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March 29, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 29, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #3
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It's great to be back.
Bill Clinton did an interview last night.
He said, you know, I had all four teams in my final four bracket.
I had George Mason, Florida, LSU.
Clinton had all of them.
Isn't that amazing?
He did it again.
Casper Weinberger died yesterday.
I want to spend, and I think doing obituaries on a radio talk show is boring.
I admit that.
This was a great American.
And I think it's important to spend a moment looking back at his life, because the only way we can learn what to do in the future is to take a look at what worked in the past.
Caspar Weinberger was a conservative who had a vision.
His vision was implemented, and he was successful.
And he earned, therefore, the highest praise the left can give someone like that.
They vilified him and tried to destroy him.
Weinberger was a longtime Republican, served in the California Reagan administration when Ronald Reagan was governor of California, he came to Washington with him as Secretary of Defense.
And it was Weinberger who, with Reagan, believed that what had happened to our military after Vietnam was terrible.
Jimmy Carter allowed the United States military to fall into shambles with constant budget cuts, changes in mission, poor training.
We were not ready.
And Weinberger and Reagan believed that the most important thing that this country could do was reestablish our national defense.
They also believed that the Cold War could be won, that this wasn't something to be managed, that dealing with the Soviet Union wasn't appeasement, but they believed that it could be won.
They gradually rebuilt our military and set in stage, set in process the military that we have today, the greatest military in the world.
You can say what you want about the war with Iraq.
But during the fighting part, we routed that nation and did so with very few American casualties, precisely because our military was rebuilt.
Because we now do have great training, because we do have great equipment.
With regard to the Soviet Union, Reagan and Weinberger felt that if we could gain a military advantage rather than a parody with the Soviet Union, we could bring it down.
And they embarked collectively on a strategy of rebuilding our national defenses that was combined with confronting the Soviet Union and trying to defeat it.
Arms control was put on a back burner, and trying to weaken the Soviet threat was made the top priority.
And we all know what happened.
Gorbachev realizing that he couldn't match the United States dollar for dollar, gradually conceded.
The Soviet Union shriveled and eventually died.
The left to this day has hated Reagan for it.
Because the left always believed that the Soviet Union was somewhat a country that we needed to engage, we needed to understand.
Remember Phil Donahue used to run those people-to-people missions.
If only we knew one another better.
If only we understood the Soviets, then we could get along.
And they never forgave Cap Weinberger.
What happened to Weinberger at the end of his career was a disgrace to this country.
During the time that the Iran Contra investigation was going on, Weinberger was targeted by Lawrence Walsh.
The Democrats hated the Ken Star investigation of Bill Clinton.
Lawrence Walsh was the poster child For a prosecutor out of control.
Five years he investigated, trying to criminalize policy differences.
They never could find anything on Weinberger.
But Walsh became so obsessed, was so determined to get a trophy at the top level of the administration that in 1992, 1992, four years after President Reagan had left office,
four years after Weinberg, five years after Weinberger was gone, Lawrence Walsh, five days before the 1992 presidential election between Bill Clinton and the first President Bush brings this trumped-up indictment against Weinberger, accuses him of obstruction of justice for not turning over notes that included his conversations with President Reagan.
Walsh contended that this was obstruction of justice, that Weinberger was trying to conceal material that was in the notes.
Do you know where the prosecutor got those notes, which were largely diaries, largely notes about personal interaction between Weinberger and the others that he dealt with?
Weinberger had donated them to the Library of Congress.
Boy, that was a real attempt to cover things up.
If Weinberger had any attempt to conceal information, he wouldn't have taken the information that he was concealed and donated it to an agency of the government.
Yet Lawrence Walsh wanted to get someone for something, and he went after Weinberger for that.
President Bush later pardoned Weinberger, which was an act that was just, but Weinberger had to deal with that, stain on his name, not because of anything that happened in Iran-Contra, but because there were still grudges held against him for the fact that he was right about the Cold War.
In his last number of years, he's been serving as the chairman of Forbes magazine.
I don't know exactly what that entailed, but he'd read a column in Forbes, very, very good, very, very supportive of the American military, strong supporter of the war on terror.
He died yesterday at the age of 88 years old.
Just a great, great man.
Here's an interesting story.
John McCain is going to be speaking at graduation ceremonies at this is beautiful.
We need some buildup for this.
Senator McCain, who, as you know, is not declared, but certainly seeking the Republican nomination for president in 2008, who over the last several years his MO has been to take whatever position is likely to curry him favor with the mainstream media.
McCain has always been the Republicans, Republican, that the liberals kind of like, that the media likes, well, he's a responsible Republican.
McCain is a reformer.
Campaign finance reform, that's in the media's front burner, John McCain will make it his own issue.
Tax cuts considered to be welfare for the rich, McCain will oppose it.
Whenever the media has wanted to trot out a Republican to criticize mainstream Republicans, McCain has been their guy.
McCain has also condemned many conservatives, particularly social conservatives in the United States, including the Reverend Jerry Falwell.
Well, well, guess whose graduation ceremony John McCain is going to be speaking at in May?
Liberty University, the university founded by that very same once vilified Jerry Falwell.
Now here's what's at work at this.
McCain realizes that a lot of Republicans, particularly in the conservative base, don't much like him.
He tried to run for the nomination in 2000 against President Bush as this maverick, someone who wasn't as conservative.
I'm a reformer.
It didn't work.
Since then, his opposition to many Bush initiatives has got he's greeted with a lot of skepticism by a lot of conservative Republicans.
What McCain is doing by speaking at liberty is trying to send a message to social conservatives that he really is one of them.
What he's doing is very much like what Hillary Clinton's been doing the last couple of years.
Try to move to the center, position yourself as something that you really aren't.
Use a lot of symbolism without ever actually changing any policy positions in an attempt to portray yourself in a certain way.
I don't know if it's going to work.
The Republican race for the presidency is absolutely wide open.
There is no front runner.
There is no heir apparent to President Bush.
Giuliani's name is out there.
He may be too far to the left on some social issues like abortion and gay rights.
Condoleza Rice would be supported by a lot of Republicans, but she says she's not going to run.
There are many other worthy people out there, but they have very, very low name recognition.
Senator Allen is one of them.
Romney of Massachusetts, lots of them.
Nobody's really in the forefront.
The best known Republican who's running is McCain.
And I think he would like to create this presumption that he is the nominee whose turn it is.
That he's the rightful heir to this particular Bush presidency.
But in order to do that, he's got to get the base of the party off his back.
So he's going to go down and speak to Liberty University.
Do you buy it?
He vilifies Jerry Falwell, suggests that he's a demagogue when it served that purpose.
But now he's going to go down and speak to Liberty University when he's running for president, realizing that a change in strategy is necessary.
This whole business of how McCain is to be evaluated is rather fascinating.
I don't have a lot of trust for him, and I'm not sure that what he's doing is ever particularly sincere.
From a political motivation perspective, though, it's, I think, real easy to see what he's up to here.
My name is Mark Belling, and I'm sitting in for Rush.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
Running for president in 2000, this is what Senator McCain said, quote, neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Lewis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.
Agents of intolerance.
Okay, that didn't work in 2000.
Now we're going to go down and speak with one of those agents of intolerance, Jerry Fowell, and try it that way this time around.
To New Jersey on a cell phone, Max.
Max, you're on Russia's program with Mark Belling.
Hey, Mark, thanks a lot for taking my call.
I enjoy your show.
Thank you.
Um I think when McCain runs, the question that needs to be asked is his involvement in tailhook.
He sold, he let a lot of good men get sold down the river.
And those of us who are Navy pilots know all about John McCain.
Uh he he really let a couple of guys uh get screwed by the women's.
Well, I mean, the the problem with McCain is that he appears to be.
I think McCain's problem and the problem I have with him is that he seems to ideologically be wherever the television cameras are.
Whatever, whatever it is that will gain him favor with the media.
Now you mentioned that story, which is a number of years old.
It nonetheless was one that put him in good stead.
The media loves to be able to find a Republican that they find, quote, reasonable.
McCain's problem politically is going to be that if he's going to run for president as a Republican, he's got to appeal to Republican voters, and that includes a whole lot of people who don't think that Jerry Falwell is an agent of intolerance, but think that he is a wonderful man.
So McCain has got to try to create this new McCain who's going to reach out to social conservatives, the religious right for lack of a better term, while I guess disavowing his past and pretending that it doesn't exist.
Thank you for the call.
Thank you for the call.
Let's go to a cell phone in Boise Rich, Richard on EIB.
Well, I want to say I'm a longtime listener and fan of Russia's show.
I moved out to Boise from Connecticut three years ago.
And uh two things about McCain.
One, I could never vote for him because I'm a conservative, and he doesn't share any of my beliefs.
And the second, the idea that it's his turn, I just think back to ninety-six when it was Bob Dole's turn.
That's an outstanding point.
I think Rich, I think that's just an absolutely outstanding point.
The Republicans have had a tendency, especially in the years in which they lose elections, to go to the guy whose turn it is.
And I think that was the reason Senator Dole was chosen in 1996.
Dole was the senior Republican at the time.
He was the presumptive Republican nominee, and it was quote his turn.
You can argue that it is McCain's turn because he ran in 2000.
He essentially finished second to President Bush then.
Okay, now it's his time to do that.
Well, that isn't the way you choose a president, but a lot of Republicans have looked at it that way.
I think McCain is, though, trying to redefine himself because he does realize that this business of pandering to the media that he has done has made him a hero, maybe in the center, and certainly with the news media, but not with the kinds of people who vote in Republican primaries.
I don't believe him any more than I believe Hillary.
I think what they're doing is similar.
I think Hillary is trying to move to the center, and McCain is trying to move to the right, and they're both doing it for tactical reasons.
So you don't believe Senator McCain's speech at Liberty University is a sinfere is a sincere conversion to social conservative principles, huh?
I don't think anything he does is sincere.
Thank you for the call.
McCain has consistently been arguing against proposals to have the federal government outlaw gay marriage.
He said that it's an issue for the states.
Well, a lot of social conservatives believe that it is a federal issue.
McCain is now saying that a federal statute may be necessary.
This, according to Falwell, who has met with him.
Now I see what Jerry Falwell's trying to do here.
He realizes that McCain is a very fort powerful force in the Republican Party, and he may well be the not be the nominee, and he's trying to move McCain to the right and a little bit closer to him.
Baltimore and Mark, Mark, you're on Russia's program.
Uh good afternoon.
Listen, the reason why I am supportive of John McCain is because he can beat Hillary, and that's the biggest uh thing for me.
Well, this phobia of Hillary that a lot of Republicans have is something that I think we need to cure ourselves of.
She's not going to win.
She may get the Democratic nomination.
I'm not convinced of that.
She isn't going to win.
But we've got all these Republicans who are just terrified.
We've got to put up somebody who can beat Hillary.
Hillary Hillary's this incredibly difficult candidate.
Hillary Clinton's not going to carry one state south of the Mason Dixon line, and a Democrat can't get elected president running that way.
Why is everyone so terrified of Hillary?
Oh, because of the damage that she can do.
Look, McCain has crossover appeal.
And there's no way that Hillary can beat McCain, and Hillary, you know, is is too much of a threat to our life.
So McCain can be a good thing.
You can beat Hillary with a real Republican.
You don't need to come down come up with a watered down Republican like Senator McCain and in order to beat Hillary.
Look, I prefer uh Allen from Virginia.
I prefer uh uh Mitt Ron Romney from uh Massachusetts Massachusetts.
However, in the in the border states, Arizona, Colorado, uh Ohio, it could be again, um, you know, McCain can uh take those states and we're gonna have uh another Republican in there and we're gonna have more Alitos and Scalia's on the court, and that's the bottom line.
Now wait a minute.
Are you sure a President McCain, who may talk somewhat conservatively now, are you sure a President McCain is going to give you an Alito, or is he going to give you a David Souter because that's what will sell with the media?
You've got to be wary of a guy like McCain, who has always, in his political history, gravitated toward doing things that will gain him approval with the power structure in this country, with the mainstream media, to presume that you Are going to get judges like Alito.
I really don't think that you have to settle when it comes to a presidential nomination.
Now, if Senator McCain can demonstrate that this is sincere, more than simply symbolic.
Maybe you need maybe I need to open my mind and consider that he's the right person.
But at this point, what he's doing strikes me as opportunistic.
But as for your fear of Hillary, and I know a lot of Republicans have this because they're just mortified at the notion that she could become the president of the United States.
It's hard for me to imagine North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, any of those states ever going for her.
And if you get skunked in the South, a Democrat can't win the presidency.
Don't be so terrified of her.
She's not that tough.
She's not Bill.
Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
Okay, McCain's going to speak at liberty.
How's the media going to reconcile itself with that?
After all, Senator McCain is the Republican that Democrats love.
He's the reasonable Republican.
Now, if a conservative goes to Liberty, why they have these views?
Are you associating yourself with the intolerance of Jerry Calwell?
How will the media deal with McCain?
Will they report it as Senator McCain reaching out to conservative social socially conservative Republicans?
Or will they argue that it is an act of intolerance?
I wonder.
My guess is that he's going to be their fair-haired boy, and his going to liberty will be treated differently than if Senator Allen spoke at Liberty University, which is in his home state, by the way.
Uh Clovis, New Mexico and Scott.
Scott, it's your turn on Russia's program with Mark Belling.
Yeah, thanks for taking the call.
Uh with all due respect, missing the point.
Uh this guy is going to be a spoiler.
He is going to help Hillary get elected.
Hillary does not need 51%.
McCain will go independent and he will split the conservative vote like Ross Perot did.
That's how the Clintons get elected.
Yeah, I mean, what makes you think he intends to run as a as an independent?
Because he'll split off when he doesn't get the nomination, he'll run independently.
That's why the media loves him so much.
That's why they keep catering to him.
They are grooming him to be the Ross Perot for 2008.
Yeah, I mean, if he did run as an independent, there would be that threat that you could break up the Republican vote.
I I grant you that.
He right now appears, however, to be determined to do it the easy way rather than the hard way, which is to run.
Which is to run as a Republican.
Yeah, I he may do that.
What's more interesting to me is whether or not he's going to be steal the Republican nomination for president.
And I don't think he will, because I think his history is one that most Republicans, particularly those who vote in primary elections, don't trust.
But I, you know, the problem with running as an independent is nobody ever wins that way.
And Senator McCain wants to win.
He's 69 years old now.
He's going to be 71 in 2008.
This is his last chance.
He wants to win, and he knows that the path of least resistance would be to get the Republican nomination.
The only thing he has to overcome is the Republicans, who by and large don't much trust him.
Thank you, Scott.
To Tony and Albuquerque, two New Mexico colors in a row.
You're on Russia's program.
Hey, Mark, I think it's going to be portrayed as he's going there as a friend to the religious right to basically shake his finger at them and tell them, look, you're never going to win an election unless you get behind me and we're going to take this party forward.
But he's not going there as a friend of them.
He's going there as a Republican who can get them to give up the religious intolerance and maybe be a more centrist party.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
He met with Falwell three months ago.
Falwell's now speaking about the appearance.
Falwell's saying he's coming around on several of these issues.
I think he's courting them.
You've got to the one thing you can say about socially conservative Republican voters, many of whom are religious, is they show up and they vote.
They vote in these primaries.
They're active, they're people who are willing to they are the people who are willing to go down and do the phone banks and distribute the literature.
If they have money, they're willing to donate money.
They are the backbone of the Republican Party.
And this group has been insulted, denigrated, and mocked, you know, by public officials and by the media for years.
And I think it's going to be real, real hard for Senator McCain, who is one of those who was doing the mocking and looking down his nose to somehow come in and make peace, particularly when there are other Republican candidates who are the real thing who will be out there as alternatives.
Senator Allen being one of them.
Now, my own personal dream candidate, and I can't get past it is Condi.
I think Condaleza Rice is just a brilliant person and would make a tremendous president.
If she ran, she'd be very formidable.
But she seems to be intent on not running.
If it isn't her, McCain is the best known of the Republicans that are out there.
I just don't think that most Republicans are going to buy into it, though.
You've got to remember that not only did he oppose then Governor Bush in two thousand, for the last six years, whenever there's been an issue upon which the president needed to unite the Republicans.
Senator McCain was nowhere to be found, and I think a lot of Republicans are going to remember that.
Thank you for the call.
Sacramento and John.
John, it's your turn on Russia's show.
Hi, Mark.
I think the only way that Hillary can win, or one of the ways that she can win is if McCain does get the Republican nomination.
And the reason being is his old former allies, his buddies right now, the media will turn on him in a heartbeat and have him cowered in the corner.
He won't know what's going to hit him, and then a lot of these occasional Republicans are going to stay at home and take the high road, thinking they're taking a high road.
Yeah, I agree.
If he's nominated.
Yeah, John, I think that's an outstanding point.
The m if if it is Hillary versus McCain, you watch how quickly the media throws Senator McCain over the side.
He's not going to know what in him.
But Tom, you are my friend.
He'll be going on he'll be going on Chris Matthews show wondering why all of a sudden he's getting difficult questions rather than softball, the name of the show when McCain is on the program.
He's not going to know what hit him because the desire to have Hillary as president will be so overwhelming.
In the meantime, and this is where I think your point is really, really good.
A lot of those Republicans who are not trusting of Senator McCain and don't think he's a real conservative, they may just sit it out.
They may vote for an alternative third party candidate.
They may not be willing to vote for him.
So McCain ends up with neither the left or the right, and he ends up losing.
Whenever the Republicans sell out their principles and feel as though they've got to appeal to this political center, which may not exist, that's when they get in trouble.
When you run a candidate who runs as a conservative and without any shame at all, states his or her principles.
That's when the Republicans have won.
We've heard this w we heard that President Bush needed to move to the center.
He never did.
We heard that Reagan was too far to the right.
He won by two landslides.
Senator McCain is the kind of Republican who I think would lose.
I agree with you, exactly for the reason that you describe.
He would stop being the darling of the media the moment he actually became the Republican nominee for president.
Thank you for the call.
That was a really good point he made.
To uh Connecticut on a cell phone, David, it's your turn on Russia's show.
Hey, Mark, okay, I don't think that's gonna work.
Sorry, David.
The cell phone cut out at exactly the wrong time.
Hate when that happens.
To uh Whitman Air Force Base, which I think is in Missouri, John, it's your turn.
Hi, Mark.
Um I agree with you.
I like Condy for president, and I also like uh Alberto Gonzalez for vice president.
I think it would be well the left the left wouldn't know what to know what to do with that ticket.
No, they wouldn't.
Uh yeah, it would probably drive them crazy.
I think the one scenario by which Condoleezza Rice would seek the presidency was if she ran as the sitting vice president.
You know, there's been all this talk.
Fred Barnes wrote a column in the Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago that the Bush shakeup shouldn't begin, shouldn't stop with the chief of staff, that maybe it's time for Vice President Cheney to resign and make Condoleezza Rice the heir apparent.
That would so radically shape shake up American politics.
If Condoleezza Rice was the Republican nominee, the Democratic Party would be in shambles.
Even if she got only twenty percent of the black vote in this country, that's still higher than the eight or nine percent that Republicans are getting right now.
That's the margin in as many as six to eight northern states.
It would it would be a case in which the Republicans were not nominating a minority and a woman as a token, but choosing the person who may be the best qualified person in the entire party.
I'd really like to see it happen.
And the one scenario by which you could see that occurring would be if she was the sitting vice president, which would mean that Vice President Cheney would have to leave and President Bush would have to put her in that position.
And a lot of Republicans are urging that he do that.
Thank you for the call to Dayton and Alfred.
Alfred, it's your turn on Russia's show.
Yeah, I think we've got the draft Dick Cheney, who's got the gravitas, who can be a great one-term president and carry on the uh security and war policies uh of uh of George Bush, even though we don't like others, and I think he's a true conservative, and I I think we've got to get him to contribute four years the rest of his life to his country because uh he's got the name and he he will energize in ways that Bush can't,
but he he would be a great one-term president until we get sorted out and get someone who can really be known nationally and get get everyone's vote.
Yeah, the problem is a lot of Americans don't like Vice President Sheeney.
You talk about a guy who's been vilified and has just become a punching bag for the media.
They didn't like Reagan either.
Yeah, but you know, Reagan had the great personality who was able to market conservatism in a way that had never really been done prior to him coming along the pike.
And Vice President Cheney has a lot of things, but he is not a charismatic person, and he's not a great orator, and he's not somebody who I think could overcome that.
Plus, I think he uh he's probably going to be tired.
I think that the future of the Republican Party is probably going to be with someone else, and that's why it's such a wide open thing.
Why a McCain believes he has a chance because there isn't anyone right now who is the air apparent.
Normally, when a party has the presidency, the sitting vice president is perceived to be the front runner.
That's the way it has tended to work.
But because of Cheney's age and his health and other considerations, it's presumed that he isn't going to run, and it does create this thing where we've got wide open races on both the Democratic and the Republican side.
My name is Mark Elling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
The last time I was here, I think it was the last time I was here, I was talking about Hollywood's portrayal of mainstream American things like Christianity.
I think it was in connection with the front runners for the Academy Awards, Brokeback Mountain, Crash, and so on.
All these movies that seem to deal with aspects of American life that the vast majority of Americans don't live.
There's a movie coming out in early May that I think is going to prove my point.
They're making a movie out of the Da Vinci Code, this monstrously huge bestseller.
I think I'm the only guy in America who hasn't read it, but I know the story.
The Da Vinci Code is presented as fiction, although the author says he believes it's true.
So he gets around it both ways.
He says that he believes it, meaning he's presenting a credible theory, but that it's written as fiction.
The premise of the Da Vinci Code is that Jesus ended up marrying Mary Magdalene, They had a child, and the Roman Catholic Church has spent the last two thousand years covering it up.
All right, they're going to turn that into a major motion picture.
I think Ron Howard is directing it.
He directs everything now.
And it's going to get a huge push from Hollywood.
I suspect the movie will probably be successful because the book was so successful.
And there is a fascination with anything having to do with Jesus.
But, and here's my butt.
When they do a movie about religion, why is it always something like this?
I believe strongly, and I'm convinced I'm right about this, that there is a market, a real big money market for programming, be it movies, TV shows, whatever, in the popular culture that presents the view of Christianity that is held by Christians.
I think Mel Gibson proved this.
Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of the Christ was the ultimate downer.
It was about the crucifixion of Jesus.
It was very graphic.
It was depressing.
The happy ending, the resurrection and salvation, wasn't the point of the movie.
The point was the suffering that Christ had to go through.
It's not exactly an uplifting movie, yet it made a fortune, despite the fact that it was not embraced by the Hollywood community.
People went out and saw it.
There weren't major actors in it.
It didn't have superstars able to draw people in, but there was a market for it.
Millions and millions of Americans went to see that movie.
Yet Gibson did that movie on his own.
He was rejected by every major studio that's out there.
Were it not for the fact that Gibson himself is worth a lot of money, he never would have been able to make that movie.
One would have thought a lesson would have been learned from that, that major studios would have realized that there is a market for presenting this type of material, but instead, when they do something on religion, it's the same old thing.
It's got to be a presentation that is different than the one that most Christians told.
Okay, we'll make a movie about Jesus, only he's going to be married and he has a kid.
Why does it have to be that movie?
Because most people in Hollywood are not comfortable doing a film that presents the accepted Christian view of Jesus, which is that he is the Son of God, that he is our Savior, and that he did rise from the dead, and was God personified.
You make a movie about the resurrection, and I'm waiting for Gibson to do it.
The logical follow-up to the Passion of the Christ about the crucifixion of Jesus is the story of his resurrection and the creation of this massive movement called Christianity.
It's a very uplifting story, and if it's well done, and that's always the requirement, you can't just put some schlock out there that's badly done, but presuming it is well done and well made and well written and well acted, there's a market for this.
So what does that tell you about the entire American film industry?
That films for which there is a legitimate market, they can't bring themselves to present.
And instead, what we're going to get is this cockamami theory from some guy that somehow Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had a kid, and the Catholics have been covering it up forever.
They've been getting rid of all the documents.
There may be a market for that, and I'm not suggesting that film not be made.
But I am convinced, and I think Gibson proved it, that there's also a market for stories about Christianity that are accepted as true by most Christians.
My name is Mark Belling, and I'm sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
I'm going through the emails here.
Of course, all of them are about the topic from earlier in the program, the immigration issue.
Sixty percent seem to think I'm a raving lunatic and I've lost my mind that I'm going lefty on you.
The other 40% say that I am brilliant for coming to the conclusion that I'm drawing.
Nobody wants to focus on what my number one priority was, which is that we need to build a fence and enforce the border.
But I knew that going in.
I said, without regard to what I said afterward, nobody wants to talk about before you do anything else.
You've got to enforce the border.
Everybody wants to talk about the illegals who are here, which just leads me to my conclusion that I drew earlier that this problem is never going to be solved.
All right.
Rush mentions all the time that you can't do absurd stories anymore.
You can't do parodies on absurdity because life itself is absurd.
Remember the commercial during the Super Bowl done by Bud Light shows these guys that are lying to their wives and claiming that they're going to go clean the gutters when in fact they go sit on the roof with a satellite dish and watch sports on TV.
The uh then crash through the roof of the house.
The Center for Science and the Public Interest, one of those native organizations, is blasting Ann Eiser Bush for that commercial, claiming that it is irresponsible that beer makers have a responsibility not to present drinking in a way that will encourage people to go out and try to try this on their own.
This, this is the American left in all its glory.
I'm Mark Belling.
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