives who are unhappy or disappointed with something they see, somebody they see or hear in what they think is conservative media.
And they'll send me emails, either point it out or ask me why.
And last night I got a flood worth of those.
Apparently I didn't see it, but apparently the Fox All-Stars.
Bunch of people, Stephen Hayes, Dr. Kradama, a number of them, thought Obama was perfectly reasonable yesterday.
Everything cool.
No real problem here.
Not gonna be able to get much of it done.
But a lot of it was really reasonable what Obama.
And emails are my God, Rush, what's happening?
Even Fox.
And I want to go back to an earlier sound bite in this program to try to explain my theory of what's happening.
It is audio soundbite number three, and it is Maria Cardona.
She was on with Carol Costello on the CNN this morning.
And Costello has just finished saying, well, you know, limbaugh is limbaugh.
But nevertheless, the president was using a lot of kids in that ceremony yesterday.
What do you think of it, Maria?
Certainly I agree that Limbaugh is limbaugh, and no matter what President Obama does, he is going to be against it.
So let's put that out front.
I do think we need to be very careful about using kids in politics and to seemingly advance a political agenda, like Rush Limbaugh said.
Now the point of playing this to you is that I was right, and this Democrat strategist who's who Maria Cardona is, is admitting I'm right that this was exploitation of kids, and it doesn't go well in politics, and it's unseemly and it makes people uncomfortable using kids this way.
But she prefaced it by saying, look, yeah, Limbaugh's limboy, and no matter what Obama says, he's gonna be against it.
And that I think is the answer to all of you who sent me questions last night about the Fox All-Stars.
And it, by the way, not just about them, it could be Cudlow, it could be Scarborough, could be any number of conservative people in the media.
I get emails when those people say something that they think is not conservative.
The answer is that these people don't want to appear to be opposed to Obama every day.
They don't want somebody saying of them what Maria Cardona said of me.
Well, yeah, Limbaugh's limbaugh.
No matter what Obama does, he's gonna be against it.
That in their world automatically disqualifies me.
My opposition to Obama is not based in substance, you see, according to them.
I am opposing Obama just because I don't like Obama, and that's it.
And he couldn't ever do anything that I would like.
Obama would never do anything I would support.
So Limbaugh, you know, he's not serious.
And these people folks all want to be taken seriously.
They all want to be.
So when they see, this is my wild theory, I could be dead wrong.
But when the people you're sending me emails about see an opportunity to agree with Obama on what they think is something harmless, they'll do it.
So as to maintain some credibility, or at least so as not to have it said about them, what Maria Cardona said about me.
But the difference is they they very much care what people say about them.
I perhaps should, but I don't.
I care about what you believe and my relationship with you or my audience.
Other media people are not my audience.
Uh and and certainly not journalists and not my audience, and people inside the Beltway politicians of my audience, you are.
So my only effort here objective is to be upfront honest with you every day.
Because I don't care about what anybody thinks other than you.
I do value my credibility with you.
Now I'm I'm I'm not gonna say things that are untrue in order to have credibility with you.
I'm not sure.
I do not let my desire to have credibility with you lead me to dishonesty, for example.
But I think for the serious commentator, serious abundance, uh one of the most insulting things could be said about them is that uh mindlessly against Obama.
I mean, constantly.
They never ever say anything positive about the man.
You can't take them seriously.
They don't want to go there at all.
So the gun thing yesterday, my humble little theory here offered an opportunity to say, hey, you know what?
Some of what he proposed makes sense, some of it quite reasonable.
Don't know how well it's gonna work, might not have much difference, but I mean, yeah, and that, in their in their view, gives them credibility with Obama lovers and supporters.
Whereas I have none.
They don't think my opposition to Obama is based in substance.
They think it's based in that I just don't like the guy, that my side lost, and I'm gonna be angry whoever won just because of that.
Now they misunderstand me in that regard, largely because they don't listen to me.
They get their reports of what happens here, third and fourth uh parties.
But just to show you, uh Pete Weyner, friend of mine, he was uh worked with Carl Rowe at the Bush White House, himself wrote about the Obama executive action press conference yesterday, or not a press conference, but a media availability.
And I think what Pete wrote pretty much suffices as the consensus inside the beltway on our side of the aisle about what happened yesterday.
And let me just give you a couple excerpts so that you know what I'm talking about.
As for the substance of what the president's advocating, he's calling for expanded background checks, broader sharing of databases among law enforcement officials, more aggressive prosecutions for crimes under existing laws, prohibition of high capacity magazine clips,
improving mental health reporting requirements by federal agencies, calling on the Centers for Disease Control to conduct research on gun violence, bans on certain types of semi-automatic rifles, blocking the importation of certain guns made overseas.
Most of these measures sound fairly reasonable to me.
And whether or not I'm right about that, these steps do not qualify as an assault on the Second Amendment.
Now, I didn't see the Fox All Stars last night, but those of you who did and have sent me angry emails, I'll bet you was pretty close to that.
This is what Pete thinks.
Then he said, look, as Justice Scalia has pointed out in United States v.
Heller, like most rights, the Second Amendment is not unlimited.
It leaves room to regulate guns.
You don't have a constitutional right to own a rocket propel grenade or machine gun.
So what we're talking about then is a prudential application of restrictions on guns.
I would prefer the president advances agenda through legislation rather than 23 executive orders in order to respect the separation of powers and the role of Congress in such matters.
But in terms of the substance of what the president wants, I, for one, find the proposals to be unobjectionable and in some cases meritorious.
So I'm just that probably, Pete's probably pretty close to the conservative inside the beltway analysis of what happened.
Whereas you watched it, and you're appalled by it, because you're looking at this in an entirely different way.
You're looking at yet another encroachment that nobody's opposing on your liberty.
And you're wondering why nobody else sees that?
You're looking at somebody who doesn't seem to care about the liberty and the freedom that is guaranteed by the Constitution.
And in fact, seems to find that problematic.
Whereas other analysts look at what he said and deal with it strictly within the small universe of gun regulation.
Not the why, not the dangers of it, not anything in context, but simply are these proposals outrageous, unreasonable, is Obama coming for anybody's guns?
No.
I mean, some of this stuff we find ourselves in support of it.
And plus it gives them the opportunity to, if not, come out openly support, at least not oppose.
They just, I guarantee you, it's wrapped up in not wanting to be seen as opposing Obama just for the sake of it.
Because the night before, on on the Fox All-Stars, that bunch ripped into Obama and the way he's dealing with the Republicans on the debt limit.
They ripped him to shred.
And Pete did too, by the way.
Pete wrote a great piece, ripping Obama to shreds, making the point, by the way, that I've been making that his efforts destroy the Republicans, his enemies.
I said that the other day, Pete wrote about it.
Even Barone, Michael Barone has a piece out today, saying, you know what it looks like?
It looks like all Obama cares about is eliminating his opposition.
I'm happy to see this, by the way.
I'm happy to see other people starting to realize what I've realized for a long time.
But you see, the point is, in in I just I'm thinking in their universe and their world.
Yesterday they ripped Obama to shreds, properly so.
They must say what they said about Obama, the way he was uh comporting himself, he was behaving toward Republicans, the things he was saying that aren't true at all in the debt limit uh debate.
They just took him to the woods.
They ripped him, and they just don't want to do that every night.
So here come the gun control thing, or came the gun control thing, gives them an opportunity to praise him.
So in their world, they look reasonable.
They're not ideologue, constant critics.
So pardon the length of this monologue, but I think that's the answer.
I'm telling you, I was deluged.
I mean, you you'd be amazed at the number of emails I get every day for people questioning me about why a so-called conservative said something on Fox that people don't think is conservative.
You know what this the Fox hired Dennis Kucinich.
I practically need a new inbox to deal with people asking me what that's about.
And I think it's the same answer, folks.
It's the same answer.
I gotta take a brief time out.
We'll get to your phone calls when we come back.
Stay where you are.
Now I just want to give you the alternative picture.
Imagine a Republican president with a similar press conference, just a similar press availability, kids and all.
They got four or five kids who have written to the president thanking him and asking him to do more.
Except the topic is not guns, it's abortion.
And the kids have written the president thanking him for his efforts that allowed them to be born so that they are alive and could have written in the letter and then be at the White House, and the letters are asking him to do even more so that more children could be born.
And so the president is announcing various ways to modify Roe v.
Not even a constitutional amendment, uh different ways of regulating it, making it more difficult to get an abortion using executive orders.
I want you to ask yourself if you would find one left-wing member of the media going out of his way to support that president and to say, you know what, it sounded pretty reasonable.
And it was very wise of the president to bring children up.
Children who otherwise would have been aborted.
Other words, same exact circumstances, except you change the subject from firearms to abortion.
And then ask yourself if the Bob Schiefers of the world will go on TV and praise the president as being reasonable.
After all, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, if the government does not defend life, who will?
A great guy here is doing what he can to ensure life.
You can find one liberal media type.
What are the odds?
Zero Zilch Zero Nada.
And so this is why I get emails.
What possesses people on our side to pardon the sniffles here, but what possesses people on our side to want to build bridges to people who you think are trying to take away your freedom, trying to take away your liberty.
I'll tell you, there's a there's a prevailing opinion in inside the belt anyway that people who talk like that take away your liberty, take away your freedom.
They don't think anybody's doing that.
Come on.
They sort of chuckle at your paranoia.
Come on.
Nobody's taken away your freedom, and just a Democrat there.
Just one election, we'll win one too.
But nobody's taking anybody's freedom or liberty away here.
They just don't see it the way you do, is the answer to the question.
But try that inverse analogy, see what you think happens.
So I've got this email.
I I I got this email.
I this is from John Stossel at Fox.
And the subject line is freedom and liberty, and the email says, What is the difference?
That's that's all it says.
I'm assuming I'm assuming that Mr. Snaussel thinks I was ripping Fox, which I wasn't doing.
I'm simply illustrating, in my humble opinion, why people do things that they do.
I'm asked the question.
I try to explain it.
Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, I want to take a brief moment, a brief departure from the usual direction of the program and to introduce to you the international film and television star, the Peabody Award winning Nick Cersei, starring at present in the FX mega hit justified, which is an absolutely fabulous show.
And Nick I I I mentioned the other day, I mean I guess Wednesday that I was happy that Nick finally showed plays the uh the leader of the sheriff, the Marshalls, art, uh, on the program.
I missed you in the first episode, and I'm I I'm I saw you in the credits, so I knew you were going to show up.
I'm glad you did.
Absolutely.
I'm glad I did too.
Are you guys are you through shooting the season?
Is it over with?
Have you finished it?
No, we're still in the middle of it.
We uh we have about five episodes left to shoot, so uh we're all still finding out what's going to happen next, just like everybody else.
So you got thirteen episodes again this season?
Yes, sir.
Yeah.
So you got five to go.
Do you shoot it on location?
We shoot it in uh Valencia, California, which they cleverly try to double to look like Kentucky.
They do, I guarantee you.
They they they pull it off.
Well, you know, it's interesting.
I was mentioning the um uh to the audiences telling them about the show, because I think it's a great show.
I I think it's the people that you have on that program, including you, uh some of the best you know, I've as I've gotten older, I've I've learned to appreciate what you do more than I did when I was young.
Uh and I I think it takes real talent to to just lose yourself and become somebody else and not go crazy at the same time.
And I I've noticed that this season, there's no bad guy.
Seems like you got two parallel storylines.
You got the you got the the uh the boyd crowder, what's happening with him, and you got Raylan, what's happening with him.
Um and uh it's it's it's a whole new feel because there's not a singular bad guy this season, Nick.
Yeah, there they we're not there's not just one big super villain that we're trying to take down, and I think they did that intentionally, you know, to try to try to take the show in a new direction and mix it up a little bit.
And we're getting a chance to focus on the lives of some of the uh some of the other marshals uh in the office, which I think is a good thing.
I think they should focus a little bit more on me just in just for rating.
Well, I was gonna I was gonna say, I think as the head honcho in the office, I did I did notice that they outfitted you with some Pappy Van Winkle.
Yes, they did that's very, very tough stuff to get.
And uh you you got a bottle, and now you're already sharing it with uh Yeah.
Now you were you were you you were in uh you were in Moneyball, right?
I had a little bit in Moneyball, yeah.
I was uh one of the scouts at the table there.
And uh it uh um you know, in the last couple of years, I've done a few uh movies here and there.
Um I was in the ugly truth not too long ago.
I have to ask you a c again, I'm asked by people all the time.
Uh Hollywood is perceived As a haven for people who are Democrats and liberals, and you uh you're pretty public with your conservatism, and yet you got you get your roles, you get jobs.
Have you found it a problem for you personally?
Well, you know, it could be.
I mean, I it's it's not the kind of thing where they call you up and go, we're not gonna hire you because we hate you because you're a Republican.
You know, I I'm sure it happens, and you know, I'm sure if I wasn't I might be working more.
I mean, I know plenty of actors here who have stories that they know about that uh you know, either powerful stars of the movie or producers who found out that they were contributors to Republican candidates or whatever, shut them down.
I mean, I know that it happens.
I just don't know that it personally has happened to me, but I I figure that it m I'm just so likable.
Everybody loves me.
I'm I'm figured that that'll trump whatever hatred they have for me.
Well it's a apparently true.
I mean, you're a uh you're a noted presence on Twitter, you have a tremendous following.
You're you're hilariously funny.
Uh you've got a great sense of humor.
And by the way, they don't write that in much, but you can tell people who know to watch the right things can tell that you have a uh uh a great wit.
Now this for people that don't know, Justified is uh is an adaptation of a of a novel written by short story actually by Elmore Leonard, and he still gets uh uh producer credits.
Is he ever on set uh still as you as you shoot?
No, he he hasn't been on set, but he has come to some of the uh press gatherings with us, and he's a big supporter of the show.
He really loves it, and uh he did uh uh the television critics award uh panel last year with us and and talked about the show as if it was his own, which it is, and uh I I remember I had an exchange with him because he had released an uh novel last year called Raylan.
Right.
That that was both based on the show and that the show used excerpts of to create storylines.
And so I was telling him that, you know, is the is there an is there a novel named Art in the works?
Do you have that in your head somewhere he didn't he didn't really take that bait.
You've got the your your show premieres the middle of January, it runs for thirteen weeks.
When did you start shooting?
We start shooting mid-October, maybe early October, and we wrap around March first, usually every year.
And it's solid.
It's it's every week, maybe except for Christmas.
I'm sure Martin Luther King Day you take off.
Like I'm gonna do this year.
Um other noted holidays.
But it's pretty much working.
Have you got anything else in the pipeline when this finishes?
Uh yeah, actually I'm gonna do a play out here in in uh LA for the first time in twenty years.
I haven't done a play, but it's uh it's kind of a pet project in a they have stages, I mean theaters in LA.
Yes.
People actually do go to them, yes.
Uh and that place called Billy and Ray and Gary Marshall is gonna be directing it, which is gonna be fun.
And uh but the other thing that I have in the works is my acting school project, which is ongoing, and it's uh a public service that I pres provide to my fans so that they can learn what it's like to be an international.
Let me let me tell you about this, folks.
Nick Nick here is he's presenting this.
You don't quite know Nick's sense of humor, but this acting school of his is uproarious.
It uh where can people find this, Nick?
I mean, they've got to see this.
Where what what addresses on radio are tough?
Is there okay, find you on Twitter and then find your your your acting school.
No, it's very easy.
It's just my name.
It's just like Rush Swimball.com.
You just go to Nicksercee.com, and there's a little icon up on the right that says acting school, and you click on that, and you're the learning begins right then.
Yeah, and never stops.
Okay, it's S-E-A-R-C-Y.
That's how that's on Nick Spells' last name.
It says Nick Cersei.com and the uh the icon in the upper right hand corner for the acting school.
That's right.
Well, let me tell you you guys are all great.
I um as I mentioned earlier, I I have uh as I get older, I have a greater appreciation for a lot of work that people do that I uh in younger days I used to thought was I used to think was uh was easy.
But uh and I'm just a fan, I don't know how to uh rate what you do professionally.
All I am is a consumer, but I have to tell you the everybody that I know loves this show.
You all look like You're having a ball doing it.
You all look like you're really totally immersed in it, that nobody's phoning it in.
I think the audience doesn't feel cheated watching this thing.
And it's it's unique.
And I um you know, it's it's it's the kind of thing everybody wishes they could be part of, Nick, to tell you the truth.
It's it's it's that it's it's that good to that kind of show.
And and all the guest stars you bring on, uh that they they add to it too.
So congratulations.
It's a it's it's a great show, and it it looks like you're just having a blast with it.
Oh, we are.
We you know, we we it's it's such a joy to go to work every day with these people, and Tim Olifant is just a terrific star, and he's one of these guys that's so engaged in the material.
His his enthusiasm for it is infectious, and it pulls everybody in, and the writers have done a wonderful, wonderful thing in allowing the actors to really massage the the scenes, and the writers are always there on the set with us so that the somebody has an idea or a change they want to make or an ad lib they want to throw in.
Everybody's in on it so nobody gets mad, and it's just oh I know.
Managing those egos is is is un unimaginable to me.
Managed, but uh for example, the the season that you had Margot Martindale, uh that character, she portrayed that character.
I I I still marvel at it.
I still go back and I watch replays, and I imagine it was a challenge for the writers to kill her off.
That because they could have gotten another season out of that whole storyline if they wanted to, but that's I guess a testament to the discipline to come up with something new so that nothing gets old.
But really and not just her, but all of you in this show.
You you perform to that degree.
It's uh it's a delight to watch, it really is.
And I'm honored to have you in the audience.
I really am.
I my my brother tweets back and forth with Nick.
And uh and and David's done everything he can to keep you off the show.
But I find it.
Well, you know, it's uh I I bet I was so honored that you were a fan.
I know you've been talking about the show for years, and and you were talking about Margot, and I was just such a fan of yours, and I kept thinking, surely he's gonna get around to mentioning me one of these days.
One of these days he's gonna mention his buddy Nick.
Well it was funny when you when I remember when you talked about Margot last year.
Yeah, and you talked you've mentioned some of the other actors before, and they never knew about it, you know, because they don't listen.
Yeah, I just I wasted it all.
That's an that's an excellent point.
I wasted it all.
I wasted it all.
You need to focus on me if you talk about justified.
I'm the one who loves you, Ross.
And you're the one that makes the show.
It can be said here.
It can be said here.
And by the way, now Nick, you're the only one of the show that's been here.
That's right.
I mean, that's the first.
And well, I have to I have to tell you one story though, because you made an appearance on the set of Justified one day.
Um I I uh uh we were doing a scene, Tim Olifant and I, and uh I had my phone in my pocket, and of course, like every decent American, I have the Rush 24-7 app on my iPhone so that I can listen to you.
And as I was walking through the office during the scene, somehow the my pants brushed up against the button, wrong button on the iPhone, and your voice started playing during the scene.
Oh, right in the mid Oh no, and they cut it out.
Well, every chaos kind of erupted.
Everybody's going, what's that?
What's that?
And uh and Tim Tim Olifant goes, Oh my god, now we've got Rush Limbaugh on the show.
And uh and I turned to him and I said, Wait a minute.
How do you know what Rush Limbaugh sounds like?
You only heard about five words out of his mouth.
Are you a listener?
And he he wouldn't answer me.
That's hilarious.
But it was great.
Why I I didn't know that.
I appreciate your passing that on.
That's that's um that's funny.
How do you know who Limbo is?
You only heard five words he's ever said.
Nick, thanks for calling.
I tell you it's it's it's great to great to finally meet you and have you here, and uh and congratulations on all the best to you in your future endeavors.
Thank you, Russ.
It's such an honor for me.
It's one of the biggest days of my life.
Well, thank you, much.
Tell them we all said hi too.
I really I really appreciate that, Nick.
Thank you so much, really do.
Nick Cersei, folks, Nick Cersei of justified, and we will be back with Kardashian news.
Well, we melted down Nick Cersei's website.
It always happens.
There is not a there's not a website yet that has survived a mention on this program.
Nickserce.com, and you really be patient, get there.
Is his acting school that the icon in the upper right-hand corner he was talking about is acting school.
It's um it's it's worth your time.
Mark in uh Tully Lake or Talari.
Did you misspell Talari or is it it's Tula Lake, California?
Okay, hi, welcome to the program.
Good morning, Rush.
How are you, sir?
I'm doing well.
And yourself?
Um exceptionally so, sir.
I wanted to give you a call from the real Northern California.
We're 300 miles north of San Francisco.
That's that's Northern California.
That's it's northern.
It's almost Oregon.
Uh Rush, I just wanted to make a quick comment.
Uh on the Bob Schaeffer uh deal you run a little bit earlier.
I was astounded by the the blatant dishonesty of that uh of that statement he had.
You know, preamble's fine, all the great things that we've done as a country.
But when he says take on the NRA.
What struck me about that is he didn't mean the NRA.
He meant the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
He just pasted the picture over what they really want.
Instead of having uh the uh courage and the moral conviction to actually introduce and do what they really want to do, they subdivide and select little pieces that they can kind of try and blow by it.
Let me folks, this is exactly right.
I uh that I'm you're making a good point here.
Let me, for people just joining us, what Bob Schiefer said uh after Obama's press availability yesterday on guns was was essentially that taking on the NRA is the equivalent of taking on Hitler.
I mean, if we've taken on Hitler, if we beat Hitler, if we got the Civil Rights Act passed, we can certainly take out the NRA.
We can certainly so there was a a moral equivalence as well between the NRA and Hitler.
But what your your point mark is right, what is the NRA?
The NRA is American citizens.
The NRA is the American people who have joined an organization that's devoted to a number of things, including gun safety, but also it is protected with the second amendment.
You're exactly right.
These people are at war with the Constitution.
That is exactly what is happening, and that's why people are concerned when people come out and agree with Obama or say he's reasonable or say he's responsible.
What about liberty?
What about freedom?
What the freedom and liberty enshrined in the Constitution.
Do none of you see the assault on that that this all represents.
That's what you're saying, correct?
Correct.
Exactly right.
He meant taking on the second amendment is like taking on Hitler.
That's what he meant.
Put second amendment amendment in there, substitute that for NRA.
He may not even know that's what he meant.
I uh I mean I don't know Bob Schiefer.
I've never met him pre- I don't know how how much of an anti-constitution activist he is.
I know that as a journalist, he is nothing more than a liberal activist.
Uh, but it is the Constitution that they've got their problem with.
If it weren't for the Constitution, if it weren't for that damned amendment, there wouldn't be an NRA.
And well, Snerdley says, how come the kids don't write to him about the Constitution now that you've put the idea out there?
It's not a stretch.
It's not a stretch that the president, this one particularly, go on TV and talk about the letters he's getting from young children, asking him about the founding fathers really intend for what's happening today to be permitted.
I wouldn't put it past him at all.
Anyway, Mark, that's a great point.
I'm glad you um you you made it through here today.
A brief timeout and we'll be right back.
Don't go away.
Dear Mr President, my name is Lou Johnny and I'm from California.
Mr. President, why do we even need a constitution when we have executive orders?
Could you explain that to me?
Thank you.
Don't rule it out, folks.
Anything's possible.
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