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June 9, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 9, 2005, Thursday, Hour #3
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Boy and Michael Jackson jury is really working hard, aren't they?
About four and a half hours a day on this case.
Well, they go from 8.30 to 2.30, and then they get a bunch of breaks in there.
Gotta love that California lifestyle.
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Uh Bob Geldoff uh is uh the former uh uh ringleader of the Boomtown Rats, and the organizer of the first live aid is doing another one, uh you may have heard.
And you know, some people are starting to raise some questions about this.
I mean, then they're valid questions.
Uh the the the really we're we're researching, by the way.
I've I've got working on this ever since Bush and Blair announced another 658 million to Africa yesterday.
Uh I want to find out, just in the last 20 or 30 years, how much money we've actually sent to Africa in through various uh uh arms.
Uh just our foreign age budget, how much that we send to the UN goes to Africa, all these different things.
I want to prove the point that just throwing money over there is not the answer.
It never is.
Look at our own situation with poverty, and theirs is 30,000 times worse, but look at our own.
We've never been able to eradicate poverty.
We've transferred in this country since the great of Lyndon Johnson over five trillion dollars, or maybe more than that now, to wipe out poverty.
It didn't.
Uh welfare reform did, where you try to attach some uh incentive, but over there we've got we've got you don't have freedom.
I mean, you don't you don't even know the money is getting to the people it's intended for.
It's not it's not enough to say that you have corrupt governments over there.
You've got communist governments over there.
You've got militant Islamic governments.
You've got you've got governments like Mugabe, you got governments like existed with Mohammed Farah Adid Skyhook, the uh the warlord in Somalia.
Uh uh Ethiopia was a government-sponsored famine, and Gildorf didn't realize it till he actually went over there and uh followed some of the trucks around himself, and he found out it was the government that was denying all of this uh relief aid uh to the people.
It's typical of communist or tyrannical despot totalitarian governments.
They end up killing their own people.
Uh but here's what we have learned so far.
And this is it's this is another thing.
It is so complex to try to figure out how much money the United States has given to Africa in any given period of time.
We have somebody on the inside at the government level that's working on this for us.
And the range on humanitarian and related aid this year.
Three to nineteen billion.
Now I know it's a huge range, but somewhere this year alone, between three and nineteen billion, has been sent from this country in one way or another to Africa.
Now, it's so complex, getting a handle on it is gonna take some days.
I find it interesting that it's gonna take days to get it, because not even the government knows without looking it up.
How much we are spending in Africa.
So Geldoff is talking about his new live eight, or I think whatever it is he's calling it, and he's very very sensitive now to this charge.
Hey, wait a minute, you're throwing good money after bad here because he's another bit of a bunch of corrupt governments.
Geldoff says that people are gonna continue to die if world leaders use the excuse of corruption in Africa to stop them from helping the world's poor.
The live eight organizer demanded that leaders should get off the corruption thing and fulfill long-held promises to help the world's poor.
Uh, in response to George Bush's comments that political corruption in Africa has to be addressed before we start looking at aid to Africa, he said Africans are simply too poor to stay alive.
Anything that hits them that does not affect us, they die of.
Uh well, what look at Mr. Gildoff, I mean I'm very sensitive to your argument.
We're trying to do just that in Iraq, and people on your side of the aisle are talking about what a waste it is.
Anywhere we go where we try to get rid of a corrupt government, try to get rid of oppression and tyranny, and the left used to be all for this.
So anytime we try to do this, the left in this country just ramps up and opposes it and tries to say that we're the ones who are corrupt.
There's no winning here.
Geldoff said there are, of course, extremely corrupt governments in Africa, but there are very corrupt people in our part of the world.
The difference is that we are rich.
Okay, can I ask?
I'm going to ask the question.
I ask this question all the time.
It's a think piece.
You live in the United States of America.
You are an American.
Why is it that your country, with barely 230 years of existence, knows prosperity like no other country on earth ever has?
Countries that have been around, civilizations that have been around far longer than we have.
I mean, can't hold a candle.
And I don't care what area you care to measure.
Doesn't, it doesn't matter.
There's not a country in the world or a civilization in the world that has produced the prosperity and the standard of living.
What are you laughing at, Mr. Snerdley?
What?
Okay, what's the liberal answer to the question?
Yeah, okay, well, fine.
The liberals are going to say because the Americans came and destroyed everything, right?
Right.
Well, let me let me tell you something.
You think they had toilets in Europe before we came along?
They didn't.
They still don't have toilets in Europe that make any sense, even after we're here.
You ever been to Europe?
Use some of their toilets, even some of the finest hotels.
It's amazing.
That's just one example.
You want to drive around some of those little lawnmowers with two seats on them, they call automobiles over there?
You want to go to a hospital over there?
You want it boggles the mind.
It literally boggles the mind.
You want to go look at the agriculture over there.
You want to try to feed the world with European agriculture.
The Soviets wouldn't have been able to stay alive if we hadn't subsidized wheat sales to them all during the Cold War for crying out loud.
All they can do is put prisons on their property and put people in them.
I'm serious about this.
If these liberals want to come around and say we've exploited all the riches of the world, let them.
They couldn't be more wrong, as they are wrong about virtually everything they believe in.
We spread our wealth.
We do everything we can to uplift people.
And it just burns me a new one to listen to people like Gildoff and whoever else say we're not doing enough.
Nobody else is doing anything, and the governments of those people that are not being fed are always get somehow left out of the equation.
They never are held to account.
Only the United States is.
It's a typical liberal class envy argument, and I've lost my patience for it.
Because it's just flat out crazy, and it's wrong.
Now you ask yourself, there's an answer to my question.
Why is it we are human beings just like they are human beings in Africa?
We are human beings like they are human beings in China, in North Korea, wherever else.
Why is it that we have led the world in inventions?
Why is it that we lead the world in technology?
Why do we lead the world in standard of living?
There is a simple answer to it.
It's called freedom.
Human experience here is allowed to maximize, or permitted, whatever.
Our freedom allows human beings in this country to be the best they can be, to pursue excellence however they care to or design it.
People around the world just don't have the freedom that we do.
And certainly they don't have it in Africa.
And I would think after all these years, we have seen...
I mean, these appeals to help Africa are legendary, and they've been around forever, and we respond to every one of them.
One of the most recent was Somalia.
And you know why we went into Somalia?
Is because the New York Times kept publishing pictures of little starving black kids with flies buzzing all around them.
And after a while, the American people said, we got to do something.
We can't stand this.
I can't believe your people living like BAMO.
So we go over there and with the intention of feeding those people.
And what happened?
The warlord that ran Mogadishu in Somalia took every bit of food that we sent over there And confiscated it in order to keep his people under control.
He had no interest in feeding his people.
That led us into a military confrontation, and you all know what happened, Blackhawk Down.
Because we didn't have the guts to help the military have what they say they needed to defeat the guy once it came to that.
Now, the idea that we're not trying to help is crazy.
The idea that a bunch of rock stars can have a concert in Philadelphia make a difference.
They can make a difference to their own minds.
And everybody else will think they're big-hearted and compassionate, and they may well be.
But we've got to be realistic here about what is going to solve the problem.
Right now we're not the people are talking about solving it, but what they really mean is I want credit for caring.
And I can tell you how to do it.
And I can tell you how to do it.
And I can tell you how to spend your money, and I can tell you how to spend yours.
Well, yeah, everybody can do that.
But until there's some systematic, genuine reform in the way those people live over there, it's gonna be the same result.
I don't know why this is so hard to understand.
There are hundreds of years of history that demonstrate it.
So anyway, yeah, they're corrupt governments here in our part of the world, but we are richer than they are.
Well, why are we richer?
Our governments are rich because of what?
Our people.
This government is said to be rich.
Yeah, well, it may be, but it isn't rich until it starts taxing people.
And it can't tax what's not earned, and it can't tax what's not produced.
So, yeah, if we're rich, it's because people here have the freedom to be rich and prosper and produce, which is something that doesn't exist in these totalitarian regimes.
And I resent this business of us being compared to those African governments like Mugabe and elsewhere in Zimbabwe that...
Because, well, everybody's corrupt, some are just richer than others.
This is such ignorance.
This is this is this is just it, it's a classic illustration of liberal ignorance on parade.
Don't examine my results.
Don't examine the results.
I only want to be judged on my intentions.
Yeah, well, if we if if if we gave out stars for intentions, you liberals may deserve a couple gold ones here and there.
But when it comes to results, you get big F's.
Or sorry, we can't give Fs anymore.
What is it?
Uh, threes.
Back after this.
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We'll get to your phone calls here in just a second.
I have a story from uh the UK Times by Richard Beeston, the headline, why the West's billions may end up in the wrong hands.
The G8 summit could help to make poverty history for a number of African countries, but corruption remains a major worry.
Some of Africa's most corrupt and brutal regimes will benefit to the tune of billions of pounds from the agreement reached by Tony Blair and President Bush to write off the debts of the continent's poorest nations.
Even as the Prime Minister returned triumphant from Washington with a deal that could salvage his hopes of making Africa the centerpiece of this year's G8 summit.
The continent's woes record or woeful record on human rights, corruption, and good government was already casting a shadow over his plans.
Ethiopian police shot and killed 22 demonstrators in central Addis Ababa yesterday for protesting against fraud in recent elections.
Hospitals in the Capitol said that a further 100 were injured.
The violence was blamed on the government of Melis Zinawi, a member of Mr. Blair's Commission for Africa, the body entrusted with promoting the continent's recovery.
There were also renewed fears that Ethiopia may be about to embark on a new round in their bloody battle for control of disputed areas along their border.
This whole story describes the same situation in African country after African country after African country, Mozambique, Ghana, Guinea, Chad, and you don't even have to talk about Zimbabwe, uh, where we're gonna forgive this debt where the value of that is billions, and you wait.
You just see how much relieving the debt in these countries is gonna benefit the people who live there.
I'm gonna tell you right now, flat out zero.
Diddly squat.
Because you're still gonna be left with the same governments.
But at the end of the day, Tony Blair and everybody's gonna be able to say, look at how we cared.
Look at our generosity.
Look at what we did.
In the meantime, you want to talk about innovation.
Everybody says we have a health care crisis in America.
We have 30 million uninsured, 42 million uninsured, 150,000 uninsured, whatever it is.
Worst health care system in the world, right here, the United States of America, right?
It's just it's horrible.
Because not enough people have insurance, right?
We hear this all the time.
Well, Costco.
Costco.
The wholesale outfit.
The low-cost bulk supplier of breakfast cereal, motor oil, and diamond rings, is adding health insurance to its warehouse shelves.
In a pilot program to be launched next month in Southern California, Costco will offer family and individual coverage to its customers who pay a hundred dollars a year for executive membership, company officials said.
The insurance is aimed at people such as contractors, waiters, and students who are self-employed and cannot sign up for plans at work.
Hubbahuba.
So here you have the American free market system.
Making moves to enable those who can't afford insurance because they're self-employed for one way or another to get in on the deal.
And note it isn't the government.
And I wouldn't be surprised if some government agency, when they hear about this, is wait a minute.
Who do you think you are?
And I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the insurance company.
Well, the assurance company is probably part of this, but nevertheless, you wait.
We'll just uh we'll just see.
Esteban in Orlando, Florida, your next on Open Line Friday on Thursday.
Hello.
Hey, hey, how are you doing, Raj?
I'm fine.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, Roger.
First of all, I want to congratulate you.
Because when you talk about Cuba, you are one of the few people that really know what's going on over there.
And I really deep deep inside me.
I really appreciate that.
You read express what's going on over there.
And uh, you know, I came to this country in uh program called Peter Pan when I was 12 years old, and you were talking about freedom.
I found freedom here.
And everything I owe, everything I have, I owe to this country.
And I'm very grateful about it.
And I'm telling you, this is the biggest country in the world.
I know you only appreciate your saying that too.
And I uh the the thing that that always strikes me is that people like Esteban here, who are immigrants, legal immigrants, uh, we get calls all the time from people that used to live in the former Soviet bloc.
They have an appreciation for this country that some who are born here uh either can't have or don't have.
You just take it for granted.
You take for granted what you're born to.
But uh people who struggle to get here have a uh I think a deeper appreciation for it.
But my friends, all is not well here uh in Paradise, United States of America.
Actually, this story has nothing to do with the United States.
Well, no, yes, it does.
Yes, it does.
I'm sorry.
Let me just read you the story.
The dateline Johannesburg.
That's in South Africa.
Almost 1,000 whales, dolphins, and porpoises die daily in fishing nets, and urgent changes are needed in trawling methods to save nine populations under immediate threat, said the World Wildlife Fund today.
Its report, which the World Wildlife Fund says is the first assessment of the situation by leading marine scientists, points to the accidental catching of uh fish and other things in gear is one of the gravest global threats to marine mammals.
Almost a thousand whales, dolphins, and porpoises die every day in nets and fishing gear.
That's one every two minutes.
A f a dolphin, a porpoise, a whale dies every two minutes around the world because of you fishermen.
The report says the population of these threatened creatures could recover with changes to fishing gear combined with other conservation methods.
Between 1993 and 2003, fisheries in the U.S. introduced changes, such as modifications of fishing gear that reduced uh the catch here to one third of its uh previous levels.
So if you read deep enough in the story, you find out it's not our fault, it's the rest of the world, which hasn't followed our lead in reducing this tragedy.
That uh no, it's uh I'm I'm sitting here thinking the same thing, it's like the homeless statistics.
Okay, so now it's established.
A thousand porpoises, dolphins, and whales die every day.
And I'll bet you it won't be until tomorrow that this well, they're out of school.
Next September, whenever public school system, that will be one of the lead items taught.
A thousand fishies die every day, two every minute.
Think about that, Brian.
Two every minute.
Well, what my uh a lot of people die every day, natural causes, auto accidents, uh uh a lot of people die every day, but of course they're not caught in nets.
You know, hung by fishermen.
What I'd like to know is this.
How many dolphins die every day in the ocean just because they die?
How many die because they get old age or whatever?
How many porpoises die?
How many whales die just because they die?
They don't live forever, do they?
Saw a story the other day, they're actually starting to work with tools, these dolphins.
I guess they're growing hands.
I didn't know that either.
This is something interesting.
Uh from Bloomberg News, Canada's Canada's highest court struck down a Quebec law that bars people from buying private insurance to pay their own medical expenses and bypass uh the province's public health system.
This opens the way for creation of private clinics in Canada.
It does.
It opens the it paves the way for creation of private.
Yeah, gonna let people buy their own private uh insurance, uh pay their own medical expenses.
Uh Canada's highest court struck down a Quebec law that bars people the law currently bars people from buying their own private insurance to pay their own medical expenses, and that law's been struck down.
The uh the Supreme Court ruling said the evidence in this case shows that delays in the public health care system are widespread, and that in some serious cases patients die as a result of waiting lists.
This is the health care Mrs. Clinton wants to bring us.
This is the health care that the Liberal Democrats want to bring us, the Canadian health care system, the single payer system, they want to for some portion of it's always gotta go all the way through the government at every angle.
And if if there was ever a decision in the world, talk about international law that has some impact here.
This is it on medical savings accounts.
Oh, screw it, Mr. Sturdley.
I don't care if you're sitting there, and you know, you're sitting there, you Snerdley is is a shouting at me in the IFB what all the liberal arguments are gonna be.
But the rich will be the only ones that can afford it.
It that's not gonna be the case.
Medical savings accounts, that's my whole point.
Medical savings, and the case is being made here for medical savings accounts in this country with this ruling out of Canada.
The court is admitting that their health care system's an absolute abomination and a failure.
People are dying because of it.
Uh a hubba.
Uh not that they're dying, I mean it's a good ruling.
Uh David in San Pedro, California.
Hi, and welcome to the program.
Rush, thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Hey, I'm not gonna say mega dittoes, because I like you for different reasons than any of your other callers.
All right.
Yeah, and I'm not gay.
Well, you know what megadiddos means?
Yes.
What?
It means that uh I'm agreeing, I'm concurring with everyone else that's complimented you the same.
No, that's I'm glad you asked, because that's not what it means.
Uh, okay.
No, ditto's goes back to the very early days of this pro Ditto's means I love the show, and please don't stop doing it, don't go anywhere.
Ditto's has nothing to do with people.
Okay, well, all right, ditto.
So you can give me ditto, because I don't sure I'm sure you don't want the show to go away.
Hey, I thought I'd uh start with some levity.
I overheard how someone overheard Howard Dean saying, How about we ensure election day always falls on a Saturday?
Little joke I made up while I was on hold.
I had uh just a comment and also a question about uh an email that you read on the air yesterday about uh the Kiva, which is the s uh Native American sweat lodge.
Yeah, th uh there was a uh a college student sent me a note that his professor described one that he went to, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, that was not just second hand information, but third hand information that you were sharing and kind of joined in with it seemed like kind of poking fun at her saying that this guy must be a nut if he's doing stuff like that or let me reset the table here.
Now don't blame the college student, don't blame me.
I never heard of this.
He was just telling me that his professor, uh, after making the class identify themselves, it's first day of school, here's who we all are, that's what we're hoping to do.
Teacher said, let me tell you a little bit about me.
And he described he went to this thing for four hours in a sweat hut.
And uh and they didn't come out in four hours, and if they had to uh excrete bodily fluids, they just did it uh inside there.
Uh now uh is this some official ceremony that that I'm Well, I've I've got two different ones, and it depends on what tribe you're involved with, but that's a total bastardized rendition of what's supposed to actually go on.
Well these are Native American uh functions.
Oh it's a wonderful spiritual part of their culture and the my that was totally different than my experience.
And I know from what you read in the email that that that's that that was not a it's like because you had said that the it's supposed to be like from the email it said uh see now this is third hand information though because the T the teacher w he's I mean in the email you said that they had gone three feet above the ground and supposed to be down in d dug down into Mother Earth because maybe the teacher got fooled and didn't go to what he thought he was going to.
I don't know.
Yeah so that's and then also the my experience because I served a mission for the Mormon church in Finland and that's where this the sauna originated.
Oh yes the the Kiva the the sweat lodge for native Americans is not one's not hotter than the other and they're both they're both just as relaxing.
But the the one with the with the Native Americans is much more of a spiritual experience.
You're supposed to look around three hundred and sixty degrees before you go down into the Kiva because once you come back out the world has changed.
And there's four different phases where you focus on four different groups of people to forgive them.
And it was a really positive experience for me.
We're encouraged to go to the bathroom before you go in there, but if you've got to go, you can leave after one of the sessions is complete.
Just four different sessions, four different groups of people you're supposed to focus on to forgive.
Back to back and I can hold my bladder for for four hours.
I mean big deal.
You know it's we're not we weren't encouraged on each other.
And if it was it was a positive experience.
What about your bowels?
Can you hold your bowels for four hours?
Well I I would just say don't knock it until you try it.
Well I'm not gonna try it.
I I mean but I'm just I'm I I just read the email.
I'm glad you're calling to correct this if it was if it was if it was uh incorrect data but I think it all goes back to the teacher.
The student is just describing what the teacher said.
It might have been you know could it sound like teacher could have been Ward Churchill because he thinks he's an Indian but he's not he he might have been going to a you know a pretend ceremony of uh a sweat lodge that who knows.
Uh but I I'm sorry your sensibilities were offended by this and I'm sorry if anybody else's uh were were offended by this but I mean this is it's just a college professor uh instructing his uh kids in a class that what he did so we're just we're just passing it on here folks.
Moving on because time dwindles Frank in Melbourne, Florida, you are next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Uh blogger and podcaster Ditto's from uh someone's been listening to you more than half his life.
Thank you, sir appreciate that very much.
Uh now uh what I called in about is uh I had the opportunity to talk to uh Bob Geldoff uh this Monday with a bunch of other bloggers both right and left word I'm right wing of course um and we all came in well well as right wingers all came in very skeptical we saw this live A stuff you know a bunch of rockers you know crusade and things and it seemed like this be some hippie stuff but he actually was very reasonable very knowledgeable and hit a l lot of the exact same points you were just saying earlier.
He was talking about uh you know he brought up Adam Smith he won free trade he w you know stop the corrupt government it's uh what he was asking us for is our political influence to help uh get these things done but it's very positive about Americans about the American spirit and also he had positive things to say about Bush.
It was uh it wasn't um anything like you know let's just feel good about ourselves and you know throw some money at them.
Mm-hmm.
Well that's good to hear.
Um here did did he say did he say how the live eight concert was going to accomplish uh free trade and uh be honest uh he no he didn't talk much about the live aid concert.
Um I'm not really sure I I think it was mentioned that he isn't really really playing on any more concerts.
Um maybe you know he's seen those aren't as much use.
But you know uh I didn't know much going into this but it you know I was expecting exact thing we gotta get in there move and make money, you know, and healthy Africans but you know of course you know it was all about health in the Africans.
But he had an actual plan which surprised a lot of us and it made sense.
A lot of it was lowering trade barriers and getting free trade in Africa.
You know these rock stars they can fool us these these are these are people of uh considerable depth.
Well uh I I d I actually had no idea who he was I didn't know he w was a rock star or anything um until afterwards I I guess he's before my time.
But uh the boomtown ramps they were they were they came a they were part of the M T V generation.
They were one of the first uh one of the early groups that had uh uh videos played on MTV, and that's how people uh at least outside of Great Britain knew about them.
Yeah.
Uh we've got a Boomtown Rats tune somewhere in our life.
We'll see if we can find it, so you know who the uh uh Boomtown Rats are.
Uh what's the title of the tune, Mike?
Do you know the top of your head?
Uh can't think.
We'll we'll try to find it though.
I've we've got it cataloged up all night, up all day, whatever up all night.
Yeah, up all night, I think is the we'll see if we can find it just to give you a flavor of Bob Geldorf and the uh Geldolf and the uh and the the Boomtown Rats.
Uh I gotta take a quick time out here.
Thanks so much for the call.
We'll be back in just a second.
Don't go who who who that has a lot of self-respect would name themselves band after a bunch of rats.
And we are back, and we have found in our groove yard of forgotten favorites, uh Up All Night by Bob Geldoff and the Boomtown Rats.
Now, I have to say, those of you listening uh via podcast, as you know, we cannot legally include music in the uh in the download here.
So uh there the audience on the radio will hear the song.
I'm thinking, what can we do here for you podcasters?
And and we have a mix minus here so that whatever I say can be separated from the music.
I might sing along with it for you podcasters just to give you a sample of what the radio audience heard.
Here it is.
Bob Geldoff and the Boomtown Rats.
That's pretty much it.
Lyric-wise.
I mean it is.
It's about all you can remember when you've been up all night.
Up, ball.
Up, ball.
This must be a tough tune to remember the lyrics to when you're performing in concert.
Uh bowl night.
Bull night.
Uh up to do.
Oh, no.
You have to admit it's got a great bass line.
I mean, there's no question about that.
You like this song, Mr. Snergly?
Was it you?
It is not Mr. Snurdley's song.
All right.
That's enough.
That's the Boomtown Rats.
That's Bob Geldoff.
It's from the early 80s, and it is up all night.
A story from the Philadelphia Inquirer by Sue Van Susan Snyder.
In what could be a unique move nationally, the Philadelphia school district will require every Hascruel student to take a separate course in African and African American history in order to graduate, beginning with this September's freshman class.
Now, can I make two observations?
One observation is that uh somebody the Department of Education is somebody has sent out a directive, and they want on or around September 17th, for every school in America to teach the Constitution.
And there are school districts objecting.
And they're objecting, you can't tell us what to do.
There's an act out there that says we didn't have to shape our curriculum based on you.
Uh uh-uh, school lunch plan, bud.
If the federal government's paying for your school lunch program, they can tell you what you have to teach anywhere.
But imagine they're opposing teaching the Constitution.
One day.
I mean, if you have to tell the schools to teach the Constitution one day, is the implication that they're not teaching it at all.
And based on how little knowledge there is about the Constitution, we'd seem to conclude that it's not being taught very much.
But yet here in Philadelphia, every Hascruel student will be required to take separate courses in African and African American history in order to graduate.
Both national and local officials said yesterday that they knew of no other district requiring such a course, particularly one focused on African history for graduation.
But the School Reform Commission voted unanimously in February to offer courses in both areas at every Hascruel and said it would consider making one or both courses a graduation requirement.
Now I saw the other day also, maybe it's today that uh yes, it's today.
What is it?
Uh uh it uh well the fastest growing minority in America is is uh Latinos.
Hispanics.
Yeah, 41 million his 41 million uh Hispanics, Latinos in the country, the largest minority in the country.
So I'm asking the school district of Philadelphia, what about Hispanic history?
What about not just Hispanic history, but Mexican history and Spanish history?
You can't talk about Mexico without talking about Spain.
So you gotta have Spanish history, you gotta have Mexican history, and then you gotta talk about American Hispanic history.
Now what about all the other races and ethnicities?
What about Irish history?
What about Italian history?
Don't snurdly says all that other stuff's covered under world history.
Yeah, it's all covered under generic history, huh?
Okay, Bob in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Hi, welcome to the program.
Yeah, hi, Rush.
Uh, you mentioned Kerry early in the show.
Uh is is the Kerry story about it, he's still refusing to uh turn over records.
Uh well, I uh no, I mentioned something else about Kerry that they'd asked him about Howard Dean, and he said that he had approved of Howard Dean before he disapproved of him.
But the Kerry story on the records is that it since you bring it up, uh this is a this is uh uh he's trying to fake everybody out.
He did not get his Form 180 records released that show his naval records.
He didn't do that.
He has not come forth with that.
The records that he released only gave his grades from Yale, and he's hoping that this satisfied everybody.
He still has not come forth and signed what's necessary to produce his records in the Navy, and that's what everybody's curious about.
So that's that's the summation of that.
Quick timeout, we'll be back.
Uh close it out right after this.
Stay with us.
Let's go to Walnut Creek, California.
This is uh Chris.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Thanks, Rush.
Uh mega homeschooling dittoes to you.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, uh, the reason I'm calling is uh I wondered what you thought about the uh Twin Towers 2 design that Trump has been uh trumpeting lately.
I love the Trump design.
I love the Trump design.
I think it makes more sense than anything anybody out there has come up with.
And it better be done fast because uh if you read the Wall Street Journal this week, there's uh Deborah Burlingame had a column.
Uh she's the wife of uh one of the pilots that was killed in the 9-11 attacks.
And uh a bunch of leftists in this country are trying to get hold of that area and and basically turn it into an anti-American place, blaming us for what happened for our hatred and this and the stuff that we spread around the world.
Uh we'll get a handle on that.
But no, that the Trump uh build it back exactly as it was, but a couple of feet or three feet higher, uh, which is essentially what Trump's design for the two towers is.
And I I think this it's simple.
Just do it.
You know, every everybody wants to be the smartest person in the room.
Everybody wants to be the most creative.
Just the the most creative and responsible thing to do to build it back.
I think I think Trump's idea is uh is right on the money.
All right, folks, that's it.
Sadly, we are out of busy broadcast time uh for today.
Walter Williams will be here uh tomorrow.
See you back on Monday.
Have a full week of broadcast excellence all next week.
Uh Bush says he's thinking about closing Gitmo.
Uh Rumsfeld says no, we're not.
We better not.
The worst victory we can hand the terrorists and the media would be to shut it down.
Keep it open, Mr. President.
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