Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
And there we are, folks, back at it, revved up and ready to go.
Looks like the fix is in the uh immigration bill.
You know that amendment we were talking about, the Hovind Corker.
That amendment is over I've heard two things, and I'm conflicted in a hundred pages or a thousand pages.
But anyway, the whole bill's over a thousand pages now.
I think the Hoven Corker amendment basically replaced the bill.
And all you all you really have to know about immigration or anything else coming out of Washington these days.
You know, we think that there are rules.
We think that there's a constitution.
We think that there are procedures.
But all that goes out the window if Washington wants something.
Nothing to do with what voters want, nothing to do with constituencies or any of that.
It's what Washington wants.
Washington wants this.
The ruling class, doesn't matter what party, Washington wants this so-called immigration reform, and they're not going to stop until they get it.
And the heck with what constituencies want or the Constitution says or any of that.
There's some really irritating revelations that have uh been discovered in this amendment.
For example, well, let me let me shelf that for just a second.
By the way, welcome Rush Limbaugh back here at it 800-282-288-2, if you want to be on the program.
Let me get into details just a second.
I want to tell you where I was yesterday, attended the funeral for the author Vince Flynn in St. Paul, Minnesota yesterday, and it was amazing.
3,000 people at a beautiful, beautiful Catholic church.
3,000 people.
The viewing, it was closed casket, but the viewing began at 9.
The line was two blocks long to get in.
There were people from all over the people flew in from Hawaii arriving at 9.30 yesterday.
The funeral was at 10.30.
People flew overnight from Hawaii to get there.
From all over the country.
Vince had had friends in the U.S. military.
There were dress marines, there were Secret Service.
Huge, huge family.
Great people, very loving.
They were in um I don't know.
They were doing so great for the circumstances.
They were it put everybody else in their comfort first and their concerns first.
And we uh Catherine and I were in line with uh George Brett and his wife and some friends from uh from Kansas City, and and when we finally got uh to the family, wife Lisa was there, uh they went and grabbed the whole family to come up and meet us and uh and say hello.
It was it was a 90-minute mass.
Just beautiful, folks.
It was just everything about it was just beautiful.
It was sad, uh, but it was uplifting and beautiful at the same time.
It was a privilege and an honor to know Vince and to um know his family and to be part of this yesterday.
And I need to make a correction.
This is whole I can't tell you how embarrassing it is, but the family was laughing themselves silly.
Last week, I said that Vince's father had passed away early on.
So when I met Vince's father yesterday, he said, you know, I'm glad that you were wrong one of those rare times when you were talking about me, and I was mortified.
I was trying to remember, well, how in the world did this happen?
Who told me?
I'm all this is racing through my mind as I'm talking to Mr. Flynn, who is perfectly healthy in his 70s, and he is laughing about it.
The whole family they were they were laughing about it, and nobody last week, I mean, they didn't upset them, they didn't call, nobody wrote, tried to correct, they just they knew that I guess that they'd see me yesterday.
And uh told me about it.
But I I for the life of me, I can't recall how I came to believe that Vince's father had passed away early, but he hasn't.
Um His brothers and sisters were all there, and it's amazing the resemblance that they all have for one another.
They called him Vinny, and his mother was just a piece of work.
Just they're all just wonderful people.
It was really a an emotionally conflicting day, because there was the sadness, and I still haven't gotten past that.
I'm still on a bit of a f I can't.
For some reason, I have I'm having trouble accepting that this has happened.
And then at the other end of this, that was just every positive thing about a family is present in the Flynn's.
It's just, they're just grade A quality class speech.
Like I said last week, if Vince was in your neighborhood, you'd have the best neighborhood in your town.
If Vince was part of your group, it'd be the best group, whatever the group is.
You can say that about his entire family.
Kids, just it was just a very uplifting at the end of the day, uplifting and heartwarming thing to be part of, mixed with the with the sadness.
But I wanted to take just a brief moment to tell you about it and to thank everybody in Vince's family for making us feel so welcome.
Yesterday, they were still going out of their way, putting everybody else and their comfort first yesterday during this.
And uh it was also fascinating to meet friends from elsewhere in Vince's life.
You know, we knew him as the author and as the golf buddy, and as the guy who uh came to our various fun weekend groups here, a couple of trips that we took, but uh for the first time yesterday met his Minnesota crew,
so to speak, and they were all just great, and they couldn't have been nicer, especially on it on a day where nobody really could believe they were experiencing, but that's it, the strength that they exhibited and the well, their belief in God that is what is what got them through it, propels them through it, and sustains them.
And it was just it was just obvious.
It was very, very confirming, folks, of the traditions, and I mean this.
The whole day yesterday for me and for and for Catherine, for all of us, was entirely confirming of everything we invest in as Americans, in terms of the traditions and the institutions that we rely on, that we believe makes this a great country.
It was all embodied yesterday for how long 9 o'clock to 2 o'clock, five hours, including the reception afterwards.
So it was a treat to uh meet all these people and to experience the uplifting nature of their personality.
So just a brief moment here to thank them again for it and to offer again our sympathies and condolences.
And once again, to tell everybody that Vince Flynn's father lives.
He's robust.
He's uh he's still alive.
I got that wrong.
And I, as I say, I'm trying to figure out.
It was in a group.
We're having a, you know, after we'd all learned that Vince had come down with prostate cancer, there's a group of us sitting around one of these golf weekends, and I'm I'm you know, somebody said, Well, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And it just survived.
And nobody ever corrected me, or anybody else when we were talking about in the past year.
Until yesterday.
When somebody said, I want to introduce you to Vince's father, I said, I wish you could have seen the look on my face.
When we get up to the family at the reception line, or to the at the visitation line.
I want to introduce you to Vince's father.
I said, Oh no.
And then I must have had ten people say, I didn't tell you, I'm not the one who told you.
Everybody was done.
Don't look at me.
So at the end of the day, I'm just going to say I made it up and get everybody else off the hook.
Now, we got immigration on the table today.
We've got an interesting piece in the Washington Post, and there's a subtext for this that's a Chris Salizet piece in the Washington Post.
And get this.
That's the headline, and that's the thrust of the story, and it basically is about how the Republicans are being hoodwinked.
It's a story in the Washington Post from yesterday.
This story could have been written years ago, just like the truth about Obamacare, or anything else could have been written years ago, but now all of a sudden now we're on the verge here of having this immigration bill that everybody thinks is amnesty being paid.
All of a sudden, the reason for it from the Republicans, well, we got to connect with the Hispanics.
They hate us.
We got to get the Latino vote.
We're never going to win anything.
Now the Washington Post tells us there isn't one.
And basically this story confirms many of the theories that I have espoused to you on this program.
We have even more details about illegal immigrants in this bill who end up being amnesty-eyed or amnestized or whatever the word would be, end up their way to put this.
Native-born Americans are going to face harsher punishment in everyday law, misdemeanors, three strikes, this kind of thing, than amnestized illegals.
The details.
Obama today, since immigration's a done deal, now we're moving on, and we're going to close the case on energy.
And we're going to put the coal business out of business.
We're going to re-ratch it up global warming, Obama today.
The Supreme Court's decision here on the voting rights act has the left in a tizzy.
Eric Holder with a press conference in about 13 minutes.
The left is in a tizzy over the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision on the Voting Rights Act today.
So we've got that.
There's a number of things, as there are each and every day.
I'm going to take a brief time out now.
We'll come back, and Dr. Oz, Dr. Mehmet Oz, has concluded that James Gandolfini's last meal killed him.
Saturday night.
I have to tell you about that at some point today.
To have dinner at Mount Vernon, George Washington's home, with a tour of the uh latest improvements, changes they've made at the George Washington Museum.
While there, and a couple people tell me, boy, this Obama is really, really making a mess of things.
And so, what do you mean?
Well, you know, these scandals and wait a minute.
Obama isn't making a mess of anything.
Obama may be one of the most successful presidents that we've ever had.
And the person kind of got bug-eyed and looked at me.
What in the world thought I was nuts?
He's getting everything he wants.
He's transforming this country in ways that no one ever thought possible.
He is succeeding at every turn.
And he has a scandal pop up at just the right time, every moment some big transformation is taking place so that we're all distracted.
Everything the guy wants is happening, one way or the other.
Sooner than later.
Later than sooner.
Whatever.
Nobody's stopping Obama.
Nobody's stopping the Democrats.
They're getting everything they want.
They're getting everything they want with the Republican Party going along with most of it.
Now, if your definition of a successful president or a failure as a president is somebody who is making a mess of things, yeah, miserable failure, but from his standpoint, Obama's objectives, his goals.
I'll I'll bet you Obama in private can't believe how easy this has been.
I'll bet you when he and Holder and Valerie Jarrett and the rest of them get together, they laugh and talk about how easy this has been.
And how much sooner and how much quicker they've been able to affect all these transformations than they thought they'd be able to.
They may, it may not take them 15 years to get the single payer.
They may do it before Obama leaves office if these exchanges are as screwed up as everybody says.
But we now know what the Obamacare exchanges are all about.
They're just they're just ways for Obama to deeply entrench the Democrat Party as the majority party of this country perpetually.
Anyway, all that.
But I got to get to this.
Dr. Memet, uh, as with Piers Morgan last night, James Gandolfini's last meal did him in.
What you last ate, because often your last meal is truly the last meal.
It turns out that fatty food spasm, they literally close down the arteries of the heart.
Uh and that's a problem because if you already have a blockage there and they spasm a little bit, then you don't have any blood going to the heart.
Without that life-sustaining juice, you have a heart attack.
Now, the Gandolfini last meal was reported in the New York Post.
They ate adult beverages, the Pina Calatas, while in Italy, by the way, Pina Colada's in Italy, and then the the double orders of fried king prawns and foie grot and all that.
Then there were stories later, no wait, they didn't eat all that.
That's not other people then followed those stories, but oh, yes, it is true.
They're just trying to play cover up now.
That is what he had to eat.
They're just, you know, the hotel is just trying to save its reputation by by um having whoever reported that be discredited, but that that doesn't so now it's accepted.
The Gandolfini's last meal killed him, and Dr. Oz wasn't finished.
I have a little animation that I think is probably a pretty accurate rendition of what actually happened when he was in that hotel room.
So he goes to the bathrooms, blood pressure drops, there's his heart.
Let's go to that major vessel inside of the heart.
It brings blood-sustaining blood to the heart.
That little plaque that you see that yellowish thing, that starts when you're 18 years of age.
Then it ruptured.
Now what happened?
You had a big meal, you did something you strained on the toilet, something happened, that plaque ruptured.
Now it appears you're starting to build a plaque.
You're literally building up a clot over a s a scab.
And that what you just witnessed, boom, it's the leading cause of death in America.
That's what we're talking about with sudden heart attacks.
And that plaque that I'm showing in this animation is present in a lot of folks who can hear my voice right now.
The question is, will it rupture in you?
Are you going to eat the wrong thing tonight?
See?
Then this is how it's done.
Are you going to eat the wrong thing tonight?
I mean, this is just this is classic.
Is it the last what do you mean we were right?
Who?
Wiz we.
Who are you talking about?
You vegetarians?
Oh, yeah, the vegetarians were right.
Yeah, right.
Well, we learned something new now.
That in addition to the last meal, Gandalfini, we all went to him and went to the bathroom to do what?
Nobody reported.
Well, Dr. Met, Dr. Oz just took care of that.
He went in the bathroom and started straining.
We know what that means.
So it wasn't just his last meal.
I can't believe what they're doing to this poor guy.
His last meal killed him, and but it wasn't just that, it was then.
Which takes us to this sound, but I uh it's somewhat related.
This was last night on Current TV's Joy Behar show.
Now nobody watches this, which is why I'm going to play the soundbap for this.
This is Al Gore's old network, Joy Behar was talking to Jonathan Alter about his new book, The Center Holds, Obama and His Enemies, and they were talking about a secret meeting that took place at Roger Ayle's house with Chris Christie.
A meeting that I was at.
And This is Alter and Joy Behar discussing it.
2011, they were up at Ailes' house and Rush Limba flew in.
They had a number of other conservatives and the point of the meeting was to talk Chris Christie into running for president.
They didn't like Romney particularly, and they they wanted Christie, this group.
And at a certain point, Christie's explaining his various reasons why he doesn't want to run, family reasons, some reasons that relate to state business.
And he says, besides, guys, I like going to Burger King, okay?
But he kind of said it that he wants to be able to do that.
I'm not going to lose the right.
I'm not going to lose the right.
So now that he's running for 2016, he's going to lose he's going to lose the weight.
He already is.
But you could hear a pin drop at the meeting because they didn't think it was funny.
I don't remember it.
Now, at this secret meeting, there were a number of people.
And I I it it.
Well, maybe there were two things going on, and I wasn't included in one of them.
But I don't remember any.
Come on, Chris.
Come on, man.
Pull a trigger.
You gotta run.
You gotta I don't and I certainly don't remember Chris Christie saying he didn't want to run because he wanted to keep eating at Burger King.
If he if I would have heard him say that, I would have already told you about it.
And I would have told you about it in the lighthearted, jocular, laughing way that he would have intended it.
But at no time do I remember it being so quiet and that's not possible with me, Ailes, and Christian.
It is never going to be quiet enough here at pin drop in a meeting like that.
So I just I wanted to do what I can here to set the record straight.
Um but you see, it flows.
Gandalf, last meal, pina coladas, fried prawns, bathroom, dead.
Chris Christie doesn't want to stop eating at Burger King.
Um it all ties together and works, and we will be back.
Folks, a quick question.
How many of you care where Edward Snowden is?
How many of you care whether he's in Russia, whether he's heading to Ecuador, whether he is going to be sheltered by Putin or not?
How many of you care?
Well, judging by the drive-by media, everybody does.
Judging by the drive-by media, everybody is obsessed with where Edward Snowden is.
Now I have a little prediction to make for you.
What is today?
June 25th?
It is.
It's June 25th.
If and when Amnesty is rammed through Congress and signed into law, the news media will go back to not caring one whit about Edward Snowden or any of Obama's other scandals,
caring where Edward Snowden is or what the NSA is doing, not caring what the IRS does, not caring about what the DOJ does to even report it.
All that will leave the news once amnesty has been signed into law.
Because the media is using all the rest of that stuff as distractions, I believe, from keeping people as well, they can't totally hide the amnesty story, but they can relegate it to secondary importance status by cover the Zimmerman trial.
I mean, there's all kinds of things out there that they can throw up as smoke screens that once amnesty signed into law, you're not gonna see these stories much.
Because their usefulness will have come to a screeching halt.
Now, Supreme Court rule today that states can no longer be judged by voting discrimination that went on decades ago.
This is a decision that marks the end of a major civil rights era reform, the voting rights act, a five-to-four ruling, and it rewrites a key element of the voting rights act of 1965, which for fifty years has given The federal government unprecedented say in everything, from how states draw their congressional maps to where they place polling locations.
It was all rooted in the belief that Southern states were highly discriminatory against blacks, not letting them vote, not letting them register.
So the states were totally subservient to the federal government when it came to voting.
The federal government, under this act, had the right to tell the states everything, how they were going to draw their districting maps, how they were going to run elections and all that, and the Supreme Court today just threw that out, saying it's no longer applicable.
And in fact, I think if anybody should be punished for voting rights violations today, should be the Democrat Party.
The Democrats created the Ku Klux Klan to keep blacks from voting Republican.
When that didn't work, they created and enforced the Jim Crow laws to make it hard for him to vote Republican.
It's the Democrat Party and agents of influence like the new Black Panthers, which now terrorize voters in black districts.
How about the fact that Romney in 59 Philadelphia voting districts didn't get one vote?
Romney did not get one vote zero, folks, zero votes in 59 districts.
Now, if there are voting violations taking place today, it's the Democrat Party.
Anyway, this thing has been thrown out now, and the left is in a tizzy.
It's good news for the states who redistricted when the GOP took over and are being sued for doing so now.
There's a pull quote from the Washington Times story.
Beneath the legal ruling is a broader social statement with the justices saying that a state cannot be perpetually held responsible for past discrimination if there's no evidence that it still exists.
I mean, this cuts right to the core of affirmative action.
When affirmative action was established, it was to make amends for past transgressions.
So what it basically was, we were setting up new discrimination to deal with old discrimination, and we were calling that a remedy.
But then people like me said, okay, well, when does this new discrimination end?
And the civil rights said, never.
Affirmative action is the law of the land and it's part of the fabric, and it's never going to end.
Well, wait a minute.
You're now punishing people who didn't do anything.
Affirmative action is punishing people who did not and have not discriminated against anybody in their lives.
Doesn't matter.
It was so bad back, it was so bad that you're going to be making amends for what you did for the rest of this country's life.
Well, the Supreme Court, when it comes to the voting rights act, just said uh-uh-uh-uh, a state cannot be perpetually held responsible for past discrimination if there's no evidence it still exists, which ought to be the guiding principle of affirmative action.
It ought to be the case that a business or an individual cannot be perpetually held responsible for past discrimination if there's no evidence it's happening now.
If there's no evidence that it still exists.
We go to the audio soundbites.
Jonathan Turley on CNN's newsroom today.
Jake Tapper spoke with him, said the 1965 Voting Rights Act was renewed for 25 years in 2006.
It was an overwhelming vote by a very divided Congress.
The vote 390 to 33 in the House, 98 to nothing in the Senate.
What's interesting is even though there was an overwhelming vote in favor of continuing the voting rights act, Chief Justice John Roberts made no secret about his skepticism that it was still required.
Turley said this.
This is very much a long-term project for Chief Justice Roberts.
He stated years ago that he was highly critical of Section 5, particularly, taking out Section 4 effectively takes Section 5 offline.
But Roberts has been gunning for this for some time.
During the oral argument, both Roberts and Scalia chided Congress and basically said no member of Congress has the guts to vote against a bill like this because you don't want to be viewed as favoring racism or interfering with the rights of minorities.
And so what you have here is a clear rejection of Congress and frankly a degree of contempt for Congress that came out of the oral argument.
Well, okay, you can put it that way, degree of contempt for Congress because it was renewed.
This portion of the voting rights act was renewed for 25 years, seven years ago, and it was overwhelming.
390 to 33 in the House, 98 to nothing in the Senate.
It was clear, and that those two votes are highly illustrative of attitudes everywhere.
Regardless what the right thing to do was nobody had the courage to because they were afraid of being called racists.
This provision is no business being renewed for 25 years.
The past discrimination has long ago been dealt with.
The civil rights community wants perpetual discrimination, reverse discrimination, if you will to continue for political reasons.
This isn't about making amends anymore.
It's about two things.
It's about advancing liberalism, of course, but it's also about keeping the black population constantly roiled and angry and told that they're being discriminated against, and that their voting is being denied, and their voting rights are being denied, and that the Republicans have designs on never having them vote again.
It's all part of that.
Getting even with them is another rushism, get even with them ism is what was propelling this.
But there's no reason for it.
It's like there's no reason for affirmative action anymore.
It was affirmative action was illegitimate in the first place.
It simply replaced one discrimination with another.
Sort of like, here's how it feels.
We're going to make you go through what you put us.
The problem was the reverse discrimination was being applied to people who had not engaged in it.
And that's all the court said.
Turley is right.
The justices basically called out Congress today as a bunch of cowards.
You know, you guys, you didn't have the courage to write things, so we're going to do it for you.
And we're just going to invalidate this portion of the voting rights act because it's no longer constitutional.
It's not legal to continue discriminating against people who didn't engage in it in the first place.
It'd be great if this whole line of thinking were applied throughout the...
Our culture and society when it comes to affirmative action, racial discrimination, and all that.
Quick time out here, folks, back with much more as we continue revved up right after this.
So Putin, Russian President Vladimir Putin, is telling us that he will not extradite Edward Snowden that Snowden's in Moscow is free to fly wherever he wants.
There have been conflicting stories coming out of Russia.
Snowden is there, Snowden isn't there.
And again, I had people yesterday say, Boy, don't you just love the way Putin and the GICOMs are just handing it to Obama just.
I say, you guys are totally misunderstanding.
Yeah, Putin may look like it's embarrassing Obama, but this is exactly what Obama wants.
Obama is reveling in the idea here of a deflated declining superpower status.
The idea that Obama's not taking this personally, that Putin is whatever he's doing, won't won't extradite Snowdons telling Obama that all it means to Obama is that the United States isn't as feared, nor is it as respected.
In Hong Kong, they wouldn't, they wouldn't extradite Snowden.
I'm telling you, this is right up Obama's alley to preside over the decline of the superpower once known as the United States.
Look, there isn't any doubt about this anymore.
There's no doubt about what Obama's agenda is.
There's no doubt what his plans for transformation are.
And there's no doubt that he's being profoundly successful with all this.
There's no doubt about this now.
Anyone out there, including low information Voters who think that Obama's trying to accomplish the opposite of what's happening on anything are just, I think, hopelessly irretrievable.
If anybody really believes Obama's trying to spur and grow this economy, create a growing private sector with growing private sector jobs, they're hopeless.
If anybody really thinks that Obama's trying to strengthen the U.S. border and all this, they're hopeless.
They're lost.
We're coming up now on the five years of this.
At some point you've got to wake up and realize that what you're witnessing is happening because somebody wants it to happen.
Not because they're making mistake after mistake after mistake.
Not because powerful forces out of your control are making things happen.
At some point, you have to admit what's happening is happening.
I saw Crowdhammer, I didn't hear him say this.
I watched a little segment on Fox this morning.
Bob Beckel was on there with Mary Catherine Hamm.
And apparently Crowdhammer said something that in Beckel's mind was highly insulting.
And I don't have what Crowdhammer said right in front of me, but it was the equivalent of saying the world is laughing at Obama.
That the United States carries no weight, no impact, no four, and and Beckle was talking about how dangerous it is to say that.
We don't need to be undercutting the president of the United States.
That's just outright absurd.
What nobody apparently come to grips with is that the idea of this country being laughed at is what's by design.
This is the world's last remaining superpower.
There is no reason for what's happening to this country to be happening unless somebody wants it to.
We have the ability to project power anywhere in the world we want and emerge victorious anywhere we want to be in Iraq, be it Iran, be it Afghanistan, there's nothing stopping us except us.
I wish I had Crowdhammer's words right in front of me, but they really had Beckel all in a tizzy because it was it was of the nature that that Obama's a laughing stock around the world.
Obama's not, the country is.
That's what nobody's getting here.
And the fact that, you know, coming up now on five years in.
Look at this story.
76% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
Well, what would you expect when all of these jobs have been lost, they just vanished, when taxes are skyrocketing, when costs of living are skyrocketing, energy and everything else, and now the coal industry is next.
And so the cost of energy is going to continue to skyrocket.
It's going to go up gasoline.
We have an administration steadfastly opposed to the discovery and the creation of more domestic energy.
Keystone pipeline, just the most glaring example.
We have an administration that dead set against any policy that would increase our own supply of fossil fuel energy and thus reduce prices.
At some point, at some point you have to admit, you know what, this isn't just a mistake.
This isn't somebody not qualified for the job, doesn't know what they're doing.
This is somebody who knows exactly what they're doing.
So when you see it in money has the story, 76% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
Well, what do you think is going to happen when you have an administration that's doing everything it can to take people's wealth?
What do you think is going to happen when you have policies designed to prevent the accumulation of wealth?
What is going to happen when you have policies that shrink the United States economy?
The federal government is the only thing growing.
It's getting bigger and bigger.
Now the oil and gas industry is booming in places Obama can't stop it, i.e., on non-federal lands.
You would think, using common sense, okay, we've got an oil and gas boom in the Dakotas, and it's happening because of fracking.
You would think that an American president would see this and say, man, look what we could Do nationwide if we expanded this outside the Dakotas.
Look at the jobs we could create, look at the energy we could find, look at the lack of dependence that we could create on Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern oil producing states.
Look at all the good that could come from it.
No, what do we have?
We have an administ administration that is trying to limit it to the Dakotas, punish the people doing it there, and make sure it doesn't happen anywhere else.
And this is an accident.
This is somebody who doesn't know what they're doing.
Somebody, he's just a good guy, Rush, just inexperienced, you know.
He just doesn't have that much knowledge.
He's trying as hard as he.
This is not going to fly any longer.
So roughly 75% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck with little to no emergency savings.
According to a survey released by Bankrate.com yesterday.
Fewer than 25% of Americans have enough money in their savings account to cover at least six months of expenses, enough to help cushion the blow of a job loss.
What do what do people expect?
The cost of everything to do with health care is rising.
And you know how much people care about that, so they spend money on it left and right, or they access services that cost much.
It's just what what what could happen?
What other than this could happen?
with the kind of policies that are in place and the kind of policies that are coming.
Here's what Krauthammer says, that nobody worries or cares about what Obama says because it carries no weight.
Nobody worries or cares what Obama says because it carries no weight.