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Sept. 12, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 12, 2014, Friday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
You are tuned to the most listened to radio talk show in America.
And it is this one, the EIB Network and Rush Limbaugh on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday.
Yes, sir, Open Line Friday, where we expand the universe of discussable items permitted by callers.
In fact, when we go to the phones, we turn the all-important content of the program over to callers who are by definition amateurs.
Lovable amateurs.
It can be fun.
You never know.
You know what I've noticed this week in the midst of the Ray Rice NFL domestic violence?
A bunch of callers have succeeded in fooling Mr. Snerdley and have gotten through here attempting to entrap me.
You know, a bunch of media matters type people and a bunch of left-wingers are calling up and suggesting some of the most outrageous things, hoping I will agree with them so that they can then say that I said it on the radio.
Well, remember the guy who called earlier last week and said, hey, what would have happened if the gay guy had beaten up or had been beaten?
What do you think the league would...
And I recognized it as host entrapment right off the bat.
And there was another one yesterday.
I forget what it was.
Well, I forget what it was.
Oh, yeah, picking on Ray Rice because he's black.
There are all kinds of attempts here to entrap me, but I'm too swift for these efforts.
I've often told people, don't try this at home.
It is much more challenging and difficult than it looks.
But I suspect that we'll have even more such attempts.
And Mr. Snerdley, this is not a criticism.
Don't misunderstand.
I mean, anybody can get lied to.
And we believe the best of everybody who calls.
We believe the best of everybody in this audience.
So if you want to try, 800-282-2882 is the number.
If you're tired of all this stuff that is being talked about and you want to talk about something else, that's what Open Line Friday is for.
So have at it.
New research published in the Journal of Family Psychology says that contrary to media and public opinion, women commit more acts of violence than men in 11 categories.
Now, this is really politically incorrect, and I can assure you that you will not be hearing any of this because it does not fit the soap opera narrative.
Here are the 11 categories in which women commit more acts of violence than men.
Throw something, push, grab, shove, slap, kick, bite, hit, or threaten a partner with a knife or gun.
Women do much more of that than men in those 11 categories, according to the Journal of Family Psychology.
The study was based on interviews with 1,615 married or cohabitating couples.
And it was then extrapolated nationally using census data.
And it found that 21% of couples reported domestic violence.
The Washington Times says that they then confirmed the study.
Now, I don't want to get anybody in trouble here, but ladies and gentlemen, I have several African-American friends who have weighed into me on this Ray Rice situation, and I'm almost afraid to tell you what they've told me.
I really, I've thought, I've held this close and have not repeated it.
These are conservative guys.
These are responsible guys.
You would not believe.
You know what?
If there's a refrain, if there's a theme to what all of my black buddies have told me about this, it is this.
Hey, Rush, hey.
Has anybody told you what they're arguing about in that elevator?
No, why does that matter?
Believe me, Rush, it matters.
What were they arguing?
Well, I don't know.
Do you know what?
No.
They said, I don't know, but believe me, it matters.
I mean, that just didn't happen in a vacuum.
And then I can't repeat other things I've heard because there's no win in it.
I'm just telling you that there's a body of thought out there that does not universally join the chorus of condemnation of Ray Rice on this.
That's not me.
I'm not weighing in on it.
I'm just telling you, people tell me.
There are.
There are other opinions besides James Brown.
There are other opinions besides Bob Costas.
There are other opinions beside any of these sports people on television or in the media.
There are other opinions.
You're just not hearing them.
I am.
It would not serve any purpose because this is not a safe environment for me to repeat what I'm hearing.
But believe me, it goes against the grain of all the political correctness that we're hearing out there.
And I'm not validating it by telling you this.
I'm not suggesting any.
I'm just sharing with you what I hear.
Let's go back to the audio soundbites on this and wrap this up and then we're going to move on.
I mentioned that the media is just outraged and shocked and perplexed that fans showed up last night wearing Ray Rice jerseys.
And this kind of dovetails what I'm talking about.
A lot of Baltimore Ravens female fans, hey, it was one time he apologized.
She's still with him.
Come on, man.
He has helped this team win.
And then Ravens players.
Let me find this.
There's a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter who went in the Ravens' locker room last night and tweeted some of what the Ravens players were saying.
I must have set that aside.
Here it is.
One tweet, Ray Fitipaldo is the reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The win over the Steelers was dedicated to Ray Rice.
Several Ravens told me afterward, quote, Ray's still a great guy, receiver Tori Smith said.
He's a model man.
He made a huge mistake, but he's still a great person.
Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs.
I happen to like Terrell Suggs.
I think Terrell Suggs is a riot.
Do you see how Terrell Suggs came out?
He wore a gladiator helmet during player introductions last night.
He's going to get fined for that.
That's a uniform violation, but he doesn't care.
He came out, Terrell Suggs taunts Tom Brady for having a supermodel wife, saying, oh, man, I'd love to be Tom Brady.
I would love to have Tom Brady's wife.
Tom Brady beautiful.
His wife is beautiful.
Look at me.
Think I could ever get a woman like Tom Brady?
I just love this guy.
He taunts the Steelers fans when he goes to Pittsburgh.
Terrell Sugg said it was a very emotional game.
Ray has done a lot for this city.
We love our brother.
More from the Ravens locker room.
We wanted to get that win for Ray, said rookie linebacker CJ Mosley.
He was part of this organization for a long time.
He put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into it.
Media shocked.
They couldn't believe.
See, the media gets on something and they think, like I pointed out about this Redskins name thing, the thing the media does, they start from a position, an attitude that everybody agrees with them.
That the majority of thinking all over the country is what they think.
And therefore, when they run into somebody that doesn't, they are the oddball.
They're the kook.
They're the racist or they're the bigot or what have you.
When in fact, the majority of this country couldn't care less whether the Redskins changed their name.
But the media starts out with the assumption that everybody's outraged by it, as they are.
Same thing here.
And when they find that what they believe isn't universally believed or accepted, they're shocked and stunned.
So we have a montage here of info people from CNN, NBC, CNN, CNN and NBC basically expressing shock in one degree or another.
Were you surprised that so many female fans were showing their support by wearing Ray Rice jerseys?
I was shocked.
I couldn't believe it.
I saw hundreds of people wearing them.
A surprising number of female fans were still wearing Rice jerseys.
Wow.
That's horrific.
That is horrific.
Impacting female fans.
Do we see any evidence of that?
Not in the slightest.
It's really unfortunate.
In yesterday's game, you saw many of them wearing his jersey, right?
The number 27.
The morons wearing the 27 jerseys.
I mean, come on.
Come on.
How stupid is that?
I mean, you know.
Really?
Really?
That's Jeffrey Toobin and Sonny.
Is it Hostin or Hostin?
I can never say it's CNN.
The Morons.
That's what we're doing.
The Morons wearing the 27 jerseys.
You don't agree with them.
You're a moron.
The point is, you know what these media people don't get?
I think, just a wild guess.
I think over half of these people that show up wearing Ray Rice jerseys are just saying to the media.
I think it's all media backlash.
I think it's people saying.
I think it's people saying, hey, look at me, look at me.
I think it's people trying to tick off the media.
And it's working.
It works.
Okay.
So let's see.
After, oh, that'll come later.
This is Goodell's next.
This was on CBS this morning on Wednesday.
Nora O'Donnell, do you wish you had seen this videotape before it was released by Walter Cronkite at TMZ?
Absolutely.
That's why we asked for it on several occasions.
Because when we make a decision, we want to have all the information that's available.
And obviously, that was that when we met with Ray Rice and his representatives, it was ambiguous about what actually happened.
But what was ambiguous about her laying unconscious on the floor, being dragged out by her feet?
There was nothing ambiguous about that.
That was the result that we saw.
We did not know what led up to that.
We did not know the details of that.
That's really where this whole thing centers now, because Ray Rice and a bunch of people on his side are out telling anybody and everybody, no, no, no, no.
There was nothing ambiguous about what I told a commissioner.
Ray Rice, I was honest from the get-go.
Ozzie Newsom, General Manager Ravens.
Ray was honest with us.
He told us.
He hit that woman in the elevator.
Has never lied to anybody, but the commissioner says, I didn't see the video first, and then Ray was ambiguous.
Could have slapped her.
It's a he said, he said situation now.
So they got this investigation going on.
It's just, it's a mess.
They then, after James Brown lectured everybody on stopping to make fun of the way guys throw if they throw like a girl.
So you can't do that anymore.
That diminishes women.
James Brown, CBS sports.
If you make fun of a guy because he throws like a girl, you're diminishing women and that's going to lead to abuse somewhere down the line.
You've got to stop calling guys sissies and you've got to stop making fun of the way they throw if they throw like girls.
Now, after he engaged in that commentary, they then cut to the former coach of the Steelers, Bill Cower, for an analysis of the well, I swear, watching the show last night, I got the impression that there is a, what's the, not endemic, what pinned up?
It's epidemic, yeah, there's an epidemic of spouse abuse in the NFL.
That's the impression I got.
Listen, though, here's Bill Cower.
If the NFL is perceived to have a domestic problem, then it is our job, our obligation, to make sure that we take an opportunity to change that image.
We have to do the right thing.
And then it was Deion Sanders' turn.
My name has been attached to these accusations as well, but I could honestly say unequivocally, I've never abused or did any involved in that nonsense.
We can provoke change right now if we do the right thing.
We must focus on really helping these guys at hand because there's a lot of nonsense going on.
That makes perfect sense to me, and we'll be back.
Didn't it to you?
Open line Friday, and we head back to the phones.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, New Haven, Connecticut.
This is Katie, and I'm glad you called.
Hello.
Hi, Rosh.
Hi.
A real thrill to talk to you.
You've been part of my family since 1991.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate it.
My uncle.
So I called you because I've been on college campuses for about 10 years now, and I've been watching trends, you know, sidewalk talk and bumper stickers.
Hang on, Jessica.
You've been in college campaign for 10 years, as a student, as a researcher, as a teacher.
What?
For six years, I was a student.
I took my master's degree in violin, and then I worked, and then I moved back to a college town for no reason.
And now I'm at Yale with my husband, who's finishing his PhD.
Oh, cool.
You've got a master's degree in violence?
I'm kind of glad you heard that.
I like it when people do.
Violin, the instrument.
Oh, violins.
Okay.
Strings.
I always like it when people think I say violins.
Well, you know, I'm deaf, and it sounded very, very, very close.
I was going to ask you: are you an expert in handing it out or studying?
Well, ask my brother.
Wait a minute.
That would be abuse within the family, and you're joking about it, Katie.
Oh, I know.
I'm terrible.
I hope James Brown of CBS is not listening.
Me too.
Me too.
I'm about to horrify him.
So I've been seeing these bumper stickers.
I saw the ones that were anti-Bush in 2004.
I saw the handwriting on the wall when Obama was first going to win and how funny the font size was on the next bumper sticker.
It was a tiny little font like, please don't hurt me.
I'm still voting for Obama-type font.
But I'm seeing a new one now, and it confuses me, and I don't really know what to think about it, so I called for your opinion.
I'm seeing the I'm ready for Hillary bumper stickers.
I don't know what they want.
I don't know what they think is going to change.
But they're done with Obama.
So I want to know what you think about that.
Well, quite a few things, actually.
And in light of that, I wasn't going to use these, but standby audio soundbites two and three.
And yep, maybe four.
The only reason they're through with Obama is he's through.
I mean, he's lame duck.
He's in his last two years.
They can't vote for him again.
There's another factor.
Obama is quickly becoming the latest failed utopian promising liberal.
Now, one of the psychological characteristics of liberals is that the world is replete with socialism failures.
It has never worked.
It has never succeeded.
Socialism, liberalism, communism, it has never worked.
It has never created a utopia.
That doesn't tell them anything.
All it does is make them eagerly anticipate the next effort.
And so Hillary embodies the next chance to finally get it right and to show it can work.
Now, Hillary is chosen specifically for a whole host of reasons.
A, she was denied in 2008 in an unfair, sort of backhanded way out of the blue.
And it was hers.
She was to be coronated, and it ended up.
So now it's her turn.
And then there's a second facet of this.
I'm convinced that the Democrats want to nominate the first female president and then after that the first Hispanic so they can capitalize on no president being criticized without being called either a sexist or racist or bigot.
They've learned that with the first black president, no criticism is permitted.
The critics are called racist, and so the critics shut up.
They're angling for the same thing with Mrs. Clinton.
First female president, can't criticize her, you're a sexist if you do.
A caller called C-SPAN today, Mike Barone was a guest, a caller called C-SPAN and asked him this question.
Rush Lambaugh did on his program earlier this week something about the Democrats are going to run Hillary and then they're going to run a Hispanic in 2020.
Well, we need to trump that and say we've got excellent Hispanics and our party wants to do this.
Here's Michael Barone's answer, first of two soundbites.
One of the things that helped Barack Obama win the presidency in 2008 and win re-election in 2012, in my judgment, was there's a widespread feeling in the country, including a majority of Americans, I think, including many who didn't vote for him, that his general proposition would be a good thing for the country to elect a black president.
My judgment is that that worked in President Obama's favor.
Really?
I'm not sure it's going to work as much for, quote, somebody that would be, quote, the first woman.
I'm not sure that it would work so much for somebody that would be the first, quote, Hispanic.
And Barone continued.
It's a mistake to say, as some Republican and conservative analysts do, that Hispanics are natural conservatives.
People from Mexican or Puerto Rican backgrounds are not necessarily going to be attracted by somebody like Senator Cruz or Senator Rubio, both of whom come from Cuban backgrounds and have families with quite a different history of involvement in the United States and immigration there too.
So I don't think nominating a Hispanic candidate is as much of a cure-off for Republicans as the caller suggests.
Well, on that point, I tend to, I don't think conservative, Hispanics are natural conservatives as the Republican Party has been.
And the reason they tell us that, so we'll go along with amnesty, but I don't believe it.
I think he's exactly right about that.
But I think he is dangerously incorrect in not correctly assessing why identity politics matters so much to the Democrats.
I think Hillary, as the first female immune to any criticism of the historic nature, is something that they want to parlay.
And then they want to get a Hispanic.
There's no question, any question at all about that.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have a question.
A thought just occurred, just popped up into my fertile cranial cavity.
The deep, dark crevices of my mind, well, not dark, but the deep crevices of my mind.
It's a very simple question, but the NFL, spousal abuse.
According to James Brown of CBS Sports and pretty much the rest of the sports drive-bys, spousal abuse in the NFL is epidemic.
It's really bad out there.
James Brown says that 600 women have died since February alone, not just in the NFL, but spousal abuse victims have died since February.
Now, the NFL has a bunch of players who are retired.
We assume the problem isn't new.
Many of these retired players have been hired by the networks as commentators and analysts and play-by-play people.
Many of them are on ESPN.
Some are at CBS.
Some are at NBC.
And ABC not in a football game anymore or college football, but some are even there.
Would it be proper to suggest that maybe these networks would want to conduct an investigation into some of their own employees to find out if some of this behavior has occurred prior to them being hired?
And if said investigation reveals that some of their own employees have engaged in this behavior, should they not be suspended, fined, fired, what have you?
I mean, if we are to believe that there is an epidemic of spousal abuse in the NFL today, then there has to have been one last year and a year before, because it didn't just happen with Ray Rice at the Revelle Casino in New Jersey in February.
It's just a question.
I mean, if they're serious.
Just a question.
No, I'm not trying to stir anything up.
I'm just, I'm responding in kind here.
I'm having my sensitivity raised.
Right, Ryan?
I'm having my conscience level raised here.
I am now becoming concerned as a good citizen.
And I want answers.
Because like Coach Cowher said, like Deion said, we have to do what's right.
We have to do the right thing.
We have to take an opportunity to change that image.
There's a lot of nonsense going on.
And we have to do whatever it takes to do the right thing.
Got to help these guys at hand, in hand, with hand, whatever, Deion said.
Okay, now back to the phones.
This is Jim in Egan, Minnesota.
Hi, Jim.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor to be on your show.
A longtime listener and student.
It's great to have you, Jim.
Thank you.
I'd like to ask two questions about this alliance that Obama keeps talking about.
The first question is, do you think the reluctance of England to join this alliance has anything to do with the fact that Obama returned that bust of Winston Churchill from the White House when he first came into office?
And the second question is, do you think there's any possibility that any nation would join an alliance for a military campaign called by our president who says he will put no U.S. boots on the ground while asking others to have their guys put their boots on the ground?
Both of those are understandable questions.
Let me take your first question first, since that's the order in which you asked it.
I really think that Prime Minister Cameron would not be that petulant.
This is a serious matter.
And I think if he's hedging on joining the coalition, it is really because he thinks it is ill-conceived.
I don't think it's payback for the Obama disrespect shown to the Churchill bust.
There are other ways that they could do that, but all of these guys involved here, all these leaders, have at the top of their concern national security for their people and their nations.
And I would think that if the U.K. is hedging, Germany's out, Germany doesn't want to be part of it.
And the U.K. doesn't want to be part of it.
I think it's because they don't think this mission, as Obama has spelled it out, has enough ingredients to engender success, which is related to your second question.
Obama, see, here's the thing.
This is how the left gets themselves in traps.
They spend five years.
I shouldn't get started on this because I'm going to get fit to be tight again today like I was yesterday.
They spent five years driving their own voters insane, hating the Iraq war and anybody had anything to do with it, including Bush, including Cheney, and including the military.
They spent five years, Harry Reid, Pelosi, Obama, all of them, trashing the Iraq war, trashing their country, trashing the motivation, impugning the intentions of Bush and Cheney.
And they drove their base voters insane with hatred.
In the process, they have trapped themselves.
Even if the right thing to do is to take on ISIS in Iraq, Obama feels constrained and can't do it for political reasons.
Because there's still an election coming up in November, another one in 2016, even though he's not running his parties on the ballot.
And they've driven their base so insane that the wrong move in Iraq will cause that insane base to literally, who knows, abandon the party?
No question or no telling what they would do.
They weren't very sane to begin with.
But I'm not exaggerating.
Five years of 24-7, 365 bashing of everything and everybody that had anything to do with Iraq and the war on terror literally drove the Democrat Party base to the brink of, if not insanity, they're just out of control.
And the emotion that's driving them is pure hatred.
They're predisposed to hating war anyway.
They're predisposed to hating the military.
And their leaders came every day, folks.
Every day, every aspect of that war was impugned, and everybody had anything to do with it was destroyed, or tried to be.
Even poor old Scooter Libby had nothing to do with anything.
General Petraeus, Uniform military person, there's John Kerry out there and John Merthyr calling them racists and rapists and terrorists.
It was just, it was obscene.
So now, oh, Dick Durbin, Dick Durbin on the floor of the Senate comparing our troops to the Nazis and the Soviets who ran the gulags.
And their supporters heard this and they believed it.
All the stuff on Abu Ghreb and the pictures and the supposed torture at Club Gitmo today drove their left base insane and infuriated the rest of us.
Okay, so now you jump forward to 2014, and because of what I just described, Obama had to make a clean break out of Iraq and left no residual force, which permits ISIS to rise in Iraq and Syria.
This is all of his making.
A Democrat Party owns every bit of this.
Well, now, because of all that, we've got this bloodthirsty enemy that everybody is really seriously worried about, more so than they ever were about Al-Qaeda.
And they have to be stopped.
But there's this insane Democrat base out there that cannot be angered by any policy that is seen to be in violation of what they were told for those five years of never-ending hatred.
So Obama has to devise a strategy that does not involve the U.S. military boots on the ground.
It involves training an inept Iraqi army that he hasn't spent the last five years dealing with in any way, shape, manner, or form.
They are going to be the boots on the ground.
We're going to fly some jets and we're going to fly some drones and we're going to, but they're going to be the boots on the ground.
And I guarantee you, these guys are not going to say it publicly, but people like David Cameron, even though he's a leftist and probably a friend of Obama's, has got his country to think about.
This is silly.
I don't see how this is going to succeed.
I'll tell you what else he knows.
Jim, it's a good question.
I think Germany, Merkel, they all know that Obama's doing this for political reasons.
They know two weeks ago, Obama didn't have a strategy, said so.
Two weeks ago, Obama didn't think ISIS winning with a JV team.
He said so.
Two weeks ago, Obama didn't care.
Now all of a sudden, it's worthy of a primetime speech.
And now we've got to put together a coalition.
Well, Obama's not the Messiah anymore.
And waving at people and bending his finger or waving his magic wand.
Well, there is no magic.
They're looking at this practically and they're saying the way this has been handled.
And then add to that, they get to listen to John Kerry and Susan Rice and anybody else in this regime.
Oh, no, no, no, no, this is not war.
No, no, don't call this a war.
And the reason they're saying that is because they're going to do this without congressional authority.
I got this, I mentioned, I'm going to get to it in a minute here.
This column by Bruce Ackerman from Yale.
It is just lamb-basting Obama for being, for doing things Bush only dreamed of doing.
And I'm telling you, there's no greater insult.
Do not doubt me.
There is no greater insult than to say Barack Obama is worse than George W. Bush in anything, but particularly this.
And that's what this guy is saying.
But my point is, if our idiotic Secretary of State, if this moron, speaking of morons, and how about the CNN people calling their own viewers morons, if that doesn't sum it up, the Ravens fans wearing their rice jerseys, whoa, morons!
Look at these morons!
What are these morons?
Hey, you guys at CNN, you're the morons.
Look at the lunacy you support and believe in and hide and brush out of the way in trying to make Bill Clinton the biggest rock star in America.
Anyway, when you've got the Secretary of State and the top advisors to the President of the United States making a big deal, this is not a war.
This is a really very precisely designed counter-terrorist operation.
And you know that these people don't even think, these are the people that will not allow the word terrorism to be used at the State Department.
War on terror.
This Marie Harf babe, the spokesman there, was asked about the war on terror.
And she said, well, you know, I never used that term here.
War on terror, don't really know what that is.
It's not permitted.
In case you've forgotten, the Obama administration banned the use of the term war on terror because you see, Islam is not, or ISIS is not Islam, and no religion wantonly kills innocent people.
If you're a foreign leader listening to all this, I would think you'd run as far away from it as possible if your primary concern is your own nation's security and your own population's security.
As is the usual case, half my brain tied behind my back to make things fair, to make things equal, buzzwords for the millennials.
If I focus on fairness and equality, they will stop being scared and will love me.
Okay, back to the phones, Bill.
Bill in Milwaukee, glad you called, sir.
You're next on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
This is an honor.
I've been a faithful listener since 1988.
Well, that's the beginning.
You're a lifer.
Yes, I am.
I really appreciate that.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I was hoping you could explain the origin of the name Dingy Harry, please.
Gladly.
I forget what Harry Reed did to trigger it.
It was something reprehensible, reprehensibly political, reprehensibly partisan.
And Clint Eastwood owned the term Dirty Harry.
So I was trying to come up with something as close to that as I could without stealing dirty.
I mean, if you call him Dirty Harry, it's Clint Eastwood.
So I just, Dingy Harry is as close as I was able to get to it's hilarious.
Oh, I'm glad you like it.
I'm glad you, it, it might have, you know, when it, I'll tell you what it might have been, and I could be wrong about this.
You remember when this whole phony soldier lie started, you know, there was a there was a genuine phony soldier who was lying about all kinds.
This is part of what the Democrats did, by the way, in creating this never-ending five years of hatred for the troops.
There was this phony soldier out there who was making things up about the abuse that he had seen.
Except at the time, he was thought to have been a real soldier.
And the left immediately believed everything he said and glommed onto it.
And I questioned this guy, and I called him a phony.
And so Dingy Harry went to the floor of the Senate to trash me as someone who routinely bashes the military.
Meanwhile, I am among the biggest supporters of the military for 25 years.
And Dingy Harry on the floor of the Senate demanded that my syndication partner, Clear Channel, happened to be Mark Mays at the time, either fire me or censor me or rebuke me or whatever.
And he sent Mark Mays a letter demanding this after criticizing me on the floor of the Senate.
I asked Mark Mays if I could have that letter to auction it off on eBay to raise money for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, which has been a charity I've supported since it was started in the early 90s.
And very, I mean, this was a very gutsy move for Mark Mays.
He gave me the letter and we auctioned it off and it raised what it was close to, it was $3 million, two and a half or three million dollars.
It was a lot of, because, and I matched it.
I matched whatever was bid.
And because it embodied an overreaching federal government.
Here was a United States Senate majority leader reaching out to a CEO demanding that he reprimand, fire, whatever, a private citizen employee.
It was a classic illustration of government overreach.
And it was, and that reason it was historic, that may have been when I concocted the name Dingy Harry.
But it might have been something else.
But anyway, that's the reason for it.
Trying to get as close as I could to dirty Harry.
There's polling data out there, ladies and gentlemen, looking like dark days for Democrats.
What it is, Obama is losing the support of women.
And he is losing the support of women big.
Stand by, sit tight, hang in there and be tough.
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