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Feb. 15, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 15, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
No, it was not the asteroid that hit Russia.
It was not I got so many people.
Rush, the asteroid, it didn't just come close, it actually hit.
No, no, no, no.
It was a meteorite.
They meteorite.
And it was very cool.
You ought to see the video of that thing.
A guy driving along in his car just happened to have a video going on his phone or camera or whatever, like that grandparent couple.
I had the cell phone receiver.
Anyway, he got the marvelous video of this thing entering the atmosphere and blowing up or whatever it did.
But they're now speculating, folks, that the meteor might have been connected to the asteroid.
Might have might have uh broken off of the asteroid and then came down.
That asteroid's gonna get fairly close, not gonna hit us, of course, but the the meteorite did.
And of course, that means the reporters can say that the meteorite hit us because of global warming.
Because the asteroid is out there because of global warming.
That's what CNN told us that.
So that's all we know.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live ship passengers are back.
They finally made it back, and they're all pooped.
It's exactly how I feel at the end of a busy broadcast weekly.
They all did you hear these poor people, they got back.
Late yesterday afternoon, towing that giant carnival cruise ship, and a tow line broke.
They got the tow line fixed.
They finally towed the thing back into port.
They put these people on buses to take them over to New Orleans, and one of the buses broke down.
One of the one of the uh one of the buses broke down on the way over to New Orleans.
I I swear.
Can you imagine how much worse it would have been if we'd had the sequester happen?
In fact, I am I am surprised, ladies and gentlemen, that the drive-bys are not reporting how much worse things would have been for those cruise ship passengers if the sequester cuts had kicked in.
Can you imagine?
I mean, it'd been really bad then.
It been really bad.
Martin Savage is a reporter for CNN.
I wish they would have put Nick Robertson on this story.
Nick Robertson, my favorite all time.
CNN reporter.
By the way, welcome.
Open line Friday.
Will we go to the phones, talk about whatever you want to talk about?
Hardly any limits at all.
Telephone number 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushbow at EIB that night.
Yes, I know that I'm gonna get to that.
I can't do it all here in the first ten minutes.
Gee whiz.
Rush, did you know that they talked about your theory on fire?
Yeah, yeah, fuck.
I've got the sound bites coming up, but first I have to tell you about this cruise ship.
I wish they'd put Nick Robertson on this.
You know, Nick Robertson, the guy that went over during the first Arab Spring at Tariri Square, which is actually a circle in Cairo, and they sent him over there.
He basically was sent to ask the protesters, the rock throwers, the freedom fighters, the revolutionaries, uh, if if they were happy that what President Obama wanted was finally happening.
Uh happening.
And if they had any message for Obama.
Is there any message doing it for President Obama who's very much supportive of what you're doing, in fact, thinks that he made it happen and is very much concerned with jobs for the youth and the young people.
And they all said, Obama had nothing to do with any of this.
I haven't seen him here.
He's changing his mind.
Well, they didn't send Nick Robertson to greet the greet the passengers in the cruise ship.
They sent they sent Martin Savage, who's a CNN lifer.
Martin's been there a long time.
And you know what?
He looks just like the Kendall he did 25 years ago.
Really, it's amazing.
He still has that youthful TV anchor 14-inch part in his hair, uh, same hair color.
It's it's envious.
Anyway, they sent Martin Savage out there.
It's Audio Soundbite 13, and he he finds one of the first passengers who admittedly was pooped getting off the ship.
Rob Kenny is the passenger's name.
And Savage couldn't wait.
Just couldn't wait to talk to one of these guys, and this is how it went.
The isolation factor you described.
This is the same sort of thing many people have gonna Katrina in New Orleans, those that were left behind.
They never heard anything either.
And it's your mind begins to race.
You wonder if anybody knows of the circumstance you're in.
You think you're all alone, and of course, any rumor becomes solid fact.
And it spreads in a very closed environment.
So I imagine it's something very similar.
Yeah, but you know, let's put that in perspective.
I mean, Katrina was uh a major devastation.
We're on a freaking cruise ship, and we're just out having a good time.
So, you know, from that that angle.
I and I get it because it is this isolation of communication, but two different things, you know, two different things.
So Martin Savage says it's just like Katrina.
Now, why would they want to associate this with Katrina?
Why?
I'll tell you why, because they want to associate this evil profit-making cruise line to George W. Bush.
And you'll hear why when we get to the sound bites.
As says the pro not not about the cruise ship, but about my theory explaining Obama.
You're gonna hear some stuff that you're you're you're you're well, I'm not even gonna I'm I'm not gonna prejudge what you're gonna think of it, but mark my words.
CNN had to try to equate this cruise ship experience with Hurricane Katrina.
Because in their minds, Hurricane Katrina was the Republicans' fault.
It was Bush's fault.
It's not see, they have to politicize everything.
Now, thankfully, this passenger, hey, wait a minute, pal, we're out here on a cruise ship.
Yeah, things might have gone wrong.
There might have been uh sewage on the walls, but for crying out loud, we're just out there having a good time.
I mean, this is not like Hurricane Katrina.
This is why I wish they had sent Nick Savage or Nick Roberts again.
Nick Robertson would have asked them what they thought of Obama's efforts to save that ship and to save that cruise and to get it into port.
But we'll never hear that.
We will never know because they didn't send Nick Robertson.
Now let me look here at the you know, yesterday I said, because Snurgley was demanding to know what I would do if I were CEO.
And the CEO, I think the company said they're gonna give everybody on this cruise refunds and then 15% discounts on a future cruise.
And I said, were it me, I'd give them refunds, refunds, and then I would comp them on a cruise on any ship in my fleet any time they wanted, say in the next two to three years, and I'd pay for the whole thing.
But that's just me.
I 15% discount refund, yeah, that may be.
I'd go the whole boat, but that is I say just me.
Well, of course, the state controlled media is trying not to kill a cruise industry.
The evil Carnival Corporation makes billions.
They're already talking about uh being talked about as the evil profit center, and how the profits not being properly put back to use in making sure these cruise ships operate safely and so forth.
They don't have to abide by U.S. labor laws.
The passengers have no rights.
Well, here we have a montage.
Media people, many of them on CNN, talking about the evils of this cruise ship.
This is number 12.
Audio soundbite number 12.
Here it is.
This company is not headquartered in the United States.
They don't have to abide by U.S. labor laws, they don't have to abide by U.S. minimum wage.
They don't have to abide by U.S. labor laws.
They don't have to abide by U.S. health rules.
Cruise lines face very little U.S. regulation.
The triumph is registered in the Bahamas.
Foreign incorporated companies that are essentially registering their operations overseas to avoid U.S. taxes.
The contract you enter into when you sign up for a cruise essentially takes away any rights you have.
If you're a cruise ship passenger, do you have any rights?
You basically don't.
Americans account for about two-thirds of the people who cruise around the world.
This is an industry that's uh 35 plus billion dollars a year.
Yeah, but look at what they do.
They register these ships outside the U.S. They don't pay the U.S. taxes.
Cruise ship passengers have no rights.
They're basically slaves.
And if there's sewage on the walls, big whoop.
We'll tow you in when we get a chance.
And after we get you in the bus that we transport you and it'll break down.
And then for all your trouble, we'll give you a refund and a 15% discount on the next cruise of your truck.
What a bunch of rotten SOBs.
That's the way the news.
And then you got the question about did you feel like you were in Hurricane Katrina?
Make no mistake.
Make no mistake.
The whole point of this was to impugn the entire cruise industry and this particular cruise line as having some linkage to Bush.
That's the Hurricane Katrina business.
Now here is at the Mobile Alabama at the port where the cruise ship triumph docked.
The CEO, Jerry Cahill held a press conference.
And uh, you know, the all day long the passengers were complimenting the crew for the great job they did.
But once the ship docked, the CEO had a press conference to apologize.
We pride ourselves in providing our guests with a great vacation experience, and clearly we failed in this particular case.
Now the most important thing for me at this point in time is to go on board and to apologize to our guests.
Oh no, this did not uh I heard that and I said, This isn't gonna go well.
This sounds good, maybe what the book would say to do, but this isn't gonna go well.
Well, let's just go to the audio soundbites.
Good morning, America today.
They found a uh passenger, Veronica Ariaga said this about the apology that the passengers got from the CEO.
He can say, Oh, yeah, we know how you feel.
No, you don't.
You were not there.
You did not go many a nights wondering what are you gonna eat when you wake up in the morning?
What are you supposed to do?
You can't contact your family, you can't do anything.
Penetrated much.
Here is another passenger, Tammy Hilly, being interviewed by George Steffi Stephanopoulos, who said to the passenger, Tammy Healy, look, we've heard Carnival apologize.
They're gonna give everybody a refund.
Five hundred dollars.
Is that enough?
Is that enough?
Or do you want more?
I want to really guard my heart from feeling um greedy or exploiting the situation, but I feel like five hundred dollars gives you about a hundred dollars a day and for our jobs that doesn't even cover that.
And then you talk about the emotional trauma and the just last night, feeling what we went through last night while we're on land with our families, and our insides just trembling.
I don't think it begins to even say what is needed here.
Of course not.
Of course, it's not even close to what is needed.
In fact, let me get a news story.
Yes.
Wait till these people hear about this.
Wait a second now.
Wait until the the passengers hear about this.
The Department of Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack, is featured in a radio ad urging Hispanic and women farmers and ranchers who think the USDA discriminated against them to file claims for a piece of 1.3 billion dollars in cash awards and tax relief payments,
and up to a hundred and sixty million dollars in farm debt relief set aside as Obama's part of a new era of civil rights.
So, somewhere it's been determined that the agriculture department discriminated against Hispanic and women farmers and Hispanic and women ranchers.
All they have to do is think that they were discriminated against.
And they can apply for their share of $1.3 billion in reparations, can't.
Can we just be honest about what this is?
One point three billion dollar pool of money that these people are going to make claims And then another one hundred and sixty million in farm debt relief that Obama set aside from his stash.
Uh, as part of a new era of civil rights.
So wait.
Here you have the cruise ship passengers getting 500 bucks.
And these discriminated against uh Hispanic and women farmers and ranchers get to divvy up 1.3 billion.
What are they gonna think is the place to go to for prosperity?
But this cruise ship business.
Cruise ship.
Let's uh let's continue with the audio sound bites.
Let's go to Obama reading from his own book, the audio book version of the audacity of hope.
Here he is talking about a sermon by the Reverend Jeremia Wright, the Trinity United Church pastor, and the impact it had on him.
The painting depicts a harpist.
Reverend Wright explained, a woman who at first glance appears to be sitting atop a great mountain until you take a closer look and see that the woman is bruised and blooded, dressed in tattered rags, the harp reduced to a single phrase string.
Your eyes then drawn down to the scene below, down to the valley below, where everywhere are the ravages of famine, the drumbeat of war, a world groaning under strife and deprivation.
It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port au Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere.
That's the world on which hope sits.
And so it went.
A meditation on a fallen world.
That's Obama reading from his own book, and that was the sermon from Reverend Wright that inspired Obama to become a member at the Trinity United Church.
A world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port of Prince see in a year.
White folks' greed runs a world in need.
And here's the Carnival Cruise line.
And this devastating cruise in vacation.
Said it's all can be tied together.
Here is Reverend Wright from his greatest hits.
Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people.
Hillary ain't never been called the nigger.
Bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky.
He was riding dirty in white America, US of KKKA, black men turning on black men.
I am sick of Negroes who just do not get it.
Not God bless America.
God America that's in the Bible for killing innocent people.
God America!
And now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards.
America's chickens coming home to roost.
White folks' greed runs a world in need.
Cruise ships throw away more food, and now they throw away more sewage than most residents of Port of Prince C in a year.
So, oh wow, I gotta take a break already.
Well, let's do that.
We'll come back again open line Friday.
Whatever you wish to discuss, feel free.
Have at it.
I mentioned uh, ladies and gentlemen, that Megan Kelly at Fox yesterday had a very long segment discussing my theory of how Obama gets away with everything he's doing, and not held responsible for it, not held accountable.
And it's fascinating.
Uh some of the things that have that have been uncovered.
And it turns out, I know this is gonna be hard to believe, folks, but I was even more right than I thought I was.
And I nailed this, but I was even more right.
I was more correct, more on point than I even knew.
So we've got those sound bites coming up.
Also, uh audio soundbite 19, Mark Lamont Hill, Columbia University, uh agitator, organizer, professor, has apologized to the families of Chris Dorner's victims.
It was on CNN recently.
This has been an important public conversation that we've had about uh police brutality, about police corruption, about state violence.
As far as Dorner himself goes, he's been like a real life superhero to many people.
Now, don't get me wrong, what he did was awful, killing innocent people is bad.
But when you read his manifesto, when you read the message that he left, he wasn't entirely crazy.
He had a plan and a mission here, and many people aren't rooting for him to kill innocent people.
They're rooting for somebody who was wronged to get a kind of revenge against the system.
It's almost like watching Django Unchained in real life.
It's kind of exciting.
I misread.
That's not the apology.
The headline says the apology, but that's not the apology is the next bite on the next page.
So that was to set up.
That's what he said on Wednesday.
This guy's a superhero.
He's a world-renowned hero, calling attention to all this.
The apology was next.
And we're back.
El Rush Bowl Open Line Friday here on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
I got so much I want to do.
I wish I could squeeze it all in in the next five minutes.
And people are saying, did you know that Obama's coming to where you are?
Yes, folks.
We are very much aware.
Oh, we have the president's itinerary.
He's uh arriving here at 8 o'clock tonight at Palm Beach International.
He's going to be arriving one hanger away from where we keep EIB one.
I actually was thinking about towing it out and having it there on the tarmac.
But I gave up on that.
That's a different FBO.
And then the president's going to be spending the weekend at a place called the Floridian.
It's up in Palm City.
It's about 45 minutes north of here on I-95.
The Floridian used to be, it was built and owned by Wayne Heisinger.
And I was a proud and honored member of the Floridian, and Wayne sold it to a nice guy by the name of Jim Crane, who's the owner of the Houston Astros.
And the way this worked, Crane was out at the at the at the Pebble Beach Pro M a couple weeks ago, and he got a phone call from the White House saying Obama wanted to come and play and stay at because it's a bunch of cabins on the course where out-of-town guests can stay for weekends, protracted getaways.
So arrangements were made, and Obama's going to be up there playing golf.
The Butch Harman, his brother Claude are coming down to give lessons.
They run the Academy at the Floridian.
So he's got a big and Muchell not here.
Muchel's an Aspen.
So a separate vacation, but the president's got himself a good old-fashioned guy's golf weekend.
And he's going to be up there at the uh at the uh at the Floridian.
And it's just, you know, it's a shame.
We've got for us a major cold front going through here tonight.
Uh tomorrow the temperature will barely hit 75, and then Sunday it will barely hit 60.
It's going to be very, very chilly.
Now for the president, probably won't be too chilly because he's coming from a northern climb.
But for us, I mean, that's fireplace sweater weather.
When it might get 65, but even that is fireplace.
Sweather, uh sweater weather.
And then Monday is, let me look.
Because the President's Day.
I've got screwed again.
We do not have a guest host.
So we're working here on Monday.
Well, the president himself is not, because it's it's President's Day.
So let me check real quickly here.
Um Monday 70, after an overnight low of about 55 or so.
So it's it's it's doable.
So that's uh that's what the president has.
Now, here's Mark Lamont Hill.
Mark Lamont Hill one Wednesday was on CNN.
We played you that sound bite, and joining the chorus of everybody.
Oh, by the way, they did confirm that it was Dorner in the cabin.
An ID has been made.
Dorner was the body Found in the cabin.
So he died in that fire that nobody set on purpose.
And Mark Lamont Hill and everybody were trying to make this guy out to be a modern day Django, a modern day hero.
This was a guy that was, he was out there and he was alerting everybody to the evils of racism and slavery and discrimination and all of that heightened and intensified and focused in the uh in the LAPD.
And he was doing a he was doing the Lord's work for a lot of people, reminding people this is still a slave state.
Well, in the process, Mark Lamont Hill, who was a university professor at Columbia, started getting a little heat over making a hero out of this guy, particularly from the families of people this guy killed.
So Mark Lamont Hill tweeted yesterday that he was going to go on the O'Reilly factor last night to discuss his misunderstood comments on Dorner, and he's going to apologize.
Now, the way the left always apologizes, the one thing you have to understand when they apologize, they're really apologizing for you being too stupid to understand what they meant in the first place.
Their apologies always boiled down to you just didn't understand me, but I'm sorry anyway.
So here is audio soundbite number 20.
I'm giving the numbers because I'm throwing these numbers at the broadcast engineer all out of order from what was originally planned.
So Riley said to Mark Lamont Hill, put yourself in the family members.
They're grieving because of this guy's murders.
How do you think they're reacting because of the way you're analyzing this?
I mean, to be fair to you, because I've I've known you a long time.
I mean, you're you're a decent guy, Hill.
Let me give you a chance to explain this.
Go.
You just mentioned the family members of the victims.
And quite frankly, my heart goes out to them, and if my words in any way cause them any pain or trauma or stress more than they already are experiencing, then I offer them my deepest condolences and my apologies.
What I was saying on CNN, though, was not that I support Dorner, not that he was a superhero to me.
I was asked to explain why he was getting so much online support.
And what I was saying is to many people, they're not seeing him as a mass killer.
The media narrative isn't that he's just a mass killer.
The media narrative is that he was someone who was wronged by a corrupt department, and now he's exacting his revenge, which was the Django uh comparison.
I'm not condoning what he did, but there we Americans are capable of having two thoughts at the same time.
If he would have kept talking, he would have eventually retracted his apology.
Because while he makes the apology, then he keeps doubling down on why he said it in the first place, and by God, I had every right.
A media narrative was that this guy's a hero.
Mr. Lamont Hill, when you're on CNN, you are the media.
A media narrative here.
I mean, uh it isn't just he's a mass killer.
The media narrative is he was someone wronged by a corrupt department.
Now he's exacting his revenge.
And we gotta listen to him.
He's a smart guy.
He wrote an 11-page 7,000-word manifesto.
We got to listen to the guy.
It was, um folks, it was obscene.
This whole episode was profoundly obscene and insulting to every decent person's sensibilities.
But it didn't stop these people.
They just they doubled down on it, and and now conspiracy theories uh uh are are uh abound over why the guy was killed and what he was going to say.
They couldn't let him live.
The LAPD, the San Bernardino sheriffs, there's no way they were gonna take him alive because they didn't want to deal with the truth that he was gonna tell the world.
That's exactly right.
So he had to be wiped out, he had to be killed because this guy had the goods.
This guy was gonna expose the corruption, the racism and discrimination.
He was gonna expose it all.
This guy was gonna bring the LAPD to its knees, the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department to its knees.
And that's why they had to take him out.
He had too much truth.
And there are a lot of people that to this to this moment believe this.
Okay, now it's audio soundbite uh time from the Meghan Kelly show on Fox that was uh actually yesterday.
And it is it really is uh is quite good.
And there is this story in the Hill.com, Obama waging an endless campaign.
It is uh it's actually fascinating.
My theory and explanation, and now it is boomeranging throughout the drive-by media.
It's fascinating to see this.
Uh it it it's it is.
So we'll get to that.
Take a brief time out here, and we'll come back and uh continue with all the rest of today's open line Friday excursion into broadcast excellence.
And we're back, L. Rushball with half my brain as usual.
And we do this to make it fair.
Because we're interested, everybody having a fair shot here on this program, so half my brain is tied behind my back.
That equals things out.
Equality, fairness, uh, even distribution of uh talents and assets.
That's what we're into here, particularly on Friday.
Uh 800-282-2882.
Hill.com, Obama waging and endless campaign.
Where have we heard this?
I thought I love this.
I must tell you, I love this.
I elucidated, enunciated this what turns out to be profound theory on uh Tuesday and Wednesday, and it's being picked up now.
And what this is actually just more support for the theory.
And what they're saying is Obama doesn't want to govern.
He only wants to campaign because governing would make him responsible for what is happening.
He doesn't want to compromise.
That would put his name on something.
So he doesn't want to govern.
He'd only wants to campaign.
As he campaigns, he's always opposing these mythical, mysterious people, powerful forces who are actually the ones doing all this stuff to the country.
They're the ones causing unemployment.
They're the ones causing the housing crisis.
They are the ones, whoever they are.
But Obama's fighting them.
He's been fighting them for four years, and they've been around a lot longer than Obama.
It goes back to Reagan, as we will learn here in a moment.
He's not trying to accomplish anything.
Therefore, there will be no compromises.
This is all in the story.
This is President Obama will never again be an election candidate for now at least.
He has the look and sound of a man on the campaign trail.
Thursday brought the latest example with a rally-style event in Decatur, Georgia, intended to build support for his proposals on pre-K education.
But there won't ever be any governing.
If Obama ever settles into where he's perceived to be governing, that means he's in charge.
That means he's responsible.
That means he's accountable.
That's what he's avoided.
That's what we all missed for four years.
That's why you can have polling data that show 55-60% of the people oppose Obama's agenda and still support him.
They don't associate his agenda with the problems in the country.
They don't believe, they don't understand, they don't think that Obama's policies have had any of the negative impact on the country.
Somebody else did that.
Other presidents did that.
They view Obama as trying to fix it.
So this led to a discussion of the theory on Fox News yesterday, Meghan Kelly, and she had a couple of guests.
The first is the talk radio news service president, Tony Sayeg about this.
And she said to him, look, Rush believes that people don't associate his policies, Obama's policies, with what's happened in the country.
They associate the spending and the debt to the lack of jobs.
So they think he's out there working to fix it as opposed to the one who's created it.
He does have support, whether Republicans like to admit it or not, on an emotional level with the voters.
And if you look at the election, Megan, what I suggest is that President Obama did something extremely effective.
He ran it like a jury trial.
He knew he was on trial.
He found someone else to blame, George W. Bush.
He created reasonable doubt that it was his fault.
And we saw in the exit polling that people really did not associate the failure of the first four years with This president.
So he's trying to continue down that road because he knows that he has, as the president, a very strong bully pulpit, and he's excellent at being able to talk directly to voters.
Right.
But not govern.
He positions himself as the guy fighting all of these powerful forces that are causing you to not have a job, causing your home value to plummet, the gas price to skyrocket.
You name it.
The debt, the deficit, whatever it is.
He's just trying to fix it.
And everybody supports him.
Majorities support him trying to fix it.
And they want everybody to work together in the process.
So the next guest is somebody named Tara Dowdell.
Tara Dowdell's a Democrat strategist.
Megan Kelly said to her, at what point they look at the guy at the top and say, okay, now I'm gonna hold you accountable.
I go back further than George W. Bush.
I think our economy has been in decline for 30 years.
We've had a huge gap between people who have money in the United States and people who don't.
That's been going on far beyond George Bush.
But I think that people recognize that dynamic, but at the same time, of course they want the president to be out there fighting.
But where I disagree with Tony is what's wrong with taking your message and pushing your agenda to the people?
If we're saying government is about the people, then why not ask the people to get involved and get engaged in our democracy?
Now I you you hear this and you end up scratching your head.
Here's a woman, by the way, she fits the theory to the T. All of this mess that we're in, this goes back to Reagan.
This goes back to Reaganomics.
That's when the rich got everything.
That's when those tax cuts were really reduced.
Tax rates were reduced.
And the rich got all the goodies, and it's been since then.
And that's what Obama's fighting.
And he can't fix what's been going wrong for over 30 years in just four.
I mean, it goes way back further than Bush.
We got a huge gap between people who have money in this country and people who don't.
All Obama's doing is trying to fix it.
Everything Obama's done has been to try to change the differences.
Inequalities in economic outcome.
It's a fair thing.
It's a very noble thing Obama's trying to do.
Until Reagan, everything was hunky-dory.
The Republicans were in the minority, you know, why uh uh uh Watergate had happened, the Democrats are running the show for the most part.
Reagan came a well, I'll tell you, as far as the Democrat Party, the American left, and a lot of Republican establishment people, the the Reagan eight years did turn this country upside down in a whole bunch of ways.
And a lot of them have not gotten over it.
And re Obama's written about Reagan and how much he admired him but despised his policies.
Reagan was admired by Obama for becoming a transformational president, changing the ideological trajectory of the country.
And he wants to do the same thing.
He run into a lot of pitfalls trying to compare Obama to Reagan in any way you want.
It's not not a really fair thing to do to Reagan.
But the point is that what Reagan did policy wise upset the insiders, the uh ruling class, like really we don't understand even now.
But that is why the the entire Obama presidency is not seen as Obama in charge of anything.
Whatever policies Obama has enacted have nothing to do with the current state of the economy or the country.
It's an amazing feat, folks.
And I've looked at I don't want to be too redundant.
We've talked about it all week, but this couldn't happen without a slavishly compliant activist media.
And it couldn't happen without a Republican Party willing to bend over, grab the ankles, and just basically cave on everything.
And I think the racial component, first African American president gives him a lot of cover as well.
But don't doubt me on this.
His is a perpetual campaign.
He's never seen as governing.
That is the key.
Therefore, he's never, his policies are not at all responsible for what is happening.
He's seen totally as somebody fighting all of this.
And particularly among the low information voters and strategists like this woman you just heard, low information, who vote for him.
I gotta take a break.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
I have to step aside here at the top of the hour, an obscene profit timeout.
Some of our local EIB affiliates need to uh dip their beaks in.
So we'll do that, and we'll come back and continue and start working your telephone calls into the mix.
Won't be long when we get back.
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