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March 27, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 27, 2006, Monday, Hour #1
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All right, look, folks, the the these I got to say my first thought when I when I saw all these uh uh marchers, the protest march, 500,000 people in Los Angeles.
They're all over the place down to Southwest, Phoenix and so forth.
And I look at this 500,000 people protesting uh uh an act of Congress, a piece of uh legislation, and I'm thinking, my gosh, how jealous must the anti-war movement be?
They had the third anniversary of the Iraq War last weekend, and they were hoping to fill the streets with anti-war Americans.
And they could barely get a little trickle of people to show up.
Maybe the combined total nationwide, what was it, 25,000?
Max.
If we can believe those numbers.
But here this thing, it gets caught everybody by surprise, uh, a lot of people by surprise.
500,000 people in Los Angeles alone.
Now when you read some of the quotes of some of these protesters, and I've got a lot of research here I've been doing today to put all this in perspective for you, and to share with you my um my thoughts on it, get yours as well.
But I mean, you uh this is actually you know what you could say?
That these protesters are doing the the protesting that Americans will not do anymore.
Um uh they're just that's that's what I would say the anti-war, but they're just doing the protesting Americans refuse to do anymore.
They're just some protests that Americans consider beneath them, and apparently anti-war protests are beneath Americans.
Can't get enough of them out there.
So here come the illegals uh showing up, taking up that slack, proving once again their worth to the overall American political and cultural system.
But if you listen to some of these quotes uh from these people, uh they they've talking about how they made this country.
They're the backbone of this country.
This is not the backbone of the country.
This what you what you really have uh going on here is is a bunch of of um uh criminals that that are protesting the law.
Uh in that sense, uh uh if you look at it in that perspective, no, I'm sure not all of them, but that's what's driving all of this.
Can you imagine?
I mean, here you have basically they're trying to make themselves out to be you know legal, but what this is an insult to uh to people who have gone through the process of immigrating here legally.
And I just wonder, I just wonder when I when I look at this, when you see these pictures, you see video of protests with more Mexican flags than American flags.
Did you notice that, Mr. Snerdley?
When you say I wonder how these these guys in Congress who are putting together the Senate Judiciary Committee are going to work way into the night to get the big recess coming up, got to get this bill done.
Working way into the night to get this uh this this new immigration bill that they're working on passed.
Uh Senator Friss is as I think it's his original proposal and inspectors, you know, doing what he's gonna do to it in the Judiciary Committee.
I just wonder how they feel when they look at this.
At some point in other words, is this gonna cause a backlash?
As I'll tell you, these members of Congress from uh from information I've been able to gather, these members of Congress say that the constituent reaction to illegal immigration is the same as it was on the ports deal.
Yes, I got to say it again, the ports deal.
And I asked you a couple weeks ago, I said why are your elected officials not listening to you on immigration, but they couldn't wait to implement what you demanded when it came to the ports deal.
Now we'd know the obvious answer here, but maybe well, maybe it's not so obvious to some.
But there is a lot of there's a we've got a lot of sound bites on this to um uh uh share with you the New York Times story on this headline today, groundswell of protests back illegal immigrants.
Uh and there in this in the story here, there's uh there's a quote uh from the uh the National Immigration Reform, Sam Rodriguez, I think, says that Republicans have decided to make this a wedge issue in uh in 06.
Uh no, I'm sorry, it was Joshua Hoyt, the executive director of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, who helped organize the Chicago rally, said he was shocked by the size of the turnout.
Republican Party made a decision to use illegal immigration as the wedge issue of 06, and the Mexican community was profoundly offended.
A wedge issue.
If it's a wedged issue, it's desired it's dividing the Republican Party.
It may be a wedge issue, but it's not it's it's not dividing the Republicans and Democrats, it's dividing the Republicans into various camps on this.
But uh anyway, the headline groundswell of protests back illegal immigrants.
What do you have?
A bunch of people protesting the ability to continue to break the law to get away with it and protest.
Even Bill Bradley, who writes a former Senator of New Jersey, writes a column for LA Weekly.
Uh Bill Bradley is uh is upset about this.
He quotes California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, a leader of last weekend's massive march in Los Angeles, recalling the last big march by illegal immigrants, which was uh in 1994.
He said that the late labor chieftain, Miguel Contreras, tried to talk him out of holding the rally.
So, you guys crazy, but I wanted to march.
Well, this past weekend, Mr. Nunez decided to march again, and he may have marched over a political cliff.
Bradley asks, was this rally necessary to defeat a bill that George W. Bush doesn't even support?
Mickey Kouse, uh blogger, answers the question yes, there's certainly a good chance that a tough enforcement only bill that George W. Bush does not support will pass, uh, and uh and this rally will help it.
Meaning, uh is this gonna wake people up in Congress to understand just exactly what we're facing when you've got this many illegals demanding that that status not change, and that there be no crackdown, and that there be no tough enforcement, with more Mexican flags flying than American flags at these rallies.
Uh I mean it's it it's just interesting.
Will it cause a backlash up on Capitol Hill?
Uh and in parts of the country that are not fully awakened to the potential uh roiling of the society and culture this issue has.
Before I go to break, I gotta I gotta congratulate a couple sports friends.
Uh Walter Williams, who is an occasional guest host on this program, is a professor at George Mason University.
George Mason uh has fur made the final four, the NCAA basketball tournament for the first time in its history.
Uh they're a Washington, D.C. area school.
They beat UConn, and uh it's just it it's fabulous.
That they're from this conference nobody gave a chance to.
They all nobody from the Big East is in this tournament anymore.
The big guys liberals ought to love this.
Uh, because the uh the big guys, the rich and powerful, the ones that always win everything, have been uh have been dispatched.
So congratulations to Dr. Williams and all of you who are George Mason fans.
Stephen Ames won the uh players' championship yesterday up at uh Sawgrass.
I played with Stephen Ames the first round this year out at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.
And I've I've never had more fun in a pro-am round with Stephen Ames and his brother Robbie.
Robbie's a caddy.
They were in town two weeks or three weeks ago for the for the Honda Classic, which is played right up the road here.
And uh they came over to the uh fashionable ocean side uh uh uh abode uh for dinner.
And uh it was then that I learned that Steve Stephen, they're both from Trinidad and Tobago.
I was kidding about the Bobsled team of the Olympics.
No, no, no, that's Jamaica.
I always confused Jamaica with Trinidad and Tobago.
They came over, I got uh Stephen was was so much fun, and Robbie, too, so helpful in that round out of out of the Bob Hope.
You know, I'm I'm a hacker out there, and if I if I happen to hit a good shot, the crowd applauds because it's so unexpected.
So when that happened, and I would uh I would react to it by waving big time bending over and so forth.
After about two holes, you know, he gets applauded every shot.
The pros get applauded every shot, it's polite.
So he started imitating me and the way I was reacting to the crowd.
And uh we just we just had a fabulous, fabulous time, and and he and his uh brother and his brother's wife came to dinner, and it was then we learned the story that Stephen's uh wife, who's from Calgary, had lost uh two-thirds or three-fourths of a lung due to lung cancer, uh, never smoked.
Uh, and uh didn't make a big deal out of that That story publicly until yesterday, but uh they're very close.
They're just nice as they can be.
It was it's been a pleasure to get to know them, and uh I just proud as I could be watching this thing unfold yesterday afternoon, because it uh couldn't happen to two nicer people.
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Want to warn you people out there the drive-by media loves this ill illegal immigration protest story.
They love oh, it's uh they absolutely love it, and so you're gonna be getting uh a lot of it.
And we're gonna be we're gonna be treated as stories of great heroism courage, bucking the odds among these protesters.
Give you some examples here from uh from today's and I know this a risk.
I don't know what they're gonna correct in uh in the New York Times this week, but they'll obviously it's gone two weeks in a row having to having to totally disavow two stories.
Uh Partha Banergy, the director of the New Jersey Immigration Policy Network, who was in Washington yesterday to help plan more nationwide protests on April 10th, said it's unbelievable.
People are joining in so spontaneously, it's almost like the immigrants have risen.
I would call it a civil rights movement reborn in this country.
Yes, they would.
I can't, I'm sure that they cannot uh contain themselves.
They're so excited over uh over all of this.
In a telephone briefing sponsored last week by the National Immigration Forum, the Reverend Samuel Rodriguez Jr., president of the National Hispanic Association of Evangelicals warned that elected officials would pay a price for being on the wrong side of this legislative battle.
We're talking to the politicians, and we're telling them that the Hispanic community will not forget.
I know there are pure hearts that want to protect our border and protect our country, but at the same time, the Hispanic community cannot deny the fact that many have taken advantage of an important and legitimate issue in order to manifest their racist and discriminatory spirit against the His.
This is going to become the foundation.
That little thought, that little quote, in order to manifest their racist and discriminatory spirit against the Hispanic community.
So the table has been set, and this is not new, but I mean it's it's it's now being set.
It's gonna be this is gonna be the foundation for what goes forward.
That all of you who oppose illegal immigrants are simply racists and bigots because you don't like Hispanics.
And that's exact and and and of course it'll be interesting to see uh where the uh Reverend Jacks comes now.
If this indeed is going to be treated here as the next civil rights movement, is the Reverend Jackson gonna get in there and try to lead it, or is he gonna see competition here?
Uh I know he's still in New Orleans, but that's yesterday's news.
He'll figure this out at uh at some point.
The media there you talk about yesterday.
The media still have on on television defending their actions in Iraq.
Um yesterday's news.
They're still so a lot of a lot of things are working here at the same time, all toward the same end, and it's an election year, and that's the thing to keep in uh keep in mind.
Now there's a pretty good piece on human events today uh by Mac Johnson.
What do these protests prove?
They prove how ridiculously out of control our federal government has let the problem get.
Which is worse, that a half million immigration criminals and their descendants and sympathizers can be found in a single American city, or that the current emigration enforcement system is such a joke that the half million have nothing to fear from openly entering the public streets and arguing against legislation currently before Congress.
It's as if thieves thought they could form a union to lobby for fewer cops.
Sadly, many in Congress will actually consider their demands, you know, just like Mexico would consider the wishes of any American criminals in their country for profit.
Many of the symptoms of failure to assimilate were obvious.
The colossal crowd already gathered to tout their pursuit of the American dream, held signs in Spanish, waved mostly Mexican flags, and chanted Mexico, Mexico, si se puede, which means yes we can.
Which is, it seems, an answer to the formerly rhetorical question, can the whole world sneak into America?
There was also the predictable invocation of race and ethnicity that is supposed to obligate American Hispanics To side with the illegal aliens, at least in the nationalistic eyes of the illegals themselves.
But there was a subtler symptom of how unassimilated the protesters were, the quintessentially foreign form of the protest itself.
Now this is key.
Due to its size, the protest shocked the American media, and I still it stunned the anti-war crack.
You've got to understand just how they can you imagine disappointed and jealous the left wing kooks are out there in the blogosphere.
They tried to gin up all these protests against the Iraq War and against President Bush, and they got barely a trickle of humanity out there.
Here this thing show 500,000 in one city.
A wave of 500,000 people pouring through Los Angeles is one of the largest protests in the history of the whole country.
Thus the protests have been reported as an extraordinary reaction to events in American politics, but they're not extraordinary at all.
They are just typical way that governments are influenced in many Latin American nations.
What the protests truly represent is the colonization of America by the Latin style of politics.
Rally, demonstration, march, and protest are the tools of the politically dispossessed.
They carry with them the intrinsic threat that it is always associated with the gathering of large crowds and acts of political demonstrations, and they are standard fare in the lopsided politics of many foreign nations, including Mexico.
So what uh Mack Johnson did here with human events, he went and did some research, the way the BBC World Service covers uh Mexico.
And he's got just a few headlines here to create the picture, paint the picture for you.
April 24th, 2005, hundreds of thousands of people have marched through Mexico City in support of the Capitol's embattled mayor.
September 13, 2001, union leaders in Mexico say they expect thousands of people to take to the streets on Thursday and protest at plans to impose taxes on some foods and medicine.
March 17, 2006, most of the demonstrators demonstrations in Mexico City remain peaceful.
However, with the violence blamed on a small number of radical youths, March 19, 1999, tens of thousands of demonstrators brought the center of Mexico City to a standstill on Thursday in a protest against government economic policies.
June 28, 2004, Mexican President Vicente Fox has said his government has failed to defeat violent crime after a protest in Mexico City by over 250,000 people.
Now stick with me on this, folks.
Hang in there be tough.
November 28, 2003, tens of thousands of people have marched to Mexico City to protest against energy and tax reforms.
January 31, 2003.
Thousands of farmers gathered in the Mexican Capital to demand their government renegotiate a regional trade pact, August 28, 99.
Thousands of demonstrators have taken part in a march in Mexico City to protest against government plans to allow private investment in the state-owned electric power industry.
So if you if you view Los Angeles and other protest sites in this light, you can see that the protests are not unusual at all for a Latin American nation.
And it is an unassimilated colony of Latin America that twenty years of corrupt government inaction on illegal immigration has built.
In Los Angeles and Phoenix and Chicago and Houston and dozens of other cities and towns across America, both large and small.
For demographic reasons, the examples given above were drawn exclusively from Mexico, but similar patterns of political protest as the default means of lobbying government can be found in Venezuela, Peru, Uruguay, and other Latin American nations.
What we saw this weekend thus was not extraordinary.
It is the new normal.
It is the predictable and unimpeded flow of the political culture of Latin America into the United States.
And as Mr. Johnson concludes here, unless we address the gaping hole in our border, enforce our laws, deport illegal entrants, and again assimilate legitimate immigrants into our unique culture.
You can count on the United States becoming more Latin American and less American every day.
Now that may represent the views of quite a few of you.
I think it's good point.
The uh protests here are not unusual for these people.
This is how they do it in their homeland.
Uh and it it this is a great line here.
These people coming out.
Stop and think about this.
Here 500 what 500,000 we are illegal and proud.
We're illegal and proud to be here and screw your law and screw your Congress, screw this piece of legislation, and where's the INS.
Where where is the where where are they uh where are the people showing up?
It's it's it's is like Mr. Johnson said, it's almost as if thieves thought they could form a union to lobby for fewer cops and went out there on the protest march.
We want fewer cops, we're the thieves, we're bank robbers, and there are too many cops in our way.
They're out there trying to portray themselves as the as the as the backbone of America and uh and and and doing that by uh trying to associate themselves with uh previous legal immigrants uh generations ago.
Uh yeah, that's where they screwed up.
If they're trying to do that, backbone of America, they should have been flying American flags, but they weren't.
There were far more Mexican flags than American flags.
And I'm sure the left like that, they hate the American flag too.
Back in a moment.
Thank you.
Thank you, America's anchor man.
America's truth detector, uh doctor of democracy.
A general all-round good guy having more fun than a human being uh should be allowed to have.
Now, one thing one thing about this, I refuse to believe that all this is spontaneous.
I refuse to believe it.
500,000 people just spontaneously show up.
I think this is organized and I think it's organized against this piece of legislation.
Uh uh th th this this is designed to uh uh kill uh well it's actually designed to to promote the amnesty aspect of the legislation uh in Washington.
And so the people that that they're promoting amnesty, uh like Senator Specter and and the media's uh those who uh in the media who are, they act as though this means something.
Uh but it changes nothing.
It ought to change something, it ought to wake a bunch of people up.
It ought to illustrate just how crucial the issue is.
You have one way of looking at the 500,000 in Los Angeles, according to estimates, that's the number of illegals that get in the country every year.
So you see it once, you know, you you you see a picture of it, and it it it it makes it easier to understand.
This is the number of people illegally entering the country every year.
Here's uh uh our Dell, our Dell in Brazil Ton, Georgia.
Ardell, thanks for the call.
Great to have you with us.
Thank you.
Hi, how are you, Rush?
I'm never better.
Appreciate the call.
Well, I called because I just want to let you know I'm so happy that you are sounding happier.
Um I noticed that you take more viewer phone calls, listener phone calls, and you just sound happier.
I'm the the change is wonderful.
Um I just want to let you know I enjoy your show so much more now than ever before.
Well, that's what what what do you think is um I mean I know you probably know why you're happier, but um you just are, and it's just wonderful.
Well now uh you just see you've noticed this is the past two months.
Yeah, I I noticed that you're taking more listener phone calls, you're just you're just happier.
I mean it and it's just so much more than a lot of people.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Wait, wait, wait a second.
You you are associating my uh increased happiness with the increase in listener phone calls?
No, no, no.
I just notice a lot of different things.
But um that was just one of the things.
Okay, well, see the thing that's interesting to me about this is it what it's it's not so much that you've noticed something in the past two months, but what did you notice three months ago?
How did I sound three months ago when I when you didn't think I was happy?
Um no, you've you know it's not I mean I don't everybody has ups and downs, right?
Well, you you know, you had your challenges.
You know, but but you just sprung back and um you know it's just I'm it's just something that I've really noticed.
And and I'm enjoying your show even more now than before.
Now, you know, one of the things you told us was not to to reduce our our exposure to negative news.
Remember that?
And I have done that.
And I have done that too.
I I I agree with you.
And um so me, you know, I'm following that lead from you, and I I that might be part of your happiness, but um sure there's a lot more, but it just it was you know, what do you think?
I mean, have you noticed, have you been feeling um, you know, happier, um, you know, just more empowered.
I don't know what, but you just are.
It's real obvious.
Um I uh the one of the reasons that I asked the call screener to put you up first because I'm fascinated with people that make these kinds of observations.
I uh I'm not a w there was no cataclysmic event.
There was no earth shattering that happened two months ago or approximately two months ago that changed my fortunes, changed the future.
There was no bad thing that got put behind me two months ago.
Uh uh So I'm I'm I'm uh that's why I'm puzzled by this.
I'm glad that you hear it that way and you're hearing me.
I'm I'm I'm perfectly happy.
Um I used to feel guilty about admitting myself uh as happy, admitting my to being happy because there's so many people who aren't.
Right.
Uh and and uh you know, is it people you know some people on the left and nobody should be happy if there's any suffering on I've I've never subscribed to that.
But no, I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm just fascinated by your take.
I appreciate it.
Um I'll I'll grant, yes, la past two months have been great, but so the previous eighteen years.
There are absolutely I wouldn't change anything about it.
I'm I I I it's I don't know.
I'm fascinated with these people with with your take, people who have these kinds of uh pace such close attention that you have um formed this impression.
It it it is it just is my I'm enjoying your show more because of it, you know.
So you know, there you go.
Well, that's probably because of the increased uh uh listener calls.
Uh you I just that was I just noticed that was one of the things that I thought because I was trying to figure out too what what it was.
It may not even be me.
It may be that in the last two months you're much happier, and you are giving me credit for making you feel happier.
And so you because you think I'm happier, but it may be you.
Well, that's true.
I know I I you know, I'm working on myself, you know, as well.
But um I don't know.
I just thought, you know, you know, don't don't tr turn the mirror away from what you're doing, you know.
You know, you deserve some credit here.
Well, okay.
Well, I I appreciate that.
But I'm I'm fully aware I make people happy.
It's one of the joys of my life.
Uh it just happens.
It's just one of those things.
James in Cleveland.
Hello, sir.
Welcome to the uh EIB network.
It's an honor to speak to you, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
This kind of presents a a real dicey situation for Mayor Ray Negan of New Orleans, doesn't it?
I mean, he's complained about all of the illegal aliens down there helping to clean up his city.
Uh but on the other hand, he needs them.
And as a liberal democrat, he's kind of painted himself into a corner.
Well, I I uh that I think I think uh Mayor Negan's uh uh in uh uh role in all this is of secondary importance to what to what is going on.
I understand that the point you're trying to make.
Uh but believe me, uh if if Mayor Nagid can find all of the uh uh people who've left New Orleans and get them back, do you know you know I saw something that was fascinating?
There are a bunch of people, quote unquote, missing from New Orleans, can't find them.
And it looks like it's just possible that some people in New Orleans have taken the occasion of this disaster to vanish off the face of the earth, to lose their identity, go somewhere else and start all over.
That's what they're thinking.
Because they can't find them.
It's a significant number of people.
Now stop and think if you lived in New Orleans and things weren't going well, if you if you're in the middle of you you're running a crime spree, you think you're about to get caught, you're in a relationship, don't want any part of it anymore, uh, and then this happens, it's your chance to make a getaway, to vominose, to head out, and let everybody think that you're dead.
Or that you're missing or whatever, and go someplace and start a whole new identity.
I don't know how maybe 90 people, something like that that are that are missing.
The uh uh it's not a conspiracy.
It's just that it's what what's the conspiracy?
What would the conspiracy be?
Um toll numbers in Katrina were higher, we weren't told.
It's not that many people, but it's a significant number of people that are missing.
Uh that that were not aged and decrepit uh and and would not have you know been subjected to great harm uh because of their age or anything like that.
It's just they might vote, but it's just ninety people.
What the hell?
I mean, I don't I think they may have fled the country.
Some of them, that's what they're thinking, may have fled the country, go down to Grand Cayman, uh Puerto Vallarta.
I was I w I was in Puerto Vallarta, by the way, in in uh November.
And I'm stunned how many Americans live down there.
Americans.
Preto Vallarta.
It's a port, yes.
It's a port.
That's Puerto is port.
They filmed night of the iguana there.
Uh uh Richard uh Richard Burton Elizabeth Taylor.
That's what put it on the map.
And then Love Boat came along and and stopped there and it put it on the map again.
Now they got a golf course.
But I was stunned that Americans, the number of Americans that live there is because it's cheap.
So the Mexicans are coming up to up to the United States and Californians are moving down to Puerto Vallarta.
It's a shift.
Anyway, one of the more popular claims by illegal immigration proponents is that those who enter the United States by breaking a law are invariably hardworking and law abiding once they get here.
That argument, however, has a major flaw.
According to Justice Department's stats and the analysis of immigration experts, a the law-abiding claim often isn't true.
As Investors Business Daily reported in March of 2005, the U.S. Justice Department estimated that 270,000 illegal immigrants served jail time nationally in 2003.
Of those, 108,000 were in California.
Some estimates show illegals now make up half of California's prison population, creating a massive criminal subculture that strains state budgets and creates a nightmare for local cops.
Citing an urban institute study, the director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies, Stephen Camarada noted in 2004, roughly 17% of the prison population at the federal level are illegal aliens.
It's a huge number since illegal aliens only account for about 3% of the total population.
Former Governor Pete Wilson places the percentage of illegal aliens in U.S. prisons even higher.
This is not a bunch of activists alone saying this.
The Justice Department numbers, state figures, and so forth.
And uh I'll tell you who's being tainted by this is the legal immigrants.
Those are the ones that are hardworking.
Those are the ones hardworking and law abiding.
How can you say that an illegal immigrant by definition is law abiding?
Maybe hard working, and it's hard work to get in the border sometimes, but you know, it's it's uh there are a lot of myths that have uh have been created to sustain this.
But these rallies don't for a moment think that this was spontaneous.
Uh there are networks whereby communications can be uh sent out.
Uh I've uh my my trips to California, sometimes I go out there and I don't do this much.
But when I was told it happened, I went back to my uh hotel room and started channel surfing the cable.
And you can get this in Telemundo and some of the Spanish language speaking stations, and they give openly advice people on how to get an ambulance to the emergency room and where the emergency room is and how to get all this without any cost whatsoever.
You're not supposed to call a cab for don't don't call a cab because that will cost you money.
An ambulance, if you show up and you're indigent and poor, the ambulance has to take you, and the emergency room has to treat you.
Well, this is being dispensed as advice on the Spanish language uh cable channels in Southern California, and I assume in other places too.
If they can do that, they can organize marches.
They can uh organize rallies.
And I don't believe the spontaneity of all this, and there's a there's a reason behind it.
Uh and it's uh uh wait to see if it if it if it changes anything.
It probably it shouldn't change anything other than to create a little bit more awareness in people who have not glommed onto the issue yet as to how big it is.
Back in just a sec.
All right, folks.
Get this.
I have some friends in town for the weekend, by the way, uh uh good friends from Sacramento.
Uh had them in for the week and haven't seen them for a long time.
Stan Atkinson, his wife Kristen, and Professor Hazlitt, whose uh economic brilliance is often cited by me on this program.
He's actually uh uh living in Washington now, his wife Alex.
And I've forgotten how Professor Hazlet laughs.
And we've been laughing a lot all weekend long.
But his laugh is right from the roof of his mouth.
And I used to do it.
I used to imitate him all the time, but I haven't heard it.
But now that I have, I'll be laughing that way for a while.
Just bear with me.
Waving Mexico flags and wearing white t-shirts denoting peace.
Several hundred Haskruel students walked out of class today as protests against an immigration crackdown continued on California's Cesar Chavez Day.
Caesar Chavez Day?
I pride myself on knowing everything.
I never heard of this.
I lived in California.
I lived there for almost four years.
Caesar Chavez Day.
Students climbed over a chain link fence at Huntington Park Hascral to join marchers in this Hispanic and heavily immigrant community south of downtown LA.
The school had locked the gates after classes started.
At least 800 students walked out from at least eight screwels, ranging from the San Fernando Valley to the wealthy coastal enclave of Pacific Palisades, said Monica Carrazo, spokeswoman for the LA Unified Scrual District.
The police kept watch, but of course no arrests were made as the students steamed into the uh streamed into the into the streets.
Uh Gabriel and Albuquerque, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Thanks, Rush.
It's an honor.
Hey, listen, we need to get uh our president to say uh President Fox, you need to do something about this, and you need to do something now.
Uh I think for a long time we've been ignoring that.
Uh you know, we need we we need to get the president to do something about that.
Uh one of the puzzling things about this uh to me, since President Bush has been in office is his uh very close relationship with Vicente Fox, and I don't I don't I I think the opposite of what you suggest is actually what's been happening, but look at it from Vicente Fox's point of view.
I mean, if if you had a a a renegade potential criminal element that was poor and unwilling to work, and you had a chance to get rid of 500,000 every year, would you do it?
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What's what is the incentive for Vicente Fox to put the brakes on it?
The Mexican government publishes advice on how to do this.
Right.
Well, if they publish it, but they give it maybe it's not the Mexican government.
High ranking Mexican officials tell people how to get out of the country and into ours.
Now look at Vicente Fox is this other thing you gotta consider.
We've had two reports recently.
Vicente Fox doesn't care about the environment.
And apparently there aren't any Mexicans who care about it because they don't protest, because they're out there discovering oil all over the Gulf of Mexico.
Biggest find in their history.
He's out there bragging about it, and I would be too.
Meanwhile, what are we doing?
We're twiddling our thumbs.
We got our hands tied behind our backs.
We're listening to a bunch of Nambi Pambi environmental wackos tell us we can't drill for oil in this country, all while complaining about how high gasoline prices are getting.
Then we had Vicente Fox, who said last week that he's gonna build a superport on the Baja Peninsula.
And if the United States doesn't want the Dubai ports deal, well, Mexico might take it.
They want to build some big superport just south of LA.
He said because the left coast ports of the United States are crowded, uh, in fact, overcrowded, but he sees a business opportunity.
You know, Mexico's a competitor of ours.
They're an ally, they're on the border.
I know they're an ally, and we have the the the makings of a you know good relationship between President Bush and Vicente Fox.
Make no mistake, they're competitors.
You know, you look around the world and and uh we have we have news every day.
America's hated.
The Democrats run around.
America's lost its reputation.
We have because of the Iraq War, because of the war on terror.
Uh, and that's actually not, you know, America's uh not not hated, we're envied.
The reason that people come after America is because we're the best.
Because we're the biggest.
And they try to cut us down to size in a in a number of different ways.
The Democrats and liberals want to believe that that we're so hated and dis and just despised because of our imperialistic nature.
And uh, and that's not it.
It's it's no more than than uh economic and uh political jealousy and envy that is caused.
And one way of looking at these protests, and I know this is gonna this is gonna roil some of you here, but in one way, these large crowds out in LA.
You could, I mean, there were protests, there's no question, but it's also a validation of something.
And that is that this is the best place to live and work on the planet.
Known criminals will admit, yes, we're known criminals, and you better not get rid of us.
We want to Stay here, even as illegals.
We want to stay here.
And we're identifying ourselves.
They want to stay here for a number of reasons, but one of the reasons is this is the best place on the planet to be.
And they know it.
You can take that as a positive if you want, although that's the least of my concerns with what happened over the weekend, but it is an interesting way to take note of it.
Back in just a second.
What is this?
More bumper music from home?
Yeah, little Miami sound machine.
I knew it, it's not in a rotation.
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