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Sept. 16, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 16, 2016, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
We have breaking news.
President Barack Obama was born in the United States.
Who knew?
Is that even constitutional?
Donald Trump has just concluded his appearance at his luxury hotel in Washington, now open, by the way, the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. It's now open for business.
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And Trump speaking from his new luxury hotel.
Well, he didn't speak for a while.
When I woke up this morning, I switched to whatever TV network it was, and they're showing this like blank picture of the empty podium at which Donald Trump will be making his statement on where the President of the United States, now in his eighth year of office, was born.
And eventually the podium was no longer empty because a parade of Donald Trump's vast supporting act came out and talked about Trump and said this about Trump, that about Trump for forty minutes, and then at the end of it, Trump walks out for two minutes and says the President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period.
Unquote.
You can take that to the bank, says Trump.
And then he blamed Hillary for starting this Bertha stuff and congratulated himself on having brought it all to a close.
And uh Hillary did indeed uh start it.
But basic basically he just Trump just engaged in a spectacular uh wind up of America's media who covered this non they're the ones who insisted on it.
Well, well you stand now.
Do you think the president was born?
They insisted on it.
He scheduled an event, scheduled an event, I do beg your pardon.
He scheduled an event uh to address the issue and basically got himself a whole stack of free TV airtime, but at the end of it announced the president was born in America.
If Hillary, if Hillary this is what it's like when you run a campaign without any consultants, when you're free of the malign consultant class that has bored uh presidential politics into the ground where you have these overmanaged, overscripted candidates.
If Hillary wanted uh if we want to go further down this route, Hillary is also the one who floated the uh Obama might be a secret Muslim thing.
And she was asked about this.
Um do you accept on sixty minutes in two thousand and eight, do you accept that uh Barack Obama is not a Muslim?
And she gave this cryptic answer as far as I know.
And uh and it would be nice if Hillary had any wit, she'd do something like this.
She she'd she'd say she was gonna schedule a press conference to clear up once and for all whether or not Barack Obama was a secret Muslim, and she'd have all her surrogates and entourage and supporting cars, she'd have uh Bill and Chelsea and all the rest of them beforehand, giving her all this free publicity, and then do something like this.
But she doesn't have that.
And when she spoke yesterday, uh and she was asked about the deception that her campaign engaged in over her collapse on Sunday, and she she said that quote, my campaign has said that they could have been faster, and I agree with them, unquote.
So she there is this set there's this person called Hillary, and then there is this separate entity called Hillary 2016.
And Hillary and Hillary is now blaming Hillary 2016 for not getting the information out about her uh pneumonia, alleged pneumonia, uh in a timely manner.
And that's why she's that's why she's a dud.
She's a bust as a candidate.
Uh Trump is being nimbler, he's having more fun, and that is showing.
Mark Stein in for Rush on America's number one radio show, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Honored to be here, uh honored to be back with you.
I was last here in June.
June.
Uh back when I think Lindsay Graham was uh surging in Iowa.
I can't remember now, it's been so long.
Lindsay Graham, he was surging in Iowa.
And uh that's that's how long it's been, Mr. Sturdley.
Um and when Rush said yesterday that uh I was gonna be in today, I uh there were a few tweets.
I got a few tweets saying I'd been gone so long they wondered if I was dangerously ill.
So no, I I wasn't dangerously ill.
I just um I overheated slightly for a few months.
I was I was dehydrated.
I I I hadn't drunk a glass of water since April two thousand and nine.
My staff's always kidding me about it.
But I'm uh I'm fine now, I'm fine now.
I uh I feel terrific.
I spent uh a few days chasing puppies and two-year-olds around, and uh now I feel great.
Uh the the two-year-old's parents are taking out a restraining order, but uh but nuts to them.
Uh Rush is going to be back on Monday for authentic full strength all American excellence in broadcasting, the real deal, except no substitutes, uh, except for the next three hours.
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Um I'm uh I I I I'm uh I I've been overseas, basically, the last few months.
I've been in uh a couple of dozen different countries, I think, since I was last here.
I'm working on a little upcoming project, and I got back to this great republic yesterday and have been getting myself uh up to speed.
Uh I thought the election would be over by now and Jeb would have won, but apparently it's all still up in the air.
So give me a call and bring me up to speed on what's been happening, because you know as much as I do.
The highly trained broadcast specialist is out and he won't be back till Monday.
But I'm interested to hear what you have to say.
Um just on the off chance that I overheat again and uh I'm not here for another three months.
Let me just throw out a few thoughts to get us started.
Um I think Donald Trump is gonna win this.
I think Donald Trump is gonna win, which is amazing.
When you consider he's running against both parties and the media, and you consider that he is uh ignoring every rule in the American presidential campaign playbook.
And sometimes uh it seems like quite clever when he uh ignores all these rules, and then other times when he goes off on some detour that doesn't seem to interest anybody but him, you wonder why he's doing that, and it takes him a couple of weeks to find his way back.
But given that uh a few weeks ago everyone was saying this thing was over, it's he's gonna get slaughtered, Republicans head for the hills.
The job now is to save uh a few Senate seats here and a few house seats there, because Hillary is gonna sweep everything.
And it hasn't happened.
Trump uh I think is gonna win this thing, and uh I look at people's concerns about that, because the Republicans were as frightened of that as anybody.
Um I read a piece by Ben Shapiro uh yesterday, and Ben Shapiro, who's a smart guy, was saying this could be the end of conservatism, the end of conservatism.
I don't think it's gonna be that.
I think if Trump wins, it's gonna be what in other countries would be a coalition government.
It's gonna be a coalition between the Trump Party in the White House and the Republican Party in the House and Senate.
And that's a great opportunity for conservatism, actually, because the House, a Republican House and a Republican Senate, Uh are gonna be putting the screws to to President Trump in a way that they have not done uh to President Obama, where basically uh McConnell and Boehner uh and Ryan fold so quickly that uh the White House might as well hire them to be White House valets.
Uh that's all they've been good for in the eight years of the Obama administration.
They're gonna be a lot.
I mean, already Paul Ryan has been far tougher on Trump than he's been on uh uh Obama.
I mentioned that I got back to the country yesterday.
I I showed up just in time for Paul Ryan finally to endorse Trump.
When I left the country three months ago, this this is amazing to me.
When I left, the papers were full of Paul Ryan prowling the battlements like Hamlet doing his interminable uh to endorse or not to endorse.
That is the question.
And I go away for three months and I keep thinking, well, say what you like, uh, but uh at least that whole Paul Ryan endorsement thing will have been settled months and months ago.
No!
I come back just in time, and Hamlet has finally finished prowling the battlements and come down to the castle drawing room to announce that he's now ready uh to endorse Donald Trump.
Um and and most most countries conduct their election campaigns in six weeks.
Uh so the time we've got to go, which is about seven weeks now, seven weeks and a couple of days, that would be the length of an entire election campaign in most countries.
We have such a leisurely system that it takes twice that long just to get one piffling office holder to endorse his own Martist candidate.
That's Paul Ryan.
Paul Ryan has finally said uh the enough with the to endorse or not to endorse routine.
You know, I I listened to him in back in June when he was doing this.
I'm not saying I don't not entirely support him, but I am saying I'm not quite ready to disavow completely rejecting him.
I'm not quite there yet, but I'm working through it, and I'm hoping to get quite there wherever there is by the time I get to it.
And yesterday, Paul Ryan finally got to it.
Now now he's never that picky about Obama's bloated budget, that boom, right through the house.
Express check-in.
Twenty-four hours, done deal, right?
But Trump, Trump has to work on this, he's to prowl the battlements for another three or four months.
So all this talk about, oh, conservatism is dead, the Ben Shapiro's piece, conservatism is dead, it's over, it's dead.
Who care so we who killed conservatism?
It's not gonna be like that.
It's gonna be a coalition between the Trump Party and the Republican Party, and you can already tell that Ryan and Coe are gonna be uh are gonna be far pickier about going along with Trump than they ever were about going along with Obama.
So right there and then that is gonna be healthier uh for the institutions of American government because Congress is gonna recover its self-respect and it's gonna assert its powers in a way that it hasn't when it's rolled over like a poodle for Obama these last eight years.
So just to get the big takeaway out there, I think Trump's gonna win.
I'm not frightened about Trump winning.
There's only two parties in this country.
They're necessarily a coalition of interests, and and the balance in that coalition with a Republican president, a Republican House, and a Republican Senate is gonna be very healthy in November.
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Hey, Mark Stein in Farush, feeling almost as mellow as the music on today's show.
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Love to hear from you, especially if you're in a you're a Hillary supporter and you think you can pull this thing out.
Um I s I was as I said, I was trying to get up to speed on what's been happening yesterday and uh everyone's going along about oh it's medical records Trump's released his medical records ooh uh look these uh he's fifteen pounds overweight uh we brought in our medical consultant doctor whatever his name is and he's gonna talk about uh this uh and has Trump been as transparent as Hillary when it comes to the medical records, the medical records, medical records.
Uh n other other places don't have medical records.
You know, Francois Hollande uh became president of France without releasing his medical records.
Ankela Merkel became Chancellor of Germany without releasing her medical records.
Malcolm Turnbull became Prime Minister Australia without releasing his medical records.
This it's not about medical records.
This is insane nobody sailary is being completely transparent.
She's lying down in the street with one shoe in the gutter.
You can't get more transparent about your medical condition than that.
This is bonkers this oh Trump has uh Trump has uh released his figure showing that his cholesterol figure is this and his kidney is that and Trump is literally the last man standing because the other candidate is lying down and being hoisted as one of the police detectives said like a sack of meat into the SUV.
And this it's it's astonishing to me the dishonesty the dishonesty uh with which the media framing this debate.
It's like well what has happened to Hillary and they're now saying oh the terms in which we're allowed to talk about Hillary's health and like Rush, Rush has been very sympathetic to Hillary on a personal level because it's sad to see somebody being put through this.
She's obviously not well and she's obviously got a condition that isn't the condition that they're telling us it is because she can't reliably perform and you know to look at it if it was the Oscars for example uh the Oscars and they're trying to decide whether we're gonna have Ellen de Generis host this year or we're gonna have Seth MacFarlane this year.
And they say, well, you know, Ellen de Generis did a pretty good job hosting the Oscars last year.
Yeah but I like Seth MacFarlane oh yeah he started strong.
Remember when he came out and he sang hoora Holywood but then halfway through his legs buckled and he threw up into the orchestra pit.
And then twenty minutes later he's saying and the Oscar goes to and George Clooney and Matt Damon are sitting out in the crowd and uh under with all the hacking they can't tell whether George Clooney's won the Oscar or Adam Sandler's won the Oscar and nobody's sure who to stand up that's the condition Hillary's campaign is now in.
As Rush mentioned the other day the priority for the campaign is to keep her healthy until the first debate.
That's that's that is the weekend at Bernie scenario.
And it doesn't mean anybody wishes her ill but it does mean that we wish the lying American media ill.
I was not in this country on Sunday when this happened and the first Google things I saw when when it happened were all from the foreign press, the Daily Mail in London.
Clinton collapse it said Clinton collapse.
Meanwhile you have to wait two or three hours for the American media to start saying oh well she she was overcome and was feeling faint and so had to leave.
She underwent a near swoon.
She didn't undergo a near swoon she was propped up on a against a bollard in the street and then she deflated she collapsed quicker than Libya collapsed after she stuck her nose into Libya's affairs.
That's how she went down quicker than Monica this this is total dishonesty and it is repulsive and it is possible to feel sympathetic for this woman for whatever it is that's going on and to utterly despise absolutely utterly despise the American media that is lying to us about it.
Because it's basically you know uh i I was in Denmark a few weeks ago Which is where Hans Christian Anderson wrote The Emperor's New Clothes.
And it wasn't the Emperor has no clothes, it's the Empress has no shoe.
And the little boy, who's the guy with the cell phone footage who pointed out that the Empress has no shoe all the time there, no, no, no.
She's just slightly dehydrated.
She's nothing to see here.
The Empress has her shoe.
If this is it is possible to understand and sympathize with what Hillary Clinton is going through, and yet completely despise the American newspaper industry, the American television networks, and the uh uh uh American uh press that is being completely dishonest about what it is uh that Hillary is undergoing.
And by the way, it does raise the question when she is having the having these episodes, who's in charge?
Who's running the show?
That's the question uh that eventually Americans will start to ask.
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Talking about deplorables.
Uh I believe that's what Bonnie in Atlanta, Georgia wants to talk about.
Uh Bonnie, you're uh live on the Rush Limbaugh show today.
Hi, how are you?
I'm doing great.
How's how's things with you?
Just great.
Listen, I just want to tell you that I agree with you.
I think that Donald Trump is gonna win, hands down.
And let me tell you something.
You know when um Hillary made the basket of deplorable speech?
Right.
It reminded me right away of when Howard Dean had his meltdown on TV.
Now her style is totally different from the he had a screaming meltdown, you know?
And it was the end of him.
That was it for him.
He was toast.
But when Hillary had her basket of deplorables meltdown, she went into like a trance.
And if you play that segment, every time they play it, I think, and here's the trance right here.
Right.
And here's the meltdown.
But it's a calmer t type of meltdown, but it's it shows her full face.
It shows what she is, and she comes off as a snob, which is a terrible thing to come off as.
No, that's that's absolutely never mind.
They both have money.
But he comes off as a down to earth person, you know, like the average Joe that his father worked himself up and he worked himself up.
No, he doesn't do that thing that where rich which is one of the things people don't like about rich people.
Right, right.
Uh where they pretend to be a man of the people.
And you know, but it's not an act with Trump.
He is like that.
I live in the city.
No, no, that's I lived in New York City for over twenty-five years.
And uh for the most part, they're colorblind people.
You cannot be uh a bigot in New York.
There are too many people to be It's too much of a melting pot.
No, and he doesn't even think like that.
He's like someone he runs beauty contests where you get beautiful women uh from all over the world, and as long as they're beautiful, you don't care what uh what color uh they are.
He's he you can't prosper in New York without working uh with all kinds of people of uh from every background uh and you can't have a global business like Trump does uh without understanding other cultures, other people's all the rest of it.
So this idea that he's some kind of narrow-minded bigot is is as a completely ridiculous thing and isn't going anywhere.
But just to go on this uh Bonnie about this uh basket of deplorables thing.
This is very interesting.
There's a there's a piece today um uh arguing, I think it's by the chief political editor of Yahoo, for whatever that's worth, and uh she's arguing that in fact this is a brilliant strategy from Hillary, and she's trapped Trump into walking into the trap and the basket of deplorables thing, which she did, as you say, she did it at this private dinner, Bonnie, where with the LGBTQ, I always lose it after the cue.
What what's the next couple of letters?
I can't remember.
Anyway, whatever it is, the LGBTQII, I think there's uh question, two cues, questioning or something.
And uh she's she was there while she was infecting uh Barbara Streisand with pneumonia, she suddenly unburdened herself of this of this casual thought.
And it's interesting to me because uh I was passing through London during the Brexit vote back in June, and in the run up to the campaign, they had done the same thing there, that they had demonized the Brexit, the people who wanted to leave the European Union, uh demonize them as all the phobes, the bigots, the racists, the Islamophobes, all the things that uh Hillary's putting in her basket of deplorables.
And two things can happen when you do that.
You can make some people think, oh yes, this political position I'm sympathetic to, um, it's not quite respectable.
So I don't want to be with all those horrible, beastly, bigoted, deplorable people, so I'm going to move away from them and go with all the nice people, like Hillary or the people who want to remain in the European Union or whatever.
Uh but there's another thing that can happen too, that when you tell half the electorate that they're bigots, that they're racists, that they're sexists, that they're homophobes, that they're Islamophobes, that they're transphobes, uh and they'll be a new phobe uh along any minute, because it's like the number twenty-two bus, and you bigots will always be on the wrong side of it, then something else sometimes happens.
Is that people uh people sometimes just go quiet or they give dishonest answers to pollsters.
So you're told for for example, that you're a bigot and a racist and an Islamophobe if you support Britain leaving the European Union.
And then Gallup call up twenty minutes later and say, uh who are you supporting uh in the referendum?
And you say and you and you think, well, I don't want the nice man from Gallup to think I'm a bigot.
So you actually give him a dishonest answer.
And the polls were all completely wrong in Brexit on the Brexit vote.
The people voted the people had been told that they were uh bigots and homophobes and racists and all the rest of it, and they voted to leave the European Union.
And that's what happened there.
That's that's what happened there.
That if you tell people these are not respectable opinions, you won't get an honest answer when you try to poll them.
And so there's a danger for Hillary in going down that route.
Uh it's really uh it's it's it's it's not a it doesn't always work to tell people that this is not a respectable opinion.
Now there's a story that, you know, it's not an important story.
Uh but it's uh it came up uh came up uh in the news today that Elton John gave this big concert in Hyde Park in London, uh was broadcast live on the BBC.
And this guy uh tries to blow it up.
He wants to blow it up.
He's a terrorist and he's making nail bombs to blow it up.
And the terrorist's name, go on, take a wild guess.
Well, the terrorist name is Hilsain Ali Saeed.
And he's and a teenager who wants to blow up Elton John with a nail bomb and kill all Elton John's fans.
And this is presented in the in the uh i in the press reports as teen.
Teen wants to teen arrested for attempting to blow up Elton John concert.
So why would a teen, a teen want to blow up an Elton John concert?
Well, he's not a teen.
He's a jihadist.
He's a Muslim who uh supports ISIS, watches ISIS videos.
Why does he want to blow up Elton John?
Could it be that Elton John is like the most famous homosexual on the pub on the planet and these uh uh uh ISIS supporters hate homosexuals and in Isis land they want to throw them off the building.
Uh could that be why this m Hussein Ali Said, this teen, quote teen unquote, wants to blow up the Elton John concert.
And that's how normal people talk about it, right?
That's how everyone Well my Mike now is suggesting that he didn't like the Lion King.
He'd heard hakuna hakuna mutata one time too often.
Can you feel the love tonight?
He wasn't feeling it.
Uh so he decides to blow Now that's a that's a theory that I might be proven wrong.
He might be Lion Kingophobic.
But he might just be uh one of many people who uh has gone on the internet, he's found ISIS, he wants to be a jihadist, and he wants to kill all the people that the Isis guys kill, and who's who do the ISIS guys like to kill?
They like to kill Jews, they like to kill Christians, uh they like to kill the women who are too old to take as sex slaves, and they like to throw the homosexuals off of buildings.
Okay, so uh so who's oh look, Elton John's giving a concert.
Maybe I'll blow That's how normal people talk about these things.
They think that it's not co uh and again when you read these stories, they're all the same, and the police statements are all the same.
Oh, his uh uh uh Mohammed Mohammed got together with his friend Mohammed and uh Mohammed's cousin Mohammed, and uh they decided to go into a church and uh stab a priest.
And people think, oh uh the the police say their motive remains unclear.
Oh really?
Well it isn't unclear to anybody who's more uh sentient than an earthworm.
Everybody else understands exactly what's going on there.
But the media and the Democrat Party and half the Republican Party all say you can't talk about this stuff, honestly.
You can't talk about it.
If you do, you're an Islamophobe.
No, no, no.
It's actually this guy who tried to kill Elton John, he's the homophobe.
In fact, he's so homophobic, he wants to blow Elton John apart with the nail bomb and all the guys uh singing along to Can You Feel the Love Tonight while they're sitting in the park there enjoying him.
But but but the the modern uh repressive quasi totalitarian, anti-free speech world of political correctness says you cannot state what is perfectly obvious to anyone more sentient than an amoeba.
Uh you are not allowed to say that.
And that is and and that is incidentally another reason uh for not voting for Hillary Clinton, because they no longer pretend there are two sides on these things.
And that's what the basket of deplorables thing.
It isn't just that she's just insulting half the electorate.
It goes slightly beyond that.
Because the difference these days between the left and the right is this.
The right says, I happen to disagree with your position on gay marriage or climate change or transgendered bathrooms, whatever it is.
Whereas the left increasingly says, I disagree with your right to have a position on gay marriage or climate change or transgendered bathrooms.
There's only one correct view, and you're not allowed to go beyond it.
And that's what that's what really she's telling you with the basket of deplorables remark.
And far too many people have gone along with it too.
Michael Gerson, very nice chap, he was Bush's speechwriter, he's now got a column in the Washington Post, and he says that Trump has licensed all these racists and he's made them respectable.
He's basically gone the basket of deplorables route, Mike Gerson has.
And I'm sorry, I don't buy that.
There's only two parties in this country.
There's Only two parties, and they've been the same two lousy, stinking rotten parties for a hundred and fifty years.
Don't ask me why.
Northern Ireland has got seventeen different parties represented uh between Westminster and the local thing.
So there's part whichever sliver of of tribal opinion you happen to identify with, uh there's somebody one for you to vote for there.
But here there's just the two.
And a certain proportion of people in any society are always going to be scummy people, right?
But there isn't a scummy party.
It's a two-party system.
So every each of the two parties has unrespectable people voting for it.
That's just the nature of the system.
And the reason uh and and the correct answer when Mike Pence gave his uh response on David Duke, whom nobody here uh David Duke is someone nobody hears of except every four years when uh uh a Republican Party candidate has to disavow him.
Otherwise nobody knows who this guy is.
He could have died in 1972 for all we know, but he just exists uh to trap Republican candidates on uh t on TV.
Nobody ever says nobody ever says to Hillary Clinton, are you gonna disavow Al Sharpton?
And until they do, take your basket of deplorables and sit on it the next time you fall in the street.
It's completely ridiculous.
It's completely ridiculous.
Uh and and that is exactly what what is and and as I said, the danger for the Democrats is this.
The people just go quiet and they don't give honest answers.
So that what looks like, you know, forty-one forty to Hillary may in fact be, you know, actually substantially worse than that, as it turned out for all those snobbish, elitist pro-European Union uh metropolitan types sneering at the people during the Brexit campaign in the UK.
Mark Stein Farush, more straight ahead.
Hey, open line Friday on America's number one radio show.
Let us go to James in Reno, Nevada.
James, what's on your mind?
Greetings, Mark.
Uh huge fan of yours here.
Uh listen, uh I I'd like uh to know your reaction to the Brexit vote and whether you see any parallels uh uh with the situation in Europe uh uh and and ours here in the States.
Yeah, I think I think there are actually uh parallels for exactly the same thing, that they're that the gap between the ruled and the rulers uh has widened to the point that it is now untenable.
They simply don't they simply there's a huge gulf between how a significant chunk of the electorate in Western societies think of things uh and how they're they're essentially homogenous political class ruling over them thinks about thinks about it.
Basically because the the present arrangements don't work for them.
Uh that mass immigration uh has meant that for some people they're in a permanent economic desbond.
The good times, as Trump said yesterday, uh the hard times never go away.
You don't have to drive far from wherever you live in America.
Drive forty miles in almost any direction, and you'll come to towns where that is that is true, James.
And that's also true in Britain.
Uh that's true in Germany, where Angela Merkel's led in a couple of million uh so-called refugees.
That's true in Sweden, which I think might be the first Western country to collapse from all this.
Uh not only but it's not an economic issue.
It's like uh th the economic uh picture is permanently flat, and at the same time you're in this profoundly uncertain cultural shift too, where everything's changing all around you, and you're suddenly told uh that uh that that y as in Britain that you have uh gender segregated swimming sessions for Muslims in the municipal swimming pool, uh that the men and women have to sit in different areas and all this.
So you don't even have the consolations of culture.
Everything, it's not just the economic disparity, but it's it's the cultural onslaught too.
And we'll explore that a bit later in the next uh couple of hours.
But that is exactly what underpinned the Brexit vote.
It underpinned Angela Merkel's defeat in the uh German state election a couple of weeks ago, and it's underpinning what's going on in a lot of the rest of the Western world too.
Mark Stein in Ferush, lots more still to come.
Mark Stein in Farush, there's uh some fantastic pictures of the uh Loch Ness Monster in the papers today, with three hoops of the monster's long body uh splashing through the water.
Actually, quite incredible, by a photographer called um Ian Bremner.
And this is like the first really good picture of the slippery Loch Ness monster in years.
Apparently, the Loch Ness monster apparently overheated and dehydrated slightly and has been resting up for a while, but is now back in terrific form, and there's this great three hoop picture of the Loch Ness monster in all the papers.
Mark Stein for Rush, open line Friday.
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