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RUSH: George in South Windsor, Connecticut, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Republican daddy dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir. Nice to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I remember the Friday before you left on vacation, Carol called, last caller of the day, big Steelers fan, and unfortunately she wasn\u2019t in a financial situation to go, and impromptu like you always do, and as generous as you are, you ended up finding a way to get her tickets to the game. I\u2019d love to know how she made out. But then, you know, I kind of compare it to the woman at the press conference yesterday<\/a>, who I think is a plant. Now, I feel bad for her situation, and I think there are millions of people like that, but, you know, Barack gives her a kiss on the cheek for patronizing reasons. He wanted something —<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — out of that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — did you watch this or did you just read about it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I saw it on TV.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you notice when you were watching on TV, when Obama goes up to give Henrietta the peck on the cheek, the woman in the background mouths ‘I love you, Barack.\u2019 Did you notice that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, well, I didn\u2019t know what she said, but you could see —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, it\u2019s ‘I love you, Barack\u2019, or I love you, Obama, she was swooning.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And, you know, again, that was calculated, as far as I\u2019m concerned. What you did for that woman, Carol, was genuine, it was impromptu, and everything that he does is so calculating and for such a reason, and to tug at someone\u2019s heartstrings or, you know, just victimize people again —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You may have a point here. That whole town meeting in Fort Myers, Florida, looked like the Oprah show. This is the kind of stuff Oprah does, bring in the downtrodden, the disadvantaged, people who have been victimized by evil Republicans and then give \u2019em what they don\u2019t have, and everybody starts crying. (crying) ‘Oprah!\u2019 And then everybody\u2019s happy \u2019til the recipients find out they have to pay the gift tax or the imputed income tax and they give it all back, you know, because —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because Oprah doesn\u2019t go all the way. Remember she gave away all those cars and the people gave them back because she wasn\u2019t paying the sales tax on the cars and there was imputed income, which is what got Daschle in trouble. At any rate, let me tell you the story about Carol. I appreciate your kind words. Let me tell you the story about Carol, \u2019cause it ended up famously, but it almost never got started. It was the last call of the day on a Friday before the Super Bowl. I had my call screener computer display here to my left, and we\u2019re in the middle of a break, and I looked just to get an idea who\u2019s coming next, and Snerdley has Carol from Pensacola, and I don\u2019t remember the subject line, it was about the Super Bowl, the Steelers, and we had spent most of the hour talking about that so I would wrap up with that. I turned back to the computer to do even more show prep even though there was only two minutes left in the show — I never stop — I turned back, and Snerdley has switched on me, and he\u2019s moved to a caller at the bottom of the list, I don\u2019t know who the caller was. <\/p>\n

Now, normally I follow Snerdley\u2019s instincts on this. For some reason, on the IFB, I said, ‘Why did you switch the caller? I want to take the woman from Pensacola.\u2019 So he switched her back up there, I had no idea what she was going to say, and it turned out she had been out of work, she was from Pittsburgh and had been out of work for a year, 58 years old, living with one of her kids, son or daughter, trying to make ends meet and she was very complimentary of me. She said, ‘Even more than seeing the Steelers, I\u2019d love to meet and talk with you.\u2019 She was very sweet and very nice. Well, I had an Internet chat line open with Kathryn who was working the Super Bowl, and she was listening to the program, and she said, ‘I could get a couple tickets in the lower end zone.\u2019 I said, ‘Carol, we could get you a couple tickets. How many do you need?\u2019 ‘Well, I\u2019d like to get five but I wouldn\u2019t dare ask for that many.\u2019 ‘We can\u2019t get five,\u2019 Kathryn said, ‘but I could get two.\u2019 <\/p>\n

And then the next note, Carol is now starting to cry, and I said, ‘Carol, guess what, we could get you a hotel room for you and your son.\u2019 ‘Well, that\u2019s great, but I don\u2019t think we can afford to –‘ ‘Don\u2019t worry, we\u2019ll take care of that.\u2019 It turned out that she drove down and we compensated her and her son for the gasoline. So they came down, and I had a bunch of clients over there for the game, and on Saturday night the clients hosted Carol and her son. So Carol and her son spent Saturday night with my guests over there, and just had a ball. They went to the game and so forth. It worked out perfect. She got to see her Steelers win one of the greatest Super Bowls ever played. She sent me a great thank-you note. If it hadn\u2019t been for me, if I\u2019d have left it up to Snerdley, the call would have never made it on the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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