{"id":36367,"date":"2010-09-10T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:35:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:35:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:35:15","slug":"boring_obama_presser_is_a_flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/09\/10\/boring_obama_presser_is_a_flop\/","title":{"rendered":"Boring. Obama. Presser. Is. A. Flop."},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p> RUSH: Why&#8230; is&#8230; he&#8230; uh&#8230; talking&#8230; uh&#8230; this&#8230; way? He\u2019s even got a teleprompter in there and he\u2019s still talking like that. He\u2019s putting a period not at the end of every sentence, but at the end of every word. I\u2019m talking about Obama and this abomination of a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny South Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yahoo. He said he wanted to close Guantanamo Bay sooner but we missed the deadline. We&#8230; missed&#8230; the&#8230; dead&#8230;line. This thing\u2019s been going on for over an hour, and&#8230; that\u2019s&#8230; why. He\u2019s putting a period at the end of every word. <\/p>\n<p>Greetings, folks, ready to have you here, telephone number if you want to be on the program. 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125106.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright\"\/>So Jake Tapper, he actually called him Jacob Tapper out there, from ABC News, one of the remaining employees at ABC News that David Westin hasn\u2019t jettisoned. Jake Tapper stood up there and asked Obama some health care questions. He said, &#8216;Costs are really going up out there but you said the costs are going to be going down out there, and what do you have to say about the Democrats running ads against health care on the campaign trail.\u2019 And Obama said, &#8216;We never said it was going to be free.\u2019 You didn\u2019t say it but you pretty damn well implied it. He said, &#8216;When you start adding 32 million new people to the insurance rolls it\u2019s going to cost some money.\u2019 Yeah, but he didn\u2019t say that during the run-up to all this. In fact &#8212; I\u2019m paraphrasing this &#8212; he said, &#8216;The reason health care costs are going up is because we\u2019re now ensuring 32 million more people,\u2019 but that\u2019s not true. We\u2019re not doing that right now. At the moment we are not. <\/p>\n<p>There are no previously uninsured people who are being uninsured. That hasn\u2019t kicked in yet, and yet the costs are still going up. And the government\u2019s out there saying, &#8216;Don\u2019t blame us. Blame insurance companies.\u2019 The insurance company says, &#8216;Don\u2019t blame us. Blame the government.\u2019 And the people walking into the free clinics, &#8216;How much is this gonna cost? I thought it was free.\u2019 Obama said, &#8216;No, we never said it was going to be free.\u2019 What Obama said was, insuring the uninsured was gonna make costs go down, because we were paying for them anyway but now we were gonna get \u2019em insured and somehow this was gonna make \u2019em go down. This has been incoherent. I had a friend of mine send me a note: &#8216;Why&#8230; is&#8230; he&#8230; talking&#8230; like&#8230; this&#8230; throughout&#8230; the&#8230; press&#8230; conference?\u2019 I said, &#8216;Obviously there\u2019s no prompter there, he\u2019s unsure of himself.\u2019 There is a prompter! There\u2019s a picture of Jacob Tapper in the East Room, and there\u2019s a prompter over his shoulder, what looks like the corner. So somebody is feeding Obama answers, and maybe&#8230; the&#8230; prompter&#8230; is&#8230; rolling&#8230; slow. He\u2019s got a prompter at a press conference. I was trying to cut him some slack, there\u2019s no prompter in there, but obviously there is. <\/p>\n<p>Jake Tapper asked him about the fringe figure in Florida, the minister with the flock of 50. And Jake Tapper said, &#8216;Why are you elevating this guy? He\u2019s clearly somebody on the fringe.\u2019 And Obama said, &#8216;Burning the sacred text of another person\u2019s religion is contrary to our religion.\u2019 What religion is ours? I didn\u2019t know that we had a religion. If he said that, that would be newsworthy because I don\u2019t think we have a national religion. I might have misheard this \u2019cause as&#8230; he&#8230; was&#8230; talking&#8230; like&#8230; this&#8230; I\u2019m sitting there going nuts. Would you please speed it up! He\u2019s an hour and ten minutes into this. Why do one of these press conferences an hour before this program starts knowing full well I\u2019m going to have all this time to dissect it? <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: Obama kept complaining about the Republicans in this press conference, can\u2019t get anything done because of the Republicans. He\u2019s got 59 Senate Democrats, he has 255 Democrats in the House &#8212; all he needs is 219, 214, whatever it is &#8212; and the Republicans are to blame. This foretells exactly why I don\u2019t think he cares if the Democrats lose the House, or even Senate, in November. I mean, he\u2019s trying to blame the Republicans; can\u2019t stop him on anything. Maybe in the Senate with Scott Brown, depending on how he goes, but, I mean, Jake Tapper was right (paraphrase): &#8216;Mr. President, how come so many Democrats running for reelection are campaigning, running ads, against health care?\u2019 You should\u2019ve heard that wandering answer! &#8216;Well, uh, you know, uh, uh, uh, e-lec-tions, uh, well, uh\u2019 &#8212; &#8216;impotent\u2019 is the word to describe this. The more Obama talks, the less he becomes&amp;hellip; <\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125106.Par.4584.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright\"\/>You know what? If the media, three years ago, if the media had spent half the time trying to figure out who Barack Obama is, just half the time as they have spent on who is this pastor in Florida, Terry Jones, if they would have invested half as much time in Obama as they have in this preacher, he might not be president today. Do you realize, a guy with a flock of 50 in the church, who\u2019s talking about burning some books, he\u2019s getting more media attention than the president of the United States got, in terms who he is, what motivates him, what\u2019s inspired him, how did he turn out this way, how did he become such a fringe figure? Which is understandable, because that\u2019s who they are &#8212; they\u2019re protecting Obama. They\u2019re all members of the ruling class; he\u2019s one of them. <\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/>But I tell you, the more he spoke in this press conference, the less he became. What we have here is a man wandering aimlessly in vain search of a thought in this press conference today. He has no answers for his failures, none, other than it was really bad when I got here and if I hadn\u2019t done what I\u2019ve done, why, we\u2019d be even worse now. Bush this, Bush that. (interruption) Oh. Okay, I\u2019ll do that. I\u2019ll summarize his opening remarks before he got to the questions (paraphrase): &#8216;We believe in government. We believe in regulations. We don\u2019t believe in free markets. We have good intentions, and those that oppose our Central Planning don\u2019t. Progress is slow.\u2019 That\u2019s how he started it out. That\u2019s essentially what he said. <\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/>And then he gave a really over-the-top good-bye to Christina Romer. I think he might be trying to buy her silence. I mean, she has nothing &#8212; no great shakes here, no great service, but he just talked about this woman as the greatest thing that ever happened to economics, and she splits the scene, heads back to Berkeley. And then another professor has been named to replace her at the Council of Economic Advisors, Austan Goolsbee, and the Washington Post has a story, he\u2019s the funniest man in the administration. This guy is a dryball! This guy makes watching bread bake exciting, and they say he\u2019s the funniest guy in the administration. Austan Goolsbee is the new chairman of the economic advisors. <\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/>Tomorrow, Obama says, we\u2019re going to be commemorating the heartbreak of 9\/11. The heartbreak 9\/11? With a day of service. A day of service. He said that last year, too. Wants to turn this into a day of service, where people give their time to the government. He said, middle class &#8212; this is at 11:10, about ten minutes into the press conference &#8212; middle-class families have been struggling for a decade before I got into office, which is&amp;hellip; decades! He rips Clinton as well, not just Bush. And then he said, &#8216;For all the progress that we\u2019ve made, we\u2019re not there yet.\u2019 What progress? That\u2019s a good question. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: Second question that Obama got from a Reuters reporter. Says he cannot understand why he can\u2019t get a small business bill passed. Says it\u2019s been over two months. He said he can\u2019t understand why he can\u2019t get it passed. That looks weak. Impotent. He\u2019s got huge majorities. His party owns Congress. He can\u2019t get anything done. Third question. He lamented that he can\u2019t get Democrats and Republicans to agree on a beefed-up highway bill. That makes him look impotent as well. He says he ought to be trying to stimulate growth and jobs, but he\u2019s failed to do that so far. I\u2019m paraphrasing this, but this is how it all came out. (paraphrase) &#8216;I\u2019m concerned about a lot of Senate confirmations these days. I can\u2019t get a vote on it.\u2019 Well, more impotence. He\u2019s got historically high majorities in his party in the Congress, and he can\u2019t get votes. <\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/>Look it. This election year, everybody wants to get reelected, and the Democrats are telling us exactly what the American people think of the Obama regime: they don\u2019t want to be tied to it in any way, shape, manner, or form because it is a huge failure as far as the country is concerned. And then F. Chuck Todd came in there, &#8216;How do you change Washington?\u2019 I can answer: Obama made it bigger! But he says he hasn\u2019t been able to do much.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know what essentially the Democrat campaign slogan is this campaign, this election? &#8216;It woulda been even worse without us.\u2019 Now, you might be able to get tenure at some university by saying, &#8216;It woulda been worse without me,\u2019 but you don\u2019t get elected to office by saying it, which is what they\u2019re essentially going to have to say, which is what Obama\u2019s press conference today is all about, (imitating Obama) &#8216;Well, it would have been much worse if we hadn\u2019t implemented the ideas and policies that we did.\u2019 Most of the questions in the presser today seemed to have a common theme, and the theme was, &#8216;Why have you failed? Why haven\u2019t you delivered on what you promised? Why haven\u2019t you changed &#8211;&#8216; Well, they didn\u2019t use the word. &#8216;Why haven\u2019t you changed Washington?\u2019 You know, why haven\u2019t the sea levels sunk? F. Chuck Todd said, &#8216;How do you change Washington?\u2019 Obama made Washington bigger. He says, well, he\u2019s not been able to change Washington. He says it\u2019s frustrating that he hasn\u2019t been able to change Washington. The economy was bad, the Republicans are to blame, and I haven\u2019t been able to change things. I really wish I could. I thought just by virtue of his aura and presence things were going to change. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125106.Par.90644.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" class=\"alignright\"\/>I have some questions that I would have asked Obama at the press conference. One of the questions would have been: &#8216;What do you think of Fidel Castro saying that ideas like yours won\u2019t work? Do you have any reaction, Mr. President, to el presidente conceding that the Cuban model is not even working for them?\u2019 Of course we weren\u2019t gonna get that question. Obama\u2019s out there saying, (imitating Obama) &#8216;Well, you know, in the housing problem, the problem is people were exploited and folks didn\u2019t understand their mortgages.\u2019 Well, folks didn\u2019t understand their mortgages and now thanks to Obama, folks can\u2019t understand their health care. I mean there\u2019s a whole lot more that folks aren\u2019t going to be able to understand anymore because Obama\u2019s dipped his finger into the jar here. <\/p>\n<p>Okay, so here are my questions if I had been an accredited journalist at the Obama press conference today. &#8216;If the Ground Zero mosque is built, Mr. President, will you assist with the ribbon cutting or will you send Michelle Obama to assist with the ribbon cutting at the mosque? How will you handle that?\u2019 Number two: &#8216;What\u2019s been more difficult since you were immaculated: fadeaway jump shot from the three-point line or keeping the ball in the fairway off the tee?\u2019 &#8216;Referring to the Gulf oil leak, Mr. President, you said your daughter asked you while shaving, &#8216;Did you plug the whole yet, Daddy?\u2019 Mr. President, anybody in the family ever ask you if you created a private sector job yet, Daddy? Anybody ask you why Democrats don\u2019t want to appear with you in public and won\u2019t advertise their votes on Obamacare and the stimulus bill?\u2019 Of course Jake Tapper did ask him that. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;How would you answer your daughter, Mr. President, if she said, &#8216;Why are so many Democrats in favor of extending the Bush tax cuts, daddy?\u2019 You felt the need to appoint a commission to advise you how to cut the deficit that you and Pelosi and Reid created. You have a secretary of state that says your deficits are a national security threat.\u2019 We talked about this yesterday. Hillary Clinton categorized them that way. &#8216;You promised that your $1 trillion stimulus bill would keep unemployment under 8% and now you\u2019re asking for more money because unemployment\u2019s stuck at nearly 10%. Do you realize how ridiculous you sound blaming John Boehner for this?\u2019 I mean these some of the questions that I would ask. &#8216;Your friend, the domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, was once photographed in the New York Times proudly standing on an American flag. Would it bother you if he was pictured standing on a Bible or a Koran? And if defiantly standing on the flag, Bible, or Koran now seems inappropriate to you, why isn\u2019t a mosque backed by an imam who supports terrorist groups such as Hamas offensive to you? I mean, the New York Times has had pictures of Muslims burning Bibles and standing on the American flag in Gaza and elsewhere, and this has not cited Americans to riot, yet, Mr. President, you agree with the imam that if some Korans are burned that it\u2019s natural to expect that our troops will be in danger and that the militant Muslims are going to rise up out there. Isn\u2019t this a tantamount admission that our whole policy in this area is ridiculously flawed?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s just some of the stuff that I would ask. I mean, really, &#8216;impotent\u2019 is the word that it would use. I&#8230; could&#8230; not&#8230; believe&#8230; the&#8230; way&#8230; he&#8230; was&#8230; I mean, people have told me the way William Shatner used to do his lines like that. I know William Shatner, I\u2019ve gotten know William Shatner, Barack Obama has never sounded like he sounded today, not even when he was Spock, or Kirk. William Shatner when he recited his lines in Boston Legal, rat-tat-tat, some of the funniest, I don\u2019t know what people are talking about William Shatner sounding like Obama today. Well, I know, there was no um or uh, with William Shatner. Speaking of Castro, this guy\u2019s press conferences, Obama\u2019s becoming more tedious than Castro\u2019s. <\/p>\n<p>Crystal in Irvine, California. Nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi, Rush. I was just watching a couple minutes of the press conference, and Obama said that Afghanistan is the second poorest country in the world. Did you hear that?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125106.Par.57694.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" class=\"alignright\"\/>CALLER: He said that. I don\u2019t really know what the point he was making, but as an econ teacher I knew that wasn\u2019t true and I looked it up and they\u2019re the 19th poorest country in the world and the only citation I found that had them in the top ten was under the UN rankings. So I don\u2019t know if he just misspoke but I know that liberals lie for a reason usually, but I don\u2019t know why &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: They lie to suit the occasion. They do. He was asked during this press conference, &#8216;You haven\u2019t captured Bin Laden yet.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And Afghanistan is the focus of some military efforts now that he owns, and look, he\u2019s a liberal. It\u2019s natural he looks at suffering. That\u2019s all he sees &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; anywhere in the world, and to just come outta nowhere with the second poorest country in the world &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah, and no one in the press conference said, you know, Ethiopia, Somalia, it\u2019s not even in the top ten.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Crystal, they don\u2019t know, either.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I know. I know. <\/p>\n<p>RUSH: They only know what the press office tells them in the White House. That\u2019s all they know.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I didn\u2019t know if there was a larger point to that. You know, sometimes they lie to set a foundation for some bigger lie, but I thought maybe he just misspoke, maybe he doesn\u2019t know, or maybe &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: In this case it\u2019s pathological. Whatever you say is true, even if you make it up.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And maybe he has to make it so bad and then he\u2019s the savior of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Remember, these people are all about creating victims.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Everybody is a victim and the bigger victim you are &#8212; but you\u2019re right, Afghanistan is the tenth or so poorest country in the world, the other ten, nine are in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes. And for someone who\u2019s so well traveled I don\u2019t know how he could mix up 19 with two. Anyway I\u2019m a stay-at-home mom &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Speaking of that, well traveled, I wonder if the press is going to go back to his high school yearbook in Kenya and try to find any pictures of people that might be in the news today.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let me be serious for a moment on this press conference. I mean, obviously I was adding a little flavor, a little vigor to this thing, but folks, we have a serious problem because if you watched this, we\u2019re looking at somebody who is totally out of his league in this job. And this has serious consequences. He looks small up there. He looks small and frail. He looks like a boy, a man-child. A teleprompter at a press conference! A cheat sheet. The pictures I saw of the teleprompter, what was on it were answers about economic questions. He went for an hour and ten minutes and took ten questions. That\u2019s six- or seven-minute answers. Speak&#8230;ing&#8230; like&#8230; uh&#8230; this&#8230; through&#8230;out&#8230;the&#8230;press con&#8230;fer&#8230;ence. I just look at this, and it\u2019s scary to me. Seven minutes per question in his answer to this stuff. He looked frail and tiny up there. I have a couple sound bites. This is a question about health care. Jacob Tapper said, &#8216;A study from February predicted a 6.1% increase, and now they post health care a 6.3% increase, so it seems to be going up.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125106.Par.95434.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" class=\"alignright\"\/>OBAMA: No &#8212; as I said, uh, Jacob, the &#8212; I haven\u2019t read the entire study, uh, maybe you have. But, uh, you know, if &#8212; if you &#8212; if what the reports are true, what they\u2019re saying is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that\u2019s gonna increase our costs, we knew that. We didn\u2019t think that we were gonna cover 30 million people&#8230; for&#8230; free.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Did you hear that? Thirty million people&#8230;for&#8230;free. But he implied that, people walked into health clinics the day after he signed this thing wondering where free health care was. We know damn well the Democrat Party implied this was going to be free, that a bunch of millionaires were going to be paying for this and that costs were going to go down because we had to get costs down because the only way we can save the national debt and reduce the deficit was to pass health care. We\u2019ve seen nothing but rising costs here and there, various states, insurance company policies, medical treatment, costs are skyrocketing. Nothing\u2019s changed in that regard and we haven\u2019t ensured 32 million people yet, that hasn\u2019t kicked in but yet here\u2019s Obama, (imitating Obama) &#8216;Look, 30 million people, additional health care at the margins, that\u2019s gonna increase costs, we knew that. We didn\u2019t think we were gonna cover 30 million people for free.\u2019 You did to! You told us that covering the 30 million people would bring costs down because they were going to the emergency room now. <\/p>\n<p>You know, this stuff does have consequences. This is not a theory, a game, a conversation over port and cigars in the faculty lounge. This is serious stuff. He touted, &#8216;Well, I got my start in politics as a community organizer in the shadows of shut-down factories south side of Chicago.\u2019 He\u2019s back to saying he got his start in politics as a community organizer. You put all of this together and we have a frail, small, totally ill-equipped, unequipped for the job, with this massive ego that\u2019s got a grudge against the country, and he\u2019s on some mission to make amends for whatever he thinks the transgressions in the past have been in this country. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the Q&amp;amp;A with Anne Kornblut, the Washington Post. &#8216;Nine years after the September 11th attacks, why do you think it is that we\u2019re now seeing such an increase in suspicion and outright resentment of Islam, especially given it\u2019s been one of your priorities to improve relations with the Muslim world?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA: One of the things that I most admired about President Bush was after 9\/11, him being crystal clear about the fact that we were not at war with Islam. We were at war with terrorists and murderers who had perverted Islam, had stolen its banner to carry out their outrageous acts, and I was so proud of the country rallying around that idea, that notion, that we are not going to be divided by religion. We\u2019re not going to be divided by ethnicity. We are all Americans. We stand together against those who would try to do us harm. And that\u2019s what we\u2019ve done over the last nine years and we should take great pride in that.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, her question was, &#8216;Why is there so much more suspicion, resentment of Islam?\u2019 He went to Cairo, big speech in Cairo, was gonna bring us all together. NASA was to be used for Muslim outreach. Now, I do have a question in regards to all this. Mainstream Christians from across the fruited plain have risen up to uniformly publicly denounce the actions of Reverend Jones in Florida. All well and good. I have not seen Muslim counterparts rising up in unison to condemn terrorism. &#8216;That\u2019s different. That\u2019s different. That\u2019s different, oppressed minority. That\u2019s different.\u2019 Now, what\u2019s happened here is, nobody woulda known about this except the media had nothing to talk about one day so they\u2019re elevating Terry Jones\u2019 burning a couple Korans, and now some other wacko ministers are saying if he doesn\u2019t, I\u2019m going to. There\u2019s a bunch of them out there saying, &#8216;Well, if he doesn\u2019t do it, I will.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>So AP, the trusty, trustworthy, dependable AP, has sent out a directive to all of their subscribers. By the way, AP is the only wire service out there for all intents and purposes. And AP has sent out a directive. If any Korans are burned on 9\/11, we are not going to report it, we are not going to feed any pictures, don\u2019t expect any of that from us. But if somebody happens to trash the American flag or set it on fire we\u2019ll be the first to show you. We will be the first to tell you. You can count on the AP. Somebody stands on the flag; somebody burns a Bible; somebody sets the flag on fire, you can count on us at AP, we\u2019ll be in there. We\u2019ll have the first stories and the first pictures. But don\u2019t look to us for any pictures or graphics of any holy Korans that might erupt in flames on the front lawns of oddball preachers\u2019 churches.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125106.Par.30991.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignright\"\/>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you why. I\u2019ll tell you why. I\u2019m getting all kinds of e-mails during the break here: &#8216;What\u2019s the big deal about Obama\u2019s pace of speaking? What\u2019s the big deal?\u2019 I\u2019ll tell you what the big deal about it is. If it had been Reagan or Bush that&#8230; was&#8230; talk&#8230;ing&#8230; like&#8230; that, right now the media would have doctors, psychiatrists, they\u2019d be exploring what is medically wrong with the president. That\u2019s why. No. I\u2019m not suggesting there\u2019s anything medically wrong. That\u2019s for you to do. It\u2019s Friday.<\/p>\n<p>JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny South Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Hang on, folks. A little technical problem here. Plug back in. Just a second. There we go. Now I can hear myself. I became decoupled from the cochlear implant, the input, a little mix minus problem. We\u2019re back now. I did that whole open deaf. Didn\u2019t hear one word I said. Did it sound okay? They always told me that if I did not get this implant, if I lost my hearing, that once you can no longer hear yourself speak that you\u2019ll eventually start sounding like people who have never heard, like deaf people. It doesn\u2019t deteriorate that fast, but I just want to double-check. Anyway, we\u2019re back, and here\u2019s the telephone number, 800-282-2882, the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n<p>If Reagan or Bush had&#8230; been&#8230; hell, if they of had a teleprompter in a press conference, for crying out loud, particularly Reagan, we\u2019d have the dementia people on there, we\u2019d have the Alzheimer\u2019s people on there, we\u2019d have all kinds of people with the media exploring, &#8216;What\u2019s wrong with the president? We may be looking at the 22nd Amendment being invoked here. Maybe it\u2019s time for Vice President Biden,\u2019 that kind of thing.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Obama was speaking slowly. I\u2019m sorry to have made a big deal about this. I forgot. He needs a vacation. He hasn\u2019t vacation awhile. I think he\u2019s probably just tired. 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