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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 line Friday.
And you know the rules.
Folks 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program today, the uh open line Friday generally is uh 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 uh you want to talk about we haven't been uh brought up, so feel free.
Now, I I I have to I have to tell you here, folks, uh you got you got you got the drive-by media and you got the Democrats the president leaked, the president leaked the president leaked, and they've got 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 uh uh 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 in the Libby case by the prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald.
The media, it's this they've got their templates, and this one's had to fire litting under it again.
And I I frankly uh I I'm I'm gonna avoid it.
I I I'm not gonna 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 gonna fall for it.
That's all this is.
I'm not gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna not only ignore them, not only gonna ignore us, but blow us off and start calling us names.
I guarantee you their approval numbers are gonna down, gonna 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, he when he says something that if he's got something classified and he broadcasts it, it be 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 also much ado 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 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 five.
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 Clintons 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.
Had to deal with the costs of 9 11, both in financial terms, the loss of tax base, and of course, the um the feelings.
Everybody 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 uh lower rate of joblessness is maintained.
So I guess folks, this is a good economy is bad for your heart health.
It really is.
We we need to pray for more unemployment and downturns in the economy so that we don't die from heart.
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'm 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 a 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 commie libs out there saying.
Peace.
What do you mean by?
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, Bush leaked!
Bush leaked!
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, don't repeat what?
Sorry, folks.
Not playing that game today.
Back after this.
Amidst billowing clouds of fragrant arrogatic.
Starting over, amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first and secondhand premium cigar smoke, Rush Limbaugh on open line Friday, presiding over a wonderful period of peace and prosperity here at home.
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Ladies and gentlemen, uh one of the uh reasons that I am here in New York uh uh yesterday and today is uh tonight.
Uh big annual dinner, the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Scholarship Foundation dinner is tonight.
We are honoring Secretary Rumsfeld.
We we honor uh powerful figures uh every year.
I was honored uh three years ago, received the Johnny Mike Spann Award.
I'm even on the board.
Um but it's a black tie affair, and uh uh I'm gonna be seated next to the Joint Chiefs Chairman tonight, uh Peter Pace, General Peter Pace of the Marine Corps.
What we uh you know about the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Scholarship Foundation.
This is a uh it's it's uh it's a 100% pass through.
There are no administrative costs, nobody takes a dime uh in in salary or any other kind of benefit.
Uh whatever we raise gets donated.
The money goes for college scholarships for the children of Marines killed in action and during uh crises such as the Oklahoma City bombing or 9-11, uh the the uh effort is made to raise money and and distribute scholarship uh seed money uh to children of all of those killed uh uh from all branches.
We have a big uh uh dinner every year in New York in the first week of April.
And uh tonight is the night.
Jim Calstrom, who's uh former uh head of the New York FBI office is also on the board of what we call the MCLEF, and he uh was on Fox this morning talking about the night.
And I just wanted you to let it hear it uh from his lips.
The Marinco Law Enforcement Foundation, which is a 501c3 charity.
We're a bunch of ball volunteers, we make it our business uh with a lot of help from you guys and and others to raise money to give scholarship education to children who lose their mother or father, uh, you know, fighting for uh freedom, fighting for the United States of all the services, particularly the Marine Corps, uh law enforcement.
Uh we've done this for the 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 it's a great cause.
If you give Brian, you give us ten bucks, we give the ten bucks 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, well, they uh the these guys really are.
The uh M Clef was uh founded back in the early 90s uh by a bunch of former Marines, uh Richard Tarickian at Lazard Ferrer, Peter Haas, who uh somehow manages to still live in New Jersey.
Um but Pete actually runs the thing.
He's uh but they do golf tournaments all over the country.
Kalstrom was one of the original founders, whole bunch of people, and uh it it it just it it's really great work and the and the night the marine band will be there tonight.
Uh there will be some uh it's one of the most patriotic and uplifting nights, and it's always positive.
Uh and it it uh and in the these last three years, every uh one of these dinners has come in the midst of the uh of the Iraq war fighting, and so it's been especially uh meaningful.
And well, no, I well, I don't know if I've last year we gave well we got a number of awards every year.
We had the big award, then we give away a you know a couple smaller awards.
Last year the big award went to uh Roger Ailes.
And they asked me to introduce AIS and they asked me to keep it to a minute, and I said that's insulting.
To introduce Ailes in a minute.
And I so I did it in 30 seconds.
I said, whenever Roger Ailes is on your team, you win.
Uh but he delivered a great stem winder speech.
It was just it was fabulous.
Tonight it's Secretary Rumsfeld.
Uh uh and I don't know, I never know.
If if I I will not, I'm not if 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 in introducing somebody.
You never know what's going to happen.
It's pretty scripted, but uh it it has its share of spontaneity as well.
And and Tarickian 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 it's it's a huge amount of fun, and I um 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 and Kennedy and Hegel and uh these why, it was a slam dunk.
It was gonna happen.
Oh, all this media hype, all the attention on this hole-in-the-wall gang that had their private meeting on Wednesday night.
It was Hegel, Mel Martinez, Specter, uh Vice President Lindsey Graham, was he in the yeah, and and uh and Bill Frist.
And they had crafted this compromise.
And boy, they're gonna get the immigration bill, and we're gonna get this out, and we're gonna we're gonna make America what America always has been.
We're gonna 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, these 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 gonna 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 uh that they've been cheated.
Well, not that they've been cheated, but that it's it's just not right.
Well, this is 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's off touch on that, out of base, and certainly on this immigration story, because they think four people run the Senate.
McCain, Hegel, Graham, and Spector.
And whatever those people tell them, by God, that's what the Senate's gonna do.
The media, drive-by media out there pushing this.
They were pushing for McCain and Graham and Hegel.
They all but ignored the overwhelming majority of senators, didn't even seek him 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 assumed 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, tell you what, I think, I think that even McCain and Vice President Graham saw this thing was gonna get killed.
They knew it.
And so they they have come up with a face-saving act, and all this talk about uh, well, the Democrats uh wouldn't let the amendments uh be added, uh, and that's what killed it.
Uh we we uh once the Democrats, the Democrats uh shocked it when the Democrats uh 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, Corny, 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 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 ass nine laws.
If anybody in a leadership is under indictment, they have to quit the r the leadership.
Democrats don't have such a law.
The Democrats, you know, always pressuring Republicans or Republicans want to say, 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 Row.
Well, 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, Spector, Hegel, Martinez, Frist, maybe even Sam Brownbeck.
Those are the losers.
This 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, uh having more fun the human beings should be allowed to have.
I am 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 uh a young college student in Michigan who uh described her political science uh uh uh class as communism one oh one.
And uh real long discussion.
Her name is Katie and uh she's back.
Katie, welcome.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Mr. Limbaugh.
Now first, Katie, I have to I have to set people up and and remind you you uh you uh who uh remind them uh who you are if they didn't hear your first call.
You called in you you talked about the uh assignments you were given in class, the kind of things that we're they were doing, and and we gave a we had a little discussion of what capitalism is because capitalism was being criticized in your class and uh and so forth, and you wanted some background info, you wanted some ammo uh to be able to deal with the so uh what what's happened since then?
Well, um since I called in, uh tons of people heard it.
Tons of people heard the call, so now I have my own little fan club, I guess.
But um also I guess um my professor of the class got a lot of uh trouble from it.
So um Well, now wait wait, wait, wait, whoa, whoa, just a second about Matt.
Uh did we uh did we identify your college Yes we did.
Okay, but we did we didn't identify the professor's name.
No, we didn't.
Okay, so he must have uh uh it must be pretty well known if he was able to be identified uh simply by your phone call to this program.
I know that the there's only so many professors in political science at your college, but it's could have been any one of them.
So I Well, I think he's actually the only one that teaches the class, and like a lot of people from um the college republicans who ha like that I'm involved with, they heard it, and I think um they told them and I'm not really sure how his boss is told.
Well, what kind of heat did he get?
I mean look d like I I'm not exactly sure.
I just know that um from his superiors he had some problems.
I don't know to what extent.
You are kidding.
No, because I think um 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 I think the problem was they were afraid he was teaching his 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.
You didn't a lot of people.
Katie, Katie, let me tell you something.
How old are you again?
You're 20?
I'm 20.
You're twenty.
I'm gonna try to give you a little lesson in life here.
In fact, I've got a I've got a story on this in the stack.
You're gonna 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 if you want to take on that burden, feel free, but you it's it's only gonna weight you down.
It's totally unnecessary.
You're you d I mean, we've got people try to make you feel guilty for driving 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 and you don't don't go down that road.
I mean, what happened happened, and you're an adult and the professor's an adult, and it was a worthwhile experience for everybody involved.
There's everybody involved grew except me because I don't have any growth room left.
Now did you did you did you do your paper?
Yes.
Okay, but uh back up just a minute.
Um I I just wanted to clear the air and say and so that everyone knows I have nothing but most respect my professor.
I I've enjoyed both of the classes that I'm taking with him greatly, and um I'm I'll definitely be taking more of his classes.
But so now you're you're giving us the Cynthia McKinney move.
No, okay.
Okay.
So anyway, I just wanted to, you know, do that.
But um I did write the paper and I used some of your advice.
Um so I don't know what kind of grade I'll get on it, but Oh, you so wait, you haven't got it back yet.
No, I turned it in on Wednesday.
Okay.
Uh well I I think you know, probably this is a great er I think everything about this was a good experience.
Um I agree.
I mean I've worked in the media and I I think it's I think it's interesting for me.
Um I I'm studying political science and broadcast journalism, um, and I I think it's been an interesting experience for me to see just how uh fast stories can spread just based on how many people heard it and um negativity can come out of it.
You know, what did you expect, Katie?
Did you did you expect nobody to hear it when you call this program?
Well, I mean, I knew people who were gonna hear it.
I just seem to 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 uh I don't know, like a lot of people heard you know, Katie from Michigan, and then they 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 it's let me tell you something, Katie.
You there's another lesson that you need to learn from this.
You said you're you're taking uh political science and broadcast journalism.
That's what 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 you've in one phone call to a radio talk show, you have you have learned the equivalent of a full semester in a class.
You're probably you're right.
But m I 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 I 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 you're gonna be able to do it.
Okay, then journalism needs people like you.
Let me be serious with you for a moment.
If that's what you really think uh journalism needs people like you, but you're gonna run into problems or challenges because if you if you end up in a in a J school somewhere, uh the odds are that that's that's not gonna be the the focus.
You're gonna you're you if you think you're uh subjected to a a liberal mindset uh while in a political science class, then triple it or quadruple it for when you go to a journalism school.
And so I'm I'm yeah.
Let me ask you, and I gave you a complimentary subscription to my website.
Did you uh you usually I 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, I 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.
But it is fun.
I mean I 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 got you're gonna you're gonna need to toughen up.
Because once you start you know, before I started this radio show, Katie, I'm gonna be very serious.
There's not a person in the world who knew me or disliked me, who th well, hated me, and there's not a person in the world who thought I hated anybody.
I got start 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 had attached themselves.
And for the longest time I didn't know how to deal with it.
Uh 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 my core existence challenged as as uh illegitimate and dangerous and uh people need to shut me up and this is why that was all new experience for me uh and it it took me and nobody prepared me for it uh and if you get into punditry or commentary uh that's that's part of the territory and you have to learn to accept that as a as as uh 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 ran students for Bush during the election at my school and worked for the Bush campaign.
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, 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 a lot of thought in you and college is supposed to be about the clash of ideas right and so I think this is all a great experience for you and in all candor I am I'm really honored and happy that that uh you called this program and we were able to be part of it.
Well thank you I hopefully I'll be able to call back in the future with more of my uh ideas on this paper.
We want to know the grade Katie when I alright I I'll I'll I'll let you know once I find out when that will be if it's embarrassing you don't want to be public with it you're gonna let us know via the private email I'll 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 I think uh he knows that I've put a lot of thought into this class.
Now wait a second now that that's interesting too.
What I'm not being critical you said I don't know if it's everything he wants meaning the professor.
Right.
Uh I I used to I I can under I looked at okay I want to get a grade on this so what is this idiot teacher want?
That's what I okay okay okay see this is the kind of comment that's gonna get me in trouble.
What kind of comment?
Mine Yeah Oh I'm talking not talking about your guy I'm talking about like my my teachers in high school they were idiots.
Now I'm not talking about your professor I'm just I'm just I'm not calling your guy an idiot.
I don't know your guy wouldn't do that.
I I know okay and you since you don't think he's an idiot I'm not gonna call him please I was I was I mean personal I'm just saying I can relate to you.
But I'm I'm the one I wanted to ask you was did you write this paper 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 gonna mark me down for what I said.
I'm just saying Oh he's a great teacher.
He's not gonna he's gonna he's gonna 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 it's easier to write a paper if if you know like the pr at least the professor will understand what where you're coming from you know just because everyone has personal opinion.
I understand that and sometimes in school today personal opinions in the wrong class get you graded down.
Right.
Uh I'm well look of luck to you stay in touch with us, okay and don't fall prey to this temptation to feel guilty about things.
Okay well I'll I'll try my best not to do and maybe maybe I'm just not cut out to be a journalist you're just twenty.
You've got a lot of time to figure out what you want to do but keep your mind active and you know what it's great to have goals but don't have them be too restrictive.
I mean keep yourself uh available to pursue any option or desire that comes up and 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 I I thank you for that advice.
My 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 just gotta you gotta realize if you're working for a Republican president, they're gonna hate you.
Uh not personally, but you're the closest they're gonna get to the president, and so but see uh but see, I'm already in training for that right now, you know, coming on your show, so I'll I'll be prepared.
I think that's right.
You've had a great educational experience here.
Katie, I have to run on a little bit long, but it's great to hear from you.
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It's open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh with talent on loan from God.
You know, in this uh 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 a 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 you, Rush, are about the only people, well, 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, uh, you know what the one of the biggest plagues is that people end up doing things they don't want to do, getting up Monday, Friday, nine to five 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 it's being exaggerated uh 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 uh a permanent working underclass, working poor underclass to do jobs that the American people will not do.
And I just it's a it's a 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.
Uh can't call them illegal aliens.
Uh illegal immigrants can't do that.
Well, it's unnecessarily harsh uh rush, and it uh it's not accurate either.
So it is accurate, and that's why we can't use it.
The political correctness is reared its head in so many segments of our society.
This is Arlene uh in Kensington, Maryland.
Uh welcome, uh Lee.
Nice to have you with us.
Well, thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
Uh, 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 uh 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 in the hell with class, we're gonna go protesting.
So they're out there protesting the immigration bill.
Exactly.
Yeah, we're all supposed to think this is spontaneous.
Exactly.
But you know, this to me to give them community service hours for which they need to graduate is not sending the right message.
I mean, why are you?
It's a bunch of liberals.
I'm telling this has nothing to do with immigration.
The kooks have co-opted this this whole illegal immigration uh issue as their own.
You know, big protest coming up on on May Day, May 1st, answer some anti uh 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, uh going on there in Montgomery County, or you've got somebody who's an activist and uh and wants to and wants to play ball in this arena this way, and and that's look at I'm all for this happening, Arlene.
Let it happen.
It's gonna it's gonna just cause more and more backlashes against this whole movement.
Uh and it's gonna identify who these people really are, and if so it's not about immigration.
Back in just a sec.
We have some amazing sound bites uh about the immigration bill.
Lots of great calls coming up, uh, and some fascinating stuff here in the various stacks of stuff.
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