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March 28, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 28, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Senator Feinstein, which is farther away, Florida or the Moon?
She said, that's a stupid question.
You can see the moon.
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The other day, I commented on Sharon Stone and because she she went to Israel.
That's right.
She went to Israel.
She's out there promoting Basic Instinct 2.
See me naked again.
Uh for a little longer this time.
And she said she just she just got the impression when she was there that we were just a breath away from peace in the Middle East.
Of course, it got reported worldwide.
It's irrelevant.
It means nothing.
Well, it's lunacy.
But it got reported.
Whenever she makes political statements, these it gets reported.
Any actor, actress.
Well, she's she's compounded it again.
She says that Hillary Clinton is too sexy to win back the White House.
Actor Sharon Stone has warned Hillary Rodham Clinton to stay out of the 2008 presidential race, saying that Hillary is too sexy to win back the keys to the White House.
She says, I think Hillary Clinton's fantastic, but I think it's too soon for her to uh run for president.
This is a uh interview in the latest edition of Hollywood Life magazine.
Uh she said woman should be past her sexuality when she runs.
Hillary still has sexual power, and I don't think people will accept that.
It's too threatening.
But while Stone wants Hillary to wait until her sexuality subsides, singer Madonna is uh urging her to go for it in 2008.
Now we don't know whether that means sexuality or the presidency when it comes from Madonna, but assume she means the presidency.
If you're gonna go for your sexuality, why wait till 2008?
You know, do it tonight.
Uh uh Madonna does say the time might not be right for Americans to put their trust in a woman.
That's not the issue.
She says, I I don't think now is necessarily her time or the Democrats' time, but she should certainly go for it.
Uh Madonna report said this at uh interview in Out magazine.
So we've got we got Hollywood Life and Out magazine here is interview sources for these uh these stories.
She says you gotta start somewhere in terms of a woman leading the U.S. In Europe and Asia and elsewhere, women have ruled over millions.
It's not an abstract concept, but in America, men are still afraid.
And I I don't think women are too comfortable with the idea of a female in charge.
All right, well, do we let's go back to this uh Sharon Stone uh opinion?
Uh woman should be past her sexuality when she runs.
I'm gonna ask question.
I'm I'm being honest when I ask the question.
Of all of you, not just the men, not just the women.
Uh when you look, see, hear, watch Hillary Clinton.
Does you have uh thoughts about her sexuality?
Does she does she uh do you have that kind of reaction?
Do you associate sexuality, not gender, but do you associate sexuality with Mrs. Clinton?
Well, I let me go let me go first here.
You know, I I don't ask people to do things I don't do.
That's character trait of a great leader.
And the answer is no way.
This is um this is this is stunning.
I w and also what might Sharon Stone mean by uh past her sexuality.
You know you can interpret that in a whole lot of ways.
And if a guy said it, meaning what one of the interpretations is, you'd be held a pay.
But past your sexuality, I mean that that that's that's code word there, folks.
If you get my drift.
All right, other news.
A majority of immigrants believe anti-immigration sediment is growing in this country, and they are alarmed by the tone of the debate over reform, according to a new poll that was uh released Tuesday.
Just under one third of those surveyed, all of whom describe themselves as legal immigrants, said that Congress and President Bush are doing a good job on the issue.
Findings came as the U.S. Senate considers immigration reform proposals, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
The poll was conducted by the firm Ben Dixon and Associates.
Now, when I see the term Ben Dixon, now there's sexuality in that name.
Poll conducted by the firm Ben Dixon and Associates.
Between February 25, February 24th and March 21st, researchers said they interviewed 800 legal immigrants in 47 states who were reached by random digit dialing.
I have random digit dialing.
The sexuality of that just leaps off the page to me.
In communities with large numbers of immigrants, the margin of error, plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
When told about reform proposals in Congress, 68% of these respondents said they supported temporary work permits.
But they ended up expressing their fear.
They fear the rhetoric that they're hearing.
They think they're going to be targeted.
These are legal immigrants, according to the poll.
They are they are afraid.
America is raising a nation of sleep-deprived kids, with only 20% getting the recommended nine hours of sleep on scruol nights, and more than one in four reporting dozing off in class.
Many are arriving late to scrub because of oversleeping, and others are driving drowsy on their way to school, according to a poll.
Do you realize how much news in our country every day is a freaking poll?
Who did the National Sleep Foundation?
The National Sleep Foundation is doing a poll.
And they're finding people are sleepy.
Well, of course.
If you're going to organize as a National Sleep Foundation, you're going to go out there and find problems.
And what kind of problem can there be if you get enough sleep?
None.
So the problem, oh, nobody's getting enough.
So what are we going to do about this?
In the competition between the natural tendency to stay up late and early school start times, a teen's sleep is what loses out, said the National Sleep Foundation.
I wonder if they have a nap room at the National Oh, yeah, we still got our nap room with the at the website.
Sending students to scrub without enough sleep is like sending them to school without breakfast.
Sleep serves not only a restorative function for adolescents' bodies and brains, but it also a key time when they process what they've learned during the day.
This is Jody Mendel, by the way, or Mendel, she's associate director of the sleep center at the children's hospital of Philadelphia.
So I'm saying this as I know they get breakfast at school.
So now what we're going to have to have them is get sleep at school.
If they're arriving sleep deprived, the reason for breakfast, uh that started back when I was in junior high.
I'll never forget the principal getting on the PA system and announcing uh the new school breakfast program.
And it was aimed if you can't afford breakfast or if you don't have it available when you clearly he didn't say it this way, but but if you're if you're poor and you're and you're driving a school hungry, we're going to start serving you breakfast in the cafeteria, you've got to get here early and so forth.
Well, uh, you know, it was all based on the fact that uh whatever was needed for these kids at home wasn't being provided.
Now we are learning that they're not being provided ample opportunity to sleep at home.
We're gonna end up with nap rooms at school.
And they're giving you these proposals to start school later and so forth.
This is this is just a bunch of BS.
It's just another excuse for the teachers' union.
They can like teachers union can look at this survey from the National Sleep Foundation, and they can say, don't blame us.
Now we know what the problem was score.
We had this we had a news yesterday.
How much per pupil is being spent in every state, and what the eighth grade reading level is.
And it was pathetic.
And now we'll be able to say we know why.
It is because of the uh sleep deprivation that they're in.
So it's not us.
You know, what the this is a parent's problem to turn off the computer, turn off the instant messaging, turn off the email, turn off the cell phone, turn off the iPod, turn off the DVDs, and go to bed.
Okay, I'm gonna go back to the audio sound bites.
I have a uh montage here.
We put together a montage of uh of uh protesting students in uh in Los Angeles.
Uh some kids walked out of class yesterday, and I think today too, uh, still protesting uh I don't know what they're protesting.
This is protesting, it's just protesting.
And here's the montage, and it's quite telling.
I think maybe we should control like how like how many people pass through here.
Not like let criminals come in, right?
Because that's what they're worried about, but then let the other people in because they're here to work.
How can they expect us to like give in our family like to the jail and nobody would do that to their own families?
We make this country.
You don't see every other like no offense, but white people doing the jobs that we do.
You don't see them going out and cleaning the bathrooms, cleaning this, cleaning that, doing the gardening.
That's right.
And I think also, folks, based on this sleep deprivation story that we just heard about, I actually think that uh illegal uh immigrant students are probably doing the sleeping that American kids won't do anymore.
You don't hear about sleep deprivation among the illegals.
All you hear about is oh, they work hard, they're doing the work the American people won't do.
They're doing the gardening, they're cleaning the bathrooms, they're gonna they're they're they're working themselves to the bone while American kids are lazing around showing up late school and sleepy.
Yep, it's the backbone of America out there on parade.
Justice Scalia, as I mentioned yesterday, was uh he was he was in uh the Swiss law school.
We've got audio sound bites what he said, put it together as a as a montage.
But he went out and said in a speech back on uh 8th of March, it is just it's it's absurd uh to capture enemy combatants on a battlefield, bring them to the United States and give them a civil trial, as though they are citizens of the US and have constitutional rights.
Now, the left is up in arms about this because the case I think they're hearing royal arguments today, in fact, on the Hamdan case, which is the case John Roberts has already had to recuse himself from it when he was uh on the appellate court in DC for DC circuit.
Uh he overturned a lower court and said this the fact that uh uh uh the president cannot do military tribunals is absurd.
He's had to recuse himself because he already ruled uh on the case once.
The left is trying to force Scalia to uh to have to uh recuse himself for this.
And some people are writing about this and making the case that he should not and does not need to recuse himself because the views he expressed while at the Swiss law school are not different uh than the views he's previously expressed.
Uh he's already expressed them out there.
So uh anyway, here's a montage of what he said.
We are in a war.
We are capturing these people on the battlefield.
We never gave a trial in civil courts to people captured in war.
We captured a lot of Germans during World War II.
And they were not to Guantanamo, but to the soil of the United States.
We didn't give them a trial.
If he was captured by my army on a battlefield, that is where he belongs.
I had a son on that battlefield, and they were shooting at my son.
And I am not about to give this this man who was captured in a war, a full jury trial.
I mean, it's crazy.
I love this guy.
This n there's nothing but pure common sense there.
Well, the left, of course, trying to establish an Al-Qaeda Bill of Rights and a number of other things, is simply outraged.
They are enraged uh at Scalia, and and and that because he had the temerity to say that these enemy combatants, these enemy soldiers, are bad people.
And so Jonathan Turley, George Washington University professor, weighed in last night on CNN.
A justice cannot ethically sit on a case if he is previously held forth on the merits, and also stated a personal reason why he would rule one way or the other.
That's enormously improper.
It would bring discredit to the court.
Yeah, discredit to the court.
Would bring some common sense to the court.
This is an issue liberals can really get excited about, folks.
Rights for terrorists like Osama bin Laden's driver, rights for terrorists, the Al-Qaeda Bill of Rights.
This is the kind of thing that gets the left all excited.
We're not gonna let the DP world have a port deal here, and we're certainly not gonna let David Sandboard, who worked for DP World, a former Naval Reserve officer and a great American.
We're not gonna let him run the maritime agency here.
No, no, because he was too close to the DP World people, and they are Arabs.
So we can't have that.
But we're going to give captured enemy combatants jury trials as they'll have constitutional rights the same as U.S. citizens do.
That's your American left.
Mike in New Haven, Connecticut.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Thanks, Rush.
Hey, six months ago, w wasn't the New York Times uh saying that we were relying on um illegal workers to save social security.
Hmm, they were.
That's exactly right.
We needed them to save social security.
Because why?
Uh because they were paying into the system and they were not taken out.
Right.
Now if they if they start paying, they they create more of a burden on social security, don't they?
Uh if they start taking it out?
Well, if they're working here, they're gonna take it out, aren't they?
Yeah, well, that's true.
That's true, because we're gonna legalize them.
Yeah.
And then from there, one step uh beyond that is having some liberal judge uh saying that they're due retroactive uh social security benefit and that's right.
That's that's exactly right.
I you're on the case.
What do you think of all this?
Seriously.
I mean, you you live in New Haven.
That's you you'll you you're you're right there in the belly of the beast at Yale.
Home of the Taliban students.
Mm-hmm.
I'm just waiting for them to offer a scholarship to Zicarius Missawi next.
Seriously, what do you what do you what do you think of all this?
What I mean, I in terms of the the media coverage of this is somewhat fascinating to me because Bush is not on the opposite side of them on this.
You know, that they can't they can't use this story to rip Bush to shreds because he's on the same side of it they are.
I don't know.
I j I just don't get it.
I mean, I don't know anybody that's uh for illegal immigration around here.
Well, there are plenty of people that are uh I you know, in in in one sense, I w it's not that they're for it, I think in the media of the left.
What they see is that the issue has the potential to destroy the Republican Party and to really anger the Republican base, which might tend to make members of the base not show up uh on election day.
And I think that's the game here.
I think uh I it boils down to they will do whatever they have to do, including wreck the country.
I think they'll fix it later, but they will do whatever they have to do to uh uh destroy the coalition that the Republicans have put together that has given them the House and the Senate uh and the White House.
That's I think it's the the number one agenda item.
And so this immigration issue has been structured in such a way the Democrats are all for it, the Democrats are for the little guy, the disadvantaged, the put upon the poor, the starving, the thirsty, the hungry, the dirty.
And of course, it's the mean spirited Republicans who have no compassion whatsoever and just want to send them back to their hell on earth countries.
And that's the dynamic that I think is uh that we see in the in the uh in the coverage.
Thanks for the call out there, Mike Marie and Terre Haute, Indiana.
Hello.
Hello.
Hi, I'm so honored to speak to you.
Thank you very much.
Hey, I am married to an illegal, and I'm an American.
I was born in America.
I'm proud to be an American.
That I'm I fell in love with and married as an illegal a few years ago.
Where is he from?
He is from Mexico.
And my concern is not Republican or Democratic issue.
What do you do with the illegals that are here?
They're married to Americans, have children with their American spouses.
You can't just send them away and tear them away from their families and their children.
Because that's affecting American citizens by taking away the spouse and or father.
I think you pack up the whole family and send them back to where they came from.
Well, like that would be sending me an American and my children with my husband to a country that people are coming out of because they can't.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
You go back and then you apply to come back in.
He he applies to come back in.
Well, we talked to immigration and homeland security about that a long time ago, and they said that we'd have to wait in Mexico for about nine years.
So what do you do?
I mean, that's gonna affect a lot of people.
Well, but you know, we're talking about a hypothetical it isn't gonna happen.
You've got nothing to worry about.
The uh legislation that came out of the Judiciary Committee takes care of this.
As long as your husband, I don't know, your husband's got to admit that he's illegal, go somewhere, pay a thousand dollar fine.
Is he speak English?
I'm sure he does.
Oh, he speaks flooring English.
Okay, say it doesn't have to do that.
Just pay the thousand dollar fine.
You're home free.
This isn't this is this isn't gonna happen.
This is a fear that you need not ponder any further.
Ha!
How are you?
Welcome back, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Rush Limbaugh, talent on loan from God, have a story here that you're not gonna see in the drive-by media.
And uh it's it's from the Cyber News Service, Cybercast News Service.
Water purifying projects completed near Baghdad.
Soldiers in Iraq last week completed a water treatment and storage project that provides purified water to residents of four communities north of Baghdad.
This, according to the Department of Defense.
Soldiers from the 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiments, and Company A, 490th Civil Affairs Battalion, tested and approved storage containers, finalizing a project that purifies water from local canals.
The new storage tanks feature faucets that allow residents to fill their own containers to transport water to their homes.
We are happy, Sheikh Modar Thamir said, a leader in one of the affected communities.
The Army Corps of Engineers, working to rebuild public services in Iraq and Afghanistan, reports on its website that 243 public water projects have been completed in Iraq since 2004.
Another 144 projects are underway.
The ACE, the Corps of Engineers, consists mostly of civilian engineers and scientists and other specialists who work with the military at home and abroad.
Most of its work is done the U.S., but it established a provisional division in January 04 to assist with the rebuilding of Iraq.
Water treatment projects are aimed at repairing water purification systems that operated at a fraction of their pre-war capacity due to years of neglect, electricity shortages, and post-war looting.
Now, I gotta tell you some I when I went to Afghanistan a year ago last February, one of the things that amazed me, and folks, the place looked like it had been bombed back to the Stone Age.
You know, they had the war with the uh with the Soviets uh and and in the eighties, and after that, the there was there was sort of a they had the seven different mujahide tribes, and there was a vacuum, there's no central leadership that popped up.
Taliban went in there, totally took over, another civil war erupted, and the place was just left in a shambles.
The Taliban was a pure terrorist organization, uh pure totalitarian, and and and nothing got rebuilt.
It was just it was stunning to see.
I I I'm never gonna have the same reaction when I hear people complain about poverty, uh, particularly in this country after what I saw there.
But here's the point.
I went to a number of U.S. military installations, and I was stunned at the cities for the military that the military had set up to house the troops.
They had literally built little villages and cities in town with water treatment centers.
It's amazing to see what they do.
And now, and they were and they were helping one of the one of the plans that was being implemented then was the same type of uh of thing that you just heard about here with the water purifying projects in uh in in Iraq.
Uh the civilian military authority was working with the Iraqis to rebuild the country and establish sanitary water systems and and and sanitary disposal systems and so forth.
Uh to the the contrast, here you had the U.S., we went into Afghanistan sh, you know, in 2002, 2003.
I'm over there in 2005.
In less than three years, I saw a more modern a bunch of more modern uh standard of living establishments that the military had set up for itself in the remote part of the world, essentially building little cities of housing units and and uh water purification, game rooms, rec rooms and you know the communication centers.
And it was just stunning.
Here we are, a culture able to go into a place like this and build housing and all the necessary infrastructure for our troops in a in a matter of months in a country that hasn't been able to do it in I don't know how many thousands of years.
And now we're doing the same thing in Iraq.
If this is the kind of good news, this is the kind of progress, this is the kind of uh uh story that does not get reported.
It really doesn't.
But it's i i I've I've made I've made mention of the of the fact.
I've traveled a uh a lot of places in the world, and I'm sure a lot of you have too.
And one of the things that you can't help but notice when you travel f uh uh in a foreign country, and I don't care what it is, one of the things you come to appreciate the most is the water system that we have in this country.
You can go coast to coast in this country, and you don't have to worry about drinking the water in a home uh in the city or out in the country, hotels at gas stations.
Uh, I mean, some people you know have problems with it, so they drink bottled water, but the fact remains you can turn on a faucet anywhere in this country, uh uh in an actively maintained establishment and and be totally safe drinking the country.
You don't have to pack up bottled water from Missouri when you travel to California, so you don't get a stomach disease, is the point.
And we take this all for granted, but when you travel around the world, uh you really some places you can't even the toilets will not even flush toilet paper.
It's just and these countries and civilizations have been around far longer than we have.
Uh our military engineers in Iraq and Afghanistan are setting things up on the same model that we have set up our whole country before it's over with.
Uh Iraq is going to have a water system that will that will be better than a lot of European countries' existing water system.
I'm talking about sanitary and waste removal, drinking water, the whole thing.
And drive-by media will never tell you about this story.
They will never discuss this with you.
In f in fact, this story, even in this story, they went out and they had to go find some anti-war people uh to say, well, yeah, this is all well or good, but why did it happen in the first place?
The United States has to rebuild this because they destroyed it.
Uh it's just it's absurd.
You can't even even in a in a in a story which focuses on good news for the sake of journalistic balance, you have to go out and find some detractor, some critic, doesn't matter who, just to balance the story so that nobody thinks the journalists are being biased or unfair.
Tina, Stockton, California, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Um the last caller you have, um, I don't agree with what she is saying.
That just makes me angry, the fact that when my grandma and my grandpa had to petition all of us to come here in the U.S. from the Philippines, and we waited almost 10 years just to get over here, and this lady said, what about their family?
Well, you know what?
They made that decision to come over here illegal.
So, you know, I I think it's only fair for whatever the government's gonna do, whatever it's gonna do.
And it's just it's just not right.
It's just a lot of people.
See, this is that you're exactly right.
This is the other side of the story that is also not being followed with drive-by media, and it's people like you who are obeying the rules.
And you're out there and you listen to people who say, well, and they come up with these circumstances that they think uh grant them an exemption from uh being held to the rules.
And it I can understand it frustrating and burning you up because I I know people today who uh live in this country and they've been trying for nine years, like you say, or eight to get their kids in into the country uh legally, rather than rather than go through the circuitous route and get them here illegally because they just want to obey the law and they see this happening, and you know it it just frustrates.
I can hear it in your voice.
It's not fair.
You know, I mean, yeah, we waited yet.
I mean, it's not the choice that we wanted, but you know what?
We have to follow the rules.
That's just how life is.
Well, Tina, let this be a lesson.
This isn't about fairness, this is about votes.
That's true.
It's about politics.
That's true.
I'm I'm glad you called.
Thanks uh so much.
Let's go to San Jose, uh, California.
Is this the Ingrid?
All right.
Hello, guys.
Hi, Ingrid.
Hang on just a second, let me properly introduce you.
Folks, if you if you're if not heard Ingrid from uh from San Jose before she and I have had our battles.
We've we've gone at it tooth and nail.
I mean uh it it's it's been fun.
I've enjoyed it.
I've I've always looked forward to your call, but I'm a little disappointed because it says up there that you agree with she's big lib, proud to be so is not offended when I s when they call her that like some libs are well they said no I'm a progressive or I'm a moderate but you say you agree with me on on uh this issue.
I assume you mean immigration Well actually what what what upsets me about this whole thing the illegals going out in the street to protest against U.S. laws and then at the same time they're flying their own country's flag you know it's like waving the red flag in front of a bull it just infuriates me.
And then we're catering to the language ESL you know English as a second language in elementary school and and teachers are being replaced with peach teachers who speak English and Spanish.
DMV and voter pamphlets are in Spanish and Vietnamese whatever and you know English should be the language of this land.
When I came here legally I would have never demanded that my children speak you know their m their mother's language.
They speak English and we speak English at home we acclimate it to this country but I see it all around me I see people flying the their Mexican flag in the on their cars.
On their license plates what also I think this country's is is becoming balkanized because you have these little areas I mean they're totally Spanish they're totally all over the country this is scary for me.
This is very scary Ingrid I think you're your uh your your your liberalism here is is undergoing a gut check.
I am I feel no no no no no let me ask you a question how does it feel to be a racist and a bigot no I don't think that's racist I think it's logic.
No I know but I mean people who say what you just said are being accused of being racists and bigots.
Listen my motto has always been live and let live but what I see and when these people come here and demand this and that and then fly their own flag it pisses me off can I say that?
Yeah well you just did so and uh we didn't we didn't we're enjoying this so much we didn't want to bleep anything out that you said.
Yeah.
I know when I came here I had to have health checkups I had to have blood tests.
You were you from I forgot where where are you from originally?
I'm from Germany.
That's right Germany Germany you said that and I had to fill out papers up to the my neck you know now T B in this area is is um is um resistant to multi drugs.
You know Ingrid we're on a we're having a good meeting of the minds here and I don't want to put uh put it at risk but I have to say something to you.
What?
He's getting geared up for battle now if the the reason that this is happening the things that you described is largely because of the tolerance that liberalism has told us all we must have.
We must respect people's differences.
We must understand their rage we must understand their pain and we must do everything we can not to offend them.
Yes I do all of that and I'm sure you do that too if they come here legally but you cannot come here illegal it means illegal means again to the law legal what legal and illegal doesn't matter anymore.
That's the point we we we can't use legal those are antiquated terms legal and illegal it's undocumented we can't do anything to humiliate these people and that that derives from the way liberals look at the disadvantaged and they look at them as victims.
So these people just victims so we have to we have to look the other way when they tell us how mad they are they have a right to be mad.
They're victims they're victims of an oppressive U.S. government that doesn't put them here blah blah blah blah blah blah blah you know what they're victims of they're victims of these companies that hire these people they're using sl they're paying slave labor we need to go after these companies that hire these people because you know what these people leave twelve to twenty four people in one room you know an American cannot afford to do their the job that they're doing at those wages because an American has to pay rent they
don't live you know Ingrid I have to run here Because the constraints of time.
But I have to say I've loved this.
I have so appreciated this.
I have I can't recall.
I've reached you.
Obviously, this program has worked.
You are not who you were.
Don't get used to it.
It may not last, but but I have reached you.
It is it's so strange listening to somebody that that.
And she's not shouting, she's not screaming when she called here as a liberal before.
She was insulting and mad and all this.
Now look at this.
She's very reasoned here in her analysis and forth.
This just proves that with patience.
My objective of having every American agree with me is reachable.
All right, a programming uh reminder, folks.
I will not be behind the golden EIB microphone tomorrow.
Mark Belling will be hosting the program.
I'll be back on Thursday.
We'll have uh special guest, don't rarely very often do this, but uh Joel Cerno, the creator and executive producer of uh the Fox Hit 24.
Uh we'll be live in our Palm Beach studios.
I don't know what time yet.
Depends on what time he gets up after the party tomorrow night.
Uh but it'd be 1230 or 1 o'clock somewhere.
Maybe I guess one o'clock will do it.
Uh anytime after 12 30 on, whenever he gets there.
Looking forward to it.
Google has learned from Microsoft for a company that takes pride in being the quintessential outsider, Gugger, Google.
Google is moving quickly into the ultimate insider's game lobbying.
They have figured out that they they gotta grease the skids, they gotta pay the extortion racket in Washington, so they're gonna have a lobbyist spreading the wealth around Washington to make it less likely that they'll get the Microsoft treatment.
You know, Microsoft didn't spend a whole lot of time in Washington spreading the wealth around.
Now there's there's one more story here about the port deal.
And it's it's the story we had last week.
Remember there was a shock, there was a sense of outrage, disbelief.
How could it possibly have happened?
Uh we were going to let a company owned by the ChICOMs inspect cargo in the Bahamas headed headed for us for radioactivity, i.e., nukes.
And people, how can this be?
The Chiccoms?
Why can't we inspect ports over there?
And that the story said, and there won't even be any U.S. customs officials over there.
So the Chiccoms have this machine that all the cargo will go through and it'll detect or not detect radioactivity.
And people predictably say, well, that's not that doesn't make any sense.
Chiccoms could sneak a nuke into the country that way.
Well, the deal stands.
The deal stands.
U.S. customs inspectors will be stationed by this fall at the largest seaport in the Bahamas where the Bush administration is hiring a Hong Kong uh conglomerate to help detect nuclear materials inside cargo.
Chuck Schumer said the only thing missing from the uh advanced security formula in the Bahamas was the presence of U.S. customs agents.
Now that it appears they'll be added, it'll be a large step forward for port security.
So it's okay to have the Chicoms inspecting cargo in the Bahamas headed for us for radioactivity as long as there are U.S. customs officials there.
We still, though.
We still can't let the Israelis uh buy this uh Trump change little software company because the Israelis are a security risk.
News.
You'll have to forgive me, folks.
I just love it.
A quick timeout, we'll be back.
The port deal forever, as far as I'm concerned.
Stay with us.
One minute left to go, and we go to John in Solana Beach, California.
Hi, John.
Hi, Rush.
Golfing Ditto's from 20 miles north of ground zero and illegal immigration in an effort to lower my blood pressure a little bit.
I wanted to shift gears, and I suspect you're gonna have uh dinner with Rudy Giuliani tonight.
Uh do you mind asking him uh when he's gonna come out of seclusion and run against Hillary and throw her out of the Senate?
Uh well, he won't run against her to the Senate.
I know, I know he's I know he's gonna get it.
I'm not sure if I'm not sure if Rudy's gonna be at the big cigar dinner tonight.
He usually shows up.
Um he was co-host last year.
Uh he's usually at our table.
Uh and I, you know, I'll ask him.
I'll ask him what he's gonna do.
He won't tell me, but I'll ask him.
And I'll keep asking.
He won't tell me, but I'll I'll ask him.
Uh he's playing this real close to the vest in this presidential business.
I have my own.
I personally don't think he'll pull the trigger.
I I think he likes the speculation, but he's he's he also likes his life in the uh private sector.
I just don't sense it.
But I was wrong about Hillary in this regard, too.
See you on Thursday, folks.
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