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March 31, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 31, 2006, Friday, Hour #2
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And greetings to you, thrill seekers, music lovers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
Rush Limbaugh, Excellence and Broadcasting Network.
It is Friday.
You know what that means.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
Yip, yahoo.
My friends, one of the most exciting days of the busy broadcast week.
As I, your highly trained broadcast specialist and America's anchorman, turn over the all-important area of topic selection, items we discuss to people on the phones.
I mean, I don't turn over the monologues to them because they're not on the phone then.
So I still determine what I talk about.
But when we go to the phones, the callers are not limited today to things that interest me.
The telephone number, if you want to participate, 800-282-2882, the email address, rush at EIBNet.com.
And the last hour in a discussion on immigration, a guy called up and said, you know, it's amazing.
The unions are all for this guest worker program.
And he wanted to know why I thought that was the case.
And I said, I didn't think it was the case.
So we've been digging deep here, ladies and gentlemen.
We have a special correspondent report from David Espo of the Associated Press, the nation's largest labor union.
When it says here, largest labor organization, I guess it is.
Yeah.
Yes, the word union is about as pleasing to people today as the word liberal is or as the word amnesty is.
So it's the nation's largest labor organization.
Criticized plans to expand guest worker programs for immigrants seeking to come to the U.S., parting company with longtime Senate Democratic allies who pushed successfully to include them in broad-based immigration legislation.
John Sweeney, in a statement released the day after the Judiciary Committee cleared an immigration bill, said, guest worker programs are a bad idea and they harm all workers.
They cast workers into a perennial second-class status and they unfairly put their fates into their employers' hands.
Here's the way the elites look at it.
And this is from the Washington Post.
George Borjas, an economist at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, said what immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.
Yes.
And I guess he means, it probably means both, but I'm sure he's focusing here on illegal immigration.
Redistributes wealth away from workers toward employers.
And the way he means that is they get away with paying scant wages, no benefits, no nothing, and that's called redistributing wealth because the government doesn't crack down on it.
The government doesn't allow it.
And this is what John Sweeney understands, too.
He just didn't put it that way.
He doesn't speak like an elite.
Now, Sweeney's statement did praise numerous provisions of the overall immigration legislation, particularly a part that gives illegal aliens an opportunity to apply for citizenship.
But his criticism underscored the unusual political pressures at work as President Bush and Congress grapple with an emotional issue in the run-up to the midterm elections.
Senator Kennedy, longtime liberal, was the target of good-natured jokes during the committee meeting for his work with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on the immigration measure.
While Sweeney criticized this temporary worker program, the Service Employees International Union, I'd be the hotel bunch probably, issued a statement supporting the Judiciary Committee measure.
So this thing's tearing everybody apart.
It's tearing up this great Democrat union coalition.
Of course, that's not going to stay torn up because the unions literally have nowhere else to go.
But it's not, I just wanted to get it documented to you.
It's not the fact that the major big power, big player labor unions in this country are for it because they're not.
Guest worker programs encourage employers to turn good jobs into temporary jobs at reduced wages and diminished working conditions and contribute to the growing class of workers laboring in poverty.
So what the unions want high raises and high wages, well, high minimum wages, and they want them to ever increase because that allows their own union-negotiated deals to be substantially higher.
I mean, let's say if the minimum wage is $10, the union will say, you're paying people who aren't even qualified $10 an hour, and you want to give my union only $25 or $30.
Well, it's unacceptable.
So they don't like it when entry-level work is extremely cheap and has no benefits.
They are deeply threatened by it.
As you know today, well, you may not know because it's not gotten a whole lot of coverage.
And I wonder why this is.
No, I don't.
I know why this is.
Because this is not helping the drive-by media and the Democratic Party.
But Senator Specter had to convene some hearings today on Russ Feingold's censure measure because it's, you know, Feingold's a member of the committee.
And so they had a parade of witnesses.
It was an endless parade of witness debris that came in there, ladies and gentlemen.
We have audio sound bites of this.
John Dean leads off his testimony before this august committee by plugging his books and then comparing Bush to Nixon.
Here's part of his opening statement.
I've spent the last some three decades studying presidents, and I'm not here to sell a book today, but I did write a book that gave me additional insight.
And indeed, the book I am going to be publishing soon that mentions the senator from Texas will not be out till this summer.
No president that I can find in the history of our country has really ever adopted a policy of expanding presidential powers for the sake of expanding presidential powers.
Richard Nixon was proud in throwing down the gauntlet at this body and felt it important that he do so.
Well, what a bunch of gobbledygook.
This was wandering aimless in search of a thought.
Oh, by the way, telling everybody when his book's coming out at a Senate hearing, I felt like I was listening to Richard Clark here.
Okay, we have more John Dean, and this is the hearing on the censure resolution of President Bush.
Chairman Specter, talking to John Dean, he says, Mr. Dean, do you think that Senator Feingold would shy away from those two magic words, bad faith, when they are so much easier to define than the where-as clause?
And I recollect his 25-minute speech on the Senate floor.
I wanted to ask him about bad faith, but I didn't get a chance to.
He fled the Senate chamber.
I don't recall bad faith as being a prerequisite to censure.
I think that it's a good question.
It's not a matter of recollection, don't you think?
It's conducting bad faith to censure a president?
I think what in gathering my thoughts to come back here, I thought, you know, had a censure resolution been issued about some of Nixon's conduct long before it erupted to the degree and the problem it came, it would have been a godsend.
Well, then, the Congress was a fall to not giving him a warning signal.
Let it have helped.
Well, man.
Now, nobody, I haven't seen any of this yet on the news.
Have you?
I haven't seen any of it because it's embarrassing.
You know, this is a show that is playing exclusively to the Kooksville blogosphere out there and the increasingly wacko Democrat base.
But this is not for public consumption.
All right, here's Pat Leakey Leahy.
He starts to lose it here, almost starts screaming.
And this is what gets him riled up, protecting the rights of terrorists not to be spied on.
We got a former assistant attorney general for the Clinton administration, John Schmidt, and he has just said the president and General Hayden have said that they relied upon the advice of not only the Justice Department, but the lawyers within the National Security Agency.
General Hayden has briefed members of Congress.
I assume he has said the same thing, and if he's lying, and then Leahy interrupts.
We don't know what the credible legal advice was.
Nobody has talked about it.
Nobody has shown it to us.
And the one person who could tell us what it is refuses to answer the question.
You understand my frustration?
They don't see any reason to suspect that he's lying about it.
No, you're not a Democrat.
You're not Pat Leahy.
Remember, these guys are upset.
What is this about?
Don't forget what this is about.
This is about George Bush.
Now, this is a Democratic Party, and they're going to have their national security workshop.
Chuck Schumer said they're going to take back security.
They're going to take back the security issue.
To them, it's just an issue to take back, which by definition, they're admitting they don't have it.
So they've got to go get it back.
So they're having a security workshop, national security workshop, with such topics as who is America's enemy?
Answer A, it is not George Bush.
And so what this is all about is Feingold trying to censure George W. Bush for illegally spying on Americans.
And it's not that.
It's foreign intelligence and surveillance to try to find out if terrorists in this country or outside this country are making phone calls into or out of this country.
And the Democrats, I guess, because they have sponsored the Al-Qaeda Bill of Rights, do not want this to happen.
Here we have this hearing going on on the very day we learned that they're going to have this national security workshop on Monday, and they're making it plain that they haven't got what it takes to take back the security issue.
They've got what it takes to take what you've got, but they don't have the ability to take back the national security issue.
Look at what they're really doing versus what they're saying.
They're trying to censure a president for finding out if another attack in this country is imminent.
Now it's time for Mr. Feingold and a portion of his opening statement.
Where is the Attorney General and Mr. Comey, who, according to reports, have indicated their discomfort with this program?
Why are they not before this committee talking plainly about their objections?
You know what word comes to mind, Mr. Chairman?
It's a word that first came into my consciousness in 1974.
Cover-up.
It's a cover-up.
Before I ask my question, I want to get to this questionable.
You didn't help me draft this thing, but if you want the words bad faith in there, let's put them right in because that's exactly what we have here.
The whole record here makes me believe with regret that the president has acted in bad faith, both with regard to not revealing this program to the appropriate members of Congress, the full committees that were entitled to it, but more importantly by making misleading statements throughout America suggesting that this program did not exist.
All right.
Next up, final bite in this segment.
Yeah, I mean, I don't have to comment on this.
He's just speaking to the base, strictly appealing to the Kooks.
Next up is Associate Director of the Center for National Security Law, Robert Turner, and here's his response.
In wartime, the idea that the president should sit back and say, well, I have the power to do this.
It can save American lives, but I don't want to offend certain members of Congress, so I'm not going to allow the National Security Agency to listen when bin Laden calls some U.S. person who might well be a Saudi national who's totally committed to bin Laden's cause, who lives in this country.
Qualifies as an American under FISA.
We know, we've got considerable evidence that FISA contributed to 9-1-1.
We know Colleen Rowley, the FBI agent who was made Times person of the year in 2002 because she was angry the FBI would not get a refisal warrant.
The FBI could not give her a FISA warrant because Masawi was not an agent of al-Qaeda.
Masawi was a lone wolf.
A lot of harm has been done by what Congress did in the wake of Vietnam.
The president is trying not to seize new power, but to take us back where this country was from 1789 to about 1975.
Amen.
Once again, that's Robert Turner, the director of the Center for National Security Law, and he just nailed it.
And after that, there's no more reason for these hearings to even take place.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
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Half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair, this is Alan in Louisville, Kentucky.
Alan, welcome, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Thank you, Rush.
I'm a Pro War Democrat that called in some time ago, and you were gracious enough to give me a subscription 24-7 for a year.
And I wanted to say, first of all, thank you very much.
I'm enjoying it immensely.
Well, I was just going to ask you if you used it.
I appreciate that.
Yes, I am.
And the second was just something that I read on John Kerry on Dredge.
And he did serve in Vietnam, by the way, Rush.
And it had a list of his requirements when he travels, food and having his bed turned down.
I was curious, you as a highly trained broadcast specialist, do you have your own requirements?
Like perhaps you can put your cigar on your bed.
They having a cigar under the bed.
You know, I saw this, the smoking gun got hold of the documents that Cheney's office sends out and that John Kerry's office sends out on the requirements, the writers they're called, requirements when they check in a hotel.
And Kerry's were just over the top.
Cheneys are pretty Spartan.
I don't remember specifically what Cheneys were, but Kerry's got very specific menu-wise.
I really don't.
The only requirement I have is that no other room on my floor be rented out.
No, the only thing I require...
Well, the places I go, they know what I want anyway.
It's always there.
There's a bagel.
There's some iced tea in the refrigerator.
They have to make sure that closed captioning is turned on the TV because the hotel management staff has to come up and do that.
The way these hotels are these days, you don't have that kind of option on your remote control because they all control the movies.
So I have to make that happen.
And make sure that's the big thing.
They have to go in there and when they got a wireless network or Ethernet, they have to make sure it's working.
And the only reason for that is it used to take me two hours to check in someplace.
Go in there, look up the computer, didn't work.
Well, I had to call engineering.
Engineering had to come out, figure out what was wrong, couldn't figure out what was wrong.
Had to move to a different room where it was working.
I'm not a demanding person.
I mean, I went through that three or four times.
I thought, well, I got the idea.
Why don't I just demand that they make sure it's working before I get there?
Actually, this is a funny thing.
It has its roots in rock bands and traveling around and all these wacko demands.
But I am not a demanding person.
I, uh, uh, yeah, a bagel, a bagel.
Bagel and snapple.
Well, nah, I don't.
Whatever's in the mini bar, if I'm hungry, I'll grab something out of that.
But that's, I'm not, I don't spend a lot of time making these.
Just want when I what well, okay, Snerdley says, What good is it being in my position if I don't take advantage of it?
I do take advantage of it.
I always get the room I want, no matter who's in it.
Look, I'm not going to sit here and act like I am this big, demanding cuss that runs in.
I try to sneak in these places, not even be seen.
I don't even want to be noticed, and I don't come in with this giant big fanfare.
I don't require the hotel staff to be out there forming a line, bowing, shaking my hand like some of these other clowns do.
Just get sometimes I like to go in the back door, you know, things like that, but not a check-in is always done in a room.
I don't stop once I hit the front door.
Elevator is open.
I'm in it.
I'm upstairs.
I do not stop once I walk in.
That's about it.
Alan, I appreciate the call.
That's a great Open Line Friday question.
By the way, this is Matt in Memphis.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, it's an honor and a privilege to talk to you today, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Well, I just wanted to call and say that I'm an American citizen, and my wife is an illegal immigrant from Mexico.
We have a nine-month-old son that's an American citizen, and it is so hard.
The system has so much red tape that we have been waiting two years.
We have filed right up shortly after we got married, which was two years ago, and there has been no progress in our case whatsoever.
And if it's that hard for her, I think, I mean, it's 10, 15 years maybe for somebody else to get a permission to come here from Mexico.
It's so hard for them.
Well, you know why that is?
Actually, I don't.
I wish I could.
Well, I'll explain it.
The number one reason why it is is because you're dealing with a massive bureaucracy.
But aside from that, there are controls on immigration.
We have a limit, legal.
We have, I don't know if we call them quotas or not, but we have a limit every year.
We don't want the country flooded because we have to allow people that come in here to assimilate and to acculturate, you know, become part of the distinct American culture.
And the backlog is due primarily to all the people that want to come in.
Now, we've had people call and say, well, if you shorten the backlog, you won't have as many illegals because the illegals that are here could get processed like your wife.
That's no different than just saying, let's not even call them illegal.
Let's just say they're all legal because they're here, which is essentially what is being done with this amnesty type bill.
But there are reasons for it.
And we can't just let everybody in the country that wants to come.
And then we start playing games and get married to a real citizen say, doesn't work that way.
It's Open Line Friday, and I am Rush Limbaugh, America's Anchorman, and your host for life.
This is A.B. from Bryan, Texas.
Hello, A.B., great to have you with us.
Rush, did you just call those young ladies holes on the nationally syndicated program?
Do you know something about them that perhaps we don't know?
Yes, I did.
Oh, you know what?
Hang on.
What did you say there, A.B.?
I said, and if they are holes, that means that they can still, you can do to them whatever you want.
Nope.
Well, why would you call them holes?
Well, because I'm running on fumes today, A.B., and I felt terrible about it.
And I knew somebody was going to call and give me a little grief.
So I'm taking the occasion of your call to apologize for it.
It was a terrible slip of the tongue.
I'm sorry, but it wasn't the worst one that has been said recently.
Did you know who Keanu Reeves is?
Yeah, I know who he's an actor.
Well, he's an actor.
He's an actor.
And what was he doing?
He was the Women Against Domestic Violence Group was already in a dither because Keanu Reeves told an interviewer he learned something filming a rape scene with Hillary Swank for a movie called The Gift.
And he said was what he learned that some of these ladies don't mind it.
Okay, but he said he learned that in a rape scene.
So, you know, I'm not the worst offender.
I'm looking at this case down there at Duke A.B., and there's some things about it, some inconsistencies.
You've got some timeline differentiations and matriculations and so forth.
I'm just, but it was a terrible slip of the tongue, and I am terribly, I'm terribly sorry.
I was hoping that your animosity for Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton wasn't your motivation for calling them O's.
No, they have nothing to do with it.
Oh, okay.
But it definitely offended me to hear you say that on the national program, the world's largest, as you say.
But maybe you should take half your brain from behind your back next time.
You know, I'm thinking what I ought to do, A.B., is something that I used to do in the early days of this program, and that is spank myself.
Well, I don't know if that's going to work.
The apology would be good.
Well, I just, you want me to apologize again?
No, no, I'm saying the apology was good.
I regret that you heard me say it.
I regret that everybody over the nation that listened heard you say that.
I can't help myself, folks.
I'm sorry I said it, A.B. They're also, A.B., we all make mistakes.
Sure, we do.
Mine happened to be plastered across the nation in the Associated Press.
They're so rare and so few and far between.
And I'm sure I'll hear about this one.
But I said it.
I can't deny it.
I apologize for it.
It was uncalled for.
Thank you.
All right.
Does that help?
It does.
Good.
Are you going to keep listening?
I always been listening since 87.
I know you well.
Do you take back what you said about Nelson Mandela?
What was the first place after he came to New York to a chicken joint?
You think that was appropriate?
I heard you say that.
I don't remember this.
I don't remember this.
What did I say?
Hold on.
When he left Robbins Island.
A.B., stop yelling.
Will you just calm down Friday?
What did I say about Nelson Mandela, the chicken joint?
You said when Nelson Mandela came to New York, after he got out of Robbins Island, his first trip to the United States, he was in New York.
He came to New York.
And you said the first place he went to was a fried chicken joint.
I was listening to you when you said it.
A.B., A.B.
Now, you're going to start something that you're going to have people writing about this as though it happened when it didn't.
It did happen.
I did.
It didn't happen.
You have your archives, but one of your archives is in my memory.
I listened to you.
You're confusing me with somebody.
All of them are true.
You said it.
A.B., I did not say that about Nelson Mandela.
You know what?
Let me tell you something.
AB, A.B. A.B., let me tell you something.
What you're doing here is worse than my mistake with the hose.
Okay.
Because you're now accusing me of something.
You're accusing me of something I didn't do.
You're accusing me of something.
And you're demanding an idea.
I'm challenging their cars.
You remember that?
Do you remember when you said that?
About the women farting in their cars?
Of course I remember that.
That was.
I've been listening, Rush.
It was a brilliant bit.
But I didn't say that.
Well, I took it as a joke, too.
But the thing about Nelson Mandela, I didn't take that as a joke.
I thought it was probably a sign of where you're coming from.
You thought it was a what?
A sign?
A sign.
Oh, wait a second.
A.B., let's examine it on that basis.
You said you've been listening since 1987.
Yeah.
Okay, well, that's interesting because I've only been on the air on this show since 1988.
But what's a year?
Oh, okay, 88, Dan.
88.
That's right.
You're right.
Wait, you've been listening to me since 1988.
Do you actually think that that's how I look at Nelson Mandela?
Do you think I am that base?
You know, if you've listened, you know that I, there's not a racist bone in my AB, be quiet a sec.
AB, let me finish asking the question.
How can you answer the question when you haven't even heard it?
Do you really, thank you, do you really believe that that wouldn't have survived that?
I don't think I'd have survived Nelson Mandela ought to go to a fried chicken joint.
I wouldn't have survived.
But Arthur, you said that's where he went.
Well, if he went then, I might have said it, but I misunderstood you.
I thought you told me or were saying that I suggested he do that.
No, that's where you said he went in first place.
You named Popeyes or I can't remember which one, but you said it was this fried chicken joint.
Popeyes or whatever.
Well, I don't remember it.
I don't, I don't, no, I don't remember it.
But what you're trying to do here is create the notion.
This is a slime.
You're trying to slime me out there, A.B.
And I'm asking you, you've listened to me since 1988.
Is that what you really think of me?
Yes.
Yes, I do.
You think I'm a racist?
Well, yeah.
I think you have very racist tendencies.
I think you use the term liberal because you're too sophisticated to use the word N-word lever.
Oh, now, A.B., I was enjoying talking to you.
You're taking us down the gutter.
If any, let me tell you something.
It sounds to me like you're obsessed with this racism.
It sounds to me like you have more racist tendencies and innuendo and orientation than I ever could have.
Well, that may be.
Yes, it sure sounds like, and I'm sure the whole audience will agree with me here.
You're the one that sounds racist.
You're calling, making all these things up.
You're trying to convey.
Let me ask you this.
Do you support...
You have your archives.
Go back and check.
I will go back and check, A.B., but I'm going to ask you a question.
Does...
Does A.B., you support amnesty for illegals?
Amnesty for illegals?
Illegal.
You think that if we don't protect the borders here, we're going to do the same thing that the last group of people on this continent didn't do.
That's not the question.
Yeah, I want them here.
You do support amnesty?
Yes.
Okay.
You want them here.
So are you in favor of affirmative action for illegals?
I'm in favor of affirmative action.
Okay, well.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, I appreciate it.
A.B., I'm glad you called, although you're hurting my feelings here.
Because you're out there trying to convey an impression of me with people, and you know it isn't true if you've listened to me this long.
You know that's not true.
And you ought to be bigger, man, than that, to rely on some of these age-old definitions that are just totally founded in clichés and stereotypes.
Because that's how you're arriving at.
That's what I heard.
That's how you're.
See, now see, I'm going to do a story about New Orleans next.
I got a story about New Orleans, and knowing you, in your mind, no matter what I say about it, you're going to think I'm racist.
Depending on what you say.
No, it won't depend on what I say.
That's the whole point.
Your opinion of me as a racist is not founded in what I say.
It's founded on what you think and how you feel when I say what I say.
And that is the truth.
But I'm glad you called, A.B., because I did want to extend apologies to the exotic dancers in Duke, Durham, North Carolina.
We're still not quite sure exactly what happened down there because there is some disparity in the timelines.
All right, the Bush administration is going to shock you, people.
It's going to stun you.
Let me just give you the headline, Washington Post levee repair costs triple.
Subhead, New Orleans may lack full protection.
Shocking, isn't it?
The Bush administration said yesterday that the cost of rebuilding New Orleans' levies to federal standards has nearly tripled at $10 billion, and there may not be enough money to fully protect the entire region.
Governor Kathleen Blanco said this monumental miscalculation is an outrage.
This means that just two months before hurricane season, the Corps of Engineers informs us they cannot ensure even the minimum safety of southeastern Louisiana.
This is totally unacceptable.
You know, this is what's amazing to me.
Here's the governor's office and the mayor's office.
Years and years we know now.
In fact, popular mechanics, can you believe that's the source?
Popular mechanics, and I've saved it here, has a huge, huge story on all the myths about Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
All the false reporting from the drive-by media in the aftermath, all the false reporting about the levees and so forth.
The fact is, the levees probably have never been at, quote-unquote, full strength.
And one of the reasons is that some of the money over the years that was appropriated for them to be built to full strength somehow never got spent on that project.
I will not speculate where it might have ended up.
Your guess is as good as mine, but it didn't get to where it was supposed to go.
For now, everybody's all upset that the levees are not going to be because we don't have the money and so forth and so on.
It just, yeah, it's a shame, but I mean, it's the pattern.
And where was this anger and where was this state of being upset when the locals weren't getting this job done?
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Senator McCain, by the way, we played this for you yesterday.
Obviously, been in the recording studio recording a message to illegal immigrants.
I hope this is an outtake.
I'm thinking it has to be an outtake.
Maybe it wasn't an outtake because we got an AP story here today.
John McCain told the Associated Press, he said, first, this is a warning to my party that we have to be sensitive about this issue.
Secondly, the Hispanic community risks a backlash if it becomes unruly or too many Hispanic flags and not enough American flags are at these protests.
So McCain is advising the future protesters, stop with the Hispanic flag, stop with the Mexican flags.
Bring some of them out there, but there better be more American flags than anything else, or it's going to be a backlash.
I think, he may not know it.
I think this backlash is already occurring.
It's bubbling beneath the surface.
It is effervescent.
What?
Does McCain care about a backlash?
That's the point.
When the American people demonstrate that, of course, they're worried about a backlash.
Why do you think McCain's trying to talk them into protesting in a way that doesn't offend anybody?
That's what he's advising them to do here.
Here's Bruce in Pasadena.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Ditto's from the People's Republic of Pasadena.
Thank you.
I thought Pasadena is a conservative enclave out there.
Well, I think we've got the uprise of a little bit of liberal belief here.
Hey, I just moved back to the mainland after living in Hawaii for four years.
And in Hawaii, because of the geographic nature of an island, has a very small illegal immigrant population.
But the economy works.
It has the lowest unemployment rate in the country.
There's an agriculture industry.
They find employees.
There's an aquaculture, a fishing industry.
They find employee.
It works.
There are lots of people cleaning toilets.
There are lots of landscapers, but a very small illegal immigrant population.
And so what's your point?
My point is that you can run a state.
You can run an infrastructure of a state in an economy without a large illegal immigrant population.
Well, of course you can.
No question about it.
It's just that Hawaii is a it's different in a couple ways.
First, it is it's it's it's hard to get there.
An illegal immigrant would be hard-pressed to get there.
Second, it's a socialist state.
I mean, as you know, living out there, I mean, this state is, I know they've got a Republican governor now, Governor Lingle, but this state is as socialist as any state in the country.
And I mean, I mean, not just liberal Democrat, but it's got socialistic tendencies.
And as such, a lot of things are mandated out there, but they've got their own distinct culture in addition to all that, the native Hawaiian culture.
I love it out there.
Now, don't anybody misunderstand this.
This is everybody's misunderstanding everything.
But the logical conclusion of what you're saying is that we don't need illegals to have a prospering economy.
We don't need, of course we don't, but we have them, and they're advantageous to a lot of people.
And they don't want to get rid of them.
And they don't want to have to be forced to get rid of them.
You know, everybody's asking me, Jesse Jackson, why hasn't he got involved in all this?
Jesse Jackson sees a competition here, folks.
Let me read you what his plans are.
I just scratched the surface of this, but he's got a protest march in New Orleans tomorrow called the March for the Sunday, but it's over the weekend.
And it's called the March for the Right to Return a Protected Vote and Reconstruction.
And the Reverend Jackson says it will be, quote, the most national march since Selma in 1965.
He's got Bill Cosby.
He's got Harry Belafonte.
He's got Reverend Sharpton.
He's got the NAACP president Bruce Gordon.
And they've got all kinds of seminars, protests planned.
And I think the 500,000 in the street in Los Angeles last weekend was like a red flag that went up for the Reverend Jackson.
He's got to get his protest numbers up.
He got to get the marchers.
And when he starts talking about recreating Selma, you know exactly what his objective is.
A quick timeout.
Back with more in a second, folks.
Stay where you are.
Reverend Jackson not only has competition from the illegal immigrants that are marching out.
Calypso Louie, you know, the million men march, the less than a million men march.
I don't know where Selma stacks up against all that, but it's going to be tough to overcome both the illegal immigration march and the Calypso Louis.
We'll keep a sharp eye on New Orleans this weekend.
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