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April 7, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 7, 2006, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hi, folks.
How are you?
Greetings.
It's nice to have you.
Here we are.
We have arrived at the end of the week, the fastest week in media, the fastest three hours in media.
The Rush Limbaugh Program Friday.
Let's go live from New York City.
It's Open Lines Friday.
And you know the rules, folks, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program today, the Open Line Friday generally is where we open anything up to people on the phone.
Normally, Monday through Thursday, you got to talk about things that I am steering and interested in, things I'm directing.
And Friday, we suspend all that because there might be things that you want to talk about we haven't been brought up.
So feel free.
Now, I have to tell you here, folks, you got the drive-by media and you got the Democrats.
The president leaked.
And it's a three-year-old story.
There's nothing new here.
There's not one thing new.
It's impossible for the president of the United States to leak by virtue of an executive order from 1982.
The president can declassify anything.
This is still about the fact that all the White House was doing was trying to defend itself against a bunch of lies being told by that snake, Joe Wilson.
It's an old story, but it's been brought back to life by a filing in the Libby case by the prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald.
The media, they've got their templates, and this one's had to fire Lytton under it again.
And I, frankly, I'm going to avoid it.
I'm not going to get sucked into this business of defending the president or attacking the president on this latest liberal stunt to drive poll numbers down.
I am not going to fall for it.
That's all this is.
I'm not going to sit here and live in the media bubble and define this program by whatever it is they think is the news of the day.
It's time for offense, folks.
Besides, we got to stop playing defense all the time.
The out-of-power party is running on one thing, and that's driving the president's poll numbers down.
The president, by the way, is helping in this regard.
This immigration bill.
We'll get to that here in just a second.
There's a new AP Ipsos poll out, and the president's numbers are 36%.
And the Democrats have lost whatever edge they had in security in this latest.
It's silly, but they're tied with the Republicans in Congress on who's better equipped to deal with the security issues in the country.
I'm going to tell you what.
Everybody's numbers in Washington are going to continue to plummet if they ignore the people of this country and try to foist worthless, damaging legislation like this so-called immigration breakthrough on everybody.
Everybody's numbers are going to plummet.
If the people of this country are as united on this issue as they are and the people in Washington who have been elected to serve are going to not only ignore them, not only going to ignore us, but blow us off and start calling us names, I guarantee you their approval numbers are going to go down.
So there's reason for this.
But I want to focus on the out-of-power party today because they are running on one thing and that's driving the president's poll numbers down.
They in the drive-by media, they will say anything.
They will allege anything.
They will sound bite anything to accomplish their ends.
The president didn't leak.
Folks, it's not possible.
By definition, when he says something, if he's got something classified and he broadcasts it, it is immediately declassified.
And if you read every one of those stories, he didn't have anything to do with telling Libby to leak claims name.
He didn't even know about it.
It's all so much a do-about-nothing.
But back to the offense now.
And by the way, if the news sounds familiar, it's because it is.
It's the same news.
It's been around for three years now.
But the news today is the Bush economic plan is working.
We have another 211,000 jobs added, another sub-5% unemployment, down to 4.7%.
Full employment statistically is around 5%.
We are beyond full employment.
We have another economic expansion.
If this president's initials were WJC, William Jefferson Clinton instead of GWB, this would be one of the most spectacular economies in our nation's history.
And we would be writing articles or reading articles about how Clinton should be the next face up on Mount Rushmore.
And this is a real boom, folks.
This is unlike the 90s pseudo-boom.
This boom is not built on an ephemeral stock market bubble.
It's not built on massive, widespread corporate fraud, as in Enron, WorldCom, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, which led to huge overstatements of corporate earnings.
This is real.
And I work with half my brain tied behind my back to make it fair.
But I want to point out, even with half my brain, look at the landscape and the handicaps that President Bush had to work with here in the past four years in dealing with the economy.
He inherited the aforementioned dot-com pseudo-boom stock bubble.
He inherited a NASDAQ market collapse.
He had to deal with the costs of 9-11, both in financial terms, the loss of tax base, and of course the feelings.
Everybody was down in the dumps and depressed and so forth.
And then there were the downsides of globalization.
People don't understand it and they think it's bad that America's losing and being harmed and the president stuck with his policies.
We had hundreds of millions of new workers around the world.
We have the emergence of China and India as major market players, particularly China in oil.
We have the lethargic economies of our European trading partners.
We see it on display in France and Germany.
They're contributing nothing.
The relentless negativism and the paranoia of the party out of power and the bad news only of the drive-by media.
It's been a drumbeat of negativism for four years.
It has been an effort to destroy President Bush personally as well as his policies.
And yet, we have a legitimate and real, not pseudo, economic boom.
They keep forecasting a housing bubble.
It doesn't happen.
They keep forecasting that jobs are going to skyrocket.
Unemployment's going to keep forecasting doom and gloom.
The Democrats and the drive-by media continue to set you up for bad news.
Why, even today, try this headline: strong economy equals more heart attacks.
If a high-fat cholesterol-laden snack doesn't trigger a heart attack, then a healthy economy just might.
My God, folks, the economy's great.
We're all going to die.
That's the news from the Drive-By Media.
The risk of a fatal heart attack rises when the U.S. economy strengthens and increases further if macroeconomic conditions remain robust over the next several years.
According to some asinine study published last month, the death rate rises in the year the economy expands and grows further if the lower rate of joblessness is maintained.
So I guess, folks, a good economy is bad for your heart health.
It really is.
We need to pray for more unemployment and downturns in the economy so that we don't die from heart attacks.
Can you believe this?
This is the kind of insanity.
You really want to try to make a correlation between economic statistics, economic reality, and heart attacks.
What does this mean?
When the economy is going well, we can all afford to eat stuff that's bad for us, that we should, when the economy is going bad, we all automatically start eating more healthfully.
What a crock.
But this is what I'm talking about.
Four years of this kind of literal insanity that is presented to us as straight news.
You've heard what a crook your president is.
You've heard what an idiot.
You've heard how the tax cuts are destroying the poor.
You've heard all of this.
And yet, this economy is just roaring.
And there is reason to be offensive about this today.
And I repeat: if this president's initials were BC, Bill Clinton, this economy would be the news of the day.
It'd be the news of the week.
It would be the news of the year.
Now, I want to say something.
I know it's going to drive liberals crazy.
We have two pillars of presidential success.
We measure presidential success with two pillars: they are peace and prosperity.
And this president has delivered both.
This president has delivered peace and prosperity.
And I know what some of you, you commy libs out there saying, peace.
What do you mean, right?
Peace.
Ain't no peace.
Let me ask you, liberals, something.
Aside from the protests that you're organizing, has your city been bombed?
Has your town, has your neighborhood, aside from the destruction you do to it yourself when you go out and have your little protest marches, has your city been bombed by an enemy since George Bush in the White House after 9-11?
Has it happened?
Yeah, there's a war going on, but our homeland is not fighting it.
The military is.
130,000 volunteers and the families they left behind, they're the ones fighting.
You're not.
You're free to go out and engage in the prosperity that exists today along with the peace.
And yet, push leaked, push leaked.
Sorry, folks.
Not playing that game today.
Back after this.
Amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, arrogant starting over, amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic, first and second-hand premium cigar smoke, Rush Limbaugh on Open Line Friday presiding over a wonderful period of peace and prosperity here at home.
800-282-2882.
Ladies and gentlemen, one of the reasons that I'm here in New York yesterday and today is tonight.
Big annual dinner, the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Scholarship Foundation dinner is tonight.
We are honoring Secretary Rumsfeld.
We honor powerful figures every year.
I was honored three years ago to receive the Johnny Mike Spanner Award.
I'm even on the board.
But it's a black tie affair, and I'm going to be seated next to the Joint Chiefs Chairman tonight, Peter Pace, General Peter Pace of the Marine Corps.
You know about the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Scholarship Foundation.
This is a it's a 100% pass-through.
There are no administrative costs.
Nobody takes a dime in salary or any other kind of benefit.
Whatever we raise gets donated.
The money goes for college scholarships for the children of Marines killed in action.
And during crises such as the Oklahoma City bombing or 9-11, the effort has been made to raise money and distribute scholarship seed money to children of all of those killed from all branches.
We have a big dinner every year in New York in the first week of April.
And tonight is the night.
Jim Calstrom, who's former head of the New York FBI office, is also on the board of what we call the MCLF.
And he was on Fox this morning talking about tonight.
And I just wanted you to let it hear it from his lips.
The Marinco Law Enforcement Foundation, which is a 501c3 charity.
We're a bunch of volunteers.
We make it our business with a lot of help from you guys and others to raise money to give scholarship education to children who lose their mother or father.
You know, fighting for freedom, fighting for the United States.
Of all the services, particularly the Marine Corps, law enforcement, we've done this for the New York City police officers, families, and we'll continue to do this.
And our big fundraiser is tonight, the Waldorf Astoria.
And it's a great cause.
If you give Brian, you give us $10, we give the $10 away.
We have no administrative overhead.
Which is a bit unique in the charity business.
We're rated number one by Charity Navigators, so, I mean, we're the real deal.
Yeah, these guys really are.
The MCLE was founded back in the early 90s by a bunch of former Marines, Richard Tariki and Lazard Ferrer, Peter Haas, who somehow manages to still live in New Jersey.
But Pete actually runs the thing.
They do golf tournaments all over the country.
Kalstrom was one of the original founders, a whole bunch of people.
And it just, it's really great work.
And the night, the Marine Band will be there tonight.
There will be some, it's one of the most patriotic and uplifting nights.
And it's always positive.
And in these last three years, every one of these dinners has come in the midst of the Iraq war fighting.
And so it's been especially meaningful.
And well, no, well, I don't know if I'm last year.
We gave a number of awards every year.
We had the big award, then we gave away a couple smaller awards.
Last year, the big award went to Roger Ailes.
And they asked me to introduce Ailes.
And they asked me to keep it to a minute.
And I said, that's insulting.
To introduce Ailes in a minute.
And so I did it in 30 seconds.
I said, whenever Roger Ailes is on your team, you win.
But he delivered a great STEMWinder speech.
It was fabulous.
Tonight at Secretary Rumsfeld.
And I don't know.
I never know.
I know I'm not speaking.
Otherwise, they would have told me that.
But they might ask me to go up there and stand there and say a few words introducing somebody.
You never know what's going to happen.
It's pretty scripted, but it has its share of spontaneity as well.
And Tarikian is the MC, and he shows up in a camouflage tuxedo.
His tuxedo is made of camouflage gear, black tie camouflage.
It's just a huge amount of fun, and I'm really looking forward to tonight.
Now, how about, folks?
How about the immigration breakthrough bill from yesterday?
Yeah, what happened here, folks?
Why, this thing was slam dunk.
McCain and Kennedy and Hegel and these, why, it was a slam dunk.
It was going to happen.
All this media hype, all the attention on this hole-in-the-wall gang that had their private meeting on Wednesday night.
It was Hagel, Mel Martinez, Spector, Vice President Lindsey Graham, was he in the...
Yeah, and Bill Frist.
And they had crafted this compromise.
And boy, they're going to get the immigration bill.
We're going to get this out.
And we're going to make America what America always has been.
We're going to make America real again.
The truth is they never had a chance.
I told you yesterday, what about George Allen?
Is anybody talking to him about this?
Or Jeff Sessions?
Or John Kyle?
I mean, are anybody talking?
And lo and behold, they should have been talking to him because they would have found out that there wasn't one of them that was going to vote for this thing.
This thing in a test vote goes down to an embarrassing defeat.
38 to 60, it lost.
And the people on the side of the 38, they're claiming that they've been cheated.
Well, not that they've been cheated, but that's just not right.
Because they bought the media hype, too.
This is a classic illustration, along with this idiotic hysteria on the non-story of Bush authorizing Libby to go say something to a reporter.
Can you imagine?
A president would do that?
How scandalous.
Media is off touch on that out of base and certainly on this immigration story because they think four people run the Senate, McCain, Hagel, Graham, and Specter.
And whatever those people tell them, by God, that's what the Senate's going to do.
The media, drive-by media out there pushing this.
They were pushing for McCain and Graham and Hagel.
They all but ignored the overwhelming majority of senators, didn't even seek them out, didn't even talk to them, didn't even go find out.
What are you thinking about this, Senator Kyle?
What about you, Senator Sessions?
What do you think of this?
No, just assume that, well, if McCain's behind it, why?
It's magically going to happen.
And they're out there all promoting the Democrat position as well.
And I thought, what I think, I think that even McCain and Vice President Graham saw this thing was going to get killed.
They knew it.
And so they have come up with a face-saving act.
And all this talk about, well, the Democrats wouldn't let any amendments be added.
And that's what killed it.
The Democrats shocked it.
When the Democrats killed it procedurally, they didn't kill it procedurally.
This thing was dead on substance.
This thing was as dead on arrival as a Reagan budget was when Tip O'Neill was the Speaker of the House.
It doesn't look like a single Republican voted for this thing.
Not a single one.
So what we have here, the people, you won.
The elites in Washington lost.
George Allen, Kyle, Jeff Sessions, Cornyn, they're the big winners.
We appoint our winners rather than the media, folks.
That's what I mean about going on offense.
It's like Tom DeLay said to me on the phone the other day.
He said, we allow the Democrats to pick our leaders in the House of Representatives because we came up with this As9 law says if anybody in the leadership is under indictment, they have to quit the leadership.
Democrats don't have such a law.
The Democrats, you know, always pressuring Republicans or Republicans.
Okay, look, Democrats, we will be fair as the majority.
And if you indict one of us, then we'll leave.
And so they cooked up this thing with Ronnie Rowell.
I'm not going to sit here and let the media pick the people I think lead the Senate.
Because apparently, in this instance, the people that the media has anointed as the leaders didn't get the job done.
Here are the big losers.
McCain, Graham, Specter, Hagel, Martinez, Frist, maybe even Sam Brownbeck.
Those are the losers.
And this is a loss, folks.
They're trying to hide behind the fact that Democrats wouldn't allow any amendments.
But this thing went down because they probably heard from you yesterday.
That's right, having more fun than human beings should be allowed to have.
I am excited to go to the phones here because you'll remember, what was it, about a month ago, we had a call from a young college student in Michigan who described her political science class as Communism 101.
Had a real long discussion.
Her name is Katie, and she's back.
Katie, welcome.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Mr. Lindlaugh.
Now, first, Katie, I have to set people up and remind you, remind them who you are if they didn't hear your first call.
You called in, you talked about the assignments that you were given in class, the kind of things that we're doing.
And we had a little discussion of what capitalism is because capitalism was being criticized in your class and so forth.
And you wanted some background info.
Wanted some ammo to be able to deal with the so what's happened since then?
Well, since I called in, tons of people heard it.
Tons of people heard the call.
So now I have my own little fan club, I guess.
But also, I guess my professor of the class got a lot of trouble from it.
Wait, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, just a second.
Well, man.
Did we identify your college?
Yes, we did.
Okay, but we didn't identify the professor's name.
No, we didn't.
Okay, so he must have, it must be pretty well known if he was able to be identified simply by your phone call to this program.
I know that there's only so many professors in political science at your college, but it could have been any one of them.
Well, I think he's actually the only one that teaches the class.
And like a lot of people from the college Republican that I'm involved with, they heard it.
And I think they told him.
And I'm not really sure how his boss is told.
What kind of heat did he get?
I mean, I'm not exactly sure.
I just know that from his superiors, he had some problems.
I don't know to what extent.
You are kidding.
No, because I think that members of the college administration actually gave the professor heat?
I'm not sure exactly who.
Like, he just said his superiors.
So I don't know.
I was shocked because I think the problem was they were afraid he was teaching his own beliefs in the class, and then I was getting looked down upon and getting in trouble for having my different views, which is not the case at all.
So I don't know if I came across that way on the show, which I don't think I did.
And everyone that heard me in a lot of people.
Now, Katie, Katie, let me tell you something.
How old are you again?
You're 20?
I'm 20.
You're 20.
I'm going to try to give you a little lesson in life here.
In fact, I've got a story on this in the stack.
You're going to have people throughout your life try to make you feel guilty and responsible for what happens to other people when you're not.
And if you want to take on that burden, feel free, but it's only going to weight you down.
It's totally unnecessary.
I mean, we've got people try to make you feel guilty for driving an SUV.
Try to make you feel guilty if you don't pump your own gas.
Guilty for eating meat.
I mean, they're all over.
The guilt police are everywhere.
And don't go down that road.
I mean, what happened happened, and you're an adult, and the professor's an adult.
Right.
It was a worthwhile experience for everybody involved.
Everybody involved grew except me because I don't have any growth room left.
Now, did you do your paper?
Yes.
Okay, but back up.
Just a minute.
I just wanted to clear the air and say, and so that everyone knows, I have nothing but the most respect for my professor.
I've enjoyed both of the classes that I'm taking with him greatly, and I'll definitely be taking more of his classes.
So now you're giving us the Cynthia McKinney move.
No, okay.
Okay.
So anyway, I just wanted to do that.
But I did write the paper, and I used some of your advice.
So I don't know what kind of grade I'll get on it, but.
Oh, wait, you haven't got it back yet?
No, I turned it in on Wednesday.
Okay.
Well, I think, you know, probably this is a great era.
I think everything about this was a good experience.
I agree.
I mean, I've worked in the media, and I think it's interesting for me.
I'm studying political science and broadcast journalism, and I think it's been an interesting experience for me to see just how Fast stories can spread just based on how many people heard it and how negativity can come out of it.
What did you expect, Katie?
Did you expect nobody to hear it when you called this program?
Well, I mean, I knew people were going to hear it.
I just didn't think so many people that know me would hear it.
And you know what I mean?
Yes, I do know what you mean.
You know how many people know me hear this show every day?
It stuns me.
So I don't know, like, because a lot of people heard, you know, Katie from Michigan, and then they didn't know it was me.
But then when, you know, like.
Oh, but they will from now on.
You are forever Katie from Michigan.
I know.
So now, and then once people figured out, you know, let me tell you something, Katie.
There's another lesson that you need to learn from this.
You said you're taking political science and broadcast journalism.
That's what you.
Yeah.
Okay.
You just, in your mind, you just destroyed the professor.
You got him in trouble.
That's what journalists do.
Journalists go out, they destroy people.
That's how they get promoted.
That's how they get noticed.
This has been such, I tell you, the education experience for you here and in your classroom is unparalleled.
This is fabulous for you.
You have to understand this.
You've, in one phone call to a radio talk show, you have learned the equivalent of a full semester in a class.
You're right.
But maybe then maybe I shouldn't be a journalist because I don't want to destroy people.
I just want the truth to be brought out.
I don't think that there can be a difference in journalism.
I think that too many people are out to get people.
And I think that if we just focus on the truth, the truth will say that.
Okay, then journalism needs people like you.
Let me be serious with you for a moment.
If that's what you really think journalism needs people like you, but you're going to run into problems or challenges because if you end up in a J school somewhere, the odds are that that's not going to be the focus.
If you think you're subjected to a liberal mindset while in a political science class, then triple it or quadruple it for when you go to a journalism school.
Yeah.
Let me ask you, now I gave you a complimentary subscription to my website.
Did you use it?
I really like it.
I'm very happy about that.
I really enjoy that.
Good.
I just wanted to make sure you were availing yourself of the educational opportunities there.
Well, of course.
But, you know, hopefully after all this, I'll be able to find a job.
And, you know, I think it would be kind of fun to be a political commentator, kind of like you.
Yeah, it is fun.
It is fun.
I mean, I don't know.
But you can't go around feeling guilty when people get mad at you or claim that they get in trouble because of you or that their feelings are hurt.
You're going to need to toughen up.
Because once you start, you know, before I started this radio show, Katie, I'm going to be very serious.
There's not a person in the world who knew me who disliked me, well, hated me, and there's not a person in the world who thought I hated anybody.
I started this radio show, and I start telling people what I think.
And within a day, I had become a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, simply because of stereotypes that attached themselves.
And for the longest time, I didn't know how to deal with it because I'd never been faced with that kind of, I mean, never in my life I've been made fun of for other things, but I mean, to have my core existence challenged as illegitimate and dangerous, and people need to shut me up.
And this is why, that was a whole new experience for me.
And it took me, and nobody prepared me for it.
And if you get into punditry or commentary, that's part of the territory.
And you have to learn to accept that as evidence of effectiveness and success.
And sometimes it's tough to measure success by counting the number of people that you made mad every day.
Right.
Well, I mean, I've had my share.
I thought I was pretty thick-skinned, but I think that's the difference between hardcore journalism and what you do is, I mean, I have been involved, I've been in the news business, and I've like I ran students for Bush during the election at my school and worked for, you know, the Bush campaign.
And, I mean, of course, people started hating me then.
But so, I mean, I've had my share of, you know.
Well, you just have to learn to thank God for your enemies.
You know, that's that's there's you'll learn it as you go.
And if you do get into that, experience will be your teacher.
And you just need to learn to identify certain things as signs of success when your instincts will tell you they're not.
They actually end up being.
Katie, I want to thank you for calling back.
It's a delight.
And I applaud you for being concerned about the reputation of your teacher.
If you admire the guy, and I think you probably, he's no doubt inspired a lot of thought in you.
And college is supposed to be about the clash of ideas.
And so I think this is all a great experience for you.
And in all candor, I'm really honored and happy that you called this program and we were able to be part of it.
Well, thank you.
Hopefully I'll be able to call back in the future with more of my ideas.
We want to find out what you got on this paper.
We want to know the grade, Katie.
Okay, all right.
I'll let you know once I find out.
I don't know when that will be.
If it's embarrassing, you don't want to be public with it.
You're going to let us know via the private email.
Well, I'll let you know because, you know what?
I figure either way now, I did my best on the paper.
It may not be, you know, exactly everything that he wants, but I did my best.
And I think he knows that I've put a lot of thought into this class.
Now, wait a second.
Now, that's interesting, too.
No, I'm not being critical.
You said I don't know if it's everything he wants, meaning the professor.
Right.
I can understand.
Well, I looked at, okay, I want to get a grade on this, so what does this idiot teacher want?
That's what I was saying.
Okay, okay, okay.
See, this is the kind of comment that's going to get me in trouble.
What kind of comment?
Mine?
Yeah.
Oh, I'm not talking about your guy.
I'm talking about like my teachers in high school.
Okay.
They were idiots.
Now, I'm not talking about your professor.
Oh, all right, all right.
I'm just, okay.
I'm not calling your guy an idiot.
I don't know your guy.
I wouldn't do that.
I know.
Okay.
And since you don't think he's an idiot, I'm not going to call him.
Please, I was personal.
I'm just saying I can relate to you.
But the one I wanted to ask you was, did you write this paper on the idea of giving him what he wanted for a grade, or did you write this paper to be honest about what you thought about what a question he was asking you?
Oh, I was very honest because I, you know, it's very hard to write a paper where you know that the teacher will not agree with anything you say.
I'm not saying he's going to mark me down for what I said.
I'm just saying.
Oh, he's a great teacher.
He's going to give you a grade based on the quality of your work.
Right.
So I'm just saying that, like, you know, it's hard to write a paper knowing, you know, it's easier to write a paper if you know like at least the professor will understand where you're coming from, you know, just because everyone has personal opinions.
I understand that.
And sometimes in school today, personal opinions in the wrong class get you graded down.
Right.
Well, look, best of luck to you.
Stay in touch with us, okay?
All right.
Thank you again.
And don't fall prey to this temptation to feel guilty about things.
Okay, well, I'll try my best not to.
And maybe I'm just not cut out to be a journalist.
Well, you're just 20.
You've got a lot of time to figure out what you want to do, but keep your mind active.
You know what?
It's great to have goals, but don't have them be too restrictive.
I mean, keep yourself available to pursue any option or desire that comes up, and you'll eventually, you know, you'll find your passion and you'll zero in on it, and then your life will begin.
Very true.
I thank you for that advice.
My ultimate goal is to be the press secretary at the White House.
So we'll see if that ever happens.
And it will, I think.
Okay, I'll keep an eye on you for that one.
All right, thank you.
You've got to realize if you're working for a Republican president, they're going to hate you.
Not personally, but you're the closest they're going to get to the president.
But see, I'm already in training for that right now, you know, coming on your show.
So I'll be prepared.
I think that's right.
You've had a great educational experience here.
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You know, in this immigration debate, there's a phrase that's been out there for a long time, and it's really been used a lot in the last couple of three weeks.
Well, these people are coming, Rush, to do the jobs Americans will no longer do.
They're simply jobs Americans don't like.
And I got a note from a friend about this.
And the friend says, you know, Rush, the fact is we all do jobs we don't want to do.
Some of the we all have things that we don't want to do.
You, Rush, are about the only people, only person on earth who gets to do what you like to do every day.
But I imagine, Rush, there are some days that you don't even want to do it.
Well, I'll not comment on that.
But the fact of the matter is, jobs are work, and work is good, but overall, you know, one of the biggest plagues is that people end up doing things they don't want to do, getting up Monday, Friday, 9 to 5, drudgery.
So this notion that, wait, the point is we're all doing things at times we don't want to do, that's what life is.
But now that's being, it's being exaggerated and used as a claim to build up as the backbone of the future of America.
What people are angling for now, I guess, is a permanent working underclass, working poor underclass to do jobs that the American people will not do.
It's a good point because there's so much of this immigration debate that is not even about immigration, and the language is being destroyed in the process.
Can't call them illegal aliens.
Illegal immigrants can't do that.
It's unnecessarily harsh, Rush.
And it's not accurate either.
It is accurate, and that's why we can't use it.
The political correctness has reared its head in so many segments of our society.
This is Arlene in Kensington, Maryland.
Welcome, Arlene.
Nice to have you with us.
Well, thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
I'm calling because I've been hearing on the radio here this morning, WMAL 630 up in the Washington, D.C. area, that the Montgomery County Public School System under Superintendent Dr. Jerry Weist is going to be giving community service hours to students who attend the protest on Monday.
Really?
Yes.
Well, you know, there's a couple schools down in Miami that broke out early today because the students did hell with class.
We're going to go protesting.
So they're out there protesting the immigration bill.
Exactly.
And we're all supposed to think this is spontaneous.
Exactly.
But, you know, to me, to give them community service hours which they need to graduate is not sending the right message.
I mean, why are you?
bunch of liberals.
This has nothing to do with immigration.
The kooks have co-opted this whole illegal immigration issue as their own.
You know, big protests coming up on May Day, May 1st, answer some anti-America pro-communist group is actually in charge of this.
So you obviously have one of two things.
You've either got a sympathetic principal administrator, whatever, going on there in Montgomery County, or you've got somebody who's an activist and wants to play ball in this arena this way.
And that's, look at, I'm all for this happening, Arlene.
Let it happen.
It's going to just cause more and more backlashes against this whole movement, and it's going to identify who these people really are and show it's not about immigration.
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