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Jan. 21, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 21, 2013, Monday, Hour #2
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Uh direct from Ice Station EIB, hard pressed against the Canadian border in far northern New Hampshire.
If you flee in the country, do swing by the the uh inaugural festivities the the uh the new coronation.
Uh that's actually I'm I don't like to complain, but you know, Queen Elizabeth only is one coronation.
This guy has them every four years now.
Something's got to change about that.
Uh the but the the coronation festivities are over for the moment.
Uh for for the next two hours they're at some uh ceremonial lunch, and uh then they will be starting the round of inaugural balls.
But Ralph Nader will not be partying like it's twenty thirteen.
He said yesterday, tomorrow, this is from Politico, tomorrow I'll watch another rendition of political bull expletive by the newly re-elected president, full of promises that he intends to break, just like he did in two thousand and nine, the two time Green Party presidential candidate toll politico on Sunday night at the Bus Boys and Poets Peace Ball in Washington.
What is up with that?
Why why wasn't that?
I thought I had an exhaustive list of inaugural balls.
There's nothing on there about the Bus Boys and Poets Peace Ball in Washington.
Was that poet who made the whole thing run long with his poem about the moon and the stars and the new constellation?
Was he at the Bus Boys and Poets Peace Ball?
I'm a bus boy, by the way.
I could have gone to that.
I was a bus boy at the Westbury Hotel in Toronto when I was eighteen years old, so I should have been at the Bus Boys and Poets Peace Ball.
Anyway, Ralph Nader uh says from not increasing the minimum wage to increasing the drone war to not being tough enough on Wall Street.
Uh Nader said he wasn't impressed with Obama's first term, and he isn't optimistic uh about the path forward.
Uh he's criticized the gun control package because he says it doesn't go far enough on the violent video game creators he calls electronic child molesters.
Uh so Ralph Nader, he did uh fly into Washington to attend the Bus Boys and Poets Peace Ball.
Now wait a minute, you know, Ralph Nader, how did he get to the Bus Boy and Poets Peace Bowl?
He's neither a bus boy nor a poet.
I make no claims for my poetry, but I am a bus boy, and I feel I I should have been at that one.
So I never get any of the invitations.
If you're down, if you're thinking of heading there, uh prohibited items at the US Capitol.
Uh you're not allowed to have animals other than service animals, no alcoholic beverages.
Which is why the Joe Biden and the uh and the Barack Obama's the speeches may seem longer, but uh it just seems that way 'cause there's no alcoholic beverages, no coolers, uh no large bags, no laser pointers.
Who takes a laser pointer to a presidential inaugural?
No sticks or poles, no strollers.
So he keeps saying, Oh, it's for the children.
You can't get a baby near this thing.
You can't have any strollers uh at the at the United States Capitol on inaugural day.
One eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two, Hump Day in America, National Squirrel Appreciation Day.
We are covering both extensively.
Hump Day for the Obama Presidency.
It's all downhill from here.
one eight hundred two eight two uh two eight eight two.
You know, Tim from Oregon was asking, what's the way to uh counter the never ending journey that Obama was talking about in his inaugural address?
Um and I'm uh I'm actually gonna be at one of these uh the the correct answer to that is, you know, what is the future of conservatism?
I'm actually gonna be at one of these big wither conservatism confabs that my pals at National Review are organizing in Washington this coming weekend.
Uh and all the big stars of the party are gonna be there, the Republican Party, uh Bobby Gindle, uh Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan, they're all gonna be speaking.
Uh and I'm just doing a bit of sort of Chuck Schumer type knockabout at it.
But uh but uh Rush was Rush was uh big pals with uh William F. Buckley, the founder of uh National Review.
And in fact, I think the last one of these big uh National Review Garas I went to in Washington was the fiftieth anniversary party where Rush sat at the table of honor with Bill, and I think I was at the lousy table at the back somewhere near the men's room.
Uh but the the the it's a big uh it's a big sort of three-day conference uh starting this Friday on the future of conservatism.
And it's important to actually figure out whether conservatism has a future because uh there's an uh uh another interesting story this morning that says uh Obama's plan is to split the Republican Party in two uh by the time of the twenty fourteen elections, uh that uh he he wants uh he wants to he wants civil war in the Republican Party before twenty fourteen.
David Plough said on uh CNN with Candy Crowley he uh that uh he he uh has sketched out a provocative political strategy intended to split the Republican Party in time to impact the 2014 midterm elections.
In other words, he wants to peel away Republicans who find, you know, the Tea Party and Sarah Palin and all that kind of stuff a bit extreme.
Uh he wants to try and drive a wedge between fiscal conservatives and social conservatives.
He basically wants the Republican Party at war with each other uh by twenty fourteen in order that he could win the election.
And by the way, this isn't just like a rhetorical flirt.
This is David Plouf, who's like as close to the President of the United States as anybody on the planet.
Okay, because like the president pretends to be friends with Jay-Z and Beyonce, but he doesn't really know them that well.
This guy knows Obama like nobody knows Obama.
And the day before the coronation, which is actually the official day of the because the official day when he took the official oath of office was actually yesterday, January the twentieth.
Uh he had a private swearing in, he was sort of invitation only.
Uh that was a super elite one, you couldn't get into the you regular peasantry couldn't get anywhere near that, because that's the one so he was sworn in officially uh yesterday in a private in a in a private uh ceremony, closed session, no members of the public, no camera, he checked the no publicity box.
And then this thing a day later is just like a sort of time delayed thing just for show.
Uh so on the very day that the president takes the oath of office for his second term, David Plough goes out there and says his big plan for his new term is to s drive a stake through the heart of the Republican Party and split it into two warring factions.
Peggy Noonan was on Face the Nation at CBS, and uh she said she said in that way she has.
She has a very sort of soothing manner.
So she says often uh things that are actually quite sharp observations in in a in such a mellifluous way that you don't actually notice notice its uh its impact.
But she said something which I thought was actually very true, that normally you have all this kind of vitrial, vitrial, vitriol, up to election day on November the 6th or whatever, and then in the period between uh November's election and January's inauguration, uh the president usually says, well, you know, all the divisive electoral partisan stuff is behind us now, so uh it's time to do the reach across the aisle stuff.
I accept we're a fifty-fifty country, half the country isn't really didn't vote for me, isn't on board with me, uh, but I'm gonna reach out to their representatives and we're gonna find stuff we can do and work together.
And even if they don't mean that, they tend to say that.
They tend to say that.
And this guy didn't.
This guy suddenly starts hammering uh the gun lobby, uh saying he's not gonna have anything to do, there is no spending problem, he doesn't want to work with Republicans on spending, he's just interested in talking about tax increases.
He's just basically stiffened the stiffened the Republican Party, taking it to Conservatives, hammering anyone who uh gets in his way between uh November and the inauguration today, and then on the very eve of the inaugural festivities where he comes out and he says, I believe uh the children are a future, and I believe my first job is to protect the children, uh, and that's the and he does all this soft focused, blurry pap.
Uh but the the real message from his uh from from from his hit guy, his hitman, David Plough is this guy's his plan, he has a strategy to drive a stake through the Republican Party and split it into two warring factions uh before the 2014 midterms.
That's that's Mr. Bipartisan's plan uh for the next uh coming uh before the before the 2014 election.
So I'm I'm uh I'm looking forward to hearing at this big conservative uh get together the National Review's doing uh what Ted Cruz and Bobby Gindle and Paul Ryan, the stars of the party, what they have to say for it.
I don't underestimate this president.
And I'm very and if for example, if your big issue is the Second Amendment and gun control, and you and you're hearing all these people who say, ah, this is never gonna fly.
Senate Democrats in swing states aren't gonna go for this.
Uh this thing isn't going anywhere.
That's all the stuff they said about Obamacare.
As Obamacare inched painstakingly, as its numbers fell in every single poll, uh and with every speech that President Obama said uh gave on the subject, uh the numbers, the support for it fell and fell and fell.
And yet he held his caucus together and drove that thing through with one single lousy vote.
He did all this cornhusker kickback and all the rest of it.
Uh he he did what he needed to get those votes on board.
And you think he won't be doing that with wi if he decides to uh go all in on this gun control thing?
He he he understood, he understood that the polls didn't matter.
Uh that he he he take the mallet and he and he was gonna hammer the square peg down the round throat of the United States, uh whatever it took down the round throat of the American people, whatever it took, uh he understood that that would be worth it for him in the long run.
And I think he understands that the there's something of the same value to gun control too.
Again, never let a crisis go to waste, and he doesn't.
And we're not serious about that.
And so all the same complacent guys is ah this gun control, you don't want to worry about it too much, you're never gonna fly.
The Senate Democrats in swing states can't possibly risk voting for this thing.
Oh yeah, oh yeah?
That's all the same stuff they said about Obamacare every time.
And in the end, the guys who mean it tend to win.
To go back to Tim's point, the guys who mean it tend to win.
That's true in the Facebook revolution in on the streets of Cairo, when the nice uh photogenic youth uh being interviewed by Anderson Cooper as the face of the new Egypt.
In the end they didn't mean it, and the Muslim Brotherhood did, which is why the Muslim Brotherhood are now running the joint.
And too often on this side of the planet, uh we don't mean it, and these guys did.
He meant it on Obamacare, and if he means it on the Second Amendment and gun control, you should take that seriously, because if he if he wants to uh r uh ram it through the Senate, he will find pressing incentives to offer uh Senate Democrats from swing states uh as he did with all the Cornhusker kickbacks and all the rest of it.
So this this is serious stuff.
And by twenty sixteen, you think about the big signature bill, and you think of ten trillion dollars in debt in two thousand and January two thousand and nine and sixteen trillion dollars to uh today.
Where's it gonna be?
Where's it gonna be twenty twenty trillion, twenty-four trillion?
What's it gonna be?
He's serious about this stuff, and we underestimate.
We spent too much uh of those first couple of years underestimating him uh and underestimating his determination.
He said what he meant.
He said he wanted to fundamentally transform America.
And I've always believed that government health care fundamentally transforms uh the relationship between the citizens and the state.
So he kept his promise on that.
He kept his promise.
Wouldn't it be nice to have some guys like that on our side too?
Mark Stein, InfraRush, 1-800-282-2882.
Ladies, Professor George Church of Harvard Medical School needs you.
He is looking for a quote, adventurous woman to give birth to a Neanderthal man.
Uh he believes he can reconstruct uh Neanderthal DNA and uh and resurrect uh Neanderthal man who became extinct thirty three thousand years ago.
And so he's got the DNA.
All he needs now is a is a woman willing to carry the baby.
So if you would like to carry a Neanderthal baby to term uh then Harvard Medical School is uh is interested in you.
You know, demographically, we had a lot of this uh after the last election, that that the uh that the uh Republicans were just on the losing end of the uh of demographic trends in the United States, because the United States is becoming more Hispanic, uh it's becoming more gay, uh it's becoming more metroseual, it's becoming more Euro Socialists, and the Republicans just have no answer to this uh to this demographic trend.
And I think if the Harvard Medical School is right here, and they can find women willing to give birth to Neanderthal babies, who's to say these guys won't be like uh who won't be just like sweeping into the Republican booths uh for the GOP in eighteen when they uh when they first vote in eighteen years' time.
So this could be an important breaking development.
Uh the the guy to get in touch with is Professor Church at Harvard Medical School.
He's looking for a woman to carry a Neanderthal he's cloned he what he's got is he's got what he believes to be Neanderthal DNA, he's uh cloned it, and he needs a woman to give birth to a Neanderthal cloned cave baby.
And I know this sounds like uh this would be the opening scene in a horror film in Rise of the Planet of the Apes or whatever, but this could be the you know, they're the way the way things are going, this could be the salvation of the uh uh of the Republic.
Because say what you like about these Neanderthal guys, the hunter-gatherer types running around in the for they're small government types.
Uh you don't go to the uh you don't go to the welfare office and see a bunch of Neanderthal guys standing in line ahead of you waiting for the benefits check.
Uh you don't go to the Social Security Office and see a bunch of Neanderthals ahead of you waiting to sign on to uh Yeah, I mean that's the thing.
If you uh H.R. makes uh makes the correct point here.
You don't look to the you don't go you don't wait for food stamps to go to the supermarket for your slab of mastodon for your big meal.
You kill that you take down that mastodon yourself and and you uh and you uh and you fry him over the fire.
You don't wait for the government.
You know, what's a more important lesson?
You do when you if you give a man a mastodon, you feed him for one day.
If you teach a man to hunt down a Mastodon himself, you will feed him for life.
So this could be an important development.
Let us go to Dave in Columbus, Ohio.
Swing State Central.
Dave, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Thanks, Mark.
Uh I didn't hear the whole president's speech, but I'm sure somewhere in there that he said that today marks the day that he will no longer and can no longer blame former President George W. Bush for the state of the economy.
I think that he's now gonna step up, man up, and uh finally accept responsibility for the state of the economy, whatever it is.
So I think today marks a great day for former President George W. Bush.
Here's a shout out to you.
You're off the hook.
The economy is no longer your fault, and I'm really proud of our president for stepping up and uh assuming this responsibility all by himself.
I I think I think you were listening to bizarro presidential inaugural coverage, because that isn't in that wasn't in the speech.
And you know as well it wasn't, it wasn't.
Dream on, Dave.
You know as well as I was talking about them repealing the twenty second amendment, restraining the president to two terms.
And you know uh the the the little chick chat about that is gonna get going in three three to six months' time, but if you object to it, you'll be a racist, so it'll probably pass.
But if he sa if he runs for a third term, fourth term, fifth term, sixth term, if he reigns as long as her Majesty the Queen has reigned uh on her throne, uh it will still all be George W. Bush's fault.
Well, I think we do need to give the President some credit for his plan to bring down unemployment.
Because the way things are set up now, if somebody is discouraged, depressed, and gives up looking for work, they are no longer counted as unemployed.
This drives down the unemployment numbers.
So kudos to the president for creating a very depressing job scenario, massive layoffs after he was elected.
There are really no uh there's no seed capital for start-up of new companies thanks to the soaking of the evil rich.
And so, you know, this is a very depressing, a down economy.
People are gonna give up hope for looking for jobs, and the unemployment rate will fall.
So congratulations again to our president for his brilliant economic plan.
Ah, so so your theory is that we'll eventually get to zero unemployment because everyone will have signed on under the Americans with Disabilities Act and uh under under mental health depression.
That's brilliant, Dave.
You you should be you should be the commerce secretary or the treasury secretary or whatever.
You should be in the we need you in the cabinet with that that kind of outside the box thinking.
No, I think uh I think I think you're right, Dave.
Uh it would be nice if if uh Obama were made to own the world he made.
Because this is his landscape.
This is his spending.
The new baseline spending is Obama spending.
The unemployment rate is the Obama unemployment rate.
They're the consequences of his policies.
He passed the most expensive domestic uh bill in history and left no trace.
Spent a trillion dollars and left no trace, which is actually quite difficult to do, and not a lot of people have done that.
Uh and yet uh as as you say, four years on, it's still all George W. Bush's fault.
It's like uh Queen Victoria on her Diamond Jubilee on 1897, still blaming it all on King William the Fourth.
I realize I realize not many not many affiliates will get that joke.
And I realize that many stations may well be dropping the Rush Limbo show just because I made it.
But it is like Queen Victoria still blaming it on William the Fourth in 1897.
So I'm not going to take it back.
Thank you for your call, uh, Dave.
And uh and come on, he's right, man up, it's you.
This is the world the world we live in is the world Obama made at home and abroad.
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I want to bring you up to date in this important tweet from Ashley Judd, uh the next Senator from the great state of Kentucky, apparently.
Ashley Judd tweeted, so just how big is my ball gown?
Okay, Ashley, that's uh I like the Russell I uh the Russell of Taffeta, Ashley Judd is contemplated.
She's gonna be uh she's gonna be arriving in Washington, and she is serious about her Kentucky Senate run.
So uh anyway, let us go to Ray in North Louisiana.
Uh Ray, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
How are you doing today, sir?
I'm doing good.
How are you?
I'm great.
I just had a question.
I wanted to ask you uh what you personally thought about today being Dr. Martin Luther King uh birthday holiday.
Is that something you personally uh identify with or is that something you would like to see done away with?
You you your thoughts personally on that.
Well, uh i I'm I'm speaking to you from New Hampshire, where we didn't uh have Martin Luther King Day.
It wasn't called Martin Luther King Day until uh I think the late nineteen nineties.
But it was called Civil Rights Day.
And I uh my view on this is that it's actually more important to remember the principles for which uh Dr. Martin Luther King uh gave his life.
What would you say they were, Ray?
I uh they they were fully quality for all colours and all people.
But I just wanted to uh just hear what you thought about it, and uh thank you for taking my.
No, no, what uh just don't don't uh don't don't leave it there, Ray.
What they what they were about was that he wanted a world where uh man was judged on the content of his character, right and not on the colour of his uh of his skin.
And I'm uh I'm uh uh a believer in that.
I I think it's uh I think it's absolutely essential that uh uh human beings should be judged for who they are as individuals and not uh whether or not they're members of uh approved identity groups.
And so in that sense, I think uh I think it's more important to think of this thing as uh as a day for civil rights, as a day for honoring people who fought for civil rights, and as a day for understanding that we are a long way away from judging men on the content of their character.
And that government government interfering in that way by by setting up essentially a uh uh a tribal view of politics, by for example, government interfering in the federal government interfering in the drawing of congressional districts, so the map you have these weird-shaped congressional districts which are designed uh to create congressional districts that have a particular demographic character.
Right.
Uh I don't think that is I don't think that is helpful for that.
I'm ha I'm happy for men and women to be judged as individuals.
Uh the the Republican Party get got absolutely no credit for making Colin Powell uh Secretary of State and then for following Colin Powell with Condoleezza Rice, a black woman as uh as Secretary of State.
Uh and I think one of the one of the worst things, Ray, is the idea that if you're uh belong to a particular minority group, if you happen to be black, or if you happen to be gay, or if you happen to be Hispanic, then you are presumed to identify with the political interests of one party.
And that a f a black Republicans uh such as uh Colin Powell uh ceases to be regarded as a black man.
Uh uh a black female Republican, such as Condorisa Rice ceases to be regarded as a black woman.
And people do so-called liberal uh columnists do hideous caricatures of her as a sort of Aunt Jemima figure.
If you're a woman uh and you're uh and you're a strong woman and you run as a Republican vice presidential candidate, such as Sarah Palin, people make all kinds of Bill Margos on TV and makes all kinds of filthy jokes about you as a uh woman, and you cease to belong.
That's why we need to get beyond all this lousy identity politics and deal with people as individuals on the content of their character, Ray.
Right.
That's great.
I I just wanted to get your thoughts on it, and I uh totally agree with uh with that.
And I've never heard of you, and I didn't know your thoughts on it.
I just wanted to see what you thought about it.
So thanks for taking my follow.
Well, thank you, Ray, and a happy Martin Luther King Day to you two.
Let us go to Rich in uh White Plains, New York.
Rich, you're alive on the Rush Limbaugh.
No, uh, we're not going to rich.
Who are we going who are we going to, right?
We're going to Rich.
How are we going to Rich?
Wow.
Mark Rich.
Well, who is this?
This is the guy who owns the station, isn't it?
He's like, he can't stand who the amateur guy is on the air.
Hey, we're gonna rich.
Uh you want to know what we have to look forward to to in a second Obama term.
Um you mean besides more lying and obfuscation.
I guess uh we'll get a lot more of the first term, and that would be uh higher taxes, more government regulation, uh the things Obama was able to deliver in his first term, like um uh more people on food stamps, more housing subsidies, uh more people qualifying for welfare and social security disabilities, extended unemployment benefits, uh more jobs and better pay for government employees.
Um did I miss I'm sure there's more Santa Claus type good.
Yeah, Rich Rich, you're bitter because you'd obviously didn't get an invitation to the Association of Minority Government Contractors uh inaugural ball.
That's what it sounds like with you.
I'm just celebrating National Squirrel Appreciation Day.
Okay.
Okay.
What you know I I hate to say I hate to say it, Rich, but you know, you would be surprised the food stamps people, whatever the agents, the US Department of Agriculture that actually uh I think administers the food stamp program, they uh they say that food stamps stimulate the economy.
So obviously, if we have fifty million people on food stamps, and we were able to increase that in the course of this next Obama term to say 79, 80, maybe 87 million people on food stamps.
Think of how gangbusters the economy would be gone.
Because you can use food stamps to pay for all kinds of things, lap dances.
You can use food stamps to pay for lap dances.
If we stimulated food stamps, the national squirrel appreciation they dovetails right into this.
See, if you got yourself, if you shot it up squirrels, okay, you could make yourself a nice squirrel stew, okay.
I went out and I got one this morning with my assault rifle, okay.
And um, you know, I you know, I don't know.
You cannot lobby or the PETA people, but unfortunately, I hate to say it, the squirrel was black and female, and I think I believe it was gay, too.
You cannot shoot a gay squirrel in New York State with an assault rifle.
Mario Cuomo has passed the law against that.
Didn't you read it?
I don't know.
Legislation is is the language is the when you shoot a squirrel, you're killing the goose who lays the golden eggs, Rich.
Uh the a squirrel is a model of uh uh of of a pro a prudent stewardship.
A squirrel hoards his nuts for when the bad times are coming.
Uh Whereas too many Americans just simply say, hey, party time, let's spend all the nuts, let's blow through our nuts, and then when the good times go away, the government will come and give us food stamps.
We would be a healthier and better society if we had more squirrels and fewer Americans on the fruited plane, Rich.
So you are killing the goose.
You are killing productive members of society when you open up with your assault rifle on gay squirrels in White Plains, New York, Rich.
Thank you for your call.
I think he wandered a little bit afield from the topic there, but he he did make the point.
It's National Squirrel Appreciation Day in the United States, also Martin Luther King Day, and also Coronation Day, Hump Day, uh starting the Obama second term.
And uh Rich was talking about what we're going to be seeing more of.
Uh one one of the things that basically I think uh we uh th the lesson we need to learn uh from the election is is that the the traditional appeals uh to American virtue do not work the same way.
And this was, I would say this was the single biggest catastrophic error of the Mitt Romney campaign, when he basically fought on the old line, uh ask yourself, are you better off now than you were four years ago?
And when Reagan did that in 1980, and people said, You're right, things have gotten worse since 1976.
What uh Mitt Romney didn't realize is that the left thought that line, ask yourself, are you uh are you better off now than you were four four years ago, is actually the rationale for re-electing Obama.
Because when big government reaches a certain size, then that line doesn't work because you say, You're right, things aren't as good as they were four years ago.
So I'm gonna vote for the party that's going to promise me food stamps, that's going to be promise me extended unemployment vent benefits that's going to promise me uh the opportunity to get out of the workplace entirely and go on social security disability.
Uh if things if this is what the economy is, if the economy is as bad as Mitt Romney says it is, then that's all the reason to vote for the security of the big government nanny.
And he didn't think he didn't have an answer for that.
He did he's a very smart guy, but he he wasn't smart enough uh to figure out how the average uh a lot of average Americans think when they're faced with that situation.
If there's no possibility of getting a decent job, if there's no possibility of getting a pay rise, if there's no possibility of your house recovering the value you paid for it, if there's no possibility of you getting out from under your crippling college debt and your increased health care premiums and all the rest of it, uh then you could take a flyer.
You can take a flyer on the guy who's promising to get the economy going, or you can vote for the certainty of the big government nanny state.
And enough Americans did that, enough of those sort of swingy swingy swing voters in the swing states did that uh to deliver Obama's re-election.
And just again, just one final point on that, by the way.
It's one thing to vote for Obama to take a to to take a wild ride on a guy uh that you don't know in 2008 because he gives you the opportunity to vote for the first black president.
Uh Bush is discredited, uh the Republicans uh have outstaided their welcome, the economy's nose-dived and headed off the cliff around the planet.
Uh it's one thing to vote for Obama in those circumstances.
It's quite another to vote for him again in November 2012 and in effect endorse the last four years, which is what the American people did.
And that's why the vote in November 2012 is far more consequential for what it says about the American people than the vote in 2008.
Mark Stein live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
of lots more straight ahead.
I'm going nowhere.
Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
I believe that's the was it is that's that's the American National Anthem, isn't it?
That's what Beyonce was singing uh half an hour ago, an hour ago was that?
Uh inauguration day, coronation day, national squirrel appreciation day in the United States.
By the way, no squirrels were allowed on the uh in the uh in the vicinity of the U.S. Capitol uh today for the ceremony because you're not allowed uh they didn't pass the security check, the background check by the Secret Service.
Uh do you know this guy?
He's a CNN uh letter, uh a CNN journalist called uh Foreman.
And he's been writing to the president every day uh since January the twentieth, two thousand and nine.
He made a resolution that he was going to write a letter to the White House every single day of Obama's first term.
Uh weekends, holidays, uh, when he was on vacation, when the president was on vacation.
Uh he wrote one thousand four hundred and sixty letters to the White House to the president, well over half a million words, uh, or about the length of seven novels.
Uh and this guy, this guy Foreman, he's a journalist at CNN.
He's posted them all up on the CNN website.
Tom Foreman, his first one, which was four years ago today, dear Mr. President, congratulations watching you on that podium today, surrounded by so many hundreds of thousands of Americans.
I could not help but feel inspired by the miracle of democracy and the greatness of our nation.
I also have a question.
Do you have any idea what you've gotten yourself into?
I know you are busy today, but call when you can regards Tom.
And he wrote to him.
That would be cute as a one off.
The the next day, the day after Coronation Day, he woke up and wrote another letter to the president.
And another one after that, all signed off saying, Hey, call me when you can, Tom.
One thousand four hundred and sixty letters to President Obama.
CNN has kept this is the guy's a journalist at CN.
Uh by the way, if you were if if he wasn't a journalist, if any normal person were to write to the president saying, Call me when you can, Tom, every single day, he'd be on a secret service watch list.
He wouldn't be allowed anywhere near the festivities.
He wouldn't get within the District of Columbia.
He wouldn't be allowed aboard a train or fly a plane in this country.
But this journalist, Tom Foreman, wrote one thousand four hundred and sixty love letters to the president every day of his first term.
And he's now said and obviously he's exhausted and was hoping for a Romney victory, because he's now said, Oh, today is the last day.
Today is the last of his love letters to the President of the United States.
This is what it means to be a journalist in the United States in the year 2013.
You write a love letter to the President every day for four years.
And CNN doesn't think there's anything weird about it.
And they allow him to post all the one thousand four hundred and sixty letters that he's written to the President of the United States at his website.
This is very bizarre, deeply deeply weird.
And as I said, if you were not a reporter, uh he would be on he would be on the Secret Service would have come round to knock on his door and ask him about his unhealthy obsession now.
This is what it means to be a journalist in the United States of America.
The lunch today, the inaugural lunch, which is being finished off uh as I speak, I believe they're on dessert now.
Uh it's three thousand calories.
Uh so it does not meet the Michelle Obama approved healthy menu thing.
It's the six that's like five times as big as uh Michelle Obama allows American middle schoolers to have under the under the new federal school lunch monitor program.
Uh the first course was lobster tails in a New England clam chowder sauce.
The second course was bison with a red potato horseradish cake, and then the dessert is apple pie with sour cream ice cream.
Uh but it all comes up to what what's I thought bison was a healthy meat.
How can it be three thousand calories?
I thought bison was quite a light uh quite a low calorie meat, but how can it come out at three thousand calories?
Anyway, that's what they're that's what they're just wrapping up now, and then uh they're gonna get ready for the inaugural balls tonight.
Uh Naomi Judd wants to know how big her inaugural gown is.
We'll get into that and all the other days news straight ahead.
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Coronation Day in Washington.
Uh breaking news from the celebratory lunch.
Uh Joe Biden's hair fell in the soup, and the executive director from Peter uh sent it back.
She was furious about it, saying it was outrageous they were serving Squirrel on National Squirrel Appreciation Day.
So there's some difficulties going on.
Uh it hasn't all been smooth sailing.
The also also the Jumbotron, the big Jumbotron, you know, if you're not one of the people who can get up close and actually see things, they're one of these big jumbotron monitors.
Uh where they're supposed to it's it's almost like being there live and seeing the president live.
You stand in the freezing cold, so you've got all the freezing cold and everything, but you're watching it on the monitor.
The monitor broke down, and those guys were basically standing around in the cold, no sound, no vision, had no idea what was going on.
They couldn't hear Beyonce singing the Stark Spangle Banner, they couldn't hear Kelly Clarkson singing my grown-up Christmas list, and they just could hear dimly other people cheering, and they had to cheer at applaud when they thought it was the right time to applaud.
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