http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/09/23/obama_uses_the_pope_to_put_their_common_agenda_on_paradeObama Uses the Pope to Put Their Common Agenda on Parade
September 23, 2015
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RUSH: Let's go to the audio sound bites. The White House this morning -- you know, this was markedly different, before we get to sound bites, just remember this. During the second term of George W. Bush, Pope Benedict showed up, and it was his birthday, and I was so moved by that that I, actually, right at 12 noon, I called the White House and I asked for somebody, it was Karl Rove, "I just need 30 seconds. I don't want him to go on the air, I just need 30 seconds with the president."
"I don't think so. There's no way, no, we can't, but let me check." And they got him. And I spent just 30 seconds telling him how moving that entire ceremony was for me, and it was, folks. I'm not saying anything about this one today, it was different. Kathleen Battle, great opera soprano sang "happy birthday" to Pope Benedict, and it was the most powerful rendition of "happy birthday to you" I have ever heard.
The US Army Chorus sang The Battle Hymn of the Republic, and it was the most moving version of that. I was so moved by it, I recorded the audio of that off of television. The television audio was not that great, and I have a dubbed copy of it on iTunes. And after that I went out and tried to find the actual studio recording of that. I got as close as I could to it, but the whole -- (interruption) yeah, I know, we rolled it off. We have that here. It was just moving. I know you people listening replayed this over and over again. President Bush was just stellar.
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