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Oct. 18, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 18, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Wait a minute.
I'm just reading.
That can't.
No, no, no.
Never mind.
That can't be.
Somebody suggested just calling them the skins instead of the red skin.
I just I just read that.
Was it Dr. Cloudhammer?
Hey, folks, how are you?
Rush Limbaugh.
We are here wrapping up a big week in Los Angeles, and it is Friday.
Live from the left coast at our satellite studios in Los Angeles.
It's open line Friday.
There it is.
I've been I've been waiting for that all week.
That's the big Johnny Donovan Show open, folks, and that's right.
We are here in Los Angeles.
Well, yes, it is.
It actually is my iPhone location services.
Identify where I am as Los Angeles.
And it's been a great week.
I had a great night last night with some old buddies at my buddy's.
Stan Schuster has this great place in Beverly Hills called the Grand Havana Room.
And you go in there and you can smoke cigars and eat dinner, and they've got had the football game on and the uh and the Red Sox game on last night.
And I hadn't seen these guys in a year and a half or two years.
And uh, oh man, I it was it was great.
I'm I'm wondering what I should share.
I'm not gonna tell you who it was.
They begged anonymity.
That should tell you.
No, it doesn't tell you anything.
But I mean one of them, just to give you an example, one of them very sheep.
He said, Rush, rush, yeah?
I gotta tell you something.
But I don't want you to get mad.
Why wouldn't I get mad?
Oh, just don't want you to get mad.
Okay, what is it?
He took a couple of puffs on his cigar, took a sip of his single malt, 25-year-old imitation scotch.
Said, I'm getting an electric car.
But it's not because it's not because I'm a big environmentalist wacko.
Don't get mad.
Don't get it.
It's not because of that.
I'm you like an electric car, go go go go go get it.
What kind are you gonna get?
I'm gonna get a Tesla.
I'm gonna get a Tesla.
And another guy put, yeah, best car in the world.
Best car, safest car, best damn car you can get.
I said, Wow, this is this is really cool.
He says, Yeah, you have to think the zero to sixty in 4.8 seconds.
And I said, now wait a minute.
You're you're trying to sell me on this an electric car zero to sixty.
That's not why you buy an electric car.
He said, that's right.
That's right.
Actually, I got I got this thing because Rush, it I mean, my commute is really long out here.
I'm spending $400 a month in gasoline.
I gotta do something about it.
It's not because I'm an environmental, he was he just desperate that I not think he'd gone over to the dark side on global warming.
And then he started the sales pitch, and they said, Oh, Rush, you'd love it.
High tech guy that you are, you know how you raise and lower the windows in it?
I said, no.
Well, it's got this touch screen in there.
Just look at your iPad.
And if you if you if you want to, if you want to put the window down, you put your two fingers on there and on the window, and you scroll down and the window goes down.
It's so damn cool.
The other guy said, it is.
It's the best damn car in the world.
And you know it's the safest car.
It's like they were selling me on it.
It's like they're begging me to okay.
No, no, he doesn't have it yet.
He's not getting it until December.
It's uh it's being made or maybe repaired.
Uh I I don't know.
But no, I I didn't, I didn't want to test.
No, it just it was it was so they were so hoping that I would not disapprove.
Just I could it was almost like the poor guy was sweating whether they should tell me all he wanted to tell me, he'd have felt guilty if he hadn't.
And then and it no, there was no paparazzi.
No, no, no, there was no paparazzi.
Paparazzi didn't know where I was going last night.
I mean, Stan, Stan Schuster would never call the paparazzi and tell them who's showing up at his place because big I mean, it did kill the place if he did that.
There are too many people go in there.
Anyway, then the same guy, the same guy says, now Rush, folks, this is really you rush, you gotta, you gotta, we we gotta, you gotta, I mean, we gotta give Obama some credit.
Now that got my attention.
The electric car, you know, yes, sir, yes, sir, fine and daddy.
If you like it, that's cool.
I'm I I have no argument.
I did just don't tell me you're doing it to save the planet.
That tells me you've been duped.
But if you like it because you're gonna save money, and I did say, well, how how far can you drive on a thing?
300 miles.
I can get all the way to Vegas on it.
I said, that's big.
So you're gonna buy a car in 2013, almost 2014, that will go from LA to Vegas without you having to stop.
Yeah.
That's so cool.
That's so cool.
Is there an is there?
I said a gasoline engine as a backup in case.
Nope, nope.
You don't need it.
Never never well, I said, well, how long does it take to charge?
Overnight.
You just you pull it in the garage, you just plug it in and charges overnight, next day you're ready to go.
I said, okay, what happens if I don't know how far it is in Vegas?
What happens if you've got say 20 miles left on your charge, but you've got 25 miles to get where you're going.
Is there a way you can pull a stop and get a quick charge?
Oh yeah, yeah.
You pull in there and and uh you you you you you plug it in for about an hour and you get an additional like 10 miles.
Whatever.
Well that's a quick charge, an hour.
Yeah.
Oh man, it's so cool, Rush.
I'm not getting it because I've gone to the dark side of the environment.
I want you to understand.
Now that was after.
There was this guy such a great guy, and he's he's a he's a great script writer.
Uh and he he he said, Rush, you gotta, we gotta give Obama credit for getting bin Laden.
I mean, you come on, Rush.
Come on, you gotta admit.
And I'm thinking, you know, this is what happens when I don't see these guys in a year and a half.
They f they fall prey.
Well, I mean, the whole world's aligned against conservatives out here, and they get sucked in and they get and and it becomes a big thing to give Obama credit for.
That gives you cred with the head honchos that work in your industry.
Come on, Rush, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta admit, I mean, that took guts.
I said, yeah.
Valerie Jarrett called him off the golf course when she decided it was time to go.
What do you mean?
Well, they tried to get Obama, they had three previous occasions.
They said, we got Bin Laden or sights, and he wouldn't pull a trigger.
And Valerie Jedi finally said, okay, somebody's gotta be the man here, and she decided to do it.
And he was on a golf course, and they pulled him in, they put him in the president's jacket, they moved him in the situation room, they said, sit here and look concerned, and then they took his picture.
Come on, Rush, you can't say that he's president of the United States.
Look at what it could have gone wrong.
It could have been Jimmy Carter.
The helicopters could have broken down.
It could have all gone nuts.
Some SEALs could have been killed.
It could have been a disaster.
It could have ruined him politically.
You gotta give him credit, Rush.
I said, look, if you want to, that's fine.
And they all are Chris Christie uh groupies.
They just I kid you not, they've just did so I taunted them a little bit on that.
The first time they didn't hear it.
And maybe if they heard it, they did it didn't quite register.
There oh, not only that, excuse me, they not only Chris Christie is the is their guy, they also are convinced that Hillary's gonna be the nominee.
It was like him back in 2007.
They're just it's it's it's it's inescapable.
Hillary Clinton is a nominee, and we don't have anybody computer except Chris Christie.
That's it.
That's the way it shapes up.
And they said to me, Well, what do you want?
You need cruise?
Come on, Rush.
Not even you.
You can't believe, you can't believe that Ted Cruz is actually gonna have a future in politics.
And I I didn't say that because it's a fun evening.
I didn't want to even go.
I'm just I'm listening to this stuff.
And and when it got to Christie, I said, Do you guys, I I I don't know why you know you you're I think this fear that we've all had a Hillary Clinton for so many years.
Why she was she was supposed to be the nominee in 2007 until Obama came along.
How did that happen?
All the cards were in the deck were stacked in her favor, right?
It was a fate accompli.
It was her turn.
She was owed this, the Democrat, and then they as soon as they found somebody better, somebody who wasn't even qualified.
He'd been a senator for a day and a half.
He'd given a speech at the convention, his wife was cool, and that was it.
That's all it took to unseat Hillary.
Do you guys understand who really is going to be fighting for the Democrat presidential nomination in 2016?
And then they said who?
I said, and then I said, Ram Emanuel, Chris Christie, and Andrew Cuomo.
And they they didn't hear me say Chris Christie, and it didn't register that I had said Christie was going to be in the Democrat race for the nomination.
So I know maybe they're so fixated on it that didn't hear.
So I tried it again, and then they did hear it, and he said, ah, come on, now you're just you're just yanking her chain.
Look, Rush, you know, you I can't believe you're missing this.
Christie is a real guy, because I'd asked him.
I said, okay, you guys, let me ask you a question.
Do you think that Chris Christie is going to have to do a Rex Ryan, go in there and get a lap band surgery or something before he runs?
Is that no?
Come on, Rush.
It's a 2014.
Christie is a real guy.
It's gonna help.
It isn't gonna be a problem.
This guy, he doesn't take any prisoners.
He kicks, but you hear the way he talks to the unions, you hear your way he talks to the media.
And I figured this, I I understand that, because so many on our side who wants somebody to fight back.
That's my lament, too.
And I said, Well, are you troubled that Christie kind of threw his own nominee overboard the week before the election when Obama he had to do that, Rush?
Come on.
Come on.
He had to do that.
Don't you understand?
His state had been devastated by the hurricane, and Obama's got the money.
He had to do it.
He has a he's got to be governor.
So it was uh despite how this was fun.
It was a great, great time.
I love these guys.
And I think this is all to me, this is just fast.
We talked a lot about Steve Jobs.
Um, the lost interview that that has been found from 1995 and Netflix has about what these guys are doing, and it was it was great.
And I hadn't seen him uh in over a year and a half.
It's always great when you get together with your cigar buddies and uh chewing the fat, having fun.
But that's that's what I did last night.
And no snertly, there were no paparazzi.
No, it's no big deal.
What do you mean disappointing?
Why would it why why why would that be?
Uh well, I've I've it'll snerdily saying he'd love seeing me in the celebrity press.
It happens when it happens.
Get this, folks.
Story here from Shanghai and the French news agency, AFP.
Like the French version of the state control media here, the Associated Press.
A young ChICOM couple are facing criminal punishment for selling their infant daughter and using the proceeds to buy an Apple iPhone, state media said Friday.
I'll tell you what, I hope they were at least holding out for a 5S if they did this.
I hope they did.
I hope they held up for a 5S and not a 5C.
They're going to sell the kid to get the phone.
I hope they went top of the line.
Shanghai prosecutors have uh brought a case against them for human trafficking after they illegally put their third child up for adoption online and accepted money for the baby.
Uh investigators found the mother, used the money to buy an iPhone.
Oh, an iPhone, high-end sports shoes.
So she got an iPhone, she got some Air Jordans, and other goods.
Probably an external charger that won't electrocute her.
Apple's products, wildly popular in China, where a teenager sold his kidney and used the money to buy an iPhone and an iPad in an incident widely reported last year.
But the couple, the couple told police that they wanted the girl to have a better upbringing than they could afford since they already had two children, but they didn't have an iPhone.
So I hope your Thursday night was good, folks, and we're off to a roaring start here on Friday.
It's Open Line Friday, where we talk to you about really what interests you.
It doesn't have to be something that interests me.
We screen the calls much looser on Friday.
So whatever you want to talk about is fine.
Question, comment.
You think something should have been mentioned this week that hasn't been, go for it.
800-282-2882, sit tight, back with much more after this.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, open line Friday, where we have more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Grab audio sound by number 22.
This was uh this is illustrative.
We have an audio sound by here from the uh from the Fox News channel this morning.
Happening now is the show.
That's the show that's on uh 11 o'clock Eastern from like 11 to 1 at the co-host of John Scott, and he had on there as one of his guests the former reporter for the New York Times, Judy Miller.
And she's also a Fox News analyst or commentator.
You might remember she went to jail uh during the last years of Bush regime for for not revealing sources or some such thing.
And she got out of jail, she'd lost some weight, uh, and she was a heroine in the media for taking the bullet.
And she it's amazing.
She's she's got this reputation, she's the best.
She is one of the best foreign policy reporters ever to have walked the earth.
And every time I hear her open her mouth, uh I I'm uh how I say this.
She's just thinking she doesn't know.
She's just ignorant.
And this is an example here of it.
And I think it's illustrated.
I guess probably not alone in this.
A classic example of these people who idolize Obama don't even know who the guy is.
That's right.
Judy Miller went to the Klink for not revealing sources for this scooter-libby Valerie Plame non-sandal.
That's what it was.
So anyway, the first thing John Scott did for Judy Miller, he played a clip.
We had this yesterday, but I didn't get to it because I know that you don't tune in here to hear Obama sound bites.
But Obama attacked talk radio in what should have been a great celebratory press conference.
He went out there to take credit for getting the government open and beating back the Tea Party and all that.
And instead, he went out there and and and started railing against the uh the talking heads on talk radio, which means that I'm living free, rent-free in his brain, and he attacked lobbyists and bloggers and all that.
And John Scott then said he was clearly reading that off the teleprompter, Judy.
I mean, this wasn't something he ad lib.
This is something they prepared.
They wanted to make that point.
Who are these bloggers and pundits that Barack Obama is so upset with?
Right.
Well, this is kind of vintage Obama, and it's getting to be a little mystifying because on the shutdown, the president won big time.
I mean, look at the drop in the Republican numbers.
He should have been proclaiming victory.
He should have been sinking a kumbaya moment, wrapping his arms around Rush Limbaugh and saying, come on over for a beer.
But instead, he singles people out who disagree with him.
He says, you know, he suggests yet again, bloggers are not journalists.
Fox News is not a news network.
He didn't say that this time.
People who disagree with him are not somehow patriotic Americans who Want what's best for the country.
I don't know why he does that.
I don't know why he does that.
I wonder if Judy Miller has ever heard of Saul Olinski and his book Rules for Radicals, which was dedicated to Lucifer, the first radical.
I wonder if she's aware that Obama is a disciple.
I wonder if she knows.
I'm serious.
I wonder and if Judy Miller doesn't know, then Brian Williams doesn't know.
And nobody else.
Take your pick.
Bob Schaefer, take your pick of any of them.
They don't know.
If she doesn't know, they don't know.
That his number one objective is not to be friends with his enemies and celebrate, put his arms around people, have a beer.
His objective is to wipe his enemies out to eliminate them.
To get them off the playing field.
He does not like his enemies even after he beats them.
She's clueless about this.
It really is interesting to me.
I don't know why, but it is.
Even I, I mean, I know the drive-bys are in a tank.
But I think I'm maybe like you.
I they're smarter.
Sorry, they're not nearly as smart as we think they are.
And it's not, we don't think they're smart because of what we see from them.
We think they're smart because we think it would require that to get that job.
I mean, not everybody can get a job at ABC, CBS.
Well, now actually they can.
Um, but it used it used to not be that way.
And I always make the mistake, I think, of overestimating these people, thinking they're curious, thinking that they I know they're liberal, and I know they're they're advancing agenda and all that, but I think that at least.
If you're gonna love a guy, know why.
If you're gonna love Obama, why do you love Obama?
You gotta love Obama because he's trying to wipe out conservatives.
You gotta love Obama if you love Obama because he's trying to eliminate Republicans.
You've gotta you if you're not gonna get upset at Obama using the IRS on the Tea Party, then you gotta agree that the Tea Party's gotta go.
I mean, Obama makes no secret of his.
He's he's he said, I don't know how many times we've played the audio sound bites, what his his feelings toward political opposition.
Look at the way he's won elections.
He doesn't beat people, he gets them thrown out of the race.
He gets, in the case of one uh Senate opponent, got divorce records, sealed divorce records released that detailed a guy and his wife going to sex clubs in Paris or some such thing.
Bam, thrown out.
They quit the race, and then Republicans Edison Alan Keyes in there as a placeholder.
That's how Obama does it.
I mean, he's not Obama's an angry guy, he's got chip on his shoulder.
These people don't know this.
She really doesn't, folks.
I don't, she's she's not just talking to her head rattle here.
I don't know why he does this.
I don't know why he doesn't come up and like Reagan and Tip.
Which never happened either, by the way.
I don't know why he does this.
Why is he not happy?
He's not happy, Judy, because he resents the hell out of what happened the last two weeks.
He's not happy because how dare these people oppose him.
Don't they know who he is?
He's not happy because everybody's not down on their knees begging Obama to pay them any attention.
What is so hard about this?
This is not psychological analysis, simply reading things and listening to what Obama says.
I mean, he he gave what she's talking about, he really gave the Republicans a scolding yesterday.
I mean, he was ticked off even after he won.
So winning didn't make him happy.
It ticked him off even more that he had to go through the process.
He just doesn't like opposition.
He's insulted by opposition.
How dare they?
He said, you don't like a particular policy, you don't like a particular president.
Well then argue for your position.
Go out there and win an Election, push to change it.
Well, maybe somebody should remind Obama that House Republicans and Ted Cruz and Mike Lee did win elections.
And they won elections because of specific elements of their campaign.
And they campaigned on the promise to oppose Obamacare.
And so they got the town and they did what they could to stop it.
They did exactly what they were elected to do.
They did get elected.
They did try to stop Obamacare.
They just didn't run for president.
They did argue their position.
Obama doesn't even do that.
When you get right down to it, he didn't argue his position.
You know what he does?
He employs the media in a mass campaign to destroy the reputations and the character of his opponents.
Look what they did to Mitt Romney.
Obama not once engaged Romney in the arena of ideas.
No, they ran ads about how Romney didn't care about his dog because the dog's on the roof of the station wagon on a vacation.
Romney didn't care that some guy's wife died at his company because they didn't give him health care, some such thing.
I mean, the stuff they said about Mitt Romney outside of politics was near criminal, certainly actionable.
That's what Obama does.
And the media sits around and they applaud this.
That's why we think they're in on the game, and they are.
And I'll tell you something else, folks, as long as we're doing deep insight here.
There's another reason why Obama wasn't happy yesterday and isn't happy today.
It's because he knows that Ted Cruz and Mike Lee aren't going anywhere.
He knows that the Tea Party isn't going anywhere.
He knows that they're going to be right back the minute he goes for amnesty, the minute he goes for the second amendment, the minute he goes for whatever else is next, they're going to be right there fighting it all over again.
He's mad they exist.
He's mad they're there.
He's ticked off that when they lose, they don't understand they're supposed to just slink away, act embarrassed, beg forgiveness, and resign.
He's mad because he still has opposition.
And he knows they're not going away.
And I'll tell you something else he knows.
He knows that he really, in the long term, may not have won this.
There's a and while that may surprise you, what I what I mean to say is the Republicans, the Tea Party did not lose this.
I shared with the Peter Binart piece yesterday, which dovetailed the points I've been trying to make for two weeks.
Obama was not a big winner here.
In fact, the case could be made that his agenda has been brought to a screeching halt.
And there's one other everybody, everybody, not everybody, a lot of people say that the Tea Party Iights made a strategic miscalculation because they focused on the shutdown and all that, that the failure of the Obamacare rollout got unnoticed.
You may have heard that too.
I heard it at dinner last night.
They went out there and God bless them, but they're so silly.
They waste all this time on something they knew couldn't work.
In the meantime, Obamacare's rolling out.
It's a giant dismal failure, and nobody knows.
I said, no, not true.
Everybody knows.
What do you mean?
How do they know?
Because they're living it.
Everybody's tried to sign up, has run into a brick wall.
This is this, I think the truth of the matter is that fighting Obamacare, trying to defund it or delay it, whichever, and engaging in the shutdown heightened attention to the miserable failure Obamacare in this rollout is.
And I'm going to tell you something, folks.
I got an Obamacare stack that I'm going to get into in the program today.
And I wouldn't be surprised.
I'm not going to predict this.
Thank you.
But I wouldn't be surprised if before the end of the year, I mean, wait till you hear.
There are two states which are the model states where the Obamacare rollout is supposed to be the gleaming glittering jewel of how it's going to work.
Maryland and Vermont, and they're utter disasters.
Maryland isn't even going to have its exchange ready until November.
And Vermont is almost as bad.
And they are the glittering jewels.
They're the crown jewels.
This is where everybody is supposed to go see how this brilliant thing is going to work.
And it's an outright disaster.
And I think they're going to have to do something before the end of the year to officially delay this.
Otherwise, it's going to cream them.
It is that bad.
And there is nothing that Cruz or Mike Lee or anybody else in the Tea Party did to cover that up.
It was not a strategical error in the slightest.
And Jim Dement, who runs the Heritage Foundation, had a piece in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, and there's some great excerpts from it that I, of course, will share with you as the program continues to unfold.
But I just want to remind President Obama, Mike Lee and Ted Lee, Ted uh Mike, Ted Mike Lee, Ted Cruz.
They did run for election, and they did win.
And they they campaigned on getting rid of Obamacare.
So they went to Washington and they did exactly what they were elected to do.
The people that elected Mike Lee and Ted Cruz are very happy, finally.
Two candidates who campaigned on an agenda, and when they got to town, went to work on it.
This is what's expected of any candidate who gets elected on a specific agenda.
In fact, I'm going to move forward here to uh grab audio sound bites 10 and 11.
This is this is fun.
This is last night on CNN, Aaron Burnett out front, as opposed to Aaron Burnett out back.
And she had her as her guest, Michael Grimm, a Republican Congressman from New York.
And they're talking about me.
I'm all over the soundbites today, snurdly.
That's why I delayed playing them until now, so that I don't appear to be an ego freak by starting the show playing soundbites about that.
But I'm all over them.
And Aaron Burnett's talking to uh to uh Michael Grimm, Republican New York, about me and my praise of Ted Cruz.
And they had this little exchange uh about it all.
There are, let's see, one, two, I think there's two bites here.
Here's the first one.
Here is Mr. Limbach.
We learned that one guy standing up can stop the status quo in its tracks.
Can you imagine in this last fight if we would have had five or ten Ted Cruises?
Can you imagine the different dynamic?
Can you imagine if we had five or ten Ted Cruises, we'd win a lot of debates.
If we had 45 Ted Cruises in the Senate, we'd come close to winning every vote.
You know, you gotta love Rush.
He goes exponential.
He went from one to 45.
45 cruises.
A good idea.
What do you think, Congressman Grant?
That's not a great idea.
Unfortunately, the principles and the convictions may be correct, but you have to have some tactics.
And you also have to have some respect for the fact that this is a big point.
I don't know what that means.
Yeah.
Big party, I guess, equals big tent.
I don't know what what went wrong.
Big party, big tent, Tea Party's in there, they fought for it.
What it means is, I tell you exactly what it means.
What what what Mr. Mr. Grimm says is look it.
We are a big party.
You have to have respect for that, meaning you got to come in and kiss the moderates' ass.
You don't just launch this strategy without telling the moderates about it.
You just don't launch this without telling it.
You gotta tell us.
You gotta let us know what you're doing.
And that really is one of the reasons we're upset with Ted Cruz.
He launched into this uh and I even asked him about it in a wide-ranging stellar interview here earlier on this program some weeks ago.
And he admits that it he wasn't totally up front, but it wasn't either totally in the dark either.
But I I still don't understand.
Principles, convictions may be correct, but there's a but after that.
Principles, convictions may be correct, but you have to have some tactics.
What that means is these guys knew that their objective wasn't possible.
It was simple math.
This is the lament.
It was simple math.
It was 51 versus 46.
It was never going to change.
There was a different agenda going on here called Educating the Public.
And it's a long process.
So and Graham, I'm sorry, Grim.
Grim, he continued.
I think there's a lot of Reagan conservatives, which is what I consider myself that are known for standing for our true values, but also being pragmatic and reasonable and working with others to come to a solution.
Look, that's just, you've heard it all before.
This is this is what does it mean?
Working with others to come to a solution.
It means caving in to the Democrats in real life.
I take a break, folks.
Sit tight, we'll be right back.
Don't go away.
Open line Friday.
We always don't always succeed, always try to get to the phones in the first hour.
And we're gonna start with Annie in Sutton, Michigan.
And it says she's 14 years old and new to politics.
And so that's that's great.
Um happy to have you on the program today, Annie.
Welcome.
Hi.
Hi.
I'm happy to be on.
Thank you.
You're more than welcome.
It's uh it's a it's really a thrill to have you here.
This is a great opportunity for us.
Oh, it's a great opportunity for me too.
Well, yes.
I uh I'm uh appreciate that.
Um, my well, I found out about um your show because my grandma loves you and she always listens to you.
Yes.
So she I'm starting high school.
And she was just telling me that I I better learn about politics because it's I'm new to public school.
Okay, she was telling you about politics.
You better you better learn about politics because you're new to public school.
What did she tell you you need to learn?
Well, she just was talking about like that.
I hope I learned more because I used to go be homeschooled in private school, so we didn't really talk about politics.
So now that I'm um in high school, like a public school, we're learning about current events every day and more about the news.
In in public school, this is happening, you say.
Yes.
Okay.
You're learning more about this stuff than you did being homeschooled.
Yes.
Okay.
Okay, continue, go on.
Oh, so it's just hard because my teacher for current events, she's a really strong liberal, and so it's hard for me because she always like if it's not her opinion or it's not something she's heard, she says we're wrong.
And so I'm just trying to figure out like what I could say to her that's still nice and respectful.
Well, this is going to be both a teachable and learnable moment here.
But Annie, I I need to ask you a question.
I'm up against it on time, and I I don't have as much time right now as I need to talk to you about this.
Can you hold on to the beginning of the next hour?
Okay.
You sure that's not a problem?
No.
So I'll have more time to actually get into what what you're facing and what you want to do in this situation.
That's the uh the first thing to figure out is what do you want to do to deal with it?
What is your you know, and and how upset does it make you and all that.
There are ways to to handle this.
It all depends on what you want uh and and and what you may end up thinking best after you've had some options presented.
Then of course, make sure your parents, your grandparents approve uh after you've talked to me.
But hold on, and we will come back and get to you as soon as the next hour begins.
Don't go away.
Okay.
Okay, folks, Annie is on hold, and uh we'll broom the opening monologue.
Well, we won't broom it, but we'll move the opening monologue in the next hour.
And when the next hour begins, we'll get right back to the phone call with uh with Annie, 14 years old, and challenged how to behave and react to a liberal teacher in high school.
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