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May 11, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 11, 2006, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Welcome to our community forum.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
And today we are going to, well, get into it because, of course, there's all kinds of pending news.
First of all, I feel like it's 1938, if you know what I'm saying about the Iranian situation.
The NSA is charged with collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans.
We'll find out what that's about, get your reaction to it as well.
But first, I got to tell you, we're, of course, coming at you from the studios of KO Geo Radio in San Diego.
And we have, I gotta, every once in a while, I just have to, I have the feeling that the rest of the country doesn't really realize what's happening in California, what's going on in the former golden state.
Wow.
I got back from vacation last week.
And just like when Rush is out, it all hits the fan.
When I'm out, it all hits the fan here in San Diego in Southern California.
A federal judge, while I was gone, a federal judge ordered the removal, the destruction of a cross on top of Mount Soledad in La Jolla here in San Diego that has been there since 1954, that was erected by the community and particularly Korean war veterans to commemorate those who gave their life for this nation in the Korean War.
It has since been expanded to honor all veterans, living and dead.
And around the base of the cross now are concentric circles of concrete covered with granite plaques placed by grateful families commemorating their veteran, their loved one who served in the armed forces of this country.
My father has one there, he is a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge, and I'm very proud of that and very proud of him.
I'm not proud to be living in a state and in a city where a federal judge believes it's constitutional to tear down a cross.
It, to me, looks more like, feels more like the Taliban.
Remember the Taliban in Afghanistan?
They blew up that 1,300-year-old Buddha that had been carved into the side of a mountain because it was somehow a desecration of Islam.
Of course, that kind of intolerance was condemned everywhere.
That kind of obvious bias, that kind of obvious barbarianism was condemned everywhere.
And yet, here, right here in California, right here in San Diego, a federal judge says, tear it down.
Tear down a cross.
Well, my listeners out here, just to tell you what's going on, is we have appealed to President Bush because the Congress actually designated this war memorial as a national war memorial last year.
And then the city council refused to give the land over.
We went out and got signatures, put it on the ballot.
76% of voters voted yes, transfer the land to the Fed so it can be incorporated into the national war memorial system, in the park system.
And still it hasn't happened.
And now a federal judge says tear it down.
We are, if needs be, I mean, if hundreds of thousands of people illegally in this country can turn out to demand their quote rights, unquote, I don't see why we can't turn out to demand that the cross stay where it is as it is.
So just to tell you that the battles out here in California, maybe make what you're going through in your community seem a little better.
We're up against it out here.
Here's another one, another judge.
These judges are totally out of control.
Here's another judge, Robert Friedman, Alameda County in San Francisco Bay Area Superior Court, who is buying the argument that a high school exit exam is unfair.
It's unfair if you get to the 12th grade and you cannot pass an exit exam which is geared to English and math at the seventh and eighth grade level.
Imagine that.
We're having the temerity to actually ask graduating high school seniors, not if they've mastered high school English or math.
No, no, no, no.
Only if they've mastered by the time they've reached the 12th grade, if they've mastered eighth grade English and math.
This apparently is unfair.
It's unfair to withhold the graduation certificate from students who cannot master the eighth grade.
Do you know what's happening in California's universities, the vaunted University of California, the state university system?
What's happening here is that while those systems typically take one-third or the top quarter or the top 15% of graduating high school seniors into their beloved campuses, do you know that more than half of those at the top end of their graduating class here in the K-12 system in California, more than half of those have to go into remedial English and math because they're not capable of stepping up even to the dumbed-down college courses, quote unquote.
It's a catastrophe.
And now it's unfair to even ask.
Wow.
Of course, we live in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
You know about that.
In Fields versus Palmdale School District, this is the court that allowed first, third, and fifth graders to be shown sexually explicit questionnaires asking them about their sex lives over the angry objection of parents, the Ninth Circuit ruling that parents have no right, no specific right to decide what their children learn at school.
This is also where Mr. Newdow is declaring the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional because it claims it contains the word God.
Oh my.
And the Appeals Court, Ninth Circuit, also overturned an Alaska law requiring a convicted sex offender to register with the government because it would mean, quote, and I quote now, how can I make this up, quote, ostracism that would accompany his being publicly labeled a sex offender, unquote.
Oh my, ostracizing a sex offender.
How dare we?
Now, I finally get to the one that just, I just fell out.
I'm so used, as a Californian, I'm so used to outrage that I think I've become numb to it until something comes along that proves that I'm not.
This is the week that Assemblyman Rudy Bermudas revealed that 31 violent sex offenders, these are people who rape children and have been convicted of it, and then have been released from our prisons for reasons I cannot explain to you.
Released from prison, but supervision is necessary under California law, so they've been put up at hotels where they can be supervised at taxpayer expense.
They go to expensive resort hotels.
In this case, 31 of them in five hotels within one mile of Disneyland.
That's right.
Can you imagine them asking, can you imagine being a sex offender?
You're a little bewildered now.
You want me to go to Disneyland where there's a lot of children?
You're going to house me at your expense at a hotel room, a hotel room near Disneyland.
Have I just died and gone to pervert heaven?
What is this?
Unbelievable.
Assemblyman Bermudas found out that 259 registered sex offenders live in Anaheim alone, 19 of them in violation of their parole.
Of course, they're going to, you know, if somebody is saying, why did you, in answer to the question, why did you rob banks?
Because that's where the money is.
Why did you go to Didneyland?
Well, I went to Didneyland because that's where the perverts, that's where the children are.
Good grief.
So, wherever you are in the country, I'm sure that this news about California, my little summary here, has allowed you to feel better about where you are.
Oh, no, there's more.
How about Senate Bill 1437 in the California legislature would require students in the K-12, they're not learning math and English, obviously, so what they're going to learn is about, quote, the contributions homosexuals have made to society.
This would require all textbooks, by the way, to remove sex explicit titles, gender-specific titles, such as mom and dad, words that could no longer be uttered in the K-12 system.
They're not even uttered at an Angels game.
Check this out.
A Los Angeles psychologist who was denied, a man, Michael Cohn, sues in Orange County Superior Court because he went to an Angels game.
He's suing the team, alleging sex and age discrimination because on a Mother's Day giveaway, he went on Mother's Day, right?
And they had a giveaway, Mother's Day tote bags.
And he didn't get one.
And his denial of getting a tote bag on Mother's Day that says Mother's Day on it is now sex and age discrimination.
He wants $4,000.
The Angels, of course, this is California, have totally collapsed.
They're now not going to have Mother's Day.
This year on Mother's Day, they're going to have Family Sunday.
Family Sunday.
So that the first 25,000 fans, male, female, or in between, 18 years or older, now they're already into age discrimination here, so I think they're going to get another lawsuit.
18 or older will be given a red Mother's Day ladies' tote bag.
Of course, it won't say that.
It's a family Sunday.
Oh, yes.
The news in California is not good.
And I only offer it so I want to make you feel better about where you are.
Because I'll tell you what, in this state, things are going from bad to worse fast.
I want to get to the NSA issue to the 1938 feeling I'm having about Iran and into how good the economy is actually doing.
It's remarkable.
Also about those gas prices, oh yeah, we've got something to say about that as well.
Taking your calls at 1-800-282-2882.
I'm Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh today and back with your call after this.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush today from the studios of KO Geo Radio in San Diego.
You know that Air Force General Michael Hayden has been nominated Monday, this last Monday, by President Bush to become director of the CIA.
He headed up the NSA.
This alphabet soup stuff started with FDR.
Anyway, a national security agency, the National Security Agency, which is on the front page of USA Today today, which says NSA has a massive database of Americans' phone calls.
Well, not quite.
You see, once you read the article, you read the headline, you think they're listening in on our phone calls.
That's what it says.
A database of Americans' phone calls.
Not quite.
What they have is a database of the calls made, a record of the calls made.
In other words, who called who?
It isn't the conversation.
It isn't a recording.
It isn't the words.
It isn't you calling grandma.
It's the number you're at, the number that was called.
And the reason is they're using algorithms in the data mining here with known phone numbers of terrorists trying to figure out who they're talking to in the United States.
President came out today and said, look, we're not getting in.
First of all, we don't know any of these conversations unless we come across somebody who is al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda suspect.
And then we are going, hey, we're in a war.
Hello?
We're in a war, and we are going to go after the enemy.
The enemy is going after us.
Do you think it's just an accident we haven't been attacked since September 11th?
Basically, it's what the president said.
No innocent person has had any phone conversation listened into.
But if you call up Osama bin Laden, I guarantee you somebody's going to listen, and thank God.
Well, what is the objection here?
Now, Lindsey Graham, a reputed Republican from South Carolina, had a semi-coherent statement, which I'll let you parse and interpret for yourself.
Here's what he said: Well, I thought it was intercepting phone calls coming into the U.S. from outside the U.S. and why you need such a large data bank.
I'm clueless, and the lawyers say it's okay.
I want to know who the heck are these lawyers and what reasonings do they have.
Oh, my.
First of all, I think the only part of that, the only part of that that I thought was self-revelatory and accurate was I'm clueless.
I'm clueless.
Yeah.
So the NSA has a database of the record of phone calls.
Phone call records, like the bill you get, you know, which shows the phone number and the calling.
The phone call records are different from listening in on the phone conversations.
The purpose of the phone call records is to keep track of where these, you know, and then when something pops up with the algorithm with the equation being applied, and it pops up that certain phone numbers are the most ones that are called into Saudi Arabia, then you know what?
I want somebody listening.
I want to know what they're saying because there are people over there.
There are people in other countries who are trying to kill Americans.
Is that clear to everybody yet?
Do I need to go back over that material here at the Institute?
I think we've pretty much established, without a whole lot of effort, that there are people, contacts into the United States, many of them have now been arrested and tried and convicted, the latest in Lodi, California, if memory serves, of leaving this country to go back to terrorist training camps, coming back and denying.
It was just tourism.
It was ecotourism.
I was there to make sure that the gun butts on my AK-47 was not made from an endangered species of tree.
It's very important to me to have an ecologically friendly AK-47.
Huh?
You know, I'm sorry, these defenses may work in the mainline media, but to ordinary Americans, it doesn't make a lot of sense to let these people come and go freely and to let them talk freely to their paymasters and their imams and their jujubees, whoever they are over there in those countries.
I want somebody listening.
And I think most people do.
Are we tracking terrorist phone calls?
Sure hope so.
By the way, the president comes out and swinging and did a wonderful job of reminding people: A, we're at war.
B, we're only targeting al-Qaeda.
And C, that's the whole purpose of using computers to make sure that we keep track of those people.
Not trying to keep track of you.
That would be wrong.
We're not doing it.
It's not authorized by law.
By the way, this business of keeping these phone records was approved by the United States Supreme Court.
No, we don't talk that way in California.
The United States Supreme Court, when was it in 97?
By the way, I attribute this new aggressiveness of George Bush, it's only about six years late, this new aggressiveness by George Bush to defend his administration and to be out there to Tony Snow.
I don't know whether you've noticed or anybody has said this, but every talk show host, every TV, radio, everybody in the media, CBS, NBC, New York, they've been getting memos.
He's got, I mean, I've gotten three memos here in the last couple of days.
And Tony Snow, who is now the press secretary, has been making sure that the rebuttal to crazy points that are made in the mainstream media, even the rebuttal to points that I'm making on my show, critical of the Bush administration, for example, on the border, and you'll hear more of that today, I get rebuttal.
I get them standing up for whatever it is they believe on these things.
And it's about time.
So today the president was out saying, yeah, we have a massive database.
It's not new.
The Republicans in Congress and the Democrats in Congress, including Leaky Leahy, and the rest of them who are holding up the USA today, I know this is the level of their intellectual content, holding up the front page of the U.S. See, there's an article.
It's about mining or something.
And I don't, they're doing our job for us.
They've unveiled another outrage by the Bush administration.
By the way, when did this start?
Oh, yeah, 1999.
Let's see, was Bush in office then?
I don't know.
It was so long ago, and I've been to public school, and my mind is full of mush.
And I'm thinking about the guy who was kicked off of American Idol last night.
And I'm just, it's so unfair.
So I don't know.
Was it 1999?
Yes, it was the Clinton administration.
Hello.
I know.
Let's take some calls.
Here's Danny in Salt Lake City.
Danny, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Hi.
Hi, Roger.
Thanks for taking my call.
Hey, my question is this.
If we have registered sex offenders staying in hotels around the Disneyland area, what are those hotels?
Because, you know, I'm planning a trip to Disneyland this summer with my family.
And I want to make sure I'm not staying at one of those hotels.
Yeah, well, God bless you.
Danny, I want to encourage you to come because since all of this uproar, the actual final chapter of this particular ugly story is that for now, the sex offenders have been removed from those hotels and have been removed from around Disneyland.
We're having a debate about where to put folks who are violent sex offenders, who have been released from prison, served their time.
Where do they go now?
And the debate is, first of all, they should be under supervision.
The supervision often doesn't work.
About a third of them that are supposed to register never register.
They're completely gone.
No one knows where they are.
There's a new law saying, well, let's keep them a certain number of miles from elementary schools.
We find out if we do that, most of L.A. County, they have to be moved out to rural counties.
Now the rural farmer folks are getting upset.
So we've got so many sex offenders out here.
We're going to need basically another state.
I think we ought to export them to another state, and we'd like volunteers on the program coming up.
But let me tell you, Disneyland is safe.
Roger Hedgecock, back after this.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Roger Hedgecock in for Rush here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I know Rush, you know, he doesn't want to brag, and I guess I want to brag a little bit for him because there was a study done, a survey, of 1,120 regular listeners to AM and FM talk radio.
And they were trying to figure out who do listeners really respect?
Who do they really know?
Well, Rush Limbaugh is the most, this is the study quote now, quote, the most widely identified radio talk show host in America, 94% of Americans indicating they know who he is.
94%.
Stern, who's lost, what, three-quarters of his audience now, Is a distant number two, and the rest of them fall off the chart.
So, again, it's a privilege to be here filling in for Rush at the Limbaugh Institute.
Let's take some calls.
Here's Ed in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ed, go ahead.
Hello, Roger.
I want to say first, I really enjoy hearing you when you stand in for Rush.
Thank you.
Of course, I'm a great Rush fan, but you're just great, and I appreciate listening to you.
The point I want to make is, having listened to all of the ridiculous things that are taking place in the state of California early in your program, the thing that occurs to me is that this goes on and on, not just in California, but all over the country, and it continues to go on and on, and nothing seems to happen.
It occurs to me that perhaps what needs to happen is that the people who make these ridiculous decisions have to be held up for ridicule in the public by publishing their names and in some cases even getting their pictures in various publications.
But so long as the people who make these stupid choices remain anonymous as if these decisions are coming down from some God up in heaven instead of human beings, we're going to continue to have this sort of thing.
I agree.
I agree, Ed.
I would argue, let's put some names at least.
Let's publicize who it is that is that who are these people who are doing these ridiculous things.
And then maybe we can get them out of public life.
Well, I totally agree with you, and I only mentioned one.
I should have mentioned more.
This Superior Court judge, Robert Friedman, is the one who says that the exit exam at high school is unfair, Alameda County judge.
But, Ed, I'm with you, and I appreciate the call.
Here's Joel in Kansas City, Missouri.
Joel, welcome to the Rush program.
How's it going, Roger?
Good.
Good.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Go ahead.
With reference to this quote, invitation that President Ahmad Dinejad just issued to President Bush.
Yeah.
What I want to say is, and this has been discussed, there's an article today in the WorldNet Daily, that this letter bears the marks, it bears the pattern of what was used by the invading jihadi Muslim armies within the early years of the Islamic conquests.
And ironically, Iran, you know, ancient Persia, the leaders of Iran were issued an identical letter just prior to their having been conquered by the Arab armies.
And there's a lot of people within the Islamic, those who study Islam, who see in this the potential that this may be sort of, you know, a last warning.
They issue an invitation, the specific invitation that was issued to the Persian leaders that, you know, from the general of the Muslim army, submit to Islam, pay the jizya tax, otherwise we bring you a people who love death as much as your people love drinking wine.
And so people are talking, and it definitely bears the pattern, and it's definitely something to take seriously.
Yeah, no, absolutely right, Joel.
Let me expand on that a little bit, because when this 18-page letter was sent by the Iranian president to President Bush, there was some feeling on the left that, well, he's reaching out.
It's a moment of opportunity.
He just wants to sit down and talk.
It's a why can't we all just get along moment?
Well, I read it, and then, you know, when you read this thing, you say to yourself, this guy must be related to the Unibomber.
I mean, this is the most incredibly crazy, rambling nonsense that I've ever, it's a wonder he didn't demand that it be published in the New York Times like the Unibomber did.
But what's important is that we focus on his point of view.
What is his point of view?
Now, the liberals do this all the time.
Well, we have to understand the other side.
Okay, let's take a moment.
Let's take a leaf from the liberals' playbook.
Let's get into the president of Iran's mind for a moment, because he lives in the seventh century.
It's a different time.
Yes, boys and girls, it's a different time.
It's a time when the prophet has told us how to act.
The prophet has told us that we should, according to Islamic theology, we should give the unbelievers an opportunity to repent, to accept Islam on a peaceful basis.
If they don't, then we cut their heads off until they do.
Now, boys and girls, is there anything unclear about our lesson for today on Islamic theology?
Because that's exactly where he's coming from.
There isn't any question about it.
In fact, if we missed the point of the letter, if Americans are so caught up in the 21st century that we've missed the seventh century point being made, the president of Iran made a speech in the day following his sending of that letter to theological students in the holy city of Qom.
And he said specifically that the theological students must be prepared now to rule the world.
He is an end times crazy.
His end times are a little different than Christian end times.
His end times mean that the Mahdi, M-A-H-D-I, the Mahdi, is coming, the equivalent, I guess, of the Messiah, the Shiite Messiah.
And the Mahdi is actually the 12th Imam who disappeared in the year 941 as a child, apparently while visiting Disneyland.
No, no, just threw that in.
In the year 941, the Imam, the 12th Imam, I don't know whether that's like the 12th moon.
I have no idea.
But anyway, the 12th Imam disappeared.
And so the Shiites have been saying he's going to come back.
And this guy, the president of a country with nuclear bombs, believes not only that the Mahdi is coming in his lifetime, but that in order to prepare for his coming, we must exterminate Israel, defeat the West, and have the entire globe accept Allah and Islam.
That's why I was saying earlier, ladies and gentlemen, that I'm getting this 1938 feeling.
I wasn't alive in 1938, but I read a lot about it.
This feeling in Europe that, you know, this guy Hitler has made it pretty clear what he's going to do and why he's going to do it.
And now he's actually doing it.
What are we going to do?
Well, we need to reach out.
We need to have a come together.
We need to talk.
We need diplomacy.
We need peace in our time.
Now, that was the liberal left response to Hitler.
It brought on World War II.
George Bush has promised not on his watch would Iran become a nuclear power.
It has.
Now what?
I'm Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush 1-800-282-2882.
Here's Pete in Ocala, Florida.
Go ahead.
Roger, thanks for taking my call.
Yes, Pete, go ahead.
I believe that this letter was a golden opportunity for us to drive a wedge between the Iranian leadership and the Iranian people.
And I think this is something we should take advantage of.
How?
By sending a little bit of a negotiation team to talk to the Iranian leadership with the idea of showing the Iranian people that we are not the great Satan because as many people know, the Iranian people do not heartily support the current leadership and the current regime in Iran.
Well, some of them don't.
Some of the people in the United States don't support the current regime in Washington either.
Well, I certainly can't argue with that, Roger, but I think that this is a diplomatic opportunity, even though the letter was crude and we certainly don't agree with the statement.
I think that something should be done that could be followed up on the list.
So what would you say, Pete?
You're the head of the new commission to respond to the letter by flying to Tehran and meeting with the president of Iran.
I don't think we should go to that high level of meeting right now because that would lend legitimacy to the government there.
But I think we should send Secretary Rice to meet somewhere in a neutral third country with some of the Iranian leadership.
Okay, in other words, to try to foment an alternative to try to do a reverse on the Mullahs who took over in 1979 by getting other Iranians to get support.
Well, just to show them that there is an alternative to their current government, yes, sir.
We should do that.
Although, you know, I just don't know how you respond to a letter from the seventh century.
I mean, I think we've got to remind this guy that there are other religions of the world that also believe they are the true religion, that there are other beliefs that need to be respected, that in the 21st century we are of the mind that everyone should be respected and allowed to pursue their own beliefs on an individual level, and the idea that you're going to conquer the world for your ideology is going to be met, well, with force, because that's the only thing he's going to understand.
You see, this has happened so many times before.
This isn't new, Pete.
We had to have a Polish general save Vienna in, what, the 14th century, when the Turks were surging into Europe saying, we come here in the name of Allah, and as soon as you guys all accept Islam, we're going to have a very peaceful world.
And if you don't, your heads are coming off.
I don't know whether anybody saw, because it was suppressed in the American media, you had to go to European sources.
When the Muslim students were rioting in France, they were holding up, and even over the last weekend, I saw it, holding up signs saying, behead the unbelievers.
This is something you've got to face squarely because this letter is very, very clear to Muslims what he is saying.
It is not a rambling, incoherent set.
It is a very clear, accept Islam, repent, you have your last chance.
I've given you what Islam requires, a warning before we come and take your head off.
So compared to that, I don't know what this NSA story means, but we'll get your reaction to it.
I'm Roger Hedchcock, Infor Rush, taking a short break.
We have made here at the Limbaugh Institute a command editorial decision not to cover the opening of the Da Vinci Code movie, any book that has as its heart the idea that not only did Jesus and Mary Magdalene marry and have children, but that those children founded the royal house of France.
The thing is obviously so preposterous in every respect that just mentioning it, I think, is the rebuttal to any credibility to the Da Vinci Code.
The unrelenting anti-Bush venom extends, of course, to his family.
And I don't know whether you saw this question that was asked.
There's a letter to the editor question thing in Parade magazine.
And it shows the two Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara.
And this question from M. Long in Morristown, Tennessee.
Quote, what are the Bush twins up to now?
Do they ever do anything other than partying?
Here's the answer in Parade magazine.
Yes.
Jenna, 24, has taught at a charter school in D.C. since graduating from the University of Texas in 2004.
Barbara, who graduated from Yale, recently worked with pediatric AIDS patients in South Africa.
Yes, in fact, they are doing something.
M. Long, what are you doing to make the world a better place?
Bill in Brooklyn, New York on the Rush program.
Bill, go ahead.
Hello.
Hi.
Thank you for taking my call.
Pleasure to listen to you.
Thank you.
Right.
I want to discuss, if I can for a moment, the business of the phone calls.
I can save the government money, and I'm trying to bring out a point that everybody who is like me don't care about the government listening in to our mundane conversations about what kind of groceries we should get, the new nail polish for our fingers, or for this, that, and the other thing.
It costs a lot of money for the government to go ahead and put two guys in your basement with spy apparatus to listen to your conversations.
Now, I could save the government money.
It costs about $500 a day.
I could go ahead and for $250 to the government, I would record my own conversation, send this in, and then I would save the other $250.
They could put that towards the border or what have you, and everybody would be happy.
You walk along the street in New York City and you hear people talking.
I was cleaning my car the other day and I heard somebody behind me say, I don't believe you.
And I said, oh, my God, I thought somebody was attacking me.
This lady was talking as loud as she could be on her cell phone, walking in the street.
People on the subway.
Subway used to be a nice ride, a comfortable little ride.
And now people talking here, talking there, you can hardly go ahead and have any kind of, you can't even read your newspaper.
What are they worried about?
The only people who are worried about the phone calls are people who have something to hide.
Bill, I appreciate your call.
It was a wonderful moment here on the program.
Again, the listening audience constantly learning from this program and feeding back.
Just great, great stuff, Bill.
That's exactly right.
Look, on this day in which the Iranian president, by the way, he became president by suppressing all of the other candidates.
They've been put in jail, sort of like a Hugo Chavez election, sort of like an Egyptian election.
If you have an opponent, they deserve to be in jail.
I mean, it's obviously traitorous and treasonous for someone to oppose me, the Pharaoh, Mubarak.
Why are we giving that guy $2 billion a year still?
It's a question that nags at me.
The Pharaoh.
Pharaoh has his own money.
Anyway, the Iranian president calls Israel an evil regime today, a totalitarian regime.
And it is worth noting that he does it on the anniversary of the day in 1949 when Israel was admitted to the United Nations as the world body's 59th member.
And by the way, where does one member of the UN get off threatening the extermination of another member of the United Nations?
Good grief.
So I don't know what they're doing at the UN today coming up.
I heard yesterday, coming up with a basket of carrot and stick in order to help the Iranians to come into the 21st century.
That isn't going to happen.
No, not all Iranians.
I mean, all Iranians.
The smart Iranians have left.
The ones who weren't quite able enough and they're smart are still there.
They're occasionally trying to get control of their government.
But the government is now totally under the thumb of a seventh century ideology of expansionism, war, and beheading.
What are we going to do about that?
Seems to me to be the number one story.
USA Today felt that the number one story was a seven-year-old story that started in the Clinton administration that somehow NSA has records of phone calls.
Not the content of phone calls, but the record of phone calls.
And now everybody's up in arms as if this is a new story.
Well, people in this program know it is not.
We're going to take a break.
Oh, we're going to take a short break.
Back with more on The Rush Show right after this.
Roger Hedgecock in for Rush.
I have a sinking feeling that the federal government is going to find alleged polygamist Warren Jeffs, now on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list.
They're going to find Warren Jeffs before they find Osama bin Laden.
Just a sinking feeling I have about this.
Look, in the next hour, we're going to talk about the aborter situation, and we're going to talk with Sheriff Joe Arpaio down in Maricopa County, Arizona, where a sheriff's posse is rounding them up.
A posse, the Wild West lives.
And we're going to be talking about that to Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who's last interviewed on the Limbaugh newsletter on the pink underwear thing and the tents and all of that.
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