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Dec. 12, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 12, 2014, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, so let me see if I have this right.
We're supposed to be.
We're supposed to be entertained by the apparent fight, disagreement, fisticuffs, whatever going on between the Democrats, Obama and Pelosi, and that lame brain, Elizabeth Warren.
We're supposed to be excited by this.
Ah, gee, you talk about getting misdirected.
What the point?
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
The news is that the Republican Speaker of the House is thrown in with Barack Obama.
I don't care what the Democrats are doing.
What does that matter?
Holy smokes.
John Boehner has just squandered the election results before the Republicans even are sworn in to run the Senate along with the House.
If I've got this right.
Anyway, greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
This is Open Line Friday, 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program, and I'm sure you do.
Because Open Line Friday, you get to talk about whatever you want to talk about.
Can I tell you something, folks, before we get into all this maddening, depressing, just inexplicable stuff that's happening in Washington?
Did you see the news that a time capsule was discovered someplace in Boston from the 1700s, a time capsule that was that was hidden away by Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.
It is folks, you'll have to forgive me for feeling immense pride here, but if you go to the Rush Revere Facebook page, you will see parents sending little notes that their five-year-olds and 10-year-olds were all excited when they heard that on the news.
Now stop it.
A five-year-old and 10-year-old being excited that a time capsule involving Paul Revere and Samuel Adams was found in in Boston.
I mean, that's just that is just so wonderful, I can't tell you.
And they know about it because of the Rush Revere books.
If I do say so myself.
What an what an amazing thing.
These parents are writing and their parents they're saying their kids are all excited when they heard about this uh uh time capsule and and and wondering uh what it means and what's in it and be curious and the fact that they even know who Paul Revere and Samuel Adams are at age five and ten.
Anyway, that's uh it's a little oasis of hopefulness for me and all of us that work on the Revere series.
It's a huge little oasis of hopefulness because I'll tell you when you turn to Washington, this is just mind-boggling.
And get this.
I heard about this news today, and when I heard about this, it's one of those things that normally I would not be able to stop laughing about.
But then on the other side of it, I couldn't help but be affected by it in a negative way.
You aware of all the hacks going on.
No, no, no.
Snerdley, hang on.
I'm gonna get to this stuff with the budget and all that.
I've got it all ready to go here.
I just there's a couple things I want to take care of here first.
It's one of these things that until I talk about it, it really hasn't been said, and I know everybody's waiting.
Just hang on, folks.
We have three hours here.
I know you may not have all three hours, but if it's important, you'll stay, and it is.
So hang on.
I just have to get this off my chest first.
So I get up today and I read the Sony hack.
The Sony hack is just stunning.
Emails, now what has been discovered, salaries, health care benefits, uh children and spouses of Sony employees and their health problems, and their problems with insurance and their problems getting treatment, their problems getting health care.
It's just that every secret that Sony has is being exposed here.
Every personal secret, every business secret, it's just it's all trickling out.
And yesterday we made mention of the fact that the female co-chairman, Amy Pascal, whose husband, by the way, just show you how incestuous all this is.
Her husband is a guy named Bernard Weinraub.
You know what he used to do?
He used to be a uh reporter for the New York Times.
So she is the co-chair at Sony Pictures Entertainment, and the other guy is Michael Linton, L-Y-N-T-O and I T-O-N, I'm sure I think he pronounces it Lenton.
Anyway, an email thread or exchange was discovered to exist between Amy Pascal and uh a producer of movies named Scott Rudin.
And they were making fun of Obama.
They were making fun of Obama based on Obama being African American, being black.
Asking each other, well, Amy Pascal had to go to some breakfast, the fundraiser breakfast that Jeffrey Katzenberg was putting on.
It was clear she didn't want to go, but she had to go.
So she's emailing back and forth with the producer Scott Rudin, asking, well, what should I talk about?
What should I say to him?
And he says, well, you know, probably likes black movies.
Talk to him about Django Unchained.
Talk to him about Kevin Hart.
Maybe probably loved Butler.
Why don't you talk to him about that?
And they're going back and forth.
Well, do you know what she has done?
Do you know what this woman's done?
This woman, Amy Pascal, one of the most powerful executives, male, female, gay, straight, you name it in Hollywood.
Do you know what she's done?
She has called the Justice Brothers.
I am not kidding you.
She called the Justice Brothers.
She called Sharpton, and she called the uh Reverend.
And she said she wants to accept responsibility.
After a leaked exchange with the producer Scott Rubin that included racially charged language.
She called Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
She told the Hollywood reporters that she was being proactive, and she wants to accept responsibility for these stupid, callous remarks.
Yes, I I I talked to um I talked to Reverend Jackson, a very preliminary conversation, and we just talked about getting together and hoping to discuss a healing process.
Healing process?
What broke?
A healing process.
Healing process?
You know what bothers me is look at the fear for crying out loud.
And there were even other email threads talking about because of this exchange between Amy Pascal and Scott Rudin that she might lose her job.
Yeah, Sony might not be able to handle the intense fallout from this.
Joking that Obama probably like the butler.
Talk to him about that.
Talk to Obama about Django Unchanged.
Talk to Obama about Kevin Hart.
Of being labeled a racist.
She said, I know it's not true.
I know it's not true.
And that doesn't reflect who I am or what I feel or what I've done.
But it does, Amy.
You are who you are.
Your record is what your record is.
You do what you do.
You did what you did.
You made jokes about Obama liking black things with a white guy.
It is who you are.
You did it.
Now she's calling the Justice Brothers and begging for forgiveness, begging for understanding and asking to commence the healing process, and it is us, folks.
Been on this case four years.
You know what?
You know what healing process means when you get in bed with a Justice Brothers?
You know what it means?
It means giving the Justice Brothers cash.
That's the healing process.
You give the and maybe don't be surprised if you see Al Sharpton starring in a movie or with some kind of a role, maybe even a biopick about Al Sharpton.
I mean, these people will go to any lengths whatsoever.
But I I love the apology.
It's not me.
It's not who I am, and I need to get past this.
We need to start the healing pro.
Now normally, this won't be things 25 years ago.
I would still be laughing.
You could not get me up off the floor.
But I th I sit here now today and I look at what this means.
It's just it's further evidence of the abject crumbling of decency.
For crying out loud, who are these guys?
Shakedown artists and hoaxers and the highest executives in in Hollywood feel like they have to grovel.
Anyway, folks Obama could save.
I don't know if Obama could save this.
There is a major falling out taking place in the Democrat Party.
And we're supposed to be enthused by this, by the way.
We're supposed to be excited by it.
We're supposed to sit back and whoa, man, Washington getting good.
There's trouble in paradise in the Democrat Party.
Yep, we're supposed to look the other way while our Speaker of the House gets in bed with Obama and advances the Obama agenda, takes care of it, amnesty, Obamacare, fully funded, done deal, election must not have mattered.
And then we got Elizabeth Warren out there who's staking her claim to the presidency while Mrs. Clinton isn't looking.
And to show you how out of whack things are, Elizabeth Warren of you didn't build debt, you didn't make that happen, fame.
Well known communist socialist Elizabeth Warren is now being credited as practically the only person in Washington standing up for the little guy via her opposition to some of the the uh relaxation of regulations in Dodd Frank and some of the campaign by the way, about that campaign finance stuff uh that everybody's upset about in this in the in the in the omnibus bill.
I'm gonna tell you exactly what that is.
This is the this is the we had a caller about it yesterday.
The lady was fit to be tied, and she was angry, and she was right to be, because the uh limits have practically been obliterated, which means that corporate donors can just start giving left and right.
It used to be a limit of 37,000, now it's 737,000.
It's incredible.
But the point of it, you know why it's in there?
You know why you know what?
The Republicans put it in.
You know why it's in there, folks?
This is how corporate America is going to defeat the Tea Party by allowing limitless donations from that crowd under the rubric that it's campaign finance and money of speech and freedom of speech and First Amendment.
The theory is that Main Street Tea Party people can't come close to competing with corporate money.
And so it is a Republican establishment ploy that kind of dovetails nicely with Obama sicking the IRS on the Tea Party to basically eliminate them as a viable threat by relaxing a regulation in Dodd-Frank that pretty much permits corporations to spend any kind of money they want on politics.
It's kind of a dichotomy.
You know, it's a not to think it's a dilemma in terms of figuring out what to uh what to think about it.
Let me tell you about a congressman named Martin Stutzman.
Martin Stutzman is a Republican from Indiana, and he is claiming, he's put out a press release on this now.
He is admitting to this, publicly is not relying on other publications to say it.
He's saying it himself that he was lied to.
That he was lied to by the Republican leadership, that the Republican leadership reneged on a deal they made with him to get his support for the omnibus bill.
You want the details?
Fine.
He said, I'm very surprised.
I was very surprised, even more disappointed to see the Cromnibus back on the floor.
The American people deserve better.
See, Martin Stutzman, Republican Indiana, was one of the last Republicans to vote in favor of the rule allowing the House to fully vote on the omnibus spending wheel, the 1.1 trillion dollar omnibus.
National Review Online reported that Martin Stutzman, Republican Indiana, backed the rule at the last minute.
He was one of two Republicans on whose vote this whole thing hinged.
National Review Online reported that Stutz Stutzman has now issued his Own release admitting that this is true.
Stutzman backed the rule at the last minute after the Republican leadership told him that they would pull the 1.1 trillion dollar omnibus bill once the rule was passed, and they would replace it with a short-term continuing resolution that conservatives, including Stutzman wanted, and that they would take up the whole thing next year after the Republicans in the new Congress are sworn in, and he was lied to.
In other words, the leadership in the House went to Martin Stutzman and said, hey, if you vote for the rule, just give us the rule, we need the rule.
It's a if our reputation, you know, if our imagery we just want, we need the rule.
Vote for the rule, and then we're going to pull the omnibus and replace it with just a couple three-month, uh, two-month, whatever uh continuing resolution.
And Stutzman said I supported the rule because I was told by leadership that the omnibus was dead, and a short-term continuing resolution would take its place.
He was lied to flat out because they didn't pull the bill, obviously.
They lied to him to get his vote.
We're not supposed to pay attention.
We're supposed to be watching the fallout on the Democrat side, right?
We're supposed to be entertained by that.
We're supposed to look at Elizabeth Warren and Pelosi at war with Obama, and we're supposed to be getting our jollies with that while our people were lied to.
Martin Stutzman just blatantly openly lied to to get his vote.
For the rule, he was told they would pull the full-fledged bill after they won the rule, but they had to win the rule for their reputation for image.
You know, to protect Boehner's speakership and all that.
After President Obama came out in favor of the omnibus, Republican leaders spent the day whipping their members and hoping that Democrats would deliver the requisite number of votes.
And what you have at the end of the day, Barack Obama was whipping votes for John Boehner.
We have to take a break.
Don't go away.
We'll be right back.
Yeah, so here's here's what happened.
Leadership goes to Martin Stutzman.
And they lied to him.
Because Stutzman wanted a continual resolution of a couple of weeks or a month just to just to get us into January when the Republicans actually take control.
He didn't want to vote for the full-fledged 1.1 trillion dollar bill.
Leadership said, Martin, look, if you just vote for the rule and and we'll pull it then.
We just we just need the victory on the rule.
We can't let the rule go down.
So Martin, vote with us on the rule, and we'll pull the omnibus and replace it with the short-term CR.
And he did.
That made the vote 213 to 213.
They still weren't there.
Now we're at a tie, and a tie is a loss.
They actually need a win on the procedural vote of the vote on the rule.
So it was at that point the leadership went to a Santa Claus impersonator in the House.
And this man is named Carrie Bentivollio.
It all came down to him.
He's an outgoing House member from Michigan.
He is a tea partier for all intents and purposes.
He's a reindeer farmer in his spare time.
And he was the deciding vote on the rule.
They got to him and they they convinced him somehow to switch his vote from no to yes, and that made it 214 to 212.
The Stutzman vote got them to 213 tied.
And as Bloomberg reported it, Cary Bentivoglio, the retiring Michigan reindeer farmer, changed his vote and saved Christmas.
It was a tweet from Dave Weigel at Bloomberg.
Because you see, if the rule hadn't passed, it would have derailed the whole omnibus and made a possible government shutdown possible.
That's another thing.
That's Elizabeth Warren is it for all intents and purposes threatening to shut down the government.
Now, the where this thing is in the Senate's kind of up in the air, but she's threatening to shut down the government, and the media is praising her.
The media is praising her for principled opposition.
And as you know, Republican shutdown, why it's the end of the world, it's the end of everything as we know it.
Sit back, my friends.
We'll be back and continue.
So why?
Why was and why is Barack Obama whipping votes for John Boehner?
Let's let's review here because it it may be hard to follow.
It may be hard to keep some of this in uh in mind.
And the reason is is because the the media is reporting this for all intents and purposes of Dundeal.
They are reporting that all the action was in the House.
And once the House voted for the 1.1 trillion dollar omnibus.
Since the Democrats run the Senate, it's a fate accomplice it's going to get done, and it's not the case.
Because there's a flamethrower over there named Elizabeth Warren, and she's not happy with what's in the Republican bill, and neither for that matter is Nancy Pelosi.
So the Senate's not done on this.
They've they did a couple of day spending bill, and the Senate's going to take its time and still argue about this, debate this.
Now the consensus is that the Senate will ultimately pass it, because that's what Obama wants, and the Democrat Party is still loyal to him, but that's not a fate accomplished.
So I guess the takeaway here is it's not done yet.
Despite the reporting and the slanted nature of the reporting, it makes it look like it's done because of the vote that happened in the House.
But there is still the Senate to contend with.
Now let's take a look at what is being reported here.
What's being reported is, and this is in the drive-by media in various places.
I just made some crib notes here to remind myself of some sort of chronological order.
President Obama and John Boehner want a bill that the bases of their respective parties reject.
Baehner is enabling, or did enable the passage of a bill in the House that the Republican base wants no part of.
They don't want Obamacare fully implemented or funded, and they do not want Obama to get away with this executive amnesty.
Boehner has worked with Obama, and the Republican version of the bill in the House flies in the face of what both the Democrat base and the Republican base want.
The Democrat base doesn't like the relaxation regulations in Dodd-Frank, which is campaign finance, uh, basically.
And there is uh there's some things that unions don't like about pensions as well, because their pensions are going to end up being devalued.
And there are there's a couple other things in it that the Democrat base is uh is not happy about.
The other thing being another thing being reported is that Elizabeth Warren is taking a stand on an issue that, if successful, would embarrass Obama.
This is being reported, it's not my opinion.
You can find this story somewhere in the drive-by media stash today.
And the stand that she is taking on the issue is a very popular stand.
It is a stance against Wall Street.
Wall Street has been given a great gift in the omnibus spending bill.
Relaxation of regulations on Dodd Frank.
And opposing Wall Street, remember Occupy Wall Street, opposing Wall Street is a huge ticket item for Elizabeth Warren, and particularly if she wants to run for president.
The presumptive nominee, of course, Mrs. Clinton.
We're right back where we were in 2006, uh 2007 and 2008, with the Washington establishment, both parties concluding that Hillary Clinton will be the nominee.
We've been there.
We've done that.
And out of the blue in 2007 came Barack Hussein Obama.
Out of the blue this year is coming Elizabeth Warren, and she's she's got a ready-made entry and a ready-made ticket With her populist opposition to the to the Wall Street favors that are in the omnibus bill.
And Obama is in favor of relaxing those regulations on Wall Street because Obama is in bed with Wall Street and has been from the get-go, but his base is not really aware of that.
The Democrat Party base has been driven insane with hatred for Wall Street.
They've been driven insane with hatred for the U.S. military.
They've been driven insane with hatred for the CIA.
The Democrat Party base has been driven insane by the radical nature of what everybody thinks are mainstream Democrats.
And Obama is as closely tied and in bed with Wall Street as anybody is.
And Elizabeth Warren is not, and she is distancing herself from the Democrats and particularly from Obama in a major way by taking a stand on that issue regarding Dodd-Frank.
And if this bill goes down to Smithereens because of this, it would be an embarrassment to Obama.
Again, this is what's being reported.
It is also being reported that Barack Obama is being abandoned by Democrats by the score on this, because the Democrats are not happy with a couple of provisions.
See, the Democrats are not invested in Obamacare to the degree that you would believe.
Remember, Obamacare is why they lost in their minds.
And you've heard by now the old stat that there isn't a Democrat senator remaining in the Senate who voted for Obamacare.
For one reason or another, they're all gone.
And we've had Chuck Hugh Schumer and Tom Harkin and a number of other Democrats publicly throw Obamacare under the bus, claiming it was bad bill.
It was a mistake timing-wise.
We shouldn't have done it before we short up the economy.
There are Democrats running away from Obamacare left and right.
It's John Boehner who's in bed with Obama on Obamacare, not the Democrats.
So And this is one of the things we're supposed to be taking great satisfaction from watching is the Democrat fallout over Obamacare.
But Boehner has picked up the slack there with the Republican omnibus bill, which fully funds it.
So now the Democrats are free to walk away from it.
Which they wanted to do and have to.
So when you when you see it reported that Democrats are abandoning Obama by the score, one of the things they're abandoning him on is Obamacare.
Look, they have they have lost big in the last two midterm elections.
This is still the scope of this defeat is still not accurately reported in the drive-by media.
Although, if you keep your radio tuned to this station, you will soon hear the Washington Post has a story today which fulfills a prophecy of mine.
Back in 2008 and 2009, and I wasn't the only one, but might have led the pack on this, as referring to Barack Obama's presidency as Jimmy Carter's second term.
And today the Washington Post pretty much says that.
And they do it with polling data.
They do it on the basis that there is a nationwide malaise among the American people, that they are despondent and depressed and feeling hopeless, that there's no opportunity for the American dream, there's no opportunity for economic advancement.
It's not a pretty picture.
And it's being painted in the Washington Post.
Jimmy Carter's second term.
That term is actually used.
Well, not second, but but all the comparisons of Jimmy Carter are made in the story.
Another story being reported today is that Democrats who may run for president in 2016 think they don't need Obama's support.
Again, this is being reported.
I'm not offering you my opinion here, just giving you a little list here of the things that are being reported today in a drive-by media.
Now remember, Hillary has tried to separate herself from Obama on foreign policy.
And all of the Hillaryites, if you've been paying attention the past few months, then you well know and you remember how all these Hillary people are out there ripping Obama and ripping all kinds of things that have been gazi, you name it, all to protect Hillary.
Elizabeth Warren is also in this list of Democrats who may run for president who think they don't need Obama's support.
And the media is speculating whether that's true or not.
The reason these stories are interesting to the drive-by's is Democrats right.
Can they actually get the nomination?
Can they get elected?
Can another Democrat, Hillary or Warren, become president without help from Obama.
Can they do it without needing Obama's assistance?
And the media, the drive-bys are extremely curious about this.
Remember, they're fully invested in Obama, and they're not comfortable with all this fallout.
They're not comfortable.
I mean, even though Obama's lame duck and all that, they're not comfortable with this open disk that is taking place.
It's also being reported that the omnibus spending bill is a push for deregulation.
That plays right into Elizabeth Warren's hands.
It's Wall Street being deregulated, and a Democrat base does not want Wall Street deregulated.
The media is also reporting that Barack Obama is signing off on a bill that reduces spending.
Democrats supposedly don't like that.
Now, I don't know where they get that, but their story nevertheless is being reported.
And another story that's out there is that the Republicans in February will shut down homeland security if they don't get their way on immigration reform.
So that's that's a list of the stories that are out there that are bending and shaping all of this about the spending bill and the Democrats' betrayal of Obama over in the Senate and what it might mean.
While all that is going on, again, John Boehner has Barack Obama whipping Democrat votes for It is Obama talking to recalcitrant Democrats in the Senate, trying to get them on board to vote and support the Republican bill.
It's not Dingy Harry.
Pelosi is in this mix, too.
She's not happy, along with Elizabeth Warren.
Now these quote unquote facts as they've been reported, are as incongruous as I can imagine.
Why are Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Harry Reid, Stanny Hoyer working so hard on John Boehner's behalf?
That's what's happening.
That's what you need to take away from this.
You'll find some people telling you to, hey, you know, sit back and enjoy this infighting in the Democrat Party.
Well, go ahead if you want.
I mean, if that if that lights your fire, have at it.
But I'm telling you, the thing that's happening that fascinates me is all these Democrats working so hard for John Boehner.
That's what fascinates me.
Obama, Biden, Dingy Harry, Stenny Hoyer.
And the reason why is it's Boehner's doing their bidding.
It's Boehner's bill they want.
Boehner, the Republican speaker in the House, his bill is what Obama wants.
That's why they're working.
That's why they're whipping votes for Boehner.
That to me is what's newsworthy today.
Not the fact that there may be some fallout in the Democrat side.
I mean, that is newsworthy because we don't get treated that very much.
And it's true the Democrat Party is in big disarray.
And if the if the media were half interested in it or half honest about it, you'd know that.
But they're not.
You've got to take a quick time out.
It's open line Friday.
We'll come back and eventually get to your phone calls.
Don't go away, folks.
Welcome back.
Great to have you.
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The drive-by media is comparing Elizabeth Warren and Ted Cruz, but they're doing it in the following way.
Elizabeth Warren is wonderful.
Ted Cruz is mean and nasty and a Threat to the Republic.
It's about 25 seconds, and again, it's just a media montage just to give you a flavor here.
Elizabeth Warren saying she may hold all of this up and do a reverse of what Ted Cruz did.
She's sort of pulling a Ted Cruz.
They're likening her to a Democrat's Ted Cruz.
Much as Ted Cruz did.
Will a Ted Cruz stand up?
People like Cruz and Warren.
Elizabeth Warren or Ted Cruz.
Elizabeth Warren is doing her best impersonation of Ted Cruz.
It's almost like she's the good night versus the bad night, Ted Cruz.
That was Chris Matthews.
And you see, she's the good night.
She's doing a Democrat Party shutdown.
In fact, what it's it's being reported in some places is that Elizabeth Warren is so clever that she is going to engineer the Republicans shutting down the government.
So Elizabeth Warren, angelic and wonderful and fearless and fighting for the little people, and Ted Cruz is mean and nasty.
And a threat to the public.
Now, if Elizabeth Warren is behaving like Ted Cruz, then why don't establishment Republicans get out of the way?
Let me illustrate my point.
Ted Cruz is going to shut down the government.
Republican establishment act like stuck pigs.
No, no!
You can't.
Oh my God, it's gonna destroy all my God!
No!
Okay, so now a Democrat comes along.
A Democrat wants to shut down the government.
Shouldn't the Republican establishment stand aside, let it happen?
The theory being that if you shut down the government, the American people hate you.
So shouldn't the Republicans just stand aside and let Elizabeth Warren shut down the government and finally have the Democrats blame for this?
So why aren't they?
Well, I think it's a legitimate question.
If shutting down the government is a sign of party implosion, why not let it happen?
Why not encourage her?
Why not help her along and let the Democrats find out what it's like to take the excrement sandwich that comes your way when you shut down the government?
I would think that the Republican leadership would be urging Elizabeth Warren to go full on Ted Cruz.
Obviously, I support Ted Cruz.
But I mean, a year ago, Ted Cruz was reviled and hated, not just by the Democrats, but by the Republicans, too.
So what if the media supports this shutdown?
That doesn't matter.
If Republicans are being honest with us about not wanting Obamacare and Amnesty, then let Warren shut down the government, let this go into a new year.
If the Republicans are being honest with us, and they tell us, oh my God, we can't have the government shut down, the people will blame whoever does have blame.
Oh my God, it'll be disaster, Rush.
We can't do it.
We can't do fine.
A Democrat wants to shut down the government.
Get out of the way.
Let her do it.
Why aren't they?
You know why?
Because they are saying, well, we'll get blamed.
Wait, is there a D next to Elizabeth Warren's name or is it an R?
Doesn't matter, Russia, they'll blame us.
I'm telling you, this government shutdown crap is simply a ruse.
It's a it's a it's a well the Republicans hide behind it.
Because here comes a Democrat finally acting like she may shut down the government, and Republicans are not urging her.
They're not encouraging this to happen, yet it supposedly ruins the party responsible for it, right?
I'm confused.
Yeah, no, I intended it to start on the phones in that last segment, and I had to make the Elizabeth Warren Ted Cruz comparison.
So I tell you what, we'll start with phones in the monologue section of the next hour.
Because it is open line Friday, so hang on.
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