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RUSH: Audio sound bites. As I mentioned in the previous hour, the media is doing everything it can to make excuses for poor Obama. The queen should have bailed him out. The orchestra shouldn\u2019t have started. He was poorly briefed by his staff. Today on CNN\u2019s Newsroom before Obama\u2019s address to the British parliament, Wolf Blitzer spoke with Gloria Borger and Suzanne Malveaux about Obama\u2019s upcoming address. Blitzer says, “I\u2019ll be interested if the president says anything at all about the devastation of the tornadoes in Missouri and Oklahoma. I don\u2019t know if it would be appropriate.” Well, you know, Netanyahu did. Netanyahu talked about it before Obama did. But Obama finds his way in, he said, (paraphrasing) “Don\u2019t worry, I\u2019ll be there Sunday. We\u2019re gonna rebuild every house. We\u2019re gonna rebuild every business.” Yeah, like we did in Haiti, like we did in the Porkulus and stimulus, we\u2019re gonna create all these jobs, yeah. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re not gonna rebuild every building. They\u2019re not gonna rebuild every house. And a hint for those of you in Joplin, we don\u2019t have the money. We don\u2019t have the money. I saw that Steny Hoyer says we\u2019re not broke. That\u2019s interesting. A $1.6 trillion deficit, $14 trillion national debt, up against the debt ceiling. We\u2019re not broke. The reason he\u2019s saying that is \u2019cause we\u2019ve got revenue coming in. Tax revenue. You can\u2019t possibly be broke if you\u2019ve got billions and billions and billions of revenue coming in. Broke means you have no income. We\u2019ve got income. He\u2019s making a technical point. Here\u2019s Gloria Borger opining on whether or not it would be appropriate for Obama to reference the victims in Joplin and now other places in the Midwest.<\/p>\n

BORGER: It\u2019s always a balancing act when a president travels abroad and something happens at home. We know the president on Sunday is going to go to Missouri and going to visit families who have been affected by these terrible tornadoes, and the president has spoken about it from over there. So when a president travels abroad, he cannot forget what is occurring at home, and that\u2019s first and foremost. And it\u2019s very difficult, Wolf, you see these pictures, President Obama enjoying a barbecue with the prime minister and with veterans. You see them playing paddle ball. These are the kinds of images that really don\u2019t sit well when they\u2019re juxtaposed with people who have seen everything, their homes, their lives ravaged by these tornadoes, and it always is a difficult thing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah. Did they ever talk this way about Bush and Katrina? A pointless rhetorical question, of course. (interruption) What Steny Hoyer means, Snerdley, when he says we\u2019re not broke, we still have checks in our checkbook. I can still write a check. That means that I\u2019m not broke. That\u2019s how they define it. So those darn tornadoes, they\u2019re just ruining Obama\u2019s vacation. I mean that\u2019s what Malveaux and Borger basically said, darn tornadoes ruining our guy\u2019s vacation. Jack Cafferty, however, the curmudgeon at CNN is not buying this.<\/p>\n

CAFFERTY: What message is conveyed by pictures of President Obama downing a pint of Guinness and laughing it up with the Irish people or playing ping-pong with the British prime minister while the people of Joplin, Missouri, search through the wreckage of their lives looking for dead family members? We have already experienced the worst tornado outbreak in the last 50 years. Meanwhile, we\u2019ve airlifted the first family and that gang that travels with them to Europe for six days of hobnobbing with various heads of state, eating the finest foods, drinking the finest wines, while Mother Nature tears the heart out of innocent people\u2019s lives. Remember Katrina and the pathetic response of the Bush administration to the utter destruction of the city of New Orleans? I can\u2019t help but think that voters remembered well Katrina when they stepped into the booth in 2008 and elected America\u2019s first African-American president.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wolf Blitzer was in a panic. This happened on his show. So Blitzer steps in here to try to save the day.<\/p>\n

BLITZER: You know, Jack, he is gonna go there on Sunday after he returns from Europe.<\/p>\n

CAFFERTY: I\u2019m aware of that, Wolf.<\/p>\n

BLITZER: Okay. Thanks, Jack.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. You know, Jack, dial it back a little bit, old buddy. He is going in there on Sunday after he returns. I\u2019m aware of that, Wolf. Okay, thanks, Jack. Just wanted you to know. Tornado\u2019s trying to make Obama look bad, not just talk radio. What\u2019s in store for tornadoes.<\/p>\n

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