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May 2, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 2, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Well, there are elections going on in parts of the country today.
As you know, there's a big primary election in Durham, North Carolina.
The district attorney there, Mike Nyfong, up for re-election.
He's running in the primary today to try to get a nomination to run for another term in November.
And Slate.com, no conservative rag here, has a really devastating piece on this guy.
I have some pull quotes from this.
Duke and cover.
When election time politics overtake the pursuit of justice.
And here's one of the more profound pull quotes here.
Mike Nyphong has exposed a reality of the criminal justice system that can often escape our attention.
Prosecutors captivated by the beneficial glare of the media spotlight are often ready to ignore convincing evidence of innocence in the politically motivated pursuit of criminal defendants.
And they focus exclusively on what's going on at Duke and down in Norham, Durham, North Carolina.
Nyfuong granted somewhere around 70 media interviews, appeared at a violence against women rally at a local black college.
It doesn't take much more than these facts to conclude that as a prosecutor, Nyphong was exploiting a sensational case, not just to bring about justice in a specific dispute, but also in an attempt to spread the news of his tough-on crime ways with the voting public.
Prosecutors tend to be a cautious lot, particularly about public announcements concerning an unresolved case.
With their enormous power to charge and jail people, they tend to let their actions speak for them, and rightly so.
Although prosecutors in pursuit of the votes necessary to retain their jobs regularly stretch and occasionally flout some ethical dictates, the fact that Nyfuong's 70 interviews and his public endorsement of the strippers' claims of rape haven't seemed to generate either a formal ethical complaint or an official investigation into his conduct may suggest just how widely accepted the practice of writing public condemnation of criminal defendants to electoral victories has now become.
I'll tell you who else I think about when I read this is Ronnie Earle in Travis County, Texas.
Now, who wrote this a slate?
This is by David Fage, F-E-I-G-E.
I think maybe he had some.
Yes, David Fage.
As Nifwong, I'm just giving you excerpts here.
As Nyfwong's case began to collapse, having publicly dug himself in, the DA did what electoral victories seemed to demand.
Bush-like, he not only stayed the course, but actually ratcheted up the pressure on the players.
First, he executed seemingly frivolous search warrants, and then in the most egregious ethical lapse of the case, he dispatched cops to the dorms where the lacrosse players lived in an attempt to procure statements from them.
And of course, he sought and secured indictments against two players, charging each with rape and kidnapping.
And then the author says, after all that, in a move reminiscent of Rudy Giuliani, he refused to let the defendants voluntarily surrender, insisting instead on an arrest with no legal purpose beyond more tough guy posturing and obvious perp walk photo ops.
And that all happened at, what was it, 4.30 or 5 o'clock in the morning when that happened.
Mike Nyphuong, this is a closing comment.
Mike Nyphong has exposed a reality of the criminal justice system that can often escape our attention.
Prosecutors, captivated by the beneficial glare of the media spotlight, are often ready to ignore convincing evidence of innocence and the politically motivated pursuit of criminal defendants.
The Durham DA's actions raise the question of whether prosecutors really are willing to win elections at the cost of wrongful prosecution.
Sadly, for Durham and Duke and for all of us, the answer in the Nyfuong case seems to be yes.
Now, I don't want anybody to get the wrong idea here.
I share this with you only because this case is percolating, and you've got a town down there that's a powder keg right now.
And if you talk to people that are there or have friends who live there, you will learn just how high the tensions are.
Because you've got the template here that the mainstream media, the drive-by media loves, racial clashes, cultural clashes.
The nature of the evidence is irrelevant to the drive-by media because this is a great story.
And you've got Malik Zulu-Shibazan down there with the new Black Panther Party marching decked out as a bunch of green berets in all black.
They're not armed.
They sometimes go to their protests armed, but they're making their lists of demands and so forth.
And you couple all that with an election.
And you think about Ronnie Earle and his pursuit of Tom DeLay.
You have much the same thing, politically oriented.
Now, in this case, Ny Fong is not trying to destroy these defendants for their political characteristics.
And in the DeLay case, I think clearly what you have there is the attempt to criminalize political differences from one party to the next.
And as Delay said on this program, the dumbest thing the Republicans in the House ever did was let the Democrats write the rules on who leaders of the Republican side can be.
And, you know, that takes us right back to Shelby Steele's column in a way, because the Republicans have this rule, but the Democrats don't.
And the rule is that if you are in the leadership and you're indicted, you have to step down from the leadership position.
And why did they put that in there?
They put that in there to try to appease the Democrats.
They put that in there to try to show the Democrats, we'll play fair, we'll share our power, we will, you know, we'll do what you want.
Please like us.
Please like.
And so all they had to do was finally convince Ronnie, he'll go out and find some grand jury anywhere and indict this ham sandwich delay and it'll get him out of the leadership.
And then we can go along with our culture of corruption.
And of course, Ronnie Earle complied with it and went right along.
All for a rule that the Republicans put in on just inviting this, knowing full well who the Democrats in Washington are and what they're capable of.
And yet, some sense of guilt.
Maybe the Republicans are guilty they won.
Maybe the Republicans are guilty they have power.
Maybe the Republicans are guilty over the who knows what it is.
But why in the world you would hamstring yourself with such a rule when the other side doesn't have the same rule is beyond me.
Elsewhere in election news, in Ohio, you know, there's a primary going on in Ohio today, and two interesting stories about that from Cleveland.
A 61-year-old man was arrested after an alleged poll rage incident, according to Cleveland's News Channel 5.
Officials said the man was arrested after breaking a voting machine.
He faces disorderly conduct, obstructing official business, and resisting arrest charges.
It took several people to restrain this guy who was trying to vote at 4330 Jennings Road.
It's unclear what caused the man to become upset at the machine, but he took poll rage.
We got a new term here, poll rage.
Guy just busted up a voting machine.
Now, it's easy to speculate about this, but I won't.
I will wait.
I will wait.
Mr. Snerdley, I'm going to write down, put it in an envelope for you what I think actually happened here.
And we find out if this story continues to be covered.
And if we can find out why this guy elsewhere did what he did, we will open my envelope and we'll see if I'm right.
Will you participate with me in this?
Because it'd be easy, folks, to sit here and say, I know what this is all about.
And then after we learn it, I can say, yep, that's exactly what I thought it was.
I want to have proof for you that I made my wild guess before we actually had news of it.
And a Mason-Dixon poll reported on the Senate race in Ohio featuring the incumbent Mike DeWine, the Republican, and his Democratic challenger, the Congressman Sherrod Brown.
DeWine leads Brown by 11 points in the Mason-Dixon poll.
Now, Mason-Dixon analysts say that this is not a sizable margin.
It's not.
It is significant that the well-financed DeWine is ahead by double digits.
Not sizable, but it's significant that it's double digits.
Whatever.
If DeWine portrays Sherrod Brown for the extremist left-wing liberal that he is, DeWine could win by a significant margin.
And if he does that, he might pull vulnerable Republican House incumbents across the line with him.
So already heating up in Ohio as the Democrats make plans to impeach George W. Bush and begin with their subpoena power to investigate the corruption of this White House after they win the House in the November elections.
And underage drinking is worth nearly $23 billion a year to the booze industry, or about 17.5% of all money spent on booze in the U.S. annually.
This, according to researchers from New York's Columbia University, abusive drinking by both underage people and adults may account for nearly half of all the money spent on alcohol every year.
Do you see where this is going, ladies and gentlemen?
Here is Susan Foster of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia.
She said, What we see here is that there is a large conflict of interest for the alcohol industry between profitability and public health.
All right, so big adult beverage.
You're next.
You are next.
Just it was big pharmaceutical, big tobacco, big food, big oil.
You are next.
If we have the same pattern followed, attorneys general in several states will file suit against all these horrible things caused by big adult beverage, and we'll have this massive, massive settlement.
Now, I think the big adult beverage clowns, they've got a much better lobbying apparatus than big tobacco has.
And I don't think there's transcripts or videotapes, records of big adult beverage execs going before Congress and lying about the effects of their product as they claim the big tobacco executives did.
In this, a dozen nieces and nephews of civil rights icon Rosa Parks have filed an objection to her will in hopes of gaining control of the use of her name and her image.
The family members who have been feuding for years with the people Parks appointed to handle her affairs filed a legal challenge last Friday.
Frederick Toka Jr., attorney for the family members, said we were still very open to talk settlement in this case, if for no other reason than both sides have a deep respect for Ms. Parks.
May I interject here?
If they truly do have a deep respect for Ms. Parks, I think they'd honor her choices and wishes and not be involved in this.
And we are back.
El Rushboard, EIB Network, Indianapolis.
And Adam, welcome.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey, Rush, Megadittos.
Been listening to you since I was a teenager.
Thank you, sir.
Needed you to explain something for me here.
How are the left able to get by with justifying this program of amnesty and basically stealing our social resources simply because the illegals want to come over and make a better life for their families with the opportunities that the U.S. provides, but at the same time, every day they attack our system of capitalism that provides that very opportunity.
Well, no, no, no, you're taking this one step too far.
They're not worried about the hypocrisy because they know that nobody's going to point it out in their favorite place to drive by media.
You have to look at the overriding concern for the Democrats here is these are potential future voters.
And that's all that matters.
I mean, if they get caught accidentally promoting capitalism as a way to improve these oppressed people's lives, eh, they'll deal with that later.
They'll call you an idiot for thinking that at some point.
Of course, you're right on the money.
We can spend all day pointing out the hypocrisy of Democrats and the left.
But if you understand what's behind it, in this case, they're cultivating voters.
There's a voter outreach.
They're recruiting in these marches.
They're printing pamphlets up.
They're running out recruiting voters all over the place.
And by the way, they can even score points and make headway with these people by ripping the capitalist system of this country by claiming and telling them you are in your predicament because evil Republicans don't want you to have the opportunity that exists in this country.
They're going to keep you down and keep you illegal and keep you this and keep you that.
We want you on our team.
So they've even got a way around that if they bother to take time to explain it.
But your question, right on the money.
Tommy in Chicago, you're next.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Rush, first of all, I want to thank you for taking my call.
Second of all, I think you left out the DA's name, who was fooling around with you.
I think these people are absolutely absurd.
Now, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on.
Just a second.
Tommy, I'm glad you brought this up because when reading the Ny Fuang piece, and I'm not going to take away from the rest of your call time here, but reading the Nyphong piece, I don't want anybody to infer that there was anything other than the stuff about Nyphon.
I was just reading what somebody else wrote there.
It was in Slate magazine.
I was treated in the end of this in a far more fair way than Ny Fuang or Ronnie Earle is dealing with their cases.
There was no perp walk.
We came to an agreed settlement in my case.
Everything's fine.
Both sides think this is the best way to end this in my case.
The state attorney's office and me think this is the best way to go with this.
And I've got no criticism of them on the way this was handled or went down.
Don't infer anything from that, please.
No problem, Rush.
But Rush, you know what?
I want to say this to you.
You were talking about white guilt.
And I think this is a perfect opportunity for white people to come to a simple conclusion.
What we're dealing with now with this immigration is not about racism.
It is not about whites against Mexicans or anything.
This is about a legal issue.
And the bigger issue on all of this is, Rush, is that when you follow the money trail, you remove the illegals, and then you'll start finding out that it's Republicans and Democrats who have prospered from all of this nonsense, which is why they're simply telling us to give passes or workers' visas because we can't get 12 million people out of our country.
Well, I would like to remind everybody that there were some individuals that were threw down in cargo holes that didn't ask to come here to this country.
There were individuals who marched down the street that only asked to be Americans.
And nothing ever happened with those individuals that beat them.
Nothing ever happened with those individuals who actually killed marches, who was just in a simple, a peaceful march.
But here's my bigger point, Rush.
My bigger point is simply this.
This is a great opportunity to wipe out guilt.
There are things wrong in this country.
But I'm a black man living in the greatest country on the face of the earth.
I once rode in an automobile with some friends, and I didn't know that they were going to rob a store, and they did.
And from doing that, 30 years I've carried in my life the fact that I cannot work for the city.
I cannot work for the state.
I cannot work for the government.
There is no amnity.
I cannot vote.
And for any politician to sit up and tell me some crap about, well, these people here are only trying to better their economic condition.
I wasn't trying to rob anything.
I was just out joyriding.
And I say to America that this is an opportunity for all of us to stand together as white, blacks, Hispanics.
I don't care where you come from.
If you come to this country legally, it is an opportunity for us to stand up and say, enough is enough.
And if we are called racist simply because we're dealing with the issue of legal and illegal, I leave you with this, Rush.
I dedicated my life to finding individuals who were like me, who just made a mistake, who society said on an application that have you ever been convicted?
And they hold their heads down and they go back into this stuff because they don't think they can make it.
Well, I was one of those people that worked for restaurants.
I was one of those people that worked in the hotels.
I was one of those people that cut grass.
I was one of those people that did anything I possibly could legally, Rush, that I could get ahead.
And now I own my own business in the greatest country on the face of America.
And I say to all Americans, let's stand up because all that happens is that when good people stand by and watch this stuff that's going on, attacks on people like you, attacks on the president, attack on our military, it is a shameful act for a politician to stand up and say, I will pay you $50 an hour to go and pick cabbage for a season.
Not for one day, but for a season.
But yet it didn't happen.
God bless you, Russ.
Tommy, that was powerful.
That was really, really powerful.
He has identified, by the way, I would disagree with you on one thing.
The guilt of racism is causing us to hamstring ourselves on this immigration debate.
But listen to what he was joyriding, got convicted.
He didn't participate.
And he can't do a lot of things in this country now.
And yet, others' illegality is swept under the rug.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have here on the one and only Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
You people may have heard about this story, but a bunch of SEALs are flummoxing the Army Corps of Engineers and a bunch of environmentalist wackos and animal rights types.
A particularly crafty sea lion is befuddling the Army Corps of Engineers who have come to believe that the 1,000-pound mammal is either from hell or from Harvard.
The sea lion and his ilk have been camping out at the base of the Bonneville Dam and munching salmon who are trying to migrate up the Columbia River to spawn.
Last year, they ate about 3.5% of the migrating salmon at a time when salmon numbers were down and demand was up.
This year's run began in earnest in April.
One particular sea lion named C404 because of a brand applied by a state and federal programs in a class by himself.
He's figured out how to get into fish ladders that help fish past the dam, where the endangered salmon and other fish become his easy prey.
The engineers have used everything legal to get rid of him.
They've installed gates.
They tried huge firecrackers, rockets, rubber bullets, and noises that sea lions don't like.
But C404 has given them the flipper.
The California sea lion and his kind are not endangered, but a 1972 law protects them.
Incorrigibles, however, can be singled out for lethal removal through a long, complicated process, said Robert Stanzell, a fish biologist with the Corps at Bonneville, about 40 miles east of Portland.
All right, now, I want to take you back to a period of time in this program years ago.
This happened in the late 80s or maybe early 90s.
The drive-by media all vexed over dolphins that were getting caught in the tuna nets.
Remember, we even came up with a little parody, dolphin-free tuna.
And the environmentalists and the animal rights were demanding that dolphin-free tuna only be available because these giant nets were being let out there and they were catching a bunch of little flippers and little chunks of flipper to show up in the cans of tuna.
And, you know, at the time, everybody's worried about what's happening to the dolphins.
I asked a very simple question.
What about the tuna?
I mean, yeah, we make an occasional dolphin may end up in a net, but look at all the tuna that we're wiping out.
Nobody cares about the tuna.
Well, now here we've got the same situation.
And by the way, it's news to me that salmon are endangered.
That is news to me.
Salmon's all over.
You've got certain salmon you can't fish for during certain times of the year, but this has gotten a little bit out of hand.
This doesn't surprise me.
I've been salmon fishing one time.
But it's where I met the Hutch.
Went with the Hutch and Paul Westfall and Howard Slusher.
We went up Vancouver Island up in Canada.
And we're out there fishing, and I'm trying to reel in my second salmon of the day.
And the idiot boat operator was having trouble positioning the boat so I could reel a salmon in.
And we got real close a couple times, but the salmon escaped his net, his clutches.
And then the salmon started running, had to let the line out a little bit.
And all of a sudden, where we're just about to nail this salmon and bring it aboard because I've caught the thing, out of nowhere pops up this giant sea lion, and just in one bite, that salmon is gone.
And the sea lion had just been out there, lazy bum, making us do all the work, catch his dinner for him, and at the appropriate time pops up, chomp down, and there goes my salmon.
So this doesn't surprise you.
These things are smart.
But now we can't do anything about it because these sea lions are outsmarting the engineers.
They're not outsmarting the engineers.
We can't do anything to them because they're protected even though they're not endangered.
When we start trying to manage nature, we just, we make so many mistakes and messes.
It's just breathtaking to behold.
This sea lion apparently is immune to any action taken against it.
Rubber bullets, bad music.
I wonder, Speaking of bad music, didn't the United States get a little grief for playing rock and roll music at Abu Grab?
What was the artist we were playing at either Club Gitmo or Abu Grab to irritate them and got everybody upset?
If it upsets a terrorist, it would certainly upset maybe it was a Dixie chicks.
We ought to play the Dixie chicks and just scream them real loud.
We tried this with Manuel Noriega when he was down there holed up in Panama.
We started playing loud rock and roll music, trying to irritate him when he was inside some building.
Peggy, Sun City Center, Florida, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
How do you do, sir?
I'm fine.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I need your adult beverage.
I'm mad.
I'm livid.
A year ago, I wouldn't have been.
Today, I'm furious.
I got totally unsolicited today, a telephone yellow page directory all in Spanish at my front door.
A year ago, I wouldn't have thought anything of it.
Do you speak Spanish?
Absolutely not.
I wonder how this happened.
I speak English, American.
But just in the last week or so, with all this stuff about the illegals and shutting down the economy and changing the words to the national anthem, and now they want me to have a yellow pages in Spanish.
All right.
The Jump the Shark moment has occurred.
Everybody has their tipping point, and yours has been reached.
Oh, I'm not sure.
A year ago, you wouldn't have cared.
You didn't care about any of this.
But now you get this phone book coupled with all this stuff going on, and you finally, your consciousness has been raised.
You bet.
I've had it.
I'm absolutely livid.
I've had it.
It's got to stop.
I have to tell you, when you go to any DMV to get your driver's license, go to any government bureaucracy for any reason at all, you'll see.
I've got to admit, it's always bothered me that I have to go and I have to read it, but if I speak Spanish, someone else reads it to me so I can take the test.
I've seen that happen.
No, but I mean, they've got signage that's posted in Spanish in all these places.
Well, sometimes they can't read.
Yeah, but you've still seen it.
Whether they can read it or not, you're still seen.
So what was it about the phone book, the yellow pages in Spanish?
I think I heard someone play the national anthem this morning in the Spanish version, and they told us what they were saying.
And that just, I wanted to pull my hair out, and then this showed up.
There's a last straw.
There's just a last straw.
And this is it.
See, I totally understand.
Everybody has their breaking.
It was Metallica, but it was Metallica we were playing for Al-Qaeda Terrorists at their Club Gitmo.
Oh, well, good.
Play Metallica for these clown seals.
I thank you for letting me scream and yell.
Pardon?
I thank you for letting me scream and yell.
All right.
That's fine with me, Gringo.
And I really could care less whether they speak Spanish or English.
It's just too much has happened right here, and I've just had it with all of it.
It's got to stop.
Tell me some words.
I'm sorry, this isn't Mexico.
And there's a whole, whole, huge section in this phone book with all the Spanish-speaking consulates.
A huge section of it, starting with, what's the first in the alphabet?
Wait a minute.
How do you know what?
Wait a minute.
How do you know if you can't read Spanish?
Well, I can see Venezuela.
You know, I can read that.
That's pretty much the same in English or Spanish.
But it starts out with Colombia and goes all the way to Venezuela.
No, it starts out with Argentina.
And that is, you know, they pretty much, most of them are spelled similar.
Yeah, okay.
But it just, and there's a whole section on services and how to get them because I can tell, just in English, you can tell enough to know what they're talking about.
Yes, yes.
IRM.
I think what's happening to you is happening all over the country to people and has been for a while.
You're one of the late arrivals.
But everybody has the breaking point on this.
And in Peggy's case, it's Yellow Pages phone book all in Spanish.
Peggy, are you still there?
I've got to ask you a question.
Yes, sir.
Where is Sun City Center?
It is in Hillsborough County.
Oh, south of Tampa?
Just south of Tampa.
Great place.
Oh, I'm sure.
No state income tax there either.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, thanks for the call.
It's great to talk to you.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
George in South Windsor, Connecticut.
You're next.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush.
I mean, it's clear what the liberals are doing here.
I mean, the number one minority group used to be the African Americans.
Now they're being surpassed by the Hispanics.
The Liberals kept the African Americans dependent.
Now they're just making the Hispanics dependent and locking up that voter bloc.
I can't believe.
Even to the point of referring this as the next civil rights movement.
Absolutely.
Well, there's no question you're right about this.
By the way, you remind me.
I want to go back to something Tommy from Chicago said.
And he was right, but he was right in the sense, but it's not the reality.
He said that the immigration issue in this country has nothing to do with racism.
And it does in the sense that it was racism and slavery that provides the foundation of guilt that people have over the people of color or people who are in minority status or people who are lower socioeconomic circumstances.
Oh, who are we to tell these people they can't seek a better life in our country?
Why we to kick them out?
Well, we would be bad people if we did that.
I don't care about our laws.
We must do the morally right thing.
So whether it, I know it's not a racial issue, but the foundation for the stigmatization of how we would think of ourselves, and I'm talking about the people who don't want to get tough on the illegal side of immigration, because they would just feel bad about themselves.
They're overcome with the stigma.
For them, this is a great example, great opportunity to show just how imperialistic the United States is and just how arrogant and just how condescending and how uncaring and how we lack compassion because we have all these people from oppressed countries and we want to keep them out and keep them poor, blah, blah.
And it dovetails very nicely with the standard Democrat template in describing Republicans on this, which is one of the reasons they gravitate to it so automatically.
Let me check the Dow.
Okay, Dow Jones' industrial average is up 65 points.
It was up as high as 76 about 20 minutes ago.
And I mentioned that because here we have a story in Bloomberg today, the Bloomberg Newswire.
U.S. productivity springs surprise growth.
We had all these economic stories yesterday, which all said confounding the experts, blah, Makers of goods from Campbell's soups to the springs in Harley-Davidson motorcycles are keeping a resurgence in U.S. productivity going longer than most economists thought possible.
For the past five, it's because they're doom and gloomers.
Most economists' careers are based on predicting doom so they can be, and they're going to eventually be right at some point.
We are going to have slowdowns.
And it makes more news when you predict hell in a handbasket than if you predict rosy times.
For the past five years, productivity, which is a measure of employee efficiency, raced ahead at an annual rate of 3.3%.
That's almost double the rate of the previous quarter century, 25 years, for those of you in Rio Linda.
Based on past economic expansions, that trend should be about played out by now as companies run out of the ways to wring more output from their workforces, but not this time.
Instead, after falling for the first time in five years at the end of 2005, productivity came roaring back in the first quarter, according to economists.
And they expect a Labor Department report this week to show just that.
And the pace may last another 10 years.
This productivity pace may last another 10 years.
According to research published in April by Harvard University economist Dale Jorgensen, Merrill Lynch chief economist David Rosenberg said bizarre is not a strong enough word.
We have never seen productivity growth this strong-headed into the fifth year of a business expansion.
The efficiency gains are allowing U.S. industry to produce and export record volumes of goods, even with spare factory capacity at a five-year low and the smallest workforce since 51.
Well, that manufacturing that we're talking about here produce and export record volumes of goods may last for 10 years.
Makes perfect sense to me.
We're running out of victims for the Democrats to cultivate here.
Worker productivity is up.
We know that unemployment is down at a near record low level.
Core inflation not yet skyrocketing.
Signs are good.
Of course, Nancy Pelosi will reply to this or react to it, and she'll say something.
Well, that doesn't cover most of Americans.
That is faint hope for a majority of Americans who are being punished by the Bush economic policies.
And here's an accompanying story from Investors Business Daily.
Is Mexico writing the tales of an expanding U.S.?
Since we're Mexico's largest trading partner, of course, they're benefiting from our strong economy, said Martin Schultz, the director of international equities at Legion Asset Management.
Mexico is also doing quite well in its own right.
They've instituted economic reforms and overcome huge debt problems.
So we're bringing the economy along.
But that's right, there is a new threat out there, folks.
Despite all this good news, don't believe it.
It's time to go cower in the corners in total fear.
The new threat is the dollar, supposedly going down.
Could stay down for years to come.
The value of the dollar in the currency exchange markets.
George in Indianapolis, hello, sir.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hello, Rush.
What an honor and a privilege to talk with you.
Thank you, sir.
I just wanted to bring maybe another point of view to this discussion about the white power article.
And first of all, just want to say, what a great article.
I got into a discussion at a college class.
It was a human factors class, and somehow we got off talking about power.
And I could tell right away the negative connotations that the conversation was carrying towards power, and I didn't understand why.
But now, after having heard the discussion about this piece and hearing the piece, my gosh, it just makes so much more sense to me.
Well, yeah, I mean, all kinds of lights go off when you really get into the Shelby Steele piece.
Again, it was the focus of the first hour of the program today, and we have linked to it at the top of rushlimbaugh.com.
It's up there now.
And if you go get it, read the whole thing, folks.
Don't stop halfway through.
There are parts of it that get placed into context later on that you could misunderstand and maybe get angry about.
Because when you read about white power, white supremacy, this is not a racial criticism or comment.
He's making a social, cultural, political analysis and observation.
It is a great, great piece.
And like it did here with George, it'll just turn on all kinds of lights and explain so much of the left to you.
It's a truly valuable piece.
Got to run a quick timeout.
We'll be back and wrap it up in just a sec.
Hi, we're back.
I don't have time to take the call, but I think I can summarize it.
It's Tom from South Holland, Michigan.
Tom, pardon me, I don't want to burden you with having to say what you want to say in such a short period of time.
But he has a friend who is a Hispanic businessman.
And this friend is upset that politicians in this country are making non-assimilation easy.
Because this is, it's become, I know what he's saying.
It's not about immigration, really, at all.
And we're making non-assimilation easy because the politicians don't have the guts to deal with this.
His friend employs Spanish-speaking people has sent them to English class and they quit it.
They refuse to finish it.
So you do have some people out there concerned about this.
I'm telling you, the jump the shark moment has been reached.
There's a backlash occurring.
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