May 1, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
| I'm still looking. | |
| I I've been watching television all morning. | |
| I'm looking for signs of these massive protests, and all I'm seeing is B-roll footage of old protests. | |
| I'm talking about Mayday, the uh immigrant prototype. | |
| We're gonna, you know, it's this jump the shark moment, folks, may actually happen today, or the jump the shark moment, too. | |
| So I think they've actually already jumped the shark. | |
| But what happens when America goes on after all these people don't go to work today? | |
| Well, the economy keeps prospering and business is conducted. | |
| Uh what's that gonna say? | |
| Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. | |
| Uh, welcome to those of you watching on the Ditto Cam. | |
| It'll be up and running all three hours, as usual. | |
| If uh want to be on the program today, phone numbers 800-282-2882, and the email addresses rush at eIBNet.com. | |
| Uh before we get into the uh the news of the day, let me take a stab at explaining what happened on Friday, since I'm the one that did everything, and it's uh I'm the one that was involved, and so I know uh what happened. | |
| The sum total of all of this is the case is over. | |
| And the operative words that everybody needs to uh understand here are not guilty. | |
| Not guilty. | |
| On Friday, uh I went over to the Palm Beach County jail uh in the in the in the uh the first step of a process to end this two-year, seven-month investigation of me by the Palm Beach State Attorney's Office. | |
| It is now officially at an end. | |
| Uh I have maintained from the start of this, folks, that that there was no doctor shopping. | |
| Uh I continue to hold this position formally. | |
| Uh we have filed with the court a plea of not guilty to a single charge of doctor shopping that the uh state attorney's office has filed. | |
| Additionally, my attorneys and the state attorney's office have jointly filed an agreement with the court under which I will continue treatment for the next eighteen months with the same doctor that I have been seeing since I came out of the rehabilitation center in November of 2003 for dependence on prescription prescription pain medication. | |
| Now that charge, uh the single charge of Dr. Shopting will be held in abeyance until that 18 months of treatment has been completed, at which point the charges filed by the State Attorney's Office will be dismissed. | |
| Uh and I'll tell you why agreed to do this. | |
| Uh for from my point of view, the end result will be as if I had gone to court and won, but the matter is concluded much sooner and at much less expense for both me and for the public. | |
| Uh I have spent thousands of hours and millions of dollars with lawyers uh over the past uh two point seven months fighting this at at every stage. | |
| We finally got a favorable ruling from the last judge uh to hear a ruling uh on rule on a motion in this case, uh, in which he basically uh told the government that uh well you can talk to Mr. Limbaugh's doctors, but you can't ask them anything that'll help you unless he waives his privacy privilege. | |
| And I don't think Mr. Limbo's gonna do that. | |
| So um uh the matter has been put to bed. | |
| I I'm I'm thrilled that it's behind me. | |
| Uh it's my understanding state attorney is also pleased and uh thinks that this is the correct outcome based on the facts in the case, and that's fine with me. | |
| The case uh is closed. | |
| Now let me address what happened on Friday afternoon. | |
| Uh you know, we did our by the way. | |
| I've got the numbers from the Curaton. | |
| We set a record, one over 1.7 million dollars raised for leukemia and lymphoma on Friday. | |
| Uh at it just it was we knew we were we were setting records, and we were we were, as I say, apprehensive about it because gas prices being up and all the uh drive-by media news about the uh the the terrible economy, all the doom and gloom that's out there every day. | |
| We love you people. | |
| You've always been there. | |
| You uh you have you've you've triumphed. | |
| Uh yet again the depth of loyalty and support that you have shown me and this program over the uh almost eighteen years that uh we've we've been doing it continues to stun me. | |
| Uh you're just the best, and I I don't know how how to thank you appropriately. | |
| Other than perhaps offering you each uh 100 uh rebates uh for uh for your gasoline. | |
| More on that too as the uh program unfolds today. | |
| So after the program was over at three o'clock, uh my attorney, Mr. Black met me here. | |
| We climbed into a car. | |
| We went over to the Palm Beach County jail where I was booked on this single charge, uh, filed a not guilty plea, uh, went in there and and smiled for the mugshot. | |
| Uh mug shot got posted all over uh television uh Friday night. | |
| Uh many people referring to it as a publicity photo. | |
| And I must say, folks, it is one of the nicest photos of me that's uh ever been taken. | |
| Uh gonna put it in the in the publicity profile uh list uh that we keep. | |
| But there was one thing that happened Friday afternoon. | |
| We had we we scurried into fast action starting at about six o'clock Friday. | |
| I was over there for about an hour, got back to the office here around 515 or 530, and turned on the news, and there's this news, Rush Limbaugh arrested on drug fraud. | |
| Where in the world did this come from? | |
| Because, you know, the word arrested, this is semantics. | |
| Uh when you hear the word arrested, you think cops show up with a paddy wagon with uh shackles and leg irons and handcuffs and take me resisting out the door, file me into jail and so forth. | |
| None of that happened. | |
| This was all uh arranged in advance. | |
| It was part of the deal. | |
| I walked over voluntarily, I was voluntarily processed, is what this is. | |
| Yes, there was a warrant, it's called a capius warrant, uh to keep the warrant out of the system all day so that the media wouldn't find out about it. | |
| We uh we got in and out there without a media circus taking place. | |
| Uh come back and and find that I was been arrested, and I got a note from Vince Flynn, the noted thriller author today. | |
| Uh he said, you know, I I I was I was scared to death. | |
| I was down in Fort Lauderdale over the week and I was making a speech, and I'm sitting at the bar and some guy's got his Blackberry. | |
| And he's reading the story. | |
| Rush Limbaugh arrested for prescription drug fraud. | |
| And I said to him, Oh no. | |
| Is this new? | |
| And he says, Yeah, CNN says they just arrested him trying to illegally buy prescription drugs. | |
| And Vince writes, I was totally crushed. | |
| I just I said when I heard it was CNN, though, I just couldn't believe it. | |
| Uh so and I've I've found that a lot of people thought that that was the uh result, that this was something brand new rather than the conclusion of a two-year, seven-month ordeal. | |
| There was no arrests, there were no handcuffs, there was no perp walk, uh, there is no charge, I have not relapsed. | |
| Uh I am I'm as healthy and happy as I have ever been, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| And a lot of that is uh is due to you and your your continuing loyalty here. | |
| You've stuck you know, we haven't lost one radio station, we haven't lost one advertiser. | |
| We have not lost one business associate through all of this, and we haven't lost any audience, so we've gained uh audience, and it's uh it's you know, I I'm in awe of it. | |
| It's uh it's uh it makes me feel humble uh w when when this happens, and and so grateful that I I can't describe it to you. | |
| Now there's an what uh uh Mr. Snertley interjects. | |
| Uh most important, we haven't lost uh me. | |
| Uh no, I'm folks, I'm uh nothing's changed, and I'm not leaving here until every American agrees with me. | |
| Uh but we know the the the radio staff stood by, everybody did. | |
| It's been a it's it's been an amazing uh 2.7 years. | |
| I've been unable to talk about uh the experiences that led to all this because the case was ongoing, and theoretically anything I said could have been used against me, so I haven't been able to be helpful to other people who have gone through what I have gone through, and I'm looking forward to being able to do that now. | |
| Uh uh use myself as a resource uh to help other people who uh have encountered the same uh type of addiction or many addictions. | |
| Uh uh they all uh stem from pretty similar things, regardless. | |
| Uh and I've learned more about myself in the uh in the past three years than I knew in the previous uh 52. | |
| So it's just been it's been a total upper. | |
| I'm uh I'm in fact, in fact, uh Newsweek has a story, and it's amazing. | |
| It's uh it's straightforward and it's fair. | |
| If you haven't seen the Newsweek story, we've linked to it at uh at Rush Limbaugh.com. | |
| They have sent it. | |
| I don't know where they got them, but they got some details uh, for example, that I have not been able to discuss uh uh and and it's put forth in a very honest and and straightforward fashion. | |
| In fact, I also have to thank Newsweek for this. | |
| They they continue to uh refer to me as somebody who lives in a multiple million dollar mansion, it doesn't go out much. | |
| Uh and I I want to thank them for preserving that for me because I have successfully, uh ladies and gentlemen, cultivated uh an image of a uh boring hermit, uh, which allows me to party under the radar. | |
| And of course, Newsweek uh has again portrayed that image of me, which is extremely uh helpful. | |
| In fact, uh I'm gonna be the centerfold uh next month, just made the deal in uh in Hermit Weekly. | |
| Uh it's funny. | |
| But it's all ended up uh uh tremendously, folks. | |
| It's a it's a it's a victory, and uh and uh the whole thing is over. | |
| Uh the the um the amount of support that I have received throughout all of this from friends and family and the and the staff here is is something that I will uh I'll never forget. | |
| I will always be appreciative of it. | |
| Uh and it's it's been quite a learning experience in uh in so many ways, which I will now be a little bit uh more able and free to discuss since the uh since the case is over. | |
| It is essentially closed. | |
| There again, there was no arrest on Friday. | |
| We uh we worked very hard on Friday night turning that around. | |
| The uh I found out that was originally from the the A first AP story about this. | |
| Limbaugh arrested on drug fraud charge or some such thing. | |
| Uh we don't know where that came from, doesn't matter, but uh we were we were finally able to turn it around in later stories. | |
| But what happens something like this, the first wave of news is what most people hear and uh and what they remember. | |
| So I've been looking forward to today to uh put this whole arrest business in uh perspective and to assure you there's nothing new. | |
| In fact, this case uh is finally over. | |
| A brief time out will be come back uh uh coming back with all the rest of today's exciting program, another excursion into broadcast excellence continues right after this. | |
| All right, our buddies at the Associated Press have done it again, so let me let me I guess let me take a stab at this. | |
| Uh welcome back, folks. | |
| Rush Limbaugh, America's anchor man, America's truth detector, doctor of democracy, serving humanity and executing a signed host duties flawlessly. | |
| So here's a AP story, just cleared the wire because as I say, we uh just today filed the uh agreement myself, my attorneys and the state attorney's office, it's called a pretrial uh intervention or pretrial diversion agreement, sets out the terms of the 18 months. | |
| It is not probation. | |
| There is no reporting to anyone, it's nothing like that. | |
| It's just it's uh it it just requires that you know I don't uh uh break the law uh and this sort of thing. | |
| So the deal is pretty clear. | |
| It says what it says, and the AP's lead is Rush Limbaugh must submit to random drug test under an agreement filed Monday that will dismiss a prescription fraud charge against the conservative commentator after 18 months if he complies with the terms. | |
| Of all the things in the agreement, that is what the AP thinks is the news in this. | |
| Well, I have news for you. | |
| I have been undergoing random drug testing for two years and seven months. | |
| I never know when they're gonna happen. | |
| I have not failed one yet. | |
| Folks, I haven't even craved a pain pill since I got out of rehab. | |
| I uh it's it's I've not not even had a dream about one. | |
| Uh it's long ago. | |
| It's not even it's not even relevant uh in uh it doesn't even come up in my thinking or in my mind. | |
| The the random drug testing is is uh I gather this is what uh because AP leads with this. | |
| Uh the uh rest of the news is gonna consider that this is the news of the day, so I just wanted to let you know what the real news of the day is. | |
| Because in later in the AP story, this is the key. | |
| The agreement did not call for Limbaugh to admit guilt to the charge that he doctor shopped in 2003. | |
| I pleaded guilty not Friday, th uh not guilty on Friday. | |
| This agreement does not require that I admit anything, and so in the agreement I have not admitted guilt, and that's the news, not guilty, plea of not guilty, no admission of guilt. | |
| Uh let me just say this, folks. | |
| It's it's to all of you lawyers out there, and those of you that uh follow these these kinds of things. | |
| Just ask you a question. | |
| Let me ask you a question. | |
| Do you think that if there was any real evidence, we would have reached a settlement. | |
| After all of this, after all the leaks, they said they had ten ten counts of felony doctor shopping. | |
| They they they leaked that I was uh involved in a drug ring and uh involved in money laundering. | |
| In fact, Brian Ross, that was the lead story one night on the ABC uh world news tonight with Peter Jennings back, I think in November of uh of two thousand three. | |
| If if I just happen to think if there was I've maintained all along there isn't any doctor shopping, uh as has my lawyer, and if there was any evidence of it, uh I don't know that uh we would have been able to settle this as we have. | |
| Let me give you some details on the uh on the leukemia uh and lymphoma society uh Curathon on Saturday. | |
| Basically it is it's one point seven million dollars. | |
| This is less than three hours, folks, once every year. | |
| This puts us well over the total fifteen million uh mark in the in the fifteen years that we have been doing this. | |
| And of course it started in a in a much smaller way. | |
| It's really boomeranged here in the last five or ten. | |
| And the uh uh well a actually the last five years. | |
| But we do this on one day a year, and we we don't even go wall to wall with it. | |
| Uh sent one point seven million in less than three hours per year. | |
| Uh and again, that's all due to you. | |
| As I said Friday, you know, the uh when we do the Curathon, uh there's always uh other news going on, and we do not broom all the other news and go wall to wall with uh with fundraising. | |
| And you all still hang around, though. | |
| You hang around for it, and it was actually an uplifting day amidst all this doom and gloom news that we've been treated to for the last number of months or years, depending on how far back that you uh that you wish to go. | |
| So I uh you should be very, very proud of yourselves uh because we all are here. | |
| We love you. | |
| Uh as I say you are you are just the best. | |
| Uh all right, we've got some um some people who uh want to i i I asked at the beginning of the program, I haven't seen a whole lot of people marching. | |
| Oh, wait a minute, what are we looking at? | |
| Ah, that's Chicago. | |
| That okay, now I do see uh quite a few people, but they're not marching, they're gathering, they're standing around. | |
| Uh let's go to Santa Monica, California. | |
| Chris, you want to weigh in on this. | |
| Welcome to the program. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Hey, Rush. | |
| I I just wanted to say this is a great day. | |
| The illegals are not on the freeways in Los Angeles is notorious for bad traffic. | |
| I grew up to 405 intentionally at 9 a.m., which I normally don't do to get to get into my office. | |
| So I had a s I thought this freeways would be clear, and they are. | |
| Traffic is moving like the Saturday morning. | |
| It's unbelievable. | |
| I got to work in about eight minutes. | |
| And I think that I'll be able to do that. | |
| Well, wait, wait, wait, wait, if that's the case, we need another boycott tomorrow. | |
| And I know exactly what I'm saying. | |
| Now if they can use if they if they would say uh if they'd go back the cost of our housing would go down, go down a lot of the cost of a lot of other services would go down as well, and we would have a great, great place to live again. | |
| And the other thing is I think if I do a lot of my shopping, there are a lot of stores I go to buy socks and things like this, and I think the line the lines are normally out the door lawn with the with the certain clientele, and I'm uh I am gonna go there probably and shop today because those lines won't be as long, and I'll actually be able to communicate in uh English since my Spanish isn't very good. | |
| Well, you don't need to know it yet. | |
| Uh be patient. | |
| Um everything as far as speaking Spanish, you shouldn't uh shouldn't need to know it. | |
| I just you know it it will be interesting after today, and I'm not gonna make any predictions. | |
| Uh I could I go out on a limb. | |
| Uh but I th this essentially this is a strike. | |
| It's a boycott. | |
| And there are all kinds of people within this movement now a little worried about maybe the backlash, and there's some people worried that other elements are taking over this event, like answer, uh the anti-war crowd, the anti-war left, uh, and and uh Vicente Fox uh called some uh leaders down to Mexico said you guys better be really careful with this. | |
| This could backfire. | |
| I mean, this is uh we we we already have some strained relations with the United States government. | |
| We don't want to make it uh we don't want to make it make it worse. | |
| Um it will be interesting. | |
| Here we go again with all these admitted illegal aliens congregating in public, and we will see if the border patrol or ICE agents show up and uh take advantage of the opportunity of this massive surrender uh in a sense. | |
| But I just want to see at the end of the day, with all of this action, the strike and the boycott, and all we see just how much the economy is affected. | |
| There is, my guess is not going to be affected very much, and then people are going to start asking questions about that. | |
| Scratching their heads, because the whole point is, you know, a day without illegal immigrants is supposed to uh curse and and uh punish and harm the U.S. economy. | |
| We will um just have to wait and see if that actually uh actually happens. | |
| Uh all right. | |
| Well, we said audio sound bites today about all of this, uh the immigration uh boycott and all the hype that's going around it, the gasoline price rebate, uh, 100 dollars and the whole controversy over that. | |
| There's a lot on the plate here today, folks. | |
| So just sit tight and be patient and be cool, and we'll come back and get started with all the rest of it. | |
| Again, the phone number if you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882. | |
| Won't be long. | |
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| Again, an email address if you want to comment that way, rush at EIBNet.com. | |
| Well, a drive by media, uh, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| In fact, uh Mike, let's start with audio sound bites on um there we go, seven. | |
| Yeah, start with audio soundbite seven. | |
| We'll go in order from there. | |
| The drive-by media, uh, ladies and gentlemen, has discovered the high cost of driving by. | |
| Our crack journalists, our professional politicians have discovered that our nation has increasing energy needs. | |
| All of a sudden, we have increasing energy needs. | |
| The world has increasing energy needs, and the law of supply and demand is one law that uh nobody, including the illegal, uh, can bypass. | |
| We've had 30 years of neglect. | |
| Thirty years of neglect. | |
| No refineries. | |
| We're not allowed to drill for any new sources of oil domestically while Castro and China drills 75 miles away from Key West, and while the Mexicans just had a huge find in the Gulf of Mexico. | |
| But despite all this 30 years of neglect, all of a sudden everybody wants a 60 minute solution. | |
| You go to the Sunday shows, and you have all these experts, and you have all these politicians, when do we do about yes? | |
| What are we gonna do? | |
| What haven't we done in 30 years and why? | |
| What can they do? | |
| They ask us, what can we do today? | |
| What can we do? | |
| The liberals know what they can do today. | |
| It's simple. | |
| It's call a press conference in front of a gas station, attack the oil companies. | |
| That's what they do. | |
| Bring in the oil execs, bring them in, ream them out, rip them to shreds, point fingers at them, call them names. | |
| After all of that, you haven't produced a drop of new oil. | |
| Thirty years of neglect, they want a 60-minute solution. | |
| Do we really think that $1 a gallon gasoline or $2 a gallon gasoline is an entitlement? | |
| Our buddy Tim Russert meet the press yesterday did a full hour on the gasoline problem. | |
| And with all due respect, where was the full hour when Anwar was blocked eleven years ago? | |
| Where's the full hour of how we're gonna satisfy our growing energy needs when we don't produce any new energy? | |
| Why no examination of who it is that's standing in the way of that? | |
| Why don't we examine the past 30 years who has stood in the way of increasing supply, which would help bring down price? | |
| Where was that full hour of television when Mario the Pious famously buried a major nuclear plant in New York? | |
| Dick Durbin, Senator Turbin on the panel, his credentials. | |
| Well, he's a liberal, which means he's got the worst judgment you can show. | |
| Uh, and uh nevertheless at the same time think that you are more of an expert than you are. | |
| Let's go to the audio sound bites here. | |
| Um this is the uh Today Show today, Matt O'Hauer interviewing Pat Buchanan and uh quotes me because I was in the New York Times, and New York Times quoted me today from last Friday on these 100 gas rebates. | |
| You know, if you were if you were here last Friday, you will understand that I was after I've been thought thinking about this. | |
| Uh I got I got increasingly angry over this. | |
| The idea that they they just told us, and I know it's Senator Frist's idea. | |
| I know it's a Republican idea, which is why New York Times used it and why the Today Show picked it up. | |
| But I mean they think they can own us for a hundred bucks, folks. | |
| They can buy us for a hundred dollars. | |
| It's cheap. | |
| What must they think of us? | |
| Matt Wauer asks Pat Buchanan, gas prices. | |
| The President made suggestions. | |
| The Senate's looking into the big oil companies. | |
| There's uh there's all kinds of talk out there. | |
| And then Lauer says this. | |
| Let me read you what Rush Limbaugh had to say in this radio program about this. | |
| Instead of buying us off and threatening us like a bunch of he used the word whores, just solve the problem. | |
| Well, there's a lot of people got ideas it can in the long term. | |
| In the short term, Matt, the answer is no. | |
| Both parties are playing politics. | |
| What you're going to have to do clearly is you need new resources and supplies. | |
| You're going to have to drill off the California coast, up in Alaska, off the Florida coast, and you're going to have to go to nuclear power and these other things. | |
| But those are long-term solutions. | |
| In the short term, quite frankly, this problem is going to be solved by rising prices, which are going to force a lot of folks into mass transit. | |
| And meaning what he means by that is that's the only way to avoid the uh the rising prices is to not drive your car. | |
| But you know what? | |
| Those mass transit is run by fed uh state and local bureaucracies. | |
| And well, I know I'm I have that. | |
| I have that, I have that. | |
| But Buchanan is wrong, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| I I hate to be the one to break this to you, but uh uh when he says that there's nothing you can do in a short term, uh means wrong. | |
| Try this news out of Saudi Arabia. | |
| With gasoline prices at historic highs in the United States and some other Western countries, Saudi King Abdullah issued a decree yesterday lowering domestic gasoline prices by about 25 percent immediately. | |
| According to a government statement, the decrease was to reach 30 percent by the end of the year. | |
| The drop in prices means that Saudis will now be paying about the equivalent of sixty cents a gallon for gasoline. | |
| The price of super will drop to about seventy-six cents a gallon. | |
| Uh the statement said the king issued a decree to ease the cost of living burden on Saudi citizens. | |
| So you see, folks, it can be done. | |
| With leadership, we just go out there, we and we we just we tell every gas station in the country you're gonna drop prices by 25 percent, and then by 30 percent at the end of the year. | |
| There's leadership on this from the king of Saudi Arabia. | |
| Now it uh uh must also say they don't have uh a whole lot of shipping costs to deal with in uh Saudi Arabia. | |
| Uh it's it's all their product uh from out of the ground into your uh and into the into the tanks uh from the pump. | |
| But uh there you have it, it can be done by a decree from a king. | |
| Now uh we don't have a king, but but we have a lot of people who think he acts like one. | |
| And so um interesting to see that uh the king of Saudi Arabia coming to the rescue of his own population because of prices skyrocketing in the United States. | |
| And uh Milford, Connecticut, welcome to the EIB network, sir. | |
| Nice to have you with us. | |
| Good day, sir. | |
| Uh question about illegal immigration that I've been waiting to hear um spoken about is the big argument that I've heard for for the uh for the illegals to get citizenship is that we don't have anybody here that'll pick the lettuce for uh fifty cents an hour or work eight hours a day, correct? | |
| Well, that's actually been revised. | |
| Uh you know, the the theoretically, yes, you're right, but uh there's been a change in semantics here. | |
| Josh Bolton, in instead of saying jobs Americans won't do, is now change that to jobs Americans are not available for. | |
| All right. | |
| Well, I have a question. | |
| If they become American citizens, uh they are now uh able to work for minimum wage, correct? | |
| Yes, I know where you're going on. | |
| Yeah, but but you're you know but that's that's that's then that the unions will go out and the unions will find it. | |
| But see, where where you're you're failing to to understand one thing. | |
| Yeah, we've got whatever the number is. | |
| I mean, I don't need I don't know this 11 million number is accurate, just like the three million homeless uh for all those years in the eighties was not accurate. | |
| And even to the early nineties. | |
| But but we'll stick with it since that's the numbers being used. | |
| If uh a percentage over the years of those 11 million become citizens, they have to be replaced by illegals who will continue to pick the lettuce for fifty cents. | |
| Once the illegals get citizenship, get uh you know, join unions and uh get hired by rich rich liberals to work at grocery stores and so forth in high paying jobs, uh then uh the they'll have to be replaced. | |
| What we're being told uh uh essentially uh here, Ed, is that this country needs a permanent underclass to perform work at at uh at very low wages so the American people can continue to uh buy food and and other commodities uh at prices that they expect to always stay relatively the same uh relative to their income and and uh you know uh uh personal wealth. | |
| So I uh th there's and that's why the whole issue centers on what are we going to do to shore up the borders? | |
| It's one thing nobody's suggesting deportation eleven million people is not practical. | |
| But at some point, if you take the program here and legalize these people over a period of time, what are you gonna do about the border and shoring it up and stopping the problem so that you don't have to do this in twenty more years with another eleven or twelve million people? | |
| Well, what frustrates me is that's never discussed. | |
| Whenever I hear somebody come on the news and say, you can't pick lettuce, you won't pick lettuce. | |
| This argument is brought up, and like you said, it has been changed, but they they still bring it up. | |
| Why isn't someone firing out these simple questions that frustrate me? | |
| I would say, well, we're gonna have a constant influx of illegals constantly to pick the lettuce, because as they come in, they're gonna Because it's real simple, and it's all it's an election year and it's politics, and you've got the d you've got a lot of things going on in this dynamic. | |
| The U.S. economy, and I've got the numbers here. | |
| Let me just give you the headlines. | |
| Just today. | |
| Consumer spending rises as incomes grow. | |
| Data indicate U.S. economy doing well. | |
| Manufacturing performance robust in April. | |
| March construction spending climbs to record. | |
| Home building outlays spur greater than expected rise. | |
| Walmart sales, spending data lift stocks. | |
| Report shows better than forecast gains in income and spending. | |
| And then we have the stock market, which is about to set its all-time high. | |
| It's about 300 points shy of its all-time high. | |
| So what do you? | |
| We've got a growing economy. | |
| We've got people becoming more and more prosperous. | |
| That leaves a void where liberal Democrats are concerned, and that void is in victims. | |
| They need victims. | |
| They need helpless people with no future, as told to them by the Democrats. | |
| They need people they can put into various groups oppressed women, oppressed minorities, oppressed homosexuals, oppressed whoever, and blame it on the Republicans, and then create this ever-rising group of victims who then become entitlement cases. | |
| They become part of the welfare state that the Democrats want to continue to administer and basically make them wards of the state, not offer them any kind of future, tell them in fact they don't have a future. | |
| They live in America, and there's too much oppression, and there's racism and there's greed and there's bigotry and there's sexism and there's homophobia and there's environmental destruction. | |
| And you can't survive here without us. | |
| Without we have a shortage of victims. | |
| Because the U.S. economy is creating success stories. | |
| So bamboo, look to south of the border. | |
| Here comes an ever-increasing flow of victims. | |
| The unions are all excited about it because they're losing uh uh membership as a percentage of the workforce, and they're in big trouble with some of their existing contracts at places like General Motors and Delphi. | |
| Um Democrats are reaching out to the uh to the uh convicted felon vote. | |
| Uh Mrs. Clinton wants that that's that's their outreach. | |
| Illegal citizens, illegal aliens, and uh and felons, because they need victims. | |
| And that's why in an election you're not gonna hear any serious talk about shoring up the border. | |
| Uh not only do they need victims, they need voters. | |
| And creating victims, they think leads to loyal voters. | |
| Quick time out, back with more right after this. | |
| Back to the phones we go. | |
| This is uh Aaron in uh Los Angeles cell phone call. | |
| Welcome to the program. | |
| Uh, thank you, Rush. | |
| Um I, for one, uh am happy for the boycott. | |
| I'm enjoying uh less traffic. | |
| Um I am spending the day in LA uh doing roof inspections, traveling the entire Southern California area. | |
| Um and I just wish that the uh protesters would take it one step further and boycott our emergency rooms uh and the uh crime scenes uh and all the government services they take advantage of and just basically you know show the rest of America, you know, the impact that they truly have. | |
| Yeah, well, as I said Friday when uh when people call to discuss this, there's also an added benefit today, and that is you have uh with all these people pri striking and protesting and marching or whatever, you got a lot fewer uninsured motorists out there uh when you're driving around, and that can end up being uh if you have an accident, uh quite Ironic is the the irony of that is uh I got a call from a friend of mine yesterday who got into an accident yesterday by uh obviously an illegal alien who couldn't speak English and was uninsured. | |
| So I just brought the point home just you know, just one more example. | |
| Exactly right. | |
| All right, thanks. | |
| Uh thanks for the call out there, Aaron. | |
| Appreciate it. | |
| Eric uh in the middle of Illinois. | |
| Welcome to the program. | |
| Hi, Rush. | |
| Great to talk to you. | |
| I've uh been listening to you since I was a small child. | |
| Thank you, sir. | |
| Um I have a uh a suggestion for the GOP. | |
| Um, with the Democratic Party uh reaching out to all these illegal immigrants, I think this would be an excellent opportunity for the GOP to reach out to the labor unions uh and get a lot of the labor union votes since uh it seems that the Republicans are on the side of American workers in this thing, and so are they? | |
| Actually, I think I think I think the GOP has more labor and labor union votes and voters than anybody really knows. | |
| It's they what they don't get is labor union money. | |
| Uh I think there are plenty of labor people vote Republican, but their dues go to support the campaigns of Democrats. | |
| Uh the the Republicans are struggling with this uh themselves. | |
| I mean, they're they're trying to figure out a way not to offend any of these people because they they're they're hoping to get some of these votes as well. | |
| I mean, it's it's really it's sort of maddening to watch all this. | |
| I mean, the there's why do we want to try to out democrat democrats? | |
| I just do not understand it. | |
| Why do we think that we need to get into a competition for votes by by by saying that uh well we we're gonna think the same thing of you and so forth? | |
| This is you know, uh conservatism works every time it's tried, and when it's explained properly and when it is a principled presentation, but of course the people that campaign on such principles uh have to then govern by them once they're elected, and it seems that uh that is incredibly uh and increasingly hard to do for some Republicans in uh in Washington. | |
| It's like this this hundred dollar rebate. | |
| One more thing about it. | |
| You know, that Jim Tallant, who's a senator for my uh home state of Missouri, uh, I guess on Fox and Friends today, and he was advocating for this, this this hundred dollar rebate. | |
| And by the way, here's the the I didn't know this until today. | |
| This hundred bucks is to uh uh sort of uh equal a cut in federal gasoline taxes. | |
| They have come up with a calculation, basically they've grabbed a number out of thin air. | |
| They've they've taken the tax per gallon, they've multiplied what they the average number of gallons that uh that people are going to buy between now and the end of the summer, and then try to come up with a number to equal uh a rebate of a hundred bucks, which would be the equivalent of you paying no federal gasoline tax during this period. | |
| And so Jim Tallant's on there, and he's saying, ah, this is a this is a pretty good idea, because the amendment that contains this proposal also allows for um uh drilling for oil in and war, which if we ever do this, uh we'll get 1.3 million barrels a day. | |
| Nobody's ever said it's gonna make us independent of uh uh foreign sources or any of that. | |
| But one point three million barrels a day is about what Texas produces. | |
| It would have to have a profound effect on the uh overall supply. | |
| Uh but the question comes down to this. | |
| Is it enough of an exciting thing? | |
| See, this is Republicans trying to be Democrats. | |
| Okay, we'll we'll we'll we'll try to get Democrats to vote with us on Anwar by giving away a hundred bucks to certain motorists. | |
| Now, will the Democrats be enticed by this? | |
| Will the Democrats say, ooh, yeah, hundred bucks? | |
| Republican idea, we get credit for it, but we have to vote for an war. | |
| Now frankly, I don't see the Democrats selling out for that little. | |
| I just don't see. | |
| I think the Democrats would demand a rebate of far more than a hundred bucks to vote for Anwar. | |
| But I don't see them voting for Anwar anyway. | |
| They're probably going to put the kibosh or the brakes on this, as they have each and every time that it comes up. | |
| Back after this. | |
| I'll tell you, protests are going crazy. | |
| We're protesting Darfer uh in Sasudan. | |
| We're protesting the war in Iraq on Sunday, and now we've got this. | |
| School children in Carpentersville, Illinois are rallying. | |
| I got pictures of these little kids at protesting, demanding the return of recess. | |
| I kid you not. | |
| Well we will have details coming up as the program continues. | |
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