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April 3, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 3, 2006, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
All right, well, we were last together, ladies and gentlemen, and I was asked by a caller if the ports deal story had become sufficiently ingrained enough.
It was going to be around a long enough period of time to grant it update status.
And I said, Yeah, I'm just working on the song, just on an update theme, and I've finally got it, Mr. Snerdley.
A variation of Sittin on the Dock of Dubai.
The old Otis Redding, so I'm not sure what the lyrics yet.
Um sitting at the ports of Dubai or what have you, but that's working out.
Greetings, folks.
It's great to have you with us.
Here we are, T G I M. God, it's Monday, our favorite day of the busy broadcast week because we all get to come back and be with you.
The telephone number 800-282-2882, the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
We're going to go back to the archives today.
Speaking of updates, we have a Gorbasm coming up.
Gorbachev's on the prowl again.
He's complaining about our superiority and how we've squandered the fact that he presented us a Cold War victory.
So we have that.
We've got, of course, went through the immigration stack, uh, the immigration news today, and it's it it really is amazing.
It's a huge stack.
And a drive-by media coverage of the immigration story.
There's not one.
There is not one story that focuses, ladies and gentlemen, on the negative aspects of it or the illegal aspects of it.
Not one.
The focus is all on the all these poor people, my guy.
Why is this so why are so many Republicans out to get them and destroy them and destroy their hope for the future?
Then there are stories about how the Republican Party is divided on this.
So we're gonna get to we're gonna get to all of that.
Uh we have uh Iraq news.
Uh U.S. casualties fell to their lowest totals in two years this month, as Iraqis increasingly aimed their attacks at each other rather than coalition forces, the U.S. military said over the weekend, Army Major General Rick Lynch noted a decrease in the number of casualties of coalition forces and a significant increase in Iraqi casualties, both security forces and innocent men, women, and children.
Did you hear uh late have you heard about this guy?
This scientist who uh You know, I've I've told you people, I don't know how many years now, consistently, that the whole global warming environmentalist wacko movement is lunacy.
You've got this scientist out there suggesting that the world, the planet would be better off with 90% of the human race killed.
And he's got the idea how to do it.
Airborne Ebola.
And he's serious.
He's running around making speeches about this, and he's getting standing ovations on college camp pie for this.
I kid you not.
The details are coming up, and I'm sure you've heard about this.
On the Upper West Side of Manhattan, which is exclusively, exclusively throwback socialist and liberal.
There's a bunch of movie theaters up there.
And over the weekend they played a trailer.
Oh, by the way, speaking of Sharon Stone's movie, bombed out three million dollars over the weekend, tenth place, nobody's going to see it.
The guy who directed the first basic instinct movie says, Yeah, ever since Bush got elected, so the Republicans run the show here.
Is it pro-Christianity, pro-morality?
Conservatives are ruining the uh the uh the uh concept of eroticism on the big screen.
I wonder if he ever stopped to think the movies just may be bad.
I mean, even the the critics that love Sharon Stone have been making excuses for this movie.
She's what is she, 25 years older, 15 years old than she was when that uh first movie came out.
She hasn't exactly done anything since then except open her mouth and embarrass herself.
And what has she done to actually recommend going to see anyway?
We'll talk about that too, because it's interesting.
But they showed a trailer of the upcoming movie about uh United 93.
About 9-11.
The AMC Lowe's Theater in Manhattan's Upper West Side took the rare step of pulling the trailer for the upcoming movie, United 93 about 9-11 from its screens after several complaints.
Uh report senior writer Sean Smith and reporter Jacques Chabatoris in the April 10th issue of Newsweek, which is on the stands today.
One lady was crying, says one of the theater managers, Kevin Ajoda.
She was saying that we shouldn't have played the trailer.
This was wrong.
I know I don't think people are ready for this.
Viewers in other cities are reacting as well.
When the trailer played before Inside Man Last Week at the famed Graumans Chinese Theater in Hollywood, audience members began calling out, too soon.
Too soon, and audiences generally seem to be split on the issue.
Jackie Alvarez, 73 of San Ramon, California.
I don't think it's a movie I really want to see.
After seeing the trailer, it gave me the creeps.
It's way too soon.
We've got another mantra here that sprung up, folks.
It's too soon.
But a 17-year-old Antoine Richardson of Memphis is looking forward to it.
I don't think it's exploitative or too soon, he says.
It helps us remember.
Carol O'Hare, whose 79-year-old mother Hilda Marson died in the flight, says she feels the criticism that Universal Studio is exploiting a national tragedy is unfair.
This story has to be told honor the pastors and crew for what they did.
But more than that, it raises awareness.
Our ports aren't secure.
Our airlines still aren't secure.
And that's what happens when you're not secure.
That's the message I want people to hear.
Can you believe this?
The networks will not show pictures of that day in 9-11.
We're in the midst of an argument in this country over whether it is worthwhile to prevent another such attack.
The Democrats in this country doing everything they can to stop the president from finding out via the NSA spy program.
The censure and the future impeachment movement if they win back the House is one of the things they're targeting.
We've got the whole Democratic Party up until last week when they said they're going to take back the security issue.
We will have more on that today, too.
The Democratic Party says we're going to take back the security issue.
They have spent four years, four and a half years deriding, criticizing, ridiculing the entire war on terror and the war in Iraq, which are interlinked or linked.
I mean, we're fighting the terrorists and their agents who would do more 9-11s in Iraq.
And Democrats want to pull out of there and go get bin Laden.
What do you have to do?
Invade Pakistan to do that?
That's where he's said to be hiding.
At any rate, uh, folks, I I think this is this is ill illustrative of a problem we've got, because I will guarantee you that the vast majority of the residents on the Upper West side are the same people who think it's silly that we're doing what we're doing in Iraq, and that it is silly that the war on terror is being fought the way it is.
And yet, and Bush lied.
You know, Bush lied about all this.
Bush knew about 9-0.
Bush knew about it.
He was going to let it happen.
Bush lied about Iraq.
He lied about weapons of mass destruction.
And yet, the very event that has made this a reality for us and our lives today, they don't have the guts to look at.
They don't have the courage to look at it too soon.
Too soon.
Too soon.
It's been too long.
People have forgotten what it's all about.
This movie would serve the purpose of reminding everybody why we are in the posture that we're in, why we have to assume the responsibilities, and why it's crucial who leads the nation in future years in this effort.
You know, I just think this is this is just typical of many in the American left.
Don't they can hope and put they go out and show nine Fahrenheit 911 all day long.
They can go watch that.
They can go watch garbage and lies that their documentarians and so-called comedians make.
And it's never too soon to watch any of that.
We can go watch all these movies that try to prove Bush lied, and that Bush was in this for oil, and that all this is trumped up and fake and phony and unnecessary.
Let reality rear its head.
Oh no, no, can't I can't be confronted with reality.
Why there's a that's too soon.
It's too painful.
And it's not it's not just a New York mentality.
This is happening in cities around the country.
It's too soon.
So the theater owners are not even showing trailers.
This is now what's going to happen.
Well, I tell you, you mark mark my words, what's going to happen?
Because of this, when this movie does hit the screen, and I don't even know when it's scheduled to be released.
When it hits the screen, this kind of controversy, and who knows, it may even be Hollywood stoked, is going to cause people to go see this movie in droves.
Anytime you have people, no, I can't bear to watch it.
It's too soon.
Ooh, what is it?
They know from a trailer, it's oh God, I can't wait to see this.
You watch and see if it just doesn't manifest itself that way.
Here's the phone number.
If uh you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882 and the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
As they say at the cable news network's breaking news, ladies and gentlemen, a developing story out there.
The U.S. Capitol has been evacuated because of a power failure.
The um it could be that somebody didn't pay the electric bill, but more than likely what happened is Cynthia McKinney's hair got stuck in a light switch and uh and shorted everything out.
Greetings, welcome uh back, uh my friends.
I'm America's anchor man.
El Rushbow having more fun already than a human being should be allowed to have.
All right, let me swerve into this immigration business.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, because um it it we have an AP Ipsos poll today, and of course, of course, the vast majority of Americans are are are totally open to letting immigrants stay here, of course.
Who would have doubted it?
Americans are divided about whether illegal immigrants help or hurt the country, a poll finds more than one half of those questioned are open to allowing undocumented workers to obtain some temporary legal status so they can stay in the U.S. But at the same time, people doubt that erecting a fence along the U.S. Mexico border could help to fix such a complex and enduring problem.
Two-thirds do not think the fence would work.
You can't go around and round up uh 11 million people, ship them out of the country, said Robert Kelly.
Chicago Warrior is among the 56% of Americans who favor offering some kind of legal status.
Just isn't practical, he said, to kick them out.
The smaller but still significant share, 41% opposes offering any kind of legal status, giving voice to a law and order mindset that bristles at the notion of officially recognizing those who did not play by the rules to get here.
Criminal is criminal, illegal is criminals, said Luella Kelly.
A 65-year-old grandmother from uh Round Rock, Texas.
So I that doesn't surprise me, folks.
Doesn't surprise me at all.
We get the polls out here showing, hey, hey, Americans are cool with this.
Back down, back off.
Dick Morris has a column today, the New York Post.
It's entitled Menace in Mexico.
And it's about the immigration debate.
And let me just read you a few short excerpts because I want to react to this, because this is this is a you know classic, I I think uh classic illustration of one side of this question, whereas we're looking at it totally from the standpoint and within the context of fear.
Political fear, voters, future voters, are they gonna hate the Republicans, is it gonna backfire and so forth?
So we've got to we've got to forget what illegal means, and we've got to let them in, and we've got to go out and then try to get those people to be voters of our party on down the road.
That's that's that's a fear-based argument.
And you know something?
In the process of doing that, can I just raise just a little question here for you?
Well, ladies and gentlemen, for you to think about before I get into the Morris piece.
If conservative Republicans are going to compromise their prints, and they're gonna have to compromise their principles, aren't they?
Conservative Republicans would have to compromise their principles in order to go out and secure a voting block that votes primarily Democrat.
Wouldn't we have to so wouldn't we have to just get rid of our principles and turn into, okay, yeah, we'll we'll we'll provide this benefit and that benefit and we'll do all that if that's what it takes to get you to vote for us.
That's one of the most alarming things about this to me is how there are plenty of conservatives out there who are all for the amnesty program that's being talked about in the Senate bill, who and they want they want to go ahead and do this because they're just scared to death these people are going to end up voting against republics.
So what what good is being a Republican or a conservative if you compromise who you are and what your principles are in order to go get any block of voters?
I don't care who they are.
And that's I think something you know don't discount that because that seems to be one of the things that's shaping up.
But Morris writes here that uh in his debate over how to change the U.S. immigration system, Washington neglected the impact in Mexico, which faces a crossroads election this summer.
And Mexico's choice could not be more important to the U.S. On July 2nd, the Mexican people will decide whether to elect ultra-leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known as Emlo, as their uh as their next president.
Rumors have amounted for months that Lopez Obrador's campaign is getting major funding from President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.
Last month, Jim Colby, Republican Arizona moderate Republican, told several Mexican legislators that he had intelligence reports detailing revealing support from Hugo Chavez to Amlo's party of the Democratic Revolution.
Chavez, a firm ally of Fidel Castro, Lopez Obrador could be the final piece in their grand plan to bring the U.S. to its knees before the newly insurgent Latin left.
Between them, Venezuela and Mexico export about four million barrels of oil each day to the U.S., more than one third of our oil imports, with both countries in the hands of leftist leaders, the opportunity to hold the U.S. hostage will be extraordinary.
You think we have problems now with Vicente Fox, just wait till we have a 2,000 mile border with a chum of Chavez and Castro.
Lopez Obrador is not inevitable.
Recent polls show that the candidate of Fox's party, Felipe Calderon closing in.
But much will hinge on the resolution of the immigration debate now royaling Congressman.
And Morris's Morris's point is that if we come up with an immigration policy here that angers the Mexican people, and they end up electing this far leftist wacko obrador, and he teams up with the Chavez, that we will have just strangled ourselves.
And it's another making another case we got to be careful.
Don't make them mad.
Don't make the Mexican people mad.
Don't start saying things are going to cause them to backlash against the U.S. by electing a government that will be absolutely horrible for us.
So here we get here we go again.
More fear and more uh we got Al Qaeda strangling over there.
We got Iran working in nucas, we got the Chinese, the Chicons working in Nucas, we've got we've got the North Koreans, and now we got Hugo Chavez and Obrador.
Oh no, what are we gonna do?
Let me tell I uh you know.
Let me give you the real tr analysis of the way to look at this.
This whole business of this upcoming election in Mexico, July 2nd, should underscore the urgency of the need to reform the corrupt government of Mexico and its statist and corrupt economy.
I mean, the point being that 40% of their people are poor and exporting their poor to our country, and our helping them to do it will not reform that country.
It will keep the same elites in office or attract the very kind of leftist government that we fear.
I mean, our effort, rather than not making people mad and not standing up for our own principles, our effort should be on helping the Mexican government create governmental and business practices worthy of a democracy.
This people are swimming in oil down there, and so many other people are dead poor.
And somehow this is going to end up being our fault.
Our current refusal to invoice uh or enforce our immigration policies, taking on the responsibility of subsidizing millions and millions of Mexican citizens has enabled Vicente Fox and others to avoid the kind of systematic reforms their system needs.
I mean, you could look at it this way.
You could look at it with all of the Mexicans that we've allowed to come here illegally, and let's say the number's 20 million.
I've heard anywhere from seven to eleven to twelve to twenty million.
We may have actually, by doing so, staved off a Mexican revolution.
A revolution that maybe should have happened.
But we've helped stave it off.
Uh you know, this this our what we're doing by allowing Vicente Fox and the Mexican government to continue to have a corrupt government and an economic system here with a country swimming in oil where 40% of the people are just dead poor.
This is not compassionate what we're doing.
Because it's resulted in tens of millions of Mexicans in Mexico remaining dirt poor.
We got to deal with the root cause of the problem here.
Now, some people say the root cause of the problem is the border and its insecurity and our insecure status and so forth.
Yeah, that's true, but there's also something else at the root as well, and that is economic circumstances are such in Mexico that this many people want out of the place.
And they come here.
Now they've they've they've they've they've they've acquired magical status as future swing voters.
And believe me, that's how they're being looked at.
Not just voters, but swing voters.
And and uh so that that's they've they've become attractive to uh to to politicians.
We really want to help Mexico and help them create a rule of law that they'll follow in an economic system that expands wealth creation across the board.
And this is what I'll tell you, this is where some of our elite Republicans are going wrong.
They're buying into the left wing and ethnic lobby propaganda.
They're running scared, they're surrendering the field rather than sticking with first principles that work, whether we're dealing with a communist state like the old Soviet Union or a failed government and economy like Mexico now has.
That's what I mentioned earlier.
We're abandoning our principles in order to try to get a stake here in this future number, whatever it is, swing voters.
More when we come back.
Stay with us.
Yes, yes, yes, thanks.
Uh very much folks.
Welcome back.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have I am Rush Limbaugh with half my brain tied behind my back.
Let's let's think through this logically.
This is the way it is right now.
Only by coming to the U.S. illegally do you get to continue to work here while preparing for eventual citizenship.
That's how the so-called reform would work.
Does this make any sense whatsoever?
Only by coming here illegally do you get to continue to work here while prepping for your eventual citizenship.
Meanwhile, if you happen to be in Mexico and you want to get on a pathway to citizenship in the U.S., what are you to do?
Well, the inspiration you're going to find is to come here illegally.
That's what you do.
All the talk about what's good for the illegals, not a word about what's right for the people who wish to follow a legal path to our country, the American people who have to pay for all of it.
You know, Congress has the power.
I I just love the when they they act like they're innocent bystanders to the creation of the problem, and they come riding into the rescue every 20 years to solve it when they've created it.
We gave you the news last week about Senator Kennedy and an immigration bill in 1965 in which he promised that virtually everything it has happened would not happen.
And now he's leading, he's he's a leader with McCain in the Senate reform effort.
Reform my rear end.
Congress has the power to increase legal limits of uh of immigration.
But it has nothing to do with right and wrong, it's a straw man.
Even if we stipulate that a guest worker program helps to deal with people who were here illegally, how does that help stem the flow of future illegals?
Does just the opposite.
It's going to increase it.
We're going to have exactly the same problem we have now in the years ahead.
When you legalize what is illegal, you are said to be courageous and compassionate, yet the root problem in Mexico isn't addressed, the illegal influx uh continues.
And the politics of this has to cracks me up.
It probably makes you laugh too.
They argue that we need to attract this vote.
You know the best vote, the highest Hispanic vote total George W. Bush ever got was about 44% when he ran for governor of Texas.
So if we continue to get a smaller percentage of the vote by a growing community in this country, will we win elections?
We ought to be talking about taking our principles to all people, regardless of race or religion, and win the day with those arguments, not by pandering and embracing illegal behavior.
But you've got some elites in Washington who are just hellbent on this on this uh uh election angle.
And uh they're worried that too much focus on keeping the illegal immigrants out of the country will make the Republican Party a minority party for the long term.
So they call people like me nativists.
Yeah, nativists, uh, xenophobes, racists, what have you.
I mean, it's it's it's quite interesting.
But what good is being a Republican or a conservative if you're gonna throw it all out in order to attract certain votes from people who have grown up and been weaned on an entitlement mentality and expect that.
And if somebody offers it, they're gonna vote for it.
So are we going to get in a competition with the left to see who can offer the biggest welfare state in order to get this swing vote of future Hispanics?
And if we keep having more and more of them come into the country, but we keep getting less and less of them to vote for us, how is this accomplishing anything politically?
At the same time, we're dumping our own conservative principles all over the place in order to secure some whatever percentage of this uh of this swing vote.
It's just fear out there, folks.
Yeah, I'm I'm I'm sure I'll be accused of destroying the Republican Party.
And um I know that's I know they're saying it.
They're saying it about a lot of us here have this position.
Like talk radio.
Talk radio.
You know, I I well understand that I am talk radio, but I'm not all of talk radio.
I have become a generic.
I'm I'm like Xerox means a copy machine.
I mean talk radio when the left and the media talk about it.
But how many times do I part ways with the so-called right wing talk radio uh bunch?
Quite a few times.
Uh we don't.
So when you when you hear talk radio is uh doing this or that and the other thing, understand what it is.
It is an effort to uh discredit not just me, but but everybody that does it, but they we're not monolithic, and they're attempting to make all of talk radio be the same thing.
And it's as you people who well know, who listen to the program regularly, uh such is not the case.
Let's go to the phones.
Elk Grove, California.
Amy, you're up first, and it's uh it's wonderful to have you with us.
Hi.
Hi, good morning.
Hi.
I was actually calling to let you know that I'd seen the first trailers and was um it was hard to watch, and I didn't want to go thinking it would be exploitative, but they have a new trailer out there that interviews the families, and it completely completely changed my mind.
I will definitely go see it.
All right, well, tell me tell me tell me this is your the flight ninety-three movie you're talking about.
Yeah.
Right, tell me.
What was in the first trailer?
You can do it.
Tell me what was in the first trailer that you that so upset you.
Well, it opens with um just radio talk, controller talk, and you immediately feel this kind of foreboding sense that you know what's coming, even if they haven't told you it's about 9-11, you can tell.
Oh, you know, that's right.
And then it um it shows clips of uh cockpit scenes and and the coach and that thing, and then it lets you know what's happening, and then they and it's very quick shot, and then they show a quick shot of them storming the cockpit.
And then they show families calling and and that kind of thing.
And it's just so sad, and anyone that knows about it, it's it's difficult to watch.
But the second trailer.
It ought to be difficult to watch.
It's what happened.
It ought to be difficult to watch.
It is, and I agree.
It's just sad, and I think people don't like to feel that kind of emotion, whether or not it's a second time or a third time or the first time.
And it I I mean, I know that a lot of I I know they don't like to feel that kind of emotion, but it's time to grow up and understand you did feel it once, and and you know, we're we're in a precarious circumstance in this country where more and more people don't think it's necessary to defend against this and to see to it doesn't happen.
There are there are people out there trying to convince as many Americans as possible.
This is just a random act, that there's no reason to go to war over it to defend it.
Uh and you got others who are saying that Michael Morlic in his documentary, Bush made all this up, lied about it.
Um I mean, I I I think people need to be shocked back to reality here.
Yeah, I agree.
I agree.
I think it'll be um a good thing for people to put the human experience behind it because I think people have detracted and pulled back and said, Oh, it's a terrible thing, and let's hope it doesn't happen again.
But when we go back and live through it, humans.
I think we got I think we got too many people that want to pretend it didn't happen.
They want to go through life and forget it.
Democrats have been playing on that, trying to create this pre-9-11 world and mentality that we're gonna have if they're simply elected to power again.
And I I I think there's some people that don't want to face the reality of it.
It's it is it is painful and so forth.
But it happened, and it was a seminal defining moment, and and the more people that forget it and try to tune it out.
I mean, we're gonna need the people of this country on board, is my point, in order to uh ultimately win this.
Uh and uh make no Mistake.
There are people actively trying to convince as many Americans as possible.
It's not worth it.
Here's uh here's Ralph in Houston.
Ralph, you're next on the EIB network high.
Uh good morning, Rush.
Uh, thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
To me, Flight 93 was a defining moment in the sense that uh the hijacked victims of Flight 93, when they understood what was going on, could changed themselves into the Flight 93 militia and fired the shot hurt around the world.
The beginning of the war against Al Qaeda, followed by Congress and Bush officially declaring that same war.
To me, this is something that I I think is probably since 1776, we haven't had a moment like this.
Uh these victims said we will be victims no more.
They became soldiers, men and women alike, shoulder to shoulder, and took on Al Qaeda and said, You will not succeed, and they took down that plane, and I think it's marvelous.
And they were heroes.
Absolutely.
They were heroes in the process.
They just did it.
Can't add anything to that.
I mean, that's right on the money.
Great point, Kevin in uh in Sacramento, California, my adopted hometown.
You're next.
Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
Anytime, Kevin.
I um really appreciate your show, Rush.
You are uh you're my life preserver.
So I float really well, sir.
I'm thank thanks thanks for saying that's very very nice of you.
Um I just wanted to say uh that I think the people on Flight 93 accomplished more in a few minutes than the Democrats have accomplished uh in four or five years.
I like it.
And uh, you know, that they like it.
I have a slightly different take on uh Flight 93 than Amy.
I can appreciate her her view, as I think a lot of people feel that way, and it's tragic the loss of life, but for the people to know what the probable consequences were and to get up out of their seats, and uh I mean that's the true definition of courage.
And that is what has fueled this country, whether you're talking about you know the Marines on Iwo Jima, our uh soldiers, sailors, airmen uh over in Iraq right now, that uh even though they're scared and even though they know that uh the end is coming, they still were able to fight through, and that just motivates the heck out of me.
I uh appreciate the loss of life, but you know, the Vikings had a saying that uh my days are already written out on the skins of time, and all that is left to me is to die bravely.
They did.
It's interesting that uh uh I haven't seen the movie.
Uh I I I hope that the people on board this plane are going to be portrayed as heroic and as heroes.
Why that should frighten anybody.
This you're right, it's inspirational.
And uh that's what it ought to be.
We don't know where that plane was going, but everybody guesses it was headed back to Washington to either hit the Capitol or the uh or the White House.
Uh I I'm a t I had a and by the way, that is that is a fabulous point uh about the passengers on Flight 93 have done more to fight terrorism than the Democratic Party has since uh 9-11 of 2001.
But I um I had a conversation on Saturday with uh man who lost son and the World Trade Center.
And it was a most fascinating discussion because uh, you know, I I basically he opened it up, uh agreed to talk about it.
We're driving back from playing golf, in which he and I remain undefeated in uh in team play, taking on all comers.
And uh we we had uh we had we'd won the we'd won the match on the last hole, went to the last hole, and we were dead even all square, and uh he birdied that hole.
So he had the most interesting point about that plane, Flight 93.
One of them was supposed to come back to Washington and hit something.
Now he's he's emotionally involved here.
He said uh this this plane that was supposed to hit uh either the White House or the Capitol.
He said there have been times, and he doesn't I lay hold of you now, but there were times that I wish it had hit the Capitol.
Wake this place up.
Uh he was he feels betrayed by his government for years prior to 9-11 for not doing anything to stop this for being ham t hamstrung and tongue-tied.
Uh he was very much, you know, wonder where where where's the Air Force?
Where are we square?
Where's our defense system?
We got all these airplanes flying around and nobody knows where they're going because they've shut off the transponders, and nothing was done.
To stop them, to figure out what was going on.
Uh and and uh it's just a bunch of people who care more about being re-elected every year than actually doing things, said it would have been a nice shakeup.
And he was just being he didn't really mean it.
He was just d th that was what he was telling me to illustrate his frustration and uh and and and make the point about it.
You talk to the 911 families about this, and I don't know that many of them, but their lives are never gonna be the same.
I mean, it just in in countless ways that you can't even uh uh imagine.
I gotta run a little long here in this segment.
Back with more in just a moment.
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Patrick in uh New Glaris, Wisconsin.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome.
Thanks for the opportunity, Rush.
How are you?
I'm fine and dandy, sir.
Never better.
Sounds good.
Uh I'd like to get back to immigration if you don't mind.
Get back to whatever you want.
We've uh immigration's out there, Flight 93's out there.
Uh coming up, by the way, will be the media turning on John McCain.
It happened on Meet the Depressed yesterday.
It predicted this.
Fun to hear.
Uh I got a lot of stuff about work we since since immigration has been established as one of the things we're discussing today, you can go back to it.
Uh why not negotiate a treaty to allow for the orderly flow of guest workers to and from the United States.
And do it under the auspice of auspices of NAFTA, which was uh begun by Ronald Reagan, if I'm not sure.
Mexican Mexicans are not interested in it.
You don't think there's any chance that there's somebody in Mexico that wouldn't see a benefit to this?
Um somebody with power.
I I don't I I I believe if the Mexicans wanted to stop this, they've they're they they could do it.
They love this exodus.
We've got to show how it's in their interest.
Uh well, that's and I look, I'm not opposed to reforming the country.
I made that point a moment ago.
I but I d you know, reforming that corrupt government and spreading the wealth that's there.
I mean, they're they're swimming in oil down there, just have this new find.
Uh that is one of the root causes.
Mexico and one of the objectives of NAFTA uh was to establish via free trade a burgeoning Mexican economy uh that would allow for people to improve their lives and not have to leave the country in order to live in rich lives.
But here's the dirty little secret.
The dirty little secret is that the the uh friend of mine who used to do business in Mexico was once told by a wealthy Mexican, this is back in the mid-80s, that the USA system, our system of capitalism is stupid because contrary to the Mexicans, we actually give our poor the opportunity to better their lives.
We we seek that opportunity for them.
We've provide it.
Uh the Mexicans said uh they need a poor working class to have economic success.
You need that.
You need a poor working.
They don't want to elevate their poor.
They're happy to get rid of the ones that are gonna pick up a burden on their system.
They want to keep just enough to fill the jobs down there that working poor do with no hope for improvement in their lives.
Why not use NAFTA to our advantage for once then?
Uh how so?
Refusing to use we use NAFTA.
I mean, this is clearly in part an economic problem for both countries.
So we demand a hearing under NAFTA treaty and negotiate under that relationship to because, you know, of course, we've had to accept things we didn't want to under NAFTA, like Mexican trucks and stuff like that, you know.
And so instead we negotiate something.
Uh and you know, the Canadians are gonna be refereeing, and I think we can live with what the Canadians want to do.
Let me ask you a question.
Uh forget forget attitudes inside Mexico.
I got about forty, forty-five second 45 seconds.
Is there anybody in this country outside of me?
Okay.
Anybody responsible position in government you've ever heard say anything that would lead you to believe they would lead an effort like that?
Not one.
Not me either.
But I think there's a lot of scared guys in Washington right now that don't see this as a way out.
That they're trying to do something and not just caving into a particular special interest group in this case.
I don't think they think we have any leverage.
This is another thing.
You know, everything's being done here out of fear.
Well, uh Mexican oil, well, we need good relations with Mexico.
Well, we have voters, uh, we don't want to alienate the Mexican population.
Uh they're gonna come here, they're gonna become future swing voters.
I d uh you know, I I there there isn't there there isn't a whole lot of uh I mean, there's some, but there's not a whole lot of leadership on this uh right now.
This is it's it's you're looking at it from as am I from a solution standpoint.
Uh most people in Washington looking at, okay, how can we benefit from what's happening without causing any hurt feelings or ruffled feathers?
Folks, uh, what wait till you hear the sentence that a circuit judge handed down to a woman in St. Louis who turned in voter registration cards in the name of dead local politicians.
You're gonna be saying, seriously, Rush, are you making this up?
Nope.
It's I'm dead serious.
Wait till you hear the sentence that this voter fraud uh babe ended up getting.
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