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Jan. 9, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 9, 2015, Friday, Hour #2
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With talent on loan from God.
I am Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man, and it's Friday, ladies and gentlemen.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Open line Friday, where you, if you call in, you get through, you can talk about whatever you want.
And I mean that.
It's Monday through Thursday.
You have to talk about things I care about, but on Friday, I don't have to care.
It can be obscure.
It can be an embarrassing question.
It can be a penetrating question.
Whatever.
Again, 800-282-2882 in the email address L Rushmore at EIBNet.com.
All right, just let's see here.
Yeah, some sound bites.
I I don't want to spend anywhere near the whole day on this French situation, just a two or three more things and then moving on.
And again, a little pop quiz.
We may do environmentalist micro football picks for the football weekend.
I don't know if I'm gonna have time to explain Slim Whitman things nerdly.
We'll see.
I mean, I only got two hours left.
The first is zipped by.
Okay, pop quiz.
Who said it's not a name?
I don't even have a name, but so the the question really is who said.
Where'd this come from?
We don't need these French fringe guys as much as we did anymore.
We can let them walk on certain bills, and it just won't matter.
This gives us breathing room.
Where did this come from?
What kind of person is saying we don't need these fringe guys as much as we did anymore?
Just a little pop quiz.
Okay, Francois Ola, the socialist commie SOB that runs France has got a uh speak to the uh French people at 2 p.m. our time, so a little less than an hour from now.
And I have breaking news here from the Jerusalem Post.
A move by France's ruling socialists to ban the far right national front from a peace march for Charlie Bdu.
Uh shooting victims may backfire, forcing undecided voters to choose between Marie Le Pon and her rivals amid fear of it.
Can I translate this for you?
In the first place, the far right national front is just French conservatives.
And Francois Holland is is contemplating not allowing them to march in the nationwide peace march for the victims of the magazine.
President Olan Socialist called this week for a show of national unity.
Happen on Sunday.
Two happened on Sunday in support of the magazine and the media freedom days after gunmen stormed into the magazine's office and killed twelve people.
But the mood of unity lasted just hours as the march's organizers said there would be no room for the National Front, the French conservatives.
They're anti-European Union.
They're anti-socialists.
And so the uh but even the Jerusalem Post calling them the far right.
Anyway, the French socialists are denying French conservatives the right to march in a national show of unity.
This coming Sunday.
I want to take you back to Wednesday on this program to set up what follows, just to remind you, I said among many things, this.
This grievance industry, which has at its root, the United States has misbehaved since its founding.
The United States has had a much bigger footprint all over the world than we ever deserve to have.
We've run her over to world trampling everybody and everything.
We've stolen, we have appropriated, and that's why we're a superpower, and it's illegitimate and it's unjustified.
So this stuff, plus our relationship with Israel, all of that has combined to create at the highest levels of our leadership this idea that there is some evidence that the United States is responsible for this to an extent, I don't know to what extent, but that we certainly have some guilt about this.
That's what the whole Grievance industry is about.
And clearly ISIS has a grievance with us.
Clearly, Al Qaeda does.
Clearly, militant Islam does.
Okay, this was this past Wednesday, and I was just describing the grievance industry, grievance politics.
Uh, and uh being one of the explanations for Islam's hatred, militant Islam's hatred of the of the West.
Okay, Farid Zakaria, GPS.
Was on CNN last night with Don Lemon.
And Don Lemon said, hey, Farid's GPS.
It sums up the horror of what's happening around the world, all over the world.
We are seeing it now in Paris, even Farid.
There is within the world of Islam many, many pockets, many groups that really uh have a great deal of difficulty with the modern world, and particularly with the open Western uh freedom of speech loving, freedom of expression loving works.
The grievance, the grievance is that they feel they live in a world not off their making.
A world of the West's making.
Bingo!
Bingo!
I'm telling you, I know these people like every square inch of my glorious naked.
I know them better than they do.
He just confirmed everything I say, and of course, his intellectual is not a way of speaking.
Farid Zakarian GPS.
I always know what I am because of my GPS is in my phone.
Particularly they have a grievance, the open Western freedom of speech loving, freedom of expression loving world, the grievance, the grievances they feel they live in a world not of their making.
See, we've forced all of this on them.
The West, that's us.
We've made the world, and we've left them out, and we've made a world using our power, and we haven't given them a place in it.
And that's what he's saying.
Farid Zakaria GPS confirming, and I mean, he is a he's a he's a indicator, he's barometer of leftist intellectual elitist thought.
Although not his, he's a plagiarist, which is why I'm not surprised he's copying me in his own way.
And now here's Christian Poor, and she was on Anison Cooper 19 last night.
And uh Cooper said, hey, it'll be interesting to see what happens later today here in France.
One of the things that we're living right now is a very ugly and unseemly rise yet again of Islamophobia, and this is very worrying.
All these governments now are going to be watching to see how the far right, which made huge gains in the last local elections in Europe a few months ago, National Frontier, UKIP in England, you know, the groups in Belgium and in Germany and elsewhere, which are mobilizing big anti-Islamic sort of demonstrations, how this is going to play into this very ugly political situation.
Yes!
What political situation?
Political We just had an act of terrorism.
What's political about that?
Hmm.
So we just had this massive act of terrorism, and Christianoman poor coming along and confirming that which I found in the New York Times yesterday and shared with you that their real concern is that this means the rise to power of extremist right wing factions and movements, potentially governments.
Oh yeah.
One of the things we're living right now, very ugly, unseemly not act of terrorism.
Oh no, that's not ugly and unseemly.
No, what's ugly and unseemly is the rise yet again of Islamophobia.
Where the hell has there been any?
There hasn't been any Islamophobia, nobody's got the guts to talk about them at all.
Where is it been, Snerdley?
Where is this Islamophobia?
Where is this backlash?
I mean, from a standpoint of official government.
Where is it?
Are the people of France marching around on the streets talking about I haven't seen where is it?
It's in these people's minds.
So she can't even bring herself to discuss the very ugly and unseemly terrorist act that Charles Hib do.
No, no, no, no.
We're living through a very ugly, unseemly rise of Islamophobia.
Very worrying.
And governments are Now going to be watching to see how the far right takes advantage of this.
And she's talk.
Well, wait a second.
She's talking about the far right.
These are people that contest for elections.
They're not dictators.
All she's talking about is a fear of election returns.
The French conservative movement runs for election.
If they lose, they lose.
If they win, they win.
Islamophobia has got nothing to do with it.
See, this is how they do, folks.
All you have to do is oppose the characterization of what happened at that magazine is terrorism, and you are an Islamophobe.
Just like if you utter one word of criticism of Barack Hussein, oh, you are a racist.
And if you do not approve of gay marriage, you are a homophobe.
Oh, by the way, did you see Michael Sam got engaged?
You saw that?
He did.
He got engaged at the Roman Coliseum.
He's on vacation, got engaged there.
And then went to the Vatican to the top of St. Peter's and took a picture of the square.
I saw it on Twitter.
I didn't go on Twitter.
I mean, I saw there were stories about it in the New York Post and so forth.
Got engaged, and then went to the Vatican.
Somebody called Dr. Phil on this one.
By the way, folks, the New York Times and the Associated Press, and by now the rest of the drive-by media.
I kid you not on this.
I know this is going to sound like it's going to sound unbelievable unless you've seen it yourself.
That the drive-by media, New York Times leading the pack on this, trying to establish the narrative that speaking out against the Islamization of Europe is the functional equivalent to what the Nazis did to the Jews.
I kid you, there are people.
You just talked about them to me in the break, Snerdly.
There are people who are worried about immigration and open borders.
They are being characterized by people in New York.
The New York Times is characterizing them as Islamophobes.
And further, the New York Times is trying to establish the narrative and the AP too.
I've seen it both places.
That if you speak out against Islamists migrating to European nations, which is the Islamization of Europe.
If you speak out against that, you are the functional equivalent of what the Nazis did to the Jews.
That comparison is being test marketed, so to speak, in the drive-by media.
That's a they're they're floating it as a trial balloon to see how it plays.
And it's this is all rooted in politics.
This is infuriating to me.
Because the truth of the matter is it's ironic because Muslim extremists have long said they want to finish what Hitler started.
Adolf Hitler met with famous imams from the Middle East.
Militant Islam and Nazi Germany have one thing profoundly in common hatred of Jews.
And yet it's not the Islamists all of a sudden who hate Jews.
It's people who want to control the borders of European nations are now being compared to the Nazis.
Thank you, New York Times.
Thank you, AP.
This is serious stuff, folks, and it's just the latest in a never-ending effort to destroy conservatism and conservatives.
I gotta get to the phones, or I'm not going to.
It's one of those kind of days, and it's open line Friday, and I've invited people, but there's so much here, including Mrs. Clinton claiming to be mad at Bill over the latest news, even running around with a pedophile.
Don't buy that.
This is the same, it's just a it's a it's a cookie-cutter response.
It's in the playbook.
I can't believe they're trying it again.
They're gonna get away with it because the media gets away with it, but details coming up.
We're starting in Cleveland with Jeremy.
Jeremy, thank you very much for waiting and being patient.
I appreciate it.
Mr. Limbaugh, um, pleasure to speak to you today.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I was actually calling in, and I took Mr. Snurley, and it's really cool to hear his voice and have a uh voice to the name.
But I was calling because um years ago I was I wanted to thank you for being a voice.
Conservativism.
I um I wanted to thank you the same way that I would thank a military person for serving our country.
And I I say this with respect and not with admiration, because I know that uh after listening to you for years and years and years that uh that you don't really care for that.
So I wanted to thank you.
I um I ended up going to a very, very liberal school, and I at one point I was very, very liberal.
I uh all the people that I hung out with in college, they were spewing out things that you know, you were like, uh Rush Limbaugh is evil, and you know, this, that, and other, and I got into that mindframe.
I I was I was around this group of people, and then 9-11.
So I turned on talk radio to you know to hear coverage and whatnot of of what was going on.
I'm like, oh geez.
Here comes Mr. Mr. Evil Limbaugh.
Wonder what he has to say.
I honestly never listened to you prior to that.
And then I listened to you.
And then I was I was surprised because everything that I was listening to were things that I felt things that I really believed in.
And what you were talking about on air just really, really made sense to me.
And uh I'm lucky enough to have two wonderful parents who brought me up and raised me with the correct values and the correct fortitude to go after what I wanted to do.
Um the next person on the list who really had a huge impact on me was the author Ann Rand.
I don't know if you've ever listened to her or read her.
Um, and then it was Mr. Limbaugh.
You really had a huge impact on the man that I became and the man that I am now, and I've become very, very, very successful in my life over the years.
After, you know, after a brief period of taking some time off from school, I dropped back into school, finished up my degree, and uh through a lot of struggle through a lot of hard work, I finally ended up getting my degree and pounding the pavement, pounding the pavement, doing jobs that I just hated.
But I finally found a job that I love, I adore, and I attribute a lot of this, you know, not not only to yourself, largely to my parents, but I I really wanted to humbly thank you.
And I'm trying not to be obsequious about this, Mr. Limbaugh.
Uh well no, I look I I I I appreciate it.
You're you're you're right about about my um uh I I you lumping me in doing the equivalent of what military people I've had them tell me that too, and it embarrasses me.
I can't tell you.
I don't need to tell the stories again, but I've had military people uh uh suffering great injuries in the middle of recovering from wounds, and they've they've told me that, and I said, No, no, no, no, come on, you guys.
I mean, I just talking about you, you know, no, we all have our roles to play, and they mean it, so I accept it with great honor.
The um the great news here is that you got your mind right, however, it happened.
Uh you were a limbophobe.
How come we never hear about limbophobes?
People scared of me out there, they're prejudiced and bigoted and ignorant.
I never call them limbaugh phobes.
There are people that are Americanophobes.
But I find it's fascinating.
You would never listen to me, but you'd had your mind filled with all this crud, and you believed it.
I mean, why would you doubt it?
People in the media don't lie.
Most people think that.
If it's printed, it must be true because somebody, everybody thinks that stuff's all fact-checked.
I mean, you just wouldn't print lies.
But they do.
And then 9-11 happens, you turn on a radio, and you can't believe you're not hearing anything that comports with what you've been told.
And the great thing that happened then is that you opened your own mind and you began to question what you'd been told.
So actually, this conversion could not have happened without you.
Yeah, you heard me and it conflicted with what you'd been told, and it was so far away from what you'd been told that you were curiosity kept you tuned in.
Uh but you could have taken the easy route, eh?
That's just a specialist.
This is 9-11, anybody's gonna sell anything, and and stayed right where you were.
But you weren't lazy.
You were not intellectually lazy.
You became curious, which is what I mean to me that is mission accomplished.
For everybody to tap into their curiosity, question all of this supposed conventional wisdom and start figuring it out for themselves.
It isn't that hard to do, and I really applaud you for doing that.
In fact, you can give me some credit for it.
I appreciate I really do.
But you could have rejected it.
You could have said, ah, this is not I've did this guy's faking it today because of what happened here.
You could have said that very easily and stayed in your cocoon.
But you were so shocked that what you were hearing on my program, it bore no resemblance.
I'm sure you were expecting a what?
Hatred, anger, victory all, insults, mean spirited, and you didn't hear any of that because we don't do any of that here because I'm none of that.
And I'm sure it shocked you because these people, you'd believed them.
You'd trusted them all your life.
And now all of a sudden, it didn't fit.
And you saw fit to look into it yourself.
So don't leave yourself out of the equation of plaudits.
Thanks for the call, Jeremy, very much.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Documented to be almost always right, 99.7% of the time, El Rushmore, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned, Maha Rushy.
And to Clinton, Tennessee next, this is uh Annelle Ednell.
And yell, great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, thank you.
I have wanted to talk to you since I was uh 14 years old, but I'm just a little bit nervous.
Uh well, you don't need to be nervous.
We're gonna be gentle and kind.
It's gonna be like your back being rubbed with a mink glove.
Oh, well, thank you.
I would like to talk about the new um college initiative that Obama is presenting today.
Free community college, isn't it great?
It is great.
But I also I think that for me it's just a little bit too short, and it's something because I'll I'll be finished with community college this year.
Well, wait, wait, what do you mean it's too short?
Well, I I just barely missed the deadline.
And what about these students that are just missing the deadline shouldn't make it free school offering?
You're not gonna get it free.
No.
Not at all.
Well, it has to start somewhere.
It does have to start somewhere.
Yes, you're right.
Maybe you could petition for retroactivity on basis of hardship.
I just saw.
Honest to God, there are now ninety-two point eight million people not working in this country to and for the first time.
What is it?
Uh hang on just a second.
Uh that's uh record number of women unemployed.
So you can play hardship.
Maybe you get retroactivity on this.
You want to call some g government agency.
That would work.
But don't I think that it should also be more up to the states because being from Tennessee and the governor proposing the Tennessee promise, and also there's already been Tennessee Achieves here, and that has seemed to work great.
I wasn't eligible for that, though, because my school didn't offer it.
I would have taken advantage of it too.
Also.
Isn't Ob is Obama speaking at your college today or he is speaking?
He should be speaking there in a matter of minutes.
Well, you got a golden opportunity.
You're gonna be there, aren't you?
I put I wasn't one of the chosen to go today.
I went for it, but I wasn't picked.
What do you mean chosen?
Obama chooses people to show up at these events?
I hadn't heard that.
There was a lottery system, and you've like put in for a ticket because it was a simple, like it was just a ticketed event, and I wasn't able to.
You didn't win, in other words.
No, I didn't win at all.
Right.
Okay.
Well, and it looks like you're on the losing side of life's lottery, too, if you're gonna have to pay for community college.
Exactly.
And the ones who work so hard are it seems like they're on the losing side all the time with this.
How so?
Because the ones who it to me it seems as I've looked at society, how it's happening today.
Right.
That the ones who work very hard to try to achieve what they've always dreamed of achieving, seem to have the harder time doing it because the because they fall through the cracks and the ones who sort of escape by doing So what is this are are you um does does this mean you're gonna give up working hard or trying because you think it's futile?
Oh no, not at all.
I think that the really hard work is if you're gonna uh achieve something that you should try to work your hardest for it.
Hard work is good for you regardless of the outcome.
I mean if it's a job you get paid, don't I mean factoring all that in, but much better than not working.
Right.
Much, much better.
Um so you're you're serious.
You're you're upset.
Yes, I'm upset.
That you're having to pay and they've just started free community college and you've missed out on it because of the accident of your birth.
That's why you're yeah.
Yes.
Well, I feel you.
Thank you.
I do.
Um but it's a hardship, you know, it's one of these unfortunate.
You just got dealt from the bottom of the deck and yell.
I guess during a Democrat administration, it usually happens that way.
It seems to.
It does.
So what are you gonna do?
What do you mean, what am I gonna do?
Well, you can't get free community college because you don't qualify.
Right.
So I mean, what are you gonna do?
I mean you've got to look past it or are you gonna Oh yeah, I'll look past it and just keep paying like I have these past.
How many years left do you have?
Um I'll graduate from community college in the summer and then I'll go on to my four year degree.
And do you have a place chosen for that?
Um hopefully UT, but I'm not a hundred percent sure yet.
Yes, and you apply for grants to get in there.
Um more just student loans.
Yeah.
And maybe a couple scholarships if I'm lucky, but you usually have to be financially stricken to get those also.
Really get a scholarship, you have to be in financial peril.
Most of the scholarships I've read it says depending on your financial status.
Wait, are you an athlete?
No, I'm not an athlete.
That's too bad.
And that's what I saw also all these years.
If I was an athlete, I'd be right in there.
So you've gotten a shaft in the life's lottery twice.
You're not an athlete, so you're gonna get a scholarship that way, and you miss free community college by a year or two.
Yes, but but here I I'm on the dean's list.
I've been in the National Honor Society, but I'm not getting anything.
Except putting in my hard work.
Well, that's the third so you're on the dean's list and it's not getting you anything.
Ex yes, exactly.
I don't know how you're going on with this.
I mean I mean, every day it seems like it's an excrement sandwich for you.
It yes.
Yes.
So what do you think I should do?
Just keep keep my hard work going.
I think in all candor.
You really want to know it, I think?
Yes, I do.
Do I have permission really to tell you what I think?
You do.
Stop focusing on what not happening and make good stuff happen to yourself.
Don't become paralyzed by the thought that you're missing out on things.
Don't get paralyzed in that don't feel disadvantaged.
Don't feel like you're getting screwed or or ignored because life is made up of that.
You have you're gonna have to make your own breaks and you'll do that with hard work and passion.
But don't don't allow these disappointments, which in the big scheme of things and you know may seem big to you right now, but in the big scheme they're minor.
You'll be looking back at 'em and you'll hopefully look back at them with pride as to how you overcame them.
We all have things in front of us that we have to overcome.
Everybody has obstacles out there.
I don't care what they tell you, I don't care what you see in the media, there's only the very few people that have the road pay for them.
Very, very few.
Most people work hard as they can and are devoted to their desires.
Find out what those are and go for it.
And And do not run around feeling sorry for yourself.
Don't let these minor setbacks convince you that you're a loser, that you don't have a chance.
Too many people fall into that trap of thinking that the deck is stacked against them, and there's no dick and yell.
There's no puppet master determining how you're going to end up.
Except you.
Okay, so some people that come after you get free community college.
Let me tell you something.
It isn't going to be free.
They're going to have to do something for it.
They don't know what yet.
But there's no such thing as free.
The professors are going to get paid.
Somebody's going to pay for it.
Your neighbors.
Your fellow taxpayers are going to pay for that free community college.
You know what you could do?
You can go walk down the street you live on and ask people to pay for your tuition, because that's effectively what's going to be happening.
But you wouldn't do that.
I know that you wouldn't, you wouldn't go down every street corner in your neighborhood, every door knock on, hey, can I have 500 bucks to pay for college?
You wouldn't do it.
You'll vote for people who'll do it for you, but you wouldn't do it.
Because that's not who you are.
But that's what's going to happen.
Free anything from the government is never free.
Somebody's paying for it.
So your big task is to not fall prey to feeling sorry for yourself and thinking you're missing out on this or missing out on that.
Everybody does.
You're not unique in that regard.
Everybody has tough times.
Everybody has obstacles they have to overcome, and your character is built dealing with all that adversity.
You can do it.
We'll be back.
Don't go away, folks.
It's real simple.
Dan Yeller and Yellow if you're still out there, and all the rest of them, just do not become a victim.
Do not allow yourself to become a victim.
Resist victimization.
Because all that is laziness.
Victimization is blaming people you don't even know for things they haven't even done to you.
And you end up paralyzing yourself, and you end up justifying yourself as a failure based on supposed acts, the people you've never met.
That's what victimization is.
Democrat Party loves victims.
They love as many as they can create.
They like people to think the Republican Party is ruining their lives.
But if you become a victim, if you willingly succumb to victimization, you have made the decision to amount to nothing.
And you're going to go through your life blaming people you've never met for doing horrible things to you they haven't done as an excuse for you never having done anything.
And that's a cop-out.
So don't be a victim of your own victimization.
Resist it.
Now the community college business here.
LA Times this story, President Obama wrote out a new plan yesterday to make two years of community college free, or nearly so for millions of students across the fruited plain, a major investment that the White House cast is changing the face of higher education.
Obama filmed a little message about this while on Air Force One posted it on Facebook yesterday, and he said, What I'd like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody who's willing to work for it.
What the hell does that mean?
Why should you have to work for something that's free?
I know what he attempts to say there.
Um whoa, I'm thinking your education ought to be free.
Long as you're going to work hard at being indoctrinated.
If you're willing to accept our propaganda, you work hard, believe it or not, propaganda.
I'll make it free.
That's such a deal for him.
Hell, if I could propagandize everybody that way, I can buy their minds and buy their hearts.
That's what he's trying to do.
Who's going to run the curricula, do you think?
Who's going to hire the faculty, do you think?
How do you think the federal government gets its hooks in to the public school curricula?
It's called a school lunch program.
Once they make the schools dependent on federal money for lunch and everything else, they get to determine the curriculum.
Okay, so here comes Barak Hussein O, and he's going to give away the first two years of community college.
And I guarantee you he's going to determine what's taught very subtly.
And he won't have to work at it very hard anyway, because education's already been corrupted by his people.
But I'm telling you what this is.
This is an apparent gift.
Because folks, there is going to be shock and awe this year with the Obamacare rollout.
And I uh but people some people are not going to get their tax refunds.
The IRS is going to seize that money to pay what they owe on Obamacare.
So let's see what we listen.
How does this add up now?
We get to pay for everybody's health care.
Those that have their health care subsidized, and that's pretty much everybody.
I mean, it's a big majority.
And now for two years of community college.
And guess what?
The Democrats get their votes is how this works.
So Obama's plan is to use other people's money, not his.
Oh no, no, no, no.
Except to the extent that all federal money is Obama's.
He's going to use other people's money to pay for two years of college for young Democrat hopefuls and wannabes.
The real question about this is why now?
Not running for re-election.
Why not announce this before the election?
Why not make this a Democrat Party initiative before the election?
Why do it now?
What do you think, Snerdly?
Why now?
There's no electoral benefit.
Why now?
Well, I'm going to tell you why.
I'm going to tell you again, it's because Obamacare is going to wipe out tax refunds from a lot of young people.
Subsidy recipients.
Do you know that your subsidy is income on which you're going to have to pay tax?
You think people getting help Obamacare subsidies know that?
They're about to find out.
Obamacare is going to take take uh tax refunds away from young people, subsidy recipients.
And they're going to learn about that soon, and they're going to be really mad.
And then oh, but but Obama's giving away two years of JC community collection.
The Democrats just wiped out, were just wiped out by the Republicans again, the midterm elections.
Another reason why.
Republicans landslide electoral victory in November.
Polls show that millennials are taking a more favorable look at Republicans.
Here comes free community college.
Don't doubt me.
Fort Walton Beach, Florida, this is Paul.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Yeah, and great to speak with you too, Russ.
Thanks for having me on.
You bet.
Um I wanted to comment on the election for the speakership that occurred in the House this past Tuesday.
Um the uh contest was actually not in doubt uh even before the gavel hit the hard one up on the day's because an incredible number of Democrats didn't vote.
Uh 20 all told.
Uh yes, 13 were in New York at the funeral of uh former uh governor of New York Mario Cuomo, but a further seven that didn't vote in the chamber, and those uh thirteen that were in New York wouldn't have gone there without permission from uh minority lever Pelosi.
So uh it appears there was a lot of gamership involved here because what happens if people don't vote, then that lowers the total required uh for a successful majority uh to be elected in this case.
I'm all told with the took with the 20 Democrats that didn't vote that lowered the total number of votes could be cast at 414.
Okay, I'm down to 30 seconds.
Let me see if you can answer my pop quiz.
Who said or where did this come from?
You There's not a name.
Where'd this come from?
We don't need these fringe guys as much as we did anymore.
We can't let them walk on certain, or we can let them walk on certain bills, and it just won't matter now.
This gives us breathing room.
Where'd that come from?
Uh I don't know, but the Democrats have the speaker they want.
And uh they arranged things through electoral gamesmanship to make sure he got the win.
Okay, where did you call from yesterday, Paul?
Where were you yesterday when you called?
Well, I didn't call yesterday.
What about the day before that?
It wasn't the day before that.
I haven't been on air for quite some time.
Oh, okay.
I'm confusing you with somebody.
I'm sorry.
Anyway, I gotta I'll answer the question.
Don't go away, folks.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
I don't know where it's going.
It's the fastest three hours in media.
We only have one left.
The answer to the question, we don't need these fringe guys as much as we did anymore.
We can let them walk on certain bills.
It just won't matter.
Gives us breathing room.
That is in the politico, and it is attributed to a senior Republican leadership aide in the House.
The Republican leadership spokesman, we don't need these fringe guys, meaning we don't need the Tea Party anymore.
We don't need the conservatives.
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