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Jan. 21, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 21, 2013, Monday, Hour #2
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The inaugural festivities, the new coronation.
That's actually, I don't like to complain, but you know, Queen Elizabeth only has one coronation.
This guy has them every four years now.
Something's got to change about that.
But the coronation festivities are over for the moment.
For the next two hours, they're at some ceremonial lunch.
And then they will be starting the round of inaugural balls.
But Ralph Nader will not be partying like it's 2013.
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 2009.
The two-time Green Party presidential candidate told Politico on Sunday night at the Bus Boys and Poets Peace Ball in Washington.
What is up with that?
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 busboy at the Westbury Hotel in Toronto when I was 18 years old, so I should have been at the Bus Boys and Poets Peace Ball.
Anyway, Ralph Nader says from not increasing the minimum wage to increasing the drone war to not being tough enough on Wall Street, Nader said he wasn't impressed with Obama's first term and he isn't optimistic about the path forward.
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.
So Ralph Nader did 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 Ball?
He's neither a busboy nor a poet.
I make no claims for my poetry, but I am a busboy and I feel I should have been at that once.
I never get any of the invitations.
If you're down, if you're thinking of heading there, prohibited items at the U.S. Capitol.
You're not allowed to have animals other than service animals.
No alcoholic beverages.
Which is why the Joe Biden and the Barack Obama.
The speeches may seem longer, but it just seems that way because there's no alcoholic beverages.
No coolers.
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.
At the United States Capitol on Inaugural Day.
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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.
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You know, Tim from Oregon was asking, what's the way to counter the never-ending journey that Obama was talking about in his inaugural address?
And I'm actually going to be at one of these.
The correct answer to that is, you know, what is the future of conservatism?
I'm actually going to be at one of these big wither conservatism confabs that my pals at National Review are organizing in Washington this coming weekend.
And all the big stars of the party are going to be there, the Republican Party, Bobby Jindal, Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan, they're all going to be speaking.
I'm just doing a bit of sort of Chuck Schumer type knockabout at it.
But Rush was big pals with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review.
And in fact, I think the last one of these big National Review galas I went to in Washington was the 50th 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.
But it's a big sort of three-day conference starting this Friday on the future of conservatism.
And it's important to actually figure out whether conservatism has a future because there's another interesting story this morning that says Obama's plan is to split the Republican Party in two by the time of the 2014 elections.
That he wants civil war in the Republican Party before 2014.
David Plouffe said on CNN with Candy Crowley that he 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 the Tea Party and Sarah Palin and all that kind of stuff a bit extreme.
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 by 2014 in order that he could win the election.
And by the way, this isn't just like a rhetorical flirt.
This is David Plouffe, who's like as close to the President of the United States as anybody on the planet.
Okay, because the President pretends to be friends with Jay-Z and Beyoncé, but he doesn't really know him 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 20th.
He had a private swearing in.
He had sort of invitation only.
That was a super elite one.
You couldn't get into the regular peasantry couldn't get anywhere near that because that's the one.
So he was sworn in officially yesterday in a private 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.
So on the very day that the president takes the oath of office for his second term, David Plouffe goes out there and says his big plan for his new term is to 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 she said in that way she has, she has a very sort of soothing manner.
So she says often things that are actually quite sharp observations in such a mellifluous way that you don't actually notice its impact.
But she said something which I thought was actually very true, that normally you have all this kind of vitriol, vitriol, vitriol, up to Election Day on November the 6th or whatever.
And then in the period between November's election and January's inauguration, the president usually says, well, you know, all the divisive electoral partisan stuff is behind us now.
So it's time to do the reach across the aisle stuff.
I accept we're a 50-50 country.
Half the country isn't really, didn't vote for me, isn't on board with me.
But I'm going to reach out to their representatives and we're going to 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 the gun lobby, saying he's not going to have anything to do.
There is no spending problem.
He doesn't want to work with Republicans and spending.
He's just interested in talking about tax increases.
He's just basically stiffening the Republican Party, taking it to Conservatives, hammering anyone who gets in his way between November and the inauguration today.
And then on the very eve of the inaugural festivities where he comes out and he says, I believe the children are our future and I believe my first job is to protect the children.
And he does all this soft focus, blurry pap.
But the real message from his hit guy, his hitman, David Ploof, is this guy's plan, he has a strategy to drive a stake through the Republican Party and split it into two warring factions before the 2014 midterms.
That's Mr. Bipartisan's plan for the next coming before the 2014 election.
So I'm looking forward to hearing at this big conservative get-together, the National Review's doing, what Ted Cruz and Bobby Jindal and Paul Ryan, the stars of the party, what they have to say for it.
I don't underestimate this president.
And for example, if your big issue is the Second Amendment and gun control, and you're hearing all these people who say, ah, this is never going to fly, Senate Democrats in swing states aren't going to go for this.
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 and with every speech that President Obama said, gave on the subject, 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.
He did what he needed to get those votes on board.
And you think he won't be doing that if he decides to go all in on this gun control thing?
He understood, he understood that the polls didn't matter.
That he take the mallet and he was going to hammer the square peg down the round throat of the United States, whatever it took, down the round throat of the American people, whatever it took, he understood that that would be worth it for him in the long run.
And I think he understands that 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 say, ah, this gun control, you don't want to worry about it too much.
It's never going to 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 on the streets of Cairo, when the nice photogenic youth 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, 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 wants to ram it through the Senate, he will find pressing incentives to offer Senate Democrats from swing stakes as he did with all the Cornhusker kickbacks and all the rest of it.
So this is serious stuff.
And by 2016, you think about the big signature bill, and you think of $10 trillion in debt in 2000 and January 2009 and $16 trillion today.
Where's it going to be?
Where's it going to be?
$20 trillion, $24 trillion?
What's it going to be?
He's serious about this stuff.
And we underestimate.
Spent too much of those first couple of years underestimating him 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 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, InfoRush, 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.
He believes he can reconstruct Neanderthal DNA and resurrect Neanderthal man who became extinct 33,000 years ago.
And so he's got the DNA.
All he needs now is a woman willing to carry the baby.
So if you would like to carry a Neanderthal baby to term, then Harvard Medical School is interested with you.
You know, demographically, we had a lot of this after the last election, that the Republicans were just on the losing end of demographic trends in the United States because the United States is becoming more Hispanic, it's becoming more gay, it's becoming more metrosexual, it's becoming more Euro-socialist, and the Republicans just have no answer to this demographic trend.
And I think if 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 just like sweeping into the Republican booths for the GOP when they first vote in 18 years' time.
So this could be an important breaking development.
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.
What he's got is he's got what he believes to be Neanderthal DNA.
He's cloned it and he needs a woman to give birth to a Neanderthal cloned cave baby.
And I know this sounds like 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, the way things are going, this could be the salvation of the Republic.
Because say what you like about these Neanderthal guys, the hunter-gatherer types running around in the forest, they're small government types.
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.
You don't go to the Social Security office and see a bunch of Neanderthals ahead of you waiting to sign on.
Yeah, I mean, that's the thing.
If you HR makes the correct point here, 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 you fry him over the fire.
You don't wait for the government.
You know, what's a more important lesson?
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.
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 going to step up, man up, and 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 assuming this responsibility all by himself.
I think you were listening to Bizarro presidential inaugural coverage because that wasn't in the speech.
It wasn't.
It wasn't.
Dream on, Dave.
You know as well as I did.
I was talking about them repealing the 22nd Amendment, restraining the president to two terms.
And you know, the little chit-chat about that is going to get going in three to six months' time.
And if you object to it, you'll be a racist.
So it'll probably pass.
But if he runs for third term, fourth term, fifth term, sixth term, if he reigns as long as Her Majesty the Queen has reigned on her throne, 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, there's no seed capital for startup 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 going to 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 your theory is that we'll eventually get to zero unemployment because everyone will have signed on under the Americans with Disabilities Act and under mental health depression.
That's brilliant, Dave.
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 kind of outside-the-box thinking.
No, I think you're right, Dave.
It would be nice if 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 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.
And yet, as you say, four years on, it's still all George W. Bush's fault.
It's like Queen Victoria on her Diamond Jubilee on 1897, still blaming it all on King William IV.
I realize not many affiliates will get that joke.
And I realize that many stations may well be dropping the Rush Limbaugh Show just because I made it.
But it is like Queen Victoria still blaming it on William IV in 1897.
So I'm not going to take it back.
Thank you for your call, Dave.
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, the next senator from the great state of Kentucky, apparently.
Ashley Judd tweeted, so just how big is my ball gown?
Okay, Ashley, I like the Russell.
The Russell of Taffeta, Ashley Judd, is contemplating.
She's going to be arriving in Washington, and she is serious about her Kentucky Senate run.
So anyway, let us go to Ray in North Louisiana.
Ray, you're live on the Rushlinbusho.
Great to have you with us.
How are you doing today, sir?
I'm doing good.
How are you?
I am great.
I just had a question.
I wanted to ask you what you personally thought about today being Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday holiday.
Is that something you personally identify with, or is that something you would like to see done away with?
Your thoughts personally on that.
Well, I'm speaking to you from New Hampshire, where we didn't have Martin Luther King Day.
It wasn't called Martin Luther King Day until I think the late 1990s.
It was called Civil Rights Day.
And my view on this is that it's actually more important to remember the principles for which Dr. Martin Luther King gave his life.
What would you say they were, Ray?
Good.
They were for equality for all colors and all people.
But I just wanted to hear what you thought about it.
And I thank you for taking my time.
No, no.
Just don't leave it there, Ray.
What they were about was that he wanted a world where man was judged on the content of his character and not on the color of his skin.
And I'm a believer in that.
I think it's absolutely essential that human beings should be judged for who they are as individuals and not whether or not they're members of approved identity groups.
And so in that sense, I think it's more important to think of this thing 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 interfering in that, Ray, by setting up essentially 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 to create congressional districts that have a particular demographic character.
I don't think that is helpful for that.
I'm happy for men and women to be judged as individuals.
The Republican Party got absolutely no credit for making Colin Powell Secretary of State and then for following Colin Powell with Condoleezza Rice, a black woman as Secretary of State.
And I think one of the worst things, Ray, is the idea that if you 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 black Republican such as Colin Powell ceases to be regarded as a black man.
A black female Republican such as Condoleezza Rice ceases to be regarded as a black woman.
And people do, so-called liberal columnists do hideous caricatures of her as a sort of Aunt Jemima figure.
If you're a woman 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 Margots on TV and makes all kinds of filthy jokes about you as a 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 just wanted to get your thoughts on it, and I totally agree with it.
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 call.
Well, thank you, Ray, and a happy Martin Luther King Day to you two.
Let us go to Rich in White Plains, New York.
Rich, you're live in the Russian boy.
We're not going to rich.
Who are we going to?
We're going to Rich.
How are we going to Rich?
Wow.
Mark.
Rich.
Wait, 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, where are we going to rich?
You want to know what we have to look forward to in a second Obama term.
You mean besides more lying and obfuscation, I guess we'll get a lot more of the first term, and that would be higher taxes, more government regulation, the things Obama was able to deliver in his first term, like more people on food stamps, more housing subsidies, more people qualifying for welfare and social security disabilities, extended unemployment benefits, more jobs and better pay for government employees.
Did I miss?
I'm sure there's more Santa Claus-type goodness.
Yeah, Rich, you're better because you obviously didn't get an invitation to the Association of Minority Government Contractors' inaugural ball.
That's what it sounds like with you, Nala.
I'm going to be celebrating National Squirrel Appreciation Day.
Okay.
Well, you know, I hate to say it, Rich, but you know, you would be surprised.
The food stamps people, whatever the agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture that actually, I think, administers the food stamp program, they say that food stamps stimulate the economy.
So obviously, if we have 50 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 going.
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 stimulate food stamps, National Squirrel Appreciation Day dovetails right into this.
See, if you got yourself, if you shot enough 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, you know, I don't know if you can't.
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 a law against that.
Didn't you read it?
I don't know.
Is the language when you shoot a squirrel?
You're killing the goose who lays the golden eggs, Rich.
A squirrel is a model of a prudent stewardship.
A squirrel hoards his nuts for when the bad times are coming.
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 plain, 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 afield from the topic there, but 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, starting the Obama second term.
And Rich was talking about what we're going to be seeing more of.
One of the things that basically I think the lesson we need to learn from the election is that the traditional appeals 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, 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 Mitt Romney didn't realize is that the left thought that line, ask yourself, are you better off now than you were 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 going to vote for the party that's going to promise me food stamps, that's going to promise me extended unemployment benefits, that's going to promise me the opportunity to get out of the workplace entirely and go on social security disability.
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's a very smart guy, but he wasn't smart enough to figure out how the average, 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, 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 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 wild ride on a guy that you don't know in 2008 because he gives you the opportunity to vote for the first black president.
Bush is discredited.
The Republicans have outstayed their welcome.
The economy's nosedived and headed off the cliff around the planet.
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 American national anthem, isn't it?
That's what Beyonce was singing half an hour ago, an hour ago, wasn't it?
Inauguration Day, Coronation Day, National Squirrel Appreciation Day in the United States.
By the way, no squirrels were allowed in the vicinity of the U.S. Capitol today for the ceremony because you're not allowed, they didn't pass the security check, the background check by the Secret Service.
Do you know this guy?
A CNN letter, a CNN journalist called Foreman.
And he's been writing to the president every day since January 20th, 2009.
He made a resolution that he was going to write a letter to the White House every single day of Obama's first term.
Weekends, holidays, when he was on vacation, when the president was on vacation.
He wrote 1,460 letters to the White House, to the president, well over half a million words, or about the length of seven novels.
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 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.
1,460 letters to President Obama.
CNN has kept this, this is the guy who's a journalist at CNN.
By the way, 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 1,460 love letters to the president every day of his first term.
And he's now saying, and obviously he's exhausted and was hoping for a Romney victory because he's now said, 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 1,460 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 he were not a reporter, he would be on, he would be on, the Secret Service would have come around 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 as I speak, I believe they're on dessert now.
It's 3,000 calories.
So it does not meet the Michelle Obama-approved healthy menu thing.
That's like five times as big as Michelle Obama allows American middle schoolers to have under the new federal school lunch monitor program.
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.
But it all comes up to what's I thought bison was a healthy meat.
How can it be 3,000 calories?
I thought bison was quite a light, quite a low-calorie meat.
But how can it come out at 3,000 calories?
Anyway, that's what they're just wrapping up now.
And then they're going to get ready for the inaugural balls tonight.
Naomi Judd wants to know how big her inaugural gown is.
We'll get into that and all the other day's news straight ahead.
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Coronation Day in Washington.
Breaking news from the celebratory lunch.
Joe Biden's hair fell in the soup and the executive director from PETA 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.
It hasn't all been smooth sailing.
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 where 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 Beyoncé 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 and applaud when they thought it was the right time to applaud.
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