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Dec. 1, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 1, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I know my friends, I know you're glad I'm back, and so am I. Really glad to be back here behind the golden EIB microphone.
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Well, we are loaded here, folks.
We've got all kinds of stuff about the Republican presidential campaign.
Ted Cruz is on a role.
He is just some of the things that he's saying and reacting to are just great.
They're just brilliant.
We have that coming up.
The ongoing controversy over Donald Trump and Muslims cheering 9-11.
There has been yet another news story produced.
The American Spectator went back and found a story in the New York Post.
Chronicling the celebration by some Muslims of 9-11.
Now the debate is not whether it happened, but whether or not there were thousands and thousands doing so.
And this is an object lesson in how the drive-by media works.
They don't report something.
Then other people talk about it.
The drive-by's go back and look at their own archives to find out if it happened, and they didn't see anything in their own archives.
Well, they did see one thing in the Washington Post, but they ignore it.
And the drive-by say it didn't happen because we didn't report on it.
And yet it did.
But there's more to it than that, and I will explain as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears.
Rupert Murdoch got an award from some institute somewhere.
He had to make a speech in honor of getting the award, and just nailed it, folks.
I can't wait to break this down.
It's so great to see this.
This is this is um it's great to see, you know, what we what we have said on this program for I don't know how many years now, and the points we missed, specifically even about Obama and and current events, and and to see those thoughts come out of the mouths of others is uh testament and it it demonstrates how the uh the concepts are spreading.
I mean, Rupert Murdoch just nails it here with his dissertation, his explanation, his definitions, his analysis of liberalism, and the current state of political correctness on college campus and so forth.
Just it's just awesome.
I can't wait to get into that.
We have an entire stack here on border issues, Europe, United States, and of course, Obama and this climate change business.
And I'll tell you this is it it's it's utterly fascinating because nobody cares about it.
If you look at the polls of the American people, it's the last issue and a long list of things the American people care about.
And what it's really about, folks, strip every it's not even about science.
That's just a cover for what the objective here is.
This meeting in Paris is really about nothing more than what the United Nations exists to do, and that's fleece the United States.
And in this case, the technique is a carbon tax, a worldwide carbon tax on the use of fossil fuels worldwide.
It is simply a way to tax the United States, redistribute that money to nations around the world as the UN sees fit.
The problem is we have a uh president who believes the U. United States is guilty.
Uh, and as such believes that this kind of punishment should be meted out, and he is there to help the United Nations and the rest of the world uh hand down this punishment to his own country because he thinks we deserve it.
It has been said by others that are questioning why is Obama.
I mean, this is this is crazy.
Nobody cares about it.
Nothing's gonna happen.
There isn't gonna be a climate change treaty.
It never passed the Senate.
India and China are never going to agree to whatever these clods come up with.
So what's the point?
Let me tell you what the point is.
It's precisely because nobody cares, is why Obama's zeroing in on it.
When nobody cares, they don't pay attention.
And when you're not paying attention, is that is gold for Obama.
When you're not paying attention to what he's doing, that is a clear path.
That is smooth sailing.
That's an uninterrupted Road, whatever he wants to do, there won't be anything in his way because nobody's paying attention to stop him.
It's precisely why he's he's zeroing in on this.
But again, I will break all this down and analyze it as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears.
I also, ladies and gentlemen, over the break.
I combined some things.
I combined pleasure.
Uh actually took a little time.
I I I cut the cord.
I wanted to find out about this cord cutting business and how it works and how it I know how it works technically, but I mean I I watched everything on TV on my iPad Pro, including the NFL football games.
I was able to watch Sunday Ticket for the Sunday Afternoon Games, the NBC Sports app, I watched the Sunday night game, the Patriots and the Broncos.
And by the way, is Tom Brady ticked off.
Tom Brady so deeply never been more ticked off over the rules and the refs and stuff as he was after that game Sunday.
We'll get into that too as the program unfolds.
I watched the latest Netflix series, Jessica Jones.
It's from Marvel.
It's 13 episodes, one hour each.
I watch, well, I did not watch them all.
No, I'm not gonna I wasn't that slothful, but I watched a lot of it.
Anyway, I watched everything I watched on my iPad Pro.
Now I must tell you one of the reasons why.
It was the only way I could smoke my cigars and watch TV.
Well, we were in a we were in a massive uh well, we were in a really, really nice hotel suite, but the only place I could smoke in it was in one of the bedrooms.
And it TV set up in there where you had to be in bed, and I hate watching TV in bed.
I can't do it.
I can't read in beds for well, I don't watch TV in bed.
I just don't do it.
So I had a chair in there, and and so if I wanted to smoke cigar and watch TV, I had to watch it on the iPad Pro.
But anyway, let me cut to the chase on this.
I watched a bunch of television shows that through the process of reading, you know, my tech blogs, and and I'm focusing more and more on reading things written by millennials, TV critics, sports writers, and this kind of stuff.
I'm really trying to get a handle on that generation.
And I have picked up on something that is to me upsetting and disturbing.
And it's it's very simple.
And I, once I point this out to you, I think if you pay attention as you go forward, you'll notice it too.
It ties in with everything going on at college campuses today.
Student protests and so forth.
You know, they're they don't want to be upset, they want these safe areas, they don't want anybody disagreeing with all this childish little immature demands that they're making.
What I have noticed is the more trauma in a TV show, the more personal trauma, the more suffering, the better.
These young millennials, they love television shows and movies depicting stress, post-traumatic stress disorder, trauma, the worst, the better, suffering, and the purpose of television these days for them is to demonstrate how to cope with all of this.
And the reason that I have concluded that they enjoy this is because that's what their lives are today.
I'm not saying all millennials.
I'm talking about these media-oriented critic, TV movie critics.
Uh I don't know how how uh representative of the entire generation it is, but it's got to be pretty sizable.
The more trauma, the more suffering, the greater they think the TV show or the movie is.
Because that's what their lives are now.
Trauma and suffering.
And how to cope, and a great TV show to them is one that demonstrates how to cope with all this trauma and suffering.
Now you say what trauma and what's there isn't it.
That's the whole point.
It's made up.
What have I always said?
Well, it's made up, but it's real because they make it real.
Psychologically, it's real.
What have I always said about the baby boomers?
The baby boomers compared to our parents and grandparents.
We had it easy.
We had to invent our traumas in order to tell ourselves that our lives were tough.
But we didn't face anything like our parents and grandparents faced, starting with I don't know.
I mean, how far back do you want to go?
World War I and the Great Depression and World War II, then Korea than the Soviet threat, which they considered deadly real.
They had to grow up by age 18.
They learned in their teenage years that life was about things much larger than themselves, and this generation can't get past the fact that life is totally about them and about nothing else.
It's about them, it's about their suffering, it's about their comfort or lack of it.
But the overall point that I've or facet, I think that I'm observing here that to a lot of these young people, life is just misery.
It's just total misery, and there isn't any escape from it.
The only thing to do is to cope.
And so a television series, a television show, or a movie that demos this gets great reviews.
I I have read some of the most.
Well, I mentioned Jessica Jones on Marvel.
I watched it.
I watched enough of it to know that.
Look, I don't want to be insulting here.
I mean, the actors are good and this kind of, but it just.
Let me put it this way.
The reviewers that I read think it's the greatest television there's ever been.
Without doubt, I re how about a 10,000-word review?
And it's all analyzing the suffering and the trauma of the main characters and how they deal with it and the lessons the viewer can take from it.
When I watched it, I just got bored.
I said, can we move this along?
It's Marvel, it's superhero stuff.
That's another thing.
Superhero comic book is real life.
And the stuff that happens in superheroville and comic bookville, real.
Trauma and suffering and so forth.
And then anybody here watch The Walking Dead.
Let me just run a little bit.
Did you watch it Sunday night?
Sunday night was the mid-season finale, right?
Now, do not I want to know the honest to God truth.
Do not factor anything I've said into what you're gonna do.
Was it good or not?
Would you like it?
Okay, super average mediocre, what was it?
What?
I can't.
Okay, no help there.
Um bottom line is every mainstream reviewer that I have read, and I'm talking about somebody that's over 40, maybe 45 plus, thinks it's mediocre, it's exemplary of this of the whole series losing its pizzazz.
Yeah, this is a zombies, zombies, the walking dead.
Snerdly, before you get snarky in there, it has been the highest-rated cable show ever for a period of time.
But the point is to stick with it.
Zombies, right.
The walking, but the mainstream viewers uh reviewers, like you'd read in the New York Post, New York Times, this think it's sad that the show's lost it.
It's just mediocre.
And the millennials think this episode was the best episode of the series with life lessons like you can't believe throughout it.
Now you might what is all this matter?
Well, because we're talking about the future of the country here, folks, in large part.
That's why I said I don't know how representative what I'm reading is of the whole genration.
Well, this some of them are.
Some of them come from the in 2008.
We're the ones the world's been waiting for to change the world.
I think that's part and parcel of their misery.
I think they bought utopia.
I think they bought full in full-on utopia as presented by Obama.
And do we not have utopia?
We've got mess upon mess upon mess.
We've got we've got a bleak future economically, and I think it all rolls into creating this fatalistic attitude of the guys.
But anyway, it's just it's a it's a cultural observation, and I'm just at the beginnings here, so I'm not presenting to you any conclusions.
I'm just sharing with you how my thought process on all of this is working.
In other things, have you seen the uh you see that lead story on Drudge up here?
DiCaprio raped by Bear in Fox movie.
That is the lead story at Drudge.
Apparently there, oh, by let me.
Let me go back to this millennial trauma bit.
How about Quentin Tarantino's movie?
Eight is whatever it is.
It's the bloodiest, the most profane, the goryest.
It's three hours and intermission, and it is nothing but abject, full-on total misery.
Murder, death, black, dark death.
It's just hor and it, and I guarantee you, by the time I getting around to reading millennial reviews of this thing, they're going to think it's the best work of art the movies has ever produced.
If I'm right.
But anyway, back to this DiCaprio story.
Um DiCaprio raped by Bear in Fox.
Hey, would you star in a movie in which you know going in because it's scripted, you're going to get raped by, say, Yogi Bear in Jelly Stone Park.
Would you?
So here we have the wolf of Wall Street meets Yogi Bear.
But I was thinking when I saw this headline, I was thinking, what kind of reactions would there be?
There's rape all over college campus, we're told.
And when rape is all over college campus, you the usual suspects start chiming in about how rotten American culture is, and the Republicans are to blame, and conservatives and their strict judgmental lifestyle is causing all this stuff.
So I had a little fun here putting together various responses from people who have responded to the stories of uh campus rape and so forth.
To this story of Leonardo DiCaprio being raped by a bear in a movie.
Whoopi Goldberg.
I know it wasn't rape rape, it was something else, but I don't believe it was rape rape.
John Kerry.
Well, there was a sort of particularized focus, perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of not a legitimacy, but a rationale that you can attach yourself to somehow and say, okay, they're really angry because of this.
That's what he said about Charlie Hebdo's when he said about Muslims, militant Islamists blowing up Charlie Hebdo.
Well, they had a rationale for it.
Well, maybe the bear had a rationale for it.
You ever being consistent.
Hillary Clinton, when told of the story, said, What difference does it make?
At this point.
Oh, did you hear about Hillary?
She now claims her concussion was so bad she called the NFL.
I made a joke about that, and it's come true.
Details coming up.
Obama blamed climate change for the rape of DiCaprio by the Bear and the Fox movie, and we will be back.
Speaking of the National Football League, on Sunday afternoon, the Pittsburgh Steelers played the Seattle Seahawks in Seattle.
Story of the game was how the Steelers pass defense, the secondary, could not stop the Seahawks.
If you want to know why, I'll be happy to tell you.
It's the way you always beat the Steelers.
You spread your offense out.
The Steelers play a cover three, which is a single deep safety.
Everything else is zoned.
They zone blitz.
What ends up happening is you a wide receiver will end up on a linebacker in a zone defense that the linebacker can't hope to cover, usually in the seams.
It's traditional Steelers' defense.
The Oakland Raiders did it to him three weeks ago.
And I would bet that from now on out you're going to see every team spread out their offense.
But that was not the story.
A lot of people think that's the story.
What are the Steelers going to do about their past defense?
They'll fix it.
They'll come up with something.
The story of the game was Ben Rothesberger took himself Out with a minute, minute and a half to go, one offensive series left to potentially tie the game.
He took himself out because he had a headache.
He self-reported a concussion.
First time it's ever happened in the league.
He was sacked, helmet to helmet contact.
The Seahawks are penalized 15 yards for it.
Rothlessberger was on the ground for a while, got up, played nine more plays, and took himself out of the game, and the sports media was gaga.
The sports media thought it was the greatest thing they'd ever seen.
The concussion protocol is working.
Look!
Rotlasberger took himself out of the game.
It's working, they all said.
It's working.
The star quarterback took himself out of the game after having played nine plays after the contact.
Steelers go on to lose the game.
The media, the sports drive-bys, even some of the uh doctors that the NFL said, oh, this is the greatest thing in the world, my God, oh my God, he took himself out of the game.
You realize what progress we're making.
Oh my God, he's self-reported.
I mean, they were orgasming over this.
And now, guess what?
The NFL and the NFL Players Association are investigating the circumstances surrounding the concussion sustained by Rothlisberger.
But I will bet you when I tell you that, you're thinking something, and if you are you're wrong, more than likely you're wrong about why they are investigating.
Stand.
Your guiding light, Rush Limbaugh, master of all I discuss here on the Excellence in Broadcasting.
By the way, people have been asking the ratings for my appearance on Fox News Sunday.
Fox News Sunday had their highest ratings in nine years.
I sent Chris Wallace a note, because he sent a note, thanking me.
I sent him a note back and say, you know what we should do next time?
Next time you have me on as your guest, and then put me on the panel analyzing what I just said.
In fact, make me the panel.
I said, Chris, we can blow television wide open.
Have me on as a guest, like a 12-minute segment, commercial break, then you and I come back as the panel discussing what I said.
Can you imagine if I disagreed with myself after having seen myself say it on TV earlier?
Can you imagine?
What would happen with that?
That would be fun.
Anyway, this Rothlisberger business.
When I saw this headline today, NFL and the Player Association investigating the circumstances surrounding the concussion sustained by Rothlisberger during Sunday's game.
I thought they were going to investigate what in the world is the guy coming out of the game for with a minute and a half or two minutes left.
The Steelers about to possess the ball for the last time with a long shot chance, but still a chance to tie the game.
But that's not what they're investigating.
You know what they're investigating?
They want to know why Rothlisberger had the self-report.
Why didn't the team notice it?
Why didn't the spotter, there's a spotter now in every press box.
The NFL has some neurosurgeon specialist, some sort of mental brain specialist up in the press box, watching every game.
They are looking for any indication that a player has been concussed, and if they see it, they can stop the game from the press box.
This neurosurgeon can stop the game and demand that player be taken out.
Well, the investigation is why did Rothlisberger have to self-report?
So on the one hand, they're ecstatic that he did.
They think it's real progress.
Because you see, players want to play through all of this pain.
Players never want to come out.
They never want to admit they've got a concussion.
They'll lie to the trainers when asked.
They want to stay in the game.
But Rotlasberger's self-reporting, man, that's progress, they think.
They think it's I think it's something else entirely.
But now they're investigating why didn't the spotter spot it?
Why didn't the team trainer spot it?
Why did Rotlasberger have to Self-report that he had a concussion.
They can't be happy no matter what.
He takes himself out of the game, they're ecstatic, they're happy.
Man, oh man, our concussion protocol.
Oh boy, oh boy, it's working.
This is wonderful.
And then on the other hand, they're livid and angry that he had to take himself out.
And it's a bunch of leftists.
You can't please them.
You can make them happy.
When they get everything in exactly what they want, they find a way to find a problem with it.
And that to me is not even the story.
Do you remember, you football fans will?
We're going back a number of years now.
Maybe five, six, I don't know, but you'll remember the circumstance.
Steelers were going to play the Ravens in Baltimore.
Rothlessberger had had a concussion prior, prior week.
Decided not to play Heinz Ward.
It's an NBC Sunday night game.
Heinz Ward in the pregame interview took a shot at Rothlisberger for not having the courage.
He didn't use these words, but it's what he meant for playing.
He says the Baltimore Ravens.
And it was Bob Costus doing the interview.
He said, Well, you you um you think he ought to go out.
I forget the exact question, but but Heinz Wardson was it's a it's hard to say, but clearly he didn't understand why Rothisberger wouldn't out there playing.
He would have been in the same circumstances.
So there's more to this than than meets the eye is the point.
And it's not a big deal.
I'm not trying to stir up a controversy here.
I just I think it's look at what we're talking about here with football.
I don't I don't think they realize it yet, but they're they're they're near a tipping point in the NFL with all that's going on.
Okay, Hillary Clinton.
Did you see where the latest dump of Hillary emails shows that she consulted with NFL experts after she had her concussion?
And I want to take you back to this program, an audio soundbite, May 29th, 2014.
The White House had a concussion summit, in case you've forgotten.
The White House had a concussion summit, and it was about all this stuff going on in the NFL.
You know, the leftist, they can't wait to get their hands on everything.
They can't wait to get their tentacles involved in virtually everything and take it over.
Control it, regulate it, and thereby ruin it.
So on May 29, 2014, talking about the White House concussion summit, I said this.
Big concussion summit today at the White House.
Obama used his power of convening.
He actually referred to his convening power to bring in 200 people to discuss concussions in American sports.
See, he really cares.
Will Mrs. Clinton be appearing at the concussion summit?
She had one, you know, it's very bad.
I don't think anybody even remembers her concussion.
You know, she fell off an airplane, maybe avoiding snipper fire or whatever, but she fell down some steps with having a concussion.
And it's written about in these emails.
And here, I know I make a joke about it back in 2014, and it turns out to be true.
It's actually something that happened.
She consulted with NFL experts after she had her concussion.
How much do you want to bet a few months from now?
Hillary is going to claim that she played a lot of football in her youth.
And wanted to play in the NFL, but was turned down by the sexists there.
Much like she wanted to join the Marines, and they called her dogface or something.
Whatever they said.
She took it as a personal insult.
And yet there isn't any evidence that she isn't any evidence that she was able to.
Much like she told everybody she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, except Sir Edmund Hillary did not climb out Evers for six years after she was born.
She could not have been named after Sir Edmund Hillary.
Anyway, these new emails also show that Hillary was confused for quite a long time after her concussion.
In fact, she seemed to be unaware of her own past actions.
And even State Department positions.
Is this not convenient?
Oh, she had this concussion, and it's Huma and all these other people observing that she was really unaware of what she'd done in the past and even some State Department positions.
Makes me wonder how anyone can say she's recovered even now.
If she's not remembering too much now that from back those days, maybe she still concussed.
Same new batch of emails also show that her staff praised her to the skies for her first appearance before the House Benghazi hearings.
That's the appearance where she famously said, What difference does it make?
All of her minions told her she was simply brilliant in her testimony.
That's what these emails reveal.
Which is what she's practically heard her entire life.
And there's a bunch of classified emails that well at least they're classified now.
A bunch of them that have been discovered.
Whether they were classified then, who really knows.
Back to the audio sound bites, just to get a couple things out of the way.
This is Mercedes Schlap yesterday afternoon, the Redal Story with Gretchen Carlson during a discussion about the presidential campaign in Donald Trump.
Mercedes Schlap.
She's a Republican strategist, by the way.
And uh this was her comment.
I think we need to understand the Trump voter.
When I was listening to Rush Limbaugh a couple of weeks ago, it was very clear.
A Trump voter called in and said, I don't care what Donald Trump says.
I'm going to support him anyways.
I want things to get done.
And that is the sentiment of the Trump voter.
The question will be can he expand his coalition based on his different comments that he's made?
That's going to be his biggest challenge.
And quite frankly, we might not have an answer till March 15th.
If you know this is Mercedes Schlapp is obviously quite brilliant.
In order to find out why Trump voters do what they do, she came here.
She turned on this program.
You want to find out why certain people vote certain ways?
You want to find out why the American people think the way they do?
Tune into this show.
Imagine if all the Republican consultants did that.
Can you imagine No, seriously, Surgley, if every Republican consultant tuned into this program to get an idea of the thinking of the Republican base and mainstream America?
Can you imagine how much it would help them?
Here they are trying to figure out Trump.
They're trying to figure out why people like Trump.
They got Kasich running ads now.
Now they the Casich Super PAC apparently has got an ad comparing Trump to Hitler.
Casey says, no, no, no, no.
It is not doing that.
Whatever.
We've got the sound bites of that coming up too, as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears.
But Mercedes Schlaps says, you know what?
I'm going to tune in a limbaugh show.
That's where I'll find out.
And she heard this Trump caller.
Trump supporter call, and she understands it.
Rather than trying to analyze it herself or figure it out.
I mean, I it's it's a what you call it.
Uh well, it's an opportunity.
It's a golden opportunity for these Republican consultants.
Tune in here and find out what voters actually think.
One more before we uh go to the break.
John Makem, he is the guy with the book out on Bush 41.
I forget the something in this book I questioned when it when it came out.
Oh, that's right.
In this book, 41 dishes on Cheney and Rumsfeld.
I mean, d creams them.
Which to me doesn't make any sense.
I can't tell you all the reasons why.
But trust me, it doesn't make any sense.
Anyway, John Meekham used to run Newsweek, was on Fox News Media Buzz on Sunday morning, and had this to say, talking about his book with Bush 41.
One of the interesting things about doing this book was seeing how this culture was taking shape in the Bush 41 years.
Obviously, it's before the Internet, but CNN is political talk shows are growing.
Rush Limbaugh is becoming more of a force.
Limbaugh endorses Pat Buchanan in the 1992 Primary.
And so what does Bush do?
He actually invites Limbaugh over to the White House to spend the night and carries a suitcase for him.
And that shut down Limbaugh.
Suddenly Limbaugh was introducing Bush at campaign events.
Okay, so I haven't read the book, but I saw the sound bite here, and I thought, okay, if he's out there saying this, then I need to explain it.
What do you do?
What?
Well, no, it isn't what happened.
Well, as far as it goes, it's what happened.
The reasons it happened is what he gets wrong, and what I was doing in that campaign, and there weren't a whole bunch of talk shows starting even back.
This is this is 1992.
He mentioned CNN is it.
There's no Fox News out there.
At any rate, need to explain this, put some context to it.
We'll do that.
We come back, sit tight, don't go away, folks.
Much more.
Okay, there's so much wrong with what John Meekham said about my trip to the White House at the invitation of President Bush 41.
But let's go through the things here that are just in a sentence after sentence way correct.
Rush Limbaugh's becoming more of a force.
Already was, but so what?
Limbaugh endorses Pat Buchanan in the 1992 primary.
So what does Bush do?
He invites Limbaugh to the White House.
That's not why I was invited to the White House.
I was invited to the White House in June of 1992.
The Republican primary was over.
Buchanan was not a factor.
It was Ross Perot who was the factor, and it was Ross Perot that was the reason I was invited to the White House.
I did endorse Buchanan way, way, way back.
And for one stated reason.
And Buchanan, by the way, won the New Hampshire primary.
That's what scared everybody.
I endorsed Buchanan.
He wins New Hampshire and every oh my started gulping.
And I did it for one reason.
Do you remember what it was, Snartley?
I wanted conservatism in the debate.
Exactly.
I wanted conservatism in the Republican primary.
Bush was a sitting president.
He had run in 1988 on the concept of uh being Reagan's third term.
We had had to read my lips, no new taxes.
We had had a bunch of things that had gone down that were not good.
And I was simply when endorsing Buchanan, it was no idea, thought that Buchanan was going to win.
I simply suggested Buchanan because I wanted and I wanted him his candidacy to survive more than a couple of weeks so that there would be conservatism in the Republican Party primary debate process.
Pure and simple.
But by the time I was invited the White House, the Republican presidential nomination was a fate accomplishment.
Bush had it sewn up.
That is not why I was invited there.
And we the the we never discussed Papuchanon once.
Not a single time.
What was being discussed was Ross Perot.
And things in general.
Now the visit, Bush carrying my bags.
I'd say what happened?
I got to the White House.
I went with uh friend.
We got there, and I was told it was a weekday night.
We're going to have dinner, and then we're going to go to the Kennedy Center for the performing arts with President Mrs. Bush and come back to the White House, chew the fat, and then I was asleep in Lincoln bedroom, all of which happened, and then leave the next day.
We got to Washington and took the shuttle and I got about 5 o'clock and my friend said, look, so grab dinner.
I said, what, we're supposed to have dinner?
He said, they eat like birds.
If you really...
And it's pretty much right.
Some colored water is the soup or what it was a very light meal, so I'm glad we ate first.
Went to the old Ebbett Grill, in fact.
Had dinner before checking in at the White House.
Called my mom from the Lincoln bedroom.
She didn't believe it.
It was the office, the president's office back in those days.
It's on the second floor.
It's way down the hall from the primary.
Presidential bedroom and living room.
Anyway, we get off the elevator up there.
And uh the president shouts, Is it you?
Yeah, then he comes out and grabs, I had one bag, he grabs it and starts escorting me down the hall to show me where to Lincoln bedroom.
He said, Mr. President, stop, stop.
No, no, no, no.
I'm I'm happy to do it.
And I made a big point when I told the story the first time, how he grabbed my bag and I ran after him trying to get it.
I mean, it didn't think it was good form.
Sit there and letting the president of the United States carry your bag down the hall to the Lincoln bedroom.
But he did it.
So the fact-by-fact stuff Meekham has right here, but the reason that I was invited and the timing and the circumstances are off here.
And by the way, if all you've got to do to get my endorsement is carry my bags somewhere, I'm waiting for all these Republican candidates to call me now that they've heard this.
This is all it takes to get my endorsement.
Invite me over for dinner, put me in your best bedroom and carry my bags in the process, and I'm yours.
If you are on hold, I want you to hang in there and be tough.
We got really a great roster of people on hold, and we're going to get to you as uh quickly as we can.
In the next busy broadcast hour.
Lots coming up.
Ted Cruz, as I say, is uh is is on a roll.
I want to break down Rupert Murdoch's speech on uh on liberalism that he gave and accepting an award recently.
And also, I want to talk about privilege.
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