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December 30, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Welcome to the program, the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I am Eric Erickson.
Thank you for joining us.
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Folks, you know, to start the show, I think it's worth saying that politics is hard.
It may be harder than doing three hours of nonstop talk radio without a script.
I mean, you may accidentally, I don't know, you may accidentally talk about taxes for five minutes to uh David Duke group, or you you may accidentally spend 20 years in Jeremiah Wright's church and then accidentally fundraise with the terrorist Bill Ayers, who then maybe claims to have written Dreams with My Father.
Politics is hard.
All these double standards, we'll get into that.
There's a story, though, circulating that I think out of the gate, we need to get to this.
The president is saying he's going to use his veto pen.
Yes.
Barack Hussein Obama.
Yeah, he said his middle name.
The president of the United States says he's going to use his veto.
Now, of course he went to NPR to say this.
National propaganda radio, the president went there to tell all of the liberals who listen to NPR to relax, get their knickers out of knots, get their their hemorrhoids unflared.
He's going to veto Republican legislation.
It's true.
I haven't used the veto pin very often since I've been in office, he said.
Now I suspect there are going to be some times where I've got to pull that pin out.
The euphemisms write themselves on the president's use of his veto pin.
Where are all the people who attacked Republicans for obstruction?
Where are they?
They seem to be cheering on the president.
The NPR crowd who have been attacking Republicans in Congress for daring to suggest we do things differently.
They're hailing the president.
They're cheering him on for this veto.
Just the hypocrisy is the same.
This is why people are cynical about politics, is it not?
For two years, four years, since 2010, four years now.
The media has been savaging Republicans.
Ted Cruz, under attack, not just from the Democrats, but from Republicans for daring to say no to the president.
Because you know, the president, he was duly elected by the American people.
The Democrats, they controlled the Senate.
The Republicans, they had their chance in 2010, and they blew it with those wack-a-doo conservatives.
They the Republic the public rejected the Republicans.
And here they are trying to obstruct the Obama Siah himself.
I mean, that they've the Republicans have been assailed for daring to not go along with the president.
I mean, in fact, they've been attacked so much, the Republicans have largely caved.
They have funded Obamacare.
They have funded the president's executive amnesty.
They have funded everything the president wanted.
I mean, look at this past fight over the president's executive amnesty.
The House Republicans and the Senate Republicans, with few exceptions, they voted to fund the president's unconstitutional overreach.
They swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, and yet they decided to fund the president's executive veto.
Because they they don't want to obstruct.
So now the president comes out and says he's going to start using his veto pin more often.
He says he's haven't had to use it very often to NPR, and now he's going to start using his veto pin against Republican ideas.
Where are the people who attack the Republicans for obstruction?
Bob Beckle.
He's a funny guy, but he's been on the attacking the Republicans for obstruction.
Is he going to attack the president for obstruction?
My buddies, James Carville, Paul Bagala on CNN.
The president's pro spokespeople, the Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, who's been attacking Republicans.
Harry Reid, who's been attacking Republicans, are they going to attack the president?
No.
No, of course they're not.
We know they're not going to.
We we there today is a show about double standards.
Whether it's the Scalese situation, which we'll get to later, or this situation, the double standards.
And let me tell you where all this has gone.
It actually it has manifested itself in other ways.
Trust in government being one of them.
The Atlantic, there's this profile of me in the Atlantic.
This coming issue of the Atlantic.
What's that?
Yes, in the Atlantic magazine, they've got an editorial about what a bad job the president has done.
And you've even got the liberals in the Atlantic having to admit the president's done a bad job.
I think in the same magazine they've got a little write-up about me.
The what's that?
The January-February issue.
It's coming out.
It should be on newsstands now.
It's on their website.
I I have to take issue with it on the show because they try to posit that I might be a more powerful conservative than Rush, which we all know isn't true.
Nonetheless, there's a profile in there.
They even got my wife and kids pictures in the in the magazine.
There's an issue here.
Democrats realize that the president is doing a bad job.
Not only do they realize the president is doing a bad job, they realize he's undermining trust in government.
So for them to come out for four years now and say Republicans are obstructing everything the president wants to do.
For them to come out and say the Republicans are blocking the president's agenda, well, the public has now decided they would rather the Republicans control the agenda.
The public has now decided democratically.
Remember, Democrats only like democracy when it goes their way.
And now they're upset.
The voters have turned bigoted again.
The voters are suddenly racist again because they've rejected Barack Obama and the Democrats by handing out, I don't know, South Carolina Senate seat to a black Republican, handing South Carolina gubernatorial seat to an Indian American.
Yes, you know, those Republicans, the full-on racism of the Republicans, the only card the Democrats have left, and they've undermined the trust of the voters the Democrats have.
Look at so there's a completely unrelated story, but it actually ties perfectly into the president using his veto.
The politico is reporting that it might not have been North Korea.
It might not have been North Korea.
It might have been an inside job.
You know, uh kudos to Charles Johnson of Got News, who it gets attacked by both sides a lot and yet continues.
He was one of the first guys out of the gate to point out that this may have been an inside job.
And now you've got outside security associates who are briefing the FBI that it might not have been North Korea after all.
I mean, I was taking it at face value, these news reports.
That it was it sure seemed like it could be North Korea.
But now it looks like it might have been an insider, someone laid off.
There might be a tie between the two.
Maybe they were working with North Koreans, but there seems to be a more complex story.
The tie-in between this and Obama's veto, it might not be obvious to the left, but it should be obvious to all of us.
No one trusts the government to get it right.
Think about that.
When John Kennedy was president, did people have an overwhelming distrust of government?
No.
No, we were going to put a man on the moon.
When Lyndon Johnson was president, God bless him, and his war on poverty that's just destroyed the inner city and so many black families.
But everybody trusted him.
And look what's happened.
It collapsed.
When Reagan was president, the only people who didn't trust Reagan were a bunch of left-wing wackadoos, including Ted Kennedy, who decided to go collaborate with the Soviets because they would rather trust the Soviets than Reagan.
But Reagan got it right and the public overwhelmingly supported Reagan.
Even the public, you and I may disagree with him, but by and large, the public liked and trusted Bill Clinton.
They might not have liked his private life, but they otherwise liked him, whether you and I agree with them or not, sometimes they can get it wrong.
But here, everyone left, right, and center believes that government is failing.
You've got the handring at the Atlantic at the New York Times, at the Washington Post.
I mean, the Washington Post attacking the Obama administration on its changed Cuba policy that it's probably not the best idea.
Left, right, and center, everyone agrees.
Nobody trusts the government to get it right.
It is amazing to me that the FBI can come out, have a press conference.
The president of the United States himself can blame North Korea for what happened at Sony, and nobody believes them.
This is the first time in American history.
We have reached a point thanks to Barack Obama where nobody believes the government.
Which is a wonderful thing for Republicans to exploit, by the way.
Let's just be honest here.
Nobody believes the government's gonna make their health care better.
The polling shows that Republicans should be fighting on Obamacare.
Nobody believes the government is gonna make their lives better off.
What a great time to get government out of our lives.
Nobody believes the government on national security issues, on on cybersecurity issues, on civil rights issues, on civil privacy issues.
What a great way to fix the system.
Republicans, you have been elected not to enable or help Barack Obama or a government.
People do not trust you have been elected to tell them no.
Your mandate was not to get things done.
Your mandate was to stop Barack Obama.
And so he may want to use his veto pin, but you know what your job is.
Your job, Republicans, is not to pass laws the president is going to veto.
Your job is to just stop the president.
That's why people elected you.
You didn't run as a agenda, here's all the great things we're gonna do.
You run as a we're not gonna stop or we're gonna stop Barack Obama.
You ran as we're not going to s let him get away with executive amnesty.
And yet you did.
The cynicism just i it keeps growing.
Folks, it is a great time to be a conservative.
It really is.
Barack Obama probably is one of the greatest gifts to the conservative movement in a long time.
He is proving the American people they needed to see it.
They needed to see socialism up close.
They needed to see the Democrats in action, and they have seen it, and they do not like it.
Now it's time to show them a better way, where the government gets out of their way so that they can lead their own lives.
Eric Erikson in for Rushland Ball.
Welcome back.
It is Eric Erikson filling in for Rush Limbaugh today here at the EIB network.
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Joining me right now is Michelle Kirk, the editor-in-chief of BizPack Review that actually raised the public consciousness and got the story out ahead of everybody else on Obama golfing through a wedding.
Michelle, welcome to the Russian ball show.
Hi, Eric.
Happy New Year.
Happy New Year to you.
So you guys got this story out there and really got it circulating awful quick on on Obama and the golfing.
What happened?
Well, this story was one that was hard to believe.
You know, that it just can't be true.
So uh yeah, Obama um on his vacation, um, apparently uh he his golfing wins caused uh a couple, a a U.S. Army couple, to have to change their entire wedding location in less than twenty-four hours.
Um they had planned on having the wedding on the 16th hole, and uh and I guess Obama's gone golfing that day, so um they had to change the whole thing, and of course, when the the news got out, um and it was pretty public, and of course, you know, those bad optics started uh keeping through the press.
They he called this morning, he called not this morning, but it the the video was on this morning of him calling the couple, apologizing.
It wasn't his fault.
He didn't know.
Um it's just pretty it's it's pretty unbelievable.
It's pretty typical of Obama's.
Well, yeah, so this is the guy worrying about optics.
This is the guy who announced to the world or made a statement to the world about James Foley being beheaded by ISIS and within ten minutes is on the golf course and a week later says he's concerned about the optics.
It seems like he's only concerned about the optics when he gets caught.
Oh, sure, sure.
I'm gonna be mindful, he says.
And and apparently this is mindful.
And I I mean this one is almost it's almost funny.
I mean, uh i it's it's like how can these are US soldiers, you know, this is a golf game, you're on vacation, you gotta be kidding.
I I just it's one of those things that, you know, it it sort of depicts his whole presidency.
Just the selfishness of it.
Now the soldiers to their credit were they were gracious to the president after the fact when the media descends on enlisted soldiers asking them what they think of their commander in chief.
But I I just it it's it's profound to me that you've got to disrupt and and alter a wedding so a g any guy, regardless of who he is, can play through.
You know, they they made it, they did put a happy face on it, and you know, in fairness, you he's the president of the United States, so you're you're gonna, you know, um you're gonna be able to do that.
He's your boss Right.
Well, that too, that's to but the thing is, you know, the sister had said the bride's sister had said, I believe, you know, that she really was uh emotional about it.
And and I mean any bride, anything you change on a wedding twenty-four hours before is is insane.
And the selfishness of him to to have people doing that.
I just it just bewilders me.
I I just keep thinking if you know George W. Bush, can you imagine him ever doing something like that?
I mean exactly.
It doesn't yeah, it's it's a it's a character thing, you know, and it's it is a character thing.
That that's exactly right.
Michelle Kirk, editor in chief of BisPac Review.
I just put a link on my Twitter feed at E.W. Erickson to the story at BisPack Review.
Those of you who want to check it out, go to Twitter.com slash E. W. Erickson.
Thanks for joining me on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Michelle is right.
It's a cr it's a character flaw of this president.
He just can't help himself.
And the president covers up for him.
The press covers up for him.
Remember when Bill Clinton crashed a wedding, I guess it was it was in Martha's Vineyard or whatever when he was president, and the the press was absolutely ecstatic.
I mean, th th they the the press couldn't contain their glee at the photo op of the president crashing somebody's wedding, and it was just so wonderful.
And now here's a president forcing them to alter their wedding on the wedding day.
And the press gives him a pass.
In fact, you know, I I want to get into the the this what's happening with Steve Scalise at the top of the next hour.
I want to spend some time on your phone calls when we come back, but uh let me just say this in relation to this golf story.
I don't know that it's a coincidence that after the media latches on to the story about Barack Obama's ambassador to Hungary being the producer of the bold and the beautiful, and that she told the US Senate she did not know of any substantive relationship between the US and Hungary.
Within twelve hours, someone somewhere at the White House, I'm pretty sure dangled in front of the media the story of Elizabeth Lawton.
Remember her she was the s communication staffer for Congressman Steve Fincher.
And she had said something not nice on her personal Facebook page about the way the president's daughters were dressed and behaving while the president pardoned the presidential turkeys or the whatever on for Thanksgiving.
And there was whoom.
Yes, the the r role model story.
She she criticized them.
The media completely ignored the ambassador.
There were hardly any reports on the ambassador, much like the Gruber videos.
They just ignored it.
They spent a week destroying this staffer no one knew or had heard of, and ignored the president's story.
So I'm just I it it just seems a little bit convenient.
That the media all of a sudden grabs a hold of this story because i everywhere yesterday morning, there were beginning because of what Bispack Review had done, there were media stories about the president disrupting this couple's wedding.
And the media was hounding this couple after they've gotten married, they want to get on their honeymoon.
They're they're enlisted in the military, and the media wants to hound them and dare them to criticize their commander in chief.
Dare them to criticize their commander in chief.
And they don't.
But the story continues because everybody knows he's their boss.
He's the president.
They're not gonna criticize him.
And so what happens in less than twelve hours.
A story about a Republican congressman comes out where in two thousand two he had spoken on tax policy for a couple minutes to a group that turned out to be connected to David Duke.
Now I've got some thoughts on that, but I just don't find there to be a coincidence.
Welcome back.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm just like the the the student teacher, the teacher's aide here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, but I'm I'm appreciate being able to fill in the phone number 800 282 is the phone number.
I I don't know that I need to dwell longer on the president's golf game other than to say this it is par for the course pun intended with this president.
It is his character he is, you know, he is well the the left got what they wanted.
By and large, if we were honest about it, Barack Obama was an empty vessel into which they poured their hopes and dreams and he is a reflection of them the self-centeredness, the meanness, not meanness, although mean you know it's who what is it?
It's a proverb I've seen recently that when you're kind to cruelness, you're cruel to kindness I mean look at the things the left does these days and and so much of it is reflected in policies of this administration.
And here's the president who within ten minutes of James announcing that James Foley had been beheaded he rushes off to the golf course.
And only later he's worried about the optics.
Friends, I would submit to you that we need people in Washington less concerned with optics and more concerned with doing right.
And whether it's the president or not, when soldiers are getting married on a golf course, you don't disrupt their wedding to play through.
who going to get fired at the White House for this?
one.
That's the thing.
No one ever gets fired at the White House.
Later, they come out and say optics.
The media ran story after story after story, savaging George W. Bush for putting loyalty ahead of everything else.
He was too loyal to Donald Rumsfeld until he wasn't.
He was too loyal to Dick Cheney.
He was too loyal to, I mean, just list the person.
George Bush was too loyal.
The president of the United States, no one's going to lose their job at the White House for the optics of this.
No one lost their job, the optics of James Foley.
Ultimately, it comes down to the president.
The buck in this White House, I don't even know that they've decided or figured out where it stops.
It certainly doesn't stop at this president who just passes it on to the next person.
There's no accountability that you have a White House concern with optics.
Tells you everything you need to know.
They will trot out some Greek columns and have the president give a fancy speech between them to make it all better.
It's what they do.
It just...
It's galling to me.
Let's go to the phones here at the Rush Limbaugh Show 800 2882 Carl in Carl where are you?
Chicope, Massachusetts did I say that right?
Yep.
All right.
So basically you know I mean when the president is going on vacation he's going on vacation in March.
They set up their the itinerary they don't check the location to see if there's an event going on they just go the president wants to play golf today period.
Okay.
So bashing him for playing golf and having you know somebody reschedule a wedding rescheduling a wedding yes it's a pain in the butt and it it's sad.
But okay so let me ask you this Carl the last I'm I'm not a good golfer by the way.
Golfing is my excuse to go out during the middle of the day and drink beer and drive the golf cart around and look at nature, but I mean I'll I'll hit the ball into the woods, maybe.
I gotta get better.
I it is my life goal to play rush one day, in any event.
There are 18 holes on every golf course that I've ever played, save one, and it had nine and you played it twice to get to eighteen.
The president couldn't skip a hole.
Um for security purposes, would you?
If you were the president, it's on an army base.
It's on a military installation and a wedding of soldiers.
Is there a serious security problem for the president of the United States?
Fort Hood.
Yeah, okay.
Oh, yes, yes.
The workplace violence situation there at Fort Hood, yes.
So with Fort you're using Fort Hood to say that it was okay to disrupt a wedding on the sixteenth hole of a golf course in lieu of the president playing.
So by the way, because of Fort Hood, should the president go on any military base at all?
What was that?
Should the president go to any military base in light of Fort Hood?
Sure.
Okay.
So it's safe for him to go to a military installation in spite of Fort Hood, but it may be a security problem for him to play the golf course on the actual military base.
One hole.
He can play any hole he wants.
The Secret Service blocks off everything.
So the whole golf course pretty much was cleared because he wants to he wants to play golf.
So how are they setting up a wedding?
Anywhere that the president is.
So yeah, okay, look, if if you think that King Obama should be able to play every hole on the golf course and and that the wedding should be disrupted, and we should all be willing to disrupt our lives for the president.
That's that's fine if that's your position.
But I think a majority of Americans would disagree with you, Carl, that you've got the president can play around the sixteenth hole.
He doesn't have to play that hole.
The president can go elsewhere.
It's Hawaii.
How many golf courses does the island of Hawaii have?
He didn't have to play the sixteenth hole.
They didn't have to disrupt this wedding, and someone at the White House should have been clued into the fact that it wasn't just the optics, it was the right thing to do.
And to me it speaks volumes that at this White House they look at a situation like this, and no one says, no one raises the flag.
Oh, it's the right thing to do.
We've got servicemen and women.
They're getting married on the sixteenth hole of this golf course.
Maybe we shouldn't send the president there to play golf, or maybe we should work with the golf course to not play the sixteenth hole.
That no one at the White House processed this and said this is the right thing to do.
Just like no one at the White House said, it's the right thing to do for the president to grieve with the family of James Foley as opposed to going out to the golf course.
Or hey, it's the right thing to do to send the president to New York to Officer Ramos's funeral instead of having the vice president there.
That no one in the White House thinks of these things is indicative of the selfishness of this White House and of the left in general when it comes to things like these.
They are perfectly happy to trample on the rights of others so long as they get their jollies off, so long as they have their good time, so long as their fun is unimpeded, they are perfectly happy to do it.
And they're perfectly happy to live leave people on the social safety net and take from the rich to give to the poor.
They don't care about the poor getting better.
They just want to keep the poor comfortable being poor.
This is all of this is indicative of the president going to this golf course.
All of it is indicative of his behavior.
It is selfishness.
It is about him, no one else, and there is not a single soul in the White House who serves as a conscience to say, you know what?
Maybe we should let these soldiers get married instead of disrupting their whole wedding.
Eric Erikson in for Rush Limbaugh.
By the way, one of the stories I was looking at uh said it was enlisted, they were officers.
I just got an angry email from someone saying learn the difference.
I'm sorry, I was looking at an article that it it was wrong.
They were officers.
My goodness.
I I actually neither Snerdley or I figured that we would be spending as much time, but you people I I say that lovingly, by the way.
Y'all are fired up about the story.
All right.
Uh let's go back to the phones.
You're at the Rush Limbaugh Show.
It is Eric Erikson, I guess I should say.
Uh from Belton, Texas.
Is it Jaron?
Yes, sir.
Welcome to the program.
I just wanted to uh first of all wish everyone Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Um I went to school with Natalie, uh the bride in the wedding.
Uh first of all, I think she looked great, and I pray for you know long and happy marriage.
That's the most important thing uh coming out of this story.
Um you so and then secondly, um the president is still my commander in chief.
I went to West Point, so I'm an army officer, so I'd like to keep that, you know, uh in the clear.
But uh but I'd like to look at Natalie's response.
The white the bride's response.
Super classy, we should say.
You said in your last segment that um what happened, the facts of the case kind of indicate um you know, certain attitude and certain way of living.
But what does Natalie's response and her attitude, the bride, um she had her wedding changed, and I I you know, you look at the video, her attitude's pretty good.
It's just um she's she's chill, she's calm.
Um I think that indicates a lot about her, but also our military's flexibility and the dedication of mission, you know.
Um her wedding still happened.
Um they were able to accomplish the mission, so I I I think that's uh a good idea.
Okay, so uh are you married?
Yes, sir, I am.
Okay.
Uh if I were to refer to getting married as a mission, I do believe my wife would would shoot me.
So yes, sir.
Uh yeah, yes, sir.
Uh you're right.
Uh I do think that the Army spouses well, she's a good one.
You get a little more flexibility.
Okay, Jared, and you know, while you're while you're on the phone, let me make another point because I see a number of people making this on Twitter that it wasn't the president, it was his staff that did this.
And I've just got to say, and I I don't want to put you in an awkward position.
I let me say this.
Uh whether you agree with it or not, I'm gonna say it.
Yes, sir.
That's not the point.
Uh the point is that this president doesn't have anyone on staff who saw the situation ahead of time, knowing it was coming, and said, Oh, maybe the president shouldn't play that whole, or maybe, hey, maybe he should go to the wedding or show up at the reception like Bill Clinton did in the nineties and get favorable press out of it.
Instead, they said, Let's get 'em to move where they're having their wedding.
That that indicates a lot of bad judgment to me.
Yes, sir.
Uh, and i i I again I gotta I'll watch what I say.
But uh yeah, I I I think I mean they did invite him to the reception.
Um and he joked that he wouldn't have to want everyone to get patted down.
Uh knowing Natalie, um, I mean, she she would have been all all for it.
Um she would have been all sh I mean i if if you're gonna if you're gonna mess up the plan, um, you know, you just gotta take reality and go with it.
Um I mean, you know, she's already got a great story, why not you know go over the top?
Uh right.
The class of the bride in this situation, and to some degree that is gonna get overshadowed by what the president did, but the class, her class in in her handling of it, and as you said, the the flexibility of members of the military to to be able to accommodate this, I I think speaks fairly very highly of her and and God bless them on on the future of their marriage together.
Uh we sh we should highlight the fact this was a wedding, two people getting married, and that's a good thing.
Jaron, thanks very much for the phone call.
Folks, I just th again and again and again with this White House.
They sh show so much bad judgment.
It's like the the kids are running the place.
The lunatics are running the asylum, if you will.
No one raised the red flag.
No one raised a red flag about this.
That's that is the most striking thing.
No one at the White House said probably not a bad particularly after the James Foley situation.
That clearly blew up unexpectedly in their face.
They had no idea that even their friends in the media were going to criticize them on this.
And now they get to this.
Just just staggering.
All right.
David in Richmond, Virginia.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, how are you doing?
Good, how are you?
I'm doing okay.
Uh you know, I'm not saying I don't think that how this particular incident was handled was correct or anything like that.
Uh But I do think from listening to your show and a variety of shows, uh, a lot of your rhetoric the left uses the same rhetoric, but they replace left with right.
And uh based on that, I think that if there had been a Republican president or administration that ran into this situation, that you would be uh more defensive towards the action.
Well, you know, I would say your hypothetical fails for this because after September eleventh, two thousand one, uh, President Bush, who was the Republican president and was an avid fan of golf, gave up the game entirely because he didn't think it would be respectful of the military for him to be out on a golf course all the time while they were out there dying on the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan.
So I I I I don't think that's spot on at all.
Just to say, well, the left would say this, the right would say this, doesn't make it right.
So side, Bush definitely took vacation, and the left was up in arms about when Bush was not immediately on the job.
I I haven't criticized the president for taking vacation, as I said when Bush was president, and as I have also said when people on the right have complained about this president's vacation, he's the president wherever he is.
Okay.
He's the president wherever he is.
I I'm not attacking the president of the United States for taking vacation.
Even the president needs a vacation, and this president, like the last president and the one before that, and the one before that and the one before that, they work on vacation.
Reagan went to the ranch, but he always had his briefings.
Bush went to his ranch, he always has briefings.
The president goes to Hawaii, he has his briefings.
But to say that, well, if he was a Republican, you wouldn't be saying this, you'd be defending him.
The the hypothetical fails because we have the reality.
And the reality is that George Bush gave up golf so that he wouldn't be seen on the golf course joking and jovial while people were dying overseas.
This president not only didn't give up golf, he went to the golf course within ten minutes of announcing James Foley's execution.
He went to the golf course and disrupted a soldier's wedding.
The hypothetical fails because we know what actually happened with the prior president.
I just I I don't think it's that.
But David, thanks anyway for the phone call.
I just I I i i they're not you can't relate the two, I don't think.
You know, I saw this on Twitter.
People saying, you know, if President Obama cured cancer, you would say he was putting oncologists out of work.
I wish the president would cure cancer instead of causing cancer in the the nation economically and and militarily and everything else.
I mean that the president has been devastating to the nation.
I wish he would spend his time doing good things like curing cancer.
And that is the best the left can do is these phony hypotheticals of what you would do if the president did something good, you wouldn't give him credit.
I myself have given the president ample credit for the good things he's done.
Unfortunately, they all fit on less than one hand, and that would be if I was an amputee.
I would probably still have fingers left.
It's just it the president, if that's the best you can do, saying you would do this, you would say something bad if the president did something good, if that's the best you can do, you have lost the argument to begin with.
Eric Erikson in for rush.
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Several people on Twitter, you can get me on Twitter, by the way, at E. W. Erickson, that's E W E R I C K S O N, and several people who have found me on Twitter are wondering if this was a gay wedding would the president have played through.
You know, look, he's done it to himself, the speculation.
There's something else here too.
I honestly, I didn't expect to spend an entire hour on the president playing golf.
I I'm I am at the top of the next hour.
I I will get into the the John Boehner-Steve Scalise situation in Congress.
I I do have some thoughts on that.
I'm a native of Louisiana.
But it is just, it's fascinating to me that they time and time again put themselves into these situations.
Time and time again, they do this.
You know, here's the other thing.
Don't about optics.
Reagan started the tradition that he waited until the day after Christmas to leave the White House, so that his Secret Service detail could spin their holiday with family.
George W. Bush did it.
I believe even Clinton and George H. W. Bush kept that tradition going.
This president, no.
Now look, he's the president.
If he wants to go to Hawaii for Christmas, okay.
I just there has always struck me as something selfish about this president.
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